dp:
dude
352 days ago
Bango_Rilla:
Shout Bananas!!
307 days ago
BillyBlastOff:
See you kiddies at the Convention!
292 days ago
GDW:
showman
243 days ago
Emilien03:
https://losg...
164 days ago
Pyronauts:
Happy Tanks-Kicking!!!
158 days ago
glennmagi:
CLAM SHACK guitar
144 days ago
Hothorseraddish:
surf music is amazing
123 days ago
dp:
get reverberated!
74 days ago
Clint:
“A Day at the Beach” podcast #237 is TWO HOURS of NEW surf music releases. https://link...
7 days ago
No polls at this time. Check out our past polls.
No contests at this time. Check out our past contests.
May Birthdays
Brian's Beached Piano / How to Play {sort of!} / Slacktone Dave
Joined: Jul 01, 2006 Posts: 657 
|
Posted on Dec 29 2012 05:29 PM
Howdy SG101 people, I've cobbled together a not so short video showing some of the various moves on the guitar for Brian's Beached Piano. Here's the Youtube link: I've also put it on this new Under Construction! site I'm making: thanks, ~ dave |
Joined: Oct 05, 2012 Posts: 1725 Austin, Texas 
|
Posted on Dec 29 2012 06:06 PM
Yeah!!!! Thank you Dave. —IMO. |
Joined: Aug 23, 2006 Posts: 2123 The jungle 
|
Posted on Dec 29 2012 10:27 PM
Dig it. It could work as a solo guitar piece, actually. — |
|
Joined: Jul 01, 2006 Posts: 657
|
Posted on Dec 29 2012 10:41 PM
thanks... maybe I should do one straight through without all of trash notes so it makes sense! |
Joined: Mar 01, 2006 Posts: 490 Chicago
|
Posted on Dec 29 2012 10:50 PM
Great Dave THANK YOU!! I love that song, just brilliant. Do you still have the instructional "Into the Blue Sparkle" video still up somewhere? I forgot a part and I went to look for it and could find it. |
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle
|
Posted on Dec 29 2012 10:57 PM
Dave, thanks so much for this. I'm not really into learning songs that others have written, but at the moment I am trying to transition into writing more songs by myself and perhaps for solo guitar. I've always written as a band in the past so I hope to study this and pick up some tricks on just where to put things. I've always appreciated(greatly) your timing, phrasing, and approach to making instrumental music. Also, you've always been gracious and kind to me and my other bandmates. Totally jealous that you got to sit in with the 'Verb and I was stuck at home for that Lava Lounge gig. That show was bootlegged but the guy never sent us the recording, we got one of Ferenc filling in for me in San Fran. |
Joined: Sep 16, 2007 Posts: 548 Utah |
Posted on Dec 29 2012 11:01 PM
Okay, now I really have to get a Jag! Great tone Dave. —Either you surf, or you fight. |
|
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle
|
Posted on Dec 29 2012 11:03 PM
imafunkyman wrote:
I just bought a '65... hahaha. |
|
Joined: Jul 01, 2006 Posts: 657
|
Posted on Dec 29 2012 11:16 PM
StevieMartini wrote:
Hey Stevie M... just for you, but it's too ragged for me to leave for too long. I'll try to get around to doing a better, non-headless version! thanks so much, ~ dave |
|
Joined: Jul 01, 2006 Posts: 657
|
Posted on Dec 29 2012 11:23 PM
JakeDobner wrote:
Jake, that's really cool of you to say all of that... it really hits me! I know you missed the Lava Lounge thing, but you never what the future will bring. Thinking in terms of solo guitar is also on my mind, too. A lot of the way I play probably comes out of not playing with a band for long periods of time, and wanting to sound like an entire band with just a guitar. Any little mind game you play with yourself that helps to create new music is all part of the game! Happy New Year! ~ dave |
|
Joined: Jul 01, 2006 Posts: 657
|
Posted on Dec 29 2012 11:26 PM
SlacktoneDave wrote:
http://isurfguitar.com/isurfguitar/IntoTheBlueSparkle.html
|
|
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle
|
Posted on Dec 29 2012 11:36 PM
SlacktoneDave wrote:
Happy New Year to you as well! I can't believe it is the new year... Looking forward to what isurfguitar.com brings in the next year. Let us know when there are updates! I just visited slackercaster.com after I saw some of the different color jags you had. Awesome! I had grand plans this evening of playing video games but I've been distracted by listening to Slacktone and watching Slacktone videos online. |
|
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 12159 Seattle
|
Posted on Dec 29 2012 11:39 PM
SlacktoneDave wrote:
When I was watching that video I thought you meant it was a reverb unit directly into an audio-interface "headless without a guitar head/amp". I was freaking out over how you got that tone as it normally sounds pretty poor when I practice without an amp due to living in an apartment. Then I noticed I couldn't see your head(human head) in the video and then I understood... |
|
Joined: Jul 01, 2006 Posts: 657
|
Posted on Dec 29 2012 11:46 PM
Thanks, I'm going to be putting together another Jaguar, but the body just arrived with an unexpected color.... I have a killer 1963 neck that I've been test driving in the guitar I've been playing the past couple of months. All the support really helps to encourage,.... ~dave |
|
Joined: Jul 01, 2006 Posts: 657
|
Posted on Dec 29 2012 11:50 PM
JakeDobner wrote:
Well, Jake, that's not what I meant, but you have actually stumbled into some truthiness regarding the way I record.... I'll leave it at that for now! Kinda cryptic, yes. |
|
Joined: Aug 23, 2006 Posts: 2123 The jungle
|
Posted on Dec 30 2012 01:31 AM
Dave, you ought to try this one solo. It would work, in my opinion. Also, I like the reverb on this. I am sure this has been asked a million times, but what is it, if I might pry? I have been playing around with reverb outside the Fender type and this sounds pretty nice. — |
|
Joined: Mar 01, 2006 Posts: 490 Chicago
|
Posted on Dec 30 2012 08:57 AM
Thanks for the link Dave very much appreciated.! |
Joined: Dec 12, 2006 Posts: 2687 Ventura, CA
|
Posted on Dec 30 2012 12:05 PM
Thanks a million for posting that Dave. I've been trying to play that song for years and the video clears up a lot of things, like that I'll probably never be able to play it, especially the bridge. There is actually one part I've been doing almost right. |
|
Joined: Dec 05, 2008 Posts: 56 |
Posted on Dec 30 2012 06:32 PM
Thanks, Although I could practice this forever and not get it.. I see a bunch of cools things to borrow. After watching I see how sloppy my pick technique is and how much energy I am wasting. Your right hand is a machine. i will be putting much more effort during practice on my picking. |
|
Joined: Jul 01, 2006 Posts: 657
|
Posted on Dec 30 2012 09:40 PM
LHR wrote:
Solo is how these start... trying to sound like an entire Brian Wilson production {in my head} with just a guitar! The effects are in the case behind me. A tube Echoplex, a really good sounding 1963 brown reverb with the original tubes. In the recording DAW, Logic, I'm using a touch of Valhalla Room reverb plugin. |
Please visit our friends in the surf music community:
Contact Us • About Us • Terms of Service • Privacy Policy • Colophon
SurfGuitar101.com © 2004 - 2025 by Brian Neal. All comments and user contributed articles are property of the posters.
Thanks to all the surf bands, past and present. And thanks to all the fans who care about and keep surf music alive.
