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Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress Guitar Lesson (The Hollies)

rock Apr 02, 2022


In this post, you’ll learn how to play in the style of “Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress” by the Hollies. It has an awesome riff and is very much based on blues guitar patterns, so tune-up and let’s get started!

Who wrote Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress?

"Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" was written by Allan Clarke, Roger Cook, and Roger Greenaway. Allan Clarke, the lead singer of The Hollies, claimed in a 2023 interview that he and Cook wrote the song, with Greenaway receiving writing credit due to a long-standing agreement between Cook and Greenaway.

The song was recorded in London in 1972 at Trident Studios. It was produced by Mike Leander, who was known for his work with artists like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, and The Who. "Long Cool Woman in a Black Dress" reached number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States and number 3 in the UK Singles Chart.

It was the band's most successful single in the United States, spending seven weeks in the top...

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Jimi Hendrix Foxey Lady Guitar Lesson + Tutorial

foxey lady jimi hendrix Mar 29, 2022

Level: Advanced

Jimi Hendrix Foxey Lady Guitar Lesson + Tutorial

Discover some incredible Hendrix guitar techniques and tricks in today's video on how to play "Foxey Lady" as recorded by Jimi Hendrix on guitar.

Now Hendrix used A LOT of unconventional guitar techniques in his playing style. So many of which are right at home on a Fender Stratocaster guitar, the make and model he was most known for playing.

I'm going to explain a number of them in this video, a lot of them are rooted in blues guitar, and also using the thumb of the fretting hand to play notes, something he was well known for doing.

I don't typically use pedals much on the channel unless there is a specific sound I am going for that I can't get from an amp/guitar, but today is one of those songs.

In this video I plugged in a fuzz pedal, which is a pedal that Hendrix used on a lot of his recordings.

The pedal creates a tone that is a heavily saturated guitar signal, altering the sound to a plain square wave with...

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