Using Effects on Electric Guitar: Part 1

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Tom. This is for Expertvillage.com. These are shortcuts for playing the electric guitar for rock and roll. We've talked about this lead pattern and some tricks. What I want to talk about is some of the units to get out there at the store, eBay, wherever you shop for guitar effects. To me there's a whole bunch. The key ones are echo, which could be reverb. It makes it sound like you're playing in a big hall. There's digital delay. That's the kind of de-dent-de-dent-den-dent, echo, echo, echo, echo. That's digital delay. There's distortion, which gives it that crunchy heavy metal sound. There's something called chorus which is very subtle. It makes the guitar sound--and I've got a little bit of chorus on this right now--it just makes it a little bit wavy, almost like it doubles it up like there's two guitars playing. That's chorus. And those are kind of the key effects. There's others, but as far as basics, those are some of the key effects. Now what I want to do is show you the same thing we've played before, but with a little bit of distortion and a little bit of digital delay on it. And you can hear the difference, just by putting a different effect on the same pattern you've been playing."