@@levin3208 trumpet player here. Its called multiphonics. Its when you sing a note into the instrument while you play a note buzzing with your lips. If you play a C and sing a G at the same time its technically a power chord
I fake piano hard. Lucily its not my main instrument. Mostly only use it if Im writing out parts. But if I want people to think I actually can play piano I will play random octaves on the black keys with both my hands with the pedal down and while it rings out I just play some random stuff with the black keys. Trust me, if people in the room doesn't have real knowledge on how a piano works it will fool them
@@FishingForLife28 so true!! i use to do the same thing when i first got my keyboard and didn't know how to play. Everyone was wondering how i got so good so fast lmao!
@@tavicotavio I disagree. Most stringed instruments have a couple of strings tuned at a specific interval (fourths, fifths, whatever), that can be varied in tone height by some method, usually by pressing down on them with your finger against something that may or may not have frets. A harp is more comparable to a piano IMO, as it has a string for each note, that can't easily be changed during playing.
@@nightdragon1528 you can even play violin and cello just by learning the basic movement with that stick(I don't even know the name) instead of strumming My friends praising me and I was like "dude what..?"
Jack Pepper I'm a lefty with small hands, but mandolin is still pretty hard, since every string is doubled, like a 12 string guitar. That's a lot of strings on a very tiny neck.
@@Jydmd I play Mandolin and really the only challenging part about the doubled strings is that you have to have extra pressure (especially because the strings are so tense) and the strumming has to incorporate the 2 strings. Whenever I play a friend's bass or guitar I'm always amazed at how floppy the strings feel to me.
The ability to take what you know and convert it to other instruments is called musicianship. It means you are not just a guitar player but a well rounded musician.
What about the Triangle? That instrument is 50x harder than guitar, that it deserves its own video on how guitarists can fake it! But as a Bassist and a Guitarist, this was a Good video indeed!
I am primarily a percussionist and a guitarist second. I can confirm that the triangle is an easy instrument to learn the basics of but it's difficult to get it to sound amazing due to the finess required to play it consistently and well.
@@DarthCiliatus Ahh indeed, the Triangle I could definitely see being easier than the guitar, actually having and playing both at some point. The comment's really just a joke, knowing that the Triangle's not even a stringed instrument lol
@@RC32Smiths01 JB here. My dad owned a music store growing up. He got out of music as a career when he made a joke about a triangle player and a percussionist replied with something along the lines of "I know a guy who was a virtuoso triangle player." But he was serious. My dad, being a studio drummer who worked with the likes of The Dan said the guy was serious. He really knew someone who he thought was a virtuoso triangle player.
@@formerlyerdoys9176 Dang. That is an interesting story to see! The Triangle is actually a fun instrument that I know has some complications once you get through the basics
@@RC32Smiths01 And that is why our band is now breaking up while on tour. Our drummer just heard that and quit the band. He is going back to school to study playing the triangle.
@@AveCastGames Thanks for pointing that out! 😊 I was thinking like for hours straight about which app it was, and I couldn't find anything, so I thought it was skillshare. So I desperately posted it, in the hope that I was right. But I wasn't. Thanks! You made all the sleepless nights seem better P. S.: I'm not bashing on you, please don't take any offence. I just wanted to use some humour. Sorry if it got wrong, that's not the purpose of this post :)
As a bassist, watching him teach people about it with their purpose was so amazing because it was the first explanation I’ve heard of it that’s actually cohesive and makes sense
Such a smoooooooth way to transition into the ad. I ain't even mad. Also, as someone who taught themselves ukulele, you just blew my friggin' mind at how simple that is. I had no idea.
I haven't played guitar in 10 years but picked up bass again recently and this was extremely helpful! I learned on sheet music years ago but now am playing off of chord charts and tracks so this was exactly what I needed
This is an awesome video, I am new to your channel and am really enjoying it. I am actually a piano player and k-12 music teacher in the public schools of Arkansas. I clicked on this video because it really got me thinking about how similar it is to my own experience as a pianist. I play organ for my local catholic church as a side gig for extra cash, and use my keyboard in new an inventive ways on gigs. I love the creative way that you explained how to think of the strings in the various tunings on the instruments, I will definitely remember them when my students need help learning. I am an armature guitarist, bassist, and tenor banjoist that actually spent the time learning the different tunings for each instrument and I hit a very large road block with that approach (minus guitar and bass since I learned them at the same time in high school), so I really loved how you made things super simple. I am a big music theory nerd and am really looking forward to using your channel to teach me how to use what I learned in college using the piano and being able to transfer it to the guitar like I have always wanted to do since I learned guitar back in high school.
