The thing about discovering Steve Morse (and The Dregs) was that the cuts that caught me first were eventually replaced by the ones I had initially skipped over. It took the sophistication of my ear to catch up with the sophistication of the music. Unfolding and ever interesting to this day. As impressive as the technique was the beauty, melody and complexity of the composition. "I'm freaking out" is an example that comes to mind. Especially Steve doubling the piano in the intro. OMG!
Foe me Steve Morse is the ultimate guitar player, expert in many styles and always plays tastefully and never overplays. Awesome lesson man!! Thank you very much for expanding my guitar vocabulary.
Thank you so much and I agree - there's something unique and interesting that everyone can learn from Steve Morse. He's still on the scene, but most people these days only know him as the guitarist in Deep Purple, which is impressive, but honestly it's also a shame as Steve has such a great musical history with links to all sorts of great musicians and inspired music. : ) Thanks again and take care!
Hey David! Thank you so much for introducing me to two of your favorite guitarists - Jeff Beck and Steve Morse. They definitely flew over my head when I was younger, but I am having an absolute ball listening to both of these guys now. Just after listening to them for a couple of months (after checking out your recommendations) made a difference in the kinds of phrases I now construct. Really amazing and innovative guitar players. I am now mildly obsessed with eastern sounding licks and scales, as well as phrases that defer resolution a little down the line. Again, thanks so much for that excellent recommendation. Tunes from High Tension Wires have been in my head for a full day now.
Absolutely love The Introduction. I have it still on vinyl, and also had it on cassette which got played to death on my mum’s Sony Walkman. She gave it to me, and it was a really top model - an unusually upmarket purchase by my dad, who was not known for splashing the cash!
Steve has a piano approach to playing chords, reminiscent of classical composing, even for rock stuff - you always hear two parts, a walking bottom line with syncopated bits happening on top. A true master.
Thank you so much! This comment rocks! Steve Morse is a musical anomaly. There's really no one like him historically, and there definitely isn't anyone on the scene these days that you can compare him to. He's one in a million, if not one in a billion! Thanks again and take care!
As a 10 year old kid, I grew up around Steve and the Dregs in my hometown of Augusta, Georgia. Seeing the Dregs was my first concert. I naively grew up thinking that’s how everyone played guitar :^) Steve has always been like a mythical figure. Thanks for bringing his astounding technique and compositional skills to people’s attention. This is great!
I met Steve the first time when I was 13- I asked how fast he could play... He didn't play ANY fast stuff that night- he was messing around with his guitar new guitar synth. It was 1988- I had NO idea- what he really was... G.O.A.T!!
I played with him in 2017 for a 5 minute jam in Witten, Germany. He even let me play through his rig cause “it suits your style“ and he took the combo which was prepared for the people who were chosen to jam with him. This was an honor!
I got to meet Steve at a workshop he did when I lived in Columbia, SC. After the workshop I saw him play with Kansas that same night. Got to see him with the Dixie Dregs as well. Haven't listened to his music in years, thanks for reminding me. Listen to High Tension Wires right now.
I remember going to a clinic Steve did in Memphis back in 92. I was blown away at his versatility and ability to convey a concept about techniques. One of the best clinics I've been to.
Steve Morse is one of those players you can find something he wrote and spend years trying to nail it. Really cool guy too, I once went to a Steve Morse clinic as a kid in the 80's. Also, one of the best shows I've ever seen was Steve Morse (on solo acoustic) opening up for Paco De Lucia, John McLaughlin and Al Dimeola. At the end of the show all four of them played a few tunes together. Endless Waves is one of my favorites to play on acoustic too, it's such a beautiful piece.
Great stuff. Thanks for taking apart some of Steve's progressions. I saw him open for Rush on the Signals tour. Only guitar players knew who he was. He blew everybody away, and the crowd wanted an encore... for the opening act(!). Saw him later at an outdoor gig in Florida after Southern Steel came out, with Dave Larue on base. Amazing band.
That's awesome - wow! I love Steve and I think the interplay between him and Dave LaRue is really inspiring and interesting. They play so well together! : )
I am glad you mentioned "High Tension Wires" that CD is one of my all-time favorite Guitar Instrumental LPs. The song HighlandWedding" is absolutely FLAWLESS! The way it just keeps on building up as the song goes along is amazing. The 3 songs prior to that are track 1, Ghostwind 2. The Road Home 3. Country Colors are also flawless & both incredibly melodic & technically difficult at the same time. Not too many players can pull this off the way he does. Those first 4 tracks are 4 of my all-time favorite guitar instrumentals. I am not minimizing or saying the rest of the lp is not good because the rest is also absolutely amazing. There is just something special about those first 4 tracks for me. I WORE that LP out when I bought it & still play it quite often. I have turned a lot of people onto Steve Morse by lending them that CD. I was fortunate to have seen Steve Morse live in 1986 on the "Stand Up" tour and he was incredible live!! Stand Up also has some really good material on it. Book Of Dreams & English Rancher are awesome songs and Eric Johnson does the vocals on Distant Star. High Tension Wires is an amazing CD and if anyone reading this does not own a copy or has not heard it before I highly recommend you seek it out because you will not be disappointed & might possibly get blown away!! His work with the Dixie Dregs is also incredible. Almost every LP they released is awesome! Jerry Goodman plays violin on some of the later LPs (the mid-90s on) he also played violin for the Mahavishnu Orchestra as well & and an amazing band called "The Flock" Check them out as well. Rod Morgenstein played drums and he is another incredible musician. Rod M & Jerry Peak(the Bass Player) were part of Steve's solo band the evening I saw him live. I bet you could do an entire CHordplay episode just on High Tension Wires. :) Thanks for this awesome episode/lesson. :)
Thanks so much for sharing your appreciation for Steve's genius and skill. My first Dregs show was in '78 at 'My Father's Place' My last show was a reunion show in like '17 or so with all the original players and I have to say that it was probably the freekin' best, tightest musical performance I've ever seen. All of them in their 60's. I'm convinced they're all aliens. Rod Morgenstein was just insane.
