My 1st Window into Music

Most people can trace their interest in something back to a certain point in time, be that an event; a year; certain age etc.

It’s a question I hear on the radio listening to Mike Sweeny on Real Radio XS (Previously Manchesters Rock Radio) whenever he interviews someone “where did it start? what was the album that sparked it”

This got me thinking today, what was the period/album/style that got me hooked on music.

On reflection, I hadn’t taken a real notice of music until I was about 10/11 years old (1989/90), certainly not anything outside of a few Queen/Chris Rea or Shaken Stevens songs being played at home, but music was by no means a central focus in our house, and I was far to busy out in the fields, whittling wood, fishing, riding my bike and enjoying the great outdoors.

It was only when I got a back to back stereo and a walkman one Christmas that I actually sat up and took note of what was around me.

Albums that made a difference..

From there, I picked up Continue reading “My 1st Window into Music”

Ultimate Power Chord Rock Riffs

After scouring the internet for many a month for simple(ish) Power Chord Rock songs that will keep you ticking over in learning guitar as well as being fun to play… I’ve pulled together this list of songs that, in my eyes, are not only are great tracks but also should get you going on the guitar with just some basic theory on guitar playing…. (I’m sure you can dig out the Tab on ultimate-guitar.com yourselves). If you’ve got any other songs that you think fall in to this bracket then get them added to the comments section below!

Presidents of the USA – Lump
Papa Roach – Infest
Lenny Kravitz – Fly Away Continue reading “Ultimate Power Chord Rock Riffs”

The Electric Guitar Lessons

Electric Sessions: \,,\ (..) /,,/

It started with Electric…
It rapidly improved with Acoustic…
And now its back to the roots R’n’F’n’R on the Electric Guitar again!

I won’t labour too much on the history of this as I’ve mentioned it in earlier posts [POST=321], but, I’ve now done the full circle from trying to play along with my mate when I was 13, giving up for 10 years, getting some electric lessons, playing in some Acoustic Lesson Sessions and now back to Electric Lesson Sessions, with what feels like a much better equipped skill-set and mindset… Continue reading “The Electric Guitar Lessons”

The Acoustic Guitar Lessons

Once rainy afternoon in Bollington, we took the nipper swimming and when filling our boots with chocolate afterwards, my wife noticed an add on the notice board in the leisure centre:

“Adult Guitar Class. Play popular songs.
Tuesdays 7.30 – 9.30 p.m. at the Dog & Partridge.
Bollington.
Tel: Mark 07989 600001”

Well I gave Mark a call, and he promptly invited me down to come and watch half a session. Looked like just what I was after.

The sessions are Mark (Lineham) at the front with Continue reading “The Acoustic Guitar Lessons”

The Acoustic Guitar

After learning a series of guitar solos on the electric guitar I found that there was a hole in my skill set! I could learn the tab for playing some awesome solo’s but when it came to stringing them together with some chords to play a complete song I started to struggle!

With this in mind, I started thinking that I should get an acoustic guitar and put in some proper chord work to get me underway.

To that end I got Continue reading “The Acoustic Guitar”

The Guitar Order – Gordon Smith

Well about half way through my lessons I started to understand a lot more around the sounds from a guitar and what I wanted from my guitar. Which then prompted me to look in to buying one for myself and returning my brothers back to him.

After weeks of reading and looking through review web sites about Guitars, their sounds and other characteristics I got to the point where I felt I could ruck up to a Music shop and try some out and try and find one that was right Continue reading “The Guitar Order – Gordon Smith”

Guitar – Getting up and Going

The back ground to this story starts some time ago… [some time around 1990…after ‘Appetite for Destruction’ and before ‘Use Your Illusion’] where I used to attempt to join in with my good friend in playing the guitar, not having a guitar of my own I used to borrow my friends second guitar (Rockwood Hohner – Les Paul copy) this way of self teaching got me about 3 single string licks of a couple of Metallica intros!

Long story short, my brother Continue reading “Guitar – Getting up and Going”

Site Update: Music Page

I’ve updated the site to include a ‘Music’ page, you can access it by selecting the tab on the top navigation or by selecting this link: [post=251].

The Page syncs with my last.fm account which  in turn syncs with my iPod, iTunes and Winamp. It all works pretty seamlessly as well, you can see my last.FM homepage here: www.last.fm/user/Keepy69