LUKATHER STEVE, MASTER SESSION. TAB. DVD
For the first time on DVD, here is a step-by-step guide to the guitar of Steve Lukather, taught by the man himself. Generally regarded as one of America's original rock guitar heroes, Lukather gives you an intimate masterclass discussing the best riffs and solos from the legendary Toto recordings. Includes a 24-page booklet of examples in notation with a shorthand fingering and string placement guide. 45 minutes.
STEVE LUKATHER
Instructional DVD for Guitar
Series: DVD
DVD - TAB
Artist: Steve Lukather
Steve Lukather, the Grammy Award-winning lead guitarist with the super group Toto, is considered one of the foremost rock guitarists of today. Steve has performed or recorded with a plethora of top artists like Carlos Santana, Larry Carlton, Les Paul, Elton John, Paul McCartney, and Michael McDonald, to name a few. He has won several Grammy Awards as a songwriter, producer and guitarist. On this DVD Steve takes you step by step through a spectacular assortment of his best licks and solos in this video session recorded in 1985. You'll learn the licks and leads to such hits as -Rosanna, -Carmen, -hold the Line, and -Lovers in the Night. He also shares important tips and techniques in speed picking, position shifting, traveling scales, false harmonics, and melodic phrasing, as well as equipment and effects demonstrations. You're carefully taken through every lick, which you can follow in the accompanying instructional booklet. However, there's no need to read music, because the booklet comes with fretboard diagrams. This is truly a unique opportunity to receive a private guitar lesson from one of the most influential and versatile guitarists today, whose musical compositions have helped shape the sound of popular music.
In January 2005 Omnibus Media re-released the 1984 instructional Lukather video on DVD. The DVD includes a 24-page booklet of examples in notation with a shorthand Tab guide.
The Steve Lukather Master Session (a volume in the Star Licks guitar video-tutor series), made in 1984 after the release of the fifth Toto album Isolation, is the only instructional Lukather video. It's a great tutorial, not only for (future) guitarists but also for those Lukather fans who frequently asked themselves 'how the hell did he do it'. Lukather turns out to be a fetching tutor, showing a lot of information, technique and humor in 35 minutes.
This video was originally released under the title Starlicks Master Series in 1984. The re-issue in 1993 is still available on Omnibus Records and Tapes.
After a one minute show-case intro, Lukather demonstrates his equipment (Mesa Boogie) and guitar (custom made by Valley Arts) at that time. As I already wrote in my essay it's obvious that Lukather is always in control of the possibilities of his equipment and his guitar, in combination with his outstanding technique.
In the heart of the video Lukather tutors (once slowly and once at regular speed) the solo's from nine songs. Meanwhile he reveals his personal tips on techniques like double-picking, speed picking, wang bar effects, chromaticism, bending, position shifting, false harmonics, travelling scales and melodic phrasing, all merged into the final solo of this video.
Tracklist :
Rosanna (Toto IV)
Lovers in the night (Toto IV)
Carmen (Isolation)
Lion (Isolation)
Angel don't cry (Isolation)
Girl goodbye (Toto I)
Breakdown dead ahead (Bozz Scags - Middle man)
Hold the line (Toto I)
Mama (Hydra)
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