@tefolase Most of the chords were awkward due to inversions. I'll spell them out. Between 2:03 and 2:08, the first 'chord' was a C power chord, the second was notes D and E played together, the third was C flat 5 which is known as a tritone (the most dissonant sound in music). Fourth was a D major chord, fifth was a C major chord in 2nd inversion, sixth was D major, seventh was G major in first inversion, and the last one was an E sus 4. This is why they sounded strange.
i dont know man.... steve vai is actually one of the best guitar players in the worlds, and you cannot refuse that... his virtuosism, his sound, his velocity, he is really special... and he is Alive by the way...
This guitar with "funky" frets is just perfection!!!!!! I want to say a big thanks to the guy who had the idea of working this way! You're a great genius!
I can imagine more sustain with chords, but with single notes I'm not sure that would be the case. Perhaps open strings ringing very subtly increases sustain.
it has to do with the vibration that is carried from having the perfect tone, it's a part of the reason why the chromatic scale was made the way it was. it surfs its own vibration. :D *guesstimate*
Hmm,... I am wondering what difference does it make to bending and other techniques on the guitar. Interesting... I have read Yamaha tried this a long time ago, and several other guitar makers, but never saw it in action this way.
There is something I don't understand about the fret system though. Because the frets are not straight but "crooked". It seems to me that when you bend a note it would go horribly out of tune. How do you make a smooth bend on a crooked fret?I mean obviously there is something I'm missing here because if Vai is using it, it must work.
I doubt it, i think it's exclusively for steve vai and that's it. If they ever do that that guitar would be VERY EXPENSIVE, would you waste $10,000 Dollars for one??
I think you have to stalk him so when he does give one away, you right there first in line. So, you might want to camp outside his home and then follow him when he goes on tour. But if he goes into a public bathroom, don't go inside, that's a little too weird.
if you press down on the frets harder, the cord your playing goes outta tune to, like if you play a standard A chord on the 2nd fret, if push down on the strings harder, the ntes go sharp and it is fucking horrific how bad it gets
wait a minute, when you vibrato and the string moves across the oddly shaped frets, wouldent the pitch of the string change? when the length of the string changes with the contour of the fret since it is bent? i woul;d like to know if i am going to buy one.
Do a google search on the overtone series. Many people know what this is and have explained it very well. Then watch the youtube video "how not to tune your guitar". It's a three parter that explains very well why guitars are never in tune.
oh one more thing. The open strings are tuned just the same than in a normal guitar so if the freted note he plays is sustained from sympathetic resonance of the other strings, why we don't hear the other strings vibrate? they're not even muted.
@Guitareben How would you possibly bend a note with your ears? It seems to make the most sense to use your fingers when bending (since they're already on the guitar's fingerboard). It's gotta hurt pressing your ear up against the strings, they probably get calluses, huh? Anyways, upload a video, that sounds like a neat trick! Thanks.
equal temperament is convenient for playing in every key, not for resonance. In fact, a lot of it's intervals are not just. I think the sustain of the guitar in this video is all good equipment, not the frets. My opinion. Still i want a guitar like that :D
I lol'd I sure do hope this goes into production, but god forbid it ever needs refretting as I can't imagine the cost. And especially considering how accurate the PLEK system is I'm very intrigued to hear if this is better. Either way I absolutely ♥LOVE THIS GUY.
i really like that acoustic/electric and electric setup... if he doesnt use that i'd buy that.... especialy since i switch between the two like no other
@JediGuitarMaster429 good luck on getting it done...the wait time is super long let alone the process hella expensive...you basically have a better chance of getting a Ken Lawerance explorer before you get your frets tempermented.
Anders Thidell, look him up Ibanez nuts who are thinking WOW Ibanez came up with new frets for Vai that keeps his guitar in tune. Real shame Vai played the money game by keeping his mouth shut about Anders, by saying "These" and "They" as if it was an Ibanez bunch that created this. TRUE TEMPERED FRETS, look it up created by ANDERS THIDELL Ibanez did not have SHIT to do with this! I love Steve Vai, the musician, but the business side is careful not to say Ibanez did NOT come up with this!
