Ashutosh Pathak I don’t know the link but there’s a famous interview Clapton did in his Cream days with his SG. Just search it on RU-vid and you’ll see it, Clapton says it himself
Great pointers! It's amazing how many younger guys don't know how much tonal and saturation control they have right at their finger tips! This is how us old geezers controlled things back in the 60's and 70's.
I had my Gibson Les Paul Hotrodded. The sounds and tones I get know as opposed to factory wiring is incredible and endless. I recommend all L.P. players consider it. I love it as do my friends that try it out!
I'm 4 years late to reply on your comment, but honest question here, can you elaborate on what you meant by hotrodding your Les Paul? Do you mean changing it to "hotter/heavier sounding" pickups?
Those are really cool tricks especially for a beginner to learn. Certainly a refresher for me , you don't need a lot of pedals and the like to get a variety of good tones. These techniques where used when there were only single Channel guitar amplifiers and many of them we're only non master volume amps, so they only choice a guitarist had was the use the controls on his or her instrument to create a wide variety of tones with just one amplifier. Today's amplifiers have multiple channels which can create different stores and sounds as well as clean tones.Players today many of the young players even have lost the art of actually playing their instrument and not their pedals and or amplifier.This is just my most humble opinion of course . Rock on!
Not sure if its the fact that he's an excellent guitarist, or is that the most perfectly 'set-up' guitar Ive ever heard... No buzzing frets, perfect intonation, and great sustain.
I've been playing a long time. I cut my hair got off of a drum kit. Picked up a guitar been playing for almost 30 years been a musician since I was ten. I'd take lessons from you any day
This is why I play a Les Paul as my primary. I have a Strat also but the Paul is my main. Thanks to players like Frehley, Frampton, Page, Schon, Felder and so many more that influenced me.
Ace Frehley was my main influence when I was a kid and wanted to play. My dad got me a knock off strat when I was 8-9 but I watched so many videos of Ace, I HAD to have a cherry sunburst Gibson LP. Been playing guitar for over 15 years and last year my wife got me my first Gibson LP standard for a wedding gift. It plays incredible
This is really encouraging for someone like me, I picked up the guitar without any training, just to cope with the pressure of medical school and now I can play full fledged covers thanks to your videos and many like them. Sending tons of love from India....❤️ Thank you so much .. Rashi
Best advice I ever heard or read about developing skill as a musician was to learn every song you can. You’ll forget most of them, but your fingers will remember the movements and they’ll recall little bits at the right time as you grow as an instrumentalist.
@@HughJitsu about 30 years this summer. I started when I was 17 between my 11th and 12th grade by learning any and every song I could. Now I am 47 years old and am way more focused on my playing but still find myself throwing out licks that I’m thinking, “that was a cool piece I just improvised... wait... that was a little kind of like that ____ piece.” Art reimagined. That’s why I love this channel. Always something new to try. Always something new to learn. If you stop learning, you start dying.
@@steelmandavid5591 Thanks for the reply. I am almost 51 and have been practicing for 2 years. I shied away from learning a bunch of songs to learn some more theory but it's sooooo boring. I'll be getting back to the songs as your reply resonates
My old Strat had a great woman tone. Listen to the Cream Reunion Concert at The Royal Albert Hall back in 2005, mine sounded close to that. Remember I said Close. It got stolen. Born under a Bad Sign. :)
Brett Wall I agree. They really do. My SG does it well also. I was blown away by how good Gibson’s sound in general when I moved away from Fender’s and started playing mostly Gibson’s.
For the "Woman tone" it's more accurate to use both pickups (middle position), both tones rolled off and (if you want to) bridge volume at between 60%-80%. But it's all up to personal preferences I guess.
I use #3 mixed with #1. Clean Guitar/ Dirty Guitar but the clean is a little dirty. If I take a soft finger-style approach (or hold a loose pick) it’s pretty and almost clean but with a pick I can bear into the strings and almost get the Woman tone. The middle position becomes the Rock channel and the bridge becomes the Lead/hardrockMetal sound. Les Paul with its 4 knobs (my bridge volume goes to 11) is still my primary and my favorite guitar for versatility.
Thank you so much! I picked up playing guitar again after 8 years of not playing. I want to get back to my old hobby. I went out and bought a Gibson Les Paul and I’m loving it! Can’t wait to try all these.
Isn`t there a an ending to part of Eruption that has the on and off again and again, then a whole new verse starts, can`t really remember, EVH was never my style guitarist, for three named fellows, I like SRV WAY Better. Good day to you.
The toggle switch trick around 7:10 reminds me of good ol' Ace Frehley on KISS Alive. These were all tricks I'd used but had forgotten over the years, thanks for the reminders.
Funny that I should come across this video...just had my Les Paul out the other night & was experimenting with tone, volume, switch...more that I had done in a long time. Pete Townshend is my fave guitarist and I was experimenting with attempting to play some Who stuff, and was able to capture some sounds pretty close to how Pete did them. (Or at least it sounded that way to me, lol...now if I could just play 1/1000 as well as he can! lol) It's pretty cool how versatile Les Pauls are & how just a little tweaking can give you so many different sound options. Learned a lot from this video. Thanks for posting it & thanks for all you do for all of us out here! :) ( And thanks for mentioning to be kind to all beings! :)) Janine
I never learned this stuff until I played in a 'classic' rock band with older fellas where I needed a Seymour Duncan boost pedal just to hear myself in the rehearsals! They were all deaf and I realised the volume control on the LP didn't reduce the actual volume, and that I could get so many different sounds just by adjusting the volume and tone pots.
