Google: “23.5 notes per second” for starters. 

Randall learned music as a teenager through 5 yrs of advanced classical violin study in an orchestral setting & string ensemble performance group.  Padilla began playing guitar on Sept. 11th, 1997 and today, he is considered globally in the music industry as a ‘six string guitar wiz that can play anything’.  The level of technical playing in his solo work is jaw dropping, blindingly fast, and mesmerizing, yet at the same time, deeply rich in emotional content, feeling, and full of passionate energy.  A phenomenal solo artist with demanding tastes and multi-genre requirements, Padilla plays a Kona Pro Series KE60JB, and KE60MBK. 

In his own words, Padilla says:  “I have been an Ibanez fanatic and believed wholeheartedly that I would be for life.  The Kona Pro Series?  No comparison, it’s night and day, literally it plays, responds, and feels like an Ibanez Prestige and a Jackson morphed into one.  Take that literally.  The clean looks, and fast action & playability are something that you only see on expensive upper-end models.  Trust me, I know this for a fact because I play at NAMM every year and I get to see first hand what every major guitar company has to offer: I get to play it, I get to hear it, test it, see it, smell it for 4 days straight!- so I know first hand at the start of every year what each guitar company has to offer.  As a solo artist and professional instructor of every major style at advanced levels, I need something that is versatile and that can produce with authenticity and ease.  Know this in your heart: the Kona Pro Soloist delivers hands down and still has more to offer.  Awesome guitar!”

When not melting frets and blowing minds on stage with dazzling displays of technical wizardry, Padilla is a full-time instructor for Langlois Music (NAMM/American College of Musicians) in Modesto, CA as well as an online columnist/instructor for the highly respected and famed chopsfromhell.com (CFH), which indisputably is an apex collection of this planets most phenomenal 6-string slinging, fret melting, shred guitarists and instructors.

Randall also produces and hosts has his own weekly prime time TV show broadcast throughout the entire California Central Valley on Comcast CH26 TUE 8pm in where he teaches the public for free for a half hour.  Watch for his emotionally charged solo debut album titled 1st Take, as well as his shred guitar instructional DVD titled Randall Padilla - The Tao of Shred, both available Spring of 2010.

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