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Every musician that plays any type of musical instrument has to learn the basics of protecting their equipment and giving it the opportunity to stick around for a longer time for your use, because of how expensive so many of the instruments can be. It is very important to learn the proper ways of taking care of your instrument, so that it will always look great and sound better, for your performances and by doing these things you will also have the ability to learn more about the instrument that you are playing, so that you can pass that information on down to anyone else interested in pursuing a career or hobby in the instrument of their choice.
So many people are guilty of making tasks much more difficult than they have to be, instead of just learning the correct, simple way of completing it. If your instrument of choice is the guitar, then you should be aware of the steps that it will take in order to change your strings more successfully. If you do not know how to change strings then you should first just do some research on the basics on it.
Find the information you are looking for that will make this task more enjoyable and easier on you. The most important thing to know about changing any kinds of strings is just that, at first, it will be so uncomfortable for you because of the fears of messing something up, but after just a few times of changing the strings you should, and probably will, feel much more confident in your ability to change the strings without any hesitations. This should be part of your upkeep on your anyway, so if you do not know how to do this, start now by gathering all of the information you can on it and begin practicing. You will get it.
Knowing which tools to have handy for changing your strings is important, so that you do not get flustered when you are attempting to do so. Keep in mind that you will need some kind of cleaning polish, a cloth and a string winder, and obviously, some plyers, to help you cut your string ends. Once you have your tools on hand, the next thing you will need to do is remove the strings carefully, then you should have the ability to restring your strings.
After you have removed all of your strings, make sure that you always clean your guitars surface very thoroughly before attempting to restring the guitar. Remember these steps are just the same for electric guitars, not just for the acoustic string guitars. So when caring for any musical instrument that you have, make sure that you do the proper research beforehand on finding easier ways to care for them, so that they will last as long as they are made to last.
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to introduce the acoustic guitar.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLXBABH2JuY">Michael</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hedges">Hedges</a> was something of a revolutionary. With a Compostion degree from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody_Conservatory">Peabody Conservatory </a>, it is rumored he wrote most of his music out on staff paper, then went back to his guitar to figure out how to tune it so he a actually could play what he wrote. Though he was oftened lumped into the stable of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windham_Hill">Windham Hill </a>"New Age" guitarists, his work is often credited with a renewed interest in acoustic guitar. He did some <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1QD-FPvRO4">truly</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZAyXFvDsBs">ground breaking</a> things, yet sometimes, he <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwzrlOrmkKw">just</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgSQqm5EQvM">needed</a> to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41l3UzA64sE">cut </a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZAyXFvDsBs">loose</a> <a href="http://www.stropes.com/index.php?fa=7&glbm=19">His custom tunings.</a>.
This music is for the birds.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Kz8Nxb-Bg">The Finches</a>: some of the best angular, atonal, postpunk, improvisational guitar I've heard in a while. For his recent installation "Rhythms of Life," at the <a href="http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=9713">Barbican Art Gallery</a> in London, French artist <a href="http://www.xippas.com/en/artist/celeste_boursier-mougenot">Céleste Boursier-Mougenot</a> created a walk-through aviary for a flock of zebra finches, and furnished them with electric guitars and other instruments The rest is improv history. Visitors have uploaded videos from this and other exhibitions as well: - A restrained solo improv, followed by a short <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV1S7PtEZLk">duet </a>. - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXmQOShrKeY">Minimalism</a>. - Some <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R9xoexzy_w">tuning up</a>. - And my personal favorite, a bit of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsprF-rw550">ambience</a>. Which raises the inevitable question: Who is a better improviser? Seed-eating songbirds, or legendary Japanese noise guitarist <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QERX2lCiZcY">K.K. Null</a>?
Acoustic Guitar Solos
Brazilian guitarist Naudo has a nice command of his instrument and a relaxed presentation. He plays acoustic guitar standards like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d6YZ2YaOXY">Stairway to Heaven</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_9ZNrJ8HEI">House of the Rising Sun</a>. He plays other popular tunes like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ73CM_mhTo">Hotel California</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deyKpoLmgB4">While My Guitar Gently Weeps</a>. I especially like his Santana covers: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGi0OE9C_JU">Samba Pa Ti</a>, <a href="http://en.sevenload.com/videos/4RhAbvX-Black-Magic-Woman-Carlos-Santana">Black Magic Woman</a>. There's lots more Naudo videos at <a href="youtube.com/results?search_query=naudo&search=Search">YouTube</a>, at <a href="http://www.naudostar.blogspot.com/">Naudo's blog</a>, and at <a href="http://en.sevenload.com/users/NAUDO/videos?page=1">Naudo's page on sevenload</a>.
Igor Presnyakov plays classical guitar
Classical guitar virtuoso Igor Presnyakov <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Iggypres#p/search/0/qMFZjtph3S8">won't do what you tell him</a> (NSFW/lyrics). But he will bring his unique style to an array of well-known songs: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Iggypres#p/search/0/9K6FJVYA14g">Bad Romance</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Iggypres#p/search/3/qU2O5b0UdPE">Thriller</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Iggypres#p/search/0/IeVsHYVoFxY">Beat It</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Iggypres#p/search/0/kY53khFqGDU">Poker Face</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Iggypres#p/search/0/GiT5NW5O7E4">Ain't No Sunshine</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Iggypres#p/search/1/cb17WtGi1lU">Isn't She Lovely</a>. More picks: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOVmmaRogCs">Venus</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MMHBNX9UAI">While My Guitar Gently Weeps</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yF5qBGZqNU">Hallelujah</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPiZmX_8ZkU">Ironic</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gkMudEQk4U">Love Story Theme</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_9H19GbdUQ">Hold The Line</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcuqFg-Uafk">Hole Hearted</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6hramtviFA">Black Hole Sun</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iISW0eE7xng">You Are Not Alone</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQceDm_YLpA">Wishful Thinking</a>. Igor plays Russian 7-String Guitar on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swZrkDzkbxw">Zorba The Greek/Sirtaki</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0_dXPVUm0Y">Sokolov's Polka</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/iggypres?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/115/ZKJoaw2x_zM">Sabre dance</a>. His <a href="http://igorpresnyakov.blogspot.com/">blog</a>.
I wish I was special
Every so often, the Opie and Anthony radio show run a Homeless Shopping Spree, where they take some homeless people off the streets and take them out to an upscale mall to buy clothes for them. This year, a man who calls himself Mustard mentioned to them that he used to be a musician, so <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXlzci1rKNM">they gave him a guitar</a>.
