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Muddy waters

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Champagne and reefer
Chicago Blues
Guitar, drums, harmonica, bass, vocals

  • Rolling Stones got name from him
  • transitional from blues to rock & roll
  • got name from playing in miss river
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Jeff Peterson

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Song: Haleakala
Style: Hawaiian slack key guitar
Instrumentation: guitar

-dad was rancher & learned by going with workers & listening
-slack key linked to lap steel
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Wes Montgomery

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Song: Bumpin on Sunset
Style: Jazz in 1960s
Instrument: guitar, bass, drums, piano, bongos, strings

  • ability to learn melodies and riffs by ear
  • used thumb to play quietly in apartment
  • recognized by Lionel Hampton
  • played in octaves
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Jimmy Hendrix

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Song: Foxey Lady
Style: Rock & Roll
Instrumentation: guitar, drums, bass

  • progenitor of modern rock guitar playing
  • fender guitar(backwards) and Marshall amp
  • died young of drug overdose
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Pat metheny

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Song: bright size life
Style: Jazz fusion
Instrumentation: guitar, drums, bass

-taught at university @ young age
-played with most famous electric bass player pastorious
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Tony Rice

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Song: Church Street Blues
Style: bluegrass
Instrumentation: guitar

  • played in group led by David Grissom in 70s
  • modernized bluegrass
  • had to take jazz guitar lessons to get chords
  • flat picking & capo
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Paco de Lucia

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Song: entre dos aguas
Style: flamenco
Instrumentation: electric bass, bongos, 2 guitars

  • God of flamenco guitar
  • brought flamenco to public eye
  • good enough to cross over into other styles & played with John McLaughlin
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Tommy Emanuel

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Song: those who wait
Style: solo acoustic guitar
Instrumentation: guitar

  • played all over Australia with family as a kid
  • played at olympics
  • most important solo steel string acoustic guitarist today
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Duane Allman

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Song: statesboro Blues
Style: southern rock
Instrumentation: organ, 2 guitars, 2 drums, bass

  • started Allman brothers
  • big contribution as slide guitar player
  • first band with 2 guitarists who could really play & 2 drummers
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Django Reinhardt

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Song: nuages
Style: gypsy Jazz
Instrumentation: guitar, drums, piano, bass

  1. Established gypsy jazz
  2. Badly damaged hand in caravan fire so played with 2 fingers
  3. Survived WWII as gypsy by playing for nazis @ clubs
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Charlie Christian

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Song: rose room
Style: swing/Jazz
Instrumentation: guitar, bass, drummer, pianist, clarinet, vibes

  • played on street with bro for $ bc dad was blind
  • father of jazz guitar even tho died at 25
  • 1st to establish bebop
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Fernando sore

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Song: Minuet Op. 11, No. 6
Style: classical
Instrument: guitar

  • born in Spain in military family
  • wrote a lot of pieces
  • idea was write on grand staff
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Joe statriani

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Song: always with me, always with you
Style: Rock fusion
Instrumentation: guitars,bass keyboards, percussion, drums

  • studied jazz theory with Lenny tristano
  • surfing with the alien
  • his rock melodies are accessible to ppl
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Jennifer Batton

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Song: freeway jam
Style: fusion
Instrumentation: guitars, bass, drums

  • toured with Micheal Jackson
  • played beat it solo perfect to get the gig
  • played on tour with idol Jeff beck
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Jeff beck

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Song: behind the wall
Style: fusion
Instrumentation: guitar, bass, keyboard, drums

  • played in yardbirds
  • known as hot head; smashed equipment
  • stopped using a pick in the 80s; rare
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Francisco Tarrega

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Song: recuerdos De la Alhambra
Style: classical-romantic
Instrumentation: guitar

  • most prominent romantic era composer
  • lost most vision as child
  • rebellious kid, ran away a lot
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Joe pas

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Song: summertime
Style: jazz
Instrumentation: guitar

  • 1 of most prominent jazz guitarists in history
  • mid 70s album: virtuouso put him on map
  • 1st to improvise harmonically on guitar
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andy McKee

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Song: drifting
Style: solo acoustic
Instrumentation: guitar

  • unique tapping style
  • grew up a metal fan
  • often uses banjo capo