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Just awesome. Thanks for doing that!

And I've been meaning to mention how much I like your welcome messages for each lesson. After watching those, I'm always super excited to get going on the song!

P.S. Is the ring around your pickup switch on your Les Paul crooked? :).

I was VERY excited to see this lesson show up in the song list!! Can't wait to dig in :).

Thanks for the kind words! I was pumped to teach it!

Enjoy guys! Oh yeah, and I think that 3 way switch may indeed be crooked! Ha!
Mike

Regarding the feedback in the first section, you don't exactly say how you're mimicking it. Are you keeping the note sustaining with vibrato? Or, it kind of looks like a hammer on.

I ask because you sort of imply the student will be using an amp, but I'm also using a modeler. I suppose others might be too.

Also, what kind of amp modeler are you using?

Great point! Sorry I was a bit vague about that.

I'm using a macbook laptop with Logic Pro and guitar amp modeling plugins. Unfortunately, the way we produce the videos - I have to be plugged in direct and use headphones, so I'm not going to be able to make the feedback sound like the recording.

The reason I implied the student would be playing through an amp is because that's really the only authentic way to make the feedback swell sound like the recording. I realize now I should have talked a bit further about that, and some ways to approximate it while playing through a modeler.

Yes I did hammer onto the note, but you could also pick it. My guitar’s volume was down, and I rolled it up to swell into the feedback. Using vibrato was a way to sustain the note into the riff without getting an amp’s natural feedback, so I suppose that is one method to use when playing through a modeler to mimic that feedback swell.

You might also be able to coax feedback from a modeler if you plug the output of the modeler into a speaker (could be a floor monitor, studio reference monitors, or even a home stereo) but you would need some significant volume for it to feedback. But beware, sometimes feedback from a modeler can sound a bit weird and unnatural.

Some modelers even have an effect called a “feedbacker” that you could mess around with as well. I know Boss makes an effect like that.

Hope this helps!
Mike

Please more Tool!

Mike that is an awesome lesson.

Thanks

My pleasure:)