Tag: Purple Haze

  • Five Songs That Forever Changed Electric Guitar

    Electric Guitar Hasn’t Been The Same Since… It’s a rare occurrence when a single song changes everything, but I’m going to list five songs that forever changed how the electric guitar was played. While Jazz musicians had been using electric guitars since the 1930s, the latter half of the 20th century saw the emergence of…

  • “Testify” by Rage Against The Machine

    Difficulty: Intermediate Their song “Testify” is in drop D tuning. In drop D tuning the low E string is tuned down one whole step to D. This enables the guitarist to play power chords with a single finger. 

  • Purple Haze by Jimi Hendrix

    Difficulty: Intermediate In his brief four-year reign, Jimi Hendrix expanded the electric guitar more than anyone before or since. Hendrix was a master at merging all manner of music into one precise art form, often with experiments that produced high-quality feedback and roaring distortion. His frequent hurricane blasts of noise and dazzling showmanship proved that he could and would play…

  • Top 10 Rock Guitar Riffs Of All Time

    The riffs on this page are the tried and true “standards” for Rock guitar music. Walk into any music shop and you’ll find a line of people trying out the guitars for sale and I’ll bet they will be playing one of these top 10 riffs.