Steve Hackett demos his tone and technique secrets
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- Featured in Guitarist issue 393
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I was blessed to see Steve and the band performing Foxtrot live three weeks ago. And I was super lucky to have a quick chat with him after the concert.
Steve is the most underrated guitarist ever. He did so many sounds and "tricks" way before anyone else did. A really great, humble, and talented person.
remember he created so much technic, that others copied and were created for
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@@seanygh1 I certainly do remember. That's why I had him sign my guitar.
Really the first one to use tapping in RnR music (Musical Box)
He is certainly not underrated.
A renowned musician who places modesty and artistic integrity above celebrity and sales figures.
Belial Panattiere yes"spectral mornings"too.i find him just a tad repetitive these days.but still one of the all titans.
The Best for me , just think Voyage Of The Acolyte Album of Steve , now just imagine TRick of the Tail 2 lps with Voyage Of The Acolyte , my God , better Album ever ua-cam.com/video/BStLgMdAvrs/v-deo.html
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He create the tapping guitar 1970 Steve
When you composed Voyage 1975 my God
Steve Hackett and David Gilmour are definitely my favorite guitarists
Mometti Gabriel fully agree with you there! I just love the sense of melody of these guys, and they always put the song first, instead of showing off their technical skills.
yes but why should anyone give a fuck?
GodS of Guitar . brain , Hackett create technic tapping Guitar and play the Ciaconne of Bach , AND AND AND
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BOTH gENIUS
Such a badass guitar player. Never got the credit for a lot of his innovative riffs and techniques.
He basically invented tapping
Not really. I've seen old films of guitarists tapping on acoustic guitars in the 1930s.
Badass is not a very nice name, numpty
Buried in the mix for years thanks to Tony Banks's ego. Thanks Tony
Or his song writing.
Good old Steve Hackett deserves as much attention as any guitarist around. Such an intriguing original style.
That sounds about right. An astute observation.
This dude cracks me up with his sophisticated talk and badass finger tapping all at once... *plays eruption*.... "I do say, I fancy this tone immensely to an extraordinary measure."
Clay Upchurch Yeah, cracked me up too...😕😀
Top tone , way ahead of Daryl Stuemer in Genesis tone wise and more . In the words of Santana '' Your tone is your face '' !!!
😂😂😂😂
Uncle Steve: "I was fiddling about here on the Fernandes and started playing this fantastic piece that Ritchie was telling me about from this Swedish bloke."
.....plays "Black Star" and kills it!
"No-one needs to play any faster than that really" - love it! :)
@Auras Sparsas The Retard Steumer is a good player but has crap tone.
As someone who owns a Fernandez, I can say it is an absolutely phenomenal guitar.
TheActualCanadian I have a Burny, same same 👍🏻🙂
What one do you have ? Are there any that come with a whammy or did Steve get this whammy fitted at a later date ?
What's the device he has just before the nut? Never saw anything like that.
@@danvelgtr I have the Monterey elite, it has a Floyd rose setup with the locking nut (at the end of the fretboard) - Steve’s is a Gibson that’s been outfitted with the Fernandez sustainer
Going back to those early Genesis records I realised that Steve Hackett's unique tone was subconsciously hardwired into my brain at an impressionable age ... such an underrated artist: see Selling England by the Pound
Steve is a master musician. His technique - uniquely his own - is impeccable, his thought process and concepts well grounded in specialized theory and artistic integrity. Such a joy to listen to him. Cheers, Steve!
If anyone wants to understand the genius of Steve Hackett,look up Firth Of Fifth. You're welcome.
ironz18 been a genesis fan for many years and yes you are correct my friend brilliant he's sooo underrated as a guitar player ADN! he was doing the hammer on the neck technique waaay before eddie van halen! its a recorded fact but much like like David Bowie bob dylan and many others eddie's brilliance dials in with him taking styles from others and building his own voice and signature within that and not to fail to mention a great pop songwriter with hard rock but yes steve is a great guitarist no doubt
+stealthyBLK Tapping goes way back; not sure how far, but definitely decades before Hackett or EVH. It also spans many genres.
