Guitar stuff

Great, great song. Bit dated, thankfully...

 

Current stuff:
Most people have probably seen this, but if you haven't: Wow.
What Stanley Jordan and Michael Hedges were doing in the the 1980s, Tommy Emmanuel moved it forward.
But this is crazy good tone for live playing:

Was somebody at the crossroads at midnight?

 

I guess this pedestrian, straight pentatonic blues riffing and solo and he doesn't have the volume of notes that SRV had (more notes does not make a better lead.)

Hendrix was a master of out notes, not chromatic note choices, usually melodic minor or mixolydian notes. It sets up weirdness. There's a wrong key change at the end of the song, but it's not wrong because he referenced it constantly with the choice of out notes.

Hendrix was a huge shift, more important than than Dylan (whom I Iove) and the Beatles (whom I Love).

I'm just talking about musical choices. He was also a leader in the areas of tone effects and recording.\

 

This is not noteworthy guitar work or f&cking special guitar work.
However, Thom York is a creep and I'm jealous that his weirdness is so much cooler and more productive than mine:

(no real video, but cool version)

 

Previous search got me on to 'Creep' and I already know Brandi Carlile covers the song.
This isn't guitar oriented, but she doesn't have the key at the start. She's not out of key, but she's a little lost.
Then she hits a little yodel to get her register, and watch out.

Is it wrong to love Carlile? Probably.

 

I'm with you, Buck. They play the hell out of Brandi here, since we're in the Northwest, and her voice has grown on me. Not sure she's the greatest guitar player, though.

 

Good stuff overall, but hear the guitar lead at about 1:07.
Whoops, forgot to give the link.

Awesome.

 

I've been trying to play fingerstyle for a long time.
If I knew what I now and was this kid's age ...

 

just because

 

Solo bass.
Wow