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  • Опубликовано: 15 авг 2024
  • Most people think there are two main ways to play guitar: With a pick, or by fingerpicking.
    Turns out, there are infinite techniques that you can use on the guitar to make noise in ways that you can't even imagine. Some of them sound great, and others sound... different.
    Today we're looking into some of the more popular extended techniques on guitar and evaluating their usefulness AND their coolness.
    Whether you're a beginner guitarist or advanced, I can guarantee that you'll see the guitar used like you never have before.
    Thanks for watching,
    Enjoy :)
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Комментарии • 137

  • @RedlightBlue
    @RedlightBlue  Год назад +80

    thanks for sticking around everyone :) new videos coming more frequently starting... NOW!

  • @Comrade173
    @Comrade173 Год назад +772

    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

    • @oh_finks
      @oh_finks Год назад +16

      if we didn't watch them, how would we know what they discovered?

    • @sVieira151
      @sVieira151 Год назад +21

      You ever heard of The Shaggs?
      That's what happens when you do that 🥲

    • @ruzco4873
      @ruzco4873 Год назад +6

      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

    • @grischad20
      @grischad20 8 месяцев назад +2

      Assuming not all the instruments get broken in the first 10 minutes

  • @kane29842
    @kane29842 Год назад +88

    Doing the pick scrape dirty. So simple. So awesome. Boo for not including Paul Gilbert's power drill.

  • @tessjuel
    @tessjuel Год назад +35

    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.

    • @basedfinger
      @basedfinger 7 месяцев назад

      about the bowed guitar: you can just use flatwounds

    • @tessjuel
      @tessjuel 7 месяцев назад

      @@basedfinger Yes, that would probably help a little bit but I play the viola (with polished strings) and it's the same problem there.

  • @ihavetowait90daystochangem67
    @ihavetowait90daystochangem67 Год назад +24

    Scraping is the hardest guitar trick because my neighbours are going to murder me when i make that loud of noise

    • @RedlightBlue
      @RedlightBlue  Год назад +3

      the real challenge is using your guitar as a weapon

  • @Guitar-rc2og
    @Guitar-rc2og Год назад +53

    Love your videos. Please keep making them. And then don't forget to upload the videos you make. Thanks I love you.

  • @AnnoyingOrange420
    @AnnoyingOrange420 Год назад +45

    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

    • @OfficialGyattGobblers
      @OfficialGyattGobblers 8 месяцев назад

      Weezer pfp W

    • @OfficialGyattGobblers
      @OfficialGyattGobblers 8 месяцев назад

      oh goddamn I forgot I was on my band's account

    • @AnnoyingOrange420
      @AnnoyingOrange420 8 месяцев назад

      @@OfficialGyattGobblers your band is called the Gyatt Gobblers?

    • @OfficialGyattGobblers
      @OfficialGyattGobblers 8 месяцев назад

      @@AnnoyingOrange420 yeah, we formed it a couple days ago and we have 4 members, we practice in my basement.

    • @AnnoyingOrange420
      @AnnoyingOrange420 8 месяцев назад

      @@OfficialGyattGobblers hell yeah dog

  • @CoffeeRising
    @CoffeeRising Год назад +16

    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)

  • @paulknoll4261
    @paulknoll4261 Год назад +8

    Bro didnt give Pick Scrape S

  • @t_mac41603
    @t_mac41603 Год назад +3

    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".

  • @ImHez
    @ImHez Год назад +3

    Man this dude is back Keep doing what your doin man ur a great help to all guitarist out there

  • @Durmomo0
    @Durmomo0 Год назад +3

    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.

    • @AnnoyingOrange420
      @AnnoyingOrange420 Год назад +2

      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.

  • @Kriegter
    @Kriegter Год назад +3

    So if you do slide guitar in an electric but turn the distortion to max you can a really cool racecar sound effect

  • @The_Copper_Element_Itself
    @The_Copper_Element_Itself Год назад +3

    1:39
    Me, a bassist, looking down at what those guitarist have to do just to reach a fraction of our slap

  • @aaronlovesfrogs
    @aaronlovesfrogs Год назад +3

    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

  • @unlucky_charm29
    @unlucky_charm29 Месяц назад

    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

  • @keegan.october
    @keegan.october Год назад +1

    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

  • @saujanyapoudel8910
    @saujanyapoudel8910 5 месяцев назад

    0:06 "Holdd the note and strum it" **Sad Fingerstyle Noises**

  • @bobjoe1343
    @bobjoe1343 4 месяца назад

    Asturias made me fall in love with those nylon strings

  • @Squirrel714
    @Squirrel714 Год назад +2

    Pick scraping In c?😶

  • @goobee5146
    @goobee5146 Год назад +3

    instead of learning how to play guitar now I'm gong to just start hitting it with various objects

