EWI Solo 1 (Paul Kerry)

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"Paul Kerry demonstrating the amazing versatility of the EWI 4000s... This is part one of two. This is the start of the recording. Part two is probably slightly more interesting than part one. I made this recording because I wanted to record the riff so that I would not forget it. It's currently just a work in progress and I'm developing on the idea at the moment. (A version of this piece was played at Whistle Binkies - I now call this piece "Finally Live") The only instrument being played is the EWI. No drum machine, backing track or external equipment. The EWI is hooked to the amp via a radio transmitter. The instrument sound I'm using on the EWI, is one of my own custom settings that I designed to be an 'electronic didge'. This is the instrument that 'lacollll' referred to as my "grandma's fartophone". The sound was designed to be very 'quacky' and responsive to changes in breath because I wanted to use it, as I am doing in this video, with didgeridoo playing techniques. This particular version of that sound has the EWI's delay added to give me a form of 'note-repeat'. With the delay enabled, I can then play both the rhythm and the melody by alternating from one to the other, the delay keeping the rhythm going while I play a bar or two of melody. I normally prefer to play this sound without the delay because I like the response of the instrument and playing it clean gives a clearer impression of the way the instrument behaves. The technique used to make the sharp 'quack' is hard to describe accurately but it's based on the traditional didgeridoo playing technique called 'pulling'.

Didge players often describe this kind of playing with the syllables 'do-ro do-ro' as this approximates the action of the tongue. This tonguing technique is what I am using to create the rhythm. The sharp punchy quacks from playing this particular sound with that technique is the noise you are perceiving as a drum-beat. The effect is enhanced by the fact that it is layered by virtue of the EWI's internal delay. What you are hearing is purely a result of a combination of the EWI and playing technique"