Well about the closest thing to a guitar god to Shawn Lane (as in someone who really inspired him to explore the potential of the instrument) was Alan Holdsworth. Shawn was also a HUGE lover of Hendrix. Truth be told, Shawn was far more likely to look to people who played or composed for other instruments. Shawn didn’t really play guitar when he wasn’t playing a gig or recording and he barely ever sat down to practice on the instrument. He was a world class piano player who just happened to have an otherworldly gift for the guitar and the good fortune to have figured out the inner workings of the technical and mechanical side of the instrument very early on. At an age when most guys are picking up the guitar for the first time (15-16) he was already touring with Black Oak Arkansas and playing lines faster and cleaner than just about any other shredder of the day (DiMiola, McGlaughlin, Van Halen - the choices were a lot more limited in those days). Then one fateful evening, he decided to go see a band live that he had never heard of, U.K. In that band was a skinny Brit by the name of Alan Holdsworth. His playing so impressed a young and impressionable Shawn that he (Shawn) pretty much walked away from touring in order to woodshed. And woodshed he did - for 2 or three years after seeing Holdsworth for the first time, Shawn’s entire waking existence was spent mastering the instrument. Fortunately for him and his social life, he was a musical genius of the absolute highest order, and he managed to master the guitar by the time he was 20. And when I say “master” I mean to learn how to execute things to such a high level of awe-inducing proficiency that literally NONE of the other so called “masters” could come close to touching what he was doing. In fact, I would argue that in all likelihood, by around 1983-84, the only person of any renown on Earth who could do things on an electric guitar that Shawn could not would have been Lenny Breau, and that’s mostly because Shawn wasn’t focusing on fingerstyle jazz. That said, I have seen video of him messing around with fingerstyle double stops at a speed that almost broke my brain. He was playing it faster than my mind could listen, if that makes any sense. To this day, it pains me to think that arguably the most gifted mind ever to pick up an electric guitar had to endure so much physical pain for so long, and that he died so young in obscurity from complications of a disease that is effectively treated with relative ease these days. No one whose gifts benefit mankind should ever be denied fairly routine medical care because of a lack of insurance or money. I will never understand how the circles he traveled in could stand by and look the other way when it was so obvious that his health was declining so rapidly. Shawn should still be alive and making music. The really sad thing is that had the internet and social media been even one tenth as prominent just a few years earlier, there would have been a Go Fund Me campaign set up for him that would have covered the cost of the care he so desperately needed. Alas, it wasn’t meant to be. Fortunately for the rest of us, his memory lives on and his legend continues to grow.
Matthew You’re obviously in awe of the Shawnmeister, but are confusing playing notes on an instrument (either piano or guitar) at a high nps speed, with playing “music.” Shawn’s music is forgettable, disposable, like yodeling nonsense syllabication vs articulate, descriptive speech. It doesn’t communicate anything melodically or rhythmically. Its like listening to a rivet gun or blades of a fan.
Heavy Mental Just because he plays faster than your own ears can hear doesn’t make it unmusical. I said what I said and I stand by it. You’re free to make assumptions about others musicality all you want...but in this case, you’re just flat out wrong.
@@ButterBallTheOpossum Anytime I hear someone paint Shawn into a corner as just a shredder, I direct them to one of several videos here on TH-cam. His live performance of Once Upon a Time in the West (the updated one with the improved audio) is one of the most perfect examples of absolute expressiveness on any instrument that I’ve ever heard. The thing about Shawn’s playing… it is ALL deeply, deeply expressive. Take any of his absurdly fast stuff and slow it down and it will hit you right in “the feelz”. I think that’s why his super fast stuff always sounds SO perfect and unlike anything anyone else has done before or since on a guitar. His fast stuff (fast for Shawn, I mean) isn’t just a bunch of three notes per string scales played at warp speed. That certainly has a place in my heart, and anytime I want to hear someone shred absurdly fast stuff like that, I’ll go for Racer X era Paul Gilbert. Conversely, if I want pure, expressive guitar playing, I’ll put on some Andy Timmons. And when I want the perfect blend of the two, there’s really only one guy who can do it, and that’s Shawn Lane.
If you listen to him shred at normal playback speed, 1.5x, or even 2x, it sounds just about as fast. It’s like he reached the maximum psychoacoustic threshold of speed where additional BPM aren’t detectable to the naked ear.
to me, this has comedic value. i mean, to basically every human being outside him, are you telling me you're not lauging wild at parts like 2:36 when he's speaking with that calm voice and shreds a hole in the universe and summoning cthulu at the same time with that overtly calm look on his face and then saying stuff like "you might want to do it that many times" yeah right, as if i even could pick a single note out of that. LOL
I'm with you 100% on that. It's actually hilarious and awe inspiring at the same time. I can play some shred stuff and I'm always down to learn new material, but I would never even think about attempting this. He's like playing 64th notes at 500 bpm
The most impractical lesson ever for mortals. You have to be superhuman to pull this lick off. LOL!!! Simply unbelievable! Out of this world! Here, let me show you something you will never be able to play. R.I.P. Shawn!
