Why does this guitar have SO MANY MORE frets? | The World's Weirdest Guitars #6
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Guitarist/Songwriter/Samurai Born in the Manitoba prefecture of Canada, samuraiguitarist, honed his discipline under the study of the country's most powerful musical sensei. Bred on rock, raised on the blues, trained in jazz, samuraiguitarist creates incredibly innovative videos that showcase his talents on the guitar.
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My high school rock band had incorporated microtonality back in the day. Eventually, we droped it when we learned how to tune our guitars.
I was scratching my head when reading this before listening to the video, now I get it 😂😂😂😂😂😂
You should've gotten a gold for this comment
@@Jeffersonyuvens this aint reddit
@@WilliamReddingGuitar oh really, wow i hadn't noticed
r/2sentencehorrorstories
1:21
"here's a little demo."
*starts playing SpongeBob Theme but drunk*
As soon as he started it, I felt my brain break.
Lives in a pineapp......falls down.
Kumo So just Mac DeMarco?
Hahaha i thought that too
LOL
A note about King Gizzard's drummers, they actually tuned their drums to microtones
Seriously? Wow, that's new...
Eddie Bing it’s a joke from their flying microtonal bananas studio video.
A note? Eh, a note about notes? Eh? .... sorry.
I giggled at that don't apologize
They also have a blue one
7:23 that riff is *GNARLY* , like, that is super ballsy
Sounds like a theme song for some tv series
Stevie T ref?
RATTLESNAKE but harder
YO!
Bold of Sammy G to assume King Gizzard has one drummer
On Microtonal Banana they only have one drummer with kick drum privileges, so ...
John Drogado not anymore, Eric got his kick back for the Rat’s Nest tour
Bold of him to assume they only have one guitar player
I saw the guitar and immediately went to the comments to see the King Gizzard fans. Pleasantly surprised I had to look no further than the top comment.
No mention of the Microtonal Flying Banana??!
Gizzheads watching this video: *heavy breathing*
Sammy G: One of those bands is called King Gizz-
Gizzheads: HE SAID IT HE SAID THE THING
Fr
He just had to mention em
king gizzard and the wizard lizard
King Jizzard and the Blizzard Wizard
Sammy G: “One of those bands is King Gizz-“
Gizzhead: Discards comment they were in the middle of writing.
*talks about King Gizzard's drummer*
me: There is another
Me in 2 years: There's three , actually
oof, reading this one in the present hits hard
No more, my friend, no more
aged like milk
Press F to give Eric back his drum privileges
Imagine trying to play this song by ear, but you can’t figure out what fret to play because your guitar doesn’t have it
Bend. Your guitar has it
It happens A LOT if you try to play some Anatolian rock
@@ASSman864 what's the best way to go skiing? Don't skii. Thanks Einstein.
@@sunkintree *im kind of flabbergasted when you say things like that*
EA be like...
Gotta be honest, Sammy's playing sounds less like microtonal music and more like SpongeBob music on a wobbly LP vinyl haha. Not complaining
I was not ready for this comment lmao 😂
I was thinking more along the lines of crunchy Better Call Saul, but yeah
When I hear him playing the guitar I feel like I'm drunk and running in a grass field and watch some wierd spongebob episode.
Rob scallon b bender?
unquestionably a vibe
Basically a Mac Demarco song then
Copy paste
Same with me. But it also reminds me of the monkey island 3 soundtrack for some reason.
"This allows you to play notes that would be inaccessable on a normal guitar"
That weird guy in the back: *bends string*
He literally covers the fact that it doesn’t work the same
*plays on fretless*
*allows
Uses a slide
kevin shields: tremolo bar
Here's what you can do with this newfound freedom:
*Lofi sponge bob music plays*
another music youtuber going down this really dumb rabbit hole.
excellent.
Get a microtonal bass and let's do this.
@@samuraiguitarist let this dream of mine become reality
@samuraiguitarist That would be a wet dream for everyone to see 👀
@@samuraiguitarist this
Plz do, I think I have never wished something so much
Is your guitar tuned?
Of course!
The guitar: 4:11
I assume you could torture people with microtonal jazz.
Listening to that demo in the beginning made me WILDLY uncomfortable
You could torture someone with normal jazz
Jazz > Any Jazz hater's preferred musical genre
@Serpent's Bane: I don’t hate jazz, but last I checked it isn’t better than metal
Have you heard about a man called Adam Neely?
