Exploring the tenor guitar with the MRG Tenor from Eastwood
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- In this video I'm discussing tenor guitars, with the help of the MRG tenor from Eastwood. What is a tenor guitar and how to approach playing one? Find more information on the MRG Tenor here: eastwoodguitar...
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The Tenor Guitar is a hybrid instrument basically a Tenor Banjo neck on a Guitar body & I approach it the same way as the Mandolin cause you can tune it like a Mandolin w/ strings built for that Tuning. I use GDAE Tuning for Jazz cause I find that it has a much deeper & mellower sound that fits in w/ that music.
Great demo Adrian. Some great playing and explorations of sounds.
Thank you for this! I've been considering a tenor and wanted to hear what they sound like. It's beautiful!
Awesome demo, great to see a less mainstream instrument! Any plans to review their bass vi - would love to see you recreate some classic Cure sounds with one!!
Spectacular demo, thanks guy, just made an offer on one of these, they sound amazing ❤
What a fantastic composition Adrian. I laid down some bass vi lines over your track and it sounds like something straight off The Cure's Lost Wishes. Wish I could jam with you my friend. Love your channel. Don't ever stop.
Fantastic demo with some great music
still have the tenor classic series from eastwood and I love it !
I wish tenor guitar will become more famouse because this instrument is great !
Very nice opening piece, Adrian! Super mellow! Great job! 👏 👏 👏
Neko Case is also a prolific tenor user- The 2nd issue of Fretboard Journal has an article in on her and her tenors. Great video, as usual- love your content!
Interesting - I must check out her playing!
@@acpg I suggest the albums "Blacklisted", "Fox Confessor Brings the Flood" and "Middle Cyclone". Id listen to her sing a phone book. She's amazing.
Im about to fan boy about Neko Case here, but she's also worked with some incredible artists like The Sadies ( who have an amazing album w John Doe of X), Calexico ( check out the EP they did w Iron & Wine), her frequent collaborator Kelly Hogan ( listen to her album "I Like To Keep Myself In Pain") and her recent project w KD Lang and Laura Viers.
@@robrosario4721 Thanks for the tip. Been listening to her all afternoon!
@@robrosario4721 Good info thank-you! I know the Fox Confessor album a little, but will revisit it, and check out the others too. Calexico are excellent, remember seeing them live many years ago now.
Yes yes. Beautiful compositional mind. I love to see this. Thank you. Dynamics. Sensitivity. Thank you. Thank you
YOU ARE GREAT AND COOL TO GITAR SOLO.GOD BLESS YOU SIR ADRIAN
I used to have an acoustic tenor guitar. I couldn't be bothered learning new chord shapes so I retuned it to DGBE(Chicago tuning I believe it's called) enabling me to use guitar chords.
Oh thanks man. That is such gorgeous tone. Oh wow. I love your work
great I love it, I play baritone ukulele tuned in 5th's also, what drum/bass machine do you use at the end @ 13:10 minutes in please?
That little section from 3:52.......... Sounds like something I just can't put my finger on it. Did enjoy the whole piece immensely. Great sound.
I'm not sure why but the whole thing reminds me of Japanese indie rock. I couldn't pick a band in particular but something about the progression makes me think of it.
I hear a little bit of the solo from Friday I'm In Love in the last section.
Great call, it is Johnny Cash doing Hurt from Nine inch Nails.
Could you give us an in-depth tutorial on Suffer Little Children by The Smiths? There are a couple of tutorials on TH-cam, but none of them are accurate.
A hell of a lot easier to play than the Tenor Banjo.
Are guitars becoming like a "string section" now? It would be cool to hear all of the registers arranged together!
I have the eastwood map tenor guitar. It's all I play these days. I love the GDAE tuning. So much more sense than six string standard tuning. I guess if you play jazz the Chicago tuning is easier but I don't so..for blues and slide I tune the higher strings down to GDgd easy peasy
They got the dot on the tenth fret right this time
HELLO SIR ADRIAN HOW ARE YOU SIR? THNK FOR THE GUITAR LESSON I TRIED TO STUDY THEM HEHEHEHE IM THE ONE YOUR FOLLOWER.
