Hi, Bradley - Is the model you are playing a "professional" model, or is it "beginner" or intermediate level? I'm trying to decide if I would be happy with the sound of the beginner models. Thanks!
man thats beautiful!! I been trying to find somewere to buy the japanese koto, i belive there the same thing but i cant find anywere in the UK, im so pissed ;'(
@lantyboy its different.. Chinese zither was introduced to Japan in China`s Tang Dynasty, so koto is in Tang-style while Chinese zither has developed alot since Tang Dynasty :)
@GODSLAYER121 The Chinese "Zheng" class of intruments (zithers) are of course extant long before they were adopted by the Japanese. However, the Guzheng continued to evolve over the centuries within China whereas the Japanese never bothered to make any changes to the zithers they got from China since the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, Guzheng is NOT older technically, but has an older line of descent. The Koto, though "younger," preserves older characters. Hope that helps.
I am China right now. The gals at the music shop would go CraZY if you walked in and played. Now I'm thinking after the guitar I might try the guzheng it is a beautiful instrument. THANKS!
Hello, Bradley! What you do is beautiful! I have bought a Guzheng and I'm really in the mood of learning. Can I ask you the tunning? I have more or less figure the tunning of the melodic part, but I'm not sure if I must also tune the left part of the strings by moving the wood pieces, and in case of yes, what is the relation between the right and the left part of the string tunning. (sorry if I'm not very clear, my english is poor). Thank you very much! :-)
well done ! good job ! Although some of the people don't like the way you're playing , so what !? Is there got ONLY one way to play the Guzheng !!! ?? If I like or if I can then I'll play it with my toes !! lol
I LOVE this. lol, i have trouble sleeping at night and this kind of music is way better than counting sheep. you keep doing what you're doing, because it's beautiful. :)
It pretty good for you to play it like what you did, you must have practised a lot. But sorry, I don't like your perfomance. Probably because you have made some changes about how to play this instrument unintentionally, which let me feel unable to seize the soul when listening to the music. And you were plucking the string like plucking the guitar's, maybe you would like to be more gentle. just my own view.
I'm Thinking of getting one of these but one thing, strings!? what kind of strings do they use? or they easily available anywhere? they look and sound nylon
Hi - Thanks for all the comments. You can learn to improv on it pretty quick. (The classical stuff will take a lot of time to learn.) Feel free to contact me about private lessons over webcam. Got this one in Shanghai. This one does have an acoustic-electric pickup but I'm mainly using the mics...I have videos in lots of styles posted at my Youtube channel "bradleyfish" Enjoy!!!
Terrific stuff. I love the way you play guzhen, it has a new-age feel to it, which to me feels very refreshing. I don't see why some people are complaining about it not being played the 'traditional' way, because I way I hear it, there's no way that guzhen could be mistaken for guitar, or any other instruments for that matter, it's just too unique of a sound. And it still sounds distinctly chinese, and that's good enough for me.
most music shops sell a smaller lap harp / zither. its easily played, but difficult to master. and almost noone specializes in teaching.... u would have to travel for that... lol
you know i really cant stand the people who hate on this video, they say its not the music the guzheng was ment to play, well think of it as a cello, i play cello, the cello was never created to play jazz or rock, it was created to play classical music, right, just like the guzheng it is a instrument used to play traditional music but it is people like this who bring the insrument into the new era and bring it to a level that we have never heard before. stop the violence.
I don't think you or the artist appreciates the difference between 'what' music is played and 'the way' music is played on a given instrument. If you learn how to play a ukulele and then you go to a teacher to learn how to play a guitar, and then play the guitar like a ukulele... The teacher will say, no no that's terrible, you must not treat one instrument like another. That's what's going on here, he's playing it at times like a guitar, but it's not, and that comes off as discordant.
You don't fundamentally change how an instrument is played just to play a different genre of music (with perhaps the exception of additional physical layers like bows, or the percussive picking style of tsuguru shamisen). If you look at the modern guzheng music of Bei Bei He in her collaboration with Shawn Lee, you can see how an instrument can break out of classical genre without losing quality of technique.
I actually disagree. If you play an instrument in a way other than the way it is normally plated, you are being creative with said instrument. There is nothing wrong with doing something differently, and only doing things the way they have been done before is not art. I suggest that you should go read The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand.
