Vinnie Vincent - Metal Tech Guitar Video - Complete
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Vinnie shows you his unique approach to soloing. Topics included are: Major and Minor scale patterns, chromaticism, arpeggio shapes, sweep picking, hammer-ons and pull-offs, intervals and altered, diminished and whole-tone scales.
Vinnie also teaches you his Pick-Finger combinations for playing super fast scales, arepggios and licks along with right hand tecniques to create rhythmically accented picking. This video will enable you to expand your melodic range and develop state of the art Rock techniques.
Vinnie Vincent first established himself as a guitar player and writer in one of the most famous heavy metal bands in history. In 1984, Vinnie moved on to form his own band, The Vinnie Vincent Invasion, who have put out two albums on Chrysalis records.
Combining skill, power and speed, Vinnie established himself as a respected guitarist on the bands 1st album, The Vinnie Vincent Invasion. The Invasion's 2nd album, All Systems Go was released in May 1988 and shows Vinnie's progression in skill and style. His sound and style are easy to identify: When you hear Vinnie play, you know it's him!
I prefer when Vinnie shreds. His first Invasion album blows away the second one. I don’t care what anyone says about his playing. It sounds bad ass!
I only made It one minute and fifteen seconds and I got a fucking migrane
Yea dude right on
That's because you're a sissy boy who listens to rap loser
U disco pups
Amen. No substance or cohesion. Horrible tone too.
How to master being 15 years old and annoying your parents in your bedroom with complete bullshit should be the title
"What key are you playing in ?"
Vinnie "all keys"
12 notes in the western scale and his 'scale' uses 11 of them, all except E#(m2nd). Great technique though
😂😂
If he plays in all keys he’s bound to play a note or two right at some point, genius
@@jimshorts125 no it’s not a great technique, it’s shit
@@tzon6802
That’s why if you make a mistake, just repeat it. Then it’s jazz, not a mistake.
I´m not afraid to admit that I loved the 2 Vinnie Vincent Invasion albums that came out. It was a sign of the times in regards to the era of the 1980s music scene.
Same here. His earlier stuff was not bad
horrible records, bad songs, speed without taste...anxiety ...etc
WHY would someone be ashamed about liking albums?
Great albums, the song writing is off the charts on those.
@@_vixen_4504 you are correct none of his songs were on the charts
His playing is hard to listen to but somehow I keep wanting to listen.
Exactly
His hands are not synchronized and he's using way too much delay in his tone. But I gotta give respect where respect is due. He's the one with a guitar instruction video, not me. YAH bless!!!
It’s a great mess 😂
..it's like Kerry King, but sped up...that's not a compliment.
Controlled Chaos...💚💚
As extreme as Vinnie was, he had his own KISS persona and guitar playing style apart from Ace that got him respected. He wasn't trying to be like Ace Frehley like Tommy Thayer is doing right now.
He did what Paul and gene wanted him to do. Tommy does the same. What Paul and gene tell him to do. Tommy was in his own band. He isn't just some Ace copycat
If you want to hear how much Stanley respected Vincent read his books or if thats a bit much there's plenty of snippets of him talking about the habits of Vincent, it really doesn't sound good, from his 1st jam when he went done on his knees to pouring his food back into the bands Stew pot to stanley having to pull him off stage to stop his extended solo which came close to a fight as Vincent told Stanley to never do that again, the guy was an egoistical, ignorant, arrogant, puke shredding guitar asshole, who got his ass finally fired! Stanley's words.shame, why do you think he didn't get invited to anything kiss related? they couldn't stand him. He comes back after 20 years doesn't play any shred guitar, looks very strange, fails to turn up to his own gigs, and charges a fortune for his online cds etc, his website looks hacked presently. This is not a person who fits a trustworthy rock Star.
@@tiplady Yeah I heard those stories as Paul didn't really want Vinnie in the band.
@@van76 they were desperate for a player and he was there only choice, however, they had to sack him due to non signing of contract issues, I don't think it upset him much he then had a a real name for himself & did well until he screwed that up as well, he's returned again and is planning gigs, be interesting it he doesn't do another runner.
