BEST OF 2007?

One of the
The "swedish Musicbureau´s" (public television)....


1. Feist – "The Reminder"
2. Arcade Fire – "Neon Bible"
3. Jamie T – "Panic Prevention"
4. LCD Soundsystem – "Sound Of Silver"
5. Justice - "Cross"
6. Säkert! – "Säkert!"
7. The Hold Steady – "Boys And Girls In America"
8. Panda Bear – "Person Pitch"
9. The National - "Boxer"
10. Laakso – "Mother, Am I Good Looking"
11. Jens Lekman – "Night Falls Over Kortedala"
12. Pharoahe Monch - "Desire"
13. Familjen – "Det Snurrar I Min Skalle"
14. Band Of Horses – "Cease to Begin"
15. Jack Peñate - "Matinée"
16. Of Montreal – "Hissing Fauna, Are You The Destroyer?"
17. Rufus Wainwright – "Release The Stars"
18. Interpol – "Our Love To Admire"
19. M.I.A -"Kala"
20. Radiohead – "In Rainbows"
21. Erik Enocksson – "Farväl Falkenberg"
22. CocoRosie – "The Adventures of Ghosthorse and Stillborn"
23. Robert Wyatt - "Comicopera"
24. Simian Mobile Disco – "Attack Decay Sustain Release"
25. Animal Collective – "Strawberry Jam"
26. Britney Spears – "Blackout"
27. Aa - "Gaame"
28. Modest Mouse – "We Were Dead Before The Ship Even Sank"
29. Kanye West - "Graduation"
30. Maps – "We Can Create"
31. Beirut – "The Flying Club Cup"
32. Bloc Party – "A Weekend In The City"
33. Skull Defekts – "Blood Spirits & Drums Are Singing"
34. P J Harvey – "White Chalk"
35. Shout Out Louds – "Our Ill Wills"
36. José González – "In Our Nature"
37. Klaxons – "Myths Of The Near Future"
38. No Age – "Weirdo Rippers"
39. Kent – "Tillbaka Till Samtiden"
40. Kate Nash – "Made Of Bricks"
41. Florence Valentin – "Pokerkväll I Vårby Gård"
42. Cut City – "Exit Decades"
43. Björk - "Volta"
44. Soulsavers – "It’s Not How Far You Fall, It’s How You Land"
45. Tegan & Sara – "The Con"
46. The Pigeon Detectives – "Wait For Me"
47. Calvin Harris – "I Created Disco"
48. Keren Ann – "Keren Ann"
49. UGK - "Underground Kingz"
50. The View – "Hats Of To The Buskers"
51. Magik Markers - "Boss"
52. Stephen Marley – "Mind Control"

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Or, give me the tip...or question; "Why do you not have that xxx record on your operation table?"

Japanese Style

DUCK SOUP STYLE ...

www.thirdhandcapo.com/ducksoup.html

CLEANER - STYLE

Near the household service... - it´s possible to be interested in high level playin´too.

As a mother of fact, if you for example have one wife - she might be happier of your cleaning than your playing.

Fish Style

More about:

www.terridimarco.com/press.html

Old European Style

ANOTHER DEMO IN THE BASKET

Meet Micke Fridays. Mainly we work testing rhythm in different patterns, styles. Foremost a writer; lyrics/rockpoetry, musically inspired by some of the accoustic guitar´s folkrock traditions and it´s artists, like Lars Winnerbäck.

More on;

http://www.myspace.com/rockpoeten

LAZY SOD´S STYLE

These guys surprised me with a demo after summer..., so far I am honoured to meet them weekly during winter. ´They are creative, improvisational, thight playing, rocky punks. The only thing I maybe have learned them: "Don´t stop playing". They have been the test group for some of the grooves&riffs published earlier on this blog.

HAWAIIAN STYLE

Method published in Sweden 1940...

Laholm...