Jason Becker actually played classical music rather than mindless shred, equally fast. But playing patterns of notes at warp speed, while impressing young players is like watching someone type fast or operate the guitar as machine rather than making music. I’m more impressed by someone like Tommy Emmanuel, Danny Gatton, or even Terry Kath when he was young than this
@@commanderthorkilj.amundsen3426 Soooooo....this guy looks like a teenager to you right? Also, Guthrie Govan is in his forty's, and PG in his sixty's. They are just teenagers to you right? To me, you look like a ten year old, who if thinks that if he talk stupid things, he will looks like an adult. And also, if you want what teens listen to, just go and listen to some emo or mumble rap. That's what they listen to. Back in the ninety's, it was this rap/nu metal that they used to listen.
stevedgolfer Tommy Emmanuel is world renowned. He can hear something once and play it. Has an extremely broad repertoire. Fingerstyle or pick. If he’d played a Strat or Tele, your mom would have fallen for him, and he’d be your dad, of course then, you could have gone to school. JB’s legacy is secure. Gatton is probably the most skilled when a diversity of styles is considered, but is little known. Shawn is truly a fast guitar player, if you’re on drugs, don’t care about melody, harmonic lines, not into music, but like to hang around machine shops and listen to rivet guns, hammering sheet metal or secretaries type.
@@commanderthorkilj.amundsen3426 listen kid. You look like a ten year old trying to be a man. But let's be honest. If you don't know about something, don't start talking shit. You'll end up being a laughing stalk. And anyway, how much you're able to play anyway? Got any Instagram or TH-cam video? Know? Then SHUT UP.
I thought I'd found my guitar god in Guthrie Govan. Then I watched an interview where he said he was massively inspired by this guy, Shawn Lane. Now I'm here, and I have a new god. This guy is just incredible. So sad that he was already gone before I knew about him. His music will live on though. RIP.
@@davyboy9397 Could you suggest some holdsworth to listen to? i 100% agree with shawn and guthrie, and my guitar teacher always used to say that holdsworth was the greatest there’s ever been, but for me i just don’t see it. I don’t know why, and i’d like to be able to. To my ears holdsworths playing always just sounded a bit too “outside”, i guess that’s put me off listening to him. I would like to hear more though, anyone who’s talked about in the same sentence as Shawn and Guthrie must be a true master
@@EdMalabar Yeah, i suppose i’ve just never understood it. I mean he plays some fucking difficult stuff. I’ve found the Devil takes the hindmost solo is great. But yeah, i feel like guthries playing has always wowed me more than holdsworth. Still interested to listen to him more though
Been listening to Guthrie since the dawn of TH-cam and have discovered Shawn lane just a couple of years ago, Guthrie is insane guitar god himself but Shawn lane is one level above him.
Shawn lane was fast as hell, no doubts... but there's one thing that's lowering his "incredibiliness" (does that word even exist 🤣🤣🤣) /listening pleasure and that's in fact the over-use of effects. I wish he'd done a guitar lesson video with bare distortion only. Same goes for late Malmsteen instructional videos... Tons of reverb/echo/delay bs.
There will be nobody like him, not then, not now, not ever. The true greats have trouble talking about him. He made and still does to this day make them all look like beginners
@@martinromero4764 Malmsteen is just a child if compared with Shawn. Shawn was light years ahead of poor yngwie. Even Batio is nothing compared to Lane. Jason Becker at 18 was way better than Malmsteen.
1:43 hahah he's waiting for his award. like a proud kid who did his job well. His dang fingers.... plus the thinking to try and figure out where to go next
I just love how he shows the slow breakdown of what hes doing... like anyone is then going to attempt it at full speed 😂😂🤯🤯🤯. Absolutely astounding talent.
@Nick Martin Batio has improved a lot in his later years. Many Shawn Lane fans remember the MAB of the days when Lane was still alive. He was utter musical garbage back then.
@@u.v.s.5583 actually, I like Batio's solo stuffs muuuuuch better than nitro. But hey, what's the meaning of Musical Garbage? Sounds wierd. Both the words contradicts each other.
