I got to speak to Alessandro Alessandroni who played the classical guitar and fuzz guitar (and the whistling) on most of Morricone’s scores before he passed. I am a huge fan of his solo work but I wanted to ask what he used for his tone. Believe it or not...a Stratocaster and old Maestro fuzz pedal. He said he never understood why everyone writes that he used a Jazzmaster. It was a Stratocaster. I highly recommend you check out Alessandroni’s solo work such as Lady Frankenstein, Devil’s Nightmare, The Mad Butcher And my personal favorite Killer Nun. Killer Nun was recorded in the late 70s and features hip hop beats played on an old drum machine mixed with his iconic fuzzed out guitar, an analog synth and a recording of a Gregorian Chant Of Dies Irea on a reel to reel player that he manipulated with a pencil to warble the pitch. Almost a precursor to a lot of the music and techniques we hear now in hip hop, industrial and electronic.
Alessandro Alessandroni was also the best "Whistler" (i don t know if it is the right term) in the world. He had developed a particular technique managing to whistle emitting very little air to not blowin on the microphone and have the cleanest sound possible. I love his album called "Prisma Sonoro"
TorontoLarrivee For some reason every guitar forum I see on the Spaghetti Western Tone I see Jazzmasters and Mustangs thrown around but never a Strat. I think people assume because it has a similar surf type vibe to it and since it’s from the 60s it must be a Jazzmaster or something.
Uh uh. I know what you're thinking. "Did he play six strings or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a Eastwood Airline 56, the most powerful axe in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
When I was a kid U2 made me want to play guitar, but spaghetti western music is what got me to quit stalling and pick one up. I'd gone to Six Flags Over Texas, and in the Texas section of the theme park they were playing some of that stuff from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. I overheard someone say what movie it was from and within days I rented it on VHS and was trying to pick out the guitar lines on a little student-scale acoustic. Decades later, I'm still playing. Nice video.
Haha, you seem like a cool guy. Subscribed! I'm glad your video was the first result from Google for "western sounding guitar", you are definitely one of the more fun TH-camrs to watch, looks like you were actually enjoying it. Thanks for the tips!
pure gold, you captured the essence spot on, the previous video i searched for was the luke force theme from star wars and there was a nice rendition but you played exactly what i wanted to hear, the sound is absolutely amazing, gold
what did I just watch... I been looking for tips into deep spring reverb surf sounds, and you came out with this. Man, that guitar playing was sick!!! really! I don't need anything else, already subscribed.
Awww yeah! These are the kind of sounds I'm always aiming for...but that fuzz was spot on. I too love the surf sound. that over the top drip heard on the chantays pipeline is something I just love to hear. Such a shame there's no equivalent of the surfy bear MOSFET reverb kits here in the UK....☹️
I have a road trip to my Dad's place pretty soon, looking forward to retrieving an old Gibson reverb tank that belonged to my grandfather way back when.. :0)
Good shout. And if I remember correctly, The Magnificent Seven was a remake of The Seven Samurai, and there’s more than a hint of Japanese Kendo etc going on with the lightsabers and Jedi costumes in Star Wars. It’s all linked.
Star Wars was kind of influenced by an Akira film which I did watch. The scene where Harrison Ford chases the troopers, and then starts running away that was taken from an old Japanese film, the same guy that made the original Fistful of Dollars.
It's spaghetti western adjacent, but the rockabilly dream pop hybrid a la Julee Cruise and the occasional late 50s oddity vaults me into the stratosphere.
This is why I'm a Patreon member! Love you for this Jay! Awesome how you kick that Anasounds spring reverb tank to get the gun shot and whip effects! Can't wait to do this with my Gretch, but I'll have to kick my AC-3O CC2 for those gun shots! AWESOME! 🤠🎸🏇
What kind of guitar is that? Coolest looking thing ive seen. Those pedals look cool and they sound cool. The good bad and ugly theme is epic. Your playing is superrb.
This is a killer rig! Love the whip sounds & spinner for slowing down the tremolo. Cool fuzz, I use a Rat clone that I built and it really gets you there.
