I'm so addicted to his music. I listen to his entire catalog on repeat every day for the past month or more. There is so much to hear and love. I can't wait for new material ♥️
He has a become a composer unlike anyone else. There is so much nuance in his music that is hard to describe. He knows how to make each song an EXPERIENCE.
Thanks a lot guys!! Sweet comments here to read, and it means a lot!!! You can expect Destiny Potato's EP to be up in a few months... And my solo EP "Bilo" will be up as a free download tomorrow evening!! Cheers d.. :)
WOW! I never realized how deastically ahead of his time DMM is! Like this is 2011!? This is music that is just as relevant, if not moreso, now in 2020!
For those of you wondering how he does the downbend at 6:42 - He has a floyd rose, so if he bends any string the others will go down, because it pulls the bridge up (down?). He's also in a very low tuning, which would cause it to change the pitch a bit more than normal.
@Aaron Hooper: He's bending the 5th string which pulls the bridge and releases tension on the open 6th string that he picked. Pretty awesome trick to use with a floyd rose temolo system and so tastefully used here.
Travis Schuster A cool tip for restringing a floating bridge is to only take one string off at a time. This helps keep things relatively stable, but you unfortunately lose the ease of access for cleaning your axe while you restring. Saw this online one day and it changed my life.
Bruce Bonebrake I tuned my guitar to this tuning without changing string gauges. ouch. I did it so I could tap the first tap section. I'm having a lot of fun with this tuning. Still trying to get the last two notes in the first tapping run to sing together like he's doing it. Not surprised you knew how that bend trick works lol
8:10... my favorite guitar solo of all time. There is so much feeling and the tone is absolutely perfect. I think my listening ratio of Bilo 1.0 to any other album ever made is probably 1:1 these days. Thanks for a very insightful look into your music, David.
Aaron Hooper, he's playing the low Ab while bending the Eb. Since he has a floating bridge, this pulls the bridge closer and is basically the same as using a tremolo bar.
To anyone bitching about the tuning, he uses a twin neck with a 7 string neck in this tuning and a 6 string neck in Eb. He's very capable playing with both but a tuning is a means to and end, no guitarist should have to box in their creativity with arbitrary criteria like tunings. Use what you want, just make it sound awesome like this guy.
It is a floating bridge. If you bend a string (pulling it), then you are pulling the bridge towards the neck, essentially the same thing like pulling it down with the whammy bar. It is just that it is much easier and finer controlled by bending a string instead of using your entire right hand on the whammy bar. David just manages to make it sound extremely amazing in his riffs.
hands down, you really helped me figuring out from chord progressions to rhythmic riffs... i actually came down with one of this tunings by myself a while ago! if everyone wants to try it: gauges are (from 1st string to 6th): 12 (B), 16(F#), 24p (D), 32 (A), 44 (E), 75 (E). I just use the Not Even Slinky pack from Ernie Ball and replace the 6th with a 75 bass string. The tuning would be EEADGBE, or B standard with the bottom dropped to E, one octave below the 5th string (bass E).
actually it is pretty awful, but I really enjoy it as it is, as I learned how to use it by now... I might try experimenting with gauges a bit more one day some string company decides to endorse my work. For now, you'll just have to listen to some strangely unbalanced string tension rock and roll I guess :)
Look it's normal, some people have been playing with this tuning for years and years, it feels like a part of them. But you can see two main categories right here: Technique players, and intelligent players. The technique players are good for, you know being a band member, playing live, they are performers. Intelligent players on the other side, are more artistic and creative with ideas. It doesn't mean they lack technique. But tuning your guitar to sound amazing, is simply... amazing :D
I absolutely love your S540TT. I have always wanted one and was never lucky in owning it. Sounds absolutely amazing man. Very inspiring and has broadened my creativity by a whole lot. I really enjoy your music and band name man. It rules.
He reminds me of Eggeh from Uneven Structure. I hear a lot of good influences, Periphery, Uneven Structure, Animals As Leaders, but this guy manages to give it new energy. Love the combination of this with the 2 female vocalists. Can't wait for Euroblast 2011!
It's simple tension physics. If you tighten a string, the bridge lifts due to the increase in tension. When the bridge lifts other strings go down in pitch.
@Thollto He's playing the String below the one he is bending, because he has a floating trem it takes tension off the other strings, lowering their pitch.
Yes you have a point, but you are half right. I've been playing the guitar for about 10 years. The pattern of the standard tuning is burned in my brain. Learning another tuning doesn't mean I will forget the old tuning. Yes, it will be probably impossible for me to play it with another guitar I agree, but, this new tuning is a source of great inspiration! Listen to how Bilo sounds so futuristic. The reason why DMM demonstrates his tuning, is not truly his playstyle, but the intelligence in it!
wow this really was helpful and inspiring much respect to you Mr Maxim! you might have just opened a world for me on the guitar thanks a bunch can't wait to hear your new material you guys need to come to Charlotte, North Carolina !
I don't care what fucking tuning this guy uses, and non of you should either. The music he writes is absolutely incredible. And allot of the chords he plays would be next to impossible to play on a standard tuned guitar, so go listen to Bilo and Bilo 2.0 and realize this guy is a fucking smart writer.
hit the 6th string and bend the 5th string if you have a floating bridge.. I did it once by a mistake and it turned out to be a cool little trick when writing riffs
Seems to me like you can really hear a Vai influence in the solo at 8:09, really beautiful stuff, I like this guy more and more ith everything I see. lol, dudes a badass.
Well the flyod rose has a locking system on the guitar which keeps it in tune and equally balanced, but when you play the one string and bend a different string. The tension is increased to the one that your bending and there's less tension that the one string so the strings pitch will decrease because of balance of the flyod rose locking system
Well, you can get single string sets from sites like Strings & Beyond, or Just Strings, which is what I do, so I get decent tension on my sets. A decent balanced set (assuming you would want around 17 pounds of tension on the wound strings, slightly less on the unwound ones,) would be, low to high, 14-16-24-36-49-72. That'd give you about 15 pounds of tension on the Bb3, about 16 on the Ab3, and about 17 pounds of tension on all the other strings.
A lot inspiring and useful... I'm a guitarrist/ bassist, and i'm in love with low tunnigs. I once used a tunnig that is (from low to high) A E A(D maybe too) G B E... it's like standard with the upper strings with low tunnig. sounds nice, try it!
This guy is so nice! THANK YOU, IT WAS HELPFUL AND INSPIRING! I honestly consider him an unaverage guy though I'm very critical. I'm definitely gonna utilize his instructions in my music.
@allhailpantera123 Generally, chords aren't written with "5" in them. If there is no "+" or "b" before the "5," it is to be assumed the fifth degree is perfect. Therefore, it is merely an Ab9 chord. If anything, it would be indicated that the 3rd degree (C) is missing.
He has a Floyd Rose whammy bar, meaning when he bends the Eb (A) string it pulls on the bridge, bringing the tremolo system up out of the guitar body, meaning all of the other strings, including his low Ab, are looser, and so they go down in pitch.
I got it with GT8, now I have it with AxeFx.. You can get it by choosing the amp that has that kind of a character and picking a bit harder than you're used to... Anyway if that's the sound you'e looking for, you'll get it no matter what! cheers!
Not exactly. He's using the 5th string in place of the whammy bar. When he pulls the string down, it pulls the bridge, thereby lowering the pitch of the low Ab string, which is what your are hearing. It's actually a lot easier to do sometimes when you don't really have time the grab the bar with your picking hand
Dunno if this has been answered, but as his guitar has a floating bridge, bending on one string slackens the other one, causing a lower pitch. So in this case, he's bending the 5th string upwards, but he picks the 6th string, so all you hear is the Ab 'bending' downwards.
I tried this tuning for a song. Every riff came out sounding really djenty or Tesseract style clean ambient parts that most of the time I couldn't write the heavy parts to go with. What I did get done turned out pretty good though. I can upload if anyone want's to hear it
its the trem bridge. guitars with those kinds of bridges do that. another example of guitarists that use would be Josh Travis, Tosin Abasi or Misha Mansoor etc.
I think what he's doing is not actually playing the string that he's bending but instead playing the low string and dropping the pitch by pulling on the other string to make the whammy drop. Essentially using the string bend as a whammy drop while playing another string. I don't have a trem on any of my guitars so I could be wrong but it seems to be what he's doing.
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Seven years later, this dude is a gift to the world. One of the greatest musical minds alive.
I'm so addicted to his music. I listen to his entire catalog on repeat every day for the past month or more. There is so much to hear and love. I can't wait for new material ♥️
He has a become a composer unlike anyone else. There is so much nuance in his music that is hard to describe. He knows how to make each song an EXPERIENCE.
11 years after he released one of the most beautiful albums outhere :D
Thanks a lot guys!! Sweet comments here to read, and it means a lot!!!
You can expect Destiny Potato's EP to be up in a few months...
And my solo EP "Bilo" will be up as a free download tomorrow evening!!
Cheers
d.. :)
Here we are,10yrs later and nothing has changed - still a genius ❣️
Hellyeah :D
WOW! I never realized how deastically ahead of his time DMM is! Like this is 2011!? This is music that is just as relevant, if not moreso, now in 2020!
I give much respect to this man for taking time out of his hands to teach us something.
For those of you wondering how he does the downbend at 6:42 - He has a floyd rose, so if he bends any string the others will go down, because it pulls the bridge up (down?). He's also in a very low tuning, which would cause it to change the pitch a bit more than normal.
I came looking for an explanation for this, thank you :)
He's picking the most upper string, and bending the 2nd string. As long as you have a floyd rose guitar, it's automatically can be achieved.
Wow! I was wondering what was going on there. I thought my ears were deceiving me!
I seriously thought he had a 7 string guitar.. im buying a new pack of strings tomorrow :D yessss
I like how he named his EP after Borat's brother.
Matthew Grygoruk his guitar tuning bilo
Bilo actually translates to "being".
I always think of that, too. It's funny, but his music is so good to me 🤘😊🤘
Intro song is "Beautiful Light" and it will be included on Destiny Potato LP2 :)
Hey, please please pleaseee release the full song, the short demo is so catchy :(
I’ve listened to Bilo III countless times and it’s still amazing every 👏 single 👏 time 👏 !!
The song's called Beautiful Light with Aleksandra Radosavljevic on vocals.
Where is this song available
@Aaron Hooper: He's bending the 5th string which pulls the bridge and releases tension on the open 6th string that he picked. Pretty awesome trick to use with a floyd rose temolo system and so tastefully used here.
Anyone who was curious this is 100% accurate. Thats why its a pain to restring your Floyd.
+Bruce Bonebrake HOLY SHIT THATS WICKED! This has been bothering me since the first time I saw him do this. THX!
zack freeman Happy to help solve the mystery! It's such a subtle technique that it's really kind of difficult to tell what's going on.
Travis Schuster A cool tip for restringing a floating bridge is to only take one string off at a time. This helps keep things relatively stable, but you unfortunately lose the ease of access for cleaning your axe while you restring. Saw this online one day and it changed my life.
Bruce Bonebrake I tuned my guitar to this tuning without changing string gauges. ouch. I did it so I could tap the first tap section. I'm having a lot of fun with this tuning. Still trying to get the last two notes in the first tapping run to sing together like he's doing it. Not surprised you knew how that bend trick works lol
8:10... my favorite guitar solo of all time. There is so much feeling and the tone is absolutely perfect. I think my listening ratio of Bilo 1.0 to any other album ever made is probably 1:1 these days. Thanks for a very insightful look into your music, David.
Is that solo from Bilo part I then?
@@naean7518 Part III. I prefer the crazy solo that comes later tho.
11 years later still underrated
Little did he know this open chord would lead to such an amazing song, called someone else's hat
This is my favorite video on the internet
Aaron Hooper, he's playing the low Ab while bending the Eb. Since he has a floating bridge, this pulls the bridge closer and is basically the same as using a tremolo bar.
To anyone bitching about the tuning, he uses a twin neck with a 7 string neck in this tuning and a 6 string neck in Eb. He's very capable playing with both but a tuning is a means to and end, no guitarist should have to box in their creativity with arbitrary criteria like tunings. Use what you want, just make it sound awesome like this guy.
It is a floating bridge. If you bend a string (pulling it), then you are pulling the bridge towards the neck, essentially the same thing like pulling it down with the whammy bar. It is just that it is much easier and finer controlled by bending a string instead of using your entire right hand on the whammy bar. David just manages to make it sound extremely amazing in his riffs.
I never knew you were in destiny potato! I always dug your solo stuff like bilo anyway, but that's pretty crazy dude
Are you kidding me? Destiny Potato is one of the the awesomest names ever!
David you are amazing. Dont ever stop.
his sound, riffs and technique are really great!
hands down, you really helped me figuring out from chord progressions to rhythmic riffs... i actually came down with one of this tunings by myself a while ago!
if everyone wants to try it: gauges are (from 1st string to 6th): 12 (B), 16(F#), 24p (D), 32 (A), 44 (E), 75 (E). I just use the Not Even Slinky pack from Ernie Ball and replace the 6th with a 75 bass string. The tuning would be EEADGBE, or B standard with the bottom dropped to E, one octave below the 5th string (bass E).
actually it is pretty awful, but I really enjoy it as it is, as I learned how to use it by now... I might try experimenting with gauges a bit more one day some string company decides to endorse my work. For now, you'll just have to listen to some strangely unbalanced string tension rock and roll I guess :)
David Maxim Micic a bit curious about string gauges that you are using now, is it still the same?
I would love to know that too
this guy is amazing.
@BatuK93
It's a "Bilo" part II, from my upcoming EP "Bilo" that will be available for free download on May 12 :)
Glad you like it \m/
-david
Look it's normal, some people have been playing with this tuning for years and years, it feels like a part of them. But you can see two main categories right here: Technique players, and intelligent players. The technique players are good for, you know being a band member, playing live, they are performers. Intelligent players on the other side, are more artistic and creative with ideas. It doesn't mean they lack technique. But tuning your guitar to sound amazing, is simply... amazing :D
I absolutely love your S540TT. I have always wanted one and was never lucky in owning it. Sounds absolutely amazing man. Very inspiring and has broadened my creativity by a whole lot. I really enjoy your music and band name man. It rules.
He reminds me of Eggeh from Uneven Structure. I hear a lot of good influences, Periphery, Uneven Structure, Animals As Leaders, but this guy manages to give it new energy. Love the combination of this with the 2 female vocalists. Can't wait for Euroblast 2011!
This is so inspiring David im blown away by your project also!!!!
It's simple tension physics. If you tighten a string, the bridge lifts due to the increase in tension. When the bridge lifts other strings go down in pitch.
He's come such a long way
yup, it's an old Destiny Potato demo "Beautiful Light", but it's going to be featured on our 2nd LP :)
@Thollto He's playing the String below the one he is bending, because he has a floating trem it takes tension off the other strings, lowering their pitch.
Oh my god, sir. You just won my respect.
I just stumbled across this video and I didn't know anyone else knew about this band.
I love when guitarists know the what chords and notes they're playing, makes the lives of us keyboardists so much easier haha
@maviddicic Cheers, can't wait! :)
This band ans Sybreed fall in the same category I love this style of sound and music very futuristic
I'm glad I'm a drummer cause if I was a guitarist and I saw this I would cry, quit, and become a drummer.
Yes you have a point, but you are half right. I've been playing the guitar for about 10 years. The pattern of the standard tuning is burned in my brain. Learning another tuning doesn't mean I will forget the old tuning. Yes, it will be probably impossible for me to play it with another guitar I agree, but, this new tuning is a source of great inspiration! Listen to how Bilo sounds so futuristic. The reason why DMM demonstrates his tuning, is not truly his playstyle, but the intelligence in it!
wow this really was helpful and inspiring much respect to you Mr Maxim! you might have just opened a world for me on the guitar thanks a bunch can't wait to hear your new material you guys need to come to Charlotte, North Carolina !
I don't care what fucking tuning this guy uses, and non of you should either. The music he writes is absolutely incredible. And allot of the chords he plays would be next to impossible to play on a standard tuned guitar, so go listen to Bilo and Bilo 2.0 and realize this guy is a fucking smart writer.
hit the 6th string and bend the 5th string if you have a floating bridge.. I did it once by a mistake and it turned out to be a cool little trick when writing riffs
Going to turn my old Schecter Hellraiser into this tuning! Thanks alot, really digging your music.
Awesome tasteful lead.
Love his tone!
This is a really different, and interesting approach to guitar. This guy is fucking cool in my book.
You make it look so easy!
Seems to me like you can really hear a Vai influence in the solo at 8:09, really beautiful stuff, I like this guy more and more ith everything I see. lol, dudes a badass.
With a floating bridge, if you bend the Eb string while playing the Ab string, it will cause the string Ab string to go down in pitch. Try it.
Well the flyod rose has a locking system on the guitar which keeps it in tune and equally balanced, but when you play the one string and bend a different string. The tension is increased to the one that your bending and there's less tension that the one string so the strings pitch will decrease because of balance of the flyod rose locking system
Well, you can get single string sets from sites like Strings & Beyond, or Just Strings, which is what I do, so I get decent tension on my sets. A decent balanced set (assuming you would want around 17 pounds of tension on the wound strings, slightly less on the unwound ones,) would be, low to high, 14-16-24-36-49-72. That'd give you about 15 pounds of tension on the Bb3, about 16 on the Ab3, and about 17 pounds of tension on all the other strings.
A lot inspiring and useful... I'm a guitarrist/ bassist, and i'm in love with low tunnigs. I once used a tunnig that is (from low to high) A E A(D maybe too) G B E... it's like standard with the upper strings with low tunnig. sounds nice, try it!
that's just Drop A on a 7 string guitar lol???
This guy is so nice! THANK YOU, IT WAS HELPFUL AND INSPIRING! I honestly consider him an unaverage guy though I'm very critical. I'm definitely gonna utilize his instructions in my music.