Someone who once had a lot of free time # 12 & 34: Brian's huge chordlist collection
I had this concept--after a strange dream, while scoping out the <em><a href="http://dylanchords.info/08_jwh/st_augustine.htm" title="'...With a blanket underneath his arm, And a coat of solid gold, Searching for the very souls--Whom already have been sold'">I Dreamed I Saw st. Augustine</a></em> tab in my just-in-case-it-disappears downloaded <a href="http://dylanchords.info/" title="Dang it if old Eyolf hasn't gone out and tabbed up all of Mr. Dylan's Christmas album. Oh, be still, my heart, etc....">dylanchords</a>, of ...<em>St. Augustine</em> as a slow moody slide in Open D ala Blind Texas Marlin. But then I got to wondering whether someone might have a chord dictionary online where a few variations on a first position <a href="http://chordlist.brian-amberg.de/en/guitar/open_d/Bm/" title="Guitar - Open D - Bm: Guitar in Open D-Tuning (D, A, D F# A D)">B Minor</a> in Open D might be found. Voila! Achtung, Baby! Behold <a href="http://chordlist.brian-amberg.de/en" title="This page contains a number of huge chordlists for different stringed instruments. At the time being the supported instruments are guitar, banjo, ukulele, mandolin, bouzouki, and pipa. Each instruments has a dictionary of chords for different tunings associated. Each chord has a list of all possible ways to play it. You may sort the list of fingerings for each chord by overall rating, beauty and difficulty. Overall rating is the tradeoff between difficulty and beauty.">Brian's huge chordlist collection</a>. Oh, man, he's got your standard and open tunings on guitar plus mandolin, uke, banjos, bouzouki, pipa and lute. A living room guitarist's must have, no doubt, although a few more open tunings for pipa would have been nice... I keed, I keed on that last there, of course... But last night, I actually did dream that I was riding the bus and hanging with the Bobster himself (my first celebrity dream in near a decade, too! Whoo hoo!) and feeling a great deal of diffidence in his presence. Especially when we were in that faded millionare's row there, with a few half size tyrannosaurs stalking the grounds of the mansion next door. All the while talking to various cats who flopped over on the sidewalk when we passed. This is what I get for not leaving the radio on with the BBC Overnight on. Instead the usual round the clock Siberian methane release global warming nightmare, I get downsized purple striped tyrannosaurs and B. Dylan. Well, it <em>was</em> a step up of sorts but, man, was he cranky... Anyhow and all the same, I'll let you be in my dream if you blah blah woof woof in your dream. And whatever, all the same etc. --Brian's huge chordlist collection is no doubt quite possibly an asset for the 82nd Couchborne living room geetar players virtual legion and, hence, therefore best of the web. And who knows who, what, when, where else rates such an encomium ? <em><a href="http://dylanchords.info/48_cith/index.html" title="'It’s hilarious. Finally, the ‘wolfman’ voice has found a home where it belongs: as a counterweight to the saccharine, a way to scare the living soul out of the unsuspecting innocent, and perhaps – just perhaps – blow some meaning into these songs again.'">Christmas in the Heart</a></em> already tabbed, perhaps ? <small><small>Man, talk about OCD completist detailing, though...</small></small>
Debashish Bhattacharya, slide guitarist from India
Have you heard the Indian slide guitarist <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOBPMIoadBo">Debashish Bhattacharya</a>? <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMxPCITuuWY">He's</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27NVNkg8ASE">really</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtfpECbJ4Y4">very</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjrKzxcPzDM">very</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPucUYgXCW4">very</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Hgd1Hp7jo">very</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaMGLHtFuoY">good</a>. Here's the <a href="http://www.debashishbhattacharya.com/">Debashish Bhattacharya official site</a>, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debashish_Bhattacharya">Wiki page</a>. See also: nickyskye's excellent post from June 2009 on Indian slide guitarist <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/82462/Van-Shipley-and-slide-guitar-music-in-India">Van Shipley</a>.
bluestab's blog meets AfricanAfrican aka NegroArtist.com
<em>Chanteur puissant à la voix rocailleuse.</em> And here is <a href="http://bluestab.skyrock.com/" title=" J'ai créer ce blog pour les guitaristes fans de blues (plutôt ancien) et pour ceux qui voudraient faire la connaîssance de cette musique à travers des classique du genre. La plupart des titres sont quasi-introuvables sur le net alors profitez en bien.">bluestab's blog</a> And here, via <a href="http://babelfish.yahoo.com/" title="Zoot Suit Alors!">Babelfish</a> is <a href="http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbluestab.skyrock.com%2F+&lp=fr_en&btnTrUrl=Translate" title="I have to create this blog for the guitarists fans of blues (rather old) and for those who would like to become acquainted with this music through the traditional one of the kind. The majority of the titles are quasi-untraceable on the Net then profit in good.">bluestab's blog</a> in an English of sorts. Then, while, looking for mp3s to match the tabs, I came across the universe of African American history and culture that is <a href="http://www.africanafrican.com/" title="This website is for African American Artists and an on-line portal for both African America Artists and African American History. The primary aim of this website is to encourage research activity on people of African descent and to provide information to the study of the African Diaspora. A historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution. Please make sure to look through the 1000+ Slave Narratives on my website. Many of the colored soldiers from the Revolutionary war are true heroes so take a look at the images of them as well as the other colored soldiers throughout the 18TH 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY. ">AfricanAfrican</a> aka <a href="http://negroartist.com/" title="''This website further promotes the work of black artists both nationally and internationally through a variety of ways including images of African American artists, slave narratives, colored soldiers, and african american art galleries and black art publications. This a very detailed and comprehensive website that gives links to the sites of black artists, african american art galleries and a host of others. The colored soldiers, and black artwork links then enable students, art enthusiasts and historians of the african diaspora to look at the work, history and career of artists.''">NegroArtist.com</a>, a site so big it has two URLs. [Billy Mays] But, wait--that's not all! [/Billy Mays] Then, while looking for in the commons mp3s for any of the titles in bluestab's blog , I stumble upon a treasure trove of such in the <a href="http://www.document-records.com/series-5000.asp?offset=0" title="">5000 series</a> pages at <a href="http://www.document-records.com/index.asp" title="''Welcome to Document Records'' If you`re looking for rare, classic, vintage Blues, Jazz, Boogie-woogie, Gospel and Country music then you have come to the right place. Many call it the place.">Document Records</a>. , the completist's completist pre-war jazz and blues label, And found even more even more in the <a href="http://www.negroartist.com/rare%20recordings%20and%20video.htm">Rare Recordings and Video</a> page of <a href="http://www.africanafrican.com" title="This website is for African American Artists and an on-line portal for both African America Artists and African American History. The primary aim of this website is to encourage research activity on people of African descent and to provide information to the study of the African Diaspora. A historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution.">AfricanAfrican</a>, a small universe of texts, music and motion pictures of and on the African American experience. I am overwhelmed. Yoda says I: Truly a Labor of Love this is. And between the two--voila! We have a post!
Rory Block
<em>Aurora <a href="http://www.roryblock.com/">"Rory" Block</a> has staked her claim to be <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXSjaf7RMU">one of America's top acoustic blues women</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqTUoV67M60">an interpreter of the great Delta blues singers</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF5TDcNcxMk">a slide guitarist par excellence</a>, and also <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y7XwKmUKSw">a talented songwriter</a> on her own account.</em> - <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:kifuxq95ldje~T1">AllMusic</a>
Your favorite riff sucks.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNq94ZaZ0Yk">100 Famous Rock Guitar Riffs, in one take</a>. List of song titles can be found <a href="http://www.brodiecumming.com/events.html">here</a> on the artist's page.
