Steve Morse Lesson: Arpeggio Picking (The Steve Morse Interview, Chapter 6)
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lol... cracking the code....with Steve Morse..... Steve Morse like Morsezeichen..Morsecode or Morsesignal..
but indeed that is a very good Video in my eyes...
Thank you for sharing it..
Troy, I've gotta ask, how are you able to learn and then maintain all of these crazy techniques from the worlds greatest guitarists? Is it like riding a bike for you, in that you only have to learn each technique once and then you've got it? Cause that's not how it is for me, not at all. If I don't practice something -- even just like regular sweep arpeggios, I lose the ability to do them fast and cleanly.
Troy Grady
Damn , that's pretty informative . Thanks a million Troy , you rock .
The one thing I like or love about Steve Morse is he has no ego he's such a good person.
AND of course deemed worthy to replace Mr Blackmore
Practically a living legend - really!!!! Steve Morse has been a recognized legend since the late 70’s - in fact he is unmatched - even today 2021. No one even discussed to take his place one day!
Steve played on my first two albums,Eveing Pastoral and Kamikazie Christian..we sat in the control room with our jaws on the floor in 1979..He would practice on my guitar while waiting for the next session to not stretch his strings.I still play that guitar because now it is special.
Wow! Good for you..
Cool, you still have those two albums?
I got to see Steve Morse at a seminar in the Dormont neighborhood of Pittsburgh, PA - 12/17/85. Specialty Guitars of Pittsburgh (long gone now) set it up. About 20 or 25 of Specialty Guitars’ customers were invited.
Steve interspersed explanations pf his signal chain, life as a working musician, lots and lots of playing tips (he really helped me), and of course 45 minutes to an hour of his playing.
Steve Morse had no “attitude” - it was like sitting in someone’s living room with your high school buddies… except he is much, much better than anyone you’ve ever played guitar with.
That sounds like exactly the kind of thing he would do. lol.
My fingers and muscles hurt just by watching Steve alternate pick every note. Insane skill level
I think Troy Grady is generating a very important legacy in guitar technique education. We are watching history as it happens.
Dear Troy,
Your approach towards the learning of our beloved instrument is unprecedented.
You're making history here.
Congratulations, and thank you very much.
Yet another fantastic video. Thank you all so much.
Ben Eller ...Uncle?
It is I! Uncle Ben has Suckamaniacs, but I myself am a Gradymaniac!
Ben Eller So after all, the master does indeed have a master, interesting...
+Remmy 315 haha thanks my man!!! Be sure to check out the Weekend Wankshop I posted a few weeks ago titled "Crosspicking Crossfit", it's exactly what you need!!!
Ben Eller you are basically my alternate picking sensei. I came here to further my knowledge. To see that you are here too makes me feel like I’m in the right spot.
Been playing almost 40yrs. Been a fan of Steve since I first came by him on the plastic 45rpm insert in Guitar Player Magazine in early 80s. This is one of the most useful guitar videos I have ever watched in my life.
I had that issue, think it had David Gilmour on the cover....the 45 was The Introduction from his first solo album.
You want to see a thorough analysis of Steve Morse's right hand technique?
Here you go!
Great stuff! Thanks Troy!
I've met Steve several times, and he's always been such a gracious and nice person. You can sense it as soon as you speak to him - he's the REAL DEAL!
Easily, my favorite guitarist/musician...EVER!
Great job Troy\m/
David Brewster You are very right about Steve, I've met him as well, and he is most definitely the real deal! Please check out facebook.com/groups/stevemorse
So what! Rather have headstrong genius like Blackmore than affable, band ruing idiot, Morse! He was great with the Dregs but completely out of place in a Rock band. Charlatan!
Purplexi- What the hell is wrong with you?
The thing that always struck me about Steve Morse’s playing vs a Steve Vai or Yngwie is it is so melodic. Not just technically brilliant and blazing speed but beautiful melodies like pretty much every song on 1989’s High Tension Wires...
