Hey everybody! I really appreciate all of the kind words/support on this lesson and the others that I've been doing for Guitar World. There are so many great players out there, it's humbling and downright scary to try and teach online these days. I read a lot of comments about the tone, so thought I'd answer those here. It's just one of the house amps at Guitar World...a Marshall JVM head and 4-12 cab, with a boss DD-5 delay pedal in the loop...that's it! Thanks again for checking this out!
+muchomusiclibre It's all about practice.. look up Andres Segovia, a well known classical guitarist. Small hands but that did not stop him from playing compositions with extreme stretches (which are even harder to do on classical guitar because of the higher action)
It's simply an honor to even watch him give a lesson, knowing the fact that such musicians are from times when real music existed and melodies mattered. These are the guitarists/musicians which truly define a band/writing skills/arrangement. Its truly humbling to see how grounded they are. Cheers!
Joel threw a pick to me tonight at the Transiberian Orchestra in Cincinnati and I got it! that was Awesome! I held it up to show him I got it while he was playing a solo
Hey Joel,i’ve been playing for over 20 years and after having just discovered you through the current Whitesnake album i gotta say you are my favourite player right now.You rock🤘🏻
Joel Hoekstra deserves to be on top and receive all recognition... what a technique, what a furious grip and not a note without feeling... Master... also one of his first teachers was the extraordinary TJ Helmerich, with whom he learned this to perfection. absurd technique of 8 fingers on the fretboard... Congratulations Joel!!!
I'm a 57-year-old amateur guitar player who loves rock and heavy metal and Joel you are one of the top 50 guitar players of all time in my opinion.... And you're playing is very melodic
Wow. What an outstanding lesson to help the big jump of breaking out of that pentatonic box. And what a humble dude!! That’s always a plus to help the lesson sink in. Thanks for your knowledge!!!!
What a perfect guitar tone! Like, literally perfect, specially with the bridge pickup, very few times you have the chance to listen such a beautiful guitar tone
I'd never heard of this guy, then caught him by chance when I was given a free ticket to watch Whitesnake last month. He's a monster player and has tone for days! Great lesson, thanks GW.
Those pentatonic runs sounded AWESOME! I'll be cracking out the axe to practice them! THANKYOU sir for sharing! Big fan of Whitesnake by the way! Thanks again! 🎸😎🎸
Saw Joel for the first time a few years back when he was with Night Ranger at the Laporte County Fair in LaPorte Indiana when they were with Great White. Fantastic show from both bands but I left there totally blown away by Joel's playing. I knew he was an official inductee on my personal favorite players list.
God damn, Joel. The intro itself was badass. So I stayed for the lesson because I liked the tone you got. Good job and take my "like". Well played, sir.
Great job Joel. I absolutely love these lessons. I will most likely have issues with the stretches and string noise, but man it's fun trying. Thanks for sharing your talent with all of us! 🎸😎🤟
Pentatonic scales are really amazing and beautiful. we cant be afraid to play them.major also. we dont need to be doing somthing else when we play them.it feels like some pressure to be doing somthing else or more but slow down and use them as the musical tool they are. dont just run the pattern think musicaly about it.like a musician not a guitarst.
I was in bed ready to watch RUclips until I fell asleep...that is, until I saw this! Had to get up and try it immediately! Awesome material...more from Joel please. Also it should be noted he is employing some hybrid picking in some of these exercises. Cheers!
A year later, but congrats Joel! Great lesson. Saw you back in 2010 with Night Ranger in Mpls, and you were melting faces. Good to hear you are with TSO and Whitesnake!
Not just a great guitar player, but great teacher, I’ve always hated pentatonics due to it being in a predictable box form, thank you for opening up a door of much clarity for me...
