Guitar Notes

Challenges

  • Beat it solo
  • Sultans of Swing – Full
  • [BR-80] Carry on Wayward Son – All Parts
  • Perform Under the Bridge
  • TNT – Minecraft Song [YT]

Cover

I Will Survive
Lean on Me

  • Shimmy Shimmy Ya
  • 9-5 Dolly Parton
  • Still Dre
  • No Diggity
  • Chase the Devil
  • Somebody that I used to know
  • Love Gun
  • Ante Up / Cold as Ice

Performances

Mother Danzig
Under the Bridge

Could work on …

  • Mother Danzig *
  • Fell on Black Days [Looper]
  • [BR-80] Comfortably Numb – Pink Floyd (solo’s)
  • [BR-80] All along the Watchtower – Jimi Hendrix (Solo’s)
  • Miserlou [Looper]
  • [BR-80] Stair Way -Solo Section Backing [Looper]
  • [BR-80] Beat it Solo / Create Solo Section Recording [Looper]

How To Play the Guitar

All Along the Watchtower
Beat it
Black Betty – Notes
Back in Black
Carry on Wayward Son
Cemetery Gates Pantera
Comfortably Numb
Crazy [Am – C – F – G]
Easy [G – Bm7 – Am7 – C/D – G -Bm7 – Am7]
Fell on Black days
Get Lucky – Daft Punk
Get on up – James Brown
Good Times – Chic
Highway to Hell
Hotel California
I Will Survive – Cake
Under the Bridge
Kashmir
Little Wing
Lean on me
Money for Nothing
Mother
Shook me All Night Long
Sultans of Swing
Stairway to Heaven
Sweet Home Alabama
Spirit in the Sky
Thunderstruck – AC/DC
TNT – AC/DC
Miserlou
Wind Cries Mary
Whiskey in the Jar

High Hopes – Panic at the Disco
Stressed Out – 21 Pilots

Could Learn – Singy Songs

Eye of the Tiger – Survivor


Angie
Say it ain’t so
Sound of Silence
3 is the Magic No.
Road to Nowhere
Bullet with Butterfly wings
Everybody Knows
Smash it Up
Paint it Black
Everybody Hurts
The Wellerman
Mrs Robinson
Suicide is painless

Smash it up
Spirit in the Sky

Could Learn – Guitar Songs

Born to be wild
Black Betty
Dragula
Hells Bells
Thunderstruck
Those about to rock
Hold the Line / Rosanna
Dare to be Stupid Riff

Steve Lukather (Toto / Prolific Session Guitarist)

Beat It
Human Nature

Africa
Rosanna
Hold the Line

Amazing Performances

For When you don’t know what to Play …

  • Rocky Theme – Paul Gilbert
  • Bosa Nova – Video (Good for getting out of Blues / Rock phrasing even using Pentatonic?)
  • Alan Lomax – Recordings

Interesting Covers

Looper Songs

Good for Layering up and Soloing over …

Purple Haze [E7#9 – G – A]
Great for learning all the Em Pentatonic positions up and down the neck

Under the Bridge –
good for practicing (E) Major Pentatonic licks / Try playing Vocal Melody using E Major – Pos. 5 (Same as D minor Pentatonic Box – Pos.1 )

Record

Under the Bridge
Hurt ?
Sultans of Swing
Carry on wayward son
Beat it – Solo Sections
Stairway – Solo Sections
Back in Black – Backing

Lessons

BB King – 4 Notes

Chappers – Modes
Brian Steeksma – Pentatonic +

My Sharona – The Knack (1979)
Another Girl, Another Planet – The only ones (1978)
Smells Like Teen Spirit – Nirvana (1991) – [Original Demo]

Sadie – Hound Dog Taylor [1953]
Smokestack lightning – howlin wolf [1956]
Cherub Rock – Smashing Pumpkins [1993]

Somebody That I Uses to Know – Gotye (feat Kimbra) (2011)
Play Vocal Melody [?]
129 bpm – Key C Major (Am – G – F)
Verse = Am – G – Am – G – Am – G – Am – G
Chorus = Am – G – F – G Hells Bells

Key To Understanding Guitar is to know that you can can play the same (notes / Chords) thing in about 10 different places and in a about a 100 different ways

One – Johnny Cash (U2)