Fantastic! I've been marveling at Steve's music since Freefall, never missing a chance to see him, and extremely grateful that my time on earth has overlapped with his. Thank you for your very enjoyable analysis.
I couldnt agree with you more about Steve imo he is the finest guitarist working today. he's been my fave for decades now. you picked some really great examples to showcase his wholly unorthodox use of chords. it's a facet of Steve's playing that doesnt get mentioned as much as it should so kudos for giving it the spotlight!
Yup..Steve Is a musician's musician. Well known by his peers. 🎸When you got the respect of you're peers no bigger complement. New to your channel. Like your channel/lessons I feel is right for me as an Intermediate player. Thanx man🤙
Thank you so much and I totally agree, everyone seems to love Steve! Welcome aboard and thanks for watching - stay tuned for more lessons and material! : )
Love your channel!! Oddyssey reminds me of Ozzie's Killer of Giants and Killer of Giants definitely has Rush - Closer to the Heart influence. Steve Morse , love it.
It's funny...I'm often hesitant to tell a teacher like you that I think they sound like someone specific. But I could hear some Morse in your style and picking technique. Most notably your note choice when you're teaching us something not specific to a particular artists songs. I'm an old dude,me and some friends saw the Dixie Dregs play the Dallas Agora Ballroom in December 1979. I was a sophomore in high school and was blown away by the rock,jazz/fusion,country,bluegrass & shred he displayed. Thanks for sharing David. Beautiful chords. Awesome player.
That's awesome to hear and thank you so much for watching and for this comment too! I love Steve. I think he's the artistic blueprint of how all artists and musicians SHOULD act, but so very few do. He's beyond talented while also humble and so gracious/grateful. There's a lot all of us can learn from a guy like Steve Morse, and that's on and off the fretboard. : )
thx for posting ... i enjoy steve morse music and never had an idea how he approached things... i can just sit and listen to lessons like this and relax
Thanks so much for sharing these chord-progressions. Steve Morse is a beacon of light and inspiration to this world in everything that he does. It's great to have you to break things down for us mere mortals. :)
Thank you so much Peter! I LOVE Steve Morse - he's great! He's beyond-talented and beyond-nice as well, which is a great combo! : ) Thanks again and take care!
Another excellent analysis and presentation David. It seems you and I are huge Morse fans. The first time I heard "The Bash" I was hooked from then on. Probably the best picker pound for pound on the planet. His compositional skills are even more amazing than his technique. You have a great channel. I would love to see you do a Vivian Campbell analysis. He too, is one of my favorites.
Heck yeah and thank you so much for watching and for this comment too! I love Steve - he's great! Vivian also has some interesting ideas an I'll add him to the list - thanks! \m/ ROCK ON \m/
Loving this series of videos. Only recently discovered your channel, and it’s a real hidden treasure trove! BTW, I did get to see Queensryche last week. What an absolute blast! One of the best gigs I’ve seen in a really long time. The musicianship was superlative, backed up by some awesome work at the sound desk. Haven’t heard pristine sound production at a gig like that since I saw Thin Lizzy at Birmingham Odeon back on their Renegade tour.
I've seen Steve with the Dregs once (opening for RUSH) and twice solo in a small club. I had that experience you describe watching him play Tumeni Notes. I was ~20' away. Made me cower. I couldn't have described it better! Great Vid. Thanks for your work.
Love all your videos, David, but this one really hits home as Steve is one of my favorites ever and I knew all those great Dregs and solo tunes! And, yes, High Tension Wires is a GEM! Ghostwind also had some great chords!
Another fab lesson - your enthusiasm is infectious - what I like the most is that you don't do the whole "look at me - I'm great and you won't be this good" (have you ever seen the Yngwie parody?? laughing emoji ) I hope you get the number of subscribers you deserve - you refer us to the greatest guitarists - don't learn from me learn from them - is a superb approach - I wish you taught in Ireland - 3000 miles is a tad far and my net jets card is maxed out :-) - Keep up the great work - 500 new subs this week !!!! Much respect !!!
