Five Practise Tools For Better Guitar Playing - That Pedal Show
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- Опубліковано 14 тра 2024
- Your practise tools should be easy to use, fun and help you to achieve solid results. Here are five that work for Dan…
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Welcome to the show! Dan is on a continuous mission to improve and progress as a player. But as we all know, the work is never as much fun as the play! In this episode we look at five things that will make your practise all the more fun and rewarding.
Please enjoy the episode!
Pedals & stuff in this episode…
• iRealPro
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• Yamaha THR10II
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• TC Electronic Ditto+
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• Boss Waza Air Headphones
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Interesting bits and go-to sections…
0:00 Hello & introduction
1:54 Thing 1 Metronome in a new way
9:55 Thing 2 iReal Pro - band in an app
16:45 Thing 3 Yamaha THR10II
23:08 Thing 4 Loopers will help you
29:05 Thing 5 Boss Waza Air headphones
Guitars in this episode:
• Fender Custom Shop ’52 Relic Telecaster - Dan’s video at studio.ua-cam.com/users/videoqfLs...
• Epiphone Casino - Mick’s video at • Epiphone Casino Pickup...
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I’m now convinced Dan must have an alternate Jazz persona a la Duke Silver from Parks and Rec, which has begun bleeding into his regular Prog-Rock Dan persona by way of the pork pie hat.
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Dan has never be a slouch when it comes to playing guitar but you can tell he's learned a lot recently because he's playing well and because he's really excited to play.
I’m just here to comment that last night I played through 2 amps wet/dry for the first time (Matchless C30 & Fender Blues Deluxe). I will never be the same. After 5 minutes our drummer commented “that sounds unreal…but is it always gonna be that loud???”
Thanks gents, cheers from Chicago
YES! Drummers saying it’s loud!? Hahahaahab! Heard it all now. :0)
Ah drummers hey?!
Consistently, my best tools for practice have been other instruments. Every time I de-emphasized guitar to learn bass, drums, keys, etc I came back to guitar with a much deeper connection to the music, rather than just to the mechanics of playing guitar and always sounding like an exercise.
Just came back to guitar after a year or two of mostly piano and wow, my understanding of my fretboard has massively increased.
Many years ago when I first met Johnny Marr, amazing ex-Smiths guitarist, I was lucky enough to jam with him and now have a good friendly relationship with him, his advise to me playing with a metronome or click track was to think of it as your best mate or another band member and try to lock in with it like you would another musician, this worked for me and improved my timing and playing greatly, now I really enjoy playing to a click and can totally feel a groove around it in my head and body.
Coool! Please give him our regards and an open invitation to TPS, either here or there! Love Johnny!
@@ThatPedalShow I sure will, a great guitarist of his time and a lovely down to earth normal bloke.
HONK!!!
With mates like that who needs UA-cam gear shows!
Its a pleasure to watch you Gents so evolved in your all-guitar fiending pursuits. Well done Sirs!
Fantastic episode all around! Love this!
You guys are a blessing. I am blessed. Thank you for the wonderful content!! Always!! 😍
That clean tone with the tele is sooo awesome!
Of all the pedals I had ever purchased, the first time I purchased my Ditto was when playing in my apartment truly became a blast. I couldn't believe what I had been missing out on for so many years.
Just messed around with the app for 10 minutes and already it’s one of my favorite tools. Brings a lot of things together. Thanks!
Dan, it's really cool to hear where your study is taking you! Great work, you sound very good.
Thanks guys! Very practical recommendations easy to implement!
Oh and awesome playing from both of you!
This is fantastic!! Thanks again guys.
Dan, you're a really great guitar player. Thanks for this guys!
This video was one of the best yet!
I bought the THR after the last time Dan recommended it. I love it! Play it every day.
Great, simple, fun practice tips. Great episode chaps!
Great practice tools! Cheers Dan and Mick!!
Awesome! Need to catch up as well. Been away with no internet! Always love your show!!
Thanks for introducing iReal pro to me Dan. I almost never have any structure in my practice sessions but that makes it almost like a challenge - love it!
The metronome snare is gold! I use one all the time and this will totally change my playing in the pocket. Thanks!
Great job! I really enjoyed this video, and will purchase those headphones. Thanks so much. All the best to both of you from Northern California.
You guys always help a lot
Thanks for the pointer to iReal Pro last week.
Been using it in conjunction with my guitar lessons and already see improvements in my phrasing.
