Surf Guitar Basics

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I've been wanting to dive into some surf techniques for a while, and finally found the time to throw this together. It's raw, unfiltered, and unedited, like a real guitar lesson. The three T's: tone, technique, taste all covered along with some cool breakdowns of popular surf tunes.

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  • @James-z1z
    @James-z1z8 сағат бұрын

    Very clear and concise and no better sounds than rockabilly surf and punk music from the gutter have a surfliner deluxe on order after watching this video and hope to pull some mind bending stuff out of it

  • @zoomankat
    @zoomankat2 ай бұрын

    Fab Pink Guitar ,Fab Playing,Fab Lesson.Surfs Up.

  • @jeromelemaitre3202
    @jeromelemaitre3202Ай бұрын

    Very nice tone !

  • @ricklanders
    @ricklanders5 ай бұрын

    Great video - learning surf and this really helped. Thanks Harvey! Watching rockabilly vids also, great stuff, subscribed!

  • @jimdep6542
    @jimdep65425 ай бұрын

    Great video and really cool guitar, perfect for surf. I wish I could find a lefty model like that !

  • @MatthewSmith-fy5hk
    @MatthewSmith-fy5hk5 ай бұрын

    Great video, sir. Thanks for taking the time to put it together. I could prattle on almost endlessly about the virtues and versatility of surf rock. Suffice it to say that its just plain cool. Currently, my favorite surf acts are The Aqua Velvets, The Mermen, Daikaiju and Los Straightjackets.

  • @ndguy13243546

    @ndguy13243546

    5 ай бұрын

    I will check out the aqua velvets, I haven't heard them yet. I was just playing a los straitjackets tune a minute ago called new siberia lol, great picking workout. They are killer. I really been digging Los Twang marvels lately, I think they are from Brazil. Man are they ever just rocking my world. It's cool how surf is an international affair these days. Such amazing and melodic music.

  • @MatthewSmith-fy5hk

    @MatthewSmith-fy5hk

    5 ай бұрын

    @@ndguy13243546 Final Wave For The Day by Bambi Molesters came up on my playlist today. The reverb drip is the drippiest.

  • @Greenjagsurf
    @Greenjagsurf2 күн бұрын

    I love the progression at 1130 with the links built into the chords! Its the essence of the surf simple elegence. Simple but not simplistic. Thanks for posting this! Can you write the name of the song at 1130? Its hard for me to hear it

  • @Texturas75
    @Texturas753 ай бұрын

    Thank you for this video and the information given! I love this kind of music. I enjoyed your rockabilly video as well, but this music is much easier to play!

  • @Ray_Wood_1984
    @Ray_Wood_19845 ай бұрын

    😊👍 🙇‍♂️💓🍀🎶 Thanks. Sounds good!

  • @Woozy.0
    @Woozy.05 ай бұрын

    I'm a Jaguar guy, but this was right up my alley. Great work! I'm kicking myself for not grabbing a deal on the anasounds reverb when i had the chance. Those things are cool! 😎

  • @ndguy13243546

    @ndguy13243546

    5 ай бұрын

    I love jags, GC had a baritone squier jag classic vibe that I almost took home a couple months back. I should've got it.

  • @jimr5793
    @jimr57935 ай бұрын

    Nice vid!

  • @leonardohaynanmacielfranca905
    @leonardohaynanmacielfranca9055 ай бұрын

    Just bought myself a Jazzmaster today and got your video's rec. Meant to be! haha

  • @ndguy13243546

    @ndguy13243546

    5 ай бұрын

    Congrats on the JM. I love mine, so comfortable to play

  • @user-mb6zz8we8i
    @user-mb6zz8we8i5 ай бұрын

    Dude....nice t-shirt!!!

  • @bradjones940
    @bradjones9405 ай бұрын

    Great video!! Apache was originally done by the Shadows. 👍

  • @ndguy13243546

    @ndguy13243546

    5 ай бұрын

    For sure, I should have mentioned that so thanks for putting that out there. I love both versions.

