you reached out to find a theorbo expert, and then you find a person that not only has the instrument but is also a great speaker, and teacher. one can tell he truly loves this instrument and speaks through it....17 minutes...and i could watch it for another 17...thanks rob
CurlyWurly77 ikr!! It’s so awesome to see people find others to just enjoy their passion with others. I’d bet it had been a long time since he got to teach another person and just jam and it’s amazing seeing the joy it brings
Instrument of the Bards: Theorbo Wondrous Item, Legendary Once per day, you can expend a 9th Level Spell Slot and for 24 hours you become the biggest chad in a 64 mile radius.
The repertoire is amazing. It drove me to play early instruments too, so yeah. Didn't get to find an affordable theorbo builder though, so it's just lute, recorder, vihuela, viol da gamba, hurdy gurdy, crumhorn, cornett and tambourine for me sadly. I'm not obsessed I swear.
@@nextlifeonearth The solo repertoire is good but there's nearly none of it out there. You could feasibly learn nearly every single piece ever written for the instrument in a pretty short period of time =/ The instrument is just so damn unwieldy and because of the re-etrant tuning it makes it difficult to write good melodic parts.
Well I expected all the comments to be saying how amazingly beautiful the Theorbo is. Instead I come to find all the comments saying how amazingly beautiful Brandon is.
Nice, nice and it was a joke because CHI probably has ter...tha....terob fuck whatever clubs. Lots of old universities and churchy shit going on, symphony and orchestra communities that are fairly elite...I think they could find even more rad shit to expose himself to. Do a djent on weird old instruments tour it's been at least a month since Someone Else did lol
Sorry for being that guy, but I don't consider Djent to be Metal...it's literally it's own thing. More than 6 strings are not needed in metal and most metalheads I know despise Djent and the few Djent fans I know only like Djent. Metal to me is the perfect blend between art and brutality. US metal already tends to put *much* more emphasis on the brutality aspect than European Metal but Djent isn't even compareable to that. I know it sounds like an insult but Djent where I live is treated like Rap music...and I mean literally. They are two groups that rarely interacts with each other, metalheads hate the music, usually can't find anything likeable even if they try and vice versa. My fav genre is Melodic Deathmetal (finnish style) but I listen to pretty much every other subgenre and I have at least a few songs that I really like within most genres I can think of...I'm very tolerant when it comes to different tastes. The only exeptions where I was truely appaled by what I listened to where screamo, some of the -core genres and most of them all Djent. Core genres I just didn't like at all, they felt like the most basic and generic kind of metal I've heard. But in Djent there's literally nothing metal I could find.(it fits the word, but not the music) They may use the same instruments, but the way *how* they use them is so fundamentally different But I guess the US definition of metal is so different that Djent seems more metal there than let's say symphonic metal or 90s power metal
@@AgeofJP haha. amusing. djent sucks. the only djent i can stand is when metal bands are influenced by djent. like meshuggah. but even then. it can be.. hard to fully appreciate.
I know this stuff probably bores a lot of people but this dude's emmense and enthusiastic knowledge/love for historical stringed instruments makes it all so fascinating. Such a fun video.
Anything is interesting if the guy talking about it is interesting, and interested in the subject at hand. An interested, interesting guy can make anyone interested in their interest. (Mostly anyone, some people are lame)
Lute guy has unreal genetics I have to say. Well-spoken, good on camera, fantastic musician, good looking. I am none of those things and I don't even have a sick lute to make up for it.
It was really interesting listening to Brandon, seems like a really passionate person. The folding neck is awesome, especially the fact that it stays tuned ! Awesome ! :D
Most lutenists are pretty passionate as the lute family are not easy to play, very expensive, and pretty obscure so it takes a certain passion to build a career out of it.
Now THAT is a guy who got his money’s worth from a college education. As soon he started talking about the Renaissance and the Baroque period, I just said “This one’s for me!”
Damn, imagine how many people you could take out with that neck with just a careless half turn. I could listen to Brandon talk about the theorbo all day. Love when you can really feel someone's passion when talking about something they truly enjoy. Rob could play mayonnaise at this point and I wouldn't be surprised that it sounded good.
Yeah, I also saw a similarity to Metallica's music, for all we know a lute player could've been performing 15th century Metallica to a crowd of people and never even knew it.
@@onidaaitsubasa4177 That's because Metallica is not metal :) They are versatile but currently basically country, due to tone used during and after black album
@@14moldyhamsandwich don't be an ass, it's an innocent joke. The guy is awesome, he's obviously very young and yet at the same time you can't help but feel like he has hundreds of years of knowledge. There's nothing wrong with talking about that.
