I've Never Had A Worse Time Playing A Guitar 

lol, I know you're the Samurai Guitarists but how about we spend some time with that Amp hmm?

Maybe you need to find out how people learned to play these monstrosities. . . and why they prefer them? I have to agree. I don’t see the appeal. I think it’s kind of like owning a souped up muscle car vs a Chevy - most of us would be just fine and flourish with that Chevy. The peeps with souped up Dodge Chargers that have the ultimate 500 Hemi, bucket seats, racing stripes, etc - like why would you ever need all that other than to gloat when the speed limit is like 65-75 mph in most places?! 😂😂😂

@brandonacker , send it to him. The guitar is an oddity so the choice of player should be unsually too. Plus, I'd love to see what a classical player with his start in metal would do with it.

How about Rick Beato?

Send it to TEREBERRY

Yeah, by that standard, these instruments are way more practical and accessible than an archlute, or a harp guitar, or even an acoustic piano really.

Or, really, people just want to look cool while playing chapman stick.

Wait I need Brandon Acker vampire memes stat.

Brandon was my guitar teacher at one point lol. Not sure I ever saw his reflection in the practice room’s shinier materials, so maybe he is a vampire.

@@alopiaskrieg that sounds like confirmation to me.

Actually ya know what... Yeah it would

I agree with this

Yes I wanna see this lol

Oh Bradley Hall for sure!

So i heard stevie t and jared dines like guitars with lots of strings

@@fredriksvard2603 Nej. Där blir det nej. Bestämt nej. Skräddaren säger nej.

This guitar has a thin neck(at least it looks like it) and a flat fretboard. It's designed for shredding lol. I shred on my 9-string

Came here to say exactly this. Charles occasionally plays guitar in his vids and he's no slouch. And he is, of course, an absolute bass god.

Please! I love Charles!

Charles would tear this up

Absolutely yes!

Yep, same.

When I am trying to learn a new song, but I just can't keep playing it right, I tell myself "hey, I invented a new song!!". Keeps my positive all the time. In fact, I have actually invented my own songs from other songs i was trying to learn, but butchered...

@@-jank-willson honestly this is fantastic advice. I've used many mistakes as the base for some killer riffs lol.

@@dixiemcgee8535 I also have this one-string diatonically fretted 'canjo' I built in elementary school on a class about basic music theory, I actually still use it to come up with some very basic tunes, which I then fully flesh out for the ol' 6-string. That's my other main method of making my own music lol.

@ Jank Willson I mean if it works it works. Limitation breeds creativity as they say \m/

@@dixiemcgee8535 don't diss the canjo, I can play all kinds of (albeit simplified) rock songs on it🤣

Yes

Rudy Ayoubs take would be hilarious 😂

I second Paul.

Plus one for Paul, I expect Rudy to rant the crap out of it but secretly enjoying the dam thing

Rudy!

Having a 7 string bass I had a chuckle here

Some 4-string flatwound sets cost nearly that much lol

@@Ronofthedead07 I mean look at Thomastik-Infeld Jazz flats, lol.

Double bassist: Hold my beer...

I bought an Ibanez BTB806MS recently and the strings are 30$ more than my old six string BTB lol

Ham? Aw hell no

Do you have perfect pitch? I've heard that it's extremely common in violinists (and similar instruments) because y'all have to be damned precise in finding notes

Just shows how different people react to a similar experience - I used to consider myself violinist and I had the best time learning the guitar! It basically changed my life I studied the violin and piano since i was 12 but I picked up the guitar two years ago and I haven’t really put it down since. I progressed surprisingly quickly on the guitar and i just put it up to “it’s a giant violin with frets 😍” Now going BACK is trouble. The difficulty of playing violin seems much worse and even more pointless

I'm a guitarist learning violin, and I'm experiencing this in reverse. All of your notes are so close together! And you just gotta know where they are!

I'm feeling the opposite way, as a guitarist learning violin lmao. Like where are my frets? (I mean there is fretted violins, but that kinda defeats the original purpose of a violin)

@@mr.nobody68 Not perfect pitch - I can’t name a note or chord if you play it and ask me to name it. However, I can tell you if something is flat or sharp, even if I can’t name the note. But what I do know is that I always tune manually. Give me the pitch and I will tune my guitar to it. I don’t own a headstock tuner or pedal because that just takes me more time and effort than just playing the pitches. However, I do need to hear each of the 6 pitches. I’m not able to hear the 4ths on guitar. However I did get to the point on violin if you give me an A440 I can tune all 4 strings by listening to the 5ths.

yes, Brandon Acker for the win!