100% would recommend!
Best video yet! thanks guys!
I learned the 2/4 click trick from Tomo Fujita, the Berklee teacher a few months ago. Totally great idea and I’m amazed no one thought of it sooner.
love the banter
I've been doing my 'silent' practice through a Fender mustang micro amp which works a treat - but it had never occurred to me that I could plug it into my pedal board! Thank you for showing how to do that with the Boss Waza headphones and opening up my silent practice world! Great show as always 🙂 🎸 🎧
Awesome tools guys. Thank you very much. I really liked the irealpro. 👌👍🏻
Great Great video guys.. every bit of it.!
Probably one of the most important shows you've done for the likes of me, trying to practice (quietly) effectively, in small gobbets of time. Thank you guys, thank you.
This is a great video - you guys definitely inspire to learn - which has to be one of the hardest things to do!
Just bought a second Boss RC-3 Loop station before watching this, invaluable addition to a pedal board for practicing, playing to a metro gnome/beats. Big thanks to Dan for mentioning the Neunaber Iconoclast a while back, I'm loving the sound through headphones from my Laney IRT studio.
I'd never have expected a World According To Garp reference in a UA-cam Guitar video haha. Well done, Dan! Great video, gents!
Oh my god, thank you guys. That iReal pro app is the type thing I’ve been looking for, for so long. This has made practicing/jamming sooo much more fun. Helped my time, tremendously as well. Thanks so much guys. Love the channel!
Greetings from Nevada (where the fire season has started) My Positive Grid Spark practice amp came yesterday, so your tips are timely!
Woah! I’ve just got these on in the background while i’m working for some nice semi-musical interludes with the guys lovely chatter to keep me company, and suddenly out of nowhere I hear someone playing listenable jazz, and I look up and it’s Mick! Every video, you guys surprise us with something. Love it.
Thank you both for all that you do...I appreciate ya
Ah, cheers bud 🤓🙏
A really helpful episode. Thanks
Good suggestion on the looper- I've neglected that myself and have been using a basic TC Ditto for years; but I recently upgraded to one of the larger Boss units (partly to force me to learn/use it more!) and it's made a lot of difference for practice being able to store backing tracks etc
That tune Dan played to the metronome was 🔥
This is one of my new favorite channels to watch. Thank you for the great content.
Thank you for being here.
Love improvement videos!! Praying for Dans full recovery from his bout with Longbottom!!
I’ve been using the metronome on 2 & 4 for the past year. I have noticed a huge improvement in my time. Playing in time makes everything else feel better.
Excellent idea, and I love your jazzy soul playing Dan Thanks guys for the app, excellent too Mick with the minor blues jazz , bravo. This small Yamaha is the best idea ever
Really enjoy these type videos. Talking about practice doesn't happen enough
Love the vids boys !!!
Class ep boys. I loved it
Cool tools. I've got them all except for the Boss Headphones. Instead, I've been using the Fender Mustang Micro headphone amp with great results for silent practice. Thanks for that metronome practice tip!
Ohh i like the epiphone sound Mick. Sounds really good in my headset on that clean sound. Makes me feel good in this summerheat. Well done both. Have a nice weekend :)
Wow Dan, your jazz playing is awesome! I hope some of that will be recorded for your new project or E.P.
For learning songs I'm also a big fan of the various tools for slowing down the tempo while leaving the key alone.
Love the iReal Pro and my Boss Katana for practice
I just got the Ditto+ last week, what a great looper pedal, the functionality with the screen is amazing and it's still the same simple small pedal
Very interesting and helpful. Thanks.
100% with you on the THR. I spent years basically not playing at home, despite having a ton of stuff to work with, because nothing worked that well at home volume or sounded good. Got a THR, anything sounds good plugged into it, everything's easy, and suddenly the motivation to play is there.
Love your work Dan🤘 That Jazz app is being downloaded asap and a yamaha on order with a new TPS shirt I reckon
Hi D&M, in Hong Kong in quarantine, day 12 of 14. THR10C packed in the checked luggage and took the neck off my EJ strat and carried body and neck
as hand carry. Got through HKG quarantine checks, into the hotel, new strings on the strat and two weeks of rocking out in the hotel alongside some periods of work. Great amp and everything you said is true. So convenient. All the best TPS and all in the community. It’s a pleasure to be a small part of it.
