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Steve Vai online lesson

SustainerPlayer said:
Or maybe they try to cater for the Europeans.  :dontknow:

If I was Steve Vai, I wouldn't want to do a lesson at 8pm. 1.30 sounds about right if its live from berklee.
 
elfro89 said:
SustainerPlayer said:
Or maybe they try to cater for the Europeans.  :dontknow:

If I was Steve Vai, I wouldn't want to do a lesson at 8pm. 1.30 sounds about right if its live from berklee.

Maybe. But more importantly: Did you shred?  :icon_jokercolor:
 
steve vais lesson was full of shite.  He didn't seem to care about it at all. Wonder how much he got paid...  :icon_tongue:
 
I was not available to take a guitar lesson at that time.

In any case, I would think lessons from Steve would be just like lessons from Jaco.
When Jaco had to teach at Berklee, he played all kind of crazy stuff he thought was easy, and then yelled at all his students because they couldn't play any of it. :blob7:
 
line6man said:
I was not available to take a guitar lesson at that time.

In any case, I would think lessons from Steve would be just like lessons from Jaco.
When Jaco had to teach at Berklee, he played all kind of crazy stuff he thought was easy, and then yelled at all his students because they couldn't play any of it. :blob7:

Nah he gave examples of stuff that didn't really matter. Like he went on to talk about scales, and instead of actually telling you anything useful about it, all he done was give you a half hour of his personal philosophy accompanied by a demonstration that was flashy for no good reason. Like for instance he went on to talk about the minor pentatonic, and he played it in a way that was totally useless to anybody, now I'm not saying you shouldn't know it that way, but it seemed pretty clear to me that he doesn't know as much as people give him credit for. It was honestly full of shit that did not matter, you wouldn't have walked away any wiser.
 
Knowing and/or understanding something does not necessarily qualify you to teach it. Teaching is a skill unto itself, and the ability to do it well is not common. Steve Vai (or those of his ilk) may have a supreme understanding of what they know or do, but may not be able to communicate it to others. The can show you what they do, but that doesn't confer understanding to the observer.

Because they're famous, they can charge to let you watch them, but there's really not much value to it. People just buy into it thinking they're going to absorb some magic. Almost never happens. Anybody who's spent money on CDs or DVDs of famous people's lessons and techniques can tell you that it's almost always a shameful waste of money.

But, like paying outrageous amounts of money for "signature" guitars, people will keep pissing money down those holes in the futile hope of gaining some superiority. If they'd just practice what qualified teachers present, they'd be much farther ahead for much less money.
 
elfro89 said:
line6man said:
I was not available to take a guitar lesson at that time.

In any case, I would think lessons from Steve would be just like lessons from Jaco.
When Jaco had to teach at Berklee, he played all kind of crazy stuff he thought was easy, and then yelled at all his students because they couldn't play any of it. :blob7:

Nah he gave examples of stuff that didn't really matter. Like he went on to talk about scales, and instead of actually telling you anything useful about it, all he done was give you a half hour of his personal philosophy accompanied by a demonstration that was flashy for no good reason. Like for instance he went on to talk about the minor pentatonic, and he played it in a way that was totally useless to anybody, now I'm not saying you shouldn't know it that way, but it seemed pretty clear to me that he doesn't know as much as people give him credit for. It was honestly full of shite that did not matter, you wouldn't have walked away any wiser.
I think I would reword this
a lot of guys have extreme trouble putting into words what they find extremely easy to understand, and an example to them is the easiest way but it makes no sense to anyone else
I Steve Via is a great musician and miles ahead of a lot most out there. I would never put down his knowledge because Of his ability to put it in to words.  I have problems explaining a lot of stuff going on in my mind. At work I find it easier just to do it
 
I saw some of it & thought it was cool & entertaining. Nothing ground breaking, but hey, it was free.

It's really a teaser & advertising for his upcoming course at Berklee.
 
I had it on at work with headphones on.  It was pretty general but that's understandable.  I think it was more about setting a world record and I wonder if they did.
 
Jusatele said:
a lot of guys have extreme trouble putting into words what they find extremely easy to understand, and an example to them is the easiest way but it makes no sense to anyone else

Yep. That's always been an issue for me personally. (Though I don't teach anything.)
Knowledge and understanding does not imply the ability to communicate it; the two are separate things entirely.
 
and; Information is not knowledge. Albert Einstein hehehehe. read Zen Guitar. it's all any geetar player needs to know.
 
incabass said:
and; Information is not knowledge. Albert Einstein hehehehe. read Zen Guitar. it's all any geetar player needs to know.

Fretboard logic is another good one. Accompany that with some theory.
 
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