That was the most tactfully done TH-cam advertisement I've ever seen. It was subtle, I was still able to watch the video on the left side, and the progress bar down the center reassured me that it wasn't going to drag on forever. Awesome. Didn't stop me from enjoying the video one bit.
Seems like a pretty good reason to check out his channel linked at the end of the video. I agree he seems really interesting, mainly for me, because of how passionate he appears to be about what he's into. Definitely somebody that I could listen to talk about their hobbies for quite a while.
Мариос Христодулу I thought it was pretty impressive how he’s great at other instruments too - bass, drums, etc. And how quickly he adapts to non-string instruments as well (I.e playing For Whom The Bell Tolls on a Carillon).
@@DLBBALL Percussion is an entirely different animal, but I count all plucked strings as essentially one instrument - and I say that from personal experience.
This entire series where you learn about new instruments AND play them, is some of the best content ever. My utmost respect to you Rob. Please do more of these
Ricardo Junqueira this guy is a professional classical guitarist and also a connoisseur/player of medieval instruments, including the theorbo and the Arabic oud. Essentially, he’s a friggin genius
15:11 you can see Rob go into his usual trance of getting familiar with an instrument, and you see Brandon join in like he sees Rob as an equal value colleague, Brandon is a good man. You have an expert player with a good heart and someone who might as well be considered a savant of stringed instruments and they just make a great duo.
To any fellow perfect-pitch-ers out there, I'd like to remind you that the fact that Brandon refers to F# as a G is not a mistake or mistuning. Baroque tuning used to be 1/2 step lower than our contemporary tuning, so the baroque G does sound like our F#. Having this theorbo tuned in authentic tuning is either a necessity because the baroque instruments would be severely damaged if you tried to add more tension on each string; or, in case this particular instrument is a modern remake (I can't really tell), it pays an homage to the old times and adds the authenticity to it.
Correct. Modern widely accepted tuning for baroque music and period instruments is A=415 Hz, which is close enough to ½ lower than 440. (Or the new European symphonic standard of 442-444.)
He said that lowest string was a G, but in trying to sing that note, in that same octave, I found it was a half step flat. Then it occurred to me he’s using baroque (A=415) tuning. The G he said it was (G1) is about as low as I can go, but the actual note (in A=440) is just outside of my range.
Kudos to Brandon for his skill and expertise I just realized how much of work it is to make it sound like it used to sound in its time. The process he described of trying to get there is hard... love these videos when you collaborate. I need to go to Brandon's channel too.
I love hearing Brandon talk about how he and the others who study these instruments work, as it is so very similar to how those who study and practice HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts), especially the Medieval Martial Arts, have to work. There's a lot a of guesswork and experimentation that goes into it. :)
Well I imagine because any references to how the instruments were utilized, contructed, techniques, etc. have to not only be hunted down but also are probably rare as hell on account that stuff just got lost to history.
Really like this Brandon dude. Nice guy, really passionate, without being a dick about it, and clearly enjoys it and enjoys having fun with it. Not like a lot of the musicians who play unique instruments, but view them entirely as a serious thing and not something that can be fun.
Thank you for giving attention to instruments most people probably overlook :) You should collaborate with Brandon on something. Seriously would be cool.
Every once and a while youtube will recommend me your channel again and I always fall in love with your love for music and learning. It inspires me a lot as I was raised in a musical family but never really found anything I clicked with. Maybe I'm just looking at instruments from the wrong century.
Very interesting but can he play 15 notes a second with a huge sacrilegious smile while playing it fast because he can play it slow turning all Bs into Bbs?
Wow. I paid $1800 for my theorbo 20 years ago. His sure is a beauty. Thanks for showing an interest in this weird and ancient instrument. Music from our ancestors can be enlightening.
@@kingadalou thse instruments are not made for store room but instead they are only made per order. The fact is there isnt a demand for them as say a guitar or trumpet so the only option you have is proffesional grade. as there aren't really any entry level.
Its amazing how Rob instantly relates the movable frets to the changing frets of a Sitar, shows just exactly how much effort goes into making these videos and how deep he dives into these instruments before making these videos. Honeslty i love these instrument explanation videos way more than the metal versions of these(not that they are bad, of course), and always look forward to these. Many of these are instruments which are becoming obsolete and forgotten. Kudows to Rob and his team for making these beautiful instruments popular again.
Robs human after all, the illusion is broken! And Brandon looks like a damned anime vampire. Amazing video, great insight I really love and appreciate video's like this.
