A young man once climbed onto the stage at a Frank Zappa concert to ask how Zappa used his Wah-Wah pedal. The young man was later identified as world-famous guitarist Jimi Hendrix who, along with Eric Clapton, Larry Carlton and Jimmy Page, was soon using the Wah-Wah effect intensively in his own work. Still used by current Guitar heroes such as Slash, Steve Vai and Kirk Hammett, the pedal produces…

Par SPARKE PHILIP. Whilst making no claims to be stylistically authentic, this little piece aims to capture the infectious spirit of mariachi, a word whose origins are lost in the mists of time, but which describes not only the performers (on guitars, vihuelas, violins, trumpets and harp) but also the music itself. Their music speaks of love, passion, politics, life in the country and revolutionar…