Mark Tremonti | Guitar World

Paul Reed Smith performs onstage with Alter Bridge

Watch Paul Reed Smith join Alter Bridge onstage – and blow Myles Kennedy away with his guitar’s sustain

By Michael Astley-Brown published 14 February 23

The highly respected guitar builder for both Kennedy and Mark Tremonti lent some bluesy licks to Rise Today during a recent performance in Maryland

Mark Tremonti recalls his experiences playing a Kemper onstage with Alter Bridge – and explains why he didn’t stick with it

By Matt Owen published 27 January 23

The Kemper Profiler only lasted half a tour before Tremonti decided to switch back to his tried-and-trusted PRS MT 100

Mark Tremonti was asked to try out for Pantera – here’s why he declined

By Matt Parker published 4 January 23

“You have to be a certain type of personality” to fill Dimebag’s shoes, notes the Alter Bridge guitarist

Watch Mark Tremonti give away his guitar to a young fan

By Matt Parker published 28 November 22

The guitarist handed over his PRS after spotting the girl in the front row of a recent Alter Bridge show

Alter Bridge: “One of the hardest dances to do is to make something heavy and technical and still emotional at the same time”

By Ellie Rogers published 24 November 22

Mark Tremonti and Myles Kennedy on making Alter Bridge's heaviest album yet with a PRS Tele-a-like, an impossible number of guitar picks and not one but two Dumble amps

Mark Tremonti embarked on a quest to “try every pick ever made” in a bid to improve his tone – and reveals the one that “made a huge difference”

By Sam Roche published 28 October 22

“The pick is the thing that you’re interacting most with on your guitar,” the Alter Bridge man muses

Alter Bridge: “By learning how to turn down the noise in my brain, I can centre in on the music”

By Australian Guitar published 28 October 22

As they wade through the waters of the new world around them, Alter Bridge have grown a new appreciation for their art, and developed new perspectives for how they should approach it

It doesn't look like Mark Tremonti's Explorer-style PRS will be getting a full production release

By Matt Owen published 12 September 22

The Alter Bridge man explains what's stopping the radical model from hitting guitar stores

Myles Kennedy, Wolfgang Van Halen and Mark Tremonti

Alter Bridge partner with Mammoth WVH for North American 2023 tour

By Matt Owen published 23 August 22

The 30-date, two-leg tour will kick off on January 25 and conclude April 1, and will follow the pair's 2022 European tour with Halestorm

Alter Bridge unleash destructive dual-guitar action in explosive new single, Silver Tongue

By Matt Owen published 3 August 22

In the second song shared from forthcoming studio album Pawns & Kings, Mark Tremonti decommissions the guitar solos to go all in with Myles Kennedy on the riffs

Myles Kennedy (left) and Mark Tremonti perform with Alter Bridge at Afas Live, Amsterdam, Netherlands, on December 10, 2019

Alter Bridge announce new album, Pawns & Kings, premiere hard-hitting title track

By Jackson Maxwell published 18 July 22

The band's seventh full-length effort is set for release this October

Mark Tremonti says Myles Kennedy wrote “the heaviest riffs” on the upcoming Alter Bridge album

By Matt Owen published 12 July 22

“He's an amazing guitar player. He's got one of the best vibratos of any guitar player I've ever heard,” Tremonti said of his bandmate

Ed Sheeran, Steve Vai, Stevie Ray Vaughan and B.B. King

10 pro guitarists who broke strings onstage – and how they recovered

By Jonathan Horsley published 24 May 22

The rock royals, pop icons and blues heroes who kept their cool in the heat of battle and styled it out even after going a string down...

Mark Tremonti announces Frank Sinatra covers album in support of the National Down Syndrome Society

By Sam Roche published 21 March 22

The charity album is inspired by the Alter Bridge guitarist's daughter Stella, who was born with Down syndrome last year

Christian Andreu, Myles Kennedy, Mark Tremonti and Alexi Laiho

The 10 best guitar riffs of 2021

By Jonathan Horsley last updated 22 December 21

The riffs that induced the most involuntary – and voluntary – head-banging over the past 12 months, as voted for by you

Jake Kiszka, John Mayer, Wolfgang Van Halen and Jenn Wasner

The 10 best guitar solos of 2021

By Jonathan Horsley last updated 22 December 21

The leads that captured your imagination over the past 12 months, as voted for by you

A Stevie Ray Vaughan stage-played Fender Elite Stratocaster, purchased by Mark Tremonti, goes up for auction

By Matt Owen published 3 December 21

The unusually spec'd '80s-era six-string, which has swapped hands with two of the biggest names of blues and metal, features pickup selector buttons and a unique vibrato system

Mark Tremonti on finding the right guitar, the economics of Dumble amps and the Goldtop that got away

By David Mead published 1 December 21

Tremonti details his biggest gear hits and misses, and why good players sound like themselves no matter the rig

PRS's new 20th anniversary edition Mark Tremonti signature model

PRS marks the 20th anniversary of its relationship with Mark Tremonti with striking new line of hand-painted guitars

By Matt Owen, Jackson Maxwell published 10 November 21

Each model in the extremely limited-edition run of 20 guitars will be hand-illustrated by artist Joe Fenton

Mark Tremonti: “The balance I’m always searching for is finding things that are fun and exciting to play, but carry emotive melodies that mean something”

By Amit Sharma published 4 November 21

The Alter Bridge and Tremonti powerhouse talks ancient Yngwie licks, five-note pentatonic runs, covering Mateus Asato and getting a guitar from Eddie Van Halen