Wayne Krantz is an American jazz fusion guitarist. He has played with top artists such as Steely Dan, Michael Brecker, Billy Cobham, and others, but is most active as a solo performer. Interested in his sound and gear? His main guitar is a slightly modded Tyler Studio Elite w/ Suhr Vintage single coils, Duncan Full […]
Tag Archives: rock
Richie Kotzen
I am sure you have heard of the band called Poison or Mr. Big, they were/are two American hard rock bands which contributed to the Glam Rock-Metal scene at the end of the 80s and beginning of the 1990s. Richie Kotzen played the guitar for both bands. He recorded one album with Poison in 1993 […]
John Frusciante
John Frusciante is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter, record and film producer. He is best known as the former guitarist of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, with whom he had been with for a number of years and recorded five studio albums. Frusciante’s style was influenced mainly by Jimi Hendrix; but he was […]
Omar Rodriguez Lopez
A visionary and modern artist! Some of you might not have a clue who Omar Rodriguez is. He is a multi-instrumentalist, composer, lead guitarist, actor and film director. He is very well known for being one of the founding members and lead guitarist of The Mars Volta, a progressive and psychedelic rock band from El […]
Finding songs to learn
I would say that 95% of people who start learning to play an instrument do so because they wanna learn to play their favorite songs. In fact, most of the time, music theory and technique does not exist in the beginner’s mind, they only want to learn to play songs, that’s it! On the other […]
Carlos Santana
Who doesn’t know Mr. Carlos Santana? Lately I’ve read several comments on the Internet about Carlos Santana, some of them not very positive: “… I am tired of his playing”, “He hasn’t innovated”, “He plays the same thing,” blah blah blah! I definitely respect everyone’s opinions but I also think that people who say these […]
Getting a Metal Sound
This is a very common question, specially among young students; How do I get a metal sound? Many people start playing guitar, because they hear a super heavy hardcore riff on the radio and it inspires them to become a musician. That’s cool because heavy metal is a fun genre of music that is also […]
Mike Einziger
Mike Einziger, lead guitarist and backup vocalist of top band, Incubus was born June 21, 1976 in Los Angeles, California. But he was not always quite so famous: “Here’s what I used to know about Mike Einziger: that when he was 9, he played on the same soccer team as my good friend Mike; that […]
Sell outs.
A highly animated conversation was had whilst rocking out in the kitchen to to the sounds of the exploding eggs in a microwaved ploughman`s lunch.