Thursday, August 17, 2006
Harmonics
Hello Again!!
Well today we have a mystery guest with us. He told us his name is Mat Rock.
He will be demonstrating us the stuff that we are going to explain today - Harmonics!
When a guitarist plays a harmonic, for example the harmonic at the 12th fret, what he or she is doing is lightly touching the string at the exact mid-point while plucking the string. This deadens the main vibration, which has a swell at the midpoint, but leaves any overtones that are vibrating around the midpoint, such as the 1/2 vibration, the 1/4 vibration, etc.
An artificial harmonic is produced by rubbing the picking thumb against the string as it is picked. This rubbing of the thumb against the string is sufficient to deaden all or most of the underlying tones and leave only the harmonic tone. The trick, however is to pick the string at the right distance from the bridge so that the thumb is rubbing the string at one of the harmonic "sweet spots."
watch Mat Rock demonstrating how he does his harmonics! click on the picture below to download the .Mov file. Or better still, subscribe to our free Podcast now!
Enjoy~!
Well today we have a mystery guest with us. He told us his name is Mat Rock.
He will be demonstrating us the stuff that we are going to explain today - Harmonics!
When a guitarist plays a harmonic, for example the harmonic at the 12th fret, what he or she is doing is lightly touching the string at the exact mid-point while plucking the string. This deadens the main vibration, which has a swell at the midpoint, but leaves any overtones that are vibrating around the midpoint, such as the 1/2 vibration, the 1/4 vibration, etc.
An artificial harmonic is produced by rubbing the picking thumb against the string as it is picked. This rubbing of the thumb against the string is sufficient to deaden all or most of the underlying tones and leave only the harmonic tone. The trick, however is to pick the string at the right distance from the bridge so that the thumb is rubbing the string at one of the harmonic "sweet spots."
watch Mat Rock demonstrating how he does his harmonics! click on the picture below to download the .Mov file. Or better still, subscribe to our free Podcast now!
Enjoy~!
Friday, August 04, 2006
Metal and Fuzz Effects
Hello Everyone!
I hope that you all have enjoyed this podcast so far.
Something about me that all of you must know. I am NOT a professional guitarist but i can manage to play the instrument decently.
Something u all need to know about joe. It was the original frontman ( or front-frog in this case.. heehee :P ) of the band Avenged Sevenfold. Just kidding.. hehe..
Well another distortion type effect is discussed here ( 2 in fact..)
Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast by clicking at the podcast icon at the side! You all can also input this URL >> www.feeds.feedburner.com/efxexplained in your Itunes media player and enjoy the free contents!
click on the picture to listen to the show! :
I hope that you all have enjoyed this podcast so far.
Something about me that all of you must know. I am NOT a professional guitarist but i can manage to play the instrument decently.
Something u all need to know about joe. It was the original frontman ( or front-frog in this case.. heehee :P ) of the band Avenged Sevenfold. Just kidding.. hehe..
Well another distortion type effect is discussed here ( 2 in fact..)
Don't forget to subscribe to the podcast by clicking at the podcast icon at the side! You all can also input this URL >> www.feeds.feedburner.com/efxexplained in your Itunes media player and enjoy the free contents!
click on the picture to listen to the show! :
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Overdrive Effect
Hi all~
Welcome back again!
Today we shall touch on Overdrive.
One of my friend asked me what is the difference of distortion and overdrive.
well, there is not much difference but overdrive gives a much warmer tone..
for a better understanding and some laughs.. ( i hope) .. please download the podcast below and enjoy!!
Welcome back again!
Today we shall touch on Overdrive.
One of my friend asked me what is the difference of distortion and overdrive.
well, there is not much difference but overdrive gives a much warmer tone..
for a better understanding and some laughs.. ( i hope) .. please download the podcast below and enjoy!!
Monday, July 17, 2006
Distortion Effects
Hi~!!
welcome to the first blog post!
I shall start this off with an introduction to Distortion.
A lot of guitarist use distortion effects to get the fuzzy sound on their guitars.
To actually make an electric guitar sound distorted on a speaker yet quiet at the same time, you have to use an overdrive/distortion effect on the speaker, or a stompbox. This is known as artificial distortion. However, if you turn an amp up high while playing a guitar(be careful) it will also sound distorted.
without anymore delay, download the podcast show!!:
enjoy~
welcome to the first blog post!
I shall start this off with an introduction to Distortion.
A lot of guitarist use distortion effects to get the fuzzy sound on their guitars.
To actually make an electric guitar sound distorted on a speaker yet quiet at the same time, you have to use an overdrive/distortion effect on the speaker, or a stompbox. This is known as artificial distortion. However, if you turn an amp up high while playing a guitar(be careful) it will also sound distorted.
without anymore delay, download the podcast show!!:
enjoy~
