Too much burps in your latest vids, they are no fun.Do you try to change your audience to teens or something?
Stop the burp
Yeah, I know I've been burping a lot so I'll try to stop.
You know, I'm only human. I'm not gonna stop, okay?
Hey guys, welcome to a new FAQ video. This is probably the earlies FAQ I've ever recorded.
It's 8:01 o'clock a.m. Maybe you can see it in my eyes, but it's really early because I have a meeting soon.
I have no idea why I told you that. It's like, just to make you know that I'm important or something.
So just a quick little update: in the latest FAQ video
a lot of people reacted really awesome by the way for me reaching out to Steven, who has cancer
I just want to let you know that his brother made a comment in that video
And if you didn't see it, here it is, somewhere. Here probably
And yeah so, again, Steven if you have
Steven, if you manage to learn a riff or two using my plectrum, send me a video, okay?
I'm looking forward to it.
Okay, first question.
"Love the guitar covers. At this time, you have released the Crystal Mountain cover, which is freakin spot-on
"I've been debating doing a similar kind of thing
"I was wondering does YouTube or anyone else give you trouble about covers or try to take them down?
"I've heard horror stories. I hope you keep making them, but myself I get a little intimidated"
Well, most of the time when you upload covers
YouTube has an algorithm that recognizes music, okay?
So, for example when I uploaded the Crystal Mountain cover
You know, Sony music or whoever. No, something else ... claimed the video.
but basically all that means is that all the revenue
like the ad revenue of people watching that video goes to the record label
And that's perfectly fine. That's the way it's supposed to be
I mean, I'm playing someone else's song and the artist should get paid for that video view.
I've never experienced a video being completely taken down when doing a cover
But most of the time it's just that the record company claims the ad revenue, which is perfectly fine.
That's how it works. I mean, artists need pay, okay? Same for me.
"You know where is Cyprus? Come here in the summer and let's drink some beers."
Yes, I definitely know where Cyprus is. It's like ...
Right outside Spain somewhere.
I know, it's outside Turkey, sorry. I just tried to be funny. I f***ing failed
"Have you ever wanted to do a collaboration with any other youtubers or other touring acts?"
No. I mean, I hate every other youtuber.
Other than me.
"You're kinda cool man
Kinda? ...
What the hell kind of name is that? Turkey Trail honey bee farm Georgia
That's a great name by the way.
"Thus thee great one maketh the sun falleth down, Morte Et Dabo" Okay.
Serious.
"To be serious, are your Solar going to be on Thomann or even 4sound? Just cause I also live in Sweden"
If you haven't seen it already, my guitars are available through Thomann.
You can go there and buy a guitar already, see?
It's not all bad
No, it's just you know, Thomann is a really big act, it's good for us.
And you can still buy guitars from our website. It doesn't matter for us. So, yeah.
I don't know what hand movements to do here.
I don't want to get in trouble, so I don't want to pull like a Phil Anselmo or something like that
I just want to wave my hands and not do the ...
You know, the wrong one.
Very dangerous.
"Hey Ola, what are your thoughts on artists who have been with a company for years (EMG, Daddario)
Switching to another company (Fishman, Ernie Ball) just because they think it's better."
Well, if they think that the equipment is better, I don't see a reason why not.
I mean, personally I would like to rep stuff that is good
but I think what you're referring to here is when you have like a long relationship with a brand, you know
There's a loyalty going on and yes, in my opinion, loyalty is worth a lot more than just hopping in between brands.
One of those brands that I consider me being very loyal to is a brand like Seymour Duncan, for instance.
I mean, they were very early in acknowledging me and my YouTube channel
They sent me a lot of stuff and I really appreciate that.
And that's something I really value myself, this really good relationship I have with that brand
and I know there are other brands out there with great pickups
It's just that, you know, I'm working with Seymour Duncan, I like him.
Obviously, for Solar Guitars we will have other pickups as well. Do not worry. Do not worry, okay?
What are my thoughts?
In some cases you see when an artist just hops to another brand
because of that brand kind of, you know, getting popular or maybe there's money involved
It looks a little cheap I must say
but I mean, then again, this is what we do, artists need other types of income
They need help with gear. That's just how it is. That's ... today is kind of ...
Musical industry for you, so do not be alarmed
"Hi Ola, do you edit your videos yourself, or you have somebody do it for you?"
I do it myself right now, because I don't think that there's anyone who would catch my humor
Other than me.
But I would probably need some kind of help with editing, because editing takes a lot of my time.
And I know guys like PewDiePie, they film, send the videos to someone who edits and that's it basically
But I want to have my points come across in the right way. So I want to edit the videos myself right now
But yeah, maybe in the future, if I really speed things up, maybe I'll need someone, you know.
Oh, wrong computer.
Oh, that's a great question right there. What the hell happened?
Okay, I hope it wasn't a good question.
