Sketches In The Sun
Steve Hackett - GTR Lyrics

We have lyrics for 'Sketches In The Sun' by these artists:

G.T.R. I spent my life in the sun Darkened complexion, I'm learning…
GTR Chaka Khan Rags To Rufus Walkin' In The Sun Things have b…

We have lyrics for these tracks by Steve Hackett - GTR:

I Know What I Like It's one o'clock and time for lunch, When the sun beats…
Imagining I can’t see, I can’t sleep I can’t swim, I can’t…
Jekyll And Hyde I hear thunder from the mountain Trying to split my personal…
Prizefighters Every day, a little harder Look out boy, you're on your…
Roundabout I'll be the round about The words will make you out…

The Hunter It don't come easy that's understood Fainthearted loser that…
Toe The Line Sometimes you want to kick yourself For letting things get t…
When The Heart Rules The Mind Mother protect me, protect me from myself Lately I can't tel…
You Can Still Get Through Stop, look and listen Take it all in Things you've been doin…

You Can Still Get Trough Stop, look and listen Take it all in Things you've been doin…

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Comments from YouTube:

Kevin Smith

16y↑30

Amazing how he can keep the ostinato going while superimposing a melodic line - all at the same time. Incredible musician.

William Hunter

He's Steve effing Howe that's why!! Maestro

halcyon289

The best track on the album.

Mike Archibald

1y↑1

Yeah, keeping that ostingo going is incredible. Just kidding, I don't know what that is.

Relayer 526

The first time I saw him play this was on the Asia in Asia concert and I was absolutely mesmerized by how he was playing both parts at once. Steve is next level on this piece.

Brendan Porter

18y↑9

Wow. No one on Earth can play like this man does. Beautiful song. I love the 12-string guitar. Rock on Steve!

A66omd

16y↑5

Steve, like all the truly great solo guitarists, makes it look effortless and sound like two instruments are being played. Wonderful. Please God in the next life bless me with this gift.

Amy Welsman-McCann

16y↑2

Steve Howe is such a thoughtful player; that's why classical guitarists love him; every note has been carefully considered and rendered! Thanks for posting! Love it!

Alan L

4y↑5

Arguably the most versatile guitarist living, if not all time. Incredible piece of guitar playing we are all lucky enough to be around to see.

Ripples guy

9y↑28

10 dislikes? I'm sorry, but what's not to like about this stunning piece of guitar playing?! Crazy........

BackLooking

6y↑1

Well, what is a stunning piece for you may be boring for someone else. Steve Howe is not for everyone. That´s ok. And the quality of the clip is also not doing it justice.

Jake S

Well this was officially a GTR song. And all I ever heard about how mediocre GTR supposedly was. Hell, even the members of GTR didn't like GTR. Guess the only person on the planet who liked them was me.

TheBonehead2112

4y↑1

@Jake S There are 2 of us that like them !!

Yosafat Erie Setianto

Those who dislike this masterpiece must be those who cannot hear... 🙂

Glenn Wasserman

4y↑2

@Jake S I have always liked them. There's a bunch of us out there!

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cookaboorra

13y↑2

Ah, what a magnificence and golden touch. Each time I listen this I fell like a precious thing was discovered. Pureness and consciousness melted into crystal like evoking music, with the craftmanship of a Master. Thank you, so much, Steve. So much. And for those who dislike: just try it !! Just try on a 12 strings those enlightened passages, those tempo jewels, those arp-like vibrations, AND the feeling he put in it.....NOTHING COMPARES TO HIM.

Ryan Ward

16y

Incredible!!! Ingenious!!! Why can we not have talent illuminating through music these days??? I'm 26 and am waiting for music to "revive" itself. Steve Howe is one of my MANY guitar heroes from this time period. He's still melting the frets! Go Mr. Howe!!!

eennymo

16y

This guy never ceases to amaze me... even today! He is STILL the best guitarist ever! So versatile, he can play any guitar, anything, any WAY! WOW!

Connor Dion

4y↑1

He truly is the master of the space in between notes.

Caroline RYAN

14y↑3

I will say it again and again.....PERFECTION in guitar playing and sound.INCREDIBLE .He is worthy of a Classicaly trained guitar player. STEVE HOWE FOREVER.

