Rusty Cooley: rock house interview

News:
14-04-2009:
Rusty Cooley is interviewed by Curt from Rockhouse blog.

Rusty Cooley:

No, I’m self taught. I tried lessons a couple times with different teachers but I just couldn’t get into that aspect. The problem was that I started playing guitar right when the whole shred guitar thing happened. It was Randy Rhodes and Yngwie and Vai and all those shrapnel guys. The problem was all the guitar players that I was listening to, and none of the teachers could play like that on a local level. So there was nobody around that cold teach me what I wanted to play.



So I ended up teaching myself how to play. There wasn’t anything on-line thing back then so I learned through a mail order course, which was Metal Method. I taught myself through that for like the first 3 or 4 years of playing guitar. I studied and mastered everything they put out. From there I went on and continued to study books and videos. The books back then came with cassettes. I went on to take music theory in high school and I took some music theory in college, but aside from that it was all just pretty much just at home, hard core working and practicing and studying on my own.

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