Pentatonic Pyro!- Q and A Live From the Woodshed

[00:00:03][music] Oh yeah.

[00:00:17][music] [music] >> [music] >> Do we have good audio before we keep going on any further?

[00:00:49][music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:01:15][music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:01:37][music] Heat.

[00:01:45]Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Yeah, a couple of couple of tasty ones in there. We'll go over some of those lines here in a second. Um, [snorts] if we got good audio, maybe we just play one. I don't know what's going to happen. I'm getting warmed up. I don't know how it's going to go.

[00:02:34][music] [music] [music] Heat. Heat. N. [music] Heat. Heat.

[00:03:01][music] [music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:03:45][music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:04:04][music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat.

[00:04:48][music] Heat. [music] Heat. Heat.

[00:05:03][music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Yeah, just getting it loose.

[00:05:47]A flub or two. Who cares?

[00:05:50]I haven't uh been on my practice regime on improvisation as much as I should lately, but um having fun with that in the key of D minor. I want to show you some concepts through that uh and talk to myself a bit as we uh look at some things that I've been kind of trying to stay [snorts] get reinvigorate the uh practice around improvisation because I've been doing so much uh [snorts] work work stuff. So sometimes you got to get away from [music] it, come back to it, that kind of thing.

[00:06:32]And there's some chord changes in here that are kind of just basic that makes it a great song to kind of practice your improvisation over. You know, just this like that it's kind of a rock thing that's fusiony. So when you have a rock thing, something I consider very rock is like a flat 6, flat 7, one. So if we're in the key of D, that would be B flat, [music] C, and then D minor.

[00:07:04]>> [music] >> flat 6. So we got 1 2 flat [music and singing] 3 4 5 flat 6 flat 7 one. So when I see this [music] they can also be like four of F, right?

[00:07:24][music] >> [music] [music] >> So, I'm seeing all this like that, right?

[00:07:43]>> [music] >> And from a soloing standpoint, a lot of this can just be played through as D minor pentatonic.

[00:07:53]Using that as a framework and a skeleton across this makes life easier, but you kind of short change yourself on uh some really colorful sounds. [music] Right.

[00:08:17][music] >> [music] >> When you're just blowing through the rock stuff, it sounds just kind of pent like not pentatonic, but it sounds like [snorts] not predictable is not the right word, but it just sounds like one knows what's going to happen.

[00:08:49]It all sounds like D minor [snorts] when that B flat is alternating.

[00:08:55]One thing I'm [music] seeing around the B flat is I try to think a little bit more kind of like my mandolin fiddle player roots and I see more like this rolling kind of sound [music] like that's obviously all the scale of of F [snorts] or D minor but in the context you get this sharp 11 sound um [music] when you really lay into that E. And that's something that I I I like it's a Lydian kind of thing but over [music] Yeah, that sound it sounds real sussy.

[00:09:52]>> [music] [music] [music] >> So, let me show you when you're when you're thinking through this, you're trying to This may be below some people's difficulty level and this may be above some people's difficulty. I'm just kind of shooting from the hip, just kind of talking some concept, talking some guitar. So, um, if you know your scales and you know how they connect, and by scales, I don't I'm not I'm not saying this.

[00:10:41]I mean like knowing that information in multiple formats, multiple fingerings, the geometry of the fret.

[00:10:58][music] [music] It's being able to see this thing kind of happening in three octaves at the same time. Right?

[00:11:14]There's your basic pentatonic thing.

[00:11:16]Right?

[00:11:18]Moving that up to the next octave [music] and the last octave.

[00:11:29][music] So if you have one idea, you've now got it three times. [music] [music] >> [music] >> So, it's getting the most out of out of one concept. Um, [music] I think I played that lick at the beginning of the song.

[00:12:12]Uh [music] [music] that lick right there. [music] It'd be it'd be like having that available in the next octave down.

[00:12:31][music] >> [music] >> So now when we start framing out that flat 7 chord, [music] we can start hearing the chord changes move around us. Instead of just blowing our proverbial musical explosion, our musical love explosion all over the key of D minor rock mode. You can start to hear these chords um uh take shape underneath.

[00:13:13]>> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Ah, come on. [music] So we really start to hear all of the chord, the harmony taking shape as we're playing. Even though that every single note out of that, not every single but most notes out of that are straight from.

[00:14:15]What's up?

[00:14:21][music] Heat. Heat.

[00:14:29][music] [music] >> [music] >> Um, some of these arpeggios you'll recognize if you've ever studied any Paul Gilbert stuff or Nuno Bettin Court stuff. I didn't personally pick it up and identify it from there, but when I heard them do it, I was like, "Oh, that's that sound." A lot of these arpeggiations sound they they lay out extremely nice on mandolin. And you got to remember my background is mandolin.

[00:15:20]So when I'm playing a lot of things, this is the Paul Gilbertism.

[00:15:30][music] Um, when I see that or [music] when I see those, I don't really see them from that perspective, but I think it might be helpful if um if you identify the moments in your playing where you think you're a blues guy playing a blues lick or raw guy playing a rock lick or whatever and start just seeing how it all connects to the same lock points, you know, specifically the 1 [music] 3 5 flat 7 1 um and that B flat to be like one um three sharp 11. I love that sound.

[00:16:15][music] [music] >> [music] >> Oh, not enough gain. Let's roll again up [music] becomes way easier with a little more distortion.

[00:16:51][music] All right. So, it's that kind of thing.

[00:16:56]One more time, Andy.

