When I was a teenager, my buddy got a book with a bunch of these techniques detailed in it. I remember using the church bell quite a bit because it was so unlike anything that should come out of a guitar, and it was very eerie sounding.

@christophermartinez9821

Жыл бұрын

would like the name of this book if you could find it

@SigGuy320

Жыл бұрын

@@christophermartinez9821 Guitar Shop -- Tricks and Special Effects: The Player's Guide to Unusual Sounds and Techniques (Handy Guide)

@christophermartinez9821

Жыл бұрын

@@SigGuy320 Thank you!

@acrock21

Жыл бұрын

@@SigGuy320 *makes evil snickering sound * thank you for info

@DJCosmicLatte

Жыл бұрын

When you need to play For Whom the Bell tolls but you don't have a backing track or keyboard

0:40 perfect for playing for whom the bell tolls

2:03 That transition into Kickstart My Heart was fucking amazing

@KeyzHoopz

Ай бұрын

prolly cuz it was the intro to kickstart my heart?

@ryplay08

Ай бұрын

He was already playing the intro before he played the riff

Thank you for going into the Mötley Crüe riff after the dirt bike. It was satisfying.

@arrudaum

2 ай бұрын

Yeah! i almost paused to listen to the music, that got me anxious

@brickbilly7019

2 ай бұрын

I literally had to go and plug my guitar in and play the first few bars of it😅

Hendrix had an air raid siren in his machine gun song. The most astonishing thing i have ever heard come out of a guitar. Even miles davis liked it. live at the filmore east 1969.

@junodonatus4906

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you. His rendition of the Star Spangled Banner is amazing. Many have played it since but none like him.

@deadboibrando

Жыл бұрын

i have that on CD and im a youngin

@deadboibrando

Жыл бұрын

i have fulmore and the grateful dead live at winterland or whatever it is i cant remember

@dannywest8843

Жыл бұрын

Weird that Miles Davis was on KZread.

@GoDamnWeird

9 ай бұрын

The sound you describe is the reason I got into the electric guitar. Ever since then I've striven to deliver the same experience to audiences with my own music: "What the hell was THAT!?!" It beats mere applause hands down to know you've made that level of artistic impact. The sound of minds blowing. Rare. Jimi opened my ears to sonic vistas many deem unnatural, some of them aren't even produced by guitars. But that was the moment.

Hi, Cameron! Cool tricks! I have never heard the sound of a bell performed on a guitar before. Such a skill can be useful for me. Thanks!

@lueysixty-six7300

Жыл бұрын

Crazy clown 'plinking' was new to me to!

@CameronsMusic

Жыл бұрын

Your welcome. LOL.

@mollossus7

Жыл бұрын

@Igor Schenker used it on his Save Yourself album. He’s played it live quite a bit since then. @Cam This video was cool, thanks for making it. Every guitar I own has one - I even put wham bars on my acoustics 😁 -joking. The one Zakk trick reminds me of the one Vai did on Blue Powder. Thanks again for the videos!

@bence42

Жыл бұрын

Micheal Schenker shows some similar (bell) sounds at the German TVsomething in the 80s ('87-'89?).

@AviationNB500

Жыл бұрын

@@CameronsMusic Cameron’s twin 😂

1:55 Damn I'm learning that ASAP

If you think those sounds are offensive, then you clearly haven’t heard me playing guitar.

@martingarricks6209

6 күн бұрын

why didn’t he do the guitar orgasm sound

Ok...one minor issue....the "dirtbike" was only a Mick Mars lick, as you played it. The Montrose version was played by Sammy and he used a lap steel, not an electric guitar with a tremolo bar

@CameronCooper

Жыл бұрын

I know! People get pissed if I don't make reference to them for that trick aha. You have no idea how much heat I got last time 😂

@rickcrotts6673

Жыл бұрын

@@CameronCooper lol. Hey, I'm older than dirt and I only learned of this pretty recently watching Sammy Hagar's Roadtrip and watching him clarify this and then play it on a red custom lap steel🤣 You know what is f*cking great about it? Mick Mars said he learned the lick from listening to Ronnie Montrose so that suggests maybe Mick also assumed Ronnie played it with a whammy bar! That's what is soooooo cool about "noisy" guitar licks like this or even Morello's "dj scratching"

@TheRockinDonkey

Жыл бұрын

In 1990, I was driving a girl to her prom and Bad Motorscooter started playing. She asked if it was kickstart my heart. I just chuckled and said, "no"

@CamJam312

Жыл бұрын

Also used in the intro for White Zombie's "Black Sunshine"

@skern49

Жыл бұрын

originally a hendrix lick with trem

1:40 the car is on fire, there's no driver at the wheel

@rk_19

2 ай бұрын

GODSPEED YOU! BLACK EMPEROR FAN FOUND

@GodspeedBlues

2 ай бұрын

@@rk_19 GODSPEED FANS UNITE!

