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thedailywhat:

Rock N’ Roll History of the Day: Alex Chadwick of the Chicago Music Exchange offers up 100 famous guitar riffs, played chronologically and in one take.

[devour]

Five more for Friday:

This guy’s pretty good, but his store requires that you own your own private gold mine before they even let you in.

Blindly dropping down to D and back up, twice, while still playing, and nailing it = impressive. Ditto grabbing the slide so fluidly.

A universal guitarist habit: reflexively trying to turn up your volume knob hoping for a little more gain, but it’s already all the way up. He did this at least 3 times and I feel his pain.

Pretty sure I’ve played at least 60 of those in front of people and another 20 in my room.

The song selection lost some steam in the last 15-20 or so, which makes me sad about the state of the guitar in recent music.

If you like guitar playin’ this is worth your 12 minutes.

Steve:

I just had a “why didn’t I think of that?” moment: it seems he very cleverly strung the 6th string so that E was tuned with the peg exactly perpendicular to the headstock and turning it to be exactly parallel to the headstock took him right to D. I wonder if those tuners are geared specifically so a 1/4 turn equals a whole-step at those specific frequencies. That’d be some awesome engineering. If not, consider this my patent application. The Steelopus’ Head®™ Patent Pending (2012).
Overall I think he made some good song selections. He’s clearly a skilled player, but his rhythm on some of the riffs was way off. I’ll chalk that up to his thinking ahead to the next riff.
I think the most technically impressive part is his memory of which effects pedals and which pickup selctions to use for which songs. I picked out at least 3 different distortions/overdrives, plus delay and wah.
Say It Ain’t So sounded jarring because it had been over 3 minutes and 22 riffs since we last heard a pure clean tone. (He also butchers the riff.)
He seems to have an unfortunately huge boner for Jack White. I have never understand why the world loves that man so much.
All in all, I guess I just watched a 12 minute commercial for a music store I don’t ever intend to visit. That’s pretty smart advertising.