Many guitarists have problems with tuning because an octave should not be divided into 12 equal measures. If you tune e6 and e1 to octave, tune e6, a5, d4 and g3 to perfect fourths and e1 and b2 to perfect fourth, the harmonic on b2 5th fret should be same note as the harmonic on g3 4th fret. They are not. Adjusting fine tuning won't help. That can be fixed with curved frets or compensated nut. (Or a fretless fingerboard...)
@jewelfewel you need to get a life and realise there are no rules in music. If he wants to play like this then who the fuck are you to tell him not to.
This guy is probably in the top 10 guitarists of all time! Such a nice bloke too. And no one knows he he is lol, Get out and buy your self a Freak Kitchen cd.
He's using the Floyd Rose to dive into "Semi-tones", which are found on instruments not native to Western culture, as somebody has stated below. Think about the "sound" of the space between frets. If you had approximately "44 frets", you would have a "semi tone" guitar and more possibilities to shape sound. Is it practical? That's the debate.
We should all appreciate these tones. They are there, but most ignore them.
Some talentless rookie guitarists use them a lot...because of tuning probs.
@bizzipajaro I dont get this. There are 12 semitones in western music. If you go up or down these 12 semitones, you go up or down an octave. What you are thinking of are quarter tones, most commonly used in Indian music. And with bending strings or whammy bar one could play 1/8 tones, but if it would be practical to use them, I dont know. Anyway, your comment is misleading.
@MrRuggo A lot of blues tends to use quarter tones, by e.g. bending up to a quarter tone between the minor and major third. That _really slight_ "out" sound sounds helluva bluesy.
Holdsworth does this a lot too, as do gypsy jazz guitarists.
@bizzipajaro semi tones are found in western instruments aswell - its the gap, for example, between c and c#. i think you may be referring to quarter-tones which would be c to C(half)#
@bizzipajaro Hopefully you've heard about the band MAN, they use custom-build guitars with 44 frets to get to those quarter notes, and use them often in their music :) Check out Logocide by them for a good example!
@bizzipajaro eum.. actually those are quarter tone! The semi tone are already fretted on a guitar. Between C and D you have a C sharp which IS a semi tone. All the music since Middle Age is build on those. You are talking about Quarter tone not semi tone.
@bizzipajaro@bizzipajaro Actually, they're not defined as semi-tones but as microtones. A microtone is generally a subdivision of pitch finer than the semi-tone (or half-tone), the common lowest subdivision in western music. Could be 1/4 tone or similar.
Your accent on non-Western culture is very correct, but note that microtonal bendings are also very, very common in the blues language (and a very used device in blues guitar soloing).
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Wow I like it :D it´s good, the tapping is fun!!I´m learning now music and I think it´s a great thing, it´s like magic. Congratulations for your skills.
Many guitarists have problems with tuning because an octave should not be divided into 12 equal measures. If you tune e6 and e1 to octave, tune e6, a5, d4 and g3 to perfect fourths and e1 and b2 to perfect fourth, the harmonic on b2 5th fret should be same note as the harmonic on g3 4th fret. They are not. Adjusting fine tuning won't help. That can be fixed with curved frets or compensated nut. (Or a fretless fingerboard...)
Raumanmusiikkikoulu 4 months ago
what guitar is that??
moneymoney220666 9 months ago
@moneymoney220666 The brand is Caparison, but I'm not sure on model. It's not a Horus though.
AJtheGuitarist38 8 months ago
Sounds a bit like Satriani
lastkingdomcitizen 10 months ago
Or quarter tones for that matter.. :P
bizzipajaro 11 months ago
Oct 8 2009. Read my comment before replying about semi tones!!! Thanks all!!!
bizzipajaro 11 months ago
Ahhh man. I corrected myself, within the same post a very, very long time ago!!!! Lmao
bizzipajaro 11 months ago
he needs to take a lesson from stevie ray vaughan and learn some feeling instead of playing computer noises
jewelfewel 1 year ago
@jewelfewel you need to get a life and realise there are no rules in music. If he wants to play like this then who the fuck are you to tell him not to.
mickmos 10 months ago
Bizzipakaro trolling nonsenseless about semi-tones, lol. Call it quarter-tones, idiot!!!
ruiolas 1 year ago
@ruiolas waaaaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaaa have a cry you little bitch.
mickmos 10 months ago
OMG this is my guitar teachers friend!
Sw3denGamer 1 year ago
This guy is probably in the top 10 guitarists of all time! Such a nice bloke too. And no one knows he he is lol, Get out and buy your self a Freak Kitchen cd.
dreadly101 1 year ago
@jscalise1
He has! They played Frederik's Sol Niger Within, it's on youtube somewhere..
Viohead 1 year ago
why hasnt this guy done a betcha cant play this yet?!?!
schecterman123 2 years ago
he has i think :S
vampyrhart 2 years ago 2
@schecterman123
Because he's a nice guy and don't want to frustrate anyone. Met him at Musikmesse. So fucking nice... And great sence of humour.
