B.B. King is filmed in Piccadilly recording his ‘B.B. King in London’ album. (1972)
Source: BBC – Sounding Out, B.B. King
Electric Guitar
Rock
Find out more about the rock genre with BBC Bitesize GCSE Music.
Lead guitar solo!
Rock guitar skills
Today I taught my student how to use a distortion pedal and use it for soloing techniques.
Exploring beats using percussion instruments
A percussionist explores beat using a range of percussion instruments.
Source: BBC Bitesize – Exploring beat using percussion instruments
Twelve bar blues – structure and use
A range of musical examples used to demonstrate the structure and use of the 12 bar blues.
Source: BBC Bitesize – GCSE Music – Twelve bar blues – structure and use
Pioneering Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar to be auctioned
A pioneering Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar, the Black Beauty, is to be auctioned in New York in February.
Source: Pioneering Gibson Les Paul Custom guitar to be auctioned
Guitar Tuner
Tune your guitar here ready for practice.
Free Online Guitar Tuner
Source: Free Online Guitar Tuner
Phrygian Mode
Certainly one of the oddest titles you’ll learn about.
It is one of the darker toned sounds in music, often found in Spanish music.
Source: phrygian mode
Lydian mode
A happy and positive sounding scale, the raised fourth makes it sound different to the traditional Major Scale.
Source: Lydian mode