@maxpower789z Well you're really retarded so I had to say it twice. Cause I bet while you were reading it you went "durrr what did he call me?" So I had to make sure you read it again. I wouldn't want you to hurt yourself by thinking to hard. And you seriously believe that me saying a word more than once in a paragraph is somehow stupid? Then you must be really pissed off at yourself for spelling "think" wrong. Hahaha!
This technique isn't as harmful as the naysayers are making it out to be. Under normal use, the tension of the strings are already providing a huge strain on the guitar. The truss rod is there to balance that tension in the opposite direction. A properly executed neck bend is less of a push than it is a firm touch that relieves the string tension momentarily. Truthfully, it's probably more damaging to run heavy strings in standard tuning without a proper setup, and people do that every day.
@aektzis91 regardless, the strat standard tremolo is actually pretty crappy it goes out of tune fairly easily without a locking nut at the very least...
hey, i just went on your channel, and apparently your 28, i'm only 15, but let me tell you, YOUR the fucking idiot. i'm not gonna tell you to go on a live version of a slash song, cause the camera men suck. but go on a cover, good guitarists like, those guys named, kobiba, and gewerh44. type in "sweet child o mine cover" and from those 2 guys, they get it spot on, skip to 10 seconds before the song ends, and wait for the last note. and look what they do. their imitating slash you dumb fuck.
@evolutionist2010 believe it or not, but alot of people use that technique, especially with guitars that don't have floyd roses, but i do agree with you, he acts like an idiot, as do all the "expert village" people. people like saul hudson (slash) and other blues influenced rock guitarists
yeah slash was doing this live once and the neck snapped hitting him in the face, though this is pretty uncommon (but les pauls generally have bendier necks)
no,,, bad lesson,,,,,,everytime you do that your weakening the joints at pressure points that will eventually warp the neck unless you don't care about the guitar then bend it to blazes.
@TomyTrackmastertrain it doesnt matter what guitar it is, its a whammy bar, its sometimes called a tremolo but tremolo is a rapid variation in volume not pitch
cheeky name .. u ask a lil toddler to pronounce the word truck.. hes gona say fuck ! hence trucker = fucker ... so mother truckers .. yea >> Mother Fuckers !!! hehe
its probably best to do this technique with a telecaster only because they're probably the toughest out there. its doesnt really hurt the guitar although you may have to intonate it a little more often. Redd Volkaert used to take a baseball bat telecaster necks and bend them down an octave. yes an octave and it never seemed to hurt them. but you dont do it with Gibsons for obvious reasons. Telecasters have a one piece bolt on neck. no harm no foul
I do so since decades... This is easy and secure on Fender-like "one piece" bolted maple necks, far more difficult on glued fingerboards, and simply criminal on a old Gibson ES175 (until y'oure as rich as Slash).
cause the necks are prone to breakage at the top at the base of the headstock. the joke is that the truss rod cover is what holds it together...it does happen a fair bit. seen it first hand.
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Sounds great, but I'd prefer to just use the bridge whammy bar to obtain that sound. Seriously, do you want to break your guitar? I had a guitar once that would never stay in tune again after doing stuff like this vide.
I think he was just using it to show us. I have a Trem, but when I'm showing a friend how to neck-bend, and I don't have my other guitar handy, I'll just go ahead and show him on that one.
Funny thing is that Josh can play the doors off any style of music, I grew up with him in Marin. He was raised on AC DC and Sabbath and I assure you can play it all, so settle down ladies and enjoy all music.
Stop Talking about metal. This is an instructional video for COUNTRY guitar. If you don't like country music, then what are you doing watching this video. I like metal, to some extend (van halen, iron maiden, and other classic metal bands) but I don't go to metal instructional videos and start bragging about the blues, or country. These metalheads need to grow up and learn that music is a personal taste. Especially since they are definitely not going to win in an argument on this video.
Dude go fuck yourself, not all metal bands have lyrics that "are about mutilating dead bodies or other ridiculously violent things." The fact that you generalized metal and your claim that you "grew up" after your teenage years just shows that you were just a fucking poser who was trying to "rebel", and you never really saw metal for what it was, or for it's diverse styles. So don't rub your nose at metalheads for preferring the music of our own culture over others, you dumb fuck bastard.
I would like to thank both you and sickharvest for reminding me why I stopped listening to metal a long time ago: metal fans tend to be obnoxious adolescents. Seriously, why is it you metal idiots, when you see a discussion about any other type of music, have to open your damn mouths about how much you love metal and how you think everything else sucks? NOBODY FUCKING CARES. People like different things than you. Sometimes they like things you don't. Get over it.
Can you read? I think you can read, right? If you can(which I'm not too sure you can), you'll clearly see ddv13devo's disparaging remarks about metal. I couldn't care less about the things other people like, to each his own, but when some ass starts saying metal isn't relevant, it kinda gives me a bone to pick. Did you read this through enough times to understand what's going on? Versteht? Comprendre?