YES!! That would be awesome! Especially since he actually has experience with classical instruments with a excessive amounts of strings! Hell yeah!

Bro you should check out strandberg guitars dude they make short scale headless guitars and they are sick asf

also being short, my tiny beginner’s six string is kinda making me glad i didn’t jump to a 7 string like i initially planned.

@@commiekiller3000 yeah i figured it out after 20 years of playing full sized, full scale guitars, and then got a parlor acoustic, 23" scale, and now i have a Jaguar 24" scale electric, and both are so much more comfortable to play.

Agreed

Agreed

He would play surf with it

60 octave psycho bum

Lmao

thats insightful. I just bought my first 7, and i may go up to 8 in the future, but playing 9? wow! and attempting 10, oh jeez!

I saw an interesting bit where Narciso Yepes explains that with a 10 string classical guitar he has sympathy strings for all 12 notes and with a 6-string only 4 of the 12. I've been looking at the 8 string Ortega as well it's a nice price and to get my feet wet with more than 6 strings.

Chugging on the low strings of a 10 string guitar!!! What are you smoking??? I want some!!!!😆😆

I have this exact guitar, more as a side-guitar than anything, a studio tool of sorts... and I can't do all 4ths, the lowest string being a G#. The G# is unintelligible, it has to be a low B or higher. That low B is still the same otave as the low B on a 5 string bass, so it's still pretty sweet. But then you have to settle for an awkward interval jump between two strings at some point up to the highest string, because there's no way you're tuning that high string above E on a 27" scale. Unless you want to get into some seriously avant garde string guages. Now that I read that in writing, yeah the whole situation is already avant garde af.

Fellow 9 string player here too! And someone who uses the full range too. Personally, coming previously from the 7 string, I've settled on BEBEADGBE as my tuning. Straight forward and makes sense.

he would start by snapping off all the treble strings lol

This one actually made me LOL. Because Adam wouldn't spend much time playing it, he would get all reflective about it, and manage to throw in some bizarre music theory about some kind of chord you can only play on that instrument or something.

she would probably come up with a killer song!

Mary Spender is a great suggestion! No doubt she'd do something magnificent with it.

Yeah! I wanna see Bernth shred that axe

@samuraiguitarist HELP, I NEED AN ADULT.

Weird, when I pick up a six string, everything just feels like easy mode.

6-strings are easy but I feel VERY limited. I can't play as many things because I've learned a lot of riffs specific to extended range instruments.

@@clenchedfistsyndrome1439 I dont know about easy, but a 6 string definitely feels a bit 'toy-ish' to me after playing 7 string nearly exclusively for decades.

this is the best suggestion so far

Yes, perfect

I also think this is a great suggestion

He already has a 14 string so this isn't so exciting. He should send it to someone who has never experienced something like this

+1

+2

Keith Merrow woke me up to the possibilities of a 7 string. I always thought it was just a crutch for lower and "heavier" riffs, but what keith merrow plays in a 7 string inspired me to get one.

Actual 10 string giga chat

The thing with the lower-end chords is that eventually at that tuning even pleasant sounding intervals are gonna start getting shitty. There's an actual name for that musical phenomenon that I cannot recall currently tho.

@@davidhollowelljr949 Low interval limit

@@negativize_11 yes! Thank you!

Dating profile!!!! We have a winner here!!!!!!😆😆😆😆 Got to watch out for that low STING, it farts!!!!!😆 Put that on your dating profile!!!🤣🤣

Oh my Brandon would be cool

He also has a metalhead past, he's been a shredder

Yup, I was thinking he could attach some wheels and go skate on it!

He'd pull it off with is Theorbo skills, way too easy

BA is a beast would love to see that

I was going to say Brandon as well! He started off playing metal on electric guitar in high school.

