Uh uh. I know what you're thinking. "Did he play six strings or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a Eastwood Airline 56, the most powerful axe in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
I got to speak to Alessandro Alessandroni who played the classical guitar and fuzz guitar (and the whistling) on most of Morricone’s scores before he passed. I am a huge fan of his solo work but I wanted to ask what he used for his tone. Believe it or not...a Stratocaster and old Maestro fuzz pedal. He said he never understood why everyone writes that he used a Jazzmaster. It was a Stratocaster. I highly recommend you check out Alessandroni’s solo work such as Lady Frankenstein, Devil’s Nightmare, The Mad Butcher And my personal favorite Killer Nun. Killer Nun was recorded in the late 70s and features hip hop beats played on an old drum machine mixed with his iconic fuzzed out guitar, an analog synth and a recording of a Gregorian Chant Of Dies Irea on a reel to reel player that he manipulated with a pencil to warble the pitch. Almost a precursor to a lot of the music and techniques we hear now in hip hop, industrial and electronic.
Alessandro Alessandroni was also the best "Whistler" (i don t know if it is the right term) in the world. He had developed a particular technique managing to whistle emitting very little air to not blowin on the microphone and have the cleanest sound possible. I love his album called "Prisma Sonoro"
TorontoLarrivee For some reason every guitar forum I see on the Spaghetti Western Tone I see Jazzmasters and Mustangs thrown around but never a Strat. I think people assume because it has a similar surf type vibe to it and since it’s from the 60s it must be a Jazzmaster or something.
When I was a kid U2 made me want to play guitar, but spaghetti western music is what got me to quit stalling and pick one up. I'd gone to Six Flags Over Texas, and in the Texas section of the theme park they were playing some of that stuff from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. I overheard someone say what movie it was from and within days I rented it on VHS and was trying to pick out the guitar lines on a little student-scale acoustic. Decades later, I'm still playing. Nice video.
Awww yeah! These are the kind of sounds I'm always aiming for...but that fuzz was spot on. I too love the surf sound. that over the top drip heard on the chantays pipeline is something I just love to hear. Such a shame there's no equivalent of the surfy bear MOSFET reverb kits here in the UK....☹️
pure gold, you captured the essence spot on, the previous video i searched for was the luke force theme from star wars and there was a nice rendition but you played exactly what i wanted to hear, the sound is absolutely amazing, gold
what did I just watch... I been looking for tips into deep spring reverb surf sounds, and you came out with this. Man, that guitar playing was sick!!! really! I don't need anything else, already subscribed.
Haha, you seem like a cool guy. Subscribed! I'm glad your video was the first result from Google for "western sounding guitar", you are definitely one of the more fun UA-camrs to watch, looks like you were actually enjoying it. Thanks for the tips!
Jay, not only are your videos of the most informative, inspiring and structured out there, but you know how to endear yourself to your audience. Your delivery is second to none. I swear with the enthusiasm you project, you could have been taught by Mr. Paul Gilbert himself... you’re top class in my book kiddo!!! X 🖖🏼
It's spaghetti western adjacent, but the rockabilly dream pop hybrid a la Julee Cruise and the occasional late 50s oddity vaults me into the stratosphere.
I have a road trip to my Dad's place pretty soon, looking forward to retrieving an old Gibson reverb tank that belonged to my grandfather way back when.. :0)
Munsters tunes too 👍🏽 wif ya secret basement fuzz? Nice SW bit 🤗 A monsterus wide stereo WDW Metal lead with phase dly and so much verb you’re feel like a cave echoing in a bigger cave then add loud! And plenty of it😂
This is why I'm a Patreon member! Love you for this Jay! Awesome how you kick that Anasounds spring reverb tank to get the gun shot and whip effects! Can't wait to do this with my Gretch, but I'll have to kick my AC-3O CC2 for those gun shots! AWESOME! 🤠🎸🏇
This is a killer rig! Love the whip sounds & spinner for slowing down the tremolo. Cool fuzz, I use a Rat clone that I built and it really gets you there.
Good shout. And if I remember correctly, The Magnificent Seven was a remake of The Seven Samurai, and there’s more than a hint of Japanese Kendo etc going on with the lightsabers and Jedi costumes in Star Wars. It’s all linked.
