I think you're being generous with how that would actually sound. Since that guitar is not even plugged anywhere it would sound like just raw strings being sorta strung on
@@efa666 Yeah, back when this episode originally aired, you could find guitars like this in some department stores. I never had one or knew anyone that did, though.
@@liammalone9263 but if you gonna solo like that (inspired by the 80s or 90s way of guitar playing) a pick is just necessary, if it was a polypia like type of sounds then a no pick could pass.
@@chasse-nigb3r It's not necessary, it's just standard. I like to do fingerstyle and using picks, and I have played rock/metal solos with just my fingers, the tone is only marginally affected
Just depends on whether or not you are a woodworker & your skill set. I know a feller who works at a saw mill, has only four fingers on his fret hand & he plays guitar a heck of a lot better than he saws wood.
Otto has simply mastered his own strings. People who play standard tuning couldnt ever possibly understand especially if I described it. Its way too much genius.
People have made drum and trombone equivalents, but the guitar is the one instrument that is truly NEVER animated correctly. The finger positions and rhythms make it way, way too expensive
That really sums it up nicely! Money is really the limiting factor here, and even if they had a large budget, they would probably want to spend that extra money animating something else.
I think some anime series done it the right way too, but the downside was minimizing angles where instruments are shown or even having bands... rarely play at all, to save animation budget.
@@tedybear7968 I never understood why people keep saying that. I watched the show and loved it, but what people mostly point out are things like the gear but as a guitarist myself, they did not animate the fingerings correctly and it looks silly at times. They do at least get the hand position right most of the time tho, that greatly helps in making it seem more believable.
It does sound kind of expressive. It sounds like a noisy thrash or death metal solo. Or something that can built up to something more melodic. Afro-glam metal band Living Colour likes solos like that. The band Porcupine Tree also sometimes like to put dissonant guitar solos to contrast with their typical melodic sound and atmosphere.
I used to be in a band with a lefty guitarist who played with a righty’s string configuration (low notes on the bottom); he could shred that thing to pieces lol. Blues legend Albert King did the same.
@@starlxy you misunderstand, unless you restring the guitar. if you take a left hand or right hand guitar and play it with the other hand the strings are upside down completely changing the notes on the fretboard.
It's funny because you started your channel inspired by him(i remember because i'm one of your first 50 subs) and now he does a video inspired by your video, must feel great! And I'm clearly inspired by both of you guys, keep doing amazing videos remembering the community that music can be a lot of fun!
@@nicohope4 yup, making videos has been really fun and the support from the community is awesome and it keeps me motivated to continue to try to bring something new to the table. Glad you’ve stuck around since 50 subs!
What you have to keep in mind is that this was the early '90s. Otto was probably toking on that bus, and everyone else on that bus was affected as well. Therefore the sound we're hearing is impressionistic, not realistic. Which, you try drawing 30 times per second. It's a terrible strain on the animators' wrists.
@@DimiLeventis ..oh yeah..I know..I can see. But don't you know that you can buy those components and put them on a "righty" body?! Yes! You can!...it's a righty body because the volume and tone controls are on the bottom bout! If I'm not mistaken, SRV has a strat with a lefty trem/bridge on a righty body...go Google it, I'm pretty sure. Peace brother!✌🤟🤞
Oh IT IS a left handed guitar, you can se Bart earlier in that chapter trying to play with his left hand since he's lefty and they didn't bother with the details when Otto started playing , he's supposed to be playing a lefty guitar upside down all the time
It’s because the animators are not guitarists. They are animators. Also something to consider is they may not have had the guitar music sent to them yet. Wouldn’t be uncommon to just be told “it’s 5 seconds of guitar playing”.
Nah, I'm a guitarist and an animator. I just wouldn't waste time getting the animation exactly right for a 10-second clip in a weekly cartoon. Animation takes a long time and is very expensive. Especially for a television show, the name of the game is SPEED. Now for a film production like Pixar where the production cycle is 2-4 years, they can afford to send their teams on locations, consult with experts, and focus on perfect accuracy. But that's not really a reasonable expectation of a show like this. You're looking at thousands of dollars per SECOND of animation for cheapo TV animation like this.