The fact that Eddie hit so big with tapping being such a major, noticeable feature of his soloing, led a lot of us to simply assume he invented it, because we were unfamiliar with the earlier use of it by many others.
The fact that Hackett did it earlier than Ed really doesn't mean anything; I'm sure many people "invented it", not knowing of the others.
+ironz18 he was an innovator and great writer, but not much of a player. he just got the best out of what he could do
+Mox_au he also got shafted from Genesis
+melbman43 By the three headed monster!
Cracking interview. Steve's a gent, and a fantastic player.
Tone is everything, and after that, a great live mix is critical. Saw Steve Hackett Band in November 2023 - great performances, very clear audio, well-balanced mix with all instruments. Tremendous show.
Tone is everything?! How about playing ability/musicianship?
There’s such mystique to Steve’s playing, even as he’s personally attempting to demystify it for you.
Sounds pretty stupid to me
The Hackett/Gilmour comparisons are striking. They are both players that concentrate on melody and timbre. In an age where so many guitarists were trying to play these "fire-breathing" solos, they stood out for being memorable. Their work was universal. Whether you were a musician or not, you would likely remember the melody. Playing like this takes a certain amount of concentration. It's not just technique and patterns. It's about ear training and "composing in the moment". Suprisingly few improvisers can actually do this.
Hugely underrated guitarist and a real gentleman. Love not just his playing but his whole approach to the guitar. This video is one of the most informative I've seen.
Aside from his outstanding work on the electric guitar, I recommend everyone to listen his remarkable classical guitar albums such as "Bay of Kings", "Momentum", "Tribute" and "A midsummer night's dream". This man is the genius of a generation.
Agreed-'Bay' is actually my very favorite Hackett album.
This is amazing...I wish more guitar players would do lessons like this where they just teach you all of their little trademarks and simple techniques that when done correctly can add that certain shine to your playing.
Wow he really understands what his guitar is doing
'Fly on a Windshield'
as they say, 'nuff said
He is to Genesis what Dave is to Pink Floyd
Good comparison!
Uh..yeah, they were both their guitar players.
At first I thought WTF is he talking about but glad I watched it all - great lesson and a true humble genius. Never heard somebody talk about some these ideas before.. being "tired" in a solo... "dropping" a string.. etc... very honest and makes you realize all guitarists have same challenges
Rumor has it that Steve Hackett's neighbors called the cops one day as he was playing his guitar loudly. The cops arrested the neighbors and the court awarded them life sentence.
Yes but fortunately Steve convinced the judge to overturn the convictions by promising that he would personalty see to it that his neighbors would never call the cops again. Now, when our good man wants to have a little fun at home he invites them all for a good pint of English lager, hides all the telephones and jacks up those bloody knobs as much as he wants to... finally!
"The sustain...listen to it!" -- Nigel Tufnel
"You could go off an have a sandwich and it would still be playing"
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Up to 11
Aaaaaaaahhhhhhhhh
Steve is guitar genius!! His talent, tecnics are wonderful!!
Saw his show yesterday in São Paulo, impossible to describe!!
Congratulations Steve, you are a legend!!!
👏👏👏👏👏
A true genius. His departure from Genesis marked the demise of the band. Fortunately, Mr Hackett still tours with Genesis music, as well as his impressive solo material.
That was a really slow demise :)
I agree. They made a lot of money, but the music was crap after Trick of the Tail.
@@thorpenator9148 No, Wind and Wuthering, it all deteriorated with ATTW3
@@Plasmariel After follow you follow me, which got boring real quick, what else do you recommend from wind and wuthering?
@@thorpenator9148 FYFW isn't from W&W
My Maestro! Simply one of the most genuine guitar players we have been gifted to know!
Genius! He was the force behind Genesis' direction for their good stuff prior to selling out. Didn't realize he was tapping (or "nailing" as he called it) in some of those lines. Explains a lot.
To be clear it was Steve and Tony Banks who really set the direction, you can't leave Tony out, the greatest (prog/art) rock keyboardist of all time. I'm not sure Steve sold out, Peter had left, it was the beginning of the end. For sure after Steve left, Genesis was no more in my opinion.