Excellent lesson, this kind of stuff has always been a weak point for me, but the way Joel presents it makes it seem doable, and understandable. Fantastic tone as well!
finally somebody who is showing something interesting on pentatonic! Also great sound, touch and ability of clearly explain things . Thanks! Cool guitar too...even if is not a Stratoscaster... :)
Bro... You nail everything that makes rock guitar playing sound as it should. Thank you! I've now got LOADS of things to practice, and hopefully can inspire some new ideas out of my stagnant playing. Cheers
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Hey everybody! I really appreciate all of the kind words/support on this lesson and the others that I've been doing for Guitar World. There are so many great players out there, it's humbling and downright scary to try and teach online these days. I read a lot of comments about the tone, so thought I'd answer those here. It's just one of the house amps at Guitar World...a Marshall JVM head and 4-12 cab, with a boss DD-5 delay pedal in the loop...that's it! Thanks again for checking this out!
hi joel :)
You rock so hard! Thanks for showing us this shit!
joel hoekstra really enjoy your pentitonic lessons
Keep making these videos man. Your technique and phrasing are awesome.
Awesome personality and talent!!! Thank YOU, kind Sir!!!!
Joel pretty much knows exactly what to play to sound like a total rock star. The guy is insane!
100% agreed! Absolute amazing tone and feel.
it really helps when your fingers are 10 inches long like Joel's are!
+muchomusiclibre Yep. Not much help to those of us with stubby digits!
+ShaggyDawg exactly man. Have you seen Bucketheads fingers? they're as long on drum sticks!
+muchomusiclibre It's all about practice.. look up Andres Segovia, a well known classical guitarist. Small hands but that did not stop him from playing compositions with extreme stretches (which are even harder to do on classical guitar because of the higher action)
I am not a guitarist, but I watched it full just because I like this guy for his humility. Great guitarist & a very nice human being.
My wife dragged me to see Cher in Vegas, What a surprise to see Joel come out on guitar. He rocked! Great show man!
what a killer tone!!!!
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Qué pedo!? Qué haces acá bro!?
The brass nut probably helps there.
Yup!
Dude, there must be something wrong with your ears! This tone sounds like a untweaked Line 6 Pod.
O. My. Goodness. That tone, guitar, and totally awesome and courteous rockstar attitude. Bro.
It's simply an honor to even watch him give a lesson, knowing the fact that such musicians are from times when real music existed and melodies mattered. These are the guitarists/musicians which truly define a band/writing skills/arrangement. Its truly humbling to see how grounded they are. Cheers!
More of this guy please! He is awesome!
Joel threw a pick to me tonight at the Transiberian Orchestra in Cincinnati and I got it! that was Awesome! I held it up to show him I got it while he was playing a solo
He's not only an amazing player, he's got an amazing TONE as well.
God lord you gots tone brother. Very good
I wish I had a professor like him. He's one of the coolest guys on Earth.
Hey Joel,i’ve been playing for over 20 years and after having just discovered you through the current Whitesnake album i gotta say you are my favourite player right now.You rock🤘🏻
Joel Hoekstra deserves to be on top and receive all recognition... what a technique, what a furious grip and not a note without feeling... Master... also one of his first teachers was the extraordinary TJ Helmerich, with whom he learned this to perfection. absurd technique of 8 fingers on the fretboard... Congratulations Joel!!!
a free lesson from a master shedder? ...happy new year indeed!
Very cool lesson and I love that tone, nice Les Paul!
Groovy hippie hiya groovy hippie...I'm a groove chile myself ,grooving down the path of righteousness...
Love the tone of that Les Paul! Great Lesson
I'm a 57-year-old amateur guitar player who loves rock and heavy metal and Joel you are one of the top 50 guitar players of all time in my opinion.... And you're playing is very melodic
So far the most cleanest player in the guitar world... Nice and informative lesson... Thank you Mr. Hoekstra
Thanks Joel; not only an awesome fretboard traversing lick, but a great warmup exercise!
A great player plus a great instructor = a huge thumb up Guitar World.
Absolutely love Joel! Killer tone / killer technique.
