If you ever listen to Hillsong United live you’ll notice some spacey sounds going on with the electric guitar like “whale sounds”. Usually it takes some coordination between one or two guitarists or with a synth player. However, you can do a lot of this on your own for example Kenny Butler (Matt Maher www.mattmahermusic.com).

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This next article on is on Delay. It’s meant for beginner to mid-level worship musicians. Advanced worship guitarists might benefit out of this too.

DL-4 Delay

Delay, as you know, replicates the initial sound and reprocesses it. You can usually dictate the amount of repeats (how many times the signal is processed again), the length inbetween each repeat, effect level (how loud the repeats are), and on more advanced delays add some modulation. Modulation adds either Chorus or Tremolo to the effect.

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Every electric guitar player will employ the use of an overdrive or distortion pedal. It’s a signature sound of today’s music. In worship it gives a song some lift, edge, and excitement. There are also very many other techniques where you can employ overdrive like an ambient fuzzed droning type of sound. As guitar players we just know it’s a cool sound. Read more…

Here are some places we’ll be playing at in the next couple weeks.

May 2 – Youth in the Holy Spirit at the Vietnamese Catholic Center (Harbor/Westminster)
May 23 – Santa Clara de Asis (Yorba Linda, CA)
May 30 – Call 2 Serve

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