MusicMan Kaizen Guitar 

The Kaizen is a space age version of their Albert Lee model.

Not many people talk about how Kaizen is actually the Japanese philosophy on "continuous improvement". It's quite fitting of a name for what this guitar is trying to accomplish.

That middle clean position made me pay attention. What a nice sounding guitar.

What a bunch of really nice sounds, licks and riffs... very very nice! I like so much you tested it. Thanks!

That clean tone is phenomenal Rabbea! 👌

Got my kryptonite kaizen 7 from the Tosin workshop. It's a beast. Best neck i've ever played on

The new album is great! You really got going during the playing section of the review. Keep making great things!

sounds great, love the color/style. your playing as well, always inspiring.

Watched the Totemist video several times now, and downloaded onto Spotify. It sounds incredible!

Always a pleasure listening to your creativity. Have a great day, sir!

Great review! I'm looking forward to trying one of these out!

Scooped a Spectraflare Kaizen 7 and it’s one of my all time faves. The neck is incredible, plays so fast. Gorgeous

Wonderful playing, as usual. Made my day :D

could we get a 12 hour video with Rabea just chill-playing that you could keep on repeat forever?

looks beautiful 🤘🤘

Love music man. The Albert Lee has been a dream guitar for me for ages.

Clean tones sound amazing

Sick chops bro

Love the colour ..!!...🎸 😄 🎸

This is your new studio amazing

I love the shape and color of that guitar. Simply stunning! 😍 I do like modern design like that and also the classic ones.

I definitely need this in a 7. This is my favorite color green too so that’s a bonus!

Cool man was waiting for you to do a review on that guitar looks really interesting

Lovely green color 😁 Very nice guitar playing ☝️😁

That new ep is insane! Absolutely fantastic Bea and totemist.

Amazing playing here, radical but very cool looking guitar

It’s good too see new takes on guitar . The fan fret thing is mind blowing !!

That guitar looks and sounds great in your hands brother.

New EP is siiiiiiiiiick 🤘🤘🤘

Tasty as always. 👍👍

Yep that’s modern and classy. Abasi’s taste is exquisite and really a unique visionary.

Thanks 'Bea - You sounded great in the demo. I think this is the first Kaizen review I've seen that adequately described and visualised the infinity radius in a way that actually makes sense to me. I really do like the way the Kaizen looks and how much forward thinking has gone into it's design. The Kryptonite green is stunning against that shape. I respect that the Kaizen is distinct from Tosin's own brand of guitar and really comes across as a co-design. Would I rock one - Yes But I am a fan of single-cuts and dream of a single-cut version of it - all angles and sharp edges and thin as possible. Probably too close to the Abasi guitars though.

Love the kaizen love the lambo vibes. Will definitely be saving up for one. Cheers 🍻

I love what you were playing in the middle, around the 8:00 mark. Amazing! Is that on your record? If so, I’m sold! That way i can stop rewinding this video to hear it again!! Thanks Rabea! You are awesome bro.

⭐COOL⭐kaizen⭐guita🔥

Not seeing anything next level or new with this guitar but I'm here because its a new Rabea vid. You're one of the very few guitarist that make me pick up my guitar after watching you play.

the most underrated player

I so want one of the Kaizen guitars.

love the new axe

ugh i want one of these so bad!

Very nice…the guitar is cool as well

Hi rabea..love your playing and your channel...greetings from los angeles...

Tried a kaizen in camden, and i loved it. So good and comfy.

Badass looking axe.

God it looks so sick

Been on my wish list since they came out. That multiscale setup (24.75 on the treble side) is optimal for me and my stumpy fingers!

I like the Kaizen 😊 Thanks for sharing! And btw thanks for your music - I really enjoy #Totemist. There‘s just one thing that makes me sad: there is no merch left in XXL or 3XL. Any chance that these size become available in the near future?

Great playing cool guitar

Hi Rabea, Thanks for the review, I looked at this guitar several times and decided to buy it. Traded a guitar and took advantage of discounts. It’s very enjoyable, to play and for me it is very comfortable.

I really want one, that body is so cool to me. And woh fire bird style tuners; that alone is a really interesting choice.

I just got a Kaizen 7 ember burst, and good lord, it’s such a beautiful guitar. The infinity radius is a great concept, and took very little getting used it. Like, you can tell the difference with your eyes, but it doesn’t “feel” different in your hands. Insanely fast and comfortable neck, and the Steinberger tuners are absolutely genius. The pickups sound amazing in all 3 positions. My only “gripe” is that I wish it was a hard tail just for that little extra tuning stabilty, or full on floating. As is, it feels too stiff for my tastes, so the tremolo arm’s probably just going to live in the case. All around great guitar that is a joy to play. Ergonomic to the utmost level. Cheers!

Happy to see another facet of Marcelo Vieira

I'm not sure you directly alluded to it, but the infinity radius is to improve fret visualization on the higher strings. With the very slight multiscale and infinity radius, you can basically see all the frets in playing position when standing, it's pretty incredible. You don't notice until you compare to another guitar where you're having to constantly crain your neck. I have the Kaizen 7 and it's so comfortable. I play and practice standing, never liked playing sitting down even when I was a teenager, and I especially notice the balance and light weight of the Kaizen. When combined with a wide leather strap, you can play for hours and never notice it. The pickups are definitely unique. The heat-treated humbucker in the bridge isn't 100% to my taste, but I can solve any issues by how I boost and overdrive it (missing a little top end for me). The neck is a mini-humbucker which I prefer dirty, maybe a little muddy for me clean. But that middle position is so nice for cleans. It's a niche guitar in my arsenal, but arguably the most comfortable guitar I own. The main complaint modern players have had is about the scale length being somewhat short which limits ability to downtune much. You couldn't go down more than maybe a step from standard even with heavier gauge strings. I don't mind because I wanted a guitar in B standard, I'll use an 8 string for the super low stuff.

