Stop Trying to Sound Like Everyone Else

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FREE WORKSHOP: I share techniques you can use to develop a unique sound and style of playing your guitar. A guitar "voice" all your own! Excerpted from a 2020 livestream workshop.
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@modernmute9028 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service Oninion Knight

@swas_chak 2 жыл бұрын

I could listed to your voice for hours. You voice is just as unique as your guitar's.

@judeworth938 Жыл бұрын

After living in Virginia for a couple of years, I developed a love for bluegrass....coupled with ambient style guitar, it's simply delicious !

@juanshaman3177 2 жыл бұрын

Wonderful stuff. Thank you for sharing your experience and wisdom!

@HenryWinters107 2 ай бұрын

I love this stuff! Very cool. And weirdly comforting!

@davebraxton 2 жыл бұрын

No longer a piper but have been back into guitar for a few years now. I am so totally inspired by this. I’ve been working on adding to my rig to take a deep dive into ambient guitar. It’s also made me realize how little I know regarding theory. Like many self taught guitarists I never even learned the notes on the fretboard beyond the 6th string for root notes. Now I’m memorizing the fretboard and triads and such so I can build interesting chords. I love me some sus4 chords. I have found it to be highly necessary to know what the note is going to be before the swell, not after! Thanks for all you do, Bill.

@chordsoforion 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds like you are on a great musical journey!!

@briandoherty3364 2 жыл бұрын

This is excellent, high level advice and wisdom :)

@Micky-yo3ng 2 жыл бұрын

Sage words Bill. I clicked on this video because I was working on my playing last night and I find I’ve spent too long trying to play like others and too little on trying to play like me and there are many ideas in this lesson I use or adapt to me, or fits my vibe, as you say. Thanks

@user-dx5rg5wo9m 4 ай бұрын

Super helpful video, the question you’re answering makes so much musical sense to my ear brain.

@BarryGrueter 2 жыл бұрын

This is really informative and interesting thanks so much for sharing 🙏

@muuutch 2 жыл бұрын

thank you, I found wisdom in your words 🤘

@nickycigarella805 4 ай бұрын

Best advice

@kirkhilts3996 10 ай бұрын

Literally the words of David Walliman

@gwugluud Ай бұрын

I have fave guitarists, but I don’t care about what they use stompbox wise or amp wise. I insert random stompboxes out of the decent wide collection of stompboxes I’ve amassed over the years. I’ll stick an EQ Devices 3-way harmony box, a flanger and a reverb stomp into an overdrive box . That or similar random stompboxes in random orders will never fail to yield you sounds which are all your own.

@Joseph-dr6si 2 жыл бұрын

Outstanding Work Shop, thanks for posting.

@bradybritto 2 жыл бұрын

Intresting

@rolandjgutierrez7737 2 ай бұрын

Best lesson i have ever come across on the youtube or Google or some app this was great..wow factor 100%..RocknRollflat5

@chordsoforion 2 ай бұрын

Thanks!!

@Matthew_Klepadlo 2 жыл бұрын

To be honest, the incredible beard tells me all I need to know about this man’s great scope of wisdom.

@Peyote1312 5 ай бұрын

That's a rude way to refer to his wife...

@zoadogames703 2 ай бұрын

😊ppppp😊😊😊

@ArthurvanRiet 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this valuable advice Bill. I like your approach. Taking time instead of rushing through things. Delaying and reverbing information 😉. I wonder, did you try the Neural DSP Archetype Plini plug-in? The artist Plini is obviously inspired by Allan Holdsworth. And this plug-in has one of the finest cleans and delay/reverb possibilities. Keep up the good work!

@ultramusicman 2 жыл бұрын

Yay! NEEMFEST 2019! We'll keep on trying. Let's hope 2022 works out.