Munsters tunes too 👍🏽 wif ya secret basement fuzz? Nice SW bit 🤗 A monsterus wide stereo WDW Metal lead with phase dly and so much verb you’re feel like a cave echoing in a bigger cave then add loud! And plenty of it😂
Jay, not only are your videos of the most informative, inspiring and structured out there, but you know how to endear yourself to your audience. Your delivery is second to none. I swear with the enthusiasm you project, you could have been taught by Mr. Paul Gilbert himself... you’re top class in my book kiddo!!! X 🖖🏼
Hey man, this thing sounds so Freaking Awesome! Plus I Freakin LOVE The Star Wars Cover. My Dad bought me up on Clint Eastwood- Spaghetti Westerns as well as me loving Surf- Spook guitar music. You also look like your really having fun too. I really gotta get me one of these to go with my Strats- Gretsch and Fender Twin Reverb
Deluxe 65 or twin is the way for spaghettis stuff. You can use a blues jr or champ too... fender amp, single coils and good spring is the way. Or get a Magnatone and propulse yourself in another dimension !
your sound is awsome, as always, but maybe a little bit too modern for "spaghetti western". Here in italy in sixties we didn t have really good amps and guitars..electric guitars in particular were really bad with the tipical "garbage" single coilish sound, thin and with no sustain XD
Thank you. I really loved these movies growing up and I have the tab from one of my Guitar World books but its nice to to hear it too!!! Also, your Telecaster Tone video was excellent also as my buddy and I are Tele Freaks!!!! I'll post it on your other video!!!
I loved this Jay, thanks for an awesome demonstration! You really nailed the vibe for sure. And yeah, these movies were the coolest thing ever as a kid.... and still now as an adult :-)
It is a great effect! Really brings out the trem. In fact, that is how it is arranged in those classic Fender amps with the built in tremolo and reverb as well!
I believe your passion is on another genre 😉 but well explained. For a original sound you need to use a old stratocaster, little valve amps, germanium distorsion and external spring reverb. I remember Ennio speaking about the differents decays in the reverb tanks and how to mix them in the final scene the bad the ugly.. langevin big Iron audio transformers and valves, and tape on tape.. you go near with your equipment but go so close to the original sound.. believe me, a big technique rear. Cheers my friend!
Great video! I add a bit of Digitech Freqout and let the harmonic feedback ring through the reverb, it sounds like someone's whistling the Morricone-style on top of guitar chords.
BTW Jay what size was the Element Reverb you chose for this demo? Le Bond? Le Brute or La Trudand? Also what amp were you playing through? The Chimera?
im using an AC15 on the normal input with the reverb all the way up and a strymon el capistan with the spring reverb about 75 percent, with a room reverb/mic'd room sound from the el cap and WOW it sounds so close. II use the bigsby on certain notes. Sounds so awesome drenched in verb.
Loved your tutorial Jay! Spaghetti Western is the best, I somehow how love it while really disliking surf tho haha... Just the desert for me thanks! Do you or anyone else reading this have some good pointers for spaghetti chord progressions? Or just some great spag cadences ?
I got to speak to Alessandro Alessandroni who played the classical guitar and fuzz guitar (and the whistling) on most of Morricone’s scores before he passed. I am a huge fan of his solo work but I wanted to ask what he used for his tone. Believe it or not...a Stratocaster and old Maestro fuzz pedal. He said he never understood why everyone writes that he used a Jazzmaster. It was a Stratocaster.
I highly recommend you check out Alessandroni’s solo work such as Lady Frankenstein, Devil’s Nightmare, The Mad Butcher And my personal favorite Killer Nun. Killer Nun was recorded in the late 70s and features hip hop beats played on an old drum machine mixed with his iconic fuzzed out guitar, an analog synth and a recording of a Gregorian Chant Of Dies Irea on a reel to reel player that he manipulated with a pencil to warble the pitch. Almost a precursor to a lot of the music and techniques we hear now in hip hop, industrial and electronic.
Great history lesson! Thanks so much for sharing :)
That’s awesome! Alessandros solo work is so good.
I especially like his African disco, and all vocal albums
Alessandro Alessandroni was also the best "Whistler" (i don t know if it is the right term) in the world. He had developed a particular technique managing to whistle emitting very little air to not blowin on the microphone and have the cleanest sound possible. I love his album called "Prisma Sonoro"
Actually thought it was common knowledge he used a stratocaster
TorontoLarrivee For some reason every guitar forum I see on the Spaghetti Western Tone I see Jazzmasters and Mustangs thrown around but never a Strat. I think people assume because it has a similar surf type vibe to it and since it’s from the 60s it must be a Jazzmaster or something.
How appropriate is it that the guitar is an Eastwood?
It went ahead and made my day.