[00:16:59]>> [music] >> These are a lot of the shapes that I use in Master Gracie's Manor.

[00:17:09][music] Um, like that, [music] right? So, if we slow that down, I feel like I'm sometimes wasting your time because I feel like this is stuff that you might know, but on the other hand, I got to remind myself we don't all come from the same background. So, you may not know this stuff. Um, all I'm essentially doing is anchoring a lot of this around one uh octave, another octave, and another octave. Seeing it like a piano player could just blast through three different octaves pretty easily. So, if we have [music] I'm seeing that octave right there. So, 1 3 5 1.

[00:17:59][music] And now we're going to see that same thing in the next octave. [music] [music] Go to the next octave.

[00:18:23]>> [music] [music] [music] >> This would now apply to everything.

[00:18:43]Major, minor, major 7, dominant 7, diminish. It' be all it would just move things. There's a major major 7.

[00:18:59][music] Um [music] uh [music] So you could take the concept and then apply the concept to a lot of different things, right? Um, pentatonics is the name of the game today. Kind of hits me that everything that I think sounds cool when I dig into it a lot of times just pentatonicy. And I think pentatonic stuff is awesome. I think a lot of guys aren't taking advantage of how much information is in the pentatonics and crazy tapping stuff always tends to be pentatonic because it sounds wild and wide.

[00:19:56]All of that stuff, right?

[00:20:01]Uh move into the next position. You'd have a lot you'd have a lot of these, right? [music] The next one will be [music] the next one be sorry.

[00:20:26]What's crazy is that it it really is this.

[00:20:30]It really is that. Right. So, we're going uh [music] All >> [music] >> right.

[00:20:46]Um [music] >> [music] >> Sorry. It would be [music] I don't really use that one a lot because the fret distancing makes it weird.

[00:21:22]It's got the most jumps.

[00:21:28]See what I mean?

[00:21:29]jump, jump.

[00:21:34]I like the ones that tend to be um less jumps on either side of the hand. So, if we have the one that's down here, the right hand only has to jump one fret.

[00:21:55]If we have up a octave here, the right hand won't jump any and the left hand only has to jump one fret. [music] [music] See what I mean by that? You kind of dig what I'm saying? Hang on, let me uh I don't know why it's giving me this signed out thing. There we go.

[00:22:19]Um, it's messing up and I want to be signed in. I don't know if my live stream just went away. Is it Is it still there?

[00:22:32]Okay. I hope it's still there. It's [snorts] saying that I'm signed out even though I shouldn't be. Um, let me just give me just a second. See if I can straighten this out. I don't know why this is doing this and acting weird.

[00:22:44]Yes, that's correct.

[00:22:47]Uh, that's correct. I don't know the problem here. Um, open the YouTube app on your phone.

[00:22:59]Give me just a second. Yes, it's me. All right, cool. There we go. Um, so let me show you those pentatonics. um that pentatonic tapping thing when you uh when you hear it in context with just the backing track and I'll play it at like a halftime kind of feel so you can like hear it. Let's take the solo section, [music] right?

[00:23:40]>> [music] >> Right.

[00:23:45][music] Right. [music] So, it's not that crazy. Now, you can get a cool sound, too, by leaving notes out. And uh something I do a lot [music] play a nine right there and keep it a straight line [snorts] and then the nine will be in.

[00:24:13][music] So, let's hear that.

[00:24:22]Let's do like the halftime thing first.

[00:24:47]>> [music] [music] >> Time to put out that squeak. [laughter] A stupid [music] [music] heat.

[00:25:29]see how much mileage can come out of that. Now, let's look at it from diagonal like we were talking about earlier. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:26:09][music] >> [music] >> Yeah, nice. Okay, cool.

[00:26:24]It's it uh some laughter and some poking of funs. Uh saying it's not it's not hard. I mean, it's it's it's something that once you get used to it, a lot of this super fast playing, I think, has a lot of scary tendencies around it where guys are like, I just can't move my fingers that fast.

[00:26:48]I would disagree. And here's how I'm going to red team you. Can you just do this?

[00:26:59]This is what I would play if I was miniming. I would just be that guy, you know, that kind of thing. Um, if you could do that, you're basically moving your fingers fast enough to do this stuff. A lot of this stuff is not about the physical speed of the hand or the physical speed of the fingers. It's about the accuracy and the precision that lie in that. Um, you know, there's certain habits that I think guys don't t take inventory of. One is keeping the first finger planted at all times. It's a kind of a bad habit. Um, if you keep that first finger planted, let's say you're going I can't even keep it planted if I wanted to.

[00:27:49]Oh, that feels terrible.

[00:27:52]And guys do that all the time. It's Yeah, it's It feels terrible if you work the first finger.

[00:28:05][music] So much faster.

[00:28:18][music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Keeping that first finger um kind of in motion like the rest of the fingers really makes a huge difference. Um [music] [music] [music] [music] um that's habit number one. Habit number two is um right hand and left hand synchronization. So an illusion of speed is maybe alternate picking this at 16th notes. Let's take that real quick.

[00:29:29][music] It's not that fast. [music] One and a two and a one and a two and a one and a two and a one and a two and a [music] [music] [music] See what I mean? When you start playing at speed, it's not that not that fast.

[00:30:18][music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> So now we start sewing.

[00:30:59]Heat. Heat. [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> start to you got room to double up if you so feel the need or so have the facility. I mean, that's kind of like riding on the edge of my alternate picking um on those 16th 16th note those triplets, right?

[00:31:52]Those things.

[00:31:55][music] [music] Yeah, it's really right on the edge, right?

