Guitar as a Textural Device: Wurlitzer Electric Piano Sounds

Neck pickup, light overdrive, and tremolo. Always been one of my favorite sounds.
I remember the days when you could buy a vintage Wurlitzer electric piano for like $300.
Now they're around $5K.
OOF.
Hrmmmm maybe I can get that vibe with the tools I already have.
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Silvertone 1484
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Cloudlifter sweetwater.sjv.io/k041az
ART Tube Preamp sweetwater.sjv.io/DKWZbn
Tascam Field Recorder sweetwater.sjv.io/PyzvrY
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Soundtoys Tremolator sweetwater.sjv.io/k04PL0
Thanks for watching!

[@MusicEnthuZone]

Amen to there being a guitar channel that's not about the 'hit licks'. I have no need to shred, not even incriminating documents.

[@philipbrister]

Your dedication to those old silver tone amps is inspiring

[@joeltemple2159]

Eric I've been playing a long while and I love how you are guided by soul to nail your technique and theory. Thats what the greats do. Love your stuff

[@azbluesdog]

Your awesome stereo mix is not lost on my failing ears. Hearing aids by day, headphones by night. I'm not deaf (or dead) yet!

[@PedroBellora]

Amazing sound, vibe and playing! I loved it! Thank you so much, Eric, this is outstanding music!

[@jon.wilson]

12:36 you can also check out the intro to Robin Trower's "I'm Out to Get You" for dreamy harmonics

[@Mindwave416]

that Epiphone man. I see it in the thumb and i gotta hear it! Youre a legend!!!

[@robbieg5538]

Beautiful Eric, giving me those Riders on the Storm vibes.

[@koenvdv30]

This series is a great to watch every episode! Really interesting how many possibilities there are with a couple of pedals and great playing :D

[@taylorriner8253]

I'd just been playing with a bunch of different Wurly (and Rhodes) sounds! Your timing is always impeccable, Eric

[@drewmckenzie3415]

Great tone! I love that Wurlitzer sound too! I do that sound every once in a while at my church gig

[@BenStolz]

I can’t watch your videos without aspiring to learn as much theory to be able to express myself on my instrument like you do. Your glorious tone (and the beautiful stereo trem when listening today) does t hurt either. Thank you for all you do. You space is bright and aspiring, too :) Cheers!

[@fredhystair5789]

Always top notch. Always. Thx Eric

[@macsarcule]

Thank you, Eric! Your lessons and presence are such an important part of my Friday. It’s time I signed up for your Patreon. Thank you for sharing your time with us and for being in this planet. 🎸💜🙂

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yay! Thanks for keeping me in business!

[@tylerl8353]

Cool , inspiring Eric, funny I just got a boss tremolo and I have a 2010 Gibson Firebird with a Bigbsy... I am going to give this a go. Much thanks for doing these. Friday fun days.

[@ianherdt8144]

YOU MADE THE VIDEO!!! YOU MADE THE VIDEO ABOUT THE RHODES WURLITZER ESC TONE!!!! OH MY GOD I WAS HOPING WE’D GET THIS SOMEDAY!!!! THANK YOU ERIC!

[@adamcraneguilford6236]

Awesome deep and inspiring tones, you have given some thought into los tonales suave!

[@typewritermark]

so awesome and relaxing.

[@blues61]

Thanks man. Going to setup my rig to emulate your sound in this lesson. Thanks for the reminder about your chord on chord lesson and I love that epiphany about the guitar being tuned to E minor pentatonic..

[@sandem100]

Nice chilled vibe

[@bartdekroon9493]

Cool video, as always, Eric! Another trick to simulate a wurli piano is hitting the lower strings (with a pick) around the 12th fret, which gives the notes a similar attack

[@bartdekroon9493]

... with the side of a pick, not the tip

[@mishiknezevic5102]

Keeps mi alive

[@troytempest290]

I liked your video & my life feels somewhat enriched for having viewed it.

[@RobertSlover]

oh man loved the brightblack morning light reference! music made by people tripping for people tripping.

[@ThibaultKV]

Super cool!

[@benjaminlowe3126]

Fantastic as always. Thanks for the inspiration, but now I feel like I need to get a tremolo pedal haha. Hey I think you mentioned making a video about fingerpicking and your personal take/reasoning about it. I'd love to see that video if it's still something you're considering. Thanks for the videos each week, love em!

[@jameskowalkowski2334]

WOW - Freakin awesome!

