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@@offtheleashman if you got your guitar new they should come with the guitar. Otherwise just search for Fender tremolo arm tension strings. StewMac also has their own version that includes a ball bearing to prevent binding. Hope this helps!
@@offtheleashman why do you think new fenders have a sticker over the trem hole? most people lose that spring within 12 seconds of owning it and never even know it was there
For the "glue calluses" hack, the original video uses cyanoacrylate glue/superglue rather than elmer's white glue. Probably not gonna change your ultimate opinion of the hack, but the dried CA would definitely be harder and more securely bonded to your fingertips than the white glue would.
@@joeblough261 LOL. it just smells like cloves and antiseptic, so if thats not your thing..... But I agree. It works great and its good for all kinds of stuff- skinned knee while laying gaffer tape, fingernails/skin cracks, cracked callous. I keep a tiny bottle of that with my guitar stuff. Never know when a string will break or something and you poke yourself with the end- that sh*t hurts!
I used superglue after I slashed most of my fingers open before a gig. Held pretty well for the first 20 minutes... I guess the blood running down my hand added to the metal show, but that gig really sucked for me 😄
@@CupFullOfMead Hospitals use (sterile) CA glue all the time instead of stitching small wounds. It works great and I've used it a couple of times on myself when I couldn't be bothered to go to the hospital.
The fact that he litterally uses a shot glass, the most well known guitar slide replacement, in the original tiktok just screams to me that it is on purpose to attract involvement
@@catarinabarbosa2247 I'm more outraged w y'all's conspiracy and negativity and and I'm more engagement to this chick she's dork wife material but I'm gay
@@catarinabarbosa2247 I'm still thinking about this and it's upsetting like it's just a joke he drinks from a shot glass drinks too much then comes up with a convoluted lifehack to make in essence a shot glass like I'm 100$ serious why are you all so joke numb? How come when you watched this you immediately though it's some plot to upset people and get attraction like, are you that insubordinate and cherlish that you dont understand people tell jokes by making little characters and acting out their situations and then people laugh like when you watch breaking bad are you p word that no one arrested this awful meth teacher yet it's all fake it's all just entertainment and idk science it's not a plot to get the people upset I mean yeah I'm upset but that's by attrition to you people, it's like you are the real bait to get upset attention by acting like a joke video is bait y'all are joke numb
On her “How to Cook That” channel, Ann Reardon has also included this bottle-cutting technique in one of her Dangerous Hacks compilations. Very bad, apparently… not only does it usually not work, besides the obvious fire hazard the bottle can shatter
HA would never have expected to see myself in one of your videos but I'm honored!! Enjoy that tuning, you can capo it to modulate anywhere too and it still works :).
Is that an actual Canadian saying if someone is appearing a little too enthusiastic? Kind of like how we'd say "calm ya' farm mate" in NZ if someone's getting over exited.
@@KelticKabukiGirl never heard "chill your dill", but alot of my fellow Americans across multiple states have all said "calm your tits" at one point or another.
I did the tour at Sun Studio a few years back, and they showed us a version of the paper in the strings thing. They said that Johnny Cash weaved a dollar bill through the strings, wrapped it loosely around the neck and fixed it together with a piece of tape. He put it at about the fifth fret, or so, and started playing the Boom-chic-a rhythm. It sounded so much like a train it was ridiculous.
Came looking for this comment. I’ve heard of SRV, and Flea having to use super glue to repair their fingers during a performance, but as someone who likes to make mess with super glue, I can say it’s probably not a good idea to cover your finger tips with super glue, because it’s going to take skin when it cracks away.
Double bass players and harpists and slap bassists know this all too well. I dunno if there's another string instrument that isn't shy about blood sacrifices.
Ive been saying for years playing on an open tuning specifically with a slide is so good for begginers. Immediately you can make stuff that sounds good instead of muting everything and giving up and it gives you so much room to play around. It also gives you basics of scales and an idea of what sounds good together
I have a Les Paul with horrible action that I spent years trying to fix but never got it right, fret heights all over the place, but it has a nice bluesy tone. So I set it up for open D and just play it with a slide. Hours of fun.
@@yobrethren I'm not locked in to open D as such, it just happened to work well on the Les Paul, but I love tinkering with alternate tunings. I wish I'd known about things like double drop D and Nashville tuning when I was a teenager! I suggest trying EVERYTHING! Every open tuning has its own quirks and little tricks hidden inside.
As a strat owner, I was today years old when I learned that this was how this was supposed to be used. So thank you, Sammy, for not making me feel stupid.
This thin white sealing tape you can use on piping is also working wonders on the thread of the trem bar. Same effect, but the spring is more durable. Another cool hack that's not in the video: church bell sound. Weave your pick between the d and g string, twist it (top of the pick now facing the fretboard), and push it on top of the 5th fret. Pick the d and g string and you get a wicked spaghetti western showdown churchbell sound.
for the sliding glass hack, you're supposed to score the glass first. It will give the glass a weak line to break. Also, no need for a lot of string, just enough to hold a little acetone to burn. Then when putting it in water the temperature difference will snap the glass on the line. It also works on bigger bottles if you want to make a glass or vase.
Sammy I freaking love your videos. You deadpan tying your luscious manbun to the guitar toggle switch to emulate a way pedal is the funniest thing I have seen all week.
