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Guitar 
 The guitar strings are plucked with the fingers and fingernails of the right hand (or left hand, for left handed players), or a small pick made of thin plastic.
Guitar 
 In many countries and at many different time periods, guitars and other plucked string instruments have been very popular, because they are light to carry from place to place, they are easier to learn to play than many other instruments.
Guitar 
 There are many different types of guitars, classified on how they are made and the type of music they are used for.
Guitar 
 From the 1930s, people started making and playing guitars that used electricity and amplifiers to control the loudness.
Guitar 
 Most guitars have six strings, but there are also guitars with four, seven, eight, ten, or twelve strings.
Guitar 
 Standard tuning defines the string pitches as E, A, D, G, B, and E, from lowest (low E2) to highest (high E4).
Guitar 
 Standard tuning is used by most guitarists, and frequently used tunings can be understood as variations on standard tuning.
Guitar 
 The guitar appears to be derived from earlier instruments known in ancient central Asia as the Sitara.
Guitar 
 Instruments very similar to the guitar appear in ancient carvings and statues recovered from the old Iranian capitol of Susa.
Guitar 
 The modern word, guitar, was adopted into English from the Spanish word guitarra, which came from the older Greek word kithara.
Guitar 
 Possible sources for various names of musical instruments that guitar could be derived from appear to be a combination of two Indo-European roots: guit-, similar to Sanskrit sangeet meaning "music", and -tar a widely found root meaning "cord" or "string".
Guitar 
 The word qitara is an Arabic name for various members of the lute family that preceded the Western guitar.
Guitar 
 The word guitarra was introduced into Spanish when such instruments were brought into Iberia by the Moors after the 10th century.
Guitar 
 The guitar may have come from older instruments known as the sitara from ancient India and central Asia.
Guitar 
 The oldest known picture of a guitar-like instrument is a 3300 year old stone carving of a Hittite bard.
Guitar 
 The oldest guitar-like instrument that is still complete is the "Warwick Gittern" in the British Museum.
Guitar 
 It belonged to Elizabeth I of England and probably to her father Henry VIII before it was given to her.
Guitar 
 In other parts of Europe, the six-string Scandinavian lut (lute) became popular wherever the Vikings had been.
Guitar 
 By 1200 AD, there were two types of the four string "guitar": the guitarra morisca (Moorish guitar) from Spain which had a rounded back, wide fingerboard and several soundholes, and the guitarra latina (Latin guitar) which was more like the modern guitar with one sound hole and a narrower neck.
Guitar 
 It is not known whether it was simply a design that combined features of the oud and lute or a transition from the Renaissance instrument to the modern guitar.
Guitar 
 There is a guitar built that was signed and dated 1779 on the label by Gaetano Vinaccia (1759 - after 1831) Although there are many fakes that have dates on them from that time, this guitar is believed by experts to be genuine (real).
Guitar 
 The guitar's design was improved (made better) by the famous Spanish luthier, Antonio Torres Jurado (1817-1892) and by Louis Panormo of London.
Guitar 
 A guitar was described by Dr. Michael Kasha as an instrument that had "a long, fretted neck, flat wooden soundboard, ribs, and a flat back, most often with incurved sides".
Guitar 
 The term acoustic guitar is generally used for a guitar used for popular music, even though a classical guitar is also an acoustic instrument.
Guitar 
 A electric guitar can be flat, hollow, or semi-hollow (solid with hollow pockets on the sides), and produces sound through its pickups, which are wire-wound magnets that are screwed onto the guitar.
Guitar 
 A special electric folding travel guitar called the Foldaxe (briefly manufactured by Hoyer in 1977) was invented for Chet Atkins (in Atkins' book "Me and My Guitars") by inventor and guitarist Roger Field, featuring a built-in way to keep the string tension and tuning the same even when folded, and ready to play when unfolded.
Guitar 
 Atkins demonstrated his several times on US television, and also on The Today Show with Les Paul, who was with him as a guest.
Guitar 
 Guitars are used in many different genres of music, such as traditional, regional, and folk to modern punk, rock, metal or pop.
Guitar 
 A capo is a device which can be placed on any of the guitar's frets which don't lie on the body itself.
Guitar 
 There are multiple types of capos, some latch around the whole guitar neck and some just clamp onto the back and fret board.
Jimmy Eat World 
 They may record one more album on their label for a 2009 release, but after that will consider self-releasing.
Jimmy Eat World 
 They have released many singles, including Sweetness, The Middle, Bleed American, Rockstar, and Let It Happen.