  • @seanmoran6683
    @seanmoran6683 Год назад +1

    Thanks as always for the new content. I LOVE DJENT

  • @1nfius948
    @1nfius948 Год назад +2

    I am disappointed Eddi Van Halen's eruption solo wasn't used for tapping

  • @christianedits
    @christianedits Год назад +7

    I love your videos ❤

  • @hacjy
    @hacjy Год назад +1

    he finally came back

  • @high2407
    @high2407 Год назад +1

    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

  • @Bazzzz12354
    @Bazzzz12354 5 месяцев назад

    Aaron paulson uses the drum stick technique. It sounds really good

  • @FranzArroganteDoPassado
    @FranzArroganteDoPassado Год назад

    Welcome back my friend, Brazil loves you

  • @kairiasa8227
    @kairiasa8227 9 месяцев назад

    if u seen thunderstruck by acdc, the intro was played with tapping

  • @caitlingill
    @caitlingill Год назад

    So glad you’re back!

  • @thenowereman6730
    @thenowereman6730 Год назад +4

    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)

    • @cocotheix2664
      @cocotheix2664 Год назад +1

      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.

    • @thenowereman6730
      @thenowereman6730 Год назад

      I mean in the search for new sounds and tones every technique could be incredible in the right context

    • @thenowereman6730
      @thenowereman6730 Год назад

      I mean in the search for new sounds and tones every technique could be incredible in the right context

    • @cocotheix2664
      @cocotheix2664 Год назад

      @@thenowereman6730 i just feel like practicality should be the number one variable for deciding it's tier.

  • @zonkwasntavailable
    @zonkwasntavailable 6 месяцев назад

    What I do is get like a single string song like idk versus or duel (i forgot wich one) and just bonk away

  • @josku5
    @josku5 Год назад +2

    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.

    • @Kryptonicx7x
      @Kryptonicx7x Год назад +2

      It’s his tier list meaning it’s his opinion. If you disagree to such a degree just make your own tier list bro.

  • @larryjester
    @larryjester 9 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @thebonustage
    @thebonustage 6 месяцев назад

    1:02 as someone who plays an instrument using a bow, this man is holding the bow WRONG

  • @Bizzaroni
    @Bizzaroni 11 месяцев назад

    Was the guy at 0:52 playing the blackened solo?

  • @toddbarriage
    @toddbarriage Год назад

    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

  • @arthur-jb3ty
    @arthur-jb3ty Год назад

    Just wanted to say that I really liked the video. Keep it up.

  • @pagnemian
    @pagnemian Год назад +1

    no jimmy page for violin bow?

  • @galaxysoul3421
    @galaxysoul3421 Год назад

    That sock thingy looks like the solution to all my problems

  • @xxChacaronXX
    @xxChacaronXX Год назад

    Learned a lot in this one!

  • @michaelvarney.
    @michaelvarney. Год назад

    Lol! You are using pictures of Dax and Sarah (Lindy Hop Dancers) for your two hand tapping meme!

  • @paddyquinlan3329
    @paddyquinlan3329 6 месяцев назад

    Hair scrunchy is way better for the sock technique than a sock.

  • @paperfoe
    @paperfoe Год назад

    that snare actually sounded sick

  • @lordpineapple
    @lordpineapple Год назад

    Dont forget about Pinch harmonics?

  • @_widas_
    @_widas_ Год назад

    Yo! What's they vid by 4:00 ? Great vid btw 👍

  • @noclippro7760
    @noclippro7760 Год назад

    I love all your videos

  • @Izayoink_Saccuy
    @Izayoink_Saccuy Год назад +1

    You can also use hairbands instead of socks

  • @francescabrogna6103
    @francescabrogna6103 5 месяцев назад

    “You take a sock and you tie it around your neck”
    -Red

  • @gitaaai
    @gitaaai Год назад +1

    Bowing but no Jimmy Page? He's like the original maestro of mutilating the violin bow lmao

  • @brandyc3132
    @brandyc3132 Год назад +1

    what's it called when you use an instrument the wrong way but not on purpose?

  • @user-fq3zc2tj2v
    @user-fq3zc2tj2v Год назад

    You're literally the only RUclipsr I watch lol

  • @narayanbandodker5482
    @narayanbandodker5482 Год назад +1

    Bowed guitar is Sacrilegious.

  • @Randomjackass135
    @Randomjackass135 Год назад

    Shout out Thurston Moore, og drumstick guitarist. Well I guess that’s Glenn Branca technically

  • @hiepbuidoan287
    @hiepbuidoan287 Год назад

    bow guitar - Bo Burham

  • @MyOoo_
    @MyOoo_ Год назад

    Grest video! But you forgot the glide guitar.

    • @RedlightBlue
      @RedlightBlue  Год назад +1

      hey fancy seeing you here! also, what is that?

    • @MyOoo_
      @MyOoo_ Год назад

      @@RedlightBlueContinuously using the tremolo bar to bend whole chords. Basically strumming with the tremolo in your hand.

  • @davioliveira4636
    @davioliveira4636 Год назад

    Go check how EVH played the initial riff from a song called Poundcake lol

  • @isaacbeen2087
    @isaacbeen2087 8 месяцев назад

    no Mombasa in the percussion tier???

