Guitar Techniques July 1999

Includes Rolling Stones classic "Angie" and Blues Special featuring legends like Robert Cray, Kenny Wayne, ZZ Top and techniques like chord tapping and much more.

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Frank Gambale--Passages

Passages is regarded by many fans and critics as Frank Gambale's best overall album. Strong songs and strong performances are turned in by the entire all-star lineup, which includes Otmaro Ruiz, the sensational keyboardist from Caracas, Venezuela, who is a perfect match forGambale. The rhythm section is the firepower of Alphonso Johnson (bass), and Walfredo Reyes Jr. (drum ). Passages is a classic album with classic songs like the title track, "Little Charmer", "6.8 Shaker", and Gambale's instrumental cover of the Cream song "White Room". A great first album for the instrumental fan new to the music of Gambale.

Tracklist:

1. Little Charmer
2. 6.8 Shaker
3. Passages
4. White Room
5. D-Day
6. Nunzio's Near
7. Free Spirit
8. One With Everything
9. Roxana
10. Uluru
11. Another Alternative

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Jamorama--The Ultimate Guitar Learning Kit

Contains the three books, Learn to Play Guitar with Jamorama for Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced.

Also two exclusive computer games "JaydeMusica Pro" and "GuitEarIt!" to aid in the learning of musical notes, both in transcribing and in reading written music. These games make the monotony of learning to read music fun, and also help students to develop their ear for transcribing their favorite songs from the radio. Both games are professionally designed, and are invaluable in developing the key skills necessary in being a better musician.


Plus Two bonus e-books and tuning software

* Advanced Learning Techniques for Guitar

* How to tune your guitar

* Guitar tuner pro software

These books cover how to tune your guitar, the software has audio files of many tunings and is user friendly. The training techniques will cut your learning time in half.

This package is impressive because it is one of the most complete packages regarding the whole process of learning the guitar, from strumming, muting and bending, to timing, reading music and transcribing.

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Nirvana--Unplugged in New York Tabs

This exceptional songbook features note-for-note transcriptions/tablature for every instrument played and lyric sung on the 14 songs from Nirvana's famous MTV appearance.
Includes:
* About a Girl
* All Apologies
* Come as You Are
* Dumb
* Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam
* Lake of Fire
* The Man Who Sold the World
* Oh Me
* On a Plain
* Penny Royal Tea
* Plateau
* (New Wave) Polly
* Something in the Way
* Where Did You Sleep Last Night

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John Williams--Guitar Recital

Composers: Nicolo Paganini, Domenico Scarlatti, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Mauro Giuliani
Performer: John Williams
Contents:
1. (24) Caprices Composed by Nicolò Paganini with John Williams
2. Grand Sonata for Guitar Composed by Nicolò Paganini with John Williams
3. Sonatas for Keyboard Nos. 1-555 Composed by Domenico Scarlatti with John Williams
4. Five Preludes Composed by Heitor Villa-Lobos with John Williams
5. Variations on a Theme by Handel Composed by Mauro Giuliani with John Williams

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Guitar & Bass November 2007 Issue

It’s a super special round up this month of all the great players, gigs and kit that we feel make up the most important events in the history of the instrument we love. There’s something for everyone here – plenty to agree and disagree with no doubt!

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Allan Holdsworth--Reaching For The Uncommon Chord

This excellent book is not only a transcription about some Allan Holdsworth's material between 1976-1986, but a good reference of the master's thinking. It contains a current biography, a selected discography (just the records which allan is proud of),a lot of photographs, a detailed story about each song, and a humble "Holdsworthian View" of the revolutionary guitarist, who really transform the aproach to the instrument: His style not only consist in a fluid liquid legato interpretation of fusion scales but a total creative harmony landscape that has became a new language for others.
The transcriptions are:
1. The Abingdon Chasp (from "One Of A Kind"),
2. Fred ("Believe It"),
3. Home ("Metal Fatigue"),
4. Letters Of Marque ("I.O.U."),
5. Shallow Sea ("I.O.U."),
6. Temporary Fault ("I.O.U."),
7. Three Sheets To The Wind ("Road Games"),
8. Tokyo Dream ("Road Games"),
9. The Unmerry-Go-Round ("Metal Fatigue"),
10. White Line ("I.O.U.").
This book is a "must read" for all the fan musicians of Allan Holdsworth. Is an outstanding document that helps to figure out the thinking and musical understanding of a real revolutionary genious!...