You've got to be kidding me. You say these things and then recommend The Fountainhead. You obviously don't even understand Ayn Rand. In the first chapter Howard Roark even says, "The famous flutings on the famous columns--what are they for? To hide the joints in wood--when columns were made of wood, only these aren't, they're marble. The triglyphs, what are they? Wood. Wooden beams, the way they had to be laid when people began to build wooden shacks..."
"Your Greeks took marble and they made copies of their wooden structures out of it, because other had done it that way. Then your masters of the Renaissance came along and made copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Now here we are, making copies in steel and concrete of copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood." The point here is that you must find the highest expression appropriate to a medium, not transport the same things from one to another.
Playing a guzheng like a guitar is EXACTLY that, transferring concept A from medium B to medium C. That is NOT creative according to Objectivism. Creativity in this context would be a completely new approach to the instrument, not transferring an old one. However, the height of creativity would be designing and new instrument altogether and producing a method/style of playing *that*.
I was actually suggesting that you read it due to the fact that it is basically an extension of your pre-existing opinions, not as something to attempt to change your mind.
I'm actually ambivalent toward Ayn Rand, it just so happens I have read her in order to have formed that opinion.
However, all of that aside, difference in style as you define creativity is not sufficient to attain value. Mere transference of style is lazy and in this case awkward. Quality is lost, as I had originally asserted, & the benefit of the thing is reduced or eliminated. Have you even listened to Bei Bei's material, as I recommended? Do you even have a frame of reference for contrast?
Ｉ think it's great that the guzheng has reached many non-Chinese people. Unfortunately, I some technique has been sacrificed here, and also, this really isn't the music guzheng is meant to play, as someone who plays and listens to traditional music, this sounds very odd, but, bravo for learning it and creating some cool sounds on this instrument!
i think you're plucking too hard (like a guitar) b/c the sound is suppose to radiant whereas you're plucking too hard and it feels like if you pinching instead but it's still good.
because of you, Bradley, I got my own Guzheng for my 21st birthday! I figured out how to tune it (eventually!) and now I can't stop playing it! Some day I will learn this jam and post it as a response to this video.
i think this instrument is the most sophistocated form of musicianship ever. it has to be the most enjoyable sound iv ever heard. (sry 4 any type o's lol)
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i love it! i actually learned how to play a koto, or a zither, since i was 12. i'm still not as good as bradley. i wish bradley could teach me. sigh** well, i'll keep practicing.
im 13 and i play the japanese koto. i have never seen that technique when u slap ur tsume (thats what we call what u put on ur fingers) on the gu zheng
haha, i gotta stop watching youtube..... the more i watch the more i realize how many more instruments there are that i really REALLY wanna learn how to play.... fantastic job, i was blown away :)
P.S. i bet thats a reall pain in the ass to tune :P
Beautiful fusion of East and West. I play the Chinese Zither (Guzheng) myself and so far I've only done the tradition songs, but I'd love to play like you. ^^
Hi -- oops I just accidentally hit remove instead of reply and deleted your comment asking for the score. Anyways, thanks for your feedback. The piece is improvised - there is no score! Enjoy!
i like when they MIX this type of sound into westen modern music liek the way linkin park did in "nobody's listening" and residente calle 13 also did this in a song names "japon". also dont by jay-z, r-kelly. loved this in hero with jet li.
this is really good. just because hes playing it western style doesnt make it less appealing. this is really neat and well played. you people that are complaining about how hes playing it "improperly"... quit being so ethnocentric. you know asian countries love to imitate american style music as well and you dont see anyone complaining about that!
Just because the way he plays is unconventional doesn't mean there's anything wrong with it, especially when it sounds this good. I mean, you're not supposed to play right handed guitars upside down and inverted, either, am I right?
there is a "law" saw in nature in taoism: chi flow.
