Chords for BOSS RC-3 Loop Station — Dave Weiner Demonstration

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my name is [G] Dave Weiner.
I am here at Boss [E] USA in lovely [Eb] Southern California
today to talk about their loop pedals, specifically the RC-3, which I'm a big fan of, and we're
gonna get [E] into why.
But just a little bit about myself, I've been playing guitar for
about 25 years.
_ I graduated from Guitar Institute of Technology and have gone back since as
an instructor, and I've been playing in Steve Vai's band for the last 13 years.
I've got
solo records out, I've got a fusion band called Visible at Night over on the East Coast
based out of Philly.
And so I just wanted to tell you a little bit about me before we
get [Gb] started here, because the experience that I have has taken me through many different
learning processes, and of course through a lot of different gear to help that learning
process.
And _ the loop pedal has become a staple in the way that I learn.
These loop pedals,
and I have tried all of them.
_ I can say in my own opinion that these things loop better
than anything out there.
[E] The quantization is absolutely amazing.
So let me show you
how to put the drums on here.
You simply hit the Rhythm On Off button, and it just starts
with the first drum pattern here, which is a simple kick.
Hold it down, _ [N] _ _
and you can choose
_ [Cm] _ from [G] a variety of different beats here.
[G] _ _ _ _ [N] _ Okay.
_ Let's pick that one.
So it's just a basic
kind of shuffle.
So if we want to record over top of that, [Bb] _ _ [Eb] _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ you can hear it's looping seamlessly.
And again, _ [Ebm] I hope you realize the importance of how easy it is to create this kind of track.
So if you're playing in blues, think about this.
If you didn't have a looper and you
didn't have anything to play over top of and you were practicing blues, obviously you've
got to get that happening.
You've got to get something musical happening, or else you're
just [Ebm] running _ _ just to scale over and over.
How great is this to practice over?
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Okay.
I'm going to hit the pedal, record another part on top of it. _ _
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_ Maybe another one. _ _ _ _
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another one. _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ Okay.
So you get the idea.
You can just keep layering like that, and it is
super easy.
And again, the [Gb] quantization built into this, if your timing is a little shaky
right now, obviously we're going to be working on that.
So you don't have to worry about
this.
The quantization kind of puts everything right in order, and it's super smooth and
gets you up and playing.
The most important part, again, practice as much as you can,
but the majority of your practice session should be playing over top of some kind of
musical situation.
I'll go as far as to tell you that I don't even practice scales, chords,
arpeggios, technique.
I don't do any of that unless it's over a backing track, because
that's where it has to go anyway.
So it's an amazing thing to have this tool that can
produce that kind of musical situation for you with such ease.
_ _ Let me tell you about a couple more uses for a looper pedal such as the RC-3.
_ I'm currently
getting ready for [Em] this Steve Vai World Tour, [Ab]
[F] and there's a lot of practicing going on to
make that happen, obviously.
So what I will do is take one of Steve's tracks, _ or the whole
track, or even just a section of the track that [Gb] I know I just need to kind of play over
and get it down.
Again, through the USB connection, I'll just hook it up to my computer and bring
it over the file.
_ That gives me a bit more freedom to kind of step away from the typical
practice situation where I am usually in front of a computer, which can be a bit draining.
So sometimes I just want to kind of turn the other way and just have a guitar and an amp
and a pedal [Em] and get the practice situation happening that way.
It works extremely well.
So this thing will just loop that part and I can just sit there and practice and practice
and practice without having to worry about the computer or anything else getting in my
way.
It's a really nice way to do it.
Other uses for this, there's DJs and keyboard players,
and a lot of situations that involve stereo rigs work great for the looper pedal because
it has stereo in and stereo output.
So it's not just for guitar [F] players.
I would recommend
this certainly for the learning process for any _ person playing any instrument.
[G] But if
you are coming out stereo [Eb] like a DJ would or a keyboard player or something like that,
you can certainly use this for that.
And talk about a good looping performance with DJ or
keyboards, drum machines, anything like that.
You can just stack it as high as you want
as far as leveling and you can really make something very cool happen.
_ So I hope this brief insight into Boss's loop [E] stations have proven beneficial for you.
Again,
I think it's absolutely essential to have one of these ready to go because it's really
going to speed up your learning curve and make learning a lot more fun because you'll
be playing over musical situations.
They have a couple of different pedals here in
the RC line.
You have the RC-3, which is my choice.
It's a nice small compact footprint,
a lot of features.
The RC-30 is the double pedal version [F] of this and then [E] you have the
RC-300, which is the big guy and you can get into a lot more features with that one.
But
they all serve the purpose that we're talking about today [Eb] and [Bb] good luck and have a lot of
fun with it.
Again, my name is Dave Wiener.
Thanks for listening to me.
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