Yes, I can read. Quite well actually. However, it seems that you cannot, because if you were able to, you would have noticed how one of your fellow metalheads just had to start the whole damn thing by proclaiming over and over again "METAL RULES AND IS AWESOME AND THIS IS GHEY AND SUX LOLOL", while, like you and most metalheads everywhere, getting his damn panties in a twist if someone even DARES to criticize metal. Same thing as on every music thread everywhere when metalheads show up.
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Whateeeever dude, seeing as this is the internet I'm not even gonna bother. You'll never understand why we defend metal how we do(and no, it's not because we're "obnoxious adolescents"), I'm through arguing with you people.
"Defend metal"? Jesus Christ, it's a form of POPULAR MUSIC, not some ideology or social movement. It's not some super-secret underground brotherhood. The world will not change if only the rest of the world would recognize the power and the glory of metal.You are not special. Christ, I can't believe people actually BELIEVE any of that cheesy bullshit. Sounds like its straight out of a Manowar song. There's not some conspiracy to keep "true metal" down, man.
It seems like you never really got into metal. You obviously dont get it. Who cares about the lyrics not expressing emotion (even though alot of metal bands are emotional but you've never heard of them cause you liked bad metal when you were 14). its all about the music. it pushes the limits in what an artist can do. no not in speed (I know you were thinking that) but in skill, musicianship, creativity.
metal, also being one of the most diverse genres next to jazz, is even moving forward academically. my friend is currently taking a class in metal history in JU.
Where, exactly, did I say metal had no emotion? And I know its complex. And I still don't care. You like it. Great for you. That's what its all about. BUT I DO NOT, and neither do a lot of other people, and it tends to annoy people when metalheads act like assholes when ever they come across music they don't like. Read the thread before you comment next time.
If metal is to be taken seriously then its fans REALLY need to grow up.
That's great and all, but here's the point: NOBODY CARES. This thread originally was about a music entirely DIFFERENT than metal(yes people like music that's not metal, strange concept) until metalheads came and took a shit all over it with the standard metalhead trolling.
I never said metal has no emotion. I also realize that it can be very technically complex. It's just not for me or a lot of other people. If metalheads want to be taken seriously then they need to learn to respect that.
All you people saying he's going to break his guitar either down know crap about guitars, or own a crappy one, cause a quality neck won't have any problem with a little tweaking.
If you had a guitar you would know it requires very little flexing in the neck to do this.
The worst that will happen is you might go out of tune.
Josh is not a country player, he is a blues/rock player in a country band. For those of you who are really interested google Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky thunder. Makes Vai look like a rank amateur.
He doesn't use a whammy bar because it's a lesson, and not everybody has one. Also the guitar of choice for country is a tele which by default comes with no vibrato system.
There is quite a bit of technique and skill that goes into playing country licks. While the guitarist for cannibal corpse is certainly talented, I am certain there are things great country guitarists or various other styles he could not do as well.
If you don't see any technique or skill to it, try learning to play some advanced chicken pickin' country guitar licks.
I have. It bores me. There is no technique, just think of "riffs" that will impress "them good ol' boys".
Death metal and speed metal have the most talented players in the world. Go look up Jeff Waters, Herman Li, and Alexi Laiho to name a few. Speed and technique.
It's true that they are talented, but it's only one kind of music. With every genre there is talent. Look up (though I'm sure you know) Joe Satriani, Justin King, Andres Segovia, Michael Hedges, etc.
Speed and technique are hardly important if the music isn't good. Also, if you take a critical look at death metal with other styles with high speed playing (including the chicken pickin' country riffs) you'll realize that it is very similar technique.
I'm with you on Satriani. And Vai. Never heard of the others, but I will look them up. But it seems to me that all country artists are just copying one another, no originality. The songs "God Bless Texas" and "Little less talk lot more action" are actually the same song. Their lyrics and ideas are atrocious. The only decent one I've ever heard is Unknown Hinson. Look HIM up.
No disrespect to the guitarists you like, but there really isn't that much talent in fast playing. It's a 100% of very hard and disciplined work and practice. It is hard to play fast, because you have to be dedicated. It's something EVERYONE can do, but a few actually do. It's more difficult, requires more talent I mean, to sound interesting playing slowly. Slash's November Rain solos, IMHO, are a few of the best guitar masterpieces out there. They're not that fast.
Slash's slow solos are good because he CAN shred like a muther fucker. I'm not saying I don't have some slow songs in my band, but country music is just blah...Metal will always dominate it in terms of technicallity, speed, duration, talent, and something to actually sing about. Mud on the tires? Give me a fucking break.
Right, sickharvest, and metal's all about wizards, warlocks, death, and epic battles. And it's all guys screaming "OOOHDEATHTOYOUSPLITYOUINTWORARARARARA", and the guitarists playing random notes really fast.
You see how I just generalized metal? Before you retort back, think about how you just generalized country music. I bet you've never heard a REAL country song in your life.