Wow. What an outstanding lesson to help the big jump of breaking out of that pentatonic box. And what a humble dude!! That’s always a plus to help the lesson sink in. Thanks for your knowledge!!!!
Can't get enough Joel? Check out this more recent interview ruclips.net/video/I-NhezfzL40/видео.html
The tone is in them hands bro!! Very great legato lesson!
Great player and great teacher! One of the best that ever lived!
What a perfect guitar tone! Like, literally perfect, specially with the bridge pickup, very few times you have the chance to listen such a beautiful guitar tone
Wow! I never thought the pentatonic had such possibilities. really opened my mind to a new teritory. Thank you. Time to practice
Killer guitar and tone
Great licks, Joel!
Thank you so very much Joel for the lesson I've been searching for a generous kind person like you and i found you. Thank You my friend.
Beautiful guitar. Nice tone.
I'd never heard of this guy, then caught him by chance when I was given a free ticket to watch Whitesnake last month. He's a monster player and has tone for days! Great lesson, thanks GW.
0:48 figure 1
1:52 figure 2
5:29 figure 3
5:40
7:18 figure 5
So easy to figure out but challenging to play. Killer stretches and moving up the neck technique!
Love your work with TSO and Whitesnake. You have a really nice bluesy feel to your playing.
Those pentatonic runs sounded AWESOME! I'll be cracking out the axe to practice them! THANKYOU sir for sharing! Big fan of Whitesnake by the way! Thanks again! 🎸😎🎸
Joel is like the first person on guitar world to have good tone
+John Benoit Yeah, he nailed a great tone.
+kamaboko1 are tou chris benoir familiar?
ahahahaha I know him, but we aren't related. I get that a lot
that was my first thought when he hit that first run. that tone
+John Benoit gold top with stop tail? best tone begins there
I like his style, he shreds in a smooth way.
Super talented and seems like a really nice guy, too. Great stuff.
Simple but very melodic - great lesson.
Man Joel is awesome. Miss him so bad playing with Night Ranger
Outstanding fresh perspective and look at the Pentagon scale.Fantastic player.
Best so far!! Love from Bangladesh
Love Joe's work with transiberian orchestra. It's epic stuff. Great little lesson to boot...
those licks are badass. And that tone. Thanks Joel.
Saw Joel for the first time a few years back when he was with Night Ranger at the Laporte County Fair in LaPorte Indiana when they were with Great White. Fantastic show from both bands but I left there totally blown away by Joel's playing. I knew he was an official inductee on my personal favorite players list.
God damn, Joel. The intro itself was badass. So I stayed for the lesson because I liked the tone you got. Good job and take my "like". Well played, sir.
Hoekstra is real good. Not just technically but also in a matter of feeling. His playing speaks.
just discovered this guy. Great explanations of what he is doing. Really fluid player with a great sound.
Great job Joel. I absolutely love these lessons. I will most likely have issues with the stretches and string noise, but man it's fun trying. Thanks for sharing your talent with all of us! 🎸😎🤟
Nice lesson! He really opened up the pentatonic scale....thanks Joel!
Pentatonic scales are really amazing and beautiful.
we cant be afraid to play them.major also.
we dont need to be doing somthing else when we play them.it feels like some pressure to be doing somthing else or more but slow down and use them as the musical tool they are.
dont just run the pattern think musicaly about it.like a musician not a guitarst.
Seven years later..it still rocks!
Great player and so humble. Thanks for sharing your tips. Struggling with the legato but will keep trying.
Recently saw Joel live with Whitesnake! He was mind-blowingly AWESOME! A great musician, and then some!
What a great lesson, can't wait to start working on it. Thank you Mr. Hoekstra
Saw Joel in Rock of Ages on Broadway and met him after the show. The nicest guy and one of the most incredible guitar performances I’ve ever seen.
