“MY ADVICE JUST comes from my experience,” Yes guitar legend Steve Howe says of his guitar-playing tips. “I’m completely self-taught on the guitar, which means nobody sat me down and said, ‘This is the right way to play; that’s the wrong way.’ But there was a kind of beauty and freedom in the way I learned, because I never felt restricted in any way. Playing the guitar felt like a journey to me, and it was one that I was keenly interested in.”
He admits to experiencing moments of self-doubt. “It happened from time to time when I was younger,” he says. “Somebody would say something to me like, ‘That doesn’t sound very good,’ and my whole world caved in. Over the years, I realized that I shouldn’t overreact to little things, because most of the time that’s