Dude I used to forced to listen to this crap at a young age, before I learned what music actually is. And your "generalization" was pretty funny, but to compared to mine about country music, your's actually makes metal sound better! I'm gonna quote that on MY band's page.
seriously dude you need to learn how to appreciate all types of music, maybe country isn't your thing but you don't have to bash other peoples music. Besides it doesn't have to be with all those things you listed its the sound that counts. if you can make a great sound regardless of genre then it could still have such an awesome sound. well I dunno just stop bashing on each other and enjoy music ok?
hey, you know nothing about metal, im into alot of music im considered metal head but im on this video to get soem country guitar tips, but not all metal is shit, teh modersn stuff mostly is, but there are a couple of good bands that dont do sencless shit like avnged sevenfol for example but i say modern stuff is inferior to 80's if u listen to poison youl hear country influenced solos
You've never actually attempted to play ANY country at all, have you? Go attempt to play some Chet Atkins, some Jerry Reed, Brent Mason, etc, then tell us that it requires no technique.
Speed is NOT the be all and end all of technical playing.
You're all screaming speed like that's the only thing I'm talking about. It's one thing to be technical, but to take that and play it with speed is what better. Don't try to tell me about all this country\western crap, and how good it is. I took classical guitar in college, the hardest kind of guitar technique in the world, and even my instructor called country, "an abomination in the music scene." And since HE can play rings around these jokers, I'll believe him.
You need to expand your horizons a bit, I think, and open your mind. Just because you don't particularly care for a style of music, does NOT make the musicians who play it untalented. Besides that, if your only criteria for music is that it is difficult to play, you're really missing out on a lot. Technique is a good thing to have, but it's just a means to an end, not the end in itself.
I call the inability to write lyrics that actually contain a message with some kind of relevance to anything at all, coupled with horrible inacuracy on a fret-"bord" bad. There is no point to that genre. The fact that country is actually considered a style of music appauls me.
You want to talk about metal music having relevance? All Cannibal Corpse lyrics are about mutilating dead bodies or other ridiculously violent things. How can that possibly be relevant to anyone except sadistic weirdos, and 14-year olds looking to rebel against their parents? Real country artists like Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, and Willie Nelson didn't sing about "mud on the tires". They sang songs to express human emotion, which is something EVERYONE can relate to.
The point is to tell a story, how about you fucking listen to some actual music before you try to argue about what is good and what's not. HANK WILLIAMS! Mediocrity at it's best!
FYI, I used to listen to Cannibal Corpse and all those death metal bands. Back when I was like, 16. Then I grew up and realized it's music for braindead teens who still watch wrestling and wear t-shirts with skeletons on them. I think I'd rather go deaf than listen to that tuneless garbage for the rest of my life.
So what your actually saying is you would rather listen to this mediocre bullshit instead and dull your senses. Understandable that you would label CC as a "rebelious band" for teenagers, especially when their primary listening audience ranges between the ages of 25 and 35 right? I'm not fucking brainwashed, I can just tell talent from pointless bullshit, unlike you and your golden oldies.
keeping a bass with your thumb and playing melodies with your other fingers is pretty hard when you take it to a more advanced level. Death metal is great music too, you can't really compare the two. I don't really listen to country but you can't say that. Why don't you record yourself playing a country tune if it's so easy.
Man, you guys should hear his bands. The Mother Truckers, formerly from somewhere in Cali, came to Austin, TX to stay. Incredible live shows. His rock band, Protein, which released 2 CDs on the Sony/Work label and played in the Warped tour circa 1997, was criminally overlooked. You should hear some of the riffs on the "Songs About Cowgirls" album. Sick. Sick. Sick. It might be out of print now but it's on iTunes.
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@maxpower789z Well you're really retarded so I had to say it twice. Cause I bet while you were reading it you went "durrr what did he call me?" So I had to make sure you read it again. I wouldn't want you to hurt yourself by thinking to hard. And you seriously believe that me saying a word more than once in a paragraph is somehow stupid? Then you must be really pissed off at yourself for spelling "think" wrong. Hahaha!
DyingToLive310 1 month ago
This technique isn't as harmful as the naysayers are making it out to be. Under normal use, the tension of the strings are already providing a huge strain on the guitar. The truss rod is there to balance that tension in the opposite direction. A properly executed neck bend is less of a push than it is a firm touch that relieves the string tension momentarily. Truthfully, it's probably more damaging to run heavy strings in standard tuning without a proper setup, and people do that every day.
notjason 2 months ago
Great way to fuck up your 2000$ guitar
shlomiya 5 months ago
wtf is on your hat
cdavis2021 6 months ago
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CIRCULOETERNO 6 months ago in playlist Country guitar lessons
or you could just a whammy bar and NOT damage your guitar... exact same effect.
tonewolfsyd 7 months ago
why not pull the trem back? :S
blackice228 10 months ago
@blackice228 Its probably converted to a Hardtail! (:
carman24007 10 months ago
@carman24007 true, true :)
blackice228 10 months ago
hes neck bending on a guitar with a tremelo!! makes no sense
hifijohn 11 months ago
@hifijohn maybe he turned it into a hardtail, by deactivating the trem system.
aektzis91 11 months ago
@aektzis91 regardless, the strat standard tremolo is actually pretty crappy it goes out of tune fairly easily without a locking nut at the very least...
prettycolors2 6 months ago
Don't try this on a Les Paul ---- "Crack-Snap!!!!"
yakiburger 11 months ago
hey, i just went on your channel, and apparently your 28, i'm only 15, but let me tell you, YOUR the fucking idiot. i'm not gonna tell you to go on a live version of a slash song, cause the camera men suck. but go on a cover, good guitarists like, those guys named, kobiba, and gewerh44. type in "sweet child o mine cover" and from those 2 guys, they get it spot on, skip to 10 seconds before the song ends, and wait for the last note. and look what they do. their imitating slash you dumb fuck.
