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The guitarists hating on this have never played with bands and lack imagination about how this would sound in a mix. With bass and drums this would sound so cool.
I would replace "kind of neat" with "f#$*ing awesome" (and I try to not overuse those words). Can't believe my all-time favorite guitarist now posts tips on UA-cam. Thanks, Duane!
Fun fact: Duane is a longtime friend of mine, and we've worked together variously when I've mixed the bands he's been in out on the road (I've also had him play on various tracks and projects for me over the years). I love his playing! He's one of my favorite guitarists. He once sold me this guitar he's using in the video, for about a year - then wanted to buy it back cause he liked it so much and missed it. That is a cool guitar! I'd seen him play it on sessions and tours, and I knew what it could do. But when I got it, nothing I ever played on it ever really worked for me, or sounded good. But it always worked for him. So when he wanted it back I was happy for him to have it. I had know idea it was in this lesson video! He and I had talked about prepared guitar many times, so when I came across this video I was happy to see the guitar and him giving this lesson. :)
I'm surprised at all the close-minded guitarists on here. I thought this was a genius idea. Obviously not one to be used all the time, but something that, as Duane alluded to, has infinite possibilities with the right effects.
It's gonna kinda depend on whether you like the sound or not. It sounded like it would be perfect for a primus kinda sound. It's more of a sound design tool. Like if you wanna create some weird sounds to throw into your mix.
Very cool ideas. I have to get back to being more experimental with guitar. All the theory and practice routines have chased it away. Thanks for sharing this.
Fascinating approach to guitar lessons. It's good to mix some outer-space stuff in with traditional techniques sometimes. The snare thing's cool, I'll have to try that. Another great technique I stole from Sonic Youth is sticking a screw driver underneath the strings and pickup behind it. You can get some real cool sounds with a drumstick stuck between your pickups, as long as you don't mind being a bit rough on your instrument. This kind-of trick is also handy to raise your action for playing slide guitar, stick a screwdriver before the first fret and you can raise your action w/o adjusting the bridge. Works great.
So glad I stumbled on this video... as luck would have it, this is the perfect space to explore in a song I've been working on this week. Thanks for the great music over the years (and now lessons! very cool).
Thank you for taking the time and energy to show folks how you found inspiration for sound. In today’s world I rarely meet other players with info to impart. Let’s get back to sharing and testing limits.
I actually enjoy a snare technique with my bass. I stick an allen wrench through the 4 strings and twist them in pairs. It essentially turns the bass into an industrial percussion instrument.
I'm the "drummer" in my friends band but what many don't realize immediately is that I am playing prepared bass guitar with drum sticks, not the drums.
it reminds me of a guitar i found near trash bins, it was damaged but i took her home, was sounding very similar to this and i spent quite a while enjoying these sounds!
My fingernails are too short, so instead I wrapped 2 courses of strings around picks and slid them up, essentially creating 2 separate snare string semi-capos. the non twisted B string hit the edge of the pick and made a different percussive sound. So I had 3 seperate gnarly percussive strings and an open e string to noodle with. With an effects pedal and looper I was having fun for a few hours. Awesome video!
Very interesting presentation by Duane - that 'snare' effect was demonstrated to me about 40 years ago by a gentleman by the name of Alirio Diaz. However, the cable clip trick is new to me - and is really neat, proving that in many guitar players there is a drummer trying to get out ! Thank you for posting !
Thanks!! This is very helpful. I'm obsessed with the work of Kevin Drumm who introduced me to the prepared concept. I didn't know it came from Cage originally. I'll have to play around with this and see what can be done. Thank you for the assistance
I just wanted to say, love the lessons with Mr. Duane D (all 2 of them that I've seen, hah). Honestly, as slightly camera shy as he is, I like the way he teaches. It's very straight forward and to the point, yet conceptual enough to make it interesting. Btw, I love the topic. I Doubt he has plans to do more of these; but due to the mad respect I have for the jesus lizard, this just makes me respect their guitarist a little more. Cool beans bro. Ty Mr. D. You have further made my unbearably dull existence slightly more interesting. Hazahh!
i figured out the "snare guitar" effect when i was a teenager but he's using a really clumsy 2-handed method to get it there: i always found it switchable to in a beat by hooking my fretboard fingers around the lower of the 2 strings i wanted to cross & hoiking it up & over. the difficult thing about it is switching from any given "snared" note to any other more than 2 frets away, where the strings're crossing back over & they'll just snap back into place: to get to any other note, it helps to slide into it from a position closer to the note one's moving from on the fretboard.
Some really interesting stuff going on here. Geordie Walker once said the guitar is like an orchestra in a box and Duane is definately on the same lines here.
+drlandeau666 The twist tie thing is actually pretty neat. If you have a looper pedal, you can use it to record experimental sounding percussion beats to play over top of.
