I think if we lock a bunch of 6 year olds in a music room with no supervision, We will discover dozens, if not hundreds, more of these Extended Techniques
most likely we would just see them slapping the guitar lol discovering these techniques is something more related to the mastery and understanding of the instrument rather than the ignorance of it
1:19 I play both the guitar and the viola so I've tried to use my bow on the guitar of course. To say it ruins your strings is an understatement. You'll never get rid of the resin so unless you can afford to hire a roadie to change your string for you, get a second guitar for bowing (preferably an archtop with a floating bridge) or learn how to use an eBow. 2:00 You can get a much better crossed string snare drum effect if you dampen the strings a bit and play a downstroke with another finger, not the thumb. If you know how to play rasgueado or a very fast single finger back-and-forth strumming, you can get a really convincing drum roll. It's usually better to put the A string on top of the E string than the other way round and where you fret the crossed strings make a huge difference to the sound. Don't worry about breaking the strings, you have to be very careless for that to happen. You may need to tune the guitar afterwards though. 2:26 I use the B and G strings for this. It works on an acoustic guitar too if you're careful how you fret and strike. A third crossed strings efect is to use the top two strings and just thrash it - sounds absolutely horrible but in a cool way. ^_^ 2:42 Steve Hackett wears a steel ring on his little finger to create a slightly different string scraping effect. It's become one of this trademarks and really worth trying. 3:17 Nice pronounciation, don't worry! ^_^ 4:22 Here's another really cool prepared guitar effect: Take a peace of thin metal wire (a straightened out paperclip will do but ideally you want somthing slightly softer and thinner). Weave it around the strings close to the bridge (above the 6th string, under the 5th, above the 4th etc). Gives a really cool steel drum like sound. The closer you can get the wire to the bridge the better the intonation will be but it will always sound a bit out of tune. Oh, and two more paperclip tricks: 1. Put a paperclip on a string and make sure it doesn't tocuh any other strings. Gives a really eerie chime/gong sound. 2. Out a paperclip on one string and let touch lightly a neighbor string. Strike the string the paperclip is attached to and fret the one it touches. If you do it right, you get a really nice although very soft tremolo effect.
Tony Levin uses the drumstick technique on bass, he even made a specialized version for it called the funk fingers. Two sticks that strap to your fingers. Works better with bass in general and sounds really cool when done correctly
Jimmy Page (of Led Zeppelin) using the Violin bow is very cool and mysterious sounding! And to add, a cool example of "Pick Scraping" done in a cool way is the very beginning of the song "Stargazer" by Rainbow (guitarist of Deep Purple)
Jonny Greenwood from Radiohead used a bow on his 70's Fender Starcaster, notably on "Pyramid Song". On the KID AMNESIA box set released in 2021, there's a track called "Pyramid Strings" where you can hear it very clearly. Jimmy Page is famous for using his bow in the middle of "Dazed and Confused" as well as "How Many More Times".
I cant tell you how much I hated that tapping open string acoustic guitar stuff. It was huge back in the day and I feel like it was something that got SO much attention for being a neat trick that it helped usher us into an era where a lot of guitar is just neat things on instagram for 30 seconds of content other than actual songs.
That’s how I feel now as a bass player, slapping has always been a way to draw attention but in recent years it’s become a cheap gimmick because of people online. Davie504 is ridiculously skilled, but equally unfunny, I couldn’t mention bass without someone saying SLAPP or asking if it’s ok to PICC. It was worse a couple years ago but still annoying Seinfeld too, I have to explain to everyone over 40 that yes I can slap, but I don’t do it much, and no I do not know the Seinfeld theme.
threading a wire between strings either near the bottom or over wherever you want harmonics is also a very cool prepared guitar technique. look up michael chorney prepared guitar if you wanna see
i would personally put tapping in S tier solely because of mister Andrés Godoy, a one-armed man who plays some of the most intricate and creative guitar parts using only his left hand
Well I think that if each one of these techniques is well used and does serve the music, all of them could possibly reach S tier, without mentioning the others such as violoning, artificial harmonics, tuning while playing, the use of kill switch or even letting the wind play ! (Like in the last rob scallon’s video)
not really, who would cross two strings in a performance to create either a bell or snare sound. a pick scrape can be used on a whim. this tier list is trash because it doesn't consider practicality.
after pickslides got robbed, my brain stopped processing what you were saying so i don’t remember most of this video 10/10 existential crisis, will absolutely watch again later with my brain turned on
I used to do that drum stick thing and got called a weirdo. Now it's a trend? I was ahead of my time i guess...or the people in that town were just uncultured. Probably a little from column A and a little from column B.
bro pick scrape only C-tier? Shouldn't overdo it, but when placed tastefully it's definitely A-tier. Bunch of the others are some fun tricks for studio work maybe, but very impractical in nature
Garbage tier list, out of all these stuff like tapping and the flamenco percussive elements have become a key part of the genres they’re used in. Both S tier.
@@malegria9641 low action shouldn't be an issue 🤔 I found that starting from left hand hammer on/pull offs and gradually introducing the right hand worked for me, but I'm certainly no EVH
Love your videos man keep it up :) Also thank you for telling me about Justin, i just searched "how to learn guitar online" like when i first picked up a guitar and your video said Justin. If it wasn't for you i'd be completely lost
If you put tapping, you have to put sweep picking, and also, sweep picking w/ tapping (I don't mean tapping an entire arpeggio in a sweep picking style, more of the Michael Angelo Batio kind, where you do a sweep then at certain parts you add a tapped note, then there's also his extended version of this technique, where he adds a slide after the tapped note) so in guitar tab: h t p p e|--------------12--15---17--15--12-------------| b|--------13----------------------------------13------| g|--12----------------------------------------------12| and the MAB extension h t s s p p e|--------------12--15---17--18--17--15--12-------------| b|--------13----------------------------------------------13------| g|--12----------------------------------------------------------12| h= hammer-on p= pull-off s= slide t= tap
