General Music Chat

Any members into a guitar, purely instrumental medium?
Surf rock, country pickin Chet Atkins style, jazz ?

Would be interested in youtube tutorials in this

surf videos?

http://youtu.be/h6aIXf-yupQ
http://youtu.be/IOZl7gXj_io
http://youtu.be/7AjIR2ZWkQQ
http://youtu.be/XNVge5UwPc0

Most of what I have recorded are instrumentals. I grew up listening to Benny Goodman, Ted Heath, the Dorseys and those cats. Peter and the WOLF. All instrumental music that was top drawer. Then came Duane Eddy, The Ventures, Chet Atkins and the rest of the early rocker instrumentalists.

Yeah. I'm all into that. Good luck with finding what you are looking for. You can find all those guys vids all over the place.

this is more jazz/rock/fusion but Andy has a LOT of free instructional videos up.

http://guitarnoize.com/andy-timmons-exp ... -melodies/

This one's nice ...
http://youtu.be/CTIwyA_WXto

I'm always trying to come up with a good instrumental. I've been working on one a bit lately, wrote it several years ago and have never come up with a good lead line for it, everything I try sucks...Have a good melodic rhythm part, bass and drums in my head, the lead just constantly eludes me.

I have a couple finished though, both Silhouette of A Daydream and Desperately Electric Tea are on my player, and a Kenny Wayne Shepperd tune, While We Cry.

Now if you wanna talk other peoples tunes, here's one of my all time favorites.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IriEq4H1XSU

Also look up Freeway Jam and Behind the Veil, both excellent. Jeff Beck has done a lot of good instrumentals.

Allman Brothers - In Memory of Elizabeth Reed and Jessica
Clapton - Peaches and Diesel
Genesis - The Brazilian - also another favorite, definitely look that one up.
Roy Buchannon's version of Green Onions just smokes.

This one's nice ...
http://youtu.be/CTIwyA_WXto

yeah! Mongo Santamaria's "Afro Blue". always loved that great 6/8 tune! i first heard it as a kid on Cal Tjader's "Soul Sauce" album that belonged to my father (thanks dad!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opdtYnUsvmc


Cal's version is a little more accessable than Braxton's but still really cool. i love how Kenny Burrell (gtr) straightens out the 6/8 time to 4/4 on his solo!

some other instrumental gtrsts who i dig and might be worth checking out:

Grant Green
Ry Cooder
Johnny A
Marc Ribot
Manuel Gabron
Tommy Emmanuel
Birelli Lagrene
Andreas Olberg
Frank Vignola
Tchvalo Schmidt
Joe Beck
Jim Hall

here's andreas olberg and frank vignola teraing it up on acoustics playing "Bossa
Dorado" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6VqJDc66oA

these guys have lessons up on youtube.

This one's nice ...
http://youtu.be/CTIwyA_WXto

yeah! Mongo Santamaria's "Afro Blue". always loved that great 6/8 tune! i first heard it as a kid on Cal Tjader's "Soul Sauce" album that belonged to my father (thanks dad!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opdtYnUsvmc


Cal's version is a little more accessable than Braxton's but still really cool. i love how Kenny Burrell (gtr) straightens out the 6/8 time to 4/4 on his solo!

Your dad had hipper taste in music than my dad!
Cal and that band cook an amazing groove!

I didn't hear the tune until I was in my early teens. I heard Coltrane's version first, so I found the Braxton version very accessible. Mixing up the 6/8 and 4/4 was one of Elvin's favorite tricks too.



Manuel Gabron? ... a typo for Galbán ? Or is that some other very obscure talent you are sneaking in here?

This one's nice ...
http://youtu.be/CTIwyA_WXto

yeah! Mongo Santamaria's "Afro Blue". always loved that great 6/8 tune! i first heard it as a kid on Cal Tjader's "Soul Sauce" album that belonged to my father (thanks dad!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opdtYnUsvmc


Cal's version is a little more accessable than Braxton's but still really cool. i love how Kenny Burrell (gtr) straightens out the 6/8 time to 4/4 on his solo!

Your dad had hipper taste in music than my dad!
Cal and that band cook an amazing groove!



I didn't hear the tune until I was in my early teens. I heard Coltrane's version first, so I found the Braxton version very accessible. Mixing up the 6/8 and 4/4 was one of Elvin's favorite tricks too.



Manuel Gabron? ... a typo for Galbán ? Or is that some other very obscure talent you are sneaking in here?

typo!

dad didn't have anything too out there but he did have some cool records that very early got me got turned on to cal tjader, erroll garner, goodman, shearing, 60's ramsey lewis, basie, hampton....ya know the pretty safe, kinda white stuff!

and NO bebop!

to this day he still hates bebop, thinking it's just a bunch of noise by posers faking it! we've had some epic go rounds on that subject!

cal was always real big around the house. dad first brought home "Soul Sauce" in '64 and then the follow up "Soul Bird". for the most part the instrumentation was vibes, piano, bass, and the classic afro cuban rhythm section of timbales and congas. with that simple and straightforward instrumentation it was pretty easy for me at 8 yrs old to actually hear the different instruments and how their parts all hooked up and played off one another.

cal played w many great piano players but at the time he was mainly working w lonnie hewiit. piano and vibes can often be a mish mosh but those guys just played off one another so perfectly. they'd just wrap their lines around each other ...always giving each other space for both parts to speak.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDtu96PcjQg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qvWwiqk7D8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3qvWwiqk7D8