Rob Zuzin

18 things musicians do that can help you improve your performance…at anything.  

Does practice make perfect?  It depends on how you practice, of course.  Musicians learn quickly that homework is a requirement to play an instrument.  Most sign up…

Here are two songs from the latest recording, Platforms, with the sheet music in standard and tablature notation.  The pdf sheet music is available for all of the songs on the album at www.robzuzin.com/store

The new recording, Platforms is finished!  My latest all acoustic, all instrumental album features nine tracks of original music for solo guitar.  The songs balance intricate finger style playing with compact melodies and harmonic passages that explore the full range…

I’m always amazed at the sounds I get from this Taylor guitar when I record it.  I used it for the previous record, On Steel Strings (it is the one I'm holding on the cover).  Hearing the playback of those…

Each of the nine songs on my latest record, Platforms, have a lot in common.  They are all performed using a picking technique that combines a finger style approach with the use of a flat pick.  This is called…

Just wrapped the final mixes for the new recording. The audio mastering remains to be done, but I've posted one on the audio player at the bottom of the page. The fast picking aside, Call Signs, is one of the…

My latest album On Steel Strings A Tribute To ABBA was recently featured on page 4 in issue #76 of ABBA INTERMEZZO, the official publication of the international ABBA fan club.  Here’s an excerpt of their review of the album: …

Hacksaw 

The title was the inspiration for this piece.  Hacksaw.  What would a song with that title sound like?  It would have an opening statement consisting of the relentless doubling of the open high E string set up…

Musicians usually have a lot to say about being a musician, and I’m no different.  I just finished checking out Joe Satriani’s autobiography, and I could relate to his desire to share some of the finer points of his music…