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Synthesize Her (Pre-Chorus)
🕑 Added 2019-12-26 16:00:06 +0000 UTCGreetings everybody! I hope you all had the most joyous of holidays!
Time to circle back to one of my favourite tracks, Synthesize Her. We're going to look at the pre-chorus this week. The guitar here plays a sparse, spacey sounding part.
How to make things sound spacey:
This is more of a textural part than many of the others in previous weeks. That means it's not really in the forefront, but sits in the background and sounds like it's far away from you. Typically this is accomplished by using delay and reverb. Listen carefully to the video and you'll hear that each note I play repeats a few times over, each time sounding more distant. That's delay doing its thing. Reverb on the other hand emulates a physical space like a room, or hall. The more of these effects you apply, the more distance and space is implied. I like to apply a ton to evoke largest of places there is, outer space.
Technique Tips:
The first 4 chords are in the 4th position (if you're unsure how positions work, refer to last week). You'll then slide down to the 2nd position to play the 5th chord.
The second last chord is a big one. Be careful that your 4th finger doesn't lie too flat and mute and of the other strings. I recommend playing this chord 1 note at a time at first to make sure everything rings out clearly.
For the final chord, stretch that 1st finger out because it's going to barre across the top 4 strings on the 4th fret.
Theory Talk:
This whole section is in the key of C# minor. It looks like this:
C# - D# - E - F# - G# - A - B
Most of the shapes I'm playing here are simple 2 note chords, separated by a 3rd. The first shape is C# + E, and the second is B + D#.
The second last shape is a neat one. The 4 notes spell out an Amaj9 chord. In context this chord makes my eyes go just a little teary. It's beautiful.
TAB is attached as a PDF and Guitar Pro file. Happy noodlin'!
Comments
I absolutely resonate to this song! It annoys me that I've been struggling with the chorus as the rest of it is better simple but I'll get it eventually and then my synthesis will be complete! (Also love that you've been doing this. Not only are they obviously accurate and helpful with the tips and video for hand placement, but it's pretty cheap too! <3)
KazultheDragon
Happy Holidays, Lord Phobos. Have a great New Year!
It's up there!
If we hit 300 followers at some point, we're going to introduce a second tier which includes solos and shred stuff!
Wonderful as always! Any chance we will see a video on the solo from Ice Crystal?
Dezzi
Ahhh this sounds so beautiful! That ethereal sound really lends to the dreamlike yearning the song has!! Im very happy to hear this track is one of your favorites - Ill say it until you top yourselves (or someone asks me to stop of course) but this song is the most perfect one TWRP has ever arranged imo!
Shiro
Btw, my tour buddy and I ultimately decided on Phoenix and Texas, as much as I’d love to see them all ;)
Shiro
Oh that’s lovely! I see what you mean about the reverb making it sound distant, that’s a really neat effect! Hope you had a fantastic holiday, guitar man, and a happy new year! :)
This part is beautiful! And very spacey! I love it! I don’t think I ever noticed this bit in the song, but now I definitely will. Happy Holidays, dude! I hope you’ve had a good one! <3
Happy Holidays Phobos! Thank you so much for this. It's one of my favourite tracks too. These lessons really make me appreciate your music in a new way :) I can't wait to play more of it in 2020!
It's your favourite track too??
