In a recent hour-long podcast of a psychotherapist with Buckethead (Brian Carroll) as a guest, they talk about this mask and bucket "gimmick". Brian says that it was needed because he was too nervous to perform otherwise, being this Buckethead character makes him feel much more comfortable. There is a story behind it, it's around 39:00 in the podcast. This interview is very interesting and inspiring, I advise you listen to it if you are interested in Brian's personality. Just google "Buckethead podcast".
I think, he is talented, but not just this. But why He's best guitarist ever? Because of hard work and skill, not talent. If you got talent, you dont need to improve much. I think Bucket had talent, of course, but He was working on that very hard and long
1:25 - For the record, Shawn Lane was to jazz what Lenny Breau was to Scandinavian Black Metal. The thing about Shawn is that he played on such an inhuman level that it’s neigh on impossible to label his unique style under ANY recognizable genre. I can MAYBE see how he would be considered a “Jazz Fusion” player, but that’s only because there’s just no other label that could adequately explain what he was doing. I really miss him.
@@BFHPET that's not what I meant I was saying that stuff that sounds wrong still instills emotions in you if someone repeatedly tries to cause an emotion in you they are actually making you engage with the art they want you to feel tense or anxious only for that to be fulfilled or left hanging in the air Take his solo on Jordan he does this before breaking into the most melodic part to cause tension or elephant mans alarm clock where this is just the vibe of the whole album.
He's not "weird" it's GUITAR GOD, it's Buckethead. Many people are more weird than him, while they pretend normal ones... Buckethead is just himself, he doesn't pretend, he's free
a perfect 5th is a diatonic scale degree in most scales and modes. Using them won't necessarily make your melody tonal, but for practical reasons, its easier to use the tritone for atonal purposes because it lends itself much less to diatonic music
keep in mind the "tritone" is the basis of the Dominant Chord. the interval between the third and the seventh degree of a Dominant chord is a tritone. its also a symmetrical interval the middle point between the octave. If we look at the tritone without any pre conceived fear we see its the "major Seventh on a Dominant Seventh chord, its the Major third on a minor third chord and its the Minor second on a major chord" its always the same note. if we remove religion from music theory it becomes pretty simple to understand the math.
@kinginsomnia, serialism refers to having a series (usually a series of pitches, but possibly series of durations, of dynamics, or anything else) in a particular order, which are the "material" of the piece. In the simplest case, the pitches (or whatever) must be used straight through in order, before repeating. Even in the earliest days of serialism, composers found ways to vary that strictness.
@ragerpez I watch a lot of Pebber Brown's instructional videos. He's the man who taught the young Brian Carroll how to play. In one of his videos he's demonstrating sarod picking where his hand floats freely above the string while he alternate picks from string to string really fast. An answer to the question of how to avoid hitting the other strings from Pebber himself was simply "Don't hit them". That's Pebber's philosophy. Play whatever is difficult till it gets easy.
Atonal tapping is a split definition of two applications in guitar theory. You're tapping on. And picking up an atonal note to the root on a single string. To actually explain... Bucket head is striking a chord in a half arpeggio technique by tapping on and hammering off each of the atonal notes of the chord that is being executed in a hybridized arpeggio. That simple. And thank you so much for the mention of it's founder Shawn Lane. I applaud you for that!
(2) Later composers varied the series in such extreme ways that it's often difficult to figure out what the actual series in a given piece is. Also, there can be any number of pitches (or whatever) in the series, not just 12.
so over my head, none the less, he is a true prodigy on guitar. not many others like him out there. maybe a handful in the world. I wish he wasn't so wrapped up in his character,he could teach and inspire thousands of us regular guitar players who jam out to normal rock.
People are so, quick to call, someone a prodigy or genius instead of recognizing the years of hard work they put in to get where they are. Bucket literally practiced for THOUSANDS of hours to be that good. He didn't just pick up a guitar and start shredding.
@czgibson I am correct, because hitting keys on a pianom, no matter how spontaneously, would result in an implication of a key in some mode or another. The only way for music to be purely atonal is to use the mathematical technique of serialism, as it is the only way to assure that the music will not result in sounding like you could place standard chords underneath it in a certain key. Bucket is completely able to figure out his own way of tapping a twelve-tone run, just not here.
