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In tribute to the late, great Roky Erickson, here’s my look at a 13th Floor Elevators classic.
This video is brilliant if you’ve not seen it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_c6gDKsPQDM
And here’s my lesson:
Can be found on my Patreon page.
A punk-poppy classic taken from Wire’s debut album Pink Flag. Form a guitar point of view this is fairly beginner-friendly and an excellent barre chord workout.
Number two in my series of Wire lessons. This track is taken from their second album Chairs Missing.
Tab for this one is on the Patreon page.
In this lesson I’m looking at XTC’s glorious 1979 single, Making Plans for Nigel. Here’s what the original sounds like (with some great vintage Top of the Pops footage):
I’ve written out the riffs for this song below. Tab for the solo can be found on my Patreon page.
Learn to play Big Star’s 70s classic, which also happens to be one of my favourite songs…ever.
Despite a sizeable cult fanbase, Big Star are still quite an obscure band to many people. So if you don’t know this song, check out the original first:
Here’s the video lesson:
The rhythm guitar part is fairly basic, so I’ve written that out in a chord/lyric sheet format. You wanna PDF?
The lead (mando-) guitar part is a bit more involved so I’ve written that out in full music and tab, including a few details which I skimmed over during the video. Get the PDF here.