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Rest in Peace – Gary Moore

SubashSL — Sat, 23 Jul 2011 08:12:55 +0000

Sadly I came to know of Gary’s passing just a few days ago. Will not forget his guitar work on “Parisienne Walkways”, “Empty Rooms” and the unforgettable, “Still in love with you”.

How did I miss this?

SubashSL — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 04:43:04 +0000

Beg, borrow, steal, but watch at any cost. I have been seeing bits of this classic on YouTube and it is beautiful to watch.

And yeah! guitar-appreciation.com lives.

Merry Christmas and a very Happy New year.

SubashSL — Fri, 24 Dec 2010 15:23:06 +0000

Will be back with more posts and reviews.

Evergreen guitar songs

SubashSL — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 15:18:46 +0000

The songs are timeless.

The Shadows with their all-time big hit, “Apache”.

The Ventures and “Walk don’t run”

The melodious “Hawaii 5 O”

and “Wipe out” by The Ventures

And finally, here are The Ventures, performing The Shadows hit, “Apache”.

Tha amazing thumb of Wes Montgomery

SubashSL — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 14:44:04 +0000

For almost all of his beautiful music Wes played the notes and chords with this single golden right thumb. The gentleman of a player, watch him play one of his beautiful pieces.

The fastest and easiest way to learn you favorite rock solos

SubashSL — Fri, 20 Aug 2010 03:32:30 +0000

Ever wondered how to play your favorite licks and shreds from that hot solo you’ve been learning and trying hard to play? Well, now there is a simple solution.

In an earlier post on the best “Stairway to Heaven” Youtube videos I had ranked the unknown instructor at Playguitarsolos.com as the best soloist. Tom Lane, the un-named guitarist and instructor is the man behind Playguitarsolos.com and he contacted me to clarify about the anonymity and why his video was not playing at guitar-appreciation.com. In the friendship that struck I was delighted to know that Tom was in fact a full-time C++ programmer who had only taken his passion online in his spare time.

From the links he offered at his YouTube page I was instantly hooked to the perfection of his solos, particularly the sitar guitar solo on Steely Dan’s “Do it again”, Boston’s “Hitch a ride”, The Knack’s “My Sharona”, the two solo’s on Dire Straits’ “Sultans of swing” to just name a few. Just check out the sitar solo from Steely Dan’s “Do it again” below.

There were even solo’s from blues great Stevie Ray Vaughan. Check out more videos at http://www.youtube.com/user/playguitarsolos.

As for instruction Tom offers both tabs and both regular and a slow-motion video of the solo he is playing apart from the instruction on video.

As a guitar player, if popular rock solos are what you are after, then look no further than Playguitarsolos.com. It is one helluva site!

Amazing Albert King

SubashSL — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 06:09:12 +0000

So what did Albert King do that other guitarists didn’t?

Being a left handed guitarist he actually plays a right handed guitar flipped upside down, which means unlike conventional left handed guitarist who need to re-string the strings on a right-handed guitar, or play a left-handed guitar, Albert’s guitar actually has the thinnest “E” on top and the heaviest bass “E” string at the bottom. A style called “upside-down/backwards”. One of blues greatest guitarists he is known for his hits “Crosscut Saw” and “Born under a bad sign” playing in the video below.

Erik Mongrain

SubashSL — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:19:05 +0000

After writing about the street guitarist Stefan Joubert I couldn’t help writing about Eric Mongrain whose playing style in the following video resembles that of Stefan’s but Erik’s style seems flawless. Erik Mongrain is a professionally recording artist from Canada and is hailed as the next Michael Hegdes.

Erik has beautiful hands and fingers and the way they move about the guitar seems like they are dancing on the strings.

Adrian Legg’s “Guitar for Mortals” reviewed

SubashSL — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 17:57:26 +0000

The review is on my other blog site great-anonymous-albums.com and it can be reached via this link.

Amazing guitar music from a street performer

SubashSL — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 05:11:59 +0000

Not sure if the guitarist’s name is Stefan Joubert but that is what the title of the video says. The solo is just incredible. Hope YouTube and my post gets him the break her truly deserves. I am buying his music if he releases a CD.

There are more videos of Stefan on YouTube and they are all amazing. This guy does deserve a break.

Smaller but lovelier sounding videos.