Stop apologizing for not doing things right. Part of what’s good about you is that you just give it a go. Music isn’t a sport. And playing what other people already did perfectly is a waste of time. You have a ton of good ideas and enthusiasm. That’s what counts.

corgan and mascis were my main influences in playing lead, love mascis' medolies and corgans controlled chaos

The moment that changed my life forever was the time I tried tuning to drop D without realizing I was already tuned to open G. I had in fact tuned the 6th string to C and only realized once I began playing. That tuning makes playing the music I want to play feel as natural water flowing downstream or current going to ground. (1stD) (2ndB) (3rdG) (4thD) (5thG) (6thC) The best tuning there is.

In the past month this has become my fav channel, keep up the great work!!

About 4 months ago I saw your channel and this... just amazing. Your videos helped me in choosing pedals and pedalboards for shoegaze staff, all kinds of grunge stuff, etc. Even an inexpensive shoegaze board. just fucking cool. thank you for your work

Excellent video. Thanks for posting.

Cool tips ! That lead at the end cuts like a knife indeed !

Aw hell yeah my pedal man growing fr, I remember you having like 1k subs. Keep making the good content.

My favourite ‘grunge-type modulation’ pedal is the Keeley Dyno-My-Roto. The price is right, and it has three modes: a tri-chorus that would give you lovely underwater, seasick vibes; a rotary speaker simulator, that will give you those “Black Hole Sun” tones; and finally, a very flexible flanger that can do very subtle all the way through windtunnel hell. I also use a TC Corona mini chorus, as I can load it with different TonePrints depending on my needs, which kind of makes it like 50 different chorus pedals.

I need to get more technical too for my lead stuff! Rock on man!

Your channel is so addictive

This is a cool channel, really interesting, thanks mate

Great video brother.

I used to have a Pearl Octaver and used it as a distortion unit when i grew sick of the sounds i was getting. As it was analog, the tracking was all over the place and sounded great. In the same band i did that with id have added Phaser (I think i had an old Yamaha one) to crunchy tones and played a bit like Lifeson from Rush, which made the drummer play more like Jimmy Chamberlain.

That Blackhole Sun riff sounded like a Primus cover. it’s cool though 😎

IIRC, Guns & Roses also made use of E flat Standard. Obviously not Grunge, but previous to this video, they were the first I ever heard of doing that. As for your threat to put your guitar through a Leslie on a future video...yes, please!

Is that a Mustang Pawn Shop Special you’re playing for “Where is my mind?” I have one in Lake Placid Blue. Love it.

It's a very common trick to play the 3rd chord as a major chord. Also making the 4 chord a minor chord is common, especially playing a few bars as a major chord then going to a minor chord on the last bar, I call it The Beatles trick

Alice in Chains is basically Eb tuning across the board with some drop C#/Db like 'Them Bones'. Jerry refers to as "Alice" tuning. I do find distortion a bit grating on Standard tuning and Drop D, Eb or D Standard seems to balance that out to my ear. Cool video, thanks 👍

Check out the video interview "guitar moves, josh homme" he's a very talented songwriter and outstanding guitar player and he has a very particular why of doing solos, he explains he changed some notes from the mighty minor pentatonic and it sounds like a different thing! It's very inspiring and easy to try but hard to master, and most importantly it's really fun to play like that and experiment, give it a chance, it's a great little lesson

Always helpful. Thank you.

I have the same problem with lead parts and solos where I have a good riff and a pretty good melody but I just actually have no clue what kind of solo like stuff to put over it. The only thing I could really recommend is trying to learn some of your favorite solos then attempt to figure out why you like it and as such add that insight into your lead lines and solos. Great Video though man!

Listen to Eruption and some other early EVH stuff for a slow phase pedal. Also, learning some of his solos might help with your lead direction. I know he’s not exactly grunge, but so what? Love your approach to your videos!

The tip 2 you said was the wrong one sounded GREAT!!!

Eb standard has been my main tuning for a long time (The Smashing Pumpkins and Failure), but after Shiner and The Life And Times became my favorite bands, I went to D standard, and I like it. But I like to mix it up a bit. DADGAD is cool. I also have this weird tuning that's Eb-G-A#-F-G-D. That's just Yvette Young's tuning, only one whole step down from her FACgae. I have also tried a tuning that the band Chavez has used. E standard, but you drop the low E to A. Later they also used to drop the E only to C, and that's my main tuning on one of my guitars. :) All that stuff makes me play differently and makes me think about melody within riffs, instead of having me think about chords and chord progressions. For some reason, though, even in the weird tunings, variants of the i-IV-iv-V progressions is what I keep landing on haha! But at least the harmonic content of the chords is more weird and that makes it sound just a little bit different.

