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Video: Maria Luisa Gambale
Recording: Dinçer Demirci at Studio Drum&Bass Istanbul.
I'd like to thank Maria Luisa Gambale for this great video, Dinçer Demirci for the recording, Erdem Şimşek for answering my makam-based questions, Briken Aliu for the microtonal fretboards and Ozan Yarman & Ricardo Moyano for the great arrangements.
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-How do you want your frets? -Just fuck my shit up.
+Yoel Arenas LMAO
+Yoel Arenas "Just ruin my career"
+Yoel Arenas say no more fam
- Say no more...
Lolol
I’ve seen the fretless guitar played on youtube and now finally the fretful guitar.
I have even seen a guitar where you could choose between fretted and fretless on the fly: it had semicircular frets that could be rotated so that either the round side or the flat side could be facing outwards, all at the touch of a single lever on the body, next to the neck.
good to see all those frets found a new home
@@BertGrink hi, can you pls share a link to what you are talking about ?
Hi @GuitarsMatrix I have just spent about 20 minutes searching for the video I was talking about, but I can't seem to find it again - after all, it was several years ago that I saw it - but I found two other videos which are very close to the one I originally saw, one with a convertible guitar kzhead.info/sun/iZmYft1laXWXjaM/bejne.html and one with a similar bass kzhead.info/sun/fZaQf7OBkYqEnqs/bejne.html
The fretful guitar is a wreck. A nervous wreck 😂
The guitar tabs must be like: "okay, play the 240th fret"
2.5 fret
Lol
Lol
LMAOO
*which one*
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√ √ Genius is born, not made.
@@-danR yupp
666 likes, nobody better mess this up!
deftones []:
i bet guitar tabs is fucking nightmare
John Feelsgoodman guitar players who prefer tab over notation or ear you obnoxious fuck
Fionntan O`Corrain lmao
+John Feelsgoodman Almost everyone.
is there other options?
is it like piano music where they have chords and use the grand staff?
I don’t sing out of tune, I just sing microtones
i sing macrotones
This is some high iq shit
Also if u don't sing accordingly to the scale in which the song is played you could say u sing both microtonally and polytonally lol
Everyone in this thread is amazing lmao
Yeah, I never drink. I just sip :D
3:10: Elon Musk: “wouldn’t be a bad name for a kid”
Good joke
ı laughed s hard
LOL
😂
😂😂😂
I love that he still likes comments
Cheers
@@microtonalguitar yes
😂
Hahahahaha
this guitar is fretening me.
Barrett 😀
Mouah ah ah ah
Get out
Don't fret. It will be fine
nice one xD
luthier's nightmare
lol
lol
:D
lol
:))) sure it is lol
"Bro your guitar isn't tuned" "No, its a microtone guitar..."
The section of Kara Toprak you played was one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard - and with all due respect to the original artist, it is absolutely meant to be played on that guitar. The sound is just...wow.
kzhead.info/sun/qdqMeNSwrqqMnoU/bejne.html
sleep drifter
@@flan_fan1234 what?
@@mihailmilev9909 the name of a song by a band who ripped off a part of the melody from the song played in the video
@@CJCJCJCJ Aşık Veysel kara toprak
Anybody who think's this guitar is out of tune has no concept of intonation
thats not true. From a scientific standpoint, everything beyond the regular 12 half-steps between octaves is strictly out of tune. Now I wont go into detail why that is, but there is a physical explenation why the chromatic scale has exactly 12 steps. google it if you want. But microtones argueably make no sense, thats why many people dislike it
I disagree with you. Please watch this video of mine: kzhead.info/sun/rMydoNetj6abqpE/bejne.html
whoah! We have a debate here! Tolgahan i have never seen a person play an instrument like you.
Thanks Jon. I replied to Scott Byrne's comment. I hope he watches the video. Cheers.
All good mate ! Im on a roll of your channel hahaha
you could play some cool medieval shit on that thing
this is turkish music :)
we dont need your opinion...
Ever heard of the Ottoman empire?
I dont see how, you know that they invented algebra
Cancerous Ordo No they didn't lmao
Microtones add such a nice new, fresh flavor/atmosphere to music.
