Scribd Logo
Upload

Welcome to Scribd!

  • 614 views

    Hot Roddin' Boogie

    Uploaded by

    jjnaides
    Ockabilly music emerged in the'sos and swept away teens with its high-octane rhythms. Rockabilly guitarists played semi-hollow Gretches and guilds. Slapback is an electronic single repeat that immediately follows the original note.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Hot Roddin' Boogie

    Uploaded by

    jjnaides
    614 views3 pages
    Ockabilly music emerged in the'sos and swept away teens with its high-octane rhythms. Rockabilly guitarists played semi-hollow Gretches and guilds. Slapback is an electronic single repeat that immediately follows the original note.

    Copyright

    © © All Rights Reserved

    Available Formats

    PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd

    Did you find this document useful?

    Is this content inappropriate?

    Ockabilly music emerged in the'sos and swept away teens with its high-octane rhythms. Rockabilly guitarists played semi-hollow Gretches and guilds. Slapback is an electronic single repeat that immediately follows the original note.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    614 views3 pages

    Hot Roddin' Boogie

    Uploaded by

    jjnaides
    Ockabilly music emerged in the'sos and swept away teens with its high-octane rhythms. Rockabilly guitarists played semi-hollow Gretches and guilds. Slapback is an electronic single repeat that immediately follows the original note.

    Copyright:

    © All Rights Reserved
    Download as PDF, TXT or read online from Scribd
    Download as pdf or txt
    of 3

    ockabilly music is an exciting, purely American art form that emerged in the SOSand swept away teens with

    its high-octane rhythms. Guitarists such as

    Scatty Moore (with Elvis Presley) and Cliff Gallup (with Gene Vincent), along with Carl Perkins, created a style as popular today as it was 30 and even 40 years ago. The original rockabilly guitarists played semi-hollow

    Gretsches and Guilds, but our lesson works on any ax that suits you. An important part of the rockabilly sound electronically generated

    is slapback echo-an

    single repeat that immediately follows the original note. Slapback was first produced in the recording studio using tape echo, but you can duplicate it with an inexpensive digital or analog delay unit. Adjusting for the tempo of the

    BYSTEVE TBBVATO

    ROCK / HOW TO PLAY GUITAR

    2!

    song, set your delay to produce a single repeat of about 100milliseconds. Make sure the second note is about the same volume as the first. For an example of this technique listen to Elvis Mystery Bain from the famous Sun sessions. To avoid getting confused, learn the music thoroughly before experimenting with slapback. Playing the notes staccato will bring out the echo clearly. It sounds great on both rhythm and lead guitar parts. Hot Roddin Boogie is a 12-bar blues shuffle in E Its presented in two sections. Rx, 1 is the rhythm and Ex 2 is a guitar solo filled with essential rockabilly ideas; Ex. 2 is designed to be played over EX 1. To hear how the solo sounds in context, record Ex. 1 or having a friend play it, then play Ex. 2 against it. This is important because although the licks arent difficult, their rhythmic placement is essential to achieving a classic rockabilly sound. Ex. 1 is a typical single-note rhythm-guitar riff-a boogie-woogie bass line with a pedal tone on the upper tonic note. Carl Perkins popularized this lick in such songs as Blue Suede Shoes, Matchbox, and Honey Dont. Mute the strings slightly with the heel of your picking hand and use strict alternate picking, beginning with a downstroke. Watch for the slight variation in measures 4,8, and 12,where the @comes around. Measures 9 and 10 are tricky because of the wider skips to the pedal tone on the third string. For the second ending Ive included a classic rockabilly tag that uses an E6/9 chord. Our Ex 2solobegins with a third-string Bbto Bhslide followed by adouble-stop ontheopenfirst andsecond strings. Thislick repeats five times andmoves across two measures. Wait ahalf-beatbefore beginning thephrase, asindicatedby the eighth-note restat the startof measure 1. Measures 3 and4 containtwo half-step slides up to an E triad. Rhythmicplacement is crucialin this simple lick thatsheardall overrockabilly recordings. Measures 5 and6, also in theopenposition,containanother simple phrase with akiller 50s sound. Measures 7-9,in twelfthposition, containmorehalf-step double-stop slides. Measures lo-12movebackdownto the openpositionfor a series of double-stops anda classic rockabillyguitarfinale. Use a clean, twangytonewith lotsof reverb.Practice eachsection slowly until youfeelcomfortable beforeworkingup to thesuggested tempo. n Whenyou cannail the wholetune at J = 144, pull onyour white bucks, slickbackyour hair,andgetreadyto knock emdead!

    Ex. 1 (Rhythm)
    Shuffle J=144 1

    E7

    A7

    E7

    B7

    -$-,j

    -,+

    -34

    q-

    -4

    -i+

    .
    26 HOW TO PLAY GUITAR / ROCK I

    HOT RODDIN'BOOGIE

    WmiS..&

    %=X3

    Il.

    112.

    E7

    E7

    E6/9

    Ex. 2 (Solo)
    Shuffle ;j=144

    E7

    A7

    E7

    B7

    Musicians Institute educator Steve Tkovato has written 15 instruction books for Warner Bros. and has produced an instructional video, Country Rock Soloing, for REH Publications. Steve has performed with Albert Lee, Robben Ford, Albert Collins, and Scott Henderson, and hes also a lecturer in the studio jazz guitar department at the University of Southern California.

    ROCK / HOW TO PLAY GUITAR

    27

    You might also like

    pFad - Phonifier reborn

    Pfad - The Proxy pFad of © 2024 Garber Painting. All rights reserved.

    Note: This service is not intended for secure transactions such as banking, social media, email, or purchasing. Use at your own risk. We assume no liability whatsoever for broken pages.


    Alternative Proxies:

    Alternative Proxy

    pFad Proxy

    pFad v3 Proxy

    pFad v4 Proxy