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If there is a single thread uniting the music of the Beatles and the Rolling Stones with Cream, Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Robin Trower it would be the blues. That ultimately guitar-driven, infinitely malleable, intrinsically American art form permeates most of the rock legacy and is a cornerstone of the British Invasion. In the late 1950s and early 1960s when American "race records" and rock 'n' roll sounds began washing up regularly on British shores with them came a handful of blues recordings by then relatively unknown artists. This series guitarist-author-musicologist Wolf Marshall presents a multi-course smorgasbord of British Blues Rock guitar licks for your listening and learning pleasure.
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The guitar instrumental genre is a significant musical development of the 20th Century. A remarkably eclectic genre, it borrows freely from a vast array of styles and sounds, such as swing, blues, country, jazz, classical, rock and ethnic music, and recombines their essences into a new form. Since its inception the guitar instrumental genre has been a potent force musically and an ideal showcase for a wide variety of players. In this series we'll look at this potpourri of musical styles in a special tribute to the Golden Age of the Guitar Instrumental.
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Guitar F/X Licks - Guitar Effects & Sound Processors
The story of guitar sound effects is as old as the history of the amplified guitar itself. With the advent of the electric guitar was born a tinkering mentality among its players, who strove to make the instrument sound like anything but an amplified acoustic box with dazzling and remarkable results. The history of modern electric guitar music is indeed defined and punctuated by the innovations of giants like Les Paul, The Ventures, The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Jeff Beck, Eddie Van Halen, Andy Summers, The Edge and Joe Satriani, all masters of skillful and musical effects use. The guitar effects tradition has been maintained through numerous stylistic trends by countless players and is embodied in the output of current experimenters like Tom Morello.
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"Lenny" by Stevie Ray Vaughan
Courtesy of Hal Leonard- Excerpted
from Power Studies 3
"Lenny" is a signature Stevie Ray Vaughan tune
and reinstates the viability of the guitar instrumental in the 1980s and its
infusion into modern blues and rock genres. A moody ballad from Vaughan
classic 1983 debut album Texas Flood, the composition was named after
his wife at the time, and presented the flamboyant Texas bluesman in a
dramatically different setting.
"Lenny" is set in a slow floating tempo, contains a
haunting chord-melody head, and is a simultaneous tribute to several of his
influences: Jimi Hendrix, Curtis Mayfield and Wes Montgomery. The intro and
head are clearly jazz-inflected. The use of Emaj13 and A6 in the main chord
figure takes the normal I to IV change into more extended harmonic
territory.
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Vintage Guitar Magazine "Fretprints" archives created by Wolf Marshall and using Riff Interactive technology to enhance their online lessons.
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Wolf Marshall brings in some of his celebrity friends for these live guitar lessons.
Jimmy Bruno
Jazz guitar virtuoso who has played with the Buddy Rich band and others.
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Frank Gambale
Frank Gambale is known for his sweep picking and powerful jazz rock melodies. Frank has played with Chick Corea, who won a Grammy together & winner of several Guitar Player magazine Reader Poll awards.
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Hank Garland
Guitarist for Elvis, Everly Brothers, Roy Orbison, Hank Williams Sr, Patsy Cline and many others.
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Albert Lee
5x winner of "Best Country Guitarist". Played with Clapton, Jimmy Page and many others.
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Steve Lukather
Guitarist with Toto, Clapton with over 700 top recording sessions under his belt.
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