So you ask, what kind of full band music I wanna make??? The vision I’m hearing in my head is that I’m planning on using very little effects. I don’t need a lot of effects for my own rock music. All I need is a little overdrive and a little crunch. That’s it. I’m going for a Neil Young/Hendrix kind of feeling. The jams are probably gonna be long ’cause I’m probably gonna do a lot of soloing.
One thing when I’m soloing is that I don’t like to write out solos note for note and in my opinion, I hate when guitar players do that. I love improvising and winging things out. Ya know, just play the guitar solo once and never play it again. That’s how you become a great lead guitarist, in my opinion. That’s why I dig guitarists like Jimmy Page, Hendrix, Neil Young, Satriani, Trey Anastasio, etc. They never wrote out their solos… they were mostly improvised. That’s the direction that I’m gonna head into.
Yeah, you guess it. I’m planning to play jam rock kind of stuff. Just sing a few vocals with the lyrics and just jam out most of the time. I love that stuff.
I kind of want to bring back what the 60’s and 70’s did. I don’t need so many pedals and stuff ’cause it’s my belief that all that stuff is just to cover up your bad playing. You wanna stay true to yourself and not play with so many effects. I don’t know why some guitar players obsess with pedal collections. I could have a large pedal collection if I wanted but I don’t need to. All I need is overdrive, a little distortion and for the ballads, I would play clean with a little bit of reverb maybe.
I just wanna rock out just like the good old days of rock n’ roll. I think I can make some pretty good rock music.
A lot of times people have accused me that I don’t have what it takes to play full band stuff but watch me, I can show ’em.
Kev
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I have to disagree with your generalization of the use of pedals. It isn’t ALWAYS to cover up bad playing. Toward the end, even Hendrix was experimenting with more than wah wah and distortion. Some people get tired of the way the clean tone sounds, and they want to create new tones so they can be inspired to write different kinds of songs.
Of course, then you get into the argument that some people have where they think if you can’t reproduce the song with just a guitar, then it isn’t a song. But to that, I say…BULL SHIT! Music is music. Some people get bugs up their ass about how many effects other musicians use and accuse those people of not being musicians. Here’s my take on it: if you don’t like a lot of effects, don’t use them! 🙂
Also, I’m on the fence about the guitar solo thing. Sometimes I write them down, but more so as a guideline. For example, if a solo section lasts only a certain number of measures, then I will write it down…but even then, I use it only as a guide and will improvise off of it. That is usually only for slow solos. Whenever I play FAST ones, I never write those down because I would spend more time writing than I would playing!
Toward the end, even Hendrix was experimenting with more than wah wah and distortion. Some people get tired of the way the clean tone sounds, and they want to create new tones so they can be inspired to write different kinds of songs.
Wrong. Hendrix never used that many effects. All he used was a wah pedal (which I do have), the Fuzz face, the Uni-vibe and the Octavia. That was pretty much it, I believe.
Kev
That is still more than he started with. And he also used delay. Listen to the solo on “All Along the Watchtower.” Not to mention ELECTRIC LADYLAND is a very studio-heavy album; I doubt he could have created most of it live. Maybe today he could, but not with the technology they had back then.
That’s fine if other guitarists wanna use a bunch of effects. Just not for me. Maybe I should get a Fuzz pedal at some point if I wanna get that 60’s/70’s style that I’m looking for, though. A few effects would be fine for me.
Kev