Dweezil Zappa

A tour of my guitar rig from 2018. I demonstrate several multi-layered sounds including the Dynaflnger sound....

The Marketing Wizrad, Dick Boner introduces you to Dilby....

This is #5, the final episode about the making of my song "Dinosaur." We learn about the album project called "What The Hell Was I Thinking?" (An ongoing project I started over 20 years ago, which I am now focused on...

This is episode #4 of 5 about the making of my song "Dinosaur." In this episode, we play "Guess That Sound." I break down the use of sound design effects to create a transition between musical passages. We also have a listen...

This is episode #3 of the making of "Dinosaur." In this episode, I introduce everyone to "Arrogant Mop." We learn about this uniquely layered Frank Zappa guitar sound....

Episode #2 of 5 about the making of my song "Dinosaur." In this episode, we continue to learn more about "Xenochrony" and discover some unique guitar sounds....

This is a mini-documentary in 5 episodes about the making of my song "Dinosaur." This is episode 1. Today we learn about the Frank Zappa recording technique called "Xenochrony." ...

Dweezil Zappa plays the "Star-Spangled Banner" using Fractal Axe Effects at Dweezilla Music Boot Camp, July 4, 2012 - Fireworks start TOO EARLY! Watch for exploding pedestrian at 3:05....

2007 Live Performance from the Hogg Auditorium in Austin Texas - G-Spot Tornado...

Dunlop is honored to be one of the co-presenters of this year's 2014 Experience Hendrix Tour, and in connection with the tour proudly presents an intimate interview with one of the tour's featured artists Dweezil Zappa....

Here's a bit of Moggio. I'm still getting it under my fingers. Hope to add it to the show very soon!...

This is a picking exercise using A minor pentatonics. I use it to get my fingers and picking synchronized. ...

Here's another clip of me playing fragments of School's Out on the Hendrix guitar. You can hear the phase change as Thomas walks around filming. ...

While I was getting my guitar rig ready for the Tonight Show the other day I made this brief video to explain my restoration work to the Hendrix/Zappa strat. ...

A few folks have asked me to demonstrate some of the fast pentatonic runs that I sometimes play. Here's an example of one with some instructions on the proper picking technique. I hope you enjoy learning it. ...

I was practicing some new ideas this morning and I thought I would share them with you. I plan to make more "LESSON" style videos and add them to the GUITARLAND area of the site very soon....

This is a test of the prototype Performance Guitar EQ Sweep pedal that I'm currently using on tour. It does some crazy stuff. Here I'm playing through a PRS head into a Fuchs cabinet with the pedal in front of the amp. ...

I was testing out a little bit of Big Swifty on Cello/Violin for fun....

I am mixing my Cello sound with a Violin sound I dialed in and I'm adding reverb from an expression pedal. The presets are all made with the Fractal. I am using a few external analog pedals for gain structure as well....

This is a very close approximation of Frank's tone on Ship Ahoy. He used an Oberheim VCF to get his tone and I used the same unit but had some help from my friend Matt Picone to recreate it in a unit called the Virus TI Snow....

This demonstrates a slide on one string that allows you to hear the chromatic notes in a more pronounced way. It leads me to play some other really stupid chromatic examples. Thomas Nordegg likes to call this sound the Speed...

I'm demonstrating the transition from pristine Clean to Distorted Feedback with natural harmonics while playing Zoot Allures. I use the expression pedal for Fractal 2 to add in the distorted sound and control the blend....