The Unsung hero of extreme guitarplaying...not only that..he was a Great songwriter soulful..and bastard on piano as well..dearly missed. Massive talent 💕💕😊😊😪
I agree, although i’d say guthrie and shawn are levels above morse and gilbert. And technically i think shawn rises above guthrie (and everyone) for speed although for me guthrie has superior note choice and feel.
The more you do it, the more comfortable you get with it. The only problem is to do it for the first time. Just like running 100 yards in under 7 seconds. The first time is hard, but once you've done it, it gets more and more easy.
But no one has ever played what he plays, how he plays it. Still to this day. What you say applies to normal guitar playing. It is not the case for a lot of Shawn Lane stuff. No one else is physically capable of executing it
@@galaxygamerpro3868 Very true! I actually ran that fast once but only because I was running from, not with, but from the Devil. He had come for my soul don't you know.
He plays single notes/arpeggios/scale runs, really fast, but so did Jason Becker (Paganini’s 5th, etc) Malmsteen, EVH. More of a guitar machine operator or typist. People who make music, let it breath now and then, much more interesting.
@@cremejockey8636 I know, he was real. That time, they didn't have much technology to do those kind of stuffs anyway. Anyway, after Lucas made that video, most of us agreed that it was just a big drama. Also, people talking shit about this legend, must know that this is a practicing lick, which can be utilised in music. They should check his stuffs out, rather than talking shit out here. Also, every guitarists like to do some random stuffs(without drums or anything), just to interact with the audience. Even blues guitarists does that. Those who don't, actually suck at guitar. And this sounds musical to me, rather than all the Eric Clapton wannabes, doing one note face wankery.
Not a household name but he was a terrifying guitar player. Played for Black Oak Arkansas at age 14. Say him on a bill with Yngwie and Joey Tafolla. Shawn blew both of them out of the water. My jaw is still on the floor at that venue. So much soul in his playing. And then he jumped on the piano and completely mind fu-ed everyone after that. He suffered from psoriasis and arthritis and struggled with it. Sweet dude by all accounts and died way too young.
Lol. Theres a certain point of speed where you focus less on the mental side of shredding and more on the, “how can I prime my nervous system today so the nerves in my fingers can fire as fast as my brain sends the signals?” Nd than some days its sheer will power as a barrier. Like, you r playing sloppy nd stuff until you decide to try and it cleans up. But, its less fun. And than you get to a point where you finally fix these problems and have some introspective questioning. Where speed and technical stuff reaches a point where playing even normally fast, semi technical, palatable stuff, feels like driving a lambo on ice...in a school zone. And than you acquire adhd cuz everything is slow. So they put you on adhd meds and suddenly your only at 50% speed. And than you light your house on fire. You end up breaking the sound barrier and break windows while also struggling to keep tempo cuz reality is delayed. You than have an aneurism nd transcend out of your physical body. No longer limited by 10 fingers and logical physics. The universe collapses...somehow. Than it reforms and this guy is just chilling there waiting to teach you this new riff he’s been working on.
Somewhere in this video he did the “falling down stairs” lick. That is the most insane thing I have ever heard anyone play. I am a huge Romeo fan and Shawn was a huge influence on him too.
That 3 fret stretch between the first and second finger, then also between the second finger and little finger gets the diminished scale on the first and one string with one pick and one pull off (3 notes) The 4th note on the second string with the second finger 2 frets from the first finger allows the string jump. Then the little finger on that string, 3 frets above the second finger starts the same 3 fret gap diminished scale again. It is doable. Crossing strings requires a 3 semitone interval between notes ie 2 frets for all strings except the one fret between 3rd and second string.
shawn acting like anyone in the history of guitar playing can play this lick but him, guy was not of this planet. Lets not even discuss his prowess on piano
I saw him live in 96 in a small room with maybe 30 people, Probably around the time this video made. His music was more for musicians and guitar nerds. Insane talent though. RIP
I like to think that seconds after touching down on this planet, Bucket saw a Shawn Lane video by accident and thought that was how humans communicated with each other
I once watched Rusty Cooley warming yo before a show in about 1999 and I only just realised that the thing he was playing was literally this at 2:37 that Shaun's showing us
I've practice on slow motion, and I've got all the not, but when I start to push it to play faster... Oh my... It's so hard and difficult or impossible for me to do, so I pick another lesson... Its not even for the advance guitarist...
One has to wonder if he ever realized during the course of filming this instructional video that sequences like these are impossible to play for common mortals, to this day I haven't seen anyone capable of playing those lines like Shawn did
This feels like forbidden knowledge
This comment is so underrated!
My dad once said. After you're done studying your guitar god - go study your guitar god's guitar god. Made a lot of sense. Buckethead brought me here.
