Stop Trying to Sound Like Everyone Else
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- Опубліковано 18 тра 2024
- FREE WORKSHOP: I share techniques you can use to develop a unique sound and style of playing your guitar. A guitar "voice" all your own! Excerpted from a 2020 livestream workshop.
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I could listed to your voice for hours. You voice is just as unique as your guitar's.
I love this stuff! Very cool. And weirdly comforting!
After living in Virginia for a couple of years, I developed a love for bluegrass....coupled with ambient style guitar, it's simply delicious !
Wonderful stuff. Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom!
To be honest, the incredible beard tells me all I need to know about this man’s great scope of wisdom.
That's a rude way to refer to his wife...
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Literally the words of David Walliman
This is excellent, high level advice and wisdom :)
Sage words Bill. I clicked on this video because I was working on my playing last night and I find I’ve spent too long trying to play like others and too little on trying to play like me and there are many ideas in this lesson I use or adapt to me, or fits my vibe, as you say. Thanks
This is really informative and interesting thanks so much for sharing 🙏
No longer a piper but have been back into guitar for a few years now. I am so totally inspired by this. I’ve been working on adding to my rig to take a deep dive into ambient guitar. It’s also made me realize how little I know regarding theory. Like many self taught guitarists I never even learned the notes on the fretboard beyond the 6th string for root notes. Now I’m memorizing the fretboard and triads and such so I can build interesting chords. I love me some sus4 chords. I have found it to be highly necessary to know what the note is going to be before the swell, not after! Thanks for all you do, Bill.
Sounds like you are on a great musical journey!!
thank you, I found wisdom in your words 🤘
Super helpful video, the question you’re answering makes so much musical sense to my ear brain.
Best advice
I have fave guitarists, but I don’t care about what they use stompbox wise or amp wise. I insert random stompboxes out of the decent wide collection of stompboxes I’ve amassed over the years. I’ll stick an EQ Devices 3-way harmony box, a flanger and a reverb stomp into an overdrive box . That or similar random stompboxes in random orders will never fail to yield you sounds which are all your own.
Thanks for this valuable advice Bill. I like your approach. Taking time instead of rushing through things. Delaying and reverbing information 😉. I wonder, did you try the Neural DSP Archetype Plini plug-in? The artist Plini is obviously inspired by Allan Holdsworth. And this plug-in has one of the finest cleans and delay/reverb possibilities. Keep up the good work!
Intresting
I really want to try one of these semi-hollow baritones with P90s thanks to you, though XD That said, I'm really happy with my SC-607B (7-string 27-inch baritone) and SRC6 :) I can say that I've almost never bought anything because someone I listened to used the product (eg, I'm not a Stephen Carpenter fangirl playing his guitar, even if I think Deftones is a fine enough band). There's been a few times when I cringed internally buying "signature" anything but I eventually got over it; if it has the sound I want to use/add to my tone, so be it.
Great video, thanks for sharing your insight, as always :)
YES..... YOU ARE WONDERFULL...YOU HIT THE BALL...THIS EXACTLY WHAT I WANT...TO GET TWO MAIN SOUNDS...1 FOR CHORDS AND DEEP ATMOSFER ....2 FOR LEAD GUITAR...BUT I HAVE A PROBLEM ...I CANT GET YOUR SOUNDS EASILY...I HAVE A FENDER STRTAT MADE IN JAPAN 1975...AND AN OLD KORG A5 PEDAL...AND MORLEY VOLUME PEDAL...AND I DID WHAT YOU TEACH IN YOUR VIDEO WITH THE COMBINATION OF: DELAY REVERB COMPRESOR DISTORSION AND VOLUME PEDAL...BUT DONT GET THAT PURE SOUND YOU HAVE...CAN YOU HELP ME?...THANKS
Outstanding Work Shop, thanks for posting.
Best lesson i have ever come across on the youtube or Google or some app this was great..wow factor 100%..RocknRollflat5
Thanks!!
Years ago I saw your channel and really appreciated your approach to the instrument, happy to see that you are still putting out great stuff years later. Right on! 👌
Thanks! just passed my 10th anniversary here on UA-cam!!
Yay! NEEMFEST 2019! We'll keep on trying. Let's hope 2022 works out.
But i just want to sound like YOU Bill
What is your favorite solo on one of your albums? .... This is great, Bill. Thank you!
The concept of a "voice" in instrumentation so interesting, is it tone created, the phrasing? If so, what about the voice created by someone making music without any pre-existing concept of what the final track will sound like? Is it still the voice of the person making the music if the outcome is totally accidental? So many questions!
I found and recognized my signature sound a few years back. I’m happy to say I am original and do give credit to many other artists for influence. I don’t think that I am copying or stealing. I just get in the groove and melt into someone I enjoy. Everyone learns from someone. I never steal a riff or a melody. I actually consider that a sin.
Omg, the young bloods really need this advice 😭 lol. It's so sad that they dont realize how bad it is to just keep copying each other. Just be yourself, stop following trends. If you're original and yourself, you make trends.
I think we Would have sick space jams. Your content is super appreciated
Edit: typo city on my end
Hey Bill listen to Joe Satriani "Saying Goodbye" it is Heart Wrenching ambient Guitar.
Bob Ross
Santa Claus
rock n roll
Muppet
Aww yes the late Great Alan Holdsworth may he Rest In Peace God willing and sure hope he found our Great friend Jesus
Just don’t demonstrate it at a guitar store or someone else Will make it their own….
This is my second comment the best the best im at awe threw the whoke vedio if this dint inspier noting will..RocknRollflat5
I am an drunken fool ok
Are you Tom Green's dad?
What about the actual composition??? I mean you can have the best tone in the world but what does it matter if your riffs go E G A powerchords or some other overplayed stuff ( and no that is not an insult directly to you ). You are still unoriginal.
Sure - I think that factor comes into play if you are writing your own music. If you are playing a cover, then maybe its more about the arrangement and chord voicings