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Beeblebrox V2.1
The Summer of 1990 was epic for BeebleBrox. Not only was there a stable lineup for the first time in years, a repertoire that was rehearsed and everybody was enthusiastic about, but they also managed to land a few shows around their (then) home turf of Central Alabama – especially Birmingham’s famous Grundy’s Music Room. While…
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Stick Stuff 2 – Basic Funk Grooves
Basic Funk Groove 1 Try to tap this drum pattern as a preparation. Stems pointing up are snare drum – tap with the treble hand; stems pointing down are bass drum – tap with the bass hand. This is a basic Funk groove in 4/4 based on a simple I-V cycle and the above rhythmic…
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Stick Lesson 8
I like this tribal bass line. If you can manage the fifths in the bass on the last four beats of each measure sound great if you slide them.
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Stick Lesson 7
This groove is sorta latin in 7/4. You can try the bass part by itself first. For me it only grooves if I hit the off beats with my treble hand – of course you can only hit the strings without sounding the pitches.
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Stick Lesson 6
A little melodic etude, based on Stick Lesson 5. Note that the chord symbols are for the basic harmony and don’t reflect the voicings which contain quite a few 9ths, 11ths ! 13ths.
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Stick Lesson 5
I came up with this while fooling around with effects. The bass line almost sounds like quarter note triplets.
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Stick Lesson 4
John McLaughlin has always been one of my favourite musicians. Some of his cross picking vamps are excellent to challenge your left hand/right hand coordination. This example is from his tune “Birds Of Fire”, from the album “Birds Of Fire”. He uses plenty of open strings. On top you see the original guitar line. The Chapman…
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Stick Lesson 3
This two measure pattern comes from an original tune called Anti-Matter Phase 1, recorded on BeebleBrox’s Entropy.
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Stick Lesson 2
This is exactly the same pattern as Stick Lesson 1 except that the bass notes are played on the off-beats while the treble notes sound on the beat.
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Stick Lesson 1
To me the hardest thing seems to be to get my two hands working independently yet together. Most patterns I come up with fall into the modal-stay-the-same category. Meaning you put the fingers on the right notes and nothing really changes. This example switches between two tonalities and on top of it runs a four-note…
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The Real Guitarists
Together with his old friend Manfred Brietzke Peter had a guitar duo, started in 1982, doing concerts. The duo was later expanded to a trio via inclusion of Peter’s ex-student Ulli Fischer and renamed The Real Guitarists. This trio had many successful gigs and kept Peter’s musical goals in perspective as they were making no compromise…
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Super Susy
That’s probably the earliest…
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Bubble Gun
Bubble Gun Around 1986 a somewhat stable configuration of BeebleBrox emerged after Monika Herzig had joined the existing band. The core of the group now consisted of Manfred Brietzke (guitar), Monika Herzig (keyboards), Peter Kienle (bass), and Jörg Bach (drums). Depending on availability Ekkehard Rössle or Uli Siebert on saxophones. Peter’s switch to bass was…
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Splinter Group
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Earplane
Earplane This group’s first performance was at Wabash College in Crawfordsville, IN, in April 2007. It started out as a trio with Peter on guitar, Frank Smith on acoustic bass, and Lawrence Clark on drums. The repertoire consisted mostly of Brazilian influenced originals and cover tunes. For many shows the highly flexible Tom Clark was…
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Freesome
Freesome The earliest traces of Freesome can be found in a 1995 recording by guitarist Peter Kienle, bassist Dave Bruker and drummer Pete McKahnn. Bruker and McKahnn were the rhythm section of a well-known local group called the Jazz Dads. Both, a subset of BeebleBrox and the Jazz Dads were rotating through a weekly gig…
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BeebleBrox
BeebleBrox In 1983 we started playing our own tunes in a thrown together band in Albstadt, Germany. We needed a band name for our first gig – everybody in the band had just read Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. We agreed that we wanted our name related with that book: ‘BeebleBrox Spectacular’…
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3rd Man
3rd Man In 1997 Jack Helsley initiated the recording of the first 3rd Man CD. Together with Pete Wilhoit on drums and Jack on bass, Peter recorded the project on two afternoons. It features originals by Peter as well as ex-Freesome bassist Dave Bruker. The CD was released in 1997 and received very positive reviews. The band 3rd…
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Kwyjibo
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Peter Kienle
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