2:41 listen to the way low end harmonics glide down while the bend goes up. So sick.

Apparently the Van Halen one is called "autoflanging" - that one where you do pull-offs with the left hand and slide your right hand along the string to get those moving harmonics.

@CameronCooper

Жыл бұрын

'Autoflanging' that's interesting. Never heard that one before. Cool!

Awesome Cam!!! You're a natural on camera, and your lessons are always so much fun!!! Keep up the great work, and thank you for sharing your talents with the guitar community!!! Rock~on!

There's this thing used in a couple of Gojira songs where you slide your finger up the fretboard gently towards the first fret to make natural harmonics while simultaneously scraping the long edge of the pick down from the high e towards the low E (or from D towards the C as is more often the case). That sounds pretty cool.

@DeathTrapProductions

Жыл бұрын

Harmonic pick rake palm mute thing

@elliotness2

Жыл бұрын

Are you talking about that noise they make on the ending breakdown of love?

@tss1473

Жыл бұрын

ahhh yes the pick scrape

@DeathTrapProductions

Жыл бұрын

@@tss1473 Which reminds me of the below the bridge or nut picking thing that bands do for sound effects too! Not as cool sounding though.

When I was a teenager Ozzy came out with the Speak of the Devil live album, with Brad Gillis playing more aggressive than any guitarist I'd ever heard. I was blown away. It was like he was playing his guitar with a dull bladed chain saw. I STILL get chills thinking about that sound, and those crazy trem slaps he'd do to get that signature Gillis... hell, I don't even know what to call that sound. It's like someone grabbed a badger by the throat and started shaking it to death. Up until then I'd never head someone play so aggressively. Of course then enter Zakk Wylde!

@cyborgar15

8 ай бұрын

Ya, awesome album and Brad Gillis kicked ass. Best live album..

A few tricks the guys from Gorguts do: playing the strings above the nut, playing two strings doing a pinch harmonic in one of them, loosening the strings and hitting them against the fretboard (outro to Sweet Silence), muting the strings and pressing the pick against the high E and B strings (intro to Inverted). And one Brazillian guitarrist Salomao Habib does where he crosses the low E string and A strings.

I've been waiting 15 years for a KZread video like this. I'm sure there's some out there but this is probably the most straight to the point video on weird guitar sounds I can find lol

How about the Steve Vai reverse whammy bar flutter thing?

@CameronCooper

Жыл бұрын

It's the same as the Gillis trick in this video, just the bar faces the other way.

@JoeR203

Жыл бұрын

@@CameronCooper Brad Gillis also did the tapping the string on the pole piece. Listen to how he ends the solo for the Night Ranger song "Big Life".

@naegleriafowleri2230

Жыл бұрын

@@CameronCooper there is one that way does in the for the love of god where he reverses the bar but he does it somehow it reaches a harmonic that I cant get I dunno how he does this at 2:42 kzread.info/dash/bejne/damMk9Owd9eyqqQ.html could this be caused by his sustainer harmonic effect option? one of the toggles of sustainiac creates harmonics and i think that's why cause he is using his guitar with the sustainer pickup which is FLO, so i think when he hits that note and presses on the bar like a dive the sustaniac creates the end harmonic

@StallionStudios1234

Жыл бұрын

Or Satch doing pinch harmonics overtop of the pickups and doing dive bombs with his left hand on the whammy.

@benjaminwoodrowmusic6070

Жыл бұрын

@@naegleriafowleri2230 he's pulling back on the trem that much that the string touches the frets or something like that

The British Police Siren had me in tears

I was expecting this to suck. It was actually pretty cool! Nice job! Thanks for sharing.

