5 rare guitar techniques just for fun #2
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
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And so the madness continues. Here's 5 rare guitar techniques just for the views I mean for fun #2 as requested by many of you. It's probably not as good as the original video but hopefully there's a thing or two you haven't tried before. Some of these are a bit goofy and perhaps not very useful but keep your mind open and don't judge the techniques based on my presentation, try them yourself to see what kind of sounds you can come up with. You might end up inventing more techniques while experimenting anyway.
1. Playing guitar with a screwdriver (0:38)
After the original video many people have told me that Godspeed You! Black Emperor uses screwdrivers to play guitar and at the same time, many people have asked me what else can they use besides drumsticks so it made sense to start where we left off and show you a couple of alternative "bowing” methods, only this time using a screwdriver. I think the one at 0:48 is pretty interesting since it feels so different to play. I'm using the screwdriver to control the pitch while grabbing the string and playing a vibrato with my other hand.
The screwdriver I'm using has a part rubber, part plastic handle. The rubber is great because the friction makes it extra bouncy on the strings and darker sounding when rolling the handle behind the neck. Note that I'm not using a room mic, I'm using an iso cab (watch • My Isolation Cabinet ). The sound travels through the guitar to the strings when rolling the handle behind the neck. VST distortion adds some nice bark to the sound (1:22).
2. Bending harmonics with a pick (1:32)
Touch the string with a pick and pluck the string with your free fingers. The trick is to find the right spots on the string just like with pinch harmonics. These spots can be marked with a marker until you learn to eyeball it. Add vol swells and a ton of reverb to get ghostly sounds.
3. “Picking” with a slide (2:33)
I don't know if it counts as picking but the easiest way to describe this one is “picking with a slide” because it's like picking, only the pitch is determined by where you pick. This can be used for sound effects like bird and ray gun sounds but also to play arpeggios or even melodies.
4. Bowing with a slide near the bridge (3:24)
Not really bowing, more like “using a slide as a moving bridge”. This might seem similar to bowing over the fretboard but in this case both hands control the pitch as the fretting hand is used to fret the notes. Note that again, this is different from bowing with an actual bow since the slide controls the pitch as well as the amplitude. Slow(ish) circular vibrato with a slide seems to work well.
With a right kind of sound this can sound really nice and haunting but the downside is that it will screw up your tuning and intonation so it's tricky to play in tune even if you lower your tuning a little bit to compensate (4:04).
5. Glitch tapping (4:20)
“Glitch tapping” is a term coined by a master of this technique, Josh Martin. Basically, what it is, is hammering the same note multiple times in a row using different fingers.
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Martin does a great job showcasing the technique so at first I wasn't going to include this technique on the video but since I couldn't find any videos of people doing this with a high-gain distortion I wanted to show you how it sounds in a more conventional rock / metal context.
As you probably guessed by the short bursts and the fast edits on the video, this technique isn't exactly my forte. I can kind of do it with only two fingers (maybe three on a good day) but even that can be a nice way to breath new life into some old tapping patterns.
I find that experimenting with different angles of the tapping hand can help with the articulation. You can also try both, exaggerating and minimizing the movement of the fingers to see if there's a difference. For me, keeping the fingers close to each other it's easier to play fast (4:41) but the articulation can suffer. Multiple taps can be grouped and felt as a single motion (4:54) but sometimes it helps to focus on an individual finger if it doesn't keep up with the rest.
Bonus - Using an EEG headset to control sound (5:13)
“Your description is too long”, says RUclips so the rest can be found here:
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Another video about EEG stuff here:
Mind-controlled guitar sound (brainwaves meet VST effects)
• Mind-controlled guitar...
"-let's make a experimental/drone band
-ok, lemme grab my guitar and my screwdriver"
-The foundation of Godspeed you! black emperor.
title should be, how to summon ctuhulu with your guitar.
True hahaha
Dub _ you probably have no room to talk nor your mom
imbecile weenie I don't understand your comment lol.