It's my dad who has invented those guitars.The TT guitars. They are super good! Better than usual if you did not know. TT guitars is the best guitars. Thats it. The best guitars in the World. I promise. Quite amazing guitars.
double neck acoustic electric was not done by slash first. it was douglas blair(w.a.s.p. guitarist) who did it first with his own line of blair guitars.
@Guitareben yeah but with the bent fret there wont be a smooth transition between bent notes because the string will move against all the bent spots in the fret
Thanks! I wouldn't mind having a JEM with the bent frets. Either fixed or floating bridge would be fine with me as long as it did have that awesome fretboard.
Steve made all that up, he actually can play any guitar and every chord on it would be in tune LOL, he just needed an excuse so that they don't figure out he's an alien
There are numerous guitars with these frets, Ibanez DID NOT create these frets. You are right though, if Ibanez had these for sale their greedy asses woiuld want big $ for it.
Do you mean to move the guitar around? I find it comfortable and I have reasonably large hands. Otherwise, it has no impact, except maybe making the guitar event lighter than it should be.
steve has a good sense of humor..love this guy..genius guitar player...sounds bizzare most of his tunes...but it defines his skill in a creative way...
This is great and all, but I can't hear a difference and was never listening to his pre TT fret music thinking "this intonation . . . it's fucked. What we need is slightly bent frets."
Grab a regular guitar in standard tuning, play and hold the first fret on the G-string and then play the 4th fret harmonic on the low E. You'll hear that it's slightly out. These kinds of inconsistencies are all over the place with guitars and it's only subtle so it doesn't bother most people, but it is there. Also, I think the guitar gets a lot of its timbral character from being slightly out all the time so it's not necessarily bad, just interesting to get around if you can.
Who does he give them to?? friends??, fans? both?, I want one but, i doubt he'll do that any time soon. You know, i wonder if he's ever gonna do like a contest or something, so you could win a jem, or, may be one day he decides to give Jems away to people who bought VIP passes to one of his concerts or something. Mmmm, too much imagination, that's probably never gonna happen, i have to wait :(, and save some money to buy a jem in the future, i gotta deal with my ugly, old, acoustic guitar :(
Piotr Hobbysta😃 Hello my name is Terry Grove, I came up with this concept in 2000. Shared it with Scotty Bevilacqua -Ibanez Custom shop 2001MY IDEA: Intonated Bent Fretts; Came to fruition with True Temperment. Every note has been intonated with a strobe tuner & exact, better than human hearing. Because of this the Fretts are bent to exactly the perfect note spot. Pitches are frequencies and when perfect frequencies vibrate in the wood together they harmonize & resonate together with no cancelation; Even a single note has harmonic undertones, -Perfect Intonation = No vibration cancelation; means better sustain and when you crank an amp it can be endless sustain. I really wanted Steve Vai to endorse this idea because I thought it would blend in estheticly with the flower inlays and I love the Jem & Steve Vai is Awsome! And no one can be as thrilled as (I am) about Steve's remarks about the bent Fretts concept. Thank You Steve Vai!!!😎 I should of Patented it before I shared the concept with Scotty Bevilacqua, he was one of my Guitar Students;1999-2002. Thydell put International Patents on my idea in 2003. (OUCH!)
"A double-neck party" sounds kind of dirty. Count me in.
That weird fretted guitar is so genius. I'd love to find one to try out
@tefolase Most of the chords were awkward due to inversions. I'll spell them out.
Between 2:03 and 2:08, the first 'chord' was a C power chord, the second was notes D and E played together, the third was C flat 5 which is known as a tritone (the most dissonant sound in music). Fourth was a D major chord, fifth was a C major chord in 2nd inversion, sixth was D major, seventh was G major in first inversion, and the last one was an E sus 4.
This is why they sounded strange.
