Guitar Everyone...such enjoyable playing! Please "shed some light" on the nature/method of how your are attaining both your wonderful "tone" and your recording process re: equipment as your videos sound "EXCELLENT"...very clear, beautiful "end-result" recordings. I enjoyed that fact that you are trying to do something "musically different" throughout this entire composition while "keeping it country"...going thru your "mental rolodex" of applicable licks/phrases that never "lose" the "taste" of Country. You demonstrate a wonderful "vocabulary" that you are able to "make sense" of while "using" your vocabulary. Many times, my "vocabulary" (choices of phrases and/or licks) interferes with each other...but it is thru these "stumbling over my own musical words" moments that something might make "musical sense" that I may not have "musically spoken" without trying something within the "Musical Marathon" attempt...my favorite "way" to play;) I find these "marathon" performances...a performance that has us guitar pickers both "playing and thinking" longer than a "typically" length of a solo (8 to l6 measures...or 7 to 30 seconds depending on the tempo of the song) provide the "necessity" to realize that most of the time we as pickers are "mentally locked in" to "what" we are going to perform "before" we actually perform it especially on songs that are "familiar" to us with a "defined length" of soloing time...a.k.a. "Workin' Man Blues" and other songs similiar. By taking that "familiar song" and extending the "familiar length"...now we are making ourselves either "repeat" our "Musical Vocabulary" or find "new things to musically say"...a process that I started doing many years ago as I was "learning" only 8 to 16 bars of music (per song) at a time in order to "get the job" with any of the touring artist of the day here in Nashville...Trisha Yearwood, Alan Jackson, The Oak Ridge Boys, Martina McBride, Bill Anderson...and countless other artist that needed a guitar picker to "play exactly" what was "already" played on the record...but able to do it in a "live" situaton. The necessity to "learn short phrases" give me a very "limited musical vocabulary" while providing vast opportunities to "work" with all these artists in one form or another...quite a tug of war mentally. Finally, when I was truly "tired" of hearing me play the "same stuff" over and over..and 16 bars later...running out of "mental ideas" therefore creating the necessity to go back to "familiar musical conversation"...I needed to "find a way" that would "open and add" to my limited musical vocabulary...while "remaining" in the same "genre"...as most times the "easiest solution" is to dive into jazz, funk, fusion, classical, etc..., And while these "genres" are incredible challenging, the bottom line was none of these artists I would work for wanted a "jazz, funk, fusion, classical" version of my solo in "their" song. So the "solution" was easy...learn "how" to speak "musically fluid...longer"...by simply "extending" what you would play. A "marathoner" doesn't just train the 26 miles it takes to "run" that race...nor does a weightlifter reach a "max" and never tries to "go beyond" that max...and for me..."Musical Marathons" are my favorite method of trying to "add" to my limited musical vocabulary. And I sure enjoyed yours...thank you and my prayers to you, your family and friends...Sincerely I am...Dan;)
Thank you my friend, you are truly kind and I am humbled by your comments as I truly LOVE your playing and I can hear and feel what you play when I’m watching your videos. So thank you for watching and liking my videos. Being completely self taught and liking so many different styles of music but not being able to master any of them always leads me to play a sort of musical ‘pot of stew’ to just about everything or any style that I play. I always try to create as much feel and sense to what I play although my musical vocabulary is pretty limited compared to yours. I’ll try and explain how I do my videos. It will sound like it’s a ton of work to accomplish but in reality it’s not a tough process and I can do it rather quickly. If you use or have used any recording software which I believe you do (and probably much better than I can) you will do the process rather fast. If you have any questions at all after my explanation of the process I would happily answer any questions you have. I’ll start with my recording process. I do all my recording directly through the GarageBand app on my 2020 iMac desktop. It’s not Pro Tools but it gets the job done. I’ll usually purchase a track on TH-cam or some other app that I would like to jam to and I drag that into a new track in GarageBand. Next is getting my guitar into GarageBand….. I plug my guitar into a great pedal by Universal Audio called the Dream ‘65 which does a great job of replicating an original 65 Deluxe Reverb including the great tremolo and reverb. From there I’m plugging my