While Charlie Robbins, the brains and fingers behind genre-bending instrumental project Syncatto isn’t alone in his adoption of modern guitar techniques, he’s one of a few translating them into his own language. Even if sometimes that’s by accident.
“It’s funny because a lot of the techniques I've learned over the years I thought I was doing wrong. Then I’d write a riff with it anyway,” Robbins says. “When I write thumping and selective picking riffs, I like to move across a lot of different strings because it’s much easier to outline chords, arpeggios and progressions.