Not so human, tho; at the end of the video he was already getting the hang of it - while my stupid ass can't be confortable in a single instrument in a matter of 2 years hahahaha
This man Brandon is a joy to watch, perfectly articulate to the point you can hear the passion for his instrument through his lines. Props to you Mr. Scallon, you grasped something that would have taken me years in a matter of what I assume was not more than a couple of hours.
you reached out to find a theorbo expert, and then you find a person that not only has the instrument but is also a great speaker, and teacher. one can tell he truly loves this instrument and speaks through it....17 minutes...and i could watch it for another 17...thanks rob
I guessing he gets asked about this ALL OF THE TIME. It’s pretty slick.
And he's got his own channel, too!
Guy has 400k subs rn
Pretty sure Brandon is a vampire and has been playing this instrument since he invented it back in 1666.
Robert yeah he like unbelievably good looking
He definitely has freakishly long hand and fingers...might be a vampire.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he slept in a coffin in the basement
He probably survived the great London fire
A.d. 1580
Goes into guitar center: "I need some synthetic gut strings for my giant lute"
They just replie, "What gage?".
@@OrangeColt nyl-gut
Nah he actually uses human gut cuz he's a vampire
@@christopherstube9473 goat gut
Then all of a sudden they have the brightly colored Ernie Ball package with strings made for that lol.
10:26 *BRANDON:* "I'll be your bass."
*Everyone here in the comments:* "You can be my anything you want."
:D hahaha!
If your my bass you can't call the cops when I slap you
@@herpderp4078
HAHAHAHA 😂
The dude was smiling the whole time and it made me so happy
CurlyWurly77 ikr!! It’s so awesome to see people find others to just enjoy their passion with others. I’d bet it had been a long time since he got to teach another person and just jam and it’s amazing seeing the joy it brings
CurlyWurly77 I’ll call you CurlyWhorely77
This Theorbo guy is a level 20 bard in D&D
Chezsit zubDANCE then what level is Rob?
Chezsit zubDANCE most underrated comment of all time
Chezsit zubDANCE He destroys all the kobolds in a room with a single strum of his giant lute
Instrument of the Bards: Theorbo
Wondrous Item, Legendary
Once per day, you can expend a 9th Level Spell Slot and for 24 hours you become the biggest chad in a 64 mile radius.
More like level 80
i love the enthusiasm he has to explain this instrument. this is baffling
I think you have to be enthused to Play this intatrument
The repertoire is amazing. It drove me to play early instruments too, so yeah.
Didn't get to find an affordable theorbo builder though, so it's just lute, recorder, vihuela, viol da gamba, hurdy gurdy, crumhorn, cornett and tambourine for me sadly.
I'm not obsessed I swear.
Thats a shame that you didnt get to play this insane thing
Passionate people get other people passionate too. Never ignore a passionate person. You'll learn so much, and they'll feel so loved when you listen.
@@nextlifeonearth The solo repertoire is good but there's nearly none of it out there. You could feasibly learn nearly every single piece ever written for the instrument in a pretty short period of time =/ The instrument is just so damn unwieldy and because of the re-etrant tuning it makes it difficult to write good melodic parts.
Well I expected all the comments to be saying how amazingly beautiful the Theorbo is. Instead I come to find all the comments saying how amazingly beautiful Brandon is.
They both are.
He do be pretty sexy no homo
Dude looks like what manga artists think musicians looks like. Damn.
I was going to write that
I am sure he is a Vampire!
pushes glasses up
😂🤣OMFG you nailed it!
He's gotta maintain the authenticity man.
I have a painting in my hallway from the 1600s, that features Brandon playing this
Gosh, so the rumours of him inventing the theorbo itself may very well be true!
You just wish you did.
I have one that your mom painted
This is the most underrated comment I'm dead
@@JordyMarincic i got one of him making that flute they consider the first instrument
“the lute family is vast” is the sexiest sentence i’ve ever heard
So a thousand years ago, lute players would say to each other 'I just came up with a great riff!!'??
Got riff?
"My lord, thou shall listen to that sick riff I just wrote"
"checketh thy shit yo!"
Yeah, between groupie story’s.
th-cam.com/video/_SBue1DuCyc/w-d-xo.html
Duelling sitars Bill Bailey
Coral Electric Sitare.
Theorbo Guy: Ive prepared my whole life for this moment.
Seems so
lmao
Hunny should I wear the blue power sweater? Ya def
He's cute tho
@@averycompany7343 I laughed way too hard at that 🤣
"You're officially the third best Theorbo player in Chicago."
Which, I think, means that there's like 4 of them total. Amazing instrument.
