Richie Kotzen: 'Rock Chops'

distressed_romeo · 12-24-2007, 05:53 PM

Just spent a couple of hours working through this video. A few thoughts...

1) His finger-span scares me.
2) His early style had a hell of a lot in common with Derek Taylor's ideas, i.e. legato phrasing, travelling in octaves, wide stretches... There's even a little bit of spocking in places, although it's not tabbed in the booklet.
3) Most of my old shred videos are a lot more accessible since I worked through 'Intense Rock Complete'.

Marko · 12-24-2007, 06:01 PM

haha that's the first instructional I ever saw

It was '98/'99 or so, my friend got that on tape - together with Steve Morse's "Power Lines" and some MAB's video. I only had a 3/4 acoustic guitar at the time and zero chops but I tried legato

Ah, the early teens... i want those years back...

distressed_romeo · 12-24-2007, 06:14 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Marko

haha that's the first instructional I ever saw

It was '98/'99 or so, my friend got that on tape - together with Steve Morse's "Power Lines" and some MAB's video. I only had a 3/4 acoustic guitar at the time and zero chops but I tried legato

Ah, the early teens... i want those years back...

Yeah, hindsight is a wonderful thing. I would have spent way more time goofing off than I did...

Apophis · 12-25-2007, 05:13 AM

those old vids are better somehow imo.

kmanick · 12-25-2007, 10:12 AM

one of my favorite players.
I have that on tape somewhere.
I should pull it out and see how weak my legato really is

guitarplayerone · 12-30-2007, 10:33 PM

awesome tape. never occured to me to use anything but root-third-fifth before that one. he destroyed that idea really fast in his improv at the beginning

lambofhowe · 12-31-2007, 02:05 AM

That video is absolutely ridiculous isn't it. He matured a bit later and focused more on bluesier things which is awesome, but if you want to see absolutely jawdropping playing rock chops is pretty much where it's at

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