Chordplay - The Chords Of White Lion (Part Two)
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- Hey everyone! Here's the next episode of Chordplay with Part Two of The Chords Of White Lion. As I explain in the video, I'm amazed at the outpour of requests and respect out there for the legendary Vito Bratta. Since I've started my channel, I've had hundreds of requests to feature more of his music, and while there are already two Chordplay and two Three-For-All lessons on the channel, I felt this look at White Lion's early music was long overdue and interesting, to say the least - so let's dive in!
This lesson revolves around White Lion's first album Fight To Survive. Which is highly ignored and unknown among most fans and listeners out there. The album contained the original version of the song Broken Heart, but other than that, most people on the street have never heard this album. Which is a shame, as it's easily White Lion's darkest/heaviest album, as this lesson reveals.
The chord-based and rhythm guitar examples in this lesson were pulled from songs such as Where Do We Run, Cherokee, All Burn In Hell, Kid Of 1000 Faces, In The City, and El Salvador - to name a few!
Needless to say, if you're a Vito Bratta/White Lion fan, a fan of 1980s hard rock music, a player searching for some new chord moves and ideas to stick in their bag of tricks, or maybe you're just curious what all the fuss is about - this lesson is totally for you! Give this episode a view, leave some comments/feedback, and please subscribe to Late Night Lessons - THANK YOU!
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A melodic genius be it rhythm, riffs or solos 🔥
David, Thank you for keeping White Lion music alive!! 🎸🎸👍👍🙏🙏
I love Vito Bratta. He is my favorite guitar player ever, i wish he comeback some day
Always enjoyed White Lion and always thought it was such a shame that Vito stopped playing. Awesome video David!!🎸🎸😎😎🤘🏻🤘🏻👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I always liked "All the Fallen Men" of this album.
Really bitchin lesson David!🔥 Thank you!
What a fantastic video have a wonderful day also I have subscribed to the channel ❤😊
hey David. I’m a late learner of White Lion, but I’ve been really enjoying exploring their songs. The riff you were demonstrating based on the C chord shape (7min mark) sounded so familiar, so i did some digging: Kiko Loureiro (Megadeath) wrot e a song back in ‘94 when he was with Angra, and its the exact same thing albeit about 10times faster (ruclips.net/video/Ro8FVZm-WFs/видео.htmlsi=Lb7h-Xt2pYl8j80o)
I like his work - don’t know if you’ve listened to his playing much? he’s super technical and super clean.
anyway, thanks for every show you do.
cheers
ewan
Vito didnt leave the band over dumb reasons he left to care for his sick father.
His depature was honorable and not ego based. Family is more important than picking a guitar for a bunch of fans
"Gene Simmons bass solo" So funny I almost spit up blood. 😛
Yeah that had me rolling too 😂
I've read where Vito would play a concert and then would go home and practice some more for hours on end. Other bands of course would go to the after party for other festivities!
All that practice definitely showed in his playing!
Vito was the Neal Schon of glam.....ultra precise melodic shredding with lighting speed.
Vito was a classical guitarist. He never really liked the White Lion stuff. He is one of the best natural players I have known.
Vito is unique, just 4 records, never get tired of listening his solos
Oh yeah....David, please more Randy Rhoads....please.
oh man..your work is amazing...i salute you from Argentina...thanks
I've often wondered what great music we would have been gifted with had people like Randy Rhoads lived and Vito Bratta didn't leave the scene.
Thanks David. On top of all the rumors and stories about Vito, thought there was a GW interview years ago where he basically said he lost interest in playing. Why do something you don't enjoy?
I think Vito is so requested, because he was so unique. Obviously he’s completely influenced by EVH, like a lot of guys. The difference is that while other guys sounded like Eddie with Eddie style riffs, Vito made the style his own. Look at the solo to Wait it’s very VH but with a completely different style. He was WAY more creative with Eddie’s influence rather than just regurgitating Eddie.
Vito Bratta was the best of everything Randy Rhoads and Eddie Van Halen had to offer.
Vito walked away from the industry and is said to have been living in his childhood home where he helped look after his now late father who was ailing from an illness and is now looking after his mother.
Great shout on the Randy Rhodes influence Dave. Whenever someone says to me that Vito was just an EVH clone (which he wasn't), I tell them to go listen to Fight To Survive and it quick.y changes their opinion!
I wore out my Cassette tapes working on Vito’s parts.
