Alright i need a backing track that I can solo over. I need just drums, bass and a rhythm guitar. I would be the lead guitar. So basically around the genre of hard rock and Metal. Fast would be nice. Please tell me the key too.

Just curious…I was wondering if anyone listens to different types of music that seem to clash with each other.
For me, I love almost all types of music, but classical’s probably my favorite.

I already know some Eric Clapton songs, but I’d like to learn some others.
I’ll look at any suggestions…thanks! I’m really in the guitar-playing mood but I don’t really play much blues.

bonus points if you include an example of each genre

Although its exact history is a little hazy, and subject to much discussion, it is thought that the traditional Portuguese guitar can be traced back as far as the medieval period, and although you will often find references that suggest that it was based on the traditional English guitar, this is most certainly not the case, in particular for the very good reason that there simply is no such thing! The Portuguese guitar is a traditional twelve string instrument which is most notable for its use in the traditional Portuguese Fado music.

When people suggest that the Portuguese guitar comes from the traditional English guitar, what is really being referred to here is not ancestry of design, but rather the quality of build. It was at the time that the Portuguese guitar was being designed and introduced that England was famous for making guitars, and the reputation of these English guitars was very solid. The Portuguese guitar is therefore a descendent of the period when guitars were being made to a high standard in England. Rather than of English origin, the Portuguese guitar is more likely to have its roots in either the medieval citar, or the lute which came from Arabic traditions.

More than likely it was a combination of both of these types of instrument. The Portuguese is an example of a classic guitar, but is not the only type of classic guitar to be available as an alternative to the traditional ones. Another popular type of classical guitar is the flat top steel string guitar. The main difference is that instead of using nylon to create the strings, they are made from steel. This provides a significantly different timbre to the note, but because it has to be tensed and stretched to a very high degree, it has affected the overall shape of the guitar. Often people think that the shape of a flat top guitar is to enhance sound or create some alternate quality of sound to a normal guitar, but it is largely based purely on ensuring that the guitar is strong enough to withstand the tension of the steel strings, since a normal guitar structure would more than likely simply snap in half during the initial tuning up.

The neck of a steel strung guitar is very much reinforced, and the design gives it a strong look and feel. The body is also usually much larger than a normal classic guitar, and also thought his is to act as an extra brace for the strings, it also adds a greater resonance for the notes. The sound created by steel strings rather than nylon ones is described as being much brighter and crisper, and often people suggested that it creates a much louder sound too.

Flat top guitars or steel strung guitars are most often to be found used in traditional folk music, country, jazz and blues, and the music associated with these genres can be thought to reflect the characteristics of the guitar used. A third alternative to the traditional classic guitar is the archtop guitar, and these again used steel strings rather than nylon, creating the crisp bright sound, but the distinctive feature of an archtop guitar is a f-hole which looks very similar to the design of a violin.

The top and back of the guitar’s body are carved in this distinctive curved fashion, and the shape is derived from a similar style of mandolin created by the Gibson Guitar Corporation. The archtop guitar can be made available in either the classic form, or as an electric equivalent, and the sound created by these guitars is quite distinctive and has proven very popular with musicians from both the classical and country traditions, and popular music, with the country musicians using the acoustic version of the archtop, and the popular music musicians using its electric equivalent, which often comes with a tremolo arm, particularly when used in rock music.

For the console fans and guitar hero fans that didn’t hear about the new upcoming console game from Activision, there is only one message: “Get out from under your rock”. The new exciting game in the hero series, a series that sold millions and gave the pleasure of playing the guitar to music illiterates, this time will simulate, instead of a guitar player, a DJ and will allow the player to rock the dance floor and become a real DJ hero.

This is great news for the hip-hop, rap, electronic and all dance related music genres fans that had hard to relate to the rock, metal, shredding guitars kind of music that was the main characteristic of the guitar hero games.

To play the DJ Hero for Wii there will be a brand new controller. This controller was invented especially for the game. The controller will simulate a DJ’s turntable machine holding one main turning palatine, simulating the two disks that are mixed together. There is also one additional button to simulate a sampler.

In the recent E3 games convention some news were revealed. First and foremost a brand new track will be featured in the game born from the reunion of Jay-Z and Eminem. Other exciting news was that the game will feature ten different tracks where the “old” guitar hero controller could be used side by side with the new turntable controller. This is great news for the fans of both rock and dance music, that genres like rap metal or rap rock will be integrated into the game.

Dj hero wii is announced for the fall of 2009. It will be available for all the leading consoles. You can already pre-order dj hero for wii now.

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