Metal riffs on a BANJO actually sound INSANE!
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- Опубліковано 17 лют 2023
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I want to see you sit in with Steven Seagulls. That would be sick.
no.no.no.no......guitar shred only.....
give us licks....master
I bet shredding on an electric Charango would be cool.
Granted, it wasn't a real banjo with actual banjo tuning.
I liked it, but at the end of the day it was just a guitar with a banjo body. I want to see you shred on an actual banjo with actual banjo tunings. I bet you'd turn it into something spectacular.
don't threaten me with a good time lol
This needs to be a real thing now, that was amazing! Death metal banjo should become a new genre.
Panopticon is close, but it’s black metal
pretty sure it is
Not death metal but the song Myr by Taake is a black metal song which has a literal banjo solo on it. I think it is pretty cool. I don't know if their other songs have banjo in it cause it is the only song I listen to by them
Banjo Slam:
Check out Native Howl. They have coined their music Thrashgrass.
I honestly love the hollow, old-world sound of the banjo.
Yep, that's pretty much the reason I have one.
Banjo is 100% new-world. It's the only uniquely American instrument.
The devil went down to GEORGIAAAAAAAAAA!
Uh, supposedly the Banjo came from Africa?
@@dennisyoung4631 No. It was invented in America by African-Americans.
That distortion sounds so good. 🤯🤘
For me it just sounds kinda like a Norman rock guitar
0:25 - I love that Bernth giggles at the absurdity and then tries to take himself seriously moments later. 😂 Really cool!
It's the only way to fly ♥
@@mrs-cop wut?
I remember a while back a friend and I were in a small music store. I was messing with a four string banjo and started fret tapping, my friend and I were laughing because it sounds like that rolling banjo thing. The old man who owns the place storms over pissed saying you can't play a banjo like that and wanted us to leave. he's out of business shockingly 😂
How sad it is to live like that old man does :щ
@@RaineySteelwing just a bitter angry little old man , kinda wish I tried playing with my teeth or behind the head to spite him as we left. 😂
Huh. Wonder why lol. 🫢
rolling banjo thing? whats that?
Not surprisingly lol
A 6 String Banjo, this was played famously by the great Johnny St. Cyr.
The 6 string banjo is just a guitar. It was created so guitar players could be heard in jazz bands before amplification. It’s literally just a guitar
@@xkidmidnightx I mean the defining feature of a banjo is the drum. But I Wouldn't really call this a banjo either. It's like a banjotar
@@petern.j.4121 I’d say the defining feature is the fifth string, otherwise it’s just a guitar with a different body.
@@petern.j.4121 I mean there are plenty of hyped banjos and mountain banjos that lack the traditional banjo drum, and yet they all are banjos due to the high fifth drone string. It’s like the African instruments they were developed from. The common thread is the high drone string.
@@xkidmidnightx Actually the Plectrum Banjo eliminates the Drone String because horn players like to play in Flat Keys. The 6 String Guitar Banjo has the same Idea. It goes all the way back to the days before we had Amplification.
There's something almost magical sounding about it. I need an animated music video about wizards and dragons to this! lol
I love when people mix surprising instruments with genres associated with very specific instruments and sound. Like Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan picking up an electric guitar 😁
It’s a freaking guitar with a banjo body. It’s not a banjo. No small fifth drone string. Guitar tuning. Not a banjo.
@@xkidmidnightx man, you're so defined to write it almost everywhere I look, it still sounds different and the idea is nice, it isn't a bad song at all!
@@RaineySteelwing it’s a fine song. It’s just not a banjo.
@@xkidmidnightx so were do we draw the line?
@@xkidmidnightx you must be fun at parties...
Totally insane, never knew banjo could sound so good with distortion. Love it man.
Ya seriously! Make no doubt about it...that is some insane tone! Gorgeous, and absolutely nasty at the same time!
Honestly, with 6 strings, it's really hard to think of it as anything other than a quirky guitar at that point.
