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    Things You Can Learn From… Ty Tabor

    Oct 18, 2019 4 minutes

    Difficulty

    10-15 minutes per example

    Tutor Phil Hilborne | Gear used: Ex 1-5: PRS McCarty 594 (left channel & solo); ’95 Fender Strat with Bare Knuckle Irish Tour pickups (right channel); small amount of reverb and delay added to solo in the mix. Ex 6: PRS McCarty 594 (left) Fret-King Corona P-90-style pickup selection (right channel). All examples: Yamaha DG60-112 close mic’d with a Sennheiser e906; EBow Plus used in the solo (Ex 5)

    following Ty Tabor, King’s X and all their associated side projects since I first heard the band’s debut album, way back in 1988. The band wrote brilliant songs such as , and , which all became instant favourites. The distinctive

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