Guitar Techniques

ADRIAN VANDENBERG

GT: What is it about guitar instrumentals that appeals to you?

Maybe slightly surprisingly, I am not a huge fan of most guitar instrumentals. There are quite a lot of exceptions though. For instance, most of what Jeff Beck has done, a lot of classic acoustic guitar, flamenco, gypsy jazz and scattered instrumentals by players that I love who usually don’t often do instrumentals. For me it needs to feel like a song where the guitar plays the melodies that a vocalist would do, and not a

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