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It hasn't really changed a lot in the last few years, because playing live we're playing the guitar sounds from those albums where I was using them. I've got a kind of schematic in my head of what's going to sound good in what order. I was staying at a little apartment with basically no gear, and I had my guitar with a synth pickup on it and just my computer. On The Less I Know The Better, it has a wonderful tone to it that almost sounds like a Rickenbacker, but I think I've read that it might actually be a guitar that's pitched down. "But I've gone back to that way with guitar.

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There are quite a few YouTube videos discussing how to get the "Tame Impala sound, " but what people really respond to are your songs and melodies. There are heaps of guitar parts I've recorded where it's just through a digital Boss multi-effects thing, but it sounds vibe-y. "It's not important that it's high-quality. You've got to be hearing it and feeling it while you're doing it. I haven't really needed to change it up in terms of what's on there. Tame Impala - The less I know the better. Find a way to enjoy it. Label: Modular/Universal Fiction Interscope. I just hate the idea that they think that that's important because it's not. If it gives me the feeling I want then that's all I care about.

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I think it's really important. "But the bass guitar on The Less I Know The Better was this P-Bass preset on the guitar synth, which actually sounds terrible.

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That might be why I love them so much, because it's that combination of happy and sad at the same time. "I'll start a song and keep working on it until I have a moment with it. We're going along a scroll bar, if you like. It's such an expressive instrument. I just played what gave me the feeling that I was trying to get out of music, and it was later that I learned about 7ths and 9ths and chords like that. The guitar I had with me that day was, I think, a Stratocaster, but, you know, it doesn't really matter what the guitar was because the sound is so synthesized. Do you have any words of advice for those bedroom producers or musicians out there who maybe feel like they don't know what they're doing? "I was kind of just riffing in the traditional sense of the word. I've written songs before where I didn't even know that they were in there, and it can be that I'll have stock major and minor chords, but then there's a melody over the top that makes major 7ths. When it comes to recording guitars, though, his approach concerns itself with capturing the final sound live: "It's got to have the character that I'm intending for it while I'm playing it. So, you've just got to find a way for it to be fun, find a way for it to be fulfilling. Going back to what I was talking about 'not really knowing what you're doing', the guitar synth has a great way of bringing that out because it sounds like something else, you know.

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Sometimes I'm not even aware I'm doing it, because that's what I naturally gravitate to. Are you still using the Boss BD-2 Blues Driver, the Electro-Harmonix Small Stone and Holy Grail? "Well, it used to be the only way I knew how to write songs because guitar used to be the only composing instrument I knew how to play, and the only instrument I owned. "Everything you hear – the organ, string synth, guitar, bass guitar – is all just guitar synth. I think I've read that you record guitars direct through the Seymour Duncan KTG-1 preamp. Every sound on the first two minutes of the song is the Roland GR-55.

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I definitely didn't finish it with an idea that there was a concise message at the end of it. "It's a guitar synth. I'm not really a snob with chords. It's just me singing about what is relevant to me.

There's something about playing a riff or playing a guitar part on top of the recording, doing overdubs or whatever. Lyrically, The Slow Rush seems like someone taking stock of where they are. I like to have all the effects and stuff running when I'm recording it. Can you talk about their appeal to you as a songwriter? I still don't know what the answer is, but the only thing that remains true is that, if you enjoy doing it you'll just keep on doing it, and it will naturally get better. Can you talk a little about the recording and how you came up with it? Frequently Asked Questions. But I had this idea for the song, and I had to get it down. So, you're not recording and reamping the clean tone later?

Track: Bass Distortion - Overdriven Guitar. "So, I just did it there and then, and that's the take you hear. Have you found over the years that you use the guitar more or less as you're composing? To me, it conveyed the sense that the future can be better than the past. "If it's something that you've got to do enough times to get really good at, whether it's playing guitar or songwriting, it's very difficult to get there without it being fun. I do it without even thinking. Again, it's that thing of not knowing what I'm doing.

Guitar is kind of sacred in that way where it's got to sound and feel like that while you're playing. It just wouldn't be as fun, and I don't think it would get the best guitar parts out of me. But the bass synth is just this bass guitar modeler that you've got with the guitar synth. "Obviously, a big part of the Tame Impala sound is the dreaminess of it, which again was never a decision in the beginning. I've just loved them since I could play one, and I've loved using them. I think I'd write a lot more music [if I did]. There's something about playing guitar, and if it sounds like Jimmy Page you feel a bit like you're in Led Zeppelin when you're playing it. "I've rediscovered the joy of just trying random shapes and seeing what happens. And then you can decide whether you like it or not. It was the chords and the melody that I had, and I just recorded that bass. Because fuzzes can be so big physically I'm trying to keep the real estate on my pedalboard down a bit so it doesn't take up the entire stage, you know? It's pretty important.