Monday, January 2, 2023

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (ASL?, Guitar, Ukulele, Piano, & More)


Todays song is Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel. Born into a prosperous family in Surrey, England, Peter Gabriel was immersed in music from an early age by his musically inclined mother, who taught him to play the piano before he went on to co-found the pioneering progressive rock band Genesis while attending the prestigious Charterhouse School in 1967. After a decade of defining theatrical progressive rock with his elaborate costumes and surreal concepts, Gabriel left Genesis in 1975 to embark on a wildly successful solo career characterized by sonic experimentation, breakthrough hits like "Sledgehammer" and "In Your Eyes." 

Beyond his commercial chart dominance, Gabriel’s staggering list of achievements includes winning six Grammy Awards, receiving the Man of Peace award from Nobel Peace Laureates, pioneering the global awareness of ethnic rhythms by founding the WOMAD festival and Real World Records, and being twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as both a solo artist and a member of Genesis.

This song was officially released as the lead single from his smash-hit album So on April 21, 1986. The track's legendary music video remains the most-played music video in the history of MTV. Creating it, however, was pure torture for Gabriel. Produced by Aardman Animations (the creators of Wallace & Gromit), the video required painstaking frame-by-frame pixilation and stop-motion animation. Gabriel had to lie under a sheet of hot glass for 16 hours a day for over a week while real chickens, clay models, and rotting vegetables were animated around his face frame by frame.

So let's learn this one together, the ASL version I'm still looking (can you make one?). So let's start with how to play it on Guitar, Ukulele, and Piano. Plus check out the bonus covers. Let's get in to it.


he official Sledgehammer video in HD. Directed by Stephen R. Johnson, produced by Adam Whittaker. Claymation, pixilation, and stop motion animation provided by Aardman Animations and the Brothers Quay. Sledgehammer was the first single from the multi-platinum selling album So, the first of Peter’s studio albums to have a proper title and a watershed release in his career. Its marriage of the artistic and the commercial made for an indisputable success, with the album quickly sitting atop the album charts on both sides of the Atlantic.


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In this video I tackle how we can do an acoustic cover of the 80s classic 'Sledgehammer' by Peter Gabriel! This cover and lesson was inspired by the Harry Style cover that has been popping up in my YouTube feed. It got me thinking - is it possible to cover this on acoustic? the main thing i learned from attempting this is what phenomenal singers Peter Gabriel and indeed Harry Styles are, and for the perspective alone it's been a worthy exercise. I decided to make a video of this not because I do it particularly well, but because I love taking on a challenging cover, i love watching other people take risks with the songs they cover - and I want to inspire you to tackle songs outside your comfort zone! QUICK LINKS 00:00 demo 02:36 Main riff 04:10 Chorus 04:55 Horn part 5:44 Intro

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Merry Christmas! Here's my gift to you - an AWESOME UKULELE VERSION of Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel. All shot on an old iPhone! Aardman animations, eat your heart out! Thanks so much for watching my videos and sticking with my channel for another year, you guys are awesome. Have a great Christmas and here's to a wonderful 2021.

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“I think it’s like the best mixed song ever,” Harry Styles said of Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” before he and his band broke into their pitch-perfect rendition of the ‘80s hit.


As artists, we aspire to keep learning the songs that move and inspire us. We want you to share in the experience — this is one of the songs that has shaped us.

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Lena Hall, a singular artist who authentically and explosively brings the worlds of Rock and Broadway together, is releasing a series of EPs every month in 2018. The OBSESSED series features stripped-down vocal-intensive covers of one artist/band with whom Lena is "obsessed." Subscribe on YouTube for new videos weekly.

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