Yiannis Papadopoulos is an award winning guitarist, composer, solo artist, who’s now on tour with Creed front man, Scott Stapp.
The tour for The Space Between the Shadows has been the most extensive and ambitious of Stapp’s solo career, and Yiannis Papadopoulos has taken leadership roles and shown his servant’s heart beyond steering the band onstage.
Yiannis Papadopoulos – Image courtesy of Y. Papadopoulos
Since 2014, Scott and Jaclyn Stapp have been active ambassadors for the charitable organization ChildFund International. Yiannis accompanied the couple on a mission trip to Ecuador and conveyed the fullness of his own father’s heart as he visited families in homes and schools. On the current tour, he shares his own heartfelt experiences of children’s lives being touched and transformed by the combined caring of donors.
Yiannis has won numerous worldwide Guitar Contests. He has worked with LickLibrary for a series of videos, and he is an artist of the prestigious Jamtrackcentral -in 2015 he published his first package -“The 20 Prominent Metal Licks” and in 2017 he published one more -“Nightflower”.
In 2014 he published his first book “The Electric Guitar Technique Workout”, which is all about the electric guitar technique and has exercises and licks for alternate picking, sweep picking and legato.
In 2018 he joined the orchestra Kamerata (Armonia Atenea) as the lead guitarist to perform the Concerto for Group and Orchestra by Jon Lord (Deep Purple), along with the Greek conductor and pianist George Petrou.
In 2019 he published his second book, “Fretboard Concepts”, which is a complete method for the guitar that includes Yiannis’s “Double Note System” along with scales/modes, chords, arpeggios, theory and harmony.
Composing is a continual process for this master guitarist, who has numerous endorsements, including D’Addario strings, Taylor Guitars, Mesa Boogie amps, Seymour Duncan pickups, Fractal Audio Systems, Dunlop guitar picks, Gruv Gear and 64 Audio in ear monitors amongst others. He already has amassed numerous tracks for a solo album along with future collaborations with Scott Stapp.
The current American tour has finished its coast-to-coast run and will launch a stint through South America and Mexico in November. Yiannis’ warm and playful interactions with the audience and his bandmates prompts frequent chants of his name as he steps atop a monitor during the show.