I'm a huge iReal Pro fan. It's useful for a heck of a lot more than jazz. Seemingly any classic pop/R&B/funk/etc. song is available -- and being able to slow down the accompaniment, and then gradually bring up the tempo, is wonderful. Being able to practice a lick in any key, with the accompaniment switched to the desired key or playing any of scores of rhythmic styles, is so good.
Love you guys!!!
My best practise tools are TPS episodes. I watch them while practising/noodling and it gives me a clear hour or two of finger exercise! (And I get older and wiser at the same time)
iReal Pro! Game changer, lads!! Thank you!!
Another an amazingly practical show !!! Nerdy and still inclusive - how do you do it ??? 😀
IReal Pro, just downloaded it…good shout Dan!
Metronome on 2 & 4 is a trick I learned from Carol Kaye. Not sure if she came up with it herself, but I count it as yet another of her many valuable contributions to music and especially bass.
It’s in our DNA to play with D&A. Yes, indeed (most of the times) sometimes simple is beautiful and will get us further than complex. Thanks! 🙏
I got the Rev D20 and a simple splitter box for some of these reasons. Allows me to use the audio out on my iPad and go into the amp but the D20 also allows me to use the headphone out with the cab unplugged for quiet practice all while being a great pedal platform and great anchor for the home studio
Great tips - really enjoyed the video. Thanks :) I might even give the metrognome a go!
Had a looper station. Got a Trio+. Which is a lot more than a looper. Makes playing more fun.
I had a jazz band leader give me a great tip: always have the subdivisions going in your head. So if all you have is a clap (beats 2 & 4) have the 16th notes (1|||2|||3|||4|||) going in your head regardless of how many notes you're playing, like a hi-hat. It works, especially for slow tempos and long pauses.
Cheers to this show! Actually turned the metronome into a useful tool! 2 and 4! Amazing. Generally, instead of a metronome I’ve created/explored preset drum tracks.
Great show!!!
I love that I’m in a part of the world where this is what I wake up to. Favorite part of my Friday mornings!
Hooray!
Perfect timing! Have spent the whole afternoon catching up on the TPS episodes. Big Hi! From rainy, locked down Brisbane.
Hello Brizzy! Lockdown, argh. Argghhh!!!!
Must’ve had 2 cases. Lock it all down!
Great video, excellent tips guys. 100% agree with you on the THR10iiW, mine was an absolute godsend during lockdown last year. All my gigging gear was stashed unused in the understairs cupboard, and our already small house was now a home office/school. I use mine with a Line6 G10 wireless adaptor, so it's super quick to set up and grab 20 mins practice, be it on the kitchen table or on the sofa with headphones. Dan's point about it being quick and easy to set up (and fun!) rung so true as we all juggled multiple roles whilst confined at home. We're slowly back rehearsing now, but I use the Yamaha all the time still, learning new tracks for the bands. Wife not convinced about it being a living room furnishing however 😉
I gave up on the Boss Waza Air but on seeing this I think I'll give it another go. I've invested in some Curt Mangan strings (9.5's) and really liking them upto now I was a die hard Elixir user on 9's but find the Curt Mangans really nice in feel and playability so thanks for that guys. Keep on rockin'
Dan, appreciate your Big Trees recommendation. That little amp helps me get the most out of practice.
Absolutely true about the headphones. I use noise-cancelling headphones with my Tone Master Deluxe Reverb by just using the DI out with an XLR female to stereo mini jack cable, using the line level as a master volume control (no additional headphone amp/interface required) and that isolation is superb for silent playing, especially with the reverb/tremolo or a bit of delay from the Strymon Volante.
Love my THRii for the office. Small, sounds great and works. Also takes pedals ! Haha
Great video! U guys should do this type of content more often. Too much is about consuming gear etc. we need to stop and enjoy what we have once in a while. And these tools are very good for anyone interested in playing guitar.
Every year that goes by you guys remind me more and more of a married couple, such synchronicity and so many tense moments when you feel you're annoying each other :D love it!
EHX's Freeze pedal does that pad thing for playing over chords. You can learn about chord & scale relationship by actually listen what they sound like. Loopers are excellent for practicing and laying grooves.
The best, most informative TPS episode to date. Period. Not just for me, but for many younger, less experienced players.
I've been using a metronome for practicing my phrasing for years (put the work in, kids. I promise...you're not playing "in the pocket", as much as you believe you are!).
And the latest Yamaha amp lines are a revelation.
