For those who do not know what a pinch harmonic is, it is a guitar technique used to create a false harmonic where a finger on the picking hand scrapes the string after it is struck by the guitar pick ...

Steve Vai has played with a wealth of musicians over the years and his guitar-playing style has kept him as an in-demand collaborator, but once upon a time the guitar great was met with some criticism ...

Just as one does not simply walk into the kitchen of L’Arpège and tell Alain Passard how to cook the duck, it is simply bad etiquette for the lay person to stride into the studio and tell Steve Vai ...

Paul Gilbert says that his search for more pinch harmonics led him to drastically modify one of his electric guitars and turn it into a 20-fret instrument so that there was more room to explore the ...

Any rock fan who's ever picked up an electric guitar has probably dreamed of becoming the next Eddie Van Halen, Jimmy Page, Nancy Wilson or Slash. But if you're going to become a guitar hero, you've ...