This Weird Guitar Just Broke The Internet (Here's Why) 

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People claiming your neckless guitar songs are fake had never experienced a string getting broken, and then holding it and trying to play. I remember using a gripper to hold the string and stretch it, getting those weird sounds when picking. You are a genius Bernth :)

It's crazy how people always assume that something is fake or wrong just because they don't understand it. Good on you, keep it up. Ps: You nailed deathcore-ish style on that song!🤘❤️‍🔥

Didn't expect your extreme vocals to be THAT good. Bravo

THAT.... is pretty clever!! I'd also say you just jumped to finish line in the "how low can I tune this down" race! No more waiting for people to double drop tune their 9 strings!

Buckethead would love this.

2:15 the neighbor's lawn mower starts badly

You could put a pearlescent pick guard on it to make it a pearl neckless.

I love how you specified that it was self-made. I still have a question however: Why are the strings so long? I obviously haven't tried it out myself, but intuitively, I'd guess it's less awkward to play and easier to control with a bit less distance to pull.

You are an absolute genius around a guitar and I am willing to bet that many metal groups will be trying to emulate your techniques in the future. That is, of course if they are not doing so already. (^_^)

Thank You Bernth, I appreciate the clarity & detail in what You share with us fans.

That's crazy! I have a similar looking Ibanez guitar and the ironic thing is that the neck on it is screwed up causing the guitar sound to cut out!

Maybe Korn created their music style when one of them guitarnecks were broken 😅

was not prepared for you to be that good at vocals, damn

Your screaming vocals are sooooo good!!!! You don't show it often enough!

this was incredible dude, your channel has fr re sparked my love for guitar. Keep doing what you do best 🤟🏼❤️‍🔥

Great job Bernth! I really like the vocals on this track

Sounds really good Bernth! L338 All the best!

This might defeat the concept a bit....but you could always fill in that spot where the neck normally connects with a small block and put a bridge on it...that way you could pull the strings against that for tension instead of directly against the pickups. You'd still be controlling it by moving the headstock around in the air, but it'd probably get you a better sound. If you wanted to be super crazy, you could also remove the headstock and instead attach the strings to some sort of finger braces so that you could just attack the strings to your fingers and just move your hand around and wiggle your fingers in a monster like motion to create tension....although you'd obvious have to lose a string to do it that way. Might be an interesting concept for a neckless Bass. Anyway, cool thing you did.

Magnificent! I believe that low tuning does not matter that much. If one can make a song that is brutal and that is deep (with interesting melodies that are very expressive) that is what I believe should be valued. You are awesome Bernth! Keep up with your magnificent songs! Your guttural vocals sound insane!

I might give this neckless guitar a go, my left hand had an injury long ago that prevents me from comfortably playing most instruments for years.

Question: Do you really need all six strings? It seems like you really only use the low e and the two highest strings. Wouldn’t it be easier to leave the others off?

Drone Metal would go crazy on that thing

We need those in stores.

Awesome guitar

Maybe for V2 neck-less, you can cut past the nut on the neck and use a locking nut. The neck is gonna be a write off anyway, so might as well make it more functional.

dude, you remind me of several hero's of mine. dan swano, peter tagtgren, etc. you are above and beyond a creative and talented fellow! awesome

It's like one of those folkesy, one-stringed, broomstick-on-a-bucket instruments.

Hey bernth what about rigging an extra set of humbuckers over the top of the neck pickup? So keep the bridge pickups the same, but have two humbuckers on the neck.

Actually, i watched that first video with this guitar quite some times. I noticed the staples and some other details(which i will probably not remember now) and realized what they were needed for. But i still couldn't be sure if that was fake or not, so i took some scientific approach. I just took the end of the string in my hand so that it was held freely but without sacrificing guitar neck and tried recreating the sounds that were performed in that song. And, what would you think i got almost exactly the same sounding. I don't think i recreated all the sounds but those i did were enough to convince me that what i saw was real. Also, now i want to sacrifice some guitar for a higher purpose xD

How about you put the neck back in BUT make it with pivots at the base and head. The base pivot would let the neck swing towards and away from you and the head would swing up and down to tighten or loosen the strings. With that combination you have more control but still retain quite a lot of the "creative freedom".

A locking nut could serve this insturment well I think. Still, its pretty rad the way it is.

That vibrato is frigging insane!

I had one of these but had to replace the neck because the original "neckless neck" was warped.

Add a block at the bolt area and a fret or two.

Finally, the perfect djent machine.

This guitar plays similarly to a balloon I messed around with at work one day when there wasn't much to do. it was one of those tube balloons clowns make animals out of and I just put tension on it and changed notes by pulling or relaxing it, sounded terrible but I couldn't expect much out of a balloon but you could still clearly distinguish notes.

