Guitar Techniques 2012-05
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4PNFPGZPVSSFHVMBS (5UFDIOJRVFFYQFSUT MANUEL AHLQVIST Manuel is a super Swedish guitarist and tutor who takes over The Guitar Institute’s column for five months, with a great new series on pentatonics.
SHAUN BAXTER One of the UK’s most respected music educators, Shaun has taught many who are now top tutors. His album Jazz Metal was hailed as a milestone.
PAUL BIELATOWICZ One of our greatest rock guitarists, Paul plays with prog legends Carl Palmer and Neal Morse, and is a most welcome regular contributor to GT.
JON BISHOP ACM’s Jon is a great player and tutor, regularly writing for GT and recently presenting a Play Guitar Now DVD for us. He also rocks with Shakin’ Stevens!
PETE CALLARD Pete’s many credits include Lionel Richie, Annie Lennox, Chaka Khan and Shirley Bassey. He works regularly in the studio, on TV and in the West End.
MARTIN COOPER A tutor at BIMM Brighton, Martin’s Rock columns are written with style and commitment. His 2006 album State Of The Union is available on iTunes.
CHARLIE GRIFFITHS Guitar Institute tutor Charlie first came to fame in Total Guitar’s Challenge Charlie series. He’s also one of the UK’s top rock, metal and fusion guitarists.
PHIL HILBORNE The UK’s original magazine guitar tutor Phil’s something of a legend. A great player he regularly plays guitar in the Queen musical, We Will Rock You.
SCOTT McGILL US-born Scott runs the BA Hons course at BIMM Brighton. His book The Guitar Arpeggio Compendium and solo CD Symptom Imperative are out now.
DAVID MEAD Ex-editor of Guitar Techniques, David is the UK’s top writer of guitar tuition books. He’s also currently working on the follow-up to his album Nocturnal.
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THIS MONTH’S COVER article on The Electric Pioneers - Four Players That Changed Everything, is a fascinating look at a moment when things were moving rapidly in guitar circles. When proper electric guitars became fully available in the mid-1930s with Gibson’s wonderful ES-150, as used by Charlie Christian, one of our ‘fab four’, it allowed guitarists to come to the fore in a way that was previously impossible. Christian exploited this to fabulous effect with Benny Goodman’s orchestra, and his track Solo Flight is one of the first notable electric guitar solos - although Eddie Durham had beaten him to the punch, it was Christian after whom the instrument’s fabled hexagonal pickup was named. Legend has it that Christian and T-Bone Walker started lessons on the same day, with the same teacher. Charlie went the jazz route and T-Bone pretty much defined electric blues as we know it. It’s his licks and their familiar fingerings that most players came to adopt, and which pervade guitar music to this day. If you’re wondering who’s the most neglected guitar great of all time, it could well be Lonnie Johnson. Credited with recording some of the first guitar solos ever, he also teamed up with jazz legend Eddie Lang to create many memorable tracks. More copied than any other early player, he could count Django Reinhardt, T-Bone and BB King among those who ‘borrowed’. So much has been written about Les Paul that it’s pointless trying to add anything. Suffice it to say that his influence (itself coming from Lonnie Johnson via Django Reinhardt) carries right down the line to rockabilly legends Cliff Gallup and Eddie Cochran, and on to Brian Setzer and modern legend Jeff Beck. While our four Electric Pioneers came along as early as the 1930s and ‘40s, don’t underestimate their technique or harmonic understanding - these guys (and others) are the font of wisdom from which almost every living player still drinks. They came seemingly from nowhere, and wrote the book! I hope you enjoy Jon Bishop’s intriguing feature and that it enlightens and enlivens your own playing, even three-quarters of a century on! Many thanks to Vintage & Rare Guitars in Bath for the loan of the wonderful 1956 Gibson ES-125 cover guitar (baby brother of that original ES-150), and to GT’s own Cliff Douse for modelling it for the photo shoot. Have fun - see you next month...
BRIDGET MERMIKIDES Guildhall and Royal Academy trained, Bridget is a Royal College of Music, examiner, a respected classical player and award winning blues guitarist.
STUART RYAN Stuart is Head Of Guitar at BIMM Bristol, teaches at Bath Spa University and is a top solo acoustic guitar virtuoso. His debut CD, The Coast Road, is out now.
JOHN WHEATCROFT Head Of Guitar at Tech Music School, John is a master all guitar styles. He also fronts the Django-inspired modern jazz acoustic project, Ensemble Futur.
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