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He was also an electric guitar pioneer and inventor. [2] In the 1940s he led the Californian based band, the 'Porky Freeman Trio'. One of his early hits, "Porky's Boogie Woogie on Strings", began rock and roll's evolution out of Western swing. [3] As a session musician he backed many of the popular musicians of the time.
Eldon Shamblin (April 24, 1916 – August 5, 1998) was an American guitarist and arranger, particularly important to the development of Western swing music as one of the first electric guitarists in a popular dance band.
Rotosound was started in the late 1950s by James How, a musician and engineer by trade. How started manufacturing music strings for many famous artists across the world. As of 2022 It was still a family-run business, making all Rotosound strings in England. [1] [2] Rotosound's most famous string set, the RS66 Swing Bass, was first produced in 1966.
A B-Bender is a guitar accessory that enables a player to fluidly alter the pitch of a guitar's B-string. This works by mechanically bending the B-string through the use of a series of levers and/or pulleys attached to an external lever that is controlled by the player.
Gerry Beaudoin is a jazz guitarist, composer and arranger, and member of the New Guitar Summit. He uses seven-string Benedetto guitars. Matt Bellamy (born 1978) is the lead vocalist and guitarist of Muse. He uses a custom-built seven-string guitar tuned to AADDGBE for the song "Citizen Erased". [2]
This requires altering (usually loosening) or "slacking" certain strings, which is the origin of the term "slack key". The style typically features an alternating-bass pattern, played by the thumb on the lower two or three strings of the guitar, while the melody is played by the fingers on