Thank you so much John - wow! Comments like this and noticing the excitement and level of happiness from viewers on this channel make all of this worth it to me. I love helping people with music and finally tapping into the Internet and giving online lessons a shot has really surprised me and makes me feel great! Thanks again and take care buddy! : )
Hey Dave, just found your channel and it's great! Specifically, learning how to play through playing popular music is how I learned and how my brain works and I'm sure there are others out there like me. And let's face it, doing scales all day long is boring and sucks. Anyway, I was looking through old Steve Morse videos and I found one of him teaching Tumeni Notes and noticed that he was playing that progression you just showed us with that thumb wrap that he likes to do and it's way easier than barre chords. At least to my hands, it is. I'm sure you already know this but just thought I would throw it out there. Thanks, Dave!!
Thank you so much and yeah, I sort-of adopted a more traditional fingering for those chords, but you could totally play it using a Hendrix thumb-wrap as well. : ) Rock on!
That's awesome and very true - Herring LOVES Steve Morse. Shawn Lane did too! I was at AIM in the early/mid 1990s. Jimmy Herring had just left to play/tour with Col. Bruce Hampton and The Aquarium Rescue Unit, but all of his lessons and material were still at the school. I did get to meet him a few years later and we talked about AIM, but when I was actually a student there I was literally learning about him after the fact and I sifted through his videos and lesson material like a hawk - even back then he was a complete musical genius! : )
Superb video thanks for sharing these Steve Morse riffs and lessons. I am working on Tu meni Notes but having difficulty in the first initial pattern, the second part that you played i can do it easily but blending the scaler lines with the arpeggiated patterns in the first pattern is where i am stuck. Trying to figure out the pick slanting thing to play it. Also following Troy Grady where he talks about his technique.
Hahaha! He's a monster and a legend! Be sure to check out the Dixie Dregs comeback album Full Circle from the 90s and their classic stuff from the 70s and early 80s - it will blow you away! Thanks for watching and have fun with Steve & Co.
Dave, you got it just the way my brother and I did back in London late. 70s. Who's this Morse bloke? Steve Howe actually told us about him, we got Unsung Heroes on import and life has been better ever since. Thanks for your dedication and great videos, always entertaining and educational. And you're right. Don't try Tumeni Notes at home, folks!
STEVE MORSE incredible WORLD CLASS major talent a master of the guitar he can play every style and at times fusing them together and AMAZING YOU ARE COVERING HIS STYLES AND PULLING THEM OFF YOU ARE GIFTED TO UNDERSTAND AND VENTURE INTO HIS RICH MUSICAL WORLD , SHAWN LANE did a version of my fav MORSE tune INTRODUCTION ANOTHER MONSTER PLAYER
Great playing. I really like "Aftershock." I saw a video of Steve talking about his equipment, and he is a real technogeek too. He really knows his equipment. I think you are right, he is the ideal inspiration for any guitarist. Just fantastic. When you are playing fast, complex stuff in front of a crowd does it ever freeze your fingers up? I normally don't get nervous, but say, playing a banjo, which I don't play very well to begin with, my fingers just don't want to move at times. And, Steve is playing something on the edge all the time, I don't see how he does it.
You'll be hard pressed to find any negative comments about Steve Morse... sure, you may hear the "I'm not much into his music", but this is simply personal taste. A huge influence on... huge influences (e.g. Petrucci and many others), one of the hardest-working in the industry, a wonderful and interesting composer and always, ALWAYS gracious and down to earth, whether he talks about his peers or to his fans. What would we do without Steve...
I swear, you & I were probably similar in some ways in the ‘80s & ‘90s. Many of these lessons you do are based on players I’ve seem in Guitar World, Guitar Player & other guitar magazines. I still have a stack of them out in my shed. However, I cut out the the lessons that I liked & stapled them into their own little “booklets.” I have folders FULL (over filled) of those lessons. I keep them organized by musician. Do you remember the Steve Vai 10-Hour Workout lesson? 😂 I still have that, too. I saved lessons from a lot of guitarists who played various genres.
That's VERY cool Mark and I've saved a lot of those old magazines and lessons too! This reminds me that I have a giant box of them at my dad's house in storage that I should snag the next time I see him. It'll be fun to go through some of those old once and review some of those old articles and lessons. Thanks again bro and ROCK ON! : )
Late Night Lessons, yeah, you could revive some of those old lessons from the magazines; pick certain techniques & phrases you like & teach them. As long as you aren’t doing the entire lessons (just excepts), & attribute them, it shouldn’t be an issue.
Thank you! If you wanna learn a little more about what I'm using in these videos and lessons, be sure to watch the Guitar Tone & Effects episode from the Brewster's Millions of Rants series on this channel. Thanks again and take care!
Cruise Control!!!!! Did you upgrade your strat with the humbucker pickup? I have a stock 05 hard-tail with single coils. I have yet to open mine up to see if it's routed out to take a humbucker pickup.
