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Cliffs of Dover is a song by Eric Johnson. It was released on the Ah Via Musicom album in 1990. It is credited as a major step up in his successful career. Cliffs Of Dover won a 1991 Grammy award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance, beating out the Allman Brothers Band (for "Kind Of Bird"), Danny Gatton (for "88 Elmira Street"), Rush (for "Where's My Thing?"), and Yes (for "Masquerade"). A song is a relatively short musical composition for the human voice (commonly accompanied by other musical instruments), which features words (lyrics). ...
Eric Johnson (born August 17, 1954) is a Grammy Award winning guitarist and recording artist from Austin, Texas. ...
Ah! Via Musicom is Eric Johnsons 1990 album. ...
February is the second month of the calendar year in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ...
1990 (MCMXC) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
A music genre is a category (or genre) of pieces of music that share a certain style or basic musical language (van der Merwe 1989, p. ...
Instrumental rock & roll is a type of rock and roll music which emphasises musical instruments, and which features no singing. ...
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Capitol Records is a major United States-based record label, owned by EMI. // The Capitol Records company was founded by the songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942, with the financial help of movie producer Buddy DeSylva and the business acumen of Glenn Wallichs, (1910-1971) (owner of Music City, at the...
A songwriter is someone who writes the lyrics to songs, the musical composition or melody to songs, or both. ...
Eric Johnson (born August 17, 1954) is a Grammy Award winning guitarist and recording artist from Austin, Texas. ...
In the music industry, a record producer (or music producer) has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, and supervising the recording, mixing and mastering processes. ...
Eric Johnson (born August 17, 1954) is a Grammy Award winning guitarist and recording artist from Austin, Texas. ...
Eric Johnson (born August 17, 1954) is a Grammy Award winning guitarist and recording artist from Austin, Texas. ...
Ah! Via Musicom is Eric Johnsons 1990 album. ...
See also: 1978 in music, other events of 1979, 1980 in music, 1970s in music and the list of years in music // Stevie Wonder uses Compact Disc technology in recording his album Journey through the Secret Life of Plants. ...
Grammy Award The Grammy Awards (originally called the Gramophone Awards, commonly referred to as the Grammys) are presented annually by the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences for outstanding achievements in the record industry. ...
The original Allman Brothers Band The Allman Brothers Band is a pioneering and innovative Southern rock group from Macon, Georgia originally popular in the 1970s, described by Rolling Stones George Kimball in 1971 as the best . ...
Danny Gatton was an enigmatic and brilliant American guitarist who committed suicide at his Maryland home in October of 1994 while still relatively unknown to the public. ...
Rush is a Canadian rock band comprising bassist, keyboardist, and vocalist Geddy Lee, guitarist Alex Lifeson, and drummer and lyricist Neil Peart. ...
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The song Cliffs Of Dover is a virtuoso instrumental in G major, featuring electric guitar. Structurally, it begins with an ad lib electric guitar solo in varying time signatures (6/4, 5/4, 6/4, 7/4, 3/4), then settles into a 4/4 rhythmic shuffle verse (as drums are added) consisting of both staccatto and legato ringing string play, as an arpeggio progression of G-G6-Gmaj7 that is repeated several times later in the song with variations. Next it launches into a very accessible set of melodies in G, mostly played as single guitar-solo style notes (as opposed to chords) with variations on the prime melodies including octavations. The outro or coda recalls the mood and style of the ad lib intro. A virtuoso (from Italian virtuoso, late Latin virtuosus, Latin virtus meaning: skill, manliness, excellence) is an individual who possesses outstanding technical ability at singing or playing a musical instrument. ...
An instrumental is, in contrast to a song, a musical composition or piece without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments. ...
G major is a major scale based on G, consisting of the pitches G, A, B, C, D, E, F# and G. Its key signature consists of one sharp. ...
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The time signature (also known as meter signature) is a notational device used in Western musical notation to specify how many beats are in each bar and which note value (minim, crotchet, eighth note and so on) constitutes one beat. ...
See also the musical articulation Staccato. ...
In musical notation legato indicates that musical notes are played smoothly. ...
Various arpeggi as seen on a staff In music, an arpeggio (plural, arpeggi) is a spread chord played top-to-bottom or vice versa in sheet music, or rather the sounding of the tones of a chord in rapid succession rather than simultaneously. ...
Look up Melody in Wiktionary, the free dictionary In music, a melody is a series of linear events or a succession, not a simultaneity as in a chord. ...
A chord is a geometric figure. ...
An outro (sometimes outtro) or extro is a literary term used to indicate the conclusion to a piece. ...
Look up coda in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ...
Intro can mean the following things: A musical introduction A computer intro, a short or small version of the computer demo An R&B group This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. ...
Eric Johnson plays the song on a Fender Stratocaster. The Fender Stratocaster, often referred to as Strat, is a model of electric guitar designed by Leo Fender in the early 1950s, and manufactured continuously to the present. ...
The song contains elements of rock music, prog rock, and jazz. Rock is a form of popular music, usually featuring vocals (often with vocal harmony), electric guitars, and a strong back beat; other instruments, such as the saxophone, are common in some styles, however saxophones have been omitted from newer subgenres of rock music since the 90s. ...
The progressive rock band Yes performing in 1977. ...
Jazz is a musical art form that originated in New Orleans at around the start of the 20th century. ...
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