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| ... I think people overemphasize the importance of gear in their search for tone. Your sound comes from how you pick and dampen the strings, and from your attack as much as anything...
- Eric Johnson
Now, if I could just figure out what my tone is, I'll be fine. I'm still trying to figure out who I am musically.
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Location: Cicero, NY | Once again, you're in the right place, Michelle. |
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| Originally posted by Weaser P:
Once again, you're in the right place, Michelle. I wish I could say it feels right, but sometimes it doesn't. I guess I got a restless heart!
At my lesson last night, we were jamming in E major, doing some blues licks. It was probably the coolest lesson I've had in a long time!
The thing about this is that I am finding out that I actually like blues music. I wasn't exposed to blues music as a child, and didn't listen to it only until the past few months. I have found out that I like John Hammond Jr., Josh White and Elmore James.
Who knows, maybe some of my tone will include the blues!
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Location: Cicero, NY | The blues grow on you. Listen to some Keb' Mo. A young guy who's a (Grammy winning) throw back to the classic blues players. Great stuff. Oh and Susan Tedeschi is really great too. |
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| Originally posted by Weaser P:
The blues grow on you. Listen to some Keb' Mo. A young guy who's a (Grammy winning) throw back to the classic blues players. Great stuff. Oh and Susan Tedeschi is really great too. Weaser, that reminds me of something. I have the "Touched by an Angel" CD that has a great song by Keb Mo on it.
And I just discovered Susan Tedeschi last night while watching YouTube!
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Location: Cicero, NY | ...and she's married to Derek Trucks, a pretty ok player in his own right.
Pick up Keb's Just Like You. Great from start to finish. I think that's the one he won the Grammy for. |
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Location: Utah | Originally posted by Guitarzannie:
I wish I could say it feels right, but sometimes it doesn't. I guess I got a restless heart![/QB] That looks like a classic blues song line right there. |
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| Originally posted by FlySig:
Originally posted by Guitarzannie:
I wish I could say it feels right, but sometimes it doesn't. I guess I got a restless heart! That looks like a classic blues song line right there. [/QB]
It should feel right
(duh-da-da-da-duh)
But I know it don't
(duh-da-da-da-duh)
Cause baby I got dem
Restless heart blues!
Oh yea!
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Interesting quote from Eric,....and this from a guy who claims he can tell what kind of battery is powering an effects box as well as how much juice is left in it. |
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Location: Scotland | and claims he can detect a difference in tone between guitar cords with brass jackplugs and those with chrome-plated plugs.......... |
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Location: SoCal | Originally posted by Paul Templeman:
and claims he can detect a difference in tone between guitar cords with brass jackplugs and those with chrome-plated plugs.......... Who can't? |
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Location: Campbell River, British Columbia | Me? I can't tell the difference between B# and C. |
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| Originally posted by Beal:
Interesting quote from Eric,....and this from a guy who claims he can tell what kind of battery is powering an effects box as well as how much juice is left in it. I didn't know anything about Eric Johnson before I posted this quote. It would appear that he is into gear, but telling people that tone isn't in the gear, it is in your hands. Am I missing something here?
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | There are two things going on, your sound and your equipment's sound.
We all play within our limitations, that defines your sound and how your equipment sounds.
So within the sound of the equipment you're playing you always will sound like you.
You're not missing anything. |
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Location: Florida Central Gulf Coast | Originally posted by an4340:
you always will sound like you Now that's down right discouraging...  |
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Beal and Temp seem to be saying that Eric has made some seemingly inconsistent statements in the past. Michelle, you will learn that Beal and Temp have a great deal of knowledge, but they are sometimes a bit terse. When prompted, however, Temp can expound with so much detail that I get a headache. |
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Location: Scotland | You get a headache? I just wish I could make the voices go away.......... |
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| Originally posted by Mark in Boise:
Beal and Temp seem to be saying that Eric has made some seemingly inconsistent statements in the past. Michelle, you will learn that Beal and Temp have a great deal of knowledge, but they are sometimes a bit terse. When prompted, however, Temp can expound with so much detail that I get a headache. Oh, I didn't think that they were terse. I just thought that Eric's statement seemed to be really inconsistent with the fact that he seems to be into gear.
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Location: Boise, Idaho | Temp, perhaps those mind-expanding drugs didn't work as planned. Your head just isn't big enough for all that knowledge. That's my excuse anyway. |
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| Originally posted by an4340:
So within the sound of the equipment you're playing you always will sound like you.
You're not missing anything. I actually heard Les Paul say "I can pick up any guitar and within two seconds, I'll sound like Les Paul."
The only thing is, I ain't Les Paul. Heck, with the way I've been playing lately even Keith Partridge sounds better than me! :eek: :D
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Location: Scotland | Originally posted by Guitarzannie:
I just thought that Eric's statement seemed to be really inconsistent with the fact that he seems to be into gear. Exactly. But that aside, he is absolutely right.
Perfect example: Matt Smith's Saturday Show at Amelia2. He did the entire gig with borrowed gear, even down to the pedals and DI boxes. Sounded killer, exactly like Matt Smith. He may have been more comfortable with his own instruments and FX stuff, but from the performance noone except himself would have known that. |
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Location: ms | I don`t think Eric can hear good enough to tell some of the things he claims. |
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Location: Michigan | I think eric's statement is spot on.
Alot of the old blues players could get all kinds of tones out of their guitars and amps that players nowdays can't do with a half dozen pedals.
But then they didn't have the choices then, if they wanted to sound different they had to work at it with what they had. I was going to cross post something for support from another board but couldn't find it soon enough.
Same goes for acoustic you can go soft & subtle to loud & twangy.
Annie if your starting to appreciate blues music I'd suggest renting "Cadillac Records" although not factual to a "T" histoically it is the story of the "blues" Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin Wolf, Etta James.
And if you get a chance, Eric Clapton's 2006 Japan tour with Derek Trucks, side 2. "You've got a Good Friend" my favorite acoustic solo blues tune.
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Location: San Bernardino, California | Another recommendation; Luther Allison 'Hand Me Down My Moonshine'.
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| Thanks for the recommendations, Wally and BruDeV.
Wally, I misread your post originally. I thought you were recommending to me "You've Got a Friend" instead of "You've Got a Good Friend"!
I was just trying to picture James Taylor doing "You've Got a Friend" blues style! :D
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Interesting quote from Eric Johnson