Caroline Appice told the story of his last rob the promoter and ran off in 2019, Vincent must be a bit of nutcase to do that to fans! Plus he's planned new tour! Advice pay at the door only.
@@tiplady agreed about that advice when it comes to him.
The bit starting at 4:45 is pure joy to listen to and it looks like he's having as much fun playing it. Love it!
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Only really listenable part of the whole shred. I love it.
What’s genius about his playing is he doesn’t always land the phrase finishing notes in key. He finds an alternative note to what your brain expects to hear and rides it into another direction. His fuck you attitude comes out in his playing. It’s his own style and there is a ton of skill there.
Hmm, as a guitar player I would always try to play the parts as the fans enjoyed, usually the way it was recorded, not sure by playing something odd or different is always a great choice with popular pop-rock songs. Each to their own.
He could have been a legend... if he was more sane, more mature and had any sense of restraint. If you've heard 30 seconds of VV, you've heard every trick up his sleeve, because you get it all
"He finds an alternative note to what your brain expects to hear..." or in other words he just plays some random notes and maybe some of them will fit in the key.
@@Stefan-Van-der-Pulst savage!!
@@freepressright Maybe I should have said that he actually plays some decent licks now and then but they are thrown together like an out of key mess. The equivalent of nails on a chalkboard.
Being in a world of rock perfection editing 2021,,i find this in a way refreshing even though it’s not perfect or sometimes out right annoying (tone wise) there’s a lot of energy and something we don’t usually see in rock players these days
To all the haters hating 30 years after this video hit the market, It's not like the world is going to forget any of you and your immense guitar talents, no one ever knew any of you. If i'm wrong, post your commercially released instructional video.......
Lol why are taking criticism of Vinnie Vincent so personally? People grew out if KISS after middle school. You should too. It's a cartoon band for children.
Say want you want about the style he is playing in this video...his instrumental tune "Ya all know I'm shot" is pretty impressive
The sound... its like styrofoam rubbed against windows...🤟😫🤟
Hell yeah 😂
😂😂😂
Love him or hate him he has something most guitar players do not have--originality. He reminds me of George Lynch. They do not have guitar theory down like Malmsteen, but they have a very unique sound. When VV plays, you know it is him. I have to respect that...
I dig it, regardless if it's too notey or wild. You can learn things everywhere.
This guy is a phenomenal player. His teaching style is hilarious...ok, here’s this scale - then shreds it at 200 beats per minute...oh, ok I get it! Lol, yeah, right!
Vinnie solos with a wild spontaneous combustion style. It's a cross between precision and reckless abandon, that is what makes it exciting and unique. It's rock and roll. He has some monster chops.
ReverendRicktaScale
Indeed he has a very aggressive chaotic style but still very melodic.
I liked Ace's style better.
It's horribly sad....
These are tracked...from the actual album you goof. He got called out years ago for it
Like most shredders, Vinnie shows his musical chops when he slows down. He can compose some amazing pieces but he relies on gluing them together with just cramming notes into measures. Pretty much anything he plays would sound even better at half tempo. I listen to his solos trying to pick out the parts where he slows down and does something with the phrasing. There is not much room for phrasing when everything is sixteenth notes. It's impressive to see that speed and accuracy, but it's very one note (sorry for the pun) music writing.
There is a famous quote-- If I had more time, I would have written a shorter letter. (attributed to multiple sources).
As much as people slag him, he is MASSIVELY talented. Just ask the people he's played with. Also, the guys in Iron Maiden have all said he has Jeff Beck DOWN. Obviously, he wasn't trying to play in the style of the mid-late 80's (shredder city) which doesn't translate well into today's music. Unfortunately, at times he was playing for VV instead of playing for the song - though he certainly can play tastefully. A Million to One comes to mind.....
Listen to his stuff from 'Treasure'. It's super tasteful.
I've heard a lot of fast guys on the guitar... I think all are copy cats...mmm.. Vinni Vincent has an OWN STYLE...If you don't like it okay but... Don't write stupid comments...If you don't understand his music okay.. But he actually does... and that's why this instructional was created! Vinnie Vincent rocks!!!