Thank you! My Strat was originally a '96 American Floyd Rose Classic, but since then I replaced the neck twice, replaced the Floyd with a deluxe Standard bridge, and changed the pickups to all Seymour Duncan. The guitar was already routed for H-S--S configuration and has been my #1 for a LONG time. The only original parts are the body, neck plate, and basic hardware, but everything else has been tweaked/modded out the wazoo. When I see old photos of this guitar in the original condition I barely recognize it. : ) Thanks and take care - ROCK ON!
Oh yeah and that's a great song too! ; ) There are a lot of songs out there that have that interesting two-chord shift. Think of Breathe by Pink Floyd too - those two chords at the beginning predict and setup the entire song. Great stuff! Thanks for watching and rock on!
Thanks for watching and for this comment/request too! I can try to add them to the list, but I don't have a 7 or 8 string guitar to faithfully capture their varied tunings and sound. I'll see if I can borrow one from a friend or come up with something that might work. Meshuggah friggin' RULES! So do Periphery, Monuments, Plini and the gang too! Thanks again and stay tuned!
Why do i feel Stairway to heaven opening acoustic is somewhat the backwards of that tumeni notes chord play ? oh yeah, STH was released first, and i dont say steve morse took it and wrote it backwards because he studied classic anyway. who knows where his ideas came from... there was a chromatic baseline from A - G# - G - F# - F. creating a "sad" tones.... but here, it is from F all way to A then skip the Bb to the E/B and makes a great tension / build up. Steve morse, what a player. what a player. His name is not popular in my country, but i encountered a video from youtube back in 08/09 where he did this Guitar solo with Volume swelling and the chord play after that..... i know that guy is crazy....
I absolutely dig him - except for his Deep Purple thing. In simple terms, nobody can replace Ritchie Blackmoore without driving some fan base away - even when Steve Morse takes the job. Having said that, I can't get enough of all of his other music. Don't care for his tenure with Kansas much, either. He is at his best when he doesn't have to adjust to creative dynamics of already famous bands and he can really do his own thing. You can't even really say which album he recorded is his best. They all blow me away each time I randomly spin them.
Thank you so much David. I get so much out of your down to earth style of instruction. You are a great teacher.
The thing about discovering Steve Morse (and The Dregs) was that the cuts that caught me first were eventually replaced by the ones I had initially skipped over. It took the sophistication of my ear to catch up with the sophistication of the music. Unfolding and ever interesting to this day. As impressive as the technique was the beauty, melody and complexity of the composition. "I'm freaking out" is an example that comes to mind. Especially Steve doubling the piano in the intro. OMG!
My eternal hero, Steve Morse. Few people cover his playing. Because ordinary people can't even imitate it. he is insanely awesome.
By far the Best Guitarist - Composer of our times ! My personal Guru & a Hero for 4 decades now !!!
Foe me Steve Morse is the ultimate guitar player, expert in many styles and always plays tastefully and never overplays. Awesome lesson man!! Thank you very much for expanding my guitar vocabulary.
Thank you so much and I agree - there's something unique and interesting that everyone can learn from Steve Morse.
He's still on the scene, but most people these days only know him as the guitarist in Deep Purple, which is impressive, but honestly it's also a shame as Steve has such a great musical history with links to all sorts of great musicians and inspired music.
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Thanks again and take care!
Hey David! Thank you so much for introducing me to two of your favorite guitarists - Jeff Beck and Steve Morse.
They definitely flew over my head when I was younger, but I am having an absolute ball listening to both of these guys now.
Just after listening to them for a couple of months (after checking out your recommendations) made a difference in the kinds of phrases I now construct. Really amazing and innovative guitar players. I am now mildly obsessed with eastern sounding licks and scales, as well as phrases that defer resolution a little down the line.
Again, thanks so much for that excellent recommendation. Tunes from High Tension Wires have been in my head for a full day now.
Steve Morse is my all time best guitarist. Solidified with the Dixie Dregs Industry Standard and his Solo Album The Introduction...........
I love Steve Morse - I really do.
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He's such a monster player and is a total guitar legend!
Thanks for watching!
Absolutely love The Introduction. I have it still on vinyl, and also had it on cassette which got played to death on my mum’s Sony Walkman. She gave it to me, and it was a really top model - an unusually upmarket purchase by my dad, who was not known for splashing the cash!
Steve has a piano approach to playing chords, reminiscent of classical composing, even for rock stuff - you always hear two parts, a walking bottom line with syncopated bits happening on top. A true master.
More great stuff from my favorite U2B instructor! Steve Morse pre-dates all other shredders for me. Yet his musicality is second to no one ever.
Thank you so much! This comment rocks!
Steve Morse is a musical anomaly.
There's really no one like him historically, and there definitely isn't anyone on the scene these days that you can compare him to.
He's one in a million, if not one in a billion!
Thanks again and take care!