TasteForDisaster 1 year ago
what a fucking idiot, teaching people how to fuck their guitar.. id twist ur neck like that if u even thought about doin that with mine...
evolutionist2010 1 year ago
@evolutionist2010 believe it or not, but alot of people use that technique, especially with guitars that don't have floyd roses, but i do agree with you, he acts like an idiot, as do all the "expert village" people. people like saul hudson (slash) and other blues influenced rock guitarists
TasteForDisaster 1 year ago
@TasteForDisaster
ur just as much of a fucking idiot, if not more of a fuckin idiot than this guy.....
im sure slash would agree not to do it unless u dont gave a fuck about ur guitar..
cheers!!
evolutionist2010 1 year ago
fuck !!!learning this lesson i break my GT neck
supermiredo 1 year ago
Use the fucking whammy bar!
danecook321 1 year ago 2
@danecook321 He is demonstrating it on a strat, but its mainly used on guitars without one...
Kylef7735 11 months ago
@danecook321 whammy bars are for pussies
DyingToLive310 3 months ago
@DyingToLive310 Whammy bar users: Jimi Hendrix, Dick Dale, Stevie Ray Vaughn, and David Gilmour... hmm, only pussies you say, huh?
ShortFingeredShreder 3 months ago
@ShortFingeredShreder jimmy page, slash, eddie van halen, keith richards, chuck berry, and eric clapton dont use whammy bars
DyingToLive310 3 months ago
@DyingToLive310 Eddie Van Halen doesn't use a whammy bar?... Wow, I guess he puts Floyds on all of his guitars just for the look of it!
ShortFingeredShreder 3 months ago
@danecook321 It doesn't sound the same,
LoyalKnightofOrion 2 months ago
yeah slash was doing this live once and the neck snapped hitting him in the face, though this is pretty uncommon (but les pauls generally have bendier necks)
rmartin232 1 year ago
no,,, bad lesson,,,,,,everytime you do that your weakening the joints at pressure points that will eventually warp the neck unless you don't care about the guitar then bend it to blazes.
davem12758 1 year ago
is he talking about the game mothertruckers
mrguitarslim 1 year ago
the motherfuckers?
ADOPTmeBITCH 1 year ago
cool, but i wouldn't dare do it with my guitar. seems risky.
tecnolover2642 1 year ago
You want this effect? Get a guitar with a good Floyd Rose. Doing this is playing with fire
GregHM81 1 year ago
on a stratocaster its called a tremolo bar not a wamy
TomyTrackmastertrain 1 year ago
@TomyTrackmastertrain it doesnt matter what guitar it is, its a whammy bar, its sometimes called a tremolo but tremolo is a rapid variation in volume not pitch
rmartin232 1 year ago
i have been doing this for 7 years on my Les Paul .... the neck i still there....
pilot233a 1 year ago
I did this 1 time to my SG.. you can do it if you do it carefully.. but I aint gonna do it again .. too careful with my guitar!
GitarenEnBananen 1 year ago
not good for your guitar. slash snapped his neck off his guitar and it hit him in the face and broke his nose XD
glint20 1 year ago
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TonyGognitti 1 year ago
that doesnt ruin the neck?
thefatcody 1 year ago
can i do this on a flying v?
dieandgoaway 1 year ago
Does this tehcnic damage my guitar ???
pliskinn0089 1 year ago
@pliskinn0089 Not on a Fender bolt-on guitar, at all. I wouldn't suggest doing it on a set-neck guitar though.
metalcore929 1 year ago
cheeky name .. u ask a lil toddler to pronounce the word truck.. hes gona say fuck ! hence trucker = fucker ... so mother truckers .. yea >> Mother Fuckers !!! hehe
maxa07 2 years ago
sorry but Im not going to do this to my sg or strat.
GitarenEnBananen 2 years ago
I even use this on my acoustic. Nice video.
DuskY1991 2 years ago
I do this with my strat but im terrified of doing it with anything that has a glue in neck just incase I hear the dreaded *snap*.
OOOLAAAY 2 years ago
I have a Gibson Les Paul. Would this technique harm my guitar. I know Slash does it, but can it warp your neck if you do it? Thanks! :D
oldGNRfan23 2 years ago
@oldGNRfan23 avoid this with gibsons, they are prone to breakage. even consult the slash book, he busts one doing a bend like this
Musicjuicebox 1 year ago
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crazyghetto978818 2 years ago
I learned this technique from my friend who plays an SG and he hasn't encountered any problems. Seems to not affect my tele at all.
johnh5304 2 years ago
"Mother Truckers"?
Utter brilliance.
CrazyToastie 2 years ago 3
FATTY!!!
