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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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Antoine Dufour & Tommy Gauthier
Tommy Gauthier and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Dufour">Antoine Dufour</a> are a very talented guitar/fiddle duo (usually) who draw influence from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcu_tNZAuM">nuevo tango</a>,<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4BYMvVvMg0"> folky bluegrass</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhrU3KdYT9Q">metal</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dIAZV_22y4">some other harder to classify places</a>.
Tone-Quester Fail.
"Tone-Quester" is generally a musician (more than likely a guitarist) who purchases/modifies amps/pedals/cabinets in search of a certain sound. They fiercely pride themselves on being able to distinquish the differences between pickups, tube amps vs. transistor amps. With this in mind, <a href="http://www.wolfetone.com/">Wolfe McCloud, a pickup designer</a>, decided to challenge <a href="http://www.mylespaul.com/">My Les Paul</a> forum members. <em>Lynyrd Skynyrd. Simple Man. We all know the song. We all (I hope) love the song. The following track is is the guitar parts only for Simple Man. Two guitar parts. Your challenge is to identify the tone...out of context! How close is it to the original? Is it perfect? Close? Or not even close to the original song? Better yet... identify what kind of guitars were used. New? Vintage? PAF? Not PAF? Let's see how good you are <a href="http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/backstage/89569-time-tone-hearing-test-how-close.html#post1737987">Simple Man</a></em> After many guesses at the equipment used, the results may surprise you. <a href="http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/backstage/89569-time-tone-hearing-test-how-close.html#post1741609">[spoiler link]</a>
Songbird
She's been called "the greatest posthumous success story in music history." But when she died of melanoma at age 33, few people outside of the Washington DC-area had heard of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RDmXsGeiF8">Eva</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMznNlfLXP4">Marie</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGwDYBWEDSc">Cassidy</a>. Eva Cassidy’s specialty was cover interpretations of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soRFEeLEXn4&a">bal</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFFo1pu4q7Q">lads</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIaHrU8Hetk">blues</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1TD-7k52y4">country</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYyQcQSqpbI">fo</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G860hkE0Tc">lk</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uKdHT7bquM">gospel</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opHXp_0OFdI">ja</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUa_A_ijrAo">zz</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlnHEoWl4dc">soul</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC1QG-tzhNM">pop</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SIX-Qp6v4k">classics</a>. At the time of her death <a href="http://evacassidy.org/eva/harr96.htm">in November, 1996</a>, she was virtually unknown outside of Washington DC, and had never signed a contract with a label. She'd played small, sometimes half-empty clubs and sold tapes of her music out of the trunk of her car. But the intensely shy young session vocalist, largely self-taught guitarist and keyboardist <i>had</i> released two albums: one <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000005FN2/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">recorded in a studio</a>, and another of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000009PO2/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">a live performance</a> recorded in January 1996. She also left behind many audio recordings which her friends shared with each other in her memory. A compilation CD, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000006AKD/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">Songbird</a></i> was released into relative obscurity in 1997, but <a href="http://www.crosstownarts.com/CrosstownArts/client_music/eva/gift.html">slowly gained an underground popularity as alternative radio station dj’s across the country discovered and played her music on the air.</a> Three years after her death, at the recommendation of one of his producers, BBC Radio 2 host Terry Wogan played Cassidy's <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/overtherainbow.shtml">"Over the Rainbow"</a> on air during his show "<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/wake-up-to-wogan/">Wake Up To Wogan</a>" <i>without listening to it.</i> At the time, the show had seven million listeners and their response was overwhelming. Four years after its release, in March 2001, <i>Songbird</i> topped the charts in the UK and three songs from the album would go on to become number ones. Since then a number of Cassidy albums have been released posthumously worldwide and her music has been discovered by millions. As of 2008, <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2008-08-28/news/0808260255_1_eva-cassidy">more than 8 million copies of Cassidy's CDs had been sold; her recordings had gone quadruple platinum in England and platinum in the U.S.