Chordplay - The Chords Of Savatage

[@MetalMan73100]

Criss Oliva, that great unsung legend of 1980s guitar heroics.

[@markbrady7532]

Totally agree. He was phenomenal.

[@waynewilcox444]

criss oliva is one of the most criminally underappreciated guitar players ever. Savatage should have been huge

[@jfrog1979]

I never under appreciated him for a second🤘🙂

[@stormcorrosion176]

Savatage shouid have been huge I agree my brother

[@rockriverash3120]

I agree! I was lucky enough to see Savatage with Criss back in the day and still think of it as the best concert I ever went to! I crank their music LOUD to this day, very frequently! 🙏🎸🤘

[@thorpenator9148]

Seen Savage 3 times...and met Criss on the Edge of Thorns tour. Criss always delivered a great show.

[@Mudder1310]

Songs like Strange Wings and White Witch take me to a particular time in my life. They really are a sort of soundtrack for me,

[@billhewlett1214]

Saw him live 5 times amazing player I’m always playing along with savatage

[@um3899]

I was a teenaged headbanger in Tampa during the 80s, early Savatage rules forever... and Happy Birthday dude!

[@dreuxschoenbeck2625]

Amen. The Stranger Band as well. RIP Ronnie

[@um3899]

@@dreuxschoenbeck2625 Would you believe I never heard Stranger until your comment sent me searching for some of their songs. Great band! I saw their name everywhere back then, but never heard them! By the time I started listening to local music I was into the heavier stuff like Nasty Savage and Siren and all the death metal bands, but I do love AOR/hard rock, and the Stranger song I just heard "Jackie's So Bad" is a perfect example of the genre. I'm definitely going to explore their music now. Thanks!

[@dreuxschoenbeck2625]

@@um3899 Check out the LP’s Rock Solid and No Rules. Swamp Woman, Okeechobie Whiskey, Wrong Side of the Tracks were killer songs. I met Ronnie a few times. Another one of my guitar heroes. Tampa had some great bands back then

[@um3899]

@@dreuxschoenbeck2625 thanks man I'll check those out

[@guitarboy913]

Can't thank you enough for this! Been a big fan of Criss since HOTMK. Thanks again and Happy Birthday!

[@stephenredmond8035]

Ah dude much appreciated !!!! Savatage sits right in the same bucket as all Dio related groups, Armored Saint & Maiden. Great grab !

[@jfrog1979]

Hell yes!!🤘😀🤘🎸thank you so much for doing this man! I just got back from visiting my mom in FL a few weeks ago and was able to make it down to Curlew Memory Gardens outside of Clearwater and spend a very special moment at Criss’s gravesite🤘🥹🪦🌹🎸it was even more emotional because there was a fresh grave right next to his and the lady that worked there told us that his father has just passed and he was laid right next to his son… Rock in peace Criss, you’re together with your dad again🥲👍💕

[@zmaninpgh]

Wow I did not even hear that on any of the Savatage pages on Facebook. I’m a friend of docs. My friend was in a band with him called reverence

[@jfrog1979]

@@zmaninpgh that’s awesome man! Doc Killdrums rocks🤘😀🥁yeah I know dude, kinda weird that there was really no mention of his passing anywhere🫤heck I’m not even too sure what his dad’s name was because they hadn’t even place a headstone for him yet. Crazy to think that he outlived Criss by like 30 years😢

[@jimmeymcgee2840]

He was a legend. One of the most under rated guitarist ever!!

[@nhpIII4482]

May have and still is very underated but he is also one of the best ever!!!!!

[@Icedsymphony7]

Criss oliva lives through those riffs

[@greg77hot]

Happy Birthday David. . You are one Hell of a guitar player. and an even better teacher. Thank you for everything you do .... signed ... a happy customer.

[@6StringWoodenFriend]

Criss Oliva. What a great musician..

[@legnani1976]

Unsung guitar hero. Great player and great band. Cheers

[@HazardousSmoker]

Savatage is a highly underrated band. They influenced a lot of today's modern Progressive Metal bands like Dream Theater.

[@RandomVelocity]

I Saw Savatage maybe 1990 or so at the living room in Providence RI. Gutter ballet was a great album. Such a big thick sound and the solos were phenomenal

[@Sniper_Cat_71]

My favorite band and favorite guitarist of all time, thanks David!

[@musicmanlfp890]

Same here!

[@johngoodrich3536]

Sabotage was such a huge band in Europe and Sao Paulo Brazil. I've always put Chris in the same style as Randy also. I remember when the siren's EP first came out I was blown away. .