You used the wrong glue… lol Superglue actually does work for “faux calluses” and stuff. I use it for first aid for sealing up cuts and stuff too, but I’ve actually made fake “calluses” for when I was doing a big paracord job for someone. I used a few layers of super glue to make some “calluses” to protect the skin on my fingers where I was pulling the knots over and over. So it does actually work, but I wouldn’t recommend it. It takes days to get the glue off completely and can rip off a ton of skin if you’re not careful.
@@coryman125 Yes, you’re correct. Super glue was invented by accident while trying to make acrylic lenses for gun optics in WW2, but was developed during the Vietnam war as “liquid stitches” and was used to close wounds in the battlefield as triage to get soldiers to a surgical team further away. I’ve actually had wounds glued shut.. I had half my right lung removed because of cancer when I was about 14 and even though it was a massive chest wound, they just closed it up with flexible and super tough super glue! It was really cool stuff and bizarre seeing a huge cut sealed shut with no stitches. It was flexible but very strong, and just slowly dissolved or broke down as my body healed.. the extra stuff around the wound just kinda rolled and peeled off as I bathed. I like that they used glue for me, because apparently they had different types which allowed them to do really cool and intricate work to precisely seal me up! They stitched the underlying muscles together properly with super tiny micro sutures that dissolve, in tandem with glue (kinda like glue and screws in wood. The screws/stitches just hold everything in place and aligned while the glue sets/my body heals!) and then glued the fat and lower skin levels together with only a few dissolving sutures to keep it from potentially pulling open and then the top most layer was just glued shut and coated with a top layer of protective stretchy flexible glue to seal everything up and close the wound up completely. Pretty cool! Modern medicine is incredible and I’m very thankful for it. It all started as a mistake that saved lives in a war and then it helped my body heal up almost perfectly to 99.9% so I could still do stuff and enjoy life! Super glue is pretty damn cool. Fun fact: Super glue was actually much more common in veterinarian work because animals are more unpredictable and would rip stitches and whatnot.. Vets would use it to mend bones, fix shells, beaks, claws, horns… you name it! After Vietnam it saved animals, then was further developed into more medical specific glue types like the ones used on me. That’s pretty sweet… I like animals so knowing the same thing that helped me, saved some animals too is cool as hell!
One of the first times I had a jam session and my fingertips were all chewed up from practice, I tried Liquid Band-Ade. It worked like a CHARM. Lasted a good 3 hours into jam time until they started to peal off, But then I could just re-apply a second coat and it dries hard in 2 minutes. TWO THUMBS UP!
I bowled competitively for 20plus years and we did the same thing...whether it was split fingertips or a ripped open thumb, nu-skin or super glue was a game saver. Cool that other folks figured that out...
Dépend on your can opener, mine doesn't leave the lid sharp... It just remove the glue between the can and the lid and it's never sharp Get a better can opener 😜
2 things: I had some lessons with Carol Kaye, and she also has a mute on her bass -- but it's made out of duct tape and a cut-up kitchen sponge! Sounds great! Second, an 11/16 deep socket (from a socket wrench set) makes a decent slide in a pinch, if you happen to have tools in the car you drove to the gig. The kind of car I used to drive, I ALWAYS had tools with me :-)
I've used sockets as slides before, they sound a bit different to a normal slide and I think that it's down to the weight of them, possibly the finish 🤔
Man. One of the favourite items I ever owned was this beautiful vintage ceramic guitar slide which fitted my finger perfectly. The sound it made was so damn good. It was this really cool deep cobalt blue which had this deep effect which was just amazing to look at while high... Then I accidentally dropped it on a tile floor and it shattered... I was genuinely sad foe a long time due to it. Never seen a similar one since. Dunno even what brand it was from.
I remember having a hard time to find the strat trem arm spring in where I live, so I tried another (and cheaper) hack: wrapping the trem arm thread with plumbers tape. Worked like a charm.
This is the way to fix that on Mexican Strats as well, since the hole for the term arm goes all the way through the block. I tried putting a spring in and it just fell through the other side. Plumber's tape on the other hand works like a charm.
What Malinda did with the open Csus tuning is basically what Joni Mitchell has been doing her whole life. Learn some of Joni's tunings and playing style, they're utterly sublime.
Can you explain what they are saying/doing after 9:18? I don't understand what he means by fretting the bottom 3 strings and letting the top 2 ring out... He is playing a SIX string right??
@@QuantumLeap89 yeah, maybe he's talking about the bottom two in regards to how they sound with the rest of the chord. Not sure. Maybe he's muting the G string? Doubt it. The bottom three should just be played out I assume.
Yeah, open tunings like this we're all the rage back in the 90s. Goo Goo Dolls, Common Children. Another popular version of this was DADAAE. Really great for 3 piece bands!
The beer bottle slide is a thing that country musicians make for a diddly bow, it's moreso because it's longer than a shotglass and you're supposed to sand it down. Cheaper than buying a slide if you have a glass bottle lying around, and is a nice little weekend project, but it's not an emergency thing. Just use a shot glass.
For long hair people. I used to play with my hair in the strings between both hands. It makes the vibration of the strings to end very early. I liked because it sounded a little bit psychadelic
I was once in a real life situation where I needed a slide and didn't have one. The shot glass was also my favoured choice of replacement. Works great!
I found out about the Strat springs a couple of years ago. Never looked back. I thought I was the only one who didn't know so I am glad you shared the knowledge.