[00:32:07]>> [music] >> So, kind of allows you to build intensity. Now, this tune, uh, when I play it to a backing track, there's a little bit of a staleness because I don't have the opportunity to improvise with a band, and that section is one that we just stretch [snorts] forever.

[00:32:28]But, uh, that's a case, you have the opportunity to build a lot of intensity up. Okay. So, now let's talk about some some one more little lick. This one came across Instagram and uh it's Joe Bonamasa.

[00:32:45]He was like demoing something and I thought, "Oh, that's neat." Um, you hear the Clapton influence, you hear the EJ influence, all of it. Right. So, let's play it. [music] >> [music] >> Okay, you start adding some bends into it. So, we'll go through it slow. Uh, let's do one with bends.

[00:33:24]So slowly it starts in this box and then it's going to work itself up on the middle string sets [music] like that.

[00:33:42][music] >> [music] [music] >> That's really the meat of it.

[00:34:01][music] [music] Yeah.

[00:34:27][music] Right. One more time.

[00:34:33]And then again, when you're in this box, play some bends.

[00:34:38][music] >> [music] >> It really adds some sass to it. [music] [music] And then when you're coming up it, you start seeing how this stuff connects in that three octave thing.

[00:35:18]>> [music] >> Little chromatic right there.

[00:35:24][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Woo. Little burn in there. Um, but you can s kind of see now if we don't play it all together like that. That's the So, here's here's maybe like a a perspective. You want to be able to see the guitar and the geometry and all those octaves at the same time. Even if you're not necessarily rotating a lick through all three octaves. So even if I'm not playing, I'm still able to see it through there because that might might be my connective tissue coming down, right? Even if I don't go up that way.

[00:36:26]There you go. [music] [music] [music] [music] Now we're starting to combine all of it into one [music] style, right? we're starting to kind of develop our own voice in it. And at least that's something that like [snorts] this is the kind of thing where I just start like pushing and pulling the the ideas around until it starts to sound like moments of people that I like. But more importantly, you're developing your own voice on it. You're developing your own [snorts] your own swagger, your own uh peacock feathers. You know what I mean by that? You're kind of developing your own peacock feathers and and your individuality and your thumb prints kind of starting to come through as a U thing. And if you like more bends, you should work those bends around in all these positions, right? So maybe take that. Maybe you like Oh, we just broke a string. Let's get a different guitar.

[00:38:02]That means it's time for new strings for sure.

[00:38:07]Let's get big red here. This big red Ferrari.

[00:38:14]Scooteria.

[00:38:18]Scooteria.

[00:38:27][music] Heat. Heat. [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat.

[00:39:11]Heat.

[00:39:15][music] >> [music] >> Yeah.

[00:39:30][music] Heat. [music] That's a little more Vikingesque, right?

[00:39:49][music] Definitely those kind of licks for this.

[00:40:01][music] Was that one? That one. [music] [music] I don't really play a lot of metal. Um, but sometimes that stuff's fun to play.

[00:40:33]This guitar is This guitar makes me want to play so over the top and aggressive.

[00:40:40]It [laughter] is definitely not a subtle It is not a subtle instrument at all. This one is about as subtle as a combat [music] boot to the back of the head. Right.

[00:41:04][music] Trying to see those changes as they coming along. All right. [music] [music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> It's a pretty tune. [music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat. [music] Heat. Heat.

[00:44:44][music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> Right. Yeah.

[00:45:45][music] I see some people asking about some country stuff. Heat. Heat.

[00:45:54][music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> All right, do some questions. And I hope that some of this stuff was moderately helpful. The whole goal is that you're not looking at pentatonic as one thing and scalar is another thing and playing through changes is another thing. Hopefully you're not dividing that all up and hopefully I'm being helpful [snorts] in this shooting from the hip kind of mentality. Um that you're you're not segmenting and fragmenting all these things. They all kind of live under the same umbrella, you know. They live under [music] the same idea of um just playing good playing good music.

[00:47:12][music] All right, cool. Let's hit some questions and um like and subscribe. Please do all the things. Right, Andy? How best to practice landing on chord tones and anticipate the next chord?

[00:47:32]how to ease into it slowly but get faster in it in the heat of battle. It's a great question.

[00:47:43]Yeah, great great question.

[00:47:46]So, when we have maybe the blues and um we're in [music] the key of A, like a working man blues, because I see somebody talking about country, [music] [music] kind of heard the chord change go by that one to four. If you're not good at this stuff, then starting with a blues and just trying to play to the four chord, [snorts] take a small amount of information. So, if you have the blues and you're playing it, it's not doesn't really matter the style of blues. It could be rock blues, country blues, jazz blues, anything. Um, basically, you've got one, two, three, [music] >> [music] >> We're just trying to hear that that downbeat of the the four chord. So, let's take the working man blues thing slow.

[00:48:59][music] [music] We kind of heard that four chord come by because on that down beat, [music] I landed on the third of the D.

[00:49:26]You can land on the one of the D. You [music] can land on the three of the D.

[00:49:30]I wouldn't necessarily land on the five of D because that is the one of [music] A and that doesn't really tell you a new chord happened.

[00:49:40]Example of wrong way to do it. Um playing an A. 1 2 3 4.

[00:49:52][music] All we heard over that four chord was just a. So the only reason we would know that we went to a new chord would be if the entire band behind me played it.

[00:50:06]Let's do it again. Simple information, minor pentatonic. But now I'm going to try to land on the the four chord. So that four chords information means we got to land on [music] those those chord tones on the down beat. One, two, three.

