Ihsahn: Left Hand Path #3 Guitar Lesson
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Guitar World brings you a series of guitar lessons with metal guitarist Ihsahn from Emperor called Left Hand Path.
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What I love most about Ishan's playing is that he knows what he is doing. He uses all kinds of arpeggios (diminished, augmented, maj7 etc.) and all kinds of chords and their inversions, whereas most metal bands just rely on power chords. He thinks like a jazz player in many senses, which makes his metal playing so unique and sinister-sounding.
He's amazing! So calm and comfortable...
Inspirational dude. Loss and Curse is probably my favourite of Emperor \m/
And theres one more component, that gives the 'airy' sound, beyond just using the reverb and sweet spot. And that is during recording, one mics the amp, avoiding direct interface. You position the mic in a away, to also record the ambiant background silence. Its takes years to capture proper placement of the mic and to develop ones sound. Obviously you want the listener to be able to hear what you are doing. Or why even play music. Ihsahns tone is sick as is his playing. He is a master.
This so a deep and dark music ... EmperoR is perfect black metal band
The essence of what I am saying is this. Buy trying what I mention below, what you will be doing is pulling out particular harmonics and harmonic overtones. It doesnt matter if you play in a more disonant/ atonal style, or a more melodic/ tonal style, or both like me, you still want what your playing to be heard clearly. Remember you may think, what your playing can be heard by others because you can hear it while playing LOL, but thats not reality. You know the music- they dont
To fine tune ones own unique sound, you may also manipulate pre and post gain. Not just the amp gain or overdrive. You can also layer your recording, in a way, that each guitar track touches and brings out a slightly differant part of the treble frequency band. You can use differant size speakers also. For example you can record one track with your stack and the other with a 10inch pawn shop special driven by a pedal with the mids and bass scooped out.
EPIC Emperor
Didn't know Ihsahn was such a calm, cool dude! horns up
I think that Insahn is more composer than an artist. But Emperor's performance awesome!
cool, he didn't whip out a 10 string 30 fret on this one.
@DethCaek "mountains of gain and treble" so true
Think again.
@RevisedTV Black Metal guitarists don't roll back the gain--ever.
@Mocifer666 Yep, noticed it ever since I started watching these videos. ^_^
@RevisedTV better to you =\= better to everybody. Black metal takes a cold and evil atmosphere in which mountains of gain and treble come first.
It's never going to happen
@RevisedTV Meanwhile, Black Metal says the opposite (everything sounds better with more gain)
0:34- hes giving you the finger =/
roll back the gain
@2legacy Then don't watch his videos muppet
cold, fantastic, dark, melodic, melancolic, beautiful, morbid, speed.....everything in emperor is perfect, I am the fucking IHSAHN fanS =D
@RevisedTV There's no such thing as way too distorted in Black Metal, you don't seem to be grasping that XD
@RevisedTV Yeah, for black metal and death metal as well (to a lesser degree) the gain adds to the sonic dissonance. it creates a disturbing atmosphere that adds to the overall tone of whatever mood the artist is trying to create. The school of thought that all music has to sound pretty is the antithesis of what black and death metal is about. it all has to make some kind of sense, but dissonance is an often used tool. you'll find it in classical music as well.
"Hope that made sense in some way"
HAHAHA!! Ihsahn you're funny :D
The combo of rolling the volume pot slightly, finding the sweet spot, coupled with the gain, mids cut, and very importantly with the reverb, creates a unique tone, which is part of our atmosphere. People who simply crank the gain and boost treble are missing the subtles found within the true BM genre and tone. Most knock off modern BMers play so muddy you cant hear anything. Whats the point of even playing? Do you hear how every note he plays, can be clearly heard? Nothings simply cranked
@StaulkHolm I don't see any resemblance, and in any case this song was written years before mastodon was even formed. So it would be that mastodon sounds like this, not the other way xD
@RevisedTV It is the universal symbol for does not equal.
Ihsahn appears to know his theory. I'm impressed.
I wish he showed the Ancient Queen riffs
Ive played guitar for 21 years and play Black metal. The proper BM tone, isnt simply cranking the gain. Mids are cut- gain is pushedon the amp- reverb is saturated- but you do roll the volume knob back slightly, to find the sweet spot in the frequency band, that gives a slight punch to the treble. This effect can be seen in a wah wah pedal, where you can find sweet spots on the freq. band. Theres more to true BM than most think, but most have only several years playing it, not 2 decades.
@AvyScottandFlower hehe, neither did I. After seeing him in the Loss/Curse video (old stuff I know) I thought he'd be really mean or something. :P
sounds awesum... i like the feel of it
Wow, ALL of that is from Loss/Curse? It really sounds complicated.
I don't know about everyone here. I'm ready for a new Emperor album!
watched this video at bedtime to send me off to dreamland
sound is so dark and creepy ..awesome :D
kip from napoleon dynamite
at least i have chicken!
sounds like Mastodon
Ye of little faith
Yes we do...
WHAT IS THE SONG AT THE INTRO PLEASE
amaterasu159357
"Frozen Lakes on Mars" from the After album.
@hyuugaamida its way to distorted, you gotta know when to roll back the gain
@hyuugaamida i may not be grasping it, i know, im not that into blakc metal, but some things would sound better without as much gain, jus sayin
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@DethCaek what does =/= mean?