Well about the closest thing to a guitar god to Shawn Lane (as in someone who really inspired him to explore the potential of the instrument) was Alan Holdsworth. Shawn was also a HUGE lover of Hendrix. Truth be told, Shawn was far more likely to look to people who played or composed for other instruments. Shawn didn’t really play guitar when he wasn’t playing a gig or recording and he barely ever sat down to practice on the instrument. He was a world class piano player who just happened to have an otherworldly gift for the guitar and the good fortune to have figured out the inner workings of the technical and mechanical side of the instrument very early on. At an age when most guys are picking up the guitar for the first time (15-16) he was already touring with Black Oak Arkansas and playing lines faster and cleaner than just about any other shredder of the day (DiMiola, McGlaughlin, Van Halen - the choices were a lot more limited in those days).
Then one fateful evening, he decided to go see a band live that he had never heard of, U.K. In that band was a skinny Brit by the name of Alan Holdsworth. His playing so impressed a young and impressionable Shawn that he (Shawn) pretty much walked away from touring in order to woodshed. And woodshed he did - for 2 or three years after seeing Holdsworth for the first time, Shawn’s entire waking existence was spent mastering the instrument. Fortunately for him and his social life, he was a musical genius of the absolute highest order, and he managed to master the guitar by the time he was 20. And when I say “master” I mean to learn how to execute things to such a high level of awe-inducing proficiency that literally NONE of the other so called “masters” could come close to touching what he was doing. In fact, I would argue that in all likelihood, by around 1983-84, the only person of any renown on Earth who could do things on an electric guitar that Shawn could not would have been Lenny Breau, and that’s mostly because Shawn wasn’t focusing on fingerstyle jazz. That said, I have seen video of him messing around with fingerstyle double stops at a speed that almost broke my brain. He was playing it faster than my mind could listen, if that makes any sense.
To this day, it pains me to think that arguably the most gifted mind ever to pick up an electric guitar had to endure so much physical pain for so long, and that he died so young in obscurity from complications of a disease that is effectively treated with relative ease these days. No one whose gifts benefit mankind should ever be denied fairly routine medical care because of a lack of insurance or money. I will never understand how the circles he traveled in could stand by and look the other way when it was so obvious that his health was declining so rapidly. Shawn should still be alive and making music. The really sad thing is that had the internet and social media been even one tenth as prominent just a few years earlier, there would have been a Go Fund Me campaign set up for him that would have covered the cost of the care he so desperately needed.
Alas, it wasn’t meant to be. Fortunately for the rest of us, his memory lives on and his legend continues to grow.
Matthew you’re weird
Last Action Hero Well...you’re not wrong.
Matthew You’re obviously in awe of the Shawnmeister, but are confusing playing notes on an instrument (either piano or guitar) at a high nps speed, with playing “music.” Shawn’s music is forgettable, disposable, like yodeling nonsense syllabication vs articulate, descriptive speech. It doesn’t communicate anything melodically or rhythmically. Its like listening to a rivet gun or blades of a fan.
Heavy Mental Just because he plays faster than your own ears can hear doesn’t make it unmusical. I said what I said and I stand by it. You’re free to make assumptions about others musicality all you want...but in this case, you’re just flat out wrong.
when paul gilbert says he was the scariest of all-time you better believe it.
That is the fastest, technically perfect piece of shredding I’ve ever heard. This man was brilliant.
@Abu Bakar Great joke
@Abu Bakar haha Nuno. Lol. You're tonedeaf.
@Abu Bakar lol
Watch this video its even faster th-cam.com/video/0czDrKa3DI8/w-d-xo.html
@@dante6x Lol get real. Sounds like shit
greatest shredder of all time..almost impossible to immitate..amazing guitarist
Greatest player period. Calling Shawn a shredder is almost insulting lol
@@ButterBallTheOpossum Anytime I hear someone paint Shawn into a corner as just a shredder, I direct them to one of several videos here on TH-cam. His live performance of Once Upon a Time in the West (the updated one with the improved audio) is one of the most perfect examples of absolute expressiveness on any instrument that I’ve ever heard.
The thing about Shawn’s playing… it is ALL deeply, deeply expressive. Take any of his absurdly fast stuff and slow it down and it will hit you right in “the feelz”. I think that’s why his super fast stuff always sounds SO perfect and unlike anything anyone else has done before or since on a guitar. His fast stuff (fast for Shawn, I mean) isn’t just a bunch of three notes per string scales played at warp speed. That certainly has a place in my heart, and anytime I want to hear someone shred absurdly fast stuff like that, I’ll go for Racer X era Paul Gilbert. Conversely, if I want pure, expressive guitar playing, I’ll put on some Andy Timmons.
