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No doubt! Didn’t realize how fast I was playing it haha. More to come soon. I’ve spent the past couple years learning all the fallout 3 songs and dozens of old jazz standards

Yeah, I put it near the front, like 3rd out of 8. I do (random pedal first) > reverb > Lofi junky > Delay > overdrive > fuzz > EQ. What works for me is keeping the volume on the pedal below half, and using my amp to makeup the volume drop. Makes the static noise less loud. It really shines with an overdrive tho, you can cut through the compression a bit more. Edit: since the pedal has a built in compressor, that’s why it sounds wooly. I usually play with the bridge pickup and boost my treble. Sometimes I cut out mid-low 200-400 hz with my EQ pedal and boost 3.2k

@@eric_james_music thanks so much for this mate that helps a lot. Yeah I did have much more success with the bridge pickup so I think I'll largely use it there. Good to know I'm not going completely mad haha. Thanks mate, take care

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Nice! It’s really not too hard. The high rated tab on ultimate guitar is very accurate

@@eric_james_music i'll be honest i'd kinda struggled with it before and gave up (smthn about the rhythm/flow of the song just wasn't clicking for me), but your rendition finally helped it make sense as a 'guitar song' for me :) really awesome take on the song, really captures the vibe of the OG while still being its own thing

ayy thanks haha, yeah the rhythm is kinda tricky, it's like a delayed swing. I'm a huge mac fan and I learned all the songs off 2 and Salad Days a couple years ago. I've been meaning to put lessons when I have more free time@@dirtbag_jim

yeah i feel like BOC always blend so many different modes and unexpected chord tensions/polychords. And a lot of the time they'll have 2 different melodies happening at the same time. So much layering! So much to dissect. I forgot I was planning to do more vids like this

I just used one of the tabs on ultimate guitar and injected a bit of my own listening to hear the finer points of how he played it. But I do plan on making Mac lessons in the future!

​@@eric_james_musicif u don't mind me asking what is the strumming pattern?

it's just DUDUDUDU DUDUDUDU. you kind of chug along like a train if that makes sense. it stays the same throughout the whole verse. also, here's the tab I learned the chords from tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/mac-demarco/passing-out-pieces-chords-1952321@@nryanxron7563 if the link doesn't work just google "passing out pieces chords"

@@eric_james_music thank you appreciate it look forward to ur tutorial 🙏🔥

I've got a busy few weeks ahead but you've inspired me to do a tutorial series. I've been relearning a lot of the songs on 2 and they're a real blast. annie, stars keep on calling my name, sherill so underrated@@nryanxron7563

nice! I love the bVII9, I hear it a lot in jazz. the iv(min)6 is nice too especially messing with the inversions

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fender blues jr amp and a green russian big muff

Hard to say what degree of awareness he had about this quirk in his playing. As bob Ross says it’s a happy accident haha. I must say it does sound cool and unique. I actually play the major 3rd in my A string root power chord often because of it. I believe it is a common tactic in surf rock as well to play all major chords

​@@eric_james_musiclol keeping everything the same movable shape... Lol sort of like the Ramones chordal vocabulary.

@@maxdible in my younger years i might have scoffed at simplicity but now it means nothing. it sounds good so it is good

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Don’t listen to the other guy. My first suggestion is to always try feeling the rhythm and experimenting with what sounds right, even getting close enough if not perfect its still good. However for accuracy it’s likely: D U D (muted: D U D U) D D U. Idk if this is completely accurate cause I’m laying in bed not listening to the song rn, and I hate notating strumming without rhythm but this should be a good start.

I sound it out in my head like. The parenthesis means you mute the strings with your fretting hand don da don (chicka chicka) don da da da da with the strumming pattern as DUD (DUDU) D DUDU edit: haha didn't realize someone already commented the strumming pattern. And yea don't listen to that other guy. I'm self taught and the only way I got better was purposely playing songs "out" of my skill range

great vid, thanks for the link. you're deff right that he doesn't play it on purpose

@@eric_james_music You're so very welcome! I would assume because he was never taught guitar (he was self-taught) that he grew to play power chords the way he does.

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just listened again, great ear. he's strumming the open e B G strings on an upstroke between the two chords, mostly as a rhythmic passage. Green Day uses this trick in the song American Idiot in the main riff of the verse. Kurt also uses this on plenty of songs I believe. I do it unconsciously b/c I usually just pay attention to the strumming pattern, but it is interesting that these notes are completely out of key, yet add so much character to the song. gonna pin this comment, thank you

@@eric_james_music great! Thanks!

no doubt homie

haha i know what you mean, I always see certain numbers reappearing but I know our human brain is always looking for patterns! Now that's a cool idea about starting one on the 5th interval and seeing how the scales blend. I'm curious to hear if you compose anything using those ideas. as far as mixed maj/minor scales go, the mixolydian b6 is one of my favorites. it emphasizes the borrowed subdominant feel. i.e A minor resolving to E major

@@eric_james_music Yes, we humans are "very clever" with numbers and patterns, but it's also nature. So which comes first, the egg or the hen? ;D PS. I like also this mixolydian b6. But I called it nowadays many times Melodic Major scale which comes from Ian Ring's site.

@@jazzwoodshed7574 so very true! i love the hen and egg metaphor for this. as they say, it takes two to tango. the natural properties of the universe combine with the interpretations of the observer

I thought it was general convention to stop at the 16th harmonic since that’s when they start to get out of the range of human hearing in volume. also, do you not find it uncanny that the first couple of harmonics make a major chord? or that the blues use a b7 in the tonic (yes i know that's an approximation but they use the harmonic 7th in blues a capella singing sometimes and so do barbershop quartets). I realize the series goes on infinitely, but there is a definite threshold at which humans can no longer perceive it

Yeah haha especially in modern music. When you add distortion to a guitar and strum a low E note you can practically hear the 5th

ay thanks homie appreciate the love! glad to know people out there still care about Boards haha

Ay thanks it means a lot. Got that strat for my 10th bday back in 2007. Had the same amp since so I’ve had a lot of time to get acquainted with my gear

Thanks! I oscillate between playing punk and jazz music so sometimes I forget to relax hahah

@@eric_james_music as long as you’re having fun, you’re doing it right ! Cheers

fender blues jr. treble 10 bass 6 mids 2 master 3-6 volume 2-3 reverb to taste and fat switch on (makes it saturated). bridge pickup with both tone knobs maxed. maybe roll a tiny bit off the high end. fender strat

nice name haha. and yeah me too, i love all jazz and 1930-1950s stuff. hits different

one of my favorite albums of all time

I’m on it. Spent today figuring out Nothing Is Real, Twoism, and 5.9.78

Thank you! Yeah the original is so chill that I didn’t expect to find such a spicy/tense chord like the minor 6 to be in it

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thanks dawg!

Thanks, you got any requests?

Oyy thanks there will be plenty of content to come

yeah i might upload this version as a demo. but i'm redoing everything cause i lost the original tracks somehow in logic. so ill rerecord then mix master and put it on the album that i'm releasing next year. this version was an experiment putting isotope vinyl on it and tryna make it sound like a warped record. i felt like this song had that vibe so i went with it

@@eric_james_music it definitely has the vibe that’s for sure. I’ve been meaning to check out izotope for my own stuff sometime. Looking forward to hearing this when it’s done.

yo thank you so much! mac is one of the reasons i realized you can diy everything and make your music at home for free and still get your stuff out there

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Haha I’ve never heard anyone compare my heavier stuff to the Beatles but thank you for the compliment friend I do love their music