10 KILLER Tips You NEED to LOVE your Guitar

[Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] mmm [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hey this is tim pierce today we're going to look at some quick reliable tools to break you through the mud the muck and the mire and get you inspired it happens to me happens to all of us and there's some quick ways through it as always click the link below for the online masterclasses the 14 day free trial so you can check it out and see if it's right for you there's another link below you should click this monday we start the prs online summer school lots of great teachers myself tyler larson paul reed smith dennis chambers every instrument four days it's gonna be really fun join us if you can so when you get a tone get it dry that's fine make sure it's a tone that's reliable make sure that it's something that you know is good if you have one good amp and one good guitar use that don't be experimenting all the time all of us find stuff that works for the rest of our lives you might have one sound you remember from a year ago oh yeah it was great that'll be great for the rest of your life so it's fine to experiment and reach and reach and reach and try stuff but you'll always feel like you're failing if you're constantly reaching and almost grabbing stuff there are things you do and sounds you have made that are great and rely on those for the rest of your life because they'll always be there [Music] this is a sound that i know i can use forever sort of half distorted the pedal's not all the way up the amp's not all the way up it's in the middle somewhere it's a sound i trust and a sound that's reliable for me now is there a better sound out there maybe there is but why reach for it all the time you need to separate the reaching from the playing the practicing from the playing the researching from the playing the you know the endless experimentation from what you know is good and you can use for the rest of their life both are valid so find a zone where it's something that you can rely on that you've done before and use that and then reach a little later you know stay in that zone today now the other thing is that sounds good dry but don't be afraid to add reverb so let me turn this on it's always better when it's a little wet very satisfying and in a track that will disappear now i was listening to my favorite allison chains record the other day everything's bone dry i get that it's a great aesthetic but it's also nice when you're actually kind of working stuff out and trying to enjoy the guitar to have some ambience on it and i use delays a lot they're off right now but at least use some reverb which you can get out of your workstation or out of a pedal it's easy [Applause] [Music] so that's a sound that's reliable i know works i'll use it for the rest of my life it's just to have to store it in amp the half distorted pedal the sweet spot on anything and this guitar is easy to play it's not the most like vibey vintage guitar far from it very easy to play that's another key [Music] super light strings 9-42 and a boutique guitar that plays itself that's another thing to get you comfortable you decide to fight with a vintage guitar go ahead do that later though kind of give yourself a break give yourself a vacation [Music] and choose a guitar that's easy to play [Music] another thing i recommend is create a dreamworks station a fantasy workstation i kind of did that here i grew up next to an air force base i've always been fascinated by planes this is like an airplane cockpit i can reach pretty much anything from right here and it's challenging sometimes because i bump the guitars i get a lot of dings and it's really tight too it's kind of hard to get in and out this little area right here which you can't even see but what it does is it creates momentum so if i'm playing and i want to change sounds like that if i want to do something on the computer like that i want to manipulate something here or over here on a pedal or a rack piece of gear it all happens really really quickly because i can just reach forward and do it if you're plugging in on your knees a pedal whatever man it can quickly put you in a bad mood especially if it takes some extra time or something doesn't quite work right or you plug it in wrong so the idea for me is to be able to create momentum by having even my tuner is right there right in front of me i just look at it there it is create a fantasy workstation make it like the bridge of the starship enterprise anything you can do to make it inviting and have your guitar right there ready to go so the other thing i always say is i've always said my studio is really like starting a car i'll say it's starting like like starting a ferrari just to play it up or whatever but it's really like starting a car so that when i want to do something there's just a few steps i do have to open up pro tools on the computer so if you're using a daw which i recommend because then you can capture your ideas really play with stuff you do have a few steps but make those steps easy and if you can leave your station on for most of the day or at least for the period of time when you might come and visit it so when you come you come sit and pick up the guitar you can go right away there's a lot to that so if it's three or four steps make those steps really easy turn on the power turn on the computer open the program light it up your app goes on automatically i mean i have everything on powerstrip so that when i click one button