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modernguitarist.guitarinternational.com - 12/18/2009

Interview with Guitarist Alex Skolnick

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By: Dr. Matt Warnock Following our hearts can sometimes force us to make difficult, and often life-changing decisions. In 1988, while recording the follow-up album to metal band Testament’s hit debut record, guitarist Alex Skolnick was flicking through the channels one night and came ...

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willkriski.com - 12/22/2009

The Transition From Metal to Jazz

— willkriski.com — As an 80’s metal and shred fan turned progressive metal fanatic you would think jazz would be... the furthest thing from my mind. But being into all the shredders such as Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani and Greg Howe I started getting bored with the same old instrumental guitar songs. ... (more) The Transition From Metal to Jazz

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guitarplayerdaily.blogspot.com - 12/18/2009

Interviw with Testament Guitarist Alex Skolnick

— guitarplayerdaily.blogspot.com — Matt: Aside from the technical differences, metal and jazz have completely different approaches to harmony, especially during... improvisations. In metal, when the chord symbol says C guys will solo in the key of C, but in jazz that same chord could be interpreted as Am7, Em7 or even Ab7-G7-Cmaj7 ... (more) Interviw with Testament Guitarist Alex Skolnick

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RT @AlexSkolnick: interview with yours truly: http://modernguitarist.guitarinternational.com/wpmu/2009/12/18/skolnick/ 12/22/2009

Interview with Guitarist Alex Skolnick: Guitar International The new model is in stores, mostly at Heritage dealers... http://bit.ly/535jyL 12/19/2009

@AlexSkolnick Great interview: http://modernguitarist.guitarinternational.com/wpmu/2009/12/18/skolnick/ and mention of @TheRockHouse 12/18/2009

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Interviw with Testament Guitarist Alex Skolnick
Guitar Player Daily - Your Online Guitar Resource — ... Effortless Mastery, is take the most challenging lick from a solo we’re working on and then practice it really slowly, but in time. Slow it down to half speed and don’t play it any faster than you’re comfortable with, even if it’s painfully slow. Even learning a hard lick at half speed can have big benefits in our playing, sometimes more than we can see at the time. To continue reading this interview please click ...

The Transition From Metal to Jazz
Easy Guitar Lessons - by Will Kriski — ... Alex Skolnick of Testament fame has also gotten into jazz over the years. Here is a recent interview with Alex Skolnick on his journey into jazz. Like me he basically had to ’start over’ since all the technical chops in the world doesn’t translate into jazz improvisations. There are a few reasons for this but the most important one that I have just discovered is that you have to internalize a lot of new lines or phrases. ...