Musically, this chi is created trhu the musical scale. C:G is NOT equal to G:C. The result of the C:G ratio is 0.666 (2:3). The result of the G:C ratio is 0.75. (3:4). So there is 0.08 flowing around these two sounds. This is chi felt in music. The walking around the perfect fifth produces this transduction of sound. In daoism it's the movemente of yang and ying generating chi (0.75=0.66+008)
please be respectful of the instrument youre playing and use proper technique. as previously noted, you use guqin techniques. this is a guzheng, if you haven't noticed, and it has its own set of techniques. this also includes wearing fingerpicks. you have some great creativity with this and there's nothing wrong with being innovative, but be respectful of the guzheng and do it right - i think you'll be surprised with how much proper technique and fingerpicks can do to your playing.
What's wrong with not playing it the conventional way? That's like saying you shouldn't put a guitar into an open tuning because that's not the 'correct' way of playing it. In fact, the way most people play the guitar isn't the classical style. Do you object to that too? If it sounds good, it is. The only way he would be being disrespectful of the instrument is if he was breaking it. I apologise if he is damaging it by playing it this way, but I highly doubt that.
Humm. Well westerners will hear this and may investigate the instrument. He is not being disrespectful of the instrument, but may not be respecting tradition. Here is a blending of east and west...
Did anyone tell Picasso that the eyes are supposed to go on the top and not down the side? Or Hendrix that the guitar should be played with hands and not teeth? what's wrong with individuality?
WOOP WOOP and wow just amazing it is the perfict song to just relax and ride with and by the way is there a name for the song of a place to get it or is it just a randome thing with no name and no thing ?
craaaazy, loving the sound of the guzhen.
rationsauce 2 weeks ago
LOOOVE IT!!! Who cares if it isnt "traditional" it's just sooo....expressfull!!
Chichiri520 1 month ago
I'm really impressed to see a western person can play the music instrument better than a chinese person
Fran0neal 2 months ago
damn i m infatuated !!!!
tianya1382 2 months ago
Fucking beautiful. Does this zither have a praticular brand/make?
What mic/pre are you using?
ihasmario 6 months ago
i cant say anything... hear this... beautiful.....
tajimaru1 7 months ago
i watched this video in my world music class this semester, and this was definitely one of my favorite videos that we watched!
mpds11590 9 months ago
hen hao wode pengyou...
ancientcityinker 11 months ago
More Zither videos pleaaaaaassssssssssee :D
Alienated29 11 months ago
Traditional instrument but with such a contemporary feel to it. lol. I want a Guzheng even though I'd have no idea how to play one =X
KevinAZheng 1 year ago
this song has stolen my heart,,,,jeeepers you are so dedicated. I need some inspiration...........besides my amaaaazing cat.........
jeannegrob 1 year ago
Amazing piece
ziv2 1 year ago
chuffin brilliant dude
djgabc 1 year ago
Hi, Bradley - Is the model you are playing a "professional" model, or is it "beginner" or intermediate level? I'm trying to decide if I would be happy with the sound of the beginner models. Thanks!
gtrgdss 1 year ago
Quel Talent Merci ! : )
librielle 1 year ago
whoahh so awesome~ love this jam
shirokurokimi 1 year ago
Can you play something of the Jewish repertoir on the Guzheng?
Qwerti60 1 year ago
man thats beautiful!! I been trying to find somewere to buy the japanese koto, i belive there the same thing but i cant find anywere in the UK, im so pissed ;'(
Gr8 job m8 full of emotion and soul
lantyboy 1 year ago
@lantyboy its different.. Chinese zither was introduced to Japan in China`s Tang Dynasty, so koto is in Tang-style while Chinese zither has developed alot since Tang Dynasty :)
q1w2e38104 1 year ago
@lantyboy Guzheng and Koto are like the modern Violin and the baroque Violin respectively. Koto is a more ancient form.
gariadara 10 months ago
@gariadara The Guzheng is older than the koto :)
GODSLAYER121 2 months ago
@GODSLAYER121 The Chinese "Zheng" class of intruments (zithers) are of course extant long before they were adopted by the Japanese. However, the Guzheng continued to evolve over the centuries within China whereas the Japanese never bothered to make any changes to the zithers they got from China since the Tang Dynasty. Therefore, Guzheng is NOT older technically, but has an older line of descent. The Koto, though "younger," preserves older characters. Hope that helps.
gariadara 2 months ago
I am China right now. The gals at the music shop would go CraZY if you walked in and played. Now I'm thinking after the guitar I might try the guzheng it is a beautiful instrument. THANKS!
bombasticplastix 1 year ago
Ah classic Bradley Fish sound even from a guzheng.