Musical sorting algorithms
<a href="http://www.math.ucla.edu/~rcompton/musical_sorting_algorithms/musical_sorting_algorithms.html">Musical sorting algorithms.</a> <small><small>[<a href="http://justinblanton.com/2009/08/musical-sorting-algorithms">via</a>]</small></small>
Les Paul, 1915-2009
<a href="http://www.lespaulonline.com/">Les Paul</a>, musician, pioneer of multitrack recording, and creator of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul_guitar">one of the most successful and recognizable guitars in history</a>, <a href="http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/News/les-paul-passes-away-at-94-813">passed at the age of 94.</a> Known to guitarists around the world through the guitar that bears his name (built initially using a hunk of 4"x4" lumber), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul">Les Paul</a> also is credited with being the first to develop <a href="http://multimedia.utsa.edu/technology/3153/restricted/history-2.html">multitrack recording</a> in 1955 to overcome the noise problem of using the overdubbing technique used at the time. Aside from releasing many popular jazz guitar albums throughout the 40s and 50s, he had a radio program and a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iGXP_UBog4">short TV show</a> with his wife, Mary Ford, in the early fifties. He won two <a href="http://www.guitarvibe.com/2006/02/les_paul_wins_g.html">Grammys</a> for his 2005 album <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A9QKMI/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">American Made World Played</a> (bringing his total to 7), and even recently played regularly at the <a href="http://www.iridiumjazzclub.com/talent.php?talent=1">Iridium Jazz Club</a> in New York. He has left a lasting influence on American music and culture.
Pete Townshend Guitar Contest
<a href="http://www.thewho.com/index.php?module=news&news_item_id=322">The Who: Maximum Windmill Guitar Contest</a>
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
<i>"She was a rock star," recalls Ira Tucker Jr., who grew up watching Tharpe with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dixie_Hummingbirds">his father's gospel group</a> in the 1940s and '50s. "You know, like Beyonce today and people like that. <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102167126">That's what Rosetta was to us</a>."</i> Sister Rosetta Tharpe wasn't the first one to bring black popular music into the church. (Here's the great <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Dranes">Arizona Dranes</a> playing barroom honky-tonk piano on the gospel side <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79hhWYVY75s">I Shall Wear a Crown</a> in 1927.) But her fierce stage presence and her original blend of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0qrD1KG-GM">gospel, boogie-woogie, swing and smoking hot blues guitar</a> was a crucial forgotten influence on what we now recognize as rock and roll. <small>(Many more recordings inside. Enjoy!)</small> If you're here for the electric guitar action, you'll want the Red Foley duet and the '60s TV appearances. My personal favorites are the stunning acoustic duets she recorded a decade or two earlier with the Sanctified gospel shouter Marie Knight — try "Up Above my Head" and "Daniel in the Lion's Den." But her range was incredible, everything she recorded was excellent, and comparing her late electric recordings with the earlier versions is a hoot if you're into that sort of thing. Early success with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Millinder">Lucky Millinder</a>'s big band: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpe2wYcO8bc">The Lonesome Road</a> (scantily clad dancing girls at 0:45!), <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnWz2AJ4I7s">Four or Five Times</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX2ebxIHyCU">Trouble in Mind</a> Mid-40s boogie-woogie gospel mega-hit: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9beFIankmBY">Strange Things Happening Every Day</a> With <a href="http://www.marieknight.com/">Marie Knight</a> in the late '40s: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofH5YJegO1g">Up Above My Head</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq6jRW2lPNA">Beams of Heaven</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaGRQiiBQcw">My Journey to the Sky</a>, <a href="http://thehound.net/19910223/">Daniel in the Lion's Den</a> [scroll down to the 7th set] With jubilee singers The Dependable Boys: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ2DWkmehiY">Everybody's Going to Have a Wonderful Time Up There</a>, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/SisterRosettaTharpeWithTheDependableBoysAndSamPriceTrio-TheLords">My Lord's Gonna Move This Wicked Race</a>, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/SisterRosettaTharpeWithTheDependableBoysAndSamPriceTrio-DownByThe">Down By the Riverside</a> Her SCANDALOUS! return to blues in the '50s: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs5KLpMaOcA">Don't Leave Me Here to Cry</a> Duet with country and rockabilly star <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Foley">Red Foley</a>: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm0RYF1nimk">Have a Little Talk with Jesus</a> Straight-up church choir gospel from the '60s: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsV2dPDr6bs">I Do, Don't You</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gybBAImoAtQ">Seeking for Me</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KINs3DDXujE">Lily of the Valley</a> TV appearances from the '60s blues revival: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7lN1R2LP-4">Didn't It Rain</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzRm4K7NZm0">Trouble in Mind</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeaBNAXfHfQ">Up Above My Head</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xzr_GBa8qk">Down By the Riverside</a> <small>Bonus — the <a href="http://www.sc.edu/csam/csamaudioarchive_the_harmonizing_four.htm">Harmonizing Four</a> singing at Tharpe's <i>stadium-concert-slash-wedding</i> in '51: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyLpgtOGTvI">Mighty Long Way</a>. Sadly, no video. But how rock-star is <i>that?</i></small>
"Electric Guitar" indeed.
<a href="http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280364274949&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.ebay.ca%3A80%2F%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm38.l1313%26_nkw%3D280364274949%26_sacat%3DSee-All-Categories%26_fvi%3D1&_">Fried Gibson.</a> I've always thought you were safe in a house from lightning storms as long as you were off the land-line or computer. A Mississippi man's Gibson Les Paul got positively roasted while sitting in his home, in its case, leaning against a wall. <a href="http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/imageserver.x/00000000/thabilster/GibsonLPReiseFlameTrsRdNkVclos.jpg">That's a powerful bolt</a>. <a href="http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/viewimage.x/00000000/thabilster/GibsonLPReiseFlameTpGlam2.jpg?vvid=4086895&allow_mailing_list=1&sp=1&vsid=1&vgp=0&vimgs=GibsonLPReiseFlameTpGlam2.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTpBodCls2.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTrusRdVCls2.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTrusRdVCls.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameHdClos.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameImpact.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameOverHd.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlamTpBdClsOvhd.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameHdOverhd.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameNkVapoStngs.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTpBodVCls.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTpBacFulT.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTpNcBrnBac.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTnersAll.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTnerRtCls.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTnerCls.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTBacReflct.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameOutside2.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameOutside5.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameOutside3.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTree.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameiOutsd4.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameinside.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlametCaseClosd.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlametCasHoles.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlamtCase.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlametCaseTop.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlametManual.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameNkVapoStngs2.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTrsRdNkVclos.jpg">Lots of gory photos here</a> and in the auction linked above including a nice shot of some of <a href="http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/imageserver.x/00000000/thabilster/GibsonLPReiseFlameTRemnnts.jpg">the parts</a> that exploded off of the guitar, some shooting <a href="http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/imageserver.x/00000000/thabilster/GibsonLPReiseFlametCasHoles.jpg">like bullets</a> through the case. Awesome! And it still held quite a bit of its value. <a href="http://www.gretsch-talk.com/forum/freds-barcalounge/9825-whole-new-meaning-term-electric-guitar.html">Via</a> " The lightning had struck the huge pine tree and traveled down the trunk until it reached the nails holding the trim to house. Then it jumped across through the nails, went through the drywall, and struck the top edge of the case. It then went into the case and down the neck of the guitar, vaporizing the strings, (remnants of which can still be seen on the fretboard and frets) also apparently traveling down the Truss rod inside the neck. It then blew out the last few frets on the fretboard above the end of the Truss rod before apparently melting the insides of the pickups. It then proceeded to explode some of the bridge saddles outward through the case."