Malmsteen?? Are You crazy?? Malmsteen It on te must end unic guitarist in the world in shi Still...It a tesoro
This is the most scientific examination of guitar technique I've ever witnessed. Superbly captured🤔
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This is such lightspeed extra terrestial high technicality that it needs calming space music in the background.
What's even more amazing is that Steve Morse is left handed. I noticed that the night he autographed my guitar. He confirmed that later in an email response. He's a great player and a very nice guy in person. Unfortunately, being left handed and having the same first name are the only two things we have in common. :(
Steve Morse is one of the great magicians of guitar.
Steve Morse is not only an incredible player and composer(I have actually seen him live too), but his technique is Godlike.
Steve's technique has eluded me since the early 80s. No matter how hard I tried to master his alternating picking approach it always wore me out. So seeing this video and revealing how he does his right hand technique is incredible, amazing, makes me want to cry with joy type of feeling!! Thanks so much for sharing this video!!
I'm curious if you were able to get a handle on it after 4 years. I've seen other people say they wish they had learned certain picking styles much sooner, because they weren't able to alter their own styles later. I think I'm still at a stage where I can pick up economy and sweep picking, because I haven't settled into my own technique yet. What has your experience been like there?
This is the best guitar video I have ever seen. A solid scientific approach to technique analysis is what society has been missing. BRAVO!
Troy, your vids are the bomb! There's not enough guitarists - and other synonymous stringed instruments - which pay attention to the importance of the strumming hand.
Superb vids, bud!
Thanks Barrie!
Yes i agree. Very very inspiring to watch. I can't believe Steve is still around and going strong...
Barrie McAllister stop grovelling, my vomit bag is full
"Cracking the Code" is a good place to start for beginners, next you'll want to move to more advanced concepts like "The Pick of Destiny". Once you've got that down, you'll be able to understand the tools that all the pro's depend on like Van Halen's Secret Cable, Steve Vai's Magic Comb, or Yngwie's Super Shred Shoes.
Steve always has been an astonishing and influential player.
I am playing guitar since more than 40 years, all kinds of techniques and different styles. But this is the first time i see a highly scientiific video regarding right hand plectrum playing. Thanks to Steve Morse and Troy Grady it is real professional clinic !
It is a Morse's Code.
Somchiman haha
😆
Saw Steve at Seattle's Paramount in the late 80s ... he opened for Al, John and Paco ... so cool ... they really loved him ... they all played together at the end ...!
The counter-rotation technique is almost like a magic trick. I never thought alternate picked arpeggios could be played by mere mortals, and yet somehow I can do a passable version of it. Thanks so much!
Justin Armstrong Awesome. When you get this happening we're going to need video!
***** will do. It's getting more comfortable every day. We'll see if I get to 209.
Justin Armstrong It's not a speed thing, per se -- it all hinges on getting the movement. It's rotational, but it's not overly twisty and feels more like back and forth movement if you're not paying too much attention to it. Once you establish that and burn it in a little, you'll have it at whatever speeds you normally have.
Yeah, I experimented at 209 just to see what would happen and I could sort of do it, but with plenty of bum notes. I just need to burn it in more, and improve the upward slant parts that are a little messy.
amazing video. really your videos deserve an award for excellence in teaching. unparralelled
I didn't expect to find such quality of a guitar video lesson for free, many thanks.
Beyond Steve's incredible talent on stage, is his humble attitude and willingness to share and teach other guitarists to "give something back" to the next generation of players. While attending the University of Miami, some of Steve's "classmates" were Pat Metheny and Joco Pastorious. WOW! Metheny (another favorite of mine) said "he just about had a heart attack" the first time he heard Morse play". I was fortunate to see Steve play 3 times during the late 70s and early 80s when he was mostly touring with the Dixie Dregs. My jaw hit the floor the first time I saw the band live (SO tight)and it was a testament to the "under ground" following they had when, at times, almost half the audience would leave after the Dregs ended their set as the opening act for more "popular" groups.
