Steve Vai is such a compelling speaker. The two of them just chatting here is so honest and real that it's striking. Dweezil is the lone child to really carry on Frank's work and as a real uphill battle with much of the family. I commend and applaud him.

@Angelum_Band

Жыл бұрын

He really is articulated.

I'm surprised The Zappa Family Trust didn't get ahold of that notebook & auction it off!

@TheSecondNature

6 жыл бұрын

the great gavonne was about to say the same..

@EastmanD

6 жыл бұрын

Ain't that the frick'in truth !!

@SDA7337

6 жыл бұрын

dweezil is such an amazing keeper of the Zappa way, and music I think. Like could you ask for anything more than what he has done? He is a treasure. Such a bummer that they have that whole trust battle going on. Why get in his way at all? Don't understand why G did it that way.

@pauliamsocool

6 жыл бұрын

the great gavonne Haha, so true and so unfortunate..

@bofuscrapshaw

6 жыл бұрын

good point

How lucky we are ! Thank you , gentlemen .

I used to feel guilty about thinking the whole guitar was A Dorian until now, thank you guitar greats for setting me free!

@xxxtincho

5 жыл бұрын

I feel you, brother. Never found and actual aplication of the mayor scale, the way it was thaugth to mee 100 times during my life. It was very frustrating. Dorian is so musical and fun to play, instead.

@GlennJimenez

3 жыл бұрын

I know what concept you’re talking about, but it’s hard for me to visualize.

@kennydunk

3 жыл бұрын

Haha I know you

It was so relieving to hear y’all talk about “locking in” and playing on beat. I remember when I was 21 fresh out of music school playing with a respected musician in my town and realizing after all these fancy techniques I’ve been learning that playing with a good rhythm section... It was sort of difficult to do and keep a good feel on top of that. I used to practice to the 16th and 32nd note on my metronome playing whatever fast run I could come up with, but still feeling the quarter note was kind of lost on me. It’s as if I needed the BPM to be the notes that I’m playing. Being able to feel it with just the quarter note or even half note was essentially like losing the “training wheels.” I gained a lot of freedom when I could finally lock in tight with everyone and let the BPM be loose with me. Man, it is nice to hear two “Guitar Gods” make mention of that. Thank you.

I saw Dweezil on stage with his old man at the Wembley Arena on Franks '88 tour! I had my Sony Pro Walkman with me and taped the entire show, plus the 2nd Wembley show, the Birmingham NEC and the Rotterdam Ahoy. Those tapes kept me going for years, right up until the Internet brought easy access to a multitude of live FZ material. It was really dodgy taping gigs in those days. I got a good kicking more than once, but they never got the tape! So it was worth it.

@gorgon9786

3 жыл бұрын

.. Great! My thoughts went back to that time as well,..! 😎👌

What a couple of cool guys. They make the universe way better.

Revelation mother earth! I loved that song as a teen

Please scan this as a PDF and put it out to the world!!

@MikeyGee001

6 жыл бұрын

I know I would be SUPER GRATEFUL if a PDF was made available. So nice to see stuff BY HAND.

@danwright8735

6 жыл бұрын

I just took a few stills with my camera. Then got my pencil&ruler and wrote out a variation on the theme! The dreaded Barre chord F FIRST LESSON- Hard Core =)

@SDA7337

6 жыл бұрын

There are versions of Steve Vai's workout that have been printed in the guitar mags. Steve did a book based on this stuff too.

@MikeyGee001

6 жыл бұрын

I like the look of it in the original handwriting. THAT is why I’d want it, not the methods.

