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Aug 13 2013, 12:03 AM
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Andy Timmons Electric Gypsy Video
This is my first cover done using mainly my ears. The song Electric Gypsy by Andy Timmons from the That Was Then, This is Now album intrigued instantly. You can find more of me at https://www.facebook.com/jim.seekford.7 https://twitter.com/JimSeekford Original Music http://www.reverbnation.com/jimseekford The intro is a open D major melody in style of Jimi Hendrix ending in a power chord. It is hard to remember because of how long it its and as the band enters Andy plays this beautiful lick that took me so long to figure out. The Tapped Harmonics section is clever and thought out. This area I need to work more on. The technique is tapping 12 frets above the note your fretting. Id like to adopt the right hand technique of Leonardo Guzman, he uses his fingers like a pianist, I use my whole arm to strike.... He is a beast. The bridge into main melody consists of an open E minor7 and another Hendrix style hammer on rhythm. It has a very distinct Screaming F# over the Emin7. The first solo was one that would make me stop and really pay attention while it played during work. There are really beautiful prebends with vibrado and colorful note choices. This section ends with a hybrid picked diminished lick descending in minor thirds with a perfect resolution. The main melody is repeated again but its cut short the second time around to start the outro solo. This solo still needs a little work but I had to eventually just shoot and run with what I could. The main point to this solo are the fast descending trills and odd groupings of notes during the runs. I learned this song using two methods. The first method was watching these videos http://www.guitarlessons365.com/song-lesso...itar-lessons-2/ This gave me the basic understanding of what was going on in the song. From there I used a great program (Amazing Slow Downer) this allowed me to slow the song way down and loop individual sections. It also allowed me to change the whole song up in semitones. The original song is tuned down a half step but the backing track I'm playing over is in standard tuning. This became a problem switching back and forth between guitars. The Gear: Ibanez S Prestige Digitech Gnx4 Ibanez Tube Screamer BBE Sonic Maximizer Traynor Guitar Mate Peavey Mace VT Phonic Firefly Firewire Software Logic Pro 9 Final Cut Pro Amazing Slow Downer |
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Aug 13 2013, 12:23 AM
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You already know what I think Jim
 Andy Timmons is a great player to study his playing:)
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Aug 13 2013, 09:08 AM
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This song was my introduction to Andy, his phrasing is excellent but hard to copy!
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Aug 14 2013, 09:06 AM
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Andy's tone is based around the Mesa Lonestar and stiletto and a Chandler Tube driver and BB Preamp, I think he uses a compressor on his cleans.
His tone is a lot darker and warmer than yours Jim, but he manages not to get it sounding muddy and still has clarity and definition -------------------- My SoundCloud
Gear Tyler Burning Water 2K Burny RLG90 with BK Emeralds Fender US Tele with BK Piledrivers Epiphone 335 with Suhr Thornbuckers PRS SE Custom 24-08 Ax8 Fessenden SD10 PSG Quilter TT15 |
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Aug 14 2013, 10:59 PM
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Well I have a digitech gnx4, ibanez tube screamer into a traynor guitar mate and a 1980's peavey mace vt tube head. Yeah he has a real nice tone.
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Aug 17 2013, 08:53 AM
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/3iyeqq4almrkzt9/tone%20test.mp3
Ok so here is a link to a little quick rhythm and lead section I made to show the clean rhythm and with the tube screamer. Wow it makes a huge difference before the amp, it's ridiculous how much it affects it before the amp if the pedal board effects are in the loop. Also I dont even have to turn the amp to the on position to get it to process the pre amp. The pre amp goes into a sonic maximizer then into the pedal board. From there the signal goes into my fire wire unit via 2 xlr cables. Let me know if you think the tone has changed at all. Thanks cosmin, you have been a huge help |
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Aug 17 2013, 01:24 PM
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Hey mate
 Glad to know I could help out - it sounds much better indeed. Is it more difficult to control when playing?
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Aug 18 2013, 05:06 PM
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https://www.dropbox.com/s/6p1txgf0ovisuoj/ton2.mp3
Please excuse timing ect.. just a test. The first example is clean no tube screamer, second with tube screamer. I feel they sound great but thats as high gain before..... Third is with a big muff into effects loop. blah Fourth is full out pedal board into effects loop, very similar to the video the last one is super blah |
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Now, your basic tone should be pumped by your amp gain and Tube screamer - that's the only gain you should need. Natural gain does not sound so mean and angry on every amp - that's a personal characteristic of each amp, you know and you can't expect all of them to provide high gain
 
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