Flight of the Conchords reference. :-)
Nice, nice and it was a joke because CHI probably has ter...tha....terob fuck whatever clubs. Lots of old universities and churchy shit going on, symphony and orchestra communities that are fairly elite...I think they could find even more rad shit to expose himself to. Do a djent on weird old instruments tour it's been at least a month since Someone Else did lol
Therapist: long guitar isn’t real, it can’t hurt you.
Long guitar:
aM i a jOkE tO YoU
Long guitar: Hold my beer
?
@@diegotorres1214 xD
It came back
I love how politely Brandon starts to jam with Rob around 15:19. Love every single video these two have done together!
This is the most metal instrument ever.
Strings made of Guts
More than 7 strings
Super Djenty
The sound holes look like black metal band logos.
Sorry for being that guy, but I don't consider Djent to be Metal...it's literally it's own thing. More than 6 strings are not needed in metal and most metalheads I know despise Djent and the few Djent fans I know only like Djent.
Metal to me is the perfect blend between art and brutality. US metal already tends to put *much* more emphasis on the brutality aspect than European Metal but Djent isn't even compareable to that. I know it sounds like an insult but Djent where I live is treated like Rap music...and I mean literally. They are two groups that rarely interacts with each other, metalheads hate the music, usually can't find anything likeable even if they try and vice versa.
My fav genre is Melodic Deathmetal (finnish style) but I listen to pretty much every other subgenre and I have at least a few songs that I really like within most genres I can think of...I'm very tolerant when it comes to different tastes. The only exeptions where I was truely appaled by what I listened to where screamo, some of the -core genres and most of them all Djent. Core genres I just didn't like at all, they felt like the most basic and generic kind of metal I've heard. But in Djent there's literally nothing metal I could find.(it fits the word, but not the music) They may use the same instruments, but the way *how* they use them is so fundamentally different
But I guess the US definition of metal is so different that Djent seems more metal there than let's say symphonic metal or 90s power metal
@@AgeofJP haha. amusing. djent sucks. the only djent i can stand is when metal bands are influenced by djent. like meshuggah. but even then.
it can be.. hard to fully appreciate.
i guess i mean... the only correct "djent" is meshuggah. anything "djent" that isnt meshuggah. is a ripoff. in a way.
lol your username...guess I never was "that guy" to begin with
They amment's metal. It ams a grandspas guitars.
I like how we just agreed that theorbo guy is a anime/vampire/bard hybrid
I'm super gay for him
Yeah this is the comment
D-dio?
I mean it's a common thing from his channel
i feel straight
He looks exactly like I would have imagined a Theorbo player to look like
What, Harry potter? xD
Me
Just think of the most intellectual man you can possibly think of=Brandon
hot? yeah
Oh really? Not to be rude, but I pictured Cicero from Skyrim. lol
I know this stuff probably bores a lot of people but this dude's emmense and enthusiastic knowledge/love for historical stringed instruments makes it all so fascinating. Such a fun video.
Anything is interesting if the guy talking about it is interesting, and interested in the subject at hand. An interested, interesting guy can make anyone interested in their interest. (Mostly anyone, some people are lame)
Brandon is such a talent. wow. you guys captured some magic moments. that was awesome!
Time to do djent 1619.
Jared, if you don't metal-fy this instrument with him then what is life?
go make reaction videos
@@Josh-it6uy ouch
Thanks, Jared! I'm a fan of yours as well. Keep up the great videos.
"Wow, I'm having trouble wrapping my head around this" *composes entire song*
back to the future......!
I love reading comments from people that don't play instruments on Robs Channel cuz it's sooooooooo wrong yet so flattering lol
cale you came in hot with the backhanded compliment there
Bass: Tells a "size matters" joke
Theorbo: HOLD MY BEER
When is the hold my beer thing going to die off?
Wasn't funny the first time.
@@proveitbytch8379 Hold my beer=MEME
MEME's live forever
Bass: size matters
Therobo: hold my beer
Octo bass: hold my whiskey
@@akosslive03 ... Memes live forever...
I don't like it.
Not one bit.
Bass: size matters
Therobo: hold my beer
Octo bass: hold my whiskey
Plucking the wires on a suspension bridge: **laughs inaudibly**
I love Brandon's personality. So intellectual yet so down to earth, like a great college professor.
"Aye bro where's that weird looking guitar?"
"It's right over theorbo"
Nick Urban underrated comment lmao
Noting on the internet makes me laugh out loud. I never really comment either. However, this "bro" play has killed me. Too funny!
nice
This has been the comment that has finally made me laugh out loud
😂😂😂😂😂
I'm really glad that this video made the theorbo get a 999% increase in its audience.