Damn, Im off to try her.
dggfhdfghdf 2 years ago
its probably best to do this technique with a telecaster only because they're probably the toughest out there. its doesnt really hurt the guitar although you may have to intonate it a little more often. Redd Volkaert used to take a baseball bat telecaster necks and bend them down an octave. yes an octave and it never seemed to hurt them. but you dont do it with Gibsons for obvious reasons. Telecasters have a one piece bolt on neck. no harm no foul
Hendrick4404 2 years ago
I do so since decades... This is easy and secure on Fender-like "one piece" bolted maple necks, far more difficult on glued fingerboards, and simply criminal on a old Gibson ES175 (until y'oure as rich as Slash).
iltizzone 2 years ago
uh why not just use a whammy bar? i dont know if i want to abuse my guitar like that
runallday400j50 2 years ago
not all guitars can have tremolo arms
turna2k6 2 years ago
guitar necks are designed to bend you stupid fucker
teksizTHC 2 years ago
lol ok so im a stupid fucker now haha.
anyways, thanks guitar expert.
runallday400j50 2 years ago
people, teksizTHC, is right. don't thumb down that shit.
jameskillparty 2 years ago
Don't worry... I'm using this method for many years and my guitar is stil in one piece... and I don't have Whammy bar so what else can I do? :o)
OndraStraka 2 years ago
what guitar do you have?
music4life265 2 years ago
I've got Fender stratocaster... Mexico
OndraStraka 2 years ago
wood bends man. it's not bad for your guitar.
jameskillparty 2 years ago
you should use the "tremolo" it works really well if you give it a chance.
spyvsspy901 2 years ago
i heard that one time when Slash was doing it that the neck exploded
Brawny216 2 years ago 3
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AnalFuckingCow 2 years ago
do NOT do this with gibsons.
Musicjuicebox 2 years ago 3
why not
lordvader665 2 years ago
cause the necks are prone to breakage at the top at the base of the headstock. the joke is that the truss rod cover is what holds it together...it does happen a fair bit. seen it first hand.
Musicjuicebox 2 years ago
slash does it al the time with his les paul
ricardopazbelvis 2 years ago 3
Do you ever answer any of your comments?
yell0wmelon 2 years ago
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I wish people like you would become permanently disabled. You're so gullible, superstitious and stupid anyway it's bound to happen.
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JUST DO IT IT'S SCARY!
downhomecowgirl95 2 years ago
Sounds great, but I'd prefer to just use the bridge whammy bar to obtain that sound. Seriously, do you want to break your guitar? I had a guitar once that would never stay in tune again after doing stuff like this vide.
DJ80s 2 years ago
I'm too much of a pussy to try that.
Anight7mareX 2 years ago
i broke a thru neck on my gay bc dagger! i way prefer bolt on neck xbox boy. all fender and jacksons bolt em on good
bikebmxbike 2 years ago
is there summit wrong with u
lol
and then xbox freak it doesnt needa be a bolt on neck cos slash has done it twice on his gibson les paul which is a thru neck design
ryaniomitch 2 years ago
do you hate your guitar? :D
stefanboy2 2 years ago 3
Looks and sounds like Mark Walberg.
chooseyourblues 3 years ago
lol not really.
MaxwellsAttourney 2 years ago
lol my friend did this but he did it as hard as he could a broke his neck off!!!
it was his fault for using a bolt on neck
XB0XFR34K 3 years ago 2
this guy does it with one too. though i dont know why..he has a trem.
johnnyxgenocide 3 years ago
oh lol
XB0XFR34K 3 years ago
I think he was just using it to show us. I have a Trem, but when I'm showing a friend how to neck-bend, and I don't have my other guitar handy, I'll just go ahead and show him on that one.
Simple convenience, I think. ^^
Jaybeat2k6 3 years ago
ive been bending the necks on my guitars for years and i have never broken one and mind you i have been bending the notes down one whole step
bloozelover 3 years ago
cool trick, except that guitar actually has a damn tremolo... just use it, already! :P
mofokitten 3 years ago
i correct myself, he mentions that in the actual video. my bad! :P
mofokitten 3 years ago
Sound sweet!
tmertube 3 years ago
he sounds really dull anyone notice that
goonyougoodthing 3 years ago
This guy sounds a little high;.. But the vid was a bit helpfull.
leitegabriel 3 years ago
Guitar woods don't break that easy. You need to bend it really hard to to brake it.
JDsNewTube 3 years ago 9
it happens with less pressure then you may think
laxer27 3 years ago
you actually bend a neck? watch out so you don't break it
turbomaximus1966 3 years ago
Funny thing is that Josh can play the doors off any style of music, I grew up with him in Marin. He was raised on AC DC and Sabbath and I assure you can play it all, so settle down ladies and enjoy all music.
pedrobarboney 3 years ago
What's wrong with a tremolo arm?
darksideofthemoo 3 years ago
Doesn't it damage the guitar if you don't do the neck bending properly?
