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Interviews

Jas Morris Interview

Jas Morris was a late entry in the first Guitar Idol competition and although he was too late to make much of an impression on the voting public his combination of melodic and eloquent lead playing, stylistic versatility, groove and sheer compositional ability meant that as soon as he was heard by the pro panel of judges his place at the final was assured. On the day of the Grand Live Final at The London International Music Show Jas had the daunting task of opening the show... and he performed superbly. 

Ronni Le Tekro Interview: Norwegian Steel

Ronni Le Tekro may be an unfamiliar name to some of you, but to those in the know he has been raved about for nigh on 25 years. Ronni hit international recognition in the mid 80's with Norwegian melodic rockers TNT. Possessing a truly unique style, he combined blazing speed and accuracy with a genuinely unique melodic approach - and this combined with some of the greatest riffs known to humanity means that any and all guitarists into rock/metal/shred who have yet to sample his delights should make it a priority to check him out post haste!

Jason Becker Interview - The Charity Interview

Ron Coolen is a passionate fan of the legendary Jason Becker. He has recently set up the Jason Becker Charity to help raise money for Jason. Many famous artists have donated memorabila for an ebay auction and Ron is running the New York Marathon on the 2nd November 2008 to raise money and awareness for Jason. Here is a fantastic interview that Ron recently had with Jason. We hope that it inspires you enough to maybe donate to this most worthy of causes...

Guitar Lessons

Our lessons are currently being migrated over to the new site. Please bare with us...

Fusion Frollicks - Exercise Time!

So. If you've read all of my columns so far you should be able to get some inside / outside sounds over some popular minor and dominant progressions. It's ok to play pre determined licks, but I like to use any harmonic improvisational device as I would speak.  In this instalment we'll look at some ways to get familiar with the 'sounds of the outside' by creating excercises and by extending our phrase ideas.

I recently played on the alloutguitar. com stand at the London music show, where I had a few people come up to me and asked:

Michael Romeo Style File

Michael Romeo is the whirlwind guitar player with prog metal greats Symphony X. As far as neo-classical shred guitarists go he is defiantly one of my favourites, especially for his very unique approach to tapping within arpeggios and pentatonics. In this style file were going to take a look at some tapping shapes which will instantly give you that Romeo sound. Also there will be some arpeggio shapes and then a very cool way of shredding pentatonics in lick 5.

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The Commitments

My first time was in the early 90's. I was about 17 or 18 at the time and the experience still gives me sleepless nights to this day!

Columns

Mark Robinson’s Guitar Diaries

Hello to all and welcome to a column dissecting the day to day life of a working musician from the Portsmouth region of the UK - so if any of you are taking the plunge and 'going pro' read on! As you'll soon see it's not all glamour and partying: in fact you'll need a lot of skills that some of you might more associate with 'real' everyday jobs in order to stand a chance of making a living out of the axe...  

View From The New Year Bar

Happy New Year to you all, and a belated welcome to the new and improved Alloutguitar.com! Regular visitors to Alloutguitar.com will notice a whole load of changes - and all of them hopefully for the better... as ever, let us know what you think.

So what's new? Well, we've streamlined the whole magazine to make sure that it's more intuitive, user friendly and over the next few months we will be steadily introducing new levels of interactivity throughout the site.

Owen's Diary Of A Working Guitarist: December 2007

Quite a busy time musically: this week was interesting as i played a couple of gigs with a completely new oufit, revisited a familiar old haunt and had an offer to join a great band...

Also we were hard at work at AOG Towers getting the new feature 'Elevenses' ready - so make sure you check these great interviews out - we will be publishing at least 5 as week from now on - unbeatable coverage!