@@JohannesLabusch I guess you could say we're all feeling lucky
Airline
Haha
Uh uh. I know what you're thinking. "Did he play six strings or only five?" Well to tell you the truth in all this excitement I kinda lost track myself. But being this is a Eastwood Airline 56, the most powerful axe in the world and would blow your head clean off, you've gotta ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, punk?
The Force Theme/Binary Sunset! That was so cool.
Oh yay!
When you played enough RDR but you needed something that goes with it.
Man, he is having so much fun with all this. Makes watching it all the better.
for me its surf music with the rythm of a galloping horse
or a steam train
That's exactly what it is you can use the same E F G A D minor scales u use in surfer music it's almost identical theory wise
When I was a kid U2 made me want to play guitar, but spaghetti western music is what got me to quit stalling and pick one up. I'd gone to Six Flags Over Texas, and in the Texas section of the theme park they were playing some of that stuff from The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. I overheard someone say what movie it was from and within days I rented it on VHS and was trying to pick out the guitar lines on a little student-scale acoustic. Decades later, I'm still playing. Nice video.
If you want to see a good Western check out the John Wayne movies one of my favorite western actors my favorite movie with him is the searchers
That guitar sound just makes me smile, love it.
Makes me happy seeing this guy having so much fun with this.
I love energy of that guy , much respect ❤
Pedals and guitar sound incredible! Glad to discover this great channel.
You nailed it! This was a gem to find today.
Haha, you seem like a cool guy. Subscribed! I'm glad your video was the first result from Google for "western sounding guitar", you are definitely one of the more fun TH-camrs to watch, looks like you were actually enjoying it. Thanks for the tips!
Really appreciate it! Having fun nailing that tone :)
pure gold, you captured the essence spot on, the previous video i searched for was the luke force theme from star wars and there was a nice rendition but you played exactly what i wanted to hear, the sound is absolutely amazing, gold
I've been searching about spaghetti western a few days back, and your video come up with this, perfect!
Perfect timing, hope the vid helps with the search!
Yo bro you're clipping.... hard....
..I love it
what did I just watch... I been looking for tips into deep spring reverb surf sounds, and you came out with this. Man, that guitar playing was sick!!! really! I don't need anything else, already subscribed.
Awww yeah! These are the kind of sounds I'm always aiming for...but that fuzz was spot on.
I too love the surf sound. that over the top drip heard on the chantays pipeline is something I just love to hear.
Such a shame there's no equivalent of the surfy bear MOSFET reverb kits here in the UK....☹️
Quentin Tarantino will soon be in touch with you regarding his next movie’s soundtrack!
I wish, haha
Pity he only uses existing music.
@@dreamlandnightmare the one time he worked with an actual composer it was literally Ennio Morricone.
@@AusGovOfficial Yeah, I forgot that he composed the music for The Hateful Eight.
@@dreamlandnightmare uses existing music from existing western movies
Such a cool topic to cover Jay! Love this!
3:20 daaamn that sounds really good
Thanks!
Super skilled brilliant interpretation!
Yes, Surf sound and spaghetti westerns is amoung my favorite sounds 👍
Many thanks!
I don’t NEED that reverb spring thing.... but damn do I want it now Hahahahah Wow that’s awesome!!!
Really Fun Man, Great job!!
I have a road trip to my Dad's place pretty soon, looking forward to retrieving an old Gibson reverb tank that belonged to my grandfather way back when.. :0)
Wow...that's cool Mickey!
Nice tone, awesome job buddy! Love from Tegucigalpa, Honduras. 😎💜🇭🇳🤗
picking back near the bridge helps too. so fun
Thank you for this. I love the tone and fx
Those pedals with interchangeable spring box's are so fun! Damn. I bet they're expensive af lol
Informative yes and entertaining too. Really enjoyed the video and love all those sounds too!
I love this. You really own this sound. Just fantastic.
From 4:05-The progressing Eastwood gun scene music with matching voicings, awesome...!
Yep, Star Wars is a western. Good job! What is your take/opinion on using baritone guitar (or a pitch shifter ) to play surf & spaghetti tones?
Yes! Pitch Shifter is a cool hack, but a cool Baritone has a resonance that can't be touched :)
Good shout. And if I remember correctly, The Magnificent Seven was a remake of The Seven Samurai, and there’s more than a hint of Japanese Kendo etc going on with the lightsabers and Jedi costumes in Star Wars. It’s all linked.
Star Wars was kind of influenced by an Akira film which I did watch. The scene where Harrison Ford chases the troopers, and then starts running away that was taken from an old Japanese film, the same guy that made the original Fistful of Dollars.