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I think Mark Zabel was referring to Genesis selling out after Steve Hackett left rather than him, I don't think anyone could accuse him of selling out
Listen to Duke and And Then There Were Three. You'll see that Genesis DID, in fact, survive without Hackett and Gabriel. Sure, they fell apart some time after that, but there are still a few nice tracks here and there; and Calling All Stations, which featured Ray Wilson on lead vocals, is actually very underrated as an album. Now, personally, I'm a huge prog fan: I like many bands such as: early and late Genesis, VDGG, Gentle Giant, Camel, Caravan, King Crimson, Yes, Moody Blues and many more.. and what I will say is that there is an incredible amount of creativity and uniqueness coming from the Genesis trio even after they had lost their interest in prog and had resorted to a more commercial approach. Look at it from the other side; it's pop, but it isn't the awful, meaningless, heartless pop that we see everywhere today (I'm aware that music today isn't entirely bad, just what's mainstream). I hope you'll at least give them another listen with an open mind, although it's entirely your choice. Thanks for reading and have a good day!
Steve you are my hero because you play classical and rock is very rare...
When you post some classical
Genesis changed immediately after Steve left. I still loved the music of Genesis. And it didn’t really change in intensity. But I always missed the imaginative, thoughtful, dreamlike experience of early Genesis.
To me, And Then There Were Three seemed to have some of the momentum of the Hackett days. But Hackett had a string of four strong albums to kick off his own path while Genesis struggled to figure out their new identity after that.
Not really
Steven the consummate gentleman & Musician
Steve is an awesome musician and my opinion did not change in Many years of listening to his music!!!😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊
Steve Hackett was the best part about Genesis.
I loved the 3-second ad for Pete Cornish complete with telephone number.
That's brand loyalty. Top job.
Honestly no irony or sarcasm intended.
I love that he's helping out someone that probably helped him on his way.
Big respect.
Luv and Peace.
+Ian Edmonds It's at ua-cam.com/video/Er2GHuzlUAY/v-deo.html
+Ian Edmonds Helping out? Are you nuts? Pete fucking Cornish made stuff for so many legends like Gilmour, May, The Who, Reed that you should really watch your mouth. To get an equipment from Cornish is not a charity for Cornish, it's a privilege for any musician.
Steve Hackett is a true genius with a guitar. He can make the sound coming off an amplifier from an electric guitar sound like almost anything !
9:30 - The Musical Box solo
9:40 - A bit of Supper's Ready, before "Today's a day to celebrate, the foe have met their fate"
9:47 - Dancing with the Moonlit Knight solo
He could have also played here the intro of Giant Hogweed, which I think is the best example of tapping before Van Halen.
I have been listening to what a gentleman he is, besides being a master of the guitar.
Listen to seconds out the. Fab genesis live album. Lovely tone there. Phasing. Chorus. Brilliant. Orchestral almost. Fitted perfectly. Tremendous sustain back then too!!!
Saw Steve in 1981. Saw/met him on Genesis Revisited Tour, and again during the "Wolflight" tour.
I'd love to see Fripp and Hackett work together one day
Bob has done good albums with David Sylvian and Andy Summers, but a Hackett/Fripp collab could be fantastic. Would also enjoy a Belew/Hackett meet-up.
@@Romany1111 fuck it we need to get them all in a room together
Fripp doesn't like Hackett.
@@coltonbeatty6117 i doubt it considering he asked him to be his replacement in 1974
@@mattekudasai8249 Who asked whom to be their replacement in what?
Thanks for talking about ear protection!
What I find amazingly shocking about Steve Hackett on guitar is how he can come across as simplistic at times and then eventually getting really complex and astonishing...especially during live transmission! As a member of the audience you might walk away thinking "Oh...I didn't realize he could play like that"
Other times...on studio albums for example...he might give the impression that he could be more than what he reveals. You can sort of hear that in his universal tone and technique.
