Rosanna (Toto) guitar solo lesson - Steve Lukather - Weekend Wankshop 157

[@FunkymetalBL]

Love this solo and you explained that run better than anyone I have seen on KZbin. Steve Lukather is the high exalted mystic ruler of the ‘80s pop guitar solo 🎸 👍

[@loriwhite8612]

Your attention to detail and instructional style is second to none on youtube.

[@wyattspop]

Major props Ben for recognizing Lukather's brilliance, most metal fans close their minds to the genius of bands like Toto, a band that just played their 40th anniversary tour in 2018. Won't see 99% of the metal bands reach 20 let alone 40 years

[@DaveR_36]

What i enjoy about your videos Ben is that you always pick such great songs

[@dallastoto3189]

As a real life Toto , I enjoyed this solo lesson .. Without a doubt a great guitarist (as well as you are) taught by a damn good teacher !!

[@askekrogh137]

More toto plz, just what I need to impress my step dad

[@joshludge]

May be ur step dad is such a nice person

[@timehat6781]

Thanks, Ben! This was the first guitar competition I've ever done, and I hope there are more to come. Becoming more involved in the online guitar community has really opened my eyes to how much phenomenal talent there is out there, and where I really sit in regards to playing ability, but I know that being humbled and inspired in that manner is only going to make me step up my own game

[@sbrave]

That extra note @9:21 is definitely a classic Luke thing. Great lesson!

[@harrisonbergeron3449]

At first, I didn't think I liked Ben's approach to teaching, thought it went too fast. I learned how to play a little better and now, wow, you are an EXCELLENT teacher, Ben! Thank You!!

[@Gonzo2707]

Thanks mate. This solo is my personal gold standard for a "traditional" guitar solo, along with Gary Moore's solo in _Out in the fields_. Melodic, memorable, and totally to the point.

[@takamushinagamoto5086]

THAT"S IT ! Nothing else to tell ! And you explain it so naturally ! So Simply ! Great respect, Master !

[@danieldeschamps9502]

Spent the day chillin' and learning this. Thanks Uncle Ben!

[@pjg238]

I saw Toto and Yes (i was mainly there for Yes) a few years ago and man you are right, that concert opened my eyes to how underrated of a player Steve Lukather is. He's a blast to watch play.

[@Wizardofgosz]

Perry Giambuzzi underrated??

[@pjg238]

uh yes, underrated.... ?

[@Wizardofgosz]

I've just never heard that word used to describe Luke, before. Everyone I know thinks he's an amazing world class player.

[@pjg238]

Oh, interesting, i'm not around other guitar players much so I don't hear that very often from other people but wish i did, he deserves the credit. But like Ben said (he used the word 'underrated' too), Steve should receive more appreciation and be mentioned more when people talk about the best guitar players out there; in my experience, his name doesn't always (but it has) come up when other people discuss that topic. I guess that because we're both exposed to different people lol.

[@brianjones8432]

@@pjg238 He's extremely well known in the recording industry.... Toto wasn't that huge in america, and far more popular overseas. But just take a look at his resume.... It's endless. The amount of stuff that guy has played on over the years is mind boggling. And he's come up with some of the most memorable riffs and leads, and has more album credits than I can count. Everyone from Cher, to Elton John, to Eric Clapton, to Michael Jackson..... Just take a look at the collaborations list on the page below....... His name isn't as popular as say an "Eddie Van Halen", but in the music world, as a studio musician, and among almost all players and producers, he's considered one of the best in the world. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Lukather_discography#Collaborations_A-Z

[@nathanb6847]

Looks like Lukather actually moving up the F chord boxes on the fret board.. he always says 'know the chords' .. this solo illustrates that so simply and perfectly .. well done Ben

[@buckeyeshredder6003]

Ben...I had watched a few other videos on this iconic solo but couldn't quite get the fast run. I leaned many things from this solo to add to my chops help correct some bad habits. I think this tells me I should watch more of your solo video and see what other gems are out there...in closing - nailed it !