Outstanding lesson. Steve is a master
As a 10 year old kid, I grew up around Steve and the Dregs in my hometown of Augusta, Georgia. Seeing the Dregs was my first concert. I naively grew up thinking that’s how everyone played guitar :^) Steve has always been like a mythical figure. Thanks for bringing his astounding technique and compositional skills to people’s attention. This is great!
I met Steve the first time when I was 13- I asked how fast he could play... He didn't play ANY fast stuff that night- he was messing around with his guitar new guitar synth. It was 1988- I had NO idea- what he really was... G.O.A.T!!
He's one in a million.
Screw that, he's one in a trillion.
THE MAN!
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I played with him in 2017 for a 5 minute jam in Witten, Germany. He even let me play through his rig cause “it suits your style“ and he took the combo which was prepared for the people who were chosen to jam with him.
This was an honor!
Now that's awesome!
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Wow!
Thanks for watching and for this comment too!
I got to meet Steve at a workshop he did when I lived in Columbia, SC. After the workshop I saw him play with Kansas that same night. Got to see him with the Dixie Dregs as well. Haven't listened to his music in years, thanks for reminding me. Listen to High Tension Wires right now.
Wow man!! This video was incredible and with a very clear explanation of Steve's work. Master of masters. Thank you very much for sharing👍🏻
I remember going to a clinic Steve did in Memphis back in 92. I was blown away at his versatility and ability to convey a concept about techniques. One of the best clinics I've been to.
That's awesome and he's such a master!
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High Tension Wires. One of my favorites! Amazing album!
Steve Morse is one of those players you can find something he wrote and spend years trying to nail it. Really cool guy too, I once went to a Steve Morse clinic as a kid in the 80's. Also, one of the best shows I've ever seen was Steve Morse (on solo acoustic) opening up for Paco De Lucia, John McLaughlin and Al Dimeola. At the end of the show all four of them played a few tunes together. Endless Waves is one of my favorites to play on acoustic too, it's such a beautiful piece.
i love your channel, awesome work!
Thank you!!!
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Every time I see a new video, I gotta watch! You're awesome, man, thank you for putting these videos up 🙏
Thank you so much and I love getting messages and comments like this!
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Take care and ROCK ON!
Great stuff. Thanks for taking apart some of Steve's progressions. I saw him open for Rush on the Signals tour. Only guitar players knew who he was. He blew everybody away, and the crowd wanted an encore... for the opening act(!). Saw him later at an outdoor gig in Florida after Southern Steel came out, with Dave Larue on base. Amazing band.
That's awesome - wow!
I love Steve and I think the interplay between him and Dave LaRue is really inspiring and interesting. They play so well together!
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That was really great, wonderful to see "Sleep" being demonstrated there. I remember being fascinated by it literally decades ago. Thanks so much...
I am glad you mentioned "High Tension Wires" that CD is one of my all-time favorite Guitar Instrumental LPs. The song HighlandWedding" is absolutely FLAWLESS! The way it just keeps on building up as the song goes along is amazing. The 3 songs prior to that are track 1, Ghostwind 2. The Road Home 3. Country Colors are also flawless & both incredibly melodic & technically difficult at the same time. Not too many players can pull this off the way he does. Those first 4 tracks are 4 of my all-time favorite guitar instrumentals. I am not minimizing or saying the rest of the lp is not good because the rest is also absolutely amazing. There is just something special about those first 4 tracks for me. I WORE that LP out when I bought it & still play it quite often. I have turned a lot of people onto Steve Morse by lending them that CD. I was fortunate to have seen Steve Morse live in 1986 on the "Stand Up" tour and he was incredible live!! Stand Up also has some really good material on it. Book Of Dreams & English Rancher are awesome songs and Eric Johnson does the vocals on Distant Star. High Tension Wires is an amazing CD and if anyone reading this does not own a copy or has not heard it before I highly recommend you seek it out because you will not be disappointed & might possibly get blown away!! His work with the Dixie Dregs is also incredible. Almost every LP they released is awesome! Jerry Goodman plays violin on some of the later LPs (the mid-90s on) he also played violin for the Mahavishnu Orchestra as well & and an amazing band called "The Flock" Check them out as well. Rod Morgenstein played drums and he is another incredible musician. Rod M & Jerry Peak(the Bass Player) were part of Steve's solo band the evening I saw him live. I bet you could do an entire CHordplay episode just on High Tension Wires. :) Thanks for this awesome episode/lesson. :)
Thanks so much for sharing your appreciation for Steve's genius and skill. My first Dregs show was in '78 at 'My Father's Place' My last show was a reunion show in like '17 or so with all the original players and I have to say that it was probably the freekin' best, tightest musical performance I've ever seen. All of them in their 60's. I'm convinced they're all aliens. Rod Morgenstein was just insane.
Fantastic! I've been marveling at Steve's music since Freefall, never missing a chance to see him, and extremely grateful that my time on earth has overlapped with his. Thank you for your very enjoyable analysis.
I couldnt agree with you more about Steve imo he is the finest guitarist working today. he's been my fave for decades now. you picked some really great examples to showcase his wholly unorthodox use of chords. it's a facet of Steve's playing that doesnt get mentioned as much as it should so kudos for giving it the spotlight!