Actually Metalocalypse took great care to animate the guitar animations accurately; they are literally the only ones I know of to have done this however.
Not only did Otto play that guitar upside down and fingerstyle with only 4 fingers, he's so good he can actually create distortion from thin air without even needing to be plugged into an amp.
I think Metalocalypse is the only cartoon I could think of where they animated the hand motions correctly. I mean they even made an animated tutorial on how to play the Duncan Hills Coffee solo
En el episodio 2F09, cuando Tommy toca el esqueleto de Daly como un xilófono, toca dos eces la misma costilla dos veces seguidas y aún así produce dos notas diferentes. Es decir, ¿se supone que creamos que es una especie de... xilófono mágico o algo así?
@@chloedevereaux1801 I wrote it in Spanish on purpose for people who has seen the Simpsons in that language, like me. If you want int on English, here's the translation: "In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes that same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a, a magic xylophone or something?"
"Guitars are never animated correctly" Well actually, the guitar animations in Family Guy are pretty damn accurate; chord shapes, strumming patterns, everything.
I'm glad other people notice this stuff! There's an episode of Disney's "Jake and the Neverland Pirates" where Jake plays the electric guitar of a song....with a bass guitar. You should make an episode like this with that! I always wondered how Disney could mess that up lol Very nice guitar playing btw!!
Hay casos peores a qué no los animen correctamente, por ejemplo en el capítulo de la serie amphibia cuando las chicas forman una banda, las guitarras tenían 4 cuerdas como un bajo
I've done some animations, and i'll tell you, the animators can't be fucked to animate it correctly unless they're told to. and with a weekly upload schedule they have to follow, something like correctly animating music playing is usually ignored. love your cover tho, sounded awesome
Gonna be the pedantic party pooper and say yes obviously the guitar playing isn't animated correctly, but there is still _some_ correspondence between what the animators are doing and what we're hearing. Really look at Otto's three fingers on the seven fret fingerboard (lol) -- if it were transcribed more studiously it wouldn't be just noise, it'd be a bunch of noodling on pentatonic shapes on the first five frets of the guitar. Now I want to see what Lisa's hands are doing when she's playing that one protest song outside the power plant and also throws in a little Classical Gas per audience request lol
To be fair, he did pretty well for having 4 fingers only
first woah
There he is, the legend himself
Bro your mustache probably grown into a beard now
you're here too ? damn
phil keaggy. think it's his picking hand though
Otto played that guitar masterfully for a man with only six fingers and two thumbs.
bro did you say a thumb isn't a finger? come on man
@@redaipo more than likely joking and if they are, it makes the comment even more funny
django reinhardt laughs in 2 fingers
@@redaipo Yes, a thumb isn't a finger, Dr. Hibbert said it
Wow I didn’t even know that Otto is called like that in English as well… I thought they only call him like that in the German version! Lmao
I think you're being generous with how that would actually sound. Since that guitar is not even plugged anywhere it would sound like just raw strings being sorta strung on
It has a small speaker on the body which some guitars have, rare though. Even still it would not sound like a real amp, more like a swarm of hornets.
@@efa666 he also doesnt have a pedal so it wouldnt have any effects
@@efa666 My 1988 Mini Warlock has a speaker built in however, it only does cleans through the speaker :/
Bart had a portable Amp, Yu dumbasses. A wizard just didn't plug it in at that moment!
@@efa666 Yeah, back when this episode originally aired, you could find guitars like this in some department stores. I never had one or knew anyone that did, though.
Otto just played a guitar upside down and fingerstyle, what a legend
How many times have I touched them
the whole opps block been
And he didn't even need an amp to get that distorted tone!
Jimi Hendrix style (at least the upside down part)
You killed it on that riff my man, keep up the work
I think the bigger question is how he managed to play the guitar like that without it being plugged into anything.
My ass doubles as an amp.