[00:50:25][music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> So, not only did we get to hear that, we got to hear the five, [music] the next four.

[00:50:56]And then a little chromatic walk down at the end.

[00:51:00][music] One more time. Do it down below.

[00:51:02]Only simple pentatonic stuff. One, two, three.

[00:51:08][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Let's play it with up to speed. One, two, one. Trying to keep it simple.

[00:51:38][music] [music] Heat. Heat.

[00:51:49][music] [music] [music] >> [music] >> I suck right there.

[00:52:22][music] I wanted too much information at the same time. Here we go.

[00:52:33]>> [music] >> So, it's interesting to challenge yourself um to put parameters and bumpers on the sides of the road and and and look at it and go, "Okay, I'm only going to play simple stuff." Because if I allow myself the freedom to play as I would just play over that, there'd be a lot more of information. I'd probably overplay it.

[00:52:58]One, [laughter] two, one, two, three.

[00:53:02][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:53:37][music] >> [music] [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:53:57][music] >> [music] [music] >> you know, something wacky to that effect.

[00:54:19]Vex and Theories, would you like to play a song? I mean, I can I can play a song.

[00:54:24]Um, which one would you like to hear?

[00:54:28]Charisma. I haven't played that in a while. Shoot the sun down. Charis. Let's do Charisma. I haven't done that in a while. Let's try that one.

[00:54:40][music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:55:16]Heat.

[00:55:18][music] [music] Heat.

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[00:56:29][music] [music] >> [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:57:11]>> [music] >> Heat. Heat.

[00:57:16][music] [music] Heat.

[00:57:28][music] [music] Heat.

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[00:58:13][music] Heat. [screaming] [music] >> [music] >> Heat. [music] Heat.

[00:58:47][music] >> [music] [music] [music] >> I wanted to keep soloing, but the track was ending. I wanted to keep soloing over that. I like that. I like those chord changes to solo over.

[00:59:20][music] Fun stuff to solo over.

[00:59:29][music] [music] Yeah. Okay. Um, now shout out to more more dread for 78. If I want to play like Steve Morse, what's the first thing I need to work on? My alternate picking is already very good.

[01:00:05]That's a great question. Um, obviously Steve Morris is one of my biggest influences. I love Steve's playing. The thing that I would look at to play like Steve Morris is how to play over major chords. Um, specifically dominant chords. Steve has a sound. And a lot of times, you know, he's combining pedal steel bends, [music] those kind of things. And if you play that um a fourth up and not an octave, you get maybe the um let's see [music] that thing right.

[01:00:52][music] That's a very steep kind of thing. But more importantly, let's just look at like playing over a D chord.

[01:01:06][music] Um, chromatics are going to be your friend. So, when I think of Steve Morris, I think of a lot of chromaticism.

[01:01:16]And if we take the minor pentatonic box, uh, we're going to need to make that a major.

[01:01:22][music] But Steve would have a neat way of outlining that with enclosures.

[01:01:27][music] >> [music] [music] >> That's something that I think is very Steve Morse. Um, again, if we have >> [music] >> Anytime we have that third [music] up to the five.

[01:02:12][music] [music] That's a very Steve Morris thing, too.

[01:02:26]Using the chromatics to connect the major [music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> All of this [music] now these sequencing things I think sound very Steve Morris >> [music] [music] >> very Steve Morseesque. So I would look at that [music] [music] >> [music] >> like that.

[01:03:52][music] Heat.

[01:04:08][music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] >> You know, those kind of things I think sound very steep. You can hear it in the intro of um Too Many Notes as well.

[01:04:46]And on and the last thing I'm going to add to playing like Steve is three note per string arpeggios.

[01:04:57][music] That's kind of nice. [music] So, we have that all together.

[01:05:12][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> all that stuff, huh? [music] It's a tough tune. Um, there's a lot into Steve's playing and and I think the best thing that you could ever do is go to Steve's website and buy his transcriptions and learn his music.

[01:06:06]That's that's that's the number one thing you could do. However, um, there's always things to be sniffing around the internet for that can lead you in the in the right direction.

[01:06:24]How's your Andy, how you doing? How you how's your mental health? I'm pulled thin.

[01:06:29]I'm so pulled thin. I'm just like, oh, one of these days you're just going to be like it's going to pop, you know? Uh, but I'm I'm good, man. Thanks for asking. Um, yeah, I appreciate you. Here we go. Uh, sounding great. I'm going to watch more.

[01:06:44]Subscribed. Cheers. Appreciate you. The new Sweetwater video you did was killer and I love this shout out to the Golden Pipes of Andy Campbell. Yeah, Andy Campbell's amazing. And one that we did this weekend with Skank Banger was [music] [music] Heat. Heat.

[01:07:20][music] [music] [music] >> [music] [music] [music] [music] [music] >> You know, I love I love the Aerosmith stuff. Andy sounds great on it. Another one we did knew that was [music] Ah, come on.

[01:08:24][music] [music] >> [music] >> We did that one and he he's he's so good. Um, I'm modding an old Strat set shaped object today. Perfect stream for bench work. Cheers, Jeremy. We'll call that guitar the cease and assist.

[01:09:04]Where does the guitar sound come from?

[01:09:06]From in here, man. In here. No, I'm kidding. Not really. Um, the guitar is going through a Sir SL68, which is my favorite amp currently being offered out by anybody. I love it. It's a lot of headroom. I'd like it I may even have John mod it to where it stays cleaner longer. Um, the dirt, the secret sauce, as always, my two pedals, the woodshed compressor and the wampler gearbox. All of that tasty stereo delay is coming at you from a Fractal VP4.

