Dweezil Zappa - Using finger slides to create expressive, sitar-like sounds 

I would expect nothing less from the son of Frank Zappa. Very talented bunch.

This is not a bad thing . Likin Dweezils lessons . You will find the road......

@@michaeltaylors2456 You will find the road...

It a special pickup where you can set which overtones to get. Probably the Sustainiac. Here's a demo: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-vT3BUM-19fk.html

I’m totally tempted to try this myself just to satisfy my own curiosity now:)

A fretless scalloped board sounds interesting, but I'm not entirely sure if the wood could pressed by the strings hard without getting dented

I think that a scalloped fretboard misses the purpose of a fretless one.

@@putridabomination on a scalloped fretboard I can't see the reason to remove the frets.

It is obviously in standard tuning

verstamp haha first thing that struck me! Cheers

:) what??Indian music?!!

But you can do huge bends by pushing down on the string to whatever microtonal interval far above the fret because of how far above the fretboard the strings are. Sliding on a fretless guitar seems to be a good way to mimic these bends while giving it's own character

Jackson Barker, one can also simply utilize bends. It can be done. Listen to Marty Friedman’s playing. He uses really wide bends to emulate the eastern sounds. Chris Poland also uses wide bends (but he does it in attempt to emulate Jan Hammer’s keyboard playing style, rather than eastern styles). I won’t argue that fretless gives it its own character. But, it doesn’t sound eastern.

@@ThrashRebel that's true, and I didn't know that about Chris Poland, pretty cool. The quick slides he's doing to various tones and back and forth still seems hard to emulate with just bends to me though idk. Maybe more useful to just get that sliding sound mixed with traditional scales like he was doing than imitating a sitar. And easier at least I bet, those Mary Friedman passages with huge really quick bends are hard haha. You can definitely get larger intervals sliding like this, but then again moving away from a sitar like sound to more just a unique guitar like this because I believe sitar bends are still limited in range comparatively

@@ThrashRebel as a side note, thanks for letting me know about jan hammer, hadn't heard him but it's some pretty cool stuff, his patches are nice, I couldn't tell if he had a pitch envelope on each note or if he was manually bending them with the tone wheel

Jackson Barker, Jan uses a wheel. That wheel effect is what Chris Poland tries to emulate. Marty Friedman uses those quick slides in his solos in addition to wide bends. That is how Friedman gets that eastern sound in his solos. Friedman is one of my favorite guitarists because of his “exotic” playing (well, exotic for western music). I started listening to Ravi Shankar when I was a teen. I have a bunch of his albums. He did one album on which before he played the ragas he broke down the base-scales & how to count out the bars. I listed to that long before I ever heard of Friedman. So, as soon as I heard Friedman play I immediately associated his style with that raga style. Friedman mixes Hawaiian, Japanese, Indian & Middle Eastern influences into his solos. I have Marty Friedman two instructional videos on VHS. 😂 I bought them in the early ‘90s & used to practice to them, daily. The wide bends aren’t as difficult after you practice them over & over again. Poland also does some really wide bends. But, Poland really wrenches them out. For some of them he uses three fingers to bend the strings so he can really warp the bends.