To be fair, the purpose of extended range guitars isn't only to play djent/thall/extreme metal. Like, there are multiple people who write really beautiful guitar songs with 8 and 9 strings like Rob Scallon and Ichika Nito But yeah, the fact that he didn't go directly to 00000000 also annoyed me a lil bit cuz I'm a metal nerd lol

​@@meloxdeath I get what you're saying, but this 10 string guitar (and you cannot deny it) was made for djent. I know that some in the jazz scene like 7s and 8s for the extended range, but this is a 10 string and we both know only 1 kind of person buys a 10 string lol

same, i play a 8 string currently. love my 6 strings and 7 string but something always feels missing

My first guitar was a 6 string, and I am waiting for my first 7 string guitar to arrive, it's and Ibanez. And I'm really excited, It will be a challenge but I can't wait

@@506hunterst hope you have fun with it, my first 7 string was a ibanez rg series i bought second hand and i love it to death

@@Pengulin I tried out in the store, and I just kinda fell in love with it lol, can't wait to play it. Idk what model it is though

man totally. i actually just can’t go back to 6-string at this point. every once in a while I happen to play someone’s instrument (99% it’s 6-string obviously), all i can think of is “damn, there should be at least another one”. to be fair, I’m not a metal guy and play my instrument clean most of the time, so really for that part I don’t rely that much on a lower register, but damn it so handy when it’s there - just to add extra fatness occasionally with some inversions for otherwise all-too-common chord voicings. the devil is truly in the small details and it shows. btw my machine is South Korean Schekter C-7 Custom. loving it for all the years I own it, every time i pick it up still.

it's at best 80 kg.

I've got an Ibanez RGD - like a normal RG, but a bit curvier and with a 26.5" neck. I *_LOVE_* it! It's tuned BEADF#B most of the time. Low and heavy, but still very bright, lively and clear - no mushy notes. If I can ever find one (and justify spending the money) I'd really like to get one of the RGIBs: six strings, 28" scale.

That guy is a wizard

But I believe Andy is a lefty

Andy Rehfeldt is a gift to humanity. i still come back to his stuff after over 10 years

@@DugNastyMusic uh oh!!! He will die early and is not nearly as smart as a righty!!! Can’t stand left handed guitarists!!! Play the damn thing like it’s meant to be played! Like Kiko does!!! 😆

There's a point where it's just a bass lmao

most people using 8 strings generally use all that range, I think if you play simple riffs most people prefer 6 strings with a pitch shifter. I have an 8 string and I love it because there's no need to use multiple tunings for one song for example. also 8 strings just sound very nice, it's not a bass the sound is completely different which is what is a common misconception. and you can just do more with them. to me it's nicer to play an 8 string than a 6 string, my hands are pretty big lol. I'm not a great guitarist but to me they're more fun to play, just cause they can do much much more. I think the thing is that people try to play 8 strings like 6 strings which is not what it's made for obviously. I found that 6 strings are great for easy chords and some simple licks and riffs, while 8 strings have more rhythmic expression to them in the riffs and big chords feel very welcomed. also tapping is your best friend on that fretboard because you can play a riff down low and play some accented notes up top without having to slide across the fretboard at 500 kph lol

@@CyclesAreSingularities I was meaning that when you get more than 8 strings it just starts becoming bass strings like the 3 lowest strings in the guitar in the video.

@Living In Cycles The 8 strings range is nice, with 9 and 10 strings I'd rather just use an 8 string tuned super low if it were possible.

@@DragonGrafx-16bass isn’t played or used in the same way an extended range guitar is. Notable example, meshuggahs bassist tuning to the same octave as their guitarists, or at least this was the case at one point if it isn’t still I use the 8th string mainly as a texture for harmonies underneath other notes to give some girth and depth, rather than just strike it open, I treat it as a 7 string with an optional low string to use to add to things.

It's actually easier if you cam afford a 20 000 classical guitar

@@adaptercrash That's actually what my instructor told me lol

That was Charlie Hunter's luthier for a long time. Those things were famous!

I love my 8 string more for its clean tones than it’s distorted metal ones.

What would change other than the pickups to make this viable for different genres? The same applies to 6 strings, where the only real differences in tone come from the pickups, bridge style, and scale length. Strandberg bodens come in 6-8 strings with floating or hard tail bridges, basically every major pickup type, and are incredibly ergonomic, only weighing about 6-7lbs and having every cutout you need for different playing positions. They're about 2 grand but after you play one it definitely makes sense why, but their endurneck shape can take some getting used to and some people don't like it.

Schecter made jazz 7 strings in the 90s/00s with huuuuuge bodies. Awesome instruments!

Dude, it’s not his. He’s supposed to send it to another youtuber now.

I had my 7 string for 20 years before i sold it. I much prefer 6

Classy is the word!

As a teacher, showing his process is fundamental. It's awesome to show how you learn to get to the impress levels

A certain SLAPPER

A superbass master?

Epico!

Also on Cynic's album Focus on a few tracks like Textures

uhhh listen to any revocation riff. or beyond creation riff. or spawn of possession riff. or any other band.

what an incredibly ignorant thing to say

lol

who?