TEDxVancouver - Don Alder - Redefining the acoustic guitar
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 ส.ค. 2011
- Guitar Virtuoso Don Alder gets the crowd to rethink the possibilities of the Acoustic Guitar
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No lie! My Guitar standards have been raised indefinitely! This man literally states that your mind is your only limitation, that the sounds of music and creating music is endless...
It's great to see my 'cousin' Don playing on TEDx Talks!
Believe it or not but Don used to come to an open mic jam in Vancouver "every Tuesday" around 16 years ago and we would all play a few songs. He was already in full beast mode as a guitarist. The name of the restaurant was Malarky. Great memories and a few very talented people stand out when I think of that time, Mr. Alder is one of them. Don was humble and very supportive.
just an amazing player. There are some awesome players that we never hear. Thank you for this.
We often forget to imagine the fun that goes into playing pieces like these...
you're a genious; You've created the theorbo.Congratulations
The Theorbo is a multistringed lute of some sort, this Guitar on the other hand is his own work
Very in the spirit of MH. Also in his own way. Brava!!
Simply amazing!
so finally I can take a nap on my guitar .
My favorite guitar solo
Just saw this tonight, but the guitar is definitely a Dyer Harp guitar made famous in the sadly short life of Michael Hedges. Michael experimented with a bunch of pickup configurations that brought out the bass strings more or less. Sometimes the bass string act as "drone" strings which vibrate sympathetically as a sitar does. Michael tried both approaches, but this person does a great job as well.
No one gets to disrespect Don until they've played a harp guitar at a Ted event...
this was amazing... I enjoyed both songs
The real GOAT
I can definitely see Tosin Abasi playing something like this.
right. i imagine he has the mental capacity to handle this instrument correctly. Andy McKee as well.
Or Kotaro Oshio
I think the term virtuoso is used too lightly nowadays.
exacto!, un desorden.
What is the word for being granted the knowledge of the ancients?
"Redefining the acoustic guitar" at low volume with rude people chatting in the background.
Brilliant!
man thats a very beautiful harp guitar
Helping by pushing the envelope of our imaginations, and playing skillfully.
SENCILLAMENTE GENIAL.
John Doan's Harp Guitar was the first to really pioneer this style of acoustic playing. I have no idea who this guy is.
Actually, this is nothing more than bringing a theorbo back to the present day i a contemporarpy, modern form.
Anyway, as a baroque player, I do appreciate such an instrument has been built; good luck with it! ;)
Fine player with good advice at the end....its not his fault they titled the video like that. I bet he doesn't like the tittle either.
exactly, in fact it wasnt really a performance they had me play to welcome people coming in off the break, so there was tons of noise, also sound check we had problems with the harp guitar so the performance was pretty bad. I do have lots of good videos on youtube that i hope people go seek out. My job on the particular wasnt to be about breaking new barriers and redefining, just to play welcoming music. I did ask for the title to be changed.
Wish I could see your rig set up to learn from it. I’m all over the place right now
I can play a G
Idle rock on
Gooboy
virtuosity and skill , yes
musicality , not even close
Basically, this ^. He's clearly an extremely skilled player but, as with the majority of artists in the genre his songwriting capabilities are severely lacking.
totally
What, because it doesn't have lyrics or doesnt follow a simple verse/chorus/verse structure? Like thats perfectly fine if thats what you like, but that first one especially was very musical, lots of changes in dynamics and a really intricate melody. I wasnt a fan of the second one, but Im sure a lot of other people found that to be very musical to their ears.
Patrick Simon music is in the eye of the beholder . me , as a professional guitar teacher with a trained ear , just said my opinion . it doesnt mean that everyone must agree with it
I have to slightly agree. The second song has some nice resolutions, but for the most part these songs just have so many suspended chords that I just feel like I'm floating around without anything really interesting going on dynamically or melodically. Great skill, but kind of leaving me underwhelmed.
If Tosin Abasi ever got a hold of that thing, he would rip a hole in the space time continuum.
