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Joe Stump is a shred guitarist who has been named one of the top 20 shredders of all time by Guitarist magazine. His website offers his CDs, music videos, photos, gear, tour dates and merch.
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The American shred guitar legend has toured the world both...
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- About Joe Stump
Joe Stump is a legendary shred guitarist who has toured the world with his solo projects and Alcatrazz. He is also an Associate Professor at Berklee College of Music and a top 10 fastest shredder of all time.
Joe Stump is a shred guitar master whose blistering style and dazzling technique are renowned among guitar aficionados worldwide. A Berklee professor since 1993, specializing in hard rock, shred, and high-tech speed metal, Stump has released five solo albums and three more with his band Reign of Terror.
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Amp settings: Gain 9, Bass 6, Middle 6, Treble 8, Reverb 3 Like Malmsteen and Blackmore, Joe uses a scalloped-neck S-style guitar (ESP) into Marshall amps. His sound is heavily distorted with lots of brightness to the tone. He’s constantly switching pickups, too, so which guitar you choose is not overly important. But you’ll need lots of British-st...
Alternate-pick this C harmonic minor lick using small, controlled down and up-strokes, moving the pick with your thumb joint as well as some loose wrist movement. Avoid digging in too much and make sure you hit the string with the tip of the pick.
This riff is based in A Hungarian minor (A-B-C-D#-E-F-G#) scale, starting with palm-muted notes on the bass strings, to separate the notes and add a big punch. Again, use small pick motions and an economy picking style for a smooth overall sound - see if the picking directions shown under the tab work for you.
Use alternate picking throughout this lick for tight, metronomic timing. Keep your picking hand at an angle so the upstrokes simultaneously move the pick away from the strings as this will make the downstroke string changes a lot cleaner.
This lick uses sweep-picked arpeggios combined with alternate-picked scale patterns on the first string. Keep the lick clean by fretting only one note at a time and using very light palm-muting to aid note separation and general clarity (despite the heavy distortion sound).
This heavy metal riff is largely drawn from the E Byzantine scale (E-F-G#-A-B-C-D#), combining double-stops and bursts of speed picking. For economy picking, start with a downstroke on each new string and allow the pick to fall through the scale in a single sweeping motion.
Learn the neoclassical metal techniques of Joe Stump, a Berklee prof and Alcatrazz guitarist. Explore exotic scales, picking styles, and tone tips with five examples and tab notation.
Joe Stump, the neoclassical shredlord and Alcatrazz guitar hero caught live in New York. Subscribe Here: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=...
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Check out some of Joe's guitars, amps and pedals of mass destruction used in both studio and live situations.
Stump has been the metal/shred guitar specialist at Berklee for the last 22 years. Joe Stump was named by Guitar One magazine as one of the top 10 fastest shredders of all time, by Guitar World as one of the 50 fastest players of all time, and by Guitarist magazine as one of the top 20 shredders of all time.