90% of TH-cam videos have that. You know what kinda video you’re in for when you hear that at the beginning with the blue background and the comic sans title
I found this very helpful I’m supposed to be getting a mandolin just to goof around with from a friend of mine, and I don’t know anything about them to be honest. Being a guitar player at heart, this video showed me I can at least fake it till I am more confident and understanding of the instrument! You are awesome as always sensei!
In my opinion you cant fake creating music regardless of what instrument you normally play. You might not play it how a person who is dedicated to that instrument would normally play but you are still playing it. Besides, half the fun is playing instruments in ways people dont typically use them. Get weird and make music,peace.
i'm a bassist, fairly good but not exactly a legend. i fake it on like 5 different instruments. i got 3 guitars that have been converted to 5-strings and i downtune so i play slap on a guitar. technically i cant play guitar for shit but it looks impressive if you dont realize i'm just playing a small bass. i also build instruments for a living (hence my access to tons of them that i dont properly play but need to learn rudimentary) and i once built a really nice Ukulele and then realized i cant play a uke. spent 2 weeks struggling with the note concept and that damn rogue string that goes high for no good reason. finally i bought some heavy gauge classical guitar strings and just tuned it to C standard. so i just play it like a tiny 4-string bass an octave up. again, wrong but impressive to the ignorant. i pretty much treat everything like a bass and it gets me by. slappity slaps look and sound cool on anything with strings. cant seem to transpose that to piano.
I have one song with a melody that sounded great on a banjo, less so on other instruments. So I used the banjo. The problem... Well, that turned the violin I already had in the song into a fiddle, and that's getting uncomfortably close to bluegrass.
I personally admire a lot the way in which you always try to impart as much knowledge as you can. In this case you could've just taken the comment but you'd rather show your audience how to reach the same level of skill. Yet another reason why I love this channel
Glad to see you in the massive 2018 jam this year. As a fellow player I love any of the channels that contributed to that, but out of the new faces I was most happy to see you. Congrats, and I would love to see you do more collaborations.
This is probably the most useful video on music production that doesn't involve music theory I have ever seen. This is the biggest cheat sheet in the universe. You have hacked sound. Good job thank you so much.
As a euphonium player, I can fake tuba, trombone, French horn, mellophone, and trumpet, along with many other brass instruments. They’re all basically the same.
This is pretty much how it goes for wind instruments as well. I started on soprano clarinet, switched to bass clarinet being my main instrument. Basically the same but you apply it differently, like going from a guitar to a bass. Then I slapped on tenor saxophone, realized it's just the same fingerings as the upper register of the clarinets and it's used a little differently and the keys are arranged a little different. I can probably fake it on the other saxes and clarinets pretty well, too. Haven't really tried yet, but sometimes I try and help out my alto friends using my tenor and it's not too difficult even having to transpose it on the fly. Now I'm trying to get guitar and piano under my belt, too. It feels like a whole new ballpark, but I still have the knowledge of music theory to help me out
Brah, you just blew my mind with the ukulele hack for the guitar…I’ve been playing the uke and the guitar for a while and I had no idea about the capo on the 5th fret trick. Very cool
YOURE THE ONLY OTHER ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS UKULELE THING!!! I've explained the top 2 strings falling off thing so many times to people but none of my friends understand 😂
Dylan Watersnake I can imagine some random instrument-maker thinking "Hmmm... Plucked violins have a lot of potential, but they're just not meant to be played that way... now, how about I take the violin's tuning, double-up each string, and redesign the body (but keep the same style of sound holes). There, I guess it's kinda like a violin, but man does it sound good! I'm gonna call it a mandolin!". And the name stuck...
an excellent exercise in visualization! A whole new way for me to look at the fretboard. I play about a thousand different instruments. (i'm such a hack, but it makes me happy) It's almost as if you aimed this video directly at me. I switch back and forth between Mandolin, Ukelele, banjo, bass, guitar and 3 string cigar box guitar. throw in Violin, flute and percussion on top of the pile. thanks again!
One thing to remember when playing mandolin, is to incorporate tremolo picking when playing the melody. Deering makes some 6 string banjos tuned in standard guitar tuning.I like your bass technique. Very informative demo.
My wife wanted to learn mandolin so we picked up a solid mid-line mando. When we got it home. I tuned it for her and started just playing stuff, having never once played the instrument. She gave me a perplexed look and asked, 'I thought you said you couldn't play it?'...I said 'I'm just that talented, I guess.'...It was my wife so she wasn't buying it and said, 'No really, how do you know how to play it?'....The jig was up...I told her I'm simply playing it like an upside down guitar. She was actually impressed with that. 'You can think upside down?' ...I guess it was a skill or something....
Had a similar thing happen. I was at a show, in the wings. Asked a friend if I could see her mandolin, which she had just bought and didn't know how to play. Started playing along to band that was playing on stage. I didn't even know how the mandolin was tuned. The rest of the story reflects yours except I was just playing notes that were in relative pitch to what was playing on stage.