</a> * BBC documentary from March 2001 on Youtube: Part <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sfRvXIictA">One</a>, Part <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STF6AGXGlLQ">Two</a>, Part <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3fzzLf_r4U">Three</a> <small>(Quality is not great on these clips)</small> * ABC’s Nightline: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/rainbow--10170062">Over the Rainbow</a>. <small>Segment is an excellent, touching introduction to her life and music.</small> * Google has a limited preview of the book <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=aIl4HqLYCo4C&dq">Songbird: Eva Cassidy: Her Story By Those Who Knew Her</a> (2001) which was based on interviews with her friends and family. * Her cousin Leigh Bligh runs <a href="http://evacassidy.org/">EvaCassidy.org</a>, which showcases Eva’s life and work in great, loving detail. See: <a href="http://evacassidy.org/eva/intervie.shtml">Interviews</a> / <a href="http://evacassidy.org/eva/eva3.shtml">Articles</a> / <a href="http://evacassidy.org/eva/evafacts.shtml">Bio</a> * <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYzrUpGSR48">Tears in Heaven</a> <small>(Performed with Mary Ann Redmond at Fleetwoods in 1995. That's Mick Fleetwood on the drums, <i>Eva Cassidy Band</i> member Lenny Williams on piano and Eva's friend and frequent accompanist Chris Biondi on bass.) The audio recording has a neat story -- Vicky Williams, ex-wife of Lenny Williams <a href="http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=262307456571&topic=12740">found it on a moldy tape in her garage</a>.</small> <center><i><blockquote>"So many of Eva Cassidy's favorite songs, <i>Over the Rainbow</i>, <i>Bridge Over Troubled Water</i>, <i>People Get Ready</i>... were about how it isn't over when it's over. That death doesn't always get the last word. It turns out that wasn't just her songs. It was her story." ~ <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/rainbow--10170062">Nightline</a></blockquote></i></center>
All Thumbs
I stopped there, in a sort of awe. here's the new Choir teacher, (way too flamboyant for a small town in the 70's and fired the next year), sitting in his office with an ES175 and a small amp just wailing some kind of jazz I had never heard, I played guitar, but was still on a CSNY diet. He just sits up, looks at me, and says... "What!? You telling me never heard of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pass">Joe Pass</a>?" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pass_discography">Joe Pass</a> was a seminal guitarist. After overcoming a serious heroin addiction at <a href="http://www.synanon.org">Synanon</a>, he came back. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Granz">Norman </a>(race-busting pioneer behind <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_at_the_Philharmonic">Jazz at the Philharmonic</a>) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Granz">Granz's</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Records">Pablo Records </a>did a <a href="http://www.fergusonguitar.com/joepass.html">series of albums with him that are timeless.</a> Though playing electric, he kept his tone so quiet, you could still hear his thumb hit the strings. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFqiDcvRW2Y"><a href="http://www.jazzguitar.be/joe_pass_licks.html">An </a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFqiDcvRW2Y">appreciation</a>.</a>
Phone Guitar
Dude plays <a href="http://blog.stef.be/phoneguitar">an interpretation of Cracklin Rosie</a> on 2 Android devices, 2 Windows Mobile devices, and 1 iPod Touch.
Ocean
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAkOhXIsI0">The John Butler Trio's <i>Ocean</i> is an incredible thing to hear and to see</a> (SLYT)
Cuchi-Cuchi
Her full name is María Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Moquiere de les Esperades Santa Ana Romanguera y de la Najosa Rasten, but she's better known to the world as <a href="http://www.charo.com/">Charo</a>. According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charo">Wikipedia</a>, "One of Charo's regrets is that because of her flamboyant stage presence, she has been overlooked as a serious guitar player." So here' some Charo on guitar: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfVf7N8CJEA">"Malagueña"</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgpAlKKftG0">"Recuerdos de la Alhambra"</a> <a href="http://www.mojvideo.com/video-charo-on-hollywood-palace/ceb756ffc71800f73637">Performing Flamenco on Hollywood Palace in 1968</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOKMl70k4kU">Performing live on a Royal Caribbean Cruise</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R9tEb3Dl2c">"Caliente"</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzGoV7-Hc3c">Performing on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon </a> And an entire 1976 television special about the performer in three parts: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnXcgjBYTsI&feature=related">one</a>; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ_Wv-DyhI8&feature=related">two </a>; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9O3G-Bapls&feature=related">three</a>.