United Brakes Guitars
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo&feature=player_embedded">Sometimes music really is a weapon.</a> Big surprise, United Airlines messed up some luggage and refused to do anything about it. But I have to give props to this guy for taking a bad situation and making something positive out of it. Bonus points for the song being pretty catchy. I wonder what would happen if that song was so popular that the record label wanted it on the in flight music station...
um miss may i have a dance with you please?
<a href="http://www.serogie.com/">S. E. Rogie</a>: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE7_6S4byeQ">Go easy with me.</a> Combining Calypso (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh1xsbbcHVY&feature=related">Nor weigh me lek dat </a>) with West African rhythms and West American pickin' (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzC2bDCXBcs&feature=related">I Wish I Was a Cowboy</a>) the <a href="http://waxidermy.com/2006/04/21/s-e-rogie-palm-wine-guitar-music/">King</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm-wine_music">Palm Wine Guitar Music </a> played live at the 100 Club in London in 1994 right before the release of his final album, <a href="http://www.lala.com/#album/360569445242241490">Dead Men Don't Smoke Marijuana. </a> More: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH1NE_RPKy4&feature=channel">Don't touch me tomato</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-lGuHtL1No">My Lovely Elizabeth</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aJqaYhIcnI">Clua Koonde</a>
Van Shipley and slide guitar music in India
<em>Van Shipley was the <a href=" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-RBvGAxX7o">first electric guitarist in India</a>. The name <a href="http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/frontpage/000579.html">Van Shipley </a>is Methodist, he [was] from Lucknow [Uttar Pradesh, India]. He designed his own electric eight string steel guitar in the 1940's. The reason he did this was that he'd studied Indian classical music under <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allauddin_Khan">Ustad Alaudin Khan</a>, the leading classical musician in India, who was also a contemporary of Ravi Shankar. He also studied <a href="http://www.esnips.com/doc/569bdee4-a8a0-4610-9dd5-da5af34ba1b5/Van-Shipley--on-the-violin--Deidcated-tothe-great-artist-who-recently-passed-away.Dedicated-to-his-lovely-daughter-at-her-request.">the violin</a> with a German teacher... so he made an eight string guitar, instead of a five string. His guitar was a solid guitar, designed to his style at the time, it was futuristic.</em> </em> Van Shipley <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui51O9SkU_E">"Aawara Hun" & "Mujhe Kisi Se Pyar Ho Gaya"</a> -.mp3 Van Shipley - <a href="http://www.esnips.com/doc/3edbee23-059d-4433-82e3-14c860f63d5c/Van-shipley---Hum-Donon-Do-Premi-Duniya-chor-Chale--">Hum Donon Do Premi Duniya chor Chale</a> -.mp3 More <a href="http://www.hamaracd.com/hcdinternational/asp/vaGiftIdeas.asp?GiftId=G646">clips of Van Shipley's music</a> from the excellent site,<a href="http://www.hamaracd.com/hcdinternational/index.asp"> Hamara CD</a>, packed with free gem sound clips from the Indian subcontinent, where you can also customize your own cd. <em>Steel Guitar In India, <a href="http://www.well.com/~wellvis/indian.html">Country Music From Another Country!</a></em> l <a href="http://debashishbhattacharya.com/">Debashish Bhattacharya</a> is another Indian<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6X7Qk_CzAA"> slide guitar musician</a> who plays classical Indian music on the Hawaiian guitar, introduced to India through the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG_5Qsw-eJY">music of Tau Moe</a> l <a href="http://www.jaywant.in/audiovideo.html">Indian Classical music on Hawaiian guitar</a> l Another<a href="http://www.kamalashankar-rajeevjanardan.com/"> example of Indian classical music on Hawaiian guitar </a> l <em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oPXRWRxda8">Interview and concert footage</a> of legendary world blues and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hddz_cZts74&feature=related">slide guitar</a> master <a href="http://www.bobbrozman.com/">Bob Brozman</a></em>.
Guitar Wankery or Exquisite Spanish Beauty?
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEPLNaUR8lw&feature=PlayList&p=C076FA5E66B7837A&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=15">Carlos Montoya</a> can play the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko-pTH3xwno">blues/jazz too</a>. youtube X 2. The second link is a still with great audio. Guitarists and music lovers enjoy!
Outdoor fucking starts today
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRhPeJ3uzOc&feature=player_embedded">The First of May</a> Jonathan Coulton's ode to the 'coming' of spring (SLYT). NSFW language. <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Jonathan+Coulton">Coulton's Last.fm page</a>. <a href="http://spiffworld.com/unplugged/index.cfm">More MP3s here</a>. Coulton wrote the 'Still Alive' song from Portal and also works with John Hodgman. <a href="http://twitter.com/jonathancoulton">Jon on Twitter.</a>
That old homemade sound.
<a href="http://www.otherpower.com/washtub_bass.html">How to Build: A simple washtub bass.</a> Some <a href="http://tubotonia.freehomepage.com/Tublinks.html#plans">variations</a> (on a crazily made webpage). <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Cookie-Tin-Banjo-Part-4-Bed-Post-Banjo/">A cookie tin banjo</a>. (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/80596/Barefoot-and-crafting-in-the-kitchen">Previously</a>) A <a href="http://cigarboxguitars.com/workshops/How_To_Build_A_CBG.php">cigar box guitar</a>, and a <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_4814280_build-ukulele-out-cigar-box.html">cigar box ukulele</a>. A fancy <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~kathymatsushita/otherinstruments/htmlpages/cbuke1.html">cigar box uke</a>. (Kathy Marsushita's whole <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~kathymatsushita/projects/index.html">amateur luthier projects page</a> is worth checking out, as is <a href="http://www.catfish1952.com/Cigar_Box_Ukes.html">this gallery</a> of cool cigar box ukes.)
Arts & Crafts Videos from Etsy
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/etsy">Etsy has a YouTube channel</a> where they have all kinds of profiles of their users and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=etsy&view=videos&query=how-to">how-to guides</a>. My two favorite series are the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=etsy&view=videos&query=process">Process</a> series (e.g. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUiMBWUpHxI">New Books with Old Materials</a> & <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFLbgxJUH-o">Tin Toys</a>) and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=etsy&view=videos&query=portraits">Handmade Portraits</a> (e.g. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qieZhWZHUu4">Armor Guitars</a> & <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oNtaRG5yzA">Wood Mosaics</a>). In the description of each video there is a link to the corresponding entry on Etsy's blog, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/">The Storque</a>. The blogposts have more information on the users and sometimes further links and videos. <small>[via <a href="http://lauratorres.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/a-peek/">Work in Progress</a>]</small>
On-the-fly harmonizing
Looping, live: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVky7hwuebU">David Ford</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25VGdNU3nrU">Imogen Heap</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DehtqLVmdcA">KT Tunstall</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM490EXk8v0">x2</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiInBOVHpO8">Dub FX</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUO6kYLb6As">Ed Alleyne-Johnson</a>
Fuzz!
You know that guitar sound at the start of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAkJjtmUVgg">"Touch Me I'm Sick"</a>? Or when Keith plays the big riff in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulVDM0a49Lw">"Satisfaction"</a>? That's fuzz. I love fuzz, and I was very happy to stumble across this fine documentary about fuzz pedals and their makers. <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x79gto_fuzz-01_music">Part 1</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/related/x79gto/video/x79h1c_fuzz-02_music">Part 2</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/related/x79h1c/video/x79hw7_fuzz-03_music">Part 3</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/related/x79h1c/video/x79i42_fuzz-04_music">Part 4</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/related/x79h1c/video/x79ibt_fuzz-05_music">Part 5</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/related/x79h1c/video/x79kw2_fuzz-07_music">Part 7</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/related/x79gto/video/x79m5k_fuzz-08_music">Part 8</a> Should be enough there to sustain your interest for a while... <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/67159/Maestro-Twang">(Previously...)</a>
Guitar crack
<a href="http://guitarknowledgenet.com/progression_builder.php">Guitar chord progression generator</a>. <a href="http://www.8notes.com/guitar_chord_chart/">Guitar chord charts</a>. Have fun!
