Luthier: “What the shit do you mean, you just want me to fret the three lowest strings? I don’t know whether you’re trying compliment my work or if you’re just mocking me. I’m only doing this cause I knew your dad.....still, it’s gonna run ya about 5 large..” Dweezil: “Do it.” Luthier: “Yo, Beauford, I’m gonna need you to reprogram the PLEK machine!” Beauford: “Fuck you, Dweezil Zappa, Fuck you!”
Hi Dweez, there must be an album in there!!! Just based on these sounds you make, wonderfull! So Improve and let us be part of that...we will be waiting in patience...Music is the best!!!!!
Interesting concept with the hybrid fretboard . One of my guitars is set up for using the Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer which has a Sitar feature . You can just play the guitar without having to learn a different instrument just listen to those Sitar sounds as your playing .
Awesome! I wonder if there's a way to put in the frets so that they that are almost so low as to make it feel fretless, so it would make it easy to slide with less pressure - but that seems like it would take away from the sitar sound... I'm sure you'll figure it out.
This may not work, but what if you removed the frets entirely but precisely scalloped the fretboard only where the lower strings were? Would you be able to articulate chords if you had the board scalloped just right?
But you can do huge bends by pushing down on the string to whatever microtonal interval far above the fret because of how far above the fretboard the strings are. Sliding on a fretless guitar seems to be a good way to mimic these bends while giving it's own character
Jackson Barker, one can also simply utilize bends. It can be done. Listen to Marty Friedman’s playing. He uses really wide bends to emulate the eastern sounds. Chris Poland also uses wide bends (but he does it in attempt to emulate Jan Hammer’s keyboard playing style, rather than eastern styles). I won’t argue that fretless gives it its own character. But, it doesn’t sound eastern.
@@ThrashRebel that's true, and I didn't know that about Chris Poland, pretty cool. The quick slides he's doing to various tones and back and forth still seems hard to emulate with just bends to me though idk. Maybe more useful to just get that sliding sound mixed with traditional scales like he was doing than imitating a sitar. And easier at least I bet, those Mary Friedman passages with huge really quick bends are hard haha. You can definitely get larger intervals sliding like this, but then again moving away from a sitar like sound to more just a unique guitar like this because I believe sitar bends are still limited in range comparatively
@@ThrashRebel as a side note, thanks for letting me know about jan hammer, hadn't heard him but it's some pretty cool stuff, his patches are nice, I couldn't tell if he had a pitch envelope on each note or if he was manually bending them with the tone wheel
Jackson Barker, Jan uses a wheel. That wheel effect is what Chris Poland tries to emulate. Marty Friedman uses those quick slides in his solos in addition to wide bends. That is how Friedman gets that eastern sound in his solos. Friedman is one of my favorite guitarists because of his “exotic” playing (well, exotic for western music). I started listening to Ravi Shankar when I was a teen. I have a bunch of his albums. He did one album on which before he played the ragas he broke down the base-scales & how to count out the bars. I listed to that long before I ever heard of Friedman. So, as soon as I heard Friedman play I immediately associated his style with that raga style. Friedman mixes Hawaiian, Japanese, Indian & Middle Eastern influences into his solos. I have Marty Friedman two instructional videos on VHS. 😂 I bought them in the early ‘90s & used to practice to them, daily. The wide bends aren’t as difficult after you practice them over & over again. Poland also does some really wide bends. But, Poland really wrenches them out. For some of them he uses three fingers to bend the strings so he can really warp the bends.
Yeah! True to your dad. True musical pioneer. Thanks.
Such a great player.
Perfect example of a son of a legend that achieves his own greatness.. thanks for the inspiration Dweezil.
Luthier: “What the shit do you mean, you just want me to fret the three lowest strings? I don’t know whether you’re trying compliment my work or if you’re just mocking me. I’m only doing this cause I knew your dad.....still, it’s gonna run ya about 5 large..”
Dweezil: “Do it.”
Luthier: “Yo, Beauford, I’m gonna need you to reprogram the PLEK machine!”
Beauford: “Fuck you, Dweezil Zappa, Fuck you!”
You are truly a master. God bless you! And your dad. :)
Vibrato is everything!
His father has to be watching now being SO PROUD.
A great springboard to creation, realizing these articles is. Real favorites of mine!
Could listen to this all day.... Off to start droning.
Hi Dweez, there must be an album in there!!! Just based on these sounds you make, wonderfull! So Improve and let us be part of that...we will be waiting in patience...Music is the best!!!!!
Very nice! Experimentation runs in the family
WOW ! Thank You Dweezil - Ahm "Floatin' all over INDIA" right now 🤠 !
I love doing that type of thing in Phrygian. Cool lesson!
Fantastic! ❤️🙏🏻🕊🌿🌻🕯️🪶🎸🎼
Love Indian raga music. Never heard anyone get that sitar sound out of a guitar, not even John McLaughlin. Very cool.
Interesting concept with the hybrid fretboard . One of my guitars is set up for using the Roland GR-20 guitar synthesizer which has a Sitar feature . You can just play the guitar without having to learn a different instrument just listen to those Sitar sounds as your playing .
