He has long been revered as one of the most technically astounding and musically gifted guitarists on the planet, but on his new album, The Elephants Of Mars, Joe Satriani set himself one heck of a challenge.
“I thought: I need to raise my own bar,” he says. “I want a Joe Satriani record to sound better, have better compositions, more interesting arrangements, and, somehow, I’ve got to get my playing to be better.”
In this mission, he stuck to five simple rules - as he outlines here...
Never ignore the gift of inspiration
Very often, a little cinematic reel starts to go off in my head. I was taught at a very early age never to let that go, never ignore the gift of inspiration because you can’t manufacture…