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Guitar technique for a song

Seta

Joined: Jul 06 2015

Hi guys. I'm tabbing this song Estrella- Atelier Meruru and I was wondering what technique might be used there.

I have part of the song tabbed, but when I play the melody... the notes sound pretty plain. The lead guitar achieves to add more depth to the melody and I don't know what the player does.

Thanks

Submitted on Sun, 07/26/2015 - 05:22

hslesperance

Location: Walpole, MA

Joined: Aug 10 2008

I'm not exactly sure what you mean. Is it the slides or maybe the parts where the same melody plays a third apart, like the melody around 0:33. That might be a second guitar or the same guitar playing two notes.

Could you pinpoint certain times that the technique is used or is it just throughout the whole song?

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Submitted on Sun, 07/26/2015 - 17:18

It's mostly the whole song. I

Seta

Joined: Jul 06 2015

It's mostly the whole song. I thought they might be using a short vibrato in some notes, but it didn't turn out very well.
Maybe it's a characteristic sound from playing smoothly or my guitar isn't very good. It's not probably in a very good condition, knowning how it has been keeped over 8 years or so before I picked it up... at least I changed the strings.

For example, from 0:12 to 0:33, some notes seem to be hold in a certain way. It definitely doesn't sound the same way when I leave a note ringing before going to the next one. Or maybe I'm just paranoid. ^^"

Submitted on Sun, 07/26/2015 - 17:39

There doesn't seem to be much

hslesperance

Location: Walpole, MA

Joined: Aug 10 2008

There doesn't seem to be much vibrato. Maybe it's just the mix of held out notes and staccato notes that you are having trouble replicating.

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Submitted on Sun, 07/26/2015 - 17:46

Also, it's been

auriplane

Joined: Sep 06 2008

Also, it's been professionally played, recorded, and mixed. A lot of the tone probably comes from playing confidently on a good guitar, along with the room it was recorded in, the compression, how it was mixed, and so on… Some of the notes are doubled.

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Submitted on Sun, 07/26/2015 - 19:12

I've long wanted to learn how

AleksShamles

Joined: Nov 09 2021

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Submitted on Tue, 05/23/2023 - 00:09