Yvette Young (Covet) Creates Songs with Guitar Tapping and Open Tunings | Reverb Interview

[Music] [Applause] hi my name is Yvette and I played in a band called covet we're in instrumental music and I'm here to show you a couple of techniques that I got up my sleeve right now I am well I'm capable on too but right now I'm in F they see G 2 the first way I got into open tunings is because I was on like a you know Midwest twinkle emo binge in college and I found bands like American football and tow and I found a bunch of tunings they were in I think one of the first open tunings I played with was fasc GBE which is a Tony and then from there I was like well if you can tune it to this then like why not find other possibilities that make certain shapes like easier make like certain I guess techniques a little easier on the fingers I guess I have you open tunings is kind of a way to get myself out of doing the same shapes all the time just cuz I find that like with standard and stuff I just kept on doing stuff that was just you know the same old chord shapes and I wanted to kind of like challenge myself a little bit and also I view it as like a way to color the canvas of it so it's like instead of starting with a white canvas you start with like you know it sounds really nice just by itself and it puts you somewhere and I hear like all kinds of melodies over it so yeah I find it really inspiring the open to anything definitely assists me in the way I write because even though I studied theory and everything for piano like I play piano and violin and I definitely use theory for that but I find it really fun and refreshing that when I play guitar like I don't really think in terms of theory you know I sing something and then I I find how to play it and I end up doing jumps that are really challenging or I have to get really creative with how I do like the pull if any portion of it so I guess it's just challenging I end up improving at guitar just by teaching myself how to play something that I sing in my head [Music] it I'm traditionally a piano player I've played piano since I was four so everything in my head frame of reference is first voice and then I kind of think about it how I would lay it out on a piano so I view my lower strings as kind of like my left hand so I view them as kind of like drones or like ways to like color the harmony in different ways it's like a really easy way for me to think about pull affinis on a guitar because then the lower strings like you can just view it like I kind of decide what melody I want to play on the top strings first and then I choose my root notes my base notes I kind of just wrote that but then I was like what do I want to do with like the lower strings to make it sound full I just kind of I started my whole like guitar career just making videos in my room and I wanted to sound as full as possible it's just one person so I was and you know coming from a classical piano background everything I played always had like pull Affinia and like multiple voices and I guess I was trying to find a way to sound just really full after I wrote the root notes for that would be so I just like out of those in because I guess I heard those nuts [Music] and this I do a lot of finger picking and tapping and a lot of people find that a little bit challenging but what I do to make it a little easier is I actually finger pick up here to save myself the trouble of having to like move back and forth so it actually kind of [Music] yeah I like combining it I think about a lot of stuff like texturally too like when I have stuff that that's just like way staccato like tapping it inherently is just really staccato like it just sounds like you can't really get much the same with it unless you like push down on it so I like to kind of fill out that space with just notes even I like [Music] [Music] how the band works is I will come up with the riff at home and then I'll flesh it into a song and then I'll bring that maybe 75 percent completed song to band practice and on hash it out with my drummer and then from there David my bass player will add his parts over and fill out whatever needs to be filled out but because I was so used to writing for myself a lot of the earlier stuff in my opinion was a bit like no D and busy and there was not much room for things to breathe and I think with like the newer cover releases I started intentionally leaving things out because I thought that like maybe the sound of bass would be a better fill-in for that section I have David do a lot of stuff that's like bass solo so he gets to like turn on his crazy effects and do like like a main melodic line in like a busy section this is a section of one of our songs called she be aware the whole thing I'm like doing like crazy tap and stuff and then I just drop out for a section and vamp this like [Music] [Music] so I just do that for a really long time and I think before if I was just writing for myself I'd be like that goes on too long like I should shorten that or I should like change it up but I think when writing for the full band I'm like okay that's an excellent opportunity for my base layer of my drummer to like vary it up a bit and they can like insert their voice into it so I don't really want the band to be like you know guitar and then like drums and bass are an afterthought I kind of want every part to kind of fit really intentionally and everyone to have like a moment to shine like coming from a classical background I really love dynamics I guess like the more shreddy stuff it's like very impressive and like technical but I think sometimes there's like but somewhat lacking in dynamics or just like contrast so I think you can make like a crazy sweep sound even sicker if you just put in like some space just sections and really let it breathe because then people can appreciate when it's busy and it doesn't just become like a wall of noise you know [Music] [Applause] [Music] like I don't just make it all top sleeps like I wanted it to kind of like groove but then sometimes there's like a fast run so that was an example where I was thinking of like how can I contrast that that quick sweeping sound with like something that's more like danceable [Music] you

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Length: 8min 54sec (534 seconds)

Published: Fri Jan 04 2019