It has changed hands several times in recent decades and is now owned by investment firm TPG Growth.īono and the Edge joined its board of directors last year. Its most popular guitars include the Stratocaster and Telecaster. While not the first company to manufacture electric guitars, it was the first to bring the instrument to the masses. Both have lectured at Dublin Institute of Technology.īy selling to Fender, Riffstation joins one of the world's most iconic guitar companies.įormed in 1946, it is headquartered in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Riffstation was set up in 2010 by Dan Barry and Mikel Gainza, who were unavailable for comment. It can extract chords even from brand new songs that have not been heard before. Riffstation's software helps guitarists to learn new music by allowing them to isolate the chords in any song and slow them down. It represents another move into the digital arena for the Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, which already counts U2's Bono and The Edge on its board of directors. The iconic US business, whose guitars were played by rock legends Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen and Keith Richards, is thought to be paying around €5m for the Irish start-up. Įlectric guitar manufacturer Fender is buying Irish music software company Riffstation. Fender could go to a PPV model at some point with micro payments, but ad support looks like it's in place now. It's one of those goofy rockstar showing off things that caused a lot of people to learn the song wrong.If they can introduce new players to learn and play (an actual instrument, vs Guitar hero) it might be a simple, and good move for Fender provided Youtube allows feeds in their TOS. It is definitely not played legato on the album and every note is picked.

In the video Angus is playing the repeating B string lick one handed legato. I agree with the sliding down sound from the high position on the album.Īnother one that always bugged me was Thunderstruck by AC/DC. None of them are ever perfect.įor Message in a Bottle, Andy I noticed plays it higher on the neck 4th, 5th, 7th, 2nd positions in the actual video for the song, but live he seems to use the lower positions more. Shows 84, but the album version is about 94 bpm. And Justice For All book from Cherry Lane has the wrong tempo for Harvester of Sorrow. My music reading abilities are not what they used to be. I do tend to learn more by ear and just use the tabs as a guide though. Everything I've been able to learn so far (not as much as I'd like, JP is a beast) seems spot on with the album. Both are from Warner Bros Publications, Authentic Guitar-Tab Editions. The two DT books I have are Awake and Metropolis Pt2: Scenes from a Memory.

Riffstation for bass