How Pro Guitarists Trick You... 

i tried this without those tuners and lost an eye...

Him : I bought 2 of these for 250 dollars Me looking at my 40 dollar guitar: nevermind

As a banjo player who recently just bought some Keith tuners you paid a fair price and this is super cool!

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I started doing research “Davie504 naked” 😂😂😂

Tuner: This gonna be so interesting String: please, no.

They’re called Scruggs tuners. They’re not normal banjo tuners, you would still need to order them specially for your banjo. They’re named after the father of bluegrass banjo, Earl Scruggs because he used them in some famous songs like flint hill special. You basically set them to stop at the specific note you want and you can flick them back and forth easily.

I’m gonna admit, I also thought until now that Alexander was using regular tuners... I really thought it was all done by muscle memory, but I coudln’t believe how accurate it was. Now it perfectly makes sense.

It almost has a slide guitar sound. And that's really expensive for 2 tuning keys i don't think il be doing this.

Glad you're back Mattias!

So glad you're back and covering the song that made me start with fingerstyle guitar! Always tried to learn passionflower but I realizes he had the tuners on the back and knew something was different

They’re called “Keith” tuners fyi, they’re not regular banjo tuners

Jon Gomm is not tricking us, 😂he’s found a way to achieve what he wanted

Great to see you back Mattias! I was watching your videos before I started my own fingerstyle guitar channel this year and people like you are the reason why I did start it so thank you! Grym är du! :)

You are the man dude! Great playing. I have been playing for 30 years, and 9 times out of 10, if it sounds hard to do, it is actually pretty easy with a little practice, or in your case, research. Thanks for the insight, great vid!

That was a great video, no long talk, just an intro, play real demo before/after and we’re done :) I had no idea those tuners existed, and the price is understandable, really precise engineering! Thanks!

Nice . That's why make me so much confused about chasing tune and arrange them again. I really thought he doing it without anything . Welcome back

The first generation of these tuners have been around since around 1957. Earl Scruggs had a hand in the design. In 1961, Bill Keith improved it and the Scruggs-Keith tuner was born. Waylon Jennings was using the tuner to drop D his Tele on the fly, since the early 70’s. Great product

Who else came here expecting a tutorial 😭

Thanks for answering the question on how the tuning was done in the middle of playing. Makes sense, was wondering myself so thank you.

Finally someone explained this to me! You are my hero!

good to see him back playing the guitar man also hope you recover your guitar skeelz that we all know and love

Imagine having six of these on a FR bridge. Getting the tension just right for two separate tunings.

Dude, I'm really glad to see this. Thanks.

They also have tuning heads that have specific ratios. iE quarter twist equals a half tone

Thanks MK ... 'been doing a thing with a tuner bridge *but* THIS is a worthy investment 👍

Alexandr Misko is the master of changing tunning while playing

Wow I didn't even know that! Thanks Mattias :D Glad you're back again :)

When he started by saying 'so' I thought it's another ad of Yousician 😂

I’m so glad I find this out ,thanks

Every vid on this channel isn't clickbait just experimenting with instruments... wonderful

That google search at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="10">0:10</a> tho ! XD

You're my inspiration 🤩

This needs a Smarter Every Day episode to explain what the banjo tuners do and why.

Thanks! I've been wondering as well.

Makes a huge difference! Any tuners with a low ratio work perfect for this. Most banjo tuners are <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="61">1:1</a> to <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="241">4:1</a> and you could snag some for maybe 20 bucks. But 250 dollars probably got you very high quality tuners lol

Always wondered about these mid song detunes. Thanks man!

You are back!! Big fan

Yay I am soo happy to see you back ❤️😍

Love to see your new videos bro 💕

Welcome back! We missed you! ❤

Truly an inspiration, love it ❤

That smile at the end knows it was success👍👍👍

Wow and they make the recording and mic sound better too!

It is too funny you’re playing Passionflower cuz that’s exactly what I was listening to before I started getting back into finger style and found your video. Crazy.

Thanks for the knowledge. I too wondered how to play that song. But never actually attempted it

Ah, yes, that original video puzzled me, especially the accuracy, But now I get it, these are like the Hipshot D-tuners for bass. I got one for my bass many years ago (also not cheap!). With one flick of a switch with the left thumb, it drops the lower E string to what is dialed in (Usually the D below), allowing to go from regular tuning to dropped D in a split second and very accurately. Clever stuff!

There's some quite famous banjo tunes that use this trick. Look up Flint Hill Special.

I am actually doing same tuning thing with regular machine heads on my guitar. It took me years of practice, though

You're back!! ❤️❤️

thank you for clearing that up!! Ive been playing guitar a long time and im able to play most things and when i saw people doing this I was like : "I guess im not as good as I thought I was"!