Carlos Celso Sarmiento

14y↑2

If you see the detail of the right hand, he plays with the "nail" and the other three fingers at the same time. Most of the guitar players do one of the other, but not both together. He is the best!!!

socomsnake

14y

Steve Howe is outstandingly fantastic, everything he does on the guitar just simply amazes me

Susan Manglass

16y

Had a chance to see Steve maybe 10+ years ago at a small club in Poughkeespie NY. I was blown away seeing him play this live. This is one of my all time favorites. Very beautiful.

GordCollins

15y

Steve Howe is an amazing guitarist. Even today he's able to do those complicated sequences he did with Yes. I'm sure Jon Anderson and Chris Squire were happy when they got him to join the band back in 69. This song is very entertaining and his other solos, including the ones on the Live in Montreux DVD are some of the best guitar play you'll ever hear. The other posts talk about guitar types and strings, but for us Yes fans, the guitar doesn't matter. Steve Howe's music is fun and entertaining.

SeannyOg

16y

I love Howe's playing. It's like walking thru a cave illuminated by an aurora.

Calmaria True

15y

I have always thought that this piece of music would have acted as the perfect 'lead-in' track to 'Wondorous Stories' on the classic 'Yes' album 'Going for the One'... after a moments' pause you just want to hear him go straight into it -even the slight change of tempo as you move from one track to the next just feels right.

jeff kirchens

14y↑1

WOW! What an Amazing 12-string instrumental by Steve! I saw Steve's solo concert in late 1993, at the Park West (in Chicago), with my cousin Greg, and This tune was my favorite from that show.

cookaboorra

14y

He knows, he knows. Enough to amazingly control the execution, and feel the harmony, to bring that exactly to us as he wants. Mastery and abandon. So, thank you again, and so much, Mr Howe.

FuManchu1202

17y↑1

Amazing, by far my favorite guitarist of all time.

A66omd

5y↑2

The Master at work . My all time favourite guitar solo. Smothers me in goose bumps every time!

M.T. Keg

14y

To whoever suggested that "There isn't much to this," keep in mind that a lot of Steve Howe's work looks easier than it is. You get the true appreciation for its difficulty when you actually try to play it - especially in front of a live audience! I think his picking hand work is what is particularly amazing, much more so than the fret hand. He has big-time hand strength.

highvibration

17y↑2

Steve Howe...one of the greatest guitarists of all time. I could watch him forever. Thank you for video.

Eastman D

4y↑2

Been a Steve Howe fan for years and never seen this. Good Lord this is incredible !

Manuel DeAbreu

5y↑3

This was fairly old by the time it made it onto GTR's album. He played it live in the infamous Asia in Asia concert in 1983 in Tokyo. He blows the last harmonic in front of a world wide audience.

J Cridford

15y

Steve is the master. Agree, being an 18 year old Yes man is tough :) I've been working on this on acoustic for at least a month, but still struggle with bits of it. Agreed, the acoustic section of 'The Ancient' is beautiful. Thanks for being such an inspiration Steve!

Bill Watson

4y↑1

Still just one outstanding masterpiece of music from Steve Howe!

Chuck Cheesman

10y↑4

This is a cool piece! I've loved this since I was a kid. It's like a celebration of the 12-string guitar sound.

A Jones

15y

Does anyone understand the complexity of this piece? This is all being played Live, with NO overdubs. I think it's fucking Brilliant!! Bravo, to one of the Greatest Guitarist, EVER!

Caroline RYAN

15y

Steve is a magnificent musician

Susan Manglass

15y↑1

I want this played at my funeral, don't know who would be around to play it as well as Steve!

Fender Stratocaster Telecaster

That is also my choice... When the time will tell....

Gabriel Aragon

This solo guitar performance moved me just Steve Howe and his magic feeling

Michael Carmody

16y

Still awesome after all these years.

Henk Kroonenberg

17y

Great guitar player en he still is to date one of the best in a amazing band called YES.

Michael Draper

17y

Seen them both live, Howe with Yes many times and Page and Plant once. Two guitar Gods - different animals, but nevertheless, both guitar Gods.

Thomas Tallant

8y↑13

A huge favorite of mine. Saw GTR live. Just... damn. When the internet came about I searched madly for this video to re-convince myself that it was only one guy.

Jeffrey L Robison

4y↑1

It sooths the soul

13y

Steve Howe is my ultimate inspiration

AhYaOk

15y

exactly. anyone can learn to shred, but being a good musician /writer is something else altogether. lol. this man also has great dynamics in his playing and a superb sense of time. i dont know if these things can really be taught. sad but true. sorry guys.

