Hello everyone and welcome to my FAQ number 60
and today I'm just as always very excited because we have a new guitar announced.
This is the A1.6 FR
and it's, as you can see, the classic black guitar, but with a floyd rose bridge so I can go like this.
Oh, more volume.
Oh, gate ruined my dimebagging.
Come on.
So there you have it, that's the Floyd A1.6 Floyd with the Floyd...
Floyd Rose.
Also, another thing that is making me very excited in my pants right now is that I have a new series of videos
that I think you will like, they're called 'Coffee with...
...Some guy'
Basically, I'm inviting guitar players into my home studio here to have a interview
like a really like low-key interview or a discussion maybe about whatever of a topic.
So, I think I've already uploaded one
You can check it out somewhere and I think it's gonna be really awesome
I'm really looking forward to it and all my members already know which guys I'm having right now, so...
All the guys in my face
What I'm trying to say is that my members are able to ask these guys questions
They already know which guys are coming here to the studio. And so it's nice, I think you're gonna like it.
It's a new segment of mine that I hope... I hope you like it.
Thank you, first question, FAQ 60, great.
"Ola, I never wrote comments before
"Actually I never thought I will ever end up watching people recording themselves talking to the camera
"But you are so good in it"
Oh, thank you so much.
"I feel like we are just a few friends in your room talking to you. By the way. Thank you for the mansion tour
"It's so bright and comfy feels very at home. Thanks for being funny, your videos always make my day."
Oh, so... thank you, thank you.
"I noticed you wear a Witcher t-shirt often never saw it playing during the FAQ, do you play Witcher?"
Oh, yes I do, I love Witcher.
"Thank you for getting me into the guitar world
"I never liked guitars before, my husband is the drummer and always wanted to get me into music
"But only after he showed me your Solar guitars, I fell in love
"Non-music people think all guitars are the same, but they just didn't see Solar yet."
Thank you.
"You're good in playing guitar and doing music, good in vlogging, good in fatherhood"
"good at making guitars"
"and cooking"
"In design and in business"
"is there anything you can't do on this earth? P.s.you're handsome"
I don't know what to say, thank you so much for these kind words, really really made my day.
Thank you so much, I just want to say thank you.
If you have any question, I saw you had one question and it was if I play Witcher
and I do play Witcher, Witcher 3 to be exact
and I'm on my second playthrough
And we'll just see if I have time to play even more but yes, there you go. Thank you so much.
So, a little side note, if you have any questions for me in my FAQs, try to make him as short as possible.
Here there's a lot of text happening, but since she's being so nice to me, it's fine, it's okay this time.
Thank you so much, Julia. I love you.
"Hi Ola, the other day I was watching her latest plugin demo video and my wife walked in at the end.
"That guy is so cute."
Yes.
Yes, Ola Englund the Swede.
"I just want to give him a hug, he reminds me of that guy from Metalocalypse
"Does he have Grampas guitar?
"I think you just got yourself another female subscriber. What's the latest count up to now?"
Great, I'm gonna check. Oh shit, I had this in my face, you couldn't see the game.
Okay, okay, okay, my little face, I need a calculator for this.
Okay, analytics.
Analytics, being anal in analytics.
Okay, 2.4%, okay, perfect.
261,601 subscribers...
Times 2.4%, that's...
6278.424 female audience on my channel
which is... Wow, it's actually a lot of female
I'm kind of impressed, great, thank you, another female subscriber.
I don't know if your girlfriend was the .424 female, but...
Malevolentforcemetal: "I just figured I'd ask again
"I definitely back you on the last FAQ on playing simpler music as you get older
"I switched from playing power/ traditional heavy metal to a more modern form of classic hard rock
"What is your opinion of bands like Free, Thin Lizzy, Deep Purple, Rainbow, UFO/ Michael Schenker and Kiss?"
Have you noticed how I'm not really an asshole in this FAQ
because I got a lot of comments about me being an asshole in my latest FAQ
which doesn't make sense, I'm not an asshole.
You're just making that up, creating fake news, people, it's not good.
Regarding these bands, no, I'm not into these bands at all.
I mean, Deep Purple, fine, I listened to them.
Rainbow, yes I did, I was never into Kiss, Thin Lizzy... I mean, it's...
It's not my generation, I think you are probably a little bit older than me, but it's not...
You know, my generation listened to more of the 80s and 90s metal
And you know, I didn't really pay attention to these bands because they were old guys music when I grew up.
