Microtonal Guitar (Fixed Fret) - Tolgahan Çoğulu 

The guitar tabs must be like: "okay, play the 240th fret"

-How do you want your frets? -Just fuck my shit up.

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I love that he still likes comments

I’ve seen the fretless guitar played on youtube and now finally the fretful guitar.

I don’t sing out of tune, I just sing microtones

"Bro your guitar isn't tuned" "No, its a microtone guitar..."

3:10: Elon Musk: “wouldn’t be a bad name for a kid”

i bet guitar tabs is fucking nightmare

this guitar is fretening me.

The section of Kara Toprak you played was one of the most beautiful things I've ever heard - and with all due respect to the original artist, it is absolutely meant to be played on that guitar. The sound is just...wow.

It's so weird hearing notes that sound out of tune and in tune at the same time.

0:16 I like the technical term "its completely messed up"

luthier's nightmare

When this video was first recommended to me I had no idea what I was looking at. Now its been recommended to me again after having gotten deeply involved in music and studied theory for almost 2 years, and I have such a newfound appreciation for this :)

Microtones add such a nice new, fresh flavor/atmosphere to music.

How many frets? Guitar guy: Yes

you could play some cool medieval shit on that thing

Great guitars. You gotta respect you ever came up with that sort of music. It's not easy to play. My dad is Turkish , he plays the violin and he heard this and was amazed. Great job.

Luthier: “How many frets you want?” Him:”Yes”

2:30 damn you can really tell what King Gizzard were listening to for Flying Microtonal Banana

Omg, even the frets in between the frets have frets!

I bet you could get some interesting sounds for western scale music with these. The jazz pianist Thelonious Monk said he thought the piano needed quarter step/micro tone keys added and came up with note combinations that produced quarter tone overtones. It’s actually very interesting to listen to Monks music.

Anyone else break out in laughter when he said , "and.. this one is... completely messed up?"

I'm a Westerner but I can still hear the beauty and love in this music. Well done, microtonal material/non-equal tempered music must be much more difficult to compose, read and play.

And here is my piano with 744 keys

The second guitar sounds amazing, actually. Reminds me of warmer baroque tunings.

very beautiful. when you played the scale there were notes that sounded "out of tune," but in the context of the piece you can really hear what a difference the guitar's design makes. It was also really cool to see you hammer on/pull off on the half fret.

Every fucking comment: "why is is out of tune?" Smh

As a guitarist, it sounds horribly out of tune when you play the scale, but when you play the musical pieces, it sounds fine. It makes me think of more dissonant western scales, like Diminished, it sounds perfectly natural to me. Maybe it's because I'm a huge Marty Friedman fan, his bends really incorporate that kinda microtonal sound into some of his slower playing.

Whenever he plays a microtone I instantly think his guitar isn’t tuned.

This takes guitar playing to a whole new level. I've been playing for 18 years and I just can't wrap my head around the fret positioning and names of the tones. I wouldn't even know where to start. Great job man!

RATTLESNAKE RATTLESNAKE RATTLESNAKE RATTLES ME

Imagine a tab !!!

i love the sound of music that is not written in the traditional 12 tone temperament system. for me those songs have the feeling of mystery because im not used the microtonal sounds.

Very cool to hear maqam scales with the timbre of a guitar - great playing and engineering

But... Does it Djent?

His guitar titles are still less complicated than Ibanez ones

I'm totally baffled. All these years I didn't know these existed. Also brother, all the names that you say in this video are so new to me. Everything in this video is so new to me. Thank you.

3:42 : You enter a tavern and a man in a black robe awaits you by the fire

Anybody who think's this guitar is out of tune has no concept of intonation

In classical Turkish music (and I assume in Arabic and Persian music as well), there are nine different sounds from A to B or F to G, and five different sounds from E to F or G to G#. In Western music; however, there is not a sound in between E and F or there is only one sound, that is G#, from G to A. In other words, the perception thus the notation of the sounds are culturally different as the perception of the colors are. These guitars, then, are modified with the intention to bring capability to play the sounds classical Turkish music have but Western music do not, i.e. nine different sounds from G to A, or five different sounds from E to F. As he states in the beginning, he could have use a fretless board as well but then would the guitar not sound like a true classical guitar.

Helal be abi gururlandım cidden Erkin Korayın gitarındaki özellik de buna benzer sanırım kültürümüze özel ayarlamış perdeleri kendisi doğruysam

I love how the beginning of the one song only gives my western brain what it wants musically like every 15 seconds but it is sooo much better to hear it resolve the melody.

Tabs???

Love listening to people with accents and perfect English grammar.

I have to say, I absolutely LOVE the melody that you played after showing how the sound is different in the scale.

Even just the scale sounded so Turkish. I really love this music.

But does it djent?

This is such a great demonstration how we think this sounds 'out of tune', simply because we are so used to the 12 notes we know in 'regular' music so to say. It's a great eye-opener, or ear-opener actually.

Thank you, Tolgahan! I have heard microtonal music from other cultures before and have often wondered how that is accomplished. I had supposed that it was just very, VERY skillful string bending. Then I saw pictures of guitars, lutes and other stringed instruments with all those extra frets. And now, thanks again to Tolgahan, I get to see such an instrument skillfully played. Have an awesome day, Tolgahan!

