Billy Bragg - Greetings To The New Brunette (instrumental)

[jpcorcoran1980]

Amazing version - thought it was johnny marr until it said at the end!

[samredfern]

sweeeet

[braddersthemod]

any chance of a tab for this please?

please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please please??????? Iv been trying ( and failing ) to learn the lead parts for ages!

[cralovan]

Great cover to a great song. It's a melancholic journey back to my early teens...was it around 1987 Billy Bragg released this???

[exposurejd]

I just heard this tune for the first time last week and I fell in love with it! Well done, dude! I hope I can play it as well as you did!...

Respect & Peace To All...

[braddersthemod]

superb stuff my freind!!! you would'nt happen to have to have a tab for this would you? if you do could you please send it me? thanks

[mukkaspec]

Top Notch !!

[megaman8484]

whats the sound that kicks in at 2.33?? what is used to achieve that sound?? sorry for noob question but great vid and great music ;)

[joshuacrime]

That's my Line6 Variax 700 guitar on the Gibson Les Paul Custom model, bridge pickup. The original is some kind of Fender guitar with loads of reverb and played with a slide.

I can't play slide to save my arse, so I reverbed it up, put on a Tube Screamer and played the notes as played by Marr, just with more of a traditional "guitar solo" feel.

I was in love with this tone for a week. It's so boomy and rubbery sounding. I really overdid the hand vibrato and you can't tell. It just shimmers.

[megaman8484]

its a beautiful sound!! do you have more of it somewhere!!?? its so short :(

[joshuacrime]

I'm afraid not. As a former neo-classical shredder wannabe type of player, my goal nowadays is to distance myself from this kind of thing completely. I try to keep the distortion and gain to a minimum.

In this particular case, however, I lacked the skills to reproduce the original solo, so I have to make do with one of my skills. Consider it a minor backsliding episode. :)

[joshuacrime]

Thanks!

[sparkys]

Your Ricky sounds awesome on this track. What model is it ?

[joshuacrime]

It's a 2007 Jetglo 360-12. It has the hi-gain pickups (I don't like the toaster midrange). I use rounds instead of flats like most janglers do, and it really helps the treble and mid response a lot more, at least in my opinion, for whatever that's worth.

I really heavily EQ it, too. Almost the entire treble and mid bands are almost maxed out, as is presence and treble and mid on the amp (it's a Roland JC model from the PodXT Live). A bit of reverb and delay and there you are.

[nooogan]

Wonderfully done! Any tips on how to play this? I've tried transcribing it myself but my ear keeps getting lost in the mix.

[joshuacrime]

Marr is notorious for the "wall of sound". I had some difficulty as well. I used danielearwicker's video as a primer, but I figured the rest out (his sounds incredible but I do a few parts differently than he does).

Capo the first fret. As for learning the parts, at least for me, it helps to literally do it one note at a time. It requires a bit of time, but I'm sure you can do it.

I'm planning to eventually do these with some webcam shots, but I'm always busy at work (even on vacation).

[joshuacrime]

Please append &fmt=18 to the end of the URL for high quality. YT really put the kibosh on the bandwidth with this one.