Thanks! A coffee on me. I'm a retired guy and now without needing a day job I identify as a guitar playing songwriter, at least trying to be. I'm learning so much from your channel.
Your channel is pure gold. I don't need to be entertained. There is plenty of that on RU-vid. I have waited 50 yrs for access to the knowledge that only comes from doing this daily like you do. Thanks Justin. God bless you.
I can't get enough of these. So important for us to understand how parts are put together and not just a jam session. Lots of great jam sessions on the tube this differentiates itself from them in a BIG way. Thanks Justin
Man when you started naming Bill Frisell albums I immediately thought of Shanendoah on the East West album. So true that was a mind blowing live performance on so many levels…some other really good stuff on that album as well!
I am a retired Bus driver. I love your channel. I watch Rick Beato, Ola England, The Guitaristas, and a bunch of other guitar channels. I like punk, go figure.
It’s sounds like a Hillsong track just with the ambient backing track. Huge crossover in modern pop with Christian music. Top lining melodic counter parts on guitar whilst not interfering is something I’ve always been drawn to. It’s a skill for sure! 🙏
Justin, I have just watched this "older" video..... it's great great great.... thank you... I am planning to send you one of my songs for your series of "not criticizing" but giving this great subtle advice.... Greetings from Germany
I love your videos, I'm so glad I found your channel. These videos made me love guitar again. It's hard when you have to self-produce all the time.. hard to motivate yourself to go through all that work.. writing, recording, singing, bass, guitar, drums, mixing, master, etc etc etc etc.. would be a dream to just be able to sit back and play some guitar over a track. I miss the simplicity of it.. the idea of producing your own stuff front to back was alluring 10 years ago, now it's just daunting and horrible most of the time. You're living the dream.
That Novo Serus is a beauty. Love your sense of time. Right in the pocket. I really love these videos. I draw so many similarities to my own style. Thanks for sharing your talent and philosophy … and work ethic. 🙏
Justin, I always love your narrative even on an extra cup of java. Your musical ideas captivate the crap out of my ears and heart. Keep on keepin' on my friend! Zhlang and Phloom on at your heart's content! LOL
Never heard of Bill Frisell. I love it. Sounds like Leo Kottke and Phil Keaggy may have been fans of his as well. I must have missed the video where you mentioned the new amp rack. I plan to make one, I will track your video down and have a look. I saw some cools plans where someone made one out of iron pipe. Brian
Listened to this video just before going into a performance today . . . so I can go in and Ostrander all over it. :) Thanks for the pop rock vibes, they are just what this band of ours needs.
Yeah, keep laying down them schlangz! Love the amp-display, great lighting (warm fireplace yellow). Video looks amasing. And great that we also can see abit of the DAW-screen-tracking-process. A shclanged diamond followed by a sturdy floom is a stellar way to enter a powerful chorus, never forget :) Love the channel, keep it up.
Justin Nice playing and also sharing the space with the other guys. A lot of guitar players only want them selves to be heard but it's a band ans we all have our moments to shine. I am not trying to be a know it all, but when I record I mostly try and do rhythm and lead guitar this way if I have to do it live it's easy. You can defiantly do too much on a record that can not be reproduced by 1 or 2 guitarist.
Doo wop, one of the precursor genres to power pop has an unusually high amount of major 7th, 9th, 11th and 13th intervals on most of the songs. I pull apart a lot of those songs @rickbeato style to see why I love it so much
Holy Crap! Per your recommendation I'm listening to the first Floratone album and it is totally cool! Thanks for pointing me to it! Great video as always too!
Another great video thanks Justin! My friend uses the word ‘Garroot’ , which is like. ‘Flume’ (?) only you start at the bottom of the neck and go up and back down again 😂
Why is it that I find myself agreeing with everything you say. I have been recording and mixing my own music back to a Roland VS2480CD back to 2001. Every video, I learn that I have been doing a lot of things right. I might have you review a song of mine.
Haha, you're making the live performance really expensive, if they have to cover all of those tracks 🙂 Loved this track, and I'm learning so much from this. For years, I've tried to get all the parts in the recordings when playing live. It has always felt way too busy for me, so I haven't enjoyed it. But you just issued a creative license, Ty!
