This is an article I wrote for Heavy Metal’s “Guitarget Practice” column in January 2015.
Great for: Steve Vai fanboys, creating a more vocal sound from your guitar, ear training, creativity.
Introduction In this article we’ll cover some quick definitions, limitations of frets and some ways we can train our brain, ears and hands to work together to create some great melodies via the whammy bar.
Limitations of Frets Frets are awesome, don’t get me wrong.
Post on recovering from a bad performance Had a Skype with Nic, he had a bad performance at music college
No time to sound check. The band sound checking before him took up all the time, so two bands didn’t get a sound check There were two amps on stage. He accidentally used one he wasn’t familiar with because he didn’t want to mess up settings the first band has used on the amp Compared himself to the guitar player in the other band and psyched himself out From using an amp he wasn’t familiar with he didn’t like his tone, no gain for solo General nerves General chaos that goes with live music and learning to handle it Negative self-talk while on stage Another girl at the college has tons of experience and he asked her about performance anxiety and she said she had the problems he has but got used to it and learned to relax.
Rack Effects Principles of That 80s Tone WDW What do we mean when we say stereo? Technical difference between stereo and ’true’ WDW two channels with dry equally mixed in both creating the perception that the dry is in the centre True WDW has three speakers, with the centre speaker being dry and the L and R speakers being 100% effects Shawn Tynan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOr780K4ASg
Pre -> BBD -> Stereo detune -> Mixer -> Reverb -> Mixer --> -> Thru -> Mixer Mixer FX loop: Stereo delays