Guitar Feedback: How to Do It / How to Use It

Wanna feel like an 80s rockstar? Add some feedback.
What is feedback? A "feedback loop" comes from the sympathetic vibrations of a note running from your electric guitar, to your amp, and vibrating your strings with sound waves.

It's a cool trick that was popularized by rock players in the 60s and 70s, and I'm going to show you how to use it to spice up your playing! Of course, you're going to need your volume and gain HIGH on your amp to get that cool sound.

You can also use your pedals to produce the same effect. Once you work with it a bit, you'll notice you can achieve natural harmonics. It's simple physics and it's pretty cool

In this video, I'm using an Ebow, or "energy bow" to help magnify the feedback. You can find this tool in my kit store.

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[ColinStuart]

Before the days of pedals, and master volumes. I always got feedback (that I could control), simply by holding the head of the neck onto the speaker baffle! This would give me workable feedback a a really low volume! Vibrations of the guitar strings, vs. the speaker baffle! Some of the best results, were my Epiphone Casino, through a Fender Super Amp! I'm old enough that my teachers were Jeff Beck, and Pete Townshend!

[ascencia]

Hi Erich! I just wanted to thank you for giving us viewers a positive avenue to direct our energies in learning more about music and playing the guitar. I for one am so glad to have your lessons in YGS and your videos to look forward to daily. With all the insanity going on, It makes my day just that much sweeter to have something new to learn. Blessings to you and your crew! LOVE YOU GUYS!!

[victorhugo-woci]

Feedback always brings me back to when i first watched John lennon on the rock revival of toronto where both him and clapton leave their guitars against the amp and leave the stage like badasses.

[CJE]

Nice job. I have a JCM 900 and the JCM 800 1960B cab and turned up it is a feedback machine. Every touch.

[RedHQGamer]

What were those pedals for feedback? A booster?

[internetuser]

You can get some awesome effects through a similar method if you point a video recorder at its own output.

[mantashaft]

Trey Anastasio is a master with his hollow body guitar. Not the same, but the Grateful Dead made glorious feedback

[thefakengx]

Love the guitar face at the beginning lol

[intwo]

Could you make a vid on how to keep your finger still
when switching chords

[GrayPills-Band]

7:22 Sounds pretty magnific feedback for start to play "Infected by Bad Religion"

[sashamoreart]

Wow! I really like how he got feedback with his feet!

[thepolyglotraccoon]

Can I get feedback from solid state amps?

[slacktoryrecords]

Good god. What’s the pedal being used at 4:45??

[guitarguy]

Thanks for the tip! I pronounce it "tam-bur". =)

[adiiqbal]

I've got a gretsch semi hollow and it feedbacks so beautifully!!! And I recently got a vox ac 15 which is louder than my fender blues junior and its just pure rock and fucking

[brCharlieNagy]

Can I get a good feedback with waxed pickups or unWaxed are better ? Thanks

[roastortoastjustgivememost]

I have a Garry guitar, wanna know what i had to do to get feedback? I have to lay my head on the i can just put my Gibson Les Paul in front of my amp.

[Jetranger]

In barbershop singing they're called overtones and overtones!

[Leo-gmtv]

I can get feedback to work but it takes a really long time. The note I’m playing has to be dead and then the feedback starts.

[porkchop]

So, you can't get feedback with a wireless setup?