Thank you for this destructional video!
vinnie kicks ass period
Vinnie is awesome, I used to like him, then I hated it, but now after listening to him say things like "when I see this Dm7 and this E7 I see and hear this scale", by using the "block" you can use any notes in that block (Marty Friedman even says so), yes it better fits jazz progressions and if he was playing over those it would be similar to Helmets solos style sound. Yes its fast, yes its chaotic just like his life, its a projection of his inner self. but to say he has no "felling" is stupid, just listen to that beautiful wall of sound, frequency and chaos, it makes me "feel" like playing air guitar right along with him and let out some aggression and blow some shit up with some Whammy Bar Dive Bombs, all with a smile on my face for Vinnie doing it exactly the way he wanted to.
That was exciting like drive a Camaro in the 80's. Just cool stuff, not the boring 1000 strings that we have now or djent thing with boring guitars that look like a tree. Long live 80s excess and Floyd Rose
Vinnie is the one that brought KISS back from the disaster of 'The Elder' that Bob 'gotta have a concept album' Ezrin pushed to them. Vinnie wrote the hits "Lick It Up" , "I Love It Loud", "All Hell's Breaking Loose". And he wrote the heavy 'Unholy' for them as well.
Jerry Schafer IV Vinnie CO-wrote those songs, if you’ve heard the way they sounded before Gene & Paul fixed them, those songs were good, G&P and even Carr, made them great, if Vinnie was so great VVI would’ve been better.
If he were wiser he would've had a longer career.
@@ShockMe1994 / Yes sir Shock me. Totally agree.
He CO WROTE that stuff. its not like he sat in the studio alone and wrote everything. Kiss knew how to write long before vinnie came along and they survived when they booted him.Vinnie is so great he couldn't save himself from implosion. Dude mightve been talented at one time,.now he's a broke, cross dressing,Hillary Clinton pant suit wearing liar and conman that can't play anymore.
Soo...from what I'm seeing....the first few minutes are sweetened pieced together studio track snippets with Vinnie playing air guitar. I mean c'mon, that isn't even a proper whammy dive at 5:50.
Every genius is crazy in One or another way...craziness and virtouisity goes hand in hand.
people say he plays with "no emotion"
I DISAGREE
i sense powerful emotion in his music
a powerful hatred for music
roman14032 Lol 😂
Lol
And you are such a virtuoso?
I agree whit you
LMFAO!!!!
To Vinnie's credit Some cool ideas here, thinkin out of the box for sure & not getting hung up on traditional, seen em before pentatonic minor stuff.
Not sure bout all his phrasing but he's cool as a cucumber!
This dude is INSANE! I had no idea!
4:45 okay this was really cool
Amazing Guitarist ...all you people insulting him have you ever played in KISS didnt think so
He can play better than any of you guys trashing him on this thread. Why are you people so negative? Jealousy, I suppose.
Vizron Creative Media He is very talented, I'm not denying that by any means. It's just that there were parts of this instructional video where he strummed the strings way too fast in a very scratchy, sloppy pace and made his solos sound like total crap. There were other parts of this video however where he did excellent work though. Vinnie Vincent honestly has amazingly talented fast fingered skill which is good but sometimes he just needs to slow it down a bit so the guitar doesn't sound so wretchedly scratchy and horrid.
See? I'm being honest. He is very talented nevertheless.
~Dutch
Albert Juarez I didn't say I know nothing about guitar playing. I've learned a few things in the past but I've always been better with rhythm strumming work rather than lead guitar work. Personally I think Vinnie Vincent is very talented, but I was being honest over the fact that there were several parts of this clip where he did in fact play his guitar in a horribly bad sounding way. There are several other lead guitarists that obviously do much better work than he did here. Like for example, Elliot Easton from The Cars is unbelievably amazing but unfortunately he has always been too underrated. Eddie Van Halen from Van Halen is incredible. Paul Dean, the guitarist and founder of the Canadian rock band Loverboy is great. Bruce Kulick, Kiss's fourth lead guitarist was truly the best. Then there is Yngwie Malmsteen of whom is undeniably one of the most sensational guitarists in the world.
