Ben Monder - Orbits

[AdvancingGuitar]

I have an amazing scale exercise/warm-up that I got from Ben Monder. You can find it at my free blog, Advancing Guitar, in my lesson titled, "Kung Fu, Ben Monder and the Best Scale Warm-Up...Ever!"

advancing guitar dot blogspot dot com

[armanyoo]

amazing polyrythmics

[deleriumtheblacksun0]

can anyone send me a tab of this

[iwokeupthismorning2]

It took me about an hour just to get the ostinato. the bass part seems almost impossible to play while holding the main riff... The 3rd part seems to be the most difficult to get ... I might stick to Chet Atkins... hehh

[PrivateBuckwheat]

@iwokeupthismorning2 I completely understand your pain. There's like four independent rhythms going on here and it's really hard to get more than two of them going on at the same time. I can do the bassline with the ostinato and I can sort of do the 3rd part with the ostinato, but I can't put all three elements together it's; just insane. Maybe some day.

[amjan]

@PrivateBuckwheat Are the two top strings tuned differently?

[PrivateBuckwheat]

@amjan Yes, the first string is tuned down to a D and the second string is tuned down to an A.

[mrgeleo]

GENIUS, SIMPLY GENIUS

[videolover61]

That's some nice blue grass youre playing there!! Yahoo!!!!!!

[virajxpro]

ashjkfshfslkhjkl polyrhythmic guitar ftw.

[drhux81]

wow, completely abstract but completely thought out, reminds me of the whole "independent limbs" thing that some drummers can pull-off with individual time signatures layered on one and other from both legs/arms, very impressive!

[amusiathread]

I can see how not everyone "gets" it. But I think it's brilliant.

[es175yes]

sounds BAD!!!! as in NOT GOOD

[es175yes]

sounds horrible! wtf!!!

[lordnecromansus]

Does anyone know what guitar he is playing?....It's gorgeous

[Aliksmyth]

@lordnecromansus An older Ibanez Artist AS-50.

[lukyganesh]

paul masvidal was right, this man is a "beast"

[timeofthehero]

What tuning is this?

I read its in EADGAD

but I'm not sure.

[PrivateBuckwheat]

@timeofthehero EADGAD is correct, or at least that's the way it is in the book.

[rhorschack]

Beautiful and executed perfectly. Truly amazing !

[weekendlobotomist]

sounds like an Opeth interlude

[SheebaTonkaMan]

@weekendlobotomist truth.

[BurnElectric]

@iggypopster2  well, it was a figure of speech, but if you want to go literally it's ok, there's always some pompous jerk who's trying to act smart

[ShredST]

Three voices!!

[guitarDouchebaggery]

absolutely great!

[viper1991]

you can really hear the overtones shimmering..pretty sick

[zonedout245]

Wow, this is the first Avant Garde Jazz piece I've listened to that I didn't have to ease into to avoid getting a headache.

[realself1]

that is the wierdest version of "I fall in love too easily" I've ever heard. is he using a capo?

[tpritchas14]

this guy is so underrated

[ironpirites]

Great facility with harmonics. Interesting piece. Made me remember Holst. I would like to hear the ideas developed further. I think the notion expressed has more to give, really.

[eyebonez13]

I was expecting the wayne shorter tune, but this is very interesting.

[BurnElectric]

incredible how much sense he makes with this nonsense music :)). incredible player and musician

[sytraxiplague]

0:56 <3

[yulaliens]

bravo¡

[trappedsoul7]

sounds very bartok'ish to to me.

anyone else?

this is incredible.

[oatslope]

@trappedsoul7 yeah and brouwer i hear too

[majorinconvenience]

@trappedsoul7

to me it sound ligeti'sh. No doubt it was influenced by some contemporary classical music.

Great, live and natural!!!

[JAORMX]

holy crap, what's that, i've never heard anything like this before O_O, awesome

[Symbioticism]

my gosh!

[000MidnightSun]

this is fucking amazing

[lugaray2]

Nice composition

[macri12345]

fucking brilliant

[ERICROBILLARD1]

tres bon!!

[carlolaurenzi]

Please!!! Upload the entire piece!

More Ben Monder stuff!!

By the way, folks: go buy Monder's Compositions Book edited by Mel Bay, if you like his music and would like to (try to) play it..

[Sandemose]

Haha, man I saw som exerpts from it. Even if I would love looking deeper into his stuff, I think it would be a waste of time for me. Its so monumentally complex and demanding. Just building your righthand technique it would demand would take a lifetime :) Beutiful music still, I love hearing this. Thanks again for posting!

Best, Sandemose

[oatslope]

don't undercut yourself! you might be surprised at how simple this really is

[alexg42288]

@oatslope are you insane? nothing about this is simple... the timing is unbelievably hard to master. it would take a very skilled guitar player a few weeks to be able to play this song

[neo4reals]

@alexg42288 He's not insane, he's a dumbass trying to sound knowledgeable

[maniacguitar]

@neo4reals Calling him a dumbass doesnt make you sound too smart either, he's reached heights that not many people can or will understand

[neo4reals]

@maniacguitar I wasn't calling Ben a dumbass, I was responding to oatslope, read ahead

[maniacguitar]

@neo4reals hehe my bad brotha, i didnt really read much into it :P i stand corrected

[neo4reals]

@maniacguitar its all good, just a misunderstanding

[ShredST]

@neo4reals This "dumbass" happens to be able to play three voices on the guitar at the same time. Each voice with a different meter.

[gillsmcgee411]

@ShredST I think he was calling the oatslope a dumbass, not ben monder.

Monder's a boss by the way

[oatslope]

@alexg42288 of course it's complex, but when you break it down to understand what's going on, the big picture becomes a lot clearer and makes more sense. i was encouraging someone to look into it and not underestimate their own ability. really, in my opinion, the rhythms are very simple. it's a few polyrhythms. ben counted it out like anyone else would have to. but so what? it really shouldn't take away from how fucking good this is.

[hakanozelguitarist]

is this piece in the book?

[carlolaurenzi]

Of course!

good luck ;-)

[Sandemose]

More, more, more! :) Thanks for uploading, great videos Umblachery...

Best regards, Sandemose