AMA 5: Quitting Corporate for Youtube, PRS SE NF3 vs SAS & CE24, Taylor Swift 8th best Guitarist?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ต.ค. 2024
- The hard truths about trying to create a new TH-cam channel in 2024. Comparing the PRS SE NF3 to the Swamp Ash Special and CE24 Satin. Guitarguitar's survey placing Taylor Swift as the 8th best guitarist of the last 20 years
Ask Me Anything Episode 4 Guide
1:03 My background and journey to 10K
23:04 PRS SE NF3 vs SAS vs CE24 Satin
29:11 Taylor Swift 8th Best Guitarist
Utkarsh, I just found your Chanel recently but I am enjoying your intellectual views and “conversation” that you bring to the table.
Keep going my friend.
Thank you. Appreciate the vote of confidence
I appreciate that your channel is very informative, your opinions and experience are relevant, and you aren't "flashy". You have a good delivery, and I hope your channel continues to grow. Congrats!
Thank you. Appreciate your kind feedback
I've been following you for some time already and what I personally like about your channel is your unique perspective on the industry that you work experience gives you an insight that I find very interesting. Also that you are not a professional player, so your guitars you see them not as tools. Pro players can give great info on guitars, but they tend to have the view of how practical it is and does the job they need. As a hooby your is 100% personal pleasure and admiration of the instrument. I've had over 40 guitars myself through the last 5 years, and I know what you mean that you learn lot of things from the consumer point of view, and I like that perspective. You've had much more so you know more than me.
Plus you dont come around as a snob or a dutch lol. You seem like a cool dude to hang around and talk about guitars. So keep it up!
And I was the one who mentioned in your video if you saw about the N53 SE lol.
Thanks for the tip (on the NF3 SE). And yes, I do think being passionate about something does help provide a different perspective from the pros. Thank you for the vote of confidence
@@ministryofguitar My pleasure!
Congrats my guitar loving friend...enjoy ur videos immensely...lets keep it going!!!
Thank you. Will do
You blew by 10k so fast! It's well deserved.
I'm frankly impressed you are able to maintain the stream of conciousness monolog so well, it must be informed by the years of presenting a meetings.
I imagine you must at least. have an outline you follow, but it may be worth while experimenting with writing a script and using an iPad as a teleprompter. I know it sounds kinda lifeless, but Technology Connections does it really well and shows it's just you putting your best self out there when done properly!
Please keep it up, I'm here to listen to your musings as long as you make them!
Thanks. Yes I do spend a lot of time off camera thinking about outline and structure (while driving, running, walking the dogs or just life). I have tried using a script (both in this life and the past corporate life) but somehow it comes off robotic. Thanks for your encouragement right from the beginning and on the PRS forum as well
Congratulations. I’m glad to see the channel grow.🎉
Thank you
Congrats on 14.1K subs mate!! Great insights into the business side of things and thanks for telling the story of your journey. Keep it coming and 100k will be just around the corner!!
Thank you. Appreciate your kind wishes
Congratulations on the great milestone, I really enjoy your contents not just only your passion as a guitar collector but your life journey as well.
Thank you. Appreciate your encouragement
I extremely appreciate what you do and have appreciated your videos for some time! I just wanted to say and keep doing what you are doing, thank you!
Thank you. Encouraging words like yours are very helpful
i've been enjoying this channel immensely for the past few months. keep up the thoughtful content!
Thank you. Will try my best
I appreciate the story shared behind your channel, your skills are on display!
Thank you
Congratulations on the great milestone, I really enjoy your content. Your videos are from the heart. Keep up the good work.
Thank you. Appreciate your encouragement
Excellent work ,keep going
Thank you
Your videos are very insightful 😊
Thank you
Appreciate the perspective.
I hope you get to 100K subs.
Thank you for the kind wishes
You’ll need a 20K video next week 🙌
haha too kind dude
I totally agree on the CE24 satin & the SE NF3. Both are great guitars for the money.
Word on the street is PRS is interested in bringing you on board.
Well, PRS is one of my favourite companies for sure
Wow you had three and a half thousand subs when I started watching and it felt like that was a couple weeks ago. Time flies.
It does indeed. Also I have been lucky to have some disproportionate growth in May and June
RE: DD Narrowfield S vs Original Narrowfield... I have a 2010 Swamp Ash Special with the 57/08 NF pickups. I went to a local shop and played an NF3 SE with the DD NF S pickups and I was pleasantly surprised. Not because it sounded like my SAS NF... but because it sounded different. The neck also felt very different because it lacked rolled edges which made it fell very wide. My original 57/08 NF are bright, full-bodied, and bridges the nuances that I (as a humbucker guy) felt a strat has too little of and P90's has too much of. The DD NF S are darker sounding, balanced, full-bodied, and are much more like a humbucker trying to be more P90 like. Basically less growl and bite. I'm curious of your thoughts when you get a chance to A/B with you Original NF. Thanks for the thoughts and you now have a new subscriber. I'll post a video on my Swamp Ash Special NF after I get back from a short tour... probably sometime in August.
the attention economy is a great album title.
