Pat Metheny "James" on the Boss SY-1000 guitar synthesizer
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- Опубликовано: 18 май 2024
- This is the first of a series of videos exploring the capabilities of the Boss SY-1000, this time with Alan playing Pat Metheny's classic "James". Please like and subscribe to be notified of more!
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Outstanding! So many fail to play the subtle, complexities of this piece, but you have truly grasped the spirit of Metheny on this. Really well done, Alan. Thank you for sharing!
Many thanks for this very kind comment! It's such a great piece of music--one that I seem to never get tired of hearing and attempting to play!
Superb!! Your command of the guitar, programming of the SY-1000, and improvisation are impeccable!! Thanks for sharing this information and I look forward to more of your videos!!
Thank you, that really is very kind!
Wonderfully done. And I agree with the previous posts, no 'look-at-me-play-guitar' vibes here.
Thank you!
@@AlanThomasGuitar Pure joy
My favorite Pat Metheny song. The looping of the lower strings is genius
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superb performance & introduction to these units. Would love to see a more in-depth review of the synth pedal & the looper. Thank you for all your diligent work & effort. 🎉
Thank you, I have wondered about making a video going more in-depth with the programming aspect, but wasn't sure how useful it is for anyone who doesn't own the pedal.
@@AlanThomasGuitar Amazing performance! I think it would not only be interesting, but also helpful in deciding whether or not to purchase the pedal. I'd love to see a technical breakdown of both pedals in action. I'd also love to see what Kent Nishimura could do with such a setup!
Clever. And well played. Thank you.
Thanks for watching!
Great fun. Beautifully executed.
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Appeared in my feed. Very glad it did. Bravo.
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Masterfully played! Thanks so much!!
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Such a perfectly beautiful piece by Pat played so well. Thank you.
Thanks!
Just beautiful!
Much appreciated--thank you!
wwwwooooowwwww... thank you... just brilliant!!! Maestro...
Thank you, much appreciated!
Best publicity for Godin and for Boss SY-1000 ever.
You recognize a true musician by the calm, happy look on his/her face. No drama, just pure joy.
Thank you !
That is very kind--thank you!
@@AlanThomasGuitar Also, you remind me of John Etheridge and Andy Summers. I'm surprised you're not as famous as they are. Not yet.
@@jacquesmertens3369 Thank you Jacques, I'm blushing to be even remotely compared to those two great guitarists!
@@AlanThomasGuitar You are both talented and modest, and that's why you have reached the level you have reached.
Please do not underestimate your skills. You have what it takes to be among the best session musicians. Just contact a few of the big music studios. Trust me, and most of all: trust yourself. I come from a family of musicians (one of which was the only European session musician to work with Louis Armstrong), and I do recognize a talent when I see one. Technically I think you're better than Andy Summers has ever been. But don't tell Andy I told you. He's a super nice guy and I don't want to insult him.
@@jacquesmertens3369 😊🙏
Lovely. Thanks for playing!
Many thanks!
Very cool! Great lesson about the gear plus tasteful playing. Thanks!!
Thank you, it's really been so nice for me to see that anyone is interested! More videos out soon...
yup. i'd buy a ticket to hear what ever you have to say or play. this opened up some doors for me thx!!!
Thank you for this very kind comment--it is sincerely much appreciated!
Very Nice! ... looking forward to more.
Thank you! Please keep an eye out for more videos next week--I'm working on it.
Fantastic playing! Love the synth programming on different strings, impressive!
Thank you!
Beautiful - bravo . . . what a lovely interlude, thanks for that 😀
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Man, you play great. Love that Pat Metheny tune. Really inspiring. Thank you! 🙌
Many thanks, that is much appreciated! And I agree it's an amazing tune!
Absolutely brilliant.....Bravo Sir.
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That was Excellent! Thanks!!
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Splendid!
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Beautifully played!
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Very good performance Alan, you nailed it. Thank you
Much appreciated! It's been such a nice surprise to have such kind comments for this.
Well played, sounds lovely
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That was ridiculous! Bravo!
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Really cool idea with the looper and superbly played!
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Wow! Great job! Congratulations!
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Well done!
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Wonderful performance ❤
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Great Job Man Thankyou ❤❤❤
Thanks for watching!
Great performance of an excellent guitar arrangement.
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Amazing! Musically on the guitar and also technologically with the synth and looper pedals. Found you today and just subscribed. Thanks for sharing your talent here.
Thank you, it's been so nice to have such kind comments for this--I really appreciate them.
I have a Godin guitar few days ago, now I'm needing the SY-1000 so much lol! You did a great job here! Very creative and clever approach to create that loop!
Thank you very much! I do highly recommend the SY-1000 (I wish that Boss would sponsor me to say that, but they don't!)--it offers a lot of inspiring possibilities.
Beautiful, thank you for sharing this Alan, I will work it out! I’ve learned Pat’s Antonia from you, I enjoy a lot playing it!
