How to do a Gojira pickslide

How to do a Gojira pickslide

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Music

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• Gojira
• Pickslide
• scrape
• jazz
• III
• thick
• pick
• fender
• Ibanez
• death
• metal
• groove
• technical
• technique
• french

[Guitarmazdur]

I always thought of this technique as "that thing at the very beginning of Dream Theater's 'The Mirror'"

[supershiva11]

@Guitarmazdur it is used then as well, the earliest uses i know of are pantera, dream theater, and morbid angel. I simply call it a gojira pick slide because of their frequent use of the sound

[peacesellsforall]

Just so everyone knows. There are tons of bands that use this technique. Morbid Angel, Tony Danza, ect. But Gojira really coined the usage of it. That's like, their trademark, in a sense.

[supershiva11]

@peacesellsforall yeah definetely, I just call it a gojira pickslide because they use it in sooo many songs. Morbid angel were probably the first to do it, and Pantera did it as well in "We'll grind that axe for a long time" at 23 seconds in, but gojira use it as if it were actually a note haha

[BCI9279]

ibanez s320?

[supershiva11]

@BCI9279 yes sir

[Strikker36]

this was very helpful thanks so much

[Boooby]

@FrenchToastSucks1 Thats great and I didn't mean get rid of em completely just turn em down.

[FrenchToastSucks1]

@Boooby I usually keep my mid knobs between 11 and 2. I can't just scoop them all out because that's just horrid lmaoo. But I yanked those INF's soon after I left that comment and it sounds a lot better now :)

[Boooby]

@BasedBaglier works for me bud.

[BasedBaglier]

@Boooby

Why would you scoop your mids? Scooped mids sound like shit and will be hard to hear in the studio, and almost impossible to hear live. You should actually be cranking the mids almost as much as you can, and rolling back on the treble a little bit, and rolling back on the bass even more.

[Boooby]

@FrenchToastSucks1 Hey if you want a heavy tone the most useful piece of info I learned was to "scoop" your mids or to have lower mids. It gives your tone a more articulate low end try the badd a little past 12 o'clock and your treble a little less below 12 o'clock. keep experimenting though and just keep the mid scooping in mind.

[Boooby]

This sounds better/is easier to achieve if you use the tip/nail of your thumb. Try it!! :D

[elbrujopy]

I was doing this sound since 2002. But for me honestly sounded like crap unuseful thing. GOJIRA CAME AND MADE IT GOOOOOOOOOD! xD