クッソ爽やかで草はえる。
Steve Vai is always on top of the newest developments in guitar design. Just an awesome musician!
I played a "Flo" the other day. Best feeling guitar I have ever touched. Also best sound.
i dont know man.... steve vai is actually one of the best guitar players in the worlds, and you cannot refuse that... his virtuosism, his sound, his velocity, he is really special... and he is Alive by the way...
This guitar with "funky" frets is just perfection!!!!!!
I want to say a big thanks to the guy who had the idea of working this way! You're a great genius!
It does seem like a great Idea but Vai ended up not putting them on all his other guitars. So I must’ve not made that big of a difference.
It's Called True Tempraments Fret If You Need It.
single note sustain has NOTHING to do with frets shape :D that was just feedback.. stop lying Steve!! :-)
I can imagine more sustain with chords, but with single notes I'm not sure that would be the case. Perhaps open strings ringing very subtly increases sustain.
Actually, an acoustic / electric doubleneck has been done before. Guild beat him to it by building a 12-string acoustic / 6-string electric for Slash.
hey ur right shenybhoy1
slash got it made in 1992 and he has shown up with his electric-acoustic double neck guitar in the video of "
stranged"
evo does indeed contain evolution pickups,,,but flo is named because its a FLOral pattern jem that steve painted white.
it has to do with the vibration that is carried from having the perfect tone, it's a part of the reason why the chromatic scale was made the way it was. it surfs its own vibration. :D *guesstimate*
Hmm,... I am wondering what difference does it make to bending and other techniques on the guitar. Interesting... I have read Yamaha tried this a long time ago, and several other guitar makers, but never saw it in action this way.
There is something I don't understand about the fret system though. Because the frets are not straight but "crooked". It seems to me that when you bend a note it would go horribly out of tune. How do you make a smooth bend on a crooked fret?I mean obviously there is something I'm missing here because if Vai is using it, it must work.
I doubt it, i think it's exclusively for steve vai and that's it. If they ever do that that guitar would be VERY EXPENSIVE, would you waste $10,000 Dollars for one??
I think you have to stalk him so when he does give one away, you right there first in line. So, you might want to camp outside his home and then follow him when he goes on tour. But if he goes into a public bathroom, don't go inside, that's a little too weird.
Allways knew he was part alien. Oh and guitar god!
the new fretting system has the most accurate (almost perfect) tone and very long sustain... it's the 'holy grail' in guitar construction then...
if you press down on the frets harder, the cord your playing goes outta tune to, like if you play a standard A chord on the 2nd fret, if push down on the strings harder, the ntes go sharp and it is fucking horrific how bad it gets
wait a minute, when you vibrato and the string moves across the oddly shaped frets, wouldent the pitch of the string change? when the length of the string changes with the contour of the fret since it is bent? i woul;d like to know if i am going to buy one.
does he still use the "in tune" neck a lot or was it a whim at this time?
i understand what hes talking about with the tuning issue, but its never caused a problem with any of his music over the past what, 2 decades?
I have seen these kind of responses from Slash's fans before. Never from a Steve Vai's fan though. Guess he's getting popular.
im not spaming but steve vai is one of the best guitar players but he plays crappy stuff on this video like at 2:04 - 2:10
But is slash god? Nope. That means that Vai did it first, rendering everything done by everyone else meaningless
EVO means = he uses dimarzio evolution pick-ups
FLO means = it has a sustainer
14 years later… he never wrote the acoustic electric piece…
FLO = It actually a JEM 77 Floral Pattern, steve has it painted in white just like the vwh
overtones overtones overtones
he keeps saying that but no one knows what that is o.o
Sorry Steve slash made the double neck back in the 90s with guild guitars
He's talking about no one having made a double neck with an acoustic on top and an electric on the bottom (or vise versa)
@@RolanTHUNDER and that is exactly the guitar used by slash since mid 1993 . Made by Guild , called " Crossroad " . Half acoustic half electric .
