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Biography
Rusty Cooley is a Texas-born shred guitarist. He has released a solo album on Finnish hard rock label Lion Music and a number of instructional DVDs and CD-ROMs. He has played in locally successful bands Revolution, Dominion, and Outworld. He writes a column called "Metal Guru" for Guitar Player magazine.
Guitarist Rusty Cooley received his first guitar on his 15th birthday and never looked back. Unsatisfied with local Instructors, Rusty began teaching himself through Doug Mark’s Metal Method and various other instructional books and video’s. During High School he took music theory classes and also attended the National Guitar Workshop. Rusty performed solo guitar in high school talent shows. He performed such pieces as Van Halen’s “Eruption” and Randy Rhoads “Revelation Mother Earth” solo. During his senior year he was offered his first teaching job at the same store that just three years earlier, he had bought his first guitar.