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Andy Watt
Великобритания
Добавлен 2 окт 2011
Guitarist, teacher, performer, composer based in Newcastle UK. Subscribe for music videos, gear demos, lessons and more!
Eric Roche - 'To Be The Light' (a tribute)
Here's my version of 'To Be The Light' by Eric Roche. As it happens, today marks 19 years since his death (aged only 37) from cancer - a terrible loss for the world, and all the more reason to keep his music alive. For tabs and albums check out his bandcamp: ericroche.bandcamp.com
00:00 Intro
02:52 To Be The Light
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00:00 Intro
02:52 To Be The Light
WEBSITE andywattguitar.com
BANDCAMP andywatt.bandcamp.com
PATREON patreon.com/AndyWatt
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SQUIER Jazzmaster 12 string does The Byrds! ('Turn, Turn, Turn' cover)
Просмотров 14414 дней назад
Here's the first proper recording with my Squier Paranormal Jazzmaster XII, and what better way to test it out than with an arrangement of a classic song recorded by The Byrds (though written by Pete Seeger) alongside my friend and excellent bass player Dan Rogers! I'm playing the melody in different positions on the fretboard in each of the three verses which hopefully gives a sense of the dif...
Hymne à l'amour - Edith Piaf (solo guitar arrangement)
Просмотров 21428 дней назад
Seeing Celine Dion singing a wonderful version of this during the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics reminded me what a beautiful song it is. This is my arrangement - the guitar is tuned half a step down in order to be in the original key of Eb that Edith Piaf sung it in. Piaf wrote the words but the music was written by Marguerite Monnot. I've kept my arrangement fairly simple so as not to...
'A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square' - Chris Newman & Andy Watt
Просмотров 246Месяц назад
Another jam with the brilliant Chris Newman, this time we're playing that classic tune 'A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square'. Chris is playing his Colling I-35 through a Roland JC-22 and I'm playing my Sire H7 through a Fender Blues Junior. No pedals involved! If you enjoy this video, please hit the 'like' button, subscribe if you're new to my channel, and feel free to share it with your frie...
Talking Collings guitars and jamming 'Lime Rock; with flatpicking genius CHRIS NEWMAN!
Просмотров 290Месяц назад
As one of the finest flatpickers in the world, Chris Newman (@chrisatobm) knows a thing or two about acoustic guitars. Here's a chat we had about two of his favourite Collings model - his trusty OM1 and a more recently acquired short-scale OM3. We also put together a quick arrangement of a bluegrass tune that Chris originally learnt from the playing of Dan Crary called 'Lime Rock'. Hit the 'lik...
Sire H7 meets Collings I-35! Jamming with guitar legend CHRIS NEWMAN....
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.Месяц назад
I recently visited the brilliant Chris Newman (@chrisatobm). Chris was my guitar tutor during my university music degree (2008-2012) and has been a massive influence on my playing - it's thanks to him that I can play this sort of music at all. Chris just happens to own a beautiful Collings I-35 guitar, so I thought I would bring my trusty Sire H7 (a much cheaper version of a similar style of gu...
Squier Paranormal Jazzmaster XII - First Impressions!
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A bit of improvisation and my first impressions of this new Squier Paranormal Jazzmaster XII 12-string electric guitar. Let me know what songs I should record with it! 00:00 Improvisation 02:34 Intro 02:54 World's fastest unboxing 03:09 First impressions? 05:53 Outro improvisation
Jamming THE BEATLES 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' with RINGO STARR! (via Logic Pro...)
Просмотров 3782 месяца назад
....well, sort of! We thought we would make use of the new 'stem splitter' function on Logic Pro to isolate Ringo's drum part to the song 'I Want You (She's So Heavy)' and play along ourselves. Fun! 00:00 Intro 03:15 I Want You (She's So Heavy) PATREON patreon.com/AndyWatt TIP JAR www.buymeacoffee.com/andywattguitar WEBSITE andywattguitar.com BANDCAMP andywatt.bandcamp.com
Carole King - 'You've Got A Friend' (cover LIVE in the studio)
Просмотров 4812 месяца назад
If you've seen my 'Sire S3 Clean Rhythm Playing' demo video (ruclips.net/video/Fb7FId1djWY/видео.html) then you will have already seen this, but I wanted to share this performance in its own right too (with a snazzy black & white filter). Patreon members get an MP3 of this to download - join here: www.patreon.com/andywatt Grace Alexander - vocal and keys Andy Watt - guitar David Lourie - drums ...