I just started getting into playing the guitar and u have taught me a lot of things which have probably been taught over the course of months if I had a teacher thx Erich
Thank you, my friend. That is an R8 which is a re-issue of a 1958. It has been professionally and carefully/lightly “reliced.” it also has the famous, “Tim White “pick ups.
You can get a cocked wah sound without a pedal on a les paul (or any guitar with the 2vol 2tone layout) or a baja tele. Get a decent crunch/overdrive setting on your amp. For les paul: 1) middle position 2) neck pickup volume on 10, tone on 10 3) bridge pickup volume on 10, tone on zero. For baja tele 1) engage the s1 switch 2) balance the pickup selector between position 2 and 3 (like people used to do on old strats, Yes there are 7 possible sounds/combinations on a baja tele, not 6 as advertised). 3) roll off the tone to zero Instant 'Money for Nothing' tone
I just bought a gibson les paul studio and ive been trying to find that cream woman tone. Thank you so much this video helped me a lot😊 Which song are you playing on the intro?
I have another one, leaving the switch in the middle position, and turning down the neck volume to 5, while leaving the bridge all the way up. You can also do the reverse of this, while also you don't have to set it at 5, you can experiment, while getting all kind of tones.
Thanks for your lessons. Big fan, but I noticed the selector switch was up and you said it was the bridge pickup. No problem, I still like you! Check out Joe Bonamassa's Les Paul tone he demonstrates. He mostly uses a blend of both pickups, and the volume tone controls for his signature tone. You’re the man, nothing personal, please keep up sharing your videos!
It's no accident the classic combo of maple top over mahogany body. Les Paul himself demanded Gibson to take his name off the SG and invent a real guitar with sonic depth and texture. Good lesson Erik, thanks a lot!!
no ... iit has 2 pick ups and 1 volume and 1 tone? never seen any Les Paul or copy set up like that .even my old Les Paul Jr. copy has 2 volumes and 2 tones,you should concentrate on playing the guitar learning technique ,scales chords practice etc ,instead of kill switch gimmick ,how many time are you going to do that ? in 1 song? the other things i talked about you will use in every song ...
Did I miss what model Les Paul you are playing in this video? The other question I have is is it true that the trick with the kill switch can harm the guitar if done too long or often? Thanks for a good video and hopefully for a response.
I used to do the "kill-switch" thing that I saw Page do, however my pickup selector is now messed up because of it. Sometimes I change to the Rhythm pickup and there is little or no sound.
Derek Daniell same thing happened to me too, an easy fix might be to tighten up all your wire connections to the pickup selector since they might’ve gotten a bit messy from the abuse they take.
Hey Eric, you can prevent the bridge volume knob from being loose and coming off by taking a coin and widening the split post of the pot. Easy, takes 5 seconds and will make the knob fit tighter to the shaft. Cool vid, btw.
that works but it only takes a quick second to break off a tab then your fucked lol. Put a piece of paper on one side of the tab and push your knob back on.
Cool tones Erich...I have a 1978 'Paul -Blonde Face, Mahogany Back, Maple neck...and very heavy...I'll have to break it out...Thanks for the tips... 5 STARS! --Van
Hi from Australia..Great overdriven tone..is it a Marshall or is it a pedal thru another amp..Oh , and is the guitar a R9...Thanks for your great informative videos and all the best from Oz..
Whats with top wrapping on the Les Paul tail piece? Does it effect playing or feeling, or just the looks? Should I do this on my Les Paul Studio next time i change strings??
Awesome video. Have you ever done a video explaining the common effects terms, what they mean, where they come from, etc. ? e.g. reverb, overdrive, gain, delay... I've never been able to wrap my head around these terms.
This is awesome! I have a Les Paul Studio Gem Series that I love, though I know that it has P90's rather than Humbuckers, I'm going to give this a shot. Thanks for getting me out of my plateau and complacency. Bravo.
Okay, everyone is name dropping the kickswitch technique. My understanding is "My Generation" by The Who came out before all of them. With that in mind, wouldn't Pete Townshend be the one who made it famous?
Well, Zhengho... Famous should not be confused with First. Things become famous, after several people take note of and are familiarized with it, and then others' start to incorporate it into their practice, thereby, making it famous. So, not really, to answer your question. But at the same time, who can say, with any level of certainty, who it actually was to make this Technique (Not really a 'Trick") "Famous"? I mean, I wasn't there to see who all noticed it first and then went on to use it themselves. This is a hard question, Zhengho.
Great tricks, that I heard of when I was growing up and learning to play guitar! Keep in mind you’ll need a 50s wiring, otherwise rolling down the volume knob will just kill your tone!
Helpful tips to be sure, but it would be REALLY helpful if you could show us how to get the levels right for the guitar and amplifier. Eg: How much gain to use on the amp? How to avoid going from very quiet to very loud when using clean pickup/dirty pickup? (Like the tie - very rock n roll.) Thanks.
are you sure you're using the right tone control for the neck at a little bit before 4:51? my les paul is stock wired and i'm more than sure that's not the knob you want to use there.
Bridge = bottom ......... Neck = near .............................. anyway, thats how I remember the knobs and thank you ( 7 years later and someone still watched it) A great video , Just got my LP ................. and I "Liked" and "subscribed" and "rang the bell" as they say
Yes....yes it does. See....the back vibrations normally get absorbed by the players stomach. The tie ‘interrupts’ those lost vibrations and ‘returns’ them towards the front to be projected into the pickups! AND......if you use a metallic threaded tie, it re-directs the total magnetic field of the guitar ‘system’, thereby changing the audiences reception of ALL vibrations. Effectively, DOUBLING the benefits. You’re welcome, glad to help.
Ok so....great video....one question!!! Why top wrap strings??!?! Lately I've seen alot of videos but No one really explains Why!?!?! Is it just personal preference?? Or does is effect performance??!?
