CLASSIC ROCK INSTRUMENTALS. 30 Songs ove lei è tutto, solamente lei. E' lei che canta, che ritma, è lei che urla, ti parla con dolcezza senza dire verbo, è lei con le sue corde che ti rasserena, e da brio, gioia. Apache -Beck's bolero -Bo's guitar -Dee -(ghost) riders in the sky -guitar boogie shuffle -Hawaii five-0 -hideway -Jessica -misiriou -mumblin' guitar -pipeline -put it where you want it -ramrod -raunchy -rawhide -rebel 'rouser -red river rock -rumble -sabre dance -san-hu-zay -scuttle buttin' -slaughter on tenth Avenue -sleepwalk -tequila -walk don't run -wham -wheels -wipe out. 144 pagine. TABLATURE
IT's ONLY NATURAL THAT INSTRUMENTALS WERE HITS AT THE DAWN OF ROCK HISTORY. ROCK WASALWAYS DANCE MUSIC, AND THE MUSICAL STYLES IT DREW UPON - BLUES, R&B, COUNTRY AND SWING - HAD STRONG BEATS AND ENGENDERED DANCEABLE INSTRUMENTALS THEMSELVES. BECAUSE ROCK IS ECLECTIC, MANY INSTRUMENTS CAN TAKE THEIR PLACE IN THE SPOTLIGHT. SAXOPHONE PLAYERS - THOSE HEROES OF JAZZ AND SWING - WERE THE STARS OF MANY EARLY ROCK INSTRUMENTALS ("RAUNCHY" AND "TEQUILA," FOR EXAMPLE). ORGANISTS AND DRUMMERS WERE LEADERS OF SOME COMBOS (IN "RED RIVER ROCK" AND "TOPSY II"). HOWEVER, GUITAR PLAYERS WERE IMPORTANT SOLOISTS IN COUNTRY, BLUES AND R&B, SO IT DIDN'T TAKE LONG FOR ROCK TO CREATE A NEW POP HERO, THE ELECTRIC GUITAR PLAYER.
INTO ROCK CAME GUITAR HEROES FROM AN R&B BACKGROUND, LIKE CHUCK BERRY AND BoDIDDLEY, COUNTRY-INFLUENCED STARS LIKE CARL PERKINS AND DUANE EDDY, AND MAVERICKS WHO BRIDGED THE GAPS BETWEEN STYLES, LIKE LONNIE MACK. THEN AT THE BEGINNING OF THE'60s THERE WAS THE VENTURES, A GUITAR INSTRUMENTAL BAND THAT SPAWNED COUNTLESS GUITAR/BAR BANDS ALL OVER THE COUNTRY. A FEW YEARS LATER, DICK DALE, THE BEACH BOYS AND OTHER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GROUPS TURNED THE WHOLE COUNTRY ON TO SURF MUSIC, WHICH, INSTRUMENTALLY, WAS JUST LIKE THE VENTURES: A COMBINATION OF POP INFLUENCES WITH GUITAR IN THE FOREFRONT AND POUNDING DRUMS BEHIND.
SOME OF THE EARLY ROCK INSTRUMENTALS WERE RECORDED BY GROUPS WHO WERE THROWNTOGETHER BY A STUDIO PRO OR PRODUCER ("TEQUILA" AND "RAUNCHY" WERE TWO EXAMPLES). OTHERS WERE THE PRODUCT OF TEEN HIGH SCHOOL BANDS LIKE THE CHANTAYS OR JOHNNY AND THE HURRICANES. OTHERS CAME FROM POWERHOUSE INNOVATORS LIKE DUANE EDDY AND LONNIE MACK WHOSE PLAYING WOULD INSPIRE FUTURE GENERATIONS OF GUITARISTS. TOGETHER, THEY ESTABLISHED A ROCK TRADITION, AND THEIR ROCK INSTRUMENTALS STILL APPEAR ON THE CHARTS OVER THREE DECADES LATER.
IT's INTERESTING THAT MANY OF THE CLASSIC INSTRUMENTALS IN THIS COLLECTION CAME NOT FROM HOLLYWOOD OR NEW YORK CITY, BUT FROM TOLEDO, CINCINNATI AND SEATILE ... AND ANYWHERE FOLKS DANCED TO ROCK AND ROLL IN BARS! MANY CLASSIC HITS ("TEQUILA," "WIPE OUT," "HIDEAWAY") WERE THROWAWAYS, B-SIDES RECORDED HASTILY IN ONE OR TWO TAKES, AS BIG A SURPRISE TO THE RECORDING ARTIST AS THEY WERE TO THE PUBLIC-WHICH ONLY PROVES THAT THE PUBLIC LIKES A SIMPLE, UNPRETENTIOUS GROOVE TUNE!
I HOPE YOU ENJOY THIS COLLECTION OF CLASSIC ROCK INSTRUMENTALS. THE TRADITION OF ROCK INSTRUMENTALS IS ALIVE AND WELL, AND INCLUDES A WIDE RANGE OF GUITAR STYLES, AS THIS BOOK PROVES. IT ALSO INCLUDES ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE FOR YOU ROCK GUITAR ADDICTS: YOUR MUSICAL EDUCATION IS FAR FROM COMPLETE IF YOU CAN'T PLAY "WIPE OUT," "REBEL 'ROUSER," "WALK DON'T RUN" OR "PIPELINE!"
Series: Guitar Recorded Version TAB
Artist: Various
A big collection of 29 songs that have become classics because of their guitar riffs, including:
Apache
Beck's Bolero
Bo's Guitar
Dee
Guitar Boogie Shuffle
Hawaii Five-O Theme
Hide Away
Jessica
Misirlou
Mumblin' Guitar
Pipeline
Put It Where You Want It
Ramrod
Raunchy
Rawhide
Rebel 'Rouser
Red River Rock
(Ghost) Riders In The Sky (A Cowboy Legend)
Rumble
Sabre Dance
San-Ho-Zay
Scuttle Buttin'
Slaughter On Tenth Avenue
Sleepwalk
Tequila
Walk Don't Run
Wham
Wheels
Wipe Out
144 pages