I like to do a pinch harmonic on the B string, bend it up and also slide it up about 4 frets, then release the bend and pull off to the fret you started on. I do something similar to the Jake E. Lee one. I either pull up, or push down (slowly) on the bar as the harmonics ring out. Gives an eerie overtone using the A and G, and also the A, D and G. I was doing the "Lizard" effect in '85 when I got my first guitar. (Ibanez Roadstar II RS440)

@JoeR203

Жыл бұрын

@@Cameron_Cooper 👉telegram me Yeah okay scammer.

@reneebear3641

8 ай бұрын

How do you slide on a pinch harmonic

That's actually a great very comprehensive collection of guitar tricks, congrats

I remember so badly wanting to learn how to do a pinch harmonic when I was 17. (I started playing around 15). The good ole days 🤘 I'm 31 now 😬

@BandOfHarjaps

8 ай бұрын

31? Those were the days ... :)

@tibormalinsky8751

8 ай бұрын

And did you learn it?

@Akherousia502

8 ай бұрын

Hope you got it down, mate!

@jusshupbb

8 ай бұрын

@@tibormalinsky8751 absolutely! I'd say I'm decent for a guy who has never taken lessons. More self taught.

@ThinPicks

5 ай бұрын

I learnt it by listening to Roy Buchanan and Rory Gallagher in 1972 (I'm 69 now, where's it all gone?!?), I recommend a listen, especially Roy.👍

02:15 The British police siren got me stumped. I was like "I know that shit from somewhere." Later I was like , "Ah! Women!"

If anyone wants to hear 'The Clink' 1:35 in a studio setting, listen to the outro section of The Sky is Red by Leprous. Matt Bellamy from Muse is also well known for doing this trick at live shows.

@sirdo946

Жыл бұрын

Wait that's how they do it in TSIR? Crazy, i even saw them live and didn't notice lol. I was too busy enjoying the absolute experience a Leprous live is lol

@IAmKillEveryone

Жыл бұрын

Also in the intro of Those Damned Blue-Collar Tweakers by Primus.

@skatertrev7

Жыл бұрын

Also "Freedom" and "War Within a Breath" by RATM

@monowavy

Жыл бұрын

There is a band called Bent Knee that recently had a live show and at their last song, the guitarist performed an mind blowing solo including that trick, it actually gave me chills

@winstonmarlowe5254

Жыл бұрын

@@IAmKillEveryone And in the verse of Pudding Time

Great vid! I like the "crying" effect in Roy Buchanan's messiah song - I think he does it with the tone knob but you can also cheat and do it with a wah pedal. Also in the same song he does picking down past the neck over the pickups

Eddie VH did the elephant decades ago, but that church bell was new to me, very cool.

I truly loved and adored this video. Thank you for this. Please keep playing and God bless sir.

Cool and funny at the same time bro!!! Great job like always Cameron👌👌🍻🍻

You can create a cool bell sound when you stick your pick under the low e string, over the a string and under the d string like when you dont want to lose your pick while not playing. Then position it over the harmonic frets like 12th fret and tap the flat pick.

I am 51 years old. I started playing in the 1980's when I was 12......I am so desensitised, everything you just played sounded like MUSIC to me!!...haha.... And can think of songs with them in it!!...hahaha....Ironically enough, all my Floyd Rose guitars are blocked off and I never really use my whammy anymore...haha...Thanks for a trip down memory lane. Subscribed...Cheers!

Its amazing how any sound you make with an electric guitar and it can be involved in a song and made into something amazing.

there's this old video of Steve Vai which I can no longer find, but as he was showing all the animal sounds, he also showed a VERY COOL shy, "meow" sound, I cannot explain it in words and I also forgot enough from it so that I can no longer do it on the guitar, but it was with a very slight upbend on the trem bar, while playing a very soft high note somewhere in the upper register, making a sort of cute "meow?!?!" sound like a young kitty politely asking for milk :D not sure if u know it or if you can do it, but if you do, then I'd be SOOO grateful to see it in one of your videos ♥

@krisreddish3066

Жыл бұрын

I used to use that same trick he used to play the meow mix theme when younger. Vai was my jam when I first learned my first notes on guitar.

Ok 2:29 is my favorite guitar sound. I've heard you do it before, but I didn't know what that was called haha

@monsterforcerc

Жыл бұрын

Crazy ttain

All effects that I wanna learn on the same vídeo! Amazing! Gracias! 🎉🎉🎉

I’m glad you started to play the intro riffs to kickstart my heart

That church bell got me back in Croatia....to the small town my parents are from where a church bell goes off every hour, one ding for one o'clock, two for two o'clock, etc. 😪

Here are some that I'd recommend you to try out: Airplane sfx: bar the 3 lower strings with the whammy bar and slide them down from the 5th to the 1st fret, speed up as you get to the third fret to make it sound like the plane is getting closer. Opera singer: slide the whammy bar on the high e around the 12-15 fret area at a full and semi tone intervals, you need no distortion and high gain (compressor) with a dark tone for this to work.

