Chords for The 10 SCARIEST Sounds To Make On Guitar

What's up everyone?
Mike here from The Art of Guitar.
Today here with a bunch of scary
sounds that you can make on the guitar.
Pardon my voice, I just got over a bad cold.
But
had this inspiration, had to race to the studio and make this video for you.
Let's just count
down, I think there's about 9 or 10 of these tricks that you can do on the guitar.
And
I like to use these live just to create some chaos sometimes.
Very little effects that
you need, mostly distortion.
Whammy bar helps.
And then a few of these you might have to
have a certain kind of guitar for them to work.
But overall these are generally things
that people can do.
If you ever want to cause chaos before a song, just go ahead and turn
down your distortion.
And then a lot of artists do this, including Eddie Van Halen.
You just
tap the back of your guitar neck and it causes a little bit of rumble to happen.
And depending
on your rig, it can sound very chaotic if you're playing through a huge amp.
_ _ [Em] _ _ _
So where
you take the side of your pick, and instead of doing a normal pick scrape that just comes
all the way down, you just start on the first fret and you slowly bring the pick up.
So
use distortion with this one as well.
[F] _ _ _ [A] _
[A#] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
It's more of a ripping tearing type sound, but
it's pretty cool.
If you have a decent tremolo system and you bring the whammy bar all the
way down, you can hear the strings hitting the pickups in a very slacked way.
Tool uses
this very well.
But it sounds kind of spooky. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ It's really cool to use this after a dive
bomb. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] That's how the end of the world's going to sound.
First time I heard a band do this,
I think it was Korn.
And you're just using two harmonics that rub together in a very
crazy way if you use distortion.
And we're going to use the third string fifth fret and
the second string seventh fret.
It creates this really crazy harmonic dissonance. _ _ _ _ _
So
I believe in their riff it was used like this.
_ _ [D] _ _ [Em] _ _
_ Speaking of dissonance, this one is [F#] a little
more able to be controlled.
This is also a Korn thing, but a lot of bands have used
this.
Everyone from Sepultura.
You'll hear this a lot with just certain guitar players
that want to use unison bends to their fullest.
So a normal unison bend would sound like this.
_ _ [G#] Almost all of our artist series we have a unison bend in there.
They're very popular.
But if you just under bend a little bit and just keep picking, you get this really crazy
fight [A] between frequencies.
Frequency fight.
[E] _ _ _ [A] So you probably hear a lot of tool sound in
that.
Now if I just unbend it a little bit more and then bring it back up, you hear the
frequencies fighting faster and slower.
It's very interesting.
[Em] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ You can make the sound of
a growling dog, a rabid growling dog, we'll call it Cujo.
And what you do is you slide
up and down a string, but as you slide up, we're going to push the whammy bar down.
So
it sort of evens out, but you still get the sound of the frets moving a little bit.
[F#] _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ [F#] _ _ [E] Okay volume swells are really cool.
If you just go like this, fret a note really hard,
and then bring up the volume, you get that cool effect.
It's sort of like a bowing effect.
[B] _ [C#] _ _ _ [D] _ [F#] _ _ [A]
However what I like to do is I like to hammer on, bend, and as I'm releasing the bend, turn
up the volume, you get this sort of ghostly sound.
[F#] _ [Am] _ _ _ [G#] _ [D] _ _ [E] _
_ _ _ [A] You can also reach up if you're [E] in
the middle of a solo, and just hit these top strings right here.
So you have the strings
above the nut.
It creates this harp-like sound. _ _
Or backwards.
_ _ _ [N] Okay if you have a whammy bar,
you can take the whammy bar off.
Some come off easier than others.
And then basically
you have like a makeshift slide if you want.
You can put it on the strings and move it
around and it acts much like a slide does.
So you can just touch it on the strings. _ _
_ _ _ Sounds
a little bit like a possessed robot [C] or something. _
[A] A droid.
_ _ _ _ [A] _ _
[E] _ _ _ [F#] _ And we can't forget the classic Black
Sabbath trick where you play the E string but you pre-bend it by pressing.
Once again
behind the nut here we're going to be playing, and we have the string bent, and we let it
go slowly, and you get this sound.
_ _ [D#] _
_ And it sounds twice as scary if you add another guitar
doing the same thing over the top of it, like overdubbing. _
[E] _ [D#] _ _ _ [F#] _ _ _ [D#] _
_ So those are some freaky sounds
you can make with a guitar.
There's more that you can do, a lot more with effects pedals,
but I really wanted to show you what you can do with minimal effects just at the spur of
the moment if you're playing live and you want to freak people out or something like
that.
So try them on your own, tell me if you have more,