“Fanfare for the Uncommon Pedal”.
Bill Ruppert is back with another in his excellent series of Effectology videos where he uses just a standard guitar and a few well chosen Electro-Harmonix effects pedals to make some weird non-guitar noises.
This time around he’s recreated the classical work by American composer Aaron Copland “Fanfare for the Common Man“. A fanfare being a short piece scored for brass and percussion, it means Bill has had to come up with horns and timpani drums from his six strings and pedals.
To guitar players the most famous version is probably that by prog rockers Emerson, Lake & Palmer, from their 1977 album “Works Volume I“.
So here’s Bill’s take on the piece…
You can find info about each pedal that Bill used to create these great sounds, along with the pedal settings over at EHX