4:45 about King Gizzard: "and the drummer, he just plays drums". Well actually... there's two drummers playing synchronically, at least at both times i saw them live...
Lol comments that didn't age well
oh yeah what do you mean?
@@tomaatje321 Eric, one of the drummers, just left the band
oh yeah oohh that’s sick, I didn’t know yet :(
@@tomaatje321 it's super sad but he is still going to be their manager and work at their record label
Shoutouts to King Gizzard
Cannot wait for there hip hop album
theyve been blue balling us since chunky dropped!
BeterGryphon That they have!! We need something more!!
It sounds like a walkman cassette player while the batterys are slowly dying
That's actually one of the key things about lofi music, it's meant to sound like it's from a dying cassette
😂😂😂😂😂
@@KingBarney this isn't lofi
@@sunkintree Was just giving some info on something related.
1:21 , I'm gonna make this my theme song when i smoke pot.
😂Why is that so funny
Sounds like spongebob
3:49 for me
turkish music from the 60s and 70s used the saz a lot in rock, psychedellic rock and western inspired music. it works pretty good if you can play saz. usually they stay in "tune" and use the quarter notes for colour, like the blue note or the little bend towards the third of the one chord. try altin gün or the album elektro saz from uzelli.
Anatolian Rock for the win!!’ Best shit I have heard in years.
Exactly, Saz/Bağlama looks quite similar. On top of that the Saz has MOVABLE frets 😁 I instantly bought one 3 years ago and take lessons to learn it.
So far we only use the Bb2 and F#2 but a few more are on the fretboard. We also generally stick to one version of a note per song, so either Bb or Bb2 or B. For F# and F we occasionally switch around depending if the melody part goes "up" or "down", so to say.
I mostly learn turkish songs from my teacher, but one can play western songs, too, with some adjustments.
The most obvious difference is that a Saz player usually follows the singing melody note for note, with only very few chords. So pretty much the opposite of what a beginner guitarist learns.
The Saz has only 3 courses with double or triple strings (the upper and lower courses have strings with an octave difference). Thats why chords are more limited.
There is another drawback: The overall range one can play is not great at all, not even two full octaves (g4 to e6 i guess). Which means a lot of transposing sheet music until it fits, and some western songs are just out of range.
Personally I find it easier to learn then guitar, firstly the strings are easy to push down (İ'm kinda traumatized by a shitty guitar), the positions are easier to remember, because of the fretboard patterns, and it's more fun to play melodies and "ornamenations". Also, İ can learn Altın Gün Songs fairly easily 😁.
Btw one can buy replacement fret string thingies, so you can add even more frets to a Saz or (theoretically) add them to a normal guitar. But I guess this only works on guitars with low string tension and already not too high metal frets.
4:09: this is the worst sounding chord I could find
Me: Ha! _novice_
actually that chord sounded spicy and fun
a typical SUMAC chord!
Playing it as an arpeggio would be really nice, but as a chord it's less enjoyable
Ah, Jazz
Ive done wayyyyyy worse than that
Sammy talking about King Gizz
Me: Guitarist sigular? Drummer singular? Oh you've so much to learn lol
also saying cook is the lead guitarist
That final lick was jammin. Develop it into an entire song; write bass and drum parts; find someone capable of playing them; and release it!
I was about to tell the same.
I reach microtonality by simply constantly using my whammy bar and never tuning my guitar.
Works like a charm.
Mentions the king gizzard drummer, “what about the other one”
“There is another”
I guess s/he just plays drums, too.
Depends on Eric's privileges at the time lol
them god damn lizzards
Eric lost his privileges of notoriety
Only here to hear him play some King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard from there album Microtonal Flying Banana
I was waiting for this comment
I love it
Fuck yes .... 🤟🏽 I love King Gizzard more than Han-tyumi loves vomit
Your profile tho
My first thought when I saw the title
I love what you played at the end. That compressed fuzz and those trippy, mellow chords. Awesome sound!
I'm used to Egyptian-Arabian and Tagorian music that traditionally uses microtonality, and I really appreciate his open-mindedness, specially considering how brutally honest he is.
