TrueFire - Alien Guitar Secrets - Steve Vai

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Steve Vai’s Alien Guitar Secrets: Passion & Warfare
By: Steve Vai

About Steve Vai's Alien Guitar Secrets: Passion & Warfare
An interactive video masterclass to help you discover and unlock your personal musical identity


Instrument
• Electric Guitar
• Guitar

Skill Level
• Intermediate
• Late Intermediate
• Advanced

Styles
• Rock

Curriculum
• Exercises
• Soloing
• Right-Hand Techniques
• Left-Hand Techniques
• Composition
• Perforrmance

Release Date
Jul 13th, 2016

True to Vai form, this Passion & Warfare edition of Alien Guitar Secrets goes way beyond the call of educational and inspirational duty for any student of guitar, at any level of play.

In the first half of this interactive video masterclass, three-time GRAMMY Award winner Steve Vai shares priceless insight and ingenious methods to help you discover and unlock your personal musical identity -- the very same approaches he used to achieve his own mastery of the instrument and unparalleled success as a professional musician.

Topics and methods presented in the first half of the course include: 3-Step Manifestation, Deeper Than Technique, Develop Your Tone, Exercises Build Chops, Theory, Scales & Colors, Training Your Inner Ear, The Fragrance of Chords, Intonation, Bending Notes, Vibrato, Dynamics & Phrasing, The Dimension of Listening, and The Quality of Thought.

In the second half of the masterclass, Steve treats you to revealing overviews, with select playing examples, for each of the songs on his groundbreaking Passion and Warfare album -- highly regarded as one of the greatest instrumental rock guitar recordings of all-time.

Passion and Warfare song overviews include: Liberty, Erotic Nightmares, The Animal, Answers, The Riddle, Ballerina 12/24, For the Love of God, The Audience Is Listening, I Would Love To, Blue Powder, Greasy Kid's Stuff, Alien Water Kiss, Sisters, and Love Secrets. Steve also gives you a quick rundown of his guitar and gear in a Gear Talk segment.

The video masterclass (Windows, Mac, and iOS compatible) features 4+ hours of video lessons, tab/notation for select playing examples (for complete transcriptions and notation, pick up the Passion & Warfare Songbook published by Hal Leonard).

Steve also generously includes the Passion and Warfare Naked Tracks for all of the songs on the album (original tracks from the album minus the lead guitar track) along with 6 live video performances including Liberty, The Animal, Answers, For the Love of God, The Audience Is Listening, and Sisters.

We’re so proud to welcome Steve to the family with his first interactive TrueFire course, Alien Guitar Secrets: Passion & Warfare. We’re certain that, once you immerse yourself in this video masterclass, your musicality will light up in ways you never thought possible.

Grab your guitar and pick a few Alien Guitar Secrets from Steve Vai!

Content Runtime: Approx 5 Hours

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Steve Vai
About the Educator

While many musicians fit easily into a single category, Steve Vai’s unique musical vision remains unclassifiable. After more than 20 years, Vai continues to use unbridled guitar virtuosity and soulful artistry to explore the spectrum of human emotion.

“I make music to push my own buttons,” explains Vai. “I’ve always been driven by an addiction to create sounds that are unique – not better than what other people do, just different.”

That obsession with running down the voodoo in his head remains the guiding force behind Vai’s ongoing musical evolution and what he loves most about being a musician. “For me, the real gravy is when I hear a strange or beautiful sound in my head and then make it real in the world using the devices I have as a musician,” says Vai. “The things that have never been done before are what interest me most.