Best Songs Featuring an Electric Sitar
An electric sitar is not an actual sitar; it's a normal six string guitar designed to sound like a sitar. They were invented in the 1960s during the psychedelic rock sitar craze. As a result, they were most popular in the 60s, but some artists outside of the 60s have used them to add a unique texture. Feel free to add other examples.
As far as I know, the only metal song that uses an electric sitar (correct me if I'm wrong). Kirk Hammett used a Danelectro Coral Sitar in his collection to get a "Far East"-type sound.
As out of Metallica songs, this song has a Indian music influences.
The main theme of the song features an electric sitar laying out the rhythm.
Denny Dias' guitar solo in the middle is played on an electric sitar.
The arpeggios throughout the verses in the song are very distinctive and give the song its unique quality.
Eddie Van Halen overdubbed an electric sitar track onto the guitar solo, which is why the solo sounds weird.
The rhythm guitar in the verses is played on an electric sitar.
The main hook to the song is played on an electric sitar.
Not the Blue Swede version; the original. It features a lot of prominent electric sitar playing.
The main hook to the song is played on electric sitar.