Jesus it’s got 5 mil views and EVERYONE is raving about it. How cool something so obscure now is getting seen. Internets cool sometimes man
So true 😂
This guy looks 100% like an anime character come to life
The shoes and everything. It has to be intentional, right?
@OptimisticGreg a really hot one for sure
Honestly and it's really distracting.
Especially the way the hair just sits on the glasses.
i just burst out laughing at this comment. thank you
He likes Leon in RE2
The way it folds while retaining tension, and therefore tone, is a thing of genius. It's absolutely astounding how inventive people can be.
them (talks about complicated music lingo) me *thats a big guitar wow*
I used to have a theorbo but I baroque it.
appreciate you
Top notch
get out
Doesn't work with English pronunciation 😪
Clever girl
That guy was a great guest! Really knows his stuff.
Lute guy has unreal genetics I have to say.
Well-spoken, good on camera, fantastic musician, good looking.
I am none of those things and I don't even have a sick lute to make up for it.
All bout da lute
Sounds like a call to action to me. Will you answer the call?
@@kingadalou I love that Google thinks this needs to be translated into English.
@@chriswedemann8599 lol same
Don't forget the long fingers
I can't get over how good the bass strings sound.
Jack Sales right!
for real, i really want that tone
it feels like an 8 string’s F# at longbass tension, so punchy and nasally
Same!
It's all about scale length!
It was really interesting listening to Brandon, seems like a really passionate person. The folding neck is awesome, especially the fact that it stays tuned ! Awesome ! :D
Can't agree more brother.
I wonder if that could be incorporated into other instruments to make them more compact.
Most lutenists are pretty passionate as the lute family are not easy to play, very expensive, and pretty obscure so it takes a certain passion to build a career out of it.
Yeah, I want a guitar that folds up.
1:24
“Italian invention”
Davie504: *heavy breathing*
gold xD
XD
Nice profile picture
boorisko u ayyy
That’s The Godfather of guitars!!! There will be NO other !!!!! Yeahhhhh. Hahahaha
I consider myself fairly straight, but Holy shit Brandon is the cutest most charming man I've ever seen.
We're all a lil gay, I don't blame you he is cute
U gay
@@siddharthbirdi u gay
Yall gae
“Fairly” straight what the hell Hahahaha
Now THAT is a guy who got his money’s worth from a college education. As soon he started talking about the Renaissance and the Baroque period, I just said “This one’s for me!”
Snoo Lee Imma give you an L on this, you’re just straight poor m8
I bet his theorbo isn't the only thing he has to fold in half when he leaves the house.
😂😂😂😂😂🤢🤮
Of course, he must fold his wallet closed!
I ugly laughed on that one 😂
i feel dense cuz i dont get it
It’s probably a dick joke but how tf you fold a dick I’m dense af
It's not a Theorbo, it's a giraffitar
I thought it was a long neck stylar, I stand corrected
Can't tell if you're serious or not?
@@fabianclair-woods8169 Deathly serious. Long neck stylars and giraffitars aren't anything to joke about
@@boyfromzambia hahaha lmao
Hahaha that’s Hilarious!
You should have titled it “Sexy Vampire Plays Oar With Gut Strings”
Damn, imagine how many people you could take out with that neck with just a careless half turn. I could listen to Brandon talk about the theorbo all day. Love when you can really feel someone's passion when talking about something they truly enjoy. Rob could play mayonnaise at this point and I wouldn't be surprised that it sounded good.
You'd all better duck, because I'm about to turn left.
@@LoebaneOur shortest player gets to sit on the LH of the theorboist. The danger is real!
Using a guitar with strings made of sheep guts? now thats metal.
The harp also uses gut strings.
Next: Phoetus guts for Medieval Djent.
The first condoms were made of sheep intestine
@@kebm1388 I think the first ones were from crocodile skin in Egypt.
Ironically, using metal strings is less metal
I always wonder if some lute player like 400 years ago was messing around and like strummed out some ye old Metallica riffs or something
Yeah, I also saw a similarity to Metallica's music, for all we know a lute player could've been performing 15th century Metallica to a crowd of people and never even knew it.
I was thinking the same thing, add some volts to that rift and you got a beautiful solo
That's a really fun thought. I wonder if any huge modern songs accidentally got played in the past, but never recorded.
@@onidaaitsubasa4177 That's because Metallica is not metal :) They are versatile but currently basically country, due to tone used during and after black album
Battery
"Synthetic Gut". NEW BAND NAME, I CALL IT
I'm buying the first album :)
We need an update
It's a medieval metal band but you can only use lutes, viols, and hand drums.
