those are fanned frets, it manipulates the scale of the guitar to handle better the sting tension like a multi-scale guitar, smaller on the high strings and bigger on the low strings, basicly works with extended range instruments to be more playable and also to tune on higher picht over E.
i just keep thinking of his mum downstairs, into year 15 of shouting up the stairs "turn that bloody racket down!". Probably quite a bit of "why don't you go out and play with the other kids in the sunshine" too! Fair play to him.
@Sivels It's multi-scale fretboard. He plays an 8 string with low B, high A. He says that because the high A is such a high-tension string, he needs a shorter scale, otherwise it'll snap too regularly.
The guitar he is playing is amazing. Not only is it an 8 string, but look at the frets. The frets are curved to the natural span of the fingers. That's really awesome.
Well, Chris Impellitteri once said that he expressed rage and pain through his shredding. After his parents died when he was 9 years old, that was the way he had of expressing his pain and rage.
Rusty is the man ¡¡¡¡¡¡ Shred guitar has been waiting underground for some years now and its finally awakening, and Rusty is perhaps the most inspiring shredder of our time. No more pop, no more hip hop crap, guitar is coming back at last ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
Its not just notes one after another. Theyre arranged in certain patterns. You dont just shred but hitting randoms notes in a certain key and make it sound cool. With adding patterns to your shredding you can make rising or dropping flourishes, you can raise tension and keep it there with shredding. It DOES have rhythm It does have have soul(if shredding is used correctly) It is music.
On the contrary, Ibanez have released an 8 string. Standard frets. The frets are offset to make the guitar more ergonomic. It just makes is supposedly more confortable to play.
Well said. And you know, there's far to many people out there who think that speed automatically means a lack of emotion. Believe me, I've seen just as many guitarists playing slow who are as dull, emotionless and clichéd as anyone else. Speed is completely different to feeling, and although Rusty is no Satch, he does get across what he feels in his music.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that if you have a 9 string that is tuned from low F# to high A, there would be some problems in tuning because of that huge interval between the notes. Even the fanned frets couldn't do much in that case. Although, it seems as though the basses work okay, but, that's because the strings are larger and stay in tune better. I would shoot for an 8 string similar to this one because it is a very stable instrument *CHECK OUT MARSHALL HARRISONS 8 STRING NOTE SPINNING VIDEO*
damn thats one sick conklin guitar hes playing with. his alternate picking is brutally flawless.its cause hes suspending his arm instead of resting it on the guitar. hands of to rusty cooley.i wonder what he'll come up with next
Its to do with having a larger scale length on the bass strings to keep it at tension, but in order to have the gutiar intonated at different scale lengths you have to move the position of the string. But as each string is a different scale length, the position of the fret on each string is different - hence the slant.
What BigJD19 said is semi correct. In this case, it is not a standard 8 string, it goes from B-E, and then adds the high A string below the high E. Normally speaking, for most guitars and guitar making companies, they don't know how to utilize the fanned frets or don't want to due to manufacturing and distribution (Ibanez notably), that's why they only add the low B, and the low F#, because, the tuning and tension can be held at 25.5" normal guitar tension and not have too many issues :)
its not about comfort at all. its so the scale length is different at the top string than it is at the bottom string to accommodate the vast difference in string gauge. if you look closely, the nut and bridge are also at an angle, making the length of the neck 23.5" at the top string and 25.5" at the bottom.
@ExtremeBogom I find that to be true not just when you learn theory but as you advance and progress as a musician/guitarist. The better you are technique wise and just all around playing wise you listen at a much higher level than the average layman. In other words the more you are into the music and learning how to play it the higher level you listen at.
Yes, it is for actually holding the tuning and tension from the low B all the way to the high A string. No normal guitar can hold this type of 8 strings (not the ibanez meshuggah junk with the low F#). The tuning here is B E A D G B E A, all flat though, Rusty tunes in E flat. Hope this helped :)
yep yep :D It allows for even more one position licks that would normally span the entire fretboard, and he at one point had a 9 string conklin that had the high A and the low F# but he sold it because of tuning issues.
