Listening to him for just about some 9 minutes is so valuable and so educating and so vast that it opens me up in a whole another level where I see the curtain raising up and entering a vast universe of a different understanding in music. I love how Steve talks about chords here. " Even if the guitar is in tune, the chords played are not in tune, I don't see many people doing it right ". Wow. This is far too deep than one can imagine. If you feel it, you will know what I mean. This stuff is another level.
Legend. All of this is gold. I especially love the bit where he basically says not to give a shit what other people think. Get in there and make your own music, in the moment.
So well put, especially at the end when he says "you're listening to your inner ear not the theoretical brain." I felt that learning theory suppressed my ability to play with feel as I was thinking too theoretically. I dropped the theoretical brain and trusted the "inner ear" which then, using the theoretical brain subconsciously over consciously, enabled me to phrase things correctly through inherent behaviour and musical doctrine. It's important to know the music and its theory but it's much more important to be able to apply that unwillingly over applying it because, theoretically, it is correct.
...the # of times Steve stops during lessons and exhorts us to "listen" and demonstrates it...! the most fundamental relationship between a musician and their instrument. the # of times he recommends "taking a breath and relaxing"...and does. attention and discipline and a quiet place...i've watched several episodes the past couple days and i swear i've become a better human-being,as well as receiving great teaching and confirmations as a musician...to have stumbled-on/recommended-for-me these, at just this moment in time, is so good...
Love Steve, will always be one of the greats. The fact that he separates the analytical and creative mind is what not only makes him a great player but also a great teacher. Please keep these lessons coming, a wealth of knowledge that everyone from beginner to advanced can benefit from.
i'm loving these series by guitar world, getting an insight on such great guitar players is just mind blowing, even tho i'm more into some heavier stuff. This is truly inspiring
OMG, I never thought I'd ever hear Steve play a sequence of open chords. I hope he went to the bathroom and whacked out a thousand notes on Evo to make up for it.
Learning all the notes on the fret board is unbelievably useful , also my Ear training is so good I now know that my girlfriend's Hoover is in Gm and the washing machine on spin is In D.
As beginner the rest of these were this one will actually be really useful if you know the theory behind what he's talking about, all the chords that go in every key, yes all of them, than substitutions why play a D when you can just as correctly add a D7, what happens then, and then based on what you're trying to write figure out the atmosphere you're trying to convey, you're still playing a D let's say because you have to but constrained by that you actually have a world of possibilities. This is the first one of these that I've actually wished was longer, it seemed like he was just starting to get into it and then it ended.
Name not Found the previous ones were more idiomatic, not to mention it's difficult to objectively analyze your own music because it's more than just theory, it's a part of your thinking. So if you want more indepth analysis, it's almost always better to go with someone else who can do it objectively. MusicIsWin has a video on his habits (and about 5 or so more guitarists) it's titled "habits of steve vai"
..Paul, i'm thinking of Herb Ellis,Glenn Gould, Keith Jarrett,Paul Kossoff, me...lol...i absolutely believe it is an aid to articulation and note choice,timing,phrasing etc...
Chords are really just sound and there are other sounds you can make with the instrument which are just as valid and important but may not be explainable in terms of pitch/note value/chord/interval or dissonance. I'm talking about the idiosyncratic types of things that Django or Roy Buchanan or Van Halen (as well as Vai) do when they play off the neck or scratch the strings or 'fan' or bar slide or slap pinch or machine gun where there really is no identifiable or categorized pitch but rather sound effects . Great players always add things that are sounds rather than music. They create and memorize these sounds in the same way they memorize chords or scales.
