Getting Delay, without using any effects...

3 acoustic guitars, a handball court, and no effects allowed.

Also Spotify, Amazon, Google Play and really everywhere music usually is…

Featuring Jeff Linville,

Vincent M Ippolito of Swift Road Studios

Every outtake, why not?

Much thanks to the Lattof YMCA in Des Plaines, IL for letting us use one of their handball courts for this project.

My guitar courses are available within the Guitareo membership :)
Also, my beginner course, GuitarQuest, is still available on it's own too

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Assistant editing by Amanda Sellers

Also...

[hakongray]

«Did we do it?»

*Starts cheering in reverb*

[elishaabarquez]

The delay pedal was invented in the 60's.

People in the 50's:

[JujuInFlames]

“Do you play any instruments?” “Yea I play guitar-yea I play guitar-yea I play guitar”

[huskieman]

imagine delay effects never existed, and these guys came up with the most ingenious composition ever

[HardwareLust]

When you guys actually get close to sync, the little bits of randomness from the two echos really add a dimension to the song that doesn't exist with the delay pedal. This was one hell of an interesting idea.

[cadler]

Who need delays effect when you have the boys ?

[WeAreClaves]

The guy in the middle has the worst of it, he's waiting for Rob and he's hearing the guy on the end.

[slopcrusher]

Keep in mind they can all hear each other. Their minds are telling them to catch up and play in time with Rob. Their muscle memory is screaming at them “CATCH UP! CATCH UP! YOUR’RE BEHIND!”. Their headphones weren’t noise cancelling. They essentially had to concentrate on deliberately playing off time which is so difficult to do when you’ve played on time for so long

[PaulDavids]

Dude, awesome! If you ever need a 4th delay... I´d gladly be your dotted quarter note haha!

[СлавундийМеталыч]

Next level: distortion without distortion

[fxpianochannel]

the most natural delay that I've ever heard.

[kamekomiyamora]

As a late beginner guitarist, I found this a bit encouraging. I know their job as a team is hard, but you rarely see musicians mess up, nor do you see how many takes they may do before they record one good enough to upload. I'm recording my journey as I learn just so I can see how much I grow with time, and I get frustrated sometimes when I know I can play a piece well but once the camera is on, it just changes everything. The more you attempt it, the harder it gets for some reason. My hands get clammy, and with each attempt, it gets more stiff. It's also tiring at times. I applaud these guys for trying 60 times. There must have been added pressure of everyone being there and time running out. The piece was quite complex with a lot of notes per minute and a lot of string skipping, but they managed to get it done. Great job!

[ctskifreaks]

"We have to be exactly the same though"

cut to them all being dressed identically - well played Rob.

[Yaroslav_Tselovanskyi]

Yeah girl, I play in a band... as a second delay effect... 😂😂😂

[domsniff]

You guys are the names I would use if I needed to lie to my mom “why were you late?” “I was with Jeff, Dave, and Rob”

[nelservlogs]

I love how the guy at 2:11 started playing Never Meant and stopped when Rob came to film lol

[Mark-gdvr]

Dude the guy with the guitar was *Amazing*

[matthewvanness]

To be fair the guy in the middle was the only person playing on the 16ths in between 8ths. He had the hardest part by far

[gj]

The guy in the middle definitely has the hardest job

[Riley.Brown_]

Imagine adding delay to each of the guitars and then doing this