steve vai "guitar's"

[DiveBombProductions]

Double-necked guitar both at drop C! All About Eve with an electric guitar solo? I think so!

[HaaraMusic]

I still wanna know why he stopped using this tuning system if he was so into it. You don't see any of his guitars he plays these days with crooked frets. I think it would be cool if a company like Ibanez would license this for their instruments so you COULD get a brand new guitar with the TT system. I know I'd buy one.

[24Bluesman]

The guy is not of this earth.

[Casebomb]

i played a strat with those frets. dweezil had it on the side of the stage. its a brilliant design.

[anunnaki2006]

The Protestant Lute is far greater than the Jesuit Counter-Reformation guitar from Spain. The Lute has up to 26 strings but just a poultry 6-7 like guitars.

[MetalAndFuckingPunk]

yeah!!!

[darkstar8196]

I played a "Flo" the other day. Best feeling guitar I have ever touched. Also best sound.

[yoyo3324j]

hes looks very nice

[raffins000]

throw it in my front vai.. i will smash it ..like i always do

[schutatsu]

Flumenco guitar

[schutatsu]

Flamenco

[deathscythekim729]

that sustain..that sustain

[HillaryHitler]

It should be noted that the True Tempered Frets were NOT an Ibanez creation.

[BOOLsheet]

i understand what hes talking about with the tuning issue, but its never caused a problem with any of his music over the past what, 2 decades?

[hellraiser7974]

i think that bent frets have absolutely nothing to do with the sustain of the single notes.. Chords that are more in tune sustain longer, but not single notes..

[museman91]

anyone see that guitar anywhere else? id love to see one in person

[61SGman]

I loved his black jem :(

[zakkattack99]

'it has this kind of a motion to it' lol

[jemman17]

The greatest innovator of our time.  Our guitar god.

[RandyFoxKiller]

thats some crazy sustain.. hard to believe thats all natural like my girl

[HjalmarGuitarMaster]

"I came, I played, I bought it", (Julius Ceasar)

[TheFILIPHENOM]

I hate chesseball looking guitars?

[JacobHilbrich]

I love how he just waved his fucking arms around that guitar he just came up with. That cracks me up soooooo bad! haha

[SIRONEDRAGON]

cool

[RIFFSUAREZ]

Ah the complexity of a Floyd Rose!

[pirrung123]

I HATE IBANEZ GUITARS...I WORKED THERE FOR OVER 25 YEARS AND THEY ARE NOTHING BUT CRAP

[brooklynstudio]

He is the male look alike of Danielle Staub

[subexpression]

@brooklynstudio troll

[brooklynstudio]

@subexpression twat

[subexpression]

@brooklynstudio haha :)

good job!

[DennChooch]

but noone frets their guitar straight, you always bend the strings a little... so i don't think this is 100% bullet proof.

[JediGuitarMaster429]

WHERE DO I GET MY FRETS LIKE THAT???

[MistahhB]

@JediGuitarMaster429 From a swedish company called true temprament

[MrShredtilldead]

@JediGuitarMaster429 good luck on getting it done...the wait time is super long let alone the process hella expensive...you basically have a better chance of getting a Ken Lawerance explorer before you get your frets tempermented.

[ribs389]

Thanks for explaining about tuning to A and then the D or next chord would be out of tune.Thought it was just me

[arrman92]

0:35 JEM giveaway? 0.o

1:40 *runs to pick up guitar*

[tefolase]

im not spaming but steve vai is one of the best guitar players but he plays crappy stuff on this video like at 2:04 - 2:10

[2lek]

@tefolase he was showing how chords were in tune.. lmao

[tefolase]

@2lek i know but still.....

[bmwm3cs]

@tefolase No, I don't think you do........

[Shadow07Warrior1989]

@tefolase Most of the chords were awkward due to inversions. I'll spell them out.

Between 2:03 and 2:08, the first 'chord' was a C power chord, the second was notes D and E played together, the third was C flat 5 which is known as a tritone (the most dissonant sound in music). Fourth was a D major chord, fifth was a C major chord in 2nd inversion, sixth was D major, seventh was G major in first inversion, and the last one was an E sus 4.

This is why they sounded strange.

[alapcg]

hey ur right shenybhoy1

slash got it made in 1992 and he has shown up with his electric-acoustic double neck guitar in the video of "

stranged"

[marietokio]

It's my dad who has invented those guitars.The TT guitars. They are super good!

Better than usual if you did not know. TT guitars is the best guitars. Thats it.

The best guitars in the World.

I promise. Quite amazing guitars.

