Cool Instrumentals
If you're anything like me, you love learning new songs on guitar. Cited by many a heavy-hitter guitarist as a must learn” lick, it (aided” by Robert Plant's setup cry of Hey, hey, Mama, said the way you move, gonna make you sweat, gonna make you groove…”) set the stage for what is arguably the best set of songs ever offered by Zeppelin.
Inspired by Eric Clapton's then-unrequited love for another man's wife, it may well be the greatest rock-and-roll love song - and there's simply no debate that it contains one of the genre's defining licks, purveyed initially by Duane Allman (who borrowed the melody from either Albert King' or T-Bone Walker, depending on who you ask) then later in harmony with Clapton on his famed '56 Stratocaster, Brownie.” Derek and the Dominos were an offshoot of Delaney and Bonnie, and as the group recorded its first album, Allman appeared after being invited by Clapton to lend additional guitar parts.
One of the greatest classic rock bands of the 1970s both collectively as a tight and adventurous unit and individually in terms of the instrumental skills of its members, Little Feat gave everyone a chance to shine on this searing number from their sixth studio album in 1977, Time Loves a Hero.
The lead track from the legendary jazz trumpeter's classic album, A Tribute to Jack Johnson, sounds like a one-off garage rock jam at first, as guitarist John McLaughlin, bassist Michael Henderson, and drummer Billy Cobham fart around while the tape rolls.
When you want to transcribe a piece of music, a solo, or any complex part (which in this context means - learning music by ear, either by writing it down or simply by playing it and not writing it down) - you need a comfortableВ tool to slow it down and to loop certain parts in it.В These apps do that in the best and most intuitive way, and I use Transcribe+ very often in my solo studies.
In this feature we take a chronological look at 21 albums that not only impacted on popular culture, but also changed the way guitarists played and influenced the equipment they used. I'm the author of my new app for guitarist, if you like it you might add it here as well.
Also, to write down lists of songs that I want to learn, musical enlightenments” that I get to regarding stuff that I want to do, lyrics to songs that I write and much more. I no longer tote my various notebooks of songs to gigs, jam sessions or festival campgrounds….just my trusty iPad.
Acoustic guitars that are specially made for amplification, sometimes called acoustic electrics, are designed more for performers than for beginners. These two songs speak of the fear that technology induces and how it dehumanizes us. I was a little girl at the time, but very familiar with these songs and their implication.
I'm not going to lie, this is a piece of music that requires patience, the guitar work - which is celestial and very Frusciante-esque doesn't even fully take off until 11 minutes into this 43 minute masterpiece of a nice electric guitar songs jam. The 1969 Super Session album convened by Al Kooper with guitarist Mike Bloomfield on side one and Stephen Stills on side two was a major event in its day, now 46 years later a sadly somewhat obscure artifact.