@InfernosReaper true...I get that. But at the same time, even though he's playing with six strings in guitar tuning...the look, build, feel of the instrument, and most importantly, the sound and tone is all banjo.
@@The-Way-of-the-Arborist sound/tone get kinda murky if not outright lost when going outside standard tuning with these stringed instruments, especially if you start changing the string counts.
It just loses something, ya know. It'd be like putting a 4th or 5th string on a shamisen and turning it like a ukulele or cutting a cello down to 3 strings.
Even guitars kinda get to the point where it's fiddled with too much and begs the question, "why not just use a different instrument?"
It just sounds like another Electric guitar, if it had just a mic pickup on it and could get the body sound with distortion it would be so much better of a sound.
Now this is a certified banjo moment
We need the revival of the bass banjo. If I remember correctly, there were only 3 of them ever made, and they all had 42.5" scale lengths (the playable length of the strings).
Huh, I received a notification of The Upright Luthier, but it doesn't appear here; so, I'll respond to what I can see in the notification window.
If you're assuming I'm talking about a Gibson tenor banjo, then I answer it wasn't one of those. The one I saw was huge, likely coming up to your collarbone if stood upright on the floor. The man demonstrating it called it a "bass banjo."
Hello, I´ve built two Bass-Banjos und two Double Bass Banjos:ua-cam.com/video/eCT4EmkG3BU/v-deo.html and ua-cam.com/video/s76WS9XEwmQ/v-deo.html. But I´m not a player, I only try to show, how this instruments are sounding. Best wishes!
I’ve been wanting to hear banjo in metal ever since I first heard Doc Holliday by Volbeat. American-style folk metal is a fountain of untapped potential.
If you like black metal check out Myr from Taake. Song is a banger
Wayfarer may be the band for you, my man.
One of the best songs ever in my opinion. That whole album was awesome with all the old western motifs.
@Aziz Azif how do you figure? The song is in a major key and the version everyone is familiar with came out in 1972, Black Sabbath had already been around for 4 years and released 3 groundbreaking albums at that point.
@Aziz Azif ok, now go ask any death metal band their earliest influences and tell me whether Dueling Banjos or Black Sabbath are mentioned.
That was cool! I'd like to see you shred on a sitar or on a lute next🤘
It wasn’t a banjo. It’s a guitar with a banjo drum.
@@xkidmidnightx that's what I thought.
it already exist on Rob Scallon’s channel
Holy shit I need this now
This sounds fresh and really provides a great twist to this music turning it into a great fusion between folk music and metal. The first band I heard using a banjo to do more than folk was Gungor in Wake Up Sleeper, awesome song.
This is amazing! Keep playing and sharing.... LOVE IT!
It actually just sounds like Yngwie Malmsteen when he plays acoustic. Those nylon string acoustics that he uses live sound remarkably similar to this when he does his super fast alternate picked shredding on them.
Great experiment! You asked what we like to see in the future. Songwise I really enjoyed your collab with Syncatto - definately one of your best songs ever. So it would be AWESOME to see you perform collabs with other great musicians. Not only guitarists but also other instrument-players - although a duett with Manuel Gardner Fernandes should be really fantastic 🤤
The arpeggios on the banjo sound AWESOME!!!
Yes!!!!!!!!! I need more artists to add to my Heavy Acoustic playlist!! So far it's just Ewan Dobson, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Opel ocean, and few other select songs. I started playing last year, using your techniques/teaching, just to hear more rich acoustic riffs
Sounds amazing, it's very reminiscent of some of the Asian metal bands that are using traditional instruments that have gotten big lately. (The HU comes to mind)
That's really neat yeah the banjo is traditional to America as well so I hope it goes far in the metal scene too
Not what I had expected, but definitely some of the most awesome banjo-playing I've heard in a long time.
It’s not a banjo though. It’s a guitar with a banjo body. There’s nothing banjo about it.
He has a 6 string banjo tuned to play like a guitar and then puts distortion on it to totally lose what little was left to make it a banjo....
You can tune any 6 strings on any instrument in guitar tunings and make similar videos playing them like a guitar.
