keller williams technique?

im so into keller's guitar playing, but i cant figure out what he is doing to get that unmistakable sound. does anyone know? he is certainly VERY different in style than anyone i have ever heard. i just saw him live a few weeks ago and he looked like a total blur, i couldnt make out what he as doing really


the looping stuff doesnt really interest me. its amusing, but i think his real talent lies in simple guitar work

 

You're right, it is completely different...what the hell is he doing?

 

its mainly due to his right hand. he has an uncanny ability to pronounce the notes within the chords by playing fragments of the chord at a time. the speed in which he does it makes it almost sound like he's not playing chords at all and is what gives him such a full complex sound.

 

yea i was thinking along those lines. thats the way i like to play too. i wanna be the next keller! lol


but is he using a special guitar? like a 12 string maybe.



know any similar guitarists who you can recommend a listen to?

 

Yeah.. it's a 12 string... a Guild JF30-12... he takes the top octave E and the bottom octave E off for sharper harmonics and tunes down a full step.

I'm working at the same style... it's all rhythm. It isn't your fretting hand or your strumming/picking. It's both... and it's mostly speed and rhythm in unison... and lots of hammerons and pulloffs that takes a lot of strength to do at that speed.

 

By the way... Keller uses everything from six to 16 string guitars...

For an idea of it, listen to credit card song on my site. I'm still working at the sound.

http://www.soundclick.com/georgesnow

 

i call it finger dancing!!!!

 

double post oops

 

hey orsino...i checked out your stuff, its real good!


your only 15? fuck i wish i was that your and playing guitar. didnnt start til i was 18, 2 years ago. you have no idea how i much i wish i had played guitar when i was a kid. you lucky sunamabitch

 

i too have to give props to orsino!!!!! great playen

 

Hahah... oooh... thanks. Wow.. I always seem to underestimate myself.

 

i remember listening to your stuff a long time ago george, you're quite a musician.

and keller often does an upstroke - strumming the strings backwards, picking them out backward, etc. work from there and i think you'll start getting the feel.

 

Never noticed the upstroking so much before. The way I do it is with a metal dunlop thumbpick.

 

he's not fifteen yet!


haha... sowwy george, i just had to tell everyone. but it makes you look even cooler.

 

go to www.ibiblio.org there is a video of of a Keller show on there. Maybe you can slow it down and get a closer look.

 

yeah... but I only did that because I didn't feel like updating the site for my birthday in about 11 days.

 

haha, i'm gonna learn to play the birthday song on the recorder by then! recorders are awesome... haha... but lyres are better!!

 

yea you do sound a little pre-pubescent in those recordings HA

 

cant find it. post the actual link?

 

Can't find it either.