Hey Sammy. I'm a cabinet/furniture design builder. I imagine you just didn't realize this, but of course the type of glue you used would never work and would be worse than using nothing even for a beginners soft fingertips. On the other hand, using superglue is an old trick that's been around at least since I was a child. Players often used it when they got cuts on their fingertips to hold the wound together. I know for sure Jimmy Page did that.
The coolest guitar trick i learned was this. If you play the guitar in a classical position, put some skateboard grip tape on the bottom of your guitar. Then it sits on your leg where you put it and it doesn't move or slide around.
6:25 I swear i heard you inner Julian or Bubbles coming out there hahaha! That trem spring thing spun me, I am a complete beginner and play acoustic but to think tht such a small change made THAT much of a difference. Wao 😯
Your reaction to the last one was hilarious. At the big show, but you don't have a slide, but I do happen to have this large laundry list of household products. Hahahaha. Just use the shot glass.
I've been doing something similar to that first hack, for years. I installed 3 mini tuners on a headstock, and double string the high E, B, and G. The bridge end I just tie classical guitar style, to the saddle. I tune the extra strings slightly flat, to bring a bit of that "rubbed" note feel, like bending a string to the pitch of an open drone note.
on the topic of calluses yeah it'll hurt, you may also notice slight bruising, so it'll hurt starting out but that's okay, when it starts to hurt more than your comfortable with, just put it down for the day, relax and do other things trust me, your fingers will adapt fast and you'll be able to play without any pain stick to it, you got this
never played guitar or instrument for that matter I just produce on my laptop. But for some reason I've been on a bender watching all this mans videos and now I'm considering purchasing a Strat and getting started.
The glue calous works if you use super glue. I only did it once when my finger had a cut, super glue is basically liquid stitches so I glued it shut so I could still play. The only caveat is that you have to 100% sure it's dry before touching the guitar.
Marty Friedman uses a scrunchy just below the neck nut when recording to get the same effect as the TP trick. So maybe that'll be less mess or prone to disintegrating when coming in contact with sweat. Also, the slide trick was rather common in the blues regions. But done using everclear, string, and a wall. Hence why so many glass slides in the store look like beer bottle necks.
The open g sus is what pagey used in the rain song. Play an " open A7" at your 7th fret as one slow downward strum, repeat at 6th fret, you'll sus out the rest, bro.
Weaving a thick rubber band (instead of TP) through the strings of an electric guitar also achieves a similar muted sound. A folded piece of foil the size of a piece of chewing gum, inserted near the bridge, is Coral Sitar-like. I had 'real' one, a '68, that a local bluegrass-oriented music store didn't know what to do with. They sold it to my wife for $325 in 2005. :) Later, when one of our cars gave out, I was able to sell that - generally troublesome - relic for a lovely profit on Ebay. 'Carma' is sometimes good.
I liked the sticky note sound. Also the slide trick is actually how you make cups and art out of liquor bottles. Maybe you werent letting it grt hot enough. You wanna spin it to let the flame burn up. Gotta get real hot then shock it cold
Asfar as I know Strats come with a sticker covering the hole for the bar. A spring and a ballbearing was in the hole with mine. In the instructions of the Strat it even said to cover the hole after removing the bar not to lose the spring and ball.
Wiith regards to the open tuning of C G C G C D, Devin Townsend uses a similar tuning with E instead of D in the song Deadhead for that very reason. 10/10 would recommend.
The glue hack requires cyanoacrylate (SuperGlue), not PVA (Elmer's). You can just apply it directly to your fingertips; there is no reason to (and plenty of reason not to) first glue your fingers to a bottle cap. The result is durable, long-lasting calluses. I have a couple damaged fingertips (Don't ask) and this has been a help over the years.
I never had a spring for my bar, it what I’ve always done is wrap the threads in Teflon tape. I’ve come to like how smooth it make the bar when you move it.👍🏻
Lmao, the Fender springs. I knew that one, and I play Gibsons. The look on your face was priceless. Now, you will probably use the old wiggle stick a lot more. Which is a good thing. That's why I have a Lifeson L.P. Love the trem.
That dude definitely did not invent using paper as a mute. Some hollow body basses like the Gibson EB-2 has built in mutes that used felt to make them sound more like an upright. I borrowed an EB-2 from a friend and used it in jazz band, when i had to give it back and was on my cheap Yamaha RBX170 I folded up a piece of binder paper and rolled down the tone knob, worked great and though it looked weird none of the judges at the jazz competitions complained.
on the glue trick, the other guy used superglue. it's a big difference compared to Elmer's. Elmer's is rubbery until it cures and that takes days. superglue hardens instantly when 2 surfaces are put together. Elmer's glue is rubbery and comes off. I remember when I started playing guitar some 40 years ago.my fingers would literally bleed from playing so much.
Went to the guitar store to buy some of those tiny springs for my trem bar. They didn't have any, didn't know what I was talking about, and thought I was stupid. Had to use thread tape I had at work instead.
when he did the toilet paper thing and he said "i just came up with this" i chucked because of one reason I've been doing that since i got my ukulele then he added reverb and as a ukulele player with a fully acoustic ukulele i cried
To any beginner scared of the painful fingers, listen. The more you play, the harder and more numb your fingers will get. You ever hike a long way for a long time? eventually you don't get blisters because your foot hardens up. It's exactly the same. The pain never passes a certain point and 1 or 2 days off in between 7 to 10 days of heavy playing will get them fingers rock hard.
