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“Spider Murphy played the tenor saxophone” . This line appears in both “Jailhouse Rock” and “In the Midnight Hour. I see where there was a convict band member called “Spider” because he played the Sax as if he had “8 arms”. I presume he is the person Elvis, Steve and Wilson were referring to.
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“I was born in a crossfire hurricane” I read where Keith Richards was born during a WW2 German air raid and that’s what the first line of the “jumping jack flash” is alluding too.
At 80 he is still a pretty amazing guitar player. He’s the reason I started to spend most of my practice time in open G and D tuning. Hopefully, when I am 80 I will be able to play “Little Red Rooster.”
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I might pick up a Wampler Tumnus.
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In 1956 Buddy and the Two Tones were sitting in the Cactus Theatre and heard John Wayne on screen say,”That’ll Be The Day” and as they say the rest is history.
The band, I believe was now Buddy and the Three Tones but they needed a new name to avoid label problems playing their new song. Buddy thought that there were a few groups named after birds, so perhaps insects would provide a good name. It’s funny because they must have considered the name “Beetles” as they strolled over names like grasshoppers, moths, and wasps.before deciding on “The Crickets”. I couldn’t help but notice the chord progression as I was looking at the sheet music and that peeked my curiosity to look at its history, Apparently they wrote the song in about 15 minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4TfFTmITLo
https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0070066
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Really, a pedal that originally sold for $250 now sells for $8000 used.
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Is deliberate practice the missing link that determines who gets good and who doesn’t.? I personally think most folks DO have a deliberate practice plan, (they might not call it that) and yet the majority never make it to the goal line.
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Music Reading for Guitar the complete method.
My brother gave me this book today and I assumed it was a beginner book. It’s not. It’s the first book I’ve seen that talks about eye movement and sight reading.It’s also the first book I’ve seen with a few exercises in the 12 position.I thought I would spend some time and go through it.
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One of my favorite songs is Sunday mornin’ Comin’ Down.( It’s hard to believe that someone with Kristofferson’s talent was ever pushing a broom in Nashville.) It’s one of those songs that when just playing the simple melody notes it sounds good. Especially the chorus. Now it’s time to try and learn this fingerstyle version.
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One of the greatest riffs on one string.
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It’s probably been 50 years since I heard this song.I don’t think there are many songs that starts with a harmonic. At first glance this song seems pretty easy.
https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0184312
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcZn2-bGXqQ
https://genius.com/The-rolling-stones-angie-lyrics
https://www.musicnotes.com/sheetmusic/mtd.asp?ppn=MN0063597
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sREFTTqiIz4
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Another Mel bay tune that I wasn’t familiar with. I am not sure if the exercise in the book is a chord melody solo arrangement or a chord melody arrangement of the lyrics. Based on what I hear on line I am guessing it’s part of a solo. What ever it is it sounds really good.
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A few weeks ago I picked up my Mel Bay book and came across a exercise piece called a Sailors Hornpipe. It seemed like an interesting 5th position tune. I finally figured it out. Then I asked myself what’s a horn pipe? Having spent 4 years in the Navy I had never heard the term, I though maybe it was something like a busun pipe to boatswain whistle.Well curiosity got the better of me,so I googled it.
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It’s interesting to look at the jazz standard and then see the solo.
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Interesting topic.
I always thought that the melody notes alone were the key to a solo. Simply, because most of the solos I like seemed to sound like “unwritten melody” that could have easily been a part of the the song melody.
I also used to think the pentatonic scale alone was the answer, then I found a solo for “Blue Eyes Crying in the Night” and it combined both E major and E minor pentatonic scales and it seemed to mimic the song melody.
So, it seems there’s lots of options. Melodies, scales , combination of scales/ modes, chords, and chord tones. It not an easy task. I’ve heard some solos where they just play some common licks that have nothing in common with the song .The notes used are correct but they are meaningless and don’t convey the feelings in the song.Then there are songs with minimal melody notes to draw from. I think in those cases you need to tap into the emotions of the song. One song that comes to mind is “Comfortably Numb”and its first solo. The melody notes would never get you that solo. It seems like the Bm minor pentatonic scales make up the notes of the solo but it’s obvious that just having the right notes is not enough. The solo in that song ( for me) tapped into the emotions of the lyrics. The articulations used with those scale notes and the position played on the neck, in my opinion is what made that solo just right for that song.
One book I would recommend is “Soloing Strategies” for guitar by Tom Kolb.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kFvhCFzoF8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UXNSkg06VE
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Soloing strategy over “ listen to how my rhythm goes” with a simple vamp.
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“Talkin’ ‘bout my girl”! You might remember some of the lyrics, but it’s the riff that most guitar players know. Probably the most famous of all times. Who wrote and played the riff? I thought that might stump you.It was Robert White.
Here’s a lesson you might enjoy.
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Thibeaux, If you can’t pronounce his middle name you aren’t alone. So T-Bone it was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fp1bLOHwN98
https://www.sheetmusicdirect.com/en-US/se/ID_No/168492/Product.aspx
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“Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful that a locomotive! Able to leap tall building in a single bound!” Boy! was I disappointed to learn it just means “above” the tonic. I guess I should have learned Latin.
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I don’t think I ever heard of this music genre. I certainly heard the sound just not the term. When I was looking at Freddy Fender’s life it was part of his musical upbringing. Then of course it was inevitable that ‘Cookies and Cupcakes” would surface.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2W2aB7E24M
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Freddy Fender, singer, song writer and owner of the Fender Guitar Company. Later I discovered his real name was Baldemar Huerta and his only connection to Fender Guitar was his Tele. “Before the next teardrop falls” is a classic from the 1970’s The following link is the melody and intro.
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The other day some tab through me a “curve ball” with bubd in the musical notation. Finally I realized that it must mean bend up bend down. Bend and release. I guess you decide on whole step or half step etc.
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After 12 years I still find Mel Bays guitar method books a challenge. I am working on “Minueto” from the Sonata OP 25 by Fernando Sor. (arrangement by Mel.) I was curious about the original music and if it would shed some light on the lesson. I noticed something odd in the original, “slashes” above and under the repeat sign. It appears they are just decorating the music.The 6th measure also has a couple of unknown marks.
In Mel’s arrangement he inserted a chord that I can’t finger. I couldn’t help but notice it wasn’t in F. Sor version, so I am pleased that I can comfortably edit my lesson. It never fails,I find something I like and there is always a fingering that’s impossible.
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“No particular place to go” so we parked way out on the Kokomo. Seems like Kokomo shows a lot and it’s not the city in Indiana. Chuck Berry,The Beach Boys and The Grateful Dead to mention a few have used the word. Then of course there is Joe Blow from Kokomo and I am pretty sure he doesn’t live in Indiana. I guess next year I will travel to Kokomo or better yet Timbuktu where I can sit in the bar and order a Kokomo on the rocks and listen to Ko Ko Mo Blues and toss a magical stone in the deep blue sea.