killer stuff what video did malmsteen management take off and my pal paul delano minvented an 8 string bass (not doule the usual 4) to accomoate a finger injurty(he cut em off so he needed a bass requiring less movement
It is decorative secondarily. Mostly, they say that it is easier to play single note runs or arpeggios on a fanned fret neck ( I have a custom scalloped neck guitar, but none with fanned frets). But, it's mostly for technical use, because a normal guitar neck and scale length (25.5") can't hold the high A string. Originally, Steve Vai and Ibanez wanted the high A, but, it kept breaking, thus, the low B was added, then later the F#, but, in this case, a high A on this custom Conklin Sidewinder :P
Well, to hold the tuning. If the frets were not fanned, the neck would have too much tension to hold the tuning (low B to the high A). The fanned frets create a multi-scaled guitar neck. In which the bottom ( the high A ) has a scale length of like 22.5" or 23" something to hold the higher tuning without the string being stretched extraneously, and the top (low B) has a normal scale length of 25.5." Hope this helped :P
@DavefromTinj i thought it was for the low F# string because it has a longer scale legnth because of the thickness of the string.................. im not sure i just herd it somwhere:P
@Dhanijel1 Yeah, NOW that's how they are, but this guitar is from pre-mass produced 8-string years, when barely anyone used 'em. This is a custom made Conklin 8-string, which means it was whatever he wanted. The reason the frets are fanned like that are because it's a high A. Do some research.
Also, the fanned frets is for the guitar tension. If the entire neck was at 25.5," the high A would break CONSTANTLY. So, the bottom part of the neck is at approximately 23" or some more, the middle is normal, and the top is longer to make the best use of the low B string. Ergonomically, it is GREAT, but, it is for physical purposes that the neck is that way. Any instrument that has excess of 7 strings *not Ibanez's low F# version of the 8 string* has to employ the fanned fret technology :)
@hariiyer44 What you said doesn't even make sense. The neck isn't twisted, the frets are slanted. It allows for a longer scale on the thicker strings and shorter scale on the thinner strings.
I'm afraid not :) That is his custom 8 string CONKLIN sidewinder. Blackmachine and Conklin both use the fanned frets Idea, and yes, its for intonation, but, it's mostly for tension. The high A string at the bottom couldn't be retained at normal guitar scale length (25.5"), so, it was reduced to 22.5" or 23" to make it shorter, but, if you look, the top is still standard 25.5" or a little bit more. Yeah :)
@Sivels so a 25.5" and a 24.75" are actually the same? hmm. . . i had no idea that every ruler, tape measure and anything else that can make some sort of measurement was wrong.
Rusty's 8 string guitar is tuned as a regular seven string with a high A string and in order to prevent the high A from breaking they make it multiscale. i hope that cleared some things up for people
@ExtremeBogom Once I learned the basics to musical theory you here things differently but also if you let this carry you away you forget what music is ,music is a way to express you feelings,emotions,and pleasure, the theory is just a guide so your music doesn't sound like crap.
From what I've been told, it feel completely natural when you play with fanned fret. It apparently works better with the aesthetics of your hand than the standard straight frets do.
the frets are slanted so the high a string dosent need to be like a .03 string. the scale is like 25.5"-23.5" and its better for intonation and looks cool
how can ppl say this is not talent.. you people have no idea how hard that is and how awesum it does sound if u werent so stubborn and against it and how good rusty is at classical pieces and stuff he is a musical genious . and many guitarists idols
Christ, every single time a video of a talented guitarist is posted on youtube, there's always hordes of idiots posting comments about how awful it is. Jealous little nobodies who like to take shots at people far more talented in order to feel good about themselves. That's sad. I don't particularly enjoy Rusty Cooley's music, but as a musician I really respect him.
Yes, it was 2 lower. One in B2, and the other in G2. I check this on a video of Francesco Fareri testing an 8 string guitar, and the eight string sounds really really low, like G2.
@ExtremeBogom Yeah, totally. The stuff I listened to a year ago has become so much different since I've learned all that I know now.. It's kind of strange, actually. But I like it.
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shows what you know buddy, the reason the frets are fanned is that there is a different scale lenght for each string (usually 28" to 25.5") as you might notice, the nut and bridge are leaned as well. with the 28" scale on the low B string it is easy to get good tension with thinner strings, while you can have fatter strings and better sound on the high A string thanks to the normal 25.5" scale. plus the fact that it is easier to play, because you get a more natural angle on your hand
"DUDE", i do like all the shredding stuff,i like anything bout guitars,satriani is the best in my opinion.but im only critizing on this video only,im trying to say that there is no feeling gone into playing at a million mph lol,i totally love shredding no matter what,this guy is friggin amazing at what he does,he probably practiced 13 hours a day to get were he is now,i respect that 100%....................now iv spoken too much lol
@samfulfordskates Plus, you can tell there is feeling here. Sure, it may not be as clear as a slow ass blues solo but look at his face. He is totally feeling it.