When lifting your finger off of said 'noisy' string? Its all in how you perform the pull off. The technique of regular tapping implies that on pull off's one should slightly pluck the string to the side as they release it, letting it vibrate. So to release from a string without it resonating, you have to gently lift your finger straight up from the finger board
@kinginsomnia Just pointing out an inaccuracy. What scales/modes is Buckethead implying here, then? Also, you can still make a 12-tone set auditorily tonal. If you use chromatic scale in order starting on, say, C and assign accents and 3 beats to the diatonic notes of a C major scale while only assigning one beat and softer dynamics to the "inbetween" chromatic notes, you will hear the line as C major with passing chromatics. I followed the rules of 12-tone and established a center frequency.
@personman48 all of his music conveys emotion to me. I have never been so moved by one magician/musician as I am with BH and I'm over 60. I've seen the best, Beck, Hendrix, Clapton.
@Flapswitch13 Slow it down to a really slow tempo and make sure your muting is solid with your left hand and build speed slowly to make sure you're doing it right at each speed
another thing that sounds similiar is chromatic tapping in different octaves, like 4 fret 6 fret and 19 fret. going over all strings with this pattern sounds really really cool
I think in the same way that a perfect fifth is no more consonant than a perfect fourth, a tritone is no more or less dissonant than a minor second/major seventh, though if I had to say which was the most dissonant, I would probably say the tritone. Pretty chords can be constructed out of any of these though. For instance, the chord D7 contains a tritone between F# and C, and a minor seventh (relatively dissonant) between D and C, yet still remains pleasant to listen to. Hence, jazz exists.
Chromatic tritones going up in 4ths!! My ear isn’t good enough to pick that up without using a slowdowner. Well done mate 🍻. It’s a really interesting effect, very clever.
(3) Music which uses all 12 chromatic pitches equally is called 12-tone music. 12-tone music does not have to be serial -- the 12 tones can be used more freely. But the most common 12-tone music is 12-tone serialism.
@UnknownSect333 Outlining chords doesn't imply you're playing in a key. Playing in a key implies you're playing in a key; atonal music can still use chords :P
Yeah I guess that could be said, I think the reasoning behind my sources thinking was precisely that: The tritone is useful in more contexts than the most dissonent (depending on your perspective) minor 2nd, which isnt seen in many functional chords at all.... can you name any other than maj7 and min/maj7? (nb 6th chords dont count since theyre really inversions of 7ths)
It IS in english, pretty damned straightforward considering that he's talking about tapping tritones and managing to translate basic theory for non-collegiate players. More comparable to a type of serialism rather than real atonality, but the tritone is indeed an interesting interval. Fun fact: It's called the tri-tone because it's the third note of a whole tone scale based from the bottom interval.
Well minor ninth chords technically contain a minor second if you invert them, but I suppose you're right that a tritone is more musically useful in a traditional sense than a minor second, at least from a chordal standpoint. Minor seconds in melody are a commodity in a lot of music to increase chromaticism.
@AfroDeezeeYak Oh, okay. So, since he's outlining chords, he's technically playing in some type of key? I see what you mean, because in the full video, he never really says anything about it. Just kinda plays it...
I'm an ancient music singer and performer the tritone is called diabolus in musica cause it's only difficult to sing, there are no other reasons. Nice weird video!
CAN ANYONE PLEASE TELL ME WHERE I COULD BUY AN ORANGE NO.1 STRETCH STRAP LIKE IN THE VIDEO? OR A WHITE ONE? I CAN'T SEEM TO FIND THEM ANYWHERE. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
@hungerstriker27 Oh, I couldn't really comprehend what you were saying... But robotic stuff like this is just part of his persona. He can play anything else when he wants to.
He's not using the interval of a tritone as you suggest, it's actually the 5th, all the notes are 5th intervals. So your example should be tapped note 12th fret, left hand 5th fret, then 11/4, 10/3, 9/2.
An octave is 8 notes if I'm right, I've taken piano lessons but I only learned the scale CDEFGAH(B)C(May be a bit wrong) I had a guitar teacher once and i took lessons for 3 years but it was only the first year i learned something. I've played guitar since I was 12 and now I'm soon 16. Through the years I've desperately tried to learn music theory(like the circle of the fifths) srrsly I want to learn the theory but I'm struggling. I know a few scales but that is all. Can you help me?
