Legendary Tosin Abasi Guitar Clinic at Zula Bar – Review « Paul Bothner Music

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Legendary Tosin Abasi Guitar Clinic at Zula Bar – Review Legendary Tosin Abasi Guitar Clinic at Zula Bar – Review Tosin Abasi is considered to be one of the world leaders in guitar playing development, both in terms of his technical ability and his range of guitar tones. His playing blends advanced techniques, ranging from intense finger tapping, to poly-rhythms, sweep picked arpeggios, high speed picking and Hybrid picking in a way which is not only articulate and dynamically rich but also unique in terms of his choice of note values. His music can be described as Sci-fi Cinematic-Afro-Metal-Jazz-Electronica-Neo Classical-Funk. Some label it Prog Metal… The music is so laden in an advanced form of the kinds of grooves that B-Boys would Robot, Pop and Lock to, that you might start to see how many music styles are crossing over into each other, more and more, and that it’s a required evolutionary step in human development. When asked, at the clinic, what gave him the impetus to focus his strengths in those particular directions, he said that his advanced technical development began, when initially listening to bands like Nirvana, he stumbled upon technical geniuses, like Yngwie Malmsteen. This eventually developed into an affinity toward Prog Metal bands like Meshuggah. From there, he started to develop his technique to match his musical ideas. The urge to express the fiery surges of musical energy, eventually became his lauded musical style. Obviously, without his extremely powerful musical ideas, his music might have become pigeon-holed by typical mass media misrepresentation and lost under the banner of unmarketability. His tenure with bands, playing in similar styles, followed by a one year long course at The Atlanta Music Institute, and a strong intellect, make Tosin Abasi and Animals as Leaders much more relevant than the mass media of fashion masquerading as musicality. Fortunately, Ibanez has created a masterpiece instrument and found the right protagonist to convey expression and social conscience, in a way which is useful to real human development. Tosin Abasi is not shallow… When asked about his American-Nigerian roots, and the effect on his musicality, he said that he was not influenced so much by the music he listened to around his parents, which was more “tropical” to him but that there could be a subliminal or genetic reference. Ibanez’s Tosin Abasi Signature Series guitar was mind-blowingly rich in tone. He showed us the tone from pickup position to position, and how the instrument goes from sounding like a well balanced neo-classical lead guitar, to grind-core, twang, funk and be-bop, without having to do any pedal switching. Its DiMarzio Ionizer 8™ pickups were designed by Steve Blucher, to Tosin Abasi’s specifications. Steve Blucher is the man who designs pickups for artists like Joe Satriani and Steve Vai. His sound rig includes a Fractal Audio MFC-101 Midi Foot controller, a Fractal Audio AXE-FX Ultra system, a custom made Boomerang Phrase Sampler, a Furman M-8 Power Conditioner, and a Voodoo Lab Ground Control. Instead of using an amp onstage, he managed to run his rig directly through the PA system, using amp simulations. The tone was very powerful in harmonics and showed great string to string balance, so that the higher pitched passages were equal in harmonic strength and volume, to the lower pitched ones. The clarity per note was well defined, when he played at great speed, in whichever range. All of this, without losing a well rounded sense of what high gain guitar sounds are famous for: wailing, grinding and having vocal qualities that move human ear-drums in a way that keeps people coming back for more. Video Clips:

Tosin Abasi | Music Italy Show

Tosin Abasi | Music Italy Show

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TOSIN ABASI

Tosin Abasi (Washington, 7 gennaio1983) è un chitarrista progressive metal statunitense.

È il chitarrista del gruppo progressive metal Animals AsLeaders. È noto per il suo ampio uso del tapping a due mani e di chitarre a 8 corde.

Prima di formare gli Animals AsLeaders, faceva parte dei gruppi metalcore PSI e Reflux.

Dal 2011 è membro anche del gruppo T.R.A.M, formato dal chitarrista Javier Reyes (con lui anche negli Animals AsLeaders), il batterista dei SuicidalTendencies, Eric Moore e l'ex membro dei Mars Volta, AdriánTerrazasGonzález. Il nome del gruppo è formato dalle iniziali dei cognomi dei membri (Terrazas, Reyes, Abasi e Moore).