Dorothy Chandler Pavillion amirite?
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om6HDUKBbzE">John McLaughlin plays "Cherokee"</a> backed up by the Carson-era Tonight Show Band (SLYT guitar porn) A master of many styles, McLaughlin is known for early work in psychedelic rock (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFjRqTBoFDY">"Dragon Song,"</a> 1970), experimental jazz with Tony Williams' "Lifetime" (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpP1CdA9_GA">jam</a>, 1969), as band-leader for the Mahavishnu Orchestra (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-QZnnaI7rY">jam</a>, 1974), as a collaborator with Miles Davis (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEBKksupBVA&feature=related">"Right Off,"</a> 1971), jazz-rock with Carlos Santana (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WLiFHcPl_s">"A Love Supreme,"</a> 1972), an Indian/Western fusion artist with the group Shakti (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrrBtAahALU">"Finding the Way,"</a> 1999), and for his work in more traditional Spanish guitar music (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cadbYIzhqQ">"Meditarena Sundance"</a> with Paco de Lucia and Al di Meola, ca. ?), although I'm probably missing something. But big-band standards? No problem. And I know, my favorite guitarist sucks.
Bambino, rocking the guitar, Tuareg style
The other day someone asked me "who's the most deeply grooving and truly exciting electric guitar player you've heard lately?" and I said <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzWBow0OAeA">"this guy"</a>.
Premium Coffey Blend
<a href="http://www.denniscoffeysite.com/">Dennis Coffey</a> was one of the most prolific Detroit session and solo guitarists. His revamped site features a couple phenomenal podcasts of his music and interviews.
♫ I can't do this all on my own... ♫
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i7u3fl-hP8">TV Medley "Duet"</a>
Ronnie of Botswana, on guitar
OK. Alright. That's it. Ronnie of Botswana is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx4cRw6TIIg">my new favorite guitarist</a>.
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.
<a href="http://www.instantfundas.com/2010/03/69-alternatives-to-default-facebook.html">102 Alternatives to the Default Facebook Profile Picture</a>.
Antoine Dufour & Tommy Gauthier
Tommy Gauthier and <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_Dufour">Antoine Dufour</a> are a very talented guitar/fiddle duo (usually) who draw influence from <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqcu_tNZAuM">nuevo tango</a>,<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4BYMvVvMg0"> folky bluegrass</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhrU3KdYT9Q">metal</a>, and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dIAZV_22y4">some other harder to classify places</a>.
Tone-Quester Fail.
"Tone-Quester" is generally a musician (more than likely a guitarist) who purchases/modifies amps/pedals/cabinets in search of a certain sound. They fiercely pride themselves on being able to distinquish the differences between pickups, tube amps vs. transistor amps. With this in mind, <a href="http://www.wolfetone.com/">Wolfe McCloud, a pickup designer</a>, decided to challenge <a href="http://www.mylespaul.com/">My Les Paul</a> forum members. <em>Lynyrd Skynyrd. Simple Man. We all know the song. We all (I hope) love the song. The following track is is the guitar parts only for Simple Man. Two guitar parts. Your challenge is to identify the tone...out of context! How close is it to the original? Is it perfect? Close? Or not even close to the original song? Better yet... identify what kind of guitars were used. New? Vintage? PAF? Not PAF? Let's see how good you are <a href="http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/backstage/89569-time-tone-hearing-test-how-close.html#post1737987">Simple Man</a></em> After many guesses at the equipment used, the results may surprise you. <a href="http://www.mylespaul.com/forums/backstage/89569-time-tone-hearing-test-how-close.html#post1741609">[spoiler link]</a>
Songbird
She's been called "the greatest posthumous success story in music history." But when she died of melanoma at age 33, few people outside of the Washington DC-area had heard of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RDmXsGeiF8">Eva</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMznNlfLXP4">Marie</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGwDYBWEDSc">Cassidy</a>. Eva Cassidy’s specialty was cover interpretations of <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soRFEeLEXn4&a">bal</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFFo1pu4q7Q">lads</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIaHrU8Hetk">blues</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1TD-7k52y4">country</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYyQcQSqpbI">fo</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G860hkE0Tc">lk</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uKdHT7bquM">gospel</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opHXp_0OFdI">ja</a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUa_A_ijrAo">zz</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlnHEoWl4dc">soul</a> and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC1QG-tzhNM">pop</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SIX-Qp6v4k">classics</a>. At the time of her death <a href="http://evacassidy.org/eva/harr96.htm">in November, 1996</a>, she was virtually unknown outside of Washington DC, and had never signed a contract with a label. She'd played small, sometimes half-empty clubs and sold