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
B.B King The Thrill Is Gone Guitar Lesson
Some more B.B. King from the forthcoming Blues Legacy series.
This time it's The Thrill Is Gone and as usual it's Sandy Buglass on guitar.
Following the first two Kings in this series next up will be the third King of the Blues!
Until next time, keep practicing
-guru
Blues legacy continue with B.B King
The second video in this series is from B.B King, 'Paying The Cost To Be The Boss' is a major blues containing some of B.B's signature guitar licks.
Full lesson to follow, in the meantime, enjoy this youtube video from our spytunestunes account on youtube.
Sandy Buglass is the guitarist for all Blues Legacy vids
-guru
Albert King Born Under A Bad Sign Guitar Lesson
Sandy Buglass plays like Albert King. This is a video in a series to come called "The Blues Legacy"
The series will look at B.B. and Freddie King as well as T-Bone, Hendrix, SRV and John Mayer.
-guru