What's up everyone?
Welcome to FAQ 151
Wasn't that the best intro ever?
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Holy shit man I'm at an all-time low
But that's ok, because it's FAQ time, what's up everyone?
Welcome to FAQ 152, yes... great
Oh... Discord Partner
I still have no f***ing idea what that means
I hope you guys are having an excellent day, by the way
And today I'm gonna answer your questions and...
We're gonna have a good time... hopefully
So let's just go, let's just start
The first one is from badblood44
"Hi Ola - I think it's fair to say that you qualify as an internet personality at this time
"What percentage of your true self do you think you display on your youtube videos?
"It's obviously not 100%
"Although you do share a tremendous amount of your personal life with your audience
"At times I feel like I see you catching yourself go full Ola for a second but then hold back
"Because you know you're filming for an audience
"Anyway, just curious, it must be difficult to find that appropriate balance sometimes.
"All the best to you and yours" Wow...
We're starting with a really really serious question I must say
The part about me showing my true self...
I mean, it's basically... this is me that you're watching right here
I'm not portraying anyone other than myself
If it's 100% or is it something else...
What you're seeing right here is probably like... more like 105% of my true self, I would say
It's probably more than... yeah, you know...
When I make these videos obviously, you know, I'm just...
My wife Louise, by the way
Isn't she beautiful?
Oh...
She's gone
She went into the room with the big horn on it
What was I talking about?
I don't know, wasn't listening
She wasn't listening
That's just my wife right there
Goodbye
It's weird to say and talk about this, because...
If people meet me in general and... you know, I'm...
This is basically me when I'm outside talking to people as well, but...
You know, I'm not... I've not always been a very outspoken guy, I'm...
Pretty... usually when I'm in a group full of people I'm usually the quiet one
Believe it or not
But... I just don't like to take space
But when it's me and my camera it's just a lot easier for me to kinda...
You know?
Put myself out there, you know, kinda like just talk
But when I'm with people I talk less
So that's why I think...
You know, 105% is probably a better figure
For who I am on youtube
Showing too much of my personal life...
I've stopped showing too much of my personal life, because I...
I... I mean, basically that's all I have left
You know, my private life
But I wouldn't say I'm holding back
In my videos uh...
I might be holding myself back from cursing way too much sometimes, just you know...
Chill down a little bit sometimes
Some people watch with their kids and I just have to take that into account
So...
Not really holding back
But sometimes, you know, I can't be 105% Ola, let's just say that, I mean...
Sometimes I didn't sleep too well
You know? And then it's hard to kinda have a uppity attitude just as...
Just as much as the past day, it...
Just saying, it's... it's just like day-to-day man
Yes, good question
Petr Slaný
"Hey Ola, never heard your opinion on Damageplan music, what do you think about Dimebag's riffs on their albums?
"Thank you very much, love your channel."
Wow...
Thank you
Appreciate that, thank you
But...
I do believe I've spoken a lot about Damageplan actually
I might be wrong
I might be wrong, but obviously Damageplan are great, now...
If you would compare this to Pantera heydays...
It's definitely not on par
With like the Pantera best days, in my opinion
But I do remember when Pantera broke up
And I was like 'Holy shit man, this sucks'
'This actually blows, that Pantera broke up'
And then I heard a teaser for Newfound Power
Because that was the initial band name, they were...
They were supposed to be called Newfound Power
But then they changed to Damageplan and then I heard that...
They made a teaser like...
Can I play it?
Is that how they played it? Is that how it goes?
I just can't hear it now with this up-tuned guitar
Yeah, whatever, I heard that
And I was immediately super excited for Damageplan
Because that riff was just stanky
It was stanky as f***
And the album is great
Don't create fake news
I'm liking the album, the problem I had is that it's not Pantera
And I was... you know, I was just hoping that Pantera would go back...
And... you know, become a band again
I think a lot of you guys also agree with this, I mean...
We just all missed Pantera
And I guess that was kinda like the problem for Damageplan, when they started touring
That everyone just wanted to hear the Pantera songs
So there you go, I have talked about Damageplan, I...
I kinda have a...
Great
Discord Partner
Codename Cuervo
"What was your favorite SFU..."
Six Feet Under, ok
"Song to perform of all time and from which album?
"Thanks for the great videos, love them all"
Ok, so I think my favorite song to play with Six Feet Under...
