Steve Vai | Tender Surrender | guitar cover [hq/uhd]

My absolute favourite instrumental tune, Tender Surrender by Mr. Steve Vai! Enjoy my humble rendition with live keyboard nicely played by my friend Pavel Marcel! 🙂

Jiri Rambousek / 18 years / Czech Republic

Gear used:
Sivcak Longhorn
Fractal FM3

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[StevenSiroVai]

Hey Jiri, great job here. It's always a thrill for me to see someone playing one of my songs and it's obvious you put a lot of time into this. Thank you. You have so much going for you. Your intonation and vibrato are very good and that's a big part of the puzzle. Good timing too and when the distortion kicks in your chops are on fire. Good tone and clean notes and lots of power and confidence. Good form Rambousek! If I was to give some pointers I might suggest.... hmmm.... maybe take a look at your clean tone. It could use some body. Some of this can be achieved with a rounder clean amp tone, a little more bottom etc, but the tone for that whole intro clean part is mostly generated by the touch on the instrument. I use my right thumb to strum those octaves. The skin on the right hand fingers warms the tone up a bit. But it really has to do with the connection of the note with the fingers. Psychologically, each octave is treated as its own statement.

One thing I might suggest is to take perhaps 4 bars at a time and keep playing them over and over and over again for maybe a solid 20 minutes. I know this can seem to get boring but the goal is to keep your focus on playing it and give full attention to every note and imagine it sounding better and better and you being more and more in control each time you play it. Listen carefully to the melodic statement and put that at the forefront of your attention. You ostensibly become the note. That is when it starts to sound seamless and lyrical and you sort of develop an intimate relationship with each note. Off course you can take this approach to any song you play, it does not have to be Tender Surrender. But I can guarantee you, if you have the courage to practice this repetitive approach for the various sections of the song, you will be stunned at how it improves your connection with the instrument. This connection is at the core of your ability to connect not only with the instrument but with the listener too. You have all the finger facility necessary to play most things, but the connection a player has to an instrument is a different story. It requiers more of an intimate approach than the academics of playing. I hope this all makes sense.

You're doing great and I can only make these suggestions because I get the impression you are ready for that next step. All the best young man and thanks again. (Vai)

[pitchwisepitchkers]

Great job man..also great keyboard work!Thumbs up!

[diggestbik]

First person to do this without a wammy bar lol, props m8

[DamienDae]

That was amazing! One of the best SV covers I've heard. Congrats! 🙏

[filipvavra]

TVL odpoved od samotnyho Steva, tak to gratuluji, vidis uz o tobe vi svetovy spicky, dotahnes to daleko a ja ti drzim palce.

[krillinroshi]

Should it sound any different then the MASTERPIECE it already is?
As only a mASTERPiece should SOUND! AWESOME!
Play it again Steve!😂🤪

[danielrein]

Dobrý den, jak nejlépe nacvičit čistotu tónu, synchronizaci a rychlost hry. Dík Dan Rein. Moc pěkná práce

[prenoska]

Super video, nakoplo mě k pořádnému cvičení na kytaru, Jirko a Pavle díky.

[PointPanic]

Yeah man, keep on with that great playing!