@@luckyhippy4898 what the fuck 💀💀
It has a built-in amplifier, but there's no way it sounds like that! You can see a small speaker on the guitar body.
Well Otto is always trippin out man
@@buddyclem7328 yup, and those kinds of guitars do exist. Surprised that was the first guitar that they would buy Bart
I feel like it would be a pain staking process to animate a guitar solo accurately
They could at least have him use a pick…
Edit: nevermind, I’m stupid
@@WaffleAbuser some players don't use picks
@@liammalone9263 Very true! Robby Krieger from The Doors doesn't use a pick.
@@liammalone9263 but if you gonna solo like that (inspired by the 80s or 90s way of guitar playing) a pick is just necessary, if it was a polypia like type of sounds then a no pick could pass.
@@chasse-nigb3r It's not necessary, it's just standard. I like to do fingerstyle and using picks, and I have played rock/metal solos with just my fingers, the tone is only marginally affected
Cartoon hands probably aren’t quite right, either. ⁉️
it's the secret technique expert guitarist doesn't want you to know about
just cut off the pinky finger on either hand and get to work, like all the guitar greats once did
Tony Iommi goes *tritone*
Just depends on whether or not you are a woodworker & your skill set.
I know a feller who works at a saw mill, has only four fingers on his fret hand & he plays guitar a heck of a lot better than he saws wood.
Did you know Jimi Hendrix only had three fingers?
0:13 ok, let's try
...what?
Otto has simply mastered his own strings. People who play standard tuning couldnt ever possibly understand especially if I described it. Its way too much genius.
At this point we should just say "Musical instruments are never animated correctly"
Edit: Please stop telling me about every single exception
Nope, this Tom and Jerry episode is correctly animated! th-cam.com/video/ltqx-jo6aWE/w-d-xo.html
Except drums sometimes
except on metalocalypse
@@catmacopter8545 there have been multiple exceptions, but the meme is "never" and not "sometimes"
Bass moment
I appreciate the fact that you played it the way it sounds, instead of just pointing out that the animated way is wrong.
he's got the skills to back up his arrogance.
I’ll admit what he actually played was pretty impressive, especially to me who is still learning the drums
Don’t underestimate the drums! Watch some Danny Carey
Don't feel bad, not sure very many people at all could make the drums sound like that
I could imagine learning electric guitar. But the drums, they scare me.
@@vgman94Why do drums scare you? Drums are a wonderful instrument lol I’m so glad I picked them up
@@Gavynnnnn Doing the rhythm of the drums while doing a different rhythm on the feet is unimaginable to me. I have no idea how drummers manage this.
Love getting a 15 second long unskipable ad before a 35 second long video
0:23 bruh it's so chaotic i love it 😭
Oliver I see a bright future in music and producing for you. I’m glad I found your channel ✌️
Me too 👌
People have made drum and trombone equivalents, but the guitar is the one instrument that is truly NEVER animated correctly. The finger positions and rhythms make it way, way too expensive
That really sums it up nicely! Money is really the limiting factor here, and even if they had a large budget, they would probably want to spend that extra money animating something else.
Cyberpunk 2077 is a huge exception here, the guitar animations are on point
Bang dream is an exception
Because its a big band animation project, with huge budget
Watch swisgaar's instructional for how to play the duncan hills jingle
This is why I love metalocalypse. The animators made sure that every instrument was animated and played correctly in the show.
I think some anime series done it the right way too, but the downside was minimizing angles where instruments are shown or even having bands... rarely play at all, to save animation budget.
bocchi the rock
@@tedybear7968 I never understood why people keep saying that. I watched the show and loved it, but what people mostly point out are things like the gear but as a guitarist myself, they did not animate the fingerings correctly and it looks silly at times. They do at least get the hand position right most of the time tho, that greatly helps in making it seem more believable.
@@SuTheory yeah sometimes it's really well done, but sometimes it's not so well
@@SuTheoryJust watch a really good performance… 😂. Don’t think about that tooooooooooo much 😂🤦♂️
It does sound kind of expressive. It sounds like a noisy thrash or death metal solo. Or something that can built up to something more melodic. Afro-glam metal band Living Colour likes solos like that. The band Porcupine Tree also sometimes like to put dissonant guitar solos to contrast with their typical melodic sound and atmosphere.
