The second reason for his popularity is his complete spontaneity with the guitar.

It is a mistake, however, to imagine that Sandburg uses the guitar as a prop.

The public's identification of Carl Sandburg and the guitar is no happenstance.

Carl says it is the greatest poem ever written to the guitar because he has never heard of any other poem to that subtle instrument.

The Plus Two remain at a fixed position with drums and guitar but the quartet covers the stage with a batch of instruments ranging from tuba to tambourine, and the beat is solid.

This music is characterized by a large technical research and focuses mainly on twelve long Noubate " series ", its main instruments are the mandolin, violin, lute, guitar, zither, flute and piano.

Alder is appreciated for its claimed ( but laboratory unsubstantiated ) bright tone, and has been adopted by many electric guitar manufacturers.

The steel-string acoustic guitar is a modern form of guitar that descends from the classical guitar, but is strung with steel strings for a brighter, louder sound.

It is often referred to simply as an acoustic guitar, though the nylon-strung classical guitar is also sometimes called an acoustic guitar.

The most common type is often called a flat-top guitar, to distinguish it from the more specialized archtop guitar and other variations.

The standard tuning for an acoustic guitar is E-A-D-G-B-E ( low to high ), although many players, particularly fingerpickers, use alternate tunings ( scordatura ), such as " open G " ( D-G-D-G-B-D ), " open D " ( D-A-D-F-A-D ), or " drop D " ( D-A-D-G-B-E ).

Different combinations of woods and construction elements ( for example, how the top is braced ) affect the timbre or " tone " of the guitar.

* A " 00 ", " Double-Oh " or " Grand Concert " body style is the major body style most directly derived from the classical guitar.

* A " Grand Auditorium " ( GA ) guitar, sometimes called a " 000 " or " Triple-Oh ", is very similar in design to the Grand Concert, but slightly wider and deeper.

Bob Dunn of Milton Brown's Musical Brownies introduced the electric Hawaiian guitar to Western Swing with his January 1935 Decca recordings, departing almost entirely from Hawaiian musical influence and heading towards Jazz and Blues.

One biographer describes his early dance band infiltration: " He managed to croon like Bing Crosby and win a competition: he also played drums, guitar and trumpet, in which he was entirely self taught ".

He called in Clapton to perform the lead guitar on the song and it was decided to cut one verse entirely and add another guitar solo towards the end of the song.

" Touch And Go ", a hit single by The Cars, has polymetric verses, with the drums and bass playing in 5 / 4, while the guitar, synthesizer, and vocals are in 4 / 4 ( the choruses are entirely in 4 / 4 ) ( The Cars 1981, 15 ).

" The album consists entirely of guitar feedback, anticipating industrial's use of non-musical sounds.

During these appearances, Brel stopped accompanying himself on the guitar to concentrate entirely on his increasingly theatrical vocal performances.

According to Reed ( despite the original liner notes ), the album entirely consists of guitar feedback played at different speeds.

The Ventures ' precise guitar work was a major influence on many later rock guitarists ; they also helped shape surf music, which at this stage consisted almost entirely of heavily reverbed guitar instrumentals.

In 1988, Sinéad O ' Connor's art-rock song " I Want Your ( Hands On Me )" was remixed to emphasize the urban appeal of the composition ( the original contains a tight, grinding bassline and a rhythm guitar not entirely unlike Chic's work ).

One track, " The Moors ", featured a lengthy twelve-string guitar intro performed entirely by guitarist Ralph Towner ( of Oregon and the Paul Winter Consort ).

Pitched melodies may be created entirely from feedback through changing the angle between a guitar and amplifier after establishing a feedback loop.

A return to the all-instrumental avant-garde territories of Desire Caught By the Tail, this was an album of atonal contemporary classical music entirely realized on MIDI guitar using digital models of orchestral instruments.

The developing band ( at this point, entirely an instrumental act ) took the name Level 42 and settled on a working line-up of King ( bass guitar, percussion ), Lindup ( keyboards, percussion ), Boon Gould ( guitar, saxophone ) and Phil Gould ( drums ).

Much of modern slack-key guitar has become entirely instrumental.

The soundtrack is entirely guitar music, performed by Hertzfeldt on a boom box in his dorm room.

An entirely acoustic record, the instrumentation is mostly acoustic guitar with some accordion, cellos and percussion.

As their first concept album, it has a constant tone ( of darkness, in this case ) and is more complex than their previous albums, with two entirely instrumental tracks that go beyond simple guitar riffs and solos, namely " Prelude to Madness " and " Last Dawn ".