@nickbaldeagle01 Thanks man, can you shed any light on what i mentioned earlier? Say youre doing tapping an arpeggio and you want to skip strings. If I'm going to an adjacent string (upwards) i can use my fingertip to mute the lower string after im done with it. If I'm skipping strings, I quite often find the lower string rings out :( I don't want to pussy out and use a mute, any idea how can i stop this
@nickbaldeagle01 so people keep telling me :P but id like to be able to switch seamlessly between tapping and other styles (ie without having to fiddle around with a hairband or whatever) i wonder what his secret is :(
@837IronMaiden Well I really don't know anything about Chris Boderick, so I can't really say who's faster or cleaner, but the videos, ''Buckethead - Computer Master - Wetlands, NY 4/30/97'' and ''Buckethead - Welcome to Bucketheadland - Wetlands NY 4/30/97'' are both pretty crazy. Although I would personally judge his talent not just by his speed but also for how creative he is, some of his stuff sounds like nothing else that Iv'e ever heard.
@kinginsomnia Actually atonal music and serialism are not the same thing. Serialism is one form of atonal music. In the present video, you are hearing atonal music.
@JEQ1990 the beauty of it all is that he can do every technique. This is just something he did for Guitar World... He's capable of anything. Check out Electric Tears, Colma, Shadows Between the Sky, etc. He has a great melodic technique. This is just one clip of a lesson on atonal multi finger tapping. I think it's a neat little trick, but please do no underestimate this guitar genius.
Bucket is a strange dude you could say. Saw him in 1992 in SF at a guitar player event & have watched him progress & refine his creative expression/soul commentary/etc. Him & Brain are close friends. To say he's a guitar player is like saying Jimi Hendrix only played guitar. Buckethead's thing is just who he is, his interests. And he does come from a planet not yours to say 'get over "weird" and do what you do.' He's no drug user and he's relentless in walking the walk. Kudos Bucket (brian),
He's playing augmented. Basically the scale ppl use for themes involving dreams or walking up steps. For example, Mario 64 at the endless staircase, or the theme while your making your way up to the top of the Shinra tower in FF7. Sorry bout just listing video games, but augmented is hardly ever used other than in themes. Every note in the scale is a whole step away from the next note. That's why it sounds strange.
@kinginsomnia That's not correct. Atonal music includes, but is not exclusively serialism. Randomly hitting notes on a piano with your elbows would result in atonal music, but it wouldn't be serialism.
I wish I could do that! Alas I am about to sell my guitar to travel round europe so by the time I get another it'll be like learning to play from scratch again. Nice vid.
Technically, although the name of it suggests it is just music without a key, atonal music is the twelve note chromatics, put in a particular order and reversed, transposed and phase-shifted to create music known as serialism. So this should not be called atonal tapping, as buckethead is purely tapping notes which do not converge in conventional keys, not creating serialism...
@kinginsomnia Wow, how do you have so many upvotes. I'm sorry, but this is incorrect. You are describing SPECIFIC types of atonal music. Putting the twelve notes in a specific order and composing from this set is known as 12-tone music. Atonal music in general does not have to involve a set order of all 12 notes. Atonal simply means "not having a tonal center", or not being in a "key". Buckethead is CERTAINLY exhibiting this when he taps with 8 fingers.
@ragerpez If you are tapping arpeggios you are waaay in advance of me, my friend. I'm still struggling with my harmonic minor scales. And bar chords. Man, I need to practice more...my guitar teacher says there is no shame in using a mute.
Dude he has soul. That's just how he plays. He doesn't show emotion cuz that's his style. Something doesn't always have to sound like hendrix to have emotion
@nickbaldeagle01 are you trollin or do you actually know that? i mean, ive got pretty accurate fingers but i still get the problem when im tapping arpeggios, of say youre skipping from G to e, the G will sometimes keep ringing after youve left it. ive always used muting to compensate for that, but surely you cant literally play it like a piano **without a nut mute** without stopping the "previous" string ringing out somehow?
I love this guy who's not looking for fame just insane guitar playing
@ RaDDx1993 Your passion is admirable.