Is the SIRE S3 good for clean rhythm playing? (Carole King cover with my band!)
Просмотров 2852 месяца назад
I took my @sireguitars S3 along to a session with my band and we recorded a cover of Carole King's 'You've Got A Friend'. I thought this would be a good way to showcase this budget Strat an actual live band situation, with a predominantly clean tone! 00:00 Intro jam 00:48 Intro chat 03:48 You've Got A Friend Check out my Patreon at www.patreon.com/andywatt Huge thanks to my band: Grace Alexande...
George Harrison - 'Wah Wah' (DADGAD guitar and double bass cover)
Просмотров 2883 месяца назад
Here's a DADGAD guitar and double bass arrangement of George Harrison's 'Wah Wah'. Hit 'like', subscribe and check the links below for Patreon, tip jar and more! Andy Watt - DADGAD acoustic guitar Dan Rogers - double bass TIP JAR www.buymeacoffee.com/andywattguitar ANDY WEBSITE andywattguitar.com DAN WEBSITE www.danrogers.co.uk PATREON patreon.com/AndyWatt BANDCAMP andywatt.bandcamp.com
Comparing my SQUIER Strat and SIRE S3 live with a band!
Просмотров 1,8 тыс.3 месяца назад
The final comparison video in this series - I took my Squier 40th Anniversary Strat and my Sire Larry Carlton S3 along to a studio session with my band and recorded a take of my tune 'Exemption Jam' on each guitar. I've edited it together for a direct comparison - see what you think! 00:00 Intro 03:10 Exemption Jam 09:00 My thoughts? Huge thanks to my band for their brilliant playing in this vi...
XTC - 'Love On A Farmboy's Wages' (solo guitar cover)
Просмотров 2093 месяца назад
Still a work in progress but here I am in the garden trying out an arrangement of an XTC/Andy Partridge classic. One of my all-time favourite bands. Not sure why I'm frowning so much, blame the May sunshine! Cover of the full song to follow at some point - do subscribe etc! TIP JAR www.buymeacoffee.com/andywattguitar WEBSITE andywattguitar.com BANDCAMP andywatt.bandcamp.com PATREON patreon.com/...
The Beatles - 'Because' (guitar/mandolin/violin cover)
Просмотров 4053 месяца назад
An arrangement of 'Because' from the Abbey Road album on acoustic & electric guitar, mandolin, violin and bass guitar. If you enjoy it then hit the 'like' button, subscribe and check out my Patreon link below! Andy Whitehead-Watt - guitars, mandolin Melissa Whitehead-Watt - violin Dan Rogers - bass guitar TIP JAR www.buymeacoffee.com/andywattguitar WEBSITE andywattguitar.com BANDCAMP andywatt.b...
This amazing John Renbourn fingerstyle piece is HARD to play...!
Просмотров 7494 месяца назад
A quick rendition of an amazing tune by the great John Renbourn 'Snap A Little Owl'. Stay tuned to the end for a chat about how I record my acoustic guitar at home! TIP JAR www.buymeacoffee.com/andywattguitar WEBSITE andywattguitar.com BANDCAMP andywatt.bandcamp.com PATREON patreon.com/AndyWatt
Squier vs Sire update.... And a DIRE STRAITS cover!
Просмотров 5864 месяца назад
Squier vs Sire update.... And a DIRE STRAITS cover!
Is the Spark Mini any good? A pro guitar teacher's view...!
Просмотров 11 тыс.5 месяцев назад
Is the Spark Mini any good? A pro guitar teacher's view...!
Larry Carlton's 'Room 335' live! With my SIRE H7....
