Kevin is the guitarist and composer of instrumental rock band Pyramids on Mars™. His music is hard rock, industrial, and metal infused with lead guitar melodies inspired by violin melodies of Baroque classical composers Bach & Vivaldi. In this lesson: A descending melody in the style of Yngwie Malmsteen using the Harmonic Minor scale. A focus once…
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Launch Party of International Times The official launch of the hippy activist International Times happened October 15, 1966, at London’s Roundhouse in the U.K. Pink Floyd appeared along with The Move, Denny Laine, Soft Machine, Yoko Ono, and a local West Indian steel band. They paid Pink Floyd £15 for the event. International Times was…
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Kevin is the guitarist and composer of the instrumental rock band Pyramids on Mars. A combination of elements of hard rock, industrial, and metal infused with lead guitar melodies inspired by violin melodies of Baroque classical composers J. S. Bach and Antonio Vivaldi. Kevin has always had a passion for UFOs, Extra-terrestrials. He spent over…
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October 14, 1969, was the day the New Jersey police issued a warrant for Frank Sinatra’s arrest. The warrant was in relation to his connections with the Mafia. Sinatra got his first break in 1935 when his mother persuaded a local singing group, the 3 Flashes, to let him join. They later became…
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“No more fan mail and no objects to be signed. Nothing.” was the message Ringo Starr gave fans on October 13, 2008. He had just finished the US and Canadian tours and was dividing his time between Los Angeles, the South of France, and his UK home in Surrey. Ringo Starr secretly quit The Beatles…
Read MoreTrivia October 10 In 1902 they formed the Gibson Mandolin Guitar Company. Gibson’s first electric guitar, the ES-150, released in 1936. In 1946 Gibson introduced the P-90 single-coil pickup, used on the first Les Paul model made in 1952. The Quarry Men played at the Casbah Coffee Club, Liverpool in 1959. Ken Brown, suffering from…
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Today John Lennon would celebrate year 80. Lennon was a singer, songwriter, and guitarist who for most of his career was in the band The Beatles, The Beatles sold over 20m singles in the UK from 1962 to 1970. They scored more UK & US No.1 albums than any other group. Their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper…
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Kevin Estrella spent two years listening and studying Yngwie’s music. Having put that much dedication, he has deep insight into his technique, style, and much more. In this lesson, the diminished ricochet in the style of Yngwie Malmsteen. A diminished riff in the style of Yngwie Malmsteen. However, there is something subtle about it that makes it…
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Kevin Estrella spent two years listening and studying Yngwie’s music. Having put that much dedication, he has deep insight into his technique, style, and much more. In this lesson, the diminished ricochet in the style of Yngwie Malmsteen. A diminished riff in the style of Yngwie Malmsteen. However, there is something subtle about it that makes it…
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This week in 1971, breakthrough album Led Zeppelin II entered its 100th chart week in the UK. The album twice knocked The Beatles’ Abbey Road from a top US spot. It remained No. 1 in the US for seven weeks. Pre-release orders were at 400,000. The album was released on October 22, 1969. It was…
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