Guitar Moves

Guitar Moves hosted by Matt Sweeney

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Jason Isbell shows how Chet Atkins’ “Bells Of Saint Mary's” turns into Jason Isbell’s “If We Were Vampires”through the alchemy of fingerpicking. Losing the guitar pick can create infinite new worlds, it just takes some grace and humility.

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Lo Fi maverick Eyedress breaks down the paranoid quest of nailing a guitar solo in front of an audience. Full episode on the Guitar Moves YouTube channel.

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How to play “Search And Destroy” on guitar, from the creator: guitarist James Williamson of the Stooges breaks down one of rock & roll’s greatest songs for all of the fucked up children of the world to learn.

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Nick wrote his own Thin Lizzy-esque song, the blazing “And So It Goes”, when he was a road manager for the opening act on a Thin Lizzy tour. For real. How f’n cool is that?? Nick Lowe is unbeatable live- he’s touring in California and the Pacific Northwest RIGHT NOW, do not miss

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Another example of the genius of @Slipknot’s Jim Root @jimroot: how to approach playing Metallica’s “Disposable Heroes” by way of Stevie Nicks’ “Edge Of Seventeen”. 🕊️⚡️🔥
Full Guitar Moves episode on the Guitar Moves YouTube Channel.

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Dean Ween & @theheavyjamz in a shack in New Hope Pennsylvania, playing “Dickie Betts”, a song about Dickie Betts by Dean Ween. Deaner and Matt's long friendship shows in this essential episode of Guitar Moves-Deaner dives deep and delivers big nasty pearls of hard-earned wisdom

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One last example of electrical fire from the acoustic guitar of Welsh composer @gweniferraymond
Gwen is touring all over the world in the next few months- if you’re in Europe, the United States or Australia you can witness the phenomenon that is her live show.

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Welsh guitarist and composer Gwenifer Raymond gives a sample of the first piece of music she wrote. Her playing style has been described as “Primitive”- which is a pretty funny way to describe electrifying technique and stunningly elegant phrasing.

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New Guitar Moves Episode now on @youtube : @gweniferraymond shows how an acoustic guitar can elevate your life.
The Welsh composer gives killer insights on how to handle the world with fingerpicks. Here’s Gwenifer blazing her tune “Bliws Afon Tâf”.
“Bliws” is Welsh for “blues”.

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The Welsh composer’s music is a thrilling example of a DIY (Do It Yourself) approach to guitar slaying: “Play to the edge of your ability” and vulnerability becomes raw power. Very grateful for Gwenifer Raymond’s generosity and brilliance in this new episode of Guitar Moves.

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Blazing where The Sahara meets the sea: master musician Doueh built his first guitar from scratch and formed Group Doueh in 1981 in his hometown of Dakhla in the Western Sahara, where he still lives and performs.

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A guitar in Blake Mills’ hands is a unique force whose sound hits staggering emotional heights and depths. Blake’s use of gnarly technique sidesteps “shred” cliches and directly hits the heart and tweaks the brain. His inimitable guitar style, songwriting, and production

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Scarface- a Godfather of gangster rap- got his musical vision via playing guitar. His cousin, the great Johnny Nash of “I Can See Clearly Now” fame got him started, and The Dead Kennedys & hardcore punk pointed him in the direction that made him change music with The Geto Boys

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“A frame of mind rather than billions of notes” Nick Lowe drops some hard truth on the latest episode of Guitar Moves. Check it.

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Huge humble thanks to Nick Lowe for building up our music brains by breaking down how he wrote “(What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace Love and Understanding”. Check Nick Lowe’s generosity, genius and humor in full effect on the episode, up now on YouTube. Nick Lowe rules.

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Math rock is called that because it's hard to play? One month of Emma Harner on Guitar Moves.

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“Do It” by Emma Harner. So effin cool.

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Gale 4ever🐓💔. Make sure to catch Emma on tour this month. Brooklyn tonight @babysallright

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Emma Harner is for real. Full episode up now on Guitar Moves YouTube channel, link in bio. Follow Emma on Substack (https://t.co/u9Rqspa4gM) and catch her on tour this month. Special thanks to Union Pool for hosting this episode.

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Tomorrow. Emma Harner. Guitar Moves. Get psyched.