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Jan & Dean
Drag City Jan & Dean
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In this set of guitar lessons, Henrik Linde will teach "Drag City", as made famous by Jan & Dean. We'll start with a song overview, and after a peek at the gear and tones we'll learn the intro parts for the two guitars. The next stop is the verse guitars, then we'll cruise on to the chorus parts. We'll break down the outro guitars before we do a full play along and single guitar performances, then a jam along.

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Jan & Dean
Surf City Jan & Dean
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In this tutorial, Henrik Linde is going to teach you "Surf City", as made famous by Jan & Dean. Henrik will open by talking about the song as a whole, then the gear and tones. We'll examine the tuning down a half-step to Eb, and learn the parts for both guitars in the verses. Next we're on to the two guitar parts in the chorus sections, with the cool little tonal shift. We'll then learn the outro of the song, which leads us to the play along. You'll take over in the jam along.

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Surf Guitar 101
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This style tutorial introduces you to the art of playing surf music. Henrik Linde will show you some of the techniques and approaches used in this fun musical style, using a custom surf style song as our guide: how to get the tone and vibe, some tips on riffing and how to pick, some rhythm ideas, some soloing approaches, and a couple of whammy bar insights. At the end we'll play through the surf tune with a custom backing track.

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The Ventures
Perfidia The Ventures
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Mike will show you the 2 clean electric guitar layers. One plays the chord progression, while the second plays some vibrato-bar heavy, surf-guitar-sounding melodies.

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The Ventures
Walk Don't Run The Ventures
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Mike will show you all the parts in this early 60s surf instrumental, from the iconic melody to the rhythm guitar chord progression. There's also the vibrato-bar heavy "surf guitar sounding" technique to dig into.

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The Beach Boys
Surfin' Safari The Beach Boys
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In these eight surf lessons, Mike Olekshy will teach you "Surfin' Safari", by The Beach Boys. Mike will start off with a song overview and talk about the surf gear and tones, then plunge in with the chorus part that opens the song. The Chuck Berry style verse rhythm guitar comes next, followed by the fun solo. We'll finish our ride on the waves with a full performance, a single guitar approach, then a "guitar karaoke" play along.

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Ian Hunter
Cleveland Rocks Ian Hunter
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In this classic rock tutorial, Henrik Linde will be teaching you the song "Cleveland Rocks", as made famous by Ian Hunter. You'll be learning how get the tones here, then the intro riff and solo. Then Henrik will break down the surf rhythm in the verse and the rhythm and lead in the chorus. After looking at the bridge parts you'll learn the outro solo, then we'll do a play-along performance and a jam along.

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The Ventures
2000 Pound Bee The Ventures
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In this set of song lessons, our surf master Henrik Linde will teach you all the guitar parts to the song "2000 Pound Bee", as made famous by The Ventures. This song has two parts, so we have twelve lessons here to cover everything! Henrik will show you the tones and the main fuzz riff; he'll take you through the two solos that occur in part 1, then all the various fuzz guitar and clean rhythm guitar parts in the rest of the sections that follow. Then you'll get out your surf board and play along in a full performance!

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Concrete Blonde
God Is A Bullet Concrete Blonde
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Here's a very cool song made famous by the unsung but fabulous Concrete Blonde. We'll delve into the cool surf-esque spy theme lick, the effects, the picking used, the ultra hip solos, and more. Be the bullet.

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