Electric guitar

So he recorded an album called Jelly Blues, where sort of his, well, his Malian West African take on the links between the blues and his local mending music.

Absolutely beautiful stuff here on Electric Guitar.

So check it out.

This is Jelly Blues by Jelemadi Tunkara from Mali.

And every time I come back to play it, it's almost like meeting an old friend, like, oh, look at you.

There's some sort of chromatic bass lines in the middle there that I typically don't do when I'm playing just electric guitar on my

own.

Yeah.

And we would have the experience of being kind of pushed in a good way or pushed in a, you know, bang your head against the wall.

So I'm pretty sensitive to writing music that I want to challenge, but not, you know, I wrote a violin concerto a couple of years ago that pushes up against the edge of, you know, physical injury, I would say, but it doesn't quite get there.

So yeah, I try to, there's another piece for electric guitar that I wrote for the ensemble that's called Wires.

It's electric guitar and orchestra, small orchestra, which has some very difficult guitar moments in it.

Up next, a deep dive into the sound world of the electric guitar.

In this case, 10 of them to be precise.

Here is Nebula for 10 electric guitars composed by Jordan Nobles with guitarist Adrian Verdero leading the pack.

Thank you. . . .

That was Nebula for Ten Electric Guitars, a collaboration between guitarist Adrian Verdero and friends and Jordan Noble's composer.

Up next, the music of Colombian guitar phenom Arturo Parra.

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The electric guitar.

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1931 to 1932.

How?

you should start with.

There's a big difference in between showing up to a party with an acoustic guitar and showing up with an electric guitar rig.

But I did bring electric guitar rigs to parties.

And it was not needed or welcomed.

Yeah.

exist on electrical

guitar.

And they're hard on electric guitar too.

Beyond the stage, Dez started taking up rhythm guitar on later tour legs, an uncommon move for someone who was primarily known as a vocalist in this era of hardcore.

When he picked up the neck of a battered Rickenbacker and hooked it to a cheap Marshall stack, he didn't aim to produce classic riffs, he aimed to create wall-of-sound backdrops that let Henry Rollins' lead solos cut through without sounding thin.

The band's live recordings from 1981-82 show that shift.

You can hear the guitar layering behind the screaming.

The electric one.

Electric guitar?

Yes.

All right.