tapes of her music out of the trunk of her car. But the intensely shy young session vocalist, largely self-taught guitarist and keyboardist <i>had</i> released two albums: one <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000005FN2/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">recorded in a studio</a>, and another of <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000009PO2/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">a live performance</a> recorded in January 1996. She also left behind many audio recordings which her friends shared with each other in her memory. A compilation CD, <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000006AKD/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">Songbird</a></i> was released into relative obscurity in 1997, but <a href="http://www.crosstownarts.com/CrosstownArts/client_music/eva/gift.html">slowly gained an underground popularity as alternative radio station dj’s across the country discovered and played her music on the air.</a> Three years after her death, at the recommendation of one of his producers, BBC Radio 2 host Terry Wogan played Cassidy's <a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/soldonsong/songlibrary/overtherainbow.shtml">"Over the Rainbow"</a> on air during his show "<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/shows/wake-up-to-wogan/">Wake Up To Wogan</a>" <i>without listening to it.</i> At the time, the show had seven million listeners and their response was overwhelming. Four years after its release, in March 2001, <i>Songbird</i> topped the charts in the UK and three songs from the album would go on to become number ones. Since then a number of Cassidy albums have been released posthumously worldwide and her music has been discovered by millions. As of 2008, <a href="http://articles.baltimoresun.com/2008-08-28/news/0808260255_1_eva-cassidy">more than 8 million copies of Cassidy's CDs had been sold; her recordings had gone quadruple platinum in England and platinum in the U.S.</a> * BBC documentary from March 2001 on Youtube: Part <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-sfRvXIictA">One</a>, Part <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STF6AGXGlLQ">Two</a>, Part <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3fzzLf_r4U">Three</a> <small>(Quality is not great on these clips)</small> * ABC’s Nightline: <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/rainbow--10170062">Over the Rainbow</a>. <small>Segment is an excellent, touching introduction to her life and music.</small> * Google has a limited preview of the book <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=aIl4HqLYCo4C&dq">Songbird: Eva Cassidy: Her Story By Those Who Knew Her</a> (2001) which was based on interviews with her friends and family. * Her cousin Leigh Bligh runs <a href="http://evacassidy.org/">EvaCassidy.org</a>, which showcases Eva’s life and work in great, loving detail. See: <a href="http://evacassidy.org/eva/intervie.shtml">Interviews</a> / <a href="http://evacassidy.org/eva/eva3.shtml">Articles</a> / <a href="http://evacassidy.org/eva/evafacts.shtml">Bio</a> * <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYzrUpGSR48">Tears in Heaven</a> <small>(Performed with Mary Ann Redmond at Fleetwoods in 1995. That's Mick Fleetwood on the drums, <i>Eva Cassidy Band</i> member Lenny Williams on piano and Eva's friend and frequent accompanist Chris Biondi on bass.) The audio recording has a neat story -- Vicky Williams, ex-wife of Lenny Williams <a href="http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=262307456571&topic=12740">found it on a moldy tape in her garage</a>.</small> <center><i><blockquote>"So many of Eva Cassidy's favorite songs, <i>Over the Rainbow</i>, <i>Bridge Over Troubled Water</i>, <i>People Get Ready</i>... were about how it isn't over when it's over. That death doesn't always get the last word. It turns out that wasn't just her songs. It was her story." ~ <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/rainbow--10170062">Nightline</a></blockquote></i></center>
All Thumbs
I stopped there, in a sort of awe. here's the new Choir teacher, (way too flamboyant for a small town in the 70's and fired the next year), sitting in his office with an ES175 and a small amp just wailing some kind of jazz I had never heard, I played guitar, but was still on a CSNY diet. He just sits up, looks at me, and says... "What!? You telling me never heard of <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pass">Joe Pass</a>?" <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Pass_discography">Joe Pass</a> was a seminal guitarist. After overcoming a serious heroin addiction at <a href="http://www.synanon.org">Synanon</a>, he came back. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Granz">Norman </a>(race-busting pioneer behind <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_at_the_Philharmonic">Jazz at the Philharmonic</a>) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Granz">Granz's</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pablo_Records">Pablo Records </a>did a <a href="http://www.fergusonguitar.com/joepass.html">series of albums with him that are timeless.</a> Though playing electric, he kept his tone so quiet, you could still hear his thumb hit the strings. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFqiDcvRW2Y"><a href="http://www.jazzguitar.be/joe_pass_licks.html">An </a><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFqiDcvRW2Y">appreciation</a>.</a>
Phone Guitar
Dude plays <a href="http://blog.stef.be/phoneguitar">an interpretation of Cracklin Rosie</a> on 2 Android devices, 2 Windows Mobile devices, and 1 iPod Touch.