He is so laid back, he came around through the crowd to sign autographs when he was in the Dregs. I jammed with him at RRFC a few years ago playing Highway Star.
The holy grail of lessons is contained within this series
I didn't know this level of obsession of analysis was possible. it's scary actually
+jewelfewel I've thought about all this stuff before, it's pretty natural for an analytical brain to think about if you're analyzing guitar technique and trying to improve. The impressive part is how he's organized his thoughts into a clear concise graphically-represented fashion.
It is scary. Not sure if it's a bad thing, but in my opinion, if you put as much effort into improving yur own style, you'd benefit far more from it. Because this is how originiality dies.
Troy is like that Dude who exposes all the Magicians Secrets
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Nah bro, its straight up scary. If I was Steve Morse I would be hiding my right hand anytime I got near Troy.
Like...for real Troy....stop looking at my hands dude....you're making me very uncomfortable...lol
@@leonardsullivan Nah... Steve has nothing to hide! The greatest in the game are always like, "here's how I do it... Do you work as hard as me though?"
Well done.Huge respect for Steve....and Troy.
By far the best tutorial video I've ever seen, completely in depth and analyzed under a microscope that you may need to create your own particle collider. Fantastic job!
I get that you are one of the “premier” guitar instructors around, today. That said, to have a freaking MASTER like Steve Morse or Vai or whom ever sit down and do a “mechanics” tutorial is astounding. Thank you for your effort. But, THANK them for their musicianship and willingness to pass knowledge to those who seek it. If the entire planet could relate the way musicians do, we’d all be better off. Plus, no one would have that silly “not me” feeling when we try a new guitar at the local music shop.
Dude, you make AMAZING videos. The editing and content are so superior to anything I've seen out there... congratulations!
Thank you Troy and the team for these revolutionary videos! They are well thought out and professionally produced to the point of amazement! Here is my analysis of applying this lesson to a six string alternate picking single note G major arpeggio. Try saying that 10 x fast LOL I hold the pick with a "medium grip" so that the pick "pivots" between my finger and the pick. I find it more difficult to play when I use a "firm grip" which creates a strong string attack at higher speeds. It would be great to be able to share ideas and analysis's with like minded musicians. Maybe even a contest where we submit a lick or practice exercise for review and you pick a winner and offer a prize? Just thinking here and looking forward to what you all think? The more ideas we share the more we will learn together by applying the concepts in these lessons.
What an unbelievably informative video, i broke my left index finger a couple weeks ago, and this is now what ill be practicing for the next 4 weeks before I can play again. I've always been some what of an economy picker like EJ or YM. When it comes to alternate picking, nothing explains it better than this video. Thank you so much.
The one piece of advice he gave me when played for us a G.I.T. in 1982. I've never forgotten it and it's changed my playing ever since. Up/Down now is now natural for me. It is not difficult; it's natural.
Never really seen guitar technique analyzed like this. I've got no formal training, but the way this is presented was just really easy to digest. You got a new subscriber, thanks for sharing!
This video is way beyond amazing. Thanks!
And Steve is... Well, it the humblest and most incredible guitar artist I've ever listened to. Let alone that High Tension Wires is one of the albums I never leave home without.
Steve is so cool. Saw him at a clinic at Spitzer's Music in Hayward back in the 80s and I asked him for one of his personalized picks afterwards and he said "open your case" and he dumped a whole handful in there...
I was such a star struck kid at that moment lol
Yea, he is a common oaf who ruined two bands at once.
Purplexi- Just go away. Prick.
Troy.....you have to have one of the best right hands anywhere and must be the best right hand picking teacher of all time.
Been to a couple of Steve's Ernie Ball-sponsored clinics that he used to give on tour. He's a great guy and honestly wanted to help and answer everyones questions. I try to catch the Dregs and SMB anytime they are through, have always managed to miss the Deep Purple tours, sadly.
