SURF GUITAR. 30 "onde" californiane. TABLATURE
Authentic note-for-note transcriptions straight off the original recordings for 30 of the best surf guitar songs ever! Includes: Also features a souvenir photo section and playing notes on each song. Includes TAB 144 pages.
LETS GO - There's a lot of imaginative soloing in this one. Try the 16th note licks very slowly at first and try to maintain clarity as you pick up speed. (With 16th notes, each beat is divided into four. Count it as "one-e-and-a, two-e-and-a", etc.) Toward the end, the basic theme is broadened so that you hold the whole chord down while you pick the single notes. The tablature is done for a "Drop D" tuning where the 6th string is tuned down a whole step.
LETS GO TRIPPIN' -A playful tune with a lot of octaves, syncopated rhythms and quick arpeggios over three-note chords. The staccato notes and chords (with the dots above them) should be played as quick bursts, silenced as soon as they're played by lifting the left-hand fingers just enough to deaden the strings.
MISIRLOU -Tremolo City. It's all up and down one string, so the left hand is no problem, but it can be exhausting to keep that flutter picking going with the right hand. Hang on tight to the pick and make the action comefrom your wrist not from your elbow.
OUT OF LIMITS -A quirky record with a strangely familiar touch of eeriness. I've written two lines of music at once at the organ entrance. but they can be played by one guitar at the same time.
PENETRATION -Who knows what they were referring to with the title. The whole song is relatively easy. unless you're playing on an acoustic and can't reach the 22nd fret. The muted sections represent a rhythm guitar part which continues throughout.
PEPPERMINT MAN -The tendency here will be to rush ahead of the beat. Lay back on it and try to play on the late side of every beat (although rushing is so common on Surf Era recordings that it couId be considered a stylistic feature). There's a 6th string hammer-on on an F7 chord. Grab the whole chord first then hammer from the open 6th string to the 1st fret.
RUMBLE - Link Wray's classic of no-frills roots rock. There are a couple of measures of "scooped tremolos” in the second ending. Keep the rapid up and down strokes going with the right hand while sliding up to the twelfth fret. rapidly down to the eleventh and up to the twelfth. then again. etc.
RUNAWAY - Another song in which the strumming guitar is prominent in the mix. The organ solo sounds terrific on guitar and is impressive at parties.
SLOOP JOHN B - A Calypso/Folk strum works well against the melody. The broken-chord organ line at the beginning makes a good accompaniment pattern for other songs as well.
SURF BEAT - Basic Garage-Surf. you could almost play it all on one string. Don't. The tremolo over the B chods is fast flutter-picking. down-u[X1own-up. four strokes per beat. Mind the 3rd string bends. Whole step or half step. and strive not to overbend the pitch.
SURFER'S STOMP - Same drum beat as in "Balboa Blue". and written by the same guy, oddly enough. The toughest thing here is the tremolo technique, flutter-picking a melody. Tighten your wrist, but try not to tense up your whole arm.
SURFIN' SAFARI - If you've got a garage. you can play this song. Finger the whole bar chord, then play just the indicated strings. The solo, like most surf guitar solos. can all be played at one position on the neck.
TEQUILA - The strident strumming that starts this tune can be played throughout. Some of the accompaniment figures are muted - that is muffled while you play them by pressing the heal of your right hand on the bridge.
TORQUAY - Start this one with the heal of your right hand dampening the strings at the bridge. If you play in acoustic guitar. this technique will mean you pick behind the sound hole. Later. when the main theme returns, let the strings ring. This is a good study in contrast between low single notes ...
Balboa Blue
Beethoven Five-O
Bulldog
Eight Miles High
Honky Tonk
K-39
King Of The Surf Guitar
Let's Go
Let's Go Trippin'
The Lonely Surfer
Lonesome Town
Misirlou
Mr. Moto
Out Of Limits
Penetration
Peppermint Man
Poor Little Fool
Rumble
Runaway
Sloop John B
Sugar Shack
Surf Beat
Surfer Joe
Surfer's Stomp
Surfin' Safari
Tall Cool One
Tequila
Torquay
Wipe Out
Authentic Note-for-Note Guitar / Tab Transcriptions Off The Original Recordings!
Contents:
PLAYING TIPS - HOW TO READ THE GUITAR TABLATURE NOTATION
ARRANGER'S PLAYINGNOTES ON EACH SONG by Roy Zimmerman .
SOUVENIR PHOTOSECTION
BALBOA BLUE / The Mar-Kets .
BEETHOVEN FIVE-O / The Ventures
BULLDOG / The Fireballs
EIGHT MILES HIGH / The Ventures and The Byrds .
HONKY TONK / Duane Eddy
HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN / Surf-Rock .
K-39 / The Challengers .
KING OF THE SURF GUITAR/ Dick Dale & The Del-Tones .
LET'S GO / The Routers
LET'S GO TRIPPIN' / Dick Dale & The Del-Tones .
LONELY SURFER / Jack Nitzsche
LONESOME TOWN / Ricky Nelson .
MISIRLOU/ The Beach Boys and by Dick Dale & The Del-Tones .
MR. MOTO / The Bel-Airs .
OUT OF LIMITS / The Mar-Kets
PENETRATION/ The Pyramids .
PEPPERMINT MAN / Dick Dale & The Del-Tones .
POOR LITTLE FOOL / Ricky Nelson
RUMBLE / Link Wray & The Ray-Men .
RUNAWAY/ Del Shannon .
SLOOP JOHN B / The Beach Boys .
SUGAR SHACK / Jimmy Gilmer & The Fireballs .
SURF BEAT / Dick Dale & The Del-Tones .
SURFER JOE I The Surfaris .
SURFER'S STOMP / The Mar-Kets
SURFIN' SAFARI/The Beach Boys .
TALL COOL ONE / The Ventures and The Wailers
TEQUILA / The Champs
TORQUAY/ The Fireballs
VIPE OUT / The Surfaris
Produced By John L Haag
catalog 107-4026
ISBN# 1-56922.074-3
CREATIVE CONCEPTS PUBLISHING
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