I like the sound but the Chinese put much more effort into how they look while they play the guzheng, much more dramatic.
RK11111111111 1 year ago
Hello, Bradley! What you do is beautiful! I have bought a Guzheng and I'm really in the mood of learning. Can I ask you the tunning? I have more or less figure the tunning of the melodic part, but I'm not sure if I must also tune the left part of the strings by moving the wood pieces, and in case of yes, what is the relation between the right and the left part of the string tunning. (sorry if I'm not very clear, my english is poor). Thank you very much! :-)
ceresdeorion 1 year ago
well done ! good job ! Although some of the people don't like the way you're playing , so what !? Is there got ONLY one way to play the Guzheng !!! ?? If I like or if I can then I'll play it with my toes !! lol
YIBDH 1 year ago
HOLA BRADLEY ERES UN LOCO CULTO
KESTUARDOVR 1 year ago
I LOVE this. lol, i have trouble sleeping at night and this kind of music is way better than counting sheep. you keep doing what you're doing, because it's beautiful. :)
daisieful 1 year ago
hat was cool
they should give one of these to andy mckee lol, he'd probably get hooked.
freakoutguitarsolo1 1 year ago
love it
timetoloveall 1 year ago
you should do learning how to play chinese zither for beginner basic. It will help a lot of people who are interest in it.
mybluefantasy 1 year ago
it is like chinese play piano 我操你妈的美国白吃！
1988yilinjin 1 year ago
@1988yilinjin 我看你才是白痴 。。人家踩到你家的祖坟啦 ？
YIBDH 1 year ago
It pretty good for you to play it like what you did, you must have practised a lot. But sorry, I don't like your perfomance. Probably because you have made some changes about how to play this instrument unintentionally, which let me feel unable to seize the soul when listening to the music. And you were plucking the string like plucking the guitar's, maybe you would like to be more gentle. just my own view.
matthewsmx 1 year ago
one of the most amazing videos i've seen this year.
trill2go 1 year ago
I'm Thinking of getting one of these but one thing, strings!? what kind of strings do they use? or they easily available anywhere? they look and sound nylon
professorlamp 1 year ago
shut u p! i like! usually the gucheng is really sad to me.. but this one is melodic and happy.
beverlee329 1 year ago
Hi - Thanks for all the comments. You can learn to improv on it pretty quick. (The classical stuff will take a lot of time to learn.) Feel free to contact me about private lessons over webcam. Got this one in Shanghai. This one does have an acoustic-electric pickup but I'm mainly using the mics...I have videos in lots of styles posted at my Youtube channel "bradleyfish" Enjoy!!!
bradleyfish 1 year ago
@bradleyfish hi. I am just wondering but it is hard for a 24 year old to learn the guzheng? also, would the guzheng or guqin be easier?
thx
4485lolo 1 year ago
How hard is guzheng to learn? I love the sound, and play guitar/banjo/accordion/piano/french horn, so I'm contemplating getting one.
mushroomz88 1 year ago
Just plain COOL!!
slapleatheru3 1 year ago
bruuuutal!!
Argoitz 1 year ago
Love the contemporary sound with such a classical instrument
Hero1989 1 year ago
Love the contemporary sound with such a classical instrument
Hero1989 1 year ago
Beautiful... lovely style, and very refreshing.
Post more please! And tell me where you got it! :o)
Skattotter 1 year ago
That's beautiful
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Electric Turtle wrote "That is NOT creative according to Objectivism."
That's probably why it sounds beautiful.
Muwt 1 year ago
Terrific stuff. I love the way you play guzhen, it has a new-age feel to it, which to me feels very refreshing. I don't see why some people are complaining about it not being played the 'traditional' way, because I way I hear it, there's no way that guzhen could be mistaken for guitar, or any other instruments for that matter, it's just too unique of a sound. And it still sounds distinctly chinese, and that's good enough for me.
pacsouljah00 1 year ago 5
wow that was amazing
BCt0xiN 1 year ago
where did you get this?
Vikingman889 1 year ago
this is splendid man! Please post more videos:)
chekybeetle 1 year ago
it's beautiful =)
popoilo 2 years ago 3
its electronmic guzheng/
?
alovak456 2 years ago
Dude... I absolutely loved that. Do you have an album of music like this?