[@geraldcook4896]

Definitely dig your classes.. keep up the good work and great entertainment

[@edmundooliva6818]

That solo that won the contest is sick, in the as Uncle Ben said "getting stuck in my head" kinda way, cheers!!!

[@felixgehrke3493]

Great lesson in every regard. I’m on a huge Steve Lukather trip atm and this is super helpful, man!

[@markbaum9615]

Thank you Sir.....I've been trying to make sense out of that chromatic blues riff for years.....excellent lesson

[@InterloperBand]

Killin it.

[@jeffreygroesser1009]

Great job as always Ben! You are definitely the most thorough instructor on KZbin. I love your attention to detail......

[@wilkoryte]

Ben, thank you very much, you made my day !

[@justgriff1295]

Very cool man, I have never seen (or done) the fretting a bent note trick.

[@basementrocker2764]

Gonna learn this, absolute classic. Awesome lesson, Ben.

[@adamprovo5964]

Great solo by one of thee best!!!

[@grimm26]

and what's even more awesome is the outro solo. Add that for a bonus!

[@ron_gerson]

Great instruction at a human pace! Thanks :)

[@Geetarhed]

Great work again Uncle Ben

[@budandbean1]

Man, this is just so perfect. Thanks...

[@jimkidwell4855]

Thanks Ben luv this solo !!!!

[@genuine0]

I have seen so many tutorials online, yours is perhaps one of the best, however for some beginners, it's not so much the "notes and the run" that they are finding difficult, the people I spoke to over the years, all had the timing issue, the real tempo, for those who don't realise is that it's slightly off-beat, an experienced musician / guitarist, wouldn't even notice it, but a learner will find it extremely difficult to synchronise with the end of the solo and the drum downbeat. (Just for what it's worth) But Ben's tutorial is one of the best.

[@farligspill]

Thank you so much for this one........very nice lesson.

[@tonyberg6861]

Ohh.. Chimaira! That band is/was fantastic!

[@cbeserra]

Super lesson. He plays a similar lick an octave apart, in two different ways, which is an interesting (A / Bb part) way to change dynamics. Thanks!

[@OZHKAR1]

Youre right, this guitarrist is so underrated

[@sn95_mustang_garage]

One of my requests, wahoo! Thanks Uncle Ben!

[@mollyg9277]

I had a video lesson on star licks of him teaching it and he said he used the sharp, but it sounds correct the way you do it. He never showed the ending extended solo tho. If you could do that one I’d love to learn that one.

[@joshludge]

thank u, ur tutorial nailed 100 percently

[@Souldoubtrocks]

Steve double tracks every solo which blows my mind.

[@h1rikev1s1]

Dear uncle Ben ! I all i want for christmas this year is for my favorite uncle to do a guitarlesson for the entire Rosanna song. Happy christmas and a happy new year from Norway

[@bluestacks683]

Just subscribed, Uncle Ben. Thanks, you give me so much motivation to play the guitar!!

[@dorfsteen]

Ben I'm all proud of myself I've been playing for 10 months I'm 60 years old don't tell anybody and I was listening to one of you guys teaching some blue stuff and at the end of the video there was a backing track and so I played twice to that backing track and it sounded so cool I decided to record the third one and that came out pretty good but like I said I'm pretty proud of myself 9 months click on the Lost in Space robot and check it out it's a recording of a recording cuz I wasn't expecting to even do it but it came out good so I put it online check it out tell me what you think remember I'm a serious noob and you are one of the guys that helped me be able to play that so quick so thank you very much and I intend to keep watching your videos and learning more and more again thank you

[@bunchamp85]

Good job man. Keep it up!

[@ant1738]

Love the videos! .. the intro note to the run is G# and he slides from a C# in to a D on the last section of the high E string .. it's subtle though ..

[@brunolevasseur]

Nice demo, Ben! 😊😊😊😊 Just cover the song with my band . Greeting from France! 🥖🧀🍷

[@patricklawrence9784]

Holy smokes! Thank you man! Subscribed.