Fuck guitar center shop local
YouSuckDeep lmao
Who knew guitars could be used to make horror ambience
Seems you don't know black metal
dz cs fragger Ambiance in BM? haha very funny
SarahSoAwesome. theres alot u can do with a guitar
Yes. I play in a dark ambient/experimental duo and we use much more guitars than keyboards. So try to do something in this video and put paulstretch effect in Audacity; you will make a such dark ambient music. And that's why I am not famous ahah.
dz cs fragger
Seems you don't know post-metal.
This should be called how to make your guitar sound like a ghost
Lol
A spooky ghost
+dylan thibodeau Brandon Rodgers??
2Spooky4You
Imagine if Jimmy Page saw this in the Zeppelin days. Dazed and confused bow solo would be CRAZY
2:19 - Sounds scary as hell. Imagine being alone in your house, then you suddenly heard someone crying in a room/basement/attic that you rarely go inside.
2:33 - Classic console game start/select/pause game sound effect. One word: EPIC.
3:18 - No more sloppy, messy sweep-picking in major scale arpeggios lol
3:24 - (*Intro music playing*) starts singing Grenade by Bruno Mars XD
6:04 - This might induce altered state of consciousness/lucid-dreaming/out-of-body experience
Okay, jokes aside. I'm really amazed on the EEG headset, especially with the ability to control the rate of the vibrato and the amount of reverb by attention. It really amplifies the effect of playing emotionally.
Great comment!
3:24 this sound behinds a guitarist from Bruno Mars band using this technique in live version of Grenade?
Vocalist: Tom, did you finally write that guitar part or not?! You've had like two weeks.
Tom: No, but look what I can do! *rubs screwdriver all over guitar*
I could trip with those sounds all day
Cool!
EvilAlbear Just writing music atm, band stuff hopefully in the future.
Precisely what I am doing.
You can make some really good ambience for video games with these techniques. The guitar is such a great instrument.
not just great..... the best
And movies :)
Do u know what guitar he is using?
+Screamii ofc. its a les paul custom if im not mistaken
But I don't think its a gibson
I would be that guy who uses all of these in an album
Same
+bassman686 ikr
Same hereee
+bassman686 Hahaha just playing creepy ghost Sci fi sounds through a sermon Hahaha haha
steve vai...
This is like guitar ASMR
Ivan Minchev lol
Somewhere, Tom Morello (Rage Against The Machine) is nodding in approval
I liked him better in Audioslave.
Especially with the screwdriver hahah
you mean "profits of rag" now
+ecmproductions11 rage*
+ecmproductions11 it looks awesome, hope they come to the uk
The EEG headset thing is absolutely astonishing, literally one of the most amazing things I've ever seen. Imagine mastering that
Very cool man! :-)
Glad you like it!
whaaAAAAAT!
whoaaaa
Rob Chapman hiiiiiiii
hiiii whoaaaa !!!
when your guitat sings opera
3:07 who needs sweep picking
So true.
It sounds like van halen
that headset thingy... like...Ada psychologist, THAT is creativity, like... I actually want to do this real bad
damn sweep pick master
I thought the thumbnail was a toothbrush poking through a fretboard
SlightlyWetFart same
SlightlyWetFart i first read 5 rape techniques
SlightlyWetFart LOL AND IT'S THE SCREWDRIVER HAHAHAHAHAHA
Is this the Mandala Effect? I thought the same about the toothbrush! What a trip
Same
This is incredible. I want to write a horror movie theme with these.
no advertising of instagram\facebook\goat ass profiles in th beginning
no useless quack-quack
no talking about gear
this guy is awesome just for that. video starts and then the content starts
Thank you! I like to keep it straight to the point.
the horror noises never cease to crack me up I love it! xD
Absolutely adore Godspeed You! Black Emperor. Wonderful to see Erfim's sacred screwdriver technique here.
