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This track was recorded and published on February 2, 2014

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjlnZjuYkqc

The main idea behind this Soundscape tutorial is that you can generate ambient sounds in many different ways. If you play a guitar most likely you will play it with your fingers or a pick, in some cases you would use a bottle neck, an E-Bow or even an ordinary bow. But don't forget that your main task is to make it resonate -- no matter how... Here I play strings at the end of a neck and bump my guitar with fingers.

I used this "bumping" technique later in an YBM ambient session - you can check it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5XVyTjBZdc&list=UUC_LKlSLcFVqJRcMmi00KKA#t=355

If you use a volume pedal and a couple of delays you can create pretty smooth musical noise. To make it musical - hold a chord and let your guitar resonate while you bump it, rub, shake or whatever... I would recommend turning down dry signal on your Delay and raising wet signal up. Tweak these parameters to avoid harsh sound with fast attack -- what you need is slow attack. Actually slow attack is the key to any ambient sound.
That's why ambient guitar players use volume pedals a lot.

Normally you would like to thicken layers with additional swelling chords. You can use tremolo at the end of the swell. I always add a bass layer that would usually follow the harmony.

At the end of a soundscape I play a melody or some kind of solo... This time I decided to add an odd rhythmical structure. How to make this sound: I used 2 Deleays, 1st on Roland VG-99 -- 390 ms, 2nd on Strymon Timeline Delay -- 780 ms in dotted quarters. Play fast 2 or three notes of a chord -- no need to play it in bpm time, though you can do it, of course.

Here is the list of my equipment:

Godin Solidac with Roland GK-2A ---
Roland VG-99 ---
Strymon Timeline Delay ---
Boomerang III looper ---

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from Ambient Guitar and Soundscapes, released October 30, 2016

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Mikhail Medvedev Moscow, Russia

This is Guitar Music - instrumental ambient, drone and soundscapes, as well as official soundtracks.

Do what you love and love what you do!

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My music has absolutely nothing to do with POLITICS!
Please, be mindful that judging people by their NATIONALITY is the same as to judge them by the color of their skin. The second one is called RACISM and the first one is called NAZISM! ... more

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