Surfing With The Alien Guitar Lesson (Part 2) - Joe Satriani

In this Surfing With The Alien guitar lesson video series, I will show you note-for-note how to play this instrumental shred classic by the great Joe Satriani.

This awesome rock guitar instrumental was released in 1987 and contains highly melodic licks with incredible guitar acrobatics throughout.

In the first Surfing With The Alien guitar lesson below, we will only concentrate on the main melody which still provides lots of cool hooks and licks the sink your teeth into.

I do think this lesson could easily be approached by the intermediate level guitarist. We only have a couple of half-step and quarter-step bends to deal with that may be a bit tricky.

Other than that it is all about the groove and the cool melodic hooks. You will probably see during video lesson I had add a liberal amount of vibrato to the notes as well. Doing that helps make this melody sing.

Starting in the second video we will be turning up the difficulty level quite a bit. I will go back and show you the opening riffs and the rhythm guitar track under the 1st theme.

After that, we go straight into the first solo which contains fast pick tapped trills, a long Satriani signature legato run, fast bluesy licks, a very unorthodox and monster stretch legato lick and more.

I will demonstrate the solo phrase-by-phrase, to make it easier to get under your fingers.

In the third and final video lesson, I will show you the second version of theme number two, and the outro solo.

The outro solo starts with a very fast lick that is based around a consistent pattern. So I will focus on getting you to work on that pattern individually before playing the entire section. This section also requires the ability to perform very wide stretches.

The outro solo has lots of whammy bar madness, high octane blues based licks and more pick tapping trills and double-stops. There is a lot to work on here. :)

I hope you guys enjoy the learning this great instrumental and I appreciate your support in liking the first video enough to make the next two happen.

Thanks! #surfingwiththealienguitarlesson #joesatriani #guitarcovers

Carl...

[aguitarcalledchutzpah]

Cheers
2:05 Rhythym Riff
8:18 second lead riff
10:15 harmonic bar dive
10:33 Third lead riff
13:32 Solo
15:49 legato part
18:31 next phase of solo

[beyondlimitsproductions]

You provide a great service to the Satch community of players who thoroughly enjoy playing this kind of awesome inspiring music....Thank You Carl for taking the time to "accurately" demonstrate how the One and Only Joe Satriani plays this song.

[bramhastra]

This is super weird. I've been looking for a lesson of this song with the starting rhythm part forever but had no luck, I tried to figure it out on my own, but just couldn't. I gave up and was ready to move on and suddenly I got this notification!! Thanks a ton!!

[shawnthornton_]

Today (July 15th) is Joe Satriani's 62nd Birthday! Happy Birthday Joe!

[sergiop]

The best teacher in the world. Thanks Carl

[ipsitagogoi]

Finally! thank you I waited for this for such a long time

[theodorbyrlen]

Well I mean a career as a Rhythm-guitarrist is still a career...

[Cobra]

I've been learning from your channel for literally years. So when I see that new guitar I genuinely got excited.

[skrypts]

Carl this is amazing thank you for your work

[iganpparamarta]

The legato after pick trills always fun to play. Also good exercise to warm up my ring finger&pingky.
Thank u Carl

[heyhsia]

Wow. You are an amazing guitarist and teacher.

[damionmensah]

Got hands like spiders lol
Very good....excellent as always.

[chrisrose]

damn Carl. your lessons always amaze me. thabks for another awesome song. looks like im gonna go pick up my guitar and learn this one

[rossgray]

Could you please teach crystal planet or mind storm

[bakefish]

Goddamn. It will take MONTHS to learn the whole song... but worth it! Satch just kills it!
Nice guitar btw! Ibanez ftw! :-)

[jameschapman]

WTF!!! Carl, that is UNREAL!!! But I think I might have to leave this one for the experts like you and Joe. :-) I need a few more years before I can tackle something like this. Sounds awesome.

But if you can do the solo for Blue Sky by Allman Brothers, that'd be a big help.

[jimostrognai]

Awesome! Can you tell us about your Amp setup? Full Gain for the Legato runs? Do you use noise suppressor? Thanks!!

[thejokeri]

Hey Carl i really like your videos when are you going to make peace sells lesson?

[chubjabb]

hey Carl awesome lesson! Can you please do some Dio song lessons? Thanks!

[augustrising]

Can you please do a lesson on A Passage To Bangkok by Rush?