Chris Buono – Multimedia Guitar Madman
Chris Buono makes music with a guitar and lots of pedals. As a leader Chris heads the genre-bending organ trio cB3 featuring Ben Stivers and Tobias Ralph. As a sideman and/or guest soloist Chris Buono has performed and/or recorded with Dweezil Zappa, Vernon Reid, Snarky Puppy, Bumblefoot, Karsh Kale, Graham Haynes, David Fiuczynski, Oz Noy, David Torn, Keith Carlock, Rodney Holmes, Steve Jenkins, Tony Grey, Dave Martone, Sophia Ramos, Dopapod, Consider the Source, Kung Fu, JAZZ IS PHSH, James Chance & The Contortions and many more.
As an educator Chris teaches guitarists from all over the world through various platforms. Currently Chris is a prolific TrueFire artist, the co-founder of FutureFret, a regular Guitar Player magazine contributor and Guitarinstructor.com video educator and an in-demand private instructor. Other platforms have been Berklee College of Music, Guitar One & Just Jazz Guitar magazines in addition to published works through Hal Leonard, Alfred and Course Technology. Chris Buono is responsible for over 40 TrueFire products including the celebrated Guitar Gym series, eight instructional books on guitar and music technology and over 50 guitar magazine articles.
Chris Buono uses guitars, pedals, accessories and software made by the wonderful people at Vigier Guitars, Rick Toone, Downes Guitars, Novax Guitars, Taylor Guitars, Mesa/Boogie, D’Addario, DiMarzio, Fusion Bags, SKB, Pigtronix, Source Audio, Amptweaker, TWA, Lehle, Graph Tech, Ableton, Reason Studios, Arobas Music and Neck Diagrams.