Lionel Loueke with Herbie Hancock @ KKL Luzern

[ELROKOTO1]

kllll

[Eestimntgrl]

Yea! Was searching for this guy after seeing possibilities DVD. He was my fave on sister moon. Luvin it!

[MokshaIS]

just a random question. Does anyone know why so many great guitarists use two amps?

[quetzecotl]

amazing

[selfatrophy]

Listening to this I thought of China, West Africa and even North America

An amalgamation of melodies!

[olyhoun]

wao, this is great

[funktifiedghostdog]

@xnextgtrgodx lionel plays a lot on a godin multiac grand concert. uses a digitech whammy pedal too. there's some great video on the godin site of him talking about using the aforementioned sheet of paper between the strings near the bridge. hope this helps

[rmsolympic1]

@funktifiedghostdog Amazing musician and guitarist. That guitar is beautiful, too. I also find it flooring that he uses a -huhn?-sheet of paper. Man, it would be interesting what he could do with other materials beside paper.

[funktifiedghostdog]

yeah the guitar is def a looker! :-) in terms of the prepared guitar, if you're into that kinda thang, look for "touch the sound", great doc with fred frith, who goes far into that territory...or just clip some alligator clips to your own strings and explore...it's fun:-)

[kayary]

A Herbie Le Gusta...

[msaartitnia]

of course it will be good!

[rolfspuler]

it's a tc-helicon that adds the vocal harmonies.

here lionel plays the paradis guitar, made by swiss luthier rolf spuler - that's me :-)

[lamantisatea]

that's a beautiful instrument!!!!

[SamBeish]

@rolfspuler Do you know what model TC-Helicon he is using here?

[fireblossom2u]

@rolfspuler A beautiful looking and sounding instrument Rolf.

[lamantisatea]

@rolfspuler amazing instrument!!!

[timreyes58]

@rolfspuler Amazing guitar!

[SamwiseGUITAR]

Amazing! : )

[LEMR9]

Lionel 2 Lionel, thanks for sharing the...

Ancestor's Music.

[ozbizbozzle]

anyone know how he is getting the vocal harmonies?

[Quitateloszapatos]

For the effects he is using, have a look on the website of the Canadian guitar maker GODIN, you will find a video in which he explains the effects is uses.

[ozbizbozzle]

I have the same Godin guitar, it is the vocal harmonies that I asked about.

[jgodin312]

he's not playing a godin. I think that guitar is made by a company called paradise, but I could be mistaken (Bela Fleck has a similar guitar he occasionally uses). Lionel Loueke does use the Godin Multiacs, though.

[xnextgtrgodx]

Paapakobe

Can you enlighten us more on what you might know about this Music, Instrument, tecnique tone and sound ?

[JacobShulman]

he uses Yamaha guitars, along with a few others. I believe he uses some super super SUPER thick strings, because he grew up playing on bicycle cables. He uses a bunch of pedals for stuff too. I have seen him slide a sheet of paper behind his strings to give him a certain sounds, so yeah, take what you can from that.

[MaximusDowns]

great music, beautiful guitar

[SriJah]

Wow ...

[mananara1]

LK = the incarned fine and rich african music raised at the highest degree of beauty

[Gedankenfreiheit]

Thanks for uploading!!!!

[doyley30]

Wow, enough said!

You had a workshop with him? You lucky thing!

[doyley30]

Any idea what sort of guitar he played here/tuning setup?

Weisch was fuer e Klampfe/Stimmen dr hed?

[exvotivezach]

I just had a master class with him. Anything with nylon strings, standard tunning except the A is tuned up an octave, pedals are DL4 delay modeler, digitech whammy and that sitar sound is paper wound around the strings near the bridge... seriously. Oh and, FINGERS.

[Feesharp9er]

what about for the vocal Harmonys??

[HoganPeter]

The A is tuned up an octave?

[liquidpiano]

and how is he getting bass notes? some digital effect maybe, like the vocals?

[doyley30]

There's a good video around on this, he has pedals which can alter his pitch one or two octaves.

[909kong]

Type his name in the search engine. The demo/introduction video says "Blue Note....." and it's in two parts. He uses a basic pitch-shifter, but he REALLY knows how to get the most from it.