[@peterhwilliams]

Happy birthday David - have a great day!

[@JMSiwczynski]

Awwww yeeeeeesssss! Good old Sava = instant like!!!

[@jensnilsson1507]

30 years since Criss passed away today. Rest in peace, legend.

[@jpmcmullan8666]

Wooo woooo! More Savatage!!!!!!

[@mikeivey8471]

Thanks so much for this video !!! Love Savatage !!

[@skoorb1]

Even though Srange Wings felt strangely like a thousand other hard rock songs I've heard before I discovered it recently, it literally made me cry when I heard it. There was just something else going on in this band that was a little above and beyond.

[@samkupper]

Such a great band, thank you for this!

[@markbrady7532]

This is beautiful, thank you. I grew up with Savatage and worshiping Chris Olivia in the late 80s. I was devastated when he died the riffs and solo to “Hall of the Mountain king” drop me Dead to this day.

[@uncleremus5046]

Olivia such a great guitar player taken way too soon! TY 🍺’ski one of my favorite bands!

[@ronnieroxx13]

He was amazing to watch. I used to watch him at rehearsals and I was mesmerized. Just watching... he made it look so easy.

[@SuperPantastic]

Thanks for giving exposure to Savatage and to Criss' music David! One of my favorite players. Always tasty.

[@StackBundle]

Criss is undoubtedly a guitar hero and one of the best from his era. On a separate note (pun intended lol) I think a chordplay video for Andy Timmons would be awesome.

[@nhpIII4482]

You're a great artist David, thanks for the lesson from I think one of the greatest band and guitarist ever!!! 🎸😎

[@FreeGuitarSecrets-RG]

Thy Headbangers Ball... Gutter Ballet! I'm hooked, classical studies, Randy Rhoads then Trans Siberian Orchestra. Incredible guitar challenges... What fun! Another great Late Night Lesson.

[@darrellwhitt]

Johnny Lee Middleton plays in Whiskey Stills & Mash when he isnt touring with TSO, or working with Savatage. LOVE Savatage. I opened for them in my band DAMNAGE in 92.

[@Savatanica]

You captured Criss' touch,thats great man.We Sava fans used to say that he is criminally underrated but thx to TSO and and ppl like you,he is still a living legend imo.Thank you!

[@gunslinger80sguitars]

Savatage 🤘🏻👍🤘🏻

[@robertdyer8517]

LOVE ME SOME SAVSTAGE GREAT JOB DO ANOTHER !!!! 😃😃😃

[@kesamek8537]

Edge of Thorns a high mark of music.

[@voronOsphere]

Great Lesson, David. This metal music is so classy and powerful! Thanks! Criss Oliva RIP...

[@zmaninpgh]

Thanks for the lesson. What is sad and very disappointing is that there are hardly any guitar players teaching any Savatage Guitar lessons on KZbin. I would love to learn a lot of their songs with or without the lead guitars

[@etrhythm]

Thank you,I love Criss`s guitar playing

[@pinkertrainmusic3814]

Awesome! Thanks so much. Criss is an all time fav 🤘💜

[@SanctusFragmentum]

Thank you for the lesson. Great insight

[@Zwopper]

Thank you for educating me about this band! 🙏

[@J24777]

Love Savatage!!! I just saw TSO last Friday night in Toledo, Ohio. Awesome Show!!

[@exgrial]

Thanks and happy birthday!

[@tallpaul1020]

Hugely underrated band. Savatage rocked the 80s. Loved Hall of the Mountain King!!! Great lesson Dave !!! Keep up the great work 🎸

[@jaredclark9188]

Happy Birthday!

[@olindobonantuono8565]

Criss was amazing!!

[@tombley8731]

Awesome! Thanks!

[@Bequeefed]

Really enjoyed this one, always been a huge fan of Criss's playing, would be great to feature toxik in future

[@lordgluten7248]

We need a Chris Poland Peace Sells era lick video!!

[@Reaching.Horizons]

I see that Fight for the Rock on the wall, love that record.

[@bobowrathsovine.]

I have a trading card of this band that I found on the sidewalk in the Echo Park/Silver Lake area of Los Angeles. I grew up in BFE Michigan and remember in late 1989 Guitar For The Practicing Musician Magazine transcribed a track by this band called Gutter Ballad.

[@ddaneh3090]

Happy bday bro

[@stormcorrosion176]

Love ya bro. Thank you for this video

[@Sodacake]

Criss Oliva is a loss comparable to Randy Rhoads imo. Unreal talent.

[@voronOsphere]

Absolutely!

[@philouze1815]

Rhoads is overrated. Criss is underrated.

