@@nuberiffic I feel like the lack of tone depth is due to the microphone used. At the end of the day it's just a massive fretboard with strings and a pickup/pickups, if the sound isn't great then electronics, pickups and body material can all be changed. But depth of tone should not suddenly be an issue due to this design.
@@nuberifficacoustic instruments are a completely different deal. With an electric guitar the strings, pickups, electronics, and the anchor points for the strings make 95% of the tone. I suggest you watch Jim Lill's video "Where the tone in an electric guitar comes from" if you're interested.
@holioptic he's referring to an accoustic I believe. I could be wrong but I could easily see someone making a slab of wood with guitar strings 100s of years ago
@@gaminganimators7000 ever see a band made up of this? no, then i win, its a tapping percussion instrument nothing more. itll be gone in 10 years no one will care.
As a pianist, I tried to learn guitar today. Boy does it hurt at the beginning and I’m finding chords difficult to play but I reckon I’ll get there. As difficult as it is, inventing another entirely new instrument would probably be more difficult.
some generic advice here but just keep hitting the damn thing long enough and it'll click sometime. im not very good in my opinion but i get by from good rhythm and adapting to what or who I'm playing with. can be generally applied to all instruments but make sure to get that picking hand in order before worrying about the frets all too much. hope you get some enjoyment out of it and don't let the beginning discourage you.
It's really important that your hand position is correct. Your hand + wrist should be parallel with the fretboard with your thumb behind the neck, making a c shape with your hand. It'll make playing way easier and reduce the odds of injury. Look up some images or videos in case my description doesn't make sense. Cheers and happy learning.
Lol i also started around 7 days ago, as a key player. Bought a western guitar, probably bold choice for the beginning tho. But i see a learning effect, already had some fun playing open strings the first day and just using one finger on the left hand to throw some other notes in the mix.
You’ll build up calluses on your finger tips and then it won’t hurt anymore. You’ll go from being able to play for maybe half an hour because it hurts to being able to play for hours because your finger tips can’t feel anything. The calluses will go away if you don’t play for a while so it’s best to play at least a little bit every day
Whether or not he's a legend, you've gotta admit he did something pretty creative, which doesn't deserve a rude response. I think, even if it isn't an entirely new instrument, it's still pretty cool that he had an idea and brought it to life
@@Fruitycatlady_Trekkie Why do you defend the guy who made the short? The harpejji was NOT invented by "his dad". It was invented in 2007 by sound engineer Tim Meeks. Either the "my dad" thing was meant to be a joke or to mislead gullible people. Moral of the story: Verify the story before you defend it.
@@grqfes it’s called a “joke”, ever heard of one? since you really would like to know, i’m in a twice accelerated math class; i’m probably smarter than at least a quarter-half of my grade, and i’m on track to be taking all accelerated classes soon, so why don’t you shut up?
For those of you who like the Harpejji but can't afford one, consider the Chapman Stick. It's still expensive, but it's much more affordable compared to the Harpejji. Some of you might even like it more than the Harpejji since it leans more towards being a guitar than a piano.
As someone who's played a chapmen stick, I had the chance to learn some on king crimson's three of a perfect pair and i have to say a chapmen stick is really fun and I want one really bad but I still can't afford one yet
Wait, so if the $10,000 Chapman Stick is affordable, what’s expensive to you? I have like 20ish guitars and my most expensive is a $700 Jackson Soloist
@@zero00044 if you buy the pieces in a kit sure, but unless you’re some kind of woodworker or carpenter, I don’t think most guitar players would enjoy building one from scratch. I know I wouldn’t… I’m not even interested in a custom Warmoth anymore. I guess my tastes change as I get older, but there are so many choices out there as it is.
We had that already, sort of. Its was called the harpsichord. Its that higher end of the register plucked piano sounding instrument. That being said, this thing looks neat though. Kind of looks more like a sitar descendant since the frets keep the string suspended. I dig how fluid playing it seems to be. I have a weird tendon in my fretting hand, the tendon doesnt like staying over the knuckle sometimes, ergo any kind of shredding like soloing is hit and miss, usually a miss... This instrument looks like I could keep my hand in a more stable, for lack of a better word, position.
@@tantotoppsAs a guitarist: that's not the same, really not. The guitar is a wonderful instrument, but it is much more limited chordally, compared to a keyboard or a harpejji. Guitars can only give you very limited voicings, especially close voicings, and you can only get as many notes as there are strings.
