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Prog-Gnosis: Examining the Two-Hand Tapping and Odd-Meter Phrasing in "Isolated Incidents"

Posted 05/21/2013 at 1:15pm | by Tosin Abasi

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The following content is related to the July 2013 issue of Guitar World. For the full range of interviews, features, tabs and more, pick up the new issue on newsstands now, or in our online store.

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Prog-Gnosis: Roller-Coaster Ride — Seven-String Arpeggios

Posted 05/21/2013 at 1:13pm | by Tosin Abasi

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The following content is related to the June 2013 issue of Guitar World. For the full range of interviews, features, tabs and more, pick up the new issue on newsstands now, or in our online store.

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Prog-Gnosis: Turn On the Heat — Effective Ways to Warm Up Both Hands

Posted 04/08/2013 at 5:02pm | by Tosin Abasi

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The following content is related to the May 2013 issue of Guitar World. For the full range of interviews, features, tabs and more, pick up the new issue on newsstands now, or in our online store.

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NAMM 2013 Video: Tosin Abasi of Animals As Leaders Introduces His Signature Ibanez TAM100 Guitar

Posted 02/01/2013 at 2:31pm | by Damian Fanelli

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Here's a Guitar World video from the 2013 Winter NAMM Show, which took place January 24 to 27 in Anaheim, California. During the gear-filled weekend, we paid a visit to the Ibanez booth to check out several new guitars. On Thursday afternoon at NAMM, guitarist Tosin Abasi of Animals As Leaders introduced the NAMM crowd to his new signature Ibanez TAM100 8-string guitar.

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Prog-Gnosis: More on Playing in 6/4, and Part 2 of My Hybrid-Picked Arpeggios in “David”

Posted 01/30/2013 at 1:37pm | by Tosin Abasi

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The following content is related to the March 2013 issue of Guitar World. For the full range of interviews, features, tabs and more, pick up the new issue on newsstands now, or in our online store.

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Prog-Gnosis: Playing in 6/4, and the Hybrid-Picked Arpeggios in “David”

Posted 01/18/2013 at 12:06pm | by Tosin Abasi

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In my last column, I discussed my penchant for employing odd meters in much of the music I write for Animals as Leaders, using the song “Cylindrical Sea” as an example. While “Cylindrical Sea” moves back and forth freely between 7/8, 5/8 and 6/8 time signatures, the idea was not simply to write a tune for the sake of complexity.

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NAMM 2013: DiMarzio Introduces Ionizer 8 Pickups Designed for Tosin Abasi of Animals As Leaders

Posted 01/17/2013 at 3:14pm | by Damian Fanelli

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In January, DiMarzio will release its three new Ionizer 8 pickups, all of which were designed for Animals As Leaders guitarist Tosin Abasi's new signature 8-string Ibanez guitar. The pickups are two years in the making.

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Prog-Gnosis: How to Play the Thumb-Slapped Intro to "An Infinite Regression"

Posted 01/02/2013 at 12:40pm | by Tosin Abasi

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This month, I’d like to demonstrate how I play the intro to “An Infinite Regression,” the opening track from the latest Animals as Leaders album, Weightless. This part features a very unusual and unique “double-thumbing” technique that, I believe, was pioneered by the great jazz bassist Victor Wooten. As usual, all of the licks in this column are arranged for seven-string guitar (low to high, B E A D G B E), though I play the part on an eight-string.

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Periphery's Misha Mansoor Working on New Animals as Leaders Album

Posted 12/07/2012 at 1:06pm | by Josh Hart

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Animals as Leaders' latest release, Weightless, was a bit of a stylistic departure from the band's self-titled debut, thanks in big part to a full-band dynamic that wasn't present with Tosin Abasi and Periphery guitarist Misha Mansoor hammered together the first album.

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Prog-Gnosis: Making Odd Meters Feel Natural, and How to Play “Cylindrical Sea”

Posted 12/04/2012 at 12:12pm | by Tosin Abasi

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A signature element in the songwriting techniques I use with my band Animals as Leaders is the incorporation of unusual time signatures, also known as odd meters. In the quest for fresh-sounding new music, we will often superimpose different meters and/or syncopations on top of one another, a technique explored to great extent by many of today’s progressive rock and metal bands, such as Periphery, Dillinger Escape Plan and, of course, Meshuggah.

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