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Todd

Practice Practice Practice.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Any musicians that are in to fast, heavy, technical music. I like to push myself musically and have a very ecclectic style. I really dig creating new music with new people. Drop me a line if you would like to work on a track. I'm currently working with my band KRESTFALLEN on our upcoming cd, "OMEN". The disc will feature players from all over the world.

Music:

Steve Vai, Racer X, Tony McAlpine, Dragon Force, etc. Really, I'm a fan of any player that can actually play. You get a lot of players these days who don't even know their scales. I'm also a fan of J-Metal, that is, metal from Japan. I really like Sex MachineGuns, early X-Japan and a few others. Great lead playing buy these bands. Here is the next lesson in my shredding series...To give you some idea of my lead styles, here is a video from my time playing with CAUSTIC THOUGHT. This from back when Steve Morley (now in Gnostic) was in the band as well. This song has become something of an underground classic. It's called ABUNDANCE OF HATE... width="320" height="240" ..

Movies:

Most of the Alien Series, Evil Dead Series, Blade Runner, and just about any Hong Kong action flick or Star Trek movie (Except of course for the last trek movie which was pure crap).

Television:

Boy oh boy does most television just plain suck these days. I watch ultimate fighter though and of course, reruns of Star Trek TOS, TNG, etc.

Books:

Stranger in a Strange Land, etc.

Heroes:

Most of the usual suspects for guitar guys.

My Blog

Lesson #34 - Two Handed Tapping/Hammering Contd.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFtXLQx6kKg More on two handed tapping. www.techniqueswithtodd.com...
Posted by Todd on Sat, 18 Oct 2008 03:45:00 PST

Pinch Harmonics - Techniques With Todd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byNSy3RU3Gg In this lesson we talk about "Pinch Harmonics" or "False Harmonics". It's gotten a lot of reuqests so I thought I'd repost it. Practice! Todd...
Posted by Todd on Wed, 25 Jun 2008 09:17:00 PST

Guitar Lesson # 31 - Tuesday Techniques With Todd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JeNmlR4DlU I'm going to try to start posting at least twice a week and it seems like Tuesday will be the first lesson for each weekly batch. So today we have ...
Posted by Todd on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:47:00 PST

Guitar Lesson # 31 - Tuesday Techniques With Todd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JeNmlR4DlU I'm going to try to start posting at least twice a week and it seems like Tuesday will be the first lesson for each weekly batch. So today we have ...
Posted by Todd on Tue, 17 Jun 2008 02:47:00 PST

My old Bandmates/Buds Gnostic, featured in new book on Metal.

I just ran across a spiffy book on amazon.com about the "New Wave of American Metal" and it mentioned a band I played with called GNOSTIC. I played on the first demo called "Splinters of Change". It w...
Posted by Todd on Sat, 07 Jun 2008 11:31:00 PST

Great News To Ring In 2008 :)

Happy New Year! ? I hope that your 2008 is full of fun and joy and brings new success in all things. 2007 was a great year for me and I got to cap it off with some nice Ink about myself and my work, i...
Posted by Todd on Tue, 01 Jan 2008 10:07:00 PST

New Primal Scene CD coming along

I've been able to secure an amazing bass player named Adam Nitti for a bass track on my band Primal Scene's upcoming album. He is going to play on a track called "SLIVER". He is truly an astounding t...
Posted by Todd on Tue, 11 Sep 2007 04:55:00 PST

Vote for PINK SPYDER and win a rare hide DVD!

Go to http://www.pinkspydermovie.com/and click on the banner to vote for PINK SPYDER. Im going to give away a rare, out of print hide DVD (His Invincible Deluge Evidence) to one lucky winner. Just use...
Posted by Todd on Sat, 18 Aug 2007 09:36:00 PST

Techniques With Todd to be a featured content provider on music education site RIFFEO.com

The CEO of Internet startup Riffeo.com contacted and asked me to be a feature provider of content for their new web site. The site is based on a great idea; they give video/pod cast style music lesson...
Posted by Todd on Mon, 04 Jun 2007 10:14:00 PST

New Endorsment from Minarik Guitars

I'm extremely excited to announce that I have been chosen to endorse MINARIK guitars. Thanks very much to all the great people at MINARIK for sending me the amazing Lotus model Guitar! I will be using...
Posted by Todd on Thu, 10 May 2007 04:04:00 PST