Ah I liked this a lot! When he played the first piece it struck me as that sounds off but in a strange good way that I’m not used to. I replayed both pieces several times an really enjoyed this. The dedication you must have to practicing a microtonal guitar, is fantastic. I’m glad I happened upon this. Thank you

Anybody else love King Gizard and the Lizard Wizard?

Being Turkish but born and bred in England my ears are accustomed to both sounds. The comments made me realise that this type of guitar sound is alien to westerners like another language. Fascinating stuff!

Soy guitarrista clásico. Es muy revelador para mí ver esta guitarra de microtonos. Y tengo la impresión de que eres un guitarrista de Turquía. Son muy chéveres tus guitarras, en especial, la última.

I'd absolutely adore hearing a full version of "Nihansın Dideden" on that second guitar

I don't see the comment anymore so I'll repost it. Luthier: How you want your frets? Customer: Just fuck my shit up fam

Now play the Guitar Center rendition of _Smoke on the Water._

when a spanish marries a turkish musician

Very cool, thanks! The harmonies are phenomenal!

These guitars make regular guitars look like guitar hero

sounds good, but the tabs must be crazy

0:15 “and this one...is completely messed up” 😂 😂

Although this seems a little chaotic to learn, I found it very satisfying and pleasant to listen to. Thank you for posting this unique video and explaining the fret positions. You have my gratitude.

I didn’t know Stevie Wonder made guitars.

European = "Ehhh..." American = "Uhhh..."

0:15 - "completely messed up" caught me off guard 😂😂

Ok, this guy is on a whole different level of guitar playing.

I want to see Tosin Abasi on that 2nd guitar!

I achieve the same sounds by not tuning my guitar ever.

I come back to this video every now and again.

"...this one is all messed up," you have a beautiful sense of humor. This is the 8th year I have returned to your video. Love your work.

Fun facta; everyone who ever tried to tab this killed themselves.

And this is when I start to feel not-so-cool about my now-mediocre guitar skills...

dude....here I am, getting those pentatonics down, and then I run into this fckn video....and I aint goin down this rabbit hole.....back to jammin some metallica....I will say that music is beautiful though

Fantastic exposition. Thank you very much for sharing. Beautiful!

As a Syrian im really fascinated by how people from around the world find these guitars out of tune while to my ears they sound completely normal

Rattlesnake, rattlesnake, rattlesnake, rattlesnake.

That is beautiful!! Unfortunately for me, I think I would go crazy trying to learn that instrument. I already have enough problems with 12 tones!

I know that due to Eurocentrism most of the people watching this get an eerie feeling and they would probably say that it's "out of tune" due to it not being the "standard" 12 tonal system of the 18th century Western musicians.. But i think this thing kinda slaps especially at 2:30. I think music isn't a "universal language" in it's current state as many people seem to claim because of this separation of cultures. But if we work hard to appreciate artist from all around the world it will be eventually.

Drifting in and out of sleep is my favorite state to be know what I mean?

Very well explained and demonstrated. A problem with a lot of microtonal music is it sounds "off", not just because many people are not accustomed to microtones, but because (as you described in the video) the timbre is subpar. All the music you played didn't sound off whatsoever to me, and that is really exciting for the evolution of contemporary music.

Very nice, Tolgahancım. Congrats!

The fretboard looks like lines of code.

Tolgahan, I have been playing guitar for almost 40 years. And in all that time I have always thought that something was slightly off. I am a hardcore tuning freak! I mean I am always pressuring bandmates to get in tune and as for myself, I tune between each and every song. Even going so far as to add the tronical tuning system to my main stage guitar and one other backup guitar. After all, if you're not in tune, then even when playing at your best level you aren't sounding your best. But even with all these extra measures I have taken, the slightly off sound is still present. I just stumbled upon your video by accident and what an eye opener it was for me. I want to say to you, thank you very much! I am now going to watch more of your videos and try and fix this lifelong dilemma I have endured. I am really excited right now! Thank you very much for showing some light at the end of the tunnel! Peace to you and your family

Wow. Fretting that last one must have been quite the exercise in patience. I'm curious how it was done without cutting all the way across.

They both sound beautiful, thanks.

Incredible! Thank you for taking the time to make these guitars, and video. It's a beautiful sound that sparks imagination.

imagine having to re crown and polish the frets...

This whole time I thought I was playing out of tune, turns out I was just playing micro tones.

Not only could I listen to you speak all day,, your musical talents are insane and my ears thank you.

3:41 This gave me goosebumps.. It's beautiful..

for western people it will sound out of tune, but I grew up with this art. and I can tell difference if you play it on a classic guitar

2:31 “Sleep drifter sleep drifteeeer”

This is very awesome. Very important invention, even if not many people catching up yet.

I return to this video every year or so, phenomenal stuff. Finally bought a Turkish Oud now so I'll be able to try my hand at Makam! ❤

That is a really neat setup. That 2nd music piece was really smooth too (coming from western ears). The chord voicing you get from the micro-tones is great.

I've been playing guitar for over 30 years now; I always wondered what sounds the spaces in between frets would give us. In my opinion what we are witnessing here is the future of guitar. I cant wait to see this applied to an electric guitar!

congrats on your understanding of this guitar !!! must have taken a long time to refret this guitar to be precise !!! pretty cool stuff !!!