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

Why Don't You Do Right? 1936

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

Sunshine Of Your Love 1967

70s

Ain't No Sunshine 1971

American Pie 1971

Angie 1973

Dreadlock Holiday 1978

Highway To Hell 1979

I Can't Stand The Rain 1973

I Shot She Sheriff 1973

I Wish 1976

One More Cup Of Coffee 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

Breakfast At Tiffany's 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

Whistle For The Choir 2006

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