[@criticalmass04]

Thank You man! Thank You man! Thank You man! Now I get it 4 sure

[@Dubnot]

Rad lesson as usual. Ill enter the next contest.

[@j-sin3344]

----EDIT d'oh on the 5th time watching I actually saw you put the text correcting it, see as below you can see I do make sure to look at it multiple times before Im sure I can screw up my corrections---- 2:35 hrm that F on 3rd fret of the 4th string, I believe you are picking it 4 times, I could be wrong its been about 38 years since I was in 1st grade and learned to count that high, but the two times you show it, Its picked 1x, pause a milisec THEN picked 3x. Might just be me, but I watched it 4 times to be sure, however it wouldnt be the first time I looked at something multiple times the make sure I did get it wrong, bwhahahaha still an awesome solo and incredible song! As always love it !

[@jimmyfavereau]

steve put out some excellent riffs..love the 'Isolation' works.. Thanks Uncle Ben

[@danielpb1996]

Awesome! Bet you to do hold the line and get the chromatic fast part exaclty right 😂

[@dannoyes4493]

well done!

[@n3v3rsvff3r2]

Half the reason I watch your channel is just to see those Get Fuzzy paintings. Nice.

[@TYEverbridge]

This is how you teach a lesson!

[@MrUltraworld]

Toto's "Pop Music" covered up a lot of Luke's amazing playing. That was a very hot lead for the time.

[@lanetacker1496]

Steve Luckather is easily one of the greatest guitar players ever if not the best ever

[@FunknGrvn]

One of the first solos I ever tried to learn. I had the Star licks VHS tape of Luke doing this. BTW check out that Line 6 AX212 in the background! I had one of those!

[@chazfaz3595]

I learned it from that tape too. If I remember correctly, and I'm sure I do, Luke was adding his pinky on the the first bend too (not the first finger next string up). He definitely made a point about that technique.

[@chazfaz3595]

Kudos to Ben tho for illuminating the sliding into and out of notes, to make it flow. Luke talked about that. Not sure if I remember if it was him calling that practice "breathing" tho...

[@marlonellamil9620]

you are the best👍

[@kostaspal]

Would you P L E A S E make a lesson on "Hold the Line" by Toto? Seriously, there are more versions of that solo on youtube than my stepdad's nosehairs! Much love and thx for all the lessons :)

[@genuine0]

Hold the line, you mean the guitar solo or the piano part? Both are dead easy.

[@jurajzembjak9721]

@@genuine0 The solo is pretty hard, it has some fast parts

[@atarijam]

@@jurajzembjak9721 Not as hard as it sounds. It is basically fast 3nps runs towards the end which are heavily palm-muted. Managed to play it after 1 week practicing it, and the hardest part was stitching all the phrases together, really, since it has about 15 of them.

[@jurajzembjak9721]

@@atarijam Yes I agree that the ending can be done with practice, but it for sure isn’t dead easy as Genuine Dawah said. Also, what I forgot to mention was the monstrous vibrato Steve Lukather does on that solo, very hard to replicate, David Escobar here on YT did the closest approach to original IMHO

[@atarijam]

@@jurajzembjak9721 none of lukather's solos are easy. Even the 4 bar solo on Rossana is difficult to replicate cos his vibrato is groovy and phrasing is swing. As for tabs, I recommend Carl Brown version. If I remember well, the Escobar version of Hold the Line was not accurate and had trouble to play it along the original

[@lucastilford]

Thanks mate!

[@KingTabor]

the outro solo is sick

[@trevenarj]

If you check out the Lukather Starlicks video from 1984 you find that he plays it a bit differently, including the half-step at the beginning of the ascending run. I really appreciate this video and I bet Luke doesn't play it the same all the time.

[@Funkrocker81]

Great work, Uncle Ben! Steve himself explains this solo on his instructional VHS. Find it here on YT... Greets

[@spamwagon]

Funkrocker81 He's got a lot of lessons on YT... any clue which one? Thanks!

