Brad Tolinski, Guitar World magazine editor “Steve Vai’s guitar wizardry is so profound that in earlier times he would have been burned as a witch.” Thanks to Ronald Cunsolo and Steve Vai for allowing me to share this incredible piece of Vai history. When he first got to California, he stayed with his cousin Stephani and Mark Horowitz for six weeks and then moved into his apartment at 1435 North Fairfax Street in Hollywood. In June of the same year, he would move to California to work and be closer to Frank Zappa. In 1980, Vai returned home after dropping out of Berklee College of Music. ![]() Ronald Cunsolo, in January of 1980, took six lessons from Vai and recently said, “those six lessons gave me the basics that I needed (along with several years of piano lessons) to enjoy a lifetime of playing music.” Backstory belowĭuring my research for the Steve Vai documentary, one of his former students reached out to me to let me know he still had his original guitar notebook that Vai had written in. You can download, for free, six lessons Vai gave to his former student Ronald Cunsolo. Do you wish you could have taken guitar lessons from Steve Vai in 1980?
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