Insane Piano skills by Shawn Lane...

[vontetzianos]

Ok so I believe the world needs more Shawn Lane, so here's some more Lane appreesh, this time for his piano ability. Check it:






I knew Lane played the piano but I had no idea he was so skilled. How amazing that he was a truly virtuosic guitarist, but was supremely competent at piano and keys as well. I suppose for him playing the one helped him at the other.

 

[Dyingsea]

Tony Mcalpine is also of this breed. The dude can shred a piano as well as guitar.

 

[cycloptopus]

What!?!?

Sick as hell!!!

Love that first one with all the warble spots and everything, makes it even creepier than those wicked lines already are...

 

[Esp Griffyn]

Most talented musician of our era I believe.

 

[vontetzianos]

Tony Mcalpine is also of this breed. The dude can shred a piano as well as guitar.

True, man. Tony Mcalpine is a monster piano player, probably more accomplished at that than at guitar.

 

[Apophis]

awesome, Shawn was/always will be GREAT

 

[Scar Symmetry]

ever heard of a guy called Steve Vai?

he also has mad piano skills in addition to being a guitar virtuoso.

 

[yingmin]

Eric Johnson is a pretty respectable pianist, too. I don't think it should be that surprising that people as good at guitar as they are can also play the piano well. There's a lot of overlap in the skillset required, I'd say. It's just like the video of Jordan Rudess playing guitar. Not to mention that all these people had the combination of natural ability and discipline that it took to get to the level they're at with their main instrument, so it stands to reason that they should be able to play other instruments well

 

[Esp Griffyn]

ever heard of a guy called Steve Vai?

he also has mad piano skills in addition to being a guitar virtuoso.

Steve is pretty damn good (he just knows music inside out, the same way Shawn did) but he had session players to play the really crazy stuff, like one of the sections of "Fire garden suite", where the piano just goes apeshit because the clean guitars.

Steve isn't as good as Shawn was (smoother perhaps), but he is certainly better at composing massive pieces with loads of instruments, his sounds theories dvd demonstrates that. However, Shawn was much better at Jazz and indian music, so it balances out.

 

[st2012]

Very nice. Eric Johnson is another dude that can shred the piano.

 

[vontetzianos]

Very nice. Eric Johnson is another dude that can shred the piano.

I didn't even know EJ played piano...

 

[st2012]

 

[yingmin]

Steve is pretty damn good (he just knows music inside out, the same way Shawn did) but he had session players to play the really crazy stuff, like one of the sections of "Fire garden suite", where the piano just goes apeshit because the clean guitars.

Kind of ironic, given that he started his career as the player of Zappa's "impossible guitar parts".

 

[Esp Griffyn]

Kind of ironic, given that he started his career as the player of Zappa's "impossible guitar parts".

well he is top notch at guitar, just not at piano. I don't really see the irony

 

[ShadyDavey]

Yeah, I've seen the Shawn Lane clip before (ofc) but not the EJ one - both of them are amongst the most staggeringly beautiful musicians of our time and hell, I can't even be jealous of them

 

[vontetzianos]

Yeah, I've seen the Shawn Lane clip before (ofc) but not the EJ one - both of them are amongst the most staggeringly beautiful musicians of our time and hell, I can't even be jealous of them

I'm even more jealous that he was able to do all of it by the time he was 16.

 

[Stealthdjentstic]

Wow, awesome stuff, thanks for the postup man

 

[Bumskull]

I'm in India right now, and to be honest I had never heard of Shawn Lane expect in GW's fastest players list. But DAMN he's so well respected here it's just incredible! All the masters of carnatic musician say he was, no is the best non Indian to ever play the style, and after hearing some of his work I wholeheartedly agree with them. I think that all fans of Shawn Lane will feel at home in India. The man is a legend here, right up there with Iron Maiden and AR Rahman.

 

[Esp Griffyn]

I'm in India right now, and to be honest I had never heard of Shawn Lane expect in GW's fastest players list. But DAMN he's so well respected here it's just incredible! All the masters of carnatic musician say he was, no is the best non Indian to ever play the style, and after hearing some of his work I wholeheartedly agree with them. I think that all fans of Shawn Lane will feel at home in India. The man is a legend here, right up there with Iron Maiden and AR Rahman.

Keep in mind that Hellborg did the majority of compositional work, Lane was more of a soloist over the top of Hellborg's work, but he was damn good at it.

Lane once commented that when he and Hellborg toured India they were treated like rock stars, which did not happen anywhere else in the world.

 

[Bumskull]

Keep in mind that Hellborg did the majority of compositional work, Lane was more of a soloist over the top of Hellborg's work, but he was damn good at it.

Lane once commented that when he and Hellborg toured India they were treated like rock stars, which did not happen anywhere else in the world.

This is quite true. My uncle even has a bootleg collection of Lane's concerts. trust me when Indians get attached to something they rarely every let go. He did a few improvisational jams that me uncle says were also really inspiring. A lot of people know more about the jams than Hellborg.