"The Introduction" is the most beautiful composition of the last 50 years. It's up there with the best of Bach.
This is gold!
Thank you!!!
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Yup..Steve Is a musician's musician. Well known by his peers. 🎸When you got the respect of you're peers no bigger complement. New to your channel. Like your channel/lessons I feel is right for me as an Intermediate player. Thanx man🤙
Thank you so much and I totally agree, everyone seems to love Steve!
Welcome aboard and thanks for watching - stay tuned for more lessons and material!
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That was awesome. More steve morse lessons please please please.....
Love your channel!! Oddyssey reminds me of Ozzie's Killer of Giants and Killer of Giants definitely has Rush - Closer to the Heart influence. Steve Morse , love it.
It's funny...I'm often hesitant to tell a teacher like you that I think they sound like someone specific. But I could hear some Morse in your style and picking technique. Most notably your note choice when you're teaching us something not specific to a particular artists songs. I'm an old dude,me and some friends saw the Dixie Dregs play the Dallas Agora Ballroom in December 1979. I was a sophomore in high school and was blown away by the rock,jazz/fusion,country,bluegrass & shred he displayed. Thanks for sharing David. Beautiful chords. Awesome player.
That's awesome to hear and thank you so much for watching and for this comment too!
I love Steve. I think he's the artistic blueprint of how all artists and musicians SHOULD act, but so very few do. He's beyond talented while also humble and so gracious/grateful.
There's a lot all of us can learn from a guy like Steve Morse, and that's on and off the fretboard.
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Great lesson, Dave! He can play any style, an incredible talent.
thx for posting ... i enjoy steve morse music and never had an idea how he approached things... i can just sit and listen to lessons like this and relax
Excellent, as always
Thank you so much!
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My Monday just got a little better! Thanks Brewha ! 🎸🎸🎸🎸
That's great to hear Joe and thanks again buddy!
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Thanks so much for sharing these chord-progressions. Steve Morse is a beacon of light and inspiration to this world in everything that he does. It's great to have you to break things down for us mere mortals. :)
Thank you so much Peter!
I LOVE Steve Morse - he's great!
He's beyond-talented and beyond-nice as well, which is a great combo!
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Thanks again and take care!
Thank you for the lesson - you got the right delivery pace that I was looking for. Greetings from Australia!
Another excellent analysis and presentation David. It seems you and I are huge Morse fans. The first time I heard "The Bash" I was hooked from then on. Probably the best picker pound for pound on the planet. His compositional skills are even more amazing than his technique. You have a great channel. I would love to see you do a Vivian Campbell analysis. He too, is one of my favorites.
Heck yeah and thank you so much for watching and for this comment too!
I love Steve - he's great!
Vivian also has some interesting ideas an I'll add him to the list - thanks!
\m/ ROCK ON \m/
a hard to find all around great guitarist an teacher!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Loving this series of videos. Only recently discovered your channel, and it’s a real hidden treasure trove!
BTW, I did get to see Queensryche last week. What an absolute blast! One of the best gigs I’ve seen in a really long time. The musicianship was superlative, backed up by some awesome work at the sound desk. Haven’t heard pristine sound production at a gig like that since I saw Thin Lizzy at Birmingham Odeon back on their Renegade tour.
Thank you so much!
Wow - that's amazing and I'm jealous of those concerts!
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Take care and stay tuned for more lessons and material!
I've seen Steve with the Dregs once (opening for RUSH) and twice solo in a small club. I had that experience you describe watching him play Tumeni Notes. I was ~20' away. Made me cower. I couldn't have described it better! Great Vid. Thanks for your work.
Another great lesson, love your becks garage picture on the wall
Thank you so much and his Guitar Shop album is OUTSTANDING!
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Great lesson - I really appreciate your explanations and analysis.
Steve Morse is one of those players that always makes me go “....wow I have no idea what I’m doing” lol
Love all your videos, David, but this one really hits home as Steve is one of my favorites ever and I knew all those great Dregs and solo tunes! And, yes, High Tension Wires is a GEM! Ghostwind also had some great chords!
Another fab lesson - your enthusiasm is infectious - what I like the most is that you don't do the whole "look at me - I'm great and you won't be this good" (have you ever seen the Yngwie parody?? laughing emoji ) I hope you get the number of subscribers you deserve - you refer us to the greatest guitarists - don't learn from me learn from them - is a superb approach - I wish you taught in Ireland - 3000 miles is a tad far and my net jets card is maxed out :-) - Keep up the great work - 500 new subs this week !!!! Much respect !!!
Totally agree.
Thank you so much John - wow!
Comments like this and noticing the excitement and level of happiness from viewers on this channel make all of this worth it to me.
I love helping people with music and finally tapping into the Internet and giving online lessons a shot has really surprised me and makes me feel great!
Thanks again and take care buddy!
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Thanks to you too David!
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The content and passion in the presentation makes this vid top notch. Great job, dude! 👍
Thank you so much!