Jimmy Eat World 
 While their albums do have considerable emo influences, the album Future brought on a change of sound and a different fanbase.
Phish 
 Phish was often compared to the Grateful Dead, and had a similar following of "Phish Heads" following the band on tour.
Phish 
 Their hiatus ended when they played shows on March 6, 7 and 8 at the Hampton Coliseum in Hampton, VA.
Phish 
 Their music has a lot of improvisation, so when they play live, their songs are sometimes a lot longer.
Phish 
 They use elements from many genres, including rock, jazz, funk, progressive rock, bluegrass, country, reggae, blues, Latin, and psychedelic rock.
Green Day 
 The members of the band are Billie Joe Armstrong (vocals, guitar), Mike Dirnt (bass guitar, vocals), and Tré Cool (drums, percussion), Jason White (guitar/vocals) and Jason Freese (keyboard).
Green Day 
 Soon, it sold more than ten million copies in the United States alone, and 20 million copies worldwide.
Green Day 
 They were still successful albums, reaching double platinum, double platinum, and gold status respectively.
Green Day 
 Green Day has sold over 85 million records worldwide,  32 million  of them in the United States alone.
Green Day 
 They also have won four Grammy Awards, Best Alternative Album for Dookie, Best Rock Album for American Idiot, Record of the Year for the song "Boulevard of Broken Dreams, Best Rock Album for 21st Century Breakdown and have also been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame.
Green Day 
 Records released 1,039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours, an album that had the 39/Smooth, Slappy, and 1,000 Hours EPs in it.
Green Day 
 The Lookouts drummer Tré Cool became a replacement, and then became a permanent replacement because Sobrante did not want to come back.
Green Day 
 Its second album, Kerplunk, sold about 50,000 copies in the U.S., which was a lot for the punk band in 1992.
Green Day 
 Released in February of 1994, and recorded in 3 weeks, Dookie became a commercial success, making it to MTV for the videos of the songs "Longview", "Basket Case", and "When I Come Around", all of which made it to the number one position on the Modern Rock Tracks charts.
Green Day 
 Insomniac earned 4 out of 5 stars from Rolling Stone Magazine, which said "In punk, the good stuff actually unfolds and gains meaning as you listen without sacrificing any of its electric, haywire immediacy.
Green Day 
 Insomniac won the band award nominations for Favorite Artist, Favorite Hard Rock Artist, and Favorite Alternative Artist at the 1996 American Music Awards.
Green Day 
 The video for "Walking Contradiction" got the band a Grammy nomination for Best Video, Short Form, and a Best Special Effects nomination at the MTV Video Music Awards.
Green Day 
 The success of "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" won the band an MTV Video Award for Best Alternative Video.
Green Day 
 Though the Warning made the hit "Minority" and a smaller hit with "Warning", some observers thought that the band was losing popularity.
Green Day 
 In the summer of 2003, the band went into a studio to write and record new songs for a new album titled Cigarettes and Valentines.
Green Day 
 The band was upset and chose not to try to re-create the stolen album, but instead start over with a vow to be even better than before.
Green Day 
 They took "band therapy," talking for a long time to work out the members' differences after accusations from Dirnt and Cool that Armstrong was "the band's Nazi" and a show-off bent on taking the limelight from the other band members.
Green Day 
 The 2004 album, American Idiot, was number one on the Billboard charts, the band's first ever album to top the chart, even with success of the album's first single, "American Idiot.
Green Day 
 Through 2005, the band toured for about 150 days— visiting Japan, Australia, the United States and the UK, where they had a crowd of 130,000 people in only two days.
Green Day 
 While touring for American Idiot, they filmed and recorded the two concerts at the Milton Keynes National Bowl in England, which was voted 'The Best Show On Earth' in a Kerrang!
Green Day 
 The DVD had a behind-the-scenes footage of the band, and showed how the band prepared to put on the show.
Green Day 
 The final shows of its 2005 world tour were in Sydney, Australia, and Melbourne, Australia, on December 14 and 17.
Green Day 
 In 2006, Green Day won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year for "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" which spent 16 weeks at the number one position of Billboard's Modern Rock Tracks.
Green Day 
 Billie Joe said that 2008 would "be a fair estimate of the release date of their new Untitled Eighth Studio Album."
Green Day 
 In October 2007, Billie Joe said more on this new album, saying he had been writing new songs on the piano, and had around 45 of them.