The open tuning hack blew my mind when Paul Davids came up with that in open D, you should check that out before giving a TikTok video credit for it :D
4:35 lol! LOL! *******When I began teaching my daughter guitar at 8 years old her mother, though it worked did not apreciate me putting thin layer of super glue on my daughters digits, letting them dry and then it transitioned her into finger strength and building her own fleshy calluses! secondary benny: I keep layers of t.p. or tissue along with super glue and fine sandpaper in my guitar cases in the event I have to play with a cut across the fingers that would often allow a nickel silver stinging of the string to enter wound. Build up layers of Tissue and super glue over a cut or blister as though you were bondoing a vehicle then sand finish! your back in the Game Pain FREE!******* I am an Artist and Craftsman and Constantly find my digits with at least small nuisance cuts!! LOL!
For the post-it note in the acoustic, this can actually sound good. You just used the wrong kind of paper. Johnny Cash frequently used a matchbook cover in this fashion for a more percussive sound. If you wanted that sitar sound, you would want a harder piece of paper or even a thin piece of plastic from something like a soda bottle.
I’ve been playing for almost 47 years I got calluses on my fingers from a playing Kusic guitars most of my guitar career there are about an 8th inch deep into the tips of my fingers I no longer even feel the strings but my fingers were sore when I first started but I just tufted out that’s how bad I wanted to play and that was in 1974 and I am 70 years old and still playing
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Thanks for your message here.. and thanks for deleting the comment under mine that pointed me to Telegram. Don’t worry that dude had ZERO personality… there can only be one you!
I reported that YT channel that pointed me there and reported the account on Telegram. I told him the great free prize he wanted to give me should go to someone who really really deserves it…. Like himself…
Dude thank you so much he asked for my full name I gave it to him and then realized and 3 minutes later I deleted the message
you didn't use the right type of glue so the test doesen't count
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I love how you used a part for its created purpose and gave it a 10.
Blame whoever doesnt explain that to people lol
and it was a game changer! where do you get them? the guy said they were fender parts
rtfm
@@offtheleashman if you got your guitar new they should come with the guitar. Otherwise just search for Fender tremolo arm tension strings. StewMac also has their own version that includes a ball bearing to prevent binding. Hope this helps!
@@offtheleashman why do you think new fenders have a sticker over the trem hole? most people lose that spring within 12 seconds of owning it and never even know it was there
For the "glue calluses" hack, the original video uses cyanoacrylate glue/superglue rather than elmer's white glue. Probably not gonna change your ultimate opinion of the hack, but the dried CA would definitely be harder and more securely bonded to your fingertips than the white glue would.
Old school sand fingernail file will create callus faster. olive oil and be gentle. Also eat jello.
@@joeblough261 LOL. it just smells like cloves and antiseptic, so if thats not your thing..... But I agree. It works great and its good for all kinds of stuff- skinned knee while laying gaffer tape, fingernails/skin cracks, cracked callous. I keep a tiny bottle of that with my guitar stuff. Never know when a string will break or something and you poke yourself with the end- that sh*t hurts!
I used superglue after I slashed most of my fingers open before a gig. Held pretty well for the first 20 minutes... I guess the blood running down my hand added to the metal show, but that gig really sucked for me 😄
@@CupFullOfMead “hey, that guy off the album cover is playing guitar!!” * points at Cup, mistaking him for Eddie from Iron Maiden *
@@CupFullOfMead Hospitals use (sterile) CA glue all the time instead of stitching small wounds. It works great and I've used it a couple of times on myself when I couldn't be bothered to go to the hospital.
The fact that he litterally uses a shot glass, the most well known guitar slide replacement, in the original tiktok just screams to me that it is on purpose to attract involvement
oh absolutely it was done to get that outrage engagement
Yeah yep. Agreed. Click bait
@@catarinabarbosa2247 I'm more outraged w y'all's conspiracy and negativity and and I'm more engagement to this chick she's dork wife material but I'm gay
@@catarinabarbosa2247 I'm still thinking about this and it's upsetting like it's just a joke he drinks from a shot glass drinks too much then comes up with a convoluted lifehack to make in essence a shot glass like I'm 100$ serious why are you all so joke numb? How come when you watched this you immediately though it's some plot to upset people and get attraction like, are you that insubordinate and cherlish that you dont understand people tell jokes by making little characters and acting out their situations and then people laugh like when you watch breaking bad are you p word that no one arrested this awful meth teacher yet it's all fake it's all just entertainment and idk science it's not a plot to get the people upset I mean yeah I'm upset but that's by attrition to you people, it's like you are the real bait to get upset attention by acting like a joke video is bait y'all are joke numb
On her “How to Cook That” channel, Ann Reardon has also included this bottle-cutting technique in one of her Dangerous Hacks compilations. Very bad, apparently… not only does it usually not work, besides the obvious fire hazard the bottle can shatter
HA would never have expected to see myself in one of your videos but I'm honored!! Enjoy that tuning, you can capo it to modulate anywhere too and it still works :).
Open Cm with capo also great (at least for fingerstyle)
Tallest man on earth uses something very similar in "The Wild Hunt" and it's beyond beautiful. Great hack
Don't tell!?
I mean, using a capo to modulate it anywhere is a feature of all tunings.
