"Electric Guitar" Video Transcription

Video Transcript: Electric Guitar

All right, we're looking at three key instruments, we looked at the bass, the drum, then a lot of churches will have an electric guitar. I don't have an electric guitar, although this is the guitar and is being amplified. So it sort of makes it an electric guitar. But why is the electric guitar becoming a standard instrument for worship service? 

Number one, the grunge sound adds power when the music kicks into a higher gear. And I don't have a grunge. On this, you can buy a box and actually make this sound like that. But it is when the guitar has that real, you know, sort of distorted sound. This is a nice clean sound. But the electric guitar when when they set it up, right, it has this, and it's got this real sort of distorted sound. And by itself, it sounds you know, a little out there. But when it is accompanied by the drums and the guitars and everyone's singing, all it does is add sort of a power to a chorus. So when we sing Holy, holy, and the last verse, the drums come in, and the electric guitar comes in with that power. And it just fills in sort of the low end of the sound. And it just, it like fills it all the cracks. So that's one thing that a guitar does. 

The other thing the electric guitar does is it becomes a lead guitar. And it sort of adds nice intros and intro interludes and interesting things in a song, the little, little runs and little things or a song might set up. There'll be just a little. So the electric guitar might do that. And it stands out as just a way to, you know, get in the song. 

So, it just adds a little more spice to things. Well, how how to grunge in electric guitar. The way you use that sort of grunge sound is you play the chord as it's written. You don't play the full chord, you don't you know, if I had a grunge song to overpower and so you'd sort of play on the low end just sort of fills things in, and you started just keep the beat. It's all you need to do. So (singing Amazing Grace to show how the electric guitar affects the song). She's sort of keeping the beat and adds a lot of that low end. How to play the lead guitar intros interludes endings, sometimes it's the melody. So if you're gonna sing Amazing Grace.

I'm not a lead guitar player. So I don't know how to do it, but you just find the melody. electric guitar might do that. And then in a better manner, in an interesting way before he starts singing, so that the play that melody or they'll play some other melody, that sort of fits into the chord as an introduction to a song. And so he plays a little introduction in that chord. And the people don't know what the song is, until all of a sudden he starts singing that, that creates a little bit of interest. That's really all I have on the electric guitar. I'm just, I'm just trying to set this up. 

We're going to be interviewing a electric guitar player, and he can show us the sounds, how he gets those sounds, where he uses those chords and so on. And so, I think it's important that you as the music director, know, so that you as you're planning out your songs and trying to build songs, you really have to know what each instrument does, because you're the one that decides, okay, now we want the electric guitar coming in, or we don't want the electric guitar coming in, or we want that grunge sound or we want the clean sound, or whatever sound it is that you want. You want the drum coming in. Now you're the bass coming in. So the more you know about what these instruments can do, the more you're able to sort of pull them together.