@Dhanijel1 just because he has 8 strings on his guitar doesn't mean that he has to play all of them in every situation. he uses 8 strings for more possibilities and more possibilities for chords
dang, the sweeps from 1:18 to 1:24 sound really interesting, in comparison to the normal 3/4 string sweeps, it's probably because of that high a string :)
those are fanned frets, it manipulates the scale of the guitar to handle better the sting tension like a multi-scale guitar, smaller on the high strings and bigger on the low strings, basicly works with extended range instruments to be more playable and also to tune on higher picht over E.
i just keep thinking of his mum downstairs, into year 15 of shouting up the stairs "turn that bloody racket down!". Probably quite a bit of "why don't you go out and play with the other kids in the sunshine" too! Fair play to him.
Awesome frets. nice tecnique playing!
thats "maximus" mask in the movie "Gladiator" :O!!.... awesome mask... and awesome player :)!!
@Sivels It's multi-scale fretboard. He plays an 8 string with low B, high A. He says that because the high A is such a high-tension string, he needs a shorter scale, otherwise it'll snap too regularly.
Wow rusty... chitarrista fantastico fra i più fenomenali in circolazione..il più veloce della terra!!! FENOMENO
I'm getting tendonitis just by watching this.
That is some amazingly clean alternate picking, and I love those licks that cover the entire fretboard.
The guitar he is playing is amazing. Not only is it an 8 string, but look at the frets. The frets are curved to the natural span of the fingers. That's really awesome.
Well, Chris Impellitteri once said that he expressed rage and pain through his shredding. After his parents died when he was 9 years old, that was the way he had of expressing his pain and rage.
I love the fanned frets. Cooley is a master.
Rusty is the man ¡¡¡¡¡¡ Shred guitar has been waiting underground for some years now and its finally awakening, and Rusty is perhaps the most inspiring shredder of our time. No more pop, no more hip hop crap, guitar is coming back at last ¡¡¡¡¡¡¡
this is absolutely beautiful, fast or slow, diatonic harmony is diatonic harmony...yum, now put on that helmet
wow an 8 string guitar
as a 6 string bassist i must say
awsome
i love this improv :)
I want to play like this when I grow up.
I dig his cd, I wish there was more. Rock on Rusty 🤟🏻
Sweet Conklin, Thanks for yhe lessons Rusty.
the sound of thet guitar is so clean and pure Coklin Gods
Man, I love that Conklin custom 8 string.
I agree with this statement...Its truly awe inspiring.
This guitar is so beautiful up close btw.
And yes Rusty Cooley is a Guitar God!
Its not just notes one after another. Theyre arranged in certain patterns. You dont just shred but hitting randoms notes in a certain key and make it sound cool. With adding patterns to your shredding you can make rising or dropping flourishes, you can raise tension and keep it there with shredding.
It DOES have rhythm
It does have have soul(if shredding is used correctly)
It is music.
Hi Hansell, let's hope you've learned something since posting this comment.
@@xttocx it's a 13 year old comment, how much of a stretch of your imagination is it to assume I did? Lol
On the contrary, Ibanez have released an 8 string. Standard frets. The frets are offset to make the guitar more ergonomic. It just makes is supposedly more confortable to play.
Wow... 8 strings are alot more massive than I anticipated...
Well said.
And you know, there's far to many people out there who think that speed automatically means a lack of emotion. Believe me, I've seen just as many guitarists playing slow who are as dull, emotionless and clichéd as anyone else. Speed is completely different to feeling, and although Rusty is no Satch, he does get across what he feels in his music.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure that if you have a 9 string that is tuned from low F# to high A, there would be some problems in tuning because of that huge interval between the notes. Even the fanned frets couldn't do much in that case. Although, it seems as though the basses work okay, but, that's because the strings are larger and stay in tune better. I would shoot for an 8 string similar to this one because it is a very stable instrument *CHECK OUT MARSHALL HARRISONS 8 STRING NOTE SPINNING VIDEO*
That distorsion sounds tasty.
damn thats one sick conklin guitar hes playing with.
his alternate picking is brutally flawless.its cause hes suspending his arm instead of resting it on the guitar.
hands of to rusty cooley.i wonder what he'll come up with next
diggin the helmet in the background haha.. or whatever it is i can't quite tell
Its to do with having a larger scale length on the bass strings to keep it at tension, but in order to have the gutiar intonated at different scale lengths you have to move the position of the string. But as each string is a different scale length, the position of the fret on each string is different - hence the slant.
I doubt even 100 people can shred like Rusty.