I have a mandolin that I rarely play because I struggled memorizing chord positions. This upside-down guitar method is literally going to be the reason I practice with it again. Thank you.
Lol ouch. I play ALL of these instruments 😂😂 also, 12 string for when I’m feeling nostalgic or blues-y 😂😭, some cello and piano. I don’t feel like I’m faking it even though I’m at quite the novice level with each. I enjoy trying to piece different pitches, shapes, and tones with each other and In doing so, I am learning more about my base instrument, which so happens to also be the guitar 😂 it’s an excellent way to lose ones mind but the headaches that come with being a “multi-instrumentalist” are of the sweetest kind because with time and practice will come expansion and retention of music theory.
Some tips from a banjo player: Finger picks will give your tone a lot more sauce--they will feel odd at first but it's worth it. I like Golden Gate plastic thumb picks and Brass ProPiks for the index and middle fingers. Don't be afraid to retune--dropping the 4th to a C can give you a nice strong platform if you need it, and if you're playing in a melodic style, moving the 5th up or down a bit can help make things flow. Learn chords all the way up the neck! the F and D shapes are super versatile. And if you were wondering what "clawhammer" means, check out Chris Coole's work with the Foggy Hogtown Boys/Lonesome Ace Stringband, Bob Carlin, and Sam Armstrong-Zickefoose playing Needlecase on Josh Turner Guitar's channel for some rippin examples of the style.
Great post, dude. And I must say, one of the better-integrated sponsorships I've seen. Well done. Happy and healthy new year to you & yours in the 'Peg.
Thanks I play bass, and you taught me how to play a bit more. I mostly play fuzz garage rock so usually I don’t play a lot of notes. Thanks for helping me find a groovy alternative
I like the mandolin, similar to play in many ways to the guitar, often I no longer have to think how a guitar chord translates as I know all the open major and minor triads and I know how to play different intervals and where any notes I might want to stick on the top or bottom are and since I started learning to play violin at around the same time it has been very helpful as I can think about mandolin chords when playing multi-stops and I can think about violin patterns when playing melodies and changing to a completely different tuning has helped me break out of viewing chords as merely shapes and relying too much on tabs to guide me or having to refer to the circle of 5ths to find my base chords as I now know how the patterns shift around both in multiple guitar tunings and mandolin/violin tuning, as I know the shapes but also how having the strings in different intervals affects the shape of chords, major thirds, fourths and fifths between strings now being very intuitive, surprisingly, even when they are mixed up together, as long as I can remember what interval is between which strings!
@@RickyHarline But, how do you know he's not just shoving a crap product at you because he gets paid...? Gotta look out for those. Oh, my other favorite is the sax guy who tests out a student sax he claims to like. Then asks you buy it from Amazon, where he gets a referral fee, BUT it's more expensive than eBay! By a fair amount, too.
@@marmalade4389 as a bassist I play both guitar and bass, it's not really faking it you just play root notes 5ths 7ths as well but you just outline chords the the guitar is playing so you are playing a very simple solo since in guitar solos you are just outlining chords
@@TotesMagee well a good example of a bass play like a lead is the bassist from dream theater in metropolis part one there is a part where the bass takes lead so even when playing not in the pocket it still isn't faking, and if you think that John myung is faking you are very mistaken.
This stuff is so useful. I play guitar and instead of learning a bunch of songs I started learning theory and trying to apply it. because of that i can play bass uku mandolin and piano. Piano has been the most useful secondary instrument I've learned. Now when I want to learn a song I look up a piano tutorial and transpose what ive learned to what ever instrument I want to play it on.
Bit of an addition onto your ukulele section: if you play with a low wound G string instead of a standard string it is near identical to playing a guitar on capo 5
Nice vid dude! I've been faking it on lots of instruments over the years as necessary. I never got why non-musicians find it amazing. As long as you know the tuning it's pretty simple to just apply what you know about music to figure out chords/run patterns. I play bass and mandolin mostly, but I can easily fake it as a guitarist if I have to. However, I HATE having to play uke. It used to be kinda a novelty thing you pull out every now and then, but for some reason kids today like all have one and it's super annoying as a fad
I always try to vibrato piano keys...
I do that to
You should pick up an Ondioline!
I try a Wah pedal on the keys.
lol I try to bend them
I also started singing in a choir and sometimes I tend to try to do vibratos by shaking my folder because it works when you have a guitar
How do triangle players fake it on other geometrically shaped percussion instruments pls help
Just think of then as multiple triangles
Just think of balalaika :DDD
well, get a flying v, its a triangle too, so u try dat?
you have to learn geometry beyond just trigonometry! Trigonometry is great music theory for triangles, but does not extend to other geometric forms...