Jimmy page did that 50 years ago
"Holy f***** sh** boys, that's a game changer" - that is true Canadian enthusiasm, eh?
Keep your stick on the ice, Sammy
"LEAVE IT ON THE IIIICE!"
And don't be afraid to giver!
Is that an actual Canadian saying if someone is appearing a little too enthusiastic? Kind of like how we'd say "calm ya' farm mate" in NZ if someone's getting over exited.
@@michaelwaynemartin3291 Americans say "Chill your dill" amongst other idioms
@@KelticKabukiGirl never heard "chill your dill", but alot of my fellow Americans across multiple states have all said "calm your tits" at one point or another.
I did the tour at Sun Studio a few years back, and they showed us a version of the paper in the strings thing. They said that Johnny Cash weaved a dollar bill through the strings, wrapped it loosely around the neck and fixed it together with a piece of tape. He put it at about the fifth fret, or so, and started playing the Boom-chic-a rhythm. It sounded so much like a train it was ridiculous.
6:23 I love how strong levels of excitement seems to bring out the Ricky in Canadians.
Not disagreeing about the glue/callous thing, but superglue on the fingertips actually works and is useful if you have cracks/cuts on them.
He is using normal glue instead of superglue on this video, that's why it didnt work for him
Stevie Ray once had his callous fall off in the middle of a gig, he asked for some super glue, glued it back on and kept playing.
Came looking for this comment. I’ve heard of SRV, and Flea having to use super glue to repair their fingers during a performance, but as someone who likes to make mess with super glue, I can say it’s probably not a good idea to cover your finger tips with super glue, because it’s going to take skin when it cracks away.
Double bass players and harpists and slap bassists know this all too well. I dunno if there's another string instrument that isn't shy about blood sacrifices.
@@hraefn1821 what a disgusting human being
Ive been saying for years playing on an open tuning specifically with a slide is so good for begginers. Immediately you can make stuff that sounds good instead of muting everything and giving up and it gives you so much room to play around. It also gives you basics of scales and an idea of what sounds good together
i sometimes like to drum about by muting strings, a similar effect, and always available unless you have 2 or even less fingers
I have a Les Paul with horrible action that I spent years trying to fix but never got it right, fret heights all over the place, but it has a nice bluesy tone. So I set it up for open D and just play it with a slide. Hours of fun.
@@DJSockmonkeyMusic open E does it for me, but i want to experiment with open A
@@yobrethren I'm not locked in to open D as such, it just happened to work well on the Les Paul, but I love tinkering with alternate tunings. I wish I'd known about things like double drop D and Nashville tuning when I was a teenager! I suggest trying EVERYTHING! Every open tuning has its own quirks and little tricks hidden inside.
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I'm shocked you didn't know about the trem spring in your strat!
I did not but have only been playing since 1970. Dont be too shocked, none of my musical peers knew about it either.
It's embarrassing really
I don't even own a strat and I knew about that years ago
As a strat owner, I was today years old when I learned that this was how this was supposed to be used. So thank you, Sammy, for not making me feel stupid.
This thin white sealing tape you can use on piping is also working wonders on the thread of the trem bar. Same effect, but the spring is more durable.
Another cool hack that's not in the video: church bell sound. Weave your pick between the d and g string, twist it (top of the pick now facing the fretboard), and push it on top of the 5th fret. Pick the d and g string and you get a wicked spaghetti western showdown churchbell sound.
9:53 I love listening to the sound of this; I love the acoustic guitar SO much! The rhythm just emulates a heartbeat effect on me. So smooth.
for the sliding glass hack, you're supposed to score the glass first. It will give the glass a weak line to break. Also, no need for a lot of string, just enough to hold a little acetone to burn. Then when putting it in water the temperature difference will snap the glass on the line. It also works on bigger bottles if you want to make a glass or vase.
Do you know the strat he's playing?
@@timothyelems1357quilt maple top rarities strat
Sammy I freaking love your videos. You deadpan tying your luscious manbun to the guitar toggle switch to emulate a way pedal is the funniest thing I have seen all week.
8:51 I died when it started playing on it's own for a good few seconds.
You used the wrong glue… lol
Superglue actually does work for “faux calluses” and stuff. I use it for first aid for sealing up cuts and stuff too, but I’ve actually made fake “calluses” for when I was doing a big paracord job for someone. I used a few layers of super glue to make some “calluses” to protect the skin on my fingers where I was pulling the knots over and over.
So it does actually work, but I wouldn’t recommend it. It takes days to get the glue off completely and can rip off a ton of skin if you’re not careful.
Or... You may just soak it in water and let the natural flexibility of the skin peel it off for you...
Agreed. Have done It. Used light grit sandpaper to take It off after. Would not recommend. Only if absoluty had to.
If I remember correctly superglue actually has a long history in medicine, so that checks out
@@coryman125 Yes, you’re correct.
Super glue was invented by accident while trying to make acrylic lenses for gun optics in WW2, but was developed during the Vietnam war as “liquid stitches” and was used to close wounds in the battlefield as triage to get soldiers to a surgical team further away.
I’ve actually had wounds glued shut.. I had half my right lung removed because of cancer when I was about 14 and even though it was a massive chest wound, they just closed it up with flexible and super tough super glue! It was really cool stuff and bizarre seeing a huge cut sealed shut with no stitches. It was flexible but very strong, and just slowly dissolved or broke down as my body healed.. the extra stuff around the wound just kinda rolled and peeled off as I bathed.
