Category Archives: Key West

Rage Against The Machine “Killing In The Name F U I Won’t Do What You Tell Me” Slide Guitar Wayne Sorbelli

Rage Against The Machine “Killing In The Name F U I Won’t Do What You Tell Me”.

Wayne Sorbelli here at my Island Guitar & Ukulele Store in Key West after a great evening of teaching guitar lessons.  Inspired by my last student of today’s sessions, Seje when he asked to learn some Tom Morello riffs!  

 

Ibanez Steve Vai JEM 555 guitar through a ROLAND Micro cube Amp w/Wayne Sorbelli @ Island Guitar & Ukulele Store Key West

Wayne Sorbelli here @ my Island Guitar & Ukulele Store in Key West (next to At&T and UPS store in Kmart Shopping Plaza)

I just got finished setting up the Floyd Rose locking tremolo system on this Ibanez Steve Vai JEM 555 guitar.  It plays & sounds killer. It’s a great shred guitar but also has the vintage sound available compliments of the Dimarzio pickups!

I’m going through my little portable Roland Micro Cube Amp (see it sitting on top of my keyboard in the video)

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Pink Floyd solo on ukulele with beer bottle slide. Wayne Sorbelli @ Island Guitar & Ukulele shop Key West

Pink Floyd solo on my ukulele with a home made beer bottle slide that my dad just made me last night as a gift!

I’m here at my Island Guitar & Ukulele shop on the beautiful island of Key West.

I consider the SLIDE & mainly the glass slide my main instrument. I don’t care what it’s on, guitar, bass, acoustic, electric, ukulele etc. I PLAY SLIDE!  

All slides sound different, not better or worse, but different and they all certainly FEEL and handle much differently once laid upon the strings.  Brass is heavy and offers more resistance therefore it’s easier to accurately stop and not blow by a target note, where glass is lighter and slippery feeling and offers more control over the fine overtones, but it takes more effort to control it – I can write volumes on differences in slide material  – but i guess we will save that for another post)

“You can try to play the blues, or just give in and let the blues play you!  That’s IT!  It’s THAT little struggle, THAT split second tension right there between me and my guitar and those unconscious note choices that are happening when the notes start to play me, to me,  THAT IS THE BLUES”  – Wayne Sorbelli

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“Slow Sliding Train #119 – Slide Techniques in Standard Tuning” Wayne Sorbelli here at my Island Guitar & Ukulele Music Shop in Key West

“Slow Sliding Train #119”  Wayne Sorbelli here at my Island Guitar & Ukulele Music Shop in Key West sliding on my Dean Soltero in the Key of F.

I consider the SLIDE & mainly the glass slide my main instrument. I don’t care what it’s on, guitar, bass, acoustic, electric, ukulele etc. I PLAY SLIDE!  

I’m sliding with my pinky 4th finger wearing a glass slide Dunlop 212. (although it’s worth mentioning that any slide will do the job, but all sound different, not better or worse, but different and they all certainly FEEL and handle much differently once laid upon the strings.  Brass is heavy and offers more resistance therefore it’s easier to accurately stop and not blow by a target note, where glass is lighter and slippery feeling and offers more control over the fine overtones, but it takes more effort to control it – I can write volumes on differences in slide material  – but i guess we will save that for another post)

“You can try to play the blues, or just give in and let the blues play you!  That’s IT!  It’s THAT little struggle, THAT split second tension right there between me and my guitar and those unconscious note choices that are happening when the notes start to play me, to me,  THAT IS THE BLUES”  – Wayne Sorbelli

Check out my blog/website
www.islandGuitar.com

dedicated ukulele page   http://www.UkeOut.com

MSG    EMAIL or  CALL

305-414-8056 in Key West

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“Play Guitar, Be Happy” says Island Guitar & Ukulele Store Key West. Photo by Wayne Sorbelli

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“Play Guitar, Be Happy” Photo by Wayne Sorbelli of Island Guitar & Ukulele Store Key West

One sunny Key West afternoon I had taken a few guitars from my music shop in Key West, an awesome Epiphone Masterbuilt solid wood top acoustic, and an EL-00 parlor size acoustic, some sun screen, a sun hat & my camera and headed for Smather’s Beach which stretches along the south side of the island, butting up against the mighty Atlantic Ocean, 90 miles from Cuba.

I imagined my guitars falling in love on the beach and decided to get a look through my camera’s eye – here is one of the cool images I saw that great Key West afternoon!