# SteveVaiHimself: Latest YouTube Videos & Shorts

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As of 2026-10-28, SteveVaiHimself has 905,000 subscribers, 299,754,651 total views, and 221 videos. It ranks #82,176 by subscribers among channels tracked by vidIQ.

The most recent uploads from [SteveVaiHimself](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/). Each video links to its own stats page. The page lists the rest of the channel's videos to signed-in vidIQ users.

## About this sample

- The latest upload vidIQ has for SteveVaiHimself is ““Neal and Jack and Me” is one of my favorites... The last North American BEAT Tour is happening now!”, a Short published Oct 27, 2026.
- These are SteveVaiHimself’s 48 most recent public uploads vidIQ has data for, published between Sep 9, 2022 and Oct 27, 2026 (31 long-form videos and 17 Shorts).
- Median views across these 48 uploads: 48,906. 24 videos are above that median and 24 below.
- Most viewed in the sample: “Thanks to the fellas in Polyphia for having me on their new song "Ego Death"” (2,518,214 views, Sep 28, 2022). Least viewed: “The Sea of Emotion \| Signed by SatchVai” (0 views, Sep 8, 2026).
- Median length: 2:18 for 29 long-form videos; 0:47 for 17 Shorts.
- In this sample, SteveVaiHimself’s consecutive uploads were a median of 26 days apart (shortest gap 0 days, longest 139 days).
- Views are lifetime totals as of Oct 29, 2026, so newer uploads have had less time to collect them. These figures describe only the videos listed here, not the whole channel, and do not show why any video performed as it did. Dates are UTC.