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Rusty Cooley--Extreme Pentatonics

Shred guitar monster Rusty Cooley is back yet again with another superior instructional CD-Rom brought to you by Chops from Hell. "Extreme Pentatonics" is Cooley's sophomore release and its phenomenal. I never dreamed of so many ways to play the same damn pentatonic scale! Rusty will take you out of your standard box pattern rut and give you the tools to make your soloing that much more impressive. I found myself like other guitarists out there thinking that I learned all I could from using this basic of scales. Well, man was I wrong! This instructional ROM has well over 100 different examples and licks. Yes, I did say 100 plus. So now your combinations of patterns and movements are endless (100 to the power of something or other). You do the math. ;-)

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Def Leppard--Vault (Tabs)

Full Tablature/Transcriptions of the following songs:

1. Pour Some Sugar On Me
2. Photograph
3. Love Bites
4. Let's Get Rocked
5. Two Steps Behind
6. Animal
7. Foolin'
8. Rocket
9. When Love & Hate Collide
10. Armageddon It
11. Have You Ever Needed Someone So Bad?
12. Rock Of Ages
13. Hysteria
14. Miss You In A Heartbeat
15. Bringin' On The Heartbreak

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George Benson--Absolute Benson

George Benson is well embarked on the third phase of his career, and Absolute Benson, though unfortunately titled (it sounds like a compilation, but is actually an album of new recordings) is another in a series of consistently excellent CDs that characterize it. Benson excited traditional jazz fans in the 1960s and early '70s with his albums of inventive guitar playing on Columbia, A&M, and CTI, records that made him seem the logical successor to Wes Montgomery. Then, in 1976, he moved to Warner Bros. Records and recorded Breezin', featuring the single "This Masquerade," on which he sang, and suddenly he became a million-selling pop vocalist who happened to play guitar, seemingly the logical successor to Nat "King" Cole. That, of course, made him anathema to traditional jazz critics. After a decade, however, his pop success began to diminish, and by the end of the decade he was making another move -- to contemporary jazz. By the 1990s, he was restricting his vocal excursions to a few tracks on each disc, and his albums began to top the contemporary jazz album charts consistently. His move from Warner Bros. to GRP, a label devoted to contemporary jazz, confirmed the transition. Absolute Benson is his third GRP release, and on it he turns in a varied set, accompanied by Joe Sample on keyboards; Carlos Hernandez or Christian McBride on bass; Vidal Davis, Steve Gadd, or Cindy Blackman on drums; and Luis Conte or Luisito Quintero on percussion. Four of the nine tracks feature vocals of one sort or another. On the leadoff track, "The Ghetto," Benson (accompanied by five background vocalists) sings a few words, and on "Come Back Baby," he takes a real lead vocal, while on "El Barrio" and "Medicine Man" he only scats along with his guitar playing in his familiar style. But none of these performances is a conventional pop vocal performance. Similarly, Benson flirts with various pop music styles, covering Donny Hathaway's "The Ghetto," Stevie Wonder's "Lately," and Ray Charles' "Come Back Baby" for elements of R&B and blues, while "El Barrio" has a Latin feel. But he employs these styles as flavorings, the main course of which always remains his melodic guitar playing. His lead work in "Jazzenco" is particularly notable, but throughout the disc he plays with assurance in a manner his fans will recognize and appreciate. If it is difficult to crossover from jazz to pop, crossing back can be just as treacherous. Benson's oldest fans, who later became his detractors, still may not be satisfied with his current approach, but it has deservedly won him a secure place in contemporary jazz.

