One of the few videos of the period with Bill playing the black s-style Sadowsky, right after the Gibson SG... the trick with the tuning fork to create the drone shocked me then, and still shocks me now, Bill always was, allways is, and always will be beyond any genre, style and categorization in anything he does. You always think what he plays is easy, I can play this myself, then you start studying it... to discover that you can at best sketch out the outline of it, with months of practising.
@bobvanluijt a tuning fork in front of of a pickup on electric guitar behaves exactly like a string, but since you hit it on a surface (or a knee, as Bill's doing here), you'll get a continuous tone with no attack (contrary to when you pluck a string with either plectrum or finger). Bill's using a delay to loop what he plays, but with the tuning fork, voilà, he has a drone (i.e. continuous tone) of a sound that no guitar could ever produce, along with his guitar sound on the next phrase 8-)
@bobvanluijt he does what's basically the same trick with the different musical boxes he keeps at hand on his reverb, along with his delay: many of his high-pitched clusters of notes, very fast staccatos, are a melody played by a musical box in front of his guitar pickup, fed through his usual Line6 DL-4 Delay/Looper, then played at double speed / double pitch, or sometimes at half-speed / half-pitch, either the original sample or the same played backwards.
l agree. l met him last summer at a workshop during jazz fest in Victoria Canada. Really sort of shy, but friendly. we had a nice chat and he played this song! l have it on my i-Phone!
Oups..In error I get in experimental music area , don't disturb, I know where is exit .I was just looking for Jazz
abby4410 1 week ago
a re billare trele!
johnbblack900 1 month ago
One of the few videos of the period with Bill playing the black s-style Sadowsky, right after the Gibson SG... the trick with the tuning fork to create the drone shocked me then, and still shocks me now, Bill always was, allways is, and always will be beyond any genre, style and categorization in anything he does. You always think what he plays is easy, I can play this myself, then you start studying it... to discover that you can at best sketch out the outline of it, with months of practising.
salpinza 2 months ago 5
@salpinza what is it he does exactly with the tuning fork
bobvanluijt 1 month ago
@bobvanluijt a tuning fork in front of of a pickup on electric guitar behaves exactly like a string, but since you hit it on a surface (or a knee, as Bill's doing here), you'll get a continuous tone with no attack (contrary to when you pluck a string with either plectrum or finger). Bill's using a delay to loop what he plays, but with the tuning fork, voilà, he has a drone (i.e. continuous tone) of a sound that no guitar could ever produce, along with his guitar sound on the next phrase 8-)
salpinza 1 month ago
@salpinza thanks, just bought one myself to experiment...
bobvanluijt 1 month ago
@bobvanluijt he does what's basically the same trick with the different musical boxes he keeps at hand on his reverb, along with his delay: many of his high-pitched clusters of notes, very fast staccatos, are a melody played by a musical box in front of his guitar pickup, fed through his usual Line6 DL-4 Delay/Looper, then played at double speed / double pitch, or sometimes at half-speed / half-pitch, either the original sample or the same played backwards.
salpinza 1 month ago
Very interesting experience... Hmmm!!!
aniagain1 2 months ago
l agree. l met him last summer at a workshop during jazz fest in Victoria Canada. Really sort of shy, but friendly. we had a nice chat and he played this song! l have it on my i-Phone!
kanga58 2 months ago
Amazing,humble man!
mcrhythm2 2 months ago
great!!!
haimcito 10 months ago
Please upload more!!!!!!!!!!!!
mikeblackburn99 10 months ago
thank you so much for the uploads
mrfish4lyfe 10 months ago