[01:09:44]I watched the Allen Jackson Brent Mason stream twice. Super helpful. Thanks, Jeremy. Appreciate you, my friend.

[01:09:50]>> [snorts] >> Um, where do you typically like your low cut when using modelers? Um, 50 50 hertz. And then and then I move it based on the cabinet. You understand that?

[01:10:04]Like when you're using a modeler, you're bringing up a different cabinet. So, you know, a vintage 30 or EV12L, they're all going to have a different lowend. It's not a one size to fit everybody.

[01:10:16]You know, there's not an EQ of power.

[01:10:19]one one EQ to rule them all and in the darkness bind them. It doesn't work like that. So for me, it's like I shape that I move that low end depending on what cabinets being modeled and what microphones being modeled.

[01:10:35]You sound like you're ready for the new Sabotage album. I don't know what Sabotage is.

[01:10:42]Awesome. Cool. Thanks. I think unless they're trash, I don't know what Sabotage is. So, um, Storms, Free Range, Forgotten Secrets. Yeah, we could do we could do another one. How much, uh, about the guitar are you using? The Canada price. Uh, where to order them from, Lawrence? Um, I'm going to try to decipher what you're saying. This guitar is an anniversary model. This is the, uh, one of 100. This is the Rosa Corsa, which is Ferrari's color. And, uh, near and dear to my heart. I've been a fan of Ferrari for a long time, you guys. Uh I think maybe one thing I've never mentioned is how I fell in love with Ferrari. My passion for cars came from my father and we would go to car shows and uh just take the Supra. I had a Toyota Supra that was maxed out. Every goodie that you could imagine. It was like somebody went through the HKS catalog and just start picking stuff out. front mount intercooler, single turbo from SP Engineering, um, carbon fiber dash, TRD widebody, candy apple red, like maxed HRE wheels. And we would go to these car shows and me and dad worked on the thing with my friends and uh, very close-knit group of dudes. Best people I've I've ever been blessed to know. And we would go to those car shows and it would be like early 2000s. We were all kids, you know, [snorts] and uh man, I we'd pull in and there'd be all the imports, you know, the Japanese cars. Occasionally, you could see a skyline was really nuts back then. Still nuts today, but it was really nuts back then. And there'd be the RX7s and the Supras and the Evos and and and and then if you're [snorts] lucky at a hot import nights or a Nope, there'd be like a section of the car show usually where like Maguiars's polish and and these kind of upscale big money brands, they would have like a Ferrari 430 or a 360 Modana, you know, or something like that in the in the booth. If it was really the 430, that was really the one that was out. Uh at some point in my life I would love to be able to get a uh gated manual 430. That's one on the checklist.

[01:13:03]Um anyways, uh you got to understand at this time in the early 2000s, Michael Schumacher had shown up and there's never been anybody in Formula 1 that did what he did to the sport. I mean, Michael is my goat. He's my greatest of all time. He's Michael Jordan. He's Tom Brady. like Shoeacher.

[01:13:27]Shoe marker in the Marbor red and white. Marbor on the fin on the wing of the Formula 1 car and it just they just sounded like banshees. H the racing was super aggressive back then.

[01:13:41]Kimmy Reichenon was driving back then.

[01:13:43]So many great just ah so great. And I've always loved Ferrari since then. It really was never Ferrari [snorts] was never a brand that I was into like someone would say Rolex or something. It was never about the pedigree or the flex of this is cool because it's expensive.

[01:14:04][snorts] It being expensive was like a byproduct that was not in my head. The reason I didn't have one was because it was expensive. [laughter] But the love and the passion for the car wasn't like, you know, some people are into those brands because they want to have a yacht and Rolexes and and and have the flex, you know what I mean? Like a money flex.

[01:14:30]That was never it. It was the perfect storm of being that age and the bond with my friends and my dad and that being the one that would always be just over in the corner somewhere of the car show. and you would just be like, "Dude, did y'all see that 430? Golly tank." You know, and back then everybody wanted the the Formula 1 transmission. Um, they had the little plaque in the 360s and the 430s. That was the championship, you know, the championship years Ferrari world champion. They would have a plaque in there. That's that's the year that you I'd really want is one of the world championship years. And um if I'm [snorts] not mistaken, even in the Cars movie um you know the one even in the Cars movie I think Michael Schumacher at the very end doesn't he show up and he is a 430 you know he pulls into the Italian restaurant.

[01:15:25]Anyways, that's that all of that to be said, that's the inspiration for this, which is a Roso Corsa Ferrari red with carbon fiber. And the pickups have that oiled exhaust manifold kind of look to them. Everything about this guitar is like automotive. And it's sibling. Of course, if you're an automotive fan, you know that there's a huge rivalry between Ferrari and Lamborghini. And I always thought that was part of the cool mythos. To me, one of the coolest things in the mythos and the lore, [snorts] you know, Enzo Ferrari was kind kind of not not the nicest guy in the world. He was, you know, he's known to say things as crazy as who cares how big the the gap is. I want them to their pants when they uh when they hit the gas. That was very much an Enzo philosophy. And if you don't know the lore, there's um Enzo told old man Fuuchio Lamborghini when he came in to like suggesting to do something to the clutch and Ferrari told him to say stick to building tractors and so that started the rivalry, right?

