Jon Catler, 12-Tone Ultra Plus guitar, PART II, FOOTSTEPS, 6/20/10

Jon Catler performs 'Footsteps' on the 12-Tone Ultra Plus guitar. This piece demonstrates some of the superchromatic possibilities of this tuning system. Learn more at www.FreeNoteMusic.com

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• Jon Catler
• just intonation
• harmonic
• overtones
• microtonal
• microtones
• microtonal tuning
• guitar instruction
• Jimi Hendrix
• Harry Partch
• Jeff Beck
• La Monte Young
• FreeNote Music
• microtonal guitar

[CadPCrayon]

Wow, that sounds really neat! What kind of temperament (TET) does this guitar have?

[FreeNoteMusic]

@CadPCrayon

Thanks! This guitar has 12 frets in standard 12-Tone Equal Temperament, and then another 12 frets per octave of Just Intonation frets which are based on the 7th, 11th, and 13th Harmonics of the Harmonic Series.

[sevishmusic]

Ahhhhh mate, I love this song. Very well done... been listening to this a lot for the past couple of days.

Is it correct that you play other just intonation guitars too? I hear that Crash Landing was "composed and performed in 49-note per octave" tuning - I've only heard one track from that album so far and it's quality, gotta buy the whole album soon.

Much respect that you're playing microtonal tunes that people can actually dance to..! Take care man

Sean

[FreeNoteMusic]

@sevishmusic

Hi Sean - Thanks for the good words! Yes, I play other Just Intonation guitars also, including the 64-tone FreeNote/G&L. The guitar used on the Catler Bros. cd had an interchangeable fingerboard, so I could switch between 49-tone Just and Fretless -

[FreeNoteMusic]

fr: awfulguitarplucker

2 wks ago

i wanna pose you a question...how did you managed to RE-LEARN EVERY SCALE AND MODE in every position of the new frets and also bein able to phrasing and soloing so fluidly amongst these little intervals where even normal tuned jazz guitarists can BARELY phrasing that fastly on sucha rushedly running chord sequence? cos for what i see you should know scales better than John Mclaughlin,pat metheny and django reinhardt included..which would means that you...ARE GOD?

[FreeNoteMusic]

1 week ago

Thanks! I enjoy the challenge of playing melodically over moving chord changes. You mentioned a couple of my favorite guitarists, and I've had the pleasure of meeting both Metheny and McLaughlin. Their music remains very influential to me.

As there are 36 different pitches on the Ultra Plus, there is always more to learn and I am still finding new things every day - JC

FreeNoteMusic 1 week ago

[JerichBlakk]

OMG was that cool...it opens the hell out of your ears too...

[saxocopter]

@FreeNoteMusic , it's probably because Pat Methany and John Mclaughlin have been on the scene for so long (late 60's for Mclaughlin, mid 70's for Methany) that everyone knows them by now. Unfortunately that's the nature of the music business; you can be a great player and still go without recognition for years before people realize what they've been missing. As a jazz tenor player I see a lot of similarites between Jon Catler and John Coltrane.

[epiphoney]

How about Chicken or 13 O'Clock Blues from the Willie McBlind cd's?

[7648DEAN]

truly awesome!

[epiphoney]

Pretty cool.  Maybe have a backing track for the next one. Live long and 7/4.