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Wow! Excellent playing, it's very pleasant to listen to. 👌 I especially like how creatively you use the the octave effect and the looper pedal. Subscribed with pleasure.
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Damn, man! Great feel and time!
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Smart, beautiful, fun. Like the overshadowings from hymns and CCM choruses at a few points.
Thank you, the more I have studied "James" the more amazing it seems to me as a composition.
Outstanding!
Thank you!
Very nice rendition. Pat is a genius melodicist. Alan is demonstrating to us how sophisticated electronic tools have become to help players with producing special effects.
Thank you! I certainly agree--the integration of melody and harmony in "James" is pretty much genius!
Wow…great arrangement and use of the looper too!!
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Genial! you even learnt the solo. Stunning job.
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Fantastic sounds in good hands. Thanks for unbelievable pieces delivered your talent. My favourite is "out of Africa" evening dance, and others. On the same music way with you.😊
I really appreciate your kind words--thanks for listening to my other stuff as well!
Great playing.
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Great playing !
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Supremely musical!!! Love it!!!
Thank you Wayne, I really appreciate that! I'm a big fan of yours by the way--thank you for all of your great work on guitar synths!
@@AlanThomasGuitar Very kind of you!
👏 Well done, sterling effort! Now I want a Godin ACS Nylon _and_ a SY-1000 and stop bass playing, thanks for that 😉
Thank you! And apologies for spreading a case of Gear Acquisition Syndrome--I definitely know what that's like!
Yeah, I'm tired of playing bass, too. LOL
Impressive Alan !
Thank you!
Well done Alan. Outstanding performance. I would like to see and hear more songs and some explanations of your Godin SA in combination with the Boss SY 1000!
Many thanks, yes I have been thinking I should do a more in-depth video about the tech side.
Excellent!
Thank you!
Wow. Cool! Gotta start playing with my looper.
Yes, it's very liberating!
Thanks Alan.. real good demo my friend .. :) :)
Thanks for watching, Mike!
@@AlanThomasGuitar Cheers my friend ..hope all is well wit you!
This is excellent. I enjoy the SY1000. It’s so versatile.
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Beautiful
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Very clear voicing and accurate intonation. Well done indeed! I didn't quite understand the tech yet, but I will.
Many thanks, yes I had wondered if I should show a bit more clearly how the programming of the signal paths works....
great video! was expecting to hear some zany synth sounds (based on the title) but not disappointed!
Thank you, yes I do think the title is misleading! I guess my interest has strangely been more in how to get the guitar synth to function like an "augmented guitar" rather than use the wacky sounds.
By the way, here's a link another video with some (very slightly) zanier sounds! ruclips.net/video/jBkd8lbwl9w/видео.html
The brief but insightful technical intro, the great performance, and the joy you take in playing combined to make this a fantastic video. Subscribed, and looking forward to more. Bravo! -Tom
BTW, if you have a chance to respond-what model Godin is that? It has a more acoustic tone to it than some Godins I've heard.
Thank you Tom, I really appreciate that!
@@TLMuse It's a standard ACS nylon. I'm trying really hard with my EQ/effects to get as natural a sound as possible, but it's a challenge with the piezo pickups and nylon strings, and I'm still craving more a feel of resonance and dynamic to the sound. Not sure if that is quite possible with a solid-body guitar like this, but I kind of need the solid body to not have much actual sound coming from the guitar itself. There are a lot of trade-offs, but I do love the range of possibilities that the setup enables. Hopefully more soon!
@@AlanThomasGuitar Well, you're doing a pretty good job already with the Godin's tone. If you're not already doing so, you might try using an acoustic IR in your HX Stomp XL; they can add the kind of resonance you are speaking of. It's a bit like the effect that the Fishman Aura system adds (though I think they do it via complex filters rather than an IR), or IR-based systems like the LR Baggs Voiceprint DI. Some acoustic guitar IRs for HX are available online, though I don't recall seeing nylon-specific ones.
Quick follow-up: Some quick digging turned up a free acoustic guitar IR pack from Worship Tutorials. It was created with three steel-string acoustic guitars, but might be worth experimenting with. And here's a YT video from someone who created a nylon-based IR+EQ patch for Helix: ruclips.net/video/7qNz3k-gTuw/видео.html. He uses a Martin steel-string IR from 3 Sigma Audio. They now have some nylon-specific IRs available (perhaps later than his video).
Pretty straightforward indeed.
Thanks for listening!
Ingenious
Thank you!
This is my favorite guitar solo of the week.
Much appreciated, thank you! I've got a video of a Michael Hedges-inspired tune out in the next few days so please keep an eye out for it.
Elegancko proszę pana
Dziękuję!
Wonderful job Love my Godin ACS (and 3 other Godin/Seagulls)
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Excellent and nothing quite like Metheny!! liked and sub'd
Thank you! I wholeheartedly agree--to me Metheny is one of the greatest musicians of the 20th/21st centuries!
@@AlanThomasGuitar absolutely my personal GOAT!
