Gotta add that the leads on Long Time were played by Barry Goudreau. I'd change the video's name to "Boston's Greatest Techniques" but since over 90% of the techs are Tom I think I'll just leave it as is. Thanks to everyone who informed me.

The Solo on Hitch a Ride is in my top 3 best guitar solos of all time 🎸🔥❤

Awesome! Tom Scholz is a true musical Renaissance man: inventor, producer, engineer, writer, guitarist/bassist/keyboardist. Boston's debut album is one of, if not the, greatest rock albums. (It's also the only one I know of where literally every single track ended up in regular rotation on rock radio, not just the official singles.)

Wow. Concise. No fluff. Thank you for your work and time in researching these and presenting them. Absolutely fantastic!

Tom Scholz is a genius. I've been down the youtube rabbit hole looking for all his videos.

1:52 Self-Harmonizing 2:31 Rhythmic Vibrato 3:17 Guitar Layers 5:26 Hyperspace effects 6:34 percussive mute strums 7:22 Melodic Line Solos 8:32 Single-Finger Barres 9:37 Scholz Scrapes 10:46 One-Man Dueling Duo 11:28 End of Solo Climb 12:16 Pre Bend Variations 13:41 Motifs 15:29 The Scholz Flutter 16:27 Dirty Arpeggios 17:22 Slip of the 5th 18:11 Bass Walk Rhythms 19:18 stretch 6th

Love the video! Tom is one of my favorites. Keep in mind that all the solos in Long Time were actually done by Barry Goudreau along with the solo in Let Me Take You Home Tonight and Used To Bad News. Barry also did the intro solo for Don't Look Back. He contributed some great stuff.

That was a great video - how about doing one on Michael Schenker's techniques?

Another great video, sir! I grew up hearing my mom blasting Boston, Foreigner, and Journey every Saturday while she cleaned. Always loved how precise and tight their music is. Then I learned how picky they were in the studio, so it made sense. 🙂

I got hooked on Boston and the huge guitar sounds years ago and I’m still digging them today. Thanks for showcasing them!

Excellent deep dig. Boston like Kansas were bands that weren't covered well back in the 70's or hardly at all. The muscle of their music was way out ahead. Tom's 😊tone was sought out by Def Leppard or even EVH. Huge influence. Your video is 11 minutes of encyclopedia for future pickers to take guitar in the next era. Us old guys appreciate your discipline and skill. Well done.

Tom's the guy that inspired me to pick up a guitar. I'd never heard that pick scraping before. He's a monster player and deserves a spot up there with Clapton, Page and Jimi.

I’m a 15 year old when Boston came out. I was blown away. Mesmerized. One of the things that was most fascinating was that Tom was a MIT graduate and built these devices to fit his needs. That’s just incredibly insane. Watching you unravel the sound is beyond amazing. Thank you!!!

Love Scholz, though it was Barry Goudreau who did all the lead parts on Long Time.

The extra details in his pick scrapes you pointed out are SO cool! Even being the HUGE T.S. fan I am, I TOTALLY missed them! Thank you for sharing - killer video!!

It's probably already been said, but at 2:53 that intro solo for Long Time is all Barry Goodreau. You should properly give him credit! He's a master and taught Tom a lot of tricks.

This is weird, I hadn't heard Boston in a while so I turned it on on the way to work this morning. I get to work and you post this video. You must've known I needed this. Love Tom and Boston.

Every video you do is done extremely well! Thanks for putting in the time.

Yes Scholz is one of the 70s best Rock guitar players very neat style and his devices were genius . . I have some pedals . . I´m a bit surprised because you are pretty young and have an appreciation for this music . . you can´t go wrong. . keep on rocking. Very nice video.

Geez, no wonder they're so hard to replicate for the average cover band. Now I appreciate them even more! ❤️🤘🏼

Barry Goudreau is a big part of the playing and sound of the first two albums also.

Just a quick thank you. You're becoming on of my favorite channels now. I really enjoyed this.

That was a great episode. I'm a huge Boston fan. I think some of those things seeped into my playing through osmosis without my conscious work on it. It was the artist technique videos that introduced me to your channel in the first place. Glad to see you return to it, especially with an old favorite of mine. Cheers.

Mike, you definitely need to do more of these kinds of videos. They're AWESOME!

Some of the best leads in all of guitar, sweet video!

Love your videos man. You have a great enthusiasm!!

Fantastic, dude... you're a hell of a guitar teacher !

Great Video. Tom Scholz's may be one of the most overlooked Guitarists and Musicians ever. Even invented his own pedals. Guy is a genius

Very nice job! You captured a lot in this video.

Great explanation of Tom´s guitar playing

Boston really is GOATED, in my book. The instrumentals are ridiculously tight and, lack of a better word, perfect, in every way. Execution and writing wise. Also, if you ever get the chance, check out the isolated vocal tracks. Mind, and ear blowing performances. And that's all natty, no pro tools, no bullshit. Just brilliance. Nice work, Mike.

Thank you for the lesson ,and video!!