[@station2station544]

Love it as always, E. The ongoing battle of a piano player trying to grasp the absurdity of guitar shapes splattered on the fretboard vs linear and.logical. haha

[@fleedoop7404]

So wise, love your advice man

[@timothy5974]

I’m very excited about 02/23/22.

[@clubpresident]

Great vibe as always. I think approximations of instruments on other instruments tend to make something more interesting than the original. Kind of like old string machines becoming desirable for their unique sound, rather than for just being a keyboard that sounds like a real string section. Thanks!

[@jeremyacker8566]

Nicely done! I've been searching for how to do this w/o Key 9 pedal for some time. Thank you!

[@mattgilbert7347]

Gorgeous tone, chilled-out playing, another great lesson - what more could one want? Any excuse to run two Tremolos gets my vote :) Gonna try harmonic trem pedal to my little Laney amp with the Vox AC15's onboard trem, sit back and play through these ideas and, even though it's not Friday a damn fine slice of 🍕 Thanks, Maestro!

[@SuperRbert]

That brightblack stuff is magical. It slows time down.. so my life gets longer when listening to it.

[@RobertSlover]

music made by people tripping for people tripping.

[@Sooby007]

Love it

[@nighalator]

Good stuff man, ‘

[@mgie22]

Jam sounds like parts of Dark ⭐️

[@SuperRbert]

Everybody daylight is a great and groovy album

[@ClassicRockLivesOn]

This lesson was like if Waylon Jennings got really spaced out. Also the finger thing from Inglorious bastards was when a German officer noticed they were spies because when they held up their fingers for drinks, they used their three fingers, instead of a thumb and two fingers like a German would do... or something like that.

[@charlielamson3883]

Be well Eric. I’m on the train outside of Dublin, IE.thinking about guitar as a textural device and eating chicken. Yes.

[@ericruddphotography]

Does Bob Ross come to mind for anyone else? Enjoy your vids. Nice work.

[@GuitarJawn]

The tone reminds me of Mark Speer of Khruangbin. Thanks for the video

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

He is such a great player! Nails EVERYTHING in his own very understated way - that's 100% my favorite kind of guitar hero.

[@vdub1959]

love the tone and vibe Eric! I have a Fender Pinwheel rotary effects pedal with 3 different roto modes. Very cool and stereo outputs and expression pedal jack too. Very cool!

[@RobertSlover]

gear is irrelevant!

[@charlieleonardo]

Cool 😎

[@alanhaynes418]

Hi Eric - I'm lucky enough to have a '69 Wurlitzer 200, but sometimes I try to get that type of sound on a guitar, because a guitar makes you come up with completely different ideas, that I'd never come up with on the Wurlitzer. Then I might transfer that back onto the Wurlitzer. I've found that the best guitar for the job is a Gibson 335, on the neck pick up with the tone rolled most of the way down. Into a valve amp, it's possible to get more 'bell like' as well, which moves more towards a Rhodes.

[@LightenupandshootMikey]

Remember you were going to do a Lanois video? Lanois does a lot of textural stuff.

[@hekotodo]

Very nice video as always. Thx again. (something for you: Last Boat by Rudy de Queljoe. From the Netherlands)

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oooh cool I’ll check it out!

[@robertbodle2354]

It's getting more value-added as you go. Not sure if peeps realize how much you pack into a lesson: technique, tips, insights, theory, philosophy.

[@dharmapieces3305]

~ greetings from germany ~

[@davidwalker41]

G-E-D-E re-arranged = E-D-G-E...from the Edge. Mere coincidence?

[@mattgilbert7347]

*casually blows mind*

[@smalllicks]

Nice ....

[@HandyL]

That is the next guitar that I want! Firebird firebird firebird. Wish I could afford an Epiphone, I'd steal a Gibson if I could, waiting for the DIY kit to come down below 200 quid. Hell yeah What I'd Say :)

[@WyattZelle]

What kind of pickups are you thinking of putting in? I have Seymour Duncan Antiquity FB pickups and it's jangle city for days.

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Ooooh yeah antiquities! Tombrantleyrewinds.com is a family friend so I’ll probably ask him - he does all my pickups 😎

[@natetheannihilnater1886]

The wurlitzer piano reminds me of a clean fuzz more than an overdrive sound. Im sure it depends how you set it though.

[@zachkaeser8320]

The three finger gesture is from Inglorious Bastards when Michael Fassbender's character blows his cover in the bar scene by ordering three glasses of whiskey using his thumb, index, and middle finger (the British way?) instead of using his index middle and ring finger like a German would do. Such a tense scene!