Glad to hear that
New? Lol
It’s not new you’ve just only listened to western music
>new >older than twelve tone
@@urmom-gi2ih western music has no microtones
When this video was first recommended to me I had no idea what I was looking at. Now its been recommended to me again after having gotten deeply involved in music and studied theory for almost 2 years, and I have such a newfound appreciation for this :)
Great to hear that!
Same
I remember when this video came out I was an 18 year old dumbfuck. This is so interesting and makes so much sense now.
Do i have to study the theories to be able to make arrengments or just studying for my ear would be enough?
@@nanelikahya9949 aynı sorunla bayadır yüzleşiyorum. Bence en mantıklısı bunun hakkında bu kadar düşünmek yerine sadece yapabildiğini yapmak. Şu anda genellikle duyduğum müzikleri piyanoya aktarmaya çalışıp aynı zamanda yavaş yavaş teori öğrenmek. İyi bir kulağın ve ve incelediğin bir sürü müzik olunca teori daha mantıklı, anlaşılabilir ve kolay geliyor.
How many frets? Guitar guy: Yes
Jeff Piattelli all of them
such an original joke
Very yes!
@@RedPlaystationController r/nobodyasked
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2:30 damn you can really tell what King Gizzard were listening to for Flying Microtonal Banana
Watch my video Sleep Drifter Kara Toprak
@@microtonalguitar I did it was very cool!
Oh the resemblance
8days 1 week
sounds exactly like SEE ME from LW
It's so weird hearing notes that sound out of tune and in tune at the same time.
Great guitars. You gotta respect you ever came up with that sort of music. It's not easy to play. My dad is Turkish , he plays the violin and he heard this and was amazed. Great job.
Thanks!
0:16 I like the technical term "its completely messed up"
Omg, even the frets in between the frets have frets!
Yes, that's how we play these tunes: kzhead.info/sun/qdqMeNSwrqqMnoU/bejne.html
So cyoot!
No need to.... Fret about it. I'll see myself out
You just said frets three times.
Выпендреж, на деле дерьмо а не музыка.
I bet you could get some interesting sounds for western scale music with these. The jazz pianist Thelonious Monk said he thought the piano needed quarter step/micro tone keys added and came up with note combinations that produced quarter tone overtones. It’s actually very interesting to listen to Monks music.
Your comment reminds me of two of my videos. Write on KZhead "Quartertone jazz" and "le piano oriental meets la guitare orientale".
Sounds cool, do you have an links to a video showing this or a tutorial? I could do it on guitar, cheers
I wonder if Adam Neely has seen this video yet. He loves to mess with microtones.
Luthier: “How many frets you want?” Him:”Yes”
😂
I don't see the comment anymore so I'll repost it. Luthier: How you want your frets? Customer: Just fuck my shit up fam
Shawn lane
I'm a Westerner but I can still hear the beauty and love in this music. Well done, microtonal material/non-equal tempered music must be much more difficult to compose, read and play.
Glad to hear that! You are right, one has to think carefully about the harmonic intervals.
The second guitar sounds amazing, actually. Reminds me of warmer baroque tunings.
Yea, when I listen to the second one, I feel like I live in any Bohemian village :D
Anyone else break out in laughter when he said , "and.. this one is... completely messed up?"
As a guitarist, it sounds horribly out of tune when you play the scale, but when you play the musical pieces, it sounds fine. It makes me think of more dissonant western scales, like Diminished, it sounds perfectly natural to me. Maybe it's because I'm a huge Marty Friedman fan, his bends really incorporate that kinda microtonal sound into some of his slower playing.
Gabriel Fraser the microtones give a really good feel mixed in with normal ones, it gives it that eastern feel you know? *megadeth had chris poland who was a fan of middle eastern music and incorporated some of it, i guess marty picked up on it*
@@VN-hg5yy Marty has always played the style he does. He combines different modes in 1 solo that's how he can get away with playing the odd notes.
very well put
‘Like diminished, it sounds perfectly natural to me.’ sorry-
I think alot of blues scales sound weird when played from lowest to highest and vice versa, but not when they are played in a solo or riff
And here is my piano with 744 keys
What? No fret-less piano?
well i have drums with 15 plates.
@@epiphonium You made me wheeze
No match for my recorder with 329 holes
And heeere’s your aines
very beautiful. when you played the scale there were notes that sounded "out of tune," but in the context of the piece you can really hear what a difference the guitar's design makes. It was also really cool to see you hammer on/pull off on the half fret.