Robert Lopez

From '85 or '86 for sure. A collaboration/fusion release with Steve Hackett. Check it out! Steve Howe is very unpredictable in the studio. Cheers.

David DeSilva

15y↑4

Jimi's great but steve howe can do things that Jimi could never have done on guitar.

Atwas

15y

Everytime he picks up a guitar, it amazes me.

wwjchip

17y

To follow up the post below. In 1981 Steve was named best overall guitarist by Guitar Player Magazine for the fifth year in a row and was inducted into the GP Hall of Fame.

donald seigel

5y↑1

just beautiful!!!

generatorx

16y

I have this on the GTR cd, awesome solo!

Caroline RYAN

16y

Fabulous tune.

Michael York

11y

Though not his own piece He plays it as only Steve can. He has the Special Gift, Special Sound, and the Special Genius! Everything He does is a Masterpiece!

benclark27

11y

Powerful tune.

Joe Bones

16y

I believe whole-heartedly that the times will be a changing back! The children of this generation will, like most, forsake the stuff their parents like and there is nowhere left to go but UP so far as creativity and musicianship go. ESPECIALLY MUSICIANSHIP!

firebird116

18y↑1

Beautiful!

sweetnothing1977

13y

@MarcosHarkness The beauty of music is that sometimes it is not the technique that blows away the listener's mind but the emotional impact a beautiful piece such as this can create. This lovely little piece makes you think and dream and imagine and take you to another world while it's all going on. Technique is great, I enjoy it a lot but without soul, there is no music. Here's hoping you discover that someday. Peace.

pschroeter1

15y

Dang, I'm currently trying to learn this song from a powertab I found. I'm really going to have to learn that hybrid picking style he use to make it sound right.

Bob Watson

13y

@flickded Howe is certainly not your average rock guitar player. He once said that he wanted to play many different stringed instruments that others did not play. To do that, you must have a high level of skill because some of them are in different keys (mandolin, etc.). He has always impressed me with his skill and style.

TP4 BEATS

17y

Absoluely wonderful

Pina Marin

17y

maestro de maestros !! y punto.

Bigguyrc

11y

Its definitely his own piece. It comes from a GTR album and he is given sole credit for the song.

stjohnswood

17y

...and this danelectro sounds just perfect!!!

Clint Fisk

15y

Thats the dynamics of a 12 string guitar. Every string has another octave to it, thus producing what seems like, 2 guitars playing.

Dook144

13y

amazing song thanks my brother!!!

MeIancholyMan

15y

Simply marvelous

LOTKT 98

7y↑1

So much sounds and rythms in only 2 hands!

JohnThePetru

17y

the most impressive thing in this video is that someone didn't give 5 stars! :-D

Smitty's channel

16y

freakin amazing as always.....

Matthew Selinger

Arthur Name

12y

@es175dk You probably already know this by now, but Howe has always cited Chet Atkins as one of his heroes because of his innovative style of playing the melody and the countermelody with his picking hand at the same time. There's some pretty amazing footage of Atkins on youtube too, if you haven't discovered it yet. Steve Howe is amazing. I was fortunate to see him with Yes on their 1991 "Union" tour, which was a reunion of all the major players who'd been in Yes up to then.

Mike Archibald

Thanks for that, a decade late but I've never really listened to Chet because he's country but I know some ace guitarists who always talked of him in hushed tones. Doesn't matter the style when you can play.

Chris Redfield

17y

how does he keep it sounding like that ? i love steve howe anyways! :D

maxquad21

I remember many years ago watching VH1 behind the music
about GTR.
Steve played this in a peddle steel guitar slide guitar.
Sounded pretty cool.

Dan Sullivan

13y

@GaryNull Actually, we each managed to do what the other had difficulty doing; The open string runs I was able to manage without too much of a problem. I have what would be considered small hands for a guitar player, thereby making my stretches a bit of a strain on my picking hand. I recently got a new electric 12 string and our discussions have made me want to re-visit the piece and perfect it. Keep on playing. Dan.

Stanislav Kozliakovsky

13y↑1

@MarcosHarkness it's not hard to play note by note any composition in music...it's hard and it is genius to WROTE stuff from scratch, in your head and then, years later any guitarist can claim "wasn't very much of it" Smoke on the water is the best example, very simple, very in your face...but one man wrote it and millions are repeating

Doctorbeermaker

15y

There are a lot of comment about this wonderful piece, but am I alone in hearing an echo of Page's white summer/black mountainside in this. Not suggesting plagarisim, just two peformers at the top of their game.