But obviously Deep Purple's Smoke on the Water was one of the first riffs I ever learnt
so you could say I listened to them a little bit, I guess.
"Hey Ola, I play guitar in a country band, but I only listen to Swedish metal because of your videos
"Does this make me weird? Can I still make friends?"
That's...
Wow, this is such a positive FAQ right here
this just means that I attract more people outside the genre of metal
which I think is very important, that's totally what I'm going for, because I know...
I think that I'm kind of like reaching the roof with metal people right now. or metal guitar players
so I need to get out there, get the country guys going, and thank you for subscribing
I really appreciate it, bring your country friends if you have any.
I doubt it.
"Hey Ola, a few videos ago you said that you got a riff library that comes in handy when you're writing songs
"How do you manage this library? Some software solutions, different folders names...
"I'm just flooded with files named 00123.MP3..."
Yeah, I know how it is. I also... I don't really have a good system.
Maybe I can screen capture this like an asshole.
So here's my riffing ideas folders and as you can see I have split up to Feared, 2017, The Haunted, Solar...
really old, 2016, song ideas 2018
Okay, so... good, a little burp there for you.
So, I don't really have... I mean, as you can see it's like Guitar DI 1...
56, 2, 33... and you know, it's like... it's a mess, but I do have like...
As you can see I have a coloring system as well
So, like the green ones are like mwah, really good riffs and the purple ones... I have no idea.
So maybe like if I wanted to start writing a new song
the green marked ones are probably an idea that I would probably be able to spawn into a full song
So, let's check out an idea here, 'outro'.
And it's a D,I so it doesn't really sound that good but... Okay, good intro.
Okay, what's this? Purple.
Can I find something that's not a DI? Please?
Fucking no.
Shit okay, do not steal. Okay, intros, what's this? 2014.
That sounded more like a Haunted thing actually, but it was cool. Okay, chorus, what's this?
What's this?
Oh shit, okay.
Oh, I remember, this is actually a song, this was a The Haunted idea that became a Feared song
I just didn't recognize it, because I don't remember my own songs.
The hell? Okay, I don't really have...
That sounded like a f***ing Nickelback song to be honest.
So there you go, that's how I manage my riffs and... yeah.
Yeah, there's a lot of them in there. Good question by the way, I don't manage my library.
"Ola, what picks do you use?"
Okay, I have no idea how many times I've answered this question, but it's fine
because I know I have a ton of new subscribers, so...
Usually, right now, I kind of like switch between two types of guitar picks
both are from Dunlop by the way, but one is the Jazz Tortex 1.14 millimeter.
And this is probably the guitar pick I use the most, I use them for live.
But then sometimes I use this Sculpted Plectra Primetone guitar picks from Dunlop
I don't know if you can see...
These are the two ones I use now and then I just got a couple of guitar picks from Dunlop just now.
More of these new Flow picks.
So yeah
Tortex Jazz 3 1.14 and these Sculpted
These ones are 1.4 millimeters thick and I like switching between them.
These Primetone from Dunlop, they're really good for alternate picking.
But they don't sound as good as the regular tortex, so I'm kind of switching between.
"Hi Ola, new fan here, Awesome videos man. Got me back into play metal.
"Anyway, I recently saw someone claim holding their pick differently allowed them to play Bleed by Meshuggah
"How do you hold your pick? Is it important?"
Yes, it's very important and...
I've also talked about this before
but I don't necessarily think it's...
You know, you have to hold in a certain way to be able to play Bleed, to be honest
I just think you have to practice a little bit, so...
You just sit in front of your TV or watch a movie or anything, you know, something like that and you just go
You just continue doing it, you'll learn it someday
My picking technique is kind of weird, I angle the pic backwards like this.
While a lot of people angle it forward like this.
But I do...
So, there you go, I did... yeah, good.
Good, Ola... gOla.
New phrase: gOla, it's basically good Ola, you know...
Like you do... like 'good game' when you play a multiplayer game and you write 'gg'
So, gOla, good Ola.
"What's your preference for baritone scale in terms of feel and intonation?"
Well, it depends on how low you tune your guitar
I mean the lower you tune your guitar the better is it to have a longer scale guitar.
My personal preference is that in the tuning that I'm in like standard D, drop C and standard C
I'm perfectly fine with 25.5", I don't have any problems with that
But as soon as you go below that, I think you need a longer scale, like my seven strings are 26.5"
I tune it to drop A, which is perfectly fine
And also, when you have an Evertune it helps a little bit as well with the intonation when hitting the string.