I detuned a guitar for tommy Emmanuel, I watched him with my own 2 eyes retune that thing in like 6 seconds when he started playing a song. Definitely wasn’t the tuners. Maybe some guys use these tuners. But not all guys. So guys really do have a profound ear.

Thank you mr. Krantz

Hey mattias Just found your channel Glad you picked up the guitar again :)

Love your videos buddy

so this is what pro guitarists sound like, finally. thanks!

That's a nice tutorial man!

It's good to see you again. I picked up the guitar inspired by your 7000hrs of guitar video. Keep posting 😁

It's worth noting that while this kind of tuning peg with stops for set pitch change has existed for about 60 years, banjo players used to do this with regular tuning pegs prior to their invention so if you look up old videos of Earl Scruggs playing Flint Hill Special for example, he's doing this with regular tuners. But it was difficult to do so that's why the mechanical solution came about. It's still much easier to do this with banjo tuners than guitar tuners though because guitar tuners typically have a gear ratio of like <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="721">12:1</a> or <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="961">16:1</a> or whatever whereas as banjos have a ratio of <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="241">4:1</a> so with a guitar it takes a very substantial turn to change a string one step but with a banjo it takes significantly less motion so it's fairly reasonable to do.

Tnx for sharing the knowlsge

Thank you Mattias, very cool

Thanks for this information. I had no idea that was how they did it. I just thought they were "that good". Makes me feel a little better, ha ha.

Sounds awesome

Worth every pfennig.

Mattias feels like a really kind yet cool older brother

Now that was very helpful 😅I used do this too and had such terrible mistakes of tuning !

Passionflower is one of my favorite songs!

The Reason they are in sets of two is because they were invited for playing certain songs on banjo like flint hill special or foggy mountain chimes. the kind he used are called Keith tuners there’s also cheeta-keys but the are designed to fit around a banjo head stock they squeeze the strings and when you turn the key the part squeezing the sting loosens changing the banjos tuning from G to D.

The legend is back

I'm not sure if there are hipshot tuners for acoustic, but that is another possibility. Don't forget about the b-bender contraption use in older electrics (maybe still in some newer ones, I don't know.) I do like the Keith-scruggs tuners option for achieving fast alternate tunings. Perhaps too costly, but it would be fun.

You could use the tuners as a makeshift b-bender!

The before sounds like me when I go anywhere near a guitar 😁 it's great to see a real musician at work 👍

Reminds me of the B-benders from early 70's

thank you

nice, saw something simillar on bass guitar, but not like that, something like trigger system that push and pull

oh lol, ive always used regular tuners with a low ratio, this is helpful

i didnt watch the original video so i didnt know about this until know (i honestly dont watch too many acoustic guitar videos), but damn that sounds awesome

Lowden have a Jon Gomm signature guitar and that has two banjo tuners pre-installed. (I know not everyone can afford a Lowden and especially not a signature model.)

Thanks

I have basically the bass version of this to just go into drop d. So handy.

hey can u play 'reverie' again ........ coz its been a while since u hv played the guitar

Is switching the tuning heads an ergonomic thing, or does it actually help your tone?

Wait what? It’s special tuners? You opened my eyes man, thanks :)

Mind nuked!!! 🤯

thank god someone posted this :D

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Those brushed tuners are really nice. Not really into the others.

I remember when I first found this out, it was like finding out the pole spins. Heartbreaking.

Well I have just gone back to the Passionflower video because I love that song and wow you're right, you can see the two tuners are different on his guitar. Also, I know you are an amazing musician so I feel I am probably wrong but it sounds like the last note is played too soon and the beat is missed afterwards, not sure if that makes sense writing it out.

What baton rouge guitar model is this? Looks amazing!

Very cool, but how do they work? Are they set up so that they only turn a certain amount or what is going on?

If I were going to spend that much money I would buy that automatic tuning system. It's so good you have to tell it not to auto correct the strings if you want to bend them.

First person to use these Keith tuners on guitar was Chet Atkins (I believe he used 3). I tried it in the 70s but it was completely beyond me until I took up banjo (I just used them to change between open tunings. Adrian Legg does some demonstrations of these techniques, having been told by my housemate, again in the 70s. $250 is a good price for a pair of genuine Keith tuners. Schaller do a version at $75 but they simply are neither as accurate nor as durable as Keiths IMO. The insides of the tuners look like old fashioned watch mechanisms and are extremely delicate (I took one of my Schallers apart after it failed), so both these aspects are very important. Here in the UK the pricing would be a straight £ for $ substitute, or maybe more with carriage and tax.

I've got a set of drop tuners fitted to my piccolo bass. I get the same effect for $150.

You should check out Certano string benders.

Even with the banjo running knobs, no one is close to the skill level of Jon. Both hands are doing 3 different things at any given time and he's singing simultaneously

Nice one man..

Could you pull of the same sound with a floyd or floating bridge?

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