In a live setting you never know what he's going to pull off! He can totally blow your mind in that sense. Just because he's demonstrating tricks or techniques on video doesn't mean he'll be limited to only what he reveals on camera. He often expands upon it live and it then becomes shocking as if he's unmasking himself or giving the impression that he sometimes holds back. When he improvises he plays variations of things and he expands on his own knowledge. He is very masterful in that way
He makes guitar look so easy. When I was first getting into Genesis I used to question where the guitar was. found out later much of what I thought was keyboard was actually Steve Hackett on guitar
Wow this is so cool! His work on foxtrot and selling England by the pound absolutely blew me away when I first heard it. Especially the big climax of dinners (suppers?) Ready. Such a THICK creamy tone with just endless harmonic sustain. I always thought that was due to some sort of modulation effect and a compressor but he had a few other tricks up his sleeve I see.
Jeff Beck, Steve Hackkett, S. Rothery, S. Howe, Robert Fripp, D. Gilmour, Andy Latimer, S. Stevens arre fuckin GODS
A LP shaped Fernandes w/ a Fender strap, quite a blend.
Yah! i've noticed too! Ha ha ha!!!
Play Authentic 😛
Genius and generous! Txs mr. Steve Hackett for your music you received from the stars, your riffs and your wisdom to share your blessed knowledge! You are my favorite guitarist ever!!!
Been seeing and byeing Steve's albums with genesis and after he left steve gets a great sound nobody else sounds like him seen him many times always had a great band brilliant live
Alex Skolnick uses that same Guitar. Steve is legend, Thank You! awesome totally.
Great guitarist! Cool to hear him explain his approach now.
Totally appreciate Steve's crazy innovation and massive contribution to music. Is the main message here being "how to play guitar without exhausting yourself"?
"Watch out for your ears, guys." Where was Steve in 1973 when I saw Lynyrd Skynyrd in Phoenix. My ears have been ringing ever sense. It's nice of Steve to show us all his secrets, it's like the Wizard coming out from behind the curtains.
So ahead of his time
Saw him yesterday in Akron and he played the entire foxtrot album, in addition to a ton of his solo material! The total show, including the small break, was three hours!
sympathisch, der gute Mann! Hat mich mit seiner Musik durch die Pubertät gebracht, während andere auf Leichtkost wie One hit wonder standen.....
He should be credited with tapping on electric guitar before any other. It's well known and eddy was witnessed meeting with Hackett and another player in LA and I'm sure tapping was discussed way prior to the debut album.
Steve you’re a genius
Full respect to Steve Hackett for sharing his techniques with everyone. Steve Hackett and Andrew Latimer where powerful inspirations for me as a guitarist. I use to do the harmonic ping voicing by holding the pic really close to the tip, so my thumb actually lightly came into contact with the string, directly after striking the string to get that wah wah vocal effect with singing harmonics.
When Steve Hackett said he struggled with vibrato, I noticed something I had never thought about before. He bends up, pushing up and down to change pitch. That seems a very hard way to do vibrato that lacks emotional control. I found vibrato very easy and very expressive by pulling down. The vibrato is then implemented simply by twisting your wrist to pull the string up and down. One mistake guitarists always make is they try to push the string either side of the static position, thinking the pitch has to go plus and minus away from the original pitch. You can never go minus in pitch unless you use a whammy bar. What gives manual vibrato so much human expression is that the pitch only goes up due to bending the string. Trying to slide the string back and forth across the central position is pointless. Just tension it in one direction. Down gives you more control over how much tension you add and how fast. It's all the the wrist.
A great guitarist, really!
"It looks a bit like a galloping horse.
A three-legged horse in this case, but here you go."
LOL
There is a video on UA-cam of Roy Smeck doing tapping, or nailing, as Steve calls it, on a ukulele in the 1930's that you can find here on UA-cam. Jazz musicians are said to have been doing it in the 20s too. Steve did it before Eddie, but others did it at least 50 years before Steve did.
+Chord TheSeeker Not on electric guitar! Not for rock music!
True...tapping has been around for many, many years....but it needed a vehicle...a hit...to make it popular...and that vehicle was Eruption!