Funny how he said it "permeates through your whole body, and it feels really good too." Quite a few years back my neighbors were total fuckwads and calling police on me whenever I played guitar much less had a group over. Keep in mind they vibrated my whole house daily with shit Rap through over bassed cars and lighting fireworks (even during the daytime! Why would you do that?!?) But I thought I had a solution. I bought an expensive wireless set of headphones and plugged them into my mixer with a channel that I had branched off from my pre-amp modeler! Now all I had to do was match the headset to the same tone as my Marshall was making with the same pre--amp at the same time then turn off the standby switch and no more PD when practicing!! It did not work. After several attempts where I thought I had it every time I turned off the 100watt Plexi (which was on like 2) something was missing. Turn it back on and I was all good again. I sat down and opened a beer then it dawned on me... there was no low end vibration with the headphones! I had matched the tone quite well indeed but you cannot "Feel" it. This is what Mr. Vai is talking about. I also have never liked practice amps for this same reason. I recently got a Marshall Code50.... WOW it is so nice! I never thought I would say that about a practice amp MUCH LESS a solid state one! If you have not checked one out I highly suggest it! Plug it into your DAW and Guitar Rig5! Too incredible! Who needs to spend $$ on a Axe-Fx ?! Not I my friend! It does not vibrate things off the shelves like the 100watt Plexi Bassman I own... but it sounds and feels good at a much lower volume which I have never been able to do with anything else ever in over 28 years of playing! When I release my singles there are 2 amps on them the JMP and the Code50. I challenge ANYONE to be able to reliably tell me which part was recorded on what amp! I run direct with the Code and the JMP I model with an ART DST4 then go direct and mic at the same time and mix the 2 channels when captured. The code actually does better usually with almost no work DIRECT! No more crosstalk! WTF!!!!
I'm still having trouble with H sharp major. It's the same as eye flat major right. But only blind. It sounds the same as H sharp major in the dark. But you can't see anything.
...neithang zou, let me suggest that you play along with the vocal melody on songs with singers...good ones, with good songs...the shape/arc of a vocal melody (also instrumental), the length/shortness of notes/words,where they start and where they stop,how loud/soft some notes/words are compared to others, that's all phrasing...rec:Frank Sinatra,Billie Holliday, Miles Davis...
I never learned a thing, such as CHORDS, until I began to learn music theory... on a piano. First you'll build major triads and then someone will say flat the third and AMAZING... a minor chord. How did that get there?! You see it on the piano then you take that to the guitar and learn all the notes in say, an open A major chord - then flatten that third like you did on the piano - and what do ya know! Then you begin learning HOW to build more complex chords with 7's and 9's and 11's. And then one day you find yourself constructing chords from the notes of a Double Harmonic Major scale and a CLICK goes off in your brain and you suddenly get it. Everything opens up and you now you understand major, minor, etc., and playing in a certain mode such as Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, etc.and it's no longer memorized places on a location on your fretboard. It's a sound tied to a feeling that flows naturally.
..Alejandro, i take it as his way of saying the guitar does not have perfect intonation...less perfect instruments sounded wonky/drunk as you play in different positions...as you ascend the neck notes become more slightly out-of-tune, the frets being only the nearest, rounded-off approximations of the next higher or lower note...the effect being esp noticeable when playing several notes on several strings as you move up/down neck...guitarists compensate with finger positioning and pressure to compensate and tune-as-they-play...would appreciate input from other guitar/bass players on this...
People compare Steve to Eddie Van Halen. They are both great. Steve knows the names of individual notes up and down the neck. He can write music using half notes, quarter goes, 16th notes on the staff on paper. He knows diminished chords etc. He's studied these things a lot. Were as Eddie knows these things also but he can't read music and he can't write music using quarter notes on a musical staff. Eddie just KNOWS this stuff, sort of like a savant.
"First, go out and learn every chord." ... Really? I have a chord book in my closet with over 1,000 chord shapes. There are nearly 80 just in the Em section! Maybe he meant to say: "First, go to your doctor and make sure you've got at least four decades left to live, then learn every chord." ;-p
Most guitars are set up to be in perfect tune. And if set up correctly, in perfect intonation at the 12th fret. But Steve Vai's guitar is in perfect intonation because of his ear. I mean, look at his guitar. the frets aren't strait. What would be the notes if you bared the first fret? You have to be a master of sound to play a guitar with frets like that. It just doesn't make sense. The intonation would be off. Maybe normal strait frets are too easy for him.
..the normal straight frets are an approximation...Steves' frets are more mathematically correct in placement in an attempt to perfect intonation...i believe Leland Sklar has an electric-bass (Dingwall?) with similarish off-set frets...
Beginners- be careful with Master Vai's fingering of the D chord- it is unorthodox- he fingers it 3,4,2 from high e string when most practical fingering is 2, 3,1. A true second position fingering that connects well to a G. Hope helps. For you advancing players go further with his advice "but all that information is not a D" It only is on a very fundamental level. Eventually it will just be 3 notes formed in a shape that could be part of say a F13b9 or a bm7 or Gma7add9. They are just pitches to use as your creative expression chooses....eventually. But for now, it's a D. ;)
Try to play a D/B or D/F# with Vai's fingering and then with your fingering. Ideally you should know what chord you intend on playing next and plan you fingering accordingly. The fingering that's most practical varies with context.