And when I want the perfect blend of the two, there’s really only one guy who can do it, and that’s Shawn Lane.
Not almost.
@@FloridaManMatty Stop acting hurt. He is a fast shredder.
yes youre right..there are so many great shredders out there..im wrong
The only instructional video nobody has replicated lol
It's impossible.
He explains it in a way that leads you to believe that he thinks another human could do it.
2:35 "you can also do that lick picking every note"
If you can 😂
Yes, but can you?
@@AUBCodeII Nope.
If he was a bedroom player on Instagram nowadays he would be called fake, sped up etc
@DavidB There's video of him playing on a clean line and it's just as fast and accurate.
If you listen to him shred at normal playback speed, 1.5x, or even 2x, it sounds just about as fast. It’s like he reached the maximum psychoacoustic threshold of speed where additional BPM aren’t detectable to the naked ear.
Somebody's watched adam neely
Finally! Someone else has noticed!
@@hyde4004 often. Haha
It's like he reached a point of where the recovery time of the pickup's magnetic field became a factor.
I disagree. It def sounds twice as fast at 2X speed. Work on your perceptive listening skills.
League of his own, still to this day.
WHAT IN THE LIVING - HELL happened when he decided to PICK everything. Absolutely terrifying. How?
GOAT of GOATs
to me, this has comedic value. i mean, to basically every human being outside him, are you telling me you're not lauging wild at parts like 2:36 when he's speaking with that calm voice and shreds a hole in the universe and summoning cthulu at the same time with that overtly calm look on his face and then saying stuff like "you might want to do it that many times" yeah right, as if i even could pick a single note out of that. LOL
I'm with you 100% on that. It's actually hilarious and awe inspiring at the same time. I can play some shred stuff and I'm always down to learn new material, but I would never even think about attempting this. He's like playing 64th notes at 500 bpm
"Okay now the thing to remember about that is - "
The thing I remember about that, Shawn, is that I can't do it
🤣😭😂
I love diminished licks. It sounds so magical and mysterious..
You won't be able to play this one unfortunately.
@@androidgameplays4every13 definitely not if you play shitty mobile games on your android
@@hazardeur HAHAHA
@@hazardeur Lol
Try augmented, and throw jazz inflections in the mix...😎👆✌️💯🎵✔️
The most impractical lesson ever for mortals. You have to be superhuman to pull this lick off. LOL!!! Simply unbelievable! Out of this world! Here, let me show you something you will never be able to play. R.I.P. Shawn!
The greatest soloist with a pick who ever lived: the absolute FINAL word. Scary shit.
Jason Becker actually played classical music rather than mindless shred, equally fast. But playing patterns of notes at warp speed, while impressing young players is like watching someone type fast or operate the guitar as machine rather than making music. I’m more impressed by someone like Tommy Emmanuel, Danny Gatton, or even Terry Kath when he was young than this
@@commanderthorkilj.amundsen3426 seriously Tommy Emmanuel 😂 ..clearly your a completely ignorant person.
@@commanderthorkilj.amundsen3426 Soooooo....this guy looks like a teenager to you right? Also, Guthrie Govan is in his forty's, and PG in his sixty's. They are just teenagers to you right?
To me, you look like a ten year old, who if thinks that if he talk stupid things, he will looks like an adult.
And also, if you want what teens listen to, just go and listen to some emo or mumble rap. That's what they listen to. Back in the ninety's, it was this rap/nu metal that they used to listen.
stevedgolfer Tommy Emmanuel is world renowned. He can hear something once and play it. Has an extremely broad repertoire. Fingerstyle or pick. If he’d played a Strat or Tele, your mom would have fallen for him, and he’d be your dad, of course then, you could have gone to school.
JB’s legacy is secure. Gatton is probably the most skilled when a diversity of styles is considered, but is little known. Shawn is truly a fast guitar player, if you’re on drugs, don’t care about melody, harmonic lines, not into music, but like to hang around machine shops and listen to rivet guns, hammering sheet metal or secretaries type.
@@commanderthorkilj.amundsen3426 listen kid. You look like a ten year old trying to be a man. But let's be honest. If you don't know about something, don't start talking shit. You'll end up being a laughing stalk. And anyway, how much you're able to play anyway? Got any Instagram or TH-cam video? Know? Then SHUT UP.
I thought I'd found my guitar god in Guthrie Govan. Then I watched an interview where he said he was massively inspired by this guy, Shawn Lane. Now I'm here, and I have a new god.
This guy is just incredible. So sad that he was already gone before I knew about him. His music will live on though. RIP.