You have great skill! Very imaginative video! Thanks for making it.

I was blown away by this vid, good stuff. Ive created a few accidently, havnt named them yet, cant remember them either........... Carry On!

This was fun and a good idea as well as informative! I delayed watching because I was thinking some real annoying sounds that I had to be in right mood before I watched it. Thank You!

John Mayer Is actually a wizard at creating sound effects, he did a series of shows with Dave Chapelle where he added sound effects to Dave’s Stand-up, and People said John could literally create almost any sound

Absolutely amazing!

Sick sounds bro , love the whammy bar tricks

I have an interesting one I like to use. Loosen the e string until you can move it over to the same nut slot as the b string, tune it up to pitch as a second b string. Makes a pretty cool effect

All of these sounds are just scratching that itch in my brain and it's so satisfying

one of my favourite videos ever, need a part two 🙏

Thanks. I have seen, from your video, that there is a whole huge set of abilities on guitar that I'm completely lacking besides "normal" abilities that I do lack already😀

The coolest part about the double harmonic squeal is hearing the overtones going bananas and getting almost a "bass drop" sound in the background... either that or it sounds like an alien invasion or some computer on the USS Enterprize going into meltdown. Just all kinds of fun.

That was cool. I'm struggling to think of any you've missed! Though possibly related, for a long time I've been curious how Randy Rhoads got some of his intense upper-register pinch squeals with his live playing. Particularly noticeable on the Tribute album.

love this. just subscribed

Noice, I totally forgot about most of these guitar whammy tricks, 👌

double harmonic is the fretted version of the satch scream. Joe Satriani's famous whammy bar technique where he does a pinch harmonic on the G/B string with the whammy bar depressed and then gradually pulls up. Also the "lizard" was used by Joe in his song Ice 9.

this is giving me Dean Winchester Vibes, the way he does this Dean relating facial expressions while doing some of these incredible sounds is actually comedic and entertaining to watch. Love this video in all glory

@cvspvr

9 ай бұрын

who's dean winchester?

@gutbuster678

4 ай бұрын

@@cvspvr a protagonist in a show called supernatural

Running with the devil intro .....lol 😂 😂

Thank you for that split second of kickstart my heart bc that’s where my mind went with the dirt bike one

Dude you're like making some of the sounds I'd hear in inFAMOUS Second Son's soundtrack, I've wondered how they did a lot of that. Great tutorial dog

I love any sort of nasty harmonic, especially when you play it on 2 strings and they really bounce off eachother, oh yeah

Great work. I think you covered them all. No need for a part two.

I hit the like button n sub before u said stop. Awesome vid. Keep it up 🤘🏼

1:56 thank you for doing it

I absolutely LOVED the Bell effect and the Jake E. Lee one as well. I’m an Absolute Beginner and I’m attempting like hell to learn how to play guitar. At the age of 52 going on 53 it’s hard for Me to learn.

@charlesperry671

Жыл бұрын

Keep going though mate, doesn’t matter if it’s 10 mins or 10 hours a day, just practice every day and you’ll have it in no time. Good luck :)

@imdr911

Жыл бұрын

steve you should hit me up...... I just started too at 52... Been playing now about 9 months.

Loved the video, hated the little jump scare LMAO

my favorite is the "spring peeper" a local tree frog. a slow slide up the high E string from pick up to pick up. 🐸🍻

when i was a kid these sound of guitar are the reason why I fall in love with guitar

When you did the dirt bike, I legit said to myself "He may as well start playing Kickstart My Heart" 🤘🤘🤘

What a fantastic Vid!!!! Awesome I've been at it 35 years and just learned a bunch!

this is gonna be my new practice routine now 😅 goodbye scales and music theory

Impressive, I bet Tom Morello wishes he could cram this many obnoxious guitar sounds into 3 mins!

You can also get a bell sound by "wedging" the pick between strings (over the 5th string, under 4th string, over 3rd string) at the pickup area/hole and playing behind the pick in single strokes. This works best with a clean tone or on an acoustic.

