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Permalink To Learn: Songs That Have Made You A Better Musician

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psychonaut wrote:

Get a copy of "Let's Hide Away and Dance Away with Freddy King", and learn every lick on there. Your phrasing and electric guitar vocabulary will greatly improve. Most of it is very applicable to surf music too. Many of these songs were done as surf tunes by The Lively Ones and many other first wave bands.

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Agreed!

Ryan
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IvanP wrote:

my first band played '80s hair-metal

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IvanP wrote:

my first band played '80s hair-metal

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Very Happy Sorry, Ferenc, I don't think I have any - but it doesn't matter, I didn't have long hair (in fact, I never did), which was one of the main reasons I was kicked out after nine months with them! One of the things that appealed to me about surf music when I first decided to form a band is that it was perfectly fine - in fact, preferable - to have short hair if playing in a surf band!

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Songs I learned from recently:

Satumaa, the national tango of Finland
El Choclo, the traditional tango
Irish Washerwoman, a traditional jig
Karelia, the Spotniks hit from the 1960s.

These have great melodies. All are surf guitar versions.

The accompaniments to the famous songs I listed above are about as challenging as the melodies. Chord playing for Irish Washerwoman was different from everything before.

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i'd say making an attempt to learn every song on jon and the nightriders 'moving target' has helped me more than anything.

the thing that has hurt me the most is not having anyone to play with. Cry

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I'm with ya in the same boat Crazy Aces. Writing my own surf tunes has really helped every aspect of my guitar playing. Especially phrasing, alternate picking, and melodies. Writing my own stuff exposed my weak tempo as well, and I made improvements there. I don't dream the tunes though. Usually while I'm playing one tune, that one sparks the idea for another one. My creativity in general has improved, since I began writing surf material.

Slick

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