Tabs: www.soundslice.com/slices/vLG4c/
I wanted to make this video since long time but was afraid it's not the most popular one... But then one of subscribers (hello Rodolphe!) asked if I could do a video about slapback delay using Strymon Deco. And another one (hey Bill!) asked somewhere on Facebook if anyone had tabs for exactly this song. It's not just a screamin' psychobilly song - all the way from 1956! - it's one of the first songs where an effect, delay, was used not just to add a touch of ambience but to create a whole rhythmic pattern. Think of that dotted 8th note delay from the 1980s which is the very same concept, although different rhythmically, and it all came from the 50s! Hence in this video we'll talk a lot about how exactly that delay effect was created in Owen Bradley's Quonset Hut studio in Nashville back in 1956, what was its delay time, how many repeats and so on. That will lead us also towards another topic, compression. Do you use a compressor pedal for rockabilly? Many people say you don't but, in fact, those historic recordings did have quite some compression - added in the mix.
...and yes, I do love those soft and mellow Gene Vincent's ballads with jazzy guitar parts by Cliff Gallup, too!
00:00 Demo
00:30 Gene Vincent... did he play psychobilly or cool jazz? ;) (think of, Cat Man sounds like a minor song, but in fact rhythm guitar doesn't play a minor 3rd at all and the final Cliff Gallup's chord is A6/9... so it's free jazz lol!)
1:51 Licks and picking technique
6:28 How that slapjack delay was produced in the studio in 1956?
8:05 Delay pedal's settings to replicate that 1950s setup from the studio
10:12 Compressor? Compressor! And its settings.
12:01 Sound examples with Strymon Deco and Mark Bass Compressore (no affiliation, used just as examples)