You, a lute player. Verses the dude she tells you not to worry about
@Dr. Krieger nah
...
.kill the lute too, my liege.
@@machinenkanone9358 *Wind blows ominously*
1:17 when rob said “it’s beautiful” he wasn’t talking about the theorbo, he’s talking about Brandon
The moon is beautiful tonight
@@zeta970
Ouí ouí!
God, why do I have such a crush on him
@@iridium141talented handsome vampire man
I'm not convinced this guy's not a vampire.
he's a Cullen. (twilight)
That's for sure.
He is a distant cousin of Keanu Reeves, another vampire.
@@14moldyhamsandwich don't be an ass, it's an innocent joke. The guy is awesome, he's obviously very young and yet at the same time you can't help but feel like he has hundreds of years of knowledge. There's nothing wrong with talking about that.
@@14moldyhamsandwich Yeah, you kind of are being an ass. Ignorant, at the least.
17:09 My mans got the Bold and Brash by the window😂
Omfg he actually does what a legend
That was the most tactfully done TH-cam advertisement I've ever seen. It was subtle, I was still able to watch the video on the left side, and the progress bar down the center reassured me that it wasn't going to drag on forever. Awesome. Didn't stop me from enjoying the video one bit.
Thank you for letting him talk about the history of the instrument.
Love that brain nectar.
This guy is super cool and informative on the theorbro, he seems like a really interesting dude
He kinda reminds me of Eagle McMahon, with a similar kind of enthusiasm mixed with mastery.
facebook.com/Eagle-McMahon-827952767308488/
Seems like a pretty good reason to check out his channel linked at the end of the video. I agree he seems really interesting, mainly for me, because of how passionate he appears to be about what he's into. Definitely somebody that I could listen to talk about their hobbies for quite a while.
he also plays lots of instruments: acoustic guitar, electric guitar, electric bass, banjo, ukulele, lute, theorbo, classical guitar.... a master
@@mal2kscI guess I'm not the only person who loves weird instruments and disc golf.
This is the first time I had to convince myself I'm not gay out loud,... and it's not working.
Size is not everything!
You just have to embrace it ;)
@@Dicen_Delirio Lol yeah
Man ur all gae as hell hahaha
Brandon is the exact person you need to watch your significant other around; especially when his instrument reaches full extension
I almost spit my coffee out of my nose there
I almost spit my nose out of my coffee there
I almost coffee my nose out of my spit there
Spit my coffee nose I almost there out of my
I almost nose my coffee out of my spit there
Synthetic guts.
Nice sounding instrument.. brings back ancient memories..
The name of a theorbo-based metal band.
How old are you?
Ancient MEMORIES??
@@georgepapad5272 I was falling over this too 😅
@Anjo Liwanag, are you asking me?
I want to name my next cat Theorbo.
It should be a very long tailed cat
@@christopherstube9473 This is why I love the internet
Don't do that. You'll be that weird guy withthat cat that folds its tail in half.
Rob is a golden retriever and Brandon is a classy dachshund
Everybody is paying attention to the guest but I'm more focused on how this guy adapted so quickly to this instrument... genius
True. At this point it's kind off become a meme that Rob can play anything he touches
it isn't like he hasn't played a lute before
It's not that impressive for a decent guitarist, such as Rob, to be able to play other plucked instruments.
Мариос Христодулу I thought it was pretty impressive how he’s great at other instruments too - bass, drums, etc. And how quickly he adapts to non-string instruments as well (I.e playing For Whom The Bell Tolls on a Carillon).
@@DLBBALL Percussion is an entirely different animal, but I count all plucked strings as essentially one instrument - and I say that from personal experience.
this theorbo dude could drop the sickest black metal album
soad tribute band
"You got a 7/12 chance of hitting an intune note."
My new approach to everything I do musically lol
In a lot of ways, we live in such an amazing world that people are still into playing instruments from the 1500's to the 1600's.
Or well, I guess it is for opera too, which is much later.
Yo wtf this dood teaches the little kids at our school in Chicago sick
He seems like a great teacher.
@@cranki6316 he legit looks like a teacher that would have you playing the instrument with a pasion after he's done teaching you how to play
@@chelcyndo1759 Except me. I can only play the radio. It's fascinating seeing how they make it look so easy. It seems like rocket science to me.
at first glance i thought that said touches
@@cranki6316 i can relate, i've got a Bass Guitar for 2 years now and all i can play is Seven Nation Army
14:34 "you just learned how to play a 17th century 12 bar blues essentially"
rob: djent djent
Synthetic guts is my next band
Thats kind of a great name
I want someone to use my guts as Strings lol
That’s actually a good name
HEY THAT'S MY BAND THAT DOES CHAMBER MUSIC TREMONTI COVERS
Nope, I called it. If I ever see your band, expect a lawsuit
This entire series where you learn about new instruments AND play them, is some of the best content ever. My utmost respect to you Rob. Please do more of these
The thing that impresses me the most about the theorbo player is how fast and clean his trills are. He does like 10 pulloffs per second
That's that college play.
