Scott Paul Johnson
patreon
Office Hours Q&A 212 | Buzzing guitar, effects pedals, kick drum pedal
🕑 Added 2025-07-30 13:00:04 +0000 UTCNew here? Wondering where to start? Click here for my Patreon start page, or here for my recommended lesson plan.
Hi Everyone,
You missed this one, but you can always catch the next one every Thursday at 10AM Pacific Time.
Here are the timestamps for this one:
Question 1: Tasha was trying to figure out a buzzing guitar situation. I went through the troubleshooting steps, and talked about how to use a noise gate effectively
Question 2: Lauren was looking for a 10,000ft view of effects pedals
Question 3: Davin was curious about these things - a stop box kick drum
Here's how it works: bring your questions to the comments below, the Office Hours community forum thread, or save them for the live chat! Questions can be about anything you want - guitar technique, music theory, gear, songwriting - your choice! Also, feel free to link a video of you playing if you have a technique question!
I'll do my best to answer your questions and give examples of how you develop skills related to your question.
Keep in mind, you can always watch later if you can't make it live! Check back a few hours after the stream for a numbered list of each question and a timestamped link to each answer.
*Please note: you may need a youtube/gmail account to ask questions in the live stream, but you can watch without one.
Check out the Lesson Archive for more Office Hours Live Streams
Other helpful links: • Scott's Recommended Lesson Plan • Searchable Lesson Archive • How to Join the Community Forum • Scott's Jam Tracks • Scott's Main YouTube Channel
Comments
Scott Paul Johnson
Ah shoot - missed your question. But, it's pretty straightforward! If your open string is part of the triad, you can play it. For example: An A Major Triad consists of A, C#, and E You could play an open A or one of the two open E's A G Major Chord consists of G,B, and D That means you could play the open G, B or D strings Does that make sense
Scott Moore
Hi Scott, when learning to play triads throughout the fingerboard, how can one know when I can grab an open string? Any advice?
Lauren Wise
What I mean to say, in Garageband, both these guitars sound exactly the same raw.
Lauren Wise
Related Logic/garageband question: I never owned any pedals and don't really know the difference between like "fuzz" and "distortion" for example. I especaily get lost in the different kinds of reverb and modulations, etc. Can we do a 10,000 foot view of these. More importantly, I can't get the actual "tone" my guitar has into the computer...it always loses what my guitar "sounds" like.,,what sets my Reverend apart from my Electromatic, for example. How do you capture that?