Просмотров 4595 месяцев назад
Larry Carlton's 'Room 335' live! With my SIRE H7....
'Cause We've Ended As Lovers' - Andy Watt Band LIVE at The Globe, Newcastle
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'Cause We've Ended As Lovers' - Andy Watt Band LIVE at The Globe, Newcastle
Things got a bit wild during this Beatles cover....
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Things got a bit wild during this Beatles cover....
Trying out my new camcorder.... Any good for guitar videos? (Panasonic HC-VX1)
Просмотров 1386 месяцев назад
Trying out my new camcorder.... Any good for guitar videos? (Panasonic HC-VX1)
Could THIS be my new favourite guitar plug-in....?
Просмотров 5907 месяцев назад
Could THIS be my new favourite guitar plug-in....?
Cranking a BLUES JR amp at home (with the help of a magic little box....). How does it sound...?!
Просмотров 6197 месяцев назад
Cranking a BLUES JR amp at home (with the help of a magic little box....). How does it sound...?!
Sound Like The Beatles with a SIRE S3 and Tape Echo Pedal? ('A Day In The Life' cover)
Просмотров 4697 месяцев назад
Sound Like The Beatles with a SIRE S3 and Tape Echo Pedal? ('A Day In The Life' cover)
SQUIER vs SIRE! Comparing the 40th Anniversary Strat & Sire S3....
Просмотров 5 тыс.8 месяцев назад
SQUIER vs SIRE! Comparing the 40th Anniversary Strat & Sire S3....
Christmas Jazz Guitar! (Kay Starr's 'The Man With The Bag')
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Christmas Jazz Guitar! (Kay Starr's 'The Man With The Bag')
SQUIER 40th Anniversary STRAT - 6 months on, a full demo and review!
Просмотров 9 тыс.8 месяцев назад
SQUIER 40th Anniversary STRAT - 6 months on, a full demo and review!
SIRE S3 - unboxing and first impressions....
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SIRE S3 - unboxing and first impressions....
Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing (on a SQUIER 40th Anniversary Strat)
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Jimi Hendrix - Little Wing (on a SQUIER 40th Anniversary Strat)
Awesome sauce
Will the backing track just keep going until I stop it? My only problem with using backing tracks on RUclips is that they tend to be Shorter than I'd like.
Yes, it just loops - certainly an advantage over using a track!
Thanks for the lead to another great tangent! You're pretty special too.
The Revv youre using is a high end expensive amp.
Great review.Good player.
Bluetooth-App crap!
Great playing Andy🎶👍 also very good review I have one arriving today😊
Wow! A demo with someone playing well and in tune.
Nice for a Squier. Some Squier guitars sounds better than the actual fenders.
Complimenti
Thanks for the video. Not P90's, they are Jazzmaster pickups which are flatter and wider.
I’m thinking of converting one to lefty
Great playing! ✨
Pretty good dood. You would have an easier time channeling Guthrie Govan rather than Greg 😁
Extremely well done comparison. Kudos for playing the same with each and keeping the demos of each short (at least in the initial comps) as the memory of the human brain for sound is very brief. It would have been even better had you stuck to that however. The Prime Tone sounds pretty similar to the Blue chip for a lot less cash. A thicker Tortex would have been nice to hear as well as they are quite different sounding than the thin ones. Thin picks can be good for strumming if you like that sort of sproingy thinner tone and are also cool on twelve string guitar for both strumming and single note playing.
Same with me 😊 But honestly, the D20 is awesome 😎
Mine is a massive turd, does anyone else has an issue going from aux to bluetooth? Like it wont connect to bluetooth for audio after using aux for audio?
Have you tried the T7? I’m considering one for jazz.
just lis, idk man
I own the he 200. Great unit. But I wish it had an on/off switch like the 250 and 300. But excellent looper and tones. Thumbs 👍🏽 up
You are on your game! Would love a transcript!
I’ll get transcribing! (But will it be a marathon or a sprint…? 🏃😉)
@@AndyWattGuitar In good time as always!
Hello! Quick question. How long does the battery last you?
Ive got the sire, love take it over my cv 50 any day...