Tracklist:

1. The Ghetto

2. El Barrio

3. Jazzenco

4. Deeper Than You Think

5. One On One

6. Hipping The Hop

7. Lately

8. Come Back Baby

9. Medicine Man

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Frank Gambale--Monster Licks & Speed Picking

Frank's innovative speed/sweep picking technique and how to develop your own monster licks.Gambale demonstrates his technique with diatonic scales, pentatonic scales, arpeggios, and triads, playing each slowly and then at lightning speed. DVD special features include tuning segment, video performance with Allan Holdsworth and John Scofield, Concert with Class preview, Frank Gambale catalog, and Internet connectivity.

Includes:

*Gambale demonstrates

*Speed/sweep picking techniques

*Diatonic scales

*Pentatonic scales

*Arpeggios

*Triads

*Tuning segment

*Video performance with Allan Holdsworth and John Scofield

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B.B. King--Reflections

B.B. King unleashes his inner crooner on this collection of 13 of his sentimental favorites. With a five-piece studio band rather than his usual orchestra, the arrangements stay spare throughout, allowing King to exercise his classic vocal chops--although some fans may be disappointed by his low-key guitar playing, as King's beloved axe Lucille plays second fiddle to Texas guitarist Doyle Bramhall II's six-string. Still, King's in excellent voice, whether revisiting early inspiration Lonnie Johnson's romantic "Tomorrow Night," embracing buddy Willie Nelson's golden "Always on My Mind," or tackling numbers recorded by Sam Cooke and Nat "King" Cole ("(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons"), Louis Armstrong ("What a Wonderful World"), and Frank Sinatra ("I'll String Along with You"). Fans will recognize "On My Word of Honor" and the King original "Neighborhood Affair" from previous recordings and "I Want a Little Girl" from his live performances. Although King does justice to all these numbers, his most heartfelt selection may be "A Mother's Love," a performance that seems to draw on the heartache he still carries from the loss of his own mother when he was a child, nearly 70 years ago.

Tracklist:

1. Exactly Like You
2. On My Word Of Honor
3. I Want A Little Girl
4. I'll String Along With You
5. I Need You
6. A Mother's Love
7. (I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons
8. Neighborhood Affair
9. Tomorrow Night
10. There I've Said It Again
11. Always On My Mind
12. Cross My Heart
13. What A Wonderful World

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David Gilmour--Marooned

This is a great solo performance by legendary Pink Floyd guitarist (yeah vocalist too), David Gilmour. Just close your eyes and feel this song..it takes you to another place..simply awesome!!

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Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble--In The Beginning

This visceral live recording from April 1, 1980, was broadcast on radio from the Steamboat 1874 club in Stevie Ray Vaughan's adopted hometown, Austin, Texas. It circulated among collectors, and his manager used some of the tape as a demo before Vaughan was signed to Epic Records by John Hammond. Young Stevie Ray's performance bristles with uncorked energy. Vaughan is caught improvising on raw slide guitar, growling through Otis Rush's "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)," and pushing his fretboard speed and vocal limits on Guitar Slim's "They Call Me Guitar Hurricane." Also offered are unpolished versions of tunes that became fan favorites: "Tin Pan Alley," "Love Struck Baby," and "Tell Me."

Tracklist:

1. In The Open
2. Slide Thing
3. They Call Me Guitar Hurricane
4. All Your Love I Miss Loving
5. Tin Pan Alley
6. Love Struck Baby
7. Tell Me
8. Shake For Me
9. Live Another Day

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Play Acoustic Guitar With David Bowie(Book+CD)

Full acoustic guitar transcriptions of seven of David Bowie's classic hits, in full guitar tablature with vocal lines and lyrics. Accompanying CD includes two backing tracks for each song: one with guitar and one without guitar. Hear how the song should sound, sing along with a full backing track, or play guitar and sing along.