@keithklassen5320 aS a gUaTaRiSt, you have no idea what you're talking about. You can play any note, wtf r u saying, it's not any more limited than the piano is, truly. It's just all quality of combination
I’d leave. Tbh I wouldn’t take a metal performance seriously with a tappy guitar, but to be fair I’m no fan of technical wankery over good songwriting. To each their own
@@scottoleson1997 while I disagree with you, I like the way you addressed the assumption as something related to you, which respects people who would enjoy such presentation and at the same time justify your disliking
Love the civility in this thread! Songwriting, skill, a lot goes into making good music. Flight of the Bumblebee may be an impressive piece, but I don't find it pleasant to listen to. To each their own and I like interesting musical instruments and the skill to make music no matter what's being used. 😎
This instrument has been around for a while. The kid says his dad invented it, so that mean his dad owns the company Marcodi. They are the inventers and makers of the harpeji. Back in 2012 they were showing off the at the time new instrument at the show, and Stevie Wonder came over to their booth to check it out. Stevie fell in love with it because it gave him the ability to play guitar like songs while being blind, and he gave the company quite a bit of publicity. There's actually a 12 year old clip of Stevie getting the demo at the trade show on RU-vid.
Yes, I'm aware it's quite simple with practice. But with the arrangement of a guitar, it takes more than tapping your fingers on a stationary board. There's the Hammer, Pull, and Follow up. With this, you literally just tap your finger.
As a collector of unique instruments, this is 100% the coolest and most useful I've seen!! Your dad did a great job! Hope I can add one to my collection some day!!
He actually made weird fishes / arpeggi for this instrument. You can watch a live performance of an early version of the song that sounds more like it was made on an arpeji
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@@hanzdermann7184 I can go to a pawnshop rn and find a nice guitar for less than 200$. Th problem with this instrument is that they are the only ones who can sell it because of patents so they sell it for 4k$. It will never get big because of this. also there wont be any tutorials for how to play it like with other instruments. Just learn how to play a guitar, cheaper and easier.
yeah it's funny, every time I mess around on a keyboard I try to manually vibrato it by wiggling my fingers (just a habit I'm used to from years of guitar).
Theres a guitar called the swickster that was invented by a guitarist in vegas. Frets were colored white or black like a piano. Was a cool concept, just doing too much for learning something simple.
@@whiterice2752 It being a small buisness doesn’t justify 4-7k depending on the model. You can get a whole nice piano for that money, or a bunch of super nice guitars. I could see 2-3k since it wouldn’t be mass produced.
Can you live with 3k a month? You will spend 1500 on materials, so just 1500 will be left for food and paying bills... Imagina if they sell just one a month, yeah, they need to charge more yo br able to survive, if Ibanez whas a small business selling one guitar per month, i guess they would charge the same... @@69-Bot
Incase people are wondering how it makes noise, h there’s an electrical current running through each string, which is disrupted by our skin and produces sound based on the string length and where on the string our finger is disrupting the current. Edit: I should’ve mentioned that this is speculation based on my technological knowledge
it's not just pickups? Because it seems to be sensitive to string tension if you can do bends, so that would mean it either has a tensionometer (complex, nightmare to tune) or just has pickups for the actual string vibration?
I think it's a bit of both? Potentiometer to determine where on the string finger is pressed and the tension sensor to determine the intensity/bend of the note.
I'm pretty sure it operates similar to an electro-acoustic guitar. There is a piezo pickup somewhere on it (likely at the "bridge" or whatever equivalent this thing has) that takes the vibrations produced and converts it into an electrical current. I don't know how these are made, so I can't say for sure, but given how similar instruments do it I'm pretty confident in my answer.
The sounds the instrument makes are sick. I saw someone cover sleepwalk with one and it was sublime. Almost sounded like a PC Engine in some parts. Just so electrically smooth and pleasing to the ears.
Part of me wants to give this a guitar body and make it the neck and just have this badass 20 or so string half fret half not guitar, would be metal asf.
Just a shame you can't get one for cheaper than several thousand dollars. I'm sure this is a high quality instrument...i just think most people would like the option to buy a lower quality one for less money before committing to an expensive one
woah!!! really needed this! I am a music lover and Cerebral Palsy person and can't hold and use fingers fully on guitar but these is a gem🎹➕🎸💎❤️✨from where to buy???
I'm pretty sure that such an instrument already existed. And if your dad wanted to play guitar with a pianist moveset, there's this wonderful thing called "MIDI".
Guitars one of those instruments where you're grateful of having good wrists as well as back at times. Piano overall though cant be beat for versatility.