In a recent hour-long podcast of a psychotherapist with Buckethead (Brian Carroll) as a guest, they talk about this mask and bucket "gimmick". Brian says that it was needed because he was too nervous to perform otherwise, being this Buckethead character makes him feel much more comfortable. There is a story behind it, it's around 39:00 in the podcast. This interview is very interesting and inspiring, I advise you listen to it if you are interested in Brian's personality. Just google "Buckethead podcast".
Yes indeed.
Yes, this is best in Buckethead. He's not commercial at all, while others are..
He was in guns n roses 🌹
When your main influence is Shawn Lane, your teacher is Paul Gilbert and extremely talented to even begin with you get Buckethead
They are all from the same area, too. Must be something in the water there.
I think, he is talented, but not just this. But why He's best guitarist ever? Because of hard work and skill, not talent. If you got talent, you dont need to improve much. I think Bucket had talent, of course, but He was working on that very hard and long
DITO !!!
0:49 Sounds like the castle levels in Super Mario Bros
Like Buckethead....he;s actually a very innovative and talented guitarist,
Before rings of saturn, there was Buckethead.
There is no explaining Buckethead. There is only worship.
All hail the chicken guy
I’m a big fan of his imma sub to you
1:25 - For the record, Shawn Lane was to jazz what Lenny Breau was to Scandinavian Black Metal.
The thing about Shawn is that he played on such an inhuman level that it’s neigh on impossible to label his unique style under ANY recognizable genre. I can MAYBE see how he would be considered a “Jazz Fusion” player, but that’s only because there’s just no other label that could adequately explain what he was doing.
I really miss him.
Shawn and BH did get to know each other, lots of famous guitarists were inspired by and were in awe of Shawn Lane
When you're that good at something, you're allowed to be weird.
lmao this guy fits his appearance. i didn't realize he never spoke. sick playing.
shit. this is the most sublime class i've seen. Buckethead is also very expressive to make us understand how that shit must sound
Dude i loved the way you explained it you might be a really really good musician
4:02 I could listen to this cycle all day.
Yes! That one stuck out to me too.
lol it sound like shit
@@BFHPETMusic doesn't just exist to make you feel better
@@Cephlapodninja it still sound like shit. but i like bucket heads songs.
@@BFHPET that's not what I meant I was saying that stuff that sounds wrong still instills emotions in you if someone repeatedly tries to cause an emotion in you they are actually making you engage with the art
they want you to feel tense or anxious only for that to be fulfilled or left hanging in the air
Take his solo on Jordan he does this before breaking into the most melodic part to cause tension or elephant mans alarm clock where this is just the vibe of the whole album.
He's not "weird" it's GUITAR GOD, it's Buckethead. Many people are more weird than him, while they pretend normal ones... Buckethead is just himself, he doesn't pretend, he's free
His weirdness makes him amazing!
a perfect 5th is a diatonic scale degree in most scales and modes. Using them won't necessarily make your melody tonal, but for practical reasons, its easier to use the tritone for atonal purposes because it lends itself much less to diatonic music
nice copy n paste man !
My bachelors degree in music says differently
weak and its atonal not supposed to be tonal even tho it can be
keep in mind the "tritone" is the basis of the Dominant Chord. the interval between the third and the seventh degree of a Dominant chord is a tritone. its also a symmetrical interval the middle point between the octave. If we look at the tritone without any pre conceived fear we see its the "major Seventh on a Dominant Seventh chord, its the Major third on a minor third chord and its the Minor second on a major chord" its always the same note. if we remove religion from music theory it becomes pretty simple to understand the math.
@kinginsomnia, serialism refers to having a series (usually a series of pitches, but possibly series of durations, of dynamics, or anything else) in a particular order, which are the "material" of the piece. In the simplest case, the pitches (or whatever) must be used straight through in order, before repeating. Even in the earliest days of serialism, composers found ways to vary that strictness.
Yes Brian that was off the chain, buddy. You are killing it and in the zone. Amazing brother.
@ragerpez I watch a lot of Pebber Brown's instructional videos. He's the man who taught the young Brian Carroll how to play. In one of his videos he's demonstrating sarod picking where his hand floats freely above the string while he alternate picks from string to string really fast. An answer to the question of how to avoid hitting the other strings from Pebber himself was simply "Don't hit them". That's Pebber's philosophy. Play whatever is difficult till it gets easy.
The broken computer noises! Sweet!