Ricky Johnson Agreed but not many play the f# on the 1st string when doing a D/F# and many, myself included use our thumbs. I teach several ways/fingerings for chords but not to a novice- that just overloads the neural pathways- one good, solid fingering reinforces muscle memory. Lest you think I am questioning Master Vai’s methodology let’s be clear I am not. He is a mountain, but there are other mountains in the range..
...as has been pointed out, Steve no doubt uses his fingering to free-up the 1 finger to allow it to colour the d chord,move quickly to a b - chord, descending bass-lines or substitute root-notes for the d...all poss/slightly diff, with 2,3,1 fingering...sim to alt g major open-fingering...
he means that the chord has a certain mood or vibe to it, and it will sort of take you in a different direction. the more notes you add into a chord, the deeper it's going to get. it's just a way of connecting a certain feeling to a certain chord by listening to it and internalizing that particular sound (the dissonance, the consonance, a certain interval that stands out, whatever) rather than just know that it "works" because of theory
still a terrible lesson for a beginner. save the deep thoughts to when you're 60 and have an international career like him. Vai was far from this "become the chord" guru in his early days. He was a theory and extreme practice psychopath. THAT is what landed his gig with Frank. Not this bs
Can someone tell me what he was talking about when he said "guitar is a pickled instrument, sometimes chords will be out of tune even if the guitar is in tune"? He kind of glossed over this and I just want some elaboration on whatever concept he was referring to there.
look at his uneven crooked frets... that's a really expensive true temperament neck!! Vai should have shared that with you all. that's the secret to having clear in-tune chords.
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Listening to him for just about some 9 minutes is so valuable and so educating and so vast that it opens me up in a whole another level where I see the curtain raising up and entering a vast universe of a different understanding in music.
I love how Steve talks about chords here.
" Even if the guitar is in tune, the chords played are not in tune, I don't see many people doing it right ".
Wow.
This is far too deep than one can imagine.
If you feel it, you will know what I mean. This stuff is another level.
Legend. All of this is gold. I especially love the bit where he basically says not to give a shit what other people think. Get in there and make your own music, in the moment.
"This is how you develop as a musician and not just a technician." There it all is right there.
Love that quote
Steve's guitar design has always been my favourite, the inlays is the most beautiful fret anywhere.
7:21 to 7:24 was actually snipped cause Steve went into a deep mediation for 10 days!
How do I plug it in and turn it on?
Did Steve went to vippassana centre? I know he meditates but which type of meditation?
I am one with the chord and the chord is with me.
Panther whatchu smoking dawg?
May the chords be with you.
The chord is strong with this one
The chords awakens
So may the chord be with you
Damn, I could listen to him talking about guitar and music all day - very inspiring and calming :)
"I can fill you up with a lot of information. Just breathe and relax." I love it! Thanks for sharing!!!
He speaks like a true enlightened master.
every professional and amateur musician should watch this video. this is gold. thank you
So well put, especially at the end when he says "you're listening to your inner ear not the theoretical brain." I felt that learning theory suppressed my ability to play with feel as I was thinking too theoretically. I dropped the theoretical brain and trusted the "inner ear" which then, using the theoretical brain subconsciously over consciously, enabled me to phrase things correctly through inherent behaviour and musical doctrine. It's important to know the music and its theory but it's much more important to be able to apply that unwillingly over applying it because, theoretically, it is correct.
...the # of times Steve stops during lessons and exhorts us to "listen" and demonstrates it...! the most fundamental relationship between a musician and their instrument. the # of times he recommends "taking a breath and relaxing"...and does. attention and discipline and a quiet place...i've watched several episodes the past couple days and i swear i've become a better human-being,as well as receiving great teaching and confirmations as a musician...to have stumbled-on/recommended-for-me these, at just this moment in time, is so good...
This is probably the best lesson. "Listen Very Closely"
Love Steve, will always be one of the greats. The fact that he separates the analytical and creative mind is what not only makes him a great player but also a great teacher. Please keep these lessons coming, a wealth of knowledge that everyone from beginner to advanced can benefit from.
8:42 Steve plays my favourite chord! Joy!!
We are so lucky to have these interviews with people like this. Imagine if we had such discussions with the masters of the past to reference.
