Walk into any modern rock or metal rehearsal room and you will hear the same five ideas again and again. Distorted power chords. Two hand tapping. Sweep picking. Pinch harmonics. Downtuning that makes the riff sit in the basement. They feel...

If you only know one Australian rock band, it is probably AC/DC. Fair enough. They are a genuine global hard rock machine, formed in Sydney in 1973, and their records still teach guitarists about groove, space, and power. But Australian rock...

You have heard the slogan. Everything comes from Western classical music and the blues. Neat. Memorable. Wrong. I hear it in lessons, in forums, even from players who can shred a twelve bar form in their sleep. Classical for the harmony....