MaxBGuitar 1 year ago
street fighter anyone
guitaristman23 2 years ago
Sounds like a game boy game.
scottbaron 2 years ago 18
He's using the Floyd Rose to dive into "Semi-tones", which are found on instruments not native to Western culture, as somebody has stated below. Think about the "sound" of the space between frets. If you had approximately "44 frets", you would have a "semi tone" guitar and more possibilities to shape sound. Is it practical? That's the debate.
We should all appreciate these tones. They are there, but most ignore them.
Some talentless rookie guitarists use them a lot...because of tuning probs.
bizzipajaro 3 years ago 29
Not sure why you have a thumbs down...I think this comment is right on.
shep79 2 years ago 2
a semi-tone is just a "half-step"
SirJuice48 2 years ago 3
I apologize. You are correct.
"A quarter tone is an interval about half as wide (aurally, or logarithmically) as a semitone, which is half a whole tone."
This musical interval that I referenced below IS an actual playable, sustainable mode of scales, on certain instruments of course.
I knew I was referencing the correct logic, just got ahead of myself and called it "Semi" instead. Thanks for noting the error. Take care my friend.
bizzipajaro 2 years ago
Thank you for being one of the more informed posters on YouTube.
Grifff0 2 years ago
@bizzipajaro i think you mean 1/4 tones! semi tones are what your frets mark!
crobins333 1 year ago
@crobins333 Yeah, I've been through this already. Look below please and thanks!!!!!!
bizzipajaro 1 year ago
@bizzipajaro I know this comment is a year old, but standard guitars do have fretboards made up of semitones. They're nothing amazing.
IsThatSmoothJazz 1 year ago
@IsThatSmoothJazz
Really? Read more on down the page before you post. I've already been through this.. geesh.
bizzipajaro 1 year ago
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hissylp 1 year ago
@bizzipajaro Do you mean quarter tones?
billface 1 year ago 7
@bizzipajaro They're actually called quartones... Semi-tones are half-steps =P
JaketheSnakeESP 1 year ago
@bizzipajaro "Quarter-tones". ;)
Element404 1 year ago
@bizzipajaro I dont get this. There are 12 semitones in western music. If you go up or down these 12 semitones, you go up or down an octave. What you are thinking of are quarter tones, most commonly used in Indian music. And with bending strings or whammy bar one could play 1/8 tones, but if it would be practical to use them, I dont know. Anyway, your comment is misleading.
MrRuggo 10 months ago
@MrRuggo A lot of blues tends to use quarter tones, by e.g. bending up to a quarter tone between the minor and major third. That _really slight_ "out" sound sounds helluva bluesy.
Holdsworth does this a lot too, as do gypsy jazz guitarists.
jan1080 10 months ago
@bizzipajaro semi tones are found in western instruments aswell - its the gap, for example, between c and c#. i think you may be referring to quarter-tones which would be c to C(half)#
ILikeToColourRed 8 months ago
@bizzipajaro Hopefully you've heard about the band MAN, they use custom-build guitars with 44 frets to get to those quarter notes, and use them often in their music :) Check out Logocide by them for a good example!
Ragnarockalypse 6 months ago
@bizzipajaro eum.. actually those are quarter tone! The semi tone are already fretted on a guitar. Between C and D you have a C sharp which IS a semi tone. All the music since Middle Age is build on those. You are talking about Quarter tone not semi tone.
dav24642 6 months ago 3
@bizzipajaro You mean quarter tones, semi tones are the distance from fret to fret.
jshearsmith 2 months ago
@bizzipajaro @bizzipajaro Actually, they're not defined as semi-tones but as microtones. A microtone is generally a subdivision of pitch finer than the semi-tone (or half-tone), the common lowest subdivision in western music. Could be 1/4 tone or similar.
Your accent on non-Western culture is very correct, but note that microtonal bendings are also very, very common in the blues language (and a very used device in blues guitar soloing).
Cranio76 2 months ago
MATE just try tu learn or to apreciate new techniques!!! that will make u a great musician if u are 1!!!
carlosrlp 3 years ago
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what's the fucking point in playing like that!
bonpasteur 3 years ago
THE POINT I SEAL YOU, DICK!!
carlosrlp 3 years ago
what a great argument.
No really, again, what's the FUCKING POINT?
bonpasteur 3 years ago
oh no! I don't understand it and it sounds wrong to my precious ears! poor me!
drmoshie 3 years ago 2
cause its not so tied in with standard western music type of approach
alot of tension in that whole piece
Phrygian12 3 years ago 4
whats the point of your mother having retarded children?
dumbass!
morphenix 2 years ago
What's the point of your mother even being conceived?
bonpasteur 2 years ago
Where you conceived with weak sperm?
bonpasteur 2 years ago
i would guess that would be the point. that she had retarded children
najtrows 2 years ago
Antonis1991, you are a fucking retarded peice of shit encrusted shit. you don't even know what you are saying, and you will never be a good musician. fuck you
GenghisChron 3 years ago
I see..not only do you find him to be shit, you suspect him to be encrusted even.
That's amazing.
What does that make you?
bonpasteur 3 years ago
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Mellotronen 4 years ago
Wow I like it :D it´s good, the tapping is fun!!I´m learning now music and I think it´s a great thing, it´s like magic. Congratulations for your skills.
Elorfing 4 years ago