Very cool sound. Thanks!
Congratulations on the 800,000, for the content you make you deserve many more!!!!
LOVEIT !!! It sounds incredible, as if it were a video game boss that you never want to run into again, the strongest and most desperate boss of all
🖤
It's sounds extra spooky and deathy. Love it
Great vid. Been thinking again lately how I'd like to learn to play banjo. Enjoying hearing it with an atypical genre of music.
Bernth, you bring the melodies i had in my head for so many years to life.. I cant explain it!
What I want to see next? How about instrumetal battle between banjo, ukulele and... accordion
That’s just a hoedown.
you forgot the hurdy gurdy!
New Bernth's song, that means it will be a great saturday evening.
And also congratulations for 800.000 Subscribers
Thanks for listening Francesco 🙂🤘
@@Bernthguitar I hope you will come back to my country for other tours, greetings from Lombardy (Italy)
that was so sick! love it
That sounds so good, I definitely liked and subscribed!
That was awesome. You should do Death Metal on a Cello next!
Does he play cello? Playing death metal on any instrument takes a ton of skill, he’d need a classically trained cellist!
I am thoroughly convinced at this point that Bernth is capable of playing anything so think he could pull it off.
@@nathanmoore5005 with every instrument you can play, the next ones are easier to learn.
Do you know Apocalyptica from Finnland?
I been craving for some Dubstep / Metal Mashup but I myself don't have the technical knowledge to make it real. If you could colaborate with a house / techno musician and make it real I think it might be the new FAD of the music really soon. Something about the edginess of the dubstep sounds and the absolute SHRED of your style should be memorable!
That transit to distortion was insane! Great playing :)
Simply f**king awesome, bro!
Technically- this is not a banjo- this is a banjitar- a banjo with a guitar neck attached. A real banjo, like you said, has 4-5 strings, generally the fifth string will be much shorter than the rest. The real Banjo is, imo, the most difficult stringed instrument to play. I am so used to the upper most string being the lowest string, and the strings getting progressively higher in pitch as you go down- a banjo is totally foreign. The highest string on it is at the very top, this is the 5th string- and it's only about half the scale length of all the rest. I tried it a few times growing up- my dad played- but I couldn't catch on to it at all. I caught on to finger picking guitar immediately- it came naturally to me, so I thought banjo would to- wrong.
I’m amazed by how many people think he’s playing a banjo. They have no idea what a banjo is. Like you said, this is just a guitar with a banjo body. It’s just a guitar.
@@xkidmidnightx it's ok man, bernth is just better than you.
That is not a banjo! It's a guitar disguised as a banjo!
Shhhhh
Indeed
I've heard them called banjitars. Not too uncommon.
@@markjones4033 I thought this was called a guit-jo I seem to remember hearing that Neil Young "invented" this is the later part of the 1900s.
He wanted that sound without having to learn the banjo. I remember wanting one for years, I just never saw one in the LGS
String number doesn’t decide if it’s a banjo or guitar, it’s the construction that decides it, I believe.
You never cease to amaze!
Wooow, that Piano, calm part is so cool, I really like it 😌, amazing melody. Respect Mr. BERNTH🙏😌
As a real banjo player it breaks my heart when I see the 6 string banjo being played 😩😩😩😩😩😩😩
It’s disgusting, especially the pick
I kinda agree with ya. I thought he was gonna do some of that good ol southern fried chicken pickin...but no, just a guitar player with a banjo.
@@knowbuddy6139 I mean if it’s got 6 strings, no little string and it tuned like a guitar, it’s just a guitar with a banjo body instead of the typical guitar body.
But that's not a banjo.
What?
@@ze_glitchy_gamer7629 Banjos don't have 6 strings. This is basically a guitar
@@MaynZayes So is a 12 string bass not a bass? The number of strings doesn't determine what the instrument is; the shape, body, and overall sound are what make an instrument what it is.
it’s a banjitar
@@ze_glitchy_gamer7629 It's a guitar. It is strung, tuned, and played like a guitar, so that's what it is. Flat-top acoustic, electric, folk, classical, 12-string, banjo-head, whatever, if it's strung and played like a guitar, it's a guitar. A _banjo_ has either four or five stings - not six - and is tuned and played very differently from a guitar. I play both, or did before arthritis set in.
