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| This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.This article does not cite any references or sources.Frank Gambale (born December 22, 1958) is an Australian jazz fusion guitarist.Biography
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He graduated from the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) in Hollywood with Student of the Year honors.That began a 6 year stint with Corea's band and he participated in 5 albums, sharing in a Grammy award and two Grammy Nominations.In 1986 he signed an endorsement deal with Ibanez guitars which spawned the Frank Gambale model guitar which was sold worldwide starting in 1987.Yamaha also manufactured a Frank Gambale model guitar after he left Ibanez.Live Bootlegs," along with a duet CD with Maurizio Colonna, the Italian classical guitarist, called "Imagery Suite."Gambale also recorded one album for Steve Vai's record company, Favored Nations, called "Coming To Your Senses"
He has also been a member of Vital Information since 1988.The group includes drummer Steve Smith, keyboardist Tom Coster and bassist Baron Browne.In addition to concert recordings he also released a concert DVD called "Concert With Class."What kind of picks do you use?What are your top ten favorite and influential albums of all time?What do you think are the most important things to practice?What strings do you use?How long did you work with Chick?How many albums did you do with the Elektric Band?Sweeping is a picking technique which has been around about as long as guitar has been around.While this a good and standard technique, it is certainly not the most practical or efficient in all circumstances.Sweeping is a combination of alternate and sweeping techniques.It is impossible to sweep on one string!!!So, on a single string, one still need to alternate pick.Lots of guitarists played one or two small sweep licks but that was it.It is as important as alternate picking and tapping and should be part of any good guitarists playing arsenal.This guitar was the result of one and a half years of hard work with Dave Cervantes, a brilliant luthier at Yamaha Custom Shop.The strings pass though the block and the vibrations return to the neck.It's the first thing you notice when you plug the guitar in.The guitar is perfect except for one slight nick.They usually sound bigger and fuller than larger bodied acoustics.An Ovation Elite, which is about 10 years old now is on most of my earlier recordings.Coral sitar guitar These are just a few of my favourite things.Force go to the input of the power amp.Then stereo speaker outs to the box.What kind of picks do you use?All three sides are the same so you get three picks for the price of one!!!All the Steely Dan albums.Crosby, Stills and Nash.Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper.What do you think are the most important things to practice?Dorian if you already know it.Dorian will still be there when you get back!!Learn something new every time you sit down to practice.Always practice with a drum machine or a sequencer and feel the pulse and synchronize yourself with it.On my new Yamaha signature series guitar I have gone to a standard 10, 13, 17, 26, 36, 46 set.What was it like playing with Chick Corea in the Elektric Band?It was an experience akin to learning and being in the influence of a great master.Labour Day in October 1986.When I auditioned, I played like there was no tomorrow.It was then that I knew my life would change forever.How long did you work with Chick?Don't get me wrong, both these guys have amazing chops, but they know when to use them, that's the difference.He was a student at the Guitar Institute of ...Want More Frank Gambale?What: Her energy infused Sessions performance.SiteCatalyst code version: H.Plugin: Days since last Visit 1.Frank Gambale (read more)
38,001 plays scrobbled on Last.John Mayall, and Eric Clapton.Steely Dan, The Brecker Brothers and Chick Corea, which pointed him in a jazzy direction.He graduated with the highest honor, Student of the Year, and was offered a teaching position which he kept for four years.Legato and began his recording career.Chick helped expose Frank to the world, for which he is grateful.That same year, Ibanez guitars approached him to endorse their guitar, which culminated in a long relationship and spawned the Frank Gambale model guitar, which was first on sale worldwide in 1987.There has been four versions of this guitar to date: the FGM100, FGM200, FGM300 and FGM400.In 1988, Frank signed his major label deal with JVC.Add this track to your playlist
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while ((s.Following that logic, Frank Gambale is an ax murderer.Some purists feel that loud electric guitars killed jazz.Following that logic, Frank Gambale is an ax murderer.Spectrum Band, the GHS trio (with Smith and Stu Hamm), and as a solo artist.The guitarist now maintains complete artistic control of his work by releasing it on his own Wombat label.Palm Springs, California, Gambale can be found at the Los Angeles Academy of Music teaching the next generation of guitarists how to build solid foundations for their own careers.We were into country music such as the Dillards and Jerry Reed.What inspired your recent acoustic renaissance?Italian classical guitar player named Maurizio Colonna, whom I met through Ibanez guitars.As a fusion guitar player, that was a bit of a blow from left field.Why did you choose to work sans drummer on Natural High?There is some percussion on a few tracks, but there was a lot more before.Charlie Parker, but I was inspired by a video of saxophonists Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh, who used to play together with pianist Lennie Tristano.On the video they play these amazing heads that are almost like solos written out and played together.Have You Met Miss Jones?What was the recording situation?My engineer, Robert Biles, recorded the album live to Pro Tools at his studio.Yamaha cut a custom nut for me with more even string spacing.What picks do you use to play acoustic?What aspects of your playing were you concentrating on the most while working on the Natural High material?The trickiest part was keeping the time locked during the solos.How are you planning on dealing with the challenges of amplifying the acoustic?What made you decide to tackle the responsibility of running your own record label, and what joys and difficulties have your encountered doing it?They inspire me and show me that a lot of kids out there still want to be phenomenal musicians.Hendrix inspired me to want to play.What continues to inspire you about playing jazz?But Chick Corea has always been my inspiration.By the age of 15, I had 40 students.Guitar Player is a trademark of New Bay Media, LLC.Frank Gambale
