A question for Yossi

[zak]

I really love your guitar style, especially hearing guitar harmonies where two or more guitars are playing different rhythm parts at the same time. Have you got any advice for anyone that wants to write songs with different guitar harmonies playing at the same time? I can do it with clean/acoustic stuff, but find it very difficult when playing with distortion.
thanks

 

[Yossi_Orphaned_Land]

Hi Zak,

Actually, your heading in the right direction, my friend:
Many of the two-part guitar riffs I wrote were initiated on the acoustic guitar and then moved to electric.
Essentially, the acoustic guitar gives you a clearer vision on the sounds you wish to harmonize.

 

[zak]

Thanks for that.
When you play live, is there a danger that the two heavy guitar parts together will sound a bit messy, or it is easy for them both to come out clearly, especially under distortion. I guess you all have to be really 'tight' to get it to sound perfect.

 

[Yossi_Orphaned_Land]

Playing OLand's material live is challanging in more than few aspects, such as performing arrangements for the traditional instruments, double-singing parts etc.
A possible way to help differentiate the two guitars is to intentionally tune one of the guitars a bit out of tune, so there's a slight gap in sound to differentiate them from each other.