Crazy Wah Wah Solo Improvisation

[@daniellombardi3670]

I truly adore this video, every now and again, I come back to listen to ir while I study

[@VideosVonDennis]

Wow. Thank you so much. That's a big compliment. I wish you much success with your study!

[@vxkkwins_12544]

High af to this ,thank you!

[@VideosVonDennis]

Happy Trip :) I am glad you like this! Thanks for the comment!

[@simondavid2519]

Music is always better up here

[@hughganis3886]

absolutely beautiful I've listened to this 5 times in a row now.

[@VideosVonDennis]

Wow, 5 times, cool! I am happy if people enjoy my jam sessions. Thanks for your feedback! :)

[@devchoudhary12]

This. Is. Beautiful.

[@VideosVonDennis]

Thank you so much :)

[@giacomocolturato2920]

So emotional

[@VideosVonDennis]

Thank you :) I am glad you like this!

[@bert8004]

lovely

[@VideosVonDennis]

Thank you :)

[@nokori_beats1527]

beatiful playing indeed.

[@VideosVonDennis]

Thank you very much :)

[@mickproper1969]

very nice sound, big up!

[@VideosVonDennis]

Thanks 🔥

[@jermainvillareal2469]

This is beautiful

[@VideosVonDennis]

Thank you Jemain! I am glad you like it :)

[@TheseAreShapes]

damn dude this is actually really good! The wah definitely added to the vibe a lot. I thought it was a premade backing track too until I read the description, that's really professional sounding! nice work man

[@VideosVonDennis]

Thanks a lot. I sometimes just put some chords together to make my own backing tracks... to be able to solo over it. It's really fun to do this... and often results in some experimental tracks :) I am glad you liked this one here, I don't upload things regularly, but maybe I should do this more often :)

[@laynetryba863]

Dennis X yes you should

[@gotohellaaron]

@@VideosVonDennis Really good work here. You should be famous.

[@VideosVonDennis]

@@gotohellaaron Aww. Thank you so much. :) I am happy that I didn't just store ideas for myself with the upload but that some people actually like the recording!

[@jungleman4921]

The best thanks !!

[@VideosVonDennis]

I am glad you like this :)

[@god_6958]

Beautiful

[@VideosVonDennis]

Thanks for the compliment :)

[@marcofalcone7135]

great improvisation!

[@VideosVonDennis]

Thank you Marco :)

[@yeetamanmanjaro9255]

Nice work 👍

[@VideosVonDennis]

Thank you :)

[@tamasputnoki8990]

What the hell! I don't know that John Frusciante uses Gibson SGs. Dude it's incredibly tasty and amazing. Good job! 😅😀

[@VideosVonDennis]

Whoaa, that's an insane compliment. Thank you :) I am glad you enjoyed my recorded jam. Thanks a lot for the nice words!

[@davebruton5731]

Hey , Carlos !

[@VideosVonDennis]

Haha, cool, thank you :)

[@samkilgore7448]

Where can I get this backing track

[@VideosVonDennis]

I probably have the recording and project files somewhere on my HD. But it won't be easy to find it. I recorded several hundreds of backing for myself and I just sometimes pick one randomly and record a solo jam. I sometimes wondered if I should create a separate KZbin channels where I upload my backings because I really have a massive amount on my HD. But it would be another time consuming task... I am lazy, and busy with so much other things in life. Sorry. Can't help you at the moment.

[@zainman1472]

hey man, amazing solo!!! hey is it fine if u can send me this exact jam track, dont know where to get, i also wanna jam on it....its pretty sick!

[@VideosVonDennis]

Thank you Muhammad. I fear that I won't find the backing anymore. I have several hundred of recorded backing tracks that I all gave generic or gibberish names. Once in a while I open one of my own backings and solo over it, and if it turns out ok, I upload the solo. I always wondered if I should create a second channel where I upload my backing tracks, or maybe even do it here... I record way more backings than I do play solos over them lol... for whatever reason. Maybe it's just the fear of losing a chord progression idea or something. I would have helped you, but as it is now, it would probably take me several hours to find the backing and after that we wouldn't even know how to transfer such large file online. I'm sorry.