[crazyawesome68]

whats the name of the guitar

[Shenybhoy1]

slash had one made in 1992

[Bargeonin]

There is something I don't understand about the fret system though. Because the frets are not straight but "crooked". It seems to me that when you bend a note it would go horribly out of tune. How do you make a smooth bend on a crooked fret?I mean obviously there is something I'm missing here because if Vai is using it, it must work.

[Guitareben]

@Bargeonin No, because you just bend a tiny bit more/less to get to the right pitch. You just use your ear for bending.

[thelordofdarkcheese]

@Guitareben yeah but with the bent fret there wont be a smooth transition between bent notes because the string will move against all the bent spots in the fret

[Guitareben]

@thelordofdarkcheese Sort of. That would only be TINY, and I usually use my ears for bending, so i would adjust my bend speed appropriately (unless I was doing it fast, where it wouldn't matter). Anyway there are videos of him playing it, like in the Jemini distortion video, and it is fine.

[bassman7530]

@Guitareben How would you possibly bend a note with your ears? It seems to make the most sense to use your fingers when bending (since they're already on the guitar's fingerboard). It's gotta hurt pressing your ear up against the strings, they probably get calluses, huh? Anyways, upload a video, that sounds like a neat trick! Thanks.

[Guitareben]

@bassman7530 *sighs*. Inside you know what i meant :)

[tsirosgoddammit]

@bassman7530 well yeah there's obviously potentially a problem with note bends. because if you bend, say, the g on the g string, while you bend it to reach an a, the vibrating part of the string will suddenly become slighly longer and your note will go a bit lower, ruining the bend. *maybe*. Until we see a video with a clean slow bend we can't know how it sounds.

[Nightwing690]

if you press down on the frets harder, the cord your playing goes outta tune to, like if you play a standard A chord on the 2nd fret, if push down on the strings harder, the ntes go sharp and it is fucking horrific how bad it gets

[shllapatan]

can any1 tell me why he puts duck tape on the first pickup

[racingandmusicmylife]

apparently it's so when he does a big trem dive the trem arm does get stuck from the pick up or the lower e string, usually the string

[deathscythekim729]

steve has a good sense of humor..love this guy..genius guitar player...sounds bizzare most of his tunes...but it defines his skill in a creative way...

[imatube2]

How the fuck can you get a floyd to sustain that well? Impossible...

[pablox875]

O.o

[darrenw5094]

He gave away 2 Jems.....like he always does.

Throw one of those bad boys my way.

[MysticalMuffinDude]

@darrenw5094 hes always giving his guitars away

[davelafuria]

can someone please tell me what's the name of that neck?

[Softairguy]

true temperament

[jayjaygibbs]

thanks

[12petrucci]

JEM prestige neck

[brandonmartin08]

what kinda shirt is he wearin

[s1uff1sc001]

A short sleeved shirt.

[ibanezrawker]

i really like that acoustic/electric and electric setup... if he doesnt use that i'd buy that.... especialy since i switch between the two like no other

[Dcforlife025]

if tune to the open strings on the guitar at 1:00 will the notes still be the same?

[MrChachi123]

Steve made all that up, he actually can play any guitar and every chord on it would be in tune LOL, he just needed an excuse so that they don't figure out he's an alien

[JediGuitarMaster429]

@MrChachi123 you obviously dont play

[MADEINMAIDEN]

its a swedish product and there are many variations of those necks/frets.

different tunings and stuff

[mickiew4]

I think you can get a JEM7v neck with the bendy frets (called True Temperament, btw) for like 440 Euros. Which is usually around $660. so its pretty expensive, but honestly i thought it would be more than that.

Thats just for a jem neck, im pretty sure that if you tweak the wood options and finish options it can be cheaper

[veguixor]

of course...

but i dont finally understand why the frets are so bend... i dont understand man...

[garykeller15]

double neck acoustic electric was not done by slash first. it was douglas blair(w.a.s.p. guitarist) who did it first with his own line of blair guitars.

[RamblingRosie22]

Steve-- Scott was saying on his MySpace that he relies on Brian McDaniel in Atlanta for his guitar work.He is indeed incredibly good, and I need new contact info for him. Could that be gotten at all? No one else in Atlanta comes close to him. I'm Susan at Rambling Sailors point com, and please forgive the roundaboutness of the request.