@@johnrobert385mm Oh ok
Steve You're wrong. Slash Actually did the double neck, acoustic electric before.
Do a google search on the overtone series. Many people know what this is and have explained it very well. Then watch the youtube video "how not to tune your guitar". It's a three parter that explains very well why guitars are never in tune.
'it has this kind of a motion to it' lol
"you know, im not . . . ehhgh" lol
must be that good
Excuseme, but where is the infinite note "trick" in this jewel of guitar?
How the fuck can you get a floyd to sustain that well? Impossible...
holy shit its Steve Vai....holy cow man is this guy fukking awesome.
what is double neck party???
Pick up any guitar and if the A is in tune, the D isn't .. that is SOOOOOO true!
can someone please tell me what's the name of that neck?
lol steve it is called controlled feedback
He gave away 2 Jems.....like he always does.
Throw one of those bad boys my way.
flo uses sustainiac pickup, but somebody know what is the name??
Fernandez sustainer on flo , flo 3 and Bo.
Me:
Steve Vai:
oh one more thing. The open strings are tuned just the same than in a normal guitar so if the freted note he plays is sustained from sympathetic resonance of the other strings, why we don't hear the other strings vibrate? they're not even muted.
@Guitareben How would you possibly bend a note with your ears? It seems to make the most sense to use your fingers when bending (since they're already on the guitar's fingerboard). It's gotta hurt pressing your ear up against the strings, they probably get calluses, huh? Anyways, upload a video, that sounds like a neat trick! Thanks.
He is the male look alike of Danielle Staub
equal temperament is convenient for playing in every key, not for resonance. In fact, a lot of it's intervals are not just. I think the sustain of the guitar in this video is all good equipment, not the frets. My opinion.
Still i want a guitar like that :D
lol, of course it does change the pitch, even on guitar with ordinary frets. vibrato itself is like little bends, so..
I lol'd I sure do hope this goes into production, but god forbid it ever needs refretting as I can't imagine the cost. And especially considering how accurate the PLEK system is I'm very intrigued to hear if this is better.
Either way I absolutely ♥LOVE THIS GUY.
i really like that acoustic/electric and electric setup... if he doesnt use that i'd buy that.... especialy since i switch between the two like no other
@JediGuitarMaster429 good luck on getting it done...the wait time is super long let alone the process hella expensive...you basically have a better chance of getting a Ken Lawerance explorer before you get your frets tempermented.
whats with the frets? They look crooked?
Anders Thidell, look him up Ibanez nuts who are thinking WOW Ibanez came up with new frets for Vai that keeps his guitar in tune. Real shame Vai played the money game by keeping his mouth shut about Anders, by saying "These" and "They" as if it was an Ibanez bunch that created this. TRUE TEMPERED FRETS, look it up created by ANDERS THIDELL
Ibanez did not have SHIT to do with this!
I love Steve Vai, the musician, but the business side is careful not to say Ibanez did NOT come up with this!
of course...
but i dont finally understand why the frets are so bend... i dont understand man...
Wow that guitars sustain is long af
It's my dad who has invented those guitars.The TT guitars. They are super good!
Better than usual if you did not know. TT guitars is the best guitars. Thats it.
The best guitars in the World.
I promise. Quite amazing guitars.
where can I get one of thouse necks?
double neck acoustic electric was not done by slash first. it was douglas blair(w.a.s.p. guitarist) who did it first with his own line of blair guitars.
apparently it's so when he does a big trem dive the trem arm does get stuck from the pick up or the lower e string, usually the string
@Guitareben yeah but with the bent fret there wont be a smooth transition between bent notes because the string will move against all the bent spots in the fret
Thanks!