I like that they used glue for me, because apparently they had different types which allowed them to do really cool and intricate work to precisely seal me up! They stitched the underlying muscles together properly with super tiny micro sutures that dissolve, in tandem with glue (kinda like glue and screws in wood. The screws/stitches just hold everything in place and aligned while the glue sets/my body heals!) and then glued the fat and lower skin levels together with only a few dissolving sutures to keep it from potentially pulling open and then the top most layer was just glued shut and coated with a top layer of protective stretchy flexible glue to seal everything up and close the wound up completely.
Pretty cool!
Modern medicine is incredible and I’m very thankful for it. It all started as a mistake that saved lives in a war and then it helped my body heal up almost perfectly to 99.9% so I could still do stuff and enjoy life!
Super glue is pretty damn cool.
Fun fact: Super glue was actually much more common in veterinarian work because animals are more unpredictable and would rip stitches and whatnot.. Vets would use it to mend bones, fix shells, beaks, claws, horns… you name it! After Vietnam it saved animals, then was further developed into more medical specific glue types like the ones used on me.
That’s pretty sweet… I like animals so knowing the same thing that helped me, saved some animals too is cool as hell!
@@DanteYewToob Oh wow, that is very cool, thank you for sharing! :) glad you healed up well
That´s probably the most emotion I´ve seen from Sammy G at 6:05
On the "no slide hack" It's nice to see that after a long enough time slide will be rediscovered as they originally were (hence the name "bottleneck")
That guitar tuning was amazing. I love that sound and it really makes the acoustic sound beautiful.
One of the first times I had a jam session and my fingertips were all chewed up from practice, I tried Liquid Band-Ade. It worked like a CHARM. Lasted a good 3 hours into jam time until they started to peal off, But then I could just re-apply a second coat and it dries hard in 2 minutes. TWO THUMBS UP!
I bowled competitively for 20plus years and we did the same thing...whether it was split fingertips or a ripped open thumb, nu-skin or super glue was a game saver. Cool that other folks figured that out...
Definitely be careful with the can lid drum trick. Those lids can be incredibly sharp.
Dépend on your can opener, mine doesn't leave the lid sharp... It just remove the glue between the can and the lid and it's never sharp
Get a better can opener 😜
2 things: I had some lessons with Carol Kaye, and she also has a mute on her bass -- but it's made out of duct tape and a cut-up kitchen sponge! Sounds great! Second, an 11/16 deep socket (from a socket wrench set) makes a decent slide in a pinch, if you happen to have tools in the car you drove to the gig. The kind of car I used to drive, I ALWAYS had tools with me :-)
I've used sockets as slides before, they sound a bit different to a normal slide and I think that it's down to the weight of them, possibly the finish 🤔
I prefer a 3/4 in the textured finish (ie. impact sockets) but hey, fat fingers
Andy Summers would use a kitchen sponge on his guitar as well
I love that one of these 'Hacks' is using a Strat properly hahahaha
Lmfao the other 10/10 is that alternate tuning is a 'hack'
Super glue works great for sealing cuts on your fingertips. You can’t just “tough it out” when you rip calluses off in the middle of a gig.
The springs that came with the Strat in a bag.,, love it.
Man. One of the favourite items I ever owned was this beautiful vintage ceramic guitar slide which fitted my finger perfectly. The sound it made was so damn good. It was this really cool deep cobalt blue which had this deep effect which was just amazing to look at while high... Then I accidentally dropped it on a tile floor and it shattered... I was genuinely sad foe a long time due to it. Never seen a similar one since. Dunno even what brand it was from.
that's what she said!😀
Justin Johnson has a couple to look at.
Try a search I bet you’ll find what your looking for!
@@patrickodell7654 thanks, I'll check it out!
Sorry for your loss. Just remember the good times.
@@mike-ue4wy I love how it seems he's lost his partner or something
LOL @ "the poor man's wah pedal!" I'm dying over here! (It actually sounded pretty cool.)
The trem spring bit is the most emotion Samurai guitarist shown to me
I remember having a hard time to find the strat trem arm spring in where I live, so I tried another (and cheaper) hack: wrapping the trem arm thread with plumbers tape. Worked like a charm.
This is the way to fix that on Mexican Strats as well, since the hole for the term arm goes all the way through the block. I tried putting a spring in and it just fell through the other side. Plumber's tape on the other hand works like a charm.
I use heat shrink, cheers!
What Malinda did with the open Csus tuning is basically what Joni Mitchell has been doing her whole life. Learn some of Joni's tunings and playing style, they're utterly sublime.
Can you explain what they are saying/doing after 9:18?
I don't understand what he means by fretting the bottom 3 strings and letting the top 2 ring out...
He is playing a SIX string right??
@@QuantumLeap89 yeah, maybe he's talking about the bottom two in regards to how they sound with the rest of the chord. Not sure. Maybe he's muting the G string? Doubt it. The bottom three should just be played out I assume.
Yeah, open tunings like this we're all the rage back in the 90s. Goo Goo Dolls, Common Children. Another popular version of this was DADAAE. Really great for 3 piece bands!
Malinda usually does vocal videos, but it’s nice of her to come across with a guitar hack.
The beer bottle slide is a thing that country musicians make for a diddly bow, it's moreso because it's longer than a shotglass and you're supposed to sand it down. Cheaper than buying a slide if you have a glass bottle lying around, and is a nice little weekend project, but it's not an emergency thing. Just use a shot glass.