Tman4000 2 years ago
Just an incredible musician! Check out his baritone dulcimer jam!
791southcourt 2 years ago
He's got this in a 7th tuning
the mic on the left looks a like a SE condenser.
Dodom123 2 years ago
Sorry but when you say 7th tuning, I don't understand. Can you give us the 21 strings ?
CharlieMoher 2 years ago
Wow, loved it ;-)
soundslikemeagain 2 years ago
beyond words brother
TheBarefootServant 2 years ago 2
Very nice. Thank you.
JoeJoeSing 2 years ago
Thank you so much for bringing that instrument in modern world. I was worried it wouldn't...
Ashkeysan 2 years ago
magnificent feel
Akaryubi 2 years ago
i think its a modern type of tune or style played using the gu zheng..like it! first time i heard this type..^^
love986 2 years ago 2
beautiful
stolieolie 2 years ago
wow u've broken the racial barrier, not only do chinese play the guzheng but u too! rock on!
hollywood93 2 years ago 2
EXELENT well done
HondaSuperSport1100 2 years ago
this is amazing! way better than some out there calling themselves pros I love it! great job!
kary213 2 years ago
where can u get on of these, as well as being taught how to play it ? i so want to !!!
Tempestelterna 2 years ago
most music shops sell a smaller lap harp / zither. its easily played, but difficult to master. and almost noone specializes in teaching.... u would have to travel for that... lol
bryanfunk 2 years ago
Wow amazing!
In what tune do you play?
Thnx!
fenderpeter 2 years ago
I like it!
Eivuwan 2 years ago
Amazing!
88Anouartje88 2 years ago
wow, thats amazing playing...your music is awesome!
known619er 3 years ago 3
the last bass chords sound the same that on Lou Reed's "Walkin' on the Wild Side" from his "Transformer" album, where th song first appeared.
Never the less, Brad, your Guzheng has a marvelous resonance.
Quality above all.
Death to ugly sounding instruments!!
rafaelneville 3 years ago
弹得很好!!!
chinakx 3 years ago
Wow, that's nice to relax too. I like your style.
SGlax12 3 years ago
It sounds amazing! Even though it's not played the traditional way, it's very interesting and beautiful.
rawrness1230 3 years ago 3
Absolutely fantastic!! Thank you! Please post more!
chinchinlive 3 years ago
Invite me to Israel brother, I want to jam with you and meet a nice Jewish girl.......
sillykidssong 3 years ago 6
intresting, sounds like a guzheng but fresh style.
funkmasteryellow 3 years ago
Sounds great!
Cher0keeChi1d 3 years ago 2
love it!
nickolis 3 years ago 2
i think its awesome how it's different from the traditional. this is what make it unique.
SmoothieJulie 3 years ago 2
now that's what i call superb guzheng playing!!
shinoharataro 3 years ago 2
good job
the western style guzheng
hellofox1983 3 years ago
kinda ruined the whole traditional chinese way of playing it.
tiiinkerbellle 3 years ago
Progress requires new innovations, which require new ideas and new experiments! Music evolves in this fashion.
fdfederation 3 years ago 2
you know i really cant stand the people who hate on this video, they say its not the music the guzheng was ment to play, well think of it as a cello, i play cello, the cello was never created to play jazz or rock, it was created to play classical music, right, just like the guzheng it is a instrument used to play traditional music but it is people like this who bring the insrument into the new era and bring it to a level that we have never heard before. stop the violence.
GeMEng1900 3 years ago 3
I don't think you or the artist appreciates the difference between 'what' music is played and 'the way' music is played on a given instrument. If you learn how to play a ukulele and then you go to a teacher to learn how to play a guitar, and then play the guitar like a ukulele... The teacher will say, no no that's terrible, you must not treat one instrument like another. That's what's going on here, he's playing it at times like a guitar, but it's not, and that comes off as discordant.
TheElectricTurtle 2 years ago
You don't fundamentally change how an instrument is played just to play a different genre of music (with perhaps the exception of additional physical layers like bows, or the percussive picking style of tsuguru shamisen). If you look at the modern guzheng music of Bei Bei He in her collaboration with Shawn Lee, you can see how an instrument can break out of classical genre without losing quality of technique.
