Michael Angelo Batio: ultimate guitar interview

News:
26-12-2008:
Michael Angelo Batio when asked about his days of learning Piano:

A lot because first up, I’m left handed and so I played piano right-handed as there were no left handed pianos. And since I played guitar right handed too, that’s what gave me the ability to do all this stuff because my left hand, the fret board hand, became the stronger hand. And it served me well really early on when I started playing shows at the age of ten, where I developed this whole show of playing over and under. But as I went on, I came to the realization that my right hand was very deficient. When I got to 14 years of age, it suddenly dawned on me that I had this super fast left hand but my right hand just sucked. So I spent two years developing my picking technique, with strict alternate picking. Literally, I’d play hour after hour to get my right hand to equal the left hand. But the piano playing helped a lot when it came to develop my technique on the double guitar as it enabled me to play two different parts at the same time.

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