Wait, KQRS? I didn't realize that you were a fellow Minnesotan. Rock on!

Excellent seminar - thank you. Rock on!

Solos don't have to be blazing fast. Tom and David Gilmour both are masters of making simple solos sound incredible.

🤘🏻🔥🤘🏻 Yess!! I've been looking forward to this. I have always loved the sound of Boston. That harmonizing is just quintessential Boston to me. I love that solo on More Than a Feeling, makes me feel pretty happy when I hear it. I think that one has to go on my Happiness Playlist. Definitely a unique sound for sure :-) That Les Paul just looks and sounds killer. I can't wait til the day I get to own one 😊

One of my other favorite music channels is Rick Beato. He does this series "what makes this song great?" and he breaks down iconic songs to their cores. He's done two Boston songs and really digs into not only the guitars, but the bass played by Tom and the keyboards. If you haven't seen them, I HIGHLY recommend them. But the one thing Tom does is pushes the mid frequencies way up. The graphic eq is the opposite of scooped, it's the Anti-Metallica curve. That pushes it so far forward into the mix and makes it jump out at you. Very aggressive tone. Heavily distorted and his playing is so tight. My local rock station is WFBQ Q-95 in Indy. Same as yours, nothing but Boston, Aerosmith, Forigner, Journey, Eagles, etc. It was so ingrained into how my music taste developed.

Well done. Clear and concise. I really liked this.

Awesome stuff! Your production quality is fantastic

What a great video. Thanks so much.

Love Boston, listened to them a lot in the late 70s and through the 80s, when I was in my 20s -- really miss those years. Anyway, it always amazes me how artists can put music together, and I listen a lot to music anymore just to try and pick out the different musical components. Thanks for the memories.

Man that Les Paul is my favorite …what an eye candy and amazing sound and quality

Nice video, Mike. Your sound and production was great as usual. Thanks for bringing back the Artist Series.

I love your descriptions and analysis of things. The ability to accurately intuit then translate and express. This is why you're about the only guitar guy I pay attention to.

Thank you ..i love your playing and insight on Tom Sholtz

Excellent video, Mike !

Tom is one of my favorite guitarists and heroes. Thank you for this video.

I love your Greatest Techniques series! So fun, informative, and they make me realize the subtle guitar specialties that makes these artists unique! Tom Sholtz and Boston rule!

Good choice of guitarist for this video. Love the layers in a Boston track.

Wow, thank you for this! It's truly one of the best guitar videos I've seen in years of watching. I've loved Boston since they came out when I was a kid, and I got chills when you layered all the parts at 4:19.

Good stuff! Thanks!

Many great tricks to add to the bag. Thanks -Cheers

GREAT Job on this one! Really very helpful, and not just for Boston songs. Bravo!

loved this! thank you!

Absolutely loved it! You are a tremendous teacher and I promise to use what I've learned immediately. Thank you for all that you do 🎸✌️

I love that band and was my favorite back in the day and today!! Great video!

Always enjoy Mike's videos. On point every time.

Fantastic video! Thanks for sharing.

Waking up to find a new Art of Guitar video is the best! thanks mike, from one guitar teacher to another

Great expose on Tom Scholz's techniques!

Good stuff man. Sound is spot on. Subscribed.

The most I've enjoyed a YT video in months. I'm a huge Boston fan; they were my favorite band growing up and my first concert (Sammy Hagar opened). Great video... many thanks.

Thank you for this video! It'll be a huge 'refresher course' help as I've been getting back into practice post-surgery with a steel plate in one shoulder. I was just starting to advance from Rhythm to Lead as a guitarist in '86 when the Third Stage album was brand new. The 'Dirty Arpeggio' technique just naturally found its way into my emerging style of lead playing without me or my guitar teachers (in two different towns, one during semesters and the other during breaks) ever really analyzing it and breaking down the exact source(s) of what was becoming my style at the time.

GREAT video, Mike! Tom is one of the most underrated guitarists AND bassists!

This was a lot of fun to watch. Great job on the solo harmonies. You really showcased how Tom pushes those notes to a whole new level. And another thing, been listening to Boston since the debut album and never picked up on the addition of adding a "quick 5th" into a solo. As soon as you played it I had one of those, "Oh man! THAT's what I was missing" moments. Isn't it fantastic how music can surprise even after close to 50 years?

Even the demos from the first release sound insanely awesome. Great video

When all of the kids my age were listening to Nirvana, Pearl Jam, and MC Hammer, I was discovering this band called Boston. I think I heard the intro guitar lead to "Long Time" on a commercial for a classic rock radio station and I was like, "What amazing thing did I just hear?" Once I found out more about the band, Tom Scholz quickly joined my short list of musician heroes. One of my engineering professors had been at M.I.T. at the same time as Scholz, and I would often bug him with questions about having Scholz as a student.

Boston was the sound that shaped my childhood. Don't Look Back was probably the first album I bought when I was beginning to learn about Rock and Roll. I have everything they have released and some days I listen to all of it nonstop. Also, KQRS 92.5 FM is not only one of the best stations ever, there morning show was for decades the best in the world.