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Hmmm...
Excellent point on Taylor Swift playing guitar. Play that thing, Taylor! (I feel better now)
The road that I have walked upon has filled my pockets but emptied out my soul. Now I empty my pockets to refill my soul.
I feel this deeply
@@ministryofguitar I got it from the George Michael song - Waiting (Reprise). it is worth your time to give it a listen, it will hit you like it hit me I think.
Have you ever played a sitar? That would be a cool video.
I haven't. I have contemplated getting one several times. Maybe next time I go home to Bangalore
I have the SE SAS and the SE NF3, and they do sound very different. I agree that the “Strat” 4th position of the SAS sounds exactly like a Strat. The NF3 sounds unique in its in-between world, and the SAS has more true humbucker and true single coil sounds depending on the pickup position it is in. The necks are basically identical, and the hardware is very similar if not identical. The build quality of both is excellent. Between those two SEs it really is a matter of taste and one couldn’t go wrong with either.
Good to hear this translates across to the SEs. Once the NF3 SE arrives in Singapore, I'll do a comparo
Nice!
You know you’re old when you hear 8th best guitarist of this century and you’re first thought 1900-2000 😂
haha you don't have to be too old for that
I think Levi's should sponsor you :))
thank u
I too am a musician who went to school for engineering in mechanical. I’m not really a car guy like you but I always thought car design was the pentacle of engineering. I’ve had an amazing career playing drums, engineering not so much. lol
I am a mechanical engineer as well. Not sure if I mentioned that in the video
@@ministryofguitar I assumed mechanical, because a lot of my classmates in engineering school were car nuts too. It made me wonder if I was in the right program at the time.
brilliant
in relation to your other video; taylor swift you could replace with a hologram overnight & it would be functionally be no different.
her songs are already written by committee (so her 'talent' wouldn't be noticeably missed), they have access to her solo vocal tracks so getting the 'swift-o-tron 3000' to scan & replicate her voice with a.i. would be trivial, from a corporate marketing perspective she's the mickey mouse ears, the coca cola symbol, the nike swoosh already..
it makes perfect sense to replace her robotically to use indefinitely as a marketing construct,
and nothing of value would be lost.
I fully agree
She is a step up from the 1990s boy groups. However, there were plenty of popular acts from the past that did the same thing as Taylor Swift, some with less talent such as Cher.
That guitarist list generally looks more like a “list of guitarists popular with the layman” than a guitarist’s guitarists list.
Agree
I hope Taylor inspires more people to start playing guitar, then they can discover "real" guitarists, eventually. She is very popular, and those votes are coming from the general public. I wish "artistic integrity" would be the next trend!! lol.
Artistic integrity… those were the days…
Taylor Swift songs are also easy. Some people have put up full covers of Taylor Swift songs 15 minutes after Taylor Swift released a song. That easy part is done on purpose so that her audience can feel special. Jumping from Taylor Swift to Samantha Fish might be too hard for her listeners.
Beth Hart was performing dates without her band and at one concert she joked that she was embarrassed that she was playing her acoustic guitar in front of her friend Jeff Beck who was in the audience with his wife. Good songs are good songs.
Enjoying the channel .. but I'm skipping the Taylor Swift bit, have never heard a song of hers and never plan to.
Haha fair play
Your assessment of Taylor Swift as a guitarist seems to me fair and sound. It's good to keep in mind that she's a singer-songwriter, and if you're a singer-songwriter you need to play an instrument. For a few hundred years the instrument of choice was a piano, and there are still a few musicians who write pop music who still use a piano -- Elton John and Billy Joel, for example. But, for the most part, the guitar has taken over in the world of popular music. Is Taylor Swift a great guitarist? No, but she'd likely be the first to admit it. Is Neil Young a great guitarist? Was Kurt Cobain a great guitarist? No and no, but they are and were good enough to create their stuff. And so it is with Taylor Swift.
Exactly
So much of what's coming out in pop actually is keyboards...look how much the basslines aren't being played on bass guitars anymore, and the drums are done on keyboards or keypads with keys assigned to the various drums and cymbals...as much as it chafes me to admit it, taylor swift's popularity is good for the world of guitar
The guitarist list has to be a joke Taylor swift Is a corporate creation, and can barely strum a guitar. Ariani didn’t make the list? Too funny.
The music world was full of corporate creations. The members of the Beach Boys didn't even play instruments on their own records.