The Eagles hail from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1971, by Glenn Frey and Don Henley, they have rightly gained a place in rock music history as one of the most talented bands ever. They have sold over one hundred and fifty million records worldwide and picked up six grammys for their work. They have produced some of the finest country-rock music and spawned many top forty singles. The album, Hotel California, sold over sixteen million copies in the US alone and yielded three top twenty singles: Hotel California, Life In The Fast Lane, and New Kid In Town. The title song was written by guitarist Don Felder, who, along with new member, Joe Walsh, supplied the unforgettable, highly melodic, guitar solos. I have transcribed the chords as all Root 6 and Root 5 barre shapes. Of course, some of them could be open shapes (A, G, D, Em7), but, since barre chords are difficult to execute, the more practice, the better. Be aware though, that even with the proper technique, they can be tiring and even painful when employed for an entire song. If you feel pain, stop and rest, or go on to something else.
The acoustic arpeggios at the beginning and throughout the tune are played with a capo placed on the seventh fret. The capo moves all the chords up a fourth. Since the tempo is medium slow, I have notated a mixture of eighth and sixteenth note rhythm slashes. Use downstrokes for the eighths and upstrokes for the sixteenths. Although this strumming pattern can't be found on the recording, it works well as an accompaniment to a vocalist or another instrument playing the melody. Any song can be transcribed this way, with any strumming pattern, as long as it is within the time signature (in this case, common time). Genz Benz Shenandoah SHEN-60LT 60-Watt Acoustic Guitar AmplifierNewly redesigned to reduce its weight while keeping all of its warm rich tone. How they dance in the courtyard, sweet summer sweat. Joe Walsh sticks to his normal style here, the 'less is more' approach. The licks are melodic, simple and phrased tastefully over the chords. The parent scale for the solos is the B Natural Minor scale, but the Harmonic Minor scale is employed over the dominant F♯7 chord.
The Natural Minor scale is also called the Aeolian Mode or the Relative Minor, and is based on the sixth degree of the Major Scale. Every Major scale is also a minor scale. They share the same key signature, in this case, two sharps F and C. The primary role of the Harmonic Minor scale is evident here. The F♯ chord contains A♯. The Natural Minor scale is altered by that one note to fit the chord. Don Felder takes a much more complicated approach. This solo sounds excellent after the simplistic nature of the preceding solo. It almost sounds like the song takes off here. He employs a number of hammer ons, pull offs and slide to create his licks (notated with a slur line). If the note is higher, the next note under the slur is hammered on, if the note is lower it is pulled off. The slides are notated with the normal notation. With this technique the playing sounds very fast but the picking motion is minimal. Strike the first note and four notes are sounded. In the video lessons, the solos are broken down into licks to make them easier to master. Rock MusicRock Guitar Lessons • Dust In The Wind Guitar Lesson • Kansas • Fingerpicking, Violin Solo, Chords, Tab, Video, Lyrics. Sign in or sign up and post using a HubPages Network account. 0 of 8192 characters usedPost CommentNo HTML is allowed in comments, but URLs will be hyperlinked. Comments are not for promoting your articles or other sites.
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A year later, the company laid off a massive 15 percent of its Italian work force and was able to weather the ensuing strike. Fiat's management was convinced that it could beat its powerful competitors by producing cars at the lowest-possible price. Through its subsidiary Comau, a leader in the automation field, Fiat retooled and partially robotized its factories and standardized yet more Fiat car parts. The assembly robots provided the company with much greater flexibility on production lines, since the machines could easily be programmed to perform a variety of tasks on a variety of models. Further worker layoffs were justified by Fiat by the rise in production rates. The annual output per worker in 1979 was 14.8 units; in 1983 the output was up to 25 units per worker. Fiat's bold and successful moves to modernize were matched by major changes abroad. The company entirely removed itself from the U.S. General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, and Japanese imports.
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