How cool is this video ? You sound incredible and the tone is just right and tight and your enthusiasm is very inspiring
Wow, thank you!
@@JayLeonardJ no, thank you , you did my day. I had to grab the guitar after watching this. You're a wonderful teacher and a even better musician
Amazing all around. Love this!
Great playing and sounds, i love that guitar too, it's awesome!
It's spaghetti western adjacent, but the rockabilly dream pop hybrid a la Julee Cruise and the occasional late 50s oddity vaults me into the stratosphere.
Nice video! That has to be one of the greatest tones.
Thanks!
Man That’s Sweet And So Simple But Complex On Sounds 👍👍🎶🎶🎸
Love "surf music from the wrong side of the tracks"!
Cool video with added great sense of humor! Subbed
This is why I'm a Patreon member! Love you for this Jay! Awesome how you kick that Anasounds spring reverb tank to get the gun shot and whip effects! Can't wait to do this with my Gretch, but I'll have to kick my AC-3O CC2 for those gun shots! AWESOME! 🤠🎸🏇
Thanks so much man! Don't worry, an AC30 is tough enough to take that beating... You may scare your neigbours though, haha
This video is wild! Congrats Jay, definitely love your work :D
Love the enthusiasm. Great video! 🤠
Glad you enjoyed it!
shout out to the bug on the floor at the beginning of the video.
Hahahaha
Nice catch Bruv😂
That spinner is a fantastic piece of kit!
What kind of guitar is that? Coolest looking thing ive seen. Those pedals look cool and they sound cool. The good bad and ugly theme is epic. Your playing is superrb.
Eastwood Airline 59 but the 3 pickup version with BIgsby
This is a killer rig! Love the whip sounds & spinner for slowing down the tremolo. Cool fuzz, I use a Rat clone that I built and it really gets you there.
Thanks! I'm actually a huge RAT user, those things can do anything :)
this will get me some great Idea of how to start getting that sound thx.
Great stuff with the effects.
Glad to help!
Really enjoyed your playing and enthusiasm for the genre. Great vid!
Pasketty vester ist das besta. Ermagerd that sounded awesome thanks for the trem tips 👍🏽
Munsters tunes too 👍🏽 wif ya secret basement fuzz?
Nice SW bit 🤗
A monsterus wide stereo WDW Metal lead with phase dly and so much verb you’re feel like a cave echoing in a bigger cave then add loud! And plenty of it😂
Haha!!! That Fuzz is a firebreather 🔥🔥
Dude, this is so good.
love it Jay, thanks!
Well done. Sounds great with precise expectations - examples
Thanks!
This was spectacular😊⭐️🤩Thanks always for your knowledge and creativityYou did a great job love the guitarThanks again
Angels in heaven use spring reverb for sure , my fav sound , great video xD
Yeah I’m gonna need that element pedal, love what that tank does
Great box!
All that and then plug in a Baritone for that last little craziness!
I came here to make the same comment, was hoping he’d be playing a baritone! BTW, you make some truly beautiful guitars!
David Lucas haha same, at first thought this was a baritone. Fantastic vid.
Jay, not only are your videos of the most informative, inspiring and structured out there, but you know how to endear yourself to your audience. Your delivery is second to none.
I swear with the enthusiasm you project, you could have been taught by Mr. Paul Gilbert himself...
you’re top class in my book kiddo!!! X 🖖🏼
Hey man, this thing sounds so Freaking Awesome! Plus I Freakin LOVE The Star Wars Cover. My Dad bought me up on Clint Eastwood- Spaghetti Westerns as well as me loving Surf- Spook guitar music. You also look like your really having fun too. I really gotta get me one of these to go with my Strats- Gretsch and Fender Twin Reverb
It would be cool if you added some quick tab or showed how to play those riffs. Otherwise, pretty cool!
I just started messing with guitar style yesterday. It's so effing cool.
Hope the vid helps! Enjoy :)
sounds sick! great video, dude
In outside of his house, is happening a duel
Amazing video bro!
Thank you! I love the Danelectro Spring King. Your thoughts... You have a killer sound!
I haven't played a Spring King in forever! I remember how super cool they looked though :)
This guys gear is 👏
Well, I didn't expect to hear The Force Theme on spaghetti western guitar today, but here we are.
Yeah, it's hilarious how easily that tune translates to Western as well :)
The best video in youtube 🙌🏻
thanks!!!
