Funk and jazz. Smoothed out but meaty, pungent beats made from an organ, Fender Rhodes piano, bass, and fat back drums. A woman’s soulful voice; doin’ it like Tina Turner said back in the day when she and Ike took the gentle, country, rock song “Proud Mary” and dowsed it with grease and [...]
Guitars have been a part of the music scene for a long time. The ancestry of the guitar actually goes back about four thousand years. The electric guitar was introduced in the 1930s, and the electric bass guitar had its debut in the 1950s. That pretty much makes the electric bass guitar [...]
A guide to the essential styles of guitar playing, from the ’50s to the present By its very nature, the guitar is a rhythm instrument. Sure, it can be used to create vocal-like, single-note melodies and sizzling lead breaks, but more often it’s found at the heart of the rhythm section, driving the progressions [...]