So, there you go, I think that's fine.
And those are also the scale lengths that I prefer to play, if you go like 27", 28"...
it gets kind of awkward for me to play, I must admit.
"Ola, did you notice that there are currently no modern left-handed baritones on the market?"
No, I did not notice, but thank you.
"Did you see Dimebag Darrell live or did you meet him when he still lived?
"What was he like? I'm just interested, I really love Pantera."
I've never me-
I've never met him, but I saw Pantera live during their Reinventing the Steel tour in Stockholm
and it was amazing.
It was just as good as I imagined and I had really high hopes before because I was such so much into Pantera
and I've never met him but I mean, just watching all the videos hearing all the stories...
It seems like he was like the most genuine guy ever
A really good tip for you in life...
...It's just to not be an asshole and I think that people will eventually maybe like you
Just my theory, I think that Dimebag was that kind of guy, he was just...
You know everyone loved him basically.
So... what?
"Oh, hi Ola, can you show me a Beyond Creation riff?"
No.
"Hi Ola, I'm one of your few female subscribers
"Would you like to use the A2.6, just the same one you used in this video
"but in tangerine metallic for the next riff of the day?
"I'm really interested in seeing that finish with more details, because I'm thinking of buying one of them soon
"I would love to see it in more videos. By the way I'm from Spain, say hi to your Spanish followers."
Hi my Spanish followers.
Konnichiwa.
Unfortunately, I don't have the tangerine metal guitar with me right now
But I do still have this... my favorite one that I love so dearly
This little guy.
And I thought...
I thought, because I was a little bit confused
Last time I said the riff the day would be a Heresy riff and then I said it was Psycho Holiday
And people reacted... and it was obviously the rift from Heresy.
So I decided that this riff of the day for today would be the riff after the intro
that I showed in the latest video.
because if you check online, there's a bunch of misinformation on how you actually play this riff.
So I'm gonna teach you how you actually play this riff
So, first we had the intro that went like this... maybe I should film, f***face.
Oh, no memory card, well f*** you then.
Get in there.
Preparing image data... f*** you camera, I hate you more than my life.
So, I decided that I will just continue with the riff that comes after the intro, which I call the man riff.
It's the man riff, because it's just really manly. Okay, so first we have the intro.
That goes like that and then we have the man riff that you play like this.
Cool, huh? So, slow.
Easy as that.
Oh, riffs are coming out, sorry.
So, there you go, that's the riff of the day: Pantera - Heresy, not Psycho Holiday, okay.
Maybe I'll do Psycho Holiday another day.
Sigh.
By the way, I'm also very excited about another thing, is that I had a new light for my studio
but I had no idea how big the light would be
So, let me see if I can film this
The light is so big, it's like the moon in my face right now and my little camera is over there.
So it's like... Oh, it's so, so very big.
But it's nice, it's in my face like an asshole.
Okay. Great, Ola, continue.
"Now that you are big-time, why do you live in such a small apartment? Is that normal Swede behavior?
"Seems like you're ready for a bigger house with a badass studio"
Okay, so I saw a couple of comments like this in my latest FAQ video
and I think that even if I run my own business, Solar Guitars and stuff like that
I'm not a rich guy when it comes to money
All these things makes it possible for me to support my family and support what I do
I try to prioritize the money that I earn into things that make sense for me and my life
and that makes me and my family happy, which is like I like to take them out on vacations, you know...
and as much possible time as I can with my family
You know and in that sense I feel so rich
because I am free to do whatever I want
and that is something that I'm very fortunate to have.
To have this freedom, that makes me wealthy, if you understand what I'm saying.
You know, I don't really care that much about material things or having a house
I would probably, at some point, when I become a little bit richer, maybe I'll get a house for me and my family.
But we'll just have to see, I live in a really expensive area as well, in Sweden.
So it's... yeah, it is what it is. I'm perfectly happy with my apartment.
You know, this studio is not the biggest in the world.
but I love this space, you know, it's small... I love it here.
It inspires me and I do not wish for anything more than what I have right now.
There you go, did I answer your question? I don't know.
"Hey Ola, do you ever stop to think how much you have accomplished in your life?"
I do, I do, definitely. And...
But even though I kind of like, you know, I just stop and say like
'Wow, I've actually done a pretty good job here'
I think it's very important for me to always look forward, because that's my mentality, it's like...