You've got good taste. Wish you'd make some Timeline settings! I'm dreadful at making them and need a really bitching Ping Pong even after having my delay for many years. Wow - that East West version is spectacular/inspiring.
It would be really useful and informative if you could make a video (or a few) where you demonstrate how you would re-arrange tracks you created parts for into a single live part assuming no backing tracks used by the band. It is difficult to know what to leave out and what to include.
Thanks for the reply. I think the part that is unclear for me (and clear for you) is knowing what is the most important thing in each section, and what other things can be left out. I do think it would be very informative to hear your detailed thought process as you convert a production/arrangement rich track into a single live guitar part.@@JustinOstrander
Loved this song and your playing. Cool to watch you in the process. You get such great tones on single-coil pickups. I am having so much trouble with 60Hz hum recording on my laptop using Fosusrite and Behringer audio interfaces (city house vs farm house, both old houses). True for all my single-coil Fenders and Epiphone P90s. Only my Fender Tele Deluxe, Washburn ES335 and Epiphone LP with humbuckers sound clean enough. Strangely, my Boss ME-25 pedal board with integrated audio interface does not have this problem. Maybe its old wiring in the two houses. So frustrating. I am stumped.
I can’t eliminate it and keep the same tone, so I just try to mitigate as best I can. This is a major reason that I keep my guitars turned away from the computer in these videos.
Your "buddy Timmy" as in Tim Galloway? I did a session with him where we both played acoustic... Great player and even greater dude! Ask him about the nickname he had on the session with me (this is Jim Coates).
@@JustinOstrander- No, we started calling him "Bad Jim". Everyone else on the session had a "J" name, but Tim couldn't just be "Jim" because I was there. So the engineer dubbed me "Good Jim" and him "Bad Jim" for the rest of the session.
Man I get it; it’s inspiring and makes us want to play. But the song is just simply not about the guitar player. The players who work the most rein that in and can turn it on only when needed.
This is super cool - I play in a country band that plays all eras; lately I am fed up with compressor pedals and have been trying to get by using different overdrives for sustain…….. do you think that is weird? Substituting a mild overdrive for comp sounds in country music??
Hi. Really like your patient accurate playing. 2nd pass at lead is spot on - bend,release,bend ending fits great- emotional. Also, I was waiting for the drop D(b), did you think it's a bit heavy for the tune's atmospheric feel? ♫
Okay. If they all want one or both forward in the mix, you gave the option. Smart. @@JustinOstranderAlso, I edit my comment - "light atmosphere" may sound like lacking, or judgement. Tony and Tim, and Justin did great work.
Justin - enjoyed your perspective on playing with effects vs. playing/recording dry. Even though I am a total novice, I do get a certain amount of inspiration from playing with effects because it sounds more complete. If I had to play dry, I'd have to record it as a simultaneous second track. You mentioned a topic near the end of the video "if they are running rhythm guitar tracks live in a separate rig". As part of your work, have artists used some of your tracks live, and do you have to approve that?
They used to. And the union charged a set rate for it. But artists felt like the rate was too high. Many of them got around it by hiring someone to replay the rhythm tracks from the master exactly. Then they use those tracks live. They pay that person a single day rate so they don’t have to pay for repeated usage. I do still get a check when a song I played on is performed live on TV. Often, the band is miming the parts, and you’re just hearing the parts from the record. Players get compensated for that.
@@JustinOstrander That brings up a related topic: is there a job market for musicians who only re-create or duplicate original recordings? That is, apart from Muzak.
I was wondering that too. And about the similarities and differences between the Novo and the Dano J. No way do I get to try a Novo in Perth, Western Australia.
I just want a click that I can turn down and still hear. My favorite in ProTools is shaker 2. I can keep the volume low and it will still poke through enough.
When you play without the track it sounds like your signal is pretty wet. But when it’s in the track it completely fades into the track perfectly like your intentionally using effects to get the guitar the correct distance into the track. Can you explain how you do that? I find I’m always too sensitive to having to much effect but then there isn’t enough vibe or it’s to close feeling.
That’s a good way to put it. You definitely hear it when it’s by itself, but it just helps create space in the mix. I’d start with everything down really low and slowly bring it up until it sounds good to you.
Bill Frisell Shenandoah (For Johnny Smith) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vnEsR55srlk.html You were right man this guy can make the guitar sing.