Talented no question need to be in the mood for this acknowledged but Dam Don you look like Jean Claud Van Dam Van Damaging that git box nice performance
Acoustic Guitar Hero!
like it!!
Immediate thought: Micheal Hedges...saw him at the Ark in Ann Arbor years ago. So gifted. This chap good but mechanical.
Sounds like Michael Hedges r.i.p. Great playing.
I really like the sound but I wonder if he could pull off a Pete Townsend windmill on that thing.
4:00 - 7:15 i wonder how many times his guitar strings broke while practicing that piece
All these comments like yea I can play that in my sleep... should understand that to someone who can’t or not even near or who doesn’t even play an instrument it sounds amazing
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2:12 that figuring though. Beautiful piece of wood?
👍🏼
this is amazballs
elixer strings tuned to DADGAD with nice acoustic, and a penchant for Michael Hedges. good stuff though.
like it very much =)
Michael Hedges did so much more on a plain ole Martin. But I do appreciate what he is trying to do here
Yo Imagine if King David had this . . . chillzzzzzzzz
First off, you said 'imagine;' what an active verb!
Second off, RIGHT?!?
Thirdly, that would be worth rereading the Good Book again if, and possibly if...
anybody know the name of the first piece?
What's the name of these wonderful songs?
That's a whale of a guitar.
lol
that depends unfortunately on the age of the texan!...damit.......
this song craps on Michael Hedges. Heresy for anyone to play it without thanks hedges
He's as good as Michael Hedges on the "guitar harp", but Hedges had the miraculous help of Michael Manring's incomparable bass virtuosity. TH-cam has several examples of each, solo and duets, for comparison. Go, and enjoy!
this guy sounds pretty good. why the mean comments?
Shane Flett
Cause its the same shit don ross and andy mckee have been doing but this dudes mad sloppy with it. Still enjoyable tho.
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+That Dude funny thing is, for all the criticism, it's him up on the stage, not them. it's easy to criticise when you can't do it do it yourself.
haha yea
+Shane Flett (zombiedude2014) I think most mean comments in this particular case are caused by missleading video title...
First thought is that the bass strings need a peizo pickup because they are really hard to hear. Yeah, it's sloppy but it's musical. He recovered from his mistakes pretty well. I usually give a visual sign that I did something stupid. Sign of an amateur. Andy McKee, Don Ross and of course Tommy Emanuel have been doing this for years. Now there are innovators like Pino Forestiere and many others. Don Ross pioneered a lot of this style but he's far more musical. Don Ross doesn't seem to be bound by the key of the open tuning either, which is very cool.
+hueseph The bass strings do have their own pickup; otherwise you wouldn't be able to hear them at all - the magnetic pickup for the normal strings only pickups up what's directly over it. See the two output jacks at the endpin, each with its own cable coming out? One goes to a channel tailored for bass frequencies and the other goes to a channel tailored for guitar frequencies.
+Danielle Muscato Seriously now? Please. No need to condescend. I see the plugs. I've been recording music, playing guitar and repairing electronics in guitars for over 20 years now. It looks to me that he has a transducer in the soundhole near the pickup. I transducer underneath the bass saddle would make more sense to me. Magnetic pickups will pick up residual noise from the bass strings.
I'm not trying to be condescending of course; your comment made it sound like you thought the bass strings weren't being amplified, and I was simply pointing out that indeed, they are. It's kind of strange that you jumped to that conclusion though. Actually though, you've got your second commend backwards. Magnetic pickups, especially with individual pole pieces, will always isolate better than a saddle transducer, which picks up any vibration on the whole saddle and also secondary vibrations from the soundboard at large, regardless of which string those vibrations are coming from, or even if they are coming from another set of strings mounted on the same soundboard elsewhere (as is the case with a harp guitar).
Listen to Alexander Samodum -- he really owns harp-guitar.