My top 3 guitarist are in this order
1. Allan Holdsworth
2. Shawn Lane
3. Guthrie Govan
Nobody touches these gentlemen
@@davyboy9397 Could you suggest some holdsworth to listen to? i 100% agree with shawn and guthrie, and my guitar teacher always used to say that holdsworth was the greatest there’s ever been, but for me i just don’t see it. I don’t know why, and i’d like to be able to. To my ears holdsworths playing always just sounded a bit too “outside”, i guess that’s put me off listening to him. I would like to hear more though, anyone who’s talked about in the same sentence as Shawn and Guthrie must be a true master
@@alexjackson8841 Yeah I'm not trying to argue with anyone but what's the "Cliffs of Dover" for Holdsworth?
@@EdMalabar Yeah, i suppose i’ve just never understood it. I mean he plays some fucking difficult stuff. I’ve found the Devil takes the hindmost solo is great. But yeah, i feel like guthries playing has always wowed me more than holdsworth. Still interested to listen to him more though
@@davyboy9397 Touches them at what?
Shawn Lane was the greatest of all time. There’s just no question. No one else could do this, or has been able to since.
you should hear guthrie...
@@1985yngwie Shawn is, as always, head and shoulders above Guthrie. Govan is great, don't get me wrong, but still another level down under Shawn.
Been listening to Guthrie since the dawn of TH-cam and have discovered Shawn lane just a couple of years ago, Guthrie is insane guitar god himself but Shawn lane is one level above him.
Paulo Scroeber from Brazil
Shawn lane was fast as hell, no doubts...
but there's one thing that's lowering his "incredibiliness" (does that word even exist 🤣🤣🤣) /listening pleasure and that's in fact the over-use of effects.
I wish he'd done a guitar lesson video with bare distortion only.
Same goes for late Malmsteen instructional videos... Tons of reverb/echo/delay bs.
There will be nobody like him, not then, not now, not ever. The true greats have trouble talking about him. He made and still does to this day make them all look like beginners
This is the guy who keeps coming up. He is one of the most ethical and practical shredders I have heard
Malmsteen is not even as good as Shawn .it's a shame to call malmstein a guitar God wich is a joke
@@martinromero4764 Malmsteen is just a child if compared with Shawn. Shawn was light years ahead of poor yngwie. Even Batio is nothing compared to Lane.
Jason Becker at 18 was way better than Malmsteen.
The best of all time.
1:43 hahah he's waiting for his award. like a proud kid who did his job well. His dang fingers.... plus the thinking to try and figure out where to go next
Love this guy
I bet he is playing some eternal chords and heavenly Melodie’s on High
He was such a gentle dude. For sure he is 🌌❤️
Rip Shawn Lane and may God continue to bless His family 🙏 thank you for posting!
Blows my tiny mind
Mind blowing sequences!!🙌🏼🤯
I just love how he shows the slow breakdown of what hes doing... like anyone is then going to attempt it at full speed 😂😂🤯🤯🤯.
Absolutely astounding talent.
The shred argument will.never end, but any guy that paul gilbert says is terrifying goes above batio and gilbert for.speed
Batio is complete garbage, Paul on the other hand is really sweet, but they got nothing on Shawn
@Nick Martin Batio has improved a lot in his later years. Many Shawn Lane fans remember the MAB of the days when Lane was still alive. He was utter musical garbage back then.
Its not about shredding its about what notes you play when you shred i think yea batio is garbage i hope he won’t see this
@@u.v.s.5583 actually, I like Batio's solo stuffs muuuuuch better than nitro.
But hey, what's the meaning of Musical Garbage? Sounds wierd. Both the words contradicts each other.
@@u.v.s.5583 you have something against the ever practical Quad Neck Glam Metal guitar solo? 😝
The Unsung hero of extreme guitarplaying...not only that..he was a Great songwriter soulful..and bastard on piano as well..dearly missed. Massive talent 💕💕😊😊😪
And such a gentle guy. What a loss
If God had a house guitarist it'd be Shawn Lane
...guthrie, landau, morse, gilbert, and Shawn was just unbelievably gifted.
I agree, although i’d say guthrie and shawn are levels above morse and gilbert. And technically i think shawn rises above guthrie (and everyone) for speed although for me guthrie has superior note choice and feel.
Lane was both gifted and cursed tho.
Shawn with that "everything's fine" vibe.
Us: Trantiveness
imagine what he'd be able to do today 😔
Diminishing returns.
@@jonjones3958 I doubt that applies here
@Thomas Grey who said I was talking about speed tho
@Thomas Grey maybe our notion of mastery isn’t complete tho. Perhaps he could have pushed it even further
Blow up on Tik Tok? 🙂
2:38 ... damn.. the freaking hand almost morf in time picking those notes
The more you do it, the more comfortable you get with it. The only problem is to do it for the first time. Just like running 100 yards in under 7 seconds. The first time is hard, but once you've done it, it gets more and more easy.
