Guitar Addiction -album released

Guitar Euro Media has released it’s grand project: Guitar Addiction. This album is a proof that it si possible include 60 fabulous musicians on one album. Mr. Fastfinger did his thing on two tracks on this CD. On “The End of The World” the lead guitar parts are shared among Dave Martone, Milan Polak and Mr. Fastfinger. On “Junkie Foot” sensei handles the outro reggae solo. This is the album to listen this summer holiday. Get the album and run to the beach!

GuitarEuroMedia (GuitarEuroShop’s Productions section) is very proud to present you the album “Guitar Addiction – A Tribute To Modern Guitar” ! This awesome project is the result of a long and hard work that has make it possible to unit more than 60 of the most talented musicians of our time !!

The list of guests is long

Alberto Rigoni (Twinspirits, solo)
Alex Ehrsam
Alfonso Roca
Atma Anur (drums on 5 tracks)
Ayman
Aymeric Silvert
Benoit Pol
Brett Garsed
Charly Sahona (Venturia, solo)
Christophe Godin
Cyril Achard
Daniele Gottardo
Dave Martone
David Valdes
Enrico Galetta
Eric Bricout
Fabrizio Leo
Franck Karmattitude
Gowy
Guitarsnake
Guthrie Govan
Jean Fontanille
Jeff Kollman (Cosmoquad, solo)
Joe Stump
Joop Walters
Karl KB
Kenny Serane
Kermheat
Lars Eric Mattson
Loran Saulus (Alive Inc)
Manu Livertout
Marcel Coenen
Marco Sfogli
Martin Motnik
Mattias Eklundh (Freak Kitchen, solo)
Michael Angelo Batio
Michael Manring
Mika “Mr. Fastfinger” Tyyskä
Milan Polak
Mistheria
Pat O’May
Patrick Amar (contest winner)
Paul-Alain Fontaine (keyboards)
Pierrejean Gaucher
Richard Hallebeek
Rob Balducci
Roland Gassin
Ron Thal “Bumblefoot” (Guns’n Roses, solo)
Roo
Roland Grapow (Masterplan, Helloween)
Sebastien Lanceau (Alive Inc)
Stuart Hamm (Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Frank Gambale..)
Theodore Ziras
Thomas Bressel
Tommy Ermolli (Twinspirits, solo)
Tristan Klein
Victor Lafuente
Vincent Fabre (drums on 3 tracks)
Yann Armellino
Yannick Robert

GUITAR ADDITION at Guitar Euro Shop. For each sells 2 euros will go to the Red Cross Organisation.

GuitareXtreme – Interview and video

Salute!
This goes to all our French friends: Check out the march/april issue of GuitareXtreme with Gary Moore on cover (R.I.P.). Magazine has an interview with Mika. In addition the DVD has a special guitar solo and some playing ideas shared by Mika himself. Merci beaucoup!
GuitareXtrememag.com/

FME Hughes & Kettner demo

We had plenty of fun showcasing Hughes & Kettner Triamp last night at Finnish Metal Expo. Mr. Mika and Mr. Fastfinger did their thing at the F-music demo stage. Duo performed 4 pieces. Exploding Solo (as a little warm up), ThunderPantz (from the next album), Big Trummors and Unravel (also from the next album).
Later we joined our forces with the demoist Mr. Crab and got the great rhythm company  of Lasse Rantanen on bass (Mr. Fastfinger Band) and Mikko Huovila on drums. Together we did Wax on – Wax off, Tapping Boogie and one song by Mr. Crab. Uuuh, that was very good and the energy was enormous!
Thank you to Pauli and F-musiikki for this great experience!

Guitar 9 – 2010 chart super ding-dong!

This is  double chart super ding dong!
Whoouw! Just saw the guitar 9.com record selling charts for the whole year of 2010. Mr. Fastfinger’s The Way of the Exploding Guitar reached number 2 in Rock -category and number 5 in Hard Rock -category. And in addition Melodic Soloist compilation with track Epic included reached no 2 in Hard Rock and no 7 in Shred. Huge thanks to all CD buyers at Guitar 9 and else where. You should really see your selves as supporters. When you buys a CD,  you help us continue. The support is VERY important! And I can tell you, even though the CD hits charts like this, the number of copies being sold isn’t earth shaking. I honour and am thankful for each CD sold. It really seems that not many buys music anymore.
Anyways, We respect this moment!

