Dweezil Zappa

Here's a bit of Moggio. I'm still getting it under my fingers. Hope to add it to the show very soon!...

This is a picking exercise using A minor pentatonics. I use it to get my fingers and picking synchronized. ...

Here's another clip of me playing fragments of School's Out on the Hendrix guitar. You can hear the phase change as Thomas walks around filming. ...

While I was getting my guitar rig ready for the Tonight Show the other day I made this brief video to explain my restoration work to the Hendrix/Zappa strat. ...

A few folks have asked me to demonstrate some of the fast pentatonic runs that I sometimes play. Here's an example of one with some instructions on the proper picking technique. I hope you enjoy learning it. ...

I was practicing some new ideas this morning and I thought I would share them with you. I plan to make more "LESSON" style videos and add them to the GUITARLAND area of the site very soon....

This is a test of the prototype Performance Guitar EQ Sweep pedal that I'm currently using on tour. It does some crazy stuff. Here I'm playing through a PRS head into a Fuchs cabinet with the pedal in front of the amp. ...

I was testing out a little bit of Big Swifty on Cello/Violin for fun....

I am mixing my Cello sound with a Violin sound I dialed in and I'm adding reverb from an expression pedal. The presets are all made with the Fractal. I am using a few external analog pedals for gain structure as well....

This is a very close approximation of Frank's tone on Ship Ahoy. He used an Oberheim VCF to get his tone and I used the same unit but had some help from my friend Matt Picone to recreate it in a unit called the Virus TI Snow....

This demonstrates a slide on one string that allows you to hear the chromatic notes in a more pronounced way. It leads me to play some other really stupid chromatic examples. Thomas Nordegg likes to call this sound the Speed...

I'm demonstrating the transition from pristine Clean to Distorted Feedback with natural harmonics while playing Zoot Allures. I use the expression pedal for Fractal 2 to add in the distorted sound and control the blend....

I'm playing on a combo sound that ends up sounding a bit like bagpipes during the "drone" bass note moment. There are some other speedy things in there too......

This clip demonstrates the Cello sound blended with another variation of the same sound and modulated with a dynaflanger....

I'm playing a ridiculous amount of notes on my new Apostrophe Strat. The sound I'm using has a synth filter blended with a normal guitar sound. As you can see it's pretty funny by the end of it....

PRS CELLO? OR VIOLA? AXE EFFECTS Programming session....

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Tenacious D w/ Dweezil Zappa...