The Tragically Hip have launched a brand new sequence of guitar tutorials, providing step-by-step instruction in taking part in a few of the Canadian rock band’s biggest hits.
Every video in the sequence will deal with a special track, and have one in all the group’s members providing the story behind it, demonstrating tips on how to play it, and answering choose fan questions. Each episode runs between 10 and 20 minutes.
For the first version, which debuted earlier this week, guitarist Paul Langlois invited viewers to deal with ‘Wheat Kings,’ a traditional ballad from The Tragically Hip’s 1992 file Totally Fully. The track drew inspiration from the story of David Milgaard, a Winnipeg man who was wrongfully convicted of rape and homicide in 1969 and spent 23 years in jail earlier than his exoneration. After his launch, he turned a public speaker, neighborhood assist employee and advocate for the wrongfully imprisoned.
As Langlois reveals in the video, directed by Summer season Figueroa and recorded at Ontario’s Bathhouse Studio, he and vocalist Gord Downie met with Milgaard as they ready the track. The band recorded it in London and have become a staple in the group’s reside set. They had been even capable of carry out the track for Milgaard at one in all their reveals earlier than his demise in 2022. As we speak, Langlois calls the monitor the “easiest campfire song to play ever.”
“There’s a mystery and a magic to songwriting—you don’t know when you’re gonna get one,” Langlois defined. “Some just pop out, and that [‘Wheat Kings’] riff popped out to me. I just thought, ‘Okay, this feels like us, and doesn’t sound like anything else.’”
Based in Kingston, Ontario over 40 years in the past, The Tragically Hip stay one in all Canada’s best-loved rock teams at the moment. In 2022, they had been inducted into the Canadian Music Corridor of Fame. Final 12 months, a documentary on their profession, The Tragically Hip: No Costume Rehearsal, premiered at Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant (TIFF). It’s now out there to stream on Prime Video.
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