My favorite guitar player since I was a wee lad. Must have seen the Dixie Dregs 25 times in and around Macon back in the late 70's/early 80s, and the SMB throughout the 90's all along the east coast. An incredibly artful composer of nuanced, powerful music, he is also one of the most naturally technical guitar players, able to do incredibly complex things and never sound like a robot in the process. EDIT: I was so wowed with Steve I forgot to thank you for the excellent video and analysis. Amazing insights.
tempjohn1111 Hi, please check out facebook.com/groups/stevemorse :-)
I'm about 20 minutes into watching the complete interview, and it's so neat watching this exploration in hindsight, armed with what we now understand about picking mechanics and pickslanting. It's cool to see Morse use two-way pickslanting to accomplish the 4-note per string chromatic exercise starting with a downward-slanted upstroke, and talking about how it feels "unnatural, still". He can play it, but you see the increased difficulty from his facial expression. At that point in the video it's not clear whether Steve is consciously aware of the two-way pickslant "rotation" movements he makes to escape from between the strings in that style of pattern. Beyond the instructional aspect, this is fascinating as sort of a study in musical anthropology.
Edit: Ha! Just got to the bit where Morse talks about the regularity of the pendulum motion of the right hand when you avoid two-string sweeps. Of course Yngwie would probably disagree on how big a deal that is (if Yngwie even wanted to have such a conversation), but getting inside Morse's head like this is gold!
Awesome video Troy!! You are to be commended for putting this together with Steve. Absolutely amazing!
Great analysis, Troy! One thing you didn't highlight is Steve's precise and consistent pick angle. He maintains that by progressively flexing the first joint of his thumb as he moves the pick upward across the strings to play the wound strings. By the time he's back on the high E string, his thumb is straight.
I've been alternate picking arpeggios and chords at high speeds for well over 36 years since my early teens, and it's all over my recordings. I don't really do any economy picking at all unless I'm playing a cover and minimally do sweeps. My multi octave arpeggios are all alternate picked which I prefer. I did a simple instructional video and how to do it about 19 years ago. Besides Steve Morse and myself I really didn't know any guitar players that did all alternate picked arpeggios, chords or across all 6-7 strings. I'm glad to know Rusty and yourself Troy do it too.
What I noticed in this video is that your first animation is wrong with the angles, which are too extreme compared to Steve or Rusty even tho you are able to do it your own way. Which I'm sure you worked hard at and I give you credit. But the real secret is Steve's, Rusty's and my way of doing it all incorporate the pick more perpendicular to the string with only a slight downward angle. Which 351 or larger very thick pointy picks set up more naturally. Steve used a Medium 351 back in the 80s and played with the rounded edge back then as he explained in guitar player magazine, which I'm sure it helped him develop his technique because the side of the pick requires a more perpendicular way of playing. In a more recent interview I've seen him say now he uses a thicker medium/heavy, and in this video he's using the point instead of the rounded edge. Which the pick rule is a thinner rounded pick is similar to a thicker pointy pick when it comes to grabbing the string. Of course there's tonality differences but I'm discussing mechanics. So Rusty's thick swiss pick with a fist approach is acting like Steve's extended fingers with a medium/heavy. But they're both more perpendicular. Yngwie and Joe Stump also achieve a perpendicular attack with a Delrin 500, which is a slightly smaller 351 with a lot of bevel and works more like a smaller pick while using 8s on the treble strings so they're digging in there.
If you notice Steve anchors on the high E with his pinky, and what's actually going on is there's an element of "Flexion". You actually demonstrate it correctly at 16:00 with your anchoring of the ring finger, which is exactly as I do it and demonstrate in my video. This type of Flexion is slightly hovering above the strings or barely resting, and creates a type of center point and digs into the strings. The example around 16:53 is incorrect because you flip the pick upside down and is an extreme form of Flexion. What that tells me is that your pick size and gauge make you play too angled, slicing the string to get a sound regardless of direction and you're trying to compensate. Which is good if you wanna be more of a sweeper which is all wrist and arm, but creates more difficulty for this technique because is requires control with the fingers at the pick as well as the wrist and arm. You probably need a heavier or larger pick which will make you adjust more perpendicular.