This takes guitar playing to a whole new level. I've been playing for 18 years and I just can't wrap my head around the fret positioning and names of the tones. I wouldn't even know where to start. Great job man!
This is such a great demonstration how we think this sounds 'out of tune', simply because we are so used to the 12 notes we know in 'regular' music so to say. It's a great eye-opener, or ear-opener actually.
Thank you for your great comment.
kzhead.info/sun/ZceAcbKfe4yGnXA/bejne.html Do you hear any fucking flat notes in the original? Stop trying to spread the idea that other cultures celebrate flat notes, this isn't true. This guy's makeshift microtonal frets are out of tune. Why is everyone on this board trying to make it seem like flat notes are celebrated in other cultures... Regardless of microtones, the "new frets" on this thing are not aligned and the notes are FLAT.
seriously child you need to grow up. Youre babbling about shit you dont understand trying to be a sjw like the nothing you are. Other cultures DO NOT USE THE WESTERN SYSTEM. They have radically different music. Seriously son just go back into your moms basement this video teachs something to people who thought the western system was the only system. Meanwhile youre still a waste of space
I ave a microanal guitar and is a anus opener..haha
I am interested to know why frets are required, especially on the second guitar. For example, a fret less bass allows the player to choose where they want their fingers to be and so which tone they play. The same for violins, too. Wouldn’t it be possible to have a fretless classical guitar?
Imagine a tab !!!
-----1-----3.5------5.66------10.25------
Lol
Or imagine doing bar chords... Oh wait you cant
@Venom oh thanks for the tip! I'll try that next time then :D What should I do if I wanna play the next bar chord coming up though? Should I reshape the broken bone fragments to fit the shape of the next chord within the next second, or should I just break a different finger?
My thoughts exactly!!
I’m going to post a little musical theory to explain why we don’t use microtones in western music much. We actually USED to, but the west was very scientific and tried to understand what made music sound good. What they found was that mathematical ratios are what makes 2 notes sound good together (a single note by itself is never out of tune). This lead to the creation of something called “even temperament” which was the construction of a 12 note octave based upon mathematical ratios. These ratios will work with any tone, but standard tuning has been based upon a 440 hertz A note for some time. The music made by this system sounded so good that it became the dominant tuning in the western world from then on, and also why it became the dominant system in the world. That doesn’t mean music in other tuning systems is irrelevant, but other tuning systems have notes that have very high mathematical ratios, which will sound bad or odd if you’re used to the clean sounds of even temperament.
My thoughts exactly 😋
to me sound completely beautiful, love this, would like to have somewhere to learn this in my city
I like hearing music at tuned at 440hz, but recently, i found a channel that takes a lot of different Synthwave and Retrowave groups, and he re-does their albums at 432hz. Its a subtle difference but it seems to me the low end sounds fuller, more resonant, it just barely distorts the audio, but you ca hear differences. i find the 432hz tuned versions easier to fall asleep to, and ive noticed that when i do that, my dreams seem far more vivid, in almost every way.
@@Burt_Cokaine Well there’s a few different things that could be happening. For example, most people have varying levels of some minor hearing loss, and changing the frequencies especially to lower ones (as we tend to lose our higher frequencies more) could be allowing you to hear a few more over/undertones. This would be something that’s extremely subjective. You do have to pick one though lol as a standard, there’s really no right or wrong one.
@@Burt_Cokaine The difference honestly isn’t as big as if you were to just shift the key down a note. I prefer 440 as a standard because the math is much easier to do. I can name several octaves of A just off the top of my head. 55, 110, 220, 440, 880. A little harder with 432.
i love the sound of music that is not written in the traditional 12 tone temperament system. for me those songs have the feeling of mystery because im not used the microtonal sounds.
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Microtones are definitely a part of western music, but after the renaisannce it slowly fallen out of favour for harmony.
The thing is music is more than the notes played, it's more so the relation of those notes to each other. Micro tones don't do much on their own, ie. Taking a song a pitching it down 3 cents. However, when you have a relationship between the notes, for example me playing in microtones vs pitching something, it becomes much more apparent. A lot of producers actually don't produce perfectly in key all the time, the minor inflections on certain notes gives a more human feel.
