Truefire – Jeff McErlain’s Kings of Tone

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Learn how to fine-tune your gear, touch, and tone to sound like the pros.

We begin our hunt for the Holy Grail of Tone the instant we plug in our instrument. We investigate the digital and analog landscapes with Indiana Jones-like determination in search of the ultimate mix of guitar, strings, amps, pedals, and other assorted doo dads. We seldom succeed. Indeed, it appears that no matter how hard we work or how much money we spend, the prize we desire eludes us. Most of us spend a lot of money on gear and other rehabilitative therapies for GAS, the obsessive compulsive disease that affects the majority of guitarists (the most effective cure being TUMS aka Time to Unload My Stuff).

One of the most important realizations we have along the road is that tone is shaped not just by gear, but also by the physical relationship between our skin and the guitar itself. Larry Carlton is an excellent example; without touching a dial or a pedal, Larry’s lines transition from pristine, bell-like melodies to those wonderful, singing, driving lines for which he is famous. Yes, he plays a $40k Dumble, but it’s really all about “touch,” as he’ll tell you.

If you’re ready to believe that “tone” is influenced by both gear and touch, you may be one click away from a treasure map to your Holy Grail of Tone. Kings of Tone delves into the gear and effects formulae of twelve masters of tone, explaining how to replicate them with your own gear, as well as their unique approaches to “touch” and creative phrasing.

While our ultimate goal is to discover our own “voice” and characteristic sound, we must first study the masters in the same way that they studied those who came before them. Jeff Beck, Jimi Hendrix, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page, Billy Gibbons, Dickey Betts, Duane Allman, The Edge, Angus Young, David Gilmour, Keith Richards, and Mark Knopfler’s techniques, touch, tones, amps, pedals, guitars, and setups are all examined in Kings of Tone.

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Jeff McErlain, a NYC session musician and instructor, is your Professor of Tone, and his standing-room-only courses on the subject attest to his knowledge gleaned from years of tone investigation. “I intend to explain the tonal aspects of these twelve musicians by sharing the knowledge I’ve gathered by studying them and dissecting their techniques, touch, and rigs over many years.”

Kings of Tone is NOT about learning to play these masters’ characteristic licks (although you will pick up many that you will add to your bag). Rather, you will learn how to “channel” their unique tones, rigs, methods, and approaches so that you may intelligently construct your own “sound” and/or replicate these players’ tone while covering them live.

McErlain leads you through a configuration of amp settings, pedals, and other technical modifications for each of the twelve Kings that you can apply with your own gear to bring you in their approximate tonal ballpark. Jeff then provides a series of courses designed to express the artist’s touch, feel, and creative approach. Use this information to imitate the artist’s tone or to mix and match the gear and style of many musicians to create your own sound. Kings of Tone also contains all of the playing examples’ tab, notation, and Power Tab, as well as the practice rhythm recordings Jeff used to explain the examples.

Do you want to learn how to modify amps and pedals? Do you want to learn how to play in the style of Beck, Hendrix, Gilmour, Clapton, and the other Kings profiled here? Are you ready to master the link between touch and tone? Kings of Tone has it all!

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