@SDA7337

6 жыл бұрын

oh yeah that makes perfect sense. Yeah that would be amazing if they did a reprint of it somehow, like printing it on notebook paper and binding it in an old notebook looking thing. OR a pdf, too. I get it. :)

I'm so happy that Dweezil still has this legendary note pad with lessons from a greenhorn Steve Via ,If his brother Ahmet would have gotten hold of it he would have auctioned it off along with Moon Units baby teeth and the green bathrobe Frank wore on his death bed ,I worked myself into a frenzy trying to decide on attending the auction of all of Frank zappas possessions because I desperately wanted to add another piece of his hand written anything to my extensive collection ,I nearly retained a proxy bidder to aquire something hand penned by Frank until I sat and looked at all the wonderful things frank either gave me as gifts included with my purchase from 818-pumpkin ,or the collection of 47 albums frank took the time to personally autograph over 2 decades ,looking at the collectors case for the You can't do that on stage cd box set I had never unwrapped ,and seeing that pristine autograph on the wooden faux anvil case that FZ hand penned and the dozens of autographed publicity photos he sent us I couldn't bring myself to become ghoulish and bid on frank zappas personal items that hurt Dweezil & Moon so much ,one day I will unwrap the collectors sets of original masters just to see all the autographed albums and to take out the heavily used LP of Overnight Sensation that I stalked every musician on the album to sign with FZ being the last .

Dweezil, you and the band KILLED it on the first ZPZ tour. Best display of musicality I've ever seen.

@psul42

Жыл бұрын

And every tour since, BTW. I Saw ZPZ 7-8 times and they always slayed.

Who in the world would give this a thumbs down 🤦‍♂️

Guys, so great to see you happy and enjoying stuff like that. NO GUITARS, just dudes in their natural habitats doing the mundane. Is a real joy to watch. Thanks for capturing the moment and sharing👍

Glorious!!! I could watch this for hours man!!

That was really cool, thanks for sharing Dweezil.

Love this! thanks for sharing!

Cool. Thanks Dweezil and Steve for sharing!

Too cool! Two great guys and guitarists!

This is just awesome 👏🏽

Very to cool to see. Love the camaraderie and seeing the old notes. Thanks for sharing.

Love it. Love both of you gentlemen, and love your dad, Dweezil.

I think it's fascinating they are willing to share this personal moment with us. Thank you.

The best guitar lesson I have ever had! Thanks Steve and Dweezil!

Down to earth and delectable share, you love birds!

awesome ... thanks for sharing !!

Amazing story,thank you!

It's been several days bingeing on Zappa videos on youtube... words cannot express how profoundly I appreciate your being Frank's progeny!

The joy on your faces is a defining moment of the evolution of your playing. May this last a lifetime.

I LOVE YOUR CONCERSATION ... both ...you are very great with your music -so good very very good.

Two monstrously talented and humble guys with a lot of good things to share. Loved this video!

This made my day, lovely stuff guys.

This is AMAZING!

Awesome guys happy Time’s 🎶🎶🎶

Need more of this

So much love on that note pad. All those notes mean so much to a child. Bravo!

Would love to hang out with these two guys. They are very cool people.

I just love these two guys for being the kind of people they are.

I love all.of the stories of how Dweezil got started playing... WoW! To have Steve Via, EVH, and Papa Frank as his mentors... No wonder Dweezil is one of my favovorite guitarists!!

That’s awesome thanks for sharing this, it’s fun to watch. I could relate if I looked back at my early guitar learning note book. Steve needs to name everything lol.

I am fortunate to have used the Steve Vai 12hour guitar work out for.yearz to practice. 🤘✌️🙏🇦🇺

DWEEZIL ZAPPA - I love your music ... all what you are doing. Thanks for this beautiful movie. I am happy to see you with your friend STEVE VAI... and I was born in 1950 in Germany - Bavaria - Burghausen and all the time of my life... I LOVE THE MUSIC OF YOUR FATHER FRANK ZAPPA... He is a great heroes of music-history.

I'm loving this so much because I have the same notebook from my teacher when I started 2 years ago. I'm still horrible though but still trying. How cool that the two of you have this.. Thanks a bunch for sharing ... very cool.

That intro cracked me up 🤣. This was really cool to watch

Can't help but glean knowledge from guys like Steve. Inspiring people to pick up the instrument and pass on their knowledge, thats the good stuff. The friends you make along the way, thats priceless. much luv

This is PURE GOLD!

thanks for sharing!!!!!!! simple honest artist!!!!

