Flake is a song both written and performed by American singer and songwriter Jack Johnson. Flake is the first song and it was released as the only single from his first album known as Brushfire Fairytales (2001). Ben Harper was part of Weissenborn slide guitar and Tommy Jordan on steel drums.
Flake also made Jack Johnson get his first entry in the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. His song peaked at the 73rd spot, and it also topped the Billboard Triple-A chart for three weeks, making Flake the best-performing song of 2002 on the listing. Even on the global stage, the song was able to score well in critics' reviews. In New Zealand, the song reached sixth position and it became the country’s sixth most successful song as 2003 came to an end. Even in Live performances, Flake had a common occurrence as it became such a massive hit, and even to this, some of the radio stations play its live version for their listeners.
In Australia Flake by Jack Johnson won Gold certification as it has a sales number somewhere around 35,000 and the same goes for Canada where the sales number of this hit single were 40,000.
For the guitar chord tutorial of Flake by Jack Johnson we have Steve Luciano as your online music instructor. Steve is a jazz expert, and he comes from New Haven, CT, where he got the privilege to study the basics of guitar under a legendary musician and guitar expert, Joe Tinari. After passing high school, Steve went to the University of Bridgeport, where he studied the concepts and theory of Jazz music from Sal Salvador. During his time in Bridgeport, he founded a contemporary Jazz group called GrooveLogic. For this group, he wrote a number of compositions and even recorded two CDs.
If you have ever heard an orchestra playing in the background of a Disney movie, chances are you have heard Stevie playing his guitar. We are saying this because he was a staff musician at Walt Disney World for more than 15 years. Right now, he is serving as a jazz guitar instructor at Southeastern University. Steve has divided the song into three segments where he discusses the intro and chords, rhythm along with backing track and finally, easy rhythm. After you complete the Flake guitar song lesson, you can check out other similar songs, such as Good Riddance by Green Day, Greensleeves by Vaughan Williams, and others, to learn how you can play those songs on guitar.
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