TEDxMidAtlantic 2011 - Jon Maurer Band - The Harpejji
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- Опубликовано: 1 дек 2011
- Jon Maurer has been a member of the Baltimore original music scene for over 17 years. His search for a new universe of sound led him to Marcodi Musical Products. Marcodi, also based in Baltimore, is the creator of the harpejji, a hand-crafted instrument that was featured in Academy Award winner, A. R. Rahman's song, "If I Rise," as performed by Rahman in this year's Oscar Awards.
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It was an honor to present. Thanks for the opportunity, TEDx Midatlantic!
This video misses the mark a bit for me. The speaker fails to mention this is part of a class of fretboard tapping instruments. (It's tuning and position for play do make it a novel member of the group.) Players have the ability to play independent parts as on a piano, and slide & bend notes as on a guitar, while an isomorphic layout makes it easier to learn than either. Finally, the band primarily showed off the Harpejii as a stand in for an electric guitar in a mixed rock setting. Additional focus on it's acoustic, jazz, polyphonic and pianistic abilities could have been included.
its not bijective
Beautiful music!
This instrument is just waiting for someone to make it badass. Reductionist talk here misses the whole point - this thing makes it easy for even crappy players to shred. If a player develops seriously, this thing has huge, huge potential, beyond piano or guitar. Jesus, I want one.
I for one am for anything that bring music one step or more forward. You guys that favor The Chapman Stick - go for it, it's an amazing instrument. If there's an issue here about The Harpejji it's the ergonomics. By the angle of it and the way the musician leans over I think he will have an aching back with prolonged use.
Just needs a better stand, honestly. I got one that raises up and adjusts angles for standing vs. sitting...
The thing is...he is playing the instrument as if were a guitar. To get a guitar sound i'd buy a guitar, and to get a bass and guitar sound combined I'd get a chapman stick.
They talk about innovation in music, but they are playing a 70's type of song
The thing is, this isn't the only way you can play it. Yes it can be used to create guitar or bass like sounds, but it can also make use of synthesizers and do things that a normal keyboard couldn't.
I see no benefit in hating on the harpejji... seems fun to play... but I didn't like the salesman introduction either. I submit, in response, the great luthier Fred Carlson as someone who truly innovates with each instrument he creates. His most recent combination of a baritone, scallop-fretted, nylon guitar combined with a japanese koto (the barikoto, as it's called) is a great example. Go harpejji players, regardless! Looking forward to the music.
when the guys starts to play the harpenji it sounds almost like MIDI
MIDI does not have a sound. It is a technology. There is general MIDI or GM and XG and GS.
that's probably because the strings individually mute themselves if you're not fretting a note on them. So they won't necessarily ring out
Chapman Stick inventor, Mr. Emmet Chapman should be there talking and showing it.
Neat!
Very interesting video, and I'd love to see more of this...but a Chapman Stick looks much more comfortable to play.
I'd agree that Jon Maurer plays his with the stand at a height that looks like it would feel awkward, but it _is_ adjustable. You can play it seated or standing. Heck, with a battery pack and some headphones you could put it on your lap and play on the train or something.
This guy is Lance Armstrongs brother?
I own a Chapman stick..all though i have no complaint on the way the stick plays....but the Harpejji make it easier to cover the full sound of playing.. if you all would look at how easy it to play.. scales, chords, complete 2 hand playing... a Keyboard the intervals are too far apart,and unless you have long fingers some chords are hard to make with one hand.... where on the harpejji it makes it easier and better...NO i don't work for Marcodi.. it is a change in how we as musicians play
it's not the instrument. it's the player that makes the music. Victor Wooten or Les Claypool could do that with just 4 strings.
05152018 Love It.
Always takes a spell for folks to figure out how to play some newfangled instrument. You just wait. There'll be kids playin them things like they was born to it before too long.
Yeah, and I don't think it will fly. Novelty instrument. Because I haven't seen - or especially - HEARD antyhing from it that sounds different from any instrument that came before. You could just as well lay down flat a Emmet Chapman Stick (with midi) and controlled a few synths with it and start wail and goof on it. Hope it will go down like a led baloon.
why do people feel the need to clap. Not only is everybody off beat, they drown out the audio.
Its main default to me is you cannot play unplugged and unamplified, I don't think there is an acoustic Arpeji.
But it's clever though, maybe as a kid I would have liked to learn it instead of classic guitar or classic piano... no arpeji around campfire, or you need batteries.
And still among all existing scores I think I still wpuld love to play piano AND guitar... there is discussion to do
It cannot be played acoustic mainly because it has clever electronics that mute un-fretted strings, that is why you only hear the notes that you are playing, imagine if all of the strings were left to vibrate sympathetically, it would be a mess. However, the body does have cavities to tailor the sound, a little like a semi-acoustic guitar.
@@terryhayward7905 thanks for that explain
nice instrument, but, I just don't like advertisement on TED Talks.
I don't like it. Yes more versatile than a guitar but to my ears it has a plinky plonky faux keyboard sound. Guitar players like David Gilmour for example shows us that it's not the amount of notes you play but the emotion you can convey. Zero emotion coming from the Harpejji for me.
the crowd clapping is distracting, good lord
Great instrument. Could have used a better presenter who maybe took a college speech class.
This product will fail because you cant really rock out on one of those. not easy to look at the crowd while doing a solo with one of these
this band good and all but a very cluttered sound over all...
I just don't see any progress from the past with this instrument. You can slap together anything you want but if the sound is not going to progress with the instrument, then why bother? I'm not at all impressed.
OK they're asking for it, big time, since that cocky intro with ridiculing how a strat looked like in the 50's til now. Hank Marvin used a strat 1960. Jimi Hendrix used one 1966. SOUNDED COMPLETELY DIFFERENT! Within a 6 year period! So what makes this instrument different from a Chapman Stick invented in the mid 70's? Besides that it's lying down like a keyboard/pedal steel guitar? Sounds exactly the same as the Stick to me. Same, Lame and not that different at all. What's/where's the point?
yeah.... very plain sounding. sounds like a less appealing guitar. but apparently stevie wonder is writing for it.
jeezus buy a piano same idea just more thought out
Meh! Doesn't sound like anything particularly amazing to me... and imagine having to re-string the damned thing!
not better than a chapman stick
Really bad look for performance bent over forward, looking down. And expression-wise I cannot see anything innovative here. Finally, the intro talk seemed nothing more than the sort of sales-pitch you get at any common or garden music gear fair.
It seems to have potential, this instrument, but that band's performance sucked major ass, just aweful music overall... Makes the instrument seem bad, although it does not have to be...
Most not-sexy guitar ever made. But nice try.
@henkehakansson2004 It's just an ugly guitar that's less ergonomic and artistic looking. If you wanted a huge range on one instrument you could just get a guitar with an extra bass neck, and then you wouldn't have a huge stupid learning curve or having to hunch over a plank with strings on it.
This band probably cost the makers of the Harpejii a lot of lost sales. What an obnoxious sound a very poor way to demonstrate your musical instrument.