Saturday, October 12, 2013

Mystery Train Solo Scotty Moore Elvis Presley

Here is my version of the tab to Mystery Train solo by Scotty Moore.  The key to playing this correctly is to not play the E at the 12th position. If you listen closely Scotty is occasionally playing open A's in the bass during the E chord. This is pretty much impossible to play to correctly the 12th position despite the fact that most transcription and Youtube video's play it that way.

Saturday, September 28, 2013

Rockabilly Boogie Johnny Burnette Grady Martin

Sorry for the long absence. Here is the first solo from Rockabilly Boogie. This features a great Grady Martin solo. Check it out.

Interestingly here is a song on which Grady Martin played. Listen to the solo and you can hear him using a variation of the lick that starts on bar 3. Start just after one minute mark.




Saturday, February 23, 2013

Elvis Presley and Scotty Moore Just Because

Here is the first version of the Elvis Presley rockabilly classic Just Because.  I did my best.  Corrections are welcome. Wolf Marshall's The Guitar of Elvis has a pretty good tab of the solo if anyone is interested.  It also has some excellent tabs of several other Elvis songs.



Sunday, February 17, 2013

Luther Perkins-Johnny Cash Give My Love to Rose

Here's a transcription of Johnny Cash's "Give My Love to Rose."  This is a good example of Luther Perkins iconic rhythm style.



Monday, January 21, 2013

Sunday, December 23, 2012

Junior Parker's Love My Baby

Junior Parker's of course did the original version of Elvis Presley's  "Mystery Train."  If you listen to Junior Parker's version of 'Mystery Train" it is much slower in tempo than the Presley version. "Love my Baby" was the b side to Parker's "Mystery Train" and listening to the track it sounds like Presley, Scotty Moore and company may have taken the arrangement of "Love my Baby" and used it for "Mystery Train."  What Scotty Moore did not do as is widely claimed (look up Mystery
Train on Wikipedia) was borrow the riff from "Love my Baby" and use it on "Mystery Train."  Here is the transcription to "Love my Baby" and yes it is great rockabilly style track it does not have the same lick as "Mystery Train."






Friday, December 21, 2012

Happy birthday Bob Stinson

This is probably the only non rockabilly post I will put on here.  A few days late but happy birthday  to the greatest ever.  RIP.