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When I heard that Chuck Berry had died I felt very sad. I had grown up listening to his music because my mum and dad played played all the old greats on our record player. Chuck is my favourite guitarist. No one plays like him. No one has influenced the genre of rock and rollContinue reading “A sad day for music”

The stone roses were around the Manchester music scene in the early 80s but it wasn’t until their 1989 album produced by John leckie that the band made it big. With the charismatic Ian brown on vocals and a fantastic trio of musicians in John squire on guitar, Mani on bass and Reni on drumsContinue reading “The stone roses”

Son house was one of the very early pioneers of the delta blues. He played slide guitar and his voice was a powerful  mean growl. Real name Eddie James he was born in Mississippi in 1902 and spent his early twenties preaching as a church pastor before he turned to the blues. In 1930 heContinue reading “A blues legend.”

Slash [real name Saul Hudson] is perhaps the last great guitarist to reach such popularity with the hugely influential band Guns and Roses. Slash was born in 1965 and was raised in stoke on trent but moved to Los Angeles when he was 5. He took up the guitar in 1979 and would practice forContinue reading “The Last Great Guitarist?”

Guns and Roses formed in 1985 in Los Angeles when two bands became one, Hollywood Rose and LA guns became Guns And Roses. With charismatic singer Axl Rose fronting the band and Slash and Izzy Stradlin providing the sleazy guitar riffs they were soon signed by Geffen records. Their first album “Appetite for Destruction” withContinue reading “The Rise n Fall of G n R”

A student of mine recently asked me to explain what a musical key was. We sat at his piano and I told him the following main points. Lets start with the key of c major. First we need to know the major scale. The major scale is C D E F G A B , allContinue reading “Keys Made Easy!”