A balalaika is basically just a triangle with decorations. I wouldn’t worry about the difference.
*i play power chords on a trumpet*
Oh dear, they've figured out multiphonics...
i want to achieve this power
@@levin3208 play the same note on the trumpet
@@levin3208 trumpet player here. Its called multiphonics. Its when you sing a note into the instrument while you play a note buzzing with your lips. If you play a C and sing a G at the same time its technically a power chord
try smells like teen spirit
I pinch harmonic my kazoo
I double stop on my Shakashuri
@@cornball2448 I capo the 14th fret on my djembe drum
@@angrysammich5762 I string skip on my African Traditional Ceremonial Drums.
@@cornball2448 I sweep pick on my trombone
Angry Sammich I play the minor scale in my snare drum
how to fake bass:
1: know the notes
2: play em
how to learn bass
1: fake it, but
2: *get gr00vyy*
I pick 4 notes and just play those.
Fun-kay!
The drummer is thrilled, and the guitar player has no idea.
Winds of March Journey/Perry tribute band dude I play both,can’t get past ALL guitar players.
Slap and pop, boys
@Twisted agent Davie504 will be arriving at your doorstep in a few days lol
@@valkynaztheimmortal9163 'Why is there a tall Italian man outside of my front door?'
Rob Scallon exposed
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😂
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I fake it on piano, and piano is my main instrument...
But you're not the piano's main player. Therefore your piano is fake
Lol. Yup, me too.
Literally same.
I fake piano hard. Lucily its not my main instrument. Mostly only use it if Im writing out parts. But if I want people to think I actually can play piano I will play random octaves on the black keys with both my hands with the pedal down and while it rings out I just play some random stuff with the black keys. Trust me, if people in the room doesn't have real knowledge on how a piano works it will fool them
@@FishingForLife28 so true!! i use to do the same thing when i first got my keyboard and didn't know how to play. Everyone was wondering how i got so good so fast lmao!
Some guitarrists think that every single string instrument is like guitar, but with less or more strings
Well with the exeption of a harp, that sounds pretty accurate.
@@raphaelbeinhauer9242 yeah its like a guitar but with 22 strings
@@tavicotavio I disagree. Most stringed instruments have a couple of strings tuned at a specific interval (fourths, fifths, whatever), that can be varied in tone height by some method, usually by pressing down on them with your finger against something that may or may not have frets. A harp is more comparable to a piano IMO, as it has a string for each note, that can't easily be changed during playing.
People are sometime impress when I play mandolin or bouzouki because of the 8 strings tuned in pairs but it's not that's hard
I was happy when you posted the yo girl video for us 2 weeks ago.
Why'd you have to expose me like that?
Had the same thought.. 😅
@@nightdragon1528 you can even play violin and cello just by learning the basic movement with that stick(I don't even know the name) instead of strumming
My friends praising me and I was like "dude what..?"
@@justsomeguywithsomemustard8168 Getting the movement of that stick actually right is pretty hard tho
@@Home-u6g the basics not so hard tho
Just like bassists can strum, pick, slap, etc etc, but the basics always not so hard, hence the name, basics
@@justsomeguywithsomemustard8168 lol its called a bow
Patiently waiting for Adam Neely to comment on faking bass
Same
He made a video called "How to play bass (for guitarists)" a while back.
Me except I'm a bass player and fake it on every other instrument
same
Big ups bass
don't bass players fake every instrument?
@@tobyzxcd this is correct, I should have made it clear that I also fake bass playing too
But honestly tho, knowing the notes on a bass really helped me conceptualize chords on a guitar.
Basic theory helped me learn pedal steel, bass, dobro, mandolin, uke, and fiddle. It's not that hard, just takes time.
Awesome!
"basic theory"???? i think you mean yousician !!!!
Anything with strings is meant to be shredded upon
Thank you for this godly wisdom Ryan... real shit
Holy shit, as a lefty with small hands I could play a right handed mandolin super easily.
Jack Pepper I'm a lefty with small hands, but mandolin is still pretty hard, since every string is doubled, like a 12 string guitar. That's a lot of strings on a very tiny neck.
@@Jydmd I play Mandolin and really the only challenging part about the doubled strings is that you have to have extra pressure (especially because the strings are so tense) and the strumming has to incorporate the 2 strings. Whenever I play a friend's bass or guitar I'm always amazed at how floppy the strings feel to me.
The mandolin is tuned in fifths
Oh he flips it
The ability to take what you know and convert it to other instruments is called musicianship. It means you are not just a guitar player but a well rounded musician.
The alternative to fake mandolin is to learn violin
Violin: Mandolin NG+
What about the Triangle? That instrument is 50x harder than guitar, that it deserves its own video on how guitarists can fake it!