My goodness your tone and playing are phenomenal! What amp and speaker ur using? Tks
If I remember, it was an original 1965 Fender Deluxe NR :)
Deluxe 65 or twin is the way for spaghettis stuff. You can use a blues jr or champ too... fender amp, single coils and good spring is the way. Or get a Magnatone and propulse yourself in another dimension !
your sound is awsome, as always, but maybe a little bit too modern for "spaghetti western". Here in italy in sixties we didn t have really good amps and guitars..electric guitars in particular were really bad with the tipical "garbage" single coilish sound, thin and with no sustain XD
That's why he used the Airline, it's a replica of a cheapo guitar from the 60s here in the USA.
I don’t know, it sounds pretty accurate to me
@@hickorymccay2994 i found the sound to be too sophisticated tho
omg i want that reverb crazy thing a ma jig who dooie
Really enjoyed this video
Glad you enjoyed it
@@JayLeonardJ It was Brilliant !
Amazing, thank you for this.
Thank you. I really loved these movies growing up and I have the tab from one of my Guitar World books but its nice to to hear it too!!! Also, your Telecaster Tone video was excellent also as my buddy and I are Tele Freaks!!!! I'll post it on your other video!!!
I loved this Jay, thanks for an awesome demonstration! You really nailed the vibe for sure. And yeah, these movies were the coolest thing ever as a kid.... and still now as an adult :-)
Very cool. So you have the tremolo after the reverb? That's different.
It is a great effect! Really brings out the trem. In fact, that is how it is arranged in those classic Fender amps with the built in tremolo and reverb as well!
Do you have a tab to the song you played? Im not really skilled or good playing By ear yet but i'd love to try playing It.
Good Stuff ! The G the B & the U is my favorite film also !!!
Thanks!
I love the look of that guitar? which one is it an how does it feel to play?
It's an Eastwood Airline 59 with lots of little mods done to it :)
Amazing skill you have on guitar.. join forces with Andy Martin on Reverb
One of the nicest and coolest guys in the biz 👍
How about getting Dave Simpson from Great Britain to join the collaboration.
I believe your passion is on another genre 😉 but well explained.
For a original sound you need to use a old stratocaster, little valve amps, germanium distorsion and external spring reverb. I remember Ennio speaking about the differents decays in the reverb tanks and how to mix them in the final scene the bad the ugly.. langevin big Iron audio transformers and valves, and tape on tape.. you go near with your equipment but go so close to the original sound.. believe me, a big technique rear.
Cheers my friend!
8:18 So Star Wars is just a futuristic spaghetti western...
surf, spaghetti western, and Duane eddy form a holy trinity
Great video! I add a bit of Digitech Freqout and let the harmonic feedback ring through the reverb, it sounds like someone's whistling the Morricone-style on top of guitar chords.
BTW Jay what size was the Element Reverb you chose for this demo? Le Bond? Le Brute or La Trudand? Also what amp were you playing through? The Chimera?
im using an AC15 on the normal input with the reverb all the way up and a strymon el capistan with the spring reverb about 75 percent, with a room reverb/mic'd room sound from the el cap and WOW it sounds so close. II use the bigsby on certain notes. Sounds so awesome drenched in verb.
Loved your tutorial Jay!
Spaghetti Western is the best, I somehow how love it while really disliking surf tho haha...
Just the desert for me thanks!
Do you or anyone else reading this have some good pointers for spaghetti chord progressions? Or just some great spag cadences ?
Stick to basic E F G A D minor scales surf and spaghetti western in theory are almost identital
The Mavericks' Raul Malo and Eddie Perez do some of that kind of stuff occasionally.
Great work sir
Thanks!
Wow, I dig that Airline! I always loved the original "map" guitar...first saw it in my old 60's encyclopedia under "Electric Guitar"!
This video is absolutely killer - what sort of strings are you using here?
Stringjoy 10-48
Best guitar vid ever 😎 I highly recommend
BABON - Big Cat Small Jungle
Awesome!!!Chuck Norris would get out of that guitar's way
Thank you, Jay.
Did you start playing the music from Star Wars? In episode 4 where Luke finds his aunt and Uncle and the suns are setting.
Definitely :)
loved it!
Thanks!
You just got a subscriber… reverb on my friend🤙
Really appreciate it, thanks for watching!
That guitar is a retro futuristic spaceahip!
Definitey :)
Reverb and overdrive. Got it
Forgot the Tremolo