Guitar player breaks 3 strings and keeps playing

[QCMECvideo]

I used a guitar with a floating bridge intentionally. When I let the low E & A and the high E go, the bridge pushed back making all the other strings higher in pitch. They all go out of tune and to different tunings. The only way to play after something like that happens is to use your ear and force the notes to do what you want. I did this to illustrate that point. NO ONE on Youtube has done that, and most guitar players don't know how to control their instrument if something goes wrong.

[QCMECvideo]

@QCMECvideo I was going to cut the strings off but Guitar Center's legal department said it would disqualify me because it somehow gave me an unfair advantage??? I had to find a natural way to release the strings.

[lewanjoh]

Does anyone know if this is at Mall of America?

[nickbarcenas]

if this guy didn't win the whole king of the blues competition somebody needs to fucken assasinate those fucking poor ass deaf judges because that was some feeling and it was an original style not duplicating stevie ray vaughan or hendrix so that was definently a winners solo in my book and i should know because all i listen to is blues all day everyday since i was a little kid..

[Quantumface]

my god will we ever hear the end of the pentatonic scale.

[devilslaya25]

i looked up mute city guitar solo on a real guitar and this came up... wtf?

[mrbrobman1]

y did this seem way longer than three minutes

[sonichackman1]

@mrbrobman1 because it was 3:20. xD

[feelee15]

he didn't break the strings. he intentionally released them from the locking tuners.

[zvalladon]

@feelee15 Not the case, He probably actually recognized that he broke a string or two, and threw it in to some sort of drop or raised tuning so he could keep playing. I only say this because there's not a "locking" tuner at the top of his guitar. I'm actually not sure what you mean by locking in that sentence, but yeah...he just tuned down or up.

[feelee15]

@zvalladon what are you talking about "drop or raised tuning" ? I was there. He reached up. And released the strings at the back of the headstock....

[bigfattrolllord]

@feelee15 no shit, how could anyone miss that? And why the fuck did he do it?

[pontamans79]

@zvalladon Dude, feelee15 is right, he just released the strings to show off and was adjusting the tuners later to compensate for the released pressure on the neck that caused it to slightly pull out of tune.

and he means locking because there's such a thing as locking tuners that clamp the strings from inside the tuning peg. this makes it so you can have pretty much no whines on the peg and be fine, and if you release the lock the strings will fall out like his did.

[camguitarist]

@zvalladon No he actually released them from the tuners. Locking tuners allow you to wrap the string around once then lock it and he undid the tuner in the video. Are you referring to a locking nut?

[danikaholmesmusic]

awesome! 

[andremelloful]

Crazy

[tonyvogel09]

Good Jeb!