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLXBABH2JuY">Michael</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Hedges">Hedges</a> was something of a revolutionary. With a Compostion degree from the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peabody_Conservatory">Peabody Conservatory </a>, it is rumored he wrote most of his music out on staff paper, then went back to his guitar to figure out how to tune it so he a actually could play what he wrote. Though he was oftened lumped into the stable of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windham_Hill">Windham Hill </a>"New Age" guitarists, his work is often credited with a renewed interest in acoustic guitar. He did some <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1QD-FPvRO4">truly</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZAyXFvDsBs">ground breaking</a> things, yet sometimes, he <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwzrlOrmkKw">just</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgSQqm5EQvM">needed</a> to <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=41l3UzA64sE">cut </a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lZAyXFvDsBs">loose</a> <a href="http://www.stropes.com/index.php?fa=7&glbm=19">His custom tunings.</a>.
This music is for the birds.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89Kz8Nxb-Bg">The Finches</a>: some of the best angular, atonal, postpunk, improvisational guitar I've heard in a while. For his recent installation "Rhythms of Life," at the <a href="http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=9713">Barbican Art Gallery</a> in London, French artist <a href="http://www.xippas.com/en/artist/celeste_boursier-mougenot">Céleste Boursier-Mougenot</a> created a walk-through aviary for a flock of zebra finches, and furnished them with electric guitars and other instruments The rest is improv history. Visitors have uploaded videos from this and other exhibitions as well: - A restrained solo improv, followed by a short <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FV1S7PtEZLk">duet </a>. - <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXmQOShrKeY">Minimalism</a>. - Some <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_R9xoexzy_w">tuning up</a>. - And my personal favorite, a bit of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsprF-rw550">ambience</a>. Which raises the inevitable question: Who is a better improviser? Seed-eating songbirds, or legendary Japanese noise guitarist <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QERX2lCiZcY">K.K. Null</a>?
Acoustic Guitar Solos
Brazilian guitarist Naudo has a nice command of his instrument and a relaxed presentation. He plays acoustic guitar standards like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7d6YZ2YaOXY">Stairway to Heaven</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_9ZNrJ8HEI">House of the Rising Sun</a>. He plays other popular tunes like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJ73CM_mhTo">Hotel California</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=deyKpoLmgB4">While My Guitar Gently Weeps</a>. I especially like his Santana covers: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGi0OE9C_JU">Samba Pa Ti</a>, <a href="http://en.sevenload.com/videos/4RhAbvX-Black-Magic-Woman-Carlos-Santana">Black Magic Woman</a>. There's lots more Naudo videos at <a href="youtube.com/results?search_query=naudo&search=Search">YouTube</a>, at <a href="http://www.naudostar.blogspot.com/">Naudo's blog</a>, and at <a href="http://en.sevenload.com/users/NAUDO/videos?page=1">Naudo's page on sevenload</a>.
Igor Presnyakov plays classical guitar
Classical guitar virtuoso Igor Presnyakov <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Iggypres#p/search/0/qMFZjtph3S8">won't do what you tell him</a> (NSFW/lyrics). But he will bring his unique style to an array of well-known songs: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Iggypres#p/search/0/9K6FJVYA14g">Bad Romance</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Iggypres#p/search/3/qU2O5b0UdPE">Thriller</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Iggypres#p/search/0/IeVsHYVoFxY">Beat It</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Iggypres#p/search/0/kY53khFqGDU">Poker Face</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Iggypres#p/search/0/GiT5NW5O7E4">Ain't No Sunshine</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Iggypres#p/search/1/cb17WtGi1lU">Isn't She Lovely</a>. More picks: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOVmmaRogCs">Venus</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MMHBNX9UAI">While My Guitar Gently Weeps</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yF5qBGZqNU">Hallelujah</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPiZmX_8ZkU">Ironic</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gkMudEQk4U">Love Story Theme</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_9H19GbdUQ">Hold The Line</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcuqFg-Uafk">Hole Hearted</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6hramtviFA">Black Hole Sun</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iISW0eE7xng">You Are Not Alone</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQceDm_YLpA">Wishful Thinking</a>. Igor plays Russian 7-String Guitar on <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swZrkDzkbxw">Zorba The Greek/Sirtaki</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0_dXPVUm0Y">Sokolov's Polka</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/iggypres?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/115/ZKJoaw2x_zM">Sabre dance</a>. His <a href="http://igorpresnyakov.blogspot.com/">blog</a>.
I wish I was special
Every so often, the Opie and Anthony radio show run a Homeless Shopping Spree, where they take some homeless people off the streets and take them out to an upscale mall to buy clothes for them. This year, a man who calls himself Mustard mentioned to them that he used to be a musician, so <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXlzci1rKNM">they gave him a guitar</a>.
Someone who once had a lot of free time # 12 & 34: Brian's huge chordlist collection
I had this concept--after a strange dream, while scoping out the <em><a href="http://dylanchords.info/08_jwh/st_augustine.htm" title="'...With a blanket underneath his arm, And a coat of solid gold, Searching for the very souls--Whom already have been sold'">I Dreamed I Saw st. Augustine</a></em> tab in my just-in-case-it-disappears downloaded <a href="http://dylanchords.info/" title="Dang it if old Eyolf hasn't gone out and tabbed up all of Mr. Dylan's Christmas album. Oh, be still, my heart, etc....">dylanchords</a>, of ...<em>St. Augustine</em> as a slow moody slide in Open D ala Blind Texas Marlin. But then I got to wondering whether someone might have a chord dictionary online where a few variations on a first position <a href="http://chordlist.brian-amberg.de/en/guitar/open_d/Bm/" title="Guitar - Open D - Bm: Guitar in Open D-Tuning (D, A, D F# A D)">B Minor</a> in Open D might be found. Voila! Achtung, Baby! Behold <a href="http://chordlist.brian-amberg.de/en" title="This page contains a number of huge chordlists for different stringed instruments. At the time being the supported instruments are guitar, banjo, ukulele, mandolin, bouzouki, and pipa. Each instruments has a dictionary of chords for different tunings associated. Each chord has a list of all possible ways to play it. You may sort the list of fingerings for each chord by overall rating, beauty and difficulty. Overall rating is the tradeoff between difficulty and beauty.">Brian's huge chordlist collection</a>. Oh, man, he's got your standard and open tunings on guitar plus mandolin, uke, banjos, bouzouki, pipa and lute. A living room guitarist's must have, no doubt, although a few more open tunings for pipa would have been nice... I keed, I keed on that last there, of course... But last night, I actually did dream that I was riding the bus and hanging with the Bobster himself (my first celebrity dream in near a decade, too! Whoo hoo!) and feeling a great deal of diffidence in his presence. Especially when we were in that faded millionare's row there, with a few half size tyrannosaurs stalking the grounds of the mansion next door. All the while talking to various cats who flopped over on the sidewalk when we passed. This is what I get for not leaving the radio on with the BBC Overnight on. Instead the usual round the clock Siberian methane release global warming nightmare, I get downsized purple striped tyrannosaurs and B. Dylan. Well, it <em>was</em> a step up of sorts but, man, was he cranky... Anyhow and all the same, I'll let you be in my dream if you blah blah woof woof in your dream. And whatever, all the same etc. --Brian's huge chordlist collection is no doubt quite possibly an asset for the 82nd Couchborne living room geetar players virtual legion and, hence, therefore best of the web. And who knows who, what, when, where else rates such an encomium ? <em><a href="http://dylanchords.info/48_cith/index.html" title="'It’s hilarious. Finally, the ‘wolfman’ voice has found a home where it belongs: as a counterweight to the saccharine, a way to scare the living soul out of the unsuspecting innocent, and perhaps – just perhaps – blow some meaning into these songs again.'">Christmas in the Heart</a></em> already tabbed, perhaps ? <small><small>Man, talk about OCD completist detailing, though...</small></small>
Debashish Bhattacharya, slide guitarist from India
Have you heard the Indian slide guitarist <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOBPMIoadBo">Debashish Bhattacharya</a>? <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FMxPCITuuWY">He's</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27NVNkg8ASE">really</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtfpECbJ4Y4">very</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjrKzxcPzDM">very</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPucUYgXCW4">very</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f6Hgd1Hp7jo">very</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OaMGLHtFuoY">good</a>. Here's the <a href="http://www.debashishbhattacharya.com/">Debashish Bhattacharya official site</a>, and the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debashish_Bhattacharya">Wiki page</a>. See also: nickyskye's excellent post from June 2009 on Indian slide guitarist <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/82462/Van-Shipley-and-slide-guitar-music-in-India">Van Shipley</a>.
