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 CZcams. 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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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 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
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.
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 😂
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.
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!
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.
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.
Same here with the addition of weekend city grandpa and weekday farmer grandpa.
It's nice to see how it's done
Your channel is pure gold. I don't need to be entertained. There is plenty of that on CZcams. 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.
Much appreciated!
Watching you add these parts with such emotion and just nailing them take after take is so inspiring.
God I love that JM sound especially.
For those who's asking, the song he is recording on the video is "Get You Backroads" by Zac & George. You're welcome!
Bach and Bill Frisell is honestly all you need
That Bill Frisell Shenandoah from East Wesr. Woah. Thank You
Lord, Bill! Why does no one talk about the genius of Bill Frisell? He’s incredible. I first heard him on Nora Jones’ debut. What a player.❤
I love how being the guitarist becomes second to producing. Something for everyone here. Thanks for sharing your craft
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.
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, those parts and tones are great. Love the channel and appreciate all the good stuff you share here. Take care!
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! 🙏
I agree about Bill Frisell. Love his approach to everything
Your playing ..and your tone is great! I see why you work a LOT. You serve the song. Well done.
Jhalang is a technical term used to describe a chord played vigorously dynamically 😂
Thanks for introducing me to Bill Frisell! Great stuff!
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
Your overall mindset, playing, musicality, and ear for what the song needs are a band leader’s absolute dream.
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
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 Jazzmaster sounds awesome 😮
I've always put my delay and verb before the amp! Always played in to cleanish amps and never had a problem. Pedal platform for the win i guess.
Thanks for introducing me to Bill Frisell! And thanks for another master class when it comes to tasty playing!
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
The Dave holland and Elvin jones record with bill frisell is great 👍🏼
I am really loving this show.
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 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.
Justin, What is your favorite AXE to play?
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
Gosh that Jazzmaster sounds unreal! 🤤
T shirt idea... It don't mean a thang if it ain't got that jlang 😎
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.
“Ostrander” a new verb!!! Love it!
Love your videos!! There’s so much to learn from this material! Keep it up sir!
I appreciate it man!
Bro, I’m so inspired by your videos and channel. I appreciate you!
I dig your channel😊..playing music for a living is waaay more funner than teaching MATH...boring!
Great stuff as always, Justin.
Thanks for the heads up on Bill Frisell, I've been hearing his name for quite some time but never checked him out until now.
XJLANG
HAS to be a t-shirt!!!
What does? “Simple parts, huge results?”
Love watching and learning how you build parts!
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 😂
Great idea.Improving on a not so professional with a professional.Great stuff.Keep making videos and you will be on uncle Larry's heels in no time.
Frisell 2024!!!
Great video as usual, Justin. I would love to see how you would approach writing/arranging an instrumental piece like Bill Frisell.
what a great vibe! Nice job on all the parts Justin!
Great vid as always, beautiful and tasty playing... As I mentioned a couple of years ago, Chicka, Flume, Schlange T-shirts would be a hit!!
I dig the new amp rack! Of course the guitar parts, tone, playing etc is always top notch.
Another amazing insight into the directive process Thanks again.
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.
These are so educational!
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!
Justin you are now my favorite youtuber, this is good stuff mate. Stings favorite composer is Bach btw....
I appreciate that, man! Cheers!
Paul Butterfield released an album Called "East West" one of my favorite albums. Just sayin. Great Video as usual. Thanks Justin.😎
I enjoy the videos have a wonderful day 😊
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.
Rain, Rain✌🏻
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!
Hey Justin, Beautiful!👍🎸
Thanks for this.
Awesome video!
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.
Listen to Bill on Solos Jazz sessions
Beautiful and inspiring music. Has this song been released?
And The Lord asked Justin..."LESS is more?" And Justin replied "Yup...only what is called for Lord.".
Szlaaang!
Gotta know who recorded that track you were playing on. That song is fire
Zshlang 😎
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.
I just think of the songs in sections. Play the most important thing you’re hearing in each section (i.e., intro, verse, chorus, turn, v2, etc…)
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
This track makes me think: "I'll have a 4 piece chicken strips meal with Dr Pepper and Polynesian sauce..."
It sounds like Chik-Fil-A to you? I’m not sure if that’s a good or bad thing 😂
@@JustinOstranderIt's calming music to munch to.
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.
@@JustinOstrander Thanks. Maybe I am playing too close to my laptop. I will experiment with that.
Hey Justin! Has this song been released? I’d love to hear it all in context to the song! Thanks! :)
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).
Yes sir! Was it Timmy Two Bars? I gave him that nickname lol
@@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.
ZLANG. 😊😊😊
Great tune! Cool that you were influenced by Bill Frisell! What about Pat Metheny and Ralph Towner?
Less so with those two. I didn’t really go too far down the jazz route…
@@JustinOstrander OK...
Shranks
how do you refrain from soloing? I would have to get it out of my system before I could do the parts! Song sounds Amazing!
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??
If it sounds good, it is good. I’m not a fan of compressor pedals, either.
Zulang. 😊
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? ♫
There’s some of that low-end information in the two rhythm tracks I laid before starting this video. They are tucked way back.
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.
Great video. Curious, how long will you typically spend on tracking electric guitars for a tune like this?
Cool song! Not sure if I missed it, but does anyone know the title and artist? :)
Re: Delay probably should be quieter than you think.
Does not apply to worship music. 🤣😅🤣
Ha!
Very cool! What P90s are in the Novo?
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 believe Danos come stock with Curtis Novak pickups... It's what are in my Jazzmaster..
My Dano has Peter Leonard jazzmaster pickups. The Novo has Fralin P90s
I’d love to hear the Novo P90s clean…
Hi Justin, What cans do you wear? I propose zjhwang!
GK Ultraphones
Was that the Meris Mercury 7 reverb pedal that you were using for your verb on that track?
Yep
Zhlang
I’d spell it “zhlang”
Bill Frisell Shenandoah (For Johnny Smith) czcams.com/video/vnEsR55srlk/video.html
You were right man this guy can make the guitar sing.
Has this song been released?
Question: Do you prefer the electronic metronome sound for a click track vs a simulated traditional acoustic metronome tic-toc?
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.
Justin, What headphones are you using?
GK Ultraphones.
szlang
It’s spelled J’lange and is of French origin.🤣
What’s a
“Diamond”..? You and Uncle Larry use that word a bit…🤔
It’s when you let a note or chord ring, usually for a whole bar
@@JustinOstrander ..cool.. Thanks
ZGlāāāng,,,,,,,
"djschlangh"