Twisting the strings around each other? Weaving twisties through the strings? Either this is an April fool joke, or an object lesson on gullibility. Ridiculous. Oh.. In case I wasn't clear,It sounds crappy, too.
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The guitarists hating on this have never played with bands and lack imagination about how this would sound in a mix. With bass and drums this would sound so cool.
I would replace "kind of neat" with "f#$*ing awesome" (and I try to not overuse those words). Can't believe my all-time favorite guitarist now posts tips on UA-cam. Thanks, Duane!
This guy is one of the best american guitar player`s open mind dosen`t hurt man , specially with a guitar.
Fun fact: Duane is a longtime friend of mine, and we've worked together variously when I've mixed the bands he's been in out on the road (I've also had him play on various tracks and projects for me over the years). I love his playing! He's one of my favorite guitarists. He once sold me this guitar he's using in the video, for about a year - then wanted to buy it back cause he liked it so much and missed it. That is a cool guitar! I'd seen him play it on sessions and tours, and I knew what it could do. But when I got it, nothing I ever played on it ever really worked for me, or sounded good. But it always worked for him. So when he wanted it back I was happy for him to have it. I had know idea it was in this lesson video! He and I had talked about prepared guitar many times, so when I came across this video I was happy to see the guitar and him giving this lesson. :)
He is amazing and hes a crazy good artist!
Gibson BFG - i have one. best guitar i have. it's face meltingly good.
Wow that was not even remotely interesting, I thought it was going to be.
the snare guitar reminds me of Confusion is Sex era Sonic Youth.
They were so god damned good back then
That's what brought me here!
how original
I don't think Sonic Youth ever really stopped doing this kinda shit, but it tended to get released as SYR instead of 'proper studio albums'
Fred Frith's 1974 LP called Guitar Solos is a primer for prepared guitar. Nice lesson, Duane.
I'm surprised at all the close-minded guitarists on here. I thought this was a genius idea. Obviously not one to be used all the time, but something that, as Duane alluded to, has infinite possibilities with the right effects.
So, I’m told Picasso could draw photo realistically. He did something different though in the name of art. Music is art.
i'm not surprised. guitar culture is full of boring conservatives
@@KM-zw9qb i agree
Absolutely! There's nothing pure about music or its composition. It's all just space and the sounds with which to fill it.
It's gonna kinda depend on whether you like the sound or not. It sounded like it would be perfect for a primus kinda sound. It's more of a sound design tool. Like if you wanna create some weird sounds to throw into your mix.
Very cool ideas. I have to get back to being more experimental with guitar. All the theory and practice routines have chased it away. Thanks for sharing this.
Fascinating approach to guitar lessons. It's good to mix some outer-space stuff in with traditional techniques sometimes. The snare thing's cool, I'll have to try that.
Another great technique I stole from Sonic Youth is sticking a screw driver underneath the strings and pickup behind it. You can get some real cool sounds with a drumstick stuck between your pickups, as long as you don't mind being a bit rough on your instrument.
This kind-of trick is also handy to raise your action for playing slide guitar, stick a screwdriver before the first fret and you can raise your action w/o adjusting the bridge. Works great.
I’ve learnt so many amazing things from sonic youth, there’s nothing quite like their approach
Duane. You sir are an amazing guitarist.
The twist tie thing is on Pop Song, innit? Brilliant
I was just listening to that and remembered this video and put two and two together! Duane is second to none
I'm glad someone else noticed.
So glad I stumbled on this video... as luck would have it, this is the perfect space to explore in a song I've been working on this week. Thanks for the great music over the years (and now lessons! very cool).
Thank you for taking the time and energy to show folks how you found inspiration for sound. In today’s world I rarely meet other players with info to impart. Let’s get back to sharing and testing limits.
Duane Denison's tutorial on prepared guitar via Guitar World: www.guitarworld.com/lessonface-duane-denison-sonic-exploration-and-guitar-preparation
it sounds like a ring mod but with a different frequency for each string- this is so cool
That snare thing explains a ton of Glenn Branca
I actually enjoy a snare technique with my bass. I stick an allen wrench through the 4 strings and twist them in pairs. It essentially turns the bass into an industrial percussion instrument.
Turns out Lars was actually playing guitar on St. Anger and not drumming.
I'm the "drummer" in my friends band but what many don't realize immediately is that I am playing prepared bass guitar with drum sticks, not the drums.
Damn, I was going to make a St Anger snare joke but you beat me to it.
I guess I was frantic.
wow Duane is natural born teacher! (though I'd be happy for him to put the teaching in favour of the studio or on tour)
it reminds me of a guitar i found near trash bins, it was damaged but i took her home, was sounding very similar to this and i spent quite a while enjoying these sounds!
My fingernails are too short, so instead I wrapped 2 courses of strings around picks and slid them up, essentially creating 2 separate snare string semi-capos. the non twisted B string hit the edge of the pick and made a different percussive sound. So I had 3 seperate gnarly percussive strings and an open e string to noodle with. With an effects pedal and looper I was having fun for a few hours. Awesome video!