But as a Bassist and a Guitarist, this was a Good video indeed!
I am primarily a percussionist and a guitarist second. I can confirm that the triangle is an easy instrument to learn the basics of but it's difficult to get it to sound amazing due to the finess required to play it consistently and well.
@@DarthCiliatus Ahh indeed, the Triangle I could definitely see being easier than the guitar, actually having and playing both at some point. The comment's really just a joke, knowing that the Triangle's not even a stringed instrument lol
@@RC32Smiths01 JB here. My dad owned a music store growing up. He got out of music as a career when he made a joke about a triangle player and a percussionist replied with something along the lines of "I know a guy who was a virtuoso triangle player." But he was serious. My dad, being a studio drummer who worked with the likes of The Dan said the guy was serious. He really knew someone who he thought was a virtuoso triangle player.
@@formerlyerdoys9176 Dang. That is an interesting story to see! The Triangle is actually a fun instrument that I know has some complications once you get through the basics
@@RC32Smiths01 And that is why our band is now breaking up while on tour. Our drummer just heard that and quit the band. He is going back to school to study playing the triangle.
I've always wanted to play the guitar, but the beginning seemed so slow and frustrating. Thanks to skillshare, I can now...
@@justmitzias5834 hahaha great comment! 😂
@@justmitzias5834 lmao
It’s yousician
@@AveCastGames Thanks for pointing that out! 😊 I was thinking like for hours straight about which app it was, and I couldn't find anything, so I thought it was skillshare. So I desperately posted it, in the hope that I was right. But I wasn't. Thanks! You made all the sleepless nights seem better
P. S.: I'm not bashing on you, please don't take any offence. I just wanted to use some humour. Sorry if it got wrong, that's not the purpose of this post :)
@@AveCastGames woooosh
As a bassist, watching him teach people about it with their purpose was so amazing because it was the first explanation I’ve heard of it that’s actually cohesive and makes sense
1:57
Huh? Bass is evolving!
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I started on the drums and started faking it on other instruments....
I busted up so many guitars and keyboards with my sticks
Such a smoooooooth way to transition into the ad. I ain't even mad. Also, as someone who taught themselves ukulele, you just blew my friggin' mind at how simple that is. I had no idea.
I’ve played mandolin for years, looked up scales learned chords, I never thought of it like this before, mind blown
Slick transition into that ad
Sensei making that bread
Ps congrats on 300k
my girlfriend is n e v e r watching this video
😂😂😂
omg same
Then you realized you don't have a girlfriend
triangle
@@miguelrojas2453 sounds about right 😂
I haven't played guitar in 10 years but picked up bass again recently and this was extremely helpful! I learned on sheet music years ago but now am playing off of chord charts and tracks so this was exactly what I needed
BUT CAN YOU PLAY ALICE IN CHAINS USING CHAINS?!?!?!
you forgot the: "very impressive" part
Wrong channel bro 😂😂
Ask davie
WIth ALice in them
BassHeadJazz wrong channel
This is an awesome video, I am new to your channel and am really enjoying it. I am actually a piano player and k-12 music teacher in the public schools of Arkansas. I clicked on this video because it really got me thinking about how similar it is to my own experience as a pianist. I play organ for my local catholic church as a side gig for extra cash, and use my keyboard in new an inventive ways on gigs. I love the creative way that you explained how to think of the strings in the various tunings on the instruments, I will definitely remember them when my students need help learning. I am an armature guitarist, bassist, and tenor banjoist that actually spent the time learning the different tunings for each instrument and I hit a very large road block with that approach (minus guitar and bass since I learned them at the same time in high school), so I really loved how you made things super simple. I am a big music theory nerd and am really looking forward to using your channel to teach me how to use what I learned in college using the piano and being able to transfer it to the guitar like I have always wanted to do since I learned guitar back in high school.
6:15 I can smell the lack of royalties already.
Yeah,me too. Twenty one pilots?
just grab your acoustic or electric and play along
90% of TH-cam videos have that. You know what kinda video you’re in for when you hear that at the beginning with the blue background and the comic sans title
shaun03a oh god I remember that fucking ad
Can't copyright this most basic and widely used progression that is C G F
I found this very helpful I’m supposed to be getting a mandolin just to goof around with from a friend of mine, and I don’t know anything about them to be honest. Being a guitar player at heart, this video showed me I can at least fake it till I am more confident and understanding of the instrument! You are awesome as always sensei!
In my opinion you cant fake creating music regardless of what instrument you normally play. You might not play it how a person who is dedicated to that instrument would normally play but you are still playing it. Besides, half the fun is playing instruments in ways people dont typically use them. Get weird and make music,peace.
@Cant Just Exist all I can say is that you are right. 100% right
Yes hahahahaha YESS YESYESSSSS CORRWCT YESSSS YES
How can I use my guitar skills to improve my cowbell playing?