170593170593 3 years ago 2
guys stop fighting country and metal both kick ass
parkerh12 3 years ago 3
country metal kicks ass rebel meets rebel.
bigmonkeyman44 3 years ago
That's fine as long as you don't start talking about how metal is better than everything else. :)
mwagnerch 3 years ago
Stop Talking about metal. This is an instructional video for COUNTRY guitar. If you don't like country music, then what are you doing watching this video. I like metal, to some extend (van halen, iron maiden, and other classic metal bands) but I don't go to metal instructional videos and start bragging about the blues, or country. These metalheads need to grow up and learn that music is a personal taste. Especially since they are definitely not going to win in an argument on this video.
mwagnerch 3 years ago 2
I don't like country and I can tell you exactly why I'm here. I want to learn to neck bend.
I thought that would be obvious.
VelvetKevorkian 3 years ago
So many "Metal" hipsters around these days...fuckin posers.
Pretty cool technique btw
MorbidVirus 3 years ago 4
why the fuck are you all arguing?
the whole point of music is to make people happy and to bring people of the same mindset together, to prevent wars, not create them...
Davdak 3 years ago
FREE BIRD. *it is not country.......LOL
supersteven14 3 years ago
DRAGON FORCE
borinchulo 3 years ago
i guess u do this if u cant afford a whammy
zowbaid89 3 years ago
this could damage the neck ?
hdarkside 3 years ago 2
wtf does this have to do with metal, keep that shit out of his vid comments
but anyways, thats pretty cool there, i never knew anything about neck bending before,
dre32291 3 years ago
does bending the neck leave any permanent damage?
74dorset 3 years ago 12
@74dorset
yes
CletusColtrane 11 months ago
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i hope sometime he really destroy th neck while he's playing some suxing country music
evilskills 3 years ago
Dude go fuck yourself, not all metal bands have lyrics that "are about mutilating dead bodies or other ridiculously violent things." The fact that you generalized metal and your claim that you "grew up" after your teenage years just shows that you were just a fucking poser who was trying to "rebel", and you never really saw metal for what it was, or for it's diverse styles. So don't rub your nose at metalheads for preferring the music of our own culture over others, you dumb fuck bastard.
solarairhead 3 years ago
I would like to thank both you and sickharvest for reminding me why I stopped listening to metal a long time ago: metal fans tend to be obnoxious adolescents. Seriously, why is it you metal idiots, when you see a discussion about any other type of music, have to open your damn mouths about how much you love metal and how you think everything else sucks? NOBODY FUCKING CARES. People like different things than you. Sometimes they like things you don't. Get over it.
twb176 3 years ago
Can you read? I think you can read, right? If you can(which I'm not too sure you can), you'll clearly see ddv13devo's disparaging remarks about metal. I couldn't care less about the things other people like, to each his own, but when some ass starts saying metal isn't relevant, it kinda gives me a bone to pick. Did you read this through enough times to understand what's going on? Versteht? Comprendre?
solarairhead 3 years ago
Yes, I can read. Quite well actually. However, it seems that you cannot, because if you were able to, you would have noticed how one of your fellow metalheads just had to start the whole damn thing by proclaiming over and over again "METAL RULES AND IS AWESOME AND THIS IS GHEY AND SUX LOLOL", while, like you and most metalheads everywhere, getting his damn panties in a twist if someone even DARES to criticize metal. Same thing as on every music thread everywhere when metalheads show up.
twb176 3 years ago
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Whateeeever dude, seeing as this is the internet I'm not even gonna bother. You'll never understand why we defend metal how we do(and no, it's not because we're "obnoxious adolescents"), I'm through arguing with you people.
*resumes playing bass*
solarairhead 3 years ago
"Defend metal"? Jesus Christ, it's a form of POPULAR MUSIC, not some ideology or social movement. It's not some super-secret underground brotherhood. The world will not change if only the rest of the world would recognize the power and the glory of metal.You are not special. Christ, I can't believe people actually BELIEVE any of that cheesy bullshit. Sounds like its straight out of a Manowar song. There's not some conspiracy to keep "true metal" down, man.
Fanboys suck.
twb176 3 years ago 2
It's a culture, if you weren't a complete fuckin' moron you'd see that.
solarairhead 3 years ago
Yeah, "it's a culture" blah blah blah. I used to believe that shit too. Then I turned 15.
twb176 3 years ago
Then I guess it wasn't the hip thing to do then.
solarairhead 3 years ago
It seems like you never really got into metal. You obviously dont get it. Who cares about the lyrics not expressing emotion (even though alot of metal bands are emotional but you've never heard of them cause you liked bad metal when you were 14). its all about the music. it pushes the limits in what an artist can do. no not in speed (I know you were thinking that) but in skill, musicianship, creativity.
cabed21 3 years ago
metal, also being one of the most diverse genres next to jazz, is even moving forward academically. my friend is currently taking a class in metal history in JU.
cabed21 3 years ago
Where, exactly, did I say metal had no emotion? And I know its complex. And I still don't care. You like it. Great for you. That's what its all about. BUT I DO NOT, and neither do a lot of other people, and it tends to annoy people when metalheads act like assholes when ever they come across music they don't like. Read the thread before you comment next time.
