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Pat Metheny. Patrick Bruce "Pat" Metheny (/məˈθiːni/ mə-THEE-nee; born August 12, 1954) is an American jazz guitarist and composer.

Pat Metheny

He is the leader of the Pat Metheny Group and is also involved in duets, solo works and other side projects. His style incorporates elements of progressive and contemporary jazz, post-bop, latin jazz and jazz fusion.[1] Metheny has three gold albums and 20 Grammy Awards.[2] He is the brother of jazz flugelhornist and journalist Mike Metheny. Biography[edit] Metheny entered the wider jazz scene in 1975 when he joined Burton's band, where he played alongside resident jazz guitarist Mick Goodrick. Goodrick was a 1967 alumnus of Berklee, who had held a teaching post there in the early 1970s. Metheny has been touring for more than 30 years, playing between 120 and 240 concerts a year.

Pat Metheny Group[edit] Metheny touring in 2003 Courtesy: Tyrone Lancaster During the world tour Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Nando Lauria completed the line-up of the Pat Metheny Group. Five More Amazing Instrumental Guitar Performances. Guthrie Govan. Despite his magazine success and achievements with Asia and other bands, it was his exposure on YouTube through clips of his playing which has led him to being considered one of the world's best contemporary electric guitar players,[1][2] and one of the most flexible players in musical scope, although he is primarily considered a jazz fusion player and rock guitarist.

Guthrie Govan

As a result, Govan now regularly travels internationally, teaching at various clinics around the world. Biography and early playing career[edit] At secondary school he was exposed, via older classmates, to "shred" guitarists of the time.[4] He considers himself to have been the "weird little kid" in school who would play in various gigs with older students, but was never in a formal group as a teen. His first decent guitar was a Gibson SG which he keeps locked in his house, not wanting to take it on tour for fear of it being stolen or damaged. Angra (band) Angra is a Brazilian metal band known for its symphonic interludes, highly technical instrumental playing and Brazilian regional elements.

Angra (band)

Angra was formed in November 1991[1] by Santa Marcelina Music College students vocalist Andre Matos, duo guitarist Rafael Bittencourt and André Linhares, and were joined by former Rafael Bittencourt band mate drummer Marcos Antunes, as well as former Firebox bassist and former both Rafael Bittencourt and André Linhares high-school mate Luís Mariutti. The album was released in Brazil in 1993 and featured many classical influences as well as an adventurous cover of Kate Bush's "Wuthering Heights". The album was a great success in Angra's native Brazil as well as Japan where it sold over 100,000 copies[citation needed].

That year Angra dominated the polls of the Brazilian magazine Rock Brigade obtaining awards for Best New Band, Best Album, Best Singer, Best Album Cover and Best Keyboard Player[citation needed]. Edu was later replaced by Fabio Lione. Emir Hot - Official website - Chose site version. Joe Satriani. Joseph "Joe" Satriani (born July 15, 1956) is an American instrumental rock guitarist, multi-instrumentalist and multiple Grammy Award nominee.

Joe Satriani

Early in his career, Satriani worked as a guitar instructor, with many of his former students achieving fame, such as: Steve Vai, Larry LaLonde, Rick Hunolt, Kirk Hammett, Andy Timmons, Charlie Hunter, Kevin Cadogan and Alex Skolnick. Buckethead. Brian Patrick Carroll (born May 13, 1969), better known by his stage name Buckethead, is a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist who has worked within many genres of music.

Buckethead

He has released 85 studio albums, four special releases and one EP. He has performed on over 50 more albums by other artists. Liquid Tension Experiment. History[edit] A situation that had to do with the company that released the Liquid Drum Theater VHS tape using video footage of Liquid Tension Experiment in the studio without getting the required permission of Magna Carta.

Liquid Tension Experiment

Mike Portnoy came back to Magna Carta in 2007 to release the Liquid Trio Experiment's "Spontaneous Combustion" Sessions.[2] On October 4, 2007, it was announced that LTE would headline NEARfest 2008 in June. On March 29, 2008, six Liquid Tension Experiment tour dates in June 2008 were announced to celebrate the bands 10 year anniversary as well to create a "whole new musical experiment".[3][4] Liquid Tension Experiment released a multi-disc boxed set of tour highlights from their 2008 tour, including complete shows from New York and Los Angeles on DVD and CD (the L.A. show also on Blu-ray), the Liquid Trio Experiment 2 recording from Chicago (q.v. below), and a disc of improvisations from other shows on the tour.

Animals as Leaders. History[edit] Reyes playing guitar.

Animals as Leaders

On May 26, 2011, Animals As Leaders took part in a Red Cross benefit show titled "Josh Barnett Presents The Sun Forever Rising" at the House of Blues in West Hollywood, California. Kanal korisnika 331Erock. List of instrumental bands. 100 Greatest Rock Instrumentals. 100 Greatest Acoustic Guitar Instrumentals.