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“Steal My Kisses” by Ben Harper and The Innocent Criminals
Difficulty: Easy His most successful album to date, 1999’s Burn to Shine blended Harper’s fondness of ’20s jazz compositions and urban beatboxing, resulting in a clever and passionate collection of songs. “Steal My Kisses” and “Suzie Blue” were radio favorites, landing him two headlining world tours and an opening spot on the Dave Matthews Band’s summer trek of 2000.
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Flange
Flange was created by accident in a studio. It was found that if you played back a reel-to-reel tape of the guitar track and held up the reel with your hand and let it go it would catch up with the other tracks causing what would become known as flanging. The best way I can describe this effect…
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Chorus
Chorus can be either one of two things. Part of a song form: A chorus can be a part of song that has a line or lines that are repeated. Also called the refrain. A guitar effect: Chorus is a version of delay and is a favorite effect for clean sounds. Chorus gives the impression of multiple instruments…
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“Tangerine” by Led Zeppelin
Difficulty:Intermediate Overall the song isn’t that hard to play. There are just quite a few parts to it.
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Reverb
Reverb is an echo effect reminiscent to sound you get when you are overlooking a canyon and can’t resist the urge to shout “hello” and hear it echo back at you. This probably makes reverb one of the first know sound altering effects to man. If you want an example of reverb turn the reverb knob all the way…
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Talk Box
Early forms of the talk box such as the Heil Talk Box (developed in the 1970s) used the guitar amplifier’s output to drive a speaker horn that pushed air into a tube held in the player’s mouth, which filters and thereby shapes the sound leading to a unique effect. The singer/guitarist Peter Frampton made this…
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“Holiday” by Green Day
Riff Rundown Difficulty: Intermediate Intro Riff Verse Here’s the verse with both bass and guitar: Guitar Bass Riff Resources Complete Transcription To “Holiday” (PDF) Complete Transcription To “Holiday” (Power Tab)
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Vibe
A Vibe or rotary speaker simulator pedal reproduces the sound of a rotating speaker. This is accomplished by synchronizing volume oscillation, frequency-specific volume oscillation, vibrato (pitch wavering), phase shifting, and chorusing in relation to a non-rotating speaker. The modulation speed can be ramped up or down, with separate speeds for the bass and treble frequencies,…
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Major Ninth Chords
A dominant ninth is a dominant chord with a ninth, but that’s not what a major ninth chord is. The major ninth chord (or just ninth chord), as an extended chord, typically includes the seventh and ninth along with the basic triad structure. Thus, a Cmaj9 consists of C E G B and D .…
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Hi-Gain
Hi-Gain (descended from the more generic electric guitar amplification term high-gain) is the sound most used in heavy metal. High gain in normal electric guitar playing simply references a thick sound produced by heavily overdriven amplifier tubes, a distortion pedal, or some combination of both–the essential component is the typically loud, thick, harmonically rich, and…