If all goes well, we will be boarding a plane for Los Angeles tonight to meet with a duo of guitar awesomeness! Read More
The Cracking the Code Mike Stern interview is here! In this intimate chat, the genial jazz master shares a wealth of improvisational insights, delivered in an extemporaneous fashion as effortless his playing. Read More
Molly Tuttle’s prodigious songwriting chops, ethereal voice, and physical command of the guitar make her one of the most exciting new players in bluegrass. She’s the International Bluegrass Music Association’s Guitar Player of the Year for 2017. And she is the subject of the latest Masters in Mechanics interview here at Cracking the Code. Read More
We’ve just uploaded our interview with Terry Syrek to the Cracking the Code platform.
This interview is a revealing conversation about an elite player learning to live with a condition that severely affects his playing: focal dystonia. Read More
Quick announcement — we just added the “Playing Through the Changes with Martin Miller” video to the Cracking the Code platform.
You can find the interview here: Read More
We just finished editing the David Grier interview for our Masters in Mechanics subscribers! Meeting David was a wonderful step forward in our quest to get a better understanding of crosspicking techniques in general, and bluegrass picking technique in particular. Read More
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A pioneer of virtuoso guitar, Michael Angelo Batio’s impossible chops are a gift to players everywhere.
From his groundbreaking Star Licks instructional video, to his blazing follow-up Speed Kills, Mike’s remarkable right hand steals the show. Quite simply, Mike is the owner of one of the most mechanically efficient alternate picking techniques on the planet.
With the Masters in Mechanics Michael Angelo Batio interview, we’ll show you exactly how this technique works.
We sat down with fusion ace Martin Miller to investigate the inhuman precision of his hyper-speed crosspicking technique. What we ended up with was even better.
In a wide-ranging conversation, we got to the bottom of Martin’s stunning right-hand approach that reads like a greatest hits of modern picking technique, mixing one-way pickslanting, two-way pickslanting, and crosspicking in equal parts.