SpyTunes to record the history of guitar through songs
spytunes guitar guru
SpyTunes are on a mission: To record the history of popular music from the guitar's perspective. Starting in the 20s up til today and beyond.
We do this by recording a version of the song on one acoustic guitar and ad vocals.
By using the DIY TAB system a spytunes member/student can understand how these songs are constructed and from these conclusions create their own guitar parts, vocal melodies or whatever they wish to compose on the instrument.
This is the only known system to fully grasp musical harmony. You learn it, transcribe it and discuss it with SpyTunes Guru and other spytunes members.
So far we have recorded these tunes:
20s
Baby Won't You Please Come Home 1923
30s
Over The Rainbow 1939
50s
Angel Eyes 1953
60s
A Change Is Gonna Come 1964
Blackbird 1968
Blowin In The Wind 1963
Dream A Little Dream Of Me 1968
Scarborough Fair 1966
Sunny Afternoon 1966
70s
Ain't No Sunshine 1971
American Pie 1971
Angie 1973
Dreadlock Holiday 1978
Highway To Hell 1979
I Shot She Sheriff 1973
I Wish 1976
Parisienne Walkways 1978
Roxanne 1978
Stairway To Heaven 1971
Starman 1972
Tenderness 1973
Take Me To The River 1974
Whole Lotta Rosie 1977
Wish You Were Here 1975
80s
Arthurs Theme 1981
Fast Car 1988
Lately 1980
Mad World 1982
Redemption Song 1980
Talking About A Revolution 1988
90s
Angels 1997
Babylon 1999
Basket Case 1994
Brazen 1996
Bullet In Your Head 1992
Drugs Don't Work 1997
Hedonism 1997
Killing In The Name 1992
Kiss Me 1997
Know Your Enemy 1992
Monkey Wrench 1997
Pickin On Me 1996
Robin Hood 1996
Still Got The Blues 1990
Tears In Heaven 1992
Time Of Your Life 1997
Wonderwall 1995
Walking By Myself 1990
Weak 1996
00s
1234 2007
All My Life 2002
American Idiot 2004
Beautiful 2002
Cannonball 2002
Don't Wait Too Long 2004
Hey There Delilah 2007
I'm Yours 2008
The Pretender 2007
Electric Lessons
Some of these tunes are recorded on the electric guitar. For these lessons we don't ad vocals, instead we look more at riff writing, sound and technique.
So far the electric section is only covering 15 tunes but more is on the way.
The other day we recorded 10 new tunes by Jimi Hendrix, Albert King, SRV, John Mayer, B.B. and Freddie King.
Minor and major pentatonic licks shall also see more of an appearance in the near future, Ben Poole has started it off very nicily indeed.
The jam track section is also seeing an overhaul with new tracks to appear soon, competitions for best solo and lots of other goodies on the way.
In the meantime, please reply with which is your favorite so far, and maybe even add some ideas for future recordings.
-guru