Joe Satriani Talks About His Favorite Guitar Solo

Joe what what is something now that you're working on as far as your Technique you you got some time is there anything that you're working on technically to uh that is something that you haven't done before uh not that I would show you or the rest of the world but there are things that you're working on right always yes yeah um I guess it's it's funny you know um I've been playing guitar for a long time and I started as a drummer when I was nine so um my patience for practicing has been waning over the decades you know when you're 14 you'll spend you know as many hours as you don't have to be at school or doing work around the house whatever uh you know playing guitar uh but it's different when you're 30 and then you're 40 and 50 and oh my God I'm 64 years old so it's like how much patience do I have to go through every scale and every key and every exercise I've ever seen uh and and so I just just don't do it because there's no time well I won't make excuses I'll just say I'll just tell you what I'm like which is I find that when I'm practicing technique that part of me that's creative starts to fade and the stuff that I write is based on what I'm practicing and so when I listen back to it I go well who's going to buy a ticket to see somebody practice right so and and plus some you know kids do it much better on Instagram today they just know how to turn it on for the phone and and you know 16 seconds of the fastest crazy stuff you ever heard right I love it I mean it's better than coffee in the morning is just watching Instagram for like a minute or two you know yeah it's uh I I I love watching Instagram it's it's uh it's very fun so I so what I find is that it's better for me if I just concentrate on writing and writing and writing so behind the camera is my Protools rig and there's a song that is really weird and I have just been working and working this song there's no guitar on it yet so I'm just playing keyboards I'm not a great keyboard player so it's mainly uh harmonic uh shapes and stuff and uh and it's a curious thing because there's no five you know there's only a flat five and I'm and I'm trying to create a beautiful Melody over some very weird changes but the the thing is is moving between a minor chord and then a major cord off the flat five so I'll do that you know for hours and hours for a couple of weeks I might send a demo to the guys just so they yell at me and tell me I suck or something like that but just you know just to get me going and then eventually it will push me to play something uh that I I haven't done before and and I have a feeling that this particular song I is going to teach me how to avoid a note that um is ingrained in all my fingers you know cuz when you you pick up the guitar oh you can't hear it sorry and then this is just Mindless stuff that my fingers kick out you know because I've done it a million times and uh but that's not original and it's not really about this song that I'm playing I could certainly impress My Friends by playing the fastest thing I could over this but I just be playing all the notes all the time and I hate that you know like because ultimately I want an album let's say if there's 10 songs where there're like a Hendrick album every song is different you're scratching your head going is that the same guy playing guitar again on the third song sounds not like the guy on the second song you know different guitar different scale different temperament different attitude everything I like to play guitar specifically for the song and so um if anything I would admit that if I practice too much the guitar player is just going to want to show off and and you know if if I'm working at home there's nobody to stop me if I'm with John cber he'll tap me on the shoulder and he'll say I'll give me a break do that again play something interesting you know and uh so all the producers that I've worked with have been that cool and and that talented you know and they'll sit there like Jim Scott re just last December I think he watched me one day play solos for six hours I must have done 180 solos and every one of them was a miss it was like kind of close and you know he was encouraging but at the same time he'd look you know he'd shake his head like ah not getting anywhere with this one so it wasn't until the ver the very end when I when I thought okay suicide is perhaps an option here at the last solo that something happened and and so you know sometimes that happens you just have to blow out all the things that you know people think you are well known for it I'd like to take a second to talk to you about this channel this is actually Rick Bato 2 I've had it since the beginning of my main Channel and many of you are not subscribed as a matter of fact 87% of the people that watch this channel regularly are not subscribed so I encourage you to hit the Subscribe button on this channel and on my main Channel this will help me get even more of my dream guests and help continue to grow both channels thank you Joe if I were to ask what what is your favorite solo that you've played could you pick one or pick a couple no I don't think so I mean i' still scratching my head I mean when first of all it's painful to listen uh to to the my performances because I just I hear I have a memory of every take you know and uh and so there's always a story behind it like why didn't I just do that again or you know how come that you know the situation didn't allow me to do that again or why did I think that was a good idea or that approach you know um that's the you know that's the curse you know one of the cool things about being on tour is you get to you know play this stuff over and over again so I've been blessed with the opportunity to Play Surfing With the Alien over and over again every night and I'm still working on it I'm still thinking now and that's because you know that that Melody the melody performance happened uh at he High Street Studios one afternoon uh one take from the beginning to the end there were people standing at the door like this you know pointing to their watches that's when people had watches you know it's like four o'clock dude get out of the studio you know and and I'm like oh just give me just like you know a couple more minutes here and we're we're plugged into the even tide that's not working right and the tube driver and the Marshall and I hadn't really prepared for it so I just did this thing playing that Kramer guitar that would go out of tune if you looked at it and that was it and we couldn't recreate the sound or anything so uh I listen to that when I listen to the album I go that's very inspired and it's fun and it's supposed to be fun but damn I wish I could have tuned the guitar and so even even now Joe you still think back to then you when you listen to the performance all those things come back to you you remember being there and then you you're really self critical about your own playing oh absolutely yeah I mean to from that record like you know uh satch Boogie hadn't really figured out how to play it so that means every time I play the head in the song if you listen to it I play each time it's different not because I was clever but because I hadn't really figured out and we didn't even know if it was going to work you know and then we sat back and listened to it and we thought yeah is it that's a head right that's a head that'll work uh and then the last record uh same thing we recorded stuff weren't sure uh if you know I hadn't really prepared to play it but you know when a producer says Hey what if you you know grabb that other guitar and and did that part and I go okay let's try it and we'd sit there and you go wow that's uncomfortable and I'd have to work on it for a while and then you know the beauty of recording of course is that you you show the best version you know but my memory of course is all the failures leading up to the best version so yeah that's a again that's why when you're on stage every night it's a relief because you can say wow it can be as subtle as like you know is it is it like uh or is it or I mean I play around with what note has Bend what note to play flat uh the length of the note how do I pick it uh we're not even talking about the sound that that Marshall there is turned up pretty loud I think yeah so um and I'm using the the waza thing um so but I'll work on that if I have a 60-day tour every night I'll go out I'll go okay tonight I'm going to take that seventh note and I'm going to wiggle it and then the one after that I'm going to play short and I see what happens see if someone in the audience closes their eyes or does this you know it's just like anything to reach people more

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Length: 9min 46sec (586 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 09 2024