*Andy Warhol
*Quicksand
*Rock 'N' Roll Suicide
*Space Oddity
*Starman
*The Man Who Sold The World
*Wild Is The Wind

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Jennifer Batten--Two Hand Rock Book

Jennifer shares some of her licks and techniques in this small but useful book.

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The Eagles--Hell Freezes Over

The long-defunct, Southern California band regrouped for an album, an expensive tour (expensive for ticket buyers, that is :-D), and this televised special, which features the Eagles in performance. Laid-back but sharp and even stirring during a longish acoustic set, the guys quickly get past the nostalgia element and sound truly viable. They even make it look easy: the sight of Joe Walsh wearing glasses and sitting in almost perfect repose as he effortlessly colors old hits "Tequila Sunrise" and new material such as "Learn to Be Still" may make you wonder why you ever stashed that guitar in the attic. This was the first time that "Hotel California" was performed on acoustic guitars and almost every band jams on that song. All in all, it's an enjoyable and mellowing show. Also includes interviews and bonus footage.

Songs: Hotel California, Tequila Sunrise, Help Me Through the Night, The Heart of the Matter, Love Will Keep Us Alive, Learn to be Still, Pretty Maids All in a Row, The Girl from Yesterday, Wasted Time, I Can't Tell You Why, New York Minute, The Last Resort, Take it Easy, Life in the Fast Lane, In the City, Get Over It, Desperado.

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Buckethead--Electric Tears

71 minutes and one second of slick new age noodlin'. You'd expect Buckethead to come up with something extreme & brutal while being a member of Axl W. Rose's troupe, but no such luck. Electric Tears is basically Colma, Vol. 2, entirely instrumental and ambient, yet even more mellow and minimalist. This time around, all tracks - except for "Sketches of Spain," which is an (abridged) interpretation of Joaquin Rodrigo's "Concierto de Aranjuez" (also adapted by Miles Davis) - were written, composed, arranged and played by Buckethead, so it's a guitar-only album. He usually juxtaposes acoustic and electric parts, as such creating gently shading sound blankets that balance somewhere in between breezy classical, folk, new age and the occasional hints of flamenco and blues. "Pretty" is the key word, as one tasteful melody follows the next and one movement fluently morphs another one. However, everybody's favorite mystery musician realises that prettiness is much more intoxicating with a dash of melancholy, and so several of these tracks have a dream-like quality with a hint of sadness to them. Titles like "The Way to Heaven," "Baptism of Solitude," and "Spell of the Gypsies" are also appropriate, just like less obvious picks "Padmasana" (the traditional lotus-position), "Datura" (a herb that's a deliriant) and "Mantaray" (a kind of stingray). However, at one hour and 11 minutes, Electric Tears is also quite a chore to endure, since only the repetitive blues riff of "Kansas Storm" offers a break from this succession of elegant instrumentals, many of which almost sound like they could've been used on Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here, had they been written with a full band in mind. By consequence, Electric Tears works fine as background music - especially if you're a dentist, chiropractor or psychic - but doesn't present nearly enough variation for repeated listening.

Tracklist:

01.All In The Waiting
02.Sketches Of Spain (For Miles)
03.Padmasana
04.Mustang
05.Way To Heaven, The
06.Baptism Of Solitude
07.Kansas Storm
08.Datura
09.Mantaray
10.Witches On The Heath
11.Angel Monster
12.Electric Tears
13.Spell Of The Gypsies

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Play Guitar With Iron Maiden(Book+CD)

Play Guitar With Iron Maiden on six of their greatest songs with these specially recorded CD backing tracks ('soundalike' instrumental tracks... specially performed to simulate the original recordings) plus a matching music book featuring both guitar tab and standard notation of each song with chord symbols plus complete lyrics for vocalists. Track 1 is a tuning track, tracks 2 to 7 offer full instrumental tracks with guitar (showing you how it should sound, and a backing for vocals), while tracks 8 to 13 feature the backing tracks without guitar and without vocals, so you can take the lead and rip!

