Natural Abalone Guitar Pick Demo

A video work for my friend Chris Brossard who handcraft superb custom guitar picks made of natural materials... (For all infos and details about the picks, please go at Brossard's webshop )
Chris wanted videos demonstrating the main materials the picks are made of: Bone, Horn, Wood, Abalone... and their tone, resistance and resonance properties... (So this is one of a four videos set.) Although it sounded fun to do, it was yet challenging. The picks are matter of confort, emotion, their resonance lead your playing, inspire. But the choice of resistance, size and material is everyone's personnal experience. No pick is clearly set for a single style of music like an amplificator or a guitar would be... We set that the videos should be short, including clean guitar tone and distortion which should cover a wide range of styles. It would have been even better to add one clip with an acoustic guitar. I dont have one at this time... So I wanted to express what I feel to play depending on what guitar pick I grab, while performing guitar chops enjoyable by the most. I decided to mix a bit of lead and rhythm guitar into each video. It was not an option to show off or include anything very personnal that would have carried away the listener's attention from the pick itself and spoil the video. Also, as you know, Im a legato/ hybrib picking guy, that is also why Brossard picks are so perfect to mix smooth licks together but here I had to perform more flat picking stuffs where Im not actually so tight. But all session guitarists have to deal with this kind of situations... I asked Chris if it was Ok that each demo would last about 10 seconds in order to keep viewers onboard till the end. We both would have wished a big banner in the background, I only had a sticker that you can see above the guitar neck. This gives actually depth. After checking a demo edit, Chris noticed it would be better to wear a darker pick on the necklace on my white shirt. This is why Im wearing "Betty the witch" on the clean part of the Bone demo and the Abalones :) Chris also wanted no backing track, no backing music. Just the dry guitar alone in order to hear excatly the picks properties. This saved me a bit of work actually but plugging the guitar direct into the computer and record dry doesnt leave any room for playing mistakes. No compression, no noise gate... So I just prepared my set up for recording, checked my levels and then started to jam a couple of minutes with the lights on, untill I got the lick I wanted and then pressed "record". Hope you enjoy them!

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• abalone
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