Very interesting presentation by Duane - that 'snare' effect was demonstrated to me about 40 years ago by a gentleman by the name of Alirio Diaz. However, the cable clip trick is new to me - and is really neat, proving that in many guitar players there is a drummer trying to get out ! Thank you for posting !
Alirio Diaz the classical player? He was good
Thanks!! This is very helpful. I'm obsessed with the work of Kevin Drumm who introduced me to the prepared concept. I didn't know it came from Cage originally. I'll have to play around with this and see what can be done. Thank you for the assistance
These are really cool for extended technique but I would love to see different objects we can use to prepare a guitar
If you want a great example of that snare guitar technique at work look up Zs live on terroreyes
I just wanted to say, love the lessons with Mr. Duane D (all 2 of them that I've seen, hah). Honestly, as slightly camera shy as he is, I like the way he teaches. It's very straight forward and to the point, yet conceptual enough to make it interesting. Btw, I love the topic. I Doubt he has plans to do more of these; but due to the mad respect I have for the jesus lizard, this just makes me respect their guitarist a little more. Cool beans bro. Ty Mr. D. You have further made my unbearably dull existence slightly more interesting. Hazahh!
i figured out the "snare guitar" effect when i was a teenager but he's using a really clumsy 2-handed method to get it there: i always found it switchable to in a beat by hooking my fretboard fingers around the lower of the 2 strings i wanted to cross & hoiking it up & over. the difficult thing about it is switching from any given "snared" note to any other more than 2 frets away, where the strings're crossing back over & they'll just snap back into place: to get to any other note, it helps to slide into it from a position closer to the note one's moving from on the fretboard.
Amazing!
he used a few of these techniques in th'legendary shack shakers album agridustrial,,,,,it reallt works
Duane has the uniqueness of the most unique of the unique... and that is being really wordy, to essentially share: the Word.
very cool video - thanks Duane !
Makes me want to try and combine with effects as well :-)
fantastic
That's a cool little trick
So sweet of a sound
Now I understand the sound on my DK3 cd's.
Well, I just loved it..
"No, I'm playing snare guitar and it was shown to me by Duane Dennison."
I need that on a tshirt.
With a looper pedal and an extended range guitar for bass, one can become a literal one man band.
Fred Frith likes this...:)
This is great man thx
woah, this lesson its amazing!
It has a 1930s jugband-ish low-fi clang to it.
What a cool guy
Some really interesting stuff going on here. Geordie Walker once said the guitar is like an orchestra in a box and Duane is definately on the same lines here.
People saying this lesson sucks should investigate about prepared instruments, noise music and, last but not least, opening their minds.
very cool
If you wish to hear how this trick would sound in a song setting, listen to "Framed" by The Denison/Kimball Trio.
Tell Duane I love him
THIS IS BRILIANT!!!
Duane fucking rules. Thanks.
whaaaa.?.?.??. ❤️❤️❤️❤️😁😁👍👍👍
Idk if I like the way any of that sounds. Do I suck?
That snare thing happens a lot to drunk mandolin players at late night jams.
I like you man, well explained and straight to the point...thanks for posting 👍
3:26 I heard flamingo guitarist haha 🦩Juan
Uh oh my fingernail is in the carpet here somewhere
Sonic youth!!!!!
01:19 click here to start the video
Gibson BFG
Those sounds were fucking unholy
I want guitar lessons with Duane but my one year old wont let me, hed scream the whole way through, what a shame...
it sound like african's drumming
unique buuut kinda sounds like your choking the hell outa the guitar
Pop Song
BITCHEN!
Awful.
Why in the hell would you even do that
If you make noise or noise punk like me, prepared guitar is also really fun.
+drlandeau666
Why not?
+drlandeau666 The twist tie thing is actually pretty neat. If you have a looper pedal, you can use it to record experimental sounding percussion beats to play over top of.
Go shred a power metal solo lol
Two words. NO WAVE
Twisting the strings around each other? Weaving twisties through the strings? Either this is an April fool joke, or an object lesson on gullibility. Ridiculous. Oh.. In case I wasn't clear,It sounds crappy, too.
Go play thrash riffs, bro.
you have too much time on ur hands man. nobody likes to hear that kind of stuff
Yes, we do.
87 thumbs up (and counting) say they do.
lmao!
I love this shit, I enjoy noise way more than music, both are great I just prefer this.
+Hill Bros. Sonic Youth managed to make a 30 year career out of stuff like this, so there's plenty of people out there who enjoy this kind of thing.
is this a joke????
Nothing at all... this is a technique guitar... his name is "prepared guitar", see more in wikipedia or specialist guitar pages
guitar looks like a Les Paul BFG, except it has fretboard markers. Hmmm.
and a tremolo....
very cool