My own version of the vietnamese dan bau
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 ก.ย. 2024
- The dan bau is a one string zither from Vietnam played with harmonics and bends with a unique technique and sound, I explore this idea to create new instruments. There will be other episodes!
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Nicolas Bras - Guyane, Homemade (album)
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Nicolas Bras - Tama (unedited)
Nicolas Bras - Multi Dan Bau (unedited)
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of the 972 instruments you've built, this is one of the 11 coolest-sounding ones!
than, it's in my top 34 too!
Which is the top one???😊
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Really cool instrument! The electric version sounds like doing dive bombs with a floyd rose bridge on a guitar! Which seems pretty logical!
Right? Of course I had to rip off Hendrix for this solo
Guitar but it's all pinch harmonics
I hereby publicly nominate
Nicholas Bras for a Nobel Prize.
Not sure which category, because this achievement fits several.
Have you heard of the undertone series(as opposed to the overtone series)?
It's a really underrated concept, and I feel like it is underutilized in the world of acoustic instruments
Never tried to exploit it, but that could be interesting!
The undertone series is theoretical and doesn’t exist in nature like the overtone series does. That’s why it’s not utilized because it literally can’t be
Hit a tuning fork and put it against a piece of paper. If you do it right, the tuning fork will hit the paper every xth vibration making a tone lower than the fundamental
5:45 damn, this could be intro for a western movie. This instrument sounds so unique...love it :)
Nicolas, I want you to know that I think what you're doing is really cool! I support you on patreon, simply because I truly wish you to continue creating these obscure diy instruments and showing everyone else how to do the same.
Properly cool stuff
thanks a lot for your support, it means a lot! For sure I'll continue, I got more ideas than ever
i love how he makes all the background music
I'm glad you are branching out to Vietnamese instruments! You can also just use a marker on the string for the harmonics. Also: use 3 strings tuned a fifth apart from each other (G-D-A), and you can play a diatonic scale on the harmonics.
When the bassline kicks in! Super cool idea!
thanks !
You are an absolute inspiration! I first saw the dan bau at a performance of 'water puppetry' in Hanoi. I LOVE what you've done with it!. Rocks with the distortion!! I think this is your best build yet!
1:04 literally just you showing us how to play it sounded extremely cool
Wow! The amount of talent both building and playing the instrument 👏👏👏
Also have you considered somehow adding frets to it? Or using the metal thing they use on resonator guitar to change the pitch
You can use a slide(the metal thing you are talking about )on almost all string instruments
Nicolas is waaay undersubscribed. Absolutely love this channel
Damn, that was awesome! I've always loved the dan bau. It always sounded like the hot, humid vietnamese midday was melting the musical notes! 😂
Outstanding! Please make this a series!
This is an incredible instrument. Looking forward to building mine.
Brilliant, as always. Thanks Nic, I really enjoyed this one.
Man that thing is versatile
That's a crazy sounding instrument you've made. I can't say I've heard anything else like it
That sounds really different and cool. I thought this video was going to be about the spike traps until I saw that humbucker.
Great build and track! You should try flicking the pitch benders to get a whammy-bar flutter effect! That would probably be really sweet!
What a versatile instrument! Amazing sounds and song❤️
Glorious.
As ever a true master can craft their own tools.
They use to roll out the big Tv and make us watch stuff like this in school t spark creativity.
I hope some teacher somewhere does the same for their students.
I just fell in love. There should be a Decent Sampler for this beauty!
I'll make a really cool virtual instrument for my soundpaint.com instrument series, at the end of my explorations!
That's fantastic! Keep up the great work, highly inspiring and intriguing!
My bro, you're the real avant garde.
Great video Nicolas. You were really jamming there at the end. I loved it man. Anybody ever told you that you have a very unique but satisfying personality? Can't wait to see more videos of yours.
Yeah! That’s awesome! Cool jam, man!
This would be good combined with a looper!
How cool, amazing build! I wonder how this thing would sound to play with some kind of glass or tin slide
Would be great for a spaghetti western, or some cult desert road trip soundtrack.