Good choice on swapping to the Orangewood for the glue one. I was worried about the strat
I'm honestly surprised you didn't know about the spring for the trem bar. 🤯
For long hair people. I used to play with my hair in the strings between both hands. It makes the vibration of the strings to end very early. I liked because it sounded a little bit psychadelic
sometimes you’ll find strats with a colored circle covering the trem hole (ew) which keeps the spring from falling out
I was once in a real life situation where I needed a slide and didn't have one. The shot glass was also my favoured choice of replacement. Works great!
I found out about the Strat springs a couple of years ago. Never looked back. I thought I was the only one who didn't know so I am glad you shared the knowledge.
Hey Sammy. I'm a cabinet/furniture design builder. I imagine you just didn't realize this, but of course the type of glue you used would never work and would be worse than using nothing even for a beginners soft fingertips. On the other hand, using superglue is an old trick that's been around at least since I was a child. Players often used it when they got cuts on their fingertips to hold the wound together. I know for sure Jimmy Page did that.
The coolest guitar trick i learned was this. If you play the guitar in a classical position, put some skateboard grip tape on the bottom of your guitar. Then it sits on your leg where you put it and it doesn't move or slide around.
6:25 I swear i heard you inner Julian or Bubbles coming out there hahaha! That trem spring thing spun me, I am a complete beginner and play acoustic but to think tht such a small change made THAT much of a difference. Wao 😯
Bouzouki tuning was invented by another Canadian guitarist, Phil X.
The tuning is called an Orkney tuning and is used in Celtic music all the time. Look up Stephen Wake. He uses it a lot.
I couldn't even make it to you putting the string around your head before I totally cracked up. Then watching you trying to play...priceless!!!!!!!!
10:22 He was definitely simping for that woman 😂
5:15 sounds like tapping the pickguard with finger picks but worse
Find the original youtube video playing Billie Jeans. It lets you make the snare sound while sustaining notes
that can lid snare hack is actually genius if u play that percussive slapping style of guitar like in the original tik tok
1:00 anyone know if this is a real song cuz it is absolutely fire
Aw man open c tuning is the absolute bomb. I love experimenting with alternate tunings.
Your reaction to the last one was hilarious.
At the big show, but you don't have a slide, but I do happen to have this large laundry list of household products. Hahahaha. Just use the shot glass.
With the post-it trick, , changing the type of paper would probably adjust the fly buzzing sound
I've been doing something similar to that first hack, for years.
I installed 3 mini tuners on a headstock, and double string the high E, B, and G. The bridge end I just tie classical guitar style, to the saddle. I tune the extra strings slightly flat, to bring a bit of that "rubbed" note feel, like bending a string to the pitch of an open drone note.
SRV apparently used to put superglue on his fingertips (if split) and stick it to his arm, pulling off a new bit of skin.
on the topic of calluses
yeah it'll hurt, you may also notice slight bruising, so it'll hurt starting out but that's okay, when it starts to hurt more than your comfortable with, just put it down for the day, relax and do other things
trust me, your fingers will adapt fast and you'll be able to play without any pain
stick to it, you got this
For the strat tremolo hack I used to put Teflon tape on my threads and it worked just as good 🤷🏼♂️
never played guitar or instrument for that matter I just produce on my laptop. But for some reason I've been on a bender watching all this mans videos and now I'm considering purchasing a Strat and getting started.
The muting at the bridge hack isn't exactly new, but it's good. Sam Beam / Iron and Wine used that in picking about 15 years ago.
The glue calous works if you use super glue. I only did it once when my finger had a cut, super glue is basically liquid stitches so I glued it shut so I could still play. The only caveat is that you have to 100% sure it's dry before touching the guitar.
The Strat your using with the pooper paper....awesome
Marty Friedman uses a scrunchy just below the neck nut when recording to get the same effect as the TP trick. So maybe that'll be less mess or prone to disintegrating when coming in contact with sweat.
Also, the slide trick was rather common in the blues regions. But done using everclear, string, and a wall. Hence why so many glass slides in the store look like beer bottle necks.
Got a real Osric Tentacles vibe from that palm-mute/delay trick.
That beertab trick has changed my life!
The open g sus is what pagey used in the rain song. Play an " open A7" at your 7th fret as one slow downward strum, repeat at 6th fret, you'll sus out the rest, bro.
You can always use a Bic lighter in a pinch too. They mostly fit between your ring and pinky finger and someone at a gig will most likely have one.
Weaving a thick rubber band (instead of TP) through the strings of an electric guitar also achieves a similar muted sound.
A folded piece of foil the size of a piece of chewing gum, inserted near the bridge, is Coral Sitar-like. I had 'real' one, a '68, that a local bluegrass-oriented music store didn't know what to do with. They sold it to my wife for $325 in 2005. :) Later, when one of our cars gave out, I was able to sell that - generally troublesome - relic for a lovely profit on Ebay.
'Carma' is sometimes good.
Superglue for callouses. I rank it at about 6/10, it gets you through a pinch but as you said - tough it out.
9:58 was just Midwest emo sorry not sorry
Straight up
Just was gifted my first Fender gutiar... I plan on learning a LOT but i'm happy I found your chan and Hope to see more!
that's such a badass strat ... beautiful.