Atonal tapping is a split definition of two applications in guitar theory. You're tapping on. And picking up an atonal note to the root on a single string. To actually explain... Bucket head is striking a chord in a half arpeggio technique by tapping on and hammering off each of the atonal notes of the chord that is being executed in a hybridized arpeggio. That simple. And thank you so much for the mention of it's founder Shawn Lane. I applaud you for that!
(2) Later composers varied the series in such extreme ways that it's often difficult to figure out what the actual series in a given piece is. Also, there can be any number of pitches (or whatever) in the series, not just 12.
so over my head, none the less, he is a true prodigy on guitar. not many others like him out there. maybe a handful in the world. I wish he wasn't so wrapped up in his character,he could teach and inspire thousands of us regular guitar players who jam out to normal rock.
People are so, quick to call, someone a prodigy or genius instead of recognizing the years of hard work they put in to get where they are.
Bucket literally practiced for THOUSANDS of hours to be that good. He didn't just pick up a guitar and start shredding.
Btw, before you comment, this shits supposed to be weirdish sounding, if you're gonna say it sounds whack get outta here I swear
holy shit i havent heard a lot like this with such cleanliness
@czgibson I am correct, because hitting keys on a pianom, no matter how spontaneously, would result in an implication of a key in some mode or another. The only way for music to be purely atonal is to use the mathematical technique of serialism, as it is the only way to assure that the music will not result in sounding like you could place standard chords underneath it in a certain key. Bucket is completely able to figure out his own way of tapping a twelve-tone run, just not here.
When lifting your finger off of said 'noisy' string? Its all in how you perform the pull off. The technique of regular tapping implies that on pull off's one should slightly pluck the string to the side as they release it, letting it vibrate. So to release from a string without it resonating, you have to gently lift your finger straight up from the finger board
@kinginsomnia
Just pointing out an inaccuracy. What scales/modes is Buckethead implying here, then? Also, you can still make a 12-tone set auditorily tonal. If you use chromatic scale in order starting on, say, C and assign accents and 3 beats to the diatonic notes of a C major scale while only assigning one beat and softer dynamics to the "inbetween" chromatic notes, you will hear the line as C major with passing chromatics. I followed the rules of 12-tone and established a center frequency.
@personman48 all of his music conveys emotion to me. I have never been so moved by one magician/musician as I am with BH and I'm over 60. I've seen the best, Beck, Hendrix, Clapton.
@Flapswitch13 Slow it down to a really slow tempo and make sure your muting is solid with your left hand and build speed slowly to make sure you're doing it right at each speed
This actually really helped me I was wondering about this, thanks alot dude.
another thing that sounds similiar is chromatic tapping in different octaves, like 4 fret 6 fret and 19 fret. going over all strings with this pattern sounds really really cool
I think in the same way that a perfect fifth is no more consonant than a perfect fourth, a tritone is no more or less dissonant than a minor second/major seventh, though if I had to say which was the most dissonant, I would probably say the tritone. Pretty chords can be constructed out of any of these though. For instance, the chord D7 contains a tritone between F# and C, and a minor seventh (relatively dissonant) between D and C, yet still remains pleasant to listen to. Hence, jazz exists.
Does anyone know in which albums he plays like this? Just atonal blazingly fast shredding...
I've been trying to decipher this pattern for a long time... Still haven't found a tutorial.
Chromatic tritones going up in 4ths!! My ear isn’t good enough to pick that up without using a slowdowner. Well done mate 🍻.
It’s a really interesting effect, very clever.
(3) Music which uses all 12 chromatic pitches equally is called 12-tone music. 12-tone music does not have to be serial -- the 12 tones can be used more freely. But the most common 12-tone music is 12-tone serialism.
@UnknownSect333 Outlining chords doesn't imply you're playing in a key. Playing in a key implies you're playing in a key; atonal music can still use chords :P
Yeah I guess that could be said, I think the reasoning behind my sources thinking was precisely that: The tritone is useful in more contexts than the most dissonent (depending on your perspective) minor 2nd, which isnt seen in many functional chords at all.... can you name any other than maj7 and min/maj7? (nb 6th chords dont count since theyre really inversions of 7ths)
I'm still a beginner guitarist
But can I play like that in future?!
Checking in 4 years later to see how it’s going.
