Paul's Creation Of The Electric Guitar

Jimi Hendrix is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer who is widely considered to be the most important electric guitarist in the history of music. Although Hendrix is known for his outstanding ability to play the guitar, he is also a very famous name in Blues music. He played the acoustic guitar but is known for his outstanding ability to play the electric guitar. With songs such as Red House, Here My Train A Comin', and Born Under a Bad Sign, Hendrix is considered to be in the Chicago category and quickly made his way into the history of Blues music.

Rock and roll was built on the foundation of jazz, blues, country, and folk music. The Les Paul electric guitar was also a big contributor in music not just rock. One of the

Jerry was not only interested in musical arts but he also drew and painted often and enrolled in the San Francisco Art Institute to study and practice the visual arts. For his fifteenth birthday, Jerry Garcia received an electric guitar, his favorite instrument so far; by this time, Jerry was already playing the banjo and the piano. Soon after, Jerry joined his first band, the Chords, solidifying his destiny as a musician.

“ Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I sorta de’ em all together, I guess. ” - Elvis Aaron Presley. Elvis Presley also known as the King of Rock ‘N’ Roll got his first guitar when he was 12. Who knew that guitar would make the one and only Elvis into who he was.

And, although they have trouble with a "backward" guitar, many musicians are also among us: Beethoven, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Jimi Hendrix, Paul Simon, Kurt Cobain and Billy Corgan.

Joplin's talent was revealed at an early age. Encouraged by his parent's, he became extremely proficient on the banjo and gained an interest for playing the piano. After Joplin's parents purchased a piano for the family, he taught himself how to play the

Blind Willie Johnson was born in a town south of Waco near Temple, TX, around the year 1902. Unfortunately, his mother died when he was a baby, and his father married another woman. One day when Willie was about seven years old his father and stepmother got into a fight and his stepmother threw lye water. She tried to aim for Willies father but she hit Willie therefore blinding him. As Willie got older he started to earn money by playing the guitar. When he played the guitar, he did not play with a bottleneck, he played with a pocket knife. Willie often played in an open D tuning, choosing single-note melodies, while using his strumming and sliding a bass line with his thumb. Even with his talents he did not want to be a blues player.

Paul's father had abused him emotionally, and probably physically, throughout Paul's life. He did so much to Paul's flagging self-image that he had to boast to others to make himself feel big, when he felt tiny inside. When he finally achieved that "bigness" that he always wanted, the glamour of "the good life," his father found him out and took that away from him, or rather, made Paul give it up. This made Paul feel even smaller and made him feel that he would be better off dead. So Paul decided to make his life "better off" and

Jimi Hendrix is an academic to play a guitar as a teen and grew up to convert a rock narrative who stand up to the crowd in the 1960s with his contemporary electric guitar playing. Jimi Hendrix was from Seattle Washington, and when Jimi was 13 years old he learned how to play from his father trained him to show an audio guitar.

Jimi Hendrix: Hear My Train A Comin’ Is a documentary type film released in 2013, directed by Bob Smeaton about the life and career of Rock musician Jimi Hendrix. The film also stars Mitch mitchell and Noel Redding. Jimi Hendrix was Born in Seattle Washington in 1982 Al Hendrix, Jimi’s father was his main care provider, his mom never around. Even when he was young Jimi was always playing an acoustic guitar his father had bought him, and when he got good at that he received an electric guitar.

Some of his most famous designs are still used today like these four examples: In 1950, Fender made his most popular guitar design- the Telecaster, it was the first mass-produced solid-body electric guitar made. A year later (1951), he made the Fender Precision Bass, this set the for most electric bass guitars, and the Fender Bassman amplifier. Three years later (1954), he made the Fender Stratocaster, which is still one of the world’s most recognizable electric

When Paul McCartney was young, he was strongly encouraged to test his wits with many different musical instruments because his father was a jazz pianist. By then, he discovered his love and interest in music very quickly. McCartney joined Lennon's group after both performers met each other at a church festival. Both of them quickly became the main songwriters of the group. McCartney's inventiveness contributed much to The Beatles early music and even paved the way for transforming popular music in the 1960s. Ringo Starr started his early music career by playing percussion on improvise music instruments because he grew up in a poor family. The turning point in his childhood was probably when his stepfather got him a real drum set and supported

He was inspired by his father to explore different musical instruments, Paul initiated his lifelong love affair with music as a young kid growing up in Liverpool. Although he took proper music lessons as a kid, he found it easier to learn by ear, teaching himself the Spanish guitar, piano and trumpet. The teenaged musician met John Lennon in 1957 at a church festival where

The Guitar is a stringed musical instrument with six or twelve strings that is played by either plucking or strumming the strings. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. If an individual were asked to identify a guitar most people would answer the question correctly more so than they would if they were asked about another instrument. When people think about famous guitarists, they more than likely think of famous rock and roll guitarists and do not think about the many other famous guitarists in other musical genres such as jazz or country. The guitar is a well-known instrument that influences many musical genres including Country.

More than any other instrument, the electric guitar has shaped and redefined music in the last century. Although popular culture did not pay much attention to it when it was first introduced in the 1930s, it has since become equated with the very essence of rock and roll music. On an international level, the electric guitar is by far "the most famous instrument to come out of the United States" (howstuffworks.com).