I do what I can!
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Stay tuned for more and take care!
Great work, thanks! Like all those short but widely filled videos of you with work for me ;-)
Thank you so much and stay tuned of more lessons and material!
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The final piece ,is on an instructional video,and its beautiful,even when played slowly,hes a great teacher,and very humble.
Not to mention he was a Commercial Airline Pilot in his spare time.
Steve is awesome!!I seen a replica of his Tele in Dallas in 2001,someone found all the parts and put it together
That's awesome!
I would've liked to see that!
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Thanks for watching and rock on!
brother this was a great lesson thank you!!!!
Hey Dave, just found your channel and it's great! Specifically, learning how to play through playing popular music is how I learned and how my brain works and I'm sure there are others out there like me. And let's face it, doing scales all day long is boring and sucks. Anyway, I was looking through old Steve Morse videos and I found one of him teaching Tumeni Notes and noticed that he was playing that progression you just showed us with that thumb wrap that he likes to do and it's way easier than barre chords. At least to my hands, it is. I'm sure you already know this but just thought I would throw it out there. Thanks, Dave!!
Thank you so much and yeah, I sort-of adopted a more traditional fingering for those chords, but you could totally play it using a Hendrix thumb-wrap as well.
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Rock on!
I caught on to steve and the dregs early on great stuff cruise control is my favorite learn some really good riffs off that tune
When were you at AIM? I was there back in the day. Jimmy Herring was one of the instructors and was heavily into Steve Morse.
That's awesome and very true - Herring LOVES Steve Morse.
Shawn Lane did too!
I was at AIM in the early/mid 1990s.
Jimmy Herring had just left to play/tour with Col. Bruce Hampton and The Aquarium Rescue Unit, but all of his lessons and material were still at the school.
I did get to meet him a few years later and we talked about AIM, but when I was actually a student there I was literally learning about him after the fact and I sifted through his videos and lesson material like a hawk - even back then he was a complete musical genius!
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@@LateNightLessons Looks like we missed each other buy a couple of years.
Superb video thanks for sharing these Steve Morse riffs and lessons. I am working on Tu meni Notes but having difficulty in the first initial pattern, the second part that you played i can do it easily but blending the scaler lines with the arpeggiated patterns in the first pattern is where i am stuck. Trying to figure out the pick slanting thing to play it. Also following Troy Grady where he talks about his technique.
Welp ... guess I need to check out some Steve Morse.
Hahaha!
He's a monster and a legend!
Be sure to check out the Dixie Dregs comeback album Full Circle from the 90s and their classic stuff from the 70s and early 80s - it will blow you away!
Thanks for watching and have fun with Steve & Co.
I highly recommend coast to coast. It's one of my favorite albums
Dave, you got it just the way my brother and I did back in London late. 70s. Who's this Morse bloke? Steve Howe actually told us about him, we got Unsung Heroes on import and life has been better ever since. Thanks for your dedication and great videos, always entertaining and educational. And you're right. Don't try Tumeni Notes at home, folks!
STEVE MORSE incredible WORLD CLASS major talent a master of the guitar he can play every style and at times fusing them together and AMAZING YOU ARE COVERING HIS STYLES AND PULLING THEM OFF YOU ARE GIFTED TO UNDERSTAND AND VENTURE INTO HIS RICH MUSICAL WORLD , SHAWN LANE did a version of my fav MORSE tune INTRODUCTION ANOTHER MONSTER PLAYER
The last exercise is exactly what I was hunting down. Is there tabs?
Christmas comes early!
YAY!
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Thanks so much!
@@LateNightLessons gracias Papa Noel :-)
Great playing. I really like "Aftershock." I saw a video of Steve talking about his equipment, and he is a real technogeek too. He really knows his equipment. I think you are right, he is the ideal inspiration for any guitarist. Just fantastic. When you are playing fast, complex stuff in front of a crowd does it ever freeze your fingers up? I normally don't get nervous, but say, playing a banjo, which I don't play very well to begin with, my fingers just don't want to move at times. And, Steve is playing something on the edge all the time, I don't see how he does it.
Thank you and I totally agree - Steve's a MONSTER player.
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Great lesson. Thanks!
Yes, if you don't listen to Steve Morse and think, "I should go practice", then there's something wrong with you.
HA!
You'll be hard pressed to find any negative comments about Steve Morse... sure, you may hear the "I'm not much into his music", but this is simply personal taste.
A huge influence on... huge influences (e.g. Petrucci and many others), one of the hardest-working in the industry, a wonderful and interesting composer and always, ALWAYS gracious and down to earth, whether he talks about his peers or to his fans.
What would we do without Steve...
Could you please do a lesson on The Dixie Dregs Road Expense?
I love your channel but wish you would teach a whole song or offer a course to learn 3 songs of each guitarist you feature. I would buy that! Thanks
I'm watching this really hoping you do country house shuffle!
Steve is such an amiable guy,and has inspired so many people[John Petrucci for one] and is underrated ,very skillfull alternate picker.