I want to see Tosin Abasi on that 2nd guitar!
Bloodbath and Beyond it will take a while for him to learn that stuff.
However long it takes him, it would take 10 times as long for a regular mortal.
+Bloodbath and Beyond He would probably laugh at that monstrosity.
+Bloodbath and Beyond Are all djent kids just wackin it to exotic guitar demos on KZhead now? for real it's like every other comment! haha not knockin djent, just a strange trend I've noticed here.
Kurt Schawacker ...aaaaaand here comes the shit-stirrer...
Love listening to people with accents and perfect English grammar.
Areyou kidding
Yes
Fck yeah
@@batuhandogan5661 His point is that many Americans have atrocious grammar.
@@batuhandogan5661 Chill out. He's dissing native english speakers by saying the guy in this video has better grammar.
Whenever he plays a microtone I instantly think his guitar isn’t tuned.
I guess you're not familiar with this form of music which is weird because they play it whenever any Hollywood protagonist enters any mildly Arabic location
@@mikemhz skadoosh!
You ever see a comment that just screams, "I'm more generic than Great Value"
i like these notes
Much like when I hear someone use a whammy bar on a Stratocaster or any other guitar with a vibrato, except a Bigsby.
3:42 : You enter a tavern and a man in a black robe awaits you by the fire
What's the piece name?
Rizu リズ the Bards Tankard
I know right, this would be such a good fantasy or D&D taver music, all though I didn't play any.
His guitar titles are still less complicated than Ibanez ones
Best comment on here 😂
But... Does it Djent?
i bet, lmao
John Cena!!
Djent is a style of metal music. The name comes from the sound of a distorted electric guitar with heavy palm muting: DJENT! It's a little bit controversial as to whether it's a real sub-genre of metal or not. Some bands who are labeled as "djent" dislike the term and don't use it themselves.
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it's what people like you who aren't able to google are called
Very cool to hear maqam scales with the timbre of a guitar - great playing and engineering
I have to say, I absolutely LOVE the melody that you played after showing how the sound is different in the scale.
The man who composed that tune was blind. He could not see because of the illness he had at a young age. There are dozens of other songs like this one.
@@svsmrl thank you for telling me that. I had no idea the composer was blind. It makes it all the more impressing that they were able to nail the small little nuances in the microtones.
Anybody else love King Gizard and the Lizard Wizard?
me
Seeing em in Colorado 2020 . 3 hour set
@@imdW ben de
Watch my billabong valley cover
@@reckfuly I was thinking the exact same thing!!
Being Turkish but born and bred in England my ears are accustomed to both sounds. The comments made me realise that this type of guitar sound is alien to westerners like another language. Fascinating stuff!
Thanks! Try this one: kzhead.info/sun/o8qKiqhugJ2bhZ8/bejne.html
same here :) you also have this with rythm
Never heard a microtonal guitar in my life doesn’t sound alien to me at all, but I’m a musician so maybe that’s it
Seriously I feel the same way. Definitely lucky to have both perspectives
H K. It's not about being accustomed to something. Most people in the world are just closed minded.
Ah I liked this a lot! When he played the first piece it struck me as that sounds off but in a strange good way that I’m not used to. I replayed both pieces several times an really enjoyed this. The dedication you must have to practicing a microtonal guitar, is fantastic. I’m glad I happened upon this. Thank you
Thanks!
@@microtonalguitar "sounding off in a strange good way" puts it very aptly! I gotta get myself an oud!
I'm totally baffled. All these years I didn't know these existed. Also brother, all the names that you say in this video are so new to me. Everything in this video is so new to me. Thank you.
RATTLESNAKE RATTLESNAKE RATTLESNAKE RATTLES ME
so glad i wasn't the only one who heard that
Thank you.
fuck yeah
Was thinking the exact same thing. like holy shit they are very similar.
Sleeep drifter, Sleep drifteeer..
Now play the Guitar Center rendition of _Smoke on the Water._
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xyzct Guitar Center players somehow turn every guitar into a microtonal guitar 😂😂
Thank you, Tolgahan! I have heard microtonal music from other cultures before and have often wondered how that is accomplished. I had supposed that it was just very, VERY skillful string bending. Then I saw pictures of guitars, lutes and other stringed instruments with all those extra frets. And now, thanks again to Tolgahan, I get to see such an instrument skillfully played. Have an awesome day, Tolgahan!