Ocean
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VAkOhXIsI0">The John Butler Trio's <i>Ocean</i> is an incredible thing to hear and to see</a> (SLYT)
Cuchi-Cuchi
Her full name is María Rosario Pilar Martínez Molina Moquiere de les Esperades Santa Ana Romanguera y de la Najosa Rasten, but she's better known to the world as <a href="http://www.charo.com/">Charo</a>. According to <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charo">Wikipedia</a>, "One of Charo's regrets is that because of her flamboyant stage presence, she has been overlooked as a serious guitar player." So here' some Charo on guitar: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfVf7N8CJEA">"Malagueña"</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LgpAlKKftG0">"Recuerdos de la Alhambra"</a> <a href="http://www.mojvideo.com/video-charo-on-hollywood-palace/ceb756ffc71800f73637">Performing Flamenco on Hollywood Palace in 1968</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOKMl70k4kU">Performing live on a Royal Caribbean Cruise</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R9tEb3Dl2c">"Caliente"</a> <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzGoV7-Hc3c">Performing on the Jerry Lewis MDA Telethon </a> And an entire 1976 television special about the performer in three parts: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SnXcgjBYTsI&feature=related">one</a>; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZ_Wv-DyhI8&feature=related">two </a>; <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9O3G-Bapls&feature=related">three</a>.
Dorothy Chandler Pavillion amirite?
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Om6HDUKBbzE">John McLaughlin plays "Cherokee"</a> backed up by the Carson-era Tonight Show Band (SLYT guitar porn) A master of many styles, McLaughlin is known for early work in psychedelic rock (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFjRqTBoFDY">"Dragon Song,"</a> 1970), experimental jazz with Tony Williams' "Lifetime" (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpP1CdA9_GA">jam</a>, 1969), as band-leader for the Mahavishnu Orchestra (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-QZnnaI7rY">jam</a>, 1974), as a collaborator with Miles Davis (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEBKksupBVA&feature=related">"Right Off,"</a> 1971), jazz-rock with Carlos Santana (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WLiFHcPl_s">"A Love Supreme,"</a> 1972), an Indian/Western fusion artist with the group Shakti (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yrrBtAahALU">"Finding the Way,"</a> 1999), and for his work in more traditional Spanish guitar music (<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cadbYIzhqQ">"Meditarena Sundance"</a> with Paco de Lucia and Al di Meola, ca. ?), although I'm probably missing something. But big-band standards? No problem. And I know, my favorite guitarist sucks.
Bambino, rocking the guitar, Tuareg style
The other day someone asked me "who's the most deeply grooving and truly exciting electric guitar player you've heard lately?" and I said <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzWBow0OAeA">"this guy"</a>.
Premium Coffey Blend
<a href="http://www.denniscoffeysite.com/">Dennis Coffey</a> was one of the most prolific Detroit session and solo guitarists. His revamped site features a couple phenomenal podcasts of his music and interviews.
♫ I can't do this all on my own... ♫
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8i7u3fl-hP8">TV Medley "Duet"</a>
Ronnie of Botswana, on guitar
OK. Alright. That's it. Ronnie of Botswana is <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tx4cRw6TIIg">my new favorite guitarist</a>.
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.