[diabeticmonkey]

But is slash god? Nope. That means that Vai did it first, rendering everything done by everyone else meaningless

[frenchy5150]

pfff lol no one's going to remember Vai like someone such as Mr Edward Van Halen who has rocked and changed the way to play and think the eletric guitar like no one else has ever done,not even Hendrix! EDDIE RULES AND ALWAYS WILL FULL STOP

[veguixor]

i dont know man.... steve vai is actually one of the best guitar players in the worlds, and you cannot refuse that... his virtuosism, his sound, his velocity, he is really special... and he is Alive by the way...

[busch2009]

Slash Plays A Electric-Acoustic Guitar. So It Has Been Done

[sraWratiuGrm]

EVO means = he uses dimarzio evolution pick-ups

FLO means = it has a sustainer

[inspectorcal]

evo does indeed contain evolution pickups,,,but flo is named because its a FLOral pattern jem that steve painted white.

[prabowoputra]

FLO = It actually a JEM 77 Floral Pattern, steve has it painted in white just like the vwh

[infectionsman]

lol steve it is called controlled feedback

[majordilligaf]

enough sustain steve

[sonofkikkoman]

MORE GAIN

[metal4life160]

beat my sustain for my ibanez RG370 by 12 seconds, ):

[arizonapg]

my god... i want that sustain. the price for those necks is a bit steep though.

[bullettriviumbodom]

When i'm famous i want that on my guitars =P Aint those frets by like True Temprement? Or something

[hendrixforever92]

sure thing

[ibanez777vbk]

evo has a cracked body steve doesnt play this anymore

[paulgilbert3]

EVO

Cool.

[MaNuEl3sk8]

son ibanez????

[hendrixforever92]

"you know, im not . . . ehhgh" lol

must be that good

[lordcliffton]

I lol'd I sure do hope this goes into production, but god forbid it ever needs refretting as I can't imagine the cost. And especially considering how accurate the PLEK system is I'm very intrigued to hear if this is better.

Either way I absolutely ♥LOVE THIS GUY.

[bigbigsound]

that guitar with the new frets is the coolest thing in the world ever-i will swap all my guitars for just one of them...TRUST STEVE TO BRING THE GREATEST INNOVATION IN GUITAR TO THE PUBLIC!!!!!!! goddam i love that dude

[metal4life160]

i just baught my ibanez today white with 3 pick ups 22 fret whammy bar white but no pick gaurd and pick ups and volume controls all black. all it cost me was my flying V and 300$. ..

[bigbigsound]

i was meaning the one with the staggered frets..

does ur nu gtr have the non regular frets?

have fun with ur nu gtr :-)

[VenomStryker]

Steve Vai is always on top of the newest developments in guitar design. Just an awesome musician!

[peachy901]

the acoustic double neck was originaly done buy slash

[jcallseven]

vai has been around longer than slash

[YFBTaggers]

that neck is a AWSOME invencion a cant spell :P

it looks better it maches the inlys more than the straight ones

[FlameOfTheWest7]

2.28 xD great sustain ;]

[jamiepoultonadult]

the acoustic part of that guitar sounds really bad i think.

[TR978]

that sustain is amazing!

[OriGorilla]

where can I get one of thouse necks?

[asdfasdsfsa]

truetemperament[dot]com

[DX1MAN]

its upside down!!

[Greensmurf]

That was his Flo that he picked up

[ibanez777vbk]

your all talking a load of henhouse shit

[einarabelc5]

Steve You're wrong. Slash Actually did the double neck, acoustic electric before.

[midnightblue007]

He is not. He refers to his acustic part of the guitar that is NOT solid body as the one Slash use to use on stage. Acustic guitars have a sound holes.

[einarabelc5]

I have seen these kind of responses from Slash's fans before. Never from a Steve Vai's fan though. Guess he's getting popular.

[hijackChrist212]

does anyone know if the bent frets affect your playing?

[CaptAdams35]

The new white Jem is one bad mamajama..... SEXY! I want one already... grrrrrr!

[visiting31]

Holy shit @ the sustain

[tc0nk]

I know it, it's effing sweet.

[youztuber5000]

i know slash has a double neck like that one but the acoustic is a 12 string. it was made by guild!

[NHKKHN]

guitar has many tuning(?) system

BFTS(Buzz Feiten)

Circle Fretting System(Fujigen)

Bent Fret System(yamaha)←Frank　Gambale　and Vai use this!!

slide nut (PRS and...)

etc...

[ksm375]

that doubleneck is sweet

[ShadowRider540]

Pual Vine RULZ

[123jozef]

Pick up any guitar and if the A is in tune, the D isn't .. that is SOOOOOO true!

[mulholland1985]

i dont get it...

[RosynLipstun]

J'ai pas trop bien compris..