Star Wars was kind of influenced by an Akira film which I did watch. The scene where Harrison Ford chases the troopers, and then starts running away that was taken from an old Japanese film, the same guy that made the original Fistful of Dollars.
Thank you. I really loved these movies growing up and I have the tab from one of my Guitar World books but its nice to to hear it too!!! Also, your Telecaster Tone video was excellent also as my buddy and I are Tele Freaks!!!! I'll post it on your other video!!!
Hey man, this thing sounds so Freaking Awesome! Plus I Freakin LOVE The Star Wars Cover. My Dad bought me up on Clint Eastwood- Spaghetti Westerns as well as me loving Surf- Spook guitar music. You also look like your really having fun too. I really gotta get me one of these to go with my Strats- Gretsch and Fender Twin Reverb
I believe your passion is on another genre 😉 but well explained. For a original sound you need to use a old stratocaster, little valve amps, germanium distorsion and external spring reverb. I remember Ennio speaking about the differents decays in the reverb tanks and how to mix them in the final scene the bad the ugly.. langevin big Iron audio transformers and valves, and tape on tape.. you go near with your equipment but go so close to the original sound.. believe me, a big technique rear. Cheers my friend!
Great video! I add a bit of Digitech Freqout and let the harmonic feedback ring through the reverb, it sounds like someone's whistling the Morricone-style on top of guitar chords.
I loved this Jay, thanks for an awesome demonstration! You really nailed the vibe for sure. And yeah, these movies were the coolest thing ever as a kid.... and still now as an adult :-)
What kind of guitar is that? Coolest looking thing ive seen. Those pedals look cool and they sound cool. The good bad and ugly theme is epic. Your playing is superrb.
im using an AC15 on the normal input with the reverb all the way up and a strymon el capistan with the spring reverb about 75 percent, with a room reverb/mic'd room sound from the el cap and WOW it sounds so close. II use the bigsby on certain notes. Sounds so awesome drenched in verb.
your sound is awsome, as always, but maybe a little bit too modern for "spaghetti western". Here in italy in sixties we didn t have really good amps and guitars..electric guitars in particular were really bad with the tipical "garbage" single coilish sound, thin and with no sustain XD
Loved your tutorial Jay! Spaghetti Western is the best, I somehow how love it while really disliking surf tho haha... Just the desert for me thanks! Do you or anyone else reading this have some good pointers for spaghetti chord progressions? Or just some great spag cadences ?
It is a great effect! Really brings out the trem. In fact, that is how it is arranged in those classic Fender amps with the built in tremolo and reverb as well!
How appropriate is it that the guitar is an Eastwood?
It went ahead and made my day.
@@JohannesLabusch I guess you could say we're all feeling lucky
Airline
Haha
Uh uh. I know what you're thinking. "Did he play six strings or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a Eastwood Airline 56, the most powerful axe in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
The Force Theme/Binary Sunset! That was so cool.
Oh yay!
I got to speak to Alessandro Alessandroni who played the classical guitar and fuzz guitar (and the whistling) on most of Morricone’s scores before he passed. I am a huge fan of his solo work but I wanted to ask what he used for his tone. Believe it or not...a Stratocaster and old Maestro fuzz pedal. He said he never understood why everyone writes that he used a Jazzmaster. It was a Stratocaster.
I highly recommend you check out Alessandroni’s solo work such as Lady Frankenstein, Devil’s Nightmare, The Mad Butcher And my personal favorite Killer Nun. Killer Nun was recorded in the late 70s and features hip hop beats played on an old drum machine mixed with his iconic fuzzed out guitar, an analog synth and a recording of a Gregorian Chant Of Dies Irea on a reel to reel player that he manipulated with a pencil to warble the pitch. Almost a precursor to a lot of the music and techniques we hear now in hip hop, industrial and electronic.
Great history lesson! Thanks so much for sharing :)
That’s awesome! Alessandros solo work is so good.
I especially like his African disco, and all vocal albums
Alessandro Alessandroni was also the best "Whistler" (i don t know if it is the right term) in the world. He had developed a particular technique managing to whistle emitting very little air to not blowin on the microphone and have the cleanest sound possible. I love his album called "Prisma Sonoro"
Actually thought it was common knowledge he used a stratocaster
TorontoLarrivee For some reason every guitar forum I see on the Spaghetti Western Tone I see Jazzmasters and Mustangs thrown around but never a Strat. I think people assume because it has a similar surf type vibe to it and since it’s from the 60s it must be a Jazzmaster or something.
