00:00What's up ladies and gentlemen, Joe Bonamassa here for Guitar World magazine. Today we're
00:13going to talk about volume swells. Now I would like to explain this using the front pickup,
00:19but I will demonstrate what happens when a guitar sits around for too long. So we're
00:25going to talk about volume swells. And I'm going to use the only pickup that's working
00:30in a right now. And I use these a lot. I really like them. I think they're very emotive. I learned
00:38from, to me, the best was Danny Gatton, Roy Buchanan, and even Walter Trout was really
00:46stellar at it. And a lot of people have done a Jeff Beck, and you know, there's a bunch of people.
00:51But when you bring the dynamics down in a band, so if you're playing in C minor,
00:55you'll always get the crowd going, if you play something like this.
01:25So what you can do, and the technique is, is every time, you know, like you use your thumb,
01:41and every time you pick down, it's a counteraction. So your little finger is linked to the volume control.
01:49So down, down, up. So you see my thumb, down, up, down, up, you know, and you just find the sweet spot on the guitar.
01:56Every guitar is different. You find the sweet spot. So...
02:01And you just kind of practice until you find this, you know, this, this place where you can either do single or no.
02:21And just watch the fans come up to you and say, hey, you know that part that sounds like a cello? I really like that. That was my favorite part of the night.
02:40You're like, but I play other stuff too. But that's my, my volume technique. And a little, little pro tip on the setup.
02:49It's nice to have a delay, nice to have a reverb on it. I know this is dry and pretty honest.
02:54But if you put a little, little effect on it, um, and you can really get some cool sounds and, uh, with the, with the,
03:03with the volume control and, and these kind of volume sweeps.
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