Joe Satriani - Advice to Aspiring Guitarists (10 of 11) video free download

War Gamer

I was going to play Battlefield but instead i will play guitar..despite my world crushing hangover.

Oliver Morgan

You can be a great musician without knowing any scales, notes or chords. Its pretty simple, you hear a melody in your head, then you place it on the fret board. The songs that comes out of that will be much more authentic than thinking weather you should use a dorian or mixolydian scale to make a song. In fact the main part of creativity is the absence of thought, thought will only distract and distort your ideas.

Pad Vou

I'd take Joe's advice. :)

Minute Maid

I would pay money to watch Joe Satriani practice.

SETH wudel

WOW! If I only someone could have given me that advice 25 years ago. Seriously, what a difference it would have made, assuming i would have listened. All I ever did is get high and play up and down the same scales eight hours a day. (That doesnt work .lol. )What a difference guidance could have made.

led sabbath

What great advice... It really does come down the everything he was talking about... Musicians make music, and if you are having trouble with this than you have to ask yourself these basic questions.. do i know my all my chords, do i know all my scales, do i know every note on the fretboard... and you fix that... people bitch about "i cant get any better, i play all the time but i just do the same shit". well its not gunna change itself.. and that is just the start of it..

Despond

Rusty Cooley blazes away, I love hearing that, but when the feedback soars @ the start of Flying In A Blue Dream, that's when my whole body tingles.Joe's saying become technically good, but not ONLY technically good. Only internet guitarists will want to watch you practice, out in the real world you're going to have a very rough time if you can't actually right melodic, moving music.DO BOTH, NOT JUST ONE.

Stephen Fiore

nice guy. love all 11 series,  Thankyou

Bibi Landin

I would LOVE to see joe practice. I think that's the most interesting part!

smilinachya

Right on, Freddie!

Freddy Mclain

I would add:  don't buy new gear (except strings)  Everything you need is available used at half the cost.  don't piss off the waitress.  she won't come near the bandstand and you won't get a drink until the break.  never play 'for the door.'  don't rehearse in the studio-have your shit down cold before youget there.  don't hire family members(or let them sit in) for that reason....unless they can play.practice a lot, but not necessarily all at once.  several fifteen minute sessionsa day is good (several means six to ten.) don't start playing on an electric-learn to make music come out of the guitar first, not an amplifier.  I have more, but these are useful. 

ed fugate

great advice from a great guitarist

jamie shelley

idk about others ,but in terms of just practice, I get a couple scales and work/riff on em till i get something that good, then build on that using musical know how, point is start from the heart when your playing!

jamie shelley

dropped a pic in one of my active pickups and sliced my finger playing a solo afterwards

namemedia1

Shewww.well said sir. now....bout that lizrad sound wit the whammy bar,,,,how do dat?

John Doe

I know no scales. If I thought long enough I would figure out every note on my guitare but to me it's completely useless. Learn to improvise. Improvise more. You will get good at it without scales and learning things by heart.

myautomobilefunk

i don't even know what tha fuck he said or why I said that about it, it was 9 months ago .

Dave Goodman

I don't think he's downplaying the importance of knowing techniques, scales, chords, ETC. I think he's emphasizing the fact that technique and music theory should be a vehicle for your creativity. If you focus too much of your practice time on running scales, then you're not getting any creative benefit out of it. I think he'd say the same even if he wasn't famous.

Andrew O.

the fuck is he wearing on his head. lol

pretorious700

Thumbs down if you do.

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