Red Chords Guitar Lesson Daniel Merriweather
Learn the chords for Red by Daniel Merriweather with spytunes latest acoustic guitar lesson.
So what are the chords?
We have I - IV - V - VI
that's it! Learn more in the Guitar Conspiracy, you TAB it, upload to forum, the lesson begins here. Guru has so far answered over 1000 questions.
Spytunes is the only interactive guitar community in the world where you learn from the song, not just learn the song, we give you that bit for free!
With the DIY TAB in the conspiracy you can work out why this is a hit record, the conspiracy now analyze 50 songs from Bessie Smith in the 20s, through every decade including Betales, Pink Floyd, Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel all the way up to 2009 with 'Red' by Daniel Merriweather.
If you want to really learn the guitar, properly, this is it.
-guru
Sandy Buglass First Blog, vocal overdubbing
Here's the room we recorded in for Natasha's session
Here at the site we thought it would be fun to document (or ‘blog’ as today’s young folk say) about what I get up to as a musician and life outside the SpyTunes camp.
I get asked quite a lot about what being a musician actually entails and how you go about your daily routine so hopefully it’ll bring some insight to those wanting to become professional musicians themselves. I’ll try my best to keep the blog weekly, short, interesting and as multi-media as possible (Videos, pictures etc!)
January is generally a quiet spell for us musical types but this is a welcome break as December was particularly busy with gigs and the odd session.
Highlights included playing a show at ‘Fabric’ in London (To anyone unfamiliar with London, Fabric is essentially a massive dance club) and a session with my friend Natasha Bobbe who was demoing for a label (Hot UK boy band, ‘JLS’, were in the next room which was tremendously exiting)
Today I’m putting my producer hat on and recording my friend and fellow musician Murray MacLeod.
He’s in a band called The Xcerts who are super and you should check them out. The song is being sent to New York today to a chap called Mike Sapone (producer for the likes of Brand New, Taking Back Sunday, Public Enemy) Here’s a short clip of us recording some vocals in my room:
Enough of my rambling, see you next week, happy playing!
-Sandy
House Of Hats Against The World
Latest jam with Spytunes Guru and Miss Al Brown.
This time they are joined by Sam Murray and Rob Gigante.
Are there any more hats in the house?
-guru
House Of Hats ‘Roads’, Guru and Miss Al Brown and the failed jam!
Sometimes it doesn't work out...
Usually it's a natural flow, we don't rehearse much, things just seem to work, but this one... words got lost, and giggles took over!
More to come from House Of Hats, in the meantime you're gonna have to do with the failed jam of 'Roads'.
-guru
Miss Al Brown, House Of Hats, Secret Sounds, Guru Jam
Spytunes Guru was just sitting around programming the site when noddy showed up for a bit of a jam, we recorded it for youtube.
Noddy (miss Al Brown) came over the other day and we had a jam. She's been working on some new material that we thought we'd demo like this.
Her new project is called 'House Of Hats' and the first song you'll hear here is 'Secret Sounds'.
This was done in Photobooth for video and recorded with one Rode NT1-A in the room. First take.
Hope you like it.
-guru
Eric Clapton Crossroads Spytunes Blues Legacy Guitar Lessons
Next up in Spytunes Blues Legacy series we see Eric Clapton with his contribution Crossroads.
This live recording became legendary and demonstrated why people actually thought he was God.
As Peter Green (whom we shall hear from in the next blog) experienced when he took over from Clapton in John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers; the audience shouted: We Want God, We Want God! Not an easy first gig...
Clapton's fluency in his blues licks are at the time of Crossroads at a peak in his career, there is still a hint of every aspect of him as a player here.
The licks fired off in the crossroads solo are like a hit parade of blues licks as Sandy Buglass kindly demonstrates in this youtube video for spytunes.
More to follow in The Blues Legacy series, which is far from complete, next up will be Peter Green.
-guru
Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesday Is Just As Bad) T-bone walker guitar lesson
In this video guitar lesson we hear Sandy Buglass play yet another T-bone track for spytunes Blues Legacy Series.
In this most famous blues track we hear T-bone complain that "they Call It Stormy Monday, but Tuesday is just as bad." A line that has come to represent the blues as much as "Woke Up This Morning" has.
Until the 'Blues Legacy' is complete, enjoy this new youtube video where Sandy Buglass plays T-bone Walkers 'Call It Stormy Monday (But Tuesdays Is Just As Bad)'
-guru
T-Bone Walker Guitar Lesson
Two songs were recorded of T-bone Walker for spytunes 'Blues Legacy Series'.
The first one is T-bone's Papa Ain't Salty, in which we hear the first du-bap, du-bap bend ever!
The first electric blues solo came from T-bone Walker, little did he know what he had started...
As usual, Sandy Buglass plays in this lesson.
Soon we shall see another T-bone classic, Call It Stormy Monday. Until then enjoy this video guitar lesson of T-bone Walkers' Papa Ain't Salty.
-guru
SpyTunes Electric Bass Has Begun
Today I started the project 'SpyTunes Bass', recorded George Baldwin, he did 6 songs.
Here's an example of a track we recorded, should be up in a couple of weeks:
Good Times!
-guru
Spytunes updates and T-bone mixing
Been carrying on the endless task of writing the articles around each song, no one told me that playing guitar was gonna mean writing stuff on the computer all day!
I remember Ace saying that he started a band and ended up becoming a record company MD with Skunk, at the time I thought, well that was your choice though wasn't it? This comes back to me as I'm sitting here typing away...
So i'll stop complaining right now...
So, what's been going on lately at Spytunes?
Well apart from the article writing I have finally managed to get some google ads working yoo-hoo! and loads of articles done now, half way through intermediate with:
I'm Yours
Angie
Mad World
Blowin in the wind
1234
American Pie
Kiss Me
Hey There Delilah
and Fast Car
all done, I can't tell you how nice that feels!
I've been going between this and recording with Sandy Buglass for spytunes blues legacy series, he's back tomo again doing Clapton and Peter Green, maybe even some Jeff Beck, yes!
The process of recording, mixing, video editing is a long one, and it does take it out of me. Today I encountered the problem of how to mix the legendary T-Bone Walker.
T-bone is one of my favorites, he was doing the splits and playing the guitar behind his back when Jimi Hendrix was only a twinkle in his daddies eye, so if you want electric guitar, T-bone truly is the father, possibly with Charlie Christian as the uncle...
So i'm in Amplitube, which is where i spend most of my days, and I just realized that T-bone recorded before any of the amps in this program was even invented. Leo Fender hadn't even started building amps when T-bone was laying the foundations for modern electric guitar playing. Suddenly a '59 Bassman didn't seem so retro anymore...
-guru