It's a simplistic view of emotion indeed that would reject all emotional expression above a certain playing speed.
Rusty Coolie Kicks ass and anyone who says he sucks is jealous of his talents!
What BigJD19 said is semi correct. In this case, it is not a standard 8 string, it goes from B-E, and then adds the high A string below the high E. Normally speaking, for most guitars and guitar making companies, they don't know how to utilize the fanned frets or don't want to due to manufacturing and distribution (Ibanez notably), that's why they only add the low B, and the low F#, because, the tuning and tension can be held at 25.5" normal guitar tension and not have too many issues :)
rusty is amazing!!!!!!!!!
1.18 now THAT! is what i call mario going through a tunnel !
its not about comfort at all. its so the scale length is different at the top string than it is at the bottom string to accommodate the vast difference in string gauge. if you look closely, the nut and bridge are also at an angle, making the length of the neck 23.5" at the top string and 25.5" at the bottom.
@ExtremeBogom I find that to be true not just when you learn theory but as you advance and progress as a musician/guitarist. The better you are technique wise and just all around playing wise you listen at a much higher level than the average layman. In other words the more you are into the music and learning how to play it the higher level you listen at.
awesomeness is this right here
Yes, it is for actually holding the tuning and tension from the low B all the way to the high A string. No normal guitar can hold this type of 8 strings (not the ibanez meshuggah junk with the low F#). The tuning here is B E A D G B E A, all flat though, Rusty tunes in E flat. Hope this helped :)
yep yep :D It allows for even more one position licks that would normally span the entire fretboard, and he at one point had a 9 string conklin that had the high A and the low F# but he sold it because of tuning issues.
Rusty shreds......the best....the only.....
killer stuff what video did malmsteen management take off
and my pal paul delano minvented an 8 string bass (not doule the usual 4) to accomoate a finger injurty(he cut em off so he needed a bass requiring less movement
It is decorative secondarily. Mostly, they say that it is easier to play single note runs or arpeggios on a fanned fret neck ( I have a custom scalloped neck guitar, but none with fanned frets). But, it's mostly for technical use, because a normal guitar neck and scale length (25.5") can't hold the high A string. Originally, Steve Vai and Ibanez wanted the high A, but, it kept breaking, thus, the low B was added, then later the F#, but, in this case, a high A on this custom Conklin Sidewinder :P
you are right, its not about "comfort" its about scale length beetween low F# and high E
Well, to hold the tuning. If the frets were not fanned, the neck would have too much tension to hold the tuning (low B to the high A). The fanned frets create a multi-scaled guitar neck. In which the bottom ( the high A ) has a scale length of like 22.5" or 23" something to hold the higher tuning without the string being stretched extraneously, and the top (low B) has a normal scale length of 25.5." Hope this helped :P
@DavefromTinj i thought it was for the low F# string because it has a longer scale legnth because of the thickness of the string.................. im not sure i just herd it somwhere:P
speed king rusty man ..
@Dhanijel1 Yeah, NOW that's how they are, but this guitar is from pre-mass produced 8-string years, when barely anyone used 'em. This is a custom made Conklin 8-string, which means it was whatever he wanted. The reason the frets are fanned like that are because it's a high A. Do some research.
Also, the fanned frets is for the guitar tension. If the entire neck was at 25.5," the high A would break CONSTANTLY. So, the bottom part of the neck is at approximately 23" or some more, the middle is normal, and the top is longer to make the best use of the low B string. Ergonomically, it is GREAT, but, it is for physical purposes that the neck is that way. Any instrument that has excess of 7 strings *not Ibanez's low F# version of the 8 string* has to employ the fanned fret technology :)
1:16 blows my mind
@hariiyer44
What you said doesn't even make sense. The neck isn't twisted, the frets are slanted. It allows for a longer scale on the thicker strings and shorter scale on the thinner strings.
@cestgab you just gave me the idea to make a song that long. thank you!
one of the best comments i've read about shredding
I'm afraid not :) That is his custom 8 string CONKLIN sidewinder. Blackmachine and Conklin both use the fanned frets Idea, and yes, its for intonation, but, it's mostly for tension. The high A string at the bottom couldn't be retained at normal guitar scale length (25.5"), so, it was reduced to 22.5" or 23" to make it shorter, but, if you look, the top is still standard 25.5" or a little bit more. Yeah :)
I'm guessing the way the frets are slanted hase something to do with note location along the heavier strings ???
@Sivels so a 25.5" and a 24.75" are actually the same? hmm. . . i had no idea that every ruler, tape measure and anything else that can make some sort of measurement was wrong.