bluestab's blog meets AfricanAfrican aka NegroArtist.com
<em>Chanteur puissant à la voix rocailleuse.</em> And here is <a href="http://bluestab.skyrock.com/" title=" J'ai créer ce blog pour les guitaristes fans de blues (plutôt ancien) et pour ceux qui voudraient faire la connaîssance de cette musique à travers des classique du genre. La plupart des titres sont quasi-introuvables sur le net alors profitez en bien.">bluestab's blog</a> And here, via <a href="http://babelfish.yahoo.com/" title="Zoot Suit Alors!">Babelfish</a> is <a href="http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fbluestab.skyrock.com%2F+&lp=fr_en&btnTrUrl=Translate" title="I have to create this blog for the guitarists fans of blues (rather old) and for those who would like to become acquainted with this music through the traditional one of the kind. The majority of the titles are quasi-untraceable on the Net then profit in good.">bluestab's blog</a> in an English of sorts. Then, while, looking for mp3s to match the tabs, I came across the universe of African American history and culture that is <a href="http://www.africanafrican.com/" title="This website is for African American Artists and an on-line portal for both African America Artists and African American History. The primary aim of this website is to encourage research activity on people of African descent and to provide information to the study of the African Diaspora. A historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution. Please make sure to look through the 1000+ Slave Narratives on my website. Many of the colored soldiers from the Revolutionary war are true heroes so take a look at the images of them as well as the other colored soldiers throughout the 18TH 19TH AND 20TH CENTURY. ">AfricanAfrican</a> aka <a href="http://negroartist.com/" title="''This website further promotes the work of black artists both nationally and internationally through a variety of ways including images of African American artists, slave narratives, colored soldiers, and african american art galleries and black art publications. This a very detailed and comprehensive website that gives links to the sites of black artists, african american art galleries and a host of others. The colored soldiers, and black artwork links then enable students, art enthusiasts and historians of the african diaspora to look at the work, history and career of artists.''">NegroArtist.com</a>, a site so big it has two URLs. [Billy Mays] But, wait--that's not all! [/Billy Mays] Then, while looking for in the commons mp3s for any of the titles in bluestab's blog , I stumble upon a treasure trove of such in the <a href="http://www.document-records.com/series-5000.asp?offset=0" title="">5000 series</a> pages at <a href="http://www.document-records.com/index.asp" title="''Welcome to Document Records'' If you`re looking for rare, classic, vintage Blues, Jazz, Boogie-woogie, Gospel and Country music then you have come to the right place. Many call it the place.">Document Records</a>. , the completist's completist pre-war jazz and blues label, And found even more even more in the <a href="http://www.negroartist.com/rare%20recordings%20and%20video.htm">Rare Recordings and Video</a> page of <a href="http://www.africanafrican.com" title="This website is for African American Artists and an on-line portal for both African America Artists and African American History. The primary aim of this website is to encourage research activity on people of African descent and to provide information to the study of the African Diaspora. A historical perspective of a nation, its people, and its cultural evolution.">AfricanAfrican</a>, a small universe of texts, music and motion pictures of and on the African American experience. I am overwhelmed. Yoda says I: Truly a Labor of Love this is. And between the two--voila! We have a post!
Rory Block
<em>Aurora <a href="http://www.roryblock.com/">"Rory" Block</a> has staked her claim to be <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUXSjaf7RMU">one of America's top acoustic blues women</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqTUoV67M60">an interpreter of the great Delta blues singers</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iF5TDcNcxMk">a slide guitarist par excellence</a>, and also <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y7XwKmUKSw">a talented songwriter</a> on her own account.</em> - <a href="http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:kifuxq95ldje~T1">AllMusic</a>
Your favorite riff sucks.
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pNq94ZaZ0Yk">100 Famous Rock Guitar Riffs, in one take</a>. List of song titles can be found <a href="http://www.brodiecumming.com/events.html">here</a> on the artist's page.
Musical sorting algorithms
<a href="http://www.math.ucla.edu/~rcompton/musical_sorting_algorithms/musical_sorting_algorithms.html">Musical sorting algorithms.</a> <small><small>[<a href="http://justinblanton.com/2009/08/musical-sorting-algorithms">via</a>]</small></small>
Les Paul, 1915-2009
<a href="http://www.lespaulonline.com/">Les Paul</a>, musician, pioneer of multitrack recording, and creator of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul_guitar">one of the most successful and recognizable guitars in history</a>, <a href="http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/News/les-paul-passes-away-at-94-813">passed at the age of 94.</a> Known to guitarists around the world through the guitar that bears his name (built initially using a hunk of 4"x4" lumber), <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Paul">Les Paul</a> also is credited with being the first to develop <a href="http://multimedia.utsa.edu/technology/3153/restricted/history-2.html">multitrack recording</a> in 1955 to overcome the noise problem of using the overdubbing technique used at the time. Aside from releasing many popular jazz guitar albums throughout the 40s and 50s, he had a radio program and a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iGXP_UBog4">short TV show</a> with his wife, Mary Ford, in the early fifties. He won two <a href="http://www.guitarvibe.com/2006/02/les_paul_wins_g.html">Grammys</a> for his 2005 album <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000A9QKMI/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">American Made World Played</a> (bringing his total to 7), and even recently played regularly at the <a href="http://www.iridiumjazzclub.com/talent.php?talent=1">Iridium Jazz Club</a> in New York. He has left a lasting influence on American music and culture.