That amp doesn't exist to replace your Super Bass or your AC15...it exists to improve what's coming OUT of those amps. It's definitely worth it and can help you be a better player...get one asap.
Top notch jobs fellas.
Short and sweet. Some nice advice there. I was more or less already using the looper trick for a while, it’s fantastic to get better fast on a specific section or song, especially if you can control the tempo on the looper (so you can gradually increase the speed of the chord changes).
The Waza-Air look really awesome, especially since you can connect it to the ever growing pedalboard, but I tend to get really hot in the ears when I use earphones for any amount of time, to the point of total distraction (not to say destruction when I inevitably throw them at the wall in frustration).
Maybe they could issue a “Waza-Air-conditioned” version or something.
The I-real pro app is totally getting downloaded as we speak, and the metronome trick is something I guess I’m going to get a lot of mileage out of-it’s absolutely brilliant!
Thanks for all the advice!
Hi guys! Your work it’s an absolute pleasure to watch as always.
I’ve been very inspired from you guys, and particularly the last vlog from Dan regarding motivation and being the best as you can be (thx Dan to the comments, I’m feeling like a rock star just talked to me 😉) .
I see Dan becoming a really experienced guitar player over the years following you, and I’m wondering if you’ll have some advise for the average intermediate guitar player that is “stuck“ on the same knowledge from years and that would like to improve, but ,as I am, do not know where to start.
Thx gain for your hard work, and really hoping to be able to meet you guys one day soon!
Cheers!
That tropical disease line made me spit out my coffee.
I learnt that metronome tip from Australia jazz bass player, Brendan Clarke. I stopped the video to practise it and I definitely need to practise it more.
It’s Friday, it’s 12 o’clock, it’s TPS! Which is effectively the modern day equivalent of Crackerjack for a bunch of us 70s born nerds. Happy Friday folks.
No free pencils, though. Oh, was that that Crackerjack? I was born in the fifties!
CRACKERJACK!
Oooh I could crush a grape.
@@mikeclarke4002 we have to pay TPS if we want pencils. For some reason @thatpedalshow isn't covered by the BBC license fee. I know, it's an outrageous state of affairs.
@@benbutterworth7584 personally I'm considering ripping a tissue.
I found that metronome app you were talking about and downloaded it. Great practice tool indeed. 😄
Great show...
I'd like to think we're not a cult, but then I just spent ten minutes watching you play guitar into headphones I can't hear.
Hahahahah!!!!
@@ThatPedalShow The only reason why TPS fans are so overwelmingly nice because we're all scared you're gonna come to our houses and murder us all in our sleep. I don't even like to leave my window open at night anymore just in case TPS tries to climb in. I would urge everyone else to be vigilant and do the same thing.
By the way….while I get Mick’s point about not liking the acoustic noise from the guitar while using the THR, they failed to mention that it DOES have a headphone jack. 🤪 Voila.
Great suggestions. Here is another - Fender Mustang Micro. I chose it over the WAZA Airs because (1) I can use my own headphones / in ears / etc., (2) much cheaper. I can also plug it into a more complex signal chain to include my effects, and also to output to something other than headphones (like my powered monitors). Great practice tool for not much money.
Playing with and around the metronome is a great concept. Totaly new to me. Just recently I found a video in witch Carol Kaye talked about it, too. For her it's about making the metronome swing. I think it's really cool. Makes it less boring and more musical.
Best thing about iReal Pro: You can loop any part of the song to work on only specific bits. Especially if you’re just starting out to improvise over jazz standards that have a lot different keys, it’s super useful to break it down a bit!
I LOVE THAT APP. You can quickly chart out any progression you want. I use it just over a couple chords if need be. And it’s sterile enough that it leaves room for you to work on your feel too.
Mick seems to be enjoying the Casino post-pickup change. Splendid sounds, lads.
Muchly. It’s a very satisfying low volume guitar!
I have one of the joyo mini heads for practice. They also are Bluetooth capable and sound surprisingly great
The single thing that has helped my jazz playing is learning a song. Now play the same song without playing those chords you just used, new positions or voicing and then repeat. Next step is start mixing those different chords/voicings together. After you are making noticeable progress, start dropping the bass note. Do that to one song a day and you will be shocked at the progress you can make because a TON of jazz songs are very similar when looking just at the chords.
I have a compulsion to do things the hard way, or "wrong" as the pros call it, so rather than a Metronome or a Looper, I use a Tremolo to simulate having friends to rock out with. Really tightened up my rhythm. 🤘