[LHL]

I have recently listened to a lot of acoustic instrumentals like Classical Gas, Black Mountain, Bron-Yr-Aur, Song For Life, Song For George, Little Martha and so on. And I loved them all so if you know any other, feel free to write them down.

[guitarfan19]

Dee by Randy Rhoads

[evileye]

Leo Kottke - Up Tempo
Michael Hedges - The Double Planet
Michael Hedges - Because It's Ther
Anything by Michael Hedges really...
Keller Williams - Loop
Kaki King - Joi
Kaki King - Carmine St.

[narad1986]

my first cd is going to be one of instrumentals ...... mostly acoustic......
As soon as i finish school and find some money for studio time...

mm Oh yeah ..........

[acousticblues]

tim reynolds- "stream", he is mostly an electric player though, but his acoustic stuff is awesome. he played on just about every dave matthews album and did a couple acoustic tours with dave. check him out on "dave mattthews and tim reynolds: live at luther college"

SRV has some originally electric stuff he did acoustically, like "Lenny", electric blues

john scofield has a lot of mixed acoustic and electric stuff, like "beep beep" and "fez". a very experimental jazz sound

pat metheny- "bright size life". mixed acoustic and electric guitar, one of the best jazz guitarists, his first album came out in the 70's and he started teaching at Berklee when he was about 19 years old.

dave matthews and trey anastascio (sp?) did a lot of acoustic stuff together, while they aren't instrumentals, its great stuff

django rienhardt- gypsy jazz guitarist, and he only had the use of two of his fretting hand's finger's i believe. amazes me everytime i listen to it.

electric instrumentals:

george benson: "affirmation" and "breezin"

wes montgomery: "west coast blues", "monk's shop", "round midnight"

haha obviously you can tell i like jazz.....well those are some i like. give them a listen.

Paul

[imadique]

frank zappa - sofa # 1

[LHL]

Thanks.

[epearson]

Anything by the Guitar Trio Paco De Lucia, Al DiMeola and John McLaughlin

I really recommend any album by De Lucia as well.

[evileye]

frank zappa - sofa # 1

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I just download this song off eMule labeled as Frank Zappa, and if I'm not mistaken the version that I got was a Michael Hedges song, not a Frank Zappa version.

[imadique]

You could be right, I got it from Limewire, but I know that Zappa has a series of songs called Sofa - I've got one or two of the others on Cd which are electric, I thought #1 was part of the same series. I'll check out Michael Hedges though.

[ibanez6]

Get Tommy Emmanuels latest CD if you like acoustic instrumentals. Be warned though it might make you burn your guitar and send you spiralling into depression.

Nobody can be that good.

[grzegorz_panek]

http://www.peter-fin...rt_content.html

Here you can listen to a few WHOLE albums by Peter Finger.

[evileye]

embryonic journey - jefferson airplane.

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I just download that, I know that from somewhere... Brillient instrumental!

You could be right, I got it from Limewire, but I know that Zappa has a series of songs called Sofa - I've got one or two of the others on Cd which are electric, I thought #1 was part of the same series. I'll check out Michael Hedges though.

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I just checked, both versions I downloaded labeled Frank Zappa are definetly Michael Hedges album versions.

[dadfad]

Yeah, "Embryonic Journey" has always been one of my favorite acoustic instrumentals. Cian, you might "recognize it from somewhere" because it was among one of the many tunes I stole licks from in my track on the first GTU CD. I "borrowed" a really similar hammered-D sequence and that dramatic alternating-bass-run to finish off my instrumental track.

Errrr... no..... I mean Jorma stole it from me. Yeah, that's the ticket. And then he went back in his DeLorean to 1968 and put it in his tune. Yeah, that's it! Honest!



However, I DID do mine as a solo. HE cheated and used Jack Casady on acoustic bass!

[dadfad]

embryonic journey - jefferson airplane.

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I just download that, I know that from somewhere... Brillient instrumental!

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....... its not extremely hard to play with a bit of practice and well worth learning.

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Very true, only moderately difficult if you can already play alternating-thumb style, but crowds always seem very impressed by it. Probably because of it's varying intensities and that dramatic alternating-bass run. Another tune, similar in many ways, but a bit more difficult (and much less known) is "Monon Blues" by a guitarist named Mary Flower.

[evileye]

Yeah, it was your version John, and a brillient version at that! I might take a go at it, but I'm sure I'll fail... hehe

[dadfad]

Thanks,Cian. It really isn't as difficult as it sounds. There are a few key shapes and themes. The alternating-bass line is probably the most difficult part. If you can already play alternating-bass thumb style you have 75% of it licked already. Actually the easiest part of the tune is that rapidly decending bass-line < (and it probably sounds like the hardest part!)

[raewyn]

I've just been playing Fiji Baby by Goodshirt (NZ Band). It's simple and catchy (and its on KaZaA) and the tab for it is on ultimate-guitar.com