Zakk Wylde says he is utilizing on-line tutorials to be taught guitar elements for Pantera tour
Zakk Wylde has revealed that in preparation for his upcoming tour with Pantera, he’s been utilizing on-line tutorials to be taught the band’s guitar elements.
Wylde, who elsewhere fronts the metallic band Black Label Society, was introduced as Pantera’s new guitarist again in July. He serves because the alternative for authentic bandmate Dimebag Darrell, who was killed onstage in 2004. Following the next dying of drummer Vinnie Paul in 2018, Pantera went on a four-year hiatus.
In July, Wylde – together with Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante – joined Pantera’s surviving members, Rex Brown and Phil Anselmo, to type a brand new line-up. In preparation for his or her comeback tour – which kicks off in Mexico subsequent month – Wylde has admitted to studying a few of Dimebag’s guitar sequences by watching on-line video tutorials.
Showing in an episode of Ola Englund’s webseries Sunday With Ola, Wylde stated that every time he’s “stumped” on a selected riff, he “would simply [search], ‘How one can play’, and I’d go on to YouTube and simply see all these different superb gamers taking part in the stuff.” Wylde additionally revealed that Anselmo despatched him the tour’s setlist earlier this yr, noting that he’s been getting ready for the songs on it utilizing guitars gifted to him by Dimebag.
Elsewhere within the interview, Wylde spoke in regards to the particular Pantera songs he’s been getting ready for, mentioning titles like ‘Goddamn Electrical’, ‘Stroll’, ‘Cowboys From Hell’ and ‘A New Stage’. Wylde additionally stated that he’d been in talks to hitch Pantera for years, and agreed to type the band’s touring line-up to “honour Dime”.
Final month, Wylde elaborated on his function in Pantera’s forthcoming tour, revealing in an interview with Guitar World that whereas he intends to “be as devoted to what Dime did as doable”, audiences shouldn’t anticipate a carbon copy of the unique guitarist’s fashion. “It doesn’t matter what I do, it’s going to sound like me”, Wylde stated. “I can apply all I would like and keep as devoted as I would like, however I’m by no means going to flee that.”
Following two exhibits in Mexico early subsequent month, Pantera will take to Knotfest’s three editions in Columbia, Chile and Brazil, earlier than a string of exhibits in Germany, Sweden and Norway in June of subsequent yr.
In September of this yr, Wylde contributed to the Ozzy Osbourne observe ‘Nothing Feels Proper’, which was lifted from Osbourne’s 2022 album ‘Affected person Quantity 9’ and marked Wylde’s first look on an Ozzy report since 2007.