First time I have seen Steve play normal chords
It is weird to see that.
i'm loving these series by guitar world, getting an insight on such great guitar players is just mind blowing, even tho i'm more into some heavier stuff. This is truly inspiring
OMG, I never thought I'd ever hear Steve play a sequence of open chords. I hope he went to the bathroom and whacked out a thousand notes on Evo to make up for it.
Learning all the notes on the fret board is unbelievably useful , also my Ear training is so good I now know that my girlfriend's Hoover is in Gm and the washing machine on spin is In D.
This reminds me of my first day of music school. Great teacher. Well VAI is a great musician.
The REAL lesson starts at 5:30. Excellent, invaluable way to describe chords.
this man is a god listen to him this is a guitar lesson of knowledge depth and insight of theory
I love this man. One of my reasons I play guitar
As beginner the rest of these were this one will actually be really useful if you know the theory behind what he's talking about, all the chords that go in every key, yes all of them, than substitutions why play a D when you can just as correctly add a D7, what happens then, and then based on what you're trying to write figure out the atmosphere you're trying to convey, you're still playing a D let's say because you have to but constrained by that you actually have a world of possibilities. This is the first one of these that I've actually wished was longer, it seemed like he was just starting to get into it and then it ended.
Name not Found the previous ones were more idiomatic, not to mention it's difficult to objectively analyze your own music because it's more than just theory, it's a part of your thinking. So if you want more indepth analysis, it's almost always better to go with someone else who can do it objectively. MusicIsWin has a video on his habits (and about 5 or so more guitarists) it's titled "habits of steve vai"
Great lesson..Glad im getting all these steve vai lessons! Hes a great teacher and knows the guitar i side out.. i bet hes good as jazz too
This man is so deep! 🎸🎓
Far out, I always dreamt of getting a Lesson off Steve Vai! Thanks Steve and You tube
That my friends is an example of true passion for music.
Is it just me or just listening to vai talk is just so good...
Steve here isn't talking only about music, he is lesson from life, to life.
I wish this series of lessons would continue ( up to episode 200or maybe 300)
Stegato, legato, and the vibrato... thank you steve
Accentuating notes with your mouth like Steve Vai does, can help to play the notes properly. I do that very often, even without thinking!
..Paul, i'm thinking of Herb Ellis,Glenn Gould, Keith Jarrett,Paul Kossoff, me...lol...i absolutely believe it is an aid to articulation and note choice,timing,phrasing etc...
Steve Vai is a philosopher. A real teacher, a life-lover, a free fuckin mind.
He is not a Guitarist.He is a true Artist....
Best lesson ever
I intensely listen to his explaining about chords just to realize how dumb I'm along the way musically, but still loving doing so.
"The guitar is a pickled instrument" Great line! :-D
great video
Shamelessly learning all the notes currently after 17 years of only knowing a handful.
Bill Hesse never too late :)
Excellent very informative video . All the best . Alan .
If I could purchase Steve Vai's mind I would!
Wall of amps, awesome.
Great human being
Crush work
When master steve vai plays any chord I can hear a major scale with a #4th😎
I feel like even without having met him, Steve Vai is probably a great guy.
1:56 Staccato legato vibrato 🇮🇹
M. Martini ola!
Moscato
Chords are really just sound and there are other sounds you can make with the instrument which are just as valid and important but may not be explainable in terms of pitch/note value/chord/interval or dissonance. I'm talking about the idiosyncratic types of things that Django or Roy Buchanan or Van Halen (as well as Vai) do when they play off the neck or scratch the strings or 'fan' or bar slide or slap pinch or machine gun where there really is no identifiable or categorized pitch but rather sound effects . Great players always add things that are sounds rather than music. They create and memorize these sounds in the same way they memorize chords or scales.
god !!!! that D chord poetry ...............
Then... grow an 8 inch long pinky finger!
1 3 5s mang stretch this fingers :b
This guy knows, he really does. I am not how much is left that he doesn’t know. He’s a great.
He sucks.
He is wise like Jesus
When he talks about phrasing, he's talking about articulation and ornamentation like staccato and glissando.
Parabéns
Easy to say about tune with these frets)))
Guru guru
7:11 *Listening Intensifies*
It's actually a Bbmaj69 (b5) chord if anybody wonders, Steve made a mistake saying it is a maj 7 #11...