Green Day 
 He said he wanted the new music to dig into what he's feeling during that time - which is middle-aged.
Green Day 
 named American Idiot the best album of the decade, NME ranked it #60 in a similar list, and Rolling Stone ranked it 22nd.
Green Day 
 Armstrong said that 2009 would "be a fair estimate of the release date of their new untitled eighth studio album for Green Day."
Green Day 
 It was revealed that Butch Vig would be producing the upcoming album in an interview with Carson Daly.
Green Day 
 The gap of nearly five years between their previous album, American Idiot, and their newest release was the longest gap in Green Day's career.
Green Day 
 While the band had been working on new music since January 2006, by October 2007 Armstrong had written 45 songs, the band showed no further signs of being close to releasing a new album until October 2008, when a video of the group recording with producer Butch Vig in the studio was posted on YouTube.
Green Day 
 Called "Green Day at their best" by Seattle Weekly's Krist Novoselic, the album has received mostly positive reviews.
Green Day 
 After it was released, 21st Century Breakdown reached #1 on the charts in fourteen different countries.
Green Day 
 Green Day's sound is often compared to first wave punk rock bands such as the Ramones, The Clash, Sex Pistols, The Jam, and the Buzzcocks.
Green Day 
 Most of their songs are fast and under the average song length of four minutes (4:00), though some of their songs run on longer such as "Jesus of Suburbia" which runs for nine minutes.
Green Day 
 Billie Joe Armstrong said that some of his biggest influences are alternative rock bands Husker Dü and The Replacements.
Green Day 
 Armstrong's lyrics mostly describe alienation, hysteria, girls, growing up, and what happens to someone if they take drugs.
Green Day 
 The Ramones had lyrical themes that were also close to Green Day's lyrics such as hysteria, alienation, girls, and drugs.
Green Day 
 Green Day has covered Ramones songs a few times, such as recording "Outsider" for the tribute album We're a Happy Family, and performing "Blitzkrieg Bop" and "Teenage Lobotomy" when the Ramones made it into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2002.
Green Day 
 Jason White - lead guitar, rhythm guitar, backing vocals (2012–present; touring member 1999–Present)
Green Day 
 Jason Freese – keyboards, piano, acoustic guitar, trombone, saxophone, accordion, backing vocals (2004–present)
Marvin Gaye 
 Marvin Gaye (born Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr.,  April 2, 1939 - April 1, 1984) was an American soul and R&B singer and songwriter.
Marvin Gaye 
 He died on April 1, 1984 when he was killed by his father, Marvin Gay, Sr.. After he died, he was inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Marvin Gaye 
 His family lived in a mostly African-American community in Washington, D.C. When he was a child, Gaye was abused by his father.
Marvin Gaye 
 He used music to help him cope with the abuse, playing instruments and singing gospel music in his father's church.
Marvin Gaye 
 When he was a teenager, Gaye became a fan of doo-wop and joined several groups before he left high school at the start of his senior year.
Marvin Gaye 
 In 1956, when he was seventeen years old, Gaye left home and enlisted in (joined) in the United States Air Force.
Marvin Gaye 
 The group was discovered by musician Bo Diddley and they recorded the songs "Good Morning Little Schoolgirl" and "Wyatt Earp".
Marvin Gaye 
 The following year, the new Moonglows split up and with Fuqua as his mentor, Gaye traveled to Detroit, Michigan where they met Berry Gordy, who had formed Motown Records.
Marvin Gaye 
 Gordy was impressed by Marvin's talent as a piano player and drummer and signed him as a session drummer for Motown.
Marvin Gaye 
 Gaye played drums on most of Motown's early hits for artists like The Marvelettes, Mary Wells, the Miracles and Stevie Wonder.
Marvin Gaye 
 Gaye's first became successful when he co-wrote the Marvelettes' top twenty hit, "Beechwood 4-5789".
Marvin Gaye 
 It was partly about his own life and got into the top fifty of the pop chart and number eight on the R&B side.
Marvin Gaye 
 His first top 40 single, "Hitch Hike", and his first top ten hit, "Pride & Joy", made him a teen idol.
Marvin Gaye 
 These early singles and those on his second release, That Stubborn Kind of Fellow, featured Martha and the Vandellas in the backGaye had more successful songs like early success continued with "Can I Get a Witness", "Baby Don't You Do It", "You Are a Wonderful One" and "Try It Baby".
Marvin Gaye 
 In late 1964, Gaye recorded "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)", which peaked at the top ten of the American pop charts and became one of his first hits abroad reaching the top fifty in the United Kingdom.