...

http://zagolandet.blogspot.com

(Oskarström)

http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com

(Hylte)

Norwegian Style

Terje Rypdal (early seventies picture?)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terje_Rypdal

Football-Style

Amazingly this picture was chained to this blog:

www.pregnantlyplump.com/blog/archive/meredith...

But it can be understandable.

Vietnam Style

From instructional book.

To be honest, this picture is at least from twenty years ago. But, .. Amps are often small today.

And, this country was in a disasterous war....,

When happy guitarschools appear in the society,... it´s maybe like the bird´s singin after the rain and storm.

Sommartider ( Summertimes)

this picture from
www.nisboats.com/mainpages/news.html

check up

http://drivemyguitar.blogspot.com

for other new ideas

Young Players 8

Upper picture; Jenna, Johanna and Klara,this means 3/4 of the Poor Ducks,....

Energy project, with future round the corner... Klara gives much attention to own musicmaking.

Young Players 7

Josefine and Alicia, play football too, like Amanda in the picture below, with guest artist Frida. As a matter of fact these girls can play more than the D-chord. Alicia´s guitar is a interesting big bodied European, with high qualities for fingerpickin.

Young Players 6

Alex and Samuel - always in you ears, if they are in the house

Young Players 5

Johan in the Soloist Tower -

and with the Hot Dog Band,

including Kristina (left) and Marie-Louise (who also plays organ and is a choir leader)

Young Players 4

Sebastian, Jonas and Filip. Calm as usual.

Happy Band

click for larger , see the King Size Guitars.

http://www.harpguitars.net/knutsen/historicalphotos.htm

Yes, you got me.

Some of other´s tunes on the operation table lately:

Only my heart talking (Alice Cooper)

Unsatisfied (Nine Black Alps)

Other Side (Red Hot Chili Peppers)

The good, the bad and the ugly (Morricone)

WipeOut

Unglued (Stone Temple Pilots)

Hårgalåten (Swed folktrad)

Vårvindar friska "

Kristallen den fina "

Uti vår Hage "

Jag vet en dejlig rosa "

Hit the road Jack

Folsom Prison Blues (in Cash please)

Sailor´s Hornpipe

the Windmills of your mind

Tush (ZZ Top)

All I have to do is dream (Everly Br.)

Jag vill ha en egen månde (Gardestad)

Ikaros (Afzelius)

You Really Got me (Davies)

the Flame still burns (Strange Fruits)

Walk right in (Cannon, Woods)

Have you ever seen the rain (Fogerty)

Lookin out my backdoor

2000ligth years from home (Green Day)

Basket Case

Middle of the Road ( CHynde)

Macken (Claes Eriksson)

Oh, Carol (Greenfield, Sedaka)

Annie´s song (Denver)

On the top of the world (Sahara Hotnights)

RIFF& microGROOVES 7

MINI METAL 3

JAZZ´N WITH THE MOLECULES

As usual in these examples, find the key for your improvisation scale. You are 2-3 electric guitars (in tune...), including bass + drums. Of course everything can be tested accoustically.

You have all the freedom to attack these sketches as you want, but check it up as it´s written, before... If you leave the character of a piece/plan, you may land elsewhere.,,,Good luck, yo duck. Observe the many sound possibilties of the electric guitar connected to a modern digital amp.

RIFFs& microGROOVES 6

BOB NYLON´s DEBATE WITH THE CAMELS OF STORA FLADIE

HOT KEYBAB´s

(click on picture for larger)

RIFF& MicroGROOVES 5

PAPA´s GOT A BRANDNEW BUG
BORDERLINE
FLAPPY, THE FLYING ELEPHANT
(click on picture for larger)

RIFF & microGROOVES 4

LET ME BE YOUR FROG
AXL´s COUNTRY MERRY-GO-ROUND
TRAFFIC JAM
PICKNICK BOOGIE SITUATION
BORIS BAY´s DIARY
(click on picture for larger)

New blog mostly dedicated to folkmelodies from many countries, actually the Globe, and, maybe.... your own backyard (Watchout!)