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Yeah! That’s the scene I was thinking!

[@BrunoVernay]

Did you eat some juicy pizza before recording? Anyway, visually your setup is very nice. I don't know if you made lots efforts into arranging the room, the plants the colors, but it is very nice. Thanks

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Oh yes believe me when your apartment is a KZbin thumbnail you think about decor A LOT! Luckily I’ve always been into that sort of thing so YAY

[@michaeldematteis3409]

@@EricHaugenGuitar me too man.love it

[@richardlynch5632]

Fun😎👍 😎👍❤🖖

[@fivecat]

"These three fingers" are the number three in American Sign Language.

[@mantashaft]

Is that harmonic trick used on Baracuda?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

YUP 👍

[@mantashaft]

I get a gold star?

[@timothy5974]

No that can’t be an Epiphone😳edit. So I’m a strat guy and I recently was lent a very sexy Gibson lesPaul and wow. I’m not able to afford a real Gibson, but have been thinking the Epiphone 59 limited Les Paul, but didn’t know the quality of Epiphone. Happy Friday. I ate pizza yesterday. 🤷‍♂️🤟👍🤣

[@misterknightowlandco]

The high end epiphones are great we’ll playing instruments that sound great. The downfall of epiphones are their resale value compared to their Gibson counterparts. If you buy a new Gibson and decide to sell it you’ll get more of your money back compared to buying a new epiphone and selling it. I’d say find a used 59 epiphone in good shape. You’ll have a great guitar and be able to get your money back if you change your mind.

[@timothy5974]

@@misterknightowlandco hey great to hear your thoughts. I know the resale would not be good, but I never sell anything, drives my wife crazy. I have the opinion that I will just donate all my music gear to another musician coming up the ranks. Have a good one. 👍

[@petergoddard1960]

Those Epiphones are great and all, but for just a little more you can get the Gibson Les Paul Tribute (or for even less, the very cool and more rootsy Les Paul Special Tribute, go for the P90 version it's excellent).

[@timothy5974]

@@petergoddard1960 thanx,I will look into those. Thank you.

[@mattgilbert7347]

Epiphone quality control is maybe more consistently good than Gibson.

[@mantashaft]

EHX Key9 is an option

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

EHX always with the cool devices!

[@mantashaft]

I have a B9 and Mel9, so it’s hard to justify more, but I admit I wouldn’t mind having that as well. I don’t play keys and I love being able to produce those tones with my ltd guitar knowledge

[@bertonedes]

It's a custom made Firebird?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Naw! It's just an early 2000s epiphone! (check the description box below the vid for all the details)

[@ACircadianRhythm]

What power supply is eric using on his pedals?

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Voodoo Labs Mondo 4x4 (the strymon pedals always require extra)

[@ACircadianRhythm]

@@EricHaugenGuitar ah heck I feel blessed for the reply, this thing looks awesome might have to get this over the truetone

[@headlandfestival3237]

Algorithmically relevant comment.

[@alimay2221]

Good luck with that wine stain Eric

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

Hahahah it’s actually red clay - I was doing yard work and knelt down because I saw a tiny frog!

[@MG-js1ix]

Tone.................

[@michaelmarshall55]

FINGERS make the biggest difference - as Zappa says, brown picks dont make it….

[@nickdouglas373]

I love the video!!! Do not waste another day - P-R-O-M-O-S-M!!!

[@R3TR0R4V3]

Cool video brother, but this doesn't sound anything like a Wurlitzer at all..not even close. Don't get me wrong.. It's a great sound, but it just sounds like a guitar, which is fine. 🙂 Besides sounding like a guitar, the tremolo is all wrong, as stock Wurly tremolo's doesn't phase, or pan back & forth like that. Of course, there are drop-in, aftermarket solutions for those type of effects, for Wurlies, but that's a whole different subject for another day. I actually have a real Wurly, a '76 200a in avocado green (which I'm probably going to sell this year), so I'm just speaking from experience. It's a very distinct, unique sound, which isn't easy to emulate, even on a modern keyboard, let alone a guitar. I'm not hating or anything, just keeping it real. Much love, and thanks for all you do on here.. I really enjoy the videos! 🤘

[@EricHaugenGuitar]

I’m aware I’m not being a purist about this 🤓 It’s always hard to title this vids! “ ....kinda Wurlitzer ish explorations and chord voicings...”