Marvin Gaye 
 Gaye also worked with his friend, singer Smokey Robinson to write number-one singles, "I'll Be Doggone" and "Ain't That Peculiar".
Marvin Gaye 
 After his early success, which Marvin had struggles with, Motown began to widen his role as a ladies man, having him record duet albums with Mary Wells, Kim Weston and Diana Ross.
Marvin Gaye 
 His first album with Wells, Together, became Marvin's first charted album, and yielded two popular hits, while his single with Weston, the Sylvia Moy-penned "It Takes Two", hit the top twenty on both sides of the Atlantic.
Marvin Gaye 
 But it would be his collaboration with Philadelphia R&B singer Tammi Terrell that landed him his biggest known success in his duet work.
Marvin Gaye 
 Building on songs written by Ashford & Simpson, the team of Marvin and Tammi scored a multitude of hits including their original version of "Ain't No Mountain High Enough", "Your Precious Love", "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing" and "You're All I Need to Get By".
Marvin Gaye 
 Their success would be short-lived following Tammi's collapse during a show at Virginia in October of 1967.
Marvin Gaye 
 Having complained of headaches, Tammi was rushed to the hospital that night and was diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Marvin Gaye 
 Terrell braved it out but by the release of their third and last album together, Easy, was losing her fight with the tumor.
Marvin Gaye 
 Marvin was said to be so devastated by Tammi's death that he said he felt a piece of him died with her, and reports state at her funeral, Marvin talked to her remains as if she was gonna respond.
Marvin Gaye 
 Promising not to tour again and not to record another duet album after that, Marvin went into a self-imposed seclusion that ended briefly.
Marvin Gaye 
 Their recording was hampered by arguments between them as Marvin refused to stop smoking marijuana in the studio as Diana was then pregnant.
Marvin Gaye 
 The resulting album, Diana and Marvin, became a top twenty U.S. success and reached the top ten in the U.K.
Marvin Gaye 
 In 1968, Marvin returned to the top of the charts as a solo act with the Norman Whitfield-penned "I Heard It Through the Grapevine".
Marvin Gaye 
 The song, originally recorded in 1967, was initially blocked from release since Berry Gordy disapproved of the song.
Marvin Gaye 
 Instead, one of its cover versions by Gladys Knight & the Pips was released, and it ended up reaching number-two.
Marvin Gaye 
 Whitfield was determined to get Gordy to release Marvin's, and in October 1968, Motown finally issued "Grapevine" as a single where it eventually reached number-one in December of that year, it also reached number one in the U.K. and became the biggest-selling single in Motown history during the sixties.
Marvin Gaye 
 During this period, Marvin used his "Grapevine" success to produce a collection of singles for his background group the Originals.
Marvin Gaye 
 Inspired by Tammi Terrell's death, his brother Frankie's Vietnam stories, footage of the Vietnam War and race riots in the U.S., Marvin's success with his first productions and a rough draft of a song composed by Four Tops member Obie Benson, Marvin recorded an introspective single titled "What's Going On".
Marvin Gaye 
 Like "Grapevine", Motown refused to release it due to it being "uncommercial" and "risky" since Gordy could not find a song to match anything with and also because Gordy was against anyone in his company to talk openly about serious issues.
Marvin Gaye 
 In spite of releases by the Temptations, the Supremes and Edwin Starr, which opened about inner city struggle, illegitimate pregnancy and wars respectively, Motown was afraid the song would ruin Marvin's squeaky-clean teen pop image.
Marvin Gaye 
 Marvin, confident in his own abilities, stood his ground, and in January of 1971, the song was released quickly becoming a hit single reaching number two on the Billboard pop chart and number one on the Cashbox pop chart, also hitting number-one on the Billboard R&B chart.
Marvin Gaye 
 A follow-up album of the same name was quickly released that May and with accompanying top ten singles "Mercy Mercy Me" and "Inner City Blues", songs that also talked about social issues including environmentalism, the album sold over a million copies and permanently made Marvin one of the first independent artists on the label.
Marvin Gaye 
 Inspired by Marvin's success, Stevie Wonder refused to renew his contract with Motown in May of 1971 after releasing the non-Motown approved Where I'm Coming From, an album that also dealt with social issues.
Marvin Gaye 
 In 1972, Motown signed Marvin to a $1 million contract, making him at the time the highest-paid black recording artist in music history.
