Jack Ruch Schools Us In Tasteful Blues Playing & Tone [And Look At That Les Paul!]

Welcome to the show. We are delighted to welcome the brilliant Jack Ruch to Schwangri-La. Artist, educator and all-round great human, Jack is joining us today during a trip to the UK from his home in Nashville, Tennessee. We talk about his beginnings as a player and how his unique blend of blues and jazz has developed over the years. There’s a huge amount of practical playing advice among plenty of ideas to develop in your own playing and tone. Thanks so much for joining us Jack - enjoy the show! Jack on YouTube:    / jackruch   The buzz in Jack’s guitar. Apols - turns out the ground wire to the bridge/tailpiece had come loose in the control cavity. Dan repaired it… albeit after the show! Signal chain - it's exactly as you see it laid out on TheGigRig QMX6 true-bypass loop switcher. After QMX6, TheGigRig Humdinger is splitting the signal and sending everything to both amps. Pedals & stuff in today’s episode • TheGigRig QMX6 • TC Electronic PolyTune • Electro-Harmonix Small Stone Phase Shifter • Nobels ODR-1 Overdrive • Analog Man King Of Tone • Strymon Brigadier • Boss / Analog Man TR-2 Tremolo If you use these links to buy stuff - any stuff – we receive a small cut. Thank you! ✅ UK & Europe: Andertons Music - https://andertonsmusiccompany.pxf.io/... ✅ USA: Sweetwater - https://sweetwater.sjv.io/5g6ALN ✅ Australia: Pedal Empire - http://bit.ly/2mWmJQf ✅ Europe: Thomann https://clickfi.re/OG0N7ONe Guitars in today’s show • Gibson Custom 1959 Les Pul Standard, modified by Historic Makeovers Amps in today’s show • Fender Custom ’64 Handwired Deluxe Reverb with Celestion 100 speaker (the fancy anniversary alnico one) • Fender ’65 Princeton Reverb with EVM10L speaker Interesting bits and go to sections… 0:00 Intro playing 0:55 Hello Jack, who is Jack? 2:39 Guitar beginnings, blues & jazz 5:00 Ray Charles changes 7:15 Grant Green and melodic minor ideas 10:30 Guitar chops vs direction and intention 12:50 Dennis Chambers on the new record?! 18:41 Guitars and amps on the new record 21:00 Headspace for building a solo 21:53 Building a solo following the chords 27:57 Putting a II-V-I into a blues 29:10 Limitations are your friend 30:38 Jack’s courses - but which one?! 31:55 What is that Les Paul? 34:00 Moving to Nashville 36:10 Jack’s pedalboard essentials 38:10 Strymon Brigadier 43:00 Clean rhythm sounds… into KOT boost… 43:10… and KOT overdrive 45:20 The bloom in Jack’s pick attack 48:08 Damping and dynamics in picking 51:35 Space for dynamics in the band? 53:00 Balancing career paths 57:15 What strings do you use? 1:00:26 Explaining one of Jack’s solos 1:09:50 Jack plays us out You can buy TPS merch to support our efforts https://www.thatpedalshowstore.com We are on Patreon – crowdfunding for creatives   / thatpedalshow   Please visit our preferred retailers! UK & Europe: Andertons Music https://andertonsmusiccompany.pxf.io/... Australia: Pedal Empire http://bit.ly/2mWmJQf