Gary Moore - Still Got The Blues (Guitar Recorded Versions)

The finest effort yet from Gary Moore includes: Still Got The Blues · That Kind Of Woman · All Your Love · Texas Strut · and many more. Includes color photos and a special introduction section. Eleven songs in all.

Queen - We Are The Champions - Guitar Play Along with guitar tab on screen

Queen - We Are The Champions guitar play along with on screen guitar tab



Classic track from the 1977 Queen album News Of The World penned by Freddie Mercury in 6/8 time and in the key of E Flat.



There are two Brian May guitar parts. This video obviously just plays one with the lead guitar too.



Written by Freddie Mercury, "We Are the Champions" was built on audience response, with Brian May stating; 'We wanted to get the crowds waving and singing. It’s very unifying and positive'.



Musically, it is based around Mercury's piano part, with Roger Taylor and John Deacon providing a drums and bass guitar backing. May overdubbed some guitar sections, initially subtle, but building to a 'solo' played simultaneously with the last chorus. Mercury employed many jazz chords (major and minor 6th, 7th, 9th, 11th and 13th harmonies), and the choruses featured these voiced as 4 and 5-part vocal harmonies. The lead vocal is very demanding and strident (highest point is a C5 both belted and in falsetto), with one of Mercury's most notable performances taking place at the Live Aid concert, at Wembley Stadium, London in 1985.



The single featured "We Will Rock You" as a B-side, and followed the song on the album. The two songs were often played consecutively at the close of Queen concerts, and are customarily played together on radio broadcasts (in album order). Keeping with tradition, it was also used to close the 1992 Freddie Mercury Tribute Concert with all the show's acts joining in behind the lead vocal of Liza Minnelli.



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Queen - Brighton Rock - Guitar Tab from Guitar Techniques Magazine

The classic Brighton Rock song from the 1974 Sheer Heart Attack Queen album

Guitarist Magazine October 2014 - Brian May Red Special

With the release of Brian May's Book Red Special Guitarist Magazine featured the iconic guitar and it's story

Queen - Let Me Entertain You - Live Killers Guitar Tab

This tab is taken from the Japanese import Queen Live Killers Guitar Tab Book

Hofner CT Club Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar - Review

A quick video featuring the Hofner CT Club Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar

Lovely guitar with a Beatlesque retro look see below for spec


Quality tonewoods, great playing feel, and superb tone.
The Hofner CT Club is a semi-hollow electric guitar that provides warm, full tone and the brightness to make individual notes sing. The CT Club has a spruce top and eye-popping flamed maple back and sides. A strong, set maple neck is carved in a comfortable C shape, so you can play the CT Club guitar all night long. Two Hofner mini humbucker pickups kick out plenty of volume and sparkle, whether you're wowing a jazz crowd or getting a little funky with your wah-wah pedal.

Hofner has a real affinity with the archtop acoustic jazz guitar. From the early '50s, Hofner set standards for archtop design and manufacture with many famous guitar models such as the Senator, President and Golden Hofner, all of which are now collectors' items.

The Hofner tradition is carried forward today with their current range of jazz guitars and the Verythin family of guitar models.

FEATURES
• Body Type: Single-cut semi-hollowbody
• Body Wood: Flamed maple
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• Scale Length: 25"
• Neck Joint: Set
• Neck Wood: Maple
• Fretboard: Rosewood
• Neck Shape: C
• Frets: 22
• Nut Width: 1-11/16"
• Fretboard Radius: 12"
• Bridge: Ebony
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• Controls: panel
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Queen - If You Can't Beat Them - Guitar Tab

This guitar tab is taken from a rare Japanese guitar tab book

Brian May - Star Licks Video - 1983 - with added on screen guitar tab

In 1983 Star Licks released tutorial video presented by Brian May explaining how to play some of his most famous guitar licks.

The VHS video came with a booklet. As a teenager I found the way the tab was set out a bit difficult to understand. So I decided to add normal standard guitar tab the screen

Queen - Mother Love - Guitar Solo Lesson Tutorial with guitar tab

How to play the guitar solo from Mother Love by Queen found on the 1995 album Made In Heaven



In the key of G Minor this Brian May solo has a clean sound with passing notes giving a harmonic minor feel to it



This video lesson has on screen guitar tab to make following the video easier



This was the last song Freddie Mercury recorded. May explained in the Days of our Lives documentary that "Freddie would say 'give me words, I will sing' so there I was writing on scraps of paper these lines of 'Mother Love.' I would give him a line, he would sing it, then sing it again, then sing it again - so we only had three takes of everything. After he'd finished the second verse, he said 'Oh I don't feel too well, I'm going to go home and we'll finish it tomorrow'... and he never did. That was the last time I saw Freddie in the studio."



The final verse was written and sung by Brian May a couple of years after Mercury died in November 1991. (thanks, Kyle - Dallas, TX)

Roger Taylor is a particular admirer of this song. He notes in the Days of our Lives documentary: "I'm hearing the voice (Freddie's voice) getting... weaker. But I mean he still hits all the notes. There's an absolutely spine-chilling note in the middle of "Mother Love" ("out in the city, in the cold world outside, I don't want pity, just a safe place to hide") which is just a great bit of singing."

The lyrics were co-written by Freddie Mercury and Brian May. It is one of the few times in song that Mercury seems to admit his inner pains and struggles of dealing with AIDS ("I'm a man of the world and they say I am strong, but my heart is heavy and my hope is gone") - the other key one being "The Show Must Go On."

The random bursts of sound throughout the song and the strange end sounds are small segments of every Queen track ever recorded sped very fast through a tape machine and mashed together. They combine at the end with samples of Mercury's famous 'deh-doh!' vocal interludes with the crowd from Live at Wembley 1986, the synth intro to "One Vision," and a sample from his very first single, "Goin' Back" in 1972, which he performed vocals on under the pseudonym of Larry Lurex. In the context of the song it is obviously meant to show the cyclical nature of life and death, and a man looking back across the entire spectrum of his life and career.



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Queen - It's A Hard Life - Guitar Solo Tutorial Lesson with guitar tab

"It's a Hard Life" is a song by the British rock band Queen, written by lead singer Freddie Mercury. It was featured on their 1984 album The Works, and it was the third single from that album. It reached number 6 in the UK Singles Chart and was their third consecutive Top 10 single from the album. It also reached number 2 in Ireland and number 20 in the Netherlands. It also came 19th on a poll, The Nation's Favourite Queen Song broadcast on ITV on Tuesday 11 November 2014.



Composition

The opening lyric and melody of "It's a Hard Life" is based on the line "Ridi, Pagliaccio, sul tuo amore infranto!" (Laugh, clown, at your broken love!) from "Vesti la giubba", an aria from Ruggiero Leoncavallo's opera Pagliacci.



Musically, the song recreates the feel of "Play the Game" in order to update the story,[1] utilising Mercury's piano playing and the band's characteristic technique of layered harmonies. It is recorded very much with the ethos of earlier Queen albums in that it features 'no synthesizers'. By that time the band had been using synths on record since 1980's The Game and the gesture of returning to the traditional Queen sound was comforting to some fans.

Queen - It's A Hard Life - Guitar Cover with guitar tab

Queen - It's A Hard Life - Guitar Cover with guitar tab

Ideal for learning to play along with record (tuned slightly sharp)

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