Finnish guitarist Mika Tyyskä, creator of The Guitar Shred Show animated guitar tutorial site featuring Mr. Fastfinger, is featured in a new interview with UK based Blind Summit about his new album, Way Of The Exploding Guitar. An excerpt is available below.

Q: You have worked with Jordan Rudess (DREAM THEATER) and Mattias IA Eklundh on the album. That must have been pretty special? How did you work out what each of them were going to play - or did you just let them go wild?

Tyyskä: "Getting Jordan Rudess to play on 'Big Trummors' was a huge honour. He seriously took the track to higher levels. Originally it was just going to be a guitar leads only tracks. I came up with the idea of inviting Jordan to play on some track on the album. And realised 'Big Trummors' would be a perfect scene for dialog between Mr. Fastfinger and Keyboard Wizard. I recorded Mr. Fastfinger’s parts first, then sent files to Rudess and just gave him simple instructions on where to do his thing.

Hearing Jordan’s parts for the very first time was a little shock. Suddenly my composition that I had been working for long time had dramatically changed. Took me couple of rounds of listening before I understood how perfectly Jordan’s lead fit the track. The only problem was that he made Fastfinger sound more like a slowfinger!"

Go to this location for the complete interview.

As previously reported, Mr. Fastfinger's album, The Way Of The Exploding Guitar, is out now. It features Rudess, Mattias IA Eklundh (FREAK KITCHEN), Christopher Godin, Niko Tsonev and Ran Ran du Ran.

According to a press release, the 50-minute album consist of 12 new compostions. Strong melodies and rhythms, energy, joy, feelings and emotions. It is a rock album, but you can hear influences from many styles. From hairy '80's rock to epic soundtracks. From metal to ethnic tones. The two encore tracks are new re-recorded versions of classic Guitarshredshow.com tracks: 'Exploding solo' and 'Tapping Boogie'.

Tracklisting: 'Enter', 'Go Flash Go', 'Wax On – Wax Off', 'Goldfish', 'The Ninjas I', 'Humble Moves', 'Big Trummors', 'Zing Zing', 'Creatures of the Midnight', 'The Ninjas II', 'Once There was a Tree', 'Epic'. Encore: 'Exploding Solo', 'Tapping Boogie'.

For more info and audio samples visit www.mrfastfinger.net.