PLEASE tell me there is 30 more minutes of you two jamming out? Sounded so beautiful
How come such a handsome man one day decided: "I guess I'll learn to play the Theorbo. Yeah! That's the instrument for me." Holy shit.
Ricardo Junqueira this guy is a professional classical guitarist and also a connoisseur/player of medieval instruments, including the theorbo and the Arabic oud. Essentially, he’s a friggin genius
Im pretty sure he can play any stringed instrument
The most popular theory is that he's a vampire. So I guess it must've been around 17th century.
That theorbo is beautiful sounding. Just like brandon. A beautiful sounding instrument to a beautiful looking man.
@@thomasthesteamengine6703 dude it's proven it's not just a theory
15:11 you can see Rob go into his usual trance of getting familiar with an instrument, and you see Brandon join in like he sees Rob as an equal value colleague, Brandon is a good man. You have an expert player with a good heart and someone who might as well be considered a savant of stringed instruments and they just make a great duo.
this theorbo guy strightly looks like from a fantasy movie
totally not disappointed
To any fellow perfect-pitch-ers out there, I'd like to remind you that the fact that Brandon refers to F# as a G is not a mistake or mistuning. Baroque tuning used to be 1/2 step lower than our contemporary tuning, so the baroque G does sound like our F#. Having this theorbo tuned in authentic tuning is either a necessity because the baroque instruments would be severely damaged if you tried to add more tension on each string; or, in case this particular instrument is a modern remake (I can't really tell), it pays an homage to the old times and adds the authenticity to it.
thank you I was having a panic attack
It's a modern manufacture theorbo.
it "sounds" like 1/2 step down because they tuned in 415 ish hertz while we tune usually around 440
Correct. Modern widely accepted tuning for baroque music and period instruments is A=415 Hz, which is close enough to ½ lower than 440. (Or the new European symphonic standard of 442-444.)
And all of that is totally pointless now because of equal temperament.
He said that lowest string was a G, but in trying to sing that note, in that same octave, I found it was a half step flat. Then it occurred to me he’s using baroque (A=415) tuning. The G he said it was (G1) is about as low as I can go, but the actual note (in A=440) is just outside of my range.
Perfect pitch!!!
Yes I was wondering this too! When he was explaining the tuning at 3:00 everything just sounds half step lower
Oh man, it was driving me crazy. He started naming off the open strings when talking about the tuning and I was like, “Ummm… What?”
I'm guessing he's in A=432. Many players of historical instruments use it. I don't have a tuner handy to check.
Nice humble brag there: not only perfect pitch but also bass singer.
Kudos to Brandon for his skill and expertise I just realized how much of work it is to make it sound like it used to sound in its time. The process he described of trying to get there is hard... love these videos when you collaborate. I need to go to Brandon's channel too.
That end "jam" they are playing is a very old and classic chord progression called 'La Follia'.
Thank you Denton, very cool!
' The insanity '. Yes it sounds about right.
I love la folia, Vivaldi and Correli really made some shred folias. Violin for me...
Little correction: it's "*Follia*", not "Folia"
@@Salderosan99 fair enough, i didn't double check
Why dont you all just marry Brandon then
FINE MAYBE I WILL
Get a room you two!!
If I could I would
Sure
the ring on his wedding finger indicates he is straight, married, and FAITHFULL!
I don't think I've ever seen something so absurdly beautiful. The theorbo is radical, too.
I love this comment, because it's true
Get a room you two!
Brandon: You're a natural, man.
Rob: *Why am I not the best at this already?*
Jacques: I think that we will name thy instrument “long guitar”
Theorbo: I have another idea
i could see this brandon acker breaking male and female hearts in elizabethan england.
This guys really good looking, smart, and knows how to play an alien instrument. Dude must get all the ladies.
Sunny Kay or guys
Sunny Kay them he shows him his long stringed guitar
@@butthole9580 unfolds it
The question is where does he put their body after he serial kills them to death?