Obviously we played like Cannibal Corpse, we played, you know, Hammer Smashed Face and...
Amazing, obviously
But I think the song that I liked playing the most with Six Feet Under was probably...
Seed of Filth
It's from the album Death Rituals and.... it-
Like, the riff that's just so awesome to play is this
But I mean, there's just a shit ton of really good Six Feet Under riffs from the album Haunted
And I mean, there's some really really good riffs in there
But Seed of Filth definitely one of my favorite ones to play, thank you
Cthulhu Awaken
"I have a question for you: when you say...
"The X Company sent me this" you mean they send it to you of their own free will
"Or do you first purchase it, then they ship the item?"
Great question, usually when I say that they sent it to me, they...
They just send it to me
That's what I mean when I say that they send it to me
For the past years, when I've been doing demos for my youtube channel
It's...
You know, companies have been sending me stuff
But I made it pretty clear that a lot of the times I just wanna send the stuff back
Just to not have any obligations or anything like that
And also because I don't want to be biased by the product itself
So...
For instance, the Quad Cortex
That I made a couple of videos of
They sent that to me for free
But I always let the brands know, before they ship something to me
That, you know, I'm gonna be completely honest about the product
If it's a shit product it's gonna show in the video
So basically that's what happens when someone wants to send me something, it's like you know...
I don't wanna have any obligations...
I don't wanna make any promises that I will make a video in the first place
I mean, if I like the product maybe I'll make a video
I just don't wanna be tied into brands
You know, other than obviously my own brand
So I like to keep a little...
Keep a little distance with the brands if I may say so
So there you go
Gregg Davenport
"Hey Ola, how about a review on Orange Amps? Just saying, peace."
Have you been watching my channel?
I have a lot of Orange demos out there
Will It Chug's, regular f***ing you know, comparisons of Orange amps...
Check 'em out, ok?
I know they're out there, you can find them, just google in my channel, ok?
I love Orange amps by the way, they're 'Crate'
No, they're not Crate, they're great
Crate is another amplifier brand, ok?
Piotr Golacki
"Hi Ola, you often say that maybe releasing an album is not very good for a band.
"But don't you think the album format may return?
"It is a pain as a listener to scroll through dozens of singles on Spotify" question mark
"Album format works still really well for Spotify in my humble opinion."
Yes, completely agree
If you listen to Spotify or if you listen to a CD for instance, and you know...
You actually go there to listen to the music
Then obviously an album format is gonna be the best
The problem...
The problem today is that people are not listening to a full CD
Like they used to do back in the day, they listen to the singles, they listen to the radio
All in all, people just have a different way of consuming music nowadays
That differs very much from when I was growing up
I still love the album format
I release my music through album format, because you know...
I like to tell a story
Through songs
This is something that becomes a problem when you release singles for instance, because...
When I release a single...
Everyone's like 'Oh this is good' or... and then I release the next single and it's like...
'Oh this is not as good as the first one'
When you release singles like that...
You kind lose the... the journey
Of the full album
I mean, I like to create journeys in the album, where you feel like ok...
The first song should be accompanied by something that goes up and down... you know...
It's a dynamic flow of music, I would say
And if you release everything as singles, people might not get why you did the song
And you know, some of these songs that are supposed to be like in between songs
Are not meant to be singles sometimes
But what I said about, you know...
Releasing an album is not very good for bands... I think that's more for up-and-coming bands maybe
If you really don't have a listener, then you really are wasting an album
Uh... if you just release an album and you don't have an audience
In the... it's just more important to build an audience first, in my opinion
Otherwise you're... you know, you're really putting yourself into this album, you're working hard...
I think it might be better to just release singles on a steady basis
Just to have a better shot at gaining a bigger audience
If that makes any sense
Just dropping an album...
You know, that's... that's one piece of news right there
Split up the album, like if you have 12 songs then you have 12 pieces of news happening right there
Try to build an audience first
And... I mean, that's...
I think that's the trick
You know, I'm lucky because I started pretty early
With both youtube and you know, my bands and all that
So I can still go on making the album format
But I wouldn't recommend new and upcoming artists to focus on releasing an album
They should focus on getting an audience first
But with that said of course, ok, before you give me shit
Depends on what you want in the end
I mean, if your dream is to just make an album and you're happy with that album and that's it...