So I never said I know nothing about guitar playing, I agree that the majority of this was in fact horrible. Vinnie Vincent still has amazing talent, but he should have just focused on his skill in a more focused, coordinated fashion when he did this video.
~Dutch
Albert Juarez Okay, well you are welcome to believe whatever you want about him. However, you didn't have to tell me that I know nothing about guitar playing. That was kind of blunt. I know how to strum certain chords in a rhythmic fashion but I've never been good at playing lead guitar work. I personally think Vinnie Vincent has talent, but I was upfront about the fact that he did do a lot of horrible playing in this instructional video. My personal favourite lead guitarist of all time is Elliot Easton formerly of The Cars. That's a prime example of an unbelievably amazing guitarist with extreme enthusiasm. He without a doubt blows Vinnie Vincent away in a heartbeat.
~Dutch
Albert Juarez I wasn't trying to get emotional. I was just saying you didn't have to tell me that I know nothing about guitar playing. I'm glad you agree with me that Elliot Easton is way better than Vinnie Vincent.
All I was saying was don't be so blunt with me. I know a few things about guitar playing. See where I'm coming from? Good.
~Dutch
Vizron Creative Media I don't think so bro!
I could listen to this all day
Have fun with that.
Vinnie is a great guitar teacher
I always keep coming back to this video. I can't stop! It's so unbelievably bad. 30:41 omg.
It literally sounds like someone that's playing for the first time EVER. The folks that think this is good, are you mad? It's like The Emporer's New Clothes!😂👎
Classic instructional video that brings me back :-) Vinnie was a technical wizard, no doubt, but I have mixed feelings about it today! I honestly don't know what to make of it, I find myself liking it and hating it simultaneously, LOL. What do yo think? Musical genius who was slightly too rambunctious and heard melodies WAY faster than us mere mortals? "OR" a gifted musician who practiced way TOO much, lost all sense of musical dynamics and vomits up EVERY possible note to be played over a progression? Either way, kept me entertained enough to watch the whole thing, hahaha! Thanks for uploading
Michael Z Martin Great observation, completely agreed man!
I can appreciate any player really. If they are passionate about it and demonstrate that fire? My hat's off to anybody really. I just don't understand what the f' he was thinking? Perhaps, this is yet another unsolved mystery in the history of mankind. Hehe, yeah, I don't know? He got somebody's attention at one time and forged somewhat of a career. He did a hell of a lot with music than I have in my lifetime, as a business anyway. Kudos to that crazy SOB, only he has the balls to boldly go where no other has before or ever will try for that matter. God bless him! Ciao
I like this style! Plays over thrash pretty good!
Before you criticize him, ask for yourself, what you can do with your tune? do you even have your own style?
Imagine you play with his gear, what you will play?
Seriously, he is on the top level.
He's not
And Because of actually Good instructional videos, I can play my guitar more with a better intonation...
I don't play at a speed I'm sloppy at...
this has to be the funniest guitar video on youtube
so young yet so good
The more I look into this guy the more I see what kind of people hate him. The more I see what kind of people hate him, the more I like him.
Please do not read this. It's too long for *YOU* to read:
I had trouble with his style at first because I approached it from a metal perspective and got confused like the guys who kinda know a little theory and think they have it figured out because they are conforming to the most basic expectations implied by that music theory which is nothing more than an attempt at representing/describing the preferred harmonic conventions valued in European symphonic music from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and not what "music" "is." Looking at it like challenging dissonant Greg Ginn like wild noise, it actually kinda works.
