{"id":538,"date":"2008-10-16T21:01:12","date_gmt":"2008-10-16T20:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/?p=538"},"modified":"2009-01-15T13:58:29","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T12:58:29","slug":"learning-to-play-less","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicademy.com\/blog\/learning-to-play-less\/","title":{"rendered":"Creating ‘pad’ sounds on guitar to add space"},"content":{"rendered":"

This week I completed my New FX board and took it to church for a first outing on Sunday morning. The most exciting pedal is the Digitech EX-7. One setting allows me to fade in a slow swell of violin sounding stuff. This gave me the opportunity to do the “Pad-Thing” that the keyboard player usually does. Accidentally, I found myself playing these background chord things in one verse, and then switching to more traditional guitar style for a chorus. Suddenly I’m playing a lot less, and contributing to the arrangement, not just adding a guitar part from beginning to end. It’s quite a dramatic trick because when I switch from pad-style to jangly picking style (or crunch’n’punch -style) it’s a double change, because one instrument is “dropping out” as well as another instrument “dropping-in”. We all need to play less! It’s wrong to generalise, but when did anyone last need to tell you that you’re not playing enough?! A nice thing about this technique is that it kept me busy, but at the same time made me play less. Now, maybe you do not have a Digitech EX=7 with it’s “Space Station\u2122 Synth Swell\u2122” but you can fake a similar effect by using some chorus, delay, and “violining” with the volume knob. (i.e. strike with the volume pot pre-set low, and immediately (but slowly) fade up”. I think this could be the start of something very productive.<\/p>\n

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