Dream 65 into another pedal by Universal Audio called the OX Stomp which replicates several great speaker cabinets and mic placements. The output of the OX Stomp pedal is then plugged into my Presonus USB interface and directly into my computer. Of course you can also use the XLR out of your Tone Master amps. I’ve used the XLR out with my Tone Master Deluxe a couple of times and got good results. So all my audio is being recorded direct into GarageBand but it provides a very convincing amp like tone. I’m using a headset while I’m playing so everything is pretty quiet and I can record any time of day or night without disturbing anyone which I like. You can use the XLR out of your Tone Master amps too in the standby mode to record quietly if needed. All I have to do then is mix everything in GarageBand and export the audio to my external hard drive for later use with the video. Now For the video portion…. I’m using a Sony AX 700 camcorder which delivers 4K video on a SDHC card which I like but of course you can use just about anything to record video. For video software I’m just using the free iMovie video software app in my iMac desktop to load in the video from my camera. I’m not using any audio from my camera for my video. Any audio picked up by the camera is later removed by right clicking with my mouse and detaching the audio from the video and deleting it. Now I have to import my finished GarageBand audio from my external drive into my video with iMovie and sync it with the video. That can take some getting used to but once you do it a few times you can get it done rather quickly. That’s about it. That’s how I do most all my videos these days and I love the results. I need to get busy and produce my own backing tracks for my videos but to get it done quickly and post it on TH-cam the backing tracks help to speed things up for me. Thanks for your questions and your kindness my friend. I’m looking forward to your next video. I thoroughly enjoy your playing, your singing and your great stories. Until next time!
Update ! Just watched your latest upcoming session work video so I guess you know your way around multitrack recording! You used computer recording technology long before I did so I guess the quickest answer to your query about my videos are that my guitar and jam track are going direct to GarageBand while I’m shooting the video and the video and GarageBand audio are later synced together to create the final video for TH-cam. Besides your great playing talents and demo work I am also discovering more about your other talents including multitrack recording. Cheers!
@@guitareveryone Thank you for sharing the "detail" of your method. It works as well as anything I have heard on TH-cam in addition to the fact you are performing styles of music I enjoy. Most of the guitar content on TH-cam is "modern rock driven" examples by younger players/teachers sharing music with me that is not necessarily of my interest. And while appreciate all forms/genres of music and can & will continue to "learn from everyone", your content is much more "up my musical" alley. I was a young kid when I brazenly walked up to a dressing room door, knocking on it while holding my Gibson Dove, and hearing the voice behind the door say, "Come on in"...and opening the door to find Mr. Merle Travis sitting in his dressing room, by himself...dressed and ready 3 hours before his show here in Hendersonville at Conway Twitty's "Twitty City" Pavilion. "Mr. Travis," I asked, "Would you show me how to pick like you?". He responded with, "Well kid, pull that chair up and I'll show you what I know.". And he did. A few months later, he passed away. Later, the "World Champion Travis Picker" Mr. Bob Saxton (of which you can find him performing "Sweet Georgia Brown" with Scotty Anderson here on TH-cam) would spend a lot of time with me showing me "Travis Pickin"...and later, I would have the pleasure of spending time with Chet Atkins...talking & listening "quietly" to music...with him leaving me with one of nicest "compliments" I have ever received from a "high level noted" performer. Many of these moments have been "brought back" to the forefront of my memories...through the gift of you sharing "your gifts" here on your channel of which you do very well and I am thankful to you for doing so. Let's keep pickin'...and my prayers to you, your family and friends. Sincerely I am...Dan;)
@@musicmandan1717 thanks so much Dan. And sitting alongside Merle Travis and Chet Atkins….wow is all I can say. Two of my fingerpicking guitar heroes. And As for Scotty Anderson….what a player. His thumbpick/index finger nail method of playing two strings at once to play harmony lines is just incredible. I have his Arlen Roth instructional dvd with Scotty and it’s mind blowing. I wouldn’t even attempt trying to copy that stuff. So glad I hooked up with you on TH-cam brother. And I have to check out that Bob Saxton, Scotty Anderson video! Cheers!
