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home ยป guitar encyclopedia » Steve Vai Steve Vai Guitar player and composer, Steve Vai, along with his former teacher and G3 band mate, Joe Satriani, set the standard for rock guitar virtuosity for the past 25 years. Vai is best known for his work as an electric guitarist, though he plays acoustic guitar as well. Steve Vai's electric guitar playing style is probably best described as virtuosic, progressive rock. His dazzling technique and whammy bar tricks on his Ibanez guitars are mind boggling. Vai's influences include rockers Jimi Hendrix and Jimmy Page (Led Zeppelin) and the music of Alice Cooper (let us just mention here that we have an entire curriculum based on learning rock guitar, a rock rhythm and rock solo course. learn more here). Steve Vai plays and endorses Carvin amplifiers and Ibanez guitars (of which he owns dozens), with which he has developed his signature "Jem" model. He owns a couple of Fender Strats, a Gibson Explorer, and a Gibson Les Paul too. Besides Carvin, Vai uses Marshall, Crate, Laney, and Bogner amps. During his Zappa years, Steve played a Fender Stratocaster electric guitar. (B. June 6, 1960, Long Island, NY) Guitar player and composer, Steve Vai, along with his former teacher Joe Satriani, set the standard for rock guitar virtuosity in the 1980s and '90s. He grew up in Carle Place, NY and in high school Vai took lessons with an older school mate, Joe Satriani. Vai attended Berklee College of Music in Boston where, as a student, he transcribed several of Frank Zappa's most technically demanding compositions for guitar. Zappa eventually hired Vai to play in his band and transcribe his music, referring to him as his "stunt guitarist" and "little Italian virtuoso". Aside from his work with Zappa and fronting his own bands, Steve also played and toured with Whitesnake, David Lee Roth (from Van Halen), and Alcatrazz. Do you want to learn to play guitar? Click on one of the links below to see which Zap Guitar lessons are right for you!
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