So Nice Guitar !!!
thx Guitar World & Dweezil ZAPPA !!!
3 different knobs on that one :) love this
So impressive and inventive
sounds awesome man.
Sustaining pickups are so damn cool
You’re a bloody genius man🕉🕉🕉🕉
I would expect nothing less from the son of Frank Zappa. Very talented bunch.
That’s so crazy cool! 🤘🤘
Awesome !
Genius 💎
so similar to the intro of 'in the light' by zeppelin
This is not a bad thing . Likin Dweezils lessons . You will find the road......
@@michaeltaylors2456 You will find the road...
The first impression I got was Led Zeppelin's " In the Evening" songs intro.
how's he getting feedback? naturally from loud volume or some synthetic means such as a pedal or a special pickup?
It a special pickup where you can set which overtones to get. Probably the Sustainiac. Here's a demo: th-cam.com/video/vT3BUM-19fk/w-d-xo.html
Awesome! I wonder if there's a way to put in the frets so that they that are almost so low as to make it feel fretless, so it would make it easy to slide with less pressure - but that seems like it would take away from the sitar sound... I'm sure you'll figure it out.
Reminds me of Tony Franklin's bass style.
ok Who makes those whammy bars i know there after market or custom????????????????????????????
Is there a playlist that has all these lessons with Dweezil? If there is, it's not in the GW channel's playlists.
What's the scale please?
sounds like that song in revenge of the nerds.....Booger Presley on the lead guitar....
Frank should call Frank Falbo about his intonation approach for half fretted bass into guitar.
*Acid Flashbacks*
This may not work, but what if you removed the frets entirely but precisely scalloped the fretboard only where the lower strings were? Would you be able to articulate chords if you had the board scalloped just right?
I’m totally tempted to try this myself just to satisfy my own curiosity now:)
A fretless scalloped board sounds interesting, but I'm not entirely sure if the wood could pressed by the strings hard without getting dented
I think that a scalloped fretboard misses the purpose of a fretless one.
@@putridabomination on a scalloped fretboard I can't see the reason to remove the frets.
Sir how to tune can i use tuner to tune my giitar ilke sitar sir
It is obviously in standard tuning
You using some sustainer etc??
any tab ?
Of course the micro tones really lend itself to the more "Eastern" sound you're looking for.
Acha Guriji! Every Madderchod vill be learning this ka! \m/
Isn't that an Opeth riff?
Edit: Very close to Atonement by Opeth, even starts with the droning A.
verstamp haha first thing that struck me! Cheers
:) what??Indian music?!!
bye bye Variax (sitar sound)
You need not have removed the frets coz. Even sitar itself is a fretted instrument.
Removing the frets doesn’t make it sound like a sitar, because sitars are fretted instruments (with movable frets).
But you can do huge bends by pushing down on the string to whatever microtonal interval far above the fret because of how far above the fretboard the strings are. Sliding on a fretless guitar seems to be a good way to mimic these bends while giving it's own character
Jackson Barker, one can also simply utilize bends. It can be done.
Listen to Marty Friedman’s playing. He uses really wide bends to emulate the eastern sounds.
Chris Poland also uses wide bends (but he does it in attempt to emulate Jan Hammer’s keyboard playing style, rather than eastern styles).
I won’t argue that fretless gives it its own character. But, it doesn’t sound eastern.
@@ThrashRebel that's true, and I didn't know that about Chris Poland, pretty cool. The quick slides he's doing to various tones and back and forth still seems hard to emulate with just bends to me though idk. Maybe more useful to just get that sliding sound mixed with traditional scales like he was doing than imitating a sitar. And easier at least I bet, those Mary Friedman passages with huge really quick bends are hard haha. You can definitely get larger intervals sliding like this, but then again moving away from a sitar like sound to more just a unique guitar like this because I believe sitar bends are still limited in range comparatively
@@ThrashRebel as a side note, thanks for letting me know about jan hammer, hadn't heard him but it's some pretty cool stuff, his patches are nice, I couldn't tell if he had a pitch envelope on each note or if he was manually bending them with the tone wheel
Jackson Barker, Jan uses a wheel. That wheel effect is what Chris Poland tries to emulate.
Marty Friedman uses those quick slides in his solos in addition to wide bends. That is how Friedman gets that eastern sound in his solos.
Friedman is one of my favorite guitarists because of his “exotic” playing (well, exotic for western music).
I started listening to Ravi Shankar when I was a teen. I have a bunch of his albums.
He did one album on which before he played the ragas he broke down the base-scales & how to count out the bars.
I listed to that long before I ever heard of Friedman. So, as soon as I heard Friedman play I immediately associated his style with that raga style.
Friedman mixes Hawaiian, Japanese, Indian & Middle Eastern influences into his solos.
I have Marty Friedman two instructional videos on VHS.
😂
I bought them in the early ‘90s & used to practice to them, daily.
The wide bends aren’t as difficult after you practice them over & over again.
Poland also does some really wide bends. But, Poland really wrenches them out. For some of them he uses three fingers to bend the strings so he can really warp the bends.
John McLaughlin-esque.