When correctly done like at 16:00 each pick stroke down goes past the next string clearing it but can pick it on the up stroke or vice versa because the arm slightly adjusts, kinda like your Flamingo cartoon. This is literally "Flat Picking". Because of the anchoring whether with pinky or ring finger with the hovering or barely resting, the arm, wrist and extended fingers slightly, all work together for the position of each string ascending or descending. Steve and I both play with our fingers extended as opposed to the fist approach, so the fingers actually make micro adjustments and pick slanting, kinda like "circle picking" but much more fine tuned because the forearm move for positioning, with speed coming from the wrist and adjustments from the extended fingers with pick slanting that is less extreme.
Steve plays with 3 fingers on the pick like Eddie Van Halen or early Paul Gilbert, so resting on the ring finger wont work for them because the middle finger on the pick brings in everything too deep and not enough room for the wrist to work. I play with extended index and thumb and rest on the ring finger. Rusty when shredding is in more of a fist approach barely resting/hovering on the upper palm, because you can see the arm adjusting positions over the strings, but you can also see his attack is also more perpendicular with a slight angle. Because everybody's physiology isn't the same along with different pick and string gauges, each that can do this type of alternate picking for extended lengths of time has particular ways of achieving a more perpendicular attack with slight angle.
With all due respect to the other amazing episodes Troy made, but this one is my very favorite and also the most overwhelming. That's brilliant!
Thanks Bruno! But this video falls a little short of explaining in plain English how Steve does what he does. We'll do better in the future.
Troy - What exceptional analysis, demonstration, and fitting tribute to a legendary guitarist, Steve Morse. Thank you for sharing this.
I cannot belief you just referenced Magic: The Gathering! My two favourite things!
That was insanely interesting. Learned so much.
Fantastic video. Extraordinary as usual, Mr. Steve Morse. Thanks for the vid!
Thank you for documenting all these legends from angles no one had done! these will remain in the history forever!
Alternate picking arpeggios are so badass. I always go between practicing them sweep picking and alternate picked, but I still have never hit Morse level of single note alt picking across all the strings that nicely, haha. It's easier for me to alt pick arps if I double or triple up on each note, or just trem pick the entire thing, but I still try to practice the way the legendary Morse does it as well ;)
good presentation, animation and video work.
This kind of analysis is what I've been looking for all my guitar life! It really answers a lot of ergonomical questions that I've been struggling with!!! Thank you so much for sharing your rigorous research!!!
I remember seeing these "Cracking the Code" videos YEARS AND YEARS ago... I almost forgot about them until these showed up.
Awesome stuff!!
How do you explain Steve Morse's technique? Well imagine you've got a row of lawn flamingos...
This is amazing. Thanks Troy!
I WILL find a way to use this analogy in conversation one day.
You should do a video on guthrie govans technique.
+Christ IsLord YES YES AND YES
Hell yeah!
WTF... are you compare Steve to Guthrie technique? Guthrie is far far away from Steve... try to play for example "pride o´the farm" " tumeni notes" or "flat baroque"... possibly three most difficult musics to play on a guitar, joining Speed kills from MAB
Vera Florindo , nonsens! Guthrie is on pair with Steve Morse regarding to picking technique, Guthrie can play anything!
Try to play Rhode Island shred!
relax every body, learn anything from every master, don't confine yourself to this and that guitarist, every pro guitarist is good in his own technique, learn from all, it helps
This is amazing. Such a great in depth-analysis brought with more conviction/produiction value than most stuff on tv nowadays. Learned a lot and it was also a super entertaining watch!