Can you connect bluetooth to it?
I shimmed the neck, raised the saddles, and installed actual Jazzmaster pickups in mine. An absolute winner.
Dont these come with jm pickups?
@@Peapodzilla they are but there is extra metal on the bottom and they are way out of balance in terms of output. The bridge was 10k and the neck was 6K.
Love these sessions. Thanks for sharing them!
It has a big fatal flaw, the High E string notes around the 7 to 11 fret those notes on the frequency response are severely spiked up, if you listen to it on bluetooth mode with music you'd know just how bad it actually sounds, the other flaw is this constant hissing in the background, watt's even worse is when you play a note for 0.4 second you cant actually hear the hiss getting more aggressive and then it dies down .2 seconds after you stopped the note its very subtle but you can actually notice it, its there even in this video at around 0:21 you can notice it. In terms of punchyness of bass in songs in bluetooth mode and aux in it has none, i tested it against a VIFA HELSINKI bluetooth speaker, a speaker that has 2 full range. 2 inch speakers with 2. 2.6 inch flat cone woofers mounted magnetically back to back and i kid you not, the spark mini sounds like a ham radio, hell sitting alone in the room with bluetooth mode listening to music without hearing the vifa i could never get used to it, you get this huge peak in female vocals that just for some reason sound louder then anything else within the composition of the music, you get drums being lost in the background and just everything sounds like its a million miles away until the singer (you better hope its not female cuz if it is your ears are in for a good icepick of a time i tell ya that much mate) starts singing and even then its not remotely that good as it does have a bit of like this 1960s 1970s radio kind of distortion in the upper treble range, it was awful it was... not good not good at all im afraid, there are better choices for your listening experience, and at that price its almost downright a scam, why the Boss katana mini with its 1. 4 inch speaker was hands down able to put down a better fight with my vifa helsinki then little ol Spark mini over here, and that's a 7 watt amp that costs significantly less then the spark mini, and the reason why i say this is because i go around and see different youtubers saying oh you know "this speaker for its tiny size sounds amazing ohhh soo good is unbelivable" even positive grid's unveiling of the amp with a bunch of guitar players acting surprised caught me off guard, so much so that i just had to buy one, little did i know it was gonna be an absolute piece of dog poop. Like if people could just take their heads out of their asses and not be paid to do their review you start to find out its not really a good speaker to begin with it might be a great SOUND EFFECT speaker but is not great, i would take the spark 40 any day at least with the bass problem i can turn down to 0.4 and the treble to 7 and mids to 6.6 and it would fix like 85% of the problem It doesnt matter how many "tones" are at your disposal if you got the speakers wrong, then you have everything wrong, big dissapointment from me and my father who approves wholeheartedly, yeah im an audiophile but i feel like even if you're not an audiophile you're gonna pickup on this VERY VERY quickly i tried giving it a second chance but dont take my word for it, go try see for yourself guys they do offer Returns if you buy, but just remember the cost of sending it back that is all on you
ALso 1 thing i forgot to mention here is, they dont know how to do Passive bass radiators very well, so when i had the spark mini and i looked on the bottom there was no diaphragm to move back and forth so if you actually had a speaker that had a passive bass radiator you'd know that there is a portion that moves along with the bass called the diaphragm this is watt creates those vibrations thus amplifying bass. With that being said i did not notice such a thing below the amp what i did notice is, if you put it up to the light its got these honeycomb pattern holes carved into the plastic but the little black mesh that is in there, it does nothing it is there purely for decoration, when you go into positive grids website and you go to spark mini and you scroll down and you get to the part where there is the numbering that is telling you of the "features" of this amp you know they have that exoskeleton picture with see through xray 1 full stereo........ 2 EQ scenarios......... 