Man, he is having so much fun with all this. Makes watching it all the better.
for me its surf music with the rythm of a galloping horse
or a steam train
That's exactly what it is you can use the same E F G A D minor scales u use in surfer music it's almost identical theory wise
When you played enough RDR but you needed something that goes with it.
That guitar sound just makes me smile, love it.
When I was a kid U2 made me want to play guitar, but spaghetti western music is what got me to quit stalling and pick one up. I'd gone to Six Flags Over Texas, and in the Texas section of the theme park they were playing some of that stuff from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. I overheard someone say what movie it was from and within days I rented it on VHS and was trying to pick out the guitar lines on a little student-scale acoustic. Decades later, I'm still playing. Nice video.
If you want to see a good Western check out the John Wayne movies one of my favorite western actors my favorite movie with him is the searchers
Makes me happy seeing this guy having so much fun with this.
I love energy of that guy , much respect ❤
3:20 daaamn that sounds really good
Thanks!
Pedals and guitar sound incredible! Glad to discover this great channel.
I've been searching about spaghetti western a few days back, and your video come up with this, perfect!
Perfect timing, hope the vid helps with the search!
Awww yeah! These are the kind of sounds I'm always aiming for...but that fuzz was spot on.
I too love the surf sound. that over the top drip heard on the chantays pipeline is something I just love to hear.
Such a shame there's no equivalent of the surfy bear MOSFET reverb kits here in the UK....☹️
From 4:05-The progressing Eastwood gun scene music with matching voicings, awesome...!
pure gold, you captured the essence spot on, the previous video i searched for was the luke force theme from star wars and there was a nice rendition but you played exactly what i wanted to hear, the sound is absolutely amazing, gold
You nailed it! This was a gem to find today.
Super skilled brilliant interpretation!
Yes, Surf sound and spaghetti westerns is amoung my favorite sounds 👍
Many thanks!
what did I just watch... I been looking for tips into deep spring reverb surf sounds, and you came out with this. Man, that guitar playing was sick!!! really! I don't need anything else, already subscribed.
Haha, you seem like a cool guy. Subscribed! I'm glad your video was the first result from Google for "western sounding guitar", you are definitely one of the more fun UA-camrs to watch, looks like you were actually enjoying it. Thanks for the tips!
Really appreciate it! Having fun nailing that tone :)
Quentin Tarantino will soon be in touch with you regarding his next movie’s soundtrack!
I wish, haha
Pity he only uses existing music.
@@dreamlandnightmare the one time he worked with an actual composer it was literally Ennio Morricone.
@@AusGovOfficial Yeah, I forgot that he composed the music for The Hateful Eight.
@@dreamlandnightmare uses existing music from existing western movies
Angels in heaven use spring reverb for sure , my fav sound , great video xD
Jay, not only are your videos of the most informative, inspiring and structured out there, but you know how to endear yourself to your audience. Your delivery is second to none.
I swear with the enthusiasm you project, you could have been taught by Mr. Paul Gilbert himself...
you’re top class in my book kiddo!!! X 🖖🏼
picking back near the bridge helps too. so fun
It's spaghetti western adjacent, but the rockabilly dream pop hybrid a la Julee Cruise and the occasional late 50s oddity vaults me into the stratosphere.
Yo bro you're clipping.... hard....
..I love it
I love this. You really own this sound. Just fantastic.
I have a road trip to my Dad's place pretty soon, looking forward to retrieving an old Gibson reverb tank that belonged to my grandfather way back when.. :0)
Wow...that's cool Mickey!
I don’t NEED that reverb spring thing.... but damn do I want it now Hahahahah Wow that’s awesome!!!
Such a cool topic to cover Jay! Love this!
Those pedals with interchangeable spring box's are so fun! Damn. I bet they're expensive af lol
Man That’s Sweet And So Simple But Complex On Sounds 👍👍🎶🎶🎸
Nice tone, awesome job buddy! Love from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 😎💜🇭🇳🤗
Your playing is KILLER. So awesome, thank you for the video!
Wow, I dig that Airline! I always loved the original "map" guitar...first saw it in my old 60's encyclopedia under "Electric Guitar"!