He was also one of the first acoustic bassists in jazz to switch entirely to electric bass guitar, on which he has a distinctively nimble sound.

During this period, guitar solos became less prominent in many pop and popular rock music styles ; either being trimmed down to a short four-bar transition or omitted entirely, in a vast departure from the heavy usage of solos in classic rock music from the ' 60s, ' 70s, ' 80s, and early ' 90s.

As bebop evolved, smaller jazz groups dropped the guitar entirely, and many free jazz ensembles dropped the piano as well.

These variations were followed by an entirely new type of guitar that featured a block of solid wood between the front and back sections of the guitars cutaway.

It also features guitar on the track " My!

The oldest known iconographic representation of an instrument displaying the essential features of a guitar is a 3, 300-year-old stone carving of a Hittite bard.

Roth's seven-string and 33-fret " Mighty Wing " guitar features a six-octave range.

In the 1970s, Hoshino Gakki and Kanda Shokai shared some guitar designs and so some Ibanez and Greco guitars have the same features.

The RGD features a 26. 5 " scale which allows for lower than standard guitar tuning while retaining standard string tension.

The Artist ARZ is a single cutaway, 24 fret, 25 " scale guitar that features a wide variety of bridges and pickups depending on the specific model.

The Artist ART is a single cutaway, 22 fret, 24. 75 " scale guitar that features a hard tail bridge.

Chuck Berry's 1955 classic " Maybellene " in particular features a distorted electric guitar solo with warm overtones created by his small valve amplifier.

" It was stated by Jonathan Davis in an interview with ARTISTdirect that one track recorded for the album features acoustic guitar, tentatively titled " Lullaby for a Sadist ".

For example, consider the references to the use of a Dobro guitar on songs like " The Ballad of Curtis Loew " by Lynyrd Skynyrd, " Valium Waltz " by the Old 97's, " When Papa Played the Dobro " by Johnny Cash on the Ride This Train album, or " Gold Dust Woman ", a song by Fleetwood Mac from the album Rumours which features a a Dobro.

The album features Paul McCartney's " Yesterday ", arranged for guitar and string quartet and recorded without the other group members.

The Kim Mitchell Band features his longtime musical partner of 26 years Peter Fredette on bass and vocals ( originally 2nd guitar and keyboards ) with Chris Sutherland on drums, and Don Breithaupt on keyboards and vocals.

" Keeping with the album's family motif, " Father Daughter Harmony " was a moving duet with daughter Alicia while " The 50th " features Keaggy's guitar playing over a reel-to-reel recording of his grandparents ' 50th wedding anniversary in 1949.

Metal Box was originally released as three untitled 45-rpm 12-inch ( 30-cm ) records packaged in a metal box resembling a film canister with an embossed PIL logo on the lid ( it was later reissued in more conventional packaging as a double LP set, Second Edition ), and features the band's trademark hypnotic dub reggae bass lines, glassy, arpeggiated guitar, and bleak, paranoid, stream of consciousness vocals.

The album features no songs or even recognizably structured compositions, eschewing melody and rhythm for an hour of over-modulated feedback and guitar effects, intricately mixed at varying speeds by Reed himself.

It is sung by Lennon over an increasingly complicated underlying arrangement which features a tamboura, played by George Harrison, lead electric guitar put through a Leslie speaker, played by Lennon, and a counter melody on Lowrey organ played by McCartney and taped with a special organ stop sounding " not unlike a celeste ".

The album, which was critically well received, features a trio of musicians including Nels Cline on guitar, and Watt as the only singer.

So far, they have released ten episodes, with their latest and as they have stated recently, their ' last ' for now being an episode that features their guitar technician.

The double album Back to the Roots features Clapton, Mick Taylor, and Mandel on guitar ; Sugarcane Harris on violin ; Almond on woodwinds ; Thompson and Larry Taylor on bass ; and Hartley on drums.

One popular site said " It's muddy, under-produced, badly mixed and features crappy drum and guitar sounds ".

The International Superheroes of Hardcore is a side project of all members of the band and features Gilbert on vocals and Pundik on guitar, with the remaining members playing the same instruments they play in New Found Glory.

The song features Yorke paired with an acoustic guitar, with a pronounced string section, including the Ondes Martenot.

Another guitar song on the generally electronic " Kid A ", " In Limbo " prominently features syncopated guitar work from Greenwood, with staccato and a loose groove, along with delay and reverb.

The exhibit features Wray's Danelectro guitar along with a rare video featuring the original Raymen-Link, brothers Doug and Vernon, and Shorty Horton-performing " Rawhide ".