[01:16:32]So when we were doing the 10 year anniversary guitars, um I wanted to do something that celebrated that. Thought I thought that was really cool. So this is the Ferrari red and then this is um based off of a color that Lamborghini has called Bonsia Borealis Aransia Borealis. Sorry. Let me grab show it to you.

[01:16:54]And um these guitars are super limited.

[01:16:58]You can see how like candy candy orange that is. Um, a cool thing is Ian Thornley's on tour with Big Wreck right now and he's playing an orange one on tour, which is awesome. But this is the uh the Aransia Borealis.

[01:17:15]Automotive colors always look so good on guitars. They always look so good on guitars. And then of course the red is like, come on. You know what I mean?

[01:17:25]Super super cool.

[01:17:31]And uh super proud of these. These are a milestone for me to have a 10year anniversary model. Very very flattered, very honored. So yeah, that's the um the history about the guitars. As far as where to order one, you can reach out to sir on the website and then from there they their their sales team will help you find one of these in stock if there is still some in stock. I think they haven't completed all of the orders yet.

[01:18:00]Um, by that I mean all of the orders have been purchased from dealers, but the dealers haven't gotten all of the inventory in. I don't think I think they're still like it was like a year cycle of making them, building them. So, yeah.

[01:18:23]So, a couple things. Um, play the thrill is gone by BB King.

[01:18:30]Wow. Um, okay.

[01:18:35]What a what a unique challenge. Um, if I open another tab, will it will it shut down what we're doing right now?

[01:18:47]Um, I don't know the answer. I don't think I don't think I can. I don't think I can open the the second tab and do it. Yeah, I don't think it can. I'm sorry. I I need to figure out a way to do that on on a a live stream. I can do it in a Zoom call, but I can't do it in a live stream. Um All right. Always thought the B part was tougher. Yeah. There's a lot of parts to stressfest.

[01:19:17]That one's really tough, too. Um it's Yeah.

[01:19:22]Thanks for the kind words on the um uh on the Sweetwater video. I love hanging out with Nick. Yeah. Yeah. All right.

[01:19:32]All right. Play any There's Play any Blue Oyster Cult. Uh I don't remember it.

[01:19:54]Is that it? Is I'm trying to remember it. You're putting me on the spot with some of these things.

[01:20:00]Is it [music] uh [music] I don't think it goes down like that, does it? [music] That's not in there. [music] I don't remember it. [singing] I don't remember. I know that's how it starts. [music] [music] That [music] [music] heat.

[01:21:06][music] >> [music] >> I [singing] miss you.

[01:21:20][music] [music] >> [music] [music] >> I I don't That's the best I can do from memory. [laughter] [snorts] Oh, sorry. I wish I knew I wish I could just have everything on deck all the time, you know, but I can't do it from memory.

[01:21:57]Are you a big fan of Danny Elfman?

[01:21:59]Absolutely 1,000% I love Danny Elfman.

[01:22:04]Sabotage is a Tampa, Florida based metal band from back in the day. I'll check them out.

[01:22:11]Candyman 21. What happened to the Supra man? So, I'd been on a um a bit of a sbatical, a crucible, if you will. Um, and I've been trying to find the car and uh I I want to hopefully get it back someday. Now, you got to understand, I don't want another Supra. I want that Supra that me and dad built. And in the Supra realm, in in that circle, cars get modified a lot. And I was expecting the car to be black now or gray or repainted, you know, some some different color or anything like that.

[01:23:03]And about two and a half weeks ago, I found the car. And the car is in New York.

[01:23:12]And it looks just like the day that um my dad and I or the day that I sold it.

[01:23:20]Yeah. So, let me bring this up and see.

[01:23:22]I don't know if you'll be able to see it through the camera, but So, there it is.

[01:23:27]It's in New York. And uh there she is.

[01:23:31]She looks just like the day I sold her, man. And I reached out to the the young man that owns it. And his dad and him own it together and they have a shop up there and they do JDM cars. And uh man, it just made my heart so full knowing that a father and son have it.

[01:23:53]That said, I really want that car back.

[01:23:55]So, if you see this, if you're ever seeing one of my streams, I want that car back. Give me uh give me first crack, you know, first crack to get it back. I want it, man. And u you know [music] [music] kind of an Andy Summers tone. Yeah. you know. [music] [music] Yeah, it's definitely got that for sure.

[01:24:40]What was it? What was that one? Um, is it in C# sharp?

[01:24:48][music] Is there Is that how it's played? Is it open string like that?

[01:24:57]Is there is like that? [music] Is it in C#ar like that?

[01:25:05][music] [music] Yeah man. Okay.

[01:25:19]Um, so also, uh, you know, I don't want to be a Debbie Downer, but I definitely want to throw flowers and love towards Wayne Charll. Wayne Charll, that's one thing I really wanted to mention here on the live stream today. Wayne Charll gave so much to the guitar community and uh just a legend really you know the blacksmith that forged the weapons of gods kind of legend you know Wayne Charll's Charal guitars and um I think we all know what that company is all about the humbucker the super strat the Warren D Martinis of the world I think Ed played a Charal all the time. You know, it's just like, so this is my my thank you and and love and flowers to Wayne's family and uh to us. We we all lost a hero and an icon, but they lost family members. So, this is my flowers and love and respect to the Charell family, and I hope you can find some peace in all the great things that Wayne left us. So, yeah, man. Heavy stuff. You know, it's like these guys are in my mind they're always just gonna live forever. You know, I'm still not convinced that Jimmy Paige is a real person. You know what I mean? There's a part of me that just doesn't see the people that we look up to as as uh fathers and brothers and uncles, you know? I just see them as like mythological beings, you know. But it's it is a really a small circle that we roll in with music and uh the the bond and the fraternal the fraternal order and the fraternal bond of the the keepers of the flame of of guitar. And uh man, you know, it's like we we we're a small community and if you got something nice to say, maybe think about leaving that on the Charell post. So, you know, going over there and leave some kind words over there. really important. One of the things I'd like to uh I'd like to mention as well, I have a video coming out on the uh amp build.

