Bio

Troy Stetina is an internationally recognized guitarist and music educator.

• Author of over 40 instructional guitar book/CD and DVD methods for Hal Leonard Corporation, including Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar, Fretboard Mastery and the Metal Rhythm Guitar and Metal Lead Guitar Series, which have sold over 1 million copies worldwide.
   
• Sought after workshop clinian and music educator.
   
• Guitarist and producer for Second Soul, Troy's modern hard rock band featuring vocalist Scott Yanke. Click to listen to the new Second Soul album "Beyond the Infinite".
   
• Guitarist on 2007 Dimension X "Implications of a Genetic Defense" (Unicorn Records), and solo guitar artist on Troy Stetina "Exottica" (ModRock Records, 2000).
   
• Runs Artist Underground recording studio in the Milwaukee area.
   
• Private guitar coach to high profile artists.
   
• Main formative influences: Randy Rhoads, Van Halen, Beethoven, Paganini, and all 70s and 80s guitarists. Current Influences: Modern rock, metal, classical, movie soundtracks...anything that's well done."
   
• Formerly "Return of the Shred" columnist for GuitarOne magazine and Director of Rock Guitar Studies at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music.