stop sending me hate mail over going electric!

 

marissa anderson is really cool

she does american primitive on guitar

if you are not in the know that's just like

instrumental bluesy-folksy-fingerpick-y sorta classical guitar stuff

it inspires a lot of my playing

actually you can see me play here, although i think most people who read this know

https://bsky.app/profile/guitar-hater.bsky.social

sorry to clout shark

but yeah

she does that, and it's traditonally acoustic guitar

but she does electric and acoustic, so do some other artists

but her in particular i like

because she has made me play electric guitar for a day

after not touching one for months, like 6 months i think

I really zeroed in on acoustic for a second

and also got a really beautiful brand new taylor 212ce

well i chipped it up a little already with metal fingerpicks but you know

it's my favorite guitar

that's not interesting though

what I want to talk about is marissa anderson's tone

it's so pure

it's almost like a synth, just raw sine wave

but with the acoustics of the finger on the string

and just that purity is interesting especially since

i've been trying to seperate the guitar and some vocals

so i can process my god awful singing

and I think there's something interesting in the idea

of like a shoegaze fingerstyle

anyways

the raw sine nature of her tone, it's so unvarnished

like so fucking raw it feels like the way you can hear the wood of those old acoustics in really old blues recordings where it's all high end

but it's a different sort of material so the rawness is very different, the low end is so interesting

and the sustain is wonderful, as well as the ability to apply compression

but just the way you don't have to strike as hard to play as loud

it lets my playing become looser, and i appreciate that

i guess this was half about switching to electric from acoustic, that's right folks I'm going electric, well switch is a very permanent word, i'm just interested in electric again

everyone is up in arms!!