Baja - surf guitar lesson

This guitar tutorial covers the song Baja as played by the 60's surf rock group The Chantays. This song was composed by Lee Hazlewood for another 60's surf rock group The Astronauts.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• chantays
• astronauts
• guitar
• lesson
• electric
• picking
• surf
• rock
• tutorial

[MrDustyRoad]

Man of all the vids on you tube I find yours to be the most educational .Thanks for taking the time to record all of the lessons you have given to us.

I do have a question though. What type and guage of strings do you use on your guitars? Mainly the one set up for " surf style ", the Fender Jaguar .

[jbruceguitar]

@MrDustyRoad 11 - 49 round wound.

[sdcb27]

Another great lesson! Whats the amp and pedals yours using to get that great tone?

[jbruceguitar]

@sdcb27 Guitar --> duet APOGEE --> iMac --> Garageband. All amp settings are in Garageband.

Thank you!

[xtremerockninja7]

@sdcb27 Here's a few things that help me to get a pretty cool sounding tone for surf rock. get a nice clean sound and then add a ton of reverb, set the guitar to the neck pickup, pick the strings close to the bridge. any amp with a clean channel and reverb will work great. if you don't have reverb on your amp, you could buy a reverb pedal.

[Floods90319]

awesome love ur stuff...i like the old vintage surf stuff man....can i make a request plz....it wud be awesome if u taught dawn patrol by the eliminators

[heatmanable]

Darn good work

[conagher29]

Hello!Enjoy your Videos!Any chance you could cover the Los Straitjackets or anyones version of the theme from the "Magnificent Seven" Can't hurt to ask!!Thanks!