Then I'm f***ing happy for you, ok?
Do whatever makes you happy man, ok?
Good, but...
In regards to the singles...
That's just a strategic manner, I would say
Jen Majura
"Do you practice as much as you would like to or do things get in the way?"
Truth of the day right there
Things do get in the way
Like a lot, like a shit ton
Every day
So much that it can go days...
And sometimes weeks without me practicing guitar
I know it's sad to hear, but...
I just have so much shit to do man
And since I'm working so much with you know, guitar...
And you know, I'm doing these and doing my videos playing guitar
You know, when I get home I kinda want to not play guitar a little bit
There are occasions where you know, Saturday or Friday evening
The kids are sitting with their videogames and Louise is watching something on the iPad somewhere
Uh... you know, I take up the guitar and sit and noodle for a little bit
For me, since I'm working with this
I still have to remind myself...
Why I'm doing this and it's because you know, it's actually love for the guitar
Sometimes that gets lost when I'm sitting and recording my videos every day
And you know, you sit and work with everything surrounding making videos or...
Uh... you know, managing a guitar brand
Sometimes you just have to take a step back
And just sit down in quiet and play your guitar
Uh... and I do that sometimes
But then I forget also
But yeah, thank you Jen, I would love to practice more
And I will probably make it so I do practice more, but I don't know how yet
Stanton Lewis
"This is really an awesome channel
"Long time subscriber here, keep up the great work
"Do you make Solar with a reverse headstock?"
Maybe you mean a reversed Reverse Headstock
Which is, you know, a standard regular in-line headstock
Uh... We don't have anything yet, but I'm open...
I'm open to maybe...
Am I open? No...
No, I just like reverse headstocks man
They're just so f***ing kickass, look at that
F***
If a guitar calls for it I would definitely reverse the reverse headstock maybe
I don't know
Thank you so much for your question and comment
Ghetto G
"Hey Ola, as a season player now
"What would be the first thing you would tell yourself when you were starting out?"
Uh... I think I would've told myself and tell myself, my younger self
To practice legato
Because that's basically finger strength right there
Legato will take you anywhere
Just saying
Practice your legato
Don't skip out on the legato practice, just saying
Also, have fun
That's also what I'm gonna tell my young self
Have fun playing the guitar, because that's what it's all about
And if you have fun playing the guitar, you're gonna play more guitar
That's a simple equation and... yes
Arturo Acosta
"Hi Ola, do you by any chance offer any guitar lessons?
"I'm a drummer that is trying to get good on guitars, thank you."
Uh... thank you so much for that
I'm definitely not good enough to become a guitar teacher
I know a lot of people hate when I say this, but I consider myself being pretty standard
Like, mid-tier guitar player
Uh... I don't really have anything to teach
There's so many other great guitar teachers out there, and youtube channels, I mean
Check out Jon, you know, Jon that's teaching me guitar
Uh... check out his stuff on Guitar Techniques
I mean, he has all of that down to perfection, I must say
If you want to become better at guitar playing, but also check out like, you know, Ben Eller
My good friend Ben Eller has a sick youtube channel
Where he teaches guitar
Just... just...
F***ing google on youtube man, there's so many good guitar players and teachers out there
That are way more fit than me
To teach about guitar playing, I don't even know what to say
Play legato, that's what I just said, you know?
That's my little guitar teaching moment right there for you
Play legato more
Thank you
cqnc
"Hey Ola, do you know how I can find some exotic Washburn Dimebag guitars?
"Do you use any kind of website/websites?"
Great question
No, there is no particular website, just you know...
Go to ebay, go to reverb and just hang, man
That's where they kinda show up, I just saw a Southern Cross
On Reverb the other day
For 12 grand
I mean, go join the Facebook groups and just, you know, stay on top of things when it comes to Reverb and...
And ebay, you know, that's how you do it basically
And that, my friends, was the last question, thank you so much
Thank you
Seriously, you guys are amazing
Uh... if you have any more questions, put them in the comment section of this video
And I'll look'em through
And maybe your question will be featured in the next FAQ, how about that?
Thank you so much for watching guys
Also thank you so much for everyone that's watching this livestream
There's actually a livestreaming camera up there
I'm trying it for the first time
Anyways, thank you guys, bye