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Sunday, July 5th, 2009guitar wolf love rock
how do i add dimension to my guitar playing?
I noticed when I play by myself, the sound is kind of like a lone wolf vocalist; annoying. How do i create a dimension to my harmonies without backup music? I play blues rock and love the neo classical sound.
Two thoughts – one, incorporate a wider mixture of low and high notes – use more strings, in other words. The dude from Dashboard Confessional started it solo, just him and his acoustic guitar, but he tuned open D5, which allowed him to strum all of the strings most of the time…. and even if he flubbed a note and hit an open string, it was still in tune. Open tunings are great for creating a fuller, more resonant sound.
This also covers stuff like Travis picking, where you pick bass notes and melody notes… or piano voicings, where you mix notes high on the fretboard with either open strings or notes otherwise an octave+ lower.
Second was use of effects, especially a bit reverb and delay…. you could go from the type of sounds Edge (U2) gets to more ambient Radiohead-ish stuff to Tom Morello weirdness to Sonic Youth noise textures. Obviously you’ll have to find your own voice, but even adding a volume swell into a delay (creates a pad, synthy effect) can create a nice texture.
You can look into parallel signal chains and those pedals that let you record something, loop it, then play over it, whatever they’re called.
Saul
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