[@alext7860]

@@spamwagon Starlicks

[@craigreed751]

Hey Ben I see your Line 6 Axys 2x12. I used that Amp for years and was pretty pleased at its performance and capabilities! I played everything from Chris Stapleton to Slipknot and the amp and of course the pedal never really let me down! It eventually started a little decline in certain areas, but I put tons of hours on it before it did! Great amp! Just wondering how well you like it Ben?

[@Joesfosterdogs]

great exercise to play at half speed for control and groove...

[@bryannelson3462]

Very cool,whats the computer software you were using to slow it down? Thanx Uncle Benny!

[@matterask]

Thanks uncle Ben. You are awesome. I don’t care what mom says.

[@7percentSolution]

Ben, if you get a chance, I would love to see a breakdown of the main riff from *Of Unsound Mind by Metal Church*. It's an under-the-radar track from a rather under-the-radar 80s/90s thrash metal band, but it's pretty wicked and I'd be intrigued to know what you think about it.

[@babilonex]

Killer!

[@luisownerbr]

That was great uncle Ben. How about some Skid Row someday?

[@BenEller]

felix o gaitero yes! Drop me some suggestions

[@luisownerbr]

Ben Eller Forever has a pretty cool solo I think

[@mymicks21]

Hey Uncle Ben can we get a weekend wankshop to learn the solo to Tornado of Souls? I saw your cover and it was kickass.

[@Flornmonk]

Interesting find at 6:00. If you look at Lukather's own lesson on this solo he clearly plays a halft step and not a whole step. Here's a link to that: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pJPSn6urhLF1bpI

[@Exhul666]

Ben did you just watch "Hired Guns" on Netflix? I did and have been on a Toto fix every since lol.

[@petesorensenguitar]

Do you think he double-tracked or do you think he used a short time delay? Sounds like he's doing that for the rhythm tone at the start of the tune. At any rate, a digital delay set to 30ms will help anyone trying to nail those tones - it's common in most of the Lukather presets I find on the Axe exchange.

[@84wiggo]

when Steve plays it live he throws a b13 in there (C#) into that fast ascending lick which makes it sounds even tastier!!

[@genuine0]

It is definitely from G to A, I play it both on a keyboard and a guitar. However, I have seen Steve on live version playing it from G# I am almost certain that he did.

[@DaLoler1]

Hey, Uncle Ben, any Joe Bonamassa stuff for us ? He's got some killer riffs for playng that sweet sweet blues.

[@dorfsteen]

Uncle Ben you're young enough to be my son but still can I make a request because you're an excellent teacher and I've learned a lot from you and I know I can rewind it as much as I need but you go so fast and I'm so old and slow🙃🤤😁

[@zebes2694]

tornado of souls solo please!

[@andrewcrossman2165]

If you havent already heard, "The Man for all Seasons" by Billy Idol is an incredibly underrated song. Masterwork by Steve Stevens I would love to learn to play that one on your channel

[@komputerLuek]

Dear Uncle Ben, would you be keen on making a lesson about the first bars of solo to Metallica's Welcome Home (Sanitarium)? I'm talking about the last solo, the main one, where Kirk goes into badass mode and plays a million notes per second. If there's a man to perform and teach it properly, it's you!

[@riobravomultimedia4104]

Bad ass…thanks…

[@theaterdreamer]

Uncle Ben, could you please do a lesson for the outro solo? Steve has some of the most ridiculous bends in that one.

[@vincentmasterbassist6784]

Hey you know that riff on rust in peace polaris after the transition? Think you could figure that out?

[@milankotevski1663]

Your version of the solo is perfectly fine, but there are some phrasing nuances that are different from what Steve teaches in his old VHS tutorial from several decades ago. It's called Star Licks, I believe.

[@plopzoppers3921]

all I need now is a bubble bath

[@Wizardofgosz]

I'm more interested in that wicked lick he plays in the extended album cut.