Guitar Everyone...such enjoyable playing! Please "shed some light" on the nature/method of how your are attaining both your wonderful "tone" and your recording process re: equipment as your videos sound "EXCELLENT"...very clear, beautiful "end-result" recordings.
I enjoyed that fact that you are trying to do something "musically different" throughout this entire composition while "keeping it country"...going thru your "mental rolodex" of applicable licks/phrases that never "lose" the "taste" of Country. You demonstrate a wonderful "vocabulary" that you are able to "make sense" of while "using" your vocabulary. Many times, my "vocabulary" (choices of phrases and/or licks) interferes with each other...but it is thru these "stumbling over my own musical words" moments that something might make "musical sense" that I may not have "musically spoken" without trying something within the "Musical Marathon" attempt...my favorite "way" to play;)
I find these "marathon" performances...a performance that has us guitar pickers both "playing and thinking" longer than a "typically" length of a solo (8 to l6 measures...or 7 to 30 seconds depending on the tempo of the song) provide the "necessity" to realize that most of the time we as pickers are "mentally locked in" to "what" we are going to perform "before" we actually perform it especially on songs that are "familiar" to us with a "defined length" of soloing time...a.k.a. "Workin' Man Blues" and other songs similiar.
By taking that "familiar song" and extending the "familiar length"...now we are making ourselves either "repeat" our "Musical Vocabulary" or find "new things to musically say"...a process that I started doing many years ago as I was "learning" only 8 to 16 bars of music (per song) at a time in order to "get the job" with any of the touring artist of the day here in Nashville...Trisha Yearwood, Alan Jackson, The Oak Ridge Boys, Martina McBride, Bill Anderson...and countless other artist that needed a guitar picker to "play exactly" what was "already" played on the record...but able to do it in a "live" situaton.
The necessity to "learn short phrases" give me a very "limited musical vocabulary" while providing vast opportunities to "work" with all these artists in one form or another...quite a tug of war mentally.
Finally, when I was truly "tired" of hearing me play the "same stuff" over and over..and 16 bars later...running out of "mental ideas" therefore creating the necessity to go back to "familiar musical conversation"...I needed to "find a way" that would "open and add" to my limited musical vocabulary...while "remaining" in the same "genre"...as most times the "easiest solution" is to dive into jazz, funk, fusion, classical, etc...,
And while these "genres" are incredible challenging, the bottom line was none of these artists I would work for wanted a "jazz, funk, fusion, classical" version of my solo in "their" song. So the "solution" was easy...learn "how" to speak "musically fluid...longer"...by simply "extending" what you would play.
A "marathoner" doesn't just train the 26 miles it takes to "run" that race...nor does a weightlifter reach a "max" and never tries to "go beyond" that max...and for me..."Musical Marathons" are my favorite method of trying to "add" to my limited musical vocabulary.
And I sure enjoyed yours...thank you and my prayers to you, your family and friends...Sincerely I am...Dan;)
Thank you my friend, you are truly kind and I am humbled by your comments as I truly LOVE your playing and I can hear and feel what you play when I’m watching your videos. So thank you for watching and liking my videos. Being completely self taught and liking so many different styles of music but not being able to master any of them always leads me to play a sort of musical ‘pot of stew’ to just about everything or any style that I play. I always try to create as much feel and sense to what I play although my musical vocabulary is pretty limited compared to yours.
I’ll try and explain how I do my videos. It will sound like it’s a ton of work to accomplish but in reality it’s not a tough process and I can do it rather quickly. If you use or have used any recording software which I believe you do (and probably much better than I can) you will do the process rather fast. If you have any questions at all after my explanation of the process I would happily answer any questions you have.
I’ll start with my recording process. I do all my recording directly through the GarageBand app on my 2020 iMac desktop. It’s not Pro Tools but it gets the job done. I’ll usually purchase a track on TH-cam or some other app that I would like to jam to and I drag that into a new track in GarageBand.