@@thedrumdon2485 👍
Nicely done. And thank you for making a guitar synth video that isn't walking through all the presets. ;-)
Thank you! Yes I guess in a sense I'm trying to use the SY-1000 more as a guitar than a synth, so I don't use the presets much.
@@AlanThomasGuitar I have the GR-55, though I'm sure it's true of the SY-1000 as well, you look at these synths and there's just so much you can do with them that it's a little annoying to find video after video cataloging the presets, and not that many using them artfully. Looping just the lower strings is a cool idea. I wonder if that's possible with the GR-55?
@@artiefischel2579 Hi there, not sure about the GR-55, but what it would need is the capability of sending individual string outputs down two separate signal paths, as well as an effects loop that you can place on just one of the signal paths. I would definitely recommend using the Boss Tone Studio editor connected to the unit to be able to easily visualise the paths--it's kind of a nightmare trying to program patches on the units themselves!
🤙Nice
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sheer genius ! Sigh !Back to the drawing board with my sy 1000
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Bravo
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I’d like to have the sheet music you used to play James. I love this piece for classical guitar.
Hi there, I don't have anything written down for this unfortunately--I'd be happy to display it on screen if I did! There must be some versions out there, though mine is probably slightly idiosyncratic in some places due to having to keep the thumb notes on the 5th and 6th strings.
@@AlanThomasGuitaryou version has a very good dynamic range, would be great to have this written down on staff paper.
@@tony89718 Thank you! I have made a lot of arrangements over the years (you can find some videos I've done on my channel of The Beatles and other things for solo guitar), and have looked into the possibility of publishing them. The problem is that no publisher I've ever contacted will let me publish my arrangements, even under their license or through their actual imprint! Sad that a lot of good arrangements by many musicians get lost to a wider audience because of that aspect of copyright...
How do you get access to the signals from individual strings?
Each string has its own individual pickup. With a guitar with steel strings these are usually magnetic, but on a nylon string they have to be piezo. I need to do a video doing a walkthrough of the whole thing!
Brilliant! I was pleased to hear! I have the same guitar, so let me ask which type of strings do you use?
Thank you! I'm using D'Addario carbon strings on the guitar now--I'm still experimenting with different strings, with the goal of trying to get more sustain out of the trebles.
@@AlanThomasGuitar Thank You!
Cool guy
Technique
Thanks Paul!
Zuvuya ep is a good recording from string cheese incident studio, travis is the drummer, on youtube
Is there a pdf of your arrangement?
Unfortunately no! I have made a lot of arrangements over the years (you can find some videos I've done on my channel of The Beatles and other things for solo guitar), and have looked into the possibility of publishing them. The problem is that no publisher I've ever contacted will let me publish my arrangements, even under their license or through their actual imprint! Sad that a lot of good arrangements by many musicians get lost to a wider audience because of that aspect of copyright...
Sounds great, everyone what's skips over it (including Pat) but would be great to add the intro to your version.
Thank you! You've inspired me to learn the intro now! Makes me wonder why Metheny doesn't seem to play it in any videos.
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Many thanks!
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Comment for the algo.
that'll teach it
You could also have just prerecorded the loop with only the 2 strings. It's interesting but not necessary. Cool stuff. How did you learn the song? Is there TAB?
Thanks for watching! I don't have any TAB for it unfortunately. I probably play the tune in a similar way to everyone else, though my chord voicings might sometimes be higher up the neck since I'm try to keep the bass notes on the 5th and 6th strings since those have the added bass sound from the SY-1000.
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check me out, swapped necks on a fretless midi godin with a fretted neck, i seperate the e and a and octave down. big musical sound , great seperation
Nice playing but I don’t really hear any guitar sense in the whole thing? I expected to hear him soloing over it with some kind of synthetic non-guitar like sound. He just did what any good looper will do.
Thanks, I appreciate this perspective. I sort of have an ongoing battle with myself over whether to use the guitar synth for the wacky sounds vs. as a kind of "augmented guitar", and in this case went with the guitar approach for the solo sound. For what it's worth, the key point of the looper here is that it only records the 3rd, 4th, 5th and 6th strings (on which I play the accompaniment). If you loop this with a standard guitar output, the melody really interferes with any attempts to solo over it. Anyway, thanks for watching!
100% possible but to do both 100% Hard af on Midi electroacoustic Guitar: Yes - Roundabout (Original 1971) ..
a great song, a great player and an awful job with the Synth! Thanks a lot
Thanks! Sorry the synth didn't grab you. It may seem weird, but the challenge for me has been to get the synth to sound more like a guitar, not less (and seems more difficult to get a decent nylon-string sound). I'll have a video out in the next few days that uses some different sounds!
@@AlanThomasGuitarDear Alan, sorry for having understood me wrong. What i liked to say: i love your sound and your work with the syth. Sorry for my fault youdid a great job!
@@hagedospe No problem! Glad you liked it! I sincerely just appreciate everyone on here who takes the time to listen.
What is the point of this nonsense...
Sometimes I wonder myself....
Excellent!
Many thanks!