[@zainman1472]

@@VideosVonDennis np buddy, ur concern was enough for me, u r really kind and keep rocking :)

[@VideosVonDennis]

@@zainman1472 The next weeks when I am in the mood and when I have the time for soloing, I am going to open some of my 2016 and 2017 backings. If I find it by chance, I am going to come back to you and tell you. But can't promise to find it. Thanks for your encouragement. Keep rocking too and have a wonderful time!

[@zainman1472]

@@VideosVonDennis thanks dude 🤩🤗

[@RiotOnlyMakesOpCHars]

Really enjoyed this video ! Id like to know if you could just upload the backing track so others could send you their take on it :D would really love to jam over that track! Greetings from germany !

[@VideosVonDennis]

Hey! Danke! Schön, dass es dir gefällt. Das ist unwahrscheinlich, dass ich den backing track noch habe. Aber ich werde mal gucken. Ich sag unwahrscheinlich, weil ich den in 2017 aufgenommen haben muss, und ich hab erst irgendwann ab 2017 allen fertigen Dateien solch Prefixe wie "JAHRESZAHL YT JAMNAME" gegeben. Und ich hab nun genau diese durchgeschaut und da fehlt genau die Datei von diesem Video hier. Ich denke mal, da war ich noch nicht so sortiert, denn von allen anderen Videos habe ich alle DAW Dateien noch. Vermutlich hab ich mir erst nach diesem Video gedacht "Ich muss etwas Struktur haben und alles akkurat benennen und abspeichern". Es scheint aber auch so zu sein, dass ich noch einen riesen Haufen an Dateien ohne gute Dateibezeichung habe, ohne Prefix und so. Das sind alles Dateien von und vor 2017. Vielleicht ist es da irgendwo dabei. Ich schau das mal durch. Wenn ja, dann sag ich dir hier als Kommentar bescheid.

[@RiotOnlyMakesOpCHars]

@@VideosVonDennis haha habe erst nach meinem Kommentar gesehen, dass du ebenfalls aus Deutschland kommst. Oh man das mit der Ordnung kenne ich 😅 also brauchst dir wirklich nicht die Mühe machen nach diesem speziellen backing track zu suchen höre mir einfach deine anderen Sachen an und melde mich wenn mir diese zusagen 👍 danke erstmal für deine Mühe !

[@VideosVonDennis]

@@RiotOnlyMakesOpCHars Hehe. Ja, bin im Internet meist mehr auf Englisch unterwegs :D Angewohnheit, weil ich eine Englische Webseite bzw einen Blog habe, und die Videos meist auch dort teile. Deswegen KZbin meist auch auf Englisch die Titel und Beschreibungen, mit die Leute mich auch verstehen. :D Ok, ist trotzdem Interessant mal meine Dateien durchzustöbern. Sind ja alles Backings die ich aufgenommen habe um sie irgendwann mal verwenden zu wollte. Vielleicht inspiriert mich das auf der Suche. Vielleicht finde ich es ja trotzdem, aber ich lasse mir Zeit weil das viel zu viele sind. Ja, sag bescheid wenn dir was anderes gefällt, ich guck dann, dass ich uploade.

[@seekeyk]

Very nice, listened to a couple of times) what chords are behind?

[@VideosVonDennis]

I had to research the first chord myself right now because I don't know all the names of the barre chords at the neck, since I usually just try chords out, and I also don't write my ideas down but rather record them. But I found out the first one is a B Minor. So, it goes B Minor (7th fret), A (5th fret) and then E (standard). The A is played in 5th fret barre (E shape).

[@seekeyk]

Dennis X that's very interesting.. As far as I see you are soloing with Minor Pentatonic.. Isn't it?

[@seekeyk]

Key of A?