## Recent uploads

| Video | Published (UTC) | Format | Views | Duration | Outlier score |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [“Neal and Jack and Me” is one of my favorites... The last North American BEAT Tour is happening now!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/hPNVAbwRvMA/) | 2026-10-27 | Short | 25,084 | 0:57 | 1.83x |
| [The solo in “The Sheltering Sky." The last North American BEAT Tour kicks off TOMORROW!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/SGWVEmY6VVs/) | 2026-10-08 | Short | 57,018 | 0:56 | 1.84x |
| [The last North American BEAT Tour kicks off soon… Get tickets now at BEAT-official.com](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/lbsTlOFISZs/) | 2026-10-01 | Short | 161,402 | 0:46 | 1.53x |
| [The Sea of Emotion \| Signed by SatchVai](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/0e8wCjk7xPI/) | 2026-09-10 | Long-form | 29,324 | 1:01:27 | - |
| [The Sea of Emotion \| Signed by SatchVai](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/LzDu8buiSfg/) | 2026-09-08 | Long-form | 0 | - | - |
| [The Sea of Emotion \| Signed by SatchVai](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/hW0GR4oopfY/) | 2026-09-08 | Long-form | 0 | - | - |
| [Join me for an amazing week on The Rhine featuring 3 intimate performances & more! vai.com/cruise](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/InLU-j43krw/) | 2026-04-22 | Short | 15,120 | 0:52 | - |
| [Clip from this weekend at my brother Nuno Bettencourt’s Six String Sanctuary event in Vegas!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/7zmPh10Ewq4/) | 2026-01-21 | Short | 355,552 | 1:01 | 2.83x |
| [A trip down memory lane with Joe & Rick Beato](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/p5tOmBQOohk/) | 2025-12-08 | Short | 319,794 | 0:59 | 4.41x |
| [The Spark MINI Vai](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/T-Qpx9IOKYQ/) | 2025-11-26 | Long-form | 48,518 | 1:19 | 1.56x |
| [Step Inside Steve Vai’s Harmony Hut Studio](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/O2XR24JYjmg/) | 2025-10-15 | Long-form | 42,588 | 2:10 | 1.37x |
| [STEVE VAI Unveils "The Story of Light" Art Collection](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/rzBFM4rogXc/) | 2025-08-19 | Long-form | 17,045 | 1:17 | - |
| [🎥: riff_pull_off](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/TQ06f8hzc2U/) | 2025-05-25 | Short | 187,672 | 1:01 | 3.4x |
| [Steve Vai: Exclusive Behind-the-Scenes Look at His New Art Collection](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/aSPCOniEQmU/) | 2025-04-08 | Long-form | 20,606 | 1:27 | - |
| [Steve Vai & SceneFour Guitar Performance, Hydra (Official Trailer 2025)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/jknAD1CmMiM/) | 2025-03-25 | Long-form | 40,099 | 2:21 | 1.29x |
| [Steve Vai - Ballerina 12/24 Studio Footage](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/bzKQBJc-g04/) | 2025-03-19 | Long-form | 168,693 | 1:46 | 5.43x |
| [Billy Morrison, Corey Taylor, Steve Vai - Incite The Watch (Official Video)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/X5Dfrroqhzw/) | 2025-01-07 | Long-form | 106,361 | 4:36 | 1.61x |
| [SATCHVAI BAND - "Surfing With The Hydra" 2025 Tour](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/_wK3yTQSRHA/) | 2024-12-09 | Long-form | 32,658 | 1:29 | 1.05x |
| [Steve Vai - "Zeus in Chains" from G3 Reunion Live (Official Visualizer)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/1kGx8e8OTXw/) | 2024-11-13 | Long-form | 58,401 | 4:46 | - |
| [The G3 lightning strikes again! “Crossroads” is out now](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/gtc3WltZcKM/) | 2024-10-22 | Short | 49,587 | 0:35 | 1.6x |
| [On the loose since 1996. Now captured…stay tuned!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/D40MDOXlu8A/) | 2024-10-17 | Short | 8,715 | 0:19 | - |
| [Introducing Spark MINI Vai](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/1pRBO5mSLtg/) | 2024-08-30 | Long-form | 73,524 | 3:16 | - |
| [New Augmented Reality App "Zeus In Chains"](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/zNrO-DUDlro/) | 2024-06-28 | Long-form | 23,174 | 1:30 | - |
| [Taming the Hydra on our last Inviolate Tour in India](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/KhPulIBB7hk/) | 2024-06-23 | Short | 165,164 | 0:47 | 1.93x |
| [Steve Vai & Joe Satriani - The Sea Of Emotion, Pt.1 (Official Video)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/Qi_-rfVdx5w/) | 2024-05-14 | Long-form | 218,356 | 5:54 | 3x |
| [The Sea of Emotion, Pt. 1 - March 29th](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/drHDy2Df82Q/) | 2024-03-18 | Short | 27,652 | 0:32 | - |
| [March 29](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/9T_PuxlTt2Q/) | 2024-03-15 | Short | 21,455 | 0:12 | - |
| [Steve Vai - Inviolate (Full Album Stream)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/7mCsRwGVFoQ/) | 2024-02-09 | Long-form | 73,816 | 46:41 | - |
| [Vai Academy 7.0 in Orlando!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/HQ-8mmnnzko/) | 2023-11-29 | Long-form | 52,639 | 5:19 | - |
| [Satch-Vai Tour 2024](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/xICaTsZ8a_E/) | 2023-11-08 | Long-form | 49,212 | 0:30 | 1.58x |
| [G3 2024 with Joe Satriani & Eric Johnson](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/T3td5eOl7P8/) | 2023-09-12 | Long-form | 46,289 | 1:07 | 1.49x |
| [Vai Academy 7.0](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/mjpyqnOeQz0/) | 2023-07-27 | Long-form | 93,217 | 3:34 | - |
| [Last night’s show in Nashville was a dream. The stage, the band, the venue & of course the audience.](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/baVXI-TPotw/) | 2023-07-26 | Short | 279,311 | 1:01 | 8.99x |
| [Happy Birthday maestro ​⁠@officialyngwiemalmsteen622!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/OOK5v3hJ7LA/) | 2023-06-30 | Short | 85,372 | 0:35 | 2.75x |
| [Steve Vai's Guitar Rig for Metropole Orchestra Show 2023](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/56UTyulCYbM/) | 2023-06-10 | Long-form | 77,650 | 4:36 | - |
| [Inviolate North American Tour](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/B4pW4K_iSm0/) | 2023-05-31 | Long-form | 18,512 | 0:57 | - |
| [Inviolate Euro Tour Diary Part 2](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/b0DLjoM6PJo/) | 2023-04-28 | Long-form | 19,304 | 1:46 | - |
| [Enjoy the splendors - Ibanez PIA77BON - Footage and art work by David Bonvillain](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/nPe3Bn54UMM/) | 2023-04-15 | Short | 59,570 | 1:01 | 1.92x |
| [Inviolate Euro Tour Diary Part 1](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/4RSIKCN5pT4/) | 2023-04-11 | Long-form | 25,740 | 2:18 | - |
| [Steve Vai - Vai/Gash - Out Now!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/2P9xE-hgDwI/) | 2023-01-27 | Long-form | 27,433 | 0:25 | - |
| [Steve Vai - She Saved My Life Tonight (Vai/Gash)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/9PY28ih-Sbg/) | 2023-01-11 | Long-form | 71,635 | 3:39 | - |
| [Steve Vai - Busted (Vai/Gash)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/O2U5pSbFSIg/) | 2022-12-08 | Long-form | 112,349 | 3:06 | - |
| [“Busted” out tomorrow!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/09pCr-tTgo4/) | 2022-12-07 | Short | 21,158 | 0:16 | - |
| [Steve Vai - In The Wind (Official Music Video)](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/AkbnEj2yDw0/) | 2022-11-10 | Long-form | 249,124 | 3:50 | - |
| [Thanks to the fellas in Polyphia for having me on their new song "Ego Death"](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/bU87mLlthzw/) | 2022-09-28 | Short | 2,518,214 | 0:33 | 81.07x |
| [Inviolate US Tour Starts Soon!](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/ql0UTtGrRfo/) | 2022-09-22 | Long-form | 26,324 | 1:15 | - |
| [Steve Vai talking to Co de Kloet about his book "Frank & Co"](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/n5DftJJLvtw/) | 2022-09-20 | Long-form | 48,600 | 45:14 | - |
| [Steve Vai - Inviolate US Tour](https://vidiq.com/youtube-stats/channel/@stevevaihimself/videos/A3NXOD80dfw/) | 2022-09-09 | Long-form | 37,634 | 0:43 | 1.21x |

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