Learn Songs by 2025 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Inductees with Fret Zealot
The newest legends of rock music have been chosen – and you can learn their songs.
Cyndi Lauper, White Stripes, and Soundgarden are among the musicians chosen for this year’s honor. You can learn their most famous songs step-by-step with Fret Zealot lessons.
Cyndi Lauper
Cyndi Lauper’s signature song “Time After Time” was written after the rest of her debut album She’s So Unusual (1983) was already written – including “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun”, “She Bop”, and “All Through the Night”. The writing started with the title, which Cyndi had seen in TV Guide – the 1979 action movie Time After Time.
Soundgarden
“Black Hole Sun” originated during a car ride. Released in 1994, it’s considered to be Seattle-based grunge rock band Soundgarden’s signature song. Lead singer Chris Cornell wrote the song – he said in 2014 that he came up with the concept and the melody while driving home from the studio after he thought he heard a radio news anchor say “Black hole sun”.
White Stripes
White Stripes singer and guitarist Jack White originally wrote the iconic riff for “Seven Nation Army” in a Melbourne hotel room while on tour in Australia. He showed it to a label executive, who didn’t see much potential in the riff. White planned to save the riff for a James Bond theme song – if he ever had the opportunity to write one. Eventually, he incorporated the riff into “Seven Nation Army” after giving up on that dream – only to write and perform “Another Way to Die” ft. Alicia Keys five years later as the theme for 2008 Bond film Quantum of Solace.
Carol Kaye
These Boots are Made For Walkin‘
Legendary session musician Carol Kaye is known as the most-recorded bassist in history‘. She played on the tracks of some of the most notable artists of all time, including Ray Charles, Sam Cooke, fellow 2025 RRHoF inductee Joe Cocker, and The Beach Boys. Carol provided the sliding bassline hook for “These Boots Are Made for Walkin’”, Nancy Sinatra’s 1966 hit.
Outkast
Hip hop duo Outkast achieved both critical admiration and commercial success in the early 2000s with albums like Stankonia (2000) and Speakerboxxx/The Love Below (2003) dominating airwaves and making waves in the sonic landscape of America.
You can learn their smash hit Roses with these Fret Zealot tabs.
Roses (fingerstyle)
Find the full list of 2025 RRHoF inductees here.
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