Steve Morse
Steven J. Morse ( born July 28, 1954 in Hamilton, Ohio ) is an American musician and co-founder of the American fusion band Dixie Dregs. The guitarist studied jazz and classical guitar at the University of Miami 's School of Music in Florida and was from Guitar Player Magazine five times for "Guitar Player of the Year". In addition, he has been nominated six times for a Grammy. Besides the aligned to purely instrumental music solo project Steve Morse band ( with Dave LaRue on bass ) he is a permanent member of Deep Purple since 1994. He is the successor of Joe Satriani, who in turn had temporarily replaced Ritchie Blackmore. In the 1980s he was also a crucial contribution to the American progressive rock group Kansas. Private goes Morse of flying by and has also worked in the 1980s for a time as a pilot.
Musically, it combines rock, country, funk, jazz and classical music together.
Play
Characteristic of Morse's game is the accurate alternate picking technique ( alternate picking ). He suggests basically any sound very hard and fast runs at attenuating also still the strings with the palm of your hand from. He uses the alternate picking so consistently that he consistently strikes even in classical arpeggios, which are ideal for the sweep picking ( for example, " Tumeni Notes " by Steve Morse / " Cascades I'm Not Your Lover Now" by Deep Purple).
Very rarely he uses tapping or legato techniques, which he then but very concise plays off during use. His vibrato is very far and pretty fast. After fast runs which act at Steve Morse often as attempts at a touch down, he often reduces this target tone slightly to the side of the thumb, so that only you can hear a overtone. The clay material used by him during a guitar solo is based almost exclusively on the Mixolydian mode or the major pentatonic in conjunction with many chromatic passage tones.
Morse also used unusual playing techniques such as "chicken picking" or harp harmonics, to produce a variant richer sound spectrum. He also uses the volume pot in his guitar solos, to achieve a violin-like effect.
Discography
Steve Morse band
DVD:
- 2002 - Sects, Dregs & Rock 'n ' Roll
- 2005 - Live in Baden Baden '90
Dixie Dregs
DVD:
- 2003 - From The Front Row ... Live! ( Audio DVD with on-screen images, no actual video)
Deep Purple
DVD:
Living Loud
- 2004 - Living Loud
- 2005 - Live In Sidney 2004
DVD:
- 2004 - Live Sydney Fox Studios 2004
Kansas
DVD
- 2009 - There is Know Place Like Home ( Live DVD)
Flying Colors
- 2012 - Flying Colors
Compilations
- 2001 - Guitar Heroes - Best ( 1970-96, Overview of his creative work: Steve Morse band, Deep Purple, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Kansas, and Dixie Dregs, Label: Zounds, all tracks digitally remastered CD-Text )
As a guest musician
Instructional videos
- 2002 - Highlights
- 2004 - The Definitive Steve Morse