Dude, you should check out a Turkish microtonal acoustic with moveable frets. That stuff is bonkers! 😨
Got a maker?
His name is Tolgahan Çoğulu. You can find his youtube channel
Or that guy that plays that on a fretless baritone acoustic.
Nyctophile - Yes, that one. I couldn’t remember his name.
@@Cell4TR many thanks!
welcome to the gizzverse my man, but they have two drummers btw, not one
Santana have 4 sometimes..
“Yeah dude, it’s like, everything’s connected maaan! It’s the coolest shit, start with I’m in your Mind Fuzz and then go over to Nonagon. Oh also they have two drummers”
-Drunk me trying to explain to my friend what that “Lizard Gizzard band I listen to” is
❤️
Dash mash hahaha shit man sounds just like me 😂 love the band
I read that as jizzverse and I don't know if I should be proud of my self or concerned
4:10 I quite like this chord. To me it sounds like a tragedy may have just occurred, but you're still trying to figure out if it's real.
The "I sense a disturbance in the force" chord
Guys I think we need to admit this chord sucks
@@samtheman123 The chord has its place in chaotic songs. People genuinely like Captain Beefheart's "Trout Mask Replica," but mind you, it's a weird and chaotic album.
Austin Lucas I think saying that this chord has a place in an album like trout mask replica further proves that it sucks. Seriously that shit is not music.
@@samtheman123 "that shit is not music" is objectively wrong
I really wish this was incorporated more often. Just that bit at the end made me more excited about rock guitar than i have in years. BTW, if anyone is interested in more micro-tonal music the best microtonal album ive heard is Beauty in the Beast by Wendy Carlos you'll likely have to find a physical release though. It gets struck real quick on youtube, and it isnt on spotify.
Adam Neely: *heavy breathing*
This is some of the best quarter-tone music I've heard. I'm impressed you came up with it so quickly.
Then you definitely need to check out Flying Microtonal Banana
"The notes off, but not quite" - Microtonal Guitar
Perfect for all jazz musicians that want to play the wrong note
On purpose this time
@@jaden_bricker hahahahah
wtf is a "wrong note"
@@ff-qf1th every note in a jazz chord, every note on this guitar, etc.
I have a microtonal guitar. Pretty cool. I recommend the following tuning (the one king gizzard uses) : C#F#C#F#BE
Ooh nice find here. thanks for the tip, I will use it when I get one.
nice
@@CharlesMeriot Something to keep in mind for your Guitar ^^
tunings like this make microtonal music a lot easier to play, especially when you have unfamiliar numbers of notes in the octave, such as 7EDO, 13ED2 (13 equal divisions of the 2nd harmonic/octave+5th, also called Bohlen-Pierce), or 19EDO
Imagine a great solo played on this guitar and guitarists everywhere trying to figure out the tab
You are the devil
i really really loved the demo you did towards the beginning with the guitar. really nice.
That’s actually really cool sounding. Love the jam at the end.
That headstock looks like Bart Simpsons' haircut.
Lol
*skincut
@@Camaro1967RS-SS Haha
Its suppose to look like an "m" it's a blatant mosrite copy. Awesome design, the upside down strat style, the german carve, the distinctive angled pickup. Love it.
@@richiedagger733 Hey, you said it before I did. Yeah, it's a Mosrite Ventures (in shape, not tone) Copy. You said "German Cut," and while that's correct, that kind of carved top is more widely known as a "German Carve." And yes, the cut out on the headstock is supposed to be the top end of an M. The headstock was designed in the early 60s, long before the Simpsons.
I'm still imagining someone like Steve Vai with a guitar like this. Really out of the ordinary, and it could serve some abstract purpose I believe
It serves more than an abstract purpose in musical cultures whose music revolves around microtonality. Eg indian classical music.
btw he has black jem with microtonal fretboard, you cant find it on his website
@@PaweekSzczerbinski yeah he mentioned it in his Reverb guitar collection vid.
Vai yes!
Vai used to have a custom-built 24-tet guitar, and one in 16-tet. He gave them to Jacob Collier because "He knows what to do with it"
You're awesome in how THOROUGH you explain EVERYTHING!!! That truly is a rare gem to find in people!
Thanks mate/ CHEERS!!
“The drummer well he just plays the drums” -samurai guitarist
“Want to sound like you only sort of know how to play guitar? Buy a microtonal guitar!”
