Michael Angelo Batio
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Michael Angelo Batio: “I still practice vibrato over and over. It determines whether you’ll be a great player when you’re older or not”
By Cait Devin published
MAB on mistakes to avoid as a guitarist, recording and touring with Manowar, his upcoming acoustic record and the absolutely staggering number of guitars in his collection

Take your shredding skills to the extreme with this Michael Angelo Batio lesson
By Charlie Griffiths published
Good news and bad news. First, the good: we've adapted MAB's hyper-technical style for single-necked guitars. The bad? Welcome to the toughest shred lesson this side of Planet Gemini
![[L-R] Michael Angelo Batio and Billy Corgan](https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/iT2kdVSfNyehkY9jTUb2S6-320-80.jpg)
Watch Michael Angelo Batio join The Smashing Pumpkins onstage in Milwaukee for a face-melting shred session
By Sam Roche published
The alt-rock titans invited the guitarist to the stage for a lead spot during closing track, Silverfuck, and boy, did he deliver

Michael Angelo-Batio dubs new Guitar Solo book “the most comprehensive book on guitar that has ever been written”
By Matt Parker published
The new 1,100-page book from CEM Publishing aims to be the lead player’s Bible

Guitarist who relearned to play left-handed returns with ambidextrous playthrough using Michael Angelo Batio’s double-sided Sawtooth signature
By Matt Owen published
The death-metaller showcased his dual playing powers in a run-out of Obvurt's The First Light, accommodated by Batio's insane Double Guitar model

Michael Angelo Batio launches limited-edition production run of his iconic Double-Guitar format
By Sam Roche published
The left- and right-handed Sawtooth Guitars electrics are detachable, should you so desire

Watch Michael Angelo Batio join Smashing Pumpkins for a shredtacular jam at Chicago's Riot Fest
By Matt Parker published
The shred legend joined Billy Corgan and co for a raucous, four-guitar rundown of Zeitgeist's United States

15 of the greatest all-star guitar teachers
By Jonathan Horsley published
From legends of the old-school to the internet era’s pedagogues of polyphonic fingerstyle, these are the players who changed the guitar teaching game

Satriani, Vai, Nuno, Yngwie and many more wish Guitar World a happy 40th anniversary in epic video message
By Richard Bienstock published
#GuitarWorld40: Satch will be holding one note for 40 hours in our honor

Michael Angelo Batio: "This new generation of guitarists is the best I’ve seen. They're where I was in my 20s but at the ages of 10 or even 5!"
By Amit Sharma published
The thousand-notes-a-minute shred hero talks competing with younger players, effects pedal minimalism and his face-melting new album, More Machine Than Man
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