How cool is this video ? You sound incredible and the tone is just right and tight and your enthusiasm is very inspiring
Wow, thank you!
@@JayLeonardJ no, thank you , you did my day. I had to grab the guitar after watching this. You're a wonderful teacher and a even better musician
All that and then plug in a Baritone for that last little craziness!
I came here to make the same comment, was hoping he’d be playing a baritone! BTW, you make some truly beautiful guitars!
David Lucas haha same, at first thought this was a baritone. Fantastic vid.
Pasketty vester ist das besta. Ermagerd that sounded awesome thanks for the trem tips 👍🏽
Munsters tunes too 👍🏽 wif ya secret basement fuzz?
Nice SW bit 🤗
A monsterus wide stereo WDW Metal lead with phase dly and so much verb you’re feel like a cave echoing in a bigger cave then add loud! And plenty of it😂
Haha!!! That Fuzz is a firebreather 🔥🔥
That spinner is a fantastic piece of kit!
Informative yes and entertaining too. Really enjoyed the video and love all those sounds too!
Love "surf music from the wrong side of the tracks"!
This is why I'm a Patreon member! Love you for this Jay! Awesome how you kick that Anasounds spring reverb tank to get the gun shot and whip effects! Can't wait to do this with my Gretch, but I'll have to kick my AC-3O CC2 for those gun shots! AWESOME! 🤠🎸🏇
Thanks so much man! Don't worry, an AC30 is tough enough to take that beating... You may scare your neigbours though, haha
Great playing and sounds, i love that guitar too, it's awesome!
This is a killer rig! Love the whip sounds & spinner for slowing down the tremolo. Cool fuzz, I use a Rat clone that I built and it really gets you there.
Thanks! I'm actually a huge RAT user, those things can do anything :)
shout out to the bug on the floor at the beginning of the video.
Hahahaha
Nice catch Bruv😂
Thank you for this. I love the tone and fx
Yep, Star Wars is a western. Good job! What is your take/opinion on using baritone guitar (or a pitch shifter ) to play surf & spaghetti tones?
Yes! Pitch Shifter is a cool hack, but a cool Baritone has a resonance that can't be touched :)
Good shout. And if I remember correctly, The Magnificent Seven was a remake of The Seven Samurai, and there’s more than a hint of Japanese Kendo etc going on with the lightsabers and Jedi costumes in Star Wars. It’s all linked.
Star Wars was kind of influenced by an Akira film which I did watch. The scene where Harrison Ford chases the troopers, and then starts running away that was taken from an old Japanese film, the same guy that made the original Fistful of Dollars.
Really Fun Man, Great job!!
Amazing all around. Love this!
Nice video! That has to be one of the greatest tones.
Thanks!
Really enjoyed your playing and enthusiasm for the genre. Great vid!
This video is wild! Congrats Jay, definitely love your work :D
Yeah I’m gonna need that element pedal, love what that tank does
Great box!
I just started messing with guitar style yesterday. It's so effing cool.
Hope the vid helps! Enjoy :)
It would be cool if you added some quick tab or showed how to play those riffs. Otherwise, pretty cool!
Yeah, the John Williams and Nino Rota were sweet touches. Well done, as always
Ah, I didn't think anyone would pick out that last little riff :)
Loved it ! And yeah, it was pretty sneaky 😉
Which minute? Thanks!
Thank you. I really loved these movies growing up and I have the tab from one of my Guitar World books but its nice to to hear it too!!! Also, your Telecaster Tone video was excellent also as my buddy and I are Tele Freaks!!!! I'll post it on your other video!!!
Amazing skill you have on guitar.. join forces with Andy Martin on Reverb
One of the nicest and coolest guys in the biz 👍
How about getting Dave Simpson from Great Britain to join the collaboration.
This was spectacular😊⭐️🤩Thanks always for your knowledge and creativityYou did a great job love the guitarThanks again
Hey man, this thing sounds so Freaking Awesome! Plus I Freakin LOVE The Star Wars Cover. My Dad bought me up on Clint Eastwood- Spaghetti Westerns as well as me loving Surf- Spook guitar music. You also look like your really having fun too. I really gotta get me one of these to go with my Strats- Gretsch and Fender Twin Reverb
this will get me some great Idea of how to start getting that sound thx.