That's what those springs are for quote was classic
I liked the sticky note sound. Also the slide trick is actually how you make cups and art out of liquor bottles. Maybe you werent letting it grt hot enough. You wanna spin it to let the flame burn up. Gotta get real hot then shock it cold
Asfar as I know Strats come with a sticker covering the hole for the bar. A spring and a ballbearing was in the hole with mine. In the instructions of the Strat it even said to cover the hole after removing the bar not to lose the spring and ball.
Thanks that was fun! i played slide with a shot glass when i forgot to bring a slide to a gig... it safed my life!
Haha your reaction to the spring had me cackling.
Wiith regards to the open tuning of C G C G C D, Devin Townsend uses a similar tuning with E instead of D in the song Deadhead for that very reason. 10/10 would recommend.
the open c tuning is awesome i first found it with john butler trio he likes to play in open c tuning
I love that you used your orangewood in this. I LOVE their products
I've broken the pickup selector switch by trick 2 years ago 😂
Great video
About the shot-glass-slide, you're very right: there is no way you need to play that kind of music in a place that has no shot glasses.
4:17 this is a really cool riff ☺
The glue hack requires cyanoacrylate (SuperGlue), not PVA (Elmer's). You can just apply it directly to your fingertips; there is no reason to (and plenty of reason not to) first glue your fingers to a bottle cap. The result is durable, long-lasting calluses. I have a couple damaged fingertips (Don't ask) and this has been a help over the years.
I never had a spring for my bar, it what I’ve always done is wrap the threads in Teflon tape. I’ve come to like how smooth it make the bar when you move it.👍🏻
Lmao, the Fender springs. I knew that one, and I play Gibsons. The look on your face was priceless. Now, you will probably use the old wiggle stick a lot more.
Which is a good thing. That's why I have a Lifeson L.P. Love the trem.
That dude definitely did not invent using paper as a mute. Some hollow body basses like the Gibson EB-2 has built in mutes that used felt to make them sound more like an upright. I borrowed an EB-2 from a friend and used it in jazz band, when i had to give it back and was on my cheap Yamaha RBX170 I folded up a piece of binder paper and rolled down the tone knob, worked great and though it looked weird none of the judges at the jazz competitions complained.
on the glue trick, the other guy used superglue. it's a big difference compared to Elmer's. Elmer's is rubbery until it cures and that takes days. superglue hardens instantly when 2 surfaces are put together. Elmer's glue is rubbery and comes off. I remember when I started playing guitar some 40 years ago.my fingers would literally bleed from playing so much.
OMG @ the Strat hack! I am soooo f'kn glad I stumbled across this. Ive been like why tf is a guitar so well built suffering such a stupid issue?!
Went to the guitar store to buy some of those tiny springs for my trem bar. They didn't have any, didn't know what I was talking about, and thought I was stupid. Had to use thread tape I had at work instead.
That can lid one is so dangerous considering those lids are usually sharp on the edges. Worst thing to get wounded hands when you need to play guitar.
For the Sitar one; Use a Telecaster with a Delay pedal. (And of course a piece of paper)
I just use a spring out of a fountain pen and it works great on my Kramer with a standard Strat Trem . No need to spend even a dime on springs !!!
when he did the toilet paper thing and he said "i just came up with this" i chucked because of one reason
I've been doing that since i got my ukulele
then he added reverb and as a ukulele player with a fully acoustic ukulele i cried
You can also use a table/desert spoon as a slide. Fits between the fingers just nicely.
To any beginner scared of the painful fingers, listen. The more you play, the harder and more numb your fingers will get. You ever hike a long way for a long time? eventually you don't get blisters because your foot hardens up. It's exactly the same. The pain never passes a certain point and 1 or 2 days off in between 7 to 10 days of heavy playing will get them fingers rock hard.
The open tuning hack blew my mind when Paul Davids came up with that in open D, you should check that out before giving a TikTok video credit for it :D
4:35 lol! LOL! *******When I began teaching my daughter guitar at 8 years old her mother, though it worked did not apreciate me putting thin layer of super glue on my daughters digits, letting them dry and then it transitioned her into finger strength and building her own fleshy calluses! secondary benny: I keep layers of t.p. or tissue along with super glue and fine sandpaper in my guitar cases in the event I have to play with a cut across the fingers that would often allow a nickel silver stinging of the string to enter wound. Build up layers of Tissue and super glue over a cut or blister as though you were bondoing a vehicle then sand finish! your back in the Game Pain FREE!*******
I am an Artist and Craftsman and Constantly find my digits with at least small nuisance cuts!! LOL!
For the post-it note in the acoustic, this can actually sound good. You just used the wrong kind of paper. Johnny Cash frequently used a matchbook cover in this fashion for a more percussive sound. If you wanted that sitar sound, you would want a harder piece of paper or even a thin piece of plastic from something like a soda bottle.
9:55, opening chord sounds like Steve Ashley, The Spirit of Christmas.
Amazing how well the beer tab worked!!! Cant wait to try that! But does it matter what beer I use? Stoked!! Thanks!
Wow! All of Sonic Youth's techniques in one video!
I’ve been playing for almost 47 years I got calluses on my fingers from a playing Kusic guitars most of my guitar career there are about an 8th inch deep into the tips of my fingers I no longer even feel the strings but my fingers were sore when I first started but I just tufted out that’s how bad I wanted to play and that was in 1974 and I am 70 years old and still playing