Maybe you could try TrueFire for your lead lines. There are a lot of courses there. As long as you know your way around the fretboard, you could use single string lines or even two string lines that will make you fly over the fretboard, though I'm still not there myself... :) I like "Brad Carlton's Guitar Lab: Speed, Precision & Endurance Vol. 1", even though you have to organize your practice yourself, you're not just following along. Then there's Dweezil Zappa course called Fretboard Freedom, which takes a little bit different approach, but I like it. His Phrase Generators is also good, but it's more oriented towards building licks with 3-1-3 notes arpeggios on three strings at a time, and stuff like that.

Soundgarden uses a rotovibe live for black hole sun. You can use a chorus pedal, it really doesn't matter, but it's not like univibe and rotary pedals are still rare these days.

AIC, G'nR, Weezer also use this this tuning.

There's a common theory/urban myth that has several videos & forum posts about is that Eb tuning sounds particularly great on Strats.

The phase shifter effect seems really similar to what you'd get from a wah pedal. It seems like that sound was synonymous with 90s grunge between jerry cantrell's wah and billy corgan's phaser.

I love drop C# haha

Try a dan electro rocky road pedal for the Leslie sound. Awesome pedal.

Motörhead and Kiss also played most of their stuff in Eb standard tuning. But then again, grunge took a lot of inspiration from 70’s rock and metal, so it’s not that much of a shock.

The "really weird" tuning for Black Hole Sun is ... Drop-D lmao. They just use a lot of really strange chord voicings

I also want to see a video of you running a guitar through the Leslie speaker

Stratocasters just sound better in E#. 25.5 scale length guitars with 10s do in general imo. I really liked your video, dude.

Wow, Heart Shaped Box and Where is my Mind? Both classics if you ask me... Smashing Pumpkins I like but not as much as you do 😅. Well as for technical advice I am the worst person to ask...maybe try another genre? ZZ-Top Tres Hombres or Eliminator I like... As for gear the Sire S3 (HSS) I seriously like and gets solid reviews and with Ibanez AZES31/40 as Squier Classic Vibe series seems good value for money in the same-ish price bracket. A Tele looks cooler but an HSS strat is more versatile and better ergonomics... Really enjoyed your video! Oh and for being right or wrong...such thing doesn't really exist. Keith Richards uses a Telecaster "Country instrument" for Rock 'n Roll and Bluesy tunes.😊

So I had to teach black hole sun to a bunch of kids over the years, and the way to get the correct tuning is basically doing drop D, but every note is tuned sharp, roughly about 3/4s of the way to the next note.

I just realised that the chord progression for “Where Is My Mind” is also pretty close to the chord progression for “Interstate Love Song”.

has the Pawn Shop Mustang popped up on the channel before? I feel like this is the first time we’re seeing it, but i could just be being brainless. Side note but i’m starting to get jealous of that collection.

That phaser trick is a van halen approach to solos

Audition for SP?

Thanks....always interesting videos with helpful and inspiring content...! Have a look and listen at Chevelle....US band......superb stuff and they use a lot of drop tunings...drop B in particular. Worth a look and a listen......won't be regretted! Just subbed to the channel...

it is G#Maj because it is in the harmonic minor scale not natural minor that's a very common scale in Alt rock and the added note in this scale creates some cool chords , Arctic Monkeys use that a lot.so that tip is just wrong ….overall you have great videos keep rocking !

Are those lace sensor pickups in the Strat? Do you recommend the pickups?

We need that Leslie video. Please.

Honestly, I recently added a phaser to my rig and it sounds amazing. Who gives a shit if it sounds dated? As long as it sounds good I'm happy

1: powerchord 2: play

Honestly check out this guys band, they are so fucking good and should be getting pushed more. They are keeping the dying dgrunge movement alive, they are so good live too, OCTOBERDRIFT !!!!

at 25.5", flat should be considered "standard" tuning

isn’t “today” also in eb?

best tip for grunge players is to get better at guitar

I thought most of Nirvana was E flat too?

Never, ever, EVER, ditch the HOG. EVER. :)

That octave lead tone was baddass, actually.

I don't know if you want to go down this rabbit hole but, if you tune down about half of a half step it's supposed to be like a weird satanic tuning that was banned by the catholic church. Pantera uses this tuning.

nahhhh to much Smashing Pumpkins shit in this video!