Heck yeah! I love Steve. His music and overall attitude is where its at!
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I swear, you & I were probably similar in some ways in the ‘80s & ‘90s.
Many of these lessons you do are based on players I’ve seem in Guitar World, Guitar Player & other guitar magazines.
I still have a stack of them out in my shed. However, I cut out the the lessons that I liked & stapled them into their own little “booklets.”
I have folders FULL (over filled) of those lessons. I keep them organized by musician.
Do you remember the Steve Vai 10-Hour Workout lesson?
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I still have that, too. I saved lessons from a lot of guitarists who played various genres.
That's VERY cool Mark and I've saved a lot of those old magazines and lessons too!
This reminds me that I have a giant box of them at my dad's house in storage that I should snag the next time I see him.
It'll be fun to go through some of those old once and review some of those old articles and lessons.
Thanks again bro and ROCK ON!
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Late Night Lessons, yeah, you could revive some of those old lessons from the magazines; pick certain techniques & phrases you like & teach them.
As long as you aren’t doing the entire lessons (just excepts), & attribute them, it shouldn’t be an issue.
Nice tone you got there! Mind sharing the signal chain?
Thank you!
If you wanna learn a little more about what I'm using in these videos and lessons, be sure to watch the Guitar Tone & Effects episode from the Brewster's Millions of Rants series on this channel.
Thanks again and take care!
Bro, can you do that heavenly ascending clean part in The Introduction?
Cruise Control!!!!! Did you upgrade your strat with the humbucker pickup? I have a stock 05 hard-tail with single coils. I have yet to open mine up to see if it's routed out to take a humbucker pickup.
Thank you!
My Strat was originally a '96 American Floyd Rose Classic, but since then I replaced the neck twice, replaced the Floyd with a deluxe Standard bridge, and changed the pickups to all Seymour Duncan. The guitar was already routed for H-S--S configuration and has been my #1 for a LONG time.
The only original parts are the body, neck plate, and basic hardware, but everything else has been tweaked/modded out the wazoo.
When I see old photos of this guitar in the original condition I barely recognize it.
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Thanks and take care - ROCK ON!
I think headed for a heartbreak does a similar thing in the tune with the two chord thing
Oh yeah and that's a great song too!
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There are a lot of songs out there that have that interesting two-chord shift.
Think of Breathe by Pink Floyd too - those two chords at the beginning predict and setup the entire song. Great stuff!
Thanks for watching and rock on!
John McLaughlin Chordplay? The chords of Mahavishnu Orchestra!
Now we're talkin'!
Thanks for watching and for this request Rob - I'll add him to the list!
McLaughlin is a MONSTER!
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High Tension Wires is great.
Heck yeah - that albums RULES!
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Will you do chords of some modern prog bands like Periphery, Erra,Monuments, Poliphya, Novelists, Plini, Chon or maybe some Meshuggah? (:
Thanks for watching and for this comment/request too!
I can try to add them to the list, but I don't have a 7 or 8 string guitar to faithfully capture their varied tunings and sound. I'll see if I can borrow one from a friend or come up with something that might work.
Meshuggah friggin' RULES!
So do Periphery, Monuments, Plini and the gang too!
Thanks again and stay tuned!
Ronnie LeTekro Bro!👍🏻🍺
Oh heck yeah!
Ronnie's comin'!
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Will You Be At Winter NAMM? If you are Let me know!👍🏻🍺
Steve Morse! Kick 'em Azz!
I love Steve - he's a MONSTER!
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Why do i feel Stairway to heaven opening acoustic is somewhat the backwards of that tumeni notes chord play ? oh yeah, STH was released first, and i dont say steve morse took it and wrote it backwards because he studied classic anyway. who knows where his ideas came from...
there was a chromatic baseline from A - G# - G - F# - F. creating a "sad" tones.... but here, it is from F all way to A then skip the Bb to the E/B and makes a great tension / build up.
Steve morse, what a player. what a player. His name is not popular in my country, but i encountered a video from youtube back in 08/09 where he did this Guitar solo with Volume swelling and the chord play after that..... i know that guy is crazy....
Heck yeah - Steve Morse is a MASTER!
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Thanks for watching!
I understand all these shred guys should be revered, but David Brewster needs to realise he is a Titan in his own league.
Steves picking technique is just so whacky....yet the noise that comes out of his axe is stunning
He's one of a kind and a "rare bird" as they say.
Talented, human, and humble - such a great combination!
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Rock on and take care!
I absolutely dig him - except for his Deep Purple thing.
In simple terms, nobody can replace Ritchie Blackmoore without driving some fan base away - even when Steve Morse takes the job.
Having said that, I can't get enough of all of his other music. Don't care for his tenure with Kansas much, either. He is at his best when he doesn't have to adjust to creative dynamics of already famous bands and he can really do his own thing.
You can't even really say which album he recorded is his best. They all blow me away each time I randomly spin them.
he he he he after this i will watch song cruise missile
then there is another great guitarist is with acoustic an electric its steve hackett check out the ace of wands!!!!
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