TheElectricTurtle 2 years ago
I actually disagree. If you play an instrument in a way other than the way it is normally plated, you are being creative with said instrument. There is nothing wrong with doing something differently, and only doing things the way they have been done before is not art. I suggest that you should go read The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand.
FascistLetterOpener 1 year ago
You've got to be kidding me. You say these things and then recommend The Fountainhead. You obviously don't even understand Ayn Rand. In the first chapter Howard Roark even says, "The famous flutings on the famous columns--what are they for? To hide the joints in wood--when columns were made of wood, only these aren't, they're marble. The triglyphs, what are they? Wood. Wooden beams, the way they had to be laid when people began to build wooden shacks..."
TheElectricTurtle 1 year ago
"Your Greeks took marble and they made copies of their wooden structures out of it, because other had done it that way. Then your masters of the Renaissance came along and made copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Now here we are, making copies in steel and concrete of copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood." The point here is that you must find the highest expression appropriate to a medium, not transport the same things from one to another.
TheElectricTurtle 1 year ago
Playing a guzheng like a guitar is EXACTLY that, transferring concept A from medium B to medium C. That is NOT creative according to Objectivism. Creativity in this context would be a completely new approach to the instrument, not transferring an old one. However, the height of creativity would be designing and new instrument altogether and producing a method/style of playing *that*.
TheElectricTurtle 1 year ago
I was actually suggesting that you read it due to the fact that it is basically an extension of your pre-existing opinions, not as something to attempt to change your mind.
FascistLetterOpener 1 year ago
I'm actually ambivalent toward Ayn Rand, it just so happens I have read her in order to have formed that opinion.
However, all of that aside, difference in style as you define creativity is not sufficient to attain value. Mere transference of style is lazy and in this case awkward. Quality is lost, as I had originally asserted, & the benefit of the thing is reduced or eliminated. Have you even listened to Bei Bei's material, as I recommended? Do you even have a frame of reference for contrast?
TheElectricTurtle 1 year ago
Ya well based on every other performance by actual chinese on youtube I would say this guys guitar style sounds superb whether its proper or not
it's too bad not everyone in the world has the time to be as smart as you and instead are content with whats simply better
BCt0xiN 1 year ago
dam that original masterfulness, yes i made that word up.
funkmasteryellow 3 years ago 2
Ｉ think it's great that the guzheng has reached many non-Chinese people. Unfortunately, I some technique has been sacrificed here, and also, this really isn't the music guzheng is meant to play, as someone who plays and listens to traditional music, this sounds very odd, but, bravo for learning it and creating some cool sounds on this instrument!
quickster94 3 years ago
I though he is a chinese. haha...
Jainaproudmore123 3 years ago
i think you're plucking too hard (like a guitar) b/c the sound is suppose to radiant whereas you're plucking too hard and it feels like if you pinching instead but it's still good.
youthewhat 3 years ago
Wonderful instrument, sound and playing. Bravo!
Babejuda 3 years ago
guai lou pwns at chinese instrument!!!
hahdouken 3 years ago
Such a cool instrument!!
nice job!
deinemutter2002 3 years ago
Wow, that was beautiful! Thanks for posting it.
whataboutredlorry 3 years ago
Nice!
iwanttoknowgod 3 years ago
because of you, Bradley, I got my own Guzheng for my 21st birthday! I figured out how to tune it (eventually!) and now I can't stop playing it! Some day I will learn this jam and post it as a response to this video.
Cheers Bradley! xx
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powerfulnun 3 years ago
why!?
ChineapplePunk 3 years ago
wow! that was awesome man.
bryspe 3 years ago
Bravo my man. Very pleasant!
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playbozz 3 years ago
left hand to me very hard to use
XxcorodaxX 3 years ago
i think this instrument is the most sophistocated form of musicianship ever. it has to be the most enjoyable sound iv ever heard. (sry 4 any type o's lol)
lastdolphinsfan 3 years ago
great!
electronixtar 3 years ago
Wooooow!!! Fantastic!!
alincielo 3 years ago
你是很好！
cak213 3 years ago 2
That was beautiful, man.