* Bring Your Daughter... To The Slaughter

* The Number Of The Beast

* Phantom Of The Opera

* Run To The Hills

* Aces High

* The Trooper

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Rory Gallagher - Against The Grain

If you are a Rory fan or have an interest in 70's blues based progressive guitar rock this album is essential. Rory, along with The Groundhogs Tony McPhee, and Fleetwood Mac's Peter Green were the best in this genre. Actually Rory was the most energetic performer of them all.

Tracklist:

1. Let Me In
2. Cross Me Off Your List
3. Ain't Too Good
4. Souped-Up Ford
5. Bought And Sold
6. I Take What I Want
7. Lost At Sea
8. All Around Man
9. Out On The Western Plain
10. At The Bottom
11. Cluney Blues
12. My Baby, Sure

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Black Sabbath--Master Of Reality Tabs

Full transcriptions/tablature of the following songs:

*After Forever
*Children Of The Grave
*Death Mask
*Embryo
*Into The Void
*Lord Of This World
*Orchid
*Solitude
*Step Up
*Sweet Leaf
*The Elegy
*The Haunting

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Guitar World March 2007

Guitar World magazine march 2007 issue.

Contains Transcriptions/Tabs/Tablatures for:

*Van Halen - Top Jimmy

*Van Halen - Oh Pretty Woman

*Buckethead - Jordan

*Red Hot Chili Peppers - Snow (Hey Oh)

*The Mars Volta - Viscera Eyes


Bonus Transcription:

*Senses Fail - Calling All Cars

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Iron Maiden - First 10 Years Tablature

Complete tabs/transcriptions of the album.

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300th POST--Paul Gilbert--100% Racer X

Okay so as my 300th post i'm posting something from one of my favorite shredders Paul Gilbert. 300 posts in about 7 months..not bad huh ;-)
It's been great having posted stuff that people want and stuff that i like personally. Feels great to have helped fellow guitarists all over the world in some way. People say it's every blogger's prerogative to stop posting one day. Well i hope that's not the case with me and i wish i never run out of sources to post everything and anything related to the six-strings..CHEERS and ROCK ON \\m// :-)

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Vicious Rumors--Soldiers Of The Night

The first album “Soldiers Of The Night” of VICIOUS RUMORS runs in the same vein as the legendary METAL CHURCH debut. They do not offer us pure Speed Metal, but power-oozing Metal of the American school make this album just as much of an essential buy as the already mentioned METAL CHURCH. The instrumental fraction already back then had been top notch. On this album played the back then rather unknown, but later pretty popular guitarist Vinnie Moore.

Tracklist:
*Premonition
*Ride (Into The Sun)
*Medusa
*Soldiers Of The Night
*Murder
*March Or Die >mp3
*Blitz The World
*Invader (Instrumental)
*In Fire
*Domestic Bliss
*Blistering Winds

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Steinberg Warp v1.002 (VST)

With Warp VST, Steinberg has made the warm sound of three well-known guitar amplifiers available for the VST 2.0 interface. The sound characteristics of three classic amps and three outstanding speaker cabinets are now authentically recreated in software, using Hughes&Kettner's groundbreaking DSM technology - in real-time.

Warp VST offers the legendary Jazz Chorus Clean sound, the unrivalled dynamics of a 60s Plexi Tube Head and the modern HiGain chunk sound of the Rectifier era. These can be combined with three speaker cabinets, the Combo (12" speaker, open housing), British (4x12" cab with 80s speakers) and the Greenback (4x12" cab, vintage sound). Every amp can be used with any cabinet.

Specifications:

*Three virtual amps: Jazz Chorus, Plexi Tube Head, Warp Rectified

*Three virtual speakers: Combo cabinet, 4x12" British cabinet, 4x12" Greenback cabinet

*Authentic dynamics

*Perfect reproduction of all parameters that form the sound

*Full automation

*Extremely low latency thanks to Steinberg's ASIO technology (with appropriate hardware)

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