Dave Celentano

Bio:

Dave Celentano is one of the industries hottest and most sought-after guitar instructors and has been teaching for over 20 years. A graduate from Musicians Institute, Dave is proficient in many styles of music including rock, blues, heavy metal, jazz, and classical, and specializes in multi-finger tapping, sweep picking, music theory, and reading music. Having published over 30 instructional books, videos, DVDs, and CDs, Dave has a prolific creative output unseen by most of todays published guitarists.

What others are saying:

"Dave Celentano is in the top 1% of two hand tapping guitarists and his style outshines most of the top rated guitarists since the 80's." - CHET THOMPSON (Lead guitarist with Hellion and producer)

"When I met Dave many years ago he was one of my most inspired students. Little did I know that his musical and teaching abilities would soar to the heights that theyve come to now" - MARTY FRIEDMAN (former lead guitarist with Megadeth)

"I met Dave while he was compiling material for his first instructional book The Magic Touch. I was impressed with his sincerity and enthusiasm for teaching"- WOLF MARSHALL

Dave's instructional tools have received excellent reviews:

"G.I.T. graduate and former student of Marty Friedman, Dave shows you everything you ever wanted to know about modes in his book Modal Jams And Theory"-GUITAR SCHOOL magazine

GUITAR WORLD (Jan. 04) listed Dave's Best of the Allman Brothers Signature Licks instructional DVD as one of the top seventy five essential guitar DVDs.

MUSICIAN'S FRIEND mail order catalog listed Dave's 'Flying Fingers' as one of their top selling instructional books.

Dave was featured in GUITAR PLAYER magazine's 'Spotlight' column (May '91)

Check out DAVECELENTANO.COM for more information on his CD Guitar Stew, and his line of guitar instructional books, videos and DVD's.

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Member Since:

May 25, 2006

Members:

Dave Celentano

Influences:

Eddie Van Halen, Marty Friedman, Jason Becker, Paul Gilbert, Joe Satriani, Jennifer Batten, Michael Angelo Batio, J.S.Bach, Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, John Petrucci, Michael Schenker, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Burrell, Django Reinhardt, Peter Green, Michael Bloomfield, Johnny Winter, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and every other serious musician/guitar player that kicks ass.

Sounds Like:

Instrumental Rock/Metal with high octane guitars

Record Label:

Elephant Symphony, Inc. Records