Gear and Tone for Blues Rock

Skill Building Guitar Course from Tony Martinez

Effects provide us with an extremely wide variety of textures, tones, and possibilities that can help us emulate the sound of our favorite players or shape our own unique style, if we know how to dial in the settings for each effect and where they should go in your signal chain. Tony will help us shape our tone for playing in a blues and/or rock context before he explains effect settings such as 'Threshold', 'Attack', "Depth', 'Feedback', and more to help us understand the myriad of ways that each individual effect can be implemented in order to produce a more interesting sound.

12 Lessons

Complete course with step-by-step lessons and practice examples.

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Full Course Breakdown

Tony will be teaching us about creating rich tones with commonly used amplifiers as well as using effects such as compression, overdrive, reverb, and more to add depth and color to our playing while demonstrating multiple techniques for getting the best tones and most mileage out of each one.

1

Introduction

Tony shares a brief overview of the material we will be learning in the upcoming lessons in this course

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2

Compression

In this lesson, Tony will help us learn how to use compression properly by explaining threshold, attack, and release in addition to features that aren't found on every compressor

15:11 Runtime

0.5 Difficulty

3

Overdrive

Up next, we will take a look at a few different types of overdrives and how to get the best sound out of each one as an individual unit and when used together

12:01 Runtime

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4

Distortion

Tony will play with a couple of distortion sounds and techniques so that we can hear the differences and he shows us the best way to setup a noise gate in this lesson

8:36 Runtime

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5

Tremolo

In our next lesson we will be exploring the possibilities available to us when we use a tremolo effect with a variety of settings

7:47 Runtime

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6

Simple Delay

Delay effects come in many varieties and in this lesson Tony will take us through the more commonly used types of delay and how to apply them to our own sound

13:59 Runtime

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7

Reverb

Our focus for this next lesson will be how to use the reverb effect to help shape your dry guitar signal to sound more natural by emulating the sound of certain spaces

10:43 Runtime

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8

Fuzz

In this lesson, we will examine the two main types of fuzz and how they can be best utilized for specific purposes

8:58 Runtime

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9

Octave

Up next we will learn how to use the settings on an octave effect to make a guitar sound as if it was being doubled by another instrument or if it were a different instrument itself

8:59 Runtime

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10

Modulation Effects - Chorus, Phaser, and Flanger

Tony will demonstrate chorus, phase, and flange effects while providing some insight into the unique textures that each of them offers in this lesson

10:10 Runtime

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11

Wah Wah Pedal

We will look at how wah wah pedals work and a few different techniques that can be used to expand our expressiveness using this effect in this lesson

9:04 Runtime

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12

Putting Your Effects in Order

It is good to know how to use effects for creating individual soundscapes but if you don't know how they should line up in your signal chain you may not get the tones you are searching for. Tony will describe the order your effects should be in to get the best possible sound in this last lesson

11:47 Runtime

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  • Mallorca,
  • Playing since 1996
  • 90 lessons at JamPlay
Tony was born in Mallorca Spain in 1984. He began playing the piano at age 5 and started guitar at the age of 12. He became serious about his guitar playing at the age of 14.

Tony was born in Mallorca Spain in 1984. He began playing the piano at age 5 and started guitar at the age of 12. He became serious about his guitar playing at the age of 14. His Main influence is rock and blues but enjoys all forms of music that are done with charisma. Tony have been touring with Gloria Gaynor for several years and enjoys being able to play daily and travel the globe with his guitar on his back.