[01:27:35]This little guy right here, uh Chuck, the mighty Chuck is getting me a thumbnail and [snorts] we're going to be posting that probably today or tomorrow.

[01:27:45]Um, I made a video and and I didn't realize at the time of making it there was it it basically just talks about the uh build experience with Daniel Klein from Port City Amps. I had no idea that his world got rocked in the past month, two months, month and a half. Daniel has some very serious cranial brain uh tumor issues and he's had surgery. if you wouldn't mind to put in um allow me to hopefully type it in. Type in the link if you uh let's see here.

[01:28:28]It's on the GoFundMe and it is this copy.

[01:28:34]Let's see that whole thing. Is there a way that I can paste that? Hang on. I'm gonna send it to Chuck. I'm gonna [snorts] say, Chuck, will you paste this? Chuck, if you're seeing this, will you paste this link right here? And uh if Chuck sees that, he will pay paste it in the chat, maybe even in the description of the video. Um it should be the GoFundMe to support uh Daniel's fight against brain cancer. Um Daniel is the head of Port City Amps and make wonderful, wonderful amplifiers. He's a great guy. I've known Daniel for freaking 15 years. Thank you, Chuck. Um, this link right here will allow you to go throw some some dollar papers towards Daniel. Now, I also, it's not lost on me that everybody doesn't have a money tree growing in their backyard.

[01:29:32]So, all I'm going to ask is if you aren't financially in a spot to donate to Daniel and his family, if you would just maybe take that link right there and just post it in your stories or your Facebook um in any kind of threads or chats where guitar community stuff is being shared, if you wouldn't mind just to copy that link right there and paste that that you know that the more money we can raise to help a brother out, the better we're doing. And uh you know, I hope that I hope that it helps.

[01:30:10]You guys know this, man. Like medical stuff, brother. It's expensive.

[01:30:14]Medical stuff is expens. It's expensive to be sick. It really is. And uh you know it doesn't matter how successful you are in in life or how unsuccess all these measuring factors kind of become irrelevant in my mind. If somebody um has something like this, you know, it doesn't matter if you give 10 bucks or 10,000 bucks. just trying to do the right thing to help somebody else, you know. And I'm not preaching at you.

[01:30:50]I'm not I'm not going to go Baptist preacher with the offering plate or any of that, you know, kind of stuff. But I would like you just to take a couple of seconds and just scope out that story.

[01:31:02]If you feel so moved or inclined, please share that link and uh help help Daniel out. He's a great dude, man. Um so that's with Port City. Um, so an interesting live stream today. Talking a little technique and and talking a little tone and talking a little uh this and that. Uh, for those that don't realize, I do these live. If you're watching it after the fact, I do leave them up on YouTube. So, these are all just shoot them from the hip. And, uh, these are basically funded by my my Patreon channel. So, to all the Patreon members, you're the reason that I get to do these every Tuesday, and I'm going to do a few more.

[01:31:47]I'm going to do a special one tomorrow where I walk through the woodshed guitar experience schedule with you guys.

[01:31:56]And um if you see this, the woodshed guitar schedule, let me do something crazy just for this. Um we might have to edit this section out in post. This will be something just for you guys that get to see it here in real time. I don't know. It'll this will be this will be an upper level management decision. I'm just going to go for it.

[01:32:17]Use Awood 300. This is the code that I use when I do live um clinics, like when I did my clinic tour earlier in the summer. Use code AWood 300. Get yourself $300 off. We have just a few spots left. One of the things we've just added is an RV option. We uh we we have own our facility [snorts] and so that means that the single cabins sell out really fast. Now the shared cabins are wonderful and what happens most of the time is guys come as a single cabin the first year they make friends with somebody and they do a shared cabin next year. They're wonderful. But we also know some people have been wanting like, "Hey man, do you have any single cabins left?" Don't have any single cabins left. Don't have any.

[01:33:01]So now we're we're exploring this or RV option. Um, there's also options to come in and camp yourself if you like to. We have all the, you know, Wi-Fi and everything, you know, it's like it's glamping. It's not camping, it's glamping. So, use that code and um the the Woodshed guitar experience this year. I've been handling some municipalities of it all lately, getting the generators and the production lined up. [snorts] And we've got uh Eric Gails is coming in. I'm so fired up about that. We've got Justin Derko is coming to us all the way from LA to tell us stories about being a road touring hero for Pink and also what it's like to be on probably the biggest music television show which is The Voice or one of the biggest, you know, and uh excited about that. He's a lethal player, too. Super excited to have Justin. I've talked to him. He's a wonderful guy. great best tops. Um, gold star Martin Miller is coming in from Germany. Sick, sick player. Brethren, a guy that came up in the Patrrui forums with me. I love that dude. I love all those dudes so much. And uh, Martin is coming in. Super excited to just watch him do his thing.

