September 2010

Favourite Guitar Albums

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I thought I’d write a couple of lists of my favourite guitar albums.  In a strange anomaly, my favourite instrumental album of all time would be a piano record: Una Mattina by Ludovico Einaudi -my ultimate desert island disc.  Anyway onto the guitar records…my criteria for these tends to be the albums ‘ worked out most songs from.  I’m also more interested in great playing and original parts as part of a song rather than for there own sake, so these albums also tend to contain really good songs (in my opinion anyway).

Here we go:

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Rhythm Guitar – free download

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Rhythm Guitar – by far the most important aspect of guitar playing.  For instance name one great soloist who was not also a great rhythm player.  Jimi Hendrix – developed a whole new style of rhythm playing (little wing, and almost everything else he recorded).  Hendrix spent years playing rhythm guitar on the ‘Chitlin Circuit‘ for Sam Cooke and Jackie Wilson among many others.  Eric Clapton – Check out any of Claptons live recordings, but I dont think he’s ever been better than on the Bluesbreaker with Eric Clapton album.  Rory Gallagher – A good shout for the best ever popular music guitarist.  He could do it all; fingerstyle blues and ragtime, searing solos and great rhythm on electric, acoustic and mandolin.  My favourite Bert Jansch…his style is all about rhythm with an attack on the guitar verging on violent, Neil young, Joni Mitchell, Stevie Ray Vaughan the list could go on forever, but the point being, the easiest way to become a better guitarist is to work on rhythm.

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