Live broadcast with Mika Tyyskä!
Tuesday, August 21 — 2pm ET / 6pm UTC
Mark your calendar! We’ll be on air with Mika tomorrow afternoon, talking music and technique and answering viewer questions live.
It’s a free broadcast, and we’ll be streaming to YouTube — but to submit questions, you’ll need to log in to the Cracking the Code Platform and head to our Live Studio.
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If you haven’t yet watched our full interview with Mika, check out the interview excerpts below for a preview of his tasty tone, musical creativity, and incredible chops.
Everything Mika plays is just damn beautiful—readily apparent when you take away the backing tracks to reveal the lush guitar tones beneath.
Mika Tyyskä plays his awesome tune “Effortless”, and discusses the genesis of his seminal “Guitar Shred Show”—a pre-YouTube viral hit.
Really happy y’all have introduced us to Mr. Tyyskä’s work!
I love his style and tone, would be great to see him magneted
Unfortunately I can’t watch it live, looking forward to the upload!
Cool! I should be able to catch it live!
Mika is one of those rare guys who can shred when he wants, but he also has great songwriting skills to back it up. He’s one of the best instrumental guitar writers I’ve heard in a long time.
Any chance of a quick detour back into how he goes about sculpting his tone?