Face Melting Guitar Solos

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Driving home from work earlier, and R3 started playing "Walking The Dog" by Gershwin. I'm not in the mood for such light-hearted, jolly-hockeysticks stuff at the moment, so I changed channels to ClassicFM.

I caught it just as it started playing "The Heart Asks Pleasure First" by Michal Nyman.

A wonderful tune, here transcribed for guitar:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjifPQMfTPk

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Simes205 said:

Adding this as it’s become quite popular recently.

Steve lukather on Lionel Richies tube running with the Night.

Steve sat in the booth and played along with the tune the first time he heard it. When he asked to record he was told, you just have.

It’s the last minute or so.

https://youtu.be/e0mU-q0DA34

Killer, that is.

Rick Beato put it at #1 on his recent "Underrated Guitar Solos" video a few weeks ago.

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epom said:

The Knack - My Sharona was on the radio earlier, so had to you tube this one. What an outro

https://youtu.be/g1T71PGd-J0

I'd forgotten about that one; perfectly judged solo.

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MikeT66 said:

Good stuff

Agreed on everything you said, especially with Page.

Zep, and Page's work, were my original inspiration to learn the guitar. I have since learned that his technique was messy, but his selection of chords and notes in any given song are inspired and very clever. Best example I can give is the solo to "Stairway", which is played over a Am / G / F chord progression.

Most of the solo is Am pentatonic, but he occasionally throws in a diatonic F natural when the Fmaj chord is played.

Having said that, one of my favourite Page solos is the second one in "The Lemon Song". Perfect blues played over JPJ's epic bass line.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gWbKAcuzN8

4:38 in the video above

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The Rob Luft Quintet played live on Radio 3's Lunchtime Concert yesterday.

I'd not heard of them before, but it was sensational. Almost like Steely Dan dragged into the 21st Century, without the vocals. Jazz guitar with less Alan Holdsworth but more Steve Vai with less distortion. Have a listen:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFut6ybwv4E

Solo at 3:18, but worth listening to the whole piece as the keyboard player performs some very nice "Oscar Peterson-esque" lines early on.

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blingybongy said:

cherryowen said:

The Rob Luft Quintet played live on Radio 3's Lunchtime Concert yesterday.

I'd not heard of them before, but it was sensational. Almost like Steely Dan dragged into the 21st Century, without the vocals. Jazz guitar with less Alan Holdsworth but more Steve Vai with less distortion. Have a listen:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFut6ybwv4E

Solo at 3:18, but worth listening to the whole piece as the keyboard player performs some very nice "Oscar Peterson-esque" lines early on.

What a fking racket.

This is the great thing about music. It is such a broad church that there is always something to like or dislike.

You disliked the tune in my link, I rather like it. Then again, I have tried listening to "classic" jazz like Charlie Parker and Miles Davis and I can not "get" it. If you think The Luft Quintet is a "racket" then some Bebop jazz will fry your head.

Horses, as they say, for courses.

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davidd said:

cherryowen said:

The Rob Luft Quintet played live on Radio 3's Lunchtime Concert yesterday.

I'd not heard of them before, but it was sensational. Almost like Steely Dan dragged into the 21st Century, without the vocals. Jazz guitar with less Alan Holdsworth but more Steve Vai with less distortion. Have a listen:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFut6ybwv4E

Solo at 3:18, but worth listening to the whole piece as the keyboard player performs some very nice "Oscar Peterson-esque" lines early on.

in our house that would be called 'go to sleepy music', always great musicians though, I really dig jazz guitar.

I'd love to play jazz guitar proficiently, but my music theory ain't good enough. Sure I can play all the maj7 / m7 / half diminished / full diminished chords / add9 / augmented stuff. But applying all of that, knowing when and where to do it? Still difficult.

Talking of which:-

Joe Pass

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_kUJa1PueM

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This lad played live on Radio 3 when driving home earlier:-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvG1De74lWI

I think Julian Bream has passed the baton to the next great British classical guitar player