thejumpingflea
Well-known member
Hey guys, I am the new guy here and this is my first thread.
So I got a Mel Bay book at my favorite music store the other day and it has some awesome little tricks in it.
Go grab a match box, fill it with a little Rice pieces and then hold it in between you pinkey and ring finger of your strumming hand. When you strum it sounds like a maraca and adds a lot of flavor to many different songs. (I didn't have a match box so I took a black film canister and filled it with needles for a good effect. See a video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hkUKDKUlhM )
Another cool trick is to use a pencil to 'drum' on your strings. It adds a percussion like feel to your sounds. I'll post a video later for that.
Hope you can get some use outta this!
~Matt
(Sorry for half my head being cut off in the vid, I accidentley altered the settings so it'd be 16:9)
So I got a Mel Bay book at my favorite music store the other day and it has some awesome little tricks in it.
Go grab a match box, fill it with a little Rice pieces and then hold it in between you pinkey and ring finger of your strumming hand. When you strum it sounds like a maraca and adds a lot of flavor to many different songs. (I didn't have a match box so I took a black film canister and filled it with needles for a good effect. See a video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hkUKDKUlhM )
Another cool trick is to use a pencil to 'drum' on your strings. It adds a percussion like feel to your sounds. I'll post a video later for that.
Hope you can get some use outta this!
~Matt
(Sorry for half my head being cut off in the vid, I accidentley altered the settings so it'd be 16:9)