Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
At The Back => Time Out => Topic started by: Keven on July 04, 2012, 11:25:31 PM
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Hey guys,
so i've gotten my first music making contract since leaving the retail/teaching industry a year ago. i always record silly little videos over jam tracks and stuff for fun. and this has landed me the task of making demo videos for a certain budget guitar brand i can't disclose.
i have the idea of doing several styles of course over the different guitar types, from jazz to metal and country. i have a fairly good metal and jazz curriculum so i can handle those, but i want to showcase to the beginner crowd that even a cheap instrument can get you playing and sounding good if you work on it. so on that, i'm planning to sort of emulate known guitar artists that beginners flock to.
it's a personal fun of mine to take cheap guitars and play the living hell out of them :)
so, for rock, i was thinking of springsteen, slash and then i'm a bit lost there.
basically, i'm asking for suggestions of artists to look into and maybe a defining hit or two to get my head rolling on a possible backing track and tone. anything goes really, i'm taking this opportunity to maybe sneak myself into the session world, or at the worst, improve my playing and versatility!
for country there's of course brad paisley to check out but i'm not going too much into obscure stuff.
as an idea, this is a little very quick jazz backing track i wrote and jammed over. those 12-68 strings killed my fingers!
https://vimeo.com/45214203
thanks for any inspiration you can provide guys!
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Angus Young would be good... Jimmy page too. Any of that 60s-70s classic rock. Beginners always start of as red hot chili peppers fans it seems (and some, like me, keep with it through years and years)... Maybe some frusciante style funk rock and clean rythm playing?
Those are the best I could think of... Other than that, dunno. Maybe Hendrix.
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frusciante is a good one i hadn't thought of!
of course the usual angus/page/vai/satriani i thought of but didn't mention here. keep'em coming. i also plan to do some jeff beck stylings to show how the whammy bar holds up...
brian may and santana might be good too, but maybe for an older audience,
thanks! keep'em coming!
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Tom Morello/RATM
Paddy
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good riffing showcase is also a must! cheers mate!
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Congratulations Keven ! :D
For the older audience / wallet carriers, Dave Gilmour immediately came to mind. Quite lyrical , but accessible playing - that tends to catch the ear due to the number of people who have conciously or unconciously heard the tunes. Apart from the massive number of Pink Floyd albums in circulation, his stuff has appeared over Wildlife documentries and such. Perhaps surprisingly, the last thing I was asked to show / teach a teenager - was the solo ( Acoustic ) piece " Is There Anybody Out There ? " From The Wall album.
For similar reasons, Mark Knopfler ( Brothers In Arms era ) could hold something ?
I am sure you will do whatever you chose very well. 8)
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Maybe add a little story about how Jeff Beck learnt to play on a beat up guitar with one string? Maybe have a 1 string lick like the Exorcist, then maybe have a harmony layered on top. I loved doing that when I first started playing. And all my mates thought it was cool :P
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thanks guys! that's the kind of ideas i'm looking for, defining tones/tunes :)
cheers Derek, glad to have you back around these parts. i don't plan to do copies, just get the vibe going and a general idea. it's amazing how many different ways the rock players bend that pentatonic scale!
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Paul Kossoff, Free! Soem great playing and feel right there. Maybe Joe Perry?
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For Telecaster-a-like demos - how about the Steve Cropper / Booker. T. & The M.Gs type of sound ? I'm thinking 'Green Onions' stylee. The World might even be ready for the Marc Ribot ( Tom Waits 'Raindogs' sessions ) Film Noir type of 'Twang'. I appreciate the general arena might be covered by the Bruce Springstein back catalogue, but I just felt that despite the external differences between them, 'Colonel' Cropper and Marc Ribot might both represent a more fertile ground for your own minimalist classic / fiendishly cool ideas and interpretations. :)
For Telecaster tones that cover rhythm and lead together in a ' You could do this too' style, how about the very wonderful Wilko Johnson / Dr.Feelgood arena ? 8)
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Tele - Danny Gatton
Strat - Blackmore
Gibson - Gary Moore
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Johnny Marr and a bit of Matt Bellamy.
Quite distinctive styles and sounds and I'm sure most people would recognise stuff in the style of those two.
I also thought of the Edge but the guy has changed his sound quite dramatically and I'm not sure what era of U2 people would most recognise
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Johnny Marr and a bit of Matt Bellamy.
Quite distinctive styles and sounds and I'm sure most people would recognise stuff in the style of those two.
I also thought of the Edge but the guy has changed his sound quite dramatically and I'm not sure what era of U2 people would most recognise
I've never really listen to much U2 but what I have always known the edge for is his use of very heavy delay with lightly overdriven chords.