Yvette Young | Approaching Guitar Like a Piano | Artist Toolkit

In this edition of Artist Toolkit, Yvette Young from the band Covet talks us through her approach to playing the guitar. Yvette uses a riff from the Covet song "atreyu" to demonstrate the use of 2 handed tapping, using effects like compression & delays and the importance of practising with a metronome.
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Chapters 🎬
0:00 - intro
1:34 - "atreyu" riff
5:06 - tips for playing "atreyu"
8:00 - tips for tapping
9:22 - using effects
10:28 - final tips
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[@sgmarshall3]

For someone so brilliant, she seems very down to Earth and normal. This was really cool!

[@bassfingers]

A modern-day guitar treasure.

[@fender4brad]

One of my favorite guitar players, have you noticed there’s not a lot of covers of her music? 😂 very creative, and out of the box playing!

[@ottovonb60]

Love music. Don't know anything about how it's created. Watching Yvette is like witnessing some kind of crazy witchcraft. That's just one reason it's so wonderful - the mystery. I don't have the faintest idea what she's talking about but I sure do enjoying listening to her explain it, and create it. Cheers.

[@nickhayes5471]

As a guitar player I watch you play and just think wow where does it come from, so unique and unlike anything else I’ve heard 🎸🎸🎶

[@umbraydn]

I've been drumming for a long time now, but I also took guitar in high school so it's always been on the back burner. Watching and learning more about the technique Yvette uses really helps me approach guitar in a completely different way. Her and John Browne are two of the biggest influences for me - their playing is so percussive that it sometimes feels like I can play the drums on the fret board. And Yvette's approach to melody is just insanely inspiring...music is just the coolest thing.

[@yuan_yuan275]

Your technique is truly amazing. And yy10 is the coolest guitar!!!!!!!!

[@Phadddy]

Awesome tips, thanks so much!

[@bwolfe2559]

That is beautiful (atreyu)

[@bmg696]

Your playing is so unique and beautiful!

[@ObsidianLife]

...Love how you play! So good!

[@justinorange8903]

Legend 🔥☀️🌿

[@travisjanz4738]

I love seeing these modern electric guitar players using finger style in the main spotlight it makes me feel like less of a noodler knowing the pick is overrated.

[@kzelmer]

Yvette is a treasure

[@user-xt3ec6oi6o]

I had said this same thing to my grade 9 music teacher, it's just layered

[@fffw2355]

Beautiful sounds, you can combine with piano too

[@fordhammie]

What a beautiful gift to share with others.. I AM GRATEFUL for your donation into the universe!

[@lefujyou]

Wow that is beautiful music and a Bay Area girl, love it❤️☮️✨

[@willft520]

Yvete Young is pretty amazing, I'm not gonna lie.

[@gadymarcus2362]

Bella/linda.👄👄👄👄👄👄🌡️

[@kubricksghost6058]

It's a REALLY cool way of playing! I love the harmonies but I wish it had more crunch(metal type of distortion and rhythms)

[@rede5426]

Study Blind Blake / Rev. Gary Davis if you want to play guitar like a stride piano.

[@jrbattista193]

Van Halen was a hard rock shredder. Great of course, but the tapping here seems more complex - EVH had women in love and little guitars intro but not much else was polyphonic. Apples and oranges - both styles great though

[@landonrice8360]

Im CONSISTANTLY awestruck by guitarists like her, i have such trouble even understanding simple melody, so when i hear and see someone demonstrate their skills like this I get a little overwhelmed... but hey maybe i'm just musically mute

[@funkyfurballs1078]

Great video! One of the best of Yvette!

[@QBRX]

Wow, this level of playing takes a musical savant.

[@SomeOne-uy4kj]

Bottom line: you're making a sound. The ones narcissists who get in your face and tell one they're not playing this and that right..pay them no mind. And I like the sound she makes. Cheers!

[@dsvet]

Stanley Jordan did this decades ago.

[@vincentlussier8264]

Yep! But we all learn from others!

[@dsvet]

@@vincentlussier8264 yeah bit at no time did she acknowledge that. She acts like this technique is something new

[@notclosing8485]

What if you don't know how to play piano either? 😂

[@eddiel798]

Great guitar tapping but doesn’t resemble a piano.

[@johnbrown4568]

Or...how to make a guitar sound...NOT like a guitar. I'll skip...very talented player though.

[@owlperchedsilo3745]

put the guitar away and just play the piano Yvette!