"I mean, I go through phases of, ‘I like this more than this,’ but it’s mostly hip-hop and metal and that type of shit.” I grew up listening to metal I was in the womb, and my parents would put fucking Iron Maiden on the TV and Judas Priest and shit and Pantera, so I was fed that from a very young age - negative- one, even. Scott: “Rap, hip-hop - I fucking love metal. Yvette, you have the classical influence, but Tim and Scott, what would you say are the genres that influence your writing and playing? Tim: “I think we’re all Guthrie fans here.” Yvette: “I do like Guthrie Govan - I remember someone showed me him in high school, and I thought he was sick.” Tim and I listen to fucking radio music and shit, you know I don’t really go on any more and search the solo guitarists section and see what’s new and upcoming.” Scott: “Unless you’re one of the Gods or Steve Vai or someone and you’re a solo guitarist, I don’t know who the fuck you are. I never listen to it, so yeah, that’s funny.”
And I just saw him play, and I was like, ‘Oh, that’s really impressive’. People are like, ‘Have you heard of this guitarist? Have you heard of David Gilmour?’ or whatever. Yvette: “I never even listen to it! I’m playing catch-up now. Tim: “A lot of that shit is so fucking corny, I hate it. And then, yeah, I kinda just tried to come up with creative ways to just fly around the pentatonic scale, to be completely honest! ”ĭo you consciously try to avoid the typical guitar virtuoso clichés? "As you can probably tell, a lot of our music is mostly pentatonic. He taught me the pentatonic scale, and it was fuckin’, ‘That’s it!’.
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Scott: “My dad taught me how to play guitar, so I feel like a lot of the shit that he used to do I do also. "Rather than the amount of notes, it’s how I play each note, so doing a different set of techniques per set of notes keeps the phrase interesting, versus just playing too many notes and not being able to remember any of it.” Tim: “Again, I like to write hooks, so sometimes the melodies are simple, which is great, because that’s how it gets stuck in your head, so what I do is I flex on the inflection of each note. I grew up listening to metal I was in the womb, and my parents would put Iron Maiden on the TV and Judas Priest and Pantera Scott LePage
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I started playing the way I play because I didn’t have a band I just wanted to sound as full as possible by myself.” Yvette: “My piano upbringing - the two-handed tapping I play, I approach the guitar just how I’d approach writing polyphony on a piano. In terms of the techniques you employ, where did you draw those from, then? (Image credit: Olly Curtis / Future) Technique time
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