DON ALDER : Quel frimeur ce Don Albert, (Comment ça de la mauvaise foi ?) Pffff .. je le fait avec mes pieds ce qu'il fait avec ses mains .. HEIN ?.. QUOI ?.. JALOUX ?.. MOI ?.. Certainement pas ! .. Bon, P't'être un peu .. 0:02 / 8:09
TEDxVancouver ( vous en avez d'autres des comme ça ? )
Circus :D
Geez, is that a harp guitar, or is your guitar happy to see someone?
I come here only for the first song
この形状でよく折れないな()
ぴかざえもん どーなってるんや
cool guitar, Great Performance ...rude audience...yea the bass side needs a pickup. I'll bet it feels great!
+GuitarHack123 rude audience indeed
Or you can solve it with a mic type pickup and a feedback cancelling suppressor
Vancouver...beautiful land,very rude people.
i could do that hold my beer >:D
Hold me, my beer can do that..
GP Chief Hold that my beer, me do can.
warum baut man sich so ein Monsterteil mit 16 Saiten .. wenn man nicht mal die unteren 6 Saiten beherrscht ..?
That's a GUITHARP!
I'm sure he and Andy McKee know each other very well. Quite similar.
Better than I play but Michael Hedges was just so amazing RIP. No dissing to Don tho
Phil Keaggy could play circles around this guy.
imagine tuning that massive thing lmao
Redefining the acoustic guitar?
Where is the redefinition???
jago ma ho Lae,,
That thing looks goofy but sounds great
In my opinion the top strings are to deep. I would tune them an octave higher. it sounded to low. But a great idea for any guitar player that is frustrated about just having two hands and not three..
it's a shame because this could be a decent idea, but the low strings are so quiet compared to the main 6 that they aren't adding anything. you don't even notice them unless you're specifically trying to listen for them.
modern day sittaar
Noice
Gue like
bet he can't play The Hydrogen Sonata on that...
but put him up on stage with Michael Manring for some real fun
@athinkinggirl good, butyou can always watch antoine defour and the likes
Now make a double- one of these things, and give it to Nigel Tufnel.
+Kurt Esenwein Hahaha.
I feel like I got trolled and this guy sounds like he's playing something from the Dark Cloud 2 sound track.
i wish he had a pick up on the bass sound hole
Around the 5:00 minute mark(:
Sounds like Tony haven 'waves' the first few mins..
Good playing, but give me Don Ross any day
But can you play Smoke On the Water?
guitar looks like its from Star Trek
not so easy to move it from town to town...
Phil Keaggy people....search him
+whiteflag I was thinking John McLaughlin except with less of a Indian sound.
I'm a Phil fan from way back in 70's. Ha ha.
You want to be in my band, man?
Maybe he apply some ideas of the XVII century instrument, tiorba (theorbo), in the guitar's family.
I think it might be what's known as a "Sympitar" but I can't tell without seeing how it was constructed. All the snide remarks (not that you made one, but to comment on them) are amusing. It's funny to see those without talent try to take something from someone with talent. No, it really is funny. The anonymity of the Internet makes 'em behave like silly children who would ruin someone's snowman because it was built better then their snowman and then whine when they got a bloody nose because of having done so. It really is cute, there's surely a psychiatric journal's paper or two in there somewhere. At any rate, I think it's a Sympitar - see Wikipedia's entry and some Google pictures.
***** Thanks! I will certainly do so. You have anything uploaded to listen to?
It's a modernized theorbo.
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but... does it djent?
Oliver Stone
Adding bass only...
is this what they mean when they talk of all flashy lightweight nonsense to impress the tourists?
brasileiro da like ae
jipsy music
*gypsy
sounds like Bucket Head.
Wow! A guitar with a goiter! 😂
по рс восток россии в рок программе слушал некую йону а здесь не нашел
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he mutes the deep strings with his sleeve...
well he is really awesome ,,, but i found those extra six strings useless :3
+Kilo Mintoni yes i knw how to play guitar :) and those extra low noted strings r useless,,,, and it's a custom made instrument for experimenting i think so,,,,
+Fahmin Abdullah and what about that double sig Jimmy page made? Was IT useless for him? No... IT wasnt. So Isnt IT useless for him either