That tine younmade out of your 3-string brings to mind a spaghetti western set in Star Wars space. Lol. A bit more gritty than the usual fare.
woah !!! depuis le temps que je veux m'en fabriquer un ! trop bien cette vidéo! des supers idées !
I also prefer that way
Pretty cool!
This is so creative.
Very good that man well played too
It's like getting a fretless steel guitar with a whammy-bar on a shoestring budget. Interesting sound to it.
damn i missed your video
me too! I'm back for real!
You could also try a pietzo pick up in the can for more options in tone
Loved this one!
You make the most creative and interesting instruments! It really piques my desire to create music again! It’s been far too long for me to
I take notes!
Very inspiring thank you❤
c est super bien !!!
Невероятно! Я восхищаюсь!
Amazing
The final version with guitar pickups is a wonderful-sounding instrument and your jamming is amazing. Who needs an overhyped and overpriced Gibson when tin cans are readily available?
Genius! 🙏☀️
Awesome man, youre a genius❤
now send it to mike patton so he can blow our minds with it.
Is there an extended version of this ending sound ? Probbly top 10 into my best sound ever eard O_o
I wonder if you could play it with a bottleneck, slide guitar style for even more pitch gliding and bending. Really awesome video
pretty awsome
14 strings tinan symbolum with each string attached individual Tin Can on a threed road 😯…🛠️
I like this musical instrument😊 🥫🎶
I love your videos Nicolas!
I wonder if you tuned the strings to a different interval you would have access to more notes? Because I think octaves are very accessible with harmonics already.
you can play a chromatic scale with one string only using the bends, and a lot of practice, my quest with this one was more about the tone of the different octaves on different strings
@@NicolasBrasThanks for responding. Yes that makes sense, I wasn’t listening for that sort of difference.
I was completely fooled by the false end at 2:07!
sorry!
slide. and triple-tapping your fingers on the "tremolo bar" - my first thoughts of what else to do on this.
Maybe call it the dan brau? Awesome instrument and performance!
Omg great!! Try to play it with a bow... could work as well. Please make sample kits for Logic EXS24 or NI Kontakt available!!!
Cet instrument est vraiment très intéressant au niveau sonore.
La construction est toujours aussi chouette ^^.
Cela dit, je me pose une question : pour quelle raison garder cet angle bizarre qui monte aussi haut ? C'est juste pour garder le design original ou bien il y a une raison technique derrière ?
not gonna lie, when I saw your thumbnail I assumed it was one of those jungle traps that used to kill animals or intruders
beautiful sounding instrument! Is the electrical tape on the bolts used for dampening or to keep the cans in place?
sounds like Canned Heat's "Parthenogenesis" !!
Could put a piezo on each tin can, and a pickup/piezo blend control for each string…
This instrument is far from crude, the results are spactacular. This would be an instant hit in COUNTRY music and in PSYCHEDELIC music
Interesting... try dialling the distortion down a bit. Echo might give a better niuance. Spring delay? The fun goes on and on... Tube screamer !?
Very cool...but could you do something about having so many bare threaded rods? Feels like a safety hazard, and looks like it'd be uncomfortable to play! Maybe double bolt the handles to give you something nicer to grip on and weld/glue bolts on the guide posts. I've got a subtle fear of tripping and falling onto objects that could become nasty wounds or even fatal accidents.
1:33 that handle made by buffalo horn so it's very easy to break
Be careful
You gave me a kung-fu movie feel
If you or the comunity would want to craft a pipe out of a Birdbone, which tipe of Mouthpiece would you use?
just imagine what David Gilmour could do with this thing
Blue man group should hire you
A Triple Dan Bau
Question: Do you still have the plans for the 14-string Cymbalum? Because watching the original video I noticed the link you created doesn’t work anymore
I'm working on a new tutorial right now, there will be some detailled blueprints
@@NicolasBras cool, thank you
😮👍
Eat your heart out Steve Vai. A new whammy master is in town. :V
smokin’ hot!
Slap it!
sounds like the noita soundtrack
Try it to play with a slide😊
just one big huge whammy bar
have you tried it with a slide?
