iGuitar Issue 6 Featuring Steve Howe & Michael Angelo Batio.
iGuitar issue 6 featuring interviews with YES guitarist Steve Howe and
Metal Extreme shredder Michael Angelo Batio. Be sure to check out the Free guitar lessons in this Issue as amongst our regular guitar lessons Michael Angelo Batio teaches you how to play Alternate Picking on guitar. Jamie Humphries provides a style feature on Show to play guitar like Steve Howe.
Guitar reviews featured in issue 6 are:
Tanglewood T6 Acoustic guitar review.
Yamaha THR10 Amp Review
Line 6 DT50 Combo amp review
James Tyler Line 6 Variax Guitar Review
Dean Micahel Angelo Batio Armo Flame Guitar Review
Marshall YJM 100 head amp review
Washburn RX10 Guitar review
Taylor t3 Guitar Review
Hagstrom Swedie Guitar Review
PRS SE Custom 24 guitar review
EMG James Hetfiled Pickup review
Musicman Stingray guitar review
Washburn AB 5 Acoustic guitar review
Fishman Bass Powerchord FX review
Simon and Patrick Showcase 6T CW Rosewood Review
Alvarex RD12CE/Alvarex RF12GB review
TECH SESSIONS_SHRAPNEL RECORDS FEATURE PART 1
For me, the artists at Shrapnel records
recorded and produced some of the most
inspiring guitar albums of the ‘80s. Guitarists
such as Jason Becker, Marty Friedman,
Yngwie Malmsteen, Paul Gilbert, Greg Howe
and Richie Kotzen were at the forefront of
the technical instrumental guitar movement,
and produced ground breaking that defined
the genre. This new era of guitarist made
such techniques as alternate picking, sweep
picking, economy picking, and tapping part
of every day practice vocabulary for guitarists
all over the world. They were also responsible
for guitarists wanting to understand theory,
and modes, and explore more exotic modes
of the major scale, as well as Harmonic
minor - and in the case of Jason and Marty,
experiment with exotic Japanese scales. Then
there were the guitars; colourful, pointy,
and with fast flat necks for optimum shred
capabilities! And of course there was Yngwie,
although he played a Strat, the Stradivarius
of the electric guitar as he called it, Yngwie
scalloped his fret boards for ultimate speed,
and a wide vibrato.
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The track I have put together for this
tech session, is pretty tricky, and although it
only clocks in at 140bpm, it’s to be played
with a double time feel, so the equivalent to
240bpm!
The track is divided into three sections;
the first section, Section A, features a
harmony E harmonic minor line, concluded
with the B/D# chord performed with
accents, with the bass and drums.
Section B, is our verse and is based around
a series of two note chords performed on the
A and the D strings against the muted low
E string, while the bass guitar underpins the
harmony with a driving E note through out. The
two note chords are all diatonic to the G major
scale, and out line chords VI, V, and IV, before
concluding with the chords of G5, and D5/A.
The tone for this should be pretty distorted, but
cut some of the lower frequencies, so the sound
is slightly thinner than more modern metal, and
add a healthy does of stereo chorus. Checkout
early Racer X, or Cacophony, for that mid ‘80s
tone; think ADA MP1 preamp, and Alesis
Midiverb chorus!
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