

I can’t really say that I’ve ever really been in love with the guitar. It was that Black Friday time again, so everything was on sale. I worked at Subway part-time and made minimum wage and I was really excited to buy something. I bought that senior year of high school. What about the baby blue Strat that’s often seen in your earlier videos? I decided I was going to buy a guitar, so that’s what I did. Like, we didn’t do Christmas, but we did Black Friday. I didn’t get it for Christmas or the holidays because my family is Jehovah’s Witnesses, so I got some money for Black Friday. How did you go about getting your hands on a guitar?Ī year later, after getting Guitar Hero 3: Legends Of Rock, I got a real guitar. But “Cliffs of Dover” was my favorite song of the whole game. And the characters, how cool they looked, how cool the guitar sounded, the music on there, and how fun the game was. What about that game made you want to pick up the guitar? I read that you got into guitar by playing Guitar Hero on Xbox. But once I get that out, then I can go on tour. In order to go on tour, you have to have a body of work out, which I don’t have yet. Keep doing the shows, and then just keep posting.
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A lot of free stuff: clothes, a whole bunch of guitars, guitar pedals. I have a lot more show dates, and this time around they’re in different states.

How has your life been impacted since then? And then the very next day I got a text from one of my friends saying, “Hey, um, you’re going crazy right now, you’re going viral.” And then I looked and saw that somebody had taken my video on Instagram and posted it to their Twitter, and it just blew up. I was at Little Harpeth Brewing in Nashville. I actually started out at 1,200 and then it exploded. And then three days later, you went from 7,000 followers to 50,000. I couldn’t balance it out.Ī friend sent me a video of you playing, which I thought was amazing. Just all the work that’s been piling up, all the people reaching out to me. If you’re just doing local shows, that’s not really much of a reason to dropout of school. It solidified it, but it already started when I was doing shows locally. She Shreds: How was your weekend? Where are you? She Shreds video chatted with Faye about her favorite gear, refining your chops, and what the future looks like for the young guitarist. In order to fully comprehend the talent of Melanie Faye, you need to see her masterful playing for yourself at and indulge in who is sure to become your new guitar obsession. Without any current releases and virtually no touring history, the now 20-year-old guitarist from Nashville has gone viral, gaining international attention from varying music and social media communities that are mesmerized by her soulful and effortless guitar work-which she typically shares through videos on her YouTube page.įaye’s creative voice comes through in the emotionally expressive notes of her guitar a voice that impacts new and old generations of guitarists, including those in genres not immediately associated with guitar such as hip hop and R&B. But Melanie Faye is the type of talent you can’t just scroll past she was born to become an icon. With millions of musicians sharing new music online every day, it’s easy to mindlessly click around. Perhaps the hardest piece on the page for me personally! It took me a month while I was balancing other projects and I kind of recorded it all in sections.This article originally appeared as the cover story of She Shreds Issue #14, which was released in February, 2018.

If you are interested in checking that out, the links are in the description :). I made a few modifications and you can see the settings on my Patreon page. If you are feeling the hybrid, go for it!įor the tone, I used the Cliffs of Eric preset in Amplitube 5. But in other performances, he hybrid picks that. Of course, there are parts from the studio take that he doesn’t play again (but he always improvises something equally amazing) so I listened very closely and took my best educated guess and did what felt comfortable for me personally.įor Bars 23 – 29, I observed from the Austin Texas performance that he picks the whole part. That was the performance on December 18th 1988. I’m mainly going by Johnson’s hand positioning from the “Eric Johnson Live from Austin Texas” video posted on YouTube.