@Emily_M81 2 жыл бұрын

I really want to try one of these semi-hollow baritones with P90s thanks to you, though XD That said, I'm really happy with my SC-607B (7-string 27-inch baritone) and SRC6 :) I can say that I've almost never bought anything because someone I listened to used the product (eg, I'm not a Stephen Carpenter fangirl playing his guitar, even if I think Deftones is a fine enough band). There's been a few times when I cringed internally buying "signature" anything but I eventually got over it; if it has the sound I want to use/add to my tone, so be it. Great video, thanks for sharing your insight, as always :)

@Soloist1983 8 ай бұрын

Years ago I saw your channel and really appreciated your approach to the instrument, happy to see that you are still putting out great stuff years later. Right on! 👌

@chordsoforion 8 ай бұрын

Thanks! just passed my 10th anniversary here on KZfaq!!

@IXOYE5350 Жыл бұрын

YES..... YOU ARE WONDERFULL...YOU HIT THE BALL...THIS EXACTLY WHAT I WANT...TO GET TWO MAIN SOUNDS...1 FOR CHORDS AND DEEP ATMOSFER ....2 FOR LEAD GUITAR...BUT I HAVE A PROBLEM ...I CANT GET YOUR SOUNDS EASILY...I HAVE A FENDER STRTAT MADE IN JAPAN 1975...AND AN OLD KORG A5 PEDAL...AND MORLEY VOLUME PEDAL...AND I DID WHAT YOU TEACH IN YOUR VIDEO WITH THE COMBINATION OF: DELAY REVERB COMPRESOR DISTORSION AND VOLUME PEDAL...BUT DONT GET THAT PURE SOUND YOU HAVE...CAN YOU HELP ME?...THANKS

@MegaSkycap Жыл бұрын

What is your favorite solo on one of your albums? .... This is great, Bill. Thank you!

@theoryofthrash 2 жыл бұрын

The concept of a "voice" in instrumentation so interesting, is it tone created, the phrasing? If so, what about the voice created by someone making music without any pre-existing concept of what the final track will sound like? Is it still the voice of the person making the music if the outcome is totally accidental? So many questions!

@johnsmith-lb4mo Жыл бұрын

But i just want to sound like YOU Bill

@atonegames 2 жыл бұрын

Omg, the young bloods really need this advice 😭 lol. It's so sad that they dont realize how bad it is to just keep copying each other. Just be yourself, stop following trends. If you're original and yourself, you make trends.

@douglaszoubek7788 2 жыл бұрын

I found and recognized my signature sound a few years back. I’m happy to say I am original and do give credit to many other artists for influence. I don’t think that I am copying or stealing. I just get in the groove and melt into someone I enjoy. Everyone learns from someone. I never steal a riff or a melody. I actually consider that a sin.

@motosportadv8177 2 жыл бұрын

Aww yes the late Great Alan Holdsworth may he Rest In Peace God willing and sure hope he found our Great friend Jesus

@boblathim7424 2 жыл бұрын

Hey Bill listen to Joe Satriani "Saying Goodbye" it is Heart Wrenching ambient Guitar.

@nicgrantham184 Жыл бұрын

Bob Ross Santa Claus rock n roll Muppet

@themotioncodemarc 9 ай бұрын

I think we Would have sick space jams. Your content is super appreciated Edit: typo city on my end

@rolandjgutierrez7737 2 ай бұрын

This is my second comment the best the best im at awe threw the whoke vedio if this dint inspier noting will..RocknRollflat5

@jerryodom7358 Жыл бұрын

Just don’t demonstrate it at a guitar store or someone else Will make it their own….

@flouisbailey Жыл бұрын

I am an drunken fool ok

@phil6899 9 ай бұрын

Are you Tom Green's dad?

@evilg0d581 2 жыл бұрын

What about the actual composition??? I mean you can have the best tone in the world but what does it matter if your riffs go E G A powerchords or some other overplayed stuff ( and no that is not an insult directly to you ). You are still unoriginal.

@chordsoforion 2 жыл бұрын

Sure - I think that factor comes into play if you are writing your own music. If you are playing a cover, then maybe its more about the arrangement and chord voicings