I love your channel! it's like "how to basic" on guitar lol
+VanAngelic Haha, awesome!
Oh my goodness this is so accurate 😂
yo bro, that last part you played really was amazing. it's super slow and easy but damn it was breath taking... plz make a video adding on to that song n post it. got to hear the rest.
I recon some of these scary techniques could be used in some atmospheric black metal song intros
Now rare techniques gone famous..
I'm totally using the creepy ones when I make my own music xD
Incredible. Controlling FX parameters using focus/attention, really incredible... I'm watchin' this one again....
If there was a whole album of just a slow mix of all these techniques, I'd buy it instantly.
2:10 Sounds like a fucking opera singer. chilling and amazing
Who knew, with a guitar and some unexpected stuff you could achieve these sounds ? Not me, definitely, thanks I'll make use of this tricks for some atmospheric stuff.
Those wails with the screwdriver shaft are awesome.
that screw driver is crazy
Do you know the tone settings for that?
so this is how radiohead makes its experimental music huh
I love doing those harmonic bends. I hate you for sharing my secret.
Haha, sorry!
Though I bet many guitarists have discovered it on their own by just messing around / through hours of practice, it's no secret. It's just a technique that not a lot of players use. Can't remember who, but I saw one guy in a video a few years back who was incorporating it into his style really well.
Why does this remind me of how to basic?
because of the fast cuts
+Mick Shadows yep..hahaha
because there's a screwdriver
Haha wtf??
the jump cuts
How to write a Rage Against the Machine song 101
lol true
I was thinking that as well😂
Tom Morello uses such weird shit on his guitar
The Elite Onyx General he also never lowers his strap
I'm using all these techniques. you sir are a sound bender. I bow to you, sifu
Why is this so infuriatingly relaxing... this is like meditation or something. Doesn't require a lot of attention but man does it have all of mine.
Using the metal part of the screwdriver was pretty badass.
3:50 sounds like the dazed and confused live versions
been waiting for part two for so long, its finnaly here
literally been making spooky ghost noises for over a hour now :D
Comb filter at 7:00 sounds so much like what you naturally hear on a shroom trip but without the guitar.
I'm pretty sure the violin is considered the instrument that most resembles human voice but now I'm not so sure. That screwdriver sounds EXACTLY like an opera singer.
man you are a genius .. im a music producer and sometimes i record guitar for sessions and you gave me new ideas
Thank you, glad to hear that!
RUclips needs more guitar videos like this
That's great!!!! Never tried goofing around with slides or screwdrivers in quite that way....cool,eerie stuff!
You know that you're playing Metal when you play guitar with a screwdriver :D
half of it sounded like it belonged in like a really dope horror game or something, it sounded beautiful keep up the amazing work man
Thanks for the kind words!
The whole attention converted into MIDI data thing was pretty cool... subscribed.
Everytime im in a bad funk. I watch this guy and be inspired. Thanks you. You did it again.
2spooky4theworld.
3spoopy5myface
Cassie Schipani The lmao is intense on this one!
deep sea discovery channel documentary noises
Awesome creativity. The screwdriver blew me up
These tunes sound so much like GYBE
Genuinely think the "screwdriver bow" sound is what angels sound like
the arcade-esque sound you got from hitting the screwdriver handle on the strings near the pickups is also easily achieved if you use a floyd rose tremolo bar across that same area, which is what i've done in the past.
the bird sound :D
reminds me of lynyrd skynyrd. free bird, baby.
+Jimmy Campos Exactly ! Now I've figured it out how they made it live.
Kinda reminds me of the effects Michael Schenker did on the Lonesome Crow album
Holy shit. I Can make music with just this and my limited guitar skills. Liked and faved for sure.
Small electric motor near the pickups. Try a pulsating motor like an electric toothbrush. Bit of distortion and reverb makes it sound really weird. You can also use the resulting vibrations to move the strings generating several tones at once.
Thanks for sharing!