The new blog is called....Doctor TABOOLA
http://drtaboola.blogspot.com
You find all the "related"blogs easily by clicking "view my profile".

Young Players 3

Old Gibson guitar still in use. Johan Skoglund in Hyltebruk practise on his fathers old guitar, in the 1960ties used on stage in popmusic performances.

RIFF & microGROOVES 3

CUBA CUBE
TROLLZ
LONG SHIP, SHORT TRIP
NEW YORK FLADDERMAUSE
(click on picture for larger)

RIFF&MICROGROOVES 2

POCKET PARKER
FUNKY BUT
BINGO ROYALLE
SANTANA´s DAYMARE
DISTURBING NEIGHBOUR
AQUA MAN

One, in hands,... is better than ten in the woods.

For those who don´t figure out how it works;
As in the other examples shown in this blog lately, sketches are meant for playing exercise in group (2-3, foremost electric guitars, including bass+drums) Chord symbol(s) are here missing, but in most cases it´s simple,... one?two? More? Which? That´s your task, to figure out in what key you are playing.
"The Groove" appears normally when all pieces (in a piece of music...) are put together, in a c t i o n, and all species in the group feel comfort in playing, as eating bananas together. ( I didn´t mean that. I´m sorry. Like fruit myself) General introductional role taking the bassline:
follow the lowest note in complicated riffs OR "simplifye" it taking immediate contact with the actual chord(s), OR do you own suitable bassline taking idea from both outlines.
Taking the soloimprovisation: In examples here so far, the bluesscale have a central role in casting. As you know..., you must analyze the possibilities using any scale.

RIFF&MICROGROOVES 1

BIG TOMBOLA
WHY NUT?
BAGPACKER´s CHECKUP
TRAIN TO RAENNESLOVE
WALKING WITH OSKAR
(click on picture for larger) = If YouPrint from this...,, you normally get King-Size. so, if you still want them, download for later study, otherwise, take a Bic-Ball Point pen.......

Here we go again

DUCKHOUSE ("full score")

...2-3 electric guitars, including bass (+drums). The second part (B) is the best part for soloimprovisation and find the suitable bluesscale in the right key , and let it dazzle from your thundering guitar

Basically the "chord"changes in the B- section are from "What Shall We Do With The Drunken Sailor"...OOOPS! Now you got one of my secrets!

Young Players 2

...Lazy Sods

Drummer (female) is missing on these early pictures

(meet them every week, in the town of Laholm)

Adventures

Inspired by the metal or punk styles; Adventures of the Spider Woman 2...., I usually today use ball-point pen of cheap quality. Yes, I know, there are computer programmes. This piece is meant for two-three electric guitars, including bass (+ drums)Secrets of improvisation are not mentioned on the paper. If you are Profezzor of Ordentlicher Punk, do the CLICK on the picture and you got the Close-Up.

YOUNG PLAYERS 1

To begin with; myself, lucky owner of my first electric. This is so far ago you need a time-machine, like in the H.G. Wells story. For example, I tried to play pieces like Geronimo or Apache (by the Shadows). The "original" Guitar Boogie (by Arthur Smith) was something, ...in the nearby horizon. It was one of my favourite records in even earlier (78rpm) days.

WARNING: Not recomendable sitting position, it´s better to hold girls like that.

NEW SEASON...

TREVLIG BOK

STORA KOMPGUIDEN av Börje Sandquist/Mats Norrefalk
Copyright 2004 Notfabriken Publishing AB För nylon- och stålsträngad gitarr