I wouldn't mind having a JEM with the bent frets. Either fixed or floating bridge would be fine with me as long as it did have that awesome fretboard.
the acoustic double neck was originaly done buy slash
Steve made all that up, he actually can play any guitar and every chord on it would be in tune LOL, he just needed an excuse so that they don't figure out he's an alien
There are numerous guitars with these frets, Ibanez DID NOT create these frets. You are right though, if Ibanez had these for sale their greedy asses woiuld want big $ for it.
the tempered neck has nothing to do with the sustain of that note if no other note is freted.
yeh they do!
what kinda shirt is he wearin
if tune to the open strings on the guitar at 1:00 will the notes still be the same?
whats the name of the guitar
Do you mean to move the guitar around? I find it comfortable and I have reasonably large hands. Otherwise, it has no impact, except maybe making the guitar event lighter than it should be.
That is so clever. I wish I had ability to know what chord is in or out of tune.
Yeah, it has already been done.
Double-necked guitar both at drop C! All About Eve with an electric guitar solo? I think so!
evo morales fucking rulez
steve has a good sense of humor..love this guy..genius guitar player...sounds bizzare most of his tunes...but it defines his skill in a creative way...
omg~! i fucking have to get one of those fucking axes! omg omg! that is sick!
i played a strat with those frets. dweezil had it on the side of the stage. its a brilliant design.
I defiantly agree with you. I find my self doing it naturally each and every time i pick up the guitar. nice observation.
true temperament. look into it xD
This is great and all, but I can't hear a difference and was never listening to his pre TT fret music thinking "this intonation . . . it's fucked. What we need is slightly bent frets."
Grab a regular guitar in standard tuning, play and hold the first fret on the G-string and then play the 4th fret harmonic on the low E. You'll hear that it's slightly out. These kinds of inconsistencies are all over the place with guitars and it's only subtle so it doesn't bother most people, but it is there. Also, I think the guitar gets a lot of its timbral character from being slightly out all the time so it's not necessarily bad, just interesting to get around if you can.
throw it in my front vai.. i will smash it ..like i always do
Read my comment
Ibanez DID NOT invent the True Tempered Frets
ANDERS THIDELL DID!
You should say if Anders Thidell license it for Ibanez to make guitars for the public market!
@JediGuitarMaster429 From a swedish company called true temprament
Play ben
O.o
anyone see that guitar anywhere else? id love to see one in person
it's called true temperament fretting system
0:35 JEM giveaway? 0.o
1:40 *runs to pick up guitar*
sure thing
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Who does he give them to?? friends??, fans? both?, I want one but, i doubt he'll do that any time soon. You know, i wonder if he's ever gonna do like a contest or something, so you could win a jem, or, may be one day he decides to give Jems away to people who bought VIP passes to one of his concerts or something. Mmmm, too much imagination, that's probably never gonna happen, i have to wait :(, and save some money to buy a jem in the future, i gotta deal with my ugly, old, acoustic guitar :(
@tefolase he was showing how chords were in tune.. lmao
son ibanez????
Why it (temperament frets guitar) resonates without sustainer? Who knows?
Piotr Hobbysta😃 Hello my name is Terry Grove, I came up with this concept in 2000. Shared it with Scotty Bevilacqua -Ibanez Custom shop 2001MY IDEA: Intonated Bent Fretts; Came to fruition with True Temperment. Every note has been intonated with a strobe tuner & exact, better than human hearing. Because of this the Fretts are bent to exactly the perfect note spot. Pitches are frequencies and when perfect frequencies vibrate in the wood together they harmonize & resonate together with no cancelation; Even a single note has harmonic undertones, -Perfect Intonation = No vibration cancelation; means better sustain and when you crank an amp it can be endless sustain. I really wanted Steve Vai to endorse this idea because I thought it would blend in estheticly with the flower inlays and I love the Jem & Steve Vai is Awsome! And no one can be as thrilled as (I am) about Steve's remarks about the bent Fretts concept. Thank You Steve Vai!!!😎 I should of Patented it before I shared the concept with Scotty Bevilacqua, he was one of my Guitar Students;1999-2002. Thydell put International Patents on my idea in 2003. (OUCH!)
i have been playing guitar for years and that blew me away.
can someone please tell me is the handle comfortable?
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