3 Questions – Joe Satriani
Where does your melodic sensibility come from?
I grew up listening to every kind of music: classical, jazz, Motown, rock and roll, funk, blues, rock and heavy ...
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School Daze
by Rich Maloof My favorite college memories include jamming with foreign exchange students, getting kicked offstage during Parents' Weekend, and sleeping th...
7 Cool iPhone Apps for Guitarists
As some of you may already know, we have developed a killer iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch app for guitarists, including video guitar lessons, tab, and notation -...
Re-Think the Band: Unconventional Live Lineups
by Rich Tozzoli Playing live can be addictive. But a lot of players never get to experience the feeling of satisfying a crowd — and satisfying themselves — b...
Ronnie James Dio (1942 – 2010)
Dio was not a guitarist, but he played with some of the greatest guitarists in hard rock and metal, notably Ritchie Blackmore and Tony Iommi. His work in Rainbo...
7 Basics of a Home Recording Setup
by Rich Tozzoli It doesn’t matter whether you have a $20,000 recording rig or the free version of GarageBand that came with your laptop: You need a comfortab...
Rock Gets Religion: An Easter Special
Rock & roll and religion: two strange bedfellows if ever there were a pair. Yet, there they are mingling together onstage, not only in the music of “shredd...
New Jimi
by Rich Maloof The new Hendrix release is out today. Valleys of Neptune is based primarily on tracks recorded though never released by Jimi back in 1969. ...
Austin, Texas Blues
by Rich Maloof With all the bad news that pours in every day, we can be somewhat unfazed even by jaw-dropping acts of hatred like the one that made news yest...
A Song to Die For: The ‘My Way’ Killings
A strange and shocking story caught our eye in today’s New York Times: Sinatra Song Often Strikes Deadly Chord. What’s happening is that there’s been a long ...
Pat Metheny’s One-Man Band: “Orchestrion”
Pat Metheny released Orchestrion this past week. If I’ve counted correctly, beginning with Bright Size Life in 1975, this is Pat’s zillionth record. Not a fu...
Guitar News from NAMM
Last week we offered a sneak peak from the floor at NAMM, the mammoth trade show of the musical-instrument business. (That’s when we revealed the inside word on...
