I've Never Had A Worse Time Playing A Guitar

#guitar #music #10string
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[kanelang]

Brandon Acker, classical guitarist who plays all kinds of super old stringed instruments like the lute and the theorbo. A lot of his stuff has heaps of strings and the look suits the meme of him being a vamire

[ItsVictoriaG]

Watching you struggle with this as a guitarist reminds me of me as a violinist trying to learn guitar. “It’s a stringed instrument! Hell, there’s frets even! But the muscle memory is useless when the notes are so far apart!”

And your relief at going back to a 6 string and feeling competent again was so relatable.

[liamblokerije]

I think Bradley Hall would be a cool person to send it to, he's a shred guy so it would be intersting to see him try tro make something on a guitar that isn't really made for his type of stuff. He's also a great metal composer so I think he would make something cool with it.

[duaneperkins]

I'd love to see what Charles Berthoud could do with it. He is a great bass player, and he does a lot of tapping. I think it would be perfect for him!

[MrSpyhere]

Certified "just make friends with a bass player" moment

[brtkm]

SEND IT TO PAUL DAVIDS!! would be super interesting to see his take on it

[TommyTheHat]

I’d love to see Paul Davids’s or Rudy Ayoub’s take on this beast 😂

Edit: that final piece was actually beautiful, and I feel you made far better use out of the extended range than most Metal shredders.

[thieveryguitars]

That metal riff was really dope. Way to use the expanded range.

[bcoda]

I love watching Ichika Nito go ham on something like this and then come back down to earth with a video like this and feel like I have a chance at being a decent normal guitarist

[MorganZ]

As someone whose first learned stringed instrument was a four string tenor guitar in DGBE, who then later had to learn to deal with the additional E and A strings on a standard six-string, I felt this in my soul. The path to incorporating additional strings can be long and painful.

[Shortybeard]

Being a short person, I've only recently discovered how much a short-scale instrument makes playing so much more comfortable to me; this, THIS is a nightmare LOL.
I vote for Brandon Acker to be the next YouTube guitarist to suffer!

[TrashHeapCustodian]

Hey it might not seem like much, but thanks for pointing out how it took you an hour and 254 takes to nail the riffs. sometimes I get discouraged when I've played something 50 times and it still doesn't sound right and I doubt myself, but knowing it takes someone as talented as you to that long to pull some of these riffs off helps with remembering how long it takes to build up skills :)

[vincentdenismusic]

As a 9 string (non metal) player, I found your measured approach quite interesting and refreshing.
I started on 6 then went to 7, later 8, and now 9. Jumping from 6 to 10 is quite the feat! Kudos.
I love that you also tried non metal ideas as extended range instruments can do so much more than chug in the lower register.
Lastly, I'd recommend an easier tuning (all 4ths is great), and tapping, as I personally feel that's where you can get the most out of 9 or 10 string guitars.

[clarkogle]

Man this guitar has been making the rounds for so many years, I completely forgot about it. Seeing Sammy whip it out was a fun surprise

[DofAquavibe]

I recently played an 8 string guitar and my experience was the same as yours: confused, uncomfortable, unable to do what I normally do - very not-fun. I can truly appreciate those guitarists that do the work to make these things their own and progress into new territories🤘, but yeah it’s just not for me.

[Whirlybird]

5:35 "I just spent $65 re-stringing this f***ing thing"

As a bassist, particularly one who owns a 37" multiscale 6 string bass, I found this hilarious 🤣

[Viktorosaurus]

I'm very happy to see Narciso Yepes and his 10 string guitar get some recognition. The idea behind his 10-string guitar was to provide more sustain to notes such as C, Bb Ab and Gb on the E string, by means of sympathetic vibrations on the 4 additional strings tuned to these pitches. So you would mostly play it like a traditional 6-string, with the benefit of more sustain and the ability to play repertoire for the lute without the need for transcription and allowing more literal piano transcriptions. Yepes was an exceptional player, and I encourage everyone to check out his recording of Muñeira from Mompou's Suite Compostelana.

[AlefSousa]

That's an interesting tuning for it, I always thought that a 10 string guitar would just follow the 4ths/5ths intervals that other extended range guitars use (extra B string on a 7 string, F# on an 8 string, C# on a 9 string) and have a low G# string as the lowest note, but having the 3 bottom strings be tuned as the 3 lowest strings on a regular bass actually makes a lot of sense and makes it way more manageable and musical, I think, it's basically having a 7 string guitar + a bass on the same body. That last tune sounded amazing, though! Definitely something I would've expected from a 10 string electric guitar

[occithevid]

From what I understand, the strings are usually tuned to

G#C#F#BEADGBE

Also, the person who sent it to Rob was Andrew Baena. You should definitely send it to Nik Nocternal to do some crazy stuff.

[prunesquallor]

I’m glad you included Narciso Yepes as the classical example of 10 string guitar playing. He was a master who added many works to the 10 string guitar.