Great video! I didn't know you could make all those sounds straight on the guitar!

I'm feeling inspired by some ideas on this vid. With this 14 track original instrumental album plus the loner cover I was gonna base one track on a crazy Asian / ethnic sounding guitar progression on a Nick Warren mix set that had been phenomenally programmed for a trance set but it never goes anywhere other than the parameters of the mix set and would sound better with live sounding drums and backing bass guitar, so with some additional chord progressions what better for a break before the main solo than THE ELEPHANT, will draw on my 7 years in Thailand for this one...

I wonder if you could get a good "Hell's Bells" effect combing the church bell with an octave pedal.

@CameronCooper

Жыл бұрын

That would be cool

imagine a solo only with these sounds! :D

The intro to Kickstart my heart is so good

Awesome. Subbed. That church bell is amazing.

Great video. That Zakk Wylde thing, I could swear her got that from Jake E Lee? It's cool anyhow. I'm curious if you have ever tried to figure out that weird technique that Jake does on the live Bark at The Moon video tour with Jake during his solo spotlight during suicide solution when he flips his left hand over the neck, stretches it out and uses his thumb and pinky to play some cool sounding stuff. Anyway great video thank you!

@venvalhalla5893

Жыл бұрын

Yes inspired the the suicide solution intro...

I can't believe the church bell worked. I honestly thought you were trolling.😄👍🎸🎸🎸

Great production big ups bro ❤

nice, man! it's short enought, fun enought and it inform me enought - rly gokd balance)

rofl never heard the church bell one. Pulled out a guitar to try it and it worked and seriously was like LOL wtf

Cam, you seriously need to do a video on EVH riff from Back to the Future. Ed does some nasty sounds on that short jam.

oooo never knew the dolphin one and the elephant thats so creative. RIP Eddie Van Halen! Up there with the other Legends in guitar heaven.

That was a nice display of your guitars collection:)

The Michael Schenker bell effect was nice.

Very cool. The "elephant" one brings to mind the opening of My Bloody Valentine's "Touched." It's throughout the whole instrumental. I'm assuming it's the same technique, as it sounds dead-on.

One of my favorites is going up and down on the whammy bar and plucking strings behind the nut

The Church bell can be done by taking your pick and crossing it between the A and D stringsso the pick is trapped in between the strings around the 7th 5th or 3rd fret harmonic with a clean tone.

0:45 for whom the bell tolls

There's a simple trick I used to play on friends, and it usually took them a while to catch on. This only works with a floating trem. Tell them you know a way to bend a string and make it go DOWN in pitch instead of UP. Fret the 3rd (G) string at about the 5th fret. Now, actually pick the 2nd (B) string, then bend up on the note you fretted. This will drop the bridge, causing the open 2nd string to drop in pitch. It sounds complicated, but it's dirt simple.

@ingeniouswild

8 ай бұрын

This is also why floating tremolos make unison bends more tricky.. as you also need to slightly bend up the note that's supposed to stay on one of the strings while you bend the other string..

That little video was awesome 👌

Awesome video mate!!! Please drop Part 2🔥🔥🔥🙏

@CameronCooper

Жыл бұрын

Thinking about what to do for a part 2. So much was covered in this

@jadenjacobcomedy6237

Жыл бұрын

@@CameronCooper I getchu bro, loved the whole exotic sounds thing & I'm definitely gonna try it out🔥🤞 Eagerly awaiting Part 2🙏

0:03 POV: dimebag

Love those Charvels! 🎸 🤘🏼

Bravo ❤🎉, thnaks for sharing 🎸 saludos desde Barcelona city ❤

Glad to say all part of my vocabulary apart from the church bell and I never use the Van Halen right hand harmonic thing. I was daft as a teenager, learnt all the noises and tricks first. Later I would teach them to much more accomplished guitarists in exchange for useful bits of music theory. I could do all the whammy tricks of Steve Vai, Brad Gillis, Van Halen, Steve Stevens, Adrian Belew etc but the rest of my lead playing was an atonal mess. I have a good one I still use, getting a natural harmonic, fretting a note on high E a semitone away and then go crazy with the bar. or be subtle with bar,still sounds interesting

1:06 i see what you did there...

This guy is insanely good.

When i was in my early 20s me and my cousin used to make the rock slide sound. 😁

The motorcycle revving at the beginning of the "Bat Outta Hell" solo and the explosion at the end of it.