guitar used in UK garage

[rurokenji]

hi guys,

One thing i have always wondered about UK garage music, is whether there is a use of guitar in most songs. I am not sure if it's a actual guitar or some sort of synth. I have noticed that alot of early garage uses it. And also, how can i go about recreating it using aleton? Do i need to use a live actual guitar or shall i just find any guitar vst? Also, are they guitar stabs or just lil melodies/picking?


Around 2:59 - 3:01
Love shy (garage mix) - YouTube


Craig david - fill me in (perfect example. It's used throughout)

Fill Me In - YouTube

Thanks!

 

[bandcoach]

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in this one there are two distinct guitars and two styles of playing on one of them
- a funky strat style of chording and
- single note fragments in that 80's style of play the root go to the flat 3rd back to the root down to the flat 7th back to the root
- an acoustic guitar that is fingerpicking through chords (after the 3 minute mark

maybe get yourself scarbee funk guitar for kontakt free or kontakt full for the most part and use the factory library acoustic guitar for the other part

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this also has two distinct guitars and several ways of playing them
- an acoustic guitar that is fingerpicking through chords
- an semi-acoustic ES335/125/75 style guitar (maybe a les paul, but hard to tell here) playing chords
- playing short melodic fragments

in the intro there is also an electric guitar heavily filtered playing similar melodic fragments and chording

 

[rurokenji]

Thanks for the reply! I think, i might just invest in getting a guitar vst..It won' be the same but it's something, i guess...