I like old guitars, generally, but I love that.

15:45 I like it! amazing guitar indeed would love to try once

Someday I’ll afford an EBMM guitar They inspire me so much That limited edition Mariposa really catches my attention

@Rabea could you do a video on your drums? They look amazing and as a Drummer/Guitarist I love your channel and video, but really want to get a closer look at your kit and hearing you play :)

I wish i could afford one! Im in love with the body shape. Id have to play the neck to know for sure. I would love to see an affordable Sterling version with the same body shape, and perhaps a fender or gibson scale, modern fender C shape neck with regular satin maple neck and a rosewood board. Then they could use one of the trems they already put on other Sterlings since it wouldnt be a multiscale neck. im rambling. Sick demo, Bea!

You sound so killer. Tones are incredible

Damn, thats a beautiful shape.

Them new humbuckers are quality tone !

Looks and sounds killer. Sounds very "in tune" - very well intonated with itself to me.

Nothing spectacular for the price. Shape outside the box but nothing more. Great review. It feels you were not passionate about it, thank you for the honesty

I would totally see Devin Townsend putting out some spacey signature model with Music Man

The fret markers are bright like LEDs. 😎

Those would be the Steinberger gearless tuners with 40:1 ratio.

continuous improvement

The guitar sounds fantastic. I wonder how it feels to play it? Probably never know but I can listen and live it will Bea. Thanks mate😊 nice one

Love the design and was like, oh yeah, I need to add one of these to my collection. Then I click the link and saw the $4000 price tag lol! I’d have to sell my Mayones, which pretty much ain’t happening!.

Down under we say: Noice!!!

Amazing tone man. Are you using standard tuning?

I briefly played one at a guitar show and it felt amazing. The price is a different story though lol

I love the concept of the guitar! All the details, the big horn on top kinda limits it somehow... Hard to bring to certain types of gigs. Still a big fan of it

can wait sterling version

In my dreams this guitar has a jackson neck but I still keep those original tuners and for the tremelo I go with a Schaller floyd rose... This is my frankenstein

This guitar looks like Lamborghini💚

I normally don't like pointy guitars, but this one actually looks pretty cool.

Leave it to Bea to explain a model in a way that makes me realize how hard I've been sleeping on it since it's release.

That is really cool body style, Very sharp. And no, i've not heard of it. Might sound weird, but it looks like the way green apple sour candy would taste lol

My main axe is a first gen Schecter KM7 in Lambo Green. Could this be a new addition to my herd?

It's such an interesting guitar. I love the aesthetics, and suppose I would like the ergonomics very much too. I just wish it didn't have the Lamborghini pricetag as well! I just can't justify spending 5k on a guitar, but if at some point a more affordable Sterling version would appear, I'd be very tempted.

Kaizen are intriguing, too bad not many places stock them to be able to try out

wish they made a hardtail version

Good to have your feeling about this guitar. The design is VERY beautiful. (I don't taste too much this color, but who cares?)

Tuners got a sort of reverse firebird, that neck pick-up like the mini hum bucket I suppose. Yes sort of classic guitar stance which must take a bit of getting used too, assume when your standing it’s back to normal?! Is it active Bea? Is there a truss rod access?

Oh my god.... As someone who LOVES clean lines and hates the look of bits and pieces sticking out. Guitars with too many switches/knobs, strap holders in weird places etc etc the fact it has perfectly clean line and minimal controls is AMAZING. The tuners being within the headstock and strap holder being on the back is fucking phenomenal. I would buy this guitar on aesthetic alone, I dont care if it sounds like a microwave.

The first green instrument I've seen was someone from the band YES

I really to see and play one in person. In these videos it kind of looks like a plastic toy guitar lol. Love the idea of the infinity radius.

A new guitar shape that isn't absolutely hideous?! Crazy!

Color... Mt Dew. Green Goblin. or just light green?

I will wait for a Sterling model maybe ?

take a shot every time bea says 'like'

I would 100% buy a Sterling version of this. I hope it’s in the works. I’d love this one but there’s no way I can justify $3800 for playing in my basement. Haha

Awright guys how yabea it’s Radoin

Of curse I would own one, you never have too many guitars you know.

Classic position bea is something new to me 😂 I had the plan to start play like that when I get a guitar u can actually sit like that. I had just a lte EC 1000 no way with that. Just extreme weird with an LP style. Now as I got my new schecter sunset … I’m still not playing in classic pos 🤣🤣 it just doesn’t feel quite right, even tho it’s much better as with the Paula

I know it wouldn't be a Kaizen with the changes I'd want, but basically, give me a version that didn't have the fanned fret design, as the body and headstock design are striking and attractive to me, but having smaller hands, I'd prefer a more traditional scale and fretboard design.

The hair the hair , it’s an ,."….. explosion 🤣🤯🤭🙏🏻😎

I think Abasi's guitar seems more like an "evolved" concept of a guitar. The Kaizen just looks like a guitar from Batman Beyond or some cartoon that takes place in "the future." I will say that MusicMan defiantly succeeds in improving upon the traditional guitar and bass designs.

#beastmode