If metal is to be taken seriously then its fans REALLY need to grow up.
twb176 3 years ago
That's great and all, but here's the point: NOBODY CARES. This thread originally was about a music entirely DIFFERENT than metal(yes people like music that's not metal, strange concept) until metalheads came and took a shit all over it with the standard metalhead trolling.
I never said metal has no emotion. I also realize that it can be very technically complex. It's just not for me or a lot of other people. If metalheads want to be taken seriously then they need to learn to respect that.
twb176 3 years ago
pag chur oi!!!
katenava 3 years ago
pag chur oi!!!
katenava 3 years ago
Poor Strat :( Put A Tremolo Bar
LoZiMmMm 3 years ago
You got a bad looking strat.
PhilipZahnd 4 years ago
All you people saying he's going to break his guitar either down know crap about guitars, or own a crappy one, cause a quality neck won't have any problem with a little tweaking.
If you had a guitar you would know it requires very little flexing in the neck to do this.
The worst that will happen is you might go out of tune.
cwgrifter 4 years ago
lol love the name mother truckers
03mustang03 4 years ago
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its called a whammy bar noob this guy sucks and hes to poor to buy a new guitar
SoloBen247 4 years ago
haha u'r the frustrated coze this man own u MUAHHAHA gg no Re
peonwarrior 4 years ago
Josh is not a country player, he is a blues/rock player in a country band. For those of you who are really interested google Ricky Skaggs and Kentucky thunder. Makes Vai look like a rank amateur.
garytelecastor 4 years ago
He doesn't use a whammy bar because it's a lesson, and not everybody has one. Also the guitar of choice for country is a tele which by default comes with no vibrato system.
skuzgib 4 years ago
This Fretboard is greasy :P
Dude clean it please!
Pohmellimon 4 years ago
Why wouldn't you just use the whammy bar?
anticlementous 4 years ago
Country music.......wow....that's...BAD...
No technique, no skill, no point.
Go learn some Cannibal Corpse so you can call yourself a guitar player.
sickharvest 4 years ago
...Ignorant.
There is quite a bit of technique and skill that goes into playing country licks. While the guitarist for cannibal corpse is certainly talented, I am certain there are things great country guitarists or various other styles he could not do as well.
If you don't see any technique or skill to it, try learning to play some advanced chicken pickin' country guitar licks.
brddork 4 years ago
I have. It bores me. There is no technique, just think of "riffs" that will impress "them good ol' boys".
Death metal and speed metal have the most talented players in the world. Go look up Jeff Waters, Herman Li, and Alexi Laiho to name a few. Speed and technique.
sickharvest 4 years ago
It's true that they are talented, but it's only one kind of music. With every genre there is talent. Look up (though I'm sure you know) Joe Satriani, Justin King, Andres Segovia, Michael Hedges, etc.
Speed and technique are hardly important if the music isn't good. Also, if you take a critical look at death metal with other styles with high speed playing (including the chicken pickin' country riffs) you'll realize that it is very similar technique.
brddork 4 years ago
I'm with you on Satriani. And Vai. Never heard of the others, but I will look them up. But it seems to me that all country artists are just copying one another, no originality. The songs "God Bless Texas" and "Little less talk lot more action" are actually the same song. Their lyrics and ideas are atrocious. The only decent one I've ever heard is Unknown Hinson. Look HIM up.
sickharvest 4 years ago
No disrespect to the guitarists you like, but there really isn't that much talent in fast playing. It's a 100% of very hard and disciplined work and practice. It is hard to play fast, because you have to be dedicated. It's something EVERYONE can do, but a few actually do. It's more difficult, requires more talent I mean, to sound interesting playing slowly. Slash's November Rain solos, IMHO, are a few of the best guitar masterpieces out there. They're not that fast.
Kalamacina2 4 years ago
Slash's slow solos are good because he CAN shred like a muther fucker. I'm not saying I don't have some slow songs in my band, but country music is just blah...Metal will always dominate it in terms of technicallity, speed, duration, talent, and something to actually sing about. Mud on the tires? Give me a fucking break.
sickharvest 4 years ago
Right, sickharvest, and metal's all about wizards, warlocks, death, and epic battles. And it's all guys screaming "OOOHDEATHTOYOUSPLITYOUINTWORARARARARA", and the guitarists playing random notes really fast.
You see how I just generalized metal? Before you retort back, think about how you just generalized country music. I bet you've never heard a REAL country song in your life.
ddv13devo 4 years ago
Dude I used to forced to listen to this crap at a young age, before I learned what music actually is. And your "generalization" was pretty funny, but to compared to mine about country music, your's actually makes metal sound better! I'm gonna quote that on MY band's page.
sickharvest 4 years ago
seriously dude you need to learn how to appreciate all types of music, maybe country isn't your thing but you don't have to bash other peoples music. Besides it doesn't have to be with all those things you listed its the sound that counts. if you can make a great sound regardless of genre then it could still have such an awesome sound. well I dunno just stop bashing on each other and enjoy music ok?
shuya69 4 years ago
hey, you know nothing about metal, im into alot of music im considered metal head but im on this video to get soem country guitar tips, but not all metal is shit, teh modersn stuff mostly is, but there are a couple of good bands that dont do sencless shit like avnged sevenfol for example but i say modern stuff is inferior to 80's if u listen to poison youl hear country influenced solos
danophile07 3 years ago
You've never actually attempted to play ANY country at all, have you? Go attempt to play some Chet Atkins, some Jerry Reed, Brent Mason, etc, then tell us that it requires no technique.