Great video - the modesty of both of these great musicians is an important reminder that the best teachers are always learning. Also, it’s funny to discover that other players (and great ones) see the entire guitar in A Dorian. I thought it was just me!

Very cool. I'm gonna zoom in and practice a few of those lessons.

I love this. so cool

This is the best format. Me in my restroom enjoying the dialogue without being in situation to interact with great players. Nice

Fantastic! I wish i´d kept my first guitar lesson book of hand written clases from my teacher John Francis =) !! I see that Steve made you learn an F on your first lesson! HARD CORE. I have a ticket for the Masterclass in Madrid. So i had better get my metronome OUT . Thanks for sharing. PS. We loved the Zappa Plays Zappa show in Dublín a few years ago. Had a GREAT time afterwards with from your band in BRUXELLES PUB afterwards, AWESOME people. xx

I still have my first sheet from 30 years ago with 5 modes Circle of 5ths...and all this time later I find new things every day🤘

cool video. Dweezil has turned into one of the best guitarists of our generation. I remember seeing him on the broadway the hard way tour. Frank introduces him and has him play a solo over stairway to heaven. I couldn't believe a kid, younger than me, could play so well for so long. it blew my mind and made me question my abilities on guitar. he has only gotten better with age.

"It's all A Dorian" - I thought I was the only person to see it like that.. Haha.

@TheDevice357

5 жыл бұрын

dorian is just the fastest scale so its awesome to use and move it around. yea, I always saw it that way also but knew I wasn't "the only one" haha

@heyjarrod

3 жыл бұрын

That’s cool. Glad I came across this clip. Cool to read through some of these comments. It gives me ideas, always like to put a new or different twist on things. Especially the Dorian fascination! 😝🎸👍🏻 But I never thought of Dorian as the faster scale to jam. I always seem to visualize and start with Aeolian first. I used to always like to practice in, and build around A minor (mode), and Box I. But luckily, I did make sure to move them all around in different keys, always practicing each scale and mode-and even tying them all together in one long scale. You know how it is. Like Steve said, if you know one mode, you know them all. And then the major modes. The Aeolian shape always seemed like the coolest, the natural minor. Ionian was always fun, and I kind of thought that as one of the faster modes. But Dorian and Phrygian are awesome, of course. I had a legendary guitar teacher too (not as well-known as Steve, as most aren’t), and kept all my notes from the mid-80s. I still reference them from time to time. Great stuff! 🎸👍🏻😎

Very very very cool. Love it

I remember picking up practice tips from Vai back in the day, he talked about in columns of either GW or GP, possibly both. One in particular was taking a couple of random strings off of your guitar and playing your scales/solos. Do that for a week and then take a couple of different ones off etc. It was crazy and slightly tedious, but it forces you to rethink and learn the entire neck, while creating muscle memory. A big help and a great tip. Thank you Steve! This book Dweezil has is quite a treasure, what a great story.👍🎸

AWESOME Dweezil!

Love Dweezil! Can't get enough dweezil!

I remember Steve Lukather saying. You’re only ever a semi Tone away from a right note.

@michaeljechon6139

6 жыл бұрын

niptodstan lukather is amazing

@BrainPolice5

6 жыл бұрын

True! Loved that advice for decades lol

@juxtaposeism

6 жыл бұрын

in other cultural environments you might only be a quarter note away...

@Lanearndt

6 жыл бұрын

it's funny of course but totally incorrect: ) I'f you're on a bad note you've got a 50/50 chance of going to an even bigger stinker!!

@jaconova

6 жыл бұрын

I think is better to call them "tension" or "transitory" notes.

I love those troll edits and quotes in the beginning!

Cool, can't wait to see you in NZ next month. Play Bad Girl or Gotta Get to You!

