Danny Gatton Licks And Tricks Pdf File
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Danny Gatton is a true guitar player's guitar player. While he never became famous to the general public, you can find his name mentioned in just about every interview with current country guitar players. Gatton mixed musical styles from jazz, country, rockabilly, and blues into a powerful sound that influenced all the players around him.
He was nicknamed 'The Humbler' and 'The Telemaster' and a quick YouTube search will show that they were both well earned. Gatton's entire giant bag of tricks would be impossible to cover in a short lesson so I focused on some of his more traditional playing ideas. The lesson will take you through 5 licks over a 12 bar blues in E.5 Danny Gatton Guitar LicksLICK ONEThe first lick uses double stops and hybrid picking. The pick plays the D string while the middle and ring fingers play the double stops.
I mute the D string slightly with my palm throughout this idea. The D string notes are mainly rhythmic and muting them helps the melodic double stops stand out more.LICK TWOThe second lick begins with two double stop pre-bends. First, hit the double stop without bending.
The G string is then pre-bent up a whole step while the B string remains fretted. Finally, release the bent note back to the original pitch. Then the same idea is repeated down a whole step.LICK THREEThe third lick is a double time idea. This lick sounds more difficult than it actually is because of the speed.
Use hybrid picking with the pick again taking the D string and the fingers taking the G and B strings. Danny Gatton uses a lot of the repetitive ideas in his playing. In a longer solo, he might repeat the first bar much longer or even move it through the chord progression.LICK FOURLick four navigates the change from V (B7) to IV (A7) using double stops and the root. I play this using the same hybrid picking as the previous licks.LICK FIVEThe last lick is another repetitive idea that is found in Gatton's playing.
I play this lick using all alternate picking. The basic pattern for the lick uses 5 sixteenth notes between every slide. This is another difficult idea because of the speed. Like the third lick, this one can also be repeated easily. I use a simple arpeggio to end the lick.See the full written lesson and download a PDF file of the notation and TABs on my website:Check out my website for more lessons and transcriptions as well as information about live performances, music, and more!
Contents.Career Daniel Wood Gatton Jr. Was born in Washington, D.C., in 1945. The son of a rhythm guitarist, Gatton started playing at the age of nine. From 1960–1964 he played jazz guitar with the Offbeats, then worked as a in Nashville. When he returned to Washington, he drew attention in the 1970s as a member of Liz Meyer & Friends and other local bands.
He recorded his debut album, American Music (1975), followed by Redneck Jazz (1978) with pedal steel guitarist appearing as a guest. He founded the band the Redneck Explosion.Although Gatton could play most genres of music, including jazz, blues, bluegrass, and rock, he was known as a country and guitarist.
He toured with singers. He was sometimes called 'The Telemaster' and 'the world's greatest unknown guitarist'. Guitarist called him 'The Humbler' for his ability to defeat other guitarists in 'head-cutting' jam sessions. On this point, however, Gatton declared “The biggest humbler to me, of all time, would be. He was the best I have ever seen.' In 1987, nine years after his previous album, he released Unfinished Business, an eclectic collection of pop, rock, and country music that magazine named the tenth best album of the 1980s. He got a contract with his first major record label and released another eclectic album, (, 1991), which contained a cover version of the theme song from the animated TV series The Simpsons.Gatton turned toward jazz for the albums New York Stories (, 1992) and Relentless (1994) with.Death On October 4, 1994, Gatton locked himself in the garage on his farm in, Maryland, and took his own life by shooting himself.
Although he left no note or explanation, family members and close friends believe he suffered from for many years. Friend and drummer Dave Elliott said that he thought Gatton had suffered from depression since they met more than twenty years earlier.
Gear and playing style Gatton played a 1953 customized with Joe Barden and Fender Super 250Ls, or Nickel Plated Steel (.010 to.046 with a.015 for the G) strings (Fender now makes a replica of his heavily customized instrument), and a 1956. For a, Gatton sometimes used a beer bottle or mug. In the March 1989 issue of Guitar Player magazine, Gatton said he preferred to use an bottle or long 6L6 vacuum tube as a slide, but that audiences seemed to prefer the beer bottle. Unlike many electric guitarists, Gatton played slide overhand only, citing his earlier training in steel guitar Guitar Player, March 1989.
Among, liner notes on his album '88 Elmira Street' cites his use of Fender amplifiers including a 1963 Vibrolux, a 1963 Super Reverb, a 1958 Twin, a 1964 Deluxe, and a 1958 Bassman. Gatton built many of his own electric musical devices, including one he called the Magic Dingus Box, which controlled the speed of the rotating horn in a Leslie speaker cabinet.
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Reception When magazine selected the 100 Greatest Guitarists of all Time in 2003, senior editor ranked Gatton 63rd on his ballot. On May 26, 2010, Gibson.com ranked Gatton as the 27th best guitarist of all time.Among his admirers are, and.Gatton has been described as possessing an extraordinary proficiency on his instrument, 'a living treasury of American musical styles.' In 2009, John Previti, who played bass guitar with Danny for eighteen years, stated, 'You know, when he played country music, it sounded like all he played was country music. When he played jazz, it sounded like that's all he played, rockabilly, old rock and roll, soul music. You know, he called himself a Whitman sampler of music' Guitarist reckons Danny 'comes closer than anyone else to being the best guitar player that ever lived.' Guitarist Albert Lee said of Gatton, 'Here's a guy who's got it all.' On January 10–12, 1995, Tramps nightclub in New York organized a three-night tribute to Gatton featuring dozens of Gatton's musical admirers, the highlight of which was a twenty-minute performance by Les Paul, James Burton, Arlen Roth,.
Those shows (with all musicians performing for free) raised $25,000 for Gatton's wife and daughter.Blue Skies Calling (2011), an album by Boy Wells, includes nearly an hour of Gatton and Wells playing in his living room. 'Danny called me before he died and asked me to put a vocal tape together for his label at the time. He needed a singer after his singer, Billy Windsor, had passed.
He remained a friend, a good one all those years. This lesson was in the late '70s; it's me and Danny in the living room of his house on Holly Lane in Indian Head, Maryland. It's killer stuff.' Gatton was given nicknames such as 'The Humbler', 'The Telemaster', and 'the world's greatest unknown guitarist'.
Awards and honors. Grammy Award nomination, 'Elmira Street Boogie', 1991. Danny Gatton Signature TelecasterDiscography. 1975 – American Music.
1978 – Redneck Jazz. 1987 – Unfinished Business. 1990 – Blazing Telecasters. 1991 –. 1992 – New York Stories with, &.
1993 – Cruisin' Deuces. 1993 – Toolin' Around with. 1994 – Relentless (with ). 1995 – Redneck Jazz Explosion. 1996 – The Humbler (with ). 1998 – In Concert 9/9/94. 1998 – Untouchable.
1998 – Portraits. 1999 – Anthology. 2004 – Funhouse. 2004 – Unfinished Business. 2005 – Oh No! More Blazing Telecasters (with ). 2006 – Redneck Jazz Explosion, Vol.
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(2003). Unfinished Business: The Life and Times of Danny Gatton. San Francisco: Backbeat Books.External links.