  • @rinoksilpshiknimenyaa
    @rinoksilpshiknimenyaa 9 месяцев назад

    Also ,how many people came up with sock technique on their own? I did

  • @luigichiaia7510
    @luigichiaia7510 Год назад

    Hell yeah.

  • @fragwagon
    @fragwagon Год назад +1

    Hair tie alternately if you don't like stink socks

  • @sirkomic8474
    @sirkomic8474 Год назад

    This man’s my guitar hero 😂

  • @Unfunniestguy
    @Unfunniestguy Год назад

    Crosses strings technique more like ST anger snare

  • @Tomy_Yon
    @Tomy_Yon Год назад

    Music that scares me... I hear ya! 🤗

  • @scrat3695
    @scrat3695 Год назад

    Watching this video with the sound off is quite the adventure

  • @rubenmogaburokessler7167
    @rubenmogaburokessler7167 Год назад

    thump, thump, thump, thump… THUMP

  • @Mynoah16
    @Mynoah16 Год назад

    Starting…. NOW!

  • @adriansguitarvirtuoso7053
    @adriansguitarvirtuoso7053 Год назад

    Cool 💯

  • @faqugang4527
    @faqugang4527 Год назад

    see ya next yeat

  • @andreproulx4611
    @andreproulx4611 Год назад

    Some of these people came up with just to get attention. Like crossing strings💀

  • @jonathancobb3522
    @jonathancobb3522 4 месяца назад

    anyone else feel unformattable at 3:58?

  • @kodyg7099
    @kodyg7099 7 месяцев назад

    D E P E N D S

  • @malegria9641
    @malegria9641 Год назад +1

    I still don’t get how tapping works and it’s been 3 years since I’ve started playing (practice every day) now
    Update: got it down!

    • @347Jimmy
      @347Jimmy Год назад

      What's your rig like? Does your guitar have high action up the neck?

    • @malegria9641
      @malegria9641 Год назад +1

      @@347Jimmy nah, low action, and now that I think about it that’s probably the problem. But I’m mostly a rhythm guitarist anyways

    • @347Jimmy
      @347Jimmy Год назад

      @@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

    • @347Jimmy
      @347Jimmy Год назад

      @@malegria9641 also compression can be a very good friend

  • @Black70Fastback
    @Black70Fastback Месяц назад

    ok but, like a clean sock or the one under my bed?

  • @kitsuterre6787
    @kitsuterre6787 Год назад

    talking about violin bow without even mentioning Jimmy Page.... Same for taping w/o mentioning Van Halen bruh

    • @TheMerseySound1
      @TheMerseySound1 Год назад

      No mention of Eddie Phillips who was bowing his guitar before Page

  • @Yashasrenu6372
    @Yashasrenu6372 Год назад

    i love you

  • @hudsonross420
    @hudsonross420 Год назад +1

    I’m here way too early

  • @zvish7739
    @zvish7739 6 месяцев назад

    sock is hands down S, i play like that for 10 yeassrsXD

  • @mica152
    @mica152 Год назад

    so am i, hudson

  • @thebigun.
    @thebigun. 11 месяцев назад

    i play my guitar with a socket.

  • @scrat3695
    @scrat3695 Год назад

    maybe not just in time for lunch

  • @disgoop
    @disgoop Год назад

    tapping is just hammer-ons on crack

  • @aquarius5264
    @aquarius5264 Год назад

    bruh, you WAY underestimate string strength man. i can tell you've never played in a punk band lmao
    yep, 2:44-2:54 further cements this theory

  • @oscriadocomandosancto2898
    @oscriadocomandosancto2898 Год назад

    Hybrid picking? Selective? Sweep? Dime bombs? Nah, i will make useless video thank you

  • @takla9256
    @takla9256 11 месяцев назад

    Take a shot every time you hear the word “cool” +1 if you see 🕶️

  • @icezzzz
    @icezzzz Год назад +1

    hi can you heart me

    • @RedlightBlue
      @RedlightBlue  Год назад +1

      for you, anything

    • @icezzzz
      @icezzzz Год назад +1

      thank you now give me a guitar / srs

    • @CosmicHarmony58
      @CosmicHarmony58 Год назад

      @@icezzzzI’ll give u one…
      if u can play classical music

    • @icezzzz
      @icezzzz Год назад

      @@CosmicHarmony58Sir, I can play canon in d in piano tiles.
      jokes aside, i have no capability on playing any instruments but im willing to learn

    • @CosmicHarmony58
      @CosmicHarmony58 Год назад

      @@icezzzz well, time to pull up your boot straps, cause you’re learning TODAY

  • @nathanthompson4077
    @nathanthompson4077 11 месяцев назад

    i think this is bad good try tho

  • @ongobongo8333
    @ongobongo8333 Год назад

    Guitars should not be acoustic

  • @combopybrosharkfrenforhire6420

    i hate percussive guitarists

  • @randomperson5579
    @randomperson5579 11 месяцев назад

    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