Pete Townshend Guitar Contest
<a href="http://www.thewho.com/index.php?module=news&news_item_id=322">The Who: Maximum Windmill Guitar Contest</a>
Sister Rosetta Tharpe
<i>"She was a rock star," recalls Ira Tucker Jr., who grew up watching Tharpe with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dixie_Hummingbirds">his father's gospel group</a> in the 1940s and '50s. "You know, like Beyonce today and people like that. <a href="http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102167126">That's what Rosetta was to us</a>."</i> Sister Rosetta Tharpe wasn't the first one to bring black popular music into the church. (Here's the great <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_Dranes">Arizona Dranes</a> playing barroom honky-tonk piano on the gospel side <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79hhWYVY75s">I Shall Wear a Crown</a> in 1927.) But her fierce stage presence and her original blend of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0qrD1KG-GM">gospel, boogie-woogie, swing and smoking hot blues guitar</a> was a crucial forgotten influence on what we now recognize as rock and roll. <small>(Many more recordings inside. Enjoy!)</small> If you're here for the electric guitar action, you'll want the Red Foley duet and the '60s TV appearances. My personal favorites are the stunning acoustic duets she recorded a decade or two earlier with the Sanctified gospel shouter Marie Knight — try "Up Above my Head" and "Daniel in the Lion's Den." But her range was incredible, everything she recorded was excellent, and comparing her late electric recordings with the earlier versions is a hoot if you're into that sort of thing. Early success with <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucky_Millinder">Lucky Millinder</a>'s big band: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpe2wYcO8bc">The Lonesome Road</a> (scantily clad dancing girls at 0:45!), <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnWz2AJ4I7s">Four or Five Times</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RX2ebxIHyCU">Trouble in Mind</a> Mid-40s boogie-woogie gospel mega-hit: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9beFIankmBY">Strange Things Happening Every Day</a> With <a href="http://www.marieknight.com/">Marie Knight</a> in the late '40s: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofH5YJegO1g">Up Above My Head</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yq6jRW2lPNA">Beams of Heaven</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AaGRQiiBQcw">My Journey to the Sky</a>, <a href="http://thehound.net/19910223/">Daniel in the Lion's Den</a> [scroll down to the 7th set] With jubilee singers The Dependable Boys: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQ2DWkmehiY">Everybody's Going to Have a Wonderful Time Up There</a>, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/SisterRosettaTharpeWithTheDependableBoysAndSamPriceTrio-TheLords">My Lord's Gonna Move This Wicked Race</a>, <a href="http://www.archive.org/details/SisterRosettaTharpeWithTheDependableBoysAndSamPriceTrio-DownByThe">Down By the Riverside</a> Her SCANDALOUS! return to blues in the '50s: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zs5KLpMaOcA">Don't Leave Me Here to Cry</a> Duet with country and rockabilly star <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Foley">Red Foley</a>: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rm0RYF1nimk">Have a Little Talk with Jesus</a> Straight-up church choir gospel from the '60s: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsV2dPDr6bs">I Do, Don't You</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gybBAImoAtQ">Seeking for Me</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KINs3DDXujE">Lily of the Valley</a> TV appearances from the '60s blues revival: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7lN1R2LP-4">Didn't It Rain</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzRm4K7NZm0">Trouble in Mind</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeaBNAXfHfQ">Up Above My Head</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xzr_GBa8qk">Down By the Riverside</a> <small>Bonus — the <a href="http://www.sc.edu/csam/csamaudioarchive_the_harmonizing_four.htm">Harmonizing Four</a> singing at Tharpe's <i>stadium-concert-slash-wedding</i> in '51: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyLpgtOGTvI">Mighty Long Way</a>. Sadly, no video. But how rock-star is <i>that?</i></small>
"Electric Guitar" indeed.
<a href="http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280364274949&ru=http%3A%2F%2Fshop.ebay.ca%3A80%2F%3F_from%3DR40%26_trksid%3Dm38.l1313%26_nkw%3D280364274949%26_sacat%3DSee-All-Categories%26_fvi%3D1&_">Fried Gibson.</a> I've always thought you were safe in a house from lightning storms as long as you were off the land-line or computer. A Mississippi man's Gibson Les Paul got positively roasted while sitting in his home, in its case, leaning against a wall. <a href="http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/imageserver.x/00000000/thabilster/GibsonLPReiseFlameTrsRdNkVclos.jpg">That's a powerful bolt</a>. <a href="http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/viewimage.x/00000000/thabilster/GibsonLPReiseFlameTpGlam2.jpg?vvid=4086895&allow_mailing_list=1&sp=1&vsid=1&vgp=0&vimgs=GibsonLPReiseFlameTpGlam2.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTpBodCls2.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTrusRdVCls2.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTrusRdVCls.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameHdClos.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameImpact.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameOverHd.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlamTpBdClsOvhd.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameHdOverhd.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameNkVapoStngs.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTpBodVCls.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTpBacFulT.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTpNcBrnBac.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTnersAll.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTnerRtCls.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTnerCls.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTBacReflct.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameOutside2.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameOutside5.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameOutside3.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTree.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameiOutsd4.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameinside.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlametCaseClosd.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlametCasHoles.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlamtCase.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlametCaseTop.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlametManual.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameNkVapoStngs2.jpg,GibsonLPReiseFlameTrsRdNkVclos.jpg">Lots of gory photos here</a> and in the auction linked above including a nice shot of some of <a href="http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/imageserver.x/00000000/thabilster/GibsonLPReiseFlameTRemnnts.jpg">the parts</a> that exploded off of the guitar, some shooting <a href="http://imagehost.vendio.com/bin/imageserver.x/00000000/thabilster/GibsonLPReiseFlametCasHoles.jpg">like bullets</a> through the case. Awesome! And it still held quite a bit of its value. <a href="http://www.gretsch-talk.com/forum/freds-barcalounge/9825-whole-new-meaning-term-electric-guitar.html">Via</a> " The lightning had struck the huge pine tree and traveled down the trunk until it reached the nails holding the trim to house. Then it jumped across through the nails, went through the drywall, and struck the top edge of the case. It then went into the case and down the neck of the guitar, vaporizing the strings, (remnants of which can still be seen on the fretboard and frets) also apparently traveling down the Truss rod inside the neck. It then blew out the last few frets on the fretboard above the end of the Truss rod before apparently melting the insides of the pickups. It then proceeded to explode some of the bridge saddles outward through the case."
United Brakes Guitars
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo&feature=player_embedded">Sometimes music really is a weapon.</a> Big surprise, United Airlines messed up some luggage and refused to do anything about it. But I have to give props to this guy for taking a bad situation and making something positive out of it. Bonus points for the song being pretty catchy. I wonder what would happen if that song was so popular that the record label wanted it on the in flight music station...
um miss may i have a dance with you please?