Try to imagine this as a... Guitar with... Um... 0 strings... Maybe... And... Just go back to rocket science that would be way much easier
Well, just like guitarists always want more guitars, you can never go wrong with more cowbell.
Explore the room
First rule is more cowbell
Don't fear the reaper is the ultimate cow bell shredding
"Oh yeah, I'm a musician..."
*only plays the spoons at thanksgiving as a joke*
i'm a bassist, fairly good but not exactly a legend. i fake it on like 5 different instruments. i got 3 guitars that have been converted to 5-strings and i downtune so i play slap on a guitar. technically i cant play guitar for shit but it looks impressive if you dont realize i'm just playing a small bass. i also build instruments for a living (hence my access to tons of them that i dont properly play but need to learn rudimentary) and i once built a really nice Ukulele and then realized i cant play a uke. spent 2 weeks struggling with the note concept and that damn rogue string that goes high for no good reason. finally i bought some heavy gauge classical guitar strings and just tuned it to C standard. so i just play it like a tiny 4-string bass an octave up. again, wrong but impressive to the ignorant. i pretty much treat everything like a bass and it gets me by. slappity slaps look and sound cool on anything with strings. cant seem to transpose that to piano.
This is exactly what I need to do to my uke
Can i have a guitar? I want to learn and am too poor.
"I would play the saxophone if I could tune it like a guitar." - Tommy Tedesco
6:14 Welcome to the melody used in every medical prescription advertisement
Although I live in the land of metal riffs... I really want a banjo....
I have one song with a melody that sounded great on a banjo, less so on other instruments.
So I used the banjo. The problem...
Well, that turned the violin I already had in the song into a fiddle, and that's getting uncomfortably close to bluegrass.
If you enjoy the icy breath of black metal chilling your bones, listen to Myr by Taake. Fantastic banjo section.
Good news, you are allowed to play metal on a banjo. No one will call the cops on you...
Divinations by Mastodon
I don’t have a shred of a clue how to play banjo but I want one too purely as a joke and I’m gonna buy a 6-string and just play it like a guitar😂
I personally admire a lot the way in which you always try to impart as much knowledge as you can. In this case you could've just taken the comment but you'd rather show your audience how to reach the same level of skill. Yet another reason why I love this channel
haha love that Deliverance (dueling banjos) reference!
MrLabbertoast I almost lost it there as that is the banjo tune my kids tease our friends in Arkansas about lol
Glad to see you in the massive 2018 jam this year. As a fellow player I love any of the channels that contributed to that, but out of the new faces I was most happy to see you. Congrats, and I would love to see you do more collaborations.
Man im a bassist and he plays the bass way better than me
Then u're by all means no bassist dude
Don't take it personal, I'm just a random jerk
Same :(
That's not surprising
We all start somewhere. You're a beginner or joking
@@p90Killah beginer
This is probably the most useful video on music production that doesn't involve music theory I have ever seen. This is the biggest cheat sheet in the universe. You have hacked sound. Good job thank you so much.
As a euphonium player, I can fake tuba, trombone, French horn, mellophone, and trumpet, along with many other brass instruments. They’re all basically the same.
Not trombone and French horn has different fingerings
The trombone doesn't even require fingerings, it has a slide!
Yeah, my old band teachers could fake hella instruments, there instrument was trumpet but they could fake many others as they knew music theory
This is pretty much how it goes for wind instruments as well. I started on soprano clarinet, switched to bass clarinet being my main instrument. Basically the same but you apply it differently, like going from a guitar to a bass. Then I slapped on tenor saxophone, realized it's just the same fingerings as the upper register of the clarinets and it's used a little differently and the keys are arranged a little different. I can probably fake it on the other saxes and clarinets pretty well, too. Haven't really tried yet, but sometimes I try and help out my alto friends using my tenor and it's not too difficult even having to transpose it on the fly. Now I'm trying to get guitar and piano under my belt, too. It feels like a whole new ballpark, but I still have the knowledge of music theory to help me out
How does he always manage to keep so cool
"how guitarists can fake not having preformance anxiety"
Sick profile pic
Great video man especially about how to conceptualise the tuning of the different instruments to a guitar.
“Guitar and bass fill very different roles,” Unless you’re Lemmy...
Or John Entwistle!
Brah, you just blew my mind with the ukulele hack for the guitar…I’ve been playing the uke and the guitar for a while and I had no idea about the capo on the 5th fret trick. Very cool
YOURE THE ONLY OTHER ONE WHO UNDERSTANDS UKULELE THING!!! I've explained the top 2 strings falling off thing so many times to people but none of my friends understand 😂
This is perfect. Good job! I’ve had these conversations too many times.
mandolin is easy to fake if you can play violin, because the string are the same!