I can hear how sammy sounds tired🤣🤣😂
Nice job. Liked the song at the end.
Well I heard he's a dad now so that'd explain it
Probably from searching for that phantom beep
Coltz-Pun or losing sleep over what’s going on in the hidden basement...
@@dusk5121 yeah i think so too
Very cool guitar and cool video as always...that last jam was great!
Wow that jam at the end was something else,I usually think of turkish music or eastern music in general when I think microtonal but you've really managed to change my perspective with that tune.Awesome job !
There are actually two drummers.
Pretty sure one of them just plays the snare.
Eric is a drum virtuoso. It’s well known that his excellent contributions to FMB were done with a limited, no-kick kit. But even more impressive was PMDB, where he managed to play his parts on a no-drum kit.
@gooby pls he was credited as doing nothing on PMDB
Isaac Shulevitz r/wooosh
@@baconstudios4996 the wooosh is on you friend. also this is youtube... reddit.com/r/woooosh reddit.com/r/itswooooshwith4os
Haha, that explains the comments on one of their live performances giving one of their drummers shit for belting out a couple fills.
4:10 that chord is beautifully spicy. Could be a Game Over sound
Not all spices are good, are caraway seeds considered a spice? That chord is like caraway seeds
@@samuraiguitarist it's the lemon pepper chord. A spice but a very very very very bad spice
Sounds p sweet to me
@@GoneAfterMidnight lemon pepper on corn "on the cob" is good, but thats the only use I have for it..
@@isyourshitfixed I've got to try it
This is deff one of my fav vids of yours S.G. i dig it
Love the micro-tonal blues at the end. You clearly like a challenge!!!
Wow, at first I was thinking, "should be an interesting video."
So it was.
But your jam, at the end, really kicked ass!
And to think, all those frets onthe neck, more notes I don't know!
Also, saw that Neeley commented, hope he gets one next!
Thanks Sammy G!
Thanks Dale!
@@samuraiguitarist hi sammy g
You can check out "Tolgahan Çoğulu" on youtube. His whole channel is about microtonal guitars.
Cenk Erdogan is another amazing Turkish microtonal player. ❤️
İlter Kurcala slaps too, defintely worth checking out
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Simply outstanding, especially enjoyed the piece played near the end 🤠🎸👍
I love that microtonality is starting to get more love in western music. It takes a while for your ears to adjust if you're used to western tonality, but the more you listen, the easier it becomes. I plan on using microtonality (at least initially) in my own music in the way you described -- as passing tones or "blues" notes. But depending on how it goes, I may end up diving in deeper. Really cool stuff!
The song at the end sounds like really demented surf music. I dig it.
You've probably heard Mac DeMarco already, but if not check him out.
That ending jam kicked ass!
I love that demo u had at the beginning. It sounded like a mix of classic country solo guitar and something else which I don't know what to call
Cool! Guitarists have always been microtonal due to bending, but this opens up a whole new possibility for sliding and chords!
that song you played in the beginning sounded like Mac DeMarco's stuff from here comes the cowboy
I love that album
i thought of Mac when i heard about this stuff after gizz. Would love to hear what Mac could come up with with a guitar like this
The drums are actually tuned to microtones!
Loved the 'Space-a-billy' jam at the end !! I'm a sucker for the minor key blues thing. Thanks
I LOVE that riff at the end!
Throws me into a funky Blues/ASMR/Metal groove! Gimme more! Gimme more!
1:22
I never thought of microtonal embellishments like that before, very interesting use sammy g
I've always wondered what they did with all those extra frets when they make fretless guitars. Thanks Sammy G.
That tune you worked out at the end of this video was fantastic!!!!
I saw you play this on paul David's channel ... this guitar and your part was my favorite ; I know you dont really play metal stuff , but That tone just sounded muddy and dastardly , yet clear and evened out. Nice riff too. Awesome!
4:40
Bassist: safe and sound.
Drummer: roasted.
Glenn Fricker: In shambles.
I love the sort of off-kilter, "broken" vibe of the jam at the end. I think it would be right at home in like, a punk rock robot sort of aesthetic.
so king gizzard basically
Dude! You did this real justice! Great job!