0:02 Hit it chicken little!
Don't forget the fact that Bart is left handed, and his guitar was arranged as such, but Otto play it virtuously, like right handed
To be fair I once saw a left handed player take a righty flip it up the wrong way and play the fuck out of it.
@@royeaston6067 Yeah, what was that guys name again? I think it was Jimi something? 🤔
I used to be in a band with a lefty guitarist who played with a righty’s string configuration (low notes on the bottom); he could shred that thing to pieces lol. Blues legend Albert King did the same.
Well Kurt Cobain was left handed and he played the guitar perfectly fine...
@@starlxy you misunderstand, unless you restring the guitar. if you take a left hand or right hand guitar and play it with the other hand the strings are upside down completely changing the notes on the fretboard.
Oh the pain
The horrid, horrid pain
I don't even play guitar and it's hurt
Chill n word its Just a cartoon
yh dude I don't think raccoons can even get bored so it's hard for me to take you seriously ugh the pain it just hurts
Omg,well played,i loved it
Thank you!
@@OliverStreet you're Welcome have a nice day
You can play it lower down tbe fret board
@@keremstoyshop8734 Huh?
@@topnug7626 frets are the metal strips
I love how perfectly this video loops
At least his fingers were fingin' that day.
Otto still rocks out though
This show is against human rights.
@@YeeY5 so is your mom
@@YeeY5 …may i inquire as to why that is?
This kid is a genius. No, two geniuses! Music and comedy. Good editing job too. 💛💛💛👍👍👍
Awesome video! I sense a million views on your way!
Thank you! Yours are also nice
It's funny because you started your channel inspired by him(i remember because i'm one of your first 50 subs) and now he does a video inspired by your video, must feel great! And I'm clearly inspired by both of you guys, keep doing amazing videos remembering the community that music can be a lot of fun!
@@OliverStreet appreciate it dude!
@@nicohope4 yup, making videos has been really fun and the support from the community is awesome and it keeps me motivated to continue to try to bring something new to the table. Glad you’ve stuck around since 50 subs!
do i sense a collab, perhaps?
If you look closely, even the headstock of the guitar is upside down.
If you look closely you can see that this is a cartoon
@@Cherrybomb855 thx bro
The fact that I got a simply guitar ad on this video
This is SO GOOD! First off the solo is nailed but the ending of the video had me dying laughing. Keep it up great video!!
Wow, you actually played that really well!
These are incredibly fun to watch, thanks for doing the work
Bros even holding the guitar upside down 😂
I got a guitar ad in this video. Crazy...
And yet everyone cheered
What you have to keep in mind is that this was the early '90s. Otto was probably toking on that bus, and everyone else on that bus was affected as well. Therefore the sound we're hearing is impressionistic, not realistic. Which, you try drawing 30 times per second. It's a terrible strain on the animators' wrists.
Oh! I didn’t realise this episode went out live.
@@tpbrcombo 😆 😆
I was just watching drums are never played correctly and this pops up 15 mins later
Bro was making top of the neck noises with the bottom of the neck 😭😭😭😭 what a legend
The ending 😆😆
“ I think it’s broken 😟”
“ oh really!? 😁”
You are so talented, I‘m really impressed!
Lets just say, that guitar tone on that cartoon guitar is absolutely killer
It has something from Dime's sound. 🤔
Not to forget: the guitar looks like a lefty, so Otto would be playing wiith the strings upside down
It's not a lefty because the knobs would be up top...not the bottom 😉👍
...but to be fair, I thought the same thing you did at first! Lol!
@@wesleyAlan9179
Not only the headstock is reversed for a "regular Strat", but the bridge is also "backwards"
@@DimiLeventis
..oh yeah..I know..I can see.
But don't you know that you can buy those components and put them on a "righty" body?! Yes! You can!...it's a righty body because the volume and tone controls are on the bottom bout!
