The Story of the Electric Guitar - Part 2
b'For centuries, music was nice and clean\\u2026while different instruments gave notes different timbres, the frequencies of those notes was expected to be clear and pure\\u2026yes, you could add a little umph by playing fortissimo, but the dogma was \\u201clet\\u2019s not overdo it\\u201d\\u2026\\n\\nBut sometimes the situation called for overdoing things\\u2026banging a piano turns a melody and a beat into some stompin\\u2019 boogie-woogie\\u2026a raspy, hard-blown saxophone brings energy to a performance\\u2026\\n\\nBut creating pleasant distortion with either of these\\xa0 instruments\\u2014and we can name a few others\\u2014is limited to the abilities of the human body\\u2026volume and distortion and all the energy that comes with playing this way is restricted by how hard you can hit or blow into something\\u2026\\n\\nThe electric guitar has no such limitations\\u2026it can be played so that the notes are pristine\\u2026or you can summon all demons of hell with volume, distortion, power, and glory and that is cool\\u2026\\n\\nThe electric guitar is one of humankind\\u2019s greatest musical inventions\\u2026starting in the 1950s, it revolutionized many types of popular music: country, the blues, jazz, and most of all, rock\\u2026after it appeared, nothing was ever the same\\u2014and the sound of music changed forever\\u2026it\\u2019s impossible to imagine what today\\u2019s music would sound like had the electric guitar not been invented\\u2026\\n\\nBut how did we get here?...let\\u2019s pick up the story\\u2026.this is the story of electric guitar, part 2\\u2026\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices'