You Won't Believe How Good a Fretless Baritone Sounds
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That guitar sounds way better when you play it, so pumped to be a part of the summit! Thanks for having me man.
Dude! I can’t believe you’re gonna be there!! I’m REALLY considering going now
@@zman3871 same here
It’s the tall man! 😲
this guy!
@Punch Down King Exactly what I’m saying 🤦🏻♂️ serious disconnect to what probably 80-90% of his viewers can afford… oh yeah, “inflation” smh
When my dad (a legendary bassist) was teaching me fretless, I wanted to practice slides. But he kept telling me that fewer glissando makes them "special". I would practice them over and over after school before he came home. Then would practice intonation accuracy and exercise for an anti-buzz tightness that my little hands lacked. I always wanted more slides and the band director at school would say "no" and being in a cover band with my older brother is was also no. When I left home the JB fretless stayed with dad. I built one from a Silvertone in '77. It was years later that I realized he was right, effects, chords, solos, slides are ALL best in moderation. You reminded me of this with your solo on this video. Make the glis like the diamond among thousands of other rocks. The rest of the time play straight. I know YT is for athletic exhibitions of speed and goatness, but you probably have a smart enough audience to recognize/appreciate quality. My dad died in 2000, before 911. He wouldn't even recognize our world. But if he were here, he would certainly tell you: Make it sing with your soul, leave the gymnastics for the other guys.
I totally agree… I mean if you want to do a little vibrato or some thing. It’s already going to have a distinctive tone without doing those glissandos all the time. I think they get a little tiring to listen to. Less is more.
Your pops was a wise man. May he rest easy
Exactamente.
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I'm a big fan of the other guys, and not really a fan of touching stories about dudes that jabbed it up the autor's mom's puss.
But I'm open to all kinds of performances, so links to this L E G E N D 'S music please?
As a cellist, this is now my favorite guitar
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@@deathmurderr youtube puts comments from people you've already interacted with towards the top of the comment section if you watch the same videos 😊
@@Rylee_G aah i thought hmm where do i know this man, then i saw the clips 👍
@@MrGhostTheBigRoast I'm a girl lol
hell yeah, you post game changer and stuff from College humor
i knew a guy (sadly passed away from cancer aged 31) who never called himself a luthier though the guitars he made were simply stunning. He only made them for himself and all of them were fretless. Every single one sounded beautiful, almost etherial, just incredible guitars. He was an awesome musician too.
(All 52 guitars are now safely displayed & used by his family members and six God children)
RIP Davey.
It's good to hear his guitars are still in his family, so that his sound will live on with them
Some pics on social media would be a good way to remember him
As both a guitarist and double bass player this is so cool to me. This baritone, violin shape inspired fretless guitar is as if a double bass and guitar had a child.
Pretty sick hey!
Mad props to just how good your intonation is - that's not an easy task for most guitarists.
I've always wanted a bass from Stradi, cool that this is an option now! Their work is ALWAYS impeccable, and they get some of the best fretless tones in the industry imo.
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The blues licks with the fuzz really did it for me. Man that thing sounds great.
i love how it’s somehow encapsulates guitar and stand up bass vibes at the same time. truly a unique and inspiring sound!
I've been looking at fretless guitars for a while now, and though I can't afford any new gear I want one SO bad. And seeing this baritone makes me want one even more -- it's like making a guitar sing, a style of playing I want to experiment with and learn (being mainly a vocalist, this seems very fun).
I hope I can afford something similar someday soon, even if it's just a de-fretted, cheaper instrument, haha. Nice video! Love this!
Take a cheap guitar and remove the frets. Gonna do that to my classical when I get the time.
As a baritone player AND a fretless bassist, this is speaking to me.
As a drummer, I'm wondering if it could occasionally be used in a rock rhythm section instead of a bass.
@@HighlanderNorth1 probably isn't ideal, but if ran through a bass amp, I bet it could yield some interesting vibes for certain tunes.
@@HighlanderNorth1 Not quite enough beef to really make up for a bass. Many metal bands play in B standard with standard scale length guitars.
Can you recommend a fretless baritone guitar, other than Stradi/? What do you play? I’m just wondering if there are any off the rack off the shelf instruments for under $1000 they’re floating around out there?
Wow, I think the lower register -- which not only has the pitches closer together in terms of absolute frequency difference, but is also more forgiving of minor pitchiness -- is really great paired with a fretless instrument! Definitely seems more accommodating to improvisation
1:22 reminded me of "Sisters" by Steve Vai. That's one rad instrument, dude \m/
A very sincere, howdy, to everyone's favorite music snob.
I love that song! It’s so chill.
7:15 reminded me of 'Whispering a Prayer' by Steve Vai
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I would quite literally sell every single piece of musical gear I own to be able to own that masterpiece of an instrument. Wow.
It is my dream to play a stradi bass. They sound incredible. Thanks for sharing this guitar! Hands down the most beautiful guitar I’ve ever seen or heard.
That 2nd jam sounded amazing. What a cool weapon to have in the instrument arsenal.
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Poland seriously has the best luthiers around these days... Stradi, Mensinger, Mayones, Maruszczyk, and I might be forgetting a few... Beautiful instruments!
Jerzy Drozd, RUF guitars is also interesting
Zakrzewski as well 🙂
skervesen
I think you made excellent choices. This guitar honestly sounds like an extremely fun guitar with so many versatile options. As soon as you said you put piezo on it to. I was like man that is fantastic. You didn't show us but assume you can blend with regular pickups as well. Giving a vast amount of beautiful cleans
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That is possibly the most beautiful fretless baritone guitar I've seen.
Jokes aside, it indeed is one of the most beautiful instruments I've seen. I'm in love with the cello and the double bass, and this guitar looks amazing with those aesthetics.
that whatsapp thing is a scam
They don't want you to know this so they can keep you running on the hamster wheel 👉👉The Connections (2021) [short documentary] 🔥🔥
35 years ago everybody said I'm a freak because I built myself a baritone fretless from an old Kramer alu shortscale bass-neck (ex duke-bass) and diy body. Result is quite satisfying because of the alu-neck. The more tight the neck the more you get sustain and a bright sound, and thats important for the plain strings which are a bit muted by the fingertip. Nice to see that the good ideas
will not die...
I didn't want 1:22 to end. That's the most ethereal and beautiful sound.
Check out Buzz Gravelle for a similar sound ^^
@@yanisz9161 Thank you soooo much!!
Yep. There's yet another unique and awesome instrument that I will need to try my hand at building one day! Thanks for this, a perfect video.
Heyo Ben!
recently had a guitar of mine professionally defretted, and i'm not sure i'll ever be able to go back. sure, chords are harder and the sustain is a bit garbage (at least on a regular guitar, baritones might fare better in that regard), but the gain in expression and access to any microtone imaginable make it absolutely worth it in my book. currently considering getting a custom made one, just to seal the deal. in any case welcome to the fretless guitar gang !
Hell yeah micronal
Vigier make fretless guitars with aluminum fretboards that help with the sustain. Guthrie Govan, Gabriel Marin and Bumblefoot use those. I'd buy one of those if I had 2500 bucks :/
@@arumyn3070 sure ! although i'd have to try one out before blowing that much money on an instrument. the metal fingerboard probably helps a bit, but to my understanding, the lack of sustain is mostly caused by the softness of the fingertips, so i'm not really convinced yet
Stunning instrument. Outro lick was fire
That beginning riff is enough for me to need this guitar right this second😫😫
Stanky as hell, loved it!!
@@guyinthecorner0 we’re all about that stank here😎
Oh damn I love Marty swartz I didn't know you guys knew each other. I learned so much from Marty when I first started playing around 2006-2008. I've probably learned more from him than anyone, even my pops. Hats off to both of you, sounds like a fun time you have planned in October. Sweet guitar as well!
Amazing tones…rather melancholy. Beautiful craftsmanship. In the right hands this could make epic tunes-so keep practicing!
At 67 I was never sure before today. But now I believe in love at first sight. And sound.
I made myself a fretless acoustic baritone a few years ago by riping the frets out of a Kent guitar and filling them with wood putty, then applying about 30 layers of Japanese lacquer and sanding with 600, 1200 and 2400 grit in between. It sounds amazing. Impossible to play chords on though
was the givaway fake lol?
Truly a work of art. That sounds amazing.
I saw this at NAMM and fell in love with it! Totally amazing instrument and yes, it did steal the show for me. Congratulations, the luthier told me it was a custom order one off - So glad you received it and great to hear it. Enjoy! I want one!
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I like it. When does the Sammy G. fretless baritone CD come out?
I would pay $16 for a CD, Cassette, Flac, MP3, whatever. To hear a whole album of you playing that kind of music at 1:26. Just a chill, new agey album to relax too.
I come back and watch this video at least once every couple of months just because I want to hear / see that guitar again. You should make more videos with it
That thing is awesome.
Nevermind the intonation, that's what gives those things character.
Loved it with chords.
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A great benefit of any fretless instrument is it becomes easier to correct for the tuning issues in 12-tone equal temperament. There are also tuning issues with the standard fretted guitar (which can be solved with warped frets, called "true temperament" guitars) that this can help overcome too. Of course, it takes a lot of skill.
wishfield is a great fretless band, and i remember being suggested buzz gravelle's "proof of existence" a while ago, both worth listening to. fretless guitar has a lot of potential with "big and long bending", that's what i like about it at least. very cool stuff sammy g thank you
I’ve been gawking at this builder’s basses for a long time now, really really cool to see their interpretation of your vision
That guitar is insanely beautiful!
Thanks!
That's the coolest thing I've ever seen, and although I'm far too poor to ever even hold one of those, I'd absolutely LOVE to play it at least one time! Thanks for sharing, Sammy G!!!
Looks like the scammers are out in full force today...
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I love baritone guitars. My current favourite player is Mark Lettieri, although he plays fretted ones. Something to have fun with is hitting a harmonic and sliding it. Jeff Berlin, a bass player from long ago did this and it was really entertaining.
You should try the "guitarra baiana". It's a 5-string guitar invented in Bahia (Brazil) in parallel to the electric guitar. It was originally called "electric rod" and later developed based on the famous electric guitars, adopting a different body shape and other improvements added to its more famous cousin. Up to this day, it's quite common in one or two music genres and it looks hella cute.
I'd never heard of this and I love Brazilian music, cool!
Can you recommend any particular songs or artists that use this instrument? Obrigadão 😁
How much does something like that cost ?
I'm blown away by that beautiful baritone and how wonderfully you play it.
This is indeed an instrument that is evolved from the 16th century. Beautiful!
Also a member of the vile family which had seven tide frets and the rest of the neck was fretless. They were very delicate due to the lack of technology back then.
I once took a six-string fretless bass and added lighter strings to it and use some very different tunings, some of my own and some from centuries ago. But the coolest thing was being able to run it through my rig and just getting some really cool sounds.
Thank you for posting your amazing video.
I feel like if we forced Sleep to make an album with this instead of normal guitar, and maybe a fret less bass, it would probably sound awesome.
Awesome video. I could listen to a whole album of just your solo work on this otherworldly instrument. Great job.
Dude please just upload an hour long video of you jamming this thing ❤
What a warm and inspiring sound, it does hug you in a way.
Playing chords isn't just the multiple intonation, but also pressing down all fingers well enough to get a clear sound without buzz or being muffled which is sometimes hard enough already on a fretted neck.
How do you get "buzz" on a fretless instrument? Buzz comes from frets.
Stradi's waitlist is about to get a lot-LOT longer
YOUR COMPOSITION at the end sounded vastly better than anything else I have heard come out of this instrument.
Clearly it requires one to play it in a manner different from a fretted baritone, or even a fretless 6-string bass.
And clearly it belongs in YOUR hands more than anywhere I can imagine.
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
I designed and built a violin-guitar hybrid in 1988 and I copied things I'd seen on TV from the 60's so its nothing new but this is a great combination of the right things! I too ripped frets out of a strat in 1985 and the sustain was non-existent! LMAO Wow, what a learning experience that was. I'm fairly poor but have a lot of tools and mahogany so I'll definitely make a copy of this for myself. Thanks for turning my head just when I thought I'd seen it all! :o)
I am currently making a guitar cello - saw a video of togaman guitars, i cant afford one of them but i can make one!
The blues with fuzz sounded amazing. I am struggling quite a bit to play chords on my fretless bass but otherwise haven't had much trouble getting the feel for it. I hope to see more of this guitar on your channel .
Sounds like an excellent instrument for any stoner, acid, or psychedelic rock band
Arabic music. Microtonal music.
Beautiful instrument and sounds awesome. I play fretless bass, (Probably for more years than you have been alive). Love the sound and freedom of a fretless instrument.
Wow that is quite the ZANY guitar!
This has to be one of the coolest guitar vids I've seen in over a year.
Rather jazzy? Would be beautiful to hear in a combo or big band setting
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I love the sound of the baritone guitar! I’ve loved it every time I’ve seen it before, I just never knew what it was! Now I know. Thanks! Oh and yes, that’s one of the most beautiful things I’ve ever seen!
I s T h A t A v I o L i N
I keep coming back to this. This is the only electric guitar I've liked the sound of enough to want to own. It's just so soothing and enjoyable
Heh heh, you're on the slippery slope to become a fretless Jazz bassist. The first hit is free and then next thing you know you've got a custom 6 string on order... it's an epidemic I tell ya.
This video answers pretty much all the questions I had about the idea of a fretless electric guitar. Thanks, bud! 👍
It's unique and sounds pretty good. For my taste, I would prefer more of a baritone hybrid. Say maybe C# standard tuning
It's definitely beautiful but that upper bout is too much. I like to get my thumb around the neck
I would give my legs for a fretless guitar like this. Really cool video! Congratulations on that instrument.
That has to be the most gorgeous guitar I've ever seen, I absolutely _adore_ that body design, that is so unbelievably cool. Sounds eclectic and wonderful, too.
Wow, what an incredible instrument. I've never even heard a baritone before, this is just awesome, such a delicious shape and finish, omg. And your playing of course, the icing on the cake.
From the very first moment I saw the thumbnail, my first reaction was "is he playing a Cello"? It takes skill to hit the right point on the strings, but I notice they include more inlays on the fretboard to help with referencing where the frets would typically be. And. That guitar looks BEAUTIFUL.
ugh those major thirds are just BUTTER
I picked up the violin again this year after almost 20 years, and I found it incredibly hard after almost 20 years of playing guitar! Frets really are cheat codes for stringed instruments 😂 Good job on getting a lovely sound on this stunning guitar!
A friend of mine had a regular baritone custom made by a Polish luthier, Mr.Lemański. Splendid instrument. Still in use, inherited by another friend player. A beauty she is.
When you play, I feel like I'm spending a lazy day watching the Mississippi flow by. Beautiful instrument, beautiful tone.
I love the sound and range of sounds you could get out of that - everything from Les Claypool to Jazz
Good, clean baritone guitar playing is one of the most calming sounds in the world for me. Doing that, but fretless, is... pretty wild. And for as much as I'm a clean aficionado, I REALLY liked how it sounded with fuzz, and with the e-bow. Those were awesome.
Also: big props for sustainable sourcing. That's important.
Yes, I was impressed in all ways. The sound, the looks, and high quality. Thanks for sharing.
I've always loved fretless instruments because they have such a warm tone. I want this guitar!
Wow. Absolutely astounding sound. Liked the experiments and ending jam a lot. Please publish more jams! Longer ones?
The pick up functionality and the piezo is really cool. The body style is great because their will be no neck dive with the strap button so far up the neck. Form and function blended together to make a great instrument.
So stoaked for you to own such a beautiful one of a kind guitar!! Congrats 👏
Verso Instruments- Robin Stummvoll might be worth checking out! Recently began producing a Baritone guitar
Fantastic I am amazed, just recently I started playing a fretless banjo…..wicked wicked….
you can get a Warmoth replacement neck for any Fender guitar in baritone, fretless, or both
I’m blown away by how beautiful it is!
It's extremely ugly.
Your chords have the perfect amount of dissociative dissonance.
It's not quite dreamy but has those similar qualities of sounding sedated and feeling distant in a way.
I love it and can never find enough songs like it. Although, the better call Saul theme comes pretty close
that... was wild and soothing. bucket list.
That is a beautiful guitar for sure. A friend made me a guitar once ... a carved flamed maple top Les Paul type with a double cutaway and a Les Paul style headstock. It had a 25" scale through neck made with wenge, with a strip of maple through the middle, and an ebony fingerboard and headstock veneer. The two sides of the body were mahogany. It was his first carved top and he did a good job and the guitar sounded great ... a brighter sound for two humbuckers, but it was pretty darned heavy!
That guitar is BEAUTIFUL in addition to sounding really unique and usable!
That opening jam during the 'intro' was awesome! I would love to hear more like it.
Check out the solo in Steve Wilsons Drive Home. From what i remember Guthrie Goven used a fretless vigier guitar with an ebow and in my opionion it is one of the greatest solos of all time.
I was wondering how it was that you could play that thing so well, man. Fretless is harder than hell because your positioning has to be really on point, they're unforgiving about a quarter inch in either direction. The fact that its your personal instrument that you had custom-built explains it, you didn't just get your hands on one to demo it. That is a beautiful guitar man, its going to open compositional possibilities you didn't have before. That's pretty exciting.
My childhood musical memories are filled with sounds of my mother playing piano, organ and cello. These guitar tones are really hitting my soul; simply unreal. I have been checking out baritones for some time now, and you and that guitar have blown my whole quest wide open; kudos, and damn you sir!
Beautiful!
Such a cool sound and great playing too!
Absolutely amazingly beautiful guitar. ❤
I gotta say it is weird to me that you haven’t seen or hear this before. I been playing fretless bass for decades and it is on of the most beautiful sounding instruments of all time. Every guitarist should grab one.
Has a clear pedal steel sound to it. That's interesting. The clarity is so, well, CLEAR lol. Sounds so crisp. Man, I want one now lol.
That's awesome. I've wanted a Browns Guitar Factory Fretted/Less Guitar for over a decade since I got to play one at NAMM in the late 2000's. It's fretted for the first 9 frets, but then the upper half of the fingerboard is frettless. They also have a fretted/less bass.
I've got a Dean Backwoods 6 string Banjo. Plus it has a pickup so I can play it through an amp. It's tuned to standard.
Wonderful rich wrap around sound.
Oh my god this is beautiful! Absolutely the most beautiful guitar I’ve ever seen/heard personally. Lucky ducky! Sounds fantastic!
Beautiful guitar and sound!
About two years ago I had a fretless classical guitar made which I have really fallen in love with. Even better is the baritone fretless classical that Cenk Erdogan uses, you might really dig that.