[@VideosVonDennis]

I have a hard time with music theory. In what key a song is, that's something I still don't get even if I watched tons of videos of people trying to explain it. I would have assumed this song here is in the key of B Minor because it starts with B Minor. But I learned it's not that easy :D Yeah I think it's Minor Pentatonic but also here I am not sure. I learned Pentatonics before I actually knew the word Pentatonic. I sat there as a child, listening to instrumentals and using my grandpa's Stratocaster trying to be a solo hero lol. It must have sounded awful, but at some point I discovered which strings sound good to which chords. Just a year ago is when I looked into theory and found out that I played Major and Minor Pentatonics all the years. I play by ear, this comes with advantages and disadvantages. I can come up with a song in a milisecond, I can solo over it in the next moment... the disadvantage is however that I can't communicate with others who make music as well, if they are into theory. :D It's like driving a car without a drivers licence :)

[@seekeyk]

Dennis X that's so cool you can play without bothering the music theory details.. I also a self taught guitar player, but I found its very useful to understand the basics.. Looking forward for next videos)

[@seekeyk]

Btw, for you have an expression pedal or its just Amplitube Wah in auto mode?

[@VideosVonDennis]

I am in the market for an expression pedal, I want to buy one some day. I'd much prefer to create the wah with my food live in the moment I play. At the moment I have to edit it in. AmpliTube has an AutoWah, but I don't like the results. In this case I basically used a Wah-pedal in AmpliTube but edited Wah envelope in manually afterwards. Ironically I just wanted to use the Wah-pedal to get a squeaky kind of distrortion sound, not so much because of the Wah... so, when I tried moving that software pedal with my mouse, it was like "Yeah, sounds pretty interesting" and I went through the whole song adjusting the envelope to make it sound as if I used an expression pedal.

[@seekeyk]

Dennis X ah.. Now I got it.. Do you record in Amplitube as well? Didn't know it's possible to apply Wah you already played it. I disliked auto Wah as well, therefore I got quite chip M-Audio expression pedal from Amazon (16 EUR).. And tried it yesterday. So far results are not that good.. I wanted to check other videos and search results brought me here)

[@VideosVonDennis]

No, all the recording is done in Ableton Live, which also makes it possible to edit the Wah afterwards. That's possible because in the Amplitube VST you can assign most of the knobs to parameters that you then can reach within Ableton Live. From there you can then do all kind of fancy automations by creating your own envelope curves. In my case it's a bit tricky because I draw the envelopes with my mouse and re-listen if I am happy with it. It would be much easier with midi mixers, keyboards, or as you said expression pedals, if you assign this hardware to the parameters and just record the envelopes. But as said, it works with the mouse too. That's why I like DAW's like Ableton.. it's not just about tracks, but you can actually edit all parameters of VST's individually in each track. I barely do it, but in the case of the Wah-pedal, and without expression pedal, it made sense because I wanted to get that Wah sound. Yeah, I know what you mean, sometimes you can get good results with bargains. For example, all my songs are recorded with a cheap Behringer UCG102 interface... it somehow works. But I got some cheap things too that didn't impress me. Thanks for sharing your experience, I could have fallen in this trap as well, because I need one in the future too. I guess that's a piece of hardware where we might need to spend a bit more. Thanks for checking my channel out. Funny that this search term brought you here. Do you plan to upload guitar videos too?

[@seekeyk]

Dennis X You know, reading your comment I realized I need so many things to learn and understand.. I own electric guitar for years and I never really learned how to play) I re-watched this Wah video, it's crazy. I've been inspired and uploaded a very short video.. It quite some time ago, back in winter. But I plan to start to upload things I like to do. Cheers man, great conversation ;) Berlin Winter Blues (Amplitube GoPro) Improvisation kzbin.info/www/bejne/m3-Woot6iqqEipI

[@VideosVonDennis]

I am looking forward for your uploads. Subscribed and you got a comment over there :) And I think you are already better than you think... You're trying to play chords and solo together, that's not beginner stuff anymore ;) And if you continue, you will improve further. The thing is, we never learn out. I don't consider myself to be a good guitar player even if some of my friends say that. We will always put the yardstrick higher. With guitars there is so much to discover, to learn :) Awesome that you enjoy playing the guitar too.

[@LucaYourself]

interested in doing a remix? I could edit your (really nice) playing with kind of electronic music... like a feature.

[@LevitatorMusic]

just say wah

[@VideosVonDennis]

Wah :)

[@seekeyk]

Hey Dennis, hope you are doing fine! Again, thanks a lot for inspiration with this video.. I decided to record the track I was working lately. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eKGnZmOHnNaZbtk Will be very happy to get some tipps and trick from you :) cheers!

[@VideosVonDennis]

Ok I will take a look.