If I'm not mistaken, SRV has a strat with a lefty trem/bridge on a righty body...go Google it, I'm pretty sure. Peace brother!✌🤟🤞
Oh IT IS a left handed guitar, you can se Bart earlier in that chapter trying to play with his left hand since he's lefty and they didn't bother with the details when Otto started playing , he's supposed to be playing a lefty guitar upside down all the time
There’s one exception to the title. Brendon Small worked with the animators on Metalokalypse to make sure those notes were accurately animated
*Guitars are never animated correctly..*
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It’s because the animators are not guitarists. They are animators. Also something to consider is they may not have had the guitar music sent to them yet. Wouldn’t be uncommon to just be told “it’s 5 seconds of guitar playing”.
@MageBurger it could also easily be the other way around and a guitarist is playing over pre animated footage in post production.
Lol its a joke man, the video isn't actually criticizing them for not painstakingly animating the correct guitar strings
@@KD-ou2np the video isn’t but a lot of comments are
Nah, I'm a guitarist and an animator. I just wouldn't waste time getting the animation exactly right for a 10-second clip in a weekly cartoon.
Animation takes a long time and is very expensive. Especially for a television show, the name of the game is SPEED. Now for a film production like Pixar where the production cycle is 2-4 years, they can afford to send their teams on locations, consult with experts, and focus on perfect accuracy. But that's not really a reasonable expectation of a show like this. You're looking at thousands of dollars per SECOND of animation for cheapo TV animation like this.
@@SeraphsWitness what exactly makes it so expensive? Labour time for employees?
Actually Metalocalypse took great care to animate the guitar animations accurately; they are literally the only ones I know of to have done this however.
one of the DVDs has an animated guitar lesson with Skwisgar, he teaches you how to play the Duncan Hills Coffee jingle solo. Very well done
@@Fallen2811 I wish there was a Murderface's bass solo tutorial
I was looking for this comment
Oh my god the cartoon didn’t animate the guitar right that’s so crazy 😱
It's not even connected to anything, so it would sound more like plucking strings, like plock plick plock pleng bing pclocks oksakls pleeeneeengggg
The family guy epsiode where quagmire and peter have an acoustic duo shows accurate fingering
I like to think that's what he was actually playing, but he heard your version in his mind then the children clapped out of politeness.
Thats a fire noise rock solo
Actually to be more precise, you would have to string your guitar as left handed guitar.
Not only did Otto play that guitar upside down and fingerstyle with only 4 fingers, he's so good he can actually create distortion from thin air without even needing to be plugged into an amp.
Some people have too much time on their hands.
Ooh is that the new Sonic Youth song?
this sounds _better_ than sonic youth
@@kaphizmey6229 Ehhh, i'd say just as good
The guitar wasn't even plugged into anything in the original one 😂😂
😂😂😂 haha so funny
This should fit into a guitar hero menu intro
I was hoping we got to hear the notes he was actually playing
Why did I choose to wear headphones before watching this.
Don’t worry he probably just wasn’t used to playing a left handed guitar
0:24 every single black label society solo ever
Laughs in Kerry King
This is so accurate bro zakks playtime is pretty close just make it heavier
Those five seconds in Seek & Destroy
He did pretty well for someone with 8 fingers and played a left handed guitar upside down
arguably shredded harder than it sounded like
Teacher : Play an Simpson Instrument That you know
Otto : 0:23
0:16 - Is that pinky finger allergic to the fret board or something?
I think Metalocalypse is the only cartoon I could think of where they animated the hand motions correctly. I mean they even made an animated tutorial on how to play the Duncan Hills Coffee solo
There's a scene in part 4 of jojo that you might like
No one's mentioned that Otto hasn't even plugged the guitar into an amp, and I don't think school buses have power sockets anyway.
