Ariel Posen Interview | Headway, Fuzz, Guitar Lesson and more! | Thomann

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Ariel is a guitar player's guitar player. But also just a regular guitar player, tone master, slide player extraordinaire, and singer songwriter, that managed in only a few years of solo work to draw the attention of the charts and John Mayer alike, who points him out as one of his favourite guitar players. Just that.
I'm super excited to bring you our little chat here, where we talk in length about his second record Headway, the songs and sounds that make it, the gear used in the process and the theory implied in his songwriting.
Stick around until the end for an exclusive performance as well!

Ariel's music, merch and dates:
- https://linktr.ee/arielposen

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Recorded and mixed with Universal Audio: http://tho.mn/uadx1
Monitors optimised through Sonarworks: http://tho.mn/sonar

Interesting bits and pieces:
0:00 : Introduction
0:28 : Let's GO!
2:26 : Headway as a more personal record
4:28 : The tunings used on the record
6:47 : Sounds like EVH playing the ukulele
9:30 : Ariel's fuzzes and octave fuzz
10:28 : Hudson Elec. Broadcast
11:40 : Eventide H9 Filter
12:05 : Mythos Argo
13:15 : Using the room mic as a boost?
14:15 : Balancing the fuzz with the clean
14:57 : Textures, tension and release
15:18 : Fuzz as an always on pedal
16:45 : Ariel's favourite chord progressions
18:08 : The I-b7-2m recipe
20:31 : Get in Ariel's head to write a guitar part
21:23 : The basic chords
22:02 : now that's just ridiculous...
23:14 : he did not just come up with that...
24:45 : Guillaume is lost both for words and theory
25:33 : The lesson in that: LESS IS MORE
26:10 : The same notes with regular guitar shapes
27:14 : More wisdom
27:39 : I'm lost for words and blown away and need to wrap up the video to go hyperventilate
28:40 : Ariel's solo performance of "Carry me Home"!!

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