I'm afraid you're mistaken. b5=#11 up an octave. He played a Bbmaj69(#11).
you become the chord. --Steve Vai
Funny how he said it "permeates through your whole body, and it feels really good too." Quite a few years back my neighbors were total fuckwads and calling police on me whenever I played guitar much less had a group over. Keep in mind they vibrated my whole house daily with shit Rap through over bassed cars and lighting fireworks (even during the daytime! Why would you do that?!?) But I thought I had a solution. I bought an expensive wireless set of headphones and plugged them into my mixer with a channel that I had branched off from my pre-amp modeler! Now all I had to do was match the headset to the same tone as my Marshall was making with the same pre--amp at the same time then turn off the standby switch and no more PD when practicing!! It did not work. After several attempts where I thought I had it every time I turned off the 100watt Plexi (which was on like 2) something was missing. Turn it back on and I was all good again. I sat down and opened a beer then it dawned on me... there was no low end vibration with the headphones! I had matched the tone quite well indeed but you cannot "Feel" it. This is what Mr. Vai is talking about. I also have never liked practice amps for this same reason. I recently got a Marshall Code50.... WOW it is so nice! I never thought I would say that about a practice amp MUCH LESS a solid state one! If you have not checked one out I highly suggest it! Plug it into your DAW and Guitar Rig5! Too incredible! Who needs to spend $$ on a Axe-Fx ?! Not I my friend! It does not vibrate things off the shelves like the 100watt Plexi Bassman I own... but it sounds and feels good at a much lower volume which I have never been able to do with anything else ever in over 28 years of playing! When I release my singles there are 2 amps on them the JMP and the Code50. I challenge ANYONE to be able to reliably tell me which part was recorded on what amp! I run direct with the Code and the JMP I model with an ART DST4 then go direct and mic at the same time and mix the 2 channels when captured. The code actually does better usually with almost no work DIRECT! No more crosstalk! WTF!!!!
Wow
So learn chords after learning legato, bending and phrasing and the rest of the prior instruction????
8:29 - 8:37
Classic.
Pickled? That's a good way to describe the guitar's temperament LOL!!!
my GOD
goes on to play a scale and it still sounds amazing.. lol
Please fill my mind whit a lot of information about chords
That tone is fizzy/fuzzy af like going into a cheap modeler and rolling back the volume a little
I'm still having trouble with H sharp major. It's the same as eye flat major right. But only blind. It sounds the same as H sharp major in the dark.
But you can't see anything.
Tabs for the examples can be found here - bit.ly/2CLL2qf
i wanna knw more about phrasing...i been playing scales for more than 2 years... please recommend me a video to learn more about phrasing
...neithang zou, let me suggest that you play along with the vocal melody on songs with singers...good ones, with good songs...the shape/arc of a vocal melody (also instrumental), the length/shortness of notes/words,where they start and where they stop,how loud/soft some notes/words are compared to others, that's all phrasing...rec:Frank Sinatra,Billie Holliday, Miles Davis...
I never learned a thing, such as CHORDS, until I began to learn music theory... on a piano. First you'll build major triads and then someone will say flat the third and AMAZING... a minor chord. How did that get there?! You see it on the piano then you take that to the guitar and learn all the notes in say, an open A major chord - then flatten that third like you did on the piano - and what do ya know! Then you begin learning HOW to build more complex chords with 7's and 9's and 11's. And then one day you find yourself constructing chords from the notes of a Double Harmonic Major scale and a CLICK goes off in your brain and you suddenly get it. Everything opens up and you now you understand major, minor, etc., and playing in a certain mode such as Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, etc.and it's no longer memorized places on a location on your fretboard. It's a sound tied to a feeling that flows naturally.
HES AFTER :)
I always have problems with chords.
It's very easy to learn the names if you want you can search on TH-cam or Google how to name chords
Like a friend Said;
When Steve vai talks, I listen
I know it's been a long time since this came out, but could anyone explain what he meant by saying that the guitar is a "pickled instrument?"
..Alejandro, i take it as his way of saying the guitar does not have perfect intonation...less perfect instruments sounded wonky/drunk as you play in different positions...as you ascend the neck notes become more slightly out-of-tune, the frets being only the nearest, rounded-off approximations of the next higher or lower note...the effect being esp noticeable when playing several notes on several strings as you move up/down neck...guitarists compensate with finger positioning and pressure to compensate and tune-as-they-play...would appreciate input from other guitar/bass players on this...
Steve, did you take music theory in college.
