1. Adrian Legg was born on 16 May 1948 and is an English guitar player who has been called "impossible to categorize".
13 Facts About Adrian Legg
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Adrian Legg plays custom guitars that are a hybrid of electric and acoustic, and his fingerstyle picking technique has been acknowledged by the readers of Guitar Player who voted Legg the "best acoustic fingerstyle" player four years in a row.
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From his early start as a bench technician customising electric guitars, Legg moved into guitar instruction, publishing books and videos on guitar technique.
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In 1996 and 1997, Adrian Legg shared the stage with acclaimed guitar experts Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson and Steve Vai as part of the G3 tour.
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Adrian Legg studied the oboe as a child, but in teenage years his interest shifted to the guitar.
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For G3, Adrian Legg served as an opening act in 1996 and a headlining act in 1997.
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An infrequent singer, Adrian Legg helped with vocal duties on the collaborative G3 performance of Red House by Jimi Hendrix.
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Adrian Legg has shared the wealth of his talent and experience with teaching DVDs, videos and books.
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Adrian Legg plays fingerstyle guitar, mixing an alternating-bass style with harmonics, banjo-peg retuning and single or double-string bending.
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Adrian Legg makes extensive use of altered tunings and capos.
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Adrian Legg uses banjo tuning pegs on many of his guitars, allowing him to change tunings mid song, as well as producing glissandos.
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Adrian Legg included the use of modeling technology and MIDI for fingerstyle guitar on his 2004 album Inheritance, which features extensive use of guitar synthesisers and modeled guitar sounds.
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Adrian Legg endorses Neunaber Audio and is currently using a Neunaber Audio Immerse Reverberator for his reverb needs.