Does Your Personality Come Through In Your Tone and Playing?

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I've found it does for me. When I'm pissed, I'm aggressive as hell, and it shows through in my distortion sounds and playing. Very in your face and to the point, not too much frilly stuff in my playing. Cleans is a different story. I can be a sweet guy, sure, when and if I want to be, just like my cleans. Warm, thick, singing. Playing cleans is that way too, mostly softly fingerpicked, very emotional sometimes classical stuff.

Just a random thought....
 
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idk. i'm always bluesy. i love playing clean in the neck position. often with a wah. when i kick on some distortion, it's just a blues lead kinda thing. and if i get to playing something sort of heavy i'll get to a point where i'm kinda just like... 'ok enough of this'... then click back to the cleans (gotta love em)

also of course it depends if im trying to show off (hehe we all do it)

i don't resort to playing guitar when i'm pissed, i work out. if i'm depressed or somethin is bothering me... thats a different story, i let it all out in my playing.

no need to break those strings!!!;)
 
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haha...I didn't mean I actually play while pissed, but my tone and often playing is agressive, I have a heavy touch, vibrato, and picking hand, and it gives a huge attack.
 
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My guitar playing is the same across each type of guitar. You can tell its me by my licks, regardless of whether I'm playing my acoustic, Strats or Les Paul.

As for whether my personality comes out in my tone, I don't think it does. I think it comes out in my technique. Now, that does affect the tone, but you get the point.
 
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It's hard to say. My personality is very much suited to the situation that surrounds me.
My guitar playing is the same way. I guess, in a very broad way, it does.
Never really thought about it till now. Good post.
 
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Most definitely...laid back, sloppy, kinda goofy...that's my style and tone all rolled up into one.
 
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Hmm I think that I am abit like Joneser...I just try to fit in.
But I guess that I do have some sort of personal style in the mess that is my music;)
 
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People have told me for someone who's as laid back and quiet as I am they're surprised how aggresive my playing can be. I don't know. Must be something in me that's trying to get out.
 
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I'd say so. A lot of what I've been doing lately has been really spacey, lots of delay going on. Playing a lot with delay and modulation effects, tons of fun. I really like creating more of a backdrop in my playing and just flowing over it...use the Big Muff sparingly for a huge variation that really smacks in the face.

I'd say my playing definitely reflects my personality. Normally laid back and smooth, but kind of off-kilter....but at the same time it can get very intense with little notice.
 
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Interesting question. I think so.
ALSO, I've wondered whether the tone quest isn't an effort to replicate a familiar human voice.
 
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It depends on which personality has taken me over on any given day.:13:
 
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I always sound like me...regardless. That's why I'm hesitant to pull the trigger on something like Gearjoneser's Bogner...who wants to hear a hack playing thru one of the finest amplifiers on the planet? Answer....probably just me and my ego.
 
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You know, I don't really know.
I'm not a violent person, but I really like to beat the hell out of my guitar.
You know, just kill kill kill. So in that sense, my playing doesn't really reflect my personality at all.
Admittedly though I'm a little lazy, and that comes out in my playing. I'll forget a part because I don't practice as often as I should, and I just make something up on the fly. I get bored easy too, so that 'on the fly' stuff is also a result of boredum.

So, the answer to your question would part yes and part no.
 
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If i could play well enough to manipulate the guitar in any way i felt then i would say definitely, but my skills arent up to total scratch yet so im very limited :(
 
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I'm pretty much a mimic. I like to get things note for note when playing a cover. Whether my personality come thru in my tone...I doubt it. I'm just borrowing from someone else. My technique...if you can call it that...may have a lot to do with my tone though.
 
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Cory_Dylan said:
i don't resort to playing guitar when i'm pissed, i work out.
Click to expand...

same here, get out the weights and crank the pantera

edit: thinkin about this again, i think its cause i know that if i lose control of my anger a lotta people can get hurt, so i have to find an unharmful way of gettin all the aggression out.
 
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Yeah, right, personality comes thru any rig.

I met a guy a few years ago (now a good friend), at first sight, I didn't like its sound... muffled, lacking clarity... then someday I heard him play thru different amps and guitars, including mine, and still the same... c'mon, he's in a Metallica cover band and he's sloppy... don't want to BS him, but he doesnt make any effort.... so

Now, me, I think I developped my style during my "Cream" years... Clapton from the Cream-era as influenced *alot* my playing style. Lts of pull/push/slides, with liquid picking attack (a part of the so-called woman-tone) and growl. I do like this style. I'm not a shredder at all. And no matter thru which amp/guitar I play thru, yes, I think I sound the same... just better with Duncans :D
 
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