CLASS ACTS

MARK TREMONTI

ALTER BRIDGE’S MARK Tremonti is a true modern guitar hero who not only shreds his ass off with the best of them, but also writes great rock riffs and song parts, from the gentle and elegantly majestic clean-tone intros to such hits and fan favorites as “Blackbird,” “In Loving Memory,” “Broken Wings” and “Words Darker Than Their Wings,” to the roaring, intense crunch riffs featured in songs like “Metalingus” and “Wouldn’t You Rather.”

Tremonti often employs non-standard tunings, mostly drop-D (low to high, D A D G B E) and its down-tuned equivalents, which he has used to craft many of his most powerful riffs,, features lots of well-written songs, such as “Dying Light” and “Take the Crown.”