Your videos have helped me 10 fold. I can play super clean and pick faster than ever! Thanks!!
That's just wonderful... now I really feel like a spaz...
Totally understood Deep Purple is where the $$$ is, but man do I ever miss his playing in The Dixie Dregs!
AMEN! If they work on even just one more album I can die happy. Steve's ultimate songwriting prowess and versatility is displayed on Dregs albums. Genius
Remarkable analysis of one of the greatest technicians (and my personal favorite) of all time. Thank you for the effort you put into these videos!
I woke up and saw this had been released and watched the entire interview at 7am! Haha! This was great, especially after the Marshall Harrison interview. Their techniques are so different, yet equally brilliant. The Masters in Mechanics series just keeps getting better, always look forward to seeing what you've got planned.
If it's possible, I think I love Steve Morse a little more after watching this.
(You too, Troy, for bringing all this amazing information to us. Thank you!)
But getting this one-note-per-string alt picking down is a bitch! You are absolutely right, it does not seem to work at slow speeds. And I also think you are right in saying that one day it will all simply fall into place... Damn... I wonder whether breaking down into 3- or 4-string chunks (first the lower, then the higher strings, then mix it up) might help...
When I saw the fist series on Malmsteen, Vai and Johnson in the Cracking the Code series I was wondering how Steve Morse would fit into that. I knew he was pretty much only an alternate picker, so how was Morse flying like the others? This is the best detail I've seen of his mechanics after years of studying Morse.
The best dollars I've spent in the last years... Watched, digested and now I'm crazy trying my way in this Steve Marvelous-Mechanic... It's a bit strange but somehow familiar and organic.
Troy as always you are awesome with this! Steve Morse Pack RULES!
I've never seen a video on youtube so Analytical on guitar playing. Thank you man you are also one of the greats
*This is literally a science show*
No. It's engineering.
Well, not literally
The way he holds his pick...
There’s a chick on here dropping sexual connotations
Finger picking good
What a totally fascinating look into Steve's formidable picking technique! Thank you for this!!!
What a great video! The best I've seen on Steve's amazing playing style.
Troy is the Carl Sagan of the Picking Technique!!!
Now that Troy and crew have covered even-numbered alternate picking (Volcano and Cascade), odd-numbered alternate picking (Antigravity), sweeping (Marshall Harrison interview), and now 1-note-per-string alternate picking (Steve Morse), let us all look forward to the next logical chapter: zero-note-per-string alternate picking!
This has got to be the best guitar lesson channel on UA-cam. Just incredible.
He's one of the true gentlemen in the business. Great guy and amazing guitarist.
Great piece, Troy! Thanks.
“The beat here is Mach 1, and reaching it really is no problem.”
Cmon man....
steve morse is the most under-rated guitarist ever.
Trango Fast no
buckethead
Trango Fast I don't think so. He is reknown as one of world's top guitarist.
Buckethead is no where near underrated, nearly every guitar knows he is a god. Someone who is seriously underrated is Nuno Bettencourt
I watched him playing live with Deep Purple, and his sound, tone, technique are incredible. Anything you heard from studio version, he can play them live and even better than in studio one.
Just blown away. Superb job!
This a whole new level of analysis. Excellent graphics!
SM71, oh my god what a nerd! 😊
And the best part is Steve also is a certified pilot ;)
I remember, Southwestern Airlines....
just one word: sensational. Analysis, playing and video editing.
I really appreciate what you're doing in these videos. I've only recently started paying attention to the technical aspects of musicianship in guitar music and feel Michael Angelo Batio is right when he says that classical and jazz are miles ahead of rock in terms of musical knowledge. It's amazing that you're putting this resource together that can translate that knowledge to the players of the future, pushing the boundaries of what can be done on the guitar and within rock music and it's subgenres. Great work.
15:20 yeah, with a forearm like that, I could play all those licks.
Al Di Meola does the same alternative picking.