<a href="http://www.serogie.com/">S. E. Rogie</a>: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DE7_6S4byeQ">Go easy with me.</a> Combining Calypso (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hh1xsbbcHVY&feature=related">Nor weigh me lek dat </a>) with West African rhythms and West American pickin' (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzC2bDCXBcs&feature=related">I Wish I Was a Cowboy</a>) the <a href="http://waxidermy.com/2006/04/21/s-e-rogie-palm-wine-guitar-music/">King</a> of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm-wine_music">Palm Wine Guitar Music </a> played live at the 100 Club in London in 1994 right before the release of his final album, <a href="http://www.lala.com/#album/360569445242241490">Dead Men Don't Smoke Marijuana. </a> More: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH1NE_RPKy4&feature=channel">Don't touch me tomato</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-lGuHtL1No">My Lovely Elizabeth</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aJqaYhIcnI">Clua Koonde</a>
Van Shipley and slide guitar music in India
<em>Van Shipley was the <a href=" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-RBvGAxX7o">first electric guitarist in India</a>. The name <a href="http://www.bagatellen.com/archives/frontpage/000579.html">Van Shipley </a>is Methodist, he [was] from Lucknow [Uttar Pradesh, India]. He designed his own electric eight string steel guitar in the 1940's. The reason he did this was that he'd studied Indian classical music under <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allauddin_Khan">Ustad Alaudin Khan</a>, the leading classical musician in India, who was also a contemporary of Ravi Shankar. He also studied <a href="http://www.esnips.com/doc/569bdee4-a8a0-4610-9dd5-da5af34ba1b5/Van-Shipley--on-the-violin--Deidcated-tothe-great-artist-who-recently-passed-away.Dedicated-to-his-lovely-daughter-at-her-request.">the violin</a> with a German teacher... so he made an eight string guitar, instead of a five string. His guitar was a solid guitar, designed to his style at the time, it was futuristic.</em> </em> Van Shipley <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui51O9SkU_E">"Aawara Hun" & "Mujhe Kisi Se Pyar Ho Gaya"</a> -.mp3 Van Shipley - <a href="http://www.esnips.com/doc/3edbee23-059d-4433-82e3-14c860f63d5c/Van-shipley---Hum-Donon-Do-Premi-Duniya-chor-Chale--">Hum Donon Do Premi Duniya chor Chale</a> -.mp3 More <a href="http://www.hamaracd.com/hcdinternational/asp/vaGiftIdeas.asp?GiftId=G646">clips of Van Shipley's music</a> from the excellent site,<a href="http://www.hamaracd.com/hcdinternational/index.asp"> Hamara CD</a>, packed with free gem sound clips from the Indian subcontinent, where you can also customize your own cd. <em>Steel Guitar In India, <a href="http://www.well.com/~wellvis/indian.html">Country Music From Another Country!</a></em> l <a href="http://debashishbhattacharya.com/">Debashish Bhattacharya</a> is another Indian<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6X7Qk_CzAA"> slide guitar musician</a> who plays classical Indian music on the Hawaiian guitar, introduced to India through the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IG_5Qsw-eJY">music of Tau Moe</a> l <a href="http://www.jaywant.in/audiovideo.html">Indian Classical music on Hawaiian guitar</a> l Another<a href="http://www.kamalashankar-rajeevjanardan.com/"> example of Indian classical music on Hawaiian guitar </a> l <em><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oPXRWRxda8">Interview and concert footage</a> of legendary world blues and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hddz_cZts74&feature=related">slide guitar</a> master <a href="http://www.bobbrozman.com/">Bob Brozman</a></em>.
Guitar Wankery or Exquisite Spanish Beauty?
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEPLNaUR8lw&feature=PlayList&p=C076FA5E66B7837A&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=15">Carlos Montoya</a> can play the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko-pTH3xwno">blues/jazz too</a>. youtube X 2. The second link is a still with great audio. Guitarists and music lovers enjoy!
Outdoor fucking starts today
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gRhPeJ3uzOc&feature=player_embedded">The First of May</a> Jonathan Coulton's ode to the 'coming' of spring (SLYT). NSFW language. <a href="http://www.last.fm/music/Jonathan+Coulton">Coulton's Last.fm page</a>. <a href="http://spiffworld.com/unplugged/index.cfm">More MP3s here</a>. Coulton wrote the 'Still Alive' song from Portal and also works with John Hodgman. <a href="http://twitter.com/jonathancoulton">Jon on Twitter.</a>
That old homemade sound.
<a href="http://www.otherpower.com/washtub_bass.html">How to Build: A simple washtub bass.</a> Some <a href="http://tubotonia.freehomepage.com/Tublinks.html#plans">variations</a> (on a crazily made webpage). <a href="http://www.instructables.com/id/Cookie-Tin-Banjo-Part-4-Bed-Post-Banjo/">A cookie tin banjo</a>. (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/80596/Barefoot-and-crafting-in-the-kitchen">Previously</a>) A <a href="http://cigarboxguitars.com/workshops/How_To_Build_A_CBG.php">cigar box guitar</a>, and a <a href="http://www.ehow.com/how_4814280_build-ukulele-out-cigar-box.html">cigar box ukulele</a>. A fancy <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~kathymatsushita/otherinstruments/htmlpages/cbuke1.html">cigar box uke</a>. (Kathy Marsushita's whole <a href="http://home.comcast.net/~kathymatsushita/projects/index.html">amateur luthier projects page</a> is worth checking out, as is <a href="http://www.catfish1952.com/Cigar_Box_Ukes.html">this gallery</a> of cool cigar box ukes.)
Arts & Crafts Videos from Etsy
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/etsy">Etsy has a YouTube channel</a> where they have all kinds of profiles of their users and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=etsy&view=videos&query=how-to">how-to guides</a>. My two favorite series are the <a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=etsy&view=videos&query=process">Process</a> series (e.g. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUiMBWUpHxI">New Books with Old Materials</a> & <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFLbgxJUH-o">Tin Toys</a>) and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=etsy&view=videos&query=portraits">Handmade Portraits</a> (e.g. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qieZhWZHUu4">Armor Guitars</a> & <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-oNtaRG5yzA">Wood Mosaics</a>). In the description of each video there is a link to the corresponding entry on Etsy's blog, <a href="http://www.etsy.com/storque/">The Storque</a>. The blogposts have more information on the users and sometimes further links and videos. <small>[via <a href="http://lauratorres.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/a-peek/">Work in Progress</a>]</small>
On-the-fly harmonizing
Looping, live: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVky7hwuebU">David Ford</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25VGdNU3nrU">Imogen Heap</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DehtqLVmdcA">KT Tunstall</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OM490EXk8v0">x2</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiInBOVHpO8">Dub FX</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUO6kYLb6As">Ed Alleyne-Johnson</a>
Fuzz!
You know that guitar sound at the start of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAkJjtmUVgg">"Touch Me I'm Sick"</a>? Or when Keith plays the big riff in <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulVDM0a49Lw">"Satisfaction"</a>? That's fuzz. I love fuzz, and I was very happy to stumble across this fine documentary about fuzz pedals and their makers. <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x79gto_fuzz-01_music">Part 1</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/related/x79gto/video/x79h1c_fuzz-02_music">Part 2</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/related/x79h1c/video/x79hw7_fuzz-03_music">Part 3</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/related/x79h1c/video/x79i42_fuzz-04_music">Part 4</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/related/x79h1c/video/x79ibt_fuzz-05_music">Part 5</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/related/x79h1c/video/x79kw2_fuzz-07_music">Part 7</a>, <a href="http://www.dailymotion.com/related/x79gto/video/x79m5k_fuzz-08_music">Part 8</a> Should be enough there to sustain your interest for a while... <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/67159/Maestro-Twang">(Previously...)</a>
Guitar crack
<a href="http://guitarknowledgenet.com/progression_builder.php">Guitar chord progression generator</a>. <a href="http://www.8notes.com/guitar_chord_chart/">Guitar chord charts</a>. Have fun!