Haha...i remember because i was there... White Lion ended in Copenhagen and because singer Mike Tramp is Danish, but at the concert Vito Bratto went so pist off because one did throw a scarf up on his guitar that he left the scene and there Mike Tramp was in trouble to get him back in stage and he did this Vito Bratto with his worth in the microphone "fuck you Denmark" and walk away (the day White Lion died). As a warm up er had Paul Gilbert in Mr. Big and he did a lot better guitar job and Vito Bratto was NOTHING in that stage. A few years later Mike Tramp went back with Freak Of Nature....a Lot better rock'n'roll band i saw in Pumpehuset but as always good things die because of most people don't know a SHIT ☝️😁 David....try some Danish death metal as Iniquity with still Mads today in UNDERGANG because he as a former left hos own band from his teen only 17 years old ☝️ He is about to be 50 this year 😵👻 Fuck SHIT years speed away ☝️ Have a good day ☝️😜
After watching this vid I had to go back and listen to this album. Probably haven’t heard it in 30+ years. Vito was amazing. I was lucky enough to see him play several times back in the 80’s. I really wasn’t a hair metal dude, more of the Maiden set however they were excellent live. Thanks for bringing back the memories!
Excellent lesson in demonstration… You definitely nailed the tone and the feel of Vito
Another great one David, and yeah Vito was a real shaker back in that day. It seems like he took the EVH type style to another level. And I did hear that the story was he left the band to stay home and take care of his ailing mother. Cheers 🤘
Vito is my hero. He did an instrumental project album for Atlantic Records in 1997 called CPR ( I have a copy of the CD). He also tried playing in a more Grunge band, but the record companies didn't want to know once they found out the guitarist was Vito. He also said he didn't want to play grunge because that would mean sucking at guitar! He then allegedly retired from the industry, and a hand (tendon) injury stopped him playing for a number of years. He then allegedly nursed his sick father until he passed away, and more recently his mother too. I don't know what he is doing now.
Thanks for this cool video! I remember when "Fight to Survive" came out. I was hanging out with a friend who did a metal show on the local universities' radio station. We were chilling in his living room, having a few beverages, listening. We thought it was a cool album and it's still my favorite White Lion to this day....not taking anything away from the others, which I like too. Love Vito's style!! Great memories!!
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I also read about his father (...and caring for him). But I also had heard/read that Vito had some sort of serious arm/hand injury and that he barely even plays guitar any longer.
Hopefully I'm wrong as I would love some new Vito Bratta!
I wasn't a big fan when Pride came out like my buddies were, but I bought Fight To Survive later on cassette and about wore it out. Whoever produced it, you could pretty much dime it in your car without the speakers farting or anything. It was awesome. Never thought about the Rhoads thing, but that must have been the reason I loved it. Great video once again! ❤
Time for white lion three for all. Part one!!!!!! Vito might have been paid to leave the scene in my opinion he was just that darn good. Vito can be a name in the top 10 easily. With all due respect to EVH and Nuno and Randy, and the other hero's, Vito belongs in the same room. He's like Elvis with a guitar. I humbly request any content that learns us some more Vito!
Guitar World had an interview with Vito within the last year or two... It sounded like Vito had just laid down some basic guitar tracks for Fight to Survive, and he was expecting to go back and redo them and add his extra magic, but their studio time got cut short and the album got released as it was. He didn't sound happy with the album, but I thought it was pretty sweet!
Marc Diglio from XYZ resurfaced a few months back. It could be really cool to hear your take on his playing. Thanks for all you do.
Watched again just because I love his playing
Great video Dave 🙏🏼 Love Vito, I play some of his music everyday 🤘🏼
Great lesson! Thank you. There's not enough out there on Fight to Survive.
Vito has poor hand health on left wrist. Respect!!!!
What kind of classical guitar is that? Great video.
The world NEEDS Vito Bratta
Hey David, great video!! Who are your Top 3 80s glam metal bands???
Thank you again for bringing this music back
Cool shirt David...
this vid made me go listen to this album...
Fight to Survive is an excellent album! I listened to it so much back in the day, I wore the writing off of the cassette.
Love that guitar.
Where’s Vito…would be a great tee-shirt 🤣
Cool
Vito was so precise. Great player 🤘🤠🤘
I was a big White Lion fan - saw them in Atlanta circa 1989. You're right about the Fight to Survive album. I got hold of a cassette tape from a local record store that would stock select overseas-only releases. It's definitely a different shade of White Lion than the later albums. Great lesson!
I saw them open for Aerosmith at the Omni in 1988 and then again at Lakewood Amphitheater the next year in 1989. This was billed as "The Summer Jam." Tangier, Warrant, White Lion and Cinderella. Great times!
@@veotis40 Yep, I was at the 89 Summer Jam at Lakewood. Cinderella rocked that night too!
great guitar work to bad they hade a shit fest singer !!!!!!!