[@straightshooter8662]

actually i use my baby finger on the ninth fret to get that b flat note on the bend,same as the 15th bend

[@lukegoodrich9322]

Hey for a weekend wankshop could you do the solo from the song "nothin but a good time" by poison

[@plopzoppers3921]

poison may be cheezy af sometimes but I cannot deny they had some catchy chops and hooks

[@BenEller]

rad_azz _rodney YES!!!

[@lukegoodrich9322]

Ben Eller hell yeah! \m/

[@alext7860]

@Dissonant Timbres Agreed on the Headin for a Heartbreak

[@mikewallace1270]

Steve Lukather’s a Starlicks video is uploaded on KZbin and he demonstrates the solo himself. And it’s played a little differently then Ben is playing at here. Search for it.

[@Дмитрий-с4ф1у]

Pick giveaway. Wow, so generous of you! xD

[@BenEller]

Дмитрий Гелих seeing as they are handmade boutique handmade picks, it kind of is! That's about $100 worth of gear I'm giving away between all 5 prizes.

[@Дмитрий-с4ф1у]

Relax, man, I'm just joking. You shouldn't do any giveaways anyway, so theese are nice.

[@BenEller]

Дмитрий Гелих lol good deal dude!!! Thanks for watching

[@llPipexll]

Little fighter solo please

[@dnantis]

HI !! WOW !!! AWESOME VIDEO LESSONS !! THANKS !!! I AM LOOKING ( NO LESSON AVAILABLE) FOR A FULL FULL VIDEO LESSON OF TOTO'S - SOMEWHERE TONIGHT (REGGAE BEAT) !! BOTH LIVE AND STUDIO VERSIONS IF POSSIBLE ! PLEASE POST THIS ONE SONG !! THOSE CHORDS HE PLAYS SOUNDS AWESOME BUT ARE SO DIFFICULT TO CATCH FROM THE CD ON LIVE VERSION IN EUROPE, THE BASSIST NATHAN EAST AND LUKE PLAY A VERY LONG SCALE DOWN THANKS IN ADVANCED !!!

[@dnantis]

PLEASE CHECK SONG AND ALSO GO TO MINUTE 38:41 FOR THE SCALE IN THAT COOL REGGAE SONG !! kzbin.info/www/bejne/eWrRiqp_icR7iqs

[@JE12334]

do Still of the night by Whitesnake guitar solo already

[@jackmarshall757]

I got a request. Myles Kennedy solo from Alter bridge - This side of Fate. (Very underrated Guitarist that Slash & Mark Tremonti have both said he is better than them.)

[@Appleblade]

#Homeschool ... lol! Caught me off guard. ;)))

[@monno2600]

Played it right from the start huehuehue

[@TheRealAndroid]

I have kinda of an odd question. When you are doing the Dm climb, it sounds like you are syncopating the actual notes. Is this a result of the echo you've got going on there or are you intentionally playing it that way?

[@lucasverberne9230]

I am still confused. The start with the F note; does he play it 3 or 4 times? As your first complete version in the beginning seems to differ with your in detail part... :?

[@mikapera8073]

Love your videos!!! I absolutley lovee how you find the most accurate way to play a song/riff/solo! But this time you could watch steve's video on KZbin where he plays the solo close up up to speed and slowed down a bit and the begining of solo and the fast phrase are different a bit from your version. And he played the same stuff up to speed and slowed dowm. Check it out, its one of those 80s instructional videos 😁

[@dtreenjr]

A humble correction: If you watch Steve's Starlicks guitar lesson on KZbin you clearly see that in the first part of the solo, he bends the B string from the G to the A, and then while holding the bend at the A he hits the A sharp on the same string. Second correction is in the next portion of the solo, he DOES start on the G sharp on the A string and slides to the A. Final correction is that at the end of the solo, on the high E string, the run concludes with a slide from the C sharp to the D, not starting on the D and then hammer on to the F. The cruel thing is that no matter how much I practice this iconic solo, I just can't execute it correctly bk my left/right "hand-finger" synchronization sucks. And that is why I know that "I suck at guitar".