Marvin Gaye 
 Marvin celebrated the contract by releasing the pro-political single "You're the Man", which attacked the Nixon administration.
Marvin Gaye 
 Moving from Detroit to Los Angeles that year, he recorded the soundtrack to the movie, "Trouble Man".
Marvin Gaye 
 In 1973, Marvin dramatically changed direction from social topics to sexual politics with the release of "Let's Get It On".
Marvin Gaye 
 The song became Marvin's second number-one Billboard hit and was the biggest-selling R&B single of that year.
Marvin Gaye 
 Its subsequent album became another critical milestone as What's Going On had been and with his new look as a wool hat-wearing, studded jean outfit, bearded "messiah", Marvin had become an icon of early seventies soul music.
Marvin Gaye 
 In 1974, Marvin returned officially to touring after a four-year sabbatical following the death of Tammi Terrell and began to suffer from the effects of a long-developing cocaine addiction, which started in the late sixties.
Marvin Gaye 
 Marvin went a year without producing a record though through yet another new Motown contract, he built a recording studio in the middle of Sunset Boulevard.
Marvin Gaye 
 In 1976, Marvin released the erotic I Want You album, an album that had been delayed by his first wife, Anna Gordy's divorce case against him.
Marvin Gaye 
 The divorce was finalized after Marvin agreed to remit a portion of his royalties from his next album to Ms. Gordy.
Marvin Gaye 
 The result was the controversial Here, My Dear project, which came out in early 1979 after two years of holding the project from release.
Marvin Gaye 
 The song hit number-one marking his third pop hit to reach the spot and his twelfth on the R&B side.
Marvin Gaye 
 Following the release of Here, My Dear, the album tanked and Marvin, already run dry by dwindling finances, numerous lawsuits, a troubling marriage to a second wife and an even more troubling cocaine addiction, eventually left his wife, three children, and the U.S. settling first in Hawaii and then settling in London in 1980 after a European promoter advised him to tour Europe.
Marvin Gaye 
 Recording most of his final Motown release, In Our Lifetime, in London, the album was rush-released by Motown in early 1981 much to Marvin's chagrin: he complained that the label had edited certain songs, including one that seemed unfinished, and had taken off a question mark that he put at the end of the title to ask a question about life.
Marvin Gaye 
 Marvin stated he would no longer record for Motown and was granted his wish when CBS Records brought him out of his contract in April of 1982.
Marvin Gaye 
 In 1981, Marvin settled in Ostend, Belgium thanks to a former Belgian sports promoter and with his encouragement began rebuilding his life cutting away from drugs and also rebuilding his music career.
Marvin Gaye 
 After a successful European tour, Marvin signed with CBS Records and began work on a new album in his adopted home.
Marvin Gaye 
 After his friend and biographer David Ritz arrived to interview him, Marvin and David collaborated on a reggae-styled track in which Ritz titled "Sexual Healing" after a conversation between the two evolved into pornography.
Marvin Gaye 
 Boosted by its Caribbean flavor, the song returned Marvin to the top of the charts, hitting number-one on the R&B chart for a period of ten weeks and also becoming a top ten hit in several countries including number-three in the U.S. pop chart and number-four in England.
Marvin Gaye 
 Selling over two million copies, it became Marvin's biggest-selling single to date and won him his first couple of Grammys in 1983.
Marvin Gaye 
 Marvin's comeback was cemented with his emotional performance of the national anthem at the NBA All Star Game and a reunited showcase at Motown 25, where Marvin was reunited with his old Motown buddies.
Marvin Gaye 
 Marvin's performance consisted of him playing piano while speaking on the illustrious history of black music before singing "What's Going On" to a receptive audience.
Marvin Gaye 
 Settling in his parents' Los Angeles home after the tour, Marvin reportedly struggled with drug abuse and his troubling relationship with his father continued spiraling downwards.
Marvin Gaye 
 On the morning of April 1, 1984, Marvin and his father got into an argument after his father verbally assaulted Marvin's mother while they were arguing over misplaced business documents.
Marvin Gaye 
 After returning to his room, Marvin's father reentered Marvin's room with a loaded shotgun Marvin had bought for him for Christmas and shot him twice with one fatal shot to his chest.
Marvin Gaye 
 At approximately 1:10 pm, Marvin Gaye was pronounced dead on the scene at Cedars Sinai Medical Center.
Marvin Gaye 
 In 1985, Motown and CBS collaborated on two posthumous records while Motown re-released Marvin's famed material.