Troy Stetina (born November 16, 1963) is an American guitarist and music educator with more than forty rock and metal instructional methods to his credit, and total sales currently over 1 million units. He was the director of

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and writer for '' GuitarOne'' magazine, and now teaches independently.

Early years

Stetina grew up in

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, the youngest in a family of

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cyclists, including his brothers Wayne, Dale and Joel, and won several national medals as a teenager. Stetina's mother, an accomplished

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, supported his interest in music, and at age 12 she bought him a $60 beginner guitar and little practice amp. Following formative stints in Private Wave and Wraith, Stetina started giving private guitar lessons part-time at a local music store and found he had a knack for teaching. When a chance meeting with

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author/editor Will Schmid occurred at the store, an opportunity to write a heavy-metal instructional method materialized. His first effort was never published due to copyright issues. His second attempt resulted in the highly successful ''Heavy Metal Rhythm Guitar'' (Volumes 1 & 2) in 1986, and ''Heavy Metal Lead Guitar'' in 1987. The same year the first book was released, Stetina joined the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music, in

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. Although he eventually became Director of the Rock Guitar department, he left in the early 1990s to finally pursue a career as a recording artist.

''Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar''

''Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar'' () is a guitar tutorial book by Stetina first published in 1990. It is designed to teach lead guitar techniques, how to practice and encourage evolving creativity. It is split into three sections Mechanics, Rhythm and Creativity. It Includes a rock version of " Flight of the Bumblebee" by

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, "Caprice No. 10" by

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and "Prelude in D" by

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Associated bands

*Private Wave *Wraith *Titan *Second Soul *Dimension X *Exottica

Guitar lessons: book, book/CD & DVD

Troy Stetina Series guitar lessons: *Metal Rhythm Guitar Volume 1 *Metal Rhythm Guitar Volume 2 *Speed & Thrash Guitar Method *Metal Lead Guitar Primer *Metal Lead Guitar Volume 1 *Metal Lead Guitar Volume 2 *Metal Guitar Tricks *Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar *Fretboard Mastery *Secrets to Writing Killer Metal Songs *Total Rock Guitar *The Ultimate Scale Book *The Ultimate Barre Chord Guide *Left-Handed Guitar *Beginning Rock Rhythm Guitar - DVD *Beginning Rock Rhythm Guitar - VHS *Beginning Rock Rhythm Guitar - book (English) *Beginning Rock Rhythm Guitar - book (Spanish) *Beginning Rock Lead Guitar - DVD *Beginning Rock Lead Guitar - VHS *Beginning Rock Lead Guitar - book (English) *Beginning Rock Lead Guitar - book (Spanish) *Troy Stetina's Guitar Lessons: Hard Rock *Troy Stetina's Guitar Lessons: Funk Rock *Acoustic Rock *The Very Best of Ozzy Osbourne (with Randy Rhoads, Jake E. Lee & Zakk Wylde) *Best of Foo Fighters *Best of Rage Against The Machine *Best of Black Sabbath *Best of Black Sabbath - DVD *Best of Aggro-Metal *Deep Purple Greatest Hits *Modern Rock - DVD *Hard Rock - DVD * The Best of Joe Satriani by Dale Turner (Troy Stetina recorded all of the music on the accompanying CD) *Dream Theater - Signature Licks *Speed Mechanics for Drums *Speed and thrash metal drum method (with Charlie Bushor)

Books

*Troy Stetina Series

References

External links

Stetina.com

Hal Leonard Corporation - Publisher of the Troy Stetina Series guitar methods
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