Wednesday, June 21, 2017

"Stoked"

Yester-day I remembered that I'd learned the repeating guitar phrases in "Stoked" a few months ago.  Awhile after I learned them, I figured out the note values for the notation, but I didn't get around to actually notating it until to-day.


To some degree, I guess what I notated could be considered the rhythm guitar part, although "rhythm guitar" usually means just playing chords.

I have two copies of the Surfin' U.S.A. album: the 1990s release where it's paired with Surfin' Safari and a more recent reissue (2012) that has the album in mono and stereo.  I'm not sure whether it's the way the instruments were tuned when they were recorded or something with the transfer process, but I think the track is slightly out-of-tune.  The Surfin' Safari/Surfin' U.S.A. version is off even more than the mono/stereo Surfin' U.S.A. versions.