Rusty's 8 string guitar is tuned as a regular seven string with a high A string and in order to prevent the high A from breaking they make it multiscale. i hope that cleared some things up for people
@ExtremeBogom Once I learned the basics to musical theory you here things differently but also if you let this carry you away you forget what music is ,music is a way to express you feelings,emotions,and pleasure, the theory is just a guide so your music doesn't sound like crap.
From what I've been told, it feel completely natural when you play with fanned fret. It apparently works better with the aesthetics of your hand than the standard straight frets do.
the frets are slanted so the high a string dosent need to be like a .03 string. the scale is like 25.5"-23.5" and its better for intonation and looks cool
what's up with the frets near the headstock? How can he play those frets and stay in tune?
how can ppl say this is not talent..
you people have no idea how hard that is
and how awesum it does sound if u werent so stubborn and against it and how good rusty is at classical pieces and stuff he is a musical genious . and many guitarists idols
Rusty Cooley is sooo Fuckin awesome!!! Wow, he is a god...i wanna Shred like that too...
doingyallafavor--Have you got any suggestions on how to study 4 notes per string? Is there a book or something?
Christ, every single time a video of a talented guitarist is posted on youtube, there's always hordes of idiots posting comments about how awful it is. Jealous little nobodies who like to take shots at people far more talented in order to feel good about themselves. That's sad.
I don't particularly enjoy Rusty Cooley's music, but as a musician I really respect him.
damn dude you know your shit! thats wild
This is such a badass vid! If only the volume was louder
funniest post ever
no seriously
hell ya the maximus helmet in the back
Yes, it was 2 lower. One in B2, and the other in G2. I check this on a video of Francesco Fareri testing an 8 string guitar, and the eight string sounds really really low, like G2.
Still my favorite sweep picker of all time.
Anyone know of any similar backing track that Rusty was using? I need to practice my shreds as well...
@ExtremeBogom Yeah, totally. The stuff I listened to a year ago has become so much different since I've learned all that I know now.. It's kind of strange, actually. But I like it.
@Plague413 I guess I've figured it out... You tilt the nut as well as the saddle for more ergonomic playing.
looks like its like a semi fan fret or something.... makes the lower range easier to hit?
Does he add an extra high string in stead of low or does he just have extra frets cause some parts are REALLY high
this is unhuman o_O
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shows what you know buddy, the reason the frets are fanned is that there is a different scale lenght for each string (usually 28" to 25.5") as you might notice, the nut and bridge are leaned as well. with the 28" scale on the low B string it is easy to get good tension with thinner strings, while you can have fatter strings and better sound on the high A string thanks to the normal 25.5" scale.
plus the fact that it is easier to play, because you get a more natural angle on your hand
ammmmmmaaaaaziiiinnnng!!!!!!!!!!!!
fuck that is some insane stretch!!!
What ever happened to this Guitar and why did you sell it man? I’m saving for an 8 string Conklin and I was wondering how it feels to play lllll
hey whats the deal with the diagonal frets?
i second that bro
"DUDE", i do like all the shredding stuff,i like anything bout guitars,satriani is the best in my opinion.but im only critizing on this video only,im trying to say that there is no feeling gone into playing at a million mph lol,i totally love shredding no matter what,this guy is friggin amazing at what he does,he probably practiced 13 hours a day to get were he is now,i respect that 100%....................now iv spoken too much lol
Gladiator!
hahahah good one dude. classic
Pretty sweet, especially the viking helmet! If you want to see more of Rusty check out my video log.
question is the 8 string with a higher string than the normal high E ? so low B is still the lowest string?
@samfulfordskates Plus, you can tell there is feeling here. Sure, it may not be as clear as a slow ass blues solo but look at his face. He is totally feeling it.
Have you listened to his band? Outworld is pretty awesome.
@blackseeds666 he uses dunlop gel picks. Hope this helps.
@ExtremeBogom Words of wisdom from The One. But seriously, totally agree with you.
@Dhanijel1
just because he has 8 strings on his guitar doesn't mean that he has to play all of them in every situation. he uses 8 strings for more possibilities and more possibilities for chords
The man is technically ridiculous. I'm not too keen on his music but hell I wish that I could play as clean and precise as he can.
lol@ 7:21 when he tries playing something with soul and lands on the wrong note
very well said. my thumbs up added to your comment sir/ma'am
dang, the sweeps from 1:18 to 1:24 sound really interesting, in comparison to the normal 3/4 string sweeps, it's probably because of that high a string :)