BIOGRAPHY

Troy Stetina is an American guitarist, composer, producer, music educator and author. Specializing in all styles of rock, metal, and shred, he has created more than 50 book/audio and video methods that have guided a generation of guitarists toward mastery.

Troy has taught beginners to rock stars and everywhere in between. He has also conducted workshops and masterclasses around the world as well as recording and performing with several bands. He has endorsed Dimis Guitars and Engl amps.

Troy is an avid reader of science, history, cosmology, philosophy, psychology, comparative religion, spirituality, and mysterious phenomena of every sort. He is also an ordained minister who enjoys traveling, hiking, movies with plots, good TED talks, and a dark, night sky. He lives in New Mexico with his wife Alexis.

Quick Troy-facts:

Author of numerous books, book/audio, book/video and DVD guitar methods, which have sold over a million copies worldwide. His newest is the mega-course, Total Picking Control: Expanded Speed Mechanics for Guitar.

Wrote the first internationally-published heavy metal guitar methods (the original Heavy Metal Rhythm Guitar and Heavy Metal Lead Guitar methods), released in the mid 1980s, establishing the standard of heavy guitar pedagogy.

Wrote the best-selling shred guitar "Bible", Speed Mechanics for Lead Guitar, released in 1990, as well as a masters level music theory and ear training course, Fretboard Mastery.

Has shared the stage with numerous musicians and released a number of albums, including the instrumental shred guitar album "Exottica" (2000), served as guitarist and producer for Dimension X "Implications of a Genetic Defense" (2007, Unicorn Records), as well as guitarist and producer for Second Soul "Beyond the Infinite" (2011).

Released his solo project 'Through the Hall of Mirrors" EP in 2021.

Former Director of Rock Guitar Studies at the Wisconsin Conservatory of Music in Milwaukee, former columnist and feature writer for GuitarOne, Guitar School and Guitar World magazines.

Also, former victim of bad hair and poorly written DVD video scripts, which you can still find on youtube to his unending embarrassment.