Dweezil Zappa

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. ...

Drew Dempsey hosts a Van Halen Round Table conversation from Sunset Sound Recorders - Dweezil Zappa EP 1...

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

Drew Dempsey hosts a Van Halen Round Table conversation from Sunset Sound Recorders - Dweezil Zappa EP 2...

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." ...

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....

I'm playing a ridiculous amount of notes on my new Apostrophe Strat. The sound I'm using has a synth filter blended with a normal guitar sound. As you can see it's pretty funny by the end of it....

Tenacious D w/ Dweezil Zappa...

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....

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. ...

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

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...

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. ...

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....

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....

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...

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

This clip demonstrates the Cello sound blended with another variation of the same sound and modulated with a dynaflanger....

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....

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