Using Effects on Electric Guitar: Part 2

Video Transcript

"Hi, this is Tom. This is for expertvillage.com. These are shortcuts for playing the electric guitar rock and roll style. With that pattern, I just want to show you the difference you can get just by coloring your sound with some pedals. And the best way is to go to your local store, try them out, and whatever works for your ear. All right, here the pattern is. So there's just the tricks we learned from the last couple of segments. But if I put a little distortion on, listen how it just changes the whole thing. Nice thing about distortion--and you can hear a little bit of delay--bamp, bamp, bamp, bamp--is that it just give you a little bit of breathing space if you're not a great lead guitarist. It dirties it up, and it actually covers your mistakes. Lead guitarists don't want you do know that, but it does help. Plus it just fattens it up, makes it sound good. Same with chords. If I play those chords we learned, and then I do the same thing with a little bit of distortion. It just changes it completely. So depending on the song you're using, it really makes a difference to have a few guitar effects in your bag of tricks, and the main ones I talked about are probably the ones to start with. You can get multi-effects box, something like what I've got. I've got just a cheap multi-effects box that gives me chorus, delay, distortion, reverb for kind of that big room sound, and you can get amp modeling as well, which gives you the sound of some of the more expensive amps that are out there. And that's a good way to change the sound of your guitar."