  • @Southernguitar74
    @Southernguitar745 ай бұрын

    I’ve been toying with surf guitar for a little while now. I really dig the sounds. I’m using a Gretsch 5420t w/Bigsby, Fender Hot Rod deluxe, and I use an Analog Alien Rumble Seat pedal. It is a pretty great combination. I really dig the jazz master sound you are getting here. Nice playing and well explained video. I really enjoyed it. Sub’d

  • @ndguy13243546

    @ndguy13243546

    5 ай бұрын

    I was playing with this guy in FL for a time in this awful bro country cover band a few years ago, and he had one of those hot rod deluxe amps and I played through it whenever I'd be at the other guitar players house to practice dumb songs about trucks and beer and whatnot, and I have to say that I loved that amp. It did the clean fender thing I expected but also was a great amp for dirty stuff. Great amps, and the 5420, that's like THE gretsch. But I have my eye on those penguins and white falcons too. Gretsch has been hitting it out the park since the days of Chet Atkins.

  • @BushidoPhoto
    @BushidoPhoto2 ай бұрын

    Can you share your setting on the Surfy Bear? Thank you!

  • @bentramer682
    @bentramer6825 ай бұрын

    I saw the Killer Klowns shirt and knew you had to know your stuff.

  • @ndguy13243546

    @ndguy13243546

    5 ай бұрын

    Haha, man somewhere in this house I have a KK ray gun and a mask. Spirit Halloween got a bunch of my $ when they did their KK feature a few years back.

  • @MightiMouse3930
    @MightiMouse39305 ай бұрын

    Loved this tutorial video. Do you have tabs available?

  • @ndguy13243546

    @ndguy13243546

    5 ай бұрын

    Thanks! Unfortunately I don't have tabs written out for this stuff 😔

  • @skaldlouiscyphre2453
    @skaldlouiscyphre24535 ай бұрын

    And if I add more distortion this becomes a black metal tutorial. Or more so, add preamp distortion, have zero power amp distortion and put the reverb after the distortion, it becomes very similar to black metal. The whammy bar while you play chords reminds me of shoegaze.

  • @ndguy13243546

    @ndguy13243546

    5 ай бұрын

    Some of the modern surf stuff borders on hard rock levels of gain, Hawaii Samurai, and Daikaiju come to mind, also Phantom of the highway by Los Twang Marvels sounds like a fender amp on 10, it's pretty rad. Dick Dale pushed his amps all the way up too live.

  • @skaldlouiscyphre2453

    @skaldlouiscyphre2453

    5 ай бұрын

    @@ndguy13243546 Interesting, I'll give those all a listen. I'm already a fan of Hawaii Samurai based on the song titles. I'm not sure if you've seen any of riboflavinmusic's stuff, but he has a bunch of covers of black metal songs in the style of surf and it's interesting how close they sound, outside of the shift in the nature of the guitar distortion and the drums being in half time. It's a bit of an old meme (surf rock covers of black metal songs) but there's definitely some similarities that make it work well. I think that how the distortion is achieved might make a difference between the guitar tones. I assume the surf guitarists would use Fender amps cranked until the power section distorts, rather than throw an HM-2 with everything dimed in front of their amp.

  • @masterofreality230
    @masterofreality2305 ай бұрын

    Been trying to play surf on my Gibson Les Paul lol Its not terrible, but I think I need the trem bar. My Ventris reverb does pretty good job on reverb though, it drips. Cool video though.

  • @ndguy13243546

    @ndguy13243546

    5 ай бұрын

    I've always wanted a black lp with p90s but I just never pulled the trigger on it. Danny Gatton used a LP back in the early days and he played ever style in the universe on that thing. Gibson has LPs with f holes and a bigsby, those are pretty rad too

  • @scarytrout8648
    @scarytrout86485 ай бұрын

    What was the Am-G-F song? Pintour?

  • @ndguy13243546

    @ndguy13243546

    5 ай бұрын

    Yes. The version I'm playing is based off of Hawaii Samurai recording of Pintor. Not sure which album of theirs it is on, but their record called "the shape of surf to come" is killer, and every song on it is a home run. Sounds like they record most of their tunes with the amps absolutely cooking.

  • @GILLYGILLYGILLY
    @GILLYGILLYGILLY5 ай бұрын

    what was the name of the song you played and the artist? I couldn't hear the pronunciation properly

  • @ndguy13243546

    @ndguy13243546

    5 ай бұрын

    at what time in the video?

  • @davedavid7061

    @davedavid7061

    5 ай бұрын

    Miserlou?

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