I've always love doing all these things you showed with a slide, but I've never even thought of the screwdrivers thing. I've gotta try that out!
What an innovative video.
You can do a lot with prepared guitar. I'm a big fan of sticking a clothespin under the strings by the pickup, so it raises the strings up. Plucking on the pickup side is dull and muted, while plucking on the fret side gives a sitar-like sound with a lot of sympathetic vibration.
Cool, I must try that, thanks for sharing!
I wanna mind-control all my effects. That's way cooler than an expression pedal.
That last rythm... 7:46 man that's mellow,
And I need mellow and that hit the spot.
from 7:00 it started to sound like some Pink Floyd stuff
More like gilmourdivisionbell stuff
Pu Derrick and I can swear between 1:42-1:45 I heard some echoes (meddle)
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You could write a horror movie's whole soundtrack only with the techniques shown in the video.
well I'm ready to never sleep again
the ambience around the 6:30 mark was amazing
Pretty sure something like the first screwdriver trick was used for the left for dead theme.. Sounds eerily like something from it haha
The "glitch tapping" is very cool; I did it by accident while learning how to tap when I was a kid. Now I do it to warm up my fingers. I've used slides a lot, and created many sounds like these on my own. I bet a lot of these are discovered by chance through many hours of practice--it's bound to happen. Except for the EEG thing; that's WILD! Cool video, for sure.
these all sound like sound effects you would use in a horror movie.
I'm speechless... largely because I'm waste-deep in my closet, exhuming every buried tool to see what magics can be heard by scraping them across my guitfiddle strings!!
Close your eyes and watch this
Elijah Borg I tried, but I couldn't see the video. I have this terrible condition where I close my eyes, and then can't see anything. Is that normal?
Whait a minute...
@1:21 Sounds like it's underwater. Very cool!
YOU RE A GENIUS !!!!!!!!!!!!
all these sounds feel so good
I appreciate the nightmares.
This is amazing to say the least. I thought the trick with screwdriver going down the fret board was a joke at first
This was very doooooommm
I've actually done the screwdriver thing in my younger days. COOL.
dude, how much reverb did you use? :D
All of it.
Bad Guitar Please, make a video showing us how, I would love to creep out my friends by doing this.
That last part when you said that your attention makes the sounds of your strings sound more expresive; I can do that effect with just my finger tips.
Haha, yeah I thought about that a lot. It's like reinventing the wheel in a sense.
I like your videos. They're very educational. Once I have an electric again, perhaps one of them will be an excellent addition for my style.
Epic, but made me pretty sleepy
me too lolol
I've actually used #4 on a Godspeed You Black emperor cover I did, and I believe their guitarists use #1 a lot as well
David Gilmour uses #4 in Echoes
the handle of the screw driver sounds like when Kirby spits out an enemy in old Kirby games
Woah, didn't expect to see you here. 😅
And it totally does. Haha
O shit waddup
That ending piece was beautiful
Thank you!
Bad Guitar Name of the song, pretty please? Or is it one of your own, eh? ;o
Tom Morello would be proud
lots, and, lots, of Super Mario sounds, and also pack man!
good job!
2:20 sounds eerily like a woman singing opera. Shit could be used in any horror film
The whole video the sounds are sort of creepy but at 7:44 it turns into a super serene chill sound
ASMR with a guitar, best fucking thing I ever saw in my life. O.O
#4 reminds me of the music in the Scorn trailer and I'm digging it
You should have called the video " how to make creepy sounds on guitar"
Andrew Media true
all these noises sould straight out of an earth album, some very experimental band like them.
it made me relax........ and sleepy.. |)
2:36 shit..my Mario has died
slide @ the bridge reminds me of Pink Floyd live @ Pompeii. Great technique for setting that eerie ambience
That would be amazing to get more reverb as you get lost in the music
Cool, I like the ghostly horror sound that came.
...so I would need a Stanley screwdriver, not a Craftsman....got it!