[rockerasoxD]

evo morales fucking rulez

[GuillermoSmyser]

does he still use the "in tune" neck a lot or was it a whim at this time?

[SoySauceInAShotGlass]

I'm not sure, Vai said a new JEM is going to be introduced at the next NAMM trade show (which is rumored to be a hard tail Jem) so I guess if it has the next we'll find out then. Ibanez may have a problem with it, we'll have to see though...

[GuillermoSmyser]

Thanks!

I wouldn't mind having a JEM with the bent frets. Either fixed or floating bridge would be fine with me as long as it did have that awesome fretboard.

[ranmadog]

Excuseme, but where is the infinite note "trick" in this jewel of guitar?

[ran123br]

Vai dont have GreaT tones , because JEM is small and narrow bodie , jem dont have a TONE. but is good.

[Spocksbrother]

whats with the frets? They look crooked?

[vashuyasha]

true temperament. look into it xD

[whitejem09]

wow did you even watch the video?

[cagesafety]

yeh they do!

[kalengsiomay]

it's called true temperament fretting system

[kalengsiomay]

the new fretting system has the most accurate (almost perfect) tone and very long sustain... it's the 'holy grail' in guitar construction then...

[jameroni]

wait a minute, when you vibrato and the string moves across the oddly shaped frets, wouldent the pitch of the string change? when the length of the string changes with the contour of the fret since it is bent? i woul;d like to know if i am going to buy one.

[ldog1991]

lol, of course it does change the pitch, even on guitar with ordinary frets. vibrato itself is like little bends, so..

[jameroni]

omg~! i fucking have to get one of those fucking axes! omg omg! that is sick!

[yugiultimate2004]

holy shit its Steve Vai....holy cow man is this guy fukking awesome.

[Nasosdag]

Didn't Slash have an acoustic/electric doubleneck made by Guild? I think it can be seen on the "Dead Horse" Guns n' Roses videoclip...hmmm. So I think it HAS been done before. But Vai's great with any number of necks!

[DaanJM]

Yeah, it has already been done.

[LuKVaiEVOFLO]

No, Dead Horse's guitar is 12 string and 6 string..... Steve's is Acoustic and electric

[psatch]

the tempered neck has nothing to do with the sustain of that note if no other note is freted.

[vashuyasha]

it has to do with the vibration that is carried from having the perfect tone, it's a part of the reason why the chromatic scale was made the way it was. it surfs its own vibration. :D *guesstimate*

[psatch]

equal temperament is convenient for playing in every key, not for resonance. In fact, a lot of it's intervals are not just. I think the sustain of the guitar in this video is all good equipment, not the frets. My opinion.

Still i want a guitar like that :D

[psatch]

oh one more thing. The open strings are tuned just the same than in a normal guitar so if the freted note he plays is sustained from sympathetic resonance of the other strings, why we don't hear the other strings vibrate? they're not even muted.

[ugoYtube]

Obrigado por upar, ótimo video, ótimo sustain,ótimo guitarrista, ótima explicação e etc.

[azzura1]

"..and have a doubleneck-party!" :D

[teokiatuan2]

love the hands at 3:30

[teokiatuan2]

overtones overtones overtones

he keeps saying that but no one knows what that is o.o

[indagdnm]

Do a google search on the overtone series. Many people know what this is and have explained it very well. Then watch the youtube video "how not to tune your guitar". It's a three parter that explains very well why guitars are never in tune.

[coonass90]

wat a fucking brilliant guitarist jeez i wish i had that on my guitar Steve Vai is the shit i hope he comes to america soon

[nemogre]

The amazing thing is not the bended frets but how we actually get around this problem. We actually get used to slightly bending and pressing generally to make the chords come out in tune. You know what i mean?

[rockboot90]

we can but just to be able to control that will be very difficult. i'm sure the guys who made the bent frets thought of that when they made this brilliant neck

[elasticmachinery]

I defiantly agree with you. I find my self doing it naturally each and every time i pick up the guitar. nice observation.

[MUSICALCHIMP]

Amazing sustain!

[FRETPICK]

That's fantastic.

[1994Guitar]

I love the JEM 7V.. I want it so badly :(

[Ollyknkn]

Same :C

[MetalCrimsonBlack]

That's brilliant. Moving the frets minute distance to fix overtone dissonance. I hope he plays it sometime soon, can't wait to hear what it sounds like.

[parafin68]

Hmm,... I am wondering what difference does it make to bending and other techniques on the guitar. Interesting... I have read Yamaha tried this a long time ago, and several other guitar makers, but never saw it in action this way.

[gabrie166]

Thanks for post it my friend !