What song would you try to learn?
I've started practicing my guitar every day after not playing for years. My finger tips are slowly starting to harden up, and i've picked a couple of songs as my targets. For now they are "Street Spirit" by Radiohead, and "Zombie eaters" by Faith no more. They're not exactly intricate, but they're hard enough while at the same time being attainable.
What song would you listen to and think "I wish i could play that"?
Originally posted by huckleberryhoundDepends on what style you are aiming at. There is Jazz (Charlie Christian) rock (Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Stevie Ray Vaughn,etc), flamenco (Manitas De Plata, Paco Pena) classical (Andres Segovia, Julian Bream, Sharon Ibson), folk (Doc Watson, Martin Simpson, John Fahey, Backwards sam Firk, Blind Blake), Brazilian (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Yamandu Costa) Russian (Estas Tonne, Andre Krylov) French (Pierre Bensusan). There are so darn many virtuosi in all those fields!
What song would you try to learn?
I've started practicing my guitar every day after not playing for years. My finger tips are slowly starting to harden up, and i've picked a couple of songs as my targets. For now they are "Street Spirit" by Radiohead, and "Zombie eaters" by Faith no more. They're not exactly intricate, but they're hard enough whi ...[text shortened]... e time being attainable.
What song would you listen to and think "I wish i could play that"?
I think there is an explosion of virtuoso's these days.
Ry Cooder in an incredible guitarist, both rock and folk. My fav, Into the Purple Valley, Paradise and lunch, Crossroads, Paris Texas, Talking Timbuktu (with Ali Farke Toure (RIP), what a great album!
Then there is the great Madagascar guitarist D'Gary, plays like nobody else!
The Andros Island guitarist Joseph Spence was a force all his own on guitar.
Sam Ashe went down to the Bahama's (Andros Island also, where I used to work) and he came across a construction site, a house being built and he heard these guitarists.
He walks around and sees this dude taking a break from carpentry and looks and says, where's the other guy? Joseph says, It's just me....
Ry Cooder learned a lot from him after the recordings came out like "The real Bahama's"
To my chagrin, I never met either the Pindar family or Joseph, even though I worked at AUTEC only a few miles away. I had taken my 12 string Martin with but found nobody else playing guitar there. I think Joseph was already in the folk circuit when I lived there.
Originally posted by huckleberryhoundrevolution, the beatles...
What song would you try to learn?
I've started practicing my guitar every day after not playing for years. My finger tips are slowly starting to harden up, and i've picked a couple of songs as my targets. For now they are "Street Spirit" by Radiohead, and "Zombie eaters" by Faith no more. They're not exactly intricate, but they're hard enough whi ...[text shortened]... e time being attainable.
What song would you listen to and think "I wish i could play that"?
Here is a bit with James Taylor showing his licks on guitar.
Some more on James Taylor:
The making of Sweet Baby James
James and Carly Simon singing together, only his guitar: "Close your eyes"
From 1977 when they were married, 1972 to 1983. Very intimate arrangement and his great guitar.
Same era, great guitar, Going to Carolina in my mind:
Another genius: Jim Croce, RIP "Time in a bottle"
great guitar duo with Maury Muehleisen,
who also died in the same plane crash in Louisiana. A great loss.
And this one live, 'Operator', guitar duo
Originally posted by sonhouseDidn't get the last two in time: Time in a bottle and Operator.
Here is a bit with James Taylor showing his licks on guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXj9DcjjWZE
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Some more on James Taylor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K0ScTc4a68
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The making of Sweet Baby James
James and Carly Simon singing together, only his guitar: "Close you ...[text shortened]... OmM
And this one live, 'Operator', guitar duo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPu_G-T28iU
Just found this really nice young girl singing the Lenard Cohen song Hallelujah with a nice guitar backup, don't know who these people are: