Satchel Gives Us A Guitar Lesson

Satchel from Steel Panther gives us a guitar lesson on how to play the riff from his new song "Glory Hole." The song will be on the band's new album All You Can Eat due in early 2014.

Satchel recorded the lesson in the Guitar World studios. I'm not sure why he kept referencing the new album being out when it's not, but whatever. I watched the tutorial and tried to follow along. For the guitar players out there, specifically Christian and/or Ace: is Satchel using the Drop D tuner incorrectly? He was confusing me when he was talking about chords and constantly jumping between drop tuning and standard.

Comments

[Ace Steele]

Yeah, Satchel (Russ Parish) is using an EVH D-Tuna ,
& he's "Dropped D" (D-A-D-G-B-E) & says he's actually tuned down half a step, so his actual tuning is C#-G#-C#-F#-A#-D#.

Good guitat player... used to be in "HALFORD" or was it "FIGHT"?

[Him]

. . . 'twas Fight, alongside Scott Travis.

[Rita]

Cool riff. Hot dude ( That's for Carolyne.)

[reptileblvd]

I'm not a guitar player but wanted to say what a great project Fight was. They really put out some great material. Until just now reading your posts I didn't even realize Satchel was in Fight.

[Metalboy!]

Very funny! And catchy. No question, this guy is a helluva guitarist. But Steel Panther's music is SO much better than their lyrics!

If only their words were as funny as this dude is here. Like Jesse Dupree of Jackyll, a real actual band (that sucks, BTW), Steel Panther's in-between-song banter is better than their lyrics. The difference is, their music is also SO much better than Jacka*s'. And their between song banter isn't nearly as funny as Dupree's, I'll give him that.

So, save for a handful of tunes such as "Tiger Woods", these guys just come off as stupid. Except for, like I said, and well demonstrated here, the music.

[WED21]

He was also in War and Peace with Jeff Pilson which I thought was a pretty cool album!

[Ace Steele]

ReptileBlvd, Glad I could make you aware of Satchel's history. That's what I'm here for... to fill in the history.

[Gary]

I can be in France and do that! LMFAO. This guy always makes me laugh. He is also a talented player. Search YouTube for the solo of him where he is also playing the drums as he's shredding. It's pretty frickin' cool.

Ally,he was basically saying he was already tuned down a half step to E flat before he even started. (That was how Eddie VH always tuned for example.) So,as Ace pointed out, when he employed the D-Tuna,it's actually dropping him down from E flat instead of the normal E, which would now make him drop an extra half step. Sounds confusing, but it's actually not. Just count back 3 frets from a "normal E" on your fret board. It,ll put you in C#,which is where his open E string would now be tuned to.....(even in France!!!!)

[fletch]

not sure where to post this (yeah right) but in my prior post about about the top 5 "bands" of all time...if I didn't put van halen @ #5, I would have listed The Who.


...meet the new boss; same as the old boss...

[Him]

Have to agree that the banter and musicianship (including the vocals) are better than the lyrics.

They have the varied styles nailed though. On some tracks you can almost hear one of those 80s bands they are mimicking (not really mocking, to my mind).

Regardless, I would see them again. Audiences seem to really enjoy the whole thing. It's outrageous, contagious.

[fletch]

...and keeps getting better

[fletch]

oh, and I got the new killer dwarfs revue in the chamber

[fletch]

sounds a lot like enuff/znuff. it didn't do it for me (AND I TRIED!!! trust me!). KD needs to decide whether to go the kingdom come, great white, led zeppelin route or the pretty boy floyd, poison, motley crue yellow brick road. Either way, all roads leads to Van Halen!

[dj]

I did not know he was in Fight, that's pretty cool. Steel Panther is a great band, hilarious, very talented musicians.....cant wait for the album.

[Jakki Steal]

Rita,
He is fugly

I saw him w/out a wig & it is not a pretty picture.

[Rita]

Jakki Steal - LOL! I'll just have to make sure he keeps his wig on then ;)