I know that due to Eurocentrism most of the people watching this get an eerie feeling and they would probably say that it's "out of tune" due to it not being the "standard" 12 tonal system of the 18th century Western musicians.. But i think this thing kinda slaps especially at 2:30. I think music isn't a "universal language" in it's current state as many people seem to claim because of this separation of cultures. But if we work hard to appreciate artist from all around the world it will be eventually.
for western people it will sound out of tune, but I grew up with this art. and I can tell difference if you play it on a classic guitar
What do you mean western people? Look at his name. He is ethnic German.
Like I said: ethnic German. Turks make up such a substantial proportion of Germany now that they are considered part of the ethnic fabric of Germany now. This is German law. Look it up. Why do you insist on a homogenous Aryan ideal for Germany? *Your islamophobia is showing.* Smash the fasc, nazis gtfo.
Jame Gumb utter bullshit.Turks are Turks.
Jame Gumb what is this false flag attack, go back to 4chan you fuck
False flag? Picture of a nazi, white supremacist name, denial of ethnicity of those in the German lands. Sure is racist in here.
I achieve the same sounds by not tuning my guitar ever.
Hahahahahaha
Ewww. You must play like shit
Esteban Aguayo ah a death metal fan explains the lack of humor
Sam Taulli 😂😂👌🏻
I achieve the same sound by playing my viola. Thankfully I don't do it for a living.
Helal be abi gururlandım cidden Erkin Korayın gitarındaki özellik de buna benzer sanırım kültürümüze özel ayarlamış perdeleri kendisi doğruysam
Soy guitarrista clásico. Es muy revelador para mí ver esta guitarra de microtonos. Y tengo la impresión de que eres un guitarrista de Turquía. Son muy chéveres tus guitarras, en especial, la última.
But does it djent?
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Tabs???
XD XD
XD
XD
0-2.5-4.5-6-7.5-9.5
ayy lmao
0:15 “and this one...is completely messed up” 😂 😂
I love how the beginning of the one song only gives my western brain what it wants musically like every 15 seconds but it is sooo much better to hear it resolve the melody.
Every fucking comment: "why is is out of tune?" Smh
Maybe it's because microtones sound like shit?
BrainSeepsOut do you even music bro?
it takes a developed ear to appreciate microtonality
In classical Turkish music (and I assume in Arabic and Persian music as well), there are nine different sounds from A to B or F to G, and five different sounds from E to F or G to G#. In Western music; however, there is not a sound in between E and F or there is only one sound, that is G#, from G to A. In other words, the perception thus the notation of the sounds are culturally different as the perception of the colors are. These guitars, then, are modified with the intention to bring capability to play the sounds classical Turkish music have but Western music do not, i.e. nine different sounds from G to A, or five different sounds from E to F. As he states in the beginning, he could have use a fretless board as well but then would the guitar not sound like a true classical guitar.
Just say middle-eastern
Polar Schneider but it's not. It's Turkish. That's like saying Nigerian people should just be called African.
I understand
Even just the scale sounded so Turkish. I really love this music.
I'd absolutely adore hearing a full version of "Nihansın Dideden" on that second guitar
Thanks! If you ever come to Istanbul, I can give you the guitar and score and you can try your chance
As a Syrian im really fascinated by how people from around the world find these guitars out of tune while to my ears they sound completely normal
I totally agree :)
There are 22 notes in Indian classical.So this is nothing.
@@AshishKumar-nz1ri Try the Balinese: kzhead.info/sun/aauod9CibHuvjZs/bejne.html
Weird flex but ok
As a Canadian I can say this indeed does sound out of tune 😝
sounds good, but the tabs must be crazy
tabs... puff
I assume someone of this level is actually reading music, like a musician.
Most music written for guitar will include tabs along with the notation.
Armando Araujo most of these tabs are automatically generated by the software, and are usually always wrong.
Tiago Massochin Sure this probably happens with some material but I doubt it happens with reputable publications for guitar music written by professional guitarists. More importantly though I don't understand your disdain for tabs. Do you think "real" musicians should only be able to play from notation?
0:15 - "completely messed up" caught me off guard 😂😂
"...this one is all messed up," you have a beautiful sense of humor. This is the 8th year I have returned to your video. Love your work.
