Helstar - Perseverance and Desperation, guitar lesson 1, Andre Corbin, Nosferatu

1st guitar lesson video I am doing for Perseverance and Desperation from the 1989 Helstar Nosferatu record. Had to cut it off at 4 minutes, there will be more video lessons coming for this tune. thank you for watching

[@AsdfFdsa-vn1kn]

i have been waiting, no dreaming for this for 25years! Andre, thank you for persisting in making music and not giving up! And even more, in sharing it with others! There are no words to express the hapiness i am feeling. Please continue posting...! More lessons!

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

2nd lesson on perseverance should be done this week, thank you very much

[@adamtuliper]

@@therealandrecorbin4050this is all so incredible - seriously

[@hugohn]

One of the best instrumental songs that I've heard, I still remember the first time I heard this amazing guitar parts, I was shocked.

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

Thanks Hugo I appreciate it very much, I am recording new music currently, hope to post something about it before too long. Anyway, gracias y bendiciones a ti hermano.

[@erickwatkins7394]

Awesome! I don’t play but have to say this is my favorite instrumental of all time and a pleasure watching you play!

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

Thanks Erick I appreciate your being here, with or without guitar in hand. Have a great week brother.

[@agentfourtwenty]

Hey Andre, This is great. Keep em coming!!

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

I will my friend, hopefully another by next week sometime. Thanks again.

[@freesoulsoldierdavid9883]

Excellent work.

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

Thank you David, hope you and yours are doing well.

[@shiningforceband]

Awesome Andre Really like these.

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

Thank you very much!

[@shawnibanez]

Oh boy you opened a can of worms now I am going to want every song from distant thunder and nosferatu done lol.. this is amazing!

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

Thanks Shawn, I appreciate it very much. Have a great weekend!

[@crfuller1124]

Same here 😌

[@110Maestro]

Your playing style has always been a huge influence of mine and this song is one of my all time favorites. I have just picked my guitar back up after 20+ years because my 13 yr old son wants to learn how to play. So while find things to get him started, rest assured that I will working on getting my old chops back by watching your channel so I can say that I am learning from the best. Thank You for doing this.

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

Ivan my brother, you are too kind, thank you. I walked away from guitar for a similar time period also, after a few years of hard work, I think I have exceeded my previous level of ability. You can do it too. Glad you are here. Thank you.

[@akimthedreamer7855]

One of the best all time LPs in that metal Genre by far only one that could compete with Marty Freedman and Jason Becker at that point in time Cheers and Thank you for that metal Jem

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

Thank you very much Akim, I am starting my week off with your very kind words. Blessings to you and yours

[@akimthedreamer7855]

@@therealandrecorbin4050 WOW thank you for the reply these are all facts Andre and they're still people discovering these albums as we speak happy holidays to you and yours

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

@@akimthedreamer7855 thank you so much my friend, I appreciate you very much.

[@TheFeanor06]

Andre publishing song breakdowns!! Dreams come true!! Do u know how many fans waiting for this man.. This is bigger than Necrophagist is releasing a new album ( if u know i mean guys 😁 )

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

Thanks again my friend. I left music for well over 20 years. Working on a new album with a killer singer.

[@TheFeanor06]

Very very much glad that you re back! Yea I heard that you opened a place related to skateboarding some years ago.. Can't wait to hear your new material.. Wish you best of luck from Turkiye man.. will continue following and writing to you @@therealandrecorbin4050

[@HotQahwe]

Thanks alot for posting this, it really has helped me a ton.

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

Thank you for supporting the music.

[@meskio1]

A big thank You from Italy, Andre! You know I was waiting for this

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

You are welcome my friend. Have a great weekend!

[@meskio1]

@@therealandrecorbin4050 you too, boss

[@chuckmcfadden6782]

This is freakin' awesome! Thank You Andre'!

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

Thanks Chuck, I really appreciate it, have a great weekend!

