Acoustic rock torrent

Twist in My Sobriety. Tanita Tikaram. Constant Craving. World Looking In. Big Yellow Taxi Joni Mitchell. Jess Glynne. Dua Lipa. Songbird Christine McVie. Fleetwood Mac. Crazy Love Van Morrison. Clean Bandit. Gabrielle Aplin. Heart of Gold Neil Young. Christina Perri. Don't Go Rae Morris. You've Got a Friend Carole King.

James Blunt. Eric Clapton. Jasmine Thompson. Lily Allen. Bruno Mars. The Corrs. Alanis Morissette. Biffy Clyro. Move On Now Richard Archer. Francesco Yates. Duran Duran. Tasmin Archer. Lewis Watson. New Slang James Mercer. Luke Sital-Singh. Someone Like You Paolo Nutini. Eliza Doolittle. Bat for Lashes. Army Dreamers Kate Bush. Skinny Love Justin Vernon. The Staves.

Catherine McGrath. Rod Stewart. Dionne Warwick. Buffalo Springfield. The Pogues. Tim Buckley. Walkin Man Steve Wold. Seasick Steve. Three Roses Dewey Bunnell. Willin' Lowell George. Little Feat. Guitar Man David Gates. Wildflowers Tom Petty. Listen to the Music Tom Johnston.

The Doobie Brothers. Roberta Flack. The Watchman's Gone Gordon Lightfoot. Helplessly Hoping Stephen Stills. Peter, Paul and Mary.

Bad Company. Joe Cocker. Fast Car Tracy Chapman. Sophia [Unplugged] Nerina Pallot. She Burns Foy Vance. Matt Corby. Wasn't Expecting That Jamie Lawson. Follow You Anywhere Monica Heldal. Rita Ora. Shola Ama. Lianne La Havas. Hearse Will Joseph Cook. If I Knew Natasha Khan. Madeleine Peyroux. Magnetized Laura Veirs. A Case of You Joni Mitchell. The sound is crisp yet thunderous when combined with the built-in amp.

Similarly, when performed right, the bass is compelling and sounds fabulous. This is a dirt-cheap bass guitar library with an expensive sound.

It features five dynamic layers, with slap sounds at the highest velocity and ghost pickings soft muted at lower velocity. The latter helps make the instrument highly natural. Furthermore, it uses key switches to trigger articulations. Other than the bass guitar, the library also features some built-in effect processors. Overall, the library is very flexible and delivers a wide variety of bass attitudes.

The library requires Kontakt 5. XBass is a light and effective bass guitar library at an unbelievably low price. It sounds excellent for just about any genre , and the recordings are crisp and expressive. As the name suggests, this library delivers the sound of the Feder Stratocaster.

Shreddage 3 Stratus Free is a free version of the paid Stratus instrument. It includes most of the features in the paid library. The difference is that the free version only has the neck pickup and almost no articulations. Even so, the library has 3 dynamic layers per note with 4 round robins and a separate upstroke and downstroke layer. So, it has up to 24 samples per note , which makes it sound very natural. The library has a clean guitar sound.

So, despite the name catering to rock and metal, you can use this library for softer music like jazz and pop. However, I must say that the lack of articulations is debilitating when it comes to performing melodies. Overall, if you own Kontakt, this library is an excellent instrument to add rhythm guitars to your track. It may not be as well-equipped for playing melodies, but what it does do, it does well. I like the strumming feature and the precise controls over the articulations.

If you make rock or metal music, you might find this guitar library useful for playing fast runs and solo parts as well. Cybernezz RG is a heavy-hitting overdriven guitar library with deep sound sampling. As far as guitar libraries go, Cybernezz is pretty simplistic. You can get decent-sounding power chord strikes and lead parts. However, the file size is 12 GB! I suggest checking out the demo video before you download it. Bring in psychedelic and ambient vibes with this guitar library.

As the name suggests, Modest Guitar is relatively straightforward. It features three kinds of guitars with multiple samples and four round-robins.

You can switch between each type of guitar using three dedicated key switches. Some of the samples have performance noises, which can add to the psychedelic vibe of this library.

If you like experimenting with guitar sounds , then I think you would love this library. Mood Guitars is a guitar library featuring five guitars with multiple articulations. The sounds are more keyboard or synth-like rather than standard guitars. The library shines particularly with jazzy or bluesy chords with many effects to bring up the Lo-Fi vibes. The sounds are delicate and beautiful , and with effects, they start sounding otherworldly. And there you have our pick of some of the best guitar libraries for Kontakt.

Note that some of them require the full version of Kontakt , and those will only work for 15 minutes demo mode in the free Kontakt Player. Working as something of a one-man band in his basement, Scholz, one of music's first DIY dudes, played all the guitar parts on Feeling. For the arpeggiated intro and verses, he used a Yamaha string; the more fully strummed choruses called for a Guild D When Vicci Livgren overheard her husband, Kansas guitarist Kerry, practicing finger exercises on his acoustic one day, she told him she heard a song there and suggested he add some lyrics.

