{"id":806503,"date":"2020-04-17T11:39:43","date_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=986032"},"modified":"2020-04-17T11:39:43","modified_gmt":"2020-04-17T17:39:43","slug":"johnny-marr-teaches-viewers-how-to-play-the-smiths-the-headmaster-ritual","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/johnny-marr-teaches-viewers-how-to-play-the-smiths-the-headmaster-ritual\/","title":{"rendered":"Johnny Marr Teaches Viewers How to Play the Smiths\u2019 \u2018The Headmaster Ritual\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Johnny Marr<\/a> performed a stripped-down, instrumental take on the Smiths<\/a>\u2019 \u201cThe Headmaster Ritual,\u201d then offered a virtual guitar lesson as part of Fender\u2019s ongoing Artist Check-In<\/em> series.<\/p>\n

The clip opens with Marr offering a quick breakdown of the gear he\u2019s using before launching into the Meat Is Murder <\/i>opener. Prior to the instructional portion of the video, Marr notes that he wrote \u201cThe Headmaster Ritual\u201d in open E tuning and says that kind of experimentation can be a useful songwriting tool. \u201cI had no idea what I was doing when I wrote it, and I quite like that,\u201d he says. \u201cI think it\u2019s a handy device for cutting out the brain static that gets in the way of coming up with chord changes.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fender launched its Artist Check-In<\/em> series at the beginning of April to provide fans a glimpse of artists\u2019 home studios and glean some techniques and tricks for their own guitar playing. The series is also doubling as a fundraiser, with Fender making a donation to MusiCares\u2019 COVID-19 relief fund for each musician that participates in the series. Prior to Marr, the series has featured<\/a> Rancid\u2019s Matt Freeman, Chris Shiflett, Cory Wong and John 5.<\/p>\n

Marr released his most recent solo album, Call the Comet<\/i>, in 2018, while last year he shared two new tracks, \u201cArmatopia\u201d<\/a> and \u201cThe Bright Parade.\u201d<\/a> In January, it was announced that Marr was reuniting with composer Hans Zimmer<\/a> to score the new James Bond film, No Time to Die<\/i>, which has since had its release date pushed back<\/a> to November because of the coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

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Johnny Marr performed a stripped-down, instrumental take on the Smiths\u2019 \u201cThe Headmaster Ritual,\u201d then offered a virtual guitar lesson as part of Fender\u2019s ongoing Artist Check-In series. The clip opens with Marr offering a quick breakdown of the gear he\u2019s using before launching into the Meat Is Murder opener. Prior to the instructional portion of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-806503","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-13 20:29:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=806503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/806503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=806503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=806503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=806503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}