Frank Gambale (born 22 December 1958) is an Australian jazz fusion guitarist. He has released twenty albums over a period of three decades, and is known for his use of the sweep picking and economy picking techniques. 1 Recording career. 1.1 Solo albums; 1.2 Groups. 2 Teaching; 3 Technique.

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(September 2015) () Shawn Lane Background information Born ( 1963-03-21)March 21, 1963, U.S. Died September 26, 2003 ( 2003-09-26) (aged 40) Memphis, Tennessee, U.S. Genres,, Occupation(s) Musician, composer, producer Instruments Guitar, piano, keyboard, bass Years active 1977–2003 Labels, Eye Reckon Associated acts /,, Savage Innocence, D.D.T., The Willys, The Streets Website Shawn Lane (March 21, 1963 – September 26, 2003) was an American musician who released two studio albums and collaborated with a variety of musicians including,,,,,,, and many others. After studying the piano, he rapidly mastered the guitar, which he played with. Contents • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • Youth [ ] Born in, Lane began playing piano with his sisters at the age of eight, but did not play guitar seriously until he was ten. At age 12–13 he began to practice heavily. At fourteen, he became the lead guitarist for (BOA) and alongside members, including drummer, toured over the next four years opening shows for bands including,,,, and.

During 1979 Shawn played in The Streets recording studio demos with Andy Tanas on bass, Chris Craig on drums and Jimmy Henderson on guitar almost securing a deal with. [ ] At age fifteen Lane saw play guitar with the band, which inspired him to develop his own style of playing guitar. Lane also played in Savage Innocence with singer, guitarist Keith Plunk, keyboardist Billy Batte, drummer Chris Craig and bassist Kinley Wolfe who then played with.

Vyatta Virtualization Iso Vmware Workstation 7 there. Akasam Enatido Free Download Mp3. As the original members dropped out, Lane replaced them with players from his high school days. Lane began to play a style close to. During the 1980s and early 1990s, Lane played in The Willys, a band consisting of singer/keyboardist Sam Bryant, singer/bassist Rob Caudill and his brother, drummer Russ Caudill. The Caudill brothers had played in The Breaks with Susanne Jerome-Taylor. Lane also performed in the fusion band Out of Bounds, with Barry Bays and drummer Chuck Reynolds. Adulthood and piano [ ] From age eighteen to twenty-six, Lane studied music, composed music, and played piano.

In 1983 he became a father to a daughter named Ashley. [ ] Much of the material on Lane's first studio album,, was written on his home piano. He quickly developed his technique on the keyboard as well, taking influence from pianists such as, and. His demo tapes led Shawn to be sought out by and a recording contract with. Except for one cover song, Lane wrote all the material and played all the instruments on his debut album.

The album sold well and earned several magazine awards. Following its release in 1992, magazine named him 'Best New Talent' and placed him second in the 'Best Keyboard Player' category. During the production of the album, Lane continued to play live shows and do session work. On September 19, 1992, Lane played in Guitar Player Magazine's 25th anniversary concert at Warfield Theatre, San Francisco alongside, John Lee Hooker, Dick Dale, Jeff 'Skunk' Baxter, Adrian Belew, and others. He also performed on the Mark Varney Project's album along with,,,. To promote his album, he formed The Powers of Ten band with Barry Bays on bass, keyboardist Doug Scarborough, Todd Bobo on saxophone and drummer; they opened for 's US tour.

[ ] Lane released two more solo albums following his debut,, recorded live in 1993, and in 1999. Collaborations [ ]. This article may require to meet Wikipedia's. The specific problem is: paragraph spacing Please help if you can. (August 2014) () During 1994 Lane met bassist Jonas Hellborg. Lane and Hellborg played with drummer in HLS (Hellborg, Lane, Sipe).

Between 1994–1995, Lane played with D.D.T., a band consisting of Paul Taylor, and Cody Dickinson; the latter three would then form the. During this time Shawn developed curricula and taught at several European Conservatories including the American Institute of Music in Vienna alongside and Milan Polak [ ].

He also wrote columns for in Japan which were published between February 1995 and 1996. During 1996 Shawn also wrote columns for in their Over the Top series. Shawn also engineered and co-produced the album Red Reign by Steven Patrick from. In September 1995, Hellborg, Lane and drummer played with Chinese pop singer and the trio appeared as an opening act at many of China's largest musical venues. [ ] Lane played the Warsaw Summer Jazz Days festival on June 19, 1998 with Hellborg and. In 1998 Lane played the guitar solo on featuring and Chris LeDoux reaching number 68 on.

