https://youtu.be/PhTmartIRsU?si=iMcRlmYJmRkVpfhx

What stuff was he practicing as a teenager? How did he learn what holdsworth was doing without the technology we have today? formal lessons? books? studying piano? Anything that i should be doing that shawn did?

Well he started out on Cello actually at a young age. Then Piano and Guitar and after the left Black Oak he had already developed his Guitar Chops which he was inspired by a show he went to at 14 when he went and saw this band not knowing who they were called UK. Seeing Allen Holdsworth for the first time and hearing him blew his mind, so the thing about Shawn is he would hear things or see things growing up and like the piano thing. Shawn always thought classical music was something that belonged in a museum or something until Billy Batte joined Black Oak Arkansas and he was a very very skilled Classical pianist and violinist and Shawn had never first hand witnessed someone actually play stuff like Liszt or Rachmaninov or Jascha Heifetz and when he actually observed this he was memorizing full scores on his guitar and was always playing with Billys keyboards and stuff. Sids lifelong dear friend David Ragsdale is another one where his mom just like Sids mom where both Music Professors and David has a classical background but ended up going to join the band Kansas and there is videos of him and Sid and the last clinic I played with them too. So anyway when Shawn would actually observe a human in real life pull off what he perceived as something is not really there he would study and learn like a sponge. He was nowhere near the technical guitar player at 13 and 14 but he could play some amazing Hendrix stuff and emulate anyone at 10. By the time he was 15 he learned firsthand the sounds of Allan Holdsworth so Shawn goes down that Rabbit hole and these techniques of Shawns he will tell you and us of course that it takes three years to truly develop to where it becomes instinct. So Shawn learned everything about the technical side of the guitar by the time he was 17 and got serious about piano learning like a sponge from Billy. Now when he was 10 he was in I believe Typhoid, maybe Savage and they would practice in Mammaws house and the drummer would leave his drums there and Shawn watched him a few times then some other drummers and when they would leave Shawn would play his drums. He figured out Shawn was playing them so he started taking his stick home, well Shawn lived right by Yarbrough's Picking post on Summer and White Station and bought his own sticks. He loved playing drums. When he recorded powers of ten originally he actually would record the drums in real time on hi keyboard and played his keyboard like they were drums. Then Sean Rickman came down and the second release of Powers of Ten Sean Rikman played incredible drums over. Sean is also a very skilled guitarist, he plays Holdsworth stuff and was infatuated with Allen Holdsworth. So he met Allan at one point and Allan heard him play and Sean said he wanted to be Allans drummer and Allan thought he was joking and basically blew him off so the Rick found Shawn Lane.

Here’s a vid from about a year ago of me playing Frenzy by Racer X

I have always wanted to rank students like belts in Martial Arts as I love Martial Arts and I always wanted to do a Guitar Strap System so here we have virtual straps and Chance just got his Yellow Strap! lol Some of yall still got them Temu Straps. That means you gotta participate more. All the cool kids are participating and learning new stuff and having a great time. You want to be a cool kid right? lol