It has its own speaker for some reason, so I guess it has an internal battery or somethin :o
The fact I got a guitar ad before this is wild
I love how that the actual sound just sounds like foam rubbing eachother
0:27. Still pretty metal.
why would anyone care enough to animate it correctly - not worth the time or effort
Got to give credit to Metalocalypse for actually animating the guitar playing properly
Who gon put THAT much effort into one scene just for it to be accurate on a cartoon😂
That bus driver dvd intro scene was my childhood…
En el episodio 2F09, cuando Tommy toca el esqueleto de Daly como un xilófono, toca dos eces la misma costilla dos veces seguidas y aún así produce dos notas diferentes. Es decir, ¿se supone que creamos que es una especie de... xilófono mágico o algo así?
yo.... english please........
@@chloedevereaux1801 I wrote it in Spanish on purpose for people who has seen the Simpsons in that language, like me. If you want int on English, here's the translation: "In episode 2F09, when Itchy plays Scratchy's skeleton like a xylophone, he strikes that same rib twice in succession, yet he produces two clearly different tones. I mean, what are we to believe, that this is some sort of a, a magic xylophone or something?"
Yo era buscando por eso linea demasiado largo!
"Guitars are never animated correctly"
Well actually, the guitar animations in Family Guy are pretty damn accurate; chord shapes, strumming patterns, everything.
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Well actually.
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@@SuperTiaanBro ""Whelll Akctuarley""
;^
I'm glad other people notice this stuff!
There's an episode of Disney's "Jake and the Neverland Pirates" where Jake plays the electric guitar of a song....with a bass guitar. You should make an episode like this with that!
I always wondered how Disney could mess that up lol
Very nice guitar playing btw!!
Funny you should focus on that when Disney has and is committing worse crimes.
@@theothertonydutch such as?
Look up Stevie T- he also likes to pick out fake guitarists and such 😁
@@mcbrodz1663 just look it up, it's a long list
Maybe you couldn't see the POG & Cog Fuzz on the pedalboard ;)
I think having bright yellow skin and four fingers on each hand is more unbelievable than the incorrect guitar solo
Metalocalypse is the only show to painstakingly animate guitars correctly
They... both actually sound kind of good.
That's funny! But Oliver, you seem so talented. Can you upload a video of you actually playing a song please?
Or maybe 'animating a cartoon correctly'.
he has done a lot of that lol
How is Bart's guitar making noise without an amp
I thought the second clip was how it would sound and I thought “hey that doesn’t too far off” then I heard the last clip
Otto's so good on the electric guitar that he doesn't even need to plug it in
Hay casos peores a qué no los animen correctamente, por ejemplo en el capítulo de la serie amphibia cuando las chicas forman una banda, las guitarras tenían 4 cuerdas como un bajo
Bajo con whammy 🤙🏻
I've done some animations, and i'll tell you, the animators can't be fucked to animate it correctly unless they're told to. and with a weekly upload schedule they have to follow, something like correctly animating music playing is usually ignored.
love your cover tho, sounded awesome
Yes good continue this series
Honestly I expected to hear: ooh wee ooh I look just like Buddy Holly
I f*cking swear I got a simply guitar ad before the video started
You don't have to make an excuse to show us your guitar skills. I'm sure a lot of people would like to hear it.
He has so much talent that the guitar doesnt even need an amp
Gonna be the pedantic party pooper and say yes obviously the guitar playing isn't animated correctly, but there is still _some_ correspondence between what the animators are doing and what we're hearing. Really look at Otto's three fingers on the seven fret fingerboard (lol) -- if it were transcribed more studiously it wouldn't be just noise, it'd be a bunch of noodling on pentatonic shapes on the first five frets of the guitar. Now I want to see what Lisa's hands are doing when she's playing that one protest song outside the power plant and also throws in a little Classical Gas per audience request lol
This video reminds me of that "magic xylophone" scene in another Simpsons episode.
Even as a kid I was wondering how he was getting that kinda sound without an amp.
No sonaría nada porque la guitarra no está conectada a un amplificador XD
Me recordó al solo de Azunyan
That was generous of you to allow the simpsons version sound electric at all
Guitars are never animated correctly... One of the many reasons why Metalocalypse was so good.
give him a break. he's got jaundice.
I love how he strums the guitar and it does a fret slide