Analysis Of Steve Lukather's Personalized Playing Technique

Steve Lukather has many identities: guitarist,session musicman,singer,music producer and so on.But one of the best-known identities of Steve Lukather is the guitarist of Toto.He has been nominated for twenlve Grammy Awards,and has won five.His unique musical language and the mode of expression are exemplary,even the most basic technique of vibrato is very infectious by his performance.His unique way of third vibrato can be used reasonable according to the style of the music and then we can do a secondary creation,to increase the tension of whole phrase.This paper will elaborate Steve Lukather's unique mode of thinking from the two perspectives of playing technique and creation analysis,including wide bending technique,legado technique,melody sequence and rhythm changing and so on,to learn how to enrich our playing.