"Hi Ola, my question is really stupid. I'm 31 and all the time I wanted to play guitar
"but always shit happened and I didn't manage to do it
"My question is: isn't it late to start playing guitar at my age if you want to achieve something as a musician?"
Why is it too late?
I mean, guitar is about having fun. At least it is for me. That's why I started.
You know, It's a fun instrument when you get into it
it's a very rewarding instrument that, if you practice, you know, you usually see results pretty quick
And in that sense, it's a very rewarding instrument, so dude, just pick up the guitar already
It's a lot of fun and who knows, maybe you will make a musical career out of it. Who knows?
PS: I play keyboards
Then I can't help you, sorry.
"Can you play muted legato? It's a very cool technique often used by Rick Graham.
"if you haven't heard about it, you should check it out"
Of course, let me find a guitar real quick
Quack
A real quack
By the way, you should get one of these from my website
It's a guitar pick compartment.
And that's where I keep all my picks and my Evertune key, but the Evertune key is gone
So I guess it does not work that well.
But you can still go to the Feared band website, order a pick-tin like this
you get six dunlop picks that I use, okay? So, yeah.
What the hell? What happened?
What the ... ? What?!
You're drunk.
What is going on? Those faders are way too long. Oh, there it is.
What the ? Where am I?
Okay, so what you do with muted legato is the same as when your palm muting, you know
You put your palm here and then you do a legato run and it sounds something like this
So, the cool thing about muted legatos is that you get a lot more percussive
and almost sounds like you're alternate picking, you know, so
Oh, I need to practice
The cool thing is that you can also, just like with palm-mutes with chords
you can adjust how much palm or how much muted the note should be, so you can get them really muted like
So that's very cool. Obviously I'm not as good as Rick Graham, the master of guitar playing, but yeah.
I do know about muted
Legato.
"There's something distorting/glitching or something in your voice in this video"
What? No, that's probably just you. Just check your monitors, there's nothing wrong with my video.
"Hola Ola, do you read sheet music?
"And you think it is important or essential to a guitarist learn how to read sheet music?"
I do not read sheet music
But I write shit music.
And I've never got an opportunity where I've had the need to be able to read sheet music. So ...
No, I've never needed it and I don't think a guitarist would ... you know.
I guess, like always, it's good to know. It's always good to know. That's what everyone says.
Just like theory, it's good to know because it helps you out
I don't think you need to learn how to read sheet music to have a good time playing guitar.
"Hola Ola, I know you already said that you're a death metal guy, but what do you think about other genres?
"Let's say power metal or neoclassical or whatever. You have some songs or bands you like?
"I was just wondering if you're one of those 'if it ain't brutal, it's shit'
You know, I I just like metal, I like everything
As long as the songs are good, I listen to everything
The reason why I say death metal all the time, is because I love to see people's reaction
when I say that I play in a death metal band
so, you know, it's kind of fun when you go to school and
You know, I talked to other kids' parents and they were like 'Oh, what do you do for a living?'
Ah, I play death metal.
And then I just go silent and it becomes awkward. I love doing that.
So yeah, I like to use the term death metal a lot, because I like how it throws people off
You know, regular people, not metal people. Metal people, they don't care.
It's the regular people I'm trying to make feel awkward.
"Hey Ola, sorry to bother. Are you able to play guitar and sing at the same time? My brain can't seem to handle it.
"Cheers from Canada."
Yes, I do sing and play guitar at the same time. Look.
Yeah!
"You're truly a gift from the Gods"
You don't say.
"Hello Ola! You say 'you know' a lot, did you know?"
I do know.
I'm trying my best not to say 'you know' all the time, but ...
You know ...
"Why do you use Mac for producing?"
I've used Mac and Logic since 2002 and you know ...
I have a really good workflow with Logic
I don't want to bother myself with learning another, you know, musical program or anything like that.
And, you know, I like Final Cut Pro, I like Mac in general, I have an iPhone ...
So when you have everything Apple, it makes a lot of sense to run Mac OSX and all that.
So yeah, that's just why. It's a good system when you're in it.
Sometimes I get annoyed with it, but then I just start my gaming PC
and I, you know, instantly remember why I switched to Mac in the first place
"Hey Ola, have you ever thought of making gaming videos? Knowing you love video games."
I've done a bunch of gaming videos to be honest, where I review metal albums.
You can check it up. I'll throw up a link up here, okay?
And ... you know, I did the videos, but it takes a lot of time to edit those videos
and the response was not as big as I would hope, but maybe I'll just do another test sometime soon, okay?
because I love making them. It's just, like, it takes a full day just recording it
because it's just a lot of technical difficulties just capturing everything
Capturing the gameplay, my sound you know. It's just a big old hassle.
Okay, that was the last question.
I think there were a lot of really great questions this week and it makes me really happy
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