It IS in english, pretty damned straightforward considering that he's talking about tapping tritones and managing to translate basic theory for non-collegiate players. More comparable to a type of serialism rather than real atonality, but the tritone is indeed an interesting interval.
Fun fact: It's called the tri-tone because it's the third note of a whole tone scale based from the bottom interval.
Sounds like end of the world. Sp creepy bucket head
@kinginsomnia Schoenberg doesn't 'own' the word atonal. Just because something isn't serial doesn't mean it can't be called atonal.
Plot twist: He looks exactly the same UNDER the mask.
Well minor ninth chords technically contain a minor second if you invert them, but I suppose you're right that a tritone is more musically useful in a traditional sense than a minor second, at least from a chordal standpoint. Minor seconds in melody are a commodity in a lot of music to increase chromaticism.
@AfroDeezeeYak Oh, okay. So, since he's outlining chords, he's technically playing in some type of key? I see what you mean, because in the full video, he never really says anything about it. Just kinda plays it...
I'm an ancient music singer and performer the tritone is called diabolus in musica cause it's only difficult to sing, there are no other reasons. Nice weird video!
CAN ANYONE PLEASE TELL ME WHERE I COULD BUY AN ORANGE NO.1 STRETCH STRAP LIKE IN THE VIDEO? OR A WHITE ONE? I CAN'T SEEM TO FIND THEM ANYWHERE. Any suggestions are greatly appreciated!
if you can be that talented and not go completely insane i think you win the game
@hungerstriker27 Oh, I couldn't really comprehend what you were saying... But robotic stuff like this is just part of his persona. He can play anything else when he wants to.
He's not using the interval of a tritone as you suggest, it's actually the 5th, all the notes are 5th intervals.
So your example should be tapped note 12th fret, left hand 5th fret, then 11/4, 10/3, 9/2.
@egbfritz wrong. lisen to john cage "4'33". it's also a questionable musicpiece ;)
Atonality is interesting, and cool if used in the right context. (E.G. Metropolis part 1 ) However, you have to ask yourself, what is the point?
@kinginsomnia I merely mentioned him specifically because he was he one that came up with the twelve- tone technique
An octave is 8 notes if I'm right, I've taken piano lessons but I only learned the scale CDEFGAH(B)C(May be a bit wrong) I had a guitar teacher once and i took lessons for 3 years but it was only the first year i learned something. I've played guitar since I was 12 and now I'm soon 16. Through the years I've desperately tried to learn music theory(like the circle of the fifths) srrsly I want to learn the theory but I'm struggling. I know a few scales but that is all. Can you help me?
The coolest musician ever
@nickbaldeagle01 Thanks man, can you shed any light on what i mentioned earlier? Say youre doing tapping an arpeggio and you want to skip strings. If I'm going to an adjacent string (upwards) i can use my fingertip to mute the lower string after im done with it. If I'm skipping strings, I quite often find the lower string rings out :( I don't want to pussy out and use a mute, any idea how can i stop this
Buckethead is so astonishingly good that your mind can't believe what it's seeing
@nickbaldeagle01 so people keep telling me :P but id like to be able to switch seamlessly between tapping and other styles (ie without having to fiddle around with a hairband or whatever) i wonder what his secret is :(
"Bucket" is a living legend !!!💪🪣🎸
neato explanation....very well done!
@ragerpez Might be his equipment, or he's just that good.
@837IronMaiden Well I really don't know anything about Chris Boderick, so I can't really say who's faster or cleaner, but the videos, ''Buckethead - Computer Master - Wetlands, NY 4/30/97'' and ''Buckethead - Welcome to Bucketheadland - Wetlands NY 4/30/97'' are both pretty crazy. Although I would personally judge his talent not just by his speed but also for how creative he is, some of his stuff sounds like nothing else that Iv'e ever heard.
@DylanCobb Although I guess he usually uses those runs to play outside.
@MPSecare he touches the wall to wipe any moisture off his fingers.
Ok, wow, and good call on the Shawn Lane. Thanks.
I learn everything by ear....what did you mean by the dominant 5th part?
@kinginsomnia Actually atonal music and serialism are not the same thing. Serialism is one form of atonal music. In the present video, you are hearing atonal music.