I think Gene Simmons characterisation of his playing was accurate but that's why it's growing on me in particular. From an essentially "Anti-rock" perspective it's brilliant. Especially how he was able to get way into that world and defile it and even remain a figure within it. The type of strick musicality that people champion as somehow mandatory is often very boring and sometimes even frustrating to me. I sometimes prefer it for certain applications and I often enjoy it in popular music but the whole thing i enjoy about rock "music" (I hate calling Rock, Metal, and punk "music", I do not see it as music but rather something that often utilizes musical ideas, I do not call what I do music and would find that offensive, I'm dead serious) To me, most post-blues pop music in general is chucks or rough hewn noise badly forced together without the appropriate motion and sometimes even resolution expectations and skipping the correct scale and harmony steps and it comes more from using the instrument physically than real composition. Think "Pinhead" by The Ramones, the kinda thing Captain Beefheart would do sincerely and Zappa would do as a knock on the popular rock and blues people in the 70s expected him to perform. Like cheech and chong doing a parody of punk or metal. They were making fun of people like myself. I kinda enjoy playing it all back to them now. It's the exact personality that killed rock and roll and is still ruining it that it offends. I can't wait untill they are all dead. I'm sure half of them will out live me somehow, heh.
The condensed version of this video: 1) Identify the chords you are playing over / key you are in. 2) Play any/all of the 12 notes in the chromatic scale, in any desired order, as fast as humanly possible. 3) Season with whammy bar dips. 4) repeat. Oh yeah, and be sure to leave your distortion box on when you are tuning up.
It's musically horrendous. There's a video on UA-cam where Steel Panther's "Satchel" talks about how you can just play any damn notes you want, as long as you land a note that happens to be in key. Even though he's half joking there's something to be said for that. But Vinnie doesn't ever land on a note anywhere.
His playing is the equivalent of sonic guitar vomit. A machine gun of cacophony spewing away. Someone here said he should play for Slayer. I'd actually agree with that lol.
Actually tuning up with distortion is actually easier! You can hear the dissonance, the waver between pitches easier.
i would actually take that analysis a bit further
he seems to be AVOIDING any chord tones even in passing
For all you haters, this was the style in the '80's. This is what a lot of metal guitarists aspired to play back then, and people thought it sounded good. It's like any other phase in rock history and it's a matter of personal opinion on whether or not it has aged well.
LMAO @ "RETARD." What are you, twelve years old? I am sure you are also a virtuoso guitarist in your own right.
I think he kills....most of the people that hate him couldnt play as well as him then and cant play as well as him now. Love him or hate him he got to a level most guitarists ...including myself...can only dream of. Oh....and he is still being talked about.
He’s like Randy Rhodes on acid… sulphuric acid to be precise.
What is funny about Kiss in general is they seem to have had problems with many talented guitarists that were formerly in the band. Vinnie without any doubts was in this category. Any member that made KISS not the center of attention, were labeled as problemed. I am not a KISS fanboy, but I do like a lot of their stuff. I am not arguing which guitarist was the best. I liked Ace, Bruce and Vinne. I will conceed I am not crazy about Vinnie's all over the place solos on the instructional, but he is a fine guitarist! Gene Simmons to me is the ego driven creator/ band member and NOT sure I have ever heard him say a kind word about past members. So in essence, would could infer Gene in fact, is the dick head!
why so many negative comments? he is good. maybe you guys never heard about jazz. i think Vinnie have the experience on jazz cause he's playing with lots of chromatic and bibbo licks, and he puts it on metal song. look at those awesome right hands picking. he did use both picks and fingers. it was a hard picking technique.
He should have just signed the contract to be a full time member of Kiss and brought his ego down maybe he would still be in the band and a bigger success, guy is very talented and did help Kiss make a good comeback with the Lick it up album , could have gone further if he was not a ego maniac
Don't understand why some of you are bashing him?! He is a great guitarist... Maybe if his ego would´nt control him he would be better off. But he plays beautifully.
There’s no musical sense with his guitar solos.....
OperationEndGame Sure, he tries to fit as many notes as he can. We all notice this, he mixes everything together, sometimes it sounds off sometimes it's good; for example the solo on VVI song "Amimal" is amazing, the ones on Do you wanna make love, I wanna be your victim, and shoot U full of love, those are all great.
Great and sucks aren't synonyms
Why not play it slow to show everyone.
"It opens up another world." I'LL SAY. One he has been in ever since. God Bless him!
31:00 - 31:30 might be the best part
Its crazy to see what he has become now in days, who is this guy and what happen too the real Vinnie Vincent. how can a person be so fkn good then over 2 decades later cant play a single thing on the guitar. I really hope Vinnie some day soon is able to make a comeback playing as good if not better then what he use to.
