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00:09 What's up ladies and gentlemen, Joe Bonamassa here for Guitar World Magazine.
00:13 Today we're going to talk about volume swells. Now I would like to explain this
00:17 using the front pickup but I will demonstrate
00:20 what happens when a guitar sits around for too long.
00:24 So we're going to talk about volume swells and I'm going to use the only
00:29 pickup that's working in a right now. And I use these a lot.
00:34 I really like them. I think they're very emotive. I learned from,
00:38 to me, the best was Danny Gatton, Roy Buchanan,
00:43 and even Walter Trout was like really stellar at it. And a lot of people
00:48 have done a Jeff Beck and you know there's a bunch of people.
00:50 But when you bring the dynamics down in a band, so if you're playing in C minor,
00:56 you'll always get the crowd going if you play something like this.
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01:36 So what you can do, and the technique is, is every time,
01:40 you know, like use your thumb and every time you pick down,
01:44 it's a counteraction. So your little finger
01:47 is linked to the volume control. So down, down, up. So you see my thumb down, up, down,
01:54 up, you know. And you just find the sweet
01:56 spot on the guitar, every guitar is different.
01:58 You find the sweet spot. So...
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02:15 And you just kind of practice until you find this, you know, this,
02:18 this place where you can either do single or no.
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02:34 And just watch the fans come up to you and say, "Hey, you know that part that
02:37 sounds like a cello? I really like that. That was my favorite
02:40 part of the night." You're like, "But I play other stuff too."
02:43 But that's my volume technique. And a little pro tip on the setup,
02:49 it's nice to have a delay, nice to have a reverb on it. I know this is
02:53 dry, I'm pretty honest. But if you put a little, little effect on it,
02:57 and you can really get some cool sounds,
03:01 and with the, with the, with the volume control,
03:04 and, and these kind of volume sweeps.
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