![]() Yvette: “For me, I write everything, I guess. I don’t know what amp that’s based off of, but I can imagine it does exactly what Yvette likes about her Vox, in that it’s clean until you dig in and then it breaks up and gets distorted. Tim and Scott, you rely on Axe-Fx what do you look for from the amps you’re modelling on those? I like having the control at my fingertips.” ![]() And then I can also just play really lightly and it will be very clean. And for me, I find with single coils, the way it interacts with the tubes, I can really push it and get it to break up. Yvette: “I play with an amp - I really like tube amps - I use mostly Vox stuff. Is that because you don’t draw on traditional players who’d normally go for the neck or bridge? Tim: “Fourth position is what we use the most - single-coils on the Strat are just a great sound. You all use the in-between pickup positions a lot can you tell us what inspired that? If you don’t like playing guitar, you don’t like playing guitar, but if you do like playing guitar, then you like playing guitar. Don’t just run up and down scales because you think that’s the fucking answer, you know. But I’d say just don’t try to be someone else, because you’ll stand out more if you’re yourself.”ĭon’t just run up and down scales because you think that’s the answer, you know? Scott LePage Sometimes it takes time sometimes it takes learning other people’s music. Yvette: “Don’t try to be someone else just figure out the voice that you have. Tim: “Just figure your shit out and be you.” Have you got any advice for players seeking to hone their own styles? And then the chords and stuff I play are inspired a lot by mid-west emo or 90s emo, like Braid or Mineral. Yvette: “I listen to a lot of post-rock, like ambient, more cinematic, movie- soundtrack kind of stuff. "I mean, I go through phases of, ‘I like this more than this,’ but it’s mostly hip-hop and metal and that type of shit.” I grew up listening to metal I was in the womb, and my parents would put fucking Iron Maiden on the TV and Judas Priest and shit and Pantera, so I was fed that from a very young age - negative- one, even. Scott: “Rap, hip-hop - I fucking love metal. Yvette, you have the classical influence, but Tim and Scott, what would you say are the genres that influence your writing and playing? Tim: “I think we’re all Guthrie fans here.” ![]() Yvette: “I do like Guthrie Govan - I remember someone showed me him in high school, and I thought he was sick.” Tim and I listen to fucking radio music and shit, you know I don’t really go on any more and search the solo guitarists section and see what’s new and upcoming.” Scott: “Unless you’re one of the Gods or Steve Vai or someone and you’re a solo guitarist, I don’t know who the fuck you are. I never listen to it, so yeah, that’s funny.” And I just saw him play, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s really impressive’. People are like, ‘Have you heard of this guitarist? Have you heard of David Gilmour?’ or whatever. ![]() Yvette: “I never even listen to it! I’m playing catch-up now. Tim: “A lot of that shit is so fucking corny, I hate it. ![]() And then, yeah, I kinda just tried to come up with creative ways to just fly around the pentatonic scale, to be completely honest! ”ĭo you consciously try to avoid the typical guitar virtuoso clichés? "As you can probably tell, a lot of our music is mostly pentatonic. He taught me the pentatonic scale, and it was fuckin’, ‘That’s it!’. Scott: “My dad taught me how to play guitar, so I feel like a lot of the shit that he used to do I do also. "Rather than the amount of notes, it’s how I play each note, so doing a different set of techniques per set of notes keeps the phrase interesting, versus just playing too many notes and not being able to remember any of it.” Tim: “Again, I like to write hooks, so sometimes the melodies are simple, which is great, because that’s how it gets stuck in your head, so what I do is I flex on the inflection of each note. I grew up listening to metal I was in the womb, and my parents would put Iron Maiden on the TV and Judas Priest and Pantera Scott LePage I started playing the way I play because I didn’t have a band I just wanted to sound as full as possible by myself.” Yvette: “My piano upbringing - the two-handed tapping I play, I approach the guitar just how I’d approach writing polyphony on a piano. In terms of the techniques you employ, where did you draw those from, then? (Image credit: Olly Curtis / Future) Technique time ![]()
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