Super!!! 👍

Caveman riffs? No, you've taken it a step beyond, these are some primordial swamp riffs

would a floyd rose style nut lock on your headstock be more robust than the staples?

that E string sounds like a big motorbike starting up

The guitar is awesome!🎉

I wanna see cello metal but this is also pretty cool

1st time here. Loved the Song! Brilliant idea with that guitar!

goes very well with neckless vocalist corpsegrinder/george fisher of cannibal corpse :D

Play through the fire and flames on that thing

The next invention: a stringless guitar. And, of course, I do not mean some electronic gimmmickry, but just a plain old guitar modified not to have strings. My other suggestions: an electric guitar without pickups, any guitar without a bridge, an acoustic guitar without any sound-enhancing body. Also, we can modify a regular electric guitar to be pickless and fingerless. Another idea is that we can use a regular electric guitar and remove all the electronics from the inside.

brian gibson from lightning bolt would have a field day with this thing

I have nightmares trying to play yngwie on such guitars and classical on pianos with only white keys and Db and Ebs

Hey Bernth can u make a video of how you do screaming pls, I have been struggling to do it

Please try this with one bass string! You could maybe mount the head on a metal rail and have some sort of leverage mechanism to need less force to pull tension? Although that'd be more of a floating head instrument, instead of a neckless instrument.

Amazing song and sound

As a guitarist who just got a ukelin, I'd love to see your take on a bowable guitar.

Primitive but musical. You are a genius.

I wonder if a backwards acoustic guitar would sound any good. Backwards as in the sound hole on the back side.

This is perfect to make sound for film and video games with thar guitar.

Bro gonna make a stringless guitar

Even as a drummer it was very clear how this could work by your first video demonstration. I really don't get how all the guitar experts can't fathom something like this - or just test it themselves. But maybe that would expose that much of the guitar "science" is just fancy mumbo-jumbo that has no actual impact on sound.

Ok this was absolutely impressive! Well, and somewhat funny at the same time ;-)

@bernthguitar here is an idea for you: fill a guitar's body with Sulfur Hexafluoride (does the opposite of Helium when inhaled, makes the voice deeper) and see if it makes the guitar sound change

What if you took a regular electric guitar and unbolted the neck, then held it at say the 12th fret like a stick? I'd assume this would be a lot easier on your left arm.

That sounds beautiful

Wow... this was amazing

Dude you could use any object as a neck with that thing.

I can't believe people say it's fake, if you have ever messed around with your guitar while loosening the strings or putting strings on you would already partially recognize the sound

The neckless guitar is fascinating, but WOW your screaming vocals are good!!

nice! good song really keep it up

Can you make a compact travel version out of an e-Ukulele? 😁

I guess no one ever broke a guitar neck and did this before. 12 year old me thought it was fun.🍻

oiso i muas echt sogn, i werd immer mehr fan von Dir!! :) looking down to all the english comments i thought, maybe youre happy about a "Mundart" comment. 😊 Great stuff and great ideas and of course musically brilliant!! LG from OÖ

Signature BERNTH Ibanez Neckless Guitar release date? 🤣🤘🔥

Sound cool as hell

Does it work on an acoustic guitar

I imagine someone listening this killer song for the first time on Spotify, and looking for the video afterwards... 👀 haha

"My name is Mud!"

Anyone that still doubts that this can be done, there's an easier way to do this that doesn't require sacrificing a guitar neck. Take the neck off of your guitar and put your strings through the bridge like normal. Grab your low (or high if you want) E and pull it tight, while leaving the other strings hanging loosely. Use pliers if you want and give the loose end a couple twists and pull, making sure the others come along for the ride in your hand, but still loose. With a bit of practice, you'll find the right angle and tension needed to be able to make something that sounds better than having your whammy bar pushed all the way down and hitting the strings across your pickup(s) to make amplifier farts.

Why didn't I think of that!? Semi flaccid invisible neck that gets harder the more you play it! Yeah!

thats cool and all... but can you play through the fire and flames on it?

Thats awesome. You should try running your guitar through a karaoke machine

OMG 🤣, are they still going on about this..?🙄🤣 It must suck for your life to be so sad, that when "Anyone" uses their imagination or thinks outside the box to create something, you automatically think it's fake..! Unless they're being cheeky to bring attention to crazy innovations..! Awesome Work Bernth, as always

its called dope for a reason !!!

What scale length is that guitar?

I think it’d be sick if you did a collab with Josh Travis 😮

Imagine restringing this thing🤯

Do the middle strings even get used?

He essentially recorded a full short song with a broken guitar, haha!

Lads & djents: the green economy guitar, which uses less wood than usual💚☘️🌲

WHITCH CRAFT is This ❔

bernth!!!!🤟

It kinda has a sawmill/sludgy bass sound to it.

Good idea 👍🤟🤟

Genius

Do the roar

Genius!

I want to see you play air guitar

for people who don't know how this works, electric guitars make sound through electromagnets in the form of pickups that detect the vibration of the strings which is why electric guitar strings are different to acoustic steel strings since the strings need to be made with a ferrous/magnetic metal like nickel whereas acoustic strings are made from copper or bronze and won't make any sound if they are put onto an electric. going neckless like this is just a demonstration of how the pickups 'pick up' any string vibration

I want to see a stringless guitar 😅

love

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