Master.
Thank you
Absolutely awesome and just a pleasure to watch and listen to Steve as always.
One of the greats.
he has a great sound!
STeve was the first person I ever heard tapping. As he said it was 73, EVH was 78.
First saw Steve on the Spectul Mornings Tour, and in the beginning it was the case of let just play the music, and let it flow, and thru his career how much confidence he has now, if only Genesis would of listen to what he had to offer them, even now he is singing. Lets just say he was like a little cat stuffed in the corner and only speak when your spoken to, Now this Cat has surly woken up again, and look who is now flying the Genesis flag.
+AntiFlirt Club Have you heard his 25 solo albums? How 'bout his most recent "Wolflight". I think you're wrong. Very strong reviews for Wolflight.
+AntiFlirt Club You are clearly someone who has only ever heard a couple of Hackett's albums and so are unqualified to make such a judgement. There isn't a duff one in almost 30 albums!
terrypussypower
Steve just finished his North American tour. He played from his albums Voyage of the Acolyte, Please Don't Touch and Spectral Mornings. As fresh and beautiful as they were 41-36 years ago. He also played off of his last two albums, Genesis Revisited II and Wolflight. Wonderful. Standing ovations for almost every song at the concerts I went to in San Francisco and Boulder. Audience similarly moved to their feet and expressions of acclaim for all of the concerts. AntiFlirt, you say fan as if it's something diminished, when in fact, in the case of a Steve Hackett fan, it's a mark of appreciation of excellent music. In this case the result of discernment and the informed taste for fine music. And yes. I am a fan. Anti either has not listened to these albums with sufficient attention or Anti lacks appreciation and discernment of great music.
"It's an angry little sound" Indeed it is.
He looks incredible for his age. Unbelieveable!
Great lesson dear, thank you.
Un Génie Steve Hackett create Tapping Guitar technic first 1971 on The Return of te Giant Hogweed , create A Misdummer Nights dream and Metamorpheus , Voyage of the Acolyte, play The Ciaonne of Bach , only to play that , co -writer of Genesis
he is a master, someone who has his unique guitar voice and never was as recognized as deserved.
The good thing about PG leaving is that we could see Steve, Mike, Tony and dear Phil
And one of the nicest, kindest people I have ever come across. His music is one of the longest red lines in my life.
The debate here is pathetic. Every great guitarist stands on the shoulders of the giants who came before him. Who cares who invented what and when? What matters is each taking the best techniques and making it his/her own. No doubt, many techniques have been independently discovered by various great players. Mr. Hackett is a musical genius, as composer, producer and guitarist. His dexterity as a classical guitarist is astounding, but his accomplishments in rock are second to none. And that is no claim to say he is the best, as if anyone could determine such a thing. The great players have their own signature and leave a legacy of influence.
The most amazing Hackett live experience I had was his gig with GTR. I didn't care so much for the GTR songs, but seeing Hackett and Howe perform together was nothing less than transcendental. Two of the best guitarists in rock history, at their peak.
Grande Steve ,tecnica superba,,inventiva straordinaria,nn x niente faceva parte della + grande formazione del mondo👌
Steve Hackett create tapping guitar , play The Ciaconne of Bach , the brain Guitarist-Composer ever , merci Steve Hackett , pour tes albums Solo qui sont sublimes et pour tes compositions pour Genesis ...merci Steve Hackett
I consider S. Hackett as the greatest, most original, and the wise man of etc.
Right . . . so now it's the same old quandary for me. How big of a bonfire do I wish to build with all of my gear? Or should I draw inspiration and endeavor to persevere?
Hackett has been in my ear for over 45 years now. Talk abut underrated. The man is brilliant, humble, funny, knowledgeable about his art and his craft. Thank you for posting.
City would fine me for the bonfire anyway. Whew!
Wow
Love it and can never get enough of the old genesis songs ever and playing guitar now for 3 years appreciating his technics here.
When Peter left genesis then
A new genesis sound was born
I also like a lot but Peter and steve
In the beginning was the best for my taste.
