The #1 Mistake That’s Ruining Your Guitar Tone: Playing Too Hard!
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The #1 Mistake That’s Ruining Your Guitar Tone: Playing Too Hard! This important topic will be debated in the Guitargument of episode #020 of the ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast.
Are you guilty of picking too hard and fretting strings with too much force? Would more nuanced playing improve your tone? Jon Gundry and Matthew Quail get to the bottom of what really matters when it comes to guitar tone in the Guitargument and Cool Down segments of this must watch episode.
First Jon Gundry has another Player Grade Vintage Guitar example. In this episode Jon shares the strategy of guitar deal hunting by looking for vintage guitars that have pickups missing. A 1967 Gibson ES-335 is shown as an example of a vintage guitar in need of replacement ThroBak P.A.F. style reproduction pickups. Jon and Matthew play the same ES-335 equipped with ThroBak ER-Custom MXV P.A.F. style reproduction pickups in a ThroBak jam.
Matthew Quail then tries to stump Jon and the viewers with his electric guitar Rorschach Riffs. Listen to a combination of 4 signature riffs and pick out which classic Rock songs they are from.
Following this Matthew muses musical about the new David Gilmour IMAX concert movie.
Guitars:
Vintage 1967 Gibson ES-335 with ThroBak ER-Custom MXV P.A.F. repros installed.
2004 Gibson R7 Les Paul Historic Reissue with ThroBak ’57 Steelhead Prototype P.A.F. Repros installed
Amp:
1979 Fender Deluxe Reverb
Pedal: Nobels ODR-1 Overdrive
Make sure to watch the ThroBak Guitar Lounge Podcast each Saturday on YouTube.
0:00:00 Intro
0:04:13 ThroBak Mailbox
0:10:28 Player Grade Vintage: 1967 Gibson ES-335
0:15:52 Hear the 1967 Gibson ES-335
0:24:37 The Guitargument: Are You Playing Too Hard?
0:32:00 The Cool Down
0:38:55 Rorschach Riffs
0:58:13 Matthew’s Musical Musings: David Gilmour Live IMAX
1:04:59 Outro
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can you talk about ttops and the hot ttop variation in an episode? create an angry comment section about them?
Playing too hard. Here's what I've discovered and what many people probably don't think of when choosing a guitar. I started on acoustic. I tend to press way too hard on the fretboard. If I play a guitar with really tall frets, or a guitar with a nut that isn't cut properly, I will make the guitar go out of tune. I prefer very thin frets on my electric guitars. I also have come to realize that playing tense robs your speed. It's very difficult to play fast when you are tense. But it's also really difficult to un-learn these bad habits!
My telecaster likes it rough
I think the guitargument section should start with, “we will set a timer where I’ll talk over you for five minutes and not let you present a case”. This is how I like to debate also haha.
Kidding aside, love the show. These discussions are really great and educational.
Back in the sixties, when I was just a kid, a Gypsy woman at a fall fair told me my future. She said, ‘One day, in your sixties, you’ll be living in the Arctic, watching every single episode of the ThroBac podcast.’ At the time, I figured she was crazy… turns out she was just oddly specific.
Next to Phil McKnight is likely another person
Next to Phil McKnight, I enjoy your Podcasts the best. I am also a guitar Geek and PROUD of it.
It was GI Joe, who had the Kung Fu gripe. As the original ones had hard plastic hands that couldn't hold anything. ????
I learned to play guitar on a very inexpensive electric that had high action and extremely quiet pickups… to get a sound out of it I developed a very strong right hand to make up for the missing gain. By some sort of contagious symmetry, my fretting hand grip was also very strong but not to throw intonation off. It worked well for punk and post-punk anxiety driven music but not in general. Only decades later, I managed to control how much strength I really need and how to stay relaxed. So there you go… too much gain can ruin your sound but too little gain can also mess up your technique.
Varying pick attack is a tool to achieve different feels. Pick thickness plays into it as well. FYI Leslie West always used an extra light pick and he had tone for days.
I have big hands (bricklayer strength because…) and can bend the crap out of the strings. I think it’s a player specific thing, but what do I know…?
31:26 This plagues many a strat and strat player, particularly the many SRV heavily inspired guys out there. *by all accounts it seems that along with the post sobriety string gauge fun fact today,…the notoriously low sunk pickups and high action of the avg. SRV setup does ensure some dynamics even with hyper aggressive tendencies.
Your left hand technique should always be as light as possible. Your fingers and left hand should just float over the frets. The intensity is in your right hand and how hard you strike the strings. You should have the right hand control to vary your intensity from very soft picking to aggressive chord chops. But that's where your amp/pedal setup makes a difference. To play dynamically you need an amp tone with a good dynamic range that will re-create all of the dynamics from your right hand technique. That's why I generally dislike pedals and excessive distortion. When there is no usable dynamic range you can't play with much nuance.