That was such a great video! I grew up on Boston and as a kid in the 70s, many many years before I started playing guitar, I always thought I'd love to play like Tom Scholz because he has a one-of-a-kind sound. When I started trying to learn some of his riffs, I was bummed to find out most of them were multi tracked guitar parts. We're Ready is one of the songs I can max out the volume when I'm alone in my Jeep and it doesn't distort the speakers or hurt my ears.

Do I love this this is so great! Thank you and keep up the good work!

Just a note. The unit that gets the closest to Tom's sound is the Distortion Generator. I had one for years and loved it. Another good trick for his sound is replace your caps with .01. Throw it in the distortion channel and turn the tone all the way off. Also sounds good for Money for Nothing and Killer Queen. Believe it or not, those three sounds are very similar. I have chased Tom's tone since the 70's. Tom is a great song and solo writer. I get tired of hearing solos that just wank all the time. A lot of 70's bands play the same solo as on the record. For instance the Eagles.

Great vid! Happy that you mentioned Something About You - one of my favs too! Boston's been my favorite band since 1976 and I think one of the many reasons why is that you can blast the music and the guitars don't go right through you (i.e. are painfull) like some bands. Thanks!

Nice! I grew up with Boston. Tom always had a super unique tone, so huge, wall of sound stuff.

Amazing video as always, do you think you could do more of these, I love these!? (Maybe Devin Townsend, The guitar players from Mastodon, or even Eric Johnson?)

Thank you for this. My long since passed father always told me about how Great Tom was and now as a guitar player myself you have inspired me to learn the entirety of their debut album.

Thanks Mike 🔥🎸🔥

I thank God daily for allowing me to be alive in the 70s and 80s and hearing Boston, among many others. I listen to Boston every day. Tom is a true genius, and his Rockman created more studio music sounds (e.g. Def Leppard) than most realize.

Great material… See that you really appreciate and understand music and guitar solos. Had the joy of playing guitar on many of these songs in a 1977 cover band…in Humboldt county, CA.. Wild times…

Dude, this is one of the best videos EVER! Thank you 🙏 for doing it. I love the music of Boston & Tom Schultz. Got to see them on the south terrace of the Biltmore Estate with the sun going down several years back, had no dream I would ever get to see them. Some of the first albums I bought in the Columbia House 10 for a penny. Been a fan since they started. Have some of their album art tattoed on me somewhere…

He pick scrapes down the unwound strings too, like Ronson did (last Spiders From Mars concert) several examples. Lifeson does it too, check out live LA Villa solos from the 1970s. Also, the "flutter" is called a mordent, it's used often in classical music. Gave Boston a classical sound right out of the box. Just trying to help out, great video BTW.

Barry Goudreau played on some those solos as well.

Ill always remember Boston as my first album, my dad still had his old cassettes and luckily for me he was willing to share

Well done and well researched!

Honestly one of the most tasteful guitar channels well done !

Great job!!!!

Great video. Grew up in Boston in the 70s listening to Boston all the time. Own several Rockman rack units. They nail the sound of the 80s.

Tom Scholz in an absolute GENIUS... he can play several instruments and he is a MONSTER on both guitar and keyboards!!! I do like especially Third Stage ..it sound majestic ! I'd love to see new young bands in the vein of Journey ..Toto...Boston...Foreigner...Van Halen...the great REAL timeless American Rock!

Great stuff!

Absolutely! It is an awesome solo. Good call!

Excellent work man - Scholtz is a god.

Such an underrated guitarist and engineer. Great video!

Boston fan here!! And I must say that you are both a great artist and teacher yourself..tyvm

Regarding the "Sholz Flutter," those mordents are part of what betray his classical influences--those, all the harmonized melodic lines, the very active contrapuntal bass lines... He's said that classical music is one of his biggest influences, and you hear it all over his songs. It's really striking. You should partner with Two Set Violin and make a video about it.

It's not too hard to build a Hyperspace pedal. But you have to buy a Maestro Echoplex and they're expensive. He built a device that you can move 2 parameters with a gutted wah to control the echo repeat mounted into "pivot" that you can move the pedal side to side to control the delay time. There an assembly that attaches to the delay time slider which can be moved side to side with the "pivot" You also need a on off button. You'll need to find spare parts because you could wear out the heads by constantly moving them while using it.

Thanks Mike!! ❤🤟⚡

Once Bitten Twice Shy was written by Ian Hunter and was first performed by Mott The Hoople when Ian was in that band before going solo and performing his own version of the song. Great White covered the song many, many years later.

If you listen to Grand Funk’s early albums you will hear Mark Farner perfecting the “chucka-chucka” percussion on his guitar! Like “Into the Sun” for example

Great breakdown! I heard Scholz does that flutter on his solos while descending because he’s a fan of classical music.

Neal Schon would be a good one to do a technique deep-dive on. Once you get past the big Journey hits, damn, that dude has got some serious technique and tricks.

thank you thank you thank you so much Matt!!