Thursday, June 5, 2014

BUDDY EMMONS INTRO, "NIGHT LIFE," RAY PRICE 1963 version

Classic Buddy Emmons pedal steel intro arranged for guitar by Karl Straub.


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Wednesday, June 4, 2014

HONKY TONK 5511 INTRO FOR ONE GUITAR


TIPS on playing a classic honky-tonk country intro with mostly double stops. With a little work, you can imitate the sound of two instruments, i.e. steel and guitar, fiddle and steel, etc.
You say your country band doesn't have a fiddle or a steel player? No problem-- learn to play this way and you can keep the money you would have paid those guys.
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Saturday, May 24, 2014

Steve Cropper-esque Tele Solo

My song "Barbie Doll Apocalypse" has a Tele solo with a raunchy Steve Cropper tone. 

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CHICKEN PICKIN' MELODY

Tips on turning a melody into a chicken pickin' line. 
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Sunday, May 18, 2014

"Night Life" intro, by Buddy Emmons (from Ray Price version)

Here's my guitar transcription of the classic Buddy Emmons intro, where country and jazz rub shoulders. The lesson has great chord melody tips, and some hip chord voicings.  

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Saturday, May 17, 2014

HONKY TONK double stop INTRO in C

Kick off a tune with guitar double stops that sound like an old Honky Tonk jukebox. 



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Friday, March 16, 2012

KARL STRAUB GUITAR WORKSHOP, MARCH 22, 7 TO 9 PM, WITH OBSCENELY LONG TITLE--"HOW I LEARNED TO PLAY ROCK AND ROLL, PUNK, ROCKABILLY, COUNTRY, JAZZ, BLUES, CLASSICAL, WESTERN SWING, BLUEGRASS, AND FOLK GUITAR, AND LIVED TO TALK ABOUT IT"

March 22, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
NOVA Music Center

12704 CHAPEL RD., CLIFTON, VA 20124
(not as far away as you think)

novamusiccenter.com/workshop-genre-mixing-guitar-workshop-march-22-7-00-9-00-pm/

(NOTE- this short video clip is a sample of what you can expect at the workshop. The first piece is in a Danny Gatton rockabilly style, and the second is a Bach-like sketch. They both use the same basic chord progression in the key of G. At the workshop, Karl will talk about how to find connections between styles, and how to mix them together in any way you want.)


Guitarist and Music Educator Karl Straub has led a checkered career. He has played many different styles professionally and spent more than thirty years studying the connections between different musical genres. Karl has shoehorned Monkees guitar licks into Thelonious Monk pieces, watched his audience slam dance to pop songs written when Jimi Hendrix's parents were young, and played Yardbirds fuzztone guitar while being pelted with enough fake blood, glitter, and chicken bones to stop his wah-wah pedal from working.

This workshop is partly a history of American guitar styles, and partly a master class on how to mix these styles together. Straub will talk about how slight adjustments to your playing can take you from psychedelic rock to blues to country to jazz faster than a Lady Gaga costume change.

Karl Straub has a Music Education degree, and almost 30 years professionally performing, recording, and writing. His songs have been recorded by numerous local artists, and he has played guitar with Last Train Home, Eric Brace, the Grandsons, the Graverobbers, the Kennedys, Little Pink, and Exit 10.



NOVA Music Center
12704 Chapel Rd
Clifton, VA 20124
703-830-7141
novamusiccenter.com/workshop-genre-mixing-guitar-workshop-march-22-7-00-9-00-pm/

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