You always have to figure out ways to make yourself better to push what you're doing to push yourself
And with that I don't think there's that much room for looking back at things
And you know, kind of just patting yourself on the back for what you've done.
I always strive to push myself and just try to improve myself in my situation.
I'm of course very proud of what I've accomplished today
But I also know and see the amount of work, and my wife does that as well
She sees all the work that I've put into Ola Englund and everything I've done
my youtube channel, all the touring, all the albums, all... you know.
Everything that was before my youtube channel...
You know, grinding with bands and all that
This moment right here is because of all the things I've been doing in my life, all the work I've put in
With that said, I just see... what I've accomplished today is basically just a result of my very hard work.
So... but thank you for asking, I am very proud about myself and what I've accomplished, thank you.
"Ola, are you gonna play Red Dead Redemption 2?"
Yes, I definitely will, but right now I'm playing this game: Hollow Knight.
So I'm gonna finish this game and it's a lovely game, I love this game.
If you haven't tried it already, it's an amazing platformer, I love it so much.
So, I will finish this game first
then I'll see the reviews and all that and maybe I'll purchase Red Dead Redemption 2
I really enjoyed the first one so I will probably enjoy this one too.
"Hey Ola, how did you make that sick reverb-y guitar sound in Vinter's intro?"
That's actually a patch in Axe Fx.
I don't remember what it's called, but it's like the Sun... something.
So, it's available on the Axe Fx, you can try it out, it's a good reverb
and it's like a really airy type of sound, I'll see if I can play it here and maybe we can listen together.
Swedish word of the day, it's an excellent one if you're a guitar player, it's simple as f***, it's...
Plektrumskydd.
This is something that is very important if you play very hard and very common for Stratocaster guitars
it's basically a pick guard and you can use it in all your conversations together with your new Swedish friends.
If you just say this word, they're gonna be impressed
because a lot of people know what aplektrumskydd is and it's not an easy word
I just... I just lied, it's an easy word.
That's a shitty ass Swedish word of the day...
"Hey Ola have you heard of Archspire? They are crazy heavy band from Vancouver BC, Canada
"Check out the song Involuntary Doppelganger"
Ok, great, great, great, because this channel is becoming a reaction channel.
I hope it's a video, because I want to have a real video, like a musical video going when I watch.
Archspire... I kinda think I know what they sound like and I know they're kind of like probably very famous.
Official lyric video, ugh.
It seems that they do not have a music video, so I'll just check the...
Let's check the live video, shit.
He's talking about this balls being dipped in the toilet water
And he's filming his balls. Of course.
I like it, he has a Gorguts t-shirt, the same one I have, so that's cool.
That's the bass player I like him.
Okay, maybe this is an awful video to check out, because I can't hear shit, okay.
Let's check out the lyric video, let's just be nice.
When you have a throat problem, shove a dick down your throat, please.
Helps the inflammation up to six hours of dick in your throat
you can find a dick of your own at your pharmacy.
Oh shit.
You know what I think? Like, it's cool, it's cool technical death metal, but it's also kind of cute.
It sort of describes what I mean with that but... that's cool though.
This is probably a tough song to pull off live.
It's cool, though
Okay, I'm only 1 minute and 24 seconds in and I'm already kind of like exhausted
Whoa, it's just so much happening all the time, it's like really technically impressive.
I think that I can't really get a grip of what riffs are being played, feels like there's new riffs all the time...
...as you go further into the song.
That's cool
That was a time for a breather, that's nice.
I wonder how hard it is to nail those snare rhythm things live, listen again.
That's insane, is that even possible? This is amazing, but I think my brain is too slow for this type of music.
That's cool though, thank you for making me check them out.
I will definitely keep an eye out if I see anything newer from them.
That was it, thank you so much for watching, I think that this is a very positive FAQ this one
and I really appreciate it, maybe all the angry subscribers will come back and say like
'Hey, Ola is not actually that bad of a guy.'
Yeah... right.
Don't forget to check out my new 'Coffee with... whatever face' segment that I have
I'll link it up here.
I have a bunch of awesome cool guitar players coming in for the show
And also, if you're not a member, try becoming one, it's not that hard
You just have to pay a little money and you can buy merch and you can subscribe to my channel
You can f*** off, I mean, you can do whatever you want.
Thank you so much for watching and... what's up next week? Nothing special?
No, I'll be at home recording videos, awesome, I'm looking forward to making a lot of cool videos.
So guys, thank you so much for watching. See you next time.
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