Dylan Watersnake I can imagine some random instrument-maker thinking "Hmmm... Plucked violins have a lot of potential, but they're just not meant to be played that way... now, how about I take the violin's tuning, double-up each string, and redesign the body (but keep the same style of sound holes). There, I guess it's kinda like a violin, but man does it sound good! I'm gonna call it a mandolin!". And the name stuck...
an excellent exercise in visualization! A whole new way for me to look at the fretboard. I play about a thousand different instruments. (i'm such a hack, but it makes me happy) It's almost as if you aimed this video directly at me. I switch back and forth between Mandolin, Ukelele, banjo, bass, guitar and 3 string cigar box guitar. throw in Violin, flute and percussion on top of the pile. thanks again!
I'm a drum player how do I fake it on banjo . . . do I just beat the instrument against the ground? Or . . . maybe smack the strings?
One thing to remember when playing mandolin, is to incorporate tremolo picking when playing the melody. Deering makes some 6 string banjos tuned in standard guitar tuning.I like your bass technique. Very informative demo.
Chet Atkins was a freak on guitar!
Wow, he slid that sponsorship in there smooth as fuck
holy moly!! That guitar to Uke part is a REVELATION!! :O
Woah! This was incredibly interesting and mind opening - especially on the Ukulele. I couldn’t find a way to relate it to guitar until now.
thunderstruck on the banjo?
TH-cam it. It's been done...
I think Steve'N'Seagulls has a video of it
That was probably one of the cleanest advertisement transitions I've ever seen on TH-cam
Not really fake it but more like guitar inspired playing whatever instrument
Thanks for a fascinating breakdown that made these other instruments relatable 👍🏻
Well I think I have a career as a left-handed mandolin player all sorted out. :D
What fun! I have always loved to try other instruments. Thanks for showing us.
Does anyone else think he looks exactly like Origins Takeo
Wow, I never knew you could do that! Thanks for the amazing video!
My wife wanted to learn mandolin so we picked up a solid mid-line mando. When we got it home. I tuned it for her and started just playing stuff, having never once played the instrument. She gave me a perplexed look and asked, 'I thought you said you couldn't play it?'...I said 'I'm just that talented, I guess.'...It was my wife so she wasn't buying it and said, 'No really, how do you know how to play it?'....The jig was up...I told her I'm simply playing it like an upside down guitar. She was actually impressed with that. 'You can think upside down?' ...I guess it was a skill or something....
Had a similar thing happen. I was at a show, in the wings. Asked a friend if I could see her mandolin, which she had just bought and didn't know how to play. Started playing along to band that was playing on stage. I didn't even know how the mandolin was tuned. The rest of the story reflects yours except I was just playing notes that were in relative pitch to what was playing on stage.
I have a mandolin that I rarely play because I struggled memorizing chord positions. This upside-down guitar method is literally going to be the reason I practice with it again. Thank you.
Lol ouch. I play ALL of these instruments 😂😂 also, 12 string for when I’m feeling nostalgic or blues-y 😂😭, some cello and piano. I don’t feel like I’m faking it even though I’m at quite the novice level with each. I enjoy trying to piece different pitches, shapes, and tones with each other and In doing so, I am learning more about my base instrument, which so happens to also be the guitar 😂 it’s an excellent way to lose ones mind but the headaches that come with being a “multi-instrumentalist” are of the sweetest kind because with time and practice will come expansion and retention of music theory.
12 strings are anything BUT bluesey, I have one
Some tips from a banjo player: Finger picks will give your tone a lot more sauce--they will feel odd at first but it's worth it. I like Golden Gate plastic thumb picks and Brass ProPiks for the index and middle fingers.
Don't be afraid to retune--dropping the 4th to a C can give you a nice strong platform if you need it, and if you're playing in a melodic style, moving the 5th up or down a bit can help make things flow.
Learn chords all the way up the neck! the F and D shapes are super versatile.
And if you were wondering what "clawhammer" means, check out Chris Coole's work with the Foggy Hogtown Boys/Lonesome Ace Stringband, Bob Carlin, and Sam Armstrong-Zickefoose playing Needlecase on Josh Turner Guitar's channel for some rippin examples of the style.
Now can you play piano on guitar
Just buy an EHX KEY9 pedal.
They don't work the same. Piano is a percussive instrument. Like drums. :)
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Great post, dude. And I must say, one of the better-integrated sponsorships I've seen. Well done. Happy and healthy new year to you & yours in the 'Peg.
Your too modest! Also youve given away all of our secrets what have we now? I told them musicians should have the magicians code
Thanks I play bass, and you taught me how to play a bit more. I mostly play fuzz garage rock so usually I don’t play a lot of notes. Thanks for helping me find a groovy alternative
Ofcourse you played riptide on the ukulele
You are so underrated. Your tips and lessons are amazing!