Speed is NOT the be all and end all of technical playing.
twb176 4 years ago
You're all screaming speed like that's the only thing I'm talking about. It's one thing to be technical, but to take that and play it with speed is what better. Don't try to tell me about all this country\western crap, and how good it is. I took classical guitar in college, the hardest kind of guitar technique in the world, and even my instructor called country, "an abomination in the music scene." And since HE can play rings around these jokers, I'll believe him.
sickharvest 4 years ago
You need to expand your horizons a bit, I think, and open your mind. Just because you don't particularly care for a style of music, does NOT make the musicians who play it untalented. Besides that, if your only criteria for music is that it is difficult to play, you're really missing out on a lot. Technique is a good thing to have, but it's just a means to an end, not the end in itself.
twb176 4 years ago
I call the inability to write lyrics that actually contain a message with some kind of relevance to anything at all, coupled with horrible inacuracy on a fret-"bord" bad. There is no point to that genre. The fact that country is actually considered a style of music appauls me.
sickharvest 4 years ago
yeah, but you can't spell.
impandy 3 years ago
You are a FUCKIN' (YEAH NO GOD DAMNED "G") MORON. End transaction.
sickharvest 3 years ago
I play it off legit
impandy 3 years ago
You sure do.
sickharvest 3 years ago
You want to talk about metal music having relevance? All Cannibal Corpse lyrics are about mutilating dead bodies or other ridiculously violent things. How can that possibly be relevant to anyone except sadistic weirdos, and 14-year olds looking to rebel against their parents? Real country artists like Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, and Willie Nelson didn't sing about "mud on the tires". They sang songs to express human emotion, which is something EVERYONE can relate to.
ddv13devo 3 years ago
The point is to tell a story, how about you fucking listen to some actual music before you try to argue about what is good and what's not. HANK WILLIAMS! Mediocrity at it's best!
sickharvest 3 years ago
FYI, I used to listen to Cannibal Corpse and all those death metal bands. Back when I was like, 16. Then I grew up and realized it's music for braindead teens who still watch wrestling and wear t-shirts with skeletons on them. I think I'd rather go deaf than listen to that tuneless garbage for the rest of my life.
ddv13devo 3 years ago
So what your actually saying is you would rather listen to this mediocre bullshit instead and dull your senses. Understandable that you would label CC as a "rebelious band" for teenagers, especially when their primary listening audience ranges between the ages of 25 and 35 right? I'm not fucking brainwashed, I can just tell talent from pointless bullshit, unlike you and your golden oldies.
sickharvest 3 years ago
keeping a bass with your thumb and playing melodies with your other fingers is pretty hard when you take it to a more advanced level. Death metal is great music too, you can't really compare the two. I don't really listen to country but you can't say that. Why don't you record yourself playing a country tune if it's so easy.
junka22 4 years ago
good lesson to know how u break ur neck the best way, who is that silly not to use the tremolo/whammybar, if he has the oppurtunity to do that?!?
Flaviothebest 4 years ago
Because he is a country "musician" and doesn't actually know how to play guitar.
sickharvest 4 years ago
It's not really a lesson is it?
Better use a wah wah :P
qdsqd 4 years ago
*raise hand* um teacher? is it good for the guitar if u keep bending it like that?
rl0u8888 4 years ago
"and this is how you bend the neck..."
*SNAP*
"aw shoot."
morocca1 4 years ago
Man, you guys should hear his bands. The Mother Truckers, formerly from somewhere in Cali, came to Austin, TX to stay. Incredible live shows. His rock band, Protein, which released 2 CDs on the Sony/Work label and played in the Warped tour circa 1997, was criminally overlooked. You should hear some of the riffs on the "Songs About Cowgirls" album. Sick. Sick. Sick. It might be out of print now but it's on iTunes.
Nakedprey 4 years ago
Where do you guys play? Thanks fr the great lessons Josh. Mike
mzladd 5 years ago
I do this a whole step (thats two frets) on my crappy Ibanez starter guitar. kick ass
FieroMan123 5 years ago
is this the same as using bar?lol
FSassGrind 5 years ago
if you wanna see a rip your bass appart kind of neck bend search for Billy Sheehan.
xorn21 5 years ago
Jesus Christ bananas, I winced every time he wrenched on the neck... >_O;;
Renegadius 5 years ago
jake e lee used to do that technique too.
pjciv 5 years ago
That ROCKS! Great Guitarist Josh! Thank you for the nice coments on my version of Wichita Lineman here at you tube.
warpdriveprod 5 years ago
way to warp a neck
dizzack 5 years ago
what about a wammy bar
Aceman196 5 years ago
lol if it's a good guitar don't worry about it. Just don't bend further than this dude does.....
foolybop 5 years ago
i feel like im gonna break my guitar when i do that
meatballllll 5 years ago