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Thread started 09/24/07 7:15am

PRNelson

Prince's guitar technique

Ohh, its a controversal topic.. It gets pompous guitar heads mad as fuck

anyway, here goes.

Can somebody please explain the technique he uses in the version of Joy in rep on the It aint over cd. Its liike a huge wall of streaming noise at point 8.33 in the song

I'd like to be able to incoorporate this particular trick into my own playing/solo's.


I will post these two answers so that somebody else doesnt have to


1) Use your ears, man!

2) Dont try and copy his style, you'll never be prince. Its all about the fingers.

lol

Any other suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

thanks
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Reply #1 posted 09/24/07 8:58am

fender

PRNelson said:

Ohh, its a controversal topic.. It gets pompous guitar heads mad as fuck

anyway, here goes.

Can somebody please explain the technique he uses in the version of Joy in rep on the It aint over cd. Its liike a huge wall of streaming noise at point 8.33 in the song

I'd like to be able to incoorporate this particular trick into my own playing/solo's.


I will post these two answers so that somebody else doesnt have to


1) Use your ears, man!

2) Dont try and copy his style, you'll never be prince. Its all about the fingers.

lol

Any other suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

thanks


Hmmm, a huge wall of streaming noise you say? Could be his Boss Flanger pedal (placed in the FX chain before the distortion). Check out http://hobbies.expertvill...langer.htm Some good tips there.
[Edited 9/24/07 9:01am]
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Reply #2 posted 09/24/07 9:34am

PRNelson

fender said:

PRNelson said:

Ohh, its a controversal topic.. It gets pompous guitar heads mad as fuck

anyway, here goes.

Can somebody please explain the technique he uses in the version of Joy in rep on the It aint over cd. Its liike a huge wall of streaming noise at point 8.33 in the song

I'd like to be able to incoorporate this particular trick into my own playing/solo's.


I will post these two answers so that somebody else doesnt have to


1) Use your ears, man!

2) Dont try and copy his style, you'll never be prince. Its all about the fingers.

lol

Any other suggestions will be greatly appreciated.

thanks


Hmmm, a huge wall of streaming noise you say? Could be his Boss Flanger pedal (placed in the FX chain before the distortion). Check out http://hobbies.expertvill...langer.htm Some good tips there.
[Edited 9/24/07 9:01am]



Hi fender. That is a great link, thanks. However, the noise in im talking about in particular is prince Playing the strings.. im wondering what is he actually playing repeatedly to achieve that sound. Im sure he has a mountain of effects running through it at the same time too though.
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Reply #3 posted 09/24/07 5:35pm

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Anyone who calls you a copycat, (or makes fun of you for it) it just a fucking tool. Everyone copies. Hendrix pretty much ripped all of his shit from T-Bone Walker.
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Reply #4 posted 09/27/07 4:20pm

PRNelson

Volitan said:

Anyone who calls you a copycat, (or makes fun of you for it) it just a fucking tool. Everyone copies. Hendrix pretty much ripped all of his shit from T-Bone Walker.


lol

cheers! i agree.
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Reply #5 posted 09/28/07 1:40am

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Volitan said:

Anyone who calls you a copycat, (or makes fun of you for it) it just a fucking tool. Everyone copies. Hendrix pretty much ripped all of his shit from T-Bone Walker.

and ripped off his harmonics from jeff beck...
and yah that just sounds like a flanger and probably some delay
but trying to copy that man i sgonna be hard...
Cause your gonna have to tune your feedback noise...
and not even i know how to do that well...
you gotta talk to the vets...
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Reply #6 posted 09/28/07 5:18am

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fender said:Hmmm, a huge wall of streaming noise you say? Could be his Boss Flanger pedal (placed in the FX chain before the distortion). Check out http://hobbies.expertvill...langer.htm Some good tips there.
[Edited 9/24/07 9:01am]
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Thanks! I've had my Flanger AFTER my distortion. Must try that.
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Reply #7 posted 10/01/07 10:49am

thecloud

Volitan said:

Anyone who calls you a copycat, (or makes fun of you for it) it just a fucking tool. Everyone copies. Hendrix pretty much ripped all of his shit from T-Bone Walker.


Just about everyone who picks up an instrument is inspired by someone at some point or another & Prince is a good choice for instrumentation.
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Reply #8 posted 10/02/07 7:28am

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fender said:Hmmm, a huge wall of streaming noise you say? Could be his Boss Flanger pedal (placed in the FX chain before the distortion). Check out http://hobbies.expertvill...langer.htm Some good tips there.
[Edited 9/24/07 9:01am]


Thanks! I've had my Flanger AFTER my distortion. Must try that.


This is great. You totaly get that Darling Nikki intro sound.
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