Joe Satriani 1. 0 Things You Gotta Do to Play Like Him TABALTHOUGH HE HAS RELEASED. Joe Satrianis 1. Surfing with the Alienreissued in August. Satchs trend setting musical. I had the honor of transcribing the. Satch. Boogie that same year, so naturally thats. Im gonna zone in on Satrianis soulful virtuoso playing. Silver. Surfer cover art culminated in Surfings. The certified Platinum album, which. Satrianis 1. 98. Not of This Earth, quickly rose to number 2. Billboards. Top 2. Albums chart and spawned three. Since then, Satriani has. Tabtight professional, free when you need it, VPN service. Get the guaranteed best price on Instrument Wireless Systems like the Line 6 Relay G30 Digital Wireless Guitar System at Musicians Friend. Get a low price and free. Get the guaranteed best price on Solid Body Electric Guitars like the Epiphone Limited Edition Les Paul Quilt Top PRO Electric Guitar at Musicians Friend. Get a low. 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Satriani told GPs Darrin Fox in 2. As. a teacher, your job is tousing the fewest. You learn to be succinct, and to put forth. You. also learn to remove any of your stylistic. Teachers take note. Now, dig deep, and. PUSH YOUR GEAR. AND YOUR CREDIT. CARD TO ITS LIMITSOver the past two decades. Satrianis physical engines. Satch recorded the monstrous tones. Surfing armed only with a white Kramer. Pacer loaded with an original Floyd Rose. Seymour Duncan pickups. JBs in the bridge, a pair of homemade. Strat copies, a Roland JC 1. Marshall. half stack modded with a master. Chandler Tube Driver. Boss DS 1 and an SD 1, a Scholz Rockman. Nomad amplifier, plus a borrowed. Fender Precision Bass and bass amp. Soon. after, Satriani began an ongoing relationship. Ibanez, a fruitful collaboration. Satchs favorite JS 1. Chrome Boy, and which has since spawned. JS models. He. also began using low wattage Wells and. Cornford amps in the studio. Nowadays. you can outfit your entire rigfrom guitars. Ibanez. JS signature series and Peaveys JSX. Di. Marzio Mo Joe pickups, and Voxs. Satchurator Distortion, Time Machine. Delay, and Big Bad Wah, to picks and. Satriani artwork. As far as financing. Im. not sure you could pull this off in our current. Until then, youve gotta. SUBVERT THE. One of Satrianis most. Check out how familiar melodic. Beck ish runs in Ex. Ex. 1b take on a whole new life when. Surfing with the Alien. You can transpose these licks to their respective. Ex. 1c bears an unmistakable. Hendrix imprintthat kind of. Native American chant. Ex. 1d. follows suit, incorporating a dose of traditional. Cool. enough, but thats just a part of the big. Youve also gotta. BE STRANGE. BEAUTIFUL. Exotic melodies, shifting. Satriani. oeuvre. Wet your feet. with the stock, arpeggiated A5 figure. Ex. 2a, apply its rhythmic motif. A51. 1 and. A1. 3sus. Ex. 2b, and youll. Satrianis other worldly Vincent Bell. Coral electric sitar intro to Lords of. Karma. Ex. 2c simulates the bass groove. A Lydian. and A Mixolydian modalities. Play it as. is for A51. Gs a half step. G over A1. 3sus. 4. Tip For total. authenticity, tie the and of beat two to. When Satchs exotic. Notated in half time to conserve. Examples 2d and 2f both feature. Satriani used to. A Lydian lines over A51. C, the 41. 1D, the 5 E, and. Fwhile Examples 2e and 2g. A Mixolydian via. G the b. 7 and D the 41. A, B, E, and F inherent to both modes. Check out the recording for Satchs. SURF THE BOARD. The fretboard, that is. Satrianis extremely fluid. A, in. this casehas thrilled many a 6 string. Utilizing the A51. A1. 3sus. 4 progression. Ex. 3a. illustrates how to make a short, repetitive. The only difference. A Lydian and A Mixolydian. Thus, we only have to change D the. D the 41. 1 to make the. The elongated run in Ex. Gs to Gs to fit the progression. Ex. 3c, and the wild, quarter note triplet based. Ex. 3d. Try applying this concept. Just remember. youve also gotta. ROMANCE THE. Example not shown due to copyright Always with Me, Always. You, perhaps Satrianis. B major. scale. The melody and accompaniment. Satrianis. obsessive attention to detail. The fourbar. excerpt transcribed in Ex. Joe stuff smeared. Its a simple. I IV V progression, but I subverted it a. Satch recalled in 2. I would add. say a 4 to one chord, and a 1. Tip Be sure to play those reststheyre. Ready to. trip out Lets. 7 TAKE TAPPING. INTO THE FOURTH. Satrianis Midnight. Determined not to repeat what had already. Satch devised an ingenious way. The first. approach is illustrated in bar 2 of Ex. Am voicing. shown in bar 1 into two sets of tapped. Tip Use a string mute or tie. Likewise, bar 2 in. Ex. 5b breaks an impossible C chord bar 1. Tip Think. castanets Now, here comes the fun part. First, apply the voicings in Ex. Ex. 5a to. approximate the songs intro. Note the. variations in left hand fingeringtapping. Check the album for the order of these. Ex. 5d and the tapping pattern. Ex. 5b to simulate the main theme. Giddyap and. 8. GO NUTS. Anyone who has witnessed. Satrianis. qualities is how the guy. From screaming, near dog whistle. A harmonic on the 3rdstring. B or G string under. Steve Vai fave, and. Satriani always manages to. On. a more note y level, have fun surfing the. I IV lick. in Ex. Tip Play bar 1 three times, bar. Ex. 6b. Shades of Tommy Bolin Pick. And of course we all know Satch is a. Hendrixs. Red House, as heard in the busy but tasty. Ex. 6c. Read it. and weep, and then. WRITE YOURSELF. A SIGNATURE SONG. Example not shown due to copyright Satch Boogie isnt just. Satriani disciples, and. Im pleased as punch to. The song. certainly requires chops to spare, but its. Ex. 7 lays. out the entire head, from the Buddy Rich. Satchs first solo. Take your time, follow the repeat, D. S. and Coda instructions, and the occasional. But. before we split, you gotta. JUST ASK. takes his signature. A string. I. started out taking a ZZ TopVan Halen style. Satriani. But the devil on my. I used. pitch axis theory again. As a result, the. ZZ. Top album. Ex. Satchs. concept can be applied to an A minor scale. Ex. 8b spreads it out over an A. Note how the sixteenth notes. A string. Thatd be your. Practice these moves until you. Ex. 8c to the previous. Of course youll need. Your mission. should you decide to accept it, is to. Let these ideas. elevate your playing to new realms of creativity. Pay it forward, kids Finally, I urge everyone to explore. Satrianis strange, beautiful catalog. Apologetic note to Joe Man, I hope you.