Haha you must be getting very good at TH-cam videos now, because you trolled us twice in the first few minutes.
Because your the first person to make sucher instrument how do call that instrumental
van halen serait devenu dingue avec tes instrus
What's he playing at 9:25 ?
Whammy bar was invented by Vietnamese musicians.
*CHANGE MY MIND*
Dan Bau should use wooden stick to play better than using plastic sticks
now play heavy metal piece with it :d
Il y a un instrument que je vais essayer de construire, c'est un erhu, je ne sais pas si tu en a déjà fait un
non pas encore , je ne suis pas tres bon avec un archet, du coup je ne vais pas trop vers ces instruments!
That's so awesome. Hope you make even more traditional instruments from other cultures in the future.
oh yes a lot more coming, that's my biggest source of inspiration, and I'll be able to start featurings with traditional buiders, can't wait to show you that!
Something from the same region I reckon might work is a khaen
I would love if you made a valiha 😉@@NicolasBras such an interesting instrument!
Since you have three strings in your design, you could make use of that with some music theory and the harmonic overtone series.
Tuning the strings to A, C# and E you could get an A major scale, but with all those sweet added extensions and non-diatonic notes that the overtone series give you.
Or perhaps C, E and F# would be cool too. I get that tuning all the strings to the same note is the best thing for your music, since it's very melodic (which I love by the way!), but it would be cool to see this instrument used in a more modal ambient context too!
Try using a violin bow
I tried, but it's complicated to get the harmonics, the bend and the bow at the same time...but I'm sure I could find a new shape that would fit the bow playing...I take note
Yeah, I thought it would be cool with a bow but then realized you would need another limb… maybe it could be a collaborative instrument?
Another sublime build, with such wonderfully expressive sounds. Overtones. Not just for air any more!
thanks a lot!
This is a traditional musical instrument of Vietnam, my homeland. Thank you for your interest in it
Nicolas, you are a massive inspiration to me as a soon to be new instrument inventor. The ease at which you create new instruments truly amazes me. The infinite possibilities of ways to change a sound are just so much fun
Send it to Les Claypool
I love the new instrument, but just need to say how awesome that tin-can air bongo is amazing. Such a clear tone from it.
Love this thing too, really useful in studio!
@@NicolasBras As a guitar player I spotted why the pickup didnt sound that great - it should have been at the other end - up by the tin can.
We have a similar technique on guitar - a harmonic is touched with one finger and the string is picked with another on the same hand - the pickup is on the side of the plucking finger, not the harmonic finger
I love your video so much, very fascinating how you expand the octaves-if you can try experimenting with chords, that will be great as well :DD ! I'm Vietnamese myself, and it is indeed the chief use of artificial harmonics and the whammy-bar-ish rod that made me picked up this instrument :,3 As an instrument that borders the realms of traditional and modern instruments, it produces some cool effects and suitable for various old and new music genres :D A long way coming from its original background as an instrument for Northern Vietnamese minstrelsy (hat xam) and Central Vietnamese poetry recitation (ngam tho Hue)
Thanks! this is my first exploration of this lovely instrument, more prototypes in my head!
I was flipping out when the distortion came in at the ending song. Well done. It is obvious the maddening fun you were having.
I think this is the best instrument you have made so far! Love it, thanks for the inspiration!
Thanks, more dan baus are coming, I really enjoy playing this!
I wonder, does the string on the dan bau really need to be so high in the air at the resonator end? I've thought of building one using a section of pvc pipe, sliced lengthwise to form an arch topped sound box and using a pvc pipe cap for the resonator. Stil have to work out the material for the vertical shaft.@@NicolasBras
Nice! I do recommend going to Vietnam. It's a fantastic country to travel in. There's lots of excellent musicians there, also lots of less excellent ones, but the two times I went to concerts where they used traditional instruments was awesome. As a guitar builder who's been months in Vietnam this video was exactly what I needed. I recommend going through some of the local guitar shops, I found a great acoustic guitar made in HCMC that's better than any mass produced ones I've ever tried. Only issue was cheap frets, but after refretting it's great. This video got you a new subscriber.