Topic: Riff-In-A-Jiff
The tag line on the home page of The Tea Party's official website proclaims: "No politics...Just Rock and Roll." I guess that reflects the state of affairs for the long-established band (broken up, but currently reunited), who have in recent years found themselves sharing a name with a somewhat controversial U.S. political party. Perhaps a lot of ultra right wing political types have mistakenly surfed into their site expecting Sarah Palin, but getting sitars, tablas, and overdriven Les Pauls instead?
The song "The Bazaar" comes from the band's third album, The Edges Of Twilight (1995), and is also included on their greatest hits CD Tangents: The Tea Party Collection (2000). It contains both defining elements that the band is most noted for: their world music (particularly Indian and Eastern) influenced sound and their use of alternate tunings. "The Bazaar" is played in Open G5 tuning (all strings tuned to either G or D). Tabbed here is the guitar riff from the Intro. To play just the riff, you can simply tune the A string down to G (rather than doing a full retuning), since the whole riff is played on one string. Or you can even play it in Standard tuning, but it will be in a different key from the recording, of course.
THE TEA PARTY - "The Bazaar" (The Tea Party)
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Updated: Friday, August 12, 2011 4:14 AM EDT
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