@allhailpantera123 Generally, chords aren't written with "5" in them. If there is no "+" or "b" before the "5," it is to be assumed the fifth degree is perfect. Therefore, it is merely an Ab9 chord. If anything, it would be indicated that the 3rd degree (C) is missing.
awesome solo , Dude
I'm in love with your music.
Best band name ever. At first I was like, aha that sounded like destiny POTATO. Then the band name came up and I just thought hell yes.
this is very awesome
Incredible playing and writing!
HIIIII
OH HAI
He has a Floyd Rose whammy bar, meaning when he bends the Eb (A) string it pulls on the bridge, bringing the tremolo system up out of the guitar body, meaning all of the other strings, including his low Ab, are looser, and so they go down in pitch.
Inspiring indeed. Great insight David!
damn, this video helped me a lot to unterstand the way how you play your guitar. still jamming to this awesome melody at 7:02.
thanks a lot dave! :)
You are a genious David keep it up man!
I got it with GT8, now I have it with AxeFx.. You can get it by choosing the amp that has that kind of a character and picking a bit harder than you're used to... Anyway if that's the sound you'e looking for, you'll get it no matter what!
cheers!
Not exactly. He's using the 5th string in place of the whammy bar. When he pulls the string down, it pulls the bridge, thereby lowering the pitch of the low Ab string, which is what your are hearing. It's actually a lot easier to do sometimes when you don't really have time the grab the bar with your picking hand
Dunno if this has been answered, but as his guitar has a floating bridge, bending on one string slackens the other one, causing a lower pitch. So in this case, he's bending the 5th string upwards, but he picks the 6th string, so all you hear is the Ab 'bending' downwards.
actually this was inspiring, thanks man
It's Bilo Part II from the Bilo EP
@catharsis2609 Not yet, they're supposed to release an EP later this year or early next year
best band name EVER
It's pretty epic, I WANT MORE!!!!
I respectfully demand a playthrough video for Rise and Shine or Along for a Ride.
coming soon, and I'm excited to say that. a few frets have some grooves growing.
hi guys, where I think or how to ride this string gauges are: 60 46 36 26 17 13
INSPIRATION at last,
Thanks you
@EtherealEntity6 Thanks man. It's a brilliant idea. He is a genius.
Superlike,awsome explanation ,sweet tone n licks
@Thollto Since his guitar has a floating bridge, when you bend one string, the other string pitches go lower.
I tried this tuning for a song. Every riff came out sounding really djenty or Tesseract style clean ambient parts that most of the time I couldn't write the heavy parts to go with. What I did get done turned out pretty good though. I can upload if anyone want's to hear it
+cubby3o5 I would love to hear that if it is possible
Lol, i love in the tunning that is full open you can do tapping and escales go full symetric.
awesome ! danm
Destiny Potato is the Band, not sure about the song name, they have yet to realease their EP!
david is so awesome! !!
Wow, that bending tremolo trick is awesome, gotta try out! And intesting video as well, checked out your band =)
He's bending the string above the one he's playing, which pulls the trem down.
its the trem bridge. guitars with those kinds of bridges do that. another example of guitarists that use would be Josh Travis, Tosin Abasi or Misha Mansoor etc.
This was really help full. Cool tuning. Cheers mate :)
The clean part at 7:04 reminds me of the clean solo section in Racecar by Periphery.
@TheMakShak13 Yeah, that blew my mind. I've never though of actually USING that in a song.
You strike the open 6th string and bend the 5th string it has the same affect as diving the whammy bar.
.68 on Aflat rules or .70. I agree much lighter is too rubbery. Awesome stuff. Like the tapped dissonant tensions. Faceless. Badass.
Awesome.
I think what he's doing is not actually playing the string that he's bending but instead playing the low string and dropping the pitch by pulling on the other string to make the whammy drop. Essentially using the string bend as a whammy drop while playing another string.
I don't have a trem on any of my guitars so I could be wrong but it seems to be what he's doing.
the first you mentioned is Bilo part II (my personal favorite) and at 2:00 it's Bilo part III
@mario4526 It is a custom tuning also though, Ab Eb Ab Db Gb Bb would be G#, he has it all Ab Eb alternating
Respect!!!
he hits last string and bends fifth, because of the floyd the tension goes down and he creates this 'optical ilussion'
How the fuck does he downbend at 6:42? Does he have a pitch shift pedal or something?
+Aaron Hooper no, its a floyd, so when you pull down one string, it pulls the bridge and causes the other strings to change pitch