Cheers mate!
Tolgahan, I have been playing guitar for almost 40 years. And in all that time I have always thought that something was slightly off. I am a hardcore tuning freak! I mean I am always pressuring bandmates to get in tune and as for myself, I tune between each and every song. Even going so far as to add the tronical tuning system to my main stage guitar and one other backup guitar. After all, if you're not in tune, then even when playing at your best level you aren't sounding your best. But even with all these extra measures I have taken, the slightly off sound is still present. I just stumbled upon your video by accident and what an eye opener it was for me. I want to say to you, thank you very much! I am now going to watch more of your videos and try and fix this lifelong dilemma I have endured. I am really excited right now! Thank you very much for showing some light at the end of the tunnel! Peace to you and your family
Thanks a lot Sean. Glad to hear this.
Tolgahan Çoğulu don't listen to this chump
Is he being sarcastic?
Everyone has 40+ years of "experience" but they are all bad I don't get it, I have 4 months of practice and I'm prob better than these peeps.
@jorgeb, do yourself a favor and look up the dunning-kruger effect lmao
I didn’t know Stevie Wonder made guitars.
LMAO...
Haha got em
Cold blooded
Original
He didnt see that coming
Although this seems a little chaotic to learn, I found it very satisfying and pleasant to listen to. Thank you for posting this unique video and explaining the fret positions. You have my gratitude.
Glad to hear that!
3:41 This gave me goosebumps.. It's beautiful..
Yeah, and I listened a couple of times to it now and very quickly it sounded "in tune". The mind is a wonderful thing!
Wow. Fretting that last one must have been quite the exercise in patience. I'm curious how it was done without cutting all the way across.
I wondered if they cut all the way across and then filled in the unused cut with extra wood and filler?
That's the only way I could think of doing it, but it doesn't really look like it. It was well done if that's the case.
Unless they bought an uncut fretboard and added it
I'm sure he either bought an uncut fretboard, or just made one. That'd doesn't change the fact that I don't know how he would have made those small cuts.
Brad Angove with a chisel
Everyone's ears are used to western scales. if you listen a few times your ears will adjust.
C861986 I'm used to western scales and the scale he played was in no way 'out of tune'
Very cool, thanks! The harmonies are phenomenal!
When he was playing that melodoc tune, it sounded great. Playing that scale before that, it drove me nuts! I gotta hand it to anyone that could take the time to learn to play this kind of music and develop an ear for identifying those microtones.
These guitars make regular guitars look like guitar hero
:)
Drifting in and out of sleep is my favorite state to be know what I mean?
I know what you mean :) kzhead.info/sun/YKabc5aFboB_eJ8/bejne.html
I know, right? Heroin, baby.
Microtonal Guitar - Tolgahan Çoğulu oh dang cool, nice video as well lol
Nathan that’s why I got hooked on heroin
Roy lol
when a spanish marries a turkish musician
Fantastic exposition. Thank you very much for sharing. Beautiful!
Thanks!
This is pretty cool. I think the dislikes are from people who wanted to hear more music and less talking... Is my guess at least. I appreciate your desire to preserve the fretted timbre. It's an interesting approach.
Thanks! Check this one: kzhead.info/sun/dLWgqcajfoJ7h40/bejne.html
James Hausemeyer true
You can't deny that this tool talks way too much.
@@MandishFyre absolutely correct
Very well explained and demonstrated. A problem with a lot of microtonal music is it sounds "off", not just because many people are not accustomed to microtones, but because (as you described in the video) the timbre is subpar. All the music you played didn't sound off whatsoever to me, and that is really exciting for the evolution of contemporary music.
Glad to hear this. Try my microtonal Bach experiment: kzhead.info/sun/nt2Kkbd-nqCMfHA/bejne.html#t=1
kzhead.info/sun/ZceAcbKfe4yGnXA/bejne.html Do you hear any fucking flat notes in the original? Stop trying to spread the idea that other cultures celebrate flat notes, this isn't true. This guy's makeshift microtonal frets are out of tune. Why is everyone on this board trying to make it seem like flat notes are celebrated in other cultures... Regardless of microtones, the "new frets" on this thing are not aligned and the notes are FLAT.
