Mike Campese is known as a guitar virtuoso, he is an all-around music performer, session artist competent in many musical styles, electric and acoustic. Mike is a very versatile musician; he writes vocal and instrumental arrangements that he records and performs live. Mike has been featured and is a lesson writer for many national guitar magazines such as Guitar World, Guitar One and Guitar Player, he has done several full-page lessons for these magazines. Currently, Mike has his own monthly column in Italy’s premier magazine, Axe magazine. Mike also writes lessons for several online sites such as Guitar9.com, ibreathemusic, Chops From Hell, Shred Academy, Premier Guitar, The Sound Guitar mag and many more. Mike teaches over 60 students a week and is one of the top teachers in the NY area. He has released 3 instructional DVDs for Chops From Hell, "Virtuoso Rock Fusion Concepts", "Creative Speed-Building Picking Techniques" and "Melodic Shred". During the summer of 2013 Mike released his 8th solo record "Chameleon". This 12 track Cd features some of Mike's best compositions and Mike dials in his versatile writing skills, which he is known for and there is a special guest solo by Vernon Reid of Living Colour. In the fall of 2013, Mike traveled to Italy to do an Italian guitar clinic tour, that was very successful. Mike's fan base is growing internationally and has appeared on national radio and TV and his music has been used for a Lions Gate movie. During the summer of 2016, Mike released his 9th solo album, titled “Chapters”.

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