3 OMNIDIRECTIONAL BASS??? passive radiator inside is completely separate from the 2 speakers that are being SEPARATED from the passive bass radiator by a PCB board, and you can actually see this because right in that image where we see point #2 we see this huge PCB board cutting out the Passive bass radiator. For those of you unaware the way a passive bass radiator works is a speaker that is not powered by anything except the air inside a cabinet when a powered speaker is actually playing the vibrations and frequencies inside is being picked up by this plate that is TUNED specifically for the low frequencies to reverbrate and amplify those lower frequencies by mechanical means, however if the powered speakers are separate away from this huge 3 inch passive bass radiator at the bottom by a PCB BOARD then it defeats the purpose of having a passive bass radiator that big at the bottom of the amp with honeycomb holes no less which means whatever frequencies it tries to amplify is not working correctly because air can escape through the honeycomb design thus defeating the purpose of actually having that. From every picture i can see of every single person taking out their grill from the spark mini there is 2 enclosures or rather 1 gap and 1 enclosure 1 is where they house the 2 angled 2 inch full range speakers and the other one is where they yet again have a huge gaping hole that is not doing this amp any favours if anything it is hindering its performance, the part where the passive bass radiator is located is at the bottom of that 1st enclosure and then going upwards is the PCB board which seems to block off 80% of the space that the passive bass radiator needs to work properly (brilliant*) and then we have the main 2 inch speakers
Liked and subscribed! I’m on the fence between the sonic blue and surf green ? If you had the choice between the two , would still get the surf green ? 😊
Actually the HF Tilt can be achieved by a Para-Eq
It's a very warm buttery creamy tone, but why does it sound so clear?? 👍
That was awesome, music to my ears. Great players!
How funny is that, I found this page looking for what this amp can do but stayed for your fantastic playing! Very good and tasteful..the Sinatra Classic so good
Perfection 👌✨
Try the new Spark 2. 4x more processing, should eliminate the latency while using as an audio interface
on sale in September !!!! 💯💢
Lovely bots 😂
Damn you are good most RUclips reviewers and not at such a high level or they are just 100 mile high gain shredders.
Hi Andy, just wondering what are your honest thoughts about the Tremol-no after having it some years now. Are there any cons etc? Thanks
Still glad I fitted it - I don't actually use it huge amount (if I want a hardtail I'll usually just grab another guitar), but it gives my Charvel an extra level of versatility for different tunings etc. No major downsides, it does vibrate a little bit but you don't notice when the guitar is plugged in.
Is it unusual that it doesn’t have the dots on certain frets? Are there markings on the side? Sounds great, anyway!
Yeah, the OM3 models don't seem to have the inlayed marker dots - a more minimalist aesthetic, I guess! I'm pleased to say it does have dots on the side, otherwise I'd have been struggling to hit the 12th fret accurately at the start of this tune... 😅
Bluegrass? I hear Anton Karas, not Bill Monroe but enjoyed it nonetheless! Beautiful guitars!
It's certainly not your average bluegrass tune in G! 🤠 Originally a Texas fiddle breakdown, I believe - recorded by Byron Berline, amongst others....
Interesting chat about Collings guitars and an excellent piece of music well played
Two tiny 2" speakers in the front and a passive bass radiator in the bass.
I liked it very much!
Bam tone an fun wow thanks!
Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for sharing. I feel privileged.
Ach youse are just showing off ! 🤣Superb ! 🎸What amps did you use ? Wee Fender and Roland JC ?
Yes, Fender Blues Jr for me and a JC-22 for Chris. Nae pedals! 😃
Sweet! Real nice!
Wow! Wie wundervoll! Toller Lehrer - toller Schüler - und großartiger Sound!
Great to see the two of you playing together!
I had to concentrate very hard not to steal his Collings electric guitar - a thing of beauty!
I can imagine the temptation, what a beast!
Awesome playing.
Greetings from Glasgow. If I may say you’re a wee bit more staccato than LC ( aren’t we all) but your phrasing is absolutely wonderful Good job. I keep checking out other players on this to gauge myself. 😇 ( Is there gas in the car).
Thanks, and greetings from Newcastle (via the Trossachs)! (Yes, there’s gas in the car 😉)
What a treat! When did the pick guard go? I like it!
Took it off a while ago and concluded I quite liked it!
How terrible was that! LOL! Are you kidding me - THAT WAS AWSOME!!