But no one has ever played what he plays, how he plays it. Still to this day. What you say applies to normal guitar playing. It is not the case for a lot of Shawn Lane stuff. No one else is physically capable of executing it
Following your train of thought, You can practice running a lot you probably won't run as fast as Ussein Bolt
No one is even close to running that fast, and no on is close to playing as good as shawn lane
@@galaxygamerpro3868 Very true! I actually ran that fast once but only because I was running from, not with, but from the Devil. He had come for my soul don't you know.
Insane.
God Guitar Super Master Class.🎼🎵🎼🎵
The fastest gun that ever lived.
"gun"?
sweet. Legend RIP
"you can also pick every note" (2:35) - check the right hand - geez...
Yeah. Literally nobody on the planet alive now can do that.
Sorry but It has been speeded up
ARDES It hasn’t he can do that it’s called snap picking.
ARDES nope, he did this live all the time. He was that good
Chris Colabella Guthrie Govan might be able to. Can’t think of anyone else though lol
This is an amazing way to develop dexterity.
Was certainly the best at that instrument.
Guitar's final boss
Still Today NO ONE touches Mr Lane💗💗💗
He plays single notes/arpeggios/scale runs, really fast, but so did Jason Becker (Paganini’s 5th, etc) Malmsteen, EVH. More of a guitar machine operator or typist. People who make music, let it breath now and then, much more interesting.
He’s been brought up a lot recently in the sped up miming videos scandal. Shawn was insane its sad he isn’t around anymore.
@@cremejockey8636 so people take some 80s and 90s stuffs and say they are say they are speed up? Wtf.
ANKIT AMAR KASHYAP no people say shawn did it for real and bring up rings of saturn saying its fake when they are clearly inspired by him
@@cremejockey8636 I know, he was real. That time, they didn't have much technology to do those kind of stuffs anyway.
Anyway, after Lucas made that video, most of us agreed that it was just a big drama.
Also, people talking shit about this legend, must know that this is a practicing lick, which can be utilised in music. They should check his stuffs out, rather than talking shit out here. Also, every guitarists like to do some random stuffs(without drums or anything), just to interact with the audience. Even blues guitarists does that.
Those who don't, actually suck at guitar. And this sounds musical to me, rather than all the Eric Clapton wannabes, doing one note face wankery.
This man is the real Buckethead beyond the real buckethead
What a great person to have these powers. A real down to earth guy.
Not a household name but he was a terrifying guitar player. Played for Black Oak Arkansas at age 14.
Say him on a bill with Yngwie and Joey Tafolla. Shawn blew both of them out of the water. My jaw is still on the floor at that venue.
So much soul in his playing. And then he jumped on the piano and completely mind fu-ed everyone after that.
He suffered from psoriasis and arthritis and struggled with it. Sweet dude by all accounts and died way too young.
Lol. Theres a certain point of speed where you focus less on the mental side of shredding and more on the, “how can I prime my nervous system today so the nerves in my fingers can fire as fast as my brain sends the signals?” Nd than some days its sheer will power as a barrier. Like, you r playing sloppy nd stuff until you decide to try and it cleans up. But, its less fun. And than you get to a point where you finally fix these problems and have some introspective questioning. Where speed and technical stuff reaches a point where playing even normally fast, semi technical, palatable stuff, feels like driving a lambo on ice...in a school zone. And than you acquire adhd cuz everything is slow. So they put you on adhd meds and suddenly your only at 50% speed. And than you light your house on fire. You end up breaking the sound barrier and break windows while also struggling to keep tempo cuz reality is delayed. You than have an aneurism nd transcend out of your physical body. No longer limited by 10 fingers and logical physics. The universe collapses...somehow. Than it reforms and this guy is just chilling there waiting to teach you this new riff he’s been working on.
Jackson Laframboise I HATE when that happens.
lol... yes, then everything comes full circle.
After nearly 30 years of playing, I'm about up to the 'Lol' stage of your statement.
How stoned were you when you wrote this lol
This is one of the best youtube comments I've ever read
I’ve had the distinct privilege of witnessing my guitar heroes live and close up in their primes-holdsy, gambale, yngwie,
Somewhere in this video he did the “falling down stairs” lick. That is the most insane thing I have ever heard anyone play. I am a huge Romeo fan and Shawn was a huge influence on him too.