Bimkovitz 3 years ago 4
youve inspired me to buy one and learn how to play it now. haah
HreNmyhead 3 years ago 3
I like the bending effect
Patsan120 3 years ago 2
very nice!! thanks
0fishcake0 3 years ago
good job
leolee2k 3 years ago
Wow man, this is great, awesome sound and you play very good! Thanks for posting!
LeonardoProVincie 3 years ago
Wonderful. Has it only pentatonic tones?
The atmosphere of Chinese music is so very present. Thank you, Bradley for posting, and Leonardo for sharing!
I love it!
Roeleke
Twirretwarre 3 years ago 2
It's amazing what you do on the Guzheng!
dissolvegirl 3 years ago
A really unusual sound on guzheng. Love your style, Bradley. One of my favorites!
Yours from Germany,
Volker H.
Volker400 3 years ago 2
Bradley,
You are W O N D E R F U L !
annamariaprezio 3 years ago
omg!!
It's really good !
How clever you are!
lee01928374 3 years ago
That sounds amazing, nicely done.
How much would a poor quality/entry level Zither set someone back?
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chrisvl1030 3 years ago
i love it! i actually learned how to play a koto, or a zither, since i was 12. i'm still not as good as bradley. i wish bradley could teach me. sigh** well, i'll keep practicing.
nlayla 3 years ago
that is a sweet zither video
lamarpie3 3 years ago
nvm i have
scarydead 3 years ago
im 13 and i play the japanese koto. i have never seen that technique when u slap ur tsume (thats what we call what u put on ur fingers) on the gu zheng
scarydead 3 years ago
haha, i gotta stop watching youtube..... the more i watch the more i realize how many more instruments there are that i really REALLY wanna learn how to play.... fantastic job, i was blown away :)
P.S. i bet thats a reall pain in the ass to tune :P
SonicBlastMan 4 years ago
what tuning is this in? it is beautiful.
tollert1 4 years ago
now that's beautiful!
pookiecatblue 4 years ago
beautiful.
adhdguitarist 4 years ago
Man, I can listen to stuff like this all day! Great job, Bradley! Keep kickin major booty, bruthah! LC
SilverHamer 4 years ago 3
0:50 and 0:02
waht he plaied was amazingare amazing...
deinemutter2002 4 years ago
Could there be a more beautiful sounding instrument?
Five Stars!
marywinmusic 4 years ago
It reminds me of some great songs of Andreas Vollenweider with which I grew up with.
Great improvisation!!!!
Dree from Holland
Dreemans 4 years ago
Man, this song is beautiful, love it
darwix 4 years ago
This is no song...it´s a solo...
or a jam
deinemutter2002 4 years ago
Man, this song is beautiful, i really like it!!
darwix 4 years ago
this intrument is amazing... this instrument has soul man...
and is so quite ..^^
iam drummer :D
deinemutter2002 4 years ago
beautifull nice recording setup too'
guerno1 4 years ago 2
Beautiful fusion of East and West. I play the Chinese Zither (Guzheng) myself and so far I've only done the tradition songs, but I'd love to play like you. ^^
oppop30 4 years ago 2
Hi -- oops I just accidentally hit remove instead of reply and deleted your comment asking for the score. Anyways, thanks for your feedback. The piece is improvised - there is no score! Enjoy!
bradleyfish 4 years ago
Then that makes it even more amazing than it already is! Keep playing your amazing music for more people to enjoy.
oppop30 4 years ago
Interesting. I like that very last pitch bend - a very nice way to end it!
dulcimoo 4 years ago
Wow! That was fantastic. I'm a guitarist/composer, and you've got me interested in the sound of the Zither now. Keep Zithering!