[@mostlycrazyallthetime]

All hail the great Andre for taking his time to do this for us..hey if like hate tabs n such I would gladly tab this out for you or other vids you want to do in future .I mean you've already paid with this free badass lesson . I don't like tabs at all but a small price to pay for this greatness..

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

Thanks Brian. Have a great weekend!

[@Lordhumongus]

NO FUCKING WAY!! ANDRE!!! I HAVE BEEN SILENTLY HOPING YOU WOULD APPEAR AND DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS! I USED TO LIVE IN TEXAS AND AFTER HEARING NOSFERATU I SEARCHED EVERYTHING I COULD ABOUT YOU ON AN EARLY INTERNET AND CONTINUED TO RANDOMLY SEARCH ABOUT YOU OVER THE LAST 30 YEARS. I READ ABOUT YOUR COMPUTER BUSINESS AND YOU SEEMED LIKE AN ULTIMATE DUDE. I COULD NOT BELIEVE HOW OR WHY WHATS HIS FACE SHIT ON YOU. SUCH A SUPERIOR HUMAN AND PLAYER THAN HE EVER IS OR WAS. GOD BLESS YOU DUDE AND THANKS FOR DOING THIS! SO GLAD YOURE STILL PLAYING. WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOU PERFORMING AGAIN! SORRY FOR THE CAPS. I JUST CANT BELIEVE THIS

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

Thanks brother, I enjoyed sharing your message with my family this morning, glad you found me here. Don't be a stranger. Blessings to you and yours.

[@Lordhumongus]

@@therealandrecorbin4050 I see your back in Texas. Thats great news. I am in North Arkansas these days. I was DFW for 31 years. I just retired from construction and picked up the guitars again. Doing just like you are but I'm just putting in the work I should have to be better than I am after 29 years of playing. I have a nice collection growing too lol. Old habits my friend. You still in business? I hope you amd your family have an amazing Christmas dude

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

@@Lordhumongus yes, we're still slinging control modules, from the woods north of Tyler these days. I feel the same way, I should be better after all the time invested practicing, still struggling, but practicing like a maniac most days of the week, and hoping for the best. After around 20 years away from it. Practicing is good for the heart.

[@crfuller1124]

Dude...this is awesome. I can't wait for lesson 2. Thank you for playing it slow for us slow learners 🤘🤣

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

Thanks Curtis, I appreciate you

[@crfuller1124]

@@therealandrecorbin4050 we appreciate you as well my friend. I wish you could see the smile on my face everytime KZbin sends me a notification that you have a new video uploaded 🤣🤣

[@Voitcu]

Thats amazing, nobody was playing Phrygian Dominant back then. I couldn't remember which came first, Burning Star or Rising Force, I owned both. Looking it up they are astonishingly only one day apart. Yngwie released March 5 1984 and Helstar March 6. So you both obviously deserve credit for being the first in Metal. But what in the bejezuz, who influenced you guys? Where did you get your chops from?

[@Voitcu]