@JEQ1990 the beauty of it all is that he can do every technique. This is just something he did for Guitar World... He's capable of anything. Check out Electric Tears, Colma, Shadows Between the Sky, etc. He has a great melodic technique. This is just one clip of a lesson on atonal multi finger tapping. I think it's a neat little trick, but please do no underestimate this guitar genius.
I shit myself watching this.
Bucket is a strange dude you could say. Saw him in 1992 in SF at a guitar player event & have watched him progress & refine his creative expression/soul commentary/etc. Him & Brain are close friends. To say he's a guitar player is like saying Jimi Hendrix only played guitar. Buckethead's thing is just who he is, his interests. And he does come from a planet not yours to say 'get over "weird" and do what you do.' He's no drug user and he's relentless in walking the walk. Kudos Bucket (brian),
Buckethead has changed the game on how guitar is played.
doing it with an octave of space between each hands is cool too.
Wait so is he playing multiple notes at once (one above 12th fret and one below on diff strings) usinf this technique
He's playing augmented. Basically the scale ppl use for themes involving dreams or walking up steps. For example, Mario 64 at the endless staircase, or the theme while your making your way up to the top of the Shinra tower in FF7. Sorry bout just listing video games, but augmented is hardly ever used other than in themes. Every note in the scale is a whole step away from the next note. That's why it sounds strange.
@JordanPool13 good luck with that so far no guitarists have made it by ear.. we may have a first!
@kinginsomnia
That's not correct. Atonal music includes, but is not exclusively serialism. Randomly hitting notes on a piano with your elbows would result in atonal music, but it wouldn't be serialism.
I wish I could do that! Alas I am about to sell my guitar to travel round europe so by the time I get another it'll be like learning to play from scratch again. Nice vid.
best fax machine mimicry EVER
RRRHHHHAAA! so sweet. no one can touch this genius.
I can do atonal tapping, but the string keeps ringing when I move to the next one. Any tips on silencing the previous strings?
let go of the string
Can You add/send me the tabs in 4:17 - 4: 21 ? :) Thx :)
king of cover
Hey. Have you looked at the Roo tapping vids ? Can you dissect some of that for me ?
how does he avoid the noise of the other strings ringing out?
Technique.
Technically, although the name of it suggests it is just music without a key, atonal music is the twelve note chromatics, put in a particular order and reversed, transposed and phase-shifted to create music known as serialism. So this should not be called atonal tapping, as buckethead is purely tapping notes which do not converge in conventional keys, not creating serialism...
@AfroDeezeeYak I wasn't replying to you, I was replying to UnknownSect333. Also, what he's playing could be atonal entirely dependant on context.
@AfroDeezeeYak I believe some call it "key of the moment"
Su Meng can play Paganini caprice #24 in any given time sig. Can bucketface do that?
@kinginsomnia
Wow, how do you have so many upvotes. I'm sorry, but this is incorrect. You are describing SPECIFIC types of atonal music. Putting the twelve notes in a specific order and composing from this set is known as 12-tone music. Atonal music in general does not have to involve a set order of all 12 notes. Atonal simply means "not having a tonal center", or not being in a "key". Buckethead is CERTAINLY exhibiting this when he taps with 8 fingers.
I thought when he was waving his arm that they peed on the wall so that when he played too fast and his fingers would catch fire he could put them out
@saskia520 I can't belive what you say :O BH got more emotions in his guitarplay then hendrix or clapton. I really can't agree with that!
@EagleHawkSpider I'm there now. LOL Who is this??!!
@ragerpez If you are tapping arpeggios you are waaay in advance of me, my friend. I'm still struggling with my harmonic minor scales. And bar chords. Man, I need to practice more...my guitar teacher says there is no shame in using a mute.
Dude he has soul. That's just how he plays. He doesn't show emotion cuz that's his style. Something doesn't always have to sound like hendrix to have emotion
@hungerstriker27 Are you saying he can't play blues? Cus he can...
@nickbaldeagle01 are you trollin or do you actually know that? i mean, ive got pretty accurate fingers but i still get the problem when im tapping arpeggios, of say youre skipping from G to e, the G will sometimes keep ringing after youve left it. ive always used muting to compensate for that, but surely you cant literally play it like a piano **without a nut mute** without stopping the "previous" string ringing out somehow?
He's just on another level. That is all
I thought the tritone was a flattened 5th?