LoganNorman 4 years ago 2
hey man, it feels amazing :)
go on like that!
fabio2006mi 4 years ago 2
ENCORE!
lYakuzal 4 years ago 2
Amazing! Its very unique it's like you have a whole band in your fingers!
greengrower1989 4 years ago 2
not enjoy this thing for time
seems a WangYong guy just had use guzheng this
way
so fantastic so gay so dynamic
cloud wind flower bird turf creek
fly without wings and feathers
swim without fins and
what ever that it was good
eraserlee 4 years ago
i love his style of playing, why should he use some else's technique if he already has his own? i use markers on mine and it sounds awesome.
hellkatvixen 4 years ago
i like when they MIX this type of sound into westen modern music liek the way linkin park did in "nobody's listening" and residente calle 13 also did this in a song names "japon". also dont by jay-z, r-kelly. loved this in hero with jet li.
govaneaq 4 years ago
this is really good. just because hes playing it western style doesnt make it less appealing. this is really neat and well played. you people that are complaining about how hes playing it "improperly"... quit being so ethnocentric. you know asian countries love to imitate american style music as well and you dont see anyone complaining about that!
insanerhapsodist 4 years ago
Just because the way he plays is unconventional doesn't mean there's anything wrong with it, especially when it sounds this good. I mean, you're not supposed to play right handed guitars upside down and inverted, either, am I right?
davidxcorexcorexcore 4 years ago
there is a "law" saw in nature in taoism: chi flow.
Musically, this chi is created trhu the musical scale. C:G is NOT equal to G:C. The result of the C:G ratio is 0.666 (2:3). The result of the G:C ratio is 0.75. (3:4). So there is 0.08 flowing around these two sounds. This is chi felt in music. The walking around the perfect fifth produces this transduction of sound. In daoism it's the movemente of yang and ying generating chi (0.75=0.66+008)
guacobey 4 years ago
I doubt he believes that though. As far as he's concerned, the Guzheng is another instrument to play and enjoy.
eyeball226 4 years ago
please be respectful of the instrument youre playing and use proper technique. as previously noted, you use guqin techniques. this is a guzheng, if you haven't noticed, and it has its own set of techniques. this also includes wearing fingerpicks. you have some great creativity with this and there's nothing wrong with being innovative, but be respectful of the guzheng and do it right - i think you'll be surprised with how much proper technique and fingerpicks can do to your playing.
orihx3 4 years ago
What's wrong with not playing it the conventional way? That's like saying you shouldn't put a guitar into an open tuning because that's not the 'correct' way of playing it. In fact, the way most people play the guitar isn't the classical style. Do you object to that too? If it sounds good, it is. The only way he would be being disrespectful of the instrument is if he was breaking it. I apologise if he is damaging it by playing it this way, but I highly doubt that.
eyeball226 4 years ago 3
Humm. Well westerners will hear this and may investigate the instrument. He is not being disrespectful of the instrument, but may not be respecting tradition. Here is a blending of east and west...
dulcimoo 4 years ago
Did anyone tell Picasso that the eyes are supposed to go on the top and not down the side? Or Hendrix that the guitar should be played with hands and not teeth? what's wrong with individuality?
passthesalt2000 4 years ago
you play it like guqin,but it is really guzheng.
guqin and guzheng are different instruments.
nuannuan1984 4 years ago
He's probably self taught, and it doesn't matter since it still sounds good.
eyeball226 4 years ago
maybe you are right.
but every instrument has its own tone color,
i dont think he paly guzheng's timbre.
ps:guqin is a more traditional instrument
it contains more chinese cultures.
nuannuan1984 4 years ago
OMG!!!!thats so kool!...
kaylaher 4 years ago
somehow.... just somehow... there isn't any feeling when you play
kutila 4 years ago
holy shit, this is pretty sick. I REALLY LIKE THIS SONG, is it original? ive actually never seen a caucasian playing it.
hillarybaby 4 years ago
WOOP WOOP and wow just amazing it is the perfict song to just relax and ride with and by the way is there a name for the song of a place to get it or is it just a randome thing with no name and no thing ?
1916251442899 4 years ago
i think you've got it.
buzz
bluetoad2001 4 years ago
this guy plays really well, puts a western twist in the structure and rythm into it
jeffchen 4 years ago
hey neat!
jhoung 4 years ago
wow you make it sound like a harp :-D lol
yunheishere 4 years ago
how come you don't have nails on your left hand?!
wow, you're really good. :D
greenkiwiwithseeds 4 years ago
zither have 21 strings not 7 or 5
and you use nails to play
my moms a teacher
my uncles famous in taiwan for it my family is zither central
imagine my suprise finding it on youtube!
aznsk8rpunk 4 years ago
are you playing with your bare fingers? O_O
cherubickah 4 years ago
Nice.
Beefgog 4 years ago