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Post by PistolPete on Mar 6, 2024 12:24:23 GMT
I have a student who is mad keen on playing rockabilly & could do with some resources to help with teaching him. Can anyone recommend any books that cover the broad strokes of rockabilly playing? There's seems to be lots of transcriptions about, but I was after something that hones in what the building blocks are a bit more.
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Post by delb0y on Mar 6, 2024 14:52:28 GMT
I used to play a lot of rockabilly, but I don't think I ever read a book that was purely dedicated to the style. I tended to take the country guitar style that I already had (a traditional country style, more akin to the Bakersfield Sound than anything modern), my Travis Picking, and the Chuck Berry sound and I mixed them up and out popped rockabilly - which I guess is pretty much how it started anyway. There a few great albums that pretty much give you everything you need - Carl Perkins Greatest Hits, first Stray Cats album, Brian Setzer's Rockabilly Riot volume 1, the first Elvis album, etc That said, there is a chapter (a short chapter) in one of my favourite books from the 1970s (replete with flexi disc) called Nashville Guitar by Arlen Roth and there's a longer chapter in an absolutely outstanding book Best in the West. I do have a DVD by Paul Pigat that is dedicated to Rockabilly Guitar and I recall it being great, although it's years since I watched it. He also did one on Travis Picking which, in it's own way, is a key element of Rockabilly. I find quite a bit of the modern style is too drenched in echo for my liking, but it's fun to play. One of my better tunes on YouTube is when I took a rockabilly backing track from a guitar magazine CD and played some Charlie Christian licks on top of it: I do link to an explanation video, so if there are any licks you like you can grab them. Derek
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Post by martinrowe on Mar 6, 2024 16:49:34 GMT
Brian Seltzer released a teaching video didn't he? Am I in the right area?
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Post by grayn on Mar 7, 2024 7:33:48 GMT
Try: darrelhigham.com/It contains his book. Darrel is IMO, the best rockabilly guitarist around. Good luck, I love rockabilly and vintage RnR.
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Post by ukpacker on Apr 8, 2024 7:30:04 GMT
Active Melody guitar website is mostly blues based and has lessons on Rockabilly style playing, the Soundslice tool available to paying subscribers is a great learning facility, but more importantly Brian explains what's really going on under the hood, so to speak.
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