For the Love of God - Steve Vai

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For the Love of God - Steve Vai

Postby GuitarMathew » Sun Feb 09, 2020 7:12 pm

Hi y'all,

I finally decided to do something different than Country, Jazz or blues and just play something I always wanted to do. The song is called For the Love of God from Steve Vai. I'm surely going to record this song in the future and cover it on a future CD.
For now just a quick recording with my phone and time to spent a lot of practicing on this song:



Hope you guys appreciate also something out-of-the-box playing.

Best regards,

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Re: For the Love of God - Steve Vai

Postby Danny Mitchell » Sun Feb 09, 2020 10:17 pm

Certainly a departure from your usual style, Mathew. Very nice control of a guitar that's on the verge of feedback. Fantastic, it's good to mix it up.
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Re: For the Love of God - Steve Vai

Postby Jif » Mon Feb 10, 2020 12:38 pm

Well played Mathew. Could do with the backing a bit louder in the mix to give context to the steel work, but nice anyway :D
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Re: For the Love of God - Steve Vai

Postby nevada150 » Wed Feb 12, 2020 4:53 pm

That’s very tasty Mathew. It shows how varied your playing is.
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Re: For the Love of God - Steve Vai

Postby simon_f3 » Thu Feb 13, 2020 10:48 am

Mathew, this is great! You have done a fantastic job of getting Steve Vai's string bends and vibrato sounding just right on pedal steel - something which I would expect to be a whole lot more difficult in reality than it first seems. Great work, and thanks for sharing with us!
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Re: For the Love of God - Steve Vai

Postby elparkirio » Sat Feb 15, 2020 10:39 am

Hey Matthew, what distortion pedal are you using?
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Re: For the Love of God - Steve Vai

Postby Johnny-99 » Sun Mar 15, 2020 11:23 pm

Very nicely done, Mathew. The articulation, the phrasing - the whole thing is very close to Steve Vai's playing. I remember attempting this one on guitar in my 'shredder' days as a teenager! Tonally it's an interesting one, I'd love to hear what you come up with for the solo section.
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Re: For the Love of God - Steve Vai

Postby GuitarMathew » Tue Mar 24, 2020 6:06 am

Thank y'all for the kind compliments! :)
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