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Pulse Music presents Classical Gas a conundrum of modern music
Classical Gas is one of the most requested and most familiar instrumental pieces of all time. In a Simpsons episode entitled "Last Exit to Springfield" Homer leads the workers in the nuclear strike to recover their lost dental plan. While picketing the plant, Lisa plays a \ mournful song of the worker '. As it ends, Lenny shouted: "Play Classical Gas". Lisa plays the guitar and everyone watching the episode on television goes, "Oh, yeah, that song!" Classical Gas is always asked whenever a group of people and the acoustic guitar is a nylon thread in the same room. This is not really a great technical showcase for guitar finger style, but it is a great way to show the sound of classical guitar.

Classical Gas was released worldwide in 1968. A song by The Doors was prevented from becoming a hit, but he remained in second place for two weeks. Forty years later he is still among the most familiar tunes of all time and with the Roman anonymous Leucon l \ 'Malaguena considered an essential element of classical guitar repertoire. And nobody can say why.

The impact of Classical Gas is much more than the sum of its parts. There are very few musical ideas in music. It is mainly the repetition of a theme composed of a few notes. There are some pieces that are unforgettable "surprises" making use of syncopation, scales, strumming, and abrupt changes of time signature. Somehow all the bits connected like beads on a necklace, and the final score adds a sublime resolution.

The composer, Mason Williams, states on its website, "I don \ 't really big plans for it, except perhaps to have one song to play at parties when they passed the guitar. I l 'I envisioned as a simple directory or "fuel" for classical guitar, so I called conventional gasoline. "Work Day Mason Williams \' was also a comedy writer and stand-up comedian who had a lot of Other projects also wrote a classical guitar instrumental.

The work was Mason Williams \ 'time on the Smothers Brothers \ "Comedy" which gave him the opportunity to have his pet composition heard by the American public. The original score of the piece shows that the chords and notes. Mason Williams was a composer of twenty-three years, appointed Mike Post finish the arrangement.

At the Grammys he won the Best Instrumental Composition and Best Instrumental Performance for Mason Williams and Best Instrumental Arrangement for Mike Post, who had a career filled with triumphs in the field of TV theme music. His last victory was the theme (s) for "Law & Order" series.

Classical Gas has been used as the theme song for several new programs, background music for the movie Apollo 4, and also in a number of other films and television programs. Many people have mistakenly attributed the solo version Mason Williams \ 'of the melody for a cover by Eric Clapton.

Classical Gas is quite a bit easier to play, the challenge is to play with passion and dynamic, because it seems non-guitarists to play harder than it really is. Maybe that's why he is among the parts most requested guitar ever.