Genesis was a ton different after Steve and Peter Gabriel left. Tony wrote a lot of pop songs afterwards.
Steve, you are muting the false harmonic with your right hand using your thumb to mute the index finger plectrum technique on the false harmonic node... it's not really the hardware causing the effect it's how precise you are about attacking the note, you get that sound on a nylon guitar that is why I love your playing. thanks!
Intelligent player. Thank you
Fernades ,, the most accurate recreation of the Gibson Les Paul.
roger flame leave it to those japanese they're brilliant at replicas
Have you seen how hopeless the Chinese are at replicating.... Absolutely shocking.
+roger flame They'll get better though, once they absorb all the techniques from all those Western companies getting their guitars made over there now! It's inevitable.
I'd be willing to bet they have much better products and quality control these days than Gibson.
One of the most underrated guitar player, check out his old genesis videos showing him using tap technique way before Eddie van Halen. Not nocking Eddie, just an example
"Tyranny of volume". That's an awesome phrase.
The whole time he was playing that vibrato, I was just thinking of his solo from the wheels turning”
Steven Hackett is a solid player, maybe even more so on an acoustic or classical. This video is kind of funky. More like showing off a toy more than showcasing his playing ability. Just a note: Eddie never claimed to have invented tapping but he's taken it to a level Steve's never been and has only been copied by other major players.
it works for him and his style and thats fine, but natural overdriven class "A" is organic and quintessential and no one gets tired of that, just look at hendrix or kossof, beck, young..Classic tone that never gets old.
It might be "organic"(?), but the tinnitus gets tiring very damn fast.
Sure is. But it'll cost you your hearing. Paul Gilbert himself has said that his hearing is all but gone. Decades of Marshalls at full blast will do that.
Those dudes played Marshall's.
Marshalls=/="class A amps"
Jesus fucking Christ
So cool. I'm hooked.
Reminds me of Nigel Tufnel when he was going on about the sustain when he hit that E.
I can't put into words how upset I am that Steve has never returned to Genesis since he left. It's absolutely ridiculous that all 5 members are still alive yet have refused to reunite. Absolutely reprehensible. And now that Phil can't play like he used to, it seems it's too late unless Phil plays percussion and his son plays drums.
For me Hackett's solo work on the Genesis Revisited is far more interesting.
Yeah, I get it. I used to think the same thing. Then I saw Steve's band; there's no way the current Genesis lineup could replicate that. It's like the difference between seeing Beethoven's 9th Symphony performed by your local volunteer orchestra, vs the LSO. Forgive the extreme exaggeration.
As I use to say on conversations like these: Somewhere in the World there is a band named themselves "GENESIS" doing Steve Hackett Revisited stuff. But worse.
@@hansborg6709 Love that statement.
His song writing input was being stiffled by the other members of the band. Had he stayed would we have got the brilliant Steve Hackett solo career and would Genesis have reached the success they did in the 80'? The answer to both is probably no. All original members are still on good terms and they did reform for reunion concert at Knebworth in 1982.
I'm named after a guitar brand :)
Miguel Fernandes You should tell them to give you a free one!
Miguel Fernandes yeah, except the guitar is Japanese.
+twinsmm1 ... but it (obviously) has a Spanish name.
MrFidelcaster I'm Portuguese. Spanish would be Fernandez.
Miguel Fernandes
Sorry, I had Fernandes and Ibanez mixed up.
I wonder if that Fernandes guitar model with that pickup configuration, the Floyd Rose, the Susteiner Fernandes is special and exclusive to Steve H. or if it can be purchased on the market
I wanna know how to get the guitar tone of the solo in Dancing with the moonlit knight
Wow. Steve does some early Genesis licks from Musical Box and Moonlit Knight. 9:30
Just brilliant
I need to go listen to Return of the Giant Hogweed.
Alfred Brendel the famous Austrian pianist once refused to play a concert piano saying, I wasn't playing it, it was playing me. I think Steve has this problem with his guitar.
Pity Genesis didn't appreciate Steve nearly enough. He was a key component in the band's sound and they lost much of their magic and identity after he left.