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  2. Ventura Highway - Wikipedia

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    The song won many fans, including the pro wrestler-turned-politician, Jesse Ventura. Bunnell recalled, "We went and played at Governor Jesse Ventura's inaugural out in Minneapolis. He asked us to — his wife is a horse lady, and she'd always loved 'A Horse with No Name', and he had adopted this name Ventura. So when he put together his cast of ...

  3. A Horse with No Name - Wikipedia

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    Licensed audio. "A Horse with No Name" on YouTube. " A Horse with No Name " is a song by American folk rock trio America. Written by Dewey Bunnell, it was released on the Warner Bros. label, in late 1971 in Europe and early 1972 in the United States. The song was met with commercial success and topped charts in Canada, Finland, and the United ...

  4. Someone to Call My Lover - Wikipedia

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    Written and produced by Jackson and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, the song was released as the album's second single on June 12, 2001, by Virgin Records. Using a guitar riff from America's "Ventura Highway" and the melody from Erik Satie's "Gymnopédie No. 1", "Someone to Call My Lover" talks about being determined to find a perfect match.

  5. Homecoming (America album) - Wikipedia

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    Homecoming. Homecoming is the second studio album by America, released on November 15, 1972, through Warner Bros. Records. Acoustic guitar-based, with a more pronounced electric guitar and keyboard section than their first album, their second effort helped continue the band's success, and includes one of their best known hits, "Ventura Highway".

  6. Heavy metal gallop - Wikipedia

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    A gallop is a beat or rhythm typically used in traditional heavy metal songs. [1] It is created by playing an eighth note followed by two sixteenth notes (), [2] usually on rhythm guitar, drums, or bass. Gallop on bass. Gallop played on a bass with a pick. Gallop played on drums.

  7. Carter Family picking - Wikipedia

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    Carter Family picking, also known as the thumb brush, the Carter lick, the church lick, or the Carter scratch, [ 2 ] is a style of fingerstyle guitar named after Maybelle Carter of the Carter Family. It is a distinctive style of rhythm guitar in which the melody is played on the bass strings, usually low E, A, and D while rhythm strumming ...

  8. Block chord - Wikipedia

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    Block chord. A block chord is a chord or voicing built directly below the melody either on the strong beats or to create a four-part harmonized melody line in "locked-hands" [1] rhythmic unison with the melody, as opposed to broken chords. This latter style, known as shearing voicing, was popularized by George Shearing, but originated with Phil ...

  9. Autoharp - Wikipedia

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    Autoharp (center) by C.F. Zimmermann Co. in 1896–99; (left is a marxophone, right is a dolceola) Charles F. Zimmermann, a German immigrant in Philadelphia, was awarded a patent in 1882 for a “ Harp ” fitted with a mechanism that muted strings selectively during play. [3] He called a zither-sized instrument using this mechanism an ...