Bryce only U%k🚲🏖⛱⛴💒
+Ben Franke People don't care which culture celebrates what, they act independent of the culture and celebrate whatever they wish to. The whole purpose of the guitar depends on the notes being flat (relative to traditional tuning), so I don't see why you are bringing it up like it's a criticism.
It's very beautiful if you can get over any predisposed notions as to how it "should" sound. Some people would rather live their lives within boxes, and that's fine, too, if they're not hurting anyone.
2:30 I want to play this! It sounds so melancholic, lovely and modern. In Flamenco it is also usual to mix quarter tones, even BBKing and some others did it in blues guitar solos. What do you mean, the guitar builder in the city, can he build the additional frets on a simply guitar?
I come back to this video every now and again.
0:38 good yodel. try clicking this
You're a horrible person ;)
Hampus Söderberg It just sounds musical. Only a musician can make a musical vocal sound like that. Yes I am a bit horrible too - apologies to the guy in the vid :)
vicachcoup Press 2 and then press 8. You can hear that his vocal pitch root note is perfect and that is why his speaking is music to our ears.
Atacama Humanoid that blew my mind, thank you.
Atacama Humanoid ehhh eehhhhh eehhhhhhh ehhhhhhh eeeeehhhhhhh
I know I'm rather late, but I gotta ask: couldn't you reproduce most of these effects by bending the notes slightly?
You could, but it would be really a pain in the ass playing those tunes by bending.
cq33xx gender benders
or just by tuning slightly "out" of tune
ChristBurner agreed, why do this instead of alternative tuning?
***** i guess it's just the matter of having a weird cool guitar, although i would like to see a bunch of these played at the same time.
dude....here I am, getting those pentatonics down, and then I run into this fckn video....and I aint goin down this rabbit hole.....back to jammin some metallica....I will say that music is beautiful though
Not only could I listen to you speak all day,, your musical talents are insane and my ears thank you.
Fun facta; everyone who ever tried to tab this killed themselves.
you should try and play it then.
which is why you use sheet music instead
saboo each has it's place.
Just throw "ish" after every note in the tab and you're good to go.
theshapeexists wow ha, that one got me!😂
And this is when I start to feel not-so-cool about my now-mediocre guitar skills...
Each artist can have his own sound or his own system of tones.. Art is free.. be yourself. Dont forget that you have your own taste.. its not about being cool, its about how you express yourself, have some faith..
That is beautiful!! Unfortunately for me, I think I would go crazy trying to learn that instrument. I already have enough problems with 12 tones!
They both sound beautiful, thanks.
Rattlesnake, rattlesnake, rattlesnake, rattlesnake.
Here it is: kzhead.info/sun/iNxrZKmueIJ_ZqM/bejne.html
@@microtonalguitar That was absolutely rad, thanks. I'll subscribe.
Svartrkráka I fuckin knew that those guys had weird guitars....
Ah, i see you're a man of culture as well
Hahaha king gizzard and the lizard wizard, greetings from México
imagine having to re crown and polish the frets...
Luthier's nightmare
Oh god......
The fretboard looks like lines of code.
It’s all code.
Incredible! Thank you for taking the time to make these guitars, and video. It's a beautiful sound that sparks imagination.
Great to hear this!
2:31 “Sleep drifter sleep drifteeeer”
The songs name is ''Benim Sadık Yarim Kara Topraktır''.
Holy crap it sounds exactly like the intro
Andy Spendlove because Sleep Drifter is based on that Turkish folklore song :d
Dezp
exactly lol
I've been playing guitar for over 30 years now; I always wondered what sounds the spaces in between frets would give us. In my opinion what we are witnessing here is the future of guitar. I cant wait to see this applied to an electric guitar!
Thank you for your comment. I can add to your comment that the future of music is microtonal music.
Tolgahan Çoğulu Yes it is!
@@microtonalguitar there’s only so many combinations of melody that sound good in twelve tone system
Wow, a guitar that uses maqams! I'm from West Asia too (I'm an Arab) and this interested me a whole lot. Of course you'd know about the Oud, our own plucked instrument. For those who don't know, it's a string instrument a lot like a guitar (it's the ancestor of the lute), you use a pick to pluck the strings, but it's fretless and used to play our scales (this guitar in the video uses similar scales). These scales are used in all sorts of things, from secular music all the way to religious recitation. This is awesome!
Thanks!