[@zmaninpgh]

If it wasn’t for Randy and Eddie music wouldn’t be the same today because most of our guitar heroes were their guitar heroes.

[@richardgardiner6468]

@@philouze1815 100 percent true... Criss was unbelievable

[@stormcorrosion176]

@@philouze1815agreed Phil

[@JD-vj4go]

Thanks man. One of my favorite bands (Excluding Fight for the Rock no one likes that album :) ). I remember trying to learn these songs when I was a kid and didn't know about tuning the guitar down. My friend Mike who was born with god-like ears figured it out.

[@rtaylor1105]

hall of the mountain king

[@gregorybrown9101]

Love Criss Oliva! I hear similarities in my own playing to the stuff he played, I think sometimes certain guitarists resonate with us more than others and we have things that influence in certain guitarists that just hit home more than others for some reason. I know this is definitely the truth for me. I love George Lynch, Dann Huff, Paul Gilbert, Tony MacAlpine, etc. And then there's Criss-- for some reason my own style is similar to his enough that I consider him one of my absolute main influences.

[@ronnieroxx13]

I was there, I was a stage hand at Livestock that weekend.... "Savage" were all my good friends, I was one of their first roadies... knew them all since high school back, when they were known as "Avatar".... it was great weekend that ended horribly... I heard what happened when I was on my way home that sunday evening...R I P Chris 😥

[@NoLegalPlunder]

Awesome. I love their Sirens album so much. Especially the song Holocaust.

[@nicklebac6753]

David I love your videos criss is a legend 😎

[@michaelcard9382]

Hall of the Mountain king was one badazz tune n 1st savatage song i ever heard 💥👌

[@Hydrophish]

Underrated band

[@voronOsphere]

Those higher barre chords remind me of Varg (of Burzum) a little. I bet he was enjoying some Criss Oliva when he was growing up.

[@brettbunke9096]

Met the brothers at the Channel in Boston could not have been nicer guys .

[@BradRocker]

Keep um coming. RAMJAM must be on the way.

[@bluwng]

What an overlooked band, they deserved better.

[@bobowrathsovine.]

When you tune down a whole step and drop the low E string a step lower it is refered to as "Drop C Tuning.

[@voronOsphere]

Yes. He did mention that the low E string is a C during the 1st tune, with the rest of the guitar tuned down a whole step.

[@anthonydavella8350]

More Hall of the Mountain King please? Thanks, love this channel

[@lorenzomartone1476]

Hi David, any chances to have the "I believe" arpeggiated intro tab, please?

[@Nasosdag]

Ok... revelation... "Strange Wings" is one of my favourite Savatage tunes. I never thought it was in "whole-step-down" standard tuning. Mind properly blown. And now that I've recovered (somewhat)... would you be willing to please-please have a go at the riff from "Another Way" from 1998's awesome "The Wake of Magellan"? I've been trying to get my head around it (supposedly it sits somewhere in B...), but I can't figure it out! A couple of live recordings by the Trans-Siberian Orchestra have not helped...

[@EpicWarDog]

Thanks for the vids. You're bad ass

[@chadjones4236]

Hear a whole lot of Trivium in those progressions👍👊

[@madadami81]

Power of the night

[@MikeJones-jr5hb]

😎👍

[@80srocker65]

💯

[@darrelladams4886]

Chris should be held up in equal footing with randy Rhoads imo. So much talent in both, both gone too soon

[@kjelleriksson2581]

I wondered a few times if Jake E. Lee's song Killer Of Giants was influenced by savatage songs.

[@vinfreeman1602]

🤟😎

[@mgdarenz]

Power of the Night is in Drop C.

[@LateNightLessons]

Are you sure? I thought Criss was strictly a whole-step down kind of player, and he occasionally tuned to drop-D down a whole step (which produces a low C).

[@mgdarenz]

@@LateNightLessons The tuning is C G C F A D. This is well known.

[@80srocker65]

Gutter Ballet!!!! Great song great playing Hall of the Mountain King great album

[@EpicWarDog]

You forgot about J.O.P jon olivas pain. Then cane T.S.O. I knew them personally.

[@utubehound69]

25 Hours Ago.

[@pathaden]

Don't hate on me but, I really think Savatage would have made it a little bit further if they had a heavier drummer. RIP forever Mr O! 🤘🙏🤘

[@mgdarenz]

LOL Is that you, Doc?

[@mgdarenz]

One of the heaviest hitting drummers in rock/metal. He didn't get the nickname Dr. Killdrums from playing jazz, dude. GTFOOH.

[@jfrog1979]

Tf?!🤣🙄