Free Bird (Lynyrd Skynrd): Electric violin experimenting

Rock Ballad on Electric Violin: Free Bird (Lynyrd Skynrd cover)

Having fun with electric violin. I'm playing this using just a small practice amp (Fender Frontman 15G) with a N/S electric violin. Sorry about the distorted and unclean sound. I didn't have a guitar effect/reverb pedal so I turned on the overdrive setting on the Fender Amp but didn't end up with the right sound. Anyway, this amp is very convenient for practicing and just having fun!

About the music:
"Free Bird" (also spelled "Freebird") is a song by the American southern rock band Lynyrd Skynyrd. It was first featured on the band's debut album (Pronounced 'Lĕh-'nérd 'Skin-'nérd) in 1973. Released as a single in November 1974, "Free Bird" became the band's second Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in early 1975, where it peaked at No. 19.[2] A live version of the song also reached the Billboard Hot 100 chart in 1977, peaking at No. 38.[2] Free Bird also achieved the No. 3 spot on Guitar World's 100 Greatest Guitar Solos.[3]

"Free Bird" is included in such lists as The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll, and Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time (holding spot No. 191). In 2009 it was named the 26th best hard rock song of all time by VH1.[6] A cover version of the song is featured in the popular video game Guitar Hero II as the final encore in the game. It reappears in the series in the 2009 game, Guitar Hero: Smash Hits, however as a master track. It was also released as downloadable content for Guitar Hero 5 and appears in the music video game Rock Band 3. Most recently, a cover features in StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty as a track in the campaign's juke box. Overall the song proved to be a huge hit for Lynyrd Skynyrd and it remains a fan favorite to this day.

Following the plane crash in 1977 in which several band members were killed, all of the songs played by surviving members were performed as instrumentals beginning with the Charlie Daniels Volunteer Jam V in 1979. When "Free Bird" came up, a solitary microphone with a single spotlight would be at center stage while the band played the instrumental version. This tradition lasted until 1989.

It has become a tradition of humor for the audience in many concerts to shout "Free Bird" as a request to hear the song, regardless of the performer or style of music.[7] This can be traced back to Skynyrd's first live album, 1976's One More from the Road. For their second encore, Van Zant asked the crowd, "What song is it you wanna hear?" which was immediately followed by several more shouts of "Free Bird". This interaction is recorded as an intro to the song on the album, and the band responded with a 14-minute version of the song.

Source: Wikipedia

Category:

Music

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• Hard Rock
• Free
• Bird
• Electric
• Fiddle
• Violin
• Classic
• Standard
• Rock
• Heavy
• Metal
• Guitar
• Amp
• Fender
• N/S
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• Lynyrd
• Skynyrd
• Tribute
• Improv
• Solo
• Rock Band
• Guitar Hero
• Transiberian
• Orchestra
• Rock Ballad

[minetwashere]

Do you have the sheet music for this????? My son would love to play it. And my husband would love to play along on guitar.

(ladmiller@citcom.net)

[ShinePink16]

AWESOME!!!

[Sunfish737]

You play the instrument magnificent. Keep playing, non stop! Go on amazing me! I love your music.

[geetarxist]

excellent