everything lights up gotta have a really good power strip for that and they're actually some can't handle all that but uh you if you can find ways to make it you know three or four steps rather than 8 or 10 steps it's always better [Music] always stand up for and champion and never be embarrassed about the kind of music you love the most whether it's simple or it's soft or it's hard doesn't matter what it is there is a certain kind of music that i'm sure you love the most if it's white snake then great it's white snake if it's tower of power that's great too if it's sound garden that's great if it's early 60s glenn campbell that's great too 50s whatever it is that you love stay in that zone you know reach outside of it to learn stuff but never be i mean what if it's dire straits what if that's your favorite band try and be that guy and do that kind of sound and write those kinds of songs and play that kind of guitar because a lot of the greatest artists only do one thing and that's what makes them great keith richards never tried to be pat metheny he never even tried to be eric clapton he was keith richards it's the same for any artist artists do one thing really really dramatically well and it might be a very simple thing they're distinctive in one way and you can be that too i'm not saying don't learn don't reach out but separate the two when you want to practice and fall flat on your face go learn a jazz lick and then try and incorporate it in whatever genre you love but separate the two when you're working in the genre you love be a player you know be be that guy and it can be very very simple i never learned classical music i never learned jazz i never learned bluegrass i am okay not knowing those idioms those are some of the most demanding and musically challenging idioms there are so basically what i do is pretty simple it's rock blues pop r b and a little bit of country the music i love the most is the simplest music and you might be that way too always stand up for it and champion it and if you want to be in a 50s band if you want to be in uh you know the stray cats put together a band like that make music like that if you want to be in a chris isaac kind of band put together a band like that if you want to be in a beatles type band do it like that heavy rock do it like that find the thing you love the most and be become kind of an aficionado and a performer in that genre so that you can actually excel at one thing and then when nobody's looking in our private moments we can reach out and try and experiment fall flat on our face learning new stuff and then you can bring that little jazz lick into your heavy metal genre if you want all these little things these little bites you take from different styles of music and other guitar players you can bring them in to your favorite kind of music [Music] to me the most inspiring thing you can do is go back and learn something that you loved something that you're curious about maybe from a month ago a year ago many years ago this song i keep forgetting by michael mcdonald is from a long time ago it's kind of from my youth and steve lukather he sat down on the session created a rhythm part in front of the chord changes that was spontaneous and it's really pretty magical um a great tracking day but you know i love leonard skinner i love classic rock it really could be anything it could be humble pie it could be the foo fighters anything you're curious about uh maybe you learned it before and you're relearning it maybe you're learning it for the first time but put it up and just keep cycling through it until you get the part and if you have any trouble with it go to youtube and check out andy from shut up and play your guitar he'll teach it to you and then you can play along with the record the important thing do whatever you need to do to make it easy for yourself to get in to find a way in and then play along with the record it's so inspiring to play with the record you can do the exact part you can deviate from the part and do your own feels and make it your own and then think about this then someday you can take it out and play it in the band and actualize it out there but the really the inspiring thing it never fails if i'm feeling uninspired if i put a great song in front of me and learn even even a small part of the guitar part makes me happy let's dive in so you can grab the riff afterwards but play it in time i think it's a good way to memorize i keep forgetting [Music] really simple reggae part it works great for this let everybody else go kind of crazy steve lays it down settles it down [Music] to say the things [Music] i love how he vibratos only the e minor right here [Music] and this simple reggae part let everybody else travel through the chords and he anchors it it's really cool one thing about his part also is that he's playing small pieces of chords so it leaves a lot of space for the bass drums and keyboards and the vocal really really kind of brilliant and very spontaneous it's inspiring and you can learn you don't have to grab everything and you can grab bits after they happen if you play it in time two beats later you're still in the pocket you can kind of memorize stuff easily that way thanks for watching if you haven't subscribed yet please hit the subscribe button and ring the bell if you are a subscriber please ring the bell it lets us let you know every time a new video is released you can also 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Length: 14min 34sec (874 seconds)

Published: Sat Aug 08 2020