During May 1999 Lane played with drummer at the Disma Music show, Rimini, Italy. Later, Lane and Hellborg formed an East-West fusion band with Indian musicians and V. On April 19, 2002, HLS opened up for guitarist at the Variety Playhouse, Atlanta, GA. While in Memphis, Lane would play with the Time Bandits, with singer Regina Parker, steel guitarist Tony Sutton, drummer Steve Sutton and bassist Adam Sutton. In February 2003, Lane and Hellborg toured India with drummer Andrea Marchesini playing the Great Indian Rock Festival, Hamsadhwani Theatre, Pragati Maiden, New Delhi. Shawn played the Swedish Jazz Celebration Festival, Stockholm, on March 29, 2003 with Hellborg, V.

Umamahesh, V. Umashankar and Ramakrishnan. Lane's last concert performance was at Smilefest in North Carolina with Hellborg and Jim Britt on May 31, 2003.

In September 2003 Shawn Lane was preparing for a new album with Hellborg and. [ ] The Shawn Lane Memorial Concert was held on August 28, 2005, New Daisy Theatre, Memphis, TN celebrating the life and music of Shawn Lane featuring, Jimi Jamison,, Craig Erickson,, FreeWorld, and many others.

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I confess to once starting out with the intention of being able to play through all this at speed along with Mr Gambale, a few years ago, and that ambition fell by the wayside. Anyhow I've started on it again - the first time I looked at it, I'd only just started using a pick again, after playing with fingers exclusively for a fair few years. I think now my pick approach is a lot more settled and developed, so I hope I may do better with the 'Gambale challenge' and stick with it this time. Maybe I'm weird but I really like section 3 (starting at 9.24 on the video above) as a piece of music in it's own right - it just has a cool kind of sound that puts me in a good mood. You bring back memories with this Kris.

I bought this 9 years ago. It looked like fun but I never could consistently pick a pattern for very long without breaking down, making mistakes, getting discouraged, and losing interest. I may have to look for this again. It was fun and entertaining in a 'cheesy' way.

That was the 1980's for you!Speaking as someone who once tried this and kind of lost interest as well, I'm finding this time that I'm taking a bit more of a 'Zen' approach, and that seems to help. So each section is broken down into individual exercises, and I just take an exercise, and really delve into it, figuring out my best way to finger the notes, and taking it quite slow at first, and focusing on keeping my playing as clean and efficient as possible, and the picking really even. There's quite a meditative, or therapeutic aspect when working like this I find. One thing with the Chopbuilder is that Gambale's exercises use economy picking. If you don't economy pick you have to make adjustments.With respect, and I've watched the video quite closely (even at half speed), I think at least for the most part it's just straight alternate picking. One might expect him to use economy picking, but in this video he doesn't seem to - I guess he still thinks it's important to have a solid alternate picking foundation. There is a specific sweep picking section of course.

With respect, and I've watched the video quite closely (even at half speed), I think at least for the most part it's just straight alternate picking. One might expect him to use economy picking, but in this video he doesn't seem to - I guess he still thinks it's important to have a solid alternate picking foundation.

There is a specific sweep picking section of course.I have the tabs for the course. He uses economy picking a lot. The scale practice uses economy picking. That's his thing.

He can do it all though but his 'method' is economy. I think this is one reason he never got really popular with the teaching videos. Alternate picking is the norm.

I'm an FG fan. You just pick it the way you prefer.

It's just something to be aware of. His books 'Frank Gambale Technique 1 and 2' are quite good too. He's a very smart guy. After digging through my library, I finally fount the little booklet.

It brought back memories. I had only been playing a year or so when I bought it. I quit trying it because the fingering I was using was funky. For the first exercise after the warm-up, I was trying to use my pinky. I looked at the video and Frank and his buddies were shifting positions up and down the neck, using their strong fingers when possible. I tried it tonight and what a difference playing it with the shifting.

I am going to try and work it into my routine, since I am starting to get some free time here and there. It is fun and tests my ability to concentrate.

Most of these first exercises are indeed alternate picking, at least to my eyes looking at the video on my big screen TV so it ought to be fun as well. I have the tabs for the course. He uses economy picking a lot. The scale practice uses economy picking. That's his thing. He can do it all though but his 'method' is economy. I think this is one reason he never got really popular with the teaching videos.

