ROCK THE 80S!
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ABILITY RATING
Easy to Moderate
Key Various Tempo Various
Will improve your…
✔ Stylistic awareness
✔ Timing and tone production
✔ Stylistic awareness Lead and rhythm techniques
Welcome to our 1980s guitar extravaganza. The aim of this lesson is to take inspiration from the key guitar styles of some of the 1980s’ biggest selling artists. Both rhythm and lead guitar ideas are covered, and we’ve notated each of these in the 14 stylistic examples. There are also four mini performance pieces to learn, and by the end of working with these, your ’ 80s guitar trick bag should be fully topped up.
The 1980s was a decade of excess. Big shoulder pads, power dressing and expensive production values were to the fore. The ’ 80s also ushered in the MTV era and music became even more consumable, with multiple formats available including the introduction of the CD, in addition to vinyl records, cassettes and VHS video.
Various advances in technology led to the advent of more convenient digital effects processors, so the classic ’ 80s production values and guitar sounds are often drenched in chorus, compression and ambience. The decade was also synonymous with other advances in music production technology, such as the
