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- Hi everybody, My name is Pancho Cia.
I'm a guitar player and producer from Argentina.
Today I want to share with you some examples
of how I work with different guitar layers
for the arrangement of a song.
I always tried to record electric and acoustic guitars,
with different techniques and rhythmic patterns
in order to give the song different texture.
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I usually start with the main guitar
and once I have it ready,
I start building everything around that main idea.
Okay, so...
For this song, I'm going to start with an acoustic guitar.
During the verse I'm going to do a basic pattern
and during the chorus, I'll duplicate the pattern
in order to add some rhythmic gestures.
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Okay, so....
Now I'm gonna duplicate the same track
with the same arrangement,
and I will give like a wide open stereo feeling,
panning one to the left and the other one to the right.
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That's it with the basic pattern.
Now we're going to record some whole notes
and long chords for the other chorus part.
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Okay.
So I'm gonna duplicate this track too.
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Okay, so now I'll start recording the electric guitars.
I'm going to start with a palm mute technique.
It's going to be like a rhythm kind of style guitar.
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Okay, so I'm going to duplicate this track too.
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We now have main acoustic guitar.
We have the long cords.
And we have the palm mute.
Okay, so now I'm going to record
another track of electric guitar
and it's going to be like,
an amp going through, uh, reverb with high mix.
So it will... it will be like a bad effect.
I will record it just with the, with the click.
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Okay, so here we have our main guitar,
and I will be adding the other tracks, other layers,
little by little
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And that's with all the track.
And the lead guitar.
In the next video,
I'll be giving you some tips on
how I work with EQ and compression and effect,
in each on of the tracks.
Thank you Fender for having me
in this episode of Technique of the Week.
I hope you enjoyed it.
And see you around!