Great stuff with the effects.
Glad to help!
Soo cool! That reverb thingy is amazing. Gotta love Jay's tone and technique expertise. Just getting into the surf rock style myself...
Cool video with added great sense of humor! Subbed
Well, I didn't expect to hear The Force Theme on spaghetti western guitar today, but here we are.
Yeah, it's hilarious how easily that tune translates to Western as well :)
Well done. Sounds great with precise expectations - examples
Thanks!
I believe your passion is on another genre 😉 but well explained.
For a original sound you need to use a old stratocaster, little valve amps, germanium distorsion and external spring reverb. I remember Ennio speaking about the differents decays in the reverb tanks and how to mix them in the final scene the bad the ugly.. langevin big Iron audio transformers and valves, and tape on tape.. you go near with your equipment but go so close to the original sound.. believe me, a big technique rear.
Cheers my friend!
Great video! I add a bit of Digitech Freqout and let the harmonic feedback ring through the reverb, it sounds like someone's whistling the Morricone-style on top of guitar chords.
I loved this Jay, thanks for an awesome demonstration! You really nailed the vibe for sure. And yeah, these movies were the coolest thing ever as a kid.... and still now as an adult :-)
The Mavericks' Raul Malo and Eddie Perez do some of that kind of stuff occasionally.
Thank you! I love the Danelectro Spring King. Your thoughts... You have a killer sound!
I haven't played a Spring King in forever! I remember how super cool they looked though :)
What kind of guitar is that? Coolest looking thing ive seen. Those pedals look cool and they sound cool. The good bad and ugly theme is epic. Your playing is superrb.
Eastwood Airline 59 but the 3 pickup version with BIgsby
im using an AC15 on the normal input with the reverb all the way up and a strymon el capistan with the spring reverb about 75 percent, with a room reverb/mic'd room sound from the el cap and WOW it sounds so close. II use the bigsby on certain notes. Sounds so awesome drenched in verb.
love it Jay, thanks!
Good Stuff ! The G the B & the U is my favorite film also !!!
Thanks!
Dude, this is so good.
Love the enthusiasm. Great video! 🤠
Glad you enjoyed it!
Amazing, thank you for this.
omg i want that reverb crazy thing a ma jig who dooie
Awesome!!!Chuck Norris would get out of that guitar's way
your sound is awsome, as always, but maybe a little bit too modern for "spaghetti western". Here in italy in sixties we didn t have really good amps and guitars..electric guitars in particular were really bad with the tipical "garbage" single coilish sound, thin and with no sustain XD
That's why he used the Airline, it's a replica of a cheapo guitar from the 60s here in the USA.
I don’t know, it sounds pretty accurate to me
@@hickorymccay2994 i found the sound to be too sophisticated tho
The best video in youtube 🙌🏻
thanks!!!
Best guitar vid ever 😎 I highly recommend
BABON - Big Cat Small Jungle
In outside of his house, is happening a duel
sounds sick! great video, dude
This guys gear is 👏
Loved your tutorial Jay!
Spaghetti Western is the best, I somehow how love it while really disliking surf tho haha...
Just the desert for me thanks!
Do you or anyone else reading this have some good pointers for spaghetti chord progressions? Or just some great spag cadences ?
Stick to basic E F G A D minor scales surf and spaghetti western in theory are almost identital
Reverb and overdrive. Got it
Forgot the Tremolo
Great vid JLJ!
Did you start playing the music from Star Wars? In episode 4 where Luke finds his aunt and Uncle and the suns are setting.
Definitely :)
You just got a subscriber… reverb on my friend🤙
Really appreciate it, thanks for watching!
surf, spaghetti western, and Duane eddy form a holy trinity
Where would you put the fuzz in the signal chain?
Very cool. So you have the tremolo after the reverb? That's different.
It is a great effect! Really brings out the trem. In fact, that is how it is arranged in those classic Fender amps with the built in tremolo and reverb as well!
That guitar is a retro futuristic spaceahip!
Definitey :)
Thank you, Jay.
Amazing video bro!
Dude Amsterdam loves you.
plz do more videos exploring different genres!!!
Stellar.
Do you have a tab to the song you played? Im not really skilled or good playing By ear yet but i'd love to try playing It.