Steel Panther guitar god Satchel (born Russ Parrish of Fight fame) has checked in with a new instructional video clip in cooperation with Guitar World. He has also posted the following overview of the clip, found below:

"A question I’m often asked, aside from, 'How can you possibly be that good looking?' is, 'What do you do to warm up?"

Personally, I don’t think about warming up that much, maybe not as much as most players do. But we’ve been touring a lot lately, and, especially in Europe, there just aren’t any heaters anywhere.

So, basically, I am freezing all day long. Then I’m given a guitar five minutes before we go onstage, and I’m expected to be able to burn right from the start! And there I am, frozen to the bone. So I will usually grab my guitar a few minutes before the show and play through a bunch of the riffs and patterns illustrated in this month’s column.

It’s good to have your fingers warmed up a little for when that first solo comes along in the first song, so one of the things I like to warm up with are legato exercises, where I’ll pick the string once and then sound a long series of notes in a repeating phrase using only hammers-ons and pull-offs.

A good example of something I’ll warm up with is the lick shown in Figure 1, which is a repeating six-note sequence performed entirely on the high E string. Play the lick over and over, speeding up and slowing down while striving to articulate every note as clearly as possible. The first note, G, 15th fret, is fretted with the pinkie, followed by a pull-off to D, 10th fret, fretted with the index finger.

I then hammer onto the 12th fret with my middle finger to sound E, followed by another hammer up to the initial G note, and then a double pull-off back down the string to E and D. The sequence then repeats on each subsequent downbeat, but I hammer-on back up to the initial high G, so that the rest of the phrase is performed entirely with hammers and pulls, which is great for developing good fret-hand 'traction'.”

Steel Panther recently announced a headlining US tour on the heels of their uber-successful UK run this spring. The “17 Girls In A Row” singers are set to open Orlando, FL on Tuesday, May 7th. Tickets and VIP packages went on sale today (March 27th) at 10:00 AM ET via LiveNation.com

Steel Panther returns to The States after bringing their raucous show to UK audiences, selling out shows in London, Manchester, Glasgow, Newcastle, Wolverhampton, and Leicester. The music world was rocked when a baby was born at Wembley Arena during the band’s sold out headlining performance. “I’m 60% sure it’s not one of ours!” said Michael Starr, the band’s lead singer. “We’re so proud to announce the first Panther being born into captivity,” lead guitarist Satchel added.

Hailing from Los Angeles, the epicenter for rock n’ roll in all its debauchery and glamour, Steel Panther have established themselves as the world’s premier party band, melding hard rock virtuosity with parody and criminally good looks. With three full-length albums, touring across the world, platinum-level YouTube status and high-profile television appearances such as Jimmy Kimmel Live, Larry King Now, and FOX NFL Sunday, the band is touring in support of their latest effort, All You Can Eat (Open E Records via Kobalt Label Services). Released in April, 2014, the album bowed at #24 on the Billboard Top 200 Album chart; which also garnered the band their third consecutive #1 album on the Top Current Comedy chart.

Tour dates:

May

7 – Orlando, FL – The Beacham
8 – St. Petersburg, FL – Jannus Live
9 – Jacksonville, FL – Mavericks
11 – Raleigh, NC – The Ritz
12 – Baltimore, MD – Baltimore Sound Stage
13 – Bethlehem, PA – Sands Bethlehem Event Center
15 – Portland, ME – Maine State Pier
20 – Boston, MA – House Of Blues
24 – Knoxville, TN – The International
28 – Milwaukee, WI – The Rave
29 – West Des Moines, IA – Val Air Ballroom
30 – Sioux City, IA – Anthem at Hard Rock Hotel and Casino