Originally published in Guitar Player magazine · September 2018
Proggy Mountain Breakdown (excerpt)
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10 Prog-Rock Conceptualists Dissect the Finer Points of Technique and Tone
Developing the chops for prog-rock guitar can be as arduous as climbing Mount Everest. Fortunately, plenty of intrepid virtuosos have scaled the genre’s heights and learned a thing or two about mastering it. Here are ten innovators of prog-rock guitar to share timeless advice about tone, technique, songwriting, and more.
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John Petrucci
“When we write, we’ll find the biggest room we can and just set up in a circle and jam. As ideas come, we’ll document them. After we have an inventory of riffs, melodies, chord progressions, drum beats, and so on, we’ll develop specific parts further, always working within the demands of the song or album.”