felt like it wanted to sit in certain parts. If you’re so maybe I should be playing a different version the only guitar player and you’re playing really of G so we’re not just playing the exact same low, sometimes that can feel like it’s dragging or chord, especially if I’m playing acoustic also. [Daniel] Sometimes limiting your gear can
sound a little heavy. The middle of the neck and Maybe that’s using a capo, or maybe that’s bring out the most creativity because you’re
the higher frequencies just seem to ring out and sliding my hand up around the neck. forced to try the things you don’t normally try. I
feel a little more joyful and exciting. I just always
arrangement or vocal part.
noticed this playing acoustic guitar on the road
gravitated to that part of the neck, as far as lead With this video series, I go through a lot of my with Chris. He and I get to do some acoustic
lines. I don’t know where it really came from, it ideas on how I stumbled through all of that. stuff, and we really like it because we’ve played
just became something that worked really well. When I was first learning guitar there was a lot together for so long that he has the freedom to
of time spent in my bedroom just searching go wherever he wants to go. There’s an ease
[WM] You have a lesson series with Rooted out another way I could play a G chord, and and chemistry there.
music. Can you tell us about that? another way after that. I would just move up and down the neck and try to create different I noticed that when I play acoustic I feel really
[Daniel] I felt like I put everything I learned in voicings, and you can do that with every chord. free, because on electric guitar I’m constantly
the last 18 years all down in the videos. I think Then suddenly the guitar neck because a lot hearing the tone of the amps, the pedals, the
one thing that just jumps out is being familiar less scary, not just frets and dots. Suddenly I guitars. It’s hard not to constantly think about
with your guitar neck and not being locked looked at it like, “Oh, I know that note!” before how I can make those sound better. With the
into one space – learning to move around I even get up there. I think it just opens up a acoustic guitar, it’s like I’m looking down at
and find different melodies and chord voicings whole world for you when you start breaking my Boss tuner and that’s it. It takes the tone
on different strings. The guitar can sound so that down. That was one thing that I spent a sculpting piece out of it and suddenly I’m forced
different depending on where you play it. lot of time on in the videos that I think will really to think, “What can I use to make this guitar
help people grow in their fretboard knowledge. sound different than just a plain old G chord?”
I really loved sharing what I’ve learned that’s
– my fingers, my pick, and my capo! I found I
helped me in my role in the band or on a worship [WM] I am fanatic about effects, pedalboards, was getting a lot of different tones just by how I
team. Let’s use the example of a worship leader and gear, but sometimes these things can get was holding my pick or how I would scrape the
with an acoustic guitar. He’s playing an open G, in the way of thinking about the song and the strings. I thought, “What if I played my electric
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