Next is getting my guitar into GarageBand….. I plug my guitar into a great pedal by Universal Audio called the Dream ‘65 which does a great job of replicating an original 65 Deluxe Reverb including the great tremolo and reverb. From there I’m plugging my Dream 65 into another pedal by Universal Audio called the OX Stomp which replicates several great speaker cabinets and mic placements. The output of the OX Stomp pedal is then plugged into my Presonus USB interface and directly into my computer. Of course you can also use the XLR out of your Tone Master amps. I’ve used the XLR out with my Tone Master Deluxe a couple of times and got good results. So all my audio is being recorded direct into GarageBand but it provides a very convincing amp like tone. I’m using a headset while I’m playing so everything is pretty quiet and I can record any time of day or night without disturbing anyone which I like. You can use the XLR out of your Tone Master amps too in the standby mode to record quietly if needed. All I have to do then is mix everything in GarageBand and export the audio to my external hard drive for later use with the video.
Now For the video portion….
I’m using a Sony AX 700 camcorder which delivers 4K video on a SDHC card which I like but of course you can use just about anything to record video. For video software I’m just using the free iMovie video software app in my iMac desktop to load in the video from my camera. I’m not using any audio from my camera for my video. Any audio picked up by the camera is later removed by right clicking with my mouse and detaching the audio from the video and deleting it.
Now I have to import my finished GarageBand audio from my external drive into my video with iMovie and sync it with the video. That can take some getting used to but once you do it a few times you can get it done rather quickly.
That’s about it. That’s how I do most all my videos these days and I love the results. I need to get busy and produce my own backing tracks for my videos but to get it done quickly and post it on TH-cam the backing tracks help to speed things up for me.
Thanks for your questions and your kindness my friend. I’m looking forward to your next video. I thoroughly enjoy your playing, your singing and your great stories. Until next time!
Update ! Just watched your latest upcoming session work video so I guess you know your way around multitrack recording! You used computer recording technology long before I did so I guess the quickest answer to your query about my videos are that my guitar and jam track are going direct to GarageBand while I’m shooting the video and the video and GarageBand audio are later synced together to create the final video for TH-cam. Besides your great playing talents and demo work I am also discovering more about your other talents including multitrack recording. Cheers!
@@guitareveryone Thank you for sharing the "detail" of your method. It works as well as anything I have heard on TH-cam in addition to the fact you are performing styles of music I enjoy. Most of the guitar content on TH-cam is "modern rock driven" examples by younger players/teachers sharing music with me that is not necessarily of my interest. And while appreciate all forms/genres of music and can & will continue to "learn from everyone", your content is much more "up my musical" alley.
I was a young kid when I brazenly walked up to a dressing room door, knocking on it while holding my Gibson Dove, and hearing the voice behind the door say, "Come on in"...and opening the door to find Mr. Merle Travis sitting in his dressing room, by himself...dressed and ready 3 hours before his show here in Hendersonville at Conway Twitty's "Twitty City" Pavilion.
"Mr. Travis," I asked, "Would you show me how to pick like you?". He responded with, "Well kid, pull that chair up and I'll show you what I know.". And he did.
A few months later, he passed away.
Later, the "World Champion Travis Picker" Mr. Bob Saxton (of which you can find him performing "Sweet Georgia Brown" with Scotty Anderson here on TH-cam) would spend a lot of time with me showing me "Travis Pickin"...and later, I would have the pleasure of spending time with Chet Atkins...talking & listening "quietly" to music...with him leaving me with one of nicest "compliments" I have ever received from a "high level noted" performer.
Many of these moments have been "brought back" to the forefront of my memories...through the gift of you sharing "your gifts" here on your channel of which you do very well and I am thankful to you for doing so.
Let's keep pickin'...and my prayers to you, your family and friends. Sincerely I am...Dan;)
@@musicmandan1717 thanks so much Dan. And sitting alongside Merle Travis and Chet Atkins….wow is all I can say. Two of my fingerpicking guitar heroes. And As for Scotty Anderson….what a player. His thumbpick/index finger nail method of playing two strings at once to play harmony lines is just incredible. I have his Arlen Roth instructional dvd with Scotty and it’s mind blowing. I wouldn’t even attempt trying to copy that stuff. So glad I hooked up with you on TH-cam brother. And I have to check out that Bob Saxton, Scotty Anderson video!
Cheers!
Sounds great man!!!!
Thank you Jim!