I was in bed ready to watch RUclips until I fell asleep...that is, until I saw this! Had to get up and try it immediately! Awesome material...more from Joel please. Also it should be noted he is employing some hybrid picking in some of these exercises. Cheers!
+kbrinson85 I'm glad somebody else mentioned the hybrid picking. I thought he was doing it but it was very subtle and wasn't sure. Thanks.
first saw him on That Metal Show. Mind blowing guitarist not many have ever heard of...one of the best TMS has ever had on.
Beautiful smooth licks Joel, thanks for sharing those pentatonic runs, I’m definitely going to try them
His lesson in the newest issue titled "String Span" is one of the best!!! So glad he has column!!! Thank you Guitar World!!!
I saw him on stage on Hellfest France this year with Whitesnake, his solo duel with Reb Beach was amazing
A year later, but congrats Joel! Great lesson. Saw you back in 2010 with Night Ranger in Mpls, and you were melting faces. Good to hear you are with TSO and Whitesnake!
Joel not only serves up monster minor pentatonic licks but also teaches these licks with unmatched simplicity and clarity. Genius; Papua New guinea
Thanks Joel, you are doing a good job. Please continue doing it.
Thank you Joel !!!
Not just a great guitar player, but great teacher, I’ve always hated pentatonics due to it being in a predictable box form, thank you for opening up a door of much clarity for me...
Absolute fantastic lesson and amazing licks!
Very COOL runs!! THANK YOU for sharing!! 🤘🎸🤘
He's a nice guy and amazing guitar player!! Saw him on Broadway and he blew me away.
such an awesome guitar player.
What a wonderful lick to share! Totally cool especially the linked page!
Joel's hybrid picking technique seems to be a crucial part of executing some of these licks
smoothly. Great player!
This is chapter 1 of his Hard Rock Lead Guitar Master Class DVD. trying to perfect these lessons taking me a while lol
What an awesome player!
This guy is a pur creativity just amazing!
This lesson is pure gold
Those fingers!! He's a great teacher!
Im fixin to start practicing! You are awesome 😎😎
That just made me want to pick up soloing again, awesome patterns. Love the string skipping, sounds killer. Thanks Joel, keep em coming!
Love that tone!
I've always loved left hand legato to form patterns. Fantastic method! Thank you.
Great feel and great tone!
Excellent lesson, this kind of stuff has always been a weak point for me, but the way Joel presents it makes it seem doable, and understandable. Fantastic tone as well!
Amazing lesson Joel!I'm definitely spending the next couple of months learning these licks.
Super video and thanks for posting! The great jazz guitarist/teacher, Duke Miller, used to have his students play scales, three notes per string.
joel gr8 guitarist !!! you did not mention you were in night ranger also ! thank you so much ! keep on rockin !!!
Love that bend at the end of figure 4.
jeez, never heard of this guy, but damn, he's really good. guitar sounds amazing too, great tone.
Spectacular stuff, Joel. Thank you!
finally a reason to start reading guitar world again!!!!shred pentatonics!!!!!!!nothing better
fantastic lesson! thanks for posting!
It is always fun to see Joel
finally somebody who is showing something interesting on pentatonic! Also great sound, touch and ability of clearly explain things . Thanks! Cool guitar too...even if is not a Stratoscaster... :)
That was a great lesson! Thanks so much, gonna apply it to some major pentatonic stuff too!
Really excellent, a master , great great way of playing and your LP sounds amazing... Excellent !
Bro... You nail everything that makes rock guitar playing sound as it should. Thank you! I've now got LOADS of things to practice, and hopefully can inspire some new ideas out of my stagnant playing. Cheers
I'll have to wait till my fingers grow...
just slide them brother
Rubendez Guitar Tips also don’t use guitars with jumbo frets it’s makes all the difference
And most importantly, your thumb behind the neck and not next to the low E
Thank you for the lesson thank you for joining Whitesnake
Awesome lick,was never really into whitesnake,but he is a rock star