Alternate picking is the norm. I'm an FG fan. You just pick it the way you prefer. It's just something to be aware of. His books 'Frank Gambale Technique 1 and 2' are quite good too.

He's a very smart guy. Fair enough @Drumbler - I've only worked on the first three sections, where he does seem to use alternate picking, even when moving between strings, and it may take me quite a while before I get onto any of the other parts. I am well aware of his economy and sweep picking expertise, and I think his chord work and compositions are very impressive as well. A great guitarist certainly! Into the bright future. The great wide open.' Poetically put @Vladan, and you capture the feeling that track has for me very well - optimistic, soaring above the clouds, the future full of possibility.

Incidentally, people are saying the video was made in the 1980s, hence the excusable hairstyle and fashion excesses, but I think it may actually have been early 90s - my evidence being that they are using Ibanez FGM model guitars, which were basically a variant of the S series that came out in that year. In fact two of the guitars appear to be the fixed bridge FGM 200 model, which apparently was released in 1994.

According to Wikipedia, the video was released in 1993: So a shocking example of 80s fashion trends lingering into the 90s it would seem, and I clearly have too much time on my hands to be researching such things, and should be practicing the exercises instead. Into the bright future.

The great wide open.' Poetically put @Vladan, and you capture the feeling that track has for me very well - optimistic, soaring above the clouds, the future full of possibility. Incidentally, people are saying the video was made in the 1980s, hence the excusable hairstyle and fashion excesses, but I think it may actually have been early 90s - my evidence being that they are using Ibanez FGM model guitars, which were basically a variant of the S series that came out in that year. In fact two of the guitars appear to be the fixed bridge FGM 200 model, which apparently was released in 1994. According to Wikipedia, the video was released in 1993: So a shocking example of 80s fashion trends lingering into the 90s it would seem, and I clearly have too much time on my hands to be researching such things, and should be practicing the exercises instead. So it was not released in the 80's?

I guess like many of us, he was stuck in his favorite period, and it was hard for him (and his disciples) to let the 80's go. Meggy, You are right, Chopbuilder was released in the early '90s. It's been re-released in 2002 and 2007 apparently.Ah, so that cover image ties in with the '94 release date for the FGM200 Ibanez model seen in the video, and Wikipedia would appear to be a year out saying 1993. There is some tongue-in-cheek, kitsch humour with the girls introducing each round, and at one point posing with guitars and pretending to play the exercises with Frank - so I suspect FG was playing up to that somewhat. I do find it a fun and inspiring video anyhow - I will have to check out his other releases and books.

I have one of those and for all the silly 80s styling it have a remarkably good clean sound. I know it was made for the hair metal crowd, but it is a good instrument. I sometimes think it would be fun to bring to a standards gig. As for the Gambale lesson I doubt I have the discipline to practice that as much as might benifit me.I confess I was perusing the bay yesterday looking at second hand s-series models. Some of the more recent ones have nice wood finishes, and I don't think would cause too much consternation at a standards gig even (as long as one avoided doing dive bombs etc. With the trem ).

So perhaps can be seen as a classic fusion guitar model - I guess that would be my justification for getting one, and I do sometimes think it would be nice to use a bit of subtle trem 'shading'. I've no doubt they were/are fine instruments. This might be a dumb question, kris, but how do you use the Youtube video during your exercises so can play the correct part and keep up? I am wondering if these exercises can be memorized. I am guessing they can if you take them a section at a time. What do you think?I'd be interested to know what kris thinks as well AlsoRan, but speaking for myself, I find it definitely has become a thing to memorise - I take it one exercise at a time, with the aforementioned slow at first 'Zen' approach, and after a bit of time, the exercise is inevitably commited to memory. And having a muscle memory developed for each exercise does seem to help with playing through a full section smoothly and cleanly.

Still very much a work in progress for me, but I can't really imagine being able to get to my goal of being able to play along with the video at speed, without memorising everything. One thing with the Chopbuilder is that Gambale's exercises use economy picking.

If you don't economy pick you have to make adjustments.You aroused my curiosity about the proper picking. I looked at the exercises and in titles some are labeled 'warm-up alternate picking.' As you advance and start doing little phrases, then it gets labeled differently. I know from looking at Frank's other videos that he uses his own brand of economy picking and sweep picking. It will be a challenge trying to figure out the picking that he wants you to use.

I at least have the video and can maybe pick out what he does. If I like it, I will copy him. If not, I will stick with my own ways. Last edited by AlsoRan; at 10:52 PM.