Guitar Pit Cam Highlights - Kinky Boots

[@glencollinsguitarist]

Some great work here! We are doing this musical up here in Canada for a short run in March 2023. I am looking to your channel to reference...great stuff from both of you. Cheers.

[@DaveBanen]

Thanks Colin was a fun and very complex show!

[@Meme-go9ts]

14:07 that ending of Soul of a man :')... what a beautiful song (and guitar!!). Congrats!! Dave, you've played in so many musicals with great scores, and I see you're truly committed as well as enjoying yourself. It's fantastic. Take care!

[@DaveBanen]

oh thanks very much!! Yes that's a rather epic ending. i really love playing shows .. and not having a single show this year is very tough! Yes that's a lovely guitar- Ernie Ball Musicman "Stingray"

[@joeshaddockguitar9964]

Great stuff Dave, loving the MM collection too

[@DaveBanen]

Thanks :) the cutlass now has new pickups since then and the stingray is at the shop getting a swap right now!

[@willjordan1560]

Oh, that ending divebomb on the whammy bar. Fantastic! 🤘🤘

[@DaveBanen]

Will Jordan haha thanks. I actually stole that idea from the broadway or london version.. can’t remember which. Also don’t try that on a cheap guitar ;) music man tremolos are awesome!

[@Cameron20809]

wow i love those guitar music

[@matthewhernandez5472]

2:13 sounds like the 'unlimited' theme from Wicked

[@DaveBanen]

Matteu sure does!! Should have used an e-bow!

[@richardfrazer928]

Great videos Dave. I have just finished using these as a seriously helpful tool for an amateur production in Tamworth Australia. Final 2 shows today(out of 11!) As has been said by many, keep them up! Hoping to do Mama Mia in May 20 so will be closely checking your videos for that too.

[@DaveBanen]

Richard Frazer awesome Richard! I’m in melb :) hit me up on insta @davebanen

[@lois20]

Hi, I'm about to play my first show (Kinky Boots) and only own an Epiphone Joe Pass and a Boss ME 25 multiple effects box, if I preset the effects called for would that be enough? I can get hold of a solid but never normally play one. This is an amateur production....thanks

[@DaveBanen]

Good luck with that :-) the show definitely needs a proper solid body electric.. I guess a ME25 would work with a crapload of programming. It’s a massive show.

[@lois20]

@@DaveBanen thanks for that

[@andymace7446]

Been waiting for this for ages! Nice one Dave! You da man! Is the click track normal? and on every song?

[@DaveBanen]

Andy Mace thanks Andy! Hope it’s enjoyable.. was hard to know what to include and what to skip.. it’s all so good!!

[@DaveBanen]

Re the click - it’s in many songs.. sometimes it’s for sequences running the entire track (ones with the tick tock tock tock), others it’s just to keep us in time so that drummer can kick in and out loops and know that we’re in time - mostly percussion stuff.. others it’s just purely for the sake of metronome.

[@DaveBanen]

It’s also used quite a few times to give us tempo prior to the track starting. Particularly useful when the start of the track is straight in - no count in from conductor.

[@jordanbarbee3658]

Are you doing guitar 1 or guitar 2 in kinky boots the musical

[@DaveBanen]

Guitar 1

[@ashcollard7728]

Hi Dave, great video. I've been watching a little while now and love getting a look at what goes on in the pit. I'm not a guitarist but a musician with an interest in music (particularly musical theatre) composition and orchestration. In terms of the score you read from, is it typically traditional notation, tabs, or chords, or a mixture? And how much of the instrumentation and technology (e.g. pedals) is notated vs left to the interpretation and preferences of the performers and MD? Thanks in advance and thank you for all the great videos. I'm always lookinh forward to your next upload

[@DaveBanen]

Ash Collard no TAB. It’s a mixture of chord and notation. Re effects, some charts are more descriptive than others. This one was fairly descriptive. But I still had to make a lot up just listened to cast recording and tried to replicate.

[@joethrelfall6370]

@@DaveBanen any stuff you read note for note?

[@DaveBanen]

joe threlfall for kinky boots pretty much everything I’m playing is written.

[@DaveBanen]

joe threlfall in fact for kinky boots it’s 99% note for note. Even down to the chord rhythms. The chart is very very specific and the style of music/arrangements don’t lend themselves to changing it around.

[@DaveBanen]

joe threlfall ps. The only lead solo part that is ad-lib is at the start of the exit music. All others are written.

[@samarmstrong4160]

What pedal are you using at 22:28? Is it a wah left open? Thanks, Sam

[@DaveBanen]

Sam Armstrong distortion and normal wah.

[@DaveBanen]

12:46 start of Soul Of A Man is half open wah though (and distortion)

[@samarmstrong4160]

Dave Banen sweet - thank you! So your opening and closing it between each note?

[@DaveBanen]

Sam Armstrong who knows. Lol. I’d have to play it to tell.

[@TimBeauBennett]

Man, I love your videos - I really like the guitar parts in modern musicals, so please keep them coming. Question re your helix - do you set up a single patch for the whole show and use the pedals/amps like stomp boxes, or are you using multiple presets and/or the scenes? I just picked up a HX stomp and love the sounds, but I'm now super curious about how others are running theirs.

[@DaveBanen]

Tim Bennett Mixture. I often run in 10 stomp mode and use a single preset. Kinky Boots is the first time I’ve ever programmed the show and had a preset per song. Running in snapshot mode, with snapshots for every different sound change. It worked awesome. But a lot more effort to set up.