A MIDI pickup is a device that you can install on a guitar that translates the notes

the guitar outputs into digital information in real time.

MIDI pickups can be used to control everything from synths to orchestral samples because

if there's one thing guitarist needs, it's the ability to play even more notes.

Welcome to Strong Songs, a podcast about music.

I'm your host, Kirk Hamilton and I'm so glad that you've joined me to talk about guitars

with MIDI pickups, guitars with regular pickups, and sometimes acoustic guitars with no pickups

at all.

Strong Songs is a listener supported show, which is really cool.

I make this show and enough of you all paid a support that I'm able to keep making it.

If you'd like to sign up to become a patron and get access to the Discord listening

club, exclusive behind the scenes videos, and more, go to patreon.com slash strong songs

to find out more.

We're definitely going to be talking about that first kind of guitar in this episode

as we finally focus on a widely requested band led by one of the most influential guitarists

of the 21st century.

For all this cool guitar tech, he ultimately proves that the riff is still the thing, so

let's plug in our amps, crank up the fuzz, and hit this thing.

Everyone has a few bands where you can remember where you were the first time you heard them,

and this episode's band is certainly that for me.

The early 2000s were really important time in my musical development.

It's kind of a fork in the road for me.

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