It’s weird seeing him play a open chord 😂
i am the chord
People compare Steve to Eddie Van Halen. They are both great. Steve knows the names of individual notes up and down the neck. He can write music using half notes, quarter goes, 16th notes on the staff on paper. He knows diminished chords etc. He's studied these things a lot. Were as Eddie knows these things also but he can't read music and he can't write music using quarter notes on a musical staff. Eddie just KNOWS this stuff, sort of like a savant.
Only 10 minutes, come on should have let him go a little longer. I await the next part.
2:34 what's the top left amp? looks baller
Sgt. Pepper Probably a Hughes & Kettener
D chord for adults
"First, go out and learn every chord." ... Really? I have a chord book in my closet with over 1,000 chord shapes. There are nearly 80 just in the Em section! Maybe he meant to say: "First, go to your doctor and make sure you've got at least four decades left to live, then learn every chord." ;-p
haha! well, he did say every open chord, so that shouldn't be too bad.
Wrote something stupid. Deleted it. This is what I get from this: isn't great teaching so cool?
Most guitars are set up to be in perfect tune. And if set up correctly, in perfect intonation at the 12th fret. But Steve Vai's guitar is in perfect intonation because of his ear. I mean, look at his guitar. the frets aren't strait. What would be the notes if you bared the first fret? You have to be a master of sound to play a guitar with frets like that. It just doesn't make sense. The intonation would be off. Maybe normal strait frets are too easy for him.
..the normal straight frets are an approximation...Steves' frets are more mathematically correct in placement in an attempt to perfect intonation...i believe Leland Sklar has an electric-bass (Dingwall?) with similarish off-set frets...
3 kazoo players... ;-)
Itachi playing guitar.
Get a book, go on the internet, check TH-cam.... hmmmm. I would have like if he recommended getting a good guitar teacher. Sorry, I teach
Steve Vai is one of my favorite guitar players, but this is probably the least favorite guitar lesson ive ever had.
True temperament frets and he’s still outta tune like crazy
Beginners- be careful with Master Vai's fingering of the D chord- it is unorthodox- he fingers it 3,4,2 from high e string when most practical fingering is 2, 3,1. A true second position fingering that connects well to a G. Hope helps. For you advancing players go further with his advice "but all that information is not a D" It only is on a very fundamental level. Eventually it will just be 3 notes formed in a shape that could be part of say a F13b9 or a bm7 or Gma7add9. They are just pitches to use as your creative expression chooses....eventually. But for now, it's a D. ;)
Try to play a D/B or D/F# with Vai's fingering and then with your fingering.
Ideally you should know what chord you intend on playing next and plan you fingering accordingly. The fingering that's most practical varies with context.
Ricky Johnson Agreed but not many play the f# on the 1st string when doing a D/F# and many, myself included use our thumbs. I teach several ways/fingerings for chords but not to a novice- that just overloads the neural pathways- one good, solid fingering reinforces muscle memory. Lest you think I am questioning Master Vai’s methodology let’s be clear I am not. He is a mountain, but there are other mountains in the range..
...as has been pointed out, Steve no doubt uses his fingering to free-up the 1 finger to allow it to colour the d chord,move quickly to a b - chord, descending bass-lines or substitute root-notes for the d...all poss/slightly diff, with 2,3,1 fingering...sim to alt g major open-fingering...
100$ he’s smoked dmt
T’s Life Nope he doesn't even drink bro; he's a sober genius like Zappa
Chord is in tune he says on his cheater guitar.
I really like Steve, but this wasn't helpful at all.
"you become the chord"... k...
he means that the chord has a certain mood or vibe to it, and it will sort of take you in a different direction. the more notes you add into a chord, the deeper it's going to get. it's just a way of connecting a certain feeling to a certain chord by listening to it and internalizing that particular sound (the dissonance, the consonance, a certain interval that stands out, whatever) rather than just know that it "works" because of theory
JunkieMonkey321 well said!
still a terrible lesson for a beginner. save the deep thoughts to when you're 60 and have an international career like him.
Vai was far from this "become the chord" guru in his early days. He was a theory and extreme practice psychopath.
THAT is what landed his gig with Frank. Not this bs
Breno you're not very smart
sammy reynolds because obviously you are. “become the chord”, bruh
Can someone tell me what he was talking about when he said "guitar is a pickled instrument, sometimes chords will be out of tune even if the guitar is in tune"? He kind of glossed over this and I just want some elaboration on whatever concept he was referring to there.
look at his uneven crooked frets... that's a really expensive true temperament neck!! Vai should have shared that with you all. that's the secret to having clear in-tune chords.
Chord of Personality