Imagine Vinnie Vincent with less overdrive and a STRING DAMPENER. That would have been something.
Lessons begin at 7:28
A lot of guitar "aficionados" criticizing Vinnie's playing here. Usually those negative comments come from people who can't play fast. That was just his thing. It was within his right to play as fast as he damn well wanted....and he did. The solo at the 6:00 mark is brilliant! I think he's phenomenal! LOL....He can get a bit carried away and sometimes it is sloppy, but it's organic, if mechanical.
Man this guy was such a talent, innovator, song writer,I wonder what really happened to him......
This dude is a melodic shredder with some fuga fuga in it
Vinnie would give Van Halen a run for his money. In his heyday one of the great players
He's a pretty good guitar teacher, not many explain their craft like this.
Mark Slaughter recently said that Vinnie could play Jeff Beck stuff note for note. I'd say that buys him some cred!
That's cool. Because then you think the weird random-note bursts are more an intentional thing. It's all for fun. Randy could play things that are WAY out but there was definitely more thinking involved, Vinnie was more just 'hey, look at me!'
Vinnie Is pretty extreme and all over the place, a great songwriter too. EVH is on another level, far more melodic and far more memorable. VV just took a lot of EVHs techniques and sped them up. Vhs body of work is in a different stratosphere.
leokimvideo lmfao gtfo 😂😂😂😂
Stop it..
The comment section its funny as hell, 'He can't play" "Its just noise"...
Did you guys ever heard the songs that he wrote? The demos? Did you guys know that he had a amazing voice? Every example played on the video he's explaining how it works, which notes compose it, if its just noise and he don't know how to play, how he's explaing all the theory parts?
"Those solos don't fit with the song"
Why not? He wrote the songs, he can play the solo the way he want.
When somebody show me a great argument about Vinnie "bad playing" we can have a conversation.
People like Friedman, Becker, Firkins, Kotzen, Gilbert exist who are humble virtuosos...
Agreed 100% Mr. Mechanix!
So good 👍 👏
I wish they've also made Vinnie's "melodic soloing" instruction video.
I know George Lynch and you sir are no George Lynch.
Agreed, not even close...
Omg... Vinnies amazing!
He's a master at that hybrid pickin' shit & uses a fuck load of chromatic notes & exotic scales. Did I mention he has great aural skills?
his ideas are really cool.
It would be great if MIke Bateo did a tribute to Vincent
Vinnie played many tasty licks back then.persona for sure
Only real guitar players get Vinnie.
31:23 Vinnie Vincent Shreds
I have been playing for over 35 years and professionally for 20 and I couldn't understand a fucking word of this :-) x
To think he didn't live too far from me for years. Probably ran into him many times and didn't realize it.
A lot of people don't know is that Vinnie was an in-demand session player and songwriter including doing work for TV shows like "Laverne & Shirley". The guy has talent but his neurodivergent personality blocks his ability to achieve the success & recognition he should have.
Vinnie is an excellent songwriter and songwriter but he won't let go of the"shredder" mindset.
Why are you talking about it in the present tense..?
Amazing playing! Very fast solos but still carefully thought and the solos fits the music perfectly. Vinnie is one of the greatest players ever for sure!
Ugh. Being a fast typist doesn't make you a good writer.
Amen
I think Vinnie and Ace should go on tour together just like Sammy Hagar and David Lee Roth did. I don't do concerts anymore but I would buy a ticket to go see that.
Vinnie was a great guitarist and remember his time was the 1980's..for heavy rock style guitar..a lot of guitarists were boring compared to Vinnie at the time. Creatures of the night album track had a great solo in it. We have had and still do have guitarists who have this shredding style today..and I dont see them complaining about the style. He can go over the top..but so many guitarists do. The sound quality on here isn't great..so take that into consideration. I saw him in 1983 with Kiss..he was excellent and I'm more of a Ace Frehley classic rock style. Vinnie has more Eddie van Halen, schenker, randy rhodes style of guitar playing..which was fine for the 1980's.
