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“Sweet Home Alabama” was recorded by the Southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. It first appeared in 1974 on their second album, entitled “Second Helping”. Despite lots of controversy, it reached #8 on the US charts in 1974, and was the band’s second hit single. According to the band members, “Sweet Home Alabama” was written as [...]

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“Let There be Rock” was released on AC/DC’s album of the same name in 1979. During an interview, Angus Young recalled the following about the recording session for the song: “I remember the amp literally exploded during the recording session. My brother watched it with crazed eyes, and he told me ‘Come on! Keep on [...]

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Arguably, the most famous rock song of all time, “Stairway to Heaven” was released by Led Zeppelin in 1971. Even though it’s banned in most guitar shops, (lol) the sheet music for this song has sold well-over a million copies. During an interview with Jimmy Page, Rolling Stone magazine asked how much of the song’s [...]

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Released in 1979 on my favorite AC/DC album, “Highway to Hell”, “Girls Got Rhythm” was also released as a single in the same year. A live version of this song can be found on the album Let There Be Rock: The Movie, part of the Bonfire box set. It is also featured in the Movie [...]

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Led Zeppelin is well-known for borrowing various tunes and ideas from Blues recordings. Moby Dick’s main guitar riff seems that it may have originated from Bobby Parker’s 1961 song, “Watch Your Step“. One of my favourite from Zeppelin, it has a fairly easy main riff. You shouldn’t have too many problems with this one.

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Also known as “Slurs”, hammer-ons and pull-offs help guitarists create a smoother sound between notes. A hammer-on is a procedure that causes a note to ring by using a finger to strike (or “hammer”) the note instead of using a guitar pick to pick it. Used in many styles of music, it is a very [...]

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Van Halen’s first single, You Really Got Me was a cover of the The Kinks first hit recorded in 1964. Eddie, who at the time was only 21 years old, did his own take on the song with impressive results. The frontman of The Kinks and author of the song, Ray Davies was later to [...]

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