As one might deduce from reading the
articles on this blog, I like listening to music a lot. I however also love to
make music myself. After years of focusing on drums, and some piano, last year I
decided to buy an electric guitar. Since I've never really been a fan of
learning from books I was looking for alternative methods to learn how to play
the guitar. I found what I was looking for, unexpectedly, in a video game
called Rocksmith 2014. The game allows you to connect your guitar to a PC and
play along with a whole range of songs from pop to metal. It starts out easy,
but increases in difficulty if you play well. One of the more challenging songs
is Go Further by Tak Matsumoto. It
was through this awesome song as well as Ultra Soul that I discovered B'z.
B'z, a Japanese rock band consisting
of guitarist Takahiro Matsumoto and vocalist Koshi Inaba, is currently one of
the best-selling music artists worldwide. With around 100 million sold units
they rank amongst rock legends like Metallica, Bon Jovi and Guns N' Roses.
Although Tak's guitar has always
played a large part in the band's songs, their initial style was more synth pop
than hard rock. Lady-Go-Round for
instance favours the use of synthesizers and samplers. Soon however the band's
sound changed into arena rock with songs like Alone and Blowin' (can
somebody explain those pants?!) and hard rock, Calling and Liar!Liar!
The band's popularity skyrocketed
and since their first #1 single Sun's Komachi Angel the band has scored 46 consecutive #1 singles and 25 #1
albums. Let that sink in for a moment... Thirty years after their debut they are
not finished yet either. In November 2017 the band released their latest album
Dinosaur and surprise, surprise, it reached #1 again.
Let's hope they will continue putting
out great work, it is excellent study material for this aspiring rock star.
Due to their large amount of hits it is almost impossible to list my favourites, but I will try regardless:
I Want to Dance Inside You, Love me I love you, Giri Giri Chop, Yasei no Energy, Compulsion, Splash!, Dive and My Lonely Town
For more
videos check out the B'z Official YouTube channel
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