Ahead of his UK tour, which begins on March 18 in London, Polish percussive fingerstyle virtuoso Marcin Patrzałek took a few moments to share his backstage warm-up routine with Guitar World.

I will forever be indebted to my parents for the gift of the guitar. My patient and kind mother encouraged me when I wanted to give up. She believed in my potential and pushed me to keep practising.

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I got sticky fingers. I thought, ‘What am I doing here?’ I was just too frightened.” “It was too big a moment with everyone looking at the guitar player,” he continued. “I couldn’t ...

Brian Setzer of the Stray Cats recently issued a sad update. He states that he was having trouble playing his guitar. It turns out that he has an auto-immune disease that prevents motion in his ...