Is this genuine guitar-playing?

[Digger]

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=16b_1357770894

I know next to nothing about playing guitar. Less than nothing to be fair.

Is this real? I assume its quite impressive if so.


Oh apologies for the liveleak link.

[completetangent]

Yes, it's real. He's got an echo effect added, with the repeats set to match the tempo he's playing at. He's using it to add the "in-between" notes that give it the faster and super consistent and insistent rythmn. As the echoes fade they also add an ambient atmospheric quality. Both help nail the trance-like feel.

It's not so uncommon. Eddie Van Halen used the same idea in Cathedral in the '80s - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2WRGVJLZu0 - although he also adjusted the Volume control on the guitar for each note to give a string-like attack (instead of the faster picked attack).

In both cases, if the echoes weren't there, you'd hear that the guitar playing is a LOT simpler. (Not to undermine the musical creativity, though).

Edited by completetangent on Monday 14th January 09:46

[james_gt3rs]

I thought the video was going to be this one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DMyM7ARJUI

[Pothole]

See also the edge.

[Bullett]

The edge built a career on a similar technique.

I like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLpbZZ1HgPg

I was looking for something else but this is that same type of thing again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=at8jUWoyBeQ

[JonRB]

I'm at work so can't open the links, but I presume that this is the Ewan Dobson track that is doing the rounds again? It seems to pop up every so often.

Yes, he is playing it and, as others have said, is using a digital echo like The Edge of U2 does.

[Greenwich Ross]

He learnt all he knows from this God of the axe

http://youtu.be/Vms_6_TSQuc

[bebee]

Yes, a Boss DD3 will help also.

[audidoody]

Nah. THIS is guitar playing. Especially HOW to do digital delay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3PywMMZcU8

[Gaspode]

Pink Floyd's Run Like Hell also uses digital delay to good effect in this way. 840msec delay IIRC.

[Hoofy]

Since nobody else has posted it: http://youtu.be/H8dZwXnMrRU

[craigito67]

This type of guitar sound was mastered by John Martyn in the early 70s to stunning effect in my opinion.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P1EgzqybvhY

[CommanderJameson]

Digger said:

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=16b_1357770894

I know next to nothing about playing guitar. Less than nothing to be fair.

Is this real? I assume its quite impressive if so.


Oh apologies for the liveleak link.

Zack B did a drums cover of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLgUbMXEk2w

And now it seems they're going to be collaborating.

Good stuff.

ETA: Would be wrong to omit the beatbox mix:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2sowD7ZNCg

Edited by CommanderJameson on Sunday 13th January 08:16

[Crackie]

As well as Ewan Dodson the Candyrat label has some other real talent signed up...........Erik Mongrain

Stefano Barone http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDFP_MbvyGc

Gareth Pearson http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e64DJemlUec

Don Ross & Andy McKee http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_N3_odXXOO0

Erik Mongrain http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rsstjT0Kb40

Edited by Crackie on Sunday 13th January 09:59

[Justin Cyder]

We went to see Andy McKee on the strength of Candyrat records' uploads on you tube. He's every bit as good as he looks & he's lost the Taliban beard!

[percy]

Don't forget Gordon Giltrap... brilliant in concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGn2uLbfh0g

[Asterix]

percy said:

Don't forget Gordon Giltrap... brilliant in concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RGn2uLbfh0g

I like GG.

He's also very approachable via his website. Had a good convo with him a few years back regarding a folk acoustic I'd just bought.

[Big News]

bebee said:

Yes, a Boss DD3 will help also.

It won't! No tap tempo which would make it an absolute pain in the arse for something like this

[bebee]

Big News said:

bebee said:

Yes, a Boss DD3 will help also.

It won't! No tap tempo which would make it an absolute pain in the arse for something like this

Outside, now..............

[completetangent]

Big News said:

It won't! No tap tempo which would make it an absolute pain in the arse for something like this

Pfft! Only girls need tap tempo for this.

Back in my day (when it was all fields round here) we could only dream of tap tempo. We had to set our delay time on manky analogue delay pedals where all the knobs were broken off the pot shafts and you had to use pliers to adjust the settings.