@The Real Andre Corbin Distant Thunder and Nosferatu are timeless masterpieces. Will always be my favorites of all time. I even remember thinking when I first heard Distant Thunder that its a little too much LOL Now I can't get enough of that kind of stuff. Just proves how ahead of its time it was for "me" to think that lol. I'm recently checking out RipX software and Perseverance is the very first song Im transcribing. Then out of curiosity I checked to see if you guys ever play it live since its so complex and tricky to play, its not on T'was the Night...then I find The Man himself giving lessons on how its done! No friggin way!!! Glad I didn't transcribe the whole song yet LOL I've been jamming to Nosferatu for ages. You, Larry, James and Helstar are so underrated. Literally the most under appreciated artists of all time. You're more than just guitar heros. You have such a distinct sound and style. Some people couldn't find a style if it depended on their lives. You guys ooze enough for 20 bands. So rich compared to the diluted regurgitated BS. I fucking hate Pentatonics. I think the reason its so common is because its one of the first things we learn as guitarists and then people wont leave their comfort zone. I remember back in the day it took me a while to transition from Diatonics to Harmonic Minor. Amazing what a world of difference a single half-step can make, and how it was a serendipitous consequence of the Harmonic function. Out of merely intending to create more resolve between two chords, we accidentally created the sickest scale to shred with. Intended Harmonically, perfected melodically. More profound than even Iommi accidentally chopping his fingertips off creating a genre of music which spawned more sub genres than there are genres. And they said it was only gonna be a passing fad LOL Sometimes it seems like Metal is the only music that survived. Now I'm incorporating more of the diminished scale as well. But you guys invented that stuff. My biggest influence, oh and you sound nothing like Yngwie btw. So much heavier and stylistically unique. Yngwie just sounds like classical music, which I love as well. But you guys make it more METAL. The way METAL should be. I'm still dumbfounded where you guys came up with it at such an infant stage of metal history. I remember the first review I read of Burning Star. They compared it to Maiden and Priest LOL Not even close. But you know how novices always relate something new to something they're already familiar with. Noob amateur no-talents, everyones a critic right. It was still a positive review nonetheless. I suppose things that evolve naturally will always be best. But what made you guys start playing Phrygian Dominant? People always yap about how Harmonic Minor and the Tritone is so metal, and it is, but how many bands actually use it? Almost none. (The song Black Sabbath is a horrible example of the tritone). Because they couldn't if you paid them. Just chugging on the open E ugh! It doesn't even sound as authentic and medieval when Yngwie does it. He's more improv, you guys are very selective over choosing the perfect notes to convey precisely what your trying to say. For maximum effect. I guess thats the best way I can describe you guys. Medieval. You instantly envision moonlight, castles, cobble stone and mist. Thats what real music is supposed to do, paint pictures in our imagination. And if you can make it heavy, even better. Thats the secret sauce I been searching for my whole life. Anyone can sound melodic, if not tempered just gets corny, and anyone can sound heavy, if not tempered sounds primitive and belligerent, just rude, crude, immature and unrefined. I know most people don't realize this but Slayer almost single handedly destroyed heavy metal. Oh I was a big fan at first, but then it just hit a wall and no one knew where to go from there. It became pointless striving to be heavier. Is this what Metal's become? Thats when all the bands started changing and losing their way. Voi Vod making Angel Rat and Priest made Ram it Down. How do you follow Painkiller with ram it down? Bruce leaving Iron Maiden. Halford did Fight. Metallica even went soft. I know looking back now it was their best work but it was still in direct result of refusing to continue in the pissing contest over who can pick the open E faster. It just got retarded, sucked all the musicality out of Metal. Punk is even more musical than bands like Slipknot, barf. Anyway, it takes a lot of skill to balance melody with heaviness and extract oodles of style from it to boot. Hats off forever, you unprecedented freaks of nature

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

@@Voitcu you have a way with words, and I certainly thank you for them. I was a fan of Helstar before joining in 87, so I also, was influenced by Helstar. Early Helstar is very Angel Witch, priest and maiden ish. You said a lot of interesting things, well spoken. No, I don't sound like Yngwie, but he influenced me very much. Thank you for taking the time to share that. Have a great weekend.

[@zachgorman534]

Hey Andre! I'm just listening to aielaria and everonn! Just wondering where those names come from?

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

Abarca our bass player made it up, years later he named his daughter Aielaria.

[@adamtuliper]

What is the piano track you are playing this with?

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

Hey buddy, nice to meet you. I programmed the patterns on my sequencer as a practice aid. Making sure I stick to the correct notes and stay on time.

[@AnthonyLeon-n5o]

Tablature

[@therealandrecorbin4050]

Thanks buddy, I do appreciate you wanting tabs. They just really haven't been part of my guitar life. Probably because I am so old. Cheers!

[@Erg-j2g]

there is the tablature of this song on songsterr