Frank began playing guitar at age 7 in Canberra, Australia where he was born
and raised.In 1982 at 23 he decided to leave his home to study at the
Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) in Hollywood.He graduated with the highest
honor, Student of the Year and was offered a teaching position which he kept for
4 years.During that time he was playing the local jazz club circuit with his
own band and already had his first book "Speed Picking" published.In 1986 he
signed a 3 album contract with a small label called Legato and began his
recording career.Chick helped expose Frank
to the world, for which he is very grateful, "playing with Chick was like dream
come true" says Frank.That same year Ibanez guitars approached him to endorse their guitar which
culminated in a long relationship and spawned the Frank Gambale model guitar
which was first on sale worldwide in 1987.They made 4 versions of the guitar,
the FGM100, FGM200, FGM300 and FGM400.In 1988, Frank signed a major label deal with JVC.Japanese Jazz charts along with all his three Legato
releases in the top 10 at the same time.In 1992, Frank
decided it was time to go out there on his own and has been touring with his
group ever since.He has toured in many countries with his own band including
Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Australia, Germany, Switzerland, Japan and the U.He
has done countless seminars and master classes worldwide to countries as far
away as South Africa and Uruguay.The school is a great success
and is an inspirational place for guitarists the world over.He teaches one,
sometimes 2 full day a week at the school when he is in town and maintains the
guitar department, and chose the teachers.Muschamp is a longtime
friend of Gambale and Gambale solos on every song.Gambale also has signed a 2 album deal with Steve Vai's new record company
called Favored Nations.Frank has also been with the group Vital Information for 13 years.With this group Frank has performed on and contributed songs to over 7
albums.Another side project has been 3 trio recordings with bassist Stu Hamm and
drummer Steve Smith on Mike Varney's Tone Center records.The third one is due
out in a few months and is simply called GHS 3.Frank has recently left Ibanez for a new deal with Yamaha guitars and a new
Frank Gambale model is out designed by FG and Dave Cervantes with some input
also from Ken Dapron at YGD ( Yamaha Guitar Design ) in North Hollywood.There is also a new contract with Carvin to design a preamp, combo amp and
amp head.There is also
90 minutes of instructional material related to the performance part.The latest project is in celebration of Chick Corea's 60th birthday, the
Elektric Band is planning reunion tours with the first show being at the
Hollywood Bowl Aug 28th.The band
consists of Chick Corea, Frank Gambale, Dave Weckl, John Patitucci and Eric
Marienthal.Normally, when I am
preparing myself to listen to Frank Gambale, I have to gain my
composure and resolve for an overload on my senses.But, this
time around with Coming To Your Senses,
Frank Gambale has truly come up with some music that will delight
your senses without the overload.Normally upon listening to a
Frank Gambale album, I am inspired to stop playing guitar because
I see the futility in the long hours of practice for me.But,
this time around, Frank Gambale has inspired me to abandon all
hopes of composition, as well as to stop my guitar playing.This
is what truly great music is all about...So, what is it that I find
about Coming To Your Senses
that is so satisfying?Well, Frank Gambale's ludicrous guitar
talent is known widely; this is no secret.But, what was
surprising to me about Coming To Your Senses
was the attention given to thematic development and listener
accessibility.Frank Gambale has tightened the reigns on this
effort and pulled himself in a little ways from the extreme
fusion guitar mauling that characterize a lot of his efforts.But, the satisfaction
derived from the compromise in Gambale's flamboyent guitar
mastery and a solid baseline of quality themes, is because with
this music you are getting both.It is just that the guitar speed
and eccentricity are not the focus, but instead more of a tool it
seems.The chordal arrangements and
rhythms explore some really interesting and soulful ideas in
harmonization.And, the harmonization explored, though very
complex and intricate, achieves something very uncommon for this
level of sophistication...And, this is
the genius in Coming To Your Senses.Gambale's
normal base of hardcore jazz fusion guitarists and musicians into
a broader listener audience, while still keeping the respect of
his loyal, educated audience...The
production and instrumentation are very tactful.The improvisation is nothing less than you would
expect from Gambale, but is tightly integrated with the themes.My scheme to obtain
objectivity in my music reviews by putting a bunch of CDs
randomly into my disc changer so I wouldn't know which one I was
listening was blown to smitherenes by GHS3.There just is no mistaking the guitar work of the phenomenal
Frank Gambale.Gambale is in extraordinary form on GHS3.This effort from the superhuman trio exceeded all expectations
that I may have had prior to listening.Simply put, this album is
astounding.The balance of speed, melodicity, harmonization, and
signature chordal voicings a la sweep picking will be found
demoralizing to the most staunch guitar technicians.The direction that Gambale
is taking on his last few efforts makes one think that they are
witnessing the making of the classics of the future and are
living in times that will be recounted as legendary when people
later reflect upon the great albums that Gambale is producing.There is no other way to put it... |
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