Juanes: "If you want to be a good player, you need to practice every day, take your instrument everywhere. Sleep with it"

Juanes
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If you’ve caught the official trailer for Metallica’s upcoming Blacklist release – which sees no less than 53 artists tackling the 12 songs from their 1991 best-seller – you’ll have heard a somewhat more unusual take on Enter Sandman at the very beginning. 

That particular tribute is from one of Colombia’s best-selling singer-songwriters, Juanes, who began his career playing guitar in Medellin metal group Ekhymosis, before taking his rock roots to more mainstream avenues of noise. 

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Amit Sharma

Amit has been writing for titles like Total GuitarMusicRadar and Guitar World for over a decade and counts Richie Kotzen, Guthrie Govan and Jeff Beck among his primary influences as a guitar player. He's worked for magazines like Kerrang!Metal HammerClassic RockProgRecord CollectorPlanet RockRhythm and Bass Player, as well as newspapers like Metro and The Independent, interviewing everyone from Ozzy Osbourne and Lemmy to Slash and Jimmy Page, and once even traded solos with a member of Slayer on a track released internationally. As a session guitarist, he's played alongside members of Judas Priest and Uriah Heep in London ensemble Metalworks, as well as handled lead guitars for legends like Glen Matlock (Sex Pistols, The Faces) and Stu Hamm (Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, G3).