And I thought Frank taught Dweez all he knows! What a great education you had! So pleased to see you and Steve perform in the UK at Manchester a few years back. I never knew you and Steve had that strong of a connection. Thanks for sharing. x

@jomama9445

4 жыл бұрын

Frank would also have EVH come & show Drweezil gtr stuff🤘

His name is Stevie Vai. Just another great italian. :-D I love the word "Exorsise". Great. Thank you.

How are you Sir? Thanks for the share. The beginning. Hi Steve...

Dweezil play so so good, ZPZ show actually based on Dweezil guitar and guitar was perfect! Thanx Dweezil!

This is fantastic. Super cool to see the handwritten notes. Thanks for sharing.

@nettocxxx

6 жыл бұрын

I agree. :-) and Great Channel --> Make Weird Music. [Unsolicited . . . Really] :-)

Genial verlos Juntos !! Saludos desde México...

Get the book published, looking just like it does, very tongue in cheek guitar lesson book that would be a cool collectible, concert swag table seller and actually help struggling players as well, You and Steve have the magic together, what a wonderful friendship to share with all of us who admire your works

@vikingman4614

3 жыл бұрын

They should publish it together

Thank you for sharing. I have enjoyed watching that guitar gold! It's been so exciting to listen to you and Steve throughout my whole life.

This is really great.

great stuff as a teacher and a lad who has met steve i dig this.. great see some pdfs-

Awesome. I hope you do have a digital scan of it. Not for anyone else but for your own archival purposes incase something were to happen to the original. That is something quite special and doesn't need to be shared all over the internet. This video alone was plenty. Thank you.

This is awesome

8:00 Holy CRAP the outro music level compared to the vocal level right before it. Anyway, thanks for sharing! Was fun to watch.

Fantastic...

Priceless

Dweezil, you and Steve are awesome, looking forward to seeing you at KC Knuckleheads in April, your friends at Disgruntled Gnome Production Group and Gnometown Heros Band

Truly uplifting! You can't imagine these legendary musical icons having and living normal lives. Check the toaster!

That was pretty damn cool & entertaining. I loled hard at the credits hahaha.

so awesome

How great!

This was awesome

Very positive message and explains something I always wondered about which was how did Dweezil get started with his playing. After the transcription work this is Steve's biggest gift to Frank.

Wow, this is amazing! You have to be about the luckiest man alive in my book. It surely shows with your playing that you were molded by two of the finest musicians of our time! Thank you so much for sharing such a cherished possession with us all!

@ssgdean1969

6 жыл бұрын

Actually three, because Steve learned from Satriani.

@frettin1706

6 жыл бұрын

don't forget Eddie Van Halen used to show up at his house and actually give Dweezil lessons as well

@ursafan40

6 жыл бұрын

Can you imagine the pressure he put on himself?

@californiatattoocompany891

6 жыл бұрын

yep in the shadows of giants!

This...... scratches my happy itch.

If this is really Dweezil, that was fun, cool, and entertaining! Getting to hang out in Steve Vai's kitchen with both Dweezil and Steve?! Wow!

@MalikSucksAss

6 жыл бұрын

It was a Dweezil clone. But it was still fun and entertaining, nonetheless.

Three years ago today!🥰

If you published that I would buy it... twice. One for each eyeball.

So cool two of my favorite guitarist..besides Frank..of course.i have a notebook simular from my guitar teacher 🎸🤘

that is really cool that Cloris Leechman did the editing!

Those testimonials at the beginning (from Steve and Dweezil) had me laughing out loud.

Awesome! Would love to see Joe's lessons for Steve as well!

Love this.

Kolb’s learning cycle elevated!

Nice and neat handwritings you have there mr Vai

Funny how we keep all our lesson books....I wish Steve was my teacher back then. Cool !

Absolute Greatness 🎸🎸

Awesome Video!

I hope that one day, Dweezil will grow a moustache like His Dad. I bet He would look Badass!

Very cool stuff. What great times being young and obsessed with the guitar nowadays it's hard to find time. Smh