Bass should be treated like a percussion instrument. Bass is the medium between the guitar and drums.
I like the mandolin, similar to play in many ways to the guitar, often I no longer have to think how a guitar chord translates as I know all the open major and minor triads and I know how to play different intervals and where any notes I might want to stick on the top or bottom are and since I started learning to play violin at around the same time it has been very helpful as I can think about mandolin chords when playing multi-stops and I can think about violin patterns when playing melodies and changing to a completely different tuning has helped me break out of viewing chords as merely shapes and relying too much on tabs to guide me or having to refer to the circle of 5ths to find my base chords as I now know how the patterns shift around both in multiple guitar tunings and mandolin/violin tuning, as I know the shapes but also how having the strings in different intervals affects the shape of chords, major thirds, fourths and fifths between strings now being very intuitive, surprisingly, even when they are mixed up together, as long as I can remember what interval is between which strings!
I can just ask my girlfriend. She’s been faking it for years
if you memorize the notes on the piano "which takes 2 minutes" you can immediately play simple chords and memories. learned that yesterday
“I recommend Skillshare.com who is also the sponsor of this video”
Wow, that’s convenient
I mean, are you going to put out free videos and so do it just from the goodness of your heart? Good for him for making money helping others.
Congratulations for understanding how pubblicity works 😃
@@RickyHarline But, how do you know he's not just shoving a crap product at you because he gets paid...?
Gotta look out for those.
Oh, my other favorite is the sax guy who tests out a student sax he claims to like. Then asks you buy it from Amazon, where he gets a referral fee, BUT it's more expensive than eBay! By a fair amount, too.
Guitar really is the pinnacle instrument. Its as complex and versatile as anything gets.
It's not really faking it on bass tho
It really is, as he said it's plays a different role
@@marmalade4389 as a bassist I play both guitar and bass, it's not really faking it you just play root notes 5ths 7ths as well but you just outline chords the the guitar is playing so you are playing a very simple solo since in guitar solos you are just outlining chords
It is if they're playing it like a lead guitar (aka not in the pocket)
@@TotesMagee well a good example of a bass play like a lead is the bassist from dream theater in metropolis part one there is a part where the bass takes lead so even when playing not in the pocket it still isn't faking, and if you think that John myung is faking you are very mistaken.
You can say that he wasnt faking it on any instrument since thats how they are played
This is so cool, thanks for sharing!
SQUEAL LIKE A PIG
"Ya got a purdy mouth there, boy."
This stuff is so useful. I play guitar and instead of learning a bunch of songs I started learning theory and trying to apply it. because of that i can play bass uku mandolin and piano. Piano has been the most useful secondary instrument I've learned. Now when I want to learn a song I look up a piano tutorial and transpose what ive learned to what ever instrument I want to play it on.
I play guitar, ukulele, bass, drums, piano and I used to be able to sing before my voice broke.😭😭😭😭
I don't play drums instead i play violin.
The rest is pretty much the same
Facts Couldn't you play mandolin if you know violin fingerings?
@@Jinx-iw6zb but try to learn drums it will improve your rhythm
Stop smoking dude, it comes back
@@edyflak i haven't played it yet
If you learn the “Dueling Banjos” lick, you best be ready for the whole damn duel
I'm writing down the name of everyone who comments. You're all banned from playing bass.
Oh well
I suck at it anyway, but the drummer thanks me. This is because I only play 4 notes and so he can do anything he wants. No one else notices
I first learned how to play banjo. I have no idea how I now mainly play bass
i dont like music
Same here. It's got too many notes.
LOL For those that didn't get what I said: It was a reference to The Replacements song "I Hate Music". Silly puppies.
Love the mandolin and banjo work!
There's also the Plectrum Banjo which is a 5 String Banjo without the Drone String that you strum.
Learning guitar and basic theory helped me learn bass, ukulele, piano, and drums!
Yo nice video wtf didn't expect information that clear and well administrated congratulations
That lick on the banjo was literally the first thing I learned how to play on guitar
Bit of an addition onto your ukulele section: if you play with a low wound G string instead of a standard string it is near identical to playing a guitar on capo 5
Nice vid dude! I've been faking it on lots of instruments over the years as necessary. I never got why non-musicians find it amazing. As long as you know the tuning it's pretty simple to just apply what you know about music to figure out chords/run patterns. I play bass and mandolin mostly, but I can easily fake it as a guitarist if I have to. However, I HATE having to play uke. It used to be kinda a novelty thing you pull out every now and then, but for some reason kids today like all have one and it's super annoying as a fad
Great video mate. Never thought about how my ukulele could relate to guitar. Thanks
Mate, that ukulele tip just blew my mind. Thanks