Vinnie Vincent didn't play the solo on the song Creatures of the night, that's probably why you like it cos it doesn't have mindless shredding and just making a noise. The solo was tastefully played by Steve Farris
I own the original on DVD, and it does not have this screetchy sound.
Blame the crap sound quality on UA-cam.
Seriously.. How can "sound enhusiasts" even listen to the heavily compressed sound on any UA-cam video?
LMFAO at you blaming "youtube" for this garbage trash HAHAHA!
People often do a shit job of uploading. Why I know this? Some people don't.
UTube made you deaf? Cool...
Pure chaos
I'm not a guitarist myself, I don't even know a thing about guitars, so this video didn't really interest me- however the most entertaining thing throughout this whole instructional video was his wig changing half way through
Had this around 89
3:15 he's totally doing playback :/
What impresses me is his ability to actually mime back that vomit
Great to have this testimony today. What a pity the guy could not afford a noise gate + made the choice to add a delay so that it becomes so tough to figure out what his is doing that s a the point of a pedal: you can activate it and deactivate it to demonstrate the difference... Vinnie had so much to offer...
guy knows his theory. to me he still kiss's best guitarist. kulick takes the second place
Gotta hand it to him, though: for decades, he's been able to sustain a whole cottage industry off this one shtick of playing an endlessly excruciating flurry of distorted garbage. Long live rock n roll lol
He's actually really good, watching some of the picking technique I can now hear what I couldnt figure out from him all those years due to the God awful distortion tone he liked to use on the solo records. No offense either, because at the time I was totally into it, I still love that first VVI record. But this just reminds me of how difficult it would get to hear the individual notes he would play on some of that stuff. I still say his best work is Creatures and that first VVI record. Very talented and very very underrated. Chicken picking is no easy thing to pull off, no pun intended...
The chick picking+ alternate picking combo is pretty swell, makes for super speed.
I saw VV in concert. I think he has a unique sound.
He certainly has chops, but he doesn’t sound like he pays attention to what beat he’s on, when each measure begins and ends, and when chords change. Those things should determine your note selection. On the other hand, if you’re just blowing through scales at light speed, then your playing just sounds like puking (as Paul Stanley described Vinnie’s playing in his book). Many people think Eddie Van Halen is random, but his solos actually have rhyme and reason-the Beat It solo is a perfect example.
Michael Angelo Batio brought us “Speed kills”
Vinnie Vincent brought us “Noise kills”
Hahahaha jk I love Vinnie
This was the most normal Vinnie would ever look.
WITH 2 WIGS
The Clarences love & support Vinnie!
Super gifted
This Is A True Demo On How To RIP!! He F**kin Smokes! Haters Be Damned.
What a super easy lesson.
He actually looks good here. His over the top glam image made him look like an ugly guy trying to mask it with outrageous hair and makeup. The cleaner long haired rocker look suits him better, especially the first half of the video.
I didn't know Justine Bateman could play like that.
So he turns you on. I see.
Who’s Justin Baitman?!
Glad to see I'm not the only guitarist heavily influenced by Gary Moore.
No one covers Nigel Tufnel with such precision as Vinnie Vincent. He has that shrill, nails-on-chalkboard tone down cold. Plenty of pickup humm and buzzing too - no one does that as well as VV.
Ok so I am assuming that Vinnie was tasked with teaching would be players a bit about his style,hence the title of video. I believe he may have missed the mark by say,a couple of planets. I was a teenager metalhead during the 80s so I do know that the shredtastic style was in full force but cmon. George Lynch could and did play shreddy but sooo much more soulfully. I do like Vinnie's playing in KISS and the first VVI lp ( even the broken record ending of the lp lol) but beyond that...ahhhh no. I even bought the Treasure lp he is on. So Im not a total Vinnie/Vinessa hater.
When he talks, he knows what he's talking about, but when he plays it just sounds SOOOOOOO BAD. It's like where did he go wrong?
I never understood why guitarists like Vinnie never shows how he plays entire songs and why the solos are so important, these songs will be lost forever unless he himself shows how he composed them. Sure there will be covers done but its not the same thing, only a rendition.