That 3 fret stretch between the first and second finger, then also between the second finger and little finger gets the diminished scale on the first and one string with one pick and one pull off (3 notes) The 4th note on the second string with the second finger 2 frets from the first finger allows the string jump. Then the little finger on that string, 3 frets above the second finger starts the same 3 fret gap diminished scale again. It is doable. Crossing strings requires a 3 semitone interval between notes ie 2 frets for all strings except the one fret between 3rd and second string.
shawn acting like anyone in the history of guitar playing can play this lick but him, guy was not of this planet. Lets not even discuss his prowess on piano
Yeah, theory is only half of it. You also have to be able to make your human meat fingers do it.
The original aliencore
You deserve more likes
I bet Lucas Mann is a fan of Shawn.
Shawn :Casually plays 18 notes per second 🙂
Me : watching michael jordan videos to push myself to do 7 notes per second
He was practicing 15 hours a day for years probably
"...And you can also pick every note"...almost nobody can do that kind of picking :o
Literally NOBODY can do that! 😁
@@SlayerGuy Correct!
I’m working on it, I think I’ll get it down in the afterlife for sure!
Stopped there myself, I was like "wtf.....no, you can't". :D RIP Shawn.😔
He’s obviously a genius, and this stuff sounds exactly like a video arcade in the early 80s
one of my hero.. Rip Mr. Lane
Damn that was so clean
I wonder how clean it was really. Odd to use delay in an instructional segment.
I saw him live in 96 in a small room with maybe 30 people, Probably around the time this video made.
His music was more for musicians and guitar nerds. Insane talent though. RIP
2:34 is impossible for 99.999% of guitar players, picking every note lol! shawn...
100% could be a pretty safe bet. Has anyone attempted it yet?
I'm sure no one in the world can play it quite that fast and accurate
Thank you for invited Aliencore licks. Its bizzare and cool at the sime time
He talks soft but damn those licks are pure nightmare
Michael Romeo: "I play the best skipping arpeggios ever!!"
Michael Romeo after watching this video: "WTF??????@#{@#{????"
What the world missed out on. Rest.
His guitar FX are trying to keep up.
Wizards are in awe. Elves are dancing. I am dumbstruck.
Sounds like the original Zelda dungeon song when he plays it slow.
Honorary tech death godfather
He didnt die he just created a black hole and went to the future
Sick fingers
That is some straight up classical music technique and that tone is so hauntingly beautiful.
The best ever!! RIP Shawn
I see where buckethead got his sound
I like to think that seconds after touching down on this planet, Bucket saw a Shawn Lane video by accident and thought that was how humans communicated with each other
Buckethead actually sought Shawn out to play with him. As did many many other musicians.
@@_Clem_H_Fandango_ they were great friends, they were supposed to record an album in 2003, but you know what happened then...
@@IMWT Don't tell me that. Damn.
shawn : betcha can't play this
me :ok i go to accordion ^^
"OK, and thing to remember about that, is it's impossible for you to play"
He plays like how I day dream about playing
The part where he demonstrates the lick by picking every note is utterly ridiculous. It's just insanely fast. Mind boggling!
I once watched Rusty Cooley warming yo before a show in about 1999 and I only just realised that the thing he was playing was literally this at 2:37 that Shaun's showing us
The Maradona of guitar ?
R.I.P my man you left us waaay too soon
I've practice on slow motion, and I've got all the not, but when I start to push it to play faster... Oh my... It's so hard and difficult or impossible for me to do, so I pick another lesson... Its not even for the advance guitarist...
Wow!!!
Ferocious Speed
I just sold all my guitars after 28 years of playing after watching this video. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA \S
Kiko Loureiro's lick brought me here
Yes that alien lick
This sounds like Adam02's vids on Petrucci only it's for real and not a joke. It's not normal. The man divided reality by zero.
Shawn lane and Lionel Messi ❤
One doped himself to play better despite not being ill, the other to survive.
I’d take Shawn Lane over Shawn MENDES any day!
Shawn Mendes is gay
Shawn Lane is yay
Wow. Hot take here 🙄
rushpittsburgh4 I’d also take one of the best guitarists to ever live over a popstar
I'd take shawn lane over shawn MICHAELS any day!
@Andrew Salter For real, I almost had a stroke
6 .... 6.... 9.
Ok Shawn I'ma go ahead and take your word for it!
BOOM
Damn!!
I sold this guitar my man my charvel 750 xl amber and I regret it everyday. I had this axe!
Still...un fucking believable...
One has to wonder if he ever realized during the course of filming this instructional video that sequences like these are impossible to play for common mortals, to this day I haven't seen anyone capable of playing those lines like Shawn did
Good god..
It's like a spider running up and down the frets. LOL
Holy fuck. 🤯
Bro makes me think about space ships and computers when i hear him.play