Under en rutinexpedition på biblioteket råkade jag se den första gången, lade med detsamma märke till "att det här var något", men hade inte då tid att engagera mig mera, tänkte "att den här måste jag låna senare. Vid flera nya besök var den alltid utlånad, tills en dag...., då jag kunde ta hem den för att kolla i den.
Skall vi kalla den halvklassisk? Varför traggla med 1800-tals etyder (ofta arpeggion, utvalda basar eller "lyfta" ackord) när man kan spela/öva välgjorda komp till modernare låtar? Dessutom med tabulatur för den mindre vane notläsaren.
En bok mycket för den som har kompat akustiskt tidigare, har någon överblick av repertoar ur svensk synvinkel. Men det omfattande urvalet av låtar är också i hög grad internationellt, modernt. Väldigt "rutinerad" måste man inte vara för att tillgodogöra sig bokens innehåll, men kanske ha en del erfarenhet för att särskilt uppskatta dess innehåll. Med lite hjälp och handledning finns här mycket att hämta.
Sammanfattningarna av t ex "Bossa"rytmer eller Fingerpicking är kortfattat utmärkta, de bästa jag sett i svenska böcker.
Det är hur viktigt som helst att ta in rytmik ( betoningar, accenter) i kompundervisningen. Olika anslagstekniker (för det första; fingrar eller plektrum?) har sin givna plats bland gitarrister.

I engelskspråkig notlitteratur (främst inom populär musik/jazz) har man säkert använt begreppet "RHYTHM GUITAR", sedan 1930-talet. I Sverige har "Rytmgitarr" aldrig etablerat sig som ett särskilt begrepp. Alla spelar (-de) gitarr; möjligen Spansk Gitarr eller så det nya med El-gitarr. Visst har man använt begreppet att man KOMPAR, istället för det äldre; ackompanjera. Men det har inte haft någon riktigt vetenskaplig status, inte jämförbart med att spela "solo". I praktiken kryllar världen av kompgitarrister, i alla musikaliska sammanhang. T ex rockmusik.

Mycket av notutgivningen kring populärmusiken har förr varit ganska pianoorienterad. Ett exempel jag brukar dra fram är att när gruppen the Beatles var nya och som hetast (1960talet), gavs det ut 50 av deras låtar i en bok (engelsk utg.), sedan en till med ytterligare 50 av deras välkända alster. Dessa två böcker var länge mycket vanliga, förmodligen i hela Europa. Alla låtar var i pianoarrangemang, i många fall i b-tonarter, i de flesta fall inte i originaltonarterna. Böckerna såg fina och auktoritära ut, med lite idolbilder. Det förväntades naturligtvis att ungdomar skulle skaffa sig dessa. En fråga var för mig i många år, när jag kom på den, varför gavs inte låtarna ut i första hand i originaltonarterna? The Beatles var ett typiskt gitarrband, stilbildande för så många.
Först långt senare har det rättats till, man går till och med längre, numera i den digitala tab-utgivningens tidsålder, kan man (nästan) läsa om vilket plektrumtjocklek som användes vid tillslaget av några toner, i just den låten, vid just det tillfället, den dagen.... hur stod solen på himlen, vad hade man ätit till frukost, ja, möjligheterna till musikvetenskaplig utveckling och analys är många. Så långt med historiebeskrivingen går inte Sandquist/Norrefalk inom dessa pärmar, säkerligen handlar det lite om platsbrist. Mycket historia finns idag dessutom på Internet.
Det enda jag spontant något saknar, är i denna visserligen KOMPGUIDE, är att melodierna (upp en oktav i många fall) kunde funnits med tab.... Kanske i slutet av boken, i mindre format. Jag är den förste att försvara kompets betydelse i alla musikaliska sammanhang, men det verkar finnas en relativt stor efterfrågan av melodispel i högre lägen. Då och då, helt plötsligt..., ofta på låtar som man inte trodde..., själv har jag under stress fått skriva meloditab på t ex Kung av Sand och Proud Mary, av spelsugna som bara kräver att jag skall hinna kunna, absolut med detsamma, genast, annars blir det bakläxa.
Något som elgitarrkulturen fört med sig med tiden. Men det kan också vara musikaliskt attraktivt på akustiskt, naturligtvis, varför harva melodier i "sångbokslägen" i all evighet.
Så, kanske något för STORA KOMPGUIDEN 2...,
"för dig som även tycker det är roligt att spela melodier".