Mika & Fastfinger

Mr. Fastfinger and Guitar Pro 6

Mr. Fastfinger proudly signed an endorsment with Guitar Pro. This is the same software Mika has been using for creating all tablature transcriptions on Guitar Shred Show.com and Mr. Fastfinger.net since day one! If you never checked out the software you should! Mika uses it when working on new songs or writing educational material for workshop. It’s also a very important practising tool. New version 6 doesn’t only look better than before, it also sounds better. And it’s super fast :)

Download Exploding Solo – Guitar Pro file! Go to the Guitar-pro.com site,  you can have the accurate transcription + audio for free. You can slow it down as slow as you like. And loop the bars as need. The perfect way to master this solo. Shred and roll!

If you’re new to Guitar Pro 6, or haven’t checked the latest version. It definetly worth checking out!

Mr. Fastfinger – H&K demo at FME

Mr. Fastfinger & Mika will be doing a Hughes & Kettner demos (F-musiikki stage) at FME (Finnish Metal Expo) Helsinki in february 18.2. One or more new songs from the next album will be played! After the demos we shall do a jamming session with Mr. Crab (super guitar player, who is also doing demos). Mikko Huovila and Madu on drums and bass. This will be fun!
Details later…

Guitar Addiction -competition

Franck Ribiere from  Guitar Euro Media is producing a very cool guitar CD titled “Guitar Addiction”. The CD will be featuring a huge amount of great musicians and guitarists.  Here’s some of the players involved:

Brett Garsed
Ron Thal “Bumblefoot”
Charly Sahona (Venturia)
Christophe Godin
Cyril Achard
Dave Martone
Jennifer Batten
Kiko Loureiro
Lars Eric Mattson
Manu Livertout
Marco Sfogli
Pierre-Jean Gaucher
Rob Balducci
Roland Grapow (Masterplan, Helloween)

Mr. Fastfinger has also contiributed some his tasty licks to this soup. Now Franck has a competition going on, it’s your chance to appear on the CD. Showcase your guitar playing skills to the world by entering this online You Tube contest. Go to YouTube for more details!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3F8hgTAuVE

Get in touch with Mr. Fastfinger on Facebook

Mr. Fastfinger now has a offical Facebook page. Please, beware of the other fast fingers out there. This is the way to your sensei >

New website design

The whole design of MrFastfinger.net has been updated and most important we are now running on WordPress CMS system. Everything is not much readable and accessable. Most important my own news / blog / lesson updating will be so much easier from now on.Oh and there’s a brand new “Action Guitar Blog” it’s about the making of the new Mr. Fastfinger album.

Old “Guitar Blog” has been turned into “Lessons”. Everything is slighlty re-organized. And it doesn’t mean we are not updating it. We shall keep new lessons and transcriptions coming.

Guitar Shred Show.com – 5 Years!

Incredible! it was 5 YEARS ago today when Guitar Shred Show.com was published. Indeeed Mr. Fastfinger devastated the guitar scene in 2005. Mysterious sensei and his his adventurous guitar lessons made millions of people jam the boogie all over the planet. Worldwide respect from guitar players was recieved and the website won many important multimedia awards globally.
 But this was just the beginning. Too many things to list here. Check out the history of www.MrFastfinger.net news.

To celebrate the 5 years of Guitar Shred Show I’m giving you this present. EXPLODING SOLO full tablature >

I wish to thank all the Fastfinger’s friends and fans, supporters and the companies I’ve been fortunate to work together with. THANK YOU! It’s been awesome and unbelievable five years. Let’s make the next five years even better!

Guitar Shred Show.com is still here online:
http://www.guitarshredshow.com/main.html

P.S. Mr. Fastfinger’s next album is in preproduction. Strong material! Keep focused…