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January 13, 2020 at 5:04 pm #157493
It’s not blues but a beautiful melody; went for clean sound plus reverb, echo and all the sustain i could shake out of the strings. Pushing my little Tele to new heights.
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January 13, 2020 at 5:17 pm #157495
Sounding sweet Moose!
Mike
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January 13, 2020 at 5:22 pm #157497
Really pretty Moose!
And great technique with the volume swells.James
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January 13, 2020 at 5:42 pm #157499
Yes , like that volume swell technique,, really cool settings too everything lined up like a keyboard..I never heard the Melody song “The Prayer”but it sounded like a Disney lion king tune or other,, very nice CM
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January 13, 2020 at 5:56 pm #157501
Lot of feeling in your playing.
Sweet sounding melody and i like
the swell too.Blue
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January 13, 2020 at 6:06 pm #157503
Moose,
What an impressive job – beautifully played and the control on the volume swells took it to another level.
Clarke
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January 13, 2020 at 6:39 pm #157504
Beautiful and relaxing. Love those swells. Did you do the backing track as well? Great stuff, Moose!
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January 13, 2020 at 9:13 pm #157508
Hey Moose, you played that really clean, and used your effects to perfection. Very nice to listen to.
Sunjamr Steve
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January 14, 2020 at 1:41 am #157511
That was some sweet playing ,great stuff
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January 14, 2020 at 2:00 am #157512
Roger, man that was beautiful. Haunting melody, I’ve played your video 4 or 5 times now and each time this song gives something new to my ear.. wonderful wonderful stuff.
Thanks man for brightening up a stormy Tuesday morning...Billy..
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January 14, 2020 at 3:14 am #157516
That was a sweet and mellow start to the day, great technique in many ways. Thanks Roger.
Richard
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January 14, 2020 at 4:50 am #157517Anonymous
Pretty indeed Roger. You and that Tele of yours never disappoint. You milked every ounce of sustain, feeling and attitude out of that guitar beautifully. Nicely done.
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January 14, 2020 at 1:01 pm #157526
Beautiful music indeed, Moose, but this is something really extraordinary in AM! I never heard this kind of style here before. Wonderful!
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January 14, 2020 at 1:37 pm #157529
Wonderful playing and sound.
Dieter
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January 14, 2020 at 6:15 pm #157540
Beautiful and lovely sound..
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January 15, 2020 at 5:00 am #157559
Beautiful melody, beautifully played. Very soulful. Your guitar setting was very good; great sustain.
Play guitar just like you live; don't get bogged down in theory, it's just a tool without feeling.
Wilfried
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January 15, 2020 at 12:40 pm #157574
… it sounded like a Disney lion king tune or other …
thanks John,
and yes, it was the theme song for an animated movie called Quest for Camelot. -
January 15, 2020 at 12:41 pm #157575
Did you do the backing track as well?
thanks Dave
no, this BT was way beyond my ability; found it on the internet. -
January 15, 2020 at 12:46 pm #157576
this is something really extraordinary in AM! I never heard this kind of style here before.
Thanks Lights
I know AM members enjoy playing blues, but AM stands for Active MELODY and this song appealed to me because it has such a beautiful melody. I really think that a fundamental skill in playing any style of music is to play the melody, even a blues melody, and then improvise around it. So I tried to milk the melody with all the expression i could pull out of my Tele, and then in the little interlude section throw in some blues-like runs, then back to the melody. There’s an old old saying: “If a bluesman you would be, learn to play the melody”. -
January 15, 2020 at 12:52 pm #157577
great sustain.
Thanks Wilfried
This song is almost operatic so it really needed some drama, and those long notes tend to die out too fast; sustain is really difficult so I used an E-Bow on a second track to keep those notes ringing while the original signal decayed. Sustaining melody notes is a real challenge for me, and the E-Bow is a work-around, but I’m still experimenting with my Axe-FX modeller to get sustain.
Real sustain comes from the an amp feeding back and re-vibrating the guitar strings to get a feedback loop going, that’s true sustain. For some reason it’s very hard to reproduce digitally. -
January 15, 2020 at 1:43 pm #157581
Knopfleresque
Wish You Were Here
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January 15, 2020 at 2:04 pm #157586
Beautiful melody Roger, and beautifully played! Very nice to listen to.
Eric
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January 17, 2020 at 2:07 am #157650
great sustain.
Thanks Wilfried
This song is almost operatic so it really needed some drama, and those long notes tend to die out too fast; sustain is really difficult so I used an E-Bow on a second track to keep those notes ringing while the original signal decayed. Sustaining melody notes is a real challenge for me, and the E-Bow is a work-around, but I’m still experimenting with my Axe-FX modeller to get sustain.
Real sustain comes from the an amp feeding back and re-vibrating the guitar strings to get a feedback loop going, that’s true sustain. For some reason it’s very hard to reproduce digitally.This is an interesting and extensive topic Roger. I once read an interesting statement for me. This says that everything that surrounds a vibrating string is nothing more than damping; thus counteracts the sustain. This means that good tonewood is better than worse tonewood only because it dampens less.
That was the reason why I changed the saddle on a guitar on my TC Squier (harder material).
Furthermore, a compressor also helps a delay or a compressor, reverb and delay. The settings are always very careful. It is also important if you have a gate in an effects device. It is supposed to suppress quiet areas in your signal chain; therefore has a negative effect on sustain and should be reduced to a minimum.
Then the string position came for me. If you reduce this (of course without string buzz) it has a positive effect on the sustain (If only a small one). The neck curvature must be well adjusted.
Your Ax-FX is definitely a top-class device; with endless possibilities.
With this you will surely achieve the desired success.
If you found a way for yourself, I would be interested in your opinion and how you proceeded.Play guitar just like you live; don't get bogged down in theory, it's just a tool without feeling.
Wilfried
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January 17, 2020 at 11:18 am #157656
“This is an interesting and extensive topic … ”
thanks for information Wilfried, like you I’ve spent a lot of time studying sustain and even with the axe-fx i’m only starting to get there. There are some external devices like E-Bow and PedalPlus as well as guitars with build in sustainers like Fernandez or Sustainiac pickups. But I’m trying to solve it within my Axe-fx, which pretty well produces the same tone no matter what guitar is used. It’s part the my eternal search for tone. Challenging, but loving every minute.
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