Throughout August 2015 I have been keeping busy transcribing tracks into guitar TAB for my guitar, bass and ukulele students. Managing to transcribe a mammoth 6 songs in total. Tracks included Green Day ‘Wake Me Up When September Ends’, The Beatles ‘Blackbird’ and ‘Day Tripper’, Kings Of Leon ‘Sex On Fire’,and also Johnny Cash ‘I Walk The Line’ and ‘Hurt’. I feel it is very important to cover a wide variety of styles into my lessons whilst introducing as many different genres as I can to my students. This enables them learn more about the history of music, as well as teaching the student how to play the songs they know and love. Whilst showcasing the songs to my students, I used an array of guitar effect pedals from the
Digitech and Boss range, many of which can be found on the shop page of our website, under the shop, guitar accessories and pedals page.
During September 2015 I plan to transcribe at least three more guitar TAB’s. These will be Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’, ‘Love Walked In’ by Thunder and also ‘Homesick’ by the hugely popular Indie rock outfit Catfish and the Bottlemen. Cutting down the transcriptions to just 3 this month will also allow me time to finish a backing track I started last month. The track has been recorded at 100bpm and features a Jazz style rhythm. The lead guitar at the start of the track has a Blues style example of guitar playing.
The backing track and lead playing example will all be finished and ready for you to work on by late September. You will be able to download the full track free of charge from my website.
And finally If there is a particular track or style you would like me to work on or you‘d just like some help or advise please drop by and say hello via the contact options on my website. You don’t have to be a Guitar School student to benefit from my transcriptions or lesson example backing tracks.
Bye for now...