That first "sample" of what it can do made me smile more than anything in a long while :DDD keep it up
the drummers actually tune their drum kits to microtones, watch “peeling the flying microtonal banana”
That was actually just a goof by cavs but I appreciate the reference nonetheless
1:22 lo-fi
3:49 lick
4:11 Chord
5:24 lo-fi
5:56 Blues
7:23 rock
I can play infinite notes on my violin, technically, though anything under a quarter tone would be barely noticeable. Now, actually writing music for it, suppose you could experiment with playing neutral chords other half augmented or half diminished chords, other than that passing notes or playing half sharp/flat keys (you'd need to do a key change somehow or it'd be pointless) or chords, experimenting with the intervals to find a nice sound! Seems like it could be fun, if I was a decent guitarist or violinist! They could at least have halved all the bottom frets and top frets up to the fourth, that way you could reach all the high/low microtonal notes, so long as the pattern allows you to string cross to fill in the gaps.
Mick Gordon's soundtrack to Doom Eternal used some microtonality in his djent riffs. On "The Only Thing They Fear Is You" at around 3:50 is when you hear it.
Some words and names to look up, to explore more microtonality: gamelan, the music system from Java and Indonesia; maqam, the scale system from across the middle east; raga, the scale system from India; and horo, the dance system from Bulgaria. Other good musics to check out are Appalachian folksong from America, and of course the blues, also from America. Many other countries have more obscure microtonal musics as well, such as Viet Nam.
Some good western musicians who are important in microtonality: Harry Parch, who made a dizzying array of unique percussion instruments; Wendy Carlos, who was instrumental in the invention and eventual rise of the synthesizer as a musical instrument; Tolgahan Çogulu, who has invented a guitar with movable frets, Stephan Gerschlauer, who is making advances in microtonal jazz; and Sevish, who is making advances in microtonal EDM.
"What can you play with this new found freedom"
Rattlesnake. All day long!
Pretty kool. And i love different boundaries when playing guitar, but theres nothing a tremolo can't do if you learn it proper. But nonetheless really great video and one of the best explanation tutorials i have come across, clean, precise and very well explained.! Got my subscription. .👍🤘🤘🤘🤘
Such a cool demo at the end. Killer solo
Guitar Manufacturer: How many frets do you want?
Samurai: Yes.
i actually saw King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard at Vodafone Paredes de Coura in 2018 and i have to say .. it was do caralho!!
BRASIL PORRA!!
Portugal Caralho
Does that translate as:
A. Fucked up
B. The shizzle
C. An overdose of WTF?
@@thatellipsisguy8984 yes
@@NorigoPT D : do caralho
It has no translation its a word above language and culture
Your end jam kills!! Good call on the fuzz
7:20 - that's absolutely amazing and I would 100% buy that song or amy album you put it on!
Not gonna lie that thing you played with it soundes just like me playing wrong notes all over again on a backing track
That jam at the end was badass
I spent months searching for King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard's nuclear fusion for i had forgotten the name of the song and the band.. I cannot possibly be more grateful for mentionning them, it instantly rang the bell lol
Great vid, thanks man!
I can already hear the confused screaming of people with relative or perfect pitch. It's like listening to 432hz music.
Yep. Yep. Yep it’s disgusting, but cool
King Gizzard says hi :P
lol
@@CharlesMeriot wtf dude love ur videos didnt know u watched samurai guitarist
I don’t usually leave comments on videos but you really nailed some amazing tone on this guitar really great job with the creation of the video and nice song at the end
That groove at the end sounds amazing!
YES TALK MORE ABOUT MICROTONES I NEED ITTT
Hey man. I loved that little fragment you improvised.
Can i use it to loop it and make an exteded version? unless you make it yourself and post it on your channel. Both options would be fine by me. I do really want it to be a song so i can listen to it whenever i want. Thanks!
Dude, that's awesome. You can do a lot of stuff with this. You can do lo-fi stuff and you can play 24-note scales.
This man can play absolutely anything and it sounds really good. I love your playing Sammy
Looks like what Tolgahan Çoğulu would play if he played electric guitar
Such a custom instrument to sound like me when I forget to tune... 😂
those demos are awesome jeez dude i love it so much
I agree that it would be nice to have quartertone frets between all semitone frets. I love playing slurred notes sliding around a target tone a semi either side. Being able to do this using quarters would open up so many options. I'll have to make one.