Nice
I believe a tenor guitar is tuned similar to a mandolin or tenor banjo. Think in terms or root, third, etc for chords.
Gary, the answer is yes. Go on my channel, and watch the video " for Astrogerry/ Enzo/ Chuck" , you will see my hand made tenor guitar, the scale lenght is 57,8 centimeters, tuned A D G C, the strings are a very important choice, i 've bought the La Bella tenor guitar set, ( 9 / 13 / 20 / 27) , changing the 9 with a 10 ,to make the string " A" sounding little bit higher and crisper . Cast an eye, hope this information will be useful. Greetings from Italy, Patrick
this instrument is about the only way to get wide string spacing in electric instruments. I have the 18" scale version from Eastman which unfortunately has a narrow nut. It's ok but I wish it would come with a 33mm nut. Also I see most people tune it down like an octave mando but it's supposed to be like a mandola/viola,/tenor banjo CGDA. I have tuned my 18" in CGDA and now have it in BbFCG. A mellow tone is nicer with an electric instrument.
I did notice the spacing - much wider than my acoustic tenor. I had similar issues looking for a 5 string banjo with wider spacing in my amateur price range.
I have had similar sounds with an Octaver pedal but a dedicated guitar would be interesting!
There's a big resurgance in Tenor Guitars due to the demand for them going back up, & also their versatility.
Nice enough, that was a beautiful instrumental that you composed and I enjoyed it very much.
😎🎙🎸✅
neat sounding gizmo but couldn't possibly imagine having the spare cash to own something I'd play once or twice a year
Don’t put this in the same category as say-a baritone guitar-weird and cool for James Bond and maybe Slipknot covers.
If you do classic rock-this is your “Maggie May” go to both for lead and mandolin double or lead. Hot jazz. If you aren’t a great guitar player, or have a hard time playing and singing, you can string this DGBE-top 4 of guitar. Or CGBD, and you will have great sounding chords all the way up the neck-and very easy in any progression you can think of.
Capo at 7th fret with standard tuning-electric mandolin.
There is a lot of versa here-and day to day.
Ok-it looks so damn cool, too. That’s an Eastwood thing, and not enough of a reason to buy it. If you do Flogging Molly, the Pogues, Dropkick Murphys, trad Irish [hint, hint, St. Paddy’s coming up] this would be great.
So, you are right-if this is one more toy, get a couple nice pedals or a better amp. But if you, or someone in the band, wants something a bit different and versatile, go for it. I have a Warren Ellis tenor, and it’s fun! Useful. Hell, you can do a Polish wedding, bluegrass, even trad Dixieland for one song, and REM with the next.
Yeah, don’t buy a toy you don’t need. But you could tune it like a guitar and have something that works out of the box [you would need to change the string gauges, but call up, Eastwood is good about doing that stuff before you buy, IMO].
If you'd only play it that rarely, then it's probably not for you. If I had one, I'd likely play it all the time.
It looks like a mandolin for a giant but with only half the usual number of strings. So would a double coursed tenor guitar be an actual giant's mandolin?
yes, but they call those Octave Mandolins, if tuned to GDAe.
hi can you do a guitar lesson for dinosaur jr, black midi, shame or sonic youth
i think i have the pieces to make one of these?
Is the barrel bridge just a bass barrel bridge?
Hi. What is the nut and bridge spacing?? Thanks ??
For your G-D-A-E tuning, what strings did you use?
its like a really cute little high pitched baby bass
It goes like this -
Ooh, that’s cool, I want one!
Get one, play it once, place on top of wardrobe to gather dust for the rest of eternity.
Dave ,sincerly, can you give me your opinion about Eastwood products? I can't find any store in Italy to have the chance to try one of their products, i know they have several instruments for left handed. Thanx, all the best to you. Patrick
@@patrickbuzzo1970 hello Patrick. I’m afraid I can’t. I’ve never tried one. My comment represents my own behaviour in the past. I have on occasion bought things without giving too much thought or with good intentions only to never really use said things. For example, I have a ukulele I bought a few years ago and I’ve played it about twice.
Sorry I couldn’t help. Kind regards, Dave.
@@DoctorDave5 Thanx anyway, you have been very kind to me . All my best to you. Patrick from Italy
@@patrickbuzzo1970 You’re welcome Patrick. Sorry I couldn’t help you.
I am trying to think why anyone would buy this if you can just do the open tuning and just use your regular guitar. Just use the the first four strings. I will have to test this theory on one of my guitars.
Yeah, I made an acoustic tenor by taking off the 6th and 1st strings on a normal acoustic 6 string and tune the 'inside' 4 strings to GDAD. Some tune to GDAE but I prefer GDAD. Try it.
People who can afford it and appreciate the history and attributes of the tenor (shorter scale, wider string spacing) would buy it
You'd likely have to use different strings. 5ths-tunings cover a wide range in a short space; tuning the D down to G would get pretty floppy, as would tuning the G down to D.
Hard to find tenor guitars
True . Mine is hand made ,you can find it on my channel. Watch the video " for Astrogerry/ Enzo/ Chuck) hope you will like it . Best regards to you, Patrick from Italy
@@patrickbuzzo1970 subbed. Much love
Well, this is sold from a company with an online store, so quite easy to find...
My guitar never sounds that in tune and I use a electric tuner.
wtf were they thinking pmsl...
Hey let's turn a Gibson F-Style mandolin into a guitar?
They probably thought they knew more than you about the almost 100 year history of the tenor guitar
La tête de la guitare sert de décapsuleur ? 🤣👍
haha didn't try opening a beer with it, but pretty sure it would work!
@@acpg yes don't do it I am pretty sure it's a bad idea!😁👍 Nice guitar super interesting! For my next guitar I would love to buy a baritone guitar or something different a bass vi
@@acpg good work love your channel!
Supposedly progressive people, musicians who should be open minded: "4 string guitar? what is this? This is not how things are done traditionally! Blaspheme!" (or the equally idiotic: "why not just buy a ukelele / remove 2 strings from your guitar / learn to play 6 strings") Never mind that tons of guitarists with 6 string guitars also own a tenor, that their use is different, or that it's not some random novelty but has 80+ years of history, there have been tenors much before the electric guitar and bass even....
Plus getting 5ths-tuning to work across 6 strings has always proven incredibly difficult - too wide a range to have on a single scale length.
I've owned a few Eastwoods over the years, they were all junk. Looked cool as hell though.
Tiger Payphone, i was attracted by the idea to get one of their products, the semi hollow tenor or even this Mrg instrument, what defects have you noticed? I don't want to throw away my money, i should order any of their models by shipping overseas ( or maybe from Liverpool) , because i live in Italy and i have never found a store with Eastwood guitars, so there is no chance to try before making a decision of to buy or not . Do you have any suggestions for me? Thank you so much! Greetings from Italy, Patrick
Junk compared to what? Everybody I know who has one (in real life or online) has praised their build quality. The WE tenor is a great build for $500. Not sure what you compare it to exactly, some $2500 PRS?
I think it's basically a giant ukelele. In other words...kind of useless...lol
You can also tune these to ukulele tuning ... GCEA using a set of 8s or 9s. Sounds good with guitars. Tenor guitars are very useful instruments.
Waited over ten minutes to discuss tunings. Should have been done upfront along with the history. Now I know I don't want a tenor guitar.
the sound is gorgeous, how does it hold up staying in tune using a capo?
Sounds good, i'm little bit puzzled about the frets, they seems thick, is the action enough comfortable? What string gauge do you use? Thanx for your kind reply. Patrick from Italy