Robert Conti - 8 String Jazz Guitar

[destruction143]

This guy is a badass.

[jozevgates]

yeah, it's about time someone used an 8 string for something other than metal chugging.

[evanpegler]

Nice playing and utilization of the range, but it just sounds too generic to me.

[robertconticom]

@evanpegler Some day in the future, if and when your taste in music matures, then you'll appreciate this level of skill.

Ben, Webmaster

[zsreich]

This is great. I really like to play similar Ideas on my 8 string. Its cool to be able to play "bass lines" and the melodic stuff on the same instrument. Really I think the 8 strings make a lot of sense for jazz although I got mine to play heavy metal.

[saeedaminimusic2012]

Excellent!!



[alexxdeadly]

He meant a 12 string (E.r.) Guitar you troll and yes it is harder to play guitars with more strings if your only used to the standard 6 strings.

[guitarrhythymfool]

@alexxdeadly Well, it depends. If you're going to just use those extra strings for chugs, then no, it isn't. But if you try to actually utilize the range, then yes, it is.

[Gxyz222]

He is the greatest, there's no doubt about it! He can play a 12 string guitar if he wanted to!

[Dilanadu]

@Gxyz222 a 12 string is literally no harder to play than a 6 string...the number of strings doesn't have anything to do with difficulty...

[rololoo]

@Dilanadu

Well, obviously you haven't even played a 12 string before.

[TheMetalhead804]

ahhhhhh i love jazz 

[TheAtlasStone2009]

Amazing player!!! Does anyone know if he has any music available for purchase?

[anrmenchaca47]

Sounds like he's playing "Days of Wine and Roses"

[TheDarkitoMurder]

Awesome Man !



[thrashmetalfan96]

How can anyone dislike this?!

This is great, beautiful

And I'm a damn meatlhead saying this!

[GearTutorials]

Is there anywhere I can get the score/tab for this? Just got myself an 8 string and would love to better my playing by learning this!

Cheers

[kakviogyrte]

F# B E A D G B E

[ReleasingWeeps]

this is one of the best things i saw in my entire life.

[TheHappyFaceBoxMan]

No bass player needed!

[Guitfiddlejase]

I wonder what George Van Eps would have thought of this?

[diaperftw]

this is awesome

[WoWintosh]

Jeez, what if Joe Pass played one of these?

[xrigoedgex]

His hands are HUGE the guitar looks like a 6 string ._. fucking scary!

[kyleshut]

As much as i love 8 string metal riffs , id really love to learn stuff like this its just, so chilled :)

[fuzzfactory]

EAEADGBE?

[Anarchyffan]

@fuzzfactory Probably more like GBEADGBE

[robertconticom]

@fuzzfactory Robert's tuning on that guitar is, from Low to High::

F# - B - E - A - D - G - B - E

Thanks for your interest.

Ben, Web Admin

[snubbs741]

I feel like I'm being serenaded right before I'm about to be whacked haha.

[awfulguitarplucker]

DAT GUITAR

ME WANTS IT! :3

[stratguy123456]

so nice to here the 8 strings potential truley beutiful. I'm use to hearing satinic mush

[bubblezen]

I would really like to congratulate Mr. Conti for playing some beautiful music that lightens up our days!!! This was very inspiring.

[theeightgate]

this shits awesome 

[lazur1]

On 7-string guitar, we can play fully-extended chords, (including all 7 scale tones), by building them in 4ths. This  in itself seems like a reason to put the 6-string away.

[Guitareben]

@lazur1 on 8 if you detune the F# string down to E you have bass and normal guitar range :o . And it means you can do HUGE bar chords, and lots of other cool things :D

[stringbender57]

AWESOME! You never cease to amaze me. How do you do it? And your teaching materials are second to NONE! I plan to order more lessons soon! Keep em' coming. Thank you so much!

[kenjicharles85]

no mathcore/djent riffs here! refreshing and pleasing to the ear, to say the least.

[ImCalHi]

@winterchill885 Because 8 string guitars are very closely associated with meshuggah?

[Vermillion2176]

I read an interview with Steve Vai, about when he got Ibanez to build the 7 string guitar. He thought he might be the only guy interested in it, and then ran across a small Jazz Club with a guy playing the 7 string in this manner. He had never thought about doing it as a jazz box. Obviously Robert is ahead of the curve in 99 once again.

Big Ron

[lazur1]

@V:The interview seems odd: George Van Eps had Epiphone make a 7 in '38. Howard Alden, and Bucky & John Pizzarelli use the same 7. Lenny Breau's 7th was high 'a' over 'e'. Each long before Steve. Vai's attempt at high 'a' always broke, Breau's short scale, lack of whammy bar, less extreme string bending, & more gentle picking technique enabled it to remain intact. All of these players were undoubtedly well known to a serious musician like Vai.

[Drewster58]

@lazur1 : Well said, knowledgeable comment. Are there any other players than Lenny Breau who have an extra high string? Adam Smale is one, based in NY area/east coast, uses a 'Lenny' style high 'A' string.

[metaldemonseanknels]

@ThatRandomGuy325 me too. i just ordered an ibanez rga8 today!

[ignantmug]

may i have that guitar?

[ortzinator]

his hands are gigantic

i guess i have no excuse then :S

[hufschmidguitars1]

@metalmike04 yeah and jazz guitar makers who where already building extended range guitars in the 70's....... I wish people would stop always relating 8 strings to Meshuggah. They are a great band but where little kids when this started.

[gveedo]

Finally! Some 8-string guitar that isn't just Meshuggah rip offs!

[SlipknoTMaggoT118]

@gveedo i know right finally some actual music

[recklessreason]

@gveedo name them the rip offs because i have feeling you dont play and if you do then you have a long way to go

[Notespompon]

Awesome musicianship, phrasing, and voices in this, super mellow stuff. This is coming from a 21 year old recording arts major with roots in punk rock by the way.

[kathydurante]

A bass line felt deep in the fibers of myocardium ... syncopal sweetness. Thank you!

[Drewster58]

Nice! I've heard Mr. Conti on 6-string, and bought some of his chord-melody books, but never on 8-string. Personally, I'd rather hear a guitarist and a bass player. Jason Crawford ALMOST makes me change my mind on that!

[qminusis]

He he, that's a nice one :-)

[RodneySTR]

nice :) i didnt even know they made a 8 string guitar... is this 8 string only used in jazz? or more.? very interesting :D

[MaxVol95]

yes, they are actually used mostly for heavy metal.

[falige]

But they were used in jazz first, and then metal players picked up on it. Same with 7 strings and EMG pick ups among plenty of other things

[LGrey8]

@falige Your trying to say that Jazz players used EMG pickups before metal players?

Bullocks.

7 strings, yes. I'm not sure about Jazz but I know classical guitarists have used 7+ string guitars for years. I know Jazz broke into 7 string before metal, but as far as the EMG pickups, I'm going to have to call BS.

[lazur1]

@LGrey8 EMG pickups have been around since '76. When did the first metal player use one?

[Megamaniac610]

Meshuggah, a technical death metal band, are probably the most well known users

[meluaz]

id say its more commonly used in metal

[wbwillie]

@meluaz but more expressively used in jazz and classical... they have had 8+ stringed guitars for years in acoustic classical format long before they even started with the 7 string electric

[bebalance]

more videos please . . .