Al Di Meola is also a total douchebag. Steve Morse wins the human being contest.
Rob Flax there is no contest happening here lol this is an educational video
steve morse, such a nice man and an advanced artist in his own way
I love it! All these years I danced around alternate picking, I've opted to starting licks like these on an upstroke with a sweep across/to the next string to reset the picking so the riff ends on a 2 string downwards sweep. Then I'm right back in position to start with an upstroke again. Great video again man 😊
Playing like Steve Morse is easy. You just need to love music, be smart and practice 5 or more hours every day.
I play guitar a lot for people who don't play, or have just started, and they often act like I what I do is some feat of dark sorcery. But when they ask how I do it, the answer is always simple, "practice" and I always tell them, practice as much as I do for as long as I have and you'll be as good as me, practice more than I do for as long as I have, and you'll be better
1:23 song?
Thank you! It's great to observe and learn from Steve's incredibly efficient picking style.
Thank you Troy. This video is solid gold… both the info and the presentation… bravo!!!!
Golf clubs and flamingos? Two things I would have never associated with guitar mechanics. But hey, it worked as demonstration, so I won't knock it.
***** I'm surprised Troy didn't use golf clubs in the discussion of the hyperspeed elbow mechanic. One of the keys to hitting long drives in golf is allowing the elasticity in the shaft of the golf club to "whip" the club head at the bottom of the swing. It sounds to me like this is a similar concept to what Steve and Rusty describe when they talk about wrist movement while in "hyperspeed elbow" mode. When I attempt my own version of the "hyperspeed" elbow mechanic, I can feel a shaking in my hand, almost like I'm dribbling a tiny basketball.
in concept, the whole thing could also be compared to baseball pitching, where pitchers actually put an elastic load on their elbow tendons as part of the pitching motion as they whip their arm forward. When done properly, the elastic strain energy is released like a slingshot to propel the forearm and hand with greater speed as the ball is delivered. In the case of hyperspeed elbow picking, a firm but relaxed "bouncing" wrist may produce a more effective pick motion than a wrist that's deliberately held as rigid as possible.
semantics
so fun to talk about on every video every created in the history of the world
NOT
If you know Alice in Wonderland, then you will understand the connection between golf clubs and flamingos :)
Damn I have a headache after watching this,confusing af!
Learning from Steve's amazing experience and skills is the way to go!
Troy your discoveries about technique are like the discovery of the law of gravity or the invention of fire, or a wheel, or a computer. Revolutional
But is this a healthy style? It seems Steve has suffered some serious RSI over the years.
Seems like Kiko Loureiro has a similar style to Steve. Wonder how Kiko developed it? Maybe he's just a huge fan of Steve haha
HurtboxTV Yes Kiko is definitely influenced by Steve:
"Sou influenciado pelo Morse, inclusive no
meu modo de palhetar, mas acho que isso às vezes não fica tão evidente no jeito
que eu toco. Quem ouvir o 'Fireworks' vai escutar, de alguma forma, muito do
'Purpendicular'. Steve Morse é genial. Acho que ele revitalizou o Deep
Purple."
Translation:
"Morse
has influenced my playing, including the way I pick but I don’t think that’s
something that is too evident in the way I play. Anyone who listens to
“Fireworks” will, in a way, be listening to a lot that’s featured on
“Purpendicular”. Steve Morse is brilliant. I think he revitalized Deep
Purple."
@062865
HurtboxTV Kiko must have said this, but watching his videos one can notice he uses economy a la YJM as well
Kiko had lessons with legendary Brazilian guiatrrist Wander Taffo who was a huge Steve Morse fan. (Taffo passed away in 2008...)
They both happen to be left handers who play the guitar right handed. Hmmmm...
Killer video!! All in all this makes things easier once in muscle memory I bet. Steve is such a pure guitarist who keeps appearing when I am not looking for him, but reminding me how great he is.
What an amazing video . So detailed and excellent on every level . Superb