[01:34:20]Lethal. Lethal player. Um, who else do we have? We've got Greg [ __ ] coming back. People like, you don't say the [ __ ] it's a caulk. and they're always commenting in the in the comment section and I always think it's funny. I'm like, "Do you not think I'm friends with Greg? Do you not think that I talk to Greg?" Like, why are we what are we doing? What are we trying to prove? Um, so anyway, Greg [ __ ] and the Cog Marshall Trio coming [snorts] in hot. So, we got uh there's one more that I'm super excited about.

[01:34:53]Oh my gosh, I can't believe I get to say this. John Jorgensson from the Heliccasters from Elton John's band.

[01:35:02]Dude, John Jorgensson, are you freaking kidding me? Super awesome. Super awesome player. Uh, one of my favorites. And, you know, I still remember some of his tunes. You know, there's the I I I need to go back and learn them and have them really slick for when he gets here.

[01:35:18][music] >> [music] [music] >> You know, I got to go back and learn.

[01:35:34]And there's another one called Easter Island Heads. I think uh how'd that go?

[01:35:41]It was this [music] something like that had that little thing. And um I'm gonna go back and relearn it. I got to find a It was on his instructional video.

[01:35:53]The Lord knows that's long since been lost, but maybe there's a copy of it on uh YouTube that I can go back and learn.

[01:36:00]Easter Island Heads was the name of that song. So, I got to go back and learn it.

[01:36:04]Um anyways, Eric Gills, Martin Miller, Greg [ __ ] Justin Diego, John Jorgensson, ridiculous lineup.

[01:36:15]No iPads.

[01:36:17]Hey, no iPads. real band, live band.

[01:36:21]That's huge for um these type of events.

[01:36:24]Um Lord knows that I've had to play to an iPad way too many times. We got a sick live band and super excited about it. Listen, this is coming up in 40 something days, 45 days. This is the Woodshed guitar experience and I am so excited. I would love to see you there.

[01:36:41]And if you have the opportunity to come and hang out with us in Tennessee, [snorts] use code Awood 300.

[01:36:50]Come on. There's only a few slots left.

[01:36:53]Let's fill them up. Let's hang. Let's have a wonderful time. Things I can't say, things that I didn't say. We do all kinds of fun stuff and various contests.

[01:37:04]Hint, hint, wink, wink, nudge, nudge.

[01:37:08]Um, there's gonna be a lot of great manufacturers there. I want to give a shout out to Joe Wyatt, Passion for Tone. He will be sponsoring the Wattage Cottage. We have the mighty Joe Glazer, Glazer Instruments, the BB Bender coming in. Dave Freriedman's coming in. Rumor is Dave Friedman's going to bring Tracy Guns to hang. Now, I don't know if that's factual yet, but there's been rumors. There's been text messages, things like this. So, super excited.

[01:37:36]Thanks to all the folks and all the team that uh uh are helped me put this on.

[01:37:42]It's definitely a labor of love and we try to create something that gives you guys an experience and a four days that you'll freaking never forget. Uncle Ben will be there hanging out to tell some tales from his adventures out with Machine Head this summer. Super proud of my boy uh getting out there and doing the thing. Andy Campbell as always.

[01:38:02]Daniel Kimbro, Jim Riley, just studs, studs of the industry, titans of the industry, and um super proud to have such an all-star band. If these names don't mean anything to you, let me say this. Daniel Kimbro plays bass for Eric Johnson. So, I know that one means something to you guitar nerds out there.

[01:38:22]So, it's super great to have such a wonderful cast of folks that help put this on. And uh you know, shout out to the Dillons, Ellas's, Robs, Rogers, Chucks. Chuck always does more than he should. Um the John's, the the the the there's just a wonderful crew of people that help make Woodshed special. And we're going to do a live stream tomorrow that's just on woodshed. Let's do it at the same time. We'll do it at 3 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. And we're going to just talk about Woodshed and get in the weeds and probably bring up a lot of this stuff. So, thanks for hanging out this week. That's the uh TLDDR. And to review, listen, don't try to bite off too much at one time. If some of the techniques and things that we were displaying and talking about earlier feel like a lot, just just rewind it, you know, just pause it, rewind it, and uh try to take things a piece at a time.

[01:39:22]Not try to get overwhelmed by the complexity of music. You know, music's hard. Guitar is hard. It's not easy. So, don't let it overwhelm you. Don't let it discourage you. Um, next thing is please take a few minutes to uh visit that link with Daniel Klein, the GoFundMe. Let's make any any subscriptions that I would typically plug right now um for the website and the Patreon. Just go to Daniel's page instead, you know, don't don't worry about me today. Worry about Daniel. And uh I I really appreciate you guys so much as always. Wonderful times.

[01:40:02]I've got to change some strings.

[01:40:04]Clearly, uh things are starting to break because they've been on the guitar too long. So, I need to do a little uh bench work, a little pit stop action. Um hope you enjoyed hearing the big red one. And um you know, if you're looking for uh one of these guitars or the pedals or any of that stuff, you can always just uh email sir or visit our friends at Sweetwater. Sweetwater is a SIR dealer.

[01:40:30]You have Open Chord. You have Guitar Sanctuary if you're out in Texas. You have Matt's Music if you're up in the Northeast. You have Miami Guitar Guitar Guitar. Um, wonderful dealers all over the country. And Wildwood, uh, you know, great guitar dealers all over the country. I can't list them all. Um, but, uh, you can get in one. And listen, we're working on something that I hope to debut at Woodshed. So stay tuned on that aspect. I appreciate you guys.

[01:41:03]Chuck's got the link right there for the GoFundMe. Um, everyone be blessed. Have a great week. Be good to each other.

[01:41:09]We'll see you tomorrow.