He listened, and the result was Dust in the Wind. A departure from Kansas' characteristic prog-rock bombast, "Dust in the Wind" was a stark, plaintive meditation on the meaning of life. While many assume that the track features a string acoustic, the rich unplugged sound is actually the result of multiple six-strings a few in Nashville tuning , played by Livgren and co-guitarist Rich Williams.

The song became Kansas' only Top single, charting at Number Six in One might assume this rebel yell, released during the tumultuous summer of , would rage with the sound of electric guitars. Not so: with the exception of an electric bass, played by Keith Richards, the track is percent acoustic. Preparing a demo for the song, Richards mic'd two acoustics and recorded them into a cheap Phillips mono cassette recorder. The guitarist was so enamored of the resulting distortion the machine had no limiters, causing the signal to overload he decided to go au naturale and ditch the electrics.

By , Pete Townshend was known as much for smashing guitars as for playing them. But on the Who's ground breaking Tommy, he demonstrated some astonishing six-string skills. And with an acoustic in his hands check out It's a Boy for some deft blues-meets-flamenco work , he was unstoppable. Although electrics bolster the verses and choruses of the album's centerpiece, Pinball Wizard, a Gibson J acoustic is the dominant instrument throughout. Townshend's furiously strummed barre chords which he deemed 'mock baroque' , heard in the intro and breakdown section, provide the kind of power and majesty befitting a genuine rock opera.

As the first band signed to Led Zeppelin's Swan Song label, Bad Company, led by former Free singer Paul Rodgers and former Mott the Hoople guitarist Mick Ralphs, followed their bosses' lead and specialized in sweaty, swaggering blues rock. Taking another lesson from the Zepmen, Ralphs juxtaposed chiming acoustics with explosive power chords on this Top 10 smash, to wondrous effect. The bright, jangly acoustics lend a relaxed, down-home country vibe to the verses, while the electric guitars in the chorus scream with big, brash British rock.

Presumably, quite a few people felt like doing the nasty after hearing this cut. As a member of the proto-punk glam-rockers the New York Dolls, and later with his own band, the Heartbreakers, Johnny Thunders knew how to dish out rough-and ragged three-chord rock. And with a Les Paul Junior slung well below his waist, he had 'cool' written all over him.

So it came as a surprise when Thunders, on his debut solo album, issued this poetic acoustic ballad. Tempering his patented pounding style, the singer-songwriter lays out his junkie lifestyle with unflinching candor, practically caressing his guitar strings in the process. Melancholic and remorseful, the song has come to serve as an elegy of sorts for the troubled Thunders, who died of an apparent drug overdose in The song's title, it should be noted, was lifted from a line spoken in an episode of the '50s TV sitcom The Honeymooners.

Punk rock, indeed. By , Rush had firmly established themselves as fine purveyors of glorious minute sci-fi opuses that could fill entire album sides. But on this, their fifth studio release, the Canadian prog trio demonstrated their ability to be hooky, concise and, with Closer to the Heart, radio-friendly.

Perhaps the most surprising aspect of the song's gentle, ringing string acoustic guitar intro is that it was written by bassist Geddy Lee, rather than guitarist Alex Lifeson. The same figure is later repeated after a particularly ripping electric guitar solo-only this time the string acoustic is smartly doubled by a six-string electric.

When it comes to Rush, of course, the contributions of drummer extraordinaire Neil Peart can never be overlooked. Here, he adds plenty of bells and whistles throughout. Pick up a Martin acoustic, pluck octave harmonics at the 12th fret essentially comprising an Em chord and voila!

And with good reason-this simple move is Steve Howe's signature opening line to Roundabout, Yes's breakthrough hit. Make it past Howe's harmonic-heavy unaccompanied intro, and you just might have a chance at mastering this intricate prog-rock masterpiece, in which acoustics and electrics, played in classical, jazzy and rocking splendor, weave in, out and 'roundabout'.

As for the lyrics, this is prog - you're on your own there. With his inventive, neoclassical spin on Eddie Van Halen's already established bag of tricks, Randy Rhoads became the new heavy metal guitar king after fans heard his work on Ozzy Osbourne's solo debut, Blizzard of Ozz.

But while electrified Ozz rockers like Crazy Train and I Don't Know wowed the metal masses, it was the solo classical piece Dee that was Rhoads' true masterpiece. Rhoads grew up in a musical family - his mother, Delores, runs a music school in North Hollywood, California - so it was only fitting that "Dee," all 49 seconds of it, paid tribute to the woman who inspired and nurtured his dreams.

Fingerpicked on a nylon-strong acoustic, the piece is by turns playful, melancholy, heartbreaking and hopeful. Tragically, Rhoads was killed in a plane crash, at the age of Five years later, Ozzy Osbourne included an extended, studio outtake version of Dee on his album Tribute, reminding us all of Rhoads' immense and largely untapped talent. But guitarists of all stripes found a lot to like in the bluesy-and boozy, slightly off-kilter Could This Be Magic?