“He’s taught me a lot about the guitar, but not from showing me stuff on the neck or talking about picking”: How Steve Vai helped Jacob Collier become a better player without even touching a guitar

Jacob Collier has opened up on his relationship with one of his “dearest friends”, Steve Vai, and revealed how he helped him become a better player without even touching an electric guitar.

The prolific genre-hopping multi-instrumentalist, who has just created an innovative five-string signature guitar with Strandberg, most recently collaborated with Vai on his latest album, Djesse Vol. 4, the culmination of a quad-album epic that also features John Mayer.

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