every breath you take

[hkrle]

I 'm trying to play guitar riff of Police's 'every breath you take'. To make it close to the original, I 'm doing it with heavy palm muting, with heavy pick and with clean guitar sound. Anyway the sound still isn't like the original guitar sound. is it because of the difference of the guitar? I'm using Epiphone LP. Did Andy Summers use hollow Jazz guitar?

Pls advise. thanks.

 

[sunvalleylaw]

If I understand correctly, Summers used this primarily during his career.
http://www.fender.com/summers/

A modded tele!

 

[t_ross33]

It was probably tracked on something like THIS in the neck position maybe?. I think there's a little chorus shimmer and mabye some delay as well.

EDIT: Curses, foiled again! Looks like SVL beat me to the punch. Lawyers

 

[hkrle]

u guys tried to play this song before?

 

[sunvalleylaw]

Nope. Haven't tried it yet. Was just surfing Fender's site and found the info on AS's guitar.

 

[SuperSwede]

Get a Roland JC-120 and *tadaa* you will get a lot of nice Police sounds (not only the group, beware of the volume of that 120x2 watt monster).

 

[hkrle]

Get a Roland JC-120 and *tadaa* you will get a lot of nice Police sounds (not only the group, beware of the volume of that 120x2 watt monster).

thanks! but I don't get your *tadaa*. pls let me know what does it mean. thanks.

 

[SuperSwede]

Oh.. feel free to replace *tadaa* with *boom*, *swoosh*, *krasch!* or whatever.

Here´s a nice JC120 for you, I can assure you that it has enough Sting for a nice Summer gig. Every little tone it does is magic.

 

[the1percent]

Oh.. feel free to replace *tadaa* with *boom*, *swoosh*, *krasch!* or whatever.

"Waalaa" works also.

 

[ShortBuSX]

u guys tried to play this song before?

I play it! It looks harder than it really is, and it is kinda hard(but looks and sounds impressive)...but its really only 4 parts, just break it down into the 4 parts and treat the whole song like a fingering exercise...and dont forget to alternate pick too!

The hardest part about the whole song is the order in which the 4 parts go...it changes through out. Fortunate for me, I dont have a band, so I play it anyway I want and am content with it just being a finger exercise.

 

[hkrle]

I play it! It looks harder than it really is, and it is kinda hard(but looks and sounds impressive)...but its really only 4 parts, just break it down into the 4 parts and treat the whole song like a fingering exercise...and dont forget to alternate pick too!

The hardest part about the whole song is the order in which the 4 parts go...it changes through out. Fortunate for me, I dont have a band, so I play it anyway I want and am content with it just being a finger exercise.

It's tempo is a bit fast. Even I'm familiar to the note (sometimes still get wrong in the middle) , I still need to practice the mood of the riff also.

 

[hkrle]

Oh.. feel free to replace *tadaa* with *boom*, *swoosh*, *krasch!* or whatever.

Here´s a nice JC120 for you, I can assure you that it has enough Sting for a nice Summer gig. Every little tone it does is magic.

Damn it! it looks quite expensive.

 

[ShortBuSX]

It's tempo is a bit fast. Even I'm familiar to the note (sometimes still get wrong in the middle) , I still need to practice the mood of the riff also.

Ive watched Andy play it and he makes it look like a simple chord with a pinky stretch...I just play it loose like an arpeggio with alternate picking...much easier that way.

 

[SuperSwede]

Damn it! it looks quite expensive.

ZZounds has them in stock for 895usd but they have been in production for about 30 years so chances are that you could find a used older one much cheaper. You could also invest in a PodXT which has a rather good JC-120 model that comes pretty close to the real deal. Just add a splash of thick & creamy vintage chorus!

 

[elavd]

The Andy Summer's tone is based mainly on chorus and delay.
Although he mainly used his Tele, I suspect that on this particular song he used an ES-335.

Here is the official videoclip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXq3hO82cTY

You can see him playing a Gibson hollow body guitar, but I don't think that he really used such a guitar on this song


Here is another video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLwKGKFm7Rg

on which Summers plays his main tele


Take a look at his gear on 1987:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ns-I-TcL49Q

My 2 cents

 

[WackyT]

Another great one. From the Ghost In The Machine sessions.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFWj8JIPLI8

Interview starts at 3:42.

 

[SuperSwede]

http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/mar04/articles/classictracks.htm

 

[zeusse]

Outside of the chorus and delay he also used a little bit of compression...I'll try and throw a clip of this up on Monday or Tuesday I got gigs this weekend so no time available but I might even have a backer for this...I'll check

 

[Robert]

At the Grammy's, Sting is the playing the bass line "wrong" in the beginning... the timing on the bass notes are different than the original as well as later in the song. He probably just forgot, but who cares. Sounds fun anyway.

 

[marnold]

At the Grammy's, Sting is the playing the bass line "wrong" in the beginning... the timing on the bass notes are different than the original as well as later in the song. He probably just forgot, but who cares. Sounds fun anyway.

If you watched the special on VH1 where they announced the tour, they pretty much hacked up all of the songs they played except "Roxanne" which they very clearly had been practicing. Sting even admitted a couple of times that he could not remember how some of the songs that they we playing actually went. I'm sure they've gotten that taken care of now.