Always sth New, never boring. Thx.
i love your crazy ideas
Fact check: not a banjo.
This is like rain pouring spontaneously.. beautiful
Distorted banjo is actually great sounding. This was awesome, thanks for pushing boundaries man... always something new to experience on this channel
I clicked expecting nothing less, the best part is how much fun you seem to have playing in the video.
This makes me smile bro.. it sounds so good. 🥰🤘🔊
OMG thats so SICK with Banjo!!!
Thank you. This made me happy 😊
Thanks!
For the love of all things metal, please do more of this!
So good Dude! Helped cheeer me up after losing a buddy yesterday. I love your goofy smile in the beginning. Thanks for your work. Your lessons are helping my ligaments get stronger. especially the 4nps alt picking exercise. my sweeping is also starting to find form. thanks for helping with that dream. I love how that banjo has a guitar neck. Is that a thing or did you customize it. Oh I see you texted it came like that. Didn't see the text in small window view. The double time section kicks serious ass!!!
Love a banjitar. One of my friends had one years ago and would bring it by for me to play bluegrass on. I always wanted to slap some distortion on it, thanks for doing that sir
Aside from the awesome tone, this composition is beautiful! Thanks for writing this and sharing with us. ❤
I cant thank you enough for getting straight to the point in your videos. I have grown tired of 10 min stories. Thank you
This was great, I enjoyed it
Amazing!!!👍love it! Unique sound!!!!
Beautiful melody 🎶
That was AWESOME
This sounds REALLY cool indeed!! Makes me anxious to hear what Bernth could do with a standard 5 string banjo. (I could use the lesson, lol.)
AWESOME Playing! I'll soon learn how to play guitar. I listened to Hammet in thd 80's snd a few others like Roy Clark, Verdine Adams White, Vernon Reid, and Dick Dale, to name a few.
That was beautiful.
Just f*cking awesome
I love how clear the strokes are
This is so awesome
Air, fire, water, and now, dirty Banjo. So much innovation. Outstanding!!
This made me do the two step while head banging.
Sounds really good
The banjo is my favorite instrument and I love metal. What a sick video.
I could listen to a whole record like this. Might buy a banjo now, too.
the finger on the stomp box was hilarious
KKKKKKK Simply perfect !!! Amazing Bernth, hugs from Leo - Brazil
That was cool!
incredible ! ! !
Who knew that a distortwd banjo would sound like that! 😳
Very cool!
Great playing as always. I'd love to see it with a banjo sound that is closer to an actual banjo. This sounds more like a guitar.
it is a guitar, it just has a banjo head. real banjos have 5 strings, one of which is higher up the neck than the rest.
Great job
a metal version of "foggy mountain breakdown" would be awesome!
🤯🤯🤯 ABSOLUTELY AMAZING!!!!!
So amazing. 💜
Awesome!
This is brilliant
Thanks!
This was truly awesome. I love banjo and I love death metal. This is the best of both worlds
Bring more of the snare overtone to the front and it’s a banger!!!
Great fun!
Holy shit i need one of these now
that insane!!!
Well, this was random in my feed. And HELL YEAH it was worth listening to.
Subbed within 30 seconds. I'm here for it.
Amazing. We need the guitar version
You just played a banjo like no other!
Fucking awesome, man.
amazing!
Well done
Very under appreciated instrument
id love to see you give this another go but using a more traditional 4/5 string + harmonic string banjo :) think you could do some crazy stuff with it even moreso than you did here
I've a 5 string, and a 6 string banjo. Banjitar or gitjo. Heard them called both. Definitely going to be running them into the gear now.
Man that sound fuckin awesome
How does he make it look so effortless
Sounds dope.