@@damienbailey7375
You serial killed your grammar and that sentence
I love how 98% of the comments is thirsting for Theorbo Bard and I'm not complaining because same
I love hearing Brandon talk about how he and the others who study these instruments work, as it is so very similar to how those who study and practice HEMA (Historical European Martial Arts), especially the Medieval Martial Arts, have to work. There's a lot a of guesswork and experimentation that goes into it. :)
Well I imagine because any references to how the instruments were utilized, contructed, techniques, etc. have to not only be hunted down but also are probably rare as hell on account that stuff just got lost to history.
I was thinking the same thing!
I want so many of these non-standard instruments to play together because these are all so beautiful.
Really like this Brandon dude. Nice guy, really passionate, without being a dick about it, and clearly enjoys it and enjoys having fun with it. Not like a lot of the musicians who play unique instruments, but view them entirely as a serious thing and not something that can be fun.
Hes also hot
I wonder if they kick you out of the Theorbo store for playing "Stairway to Heaven"
They're gonna put you to the stairway itself i heard.
@@defaultset Gotta use it to tune the bass strings if it ain't a folding model
Thank you for giving attention to instruments most people probably overlook :) You should collaborate with Brandon on something. Seriously would be cool.
Yes please.
It would be so sick
Yeah agreed, would love to see that.
God knows how you played on that Rob! Well done! 🙌👏🤘🔥
yeah he made a 13000$ theorbo sound like a pawnshop banjo...congratu-fg-lations
@@rickdeckard1075 We are all waiting for your video with your surely amazing performance. Please notify us when it's uploaded. Have a nice day ;-)
@@WeeFreeMan78 lol sry your feefees are hurt dude, facts matter
@@rickdeckard1075 No worries buddy, no feelings hurt by a kid's comment on youtube. But as you stated, facts matter. Prove yourself
@@WeeFreeMan78 did you even watch the vid? i'm not yr buddy, pal.
That man is a Vampire.
now i cant unsee it!
Lol, I thought that too.
Every once and a while youtube will recommend me your channel again and I always fall in love with your love for music and learning. It inspires me a lot as I was raised in a musical family but never really found anything I clicked with. Maybe I'm just looking at instruments from the wrong century.
Theorbo ❤
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@@turispaev Здрасьте
Кто то нашел себе следущий инструмент 😂
i know this will be creepy and pathetic, but i don't care. I have to say that you are beautiful :c
@@raiden0456 хах, я уже почти год в очереди к мастеру за подобным инструментом))
Very impressive but can you... wait wrong channel
That's actualy Davie...he just use the mask to confuse you
LMAO
what channel were you talking about?
Very interesting but can he play 15 notes a second with a huge sacrilegious smile while playing it fast because he can play it slow turning all Bs into Bbs?
LorenzoRM85 davie504
15:20 its amazing how two musicians who bearly nows each other start a beautiful improvisation
Brandon is a 482 year old vampire and is acting like he never even invented when we all know he did
Brandon has the kind face that was "sculpted by angels."
Wow. I paid $1800 for my theorbo 20 years ago. His sure is a beauty. Thanks for showing an interest in this weird and ancient instrument. Music from our ancestors can be enlightening.
That's a steal. I'm having a new one made at about $8k.
Why so over priced?
@@kingadalou thse instruments are not made for store room but instead they are only made per order. The fact is there isnt a demand for them as say a guitar or trumpet so the only option you have is proffesional grade. as there aren't really any entry level.
I really enjoyed the interview, the guy really knows his shit, Thanks Rob !
rob seems so humbled by brandon which is quite cool because i really respect this guys playing
Its amazing how Rob instantly relates the movable frets to the changing frets of a Sitar, shows just exactly how much effort goes into making these videos and how deep he dives into these instruments before making these videos.
Honeslty i love these instrument explanation videos way more than the metal versions of these(not that they are bad, of course), and always look forward to these. Many of these are instruments which are becoming obsolete and forgotten.
Kudows to Rob and his team for making these beautiful instruments popular again.
Robs human after all, the illusion is broken!
And Brandon looks like a damned anime vampire.
Amazing video, great insight I really love and appreciate video's like this.
Not so human, tho; at the end of the video he was already getting the hang of it - while my stupid ass can't be confortable in a single instrument in a matter of 2 years hahahaha
brandon has used the mask
YOU THOUGHT IT WAS BRANDON BUT IT WAS ME, DIO!
Thats a 14 string instrument that he pretty much had the hang of within an hour or so, with no prior knowledge of it. He's still inhuman
He looks like that one guy from penny's dreadful
This man Brandon is a joy to watch, perfectly articulate to the point you can hear the passion for his instrument through his lines.
Props to you Mr. Scallon, you grasped something that would have taken me years in a matter of what I assume was not more than a couple of hours.
Oh my this was beautiful, genuinley speechless at the improv at 15:14