How is blues guitar the basis for modern rock guitar?
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That's a bit of an exaggeration.  Early rock-and-roll drew from the blues, but also from R&B and country music.  When hard rock developed in the mid-'60s, it was based almost exclusively on the blues.  Artists like the Rolling Stones ("Little Red Rooster" is an especially good example), Cream/Eric Clapton ("Sunshine of Your Love"), and Jimi Hendrix, ("Hey Joe"), built the foundation for hard rock, and the heavy metal that developed out of it, on an exaggerated electric blues.  Though the more sophisticated hard-rock and metal bands of the seventies incorporated other influences (British folk for Led Zeppelin, jazz for Led Zeppelin), most, like Black Sabbath and Aerosmith, continued to build on the blues base.  While subsequent rock artists have drawn on influences as diverse as free-jazz and avant-garde strains of 20th century classical, especially in more underground and experimental veins, mainstream rock music has never stopped drawing on the blues, passed along from one generation to the next.
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just like any other electric guitar.\nsee some guitars, follow the link\n:>peace
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get the cheapest guitar you can get. you have to pay your dues before you can play the blues.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guitar
954296
The order you have is perfect. Brian formed the Stones. It was his band... but he liked the drugs a little too much. Mick Taylor's playing definitely challenged Keith and made him better. Hell look at the run of albums they made when Mick was in. Ron I think is just happy to be there to play second banana to Keith. BUT, you listen to his stuff with the Faces and you're reminded how good a guitarist he is/was.
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Not necessarily true. There are lots of guitars out there, and there are many that sound better on stage than Fenders and Gibsons in my opinion.\n\nIt is actually the combination of guitar, amp, player, and room that will determine the sound. Look at Jimmy Page... he plays everything from $80 Sears Silvertones to $200 Danelectros to $500 Fenders to $6000 Gibsons.\n\nThe problem is that you don't really know what a guitar will sound like on stage until you are there, and that is called experience. There are no short cuts.
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I have - here's their site - http://www.newbluedoor.com/son1/Page1x.html\n\nBut then I am from the UK!\n\nThey're pretty decent. Guitar lead fun/funky Blink-182 type rock. Never seen them live but the reviews are sound! Check out their MYSPACE for a few of their tracks!
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I am a musicologist and teach in the Bluegrass Program at East TN State University in Johnson City, TN.I am also potterfan's dad. I would like to answer this as an oldtime blues and rockabilly fan.Who could pick for sure, and both of these gentlemen had such an enfluence on rock and pop music, in their own right. Little Richard was one of the pioneers who started it all, but he was only using a format of a more older and archaic style of blues, which he probably was quite familiar with. Jerry Lee Lewis was born and raised in a southern area where both black and white musical influences were prevalent on each other. The blues was the common denominator for both artists,and when you boil it all down, their music was great fun for everyone.
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Hands down it's the Stratocaster. The Precision bass is truly a fine instrument. The Telecaster is also a very good guitar, but across the board the Strat takes the cake. It is a tremendously versatile instrument even at the cheaper levels. And I know this may sound funny, but with the contouring it is also very easy to play. Plus, why do you think so many other guitar manufacturers have designs that resemble a Strat? The Strat has been in existence since 1954, and will certainly remain as one of if not the most popular guitars in history.
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jimmy hendrix for metal, carlos santana for rock, bb king for blues...
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Depends what sound you want. If you want a traditional strat sound like Jimi Hendrix had, get singlecoils, if you're looking for more of a sound like Jimmy Page or someone else that uses a Les Paul has, get a humbucker.
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Money For Nothing is one of the great intros in rock. If you like tasty guitar, try Stevie Ray Vaughan and George Thorogood if you haven't already.
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Blues/ ROCK / FUNK / JAZZ
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I agree with am1benz answer. I would add, however, that when I first started playing bass for a rock band (I used to be a classical guitarist) I found it to be much easier than guitar, but as I started playing more complicated music (Latin, jazz, fusion) I found it required even more work to play well than the guitar, because the strings are heavier, and required greater dexterity in my fingers in order to play fast and with a consistent tone and attack.
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Those artists were inspired by musicians who were all about the music. The blues was the last great musical form. From it came rhythm-and-blues, rock'n'roll and much of what followed in rock. You have to go back to the roots to truly get it. Bands today are often copies of copies, all the fire is gone after so any levels of remove from the real thing. Maybe someone will put together something we haven't heard before that rocks. I'm not too hopeful, but who knows?
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There are usually two guitars as one guitar plays Rhythm, while the other guitar plays Lead or solo.\n\nIf you listen carefully, you'll notice two guitars playing at the same time.  On the other hand, some very talented guitar players will do both.  They will play rhythm, and then play a solo with just the bass and drums behind him or her if it is a trio like Rush, Green Day, Triumph, or Police.  But in the studio, even these trios record several parts and play them over each other.\n\nTo get a real good idea of rhythm guitar versus solo or lead guitar, listen to Sweet Home Alabama by Lynyrd Skynyrd.  The first notes you hear is the rhythm guitar, he keeps repeating this throughout the song while more guitars are layered over it as well as the lead guitar.
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Depends on what style of music you play.Since you say you play acoustic now i would think you dont play a whole lot of metal so,A fender is a guitar for playing classic rock or clean(no distortion.Gibson is nice but very expensive epiphone is a good choice.If you like metal like me a Jackson is awesome or ibanez.