This guitar with "funky" frets is just perfection!!!!!! I want to say a big thanks to the guy who had the idea of working this way! You're a great genius!
i dont know man.... steve vai is actually one of the best guitar players in the worlds, and you cannot refuse that... his virtuosism, his sound, his velocity, he is really special... and he is Alive by the way...
steve has a good sense of humor..love this guy..genius guitar player...sounds bizzare most of his tunes...but it defines his skill in a creative way...
@tefolase Most of the chords were awkward due to inversions. I'll spell them out. Between 2:03 and 2:08, the first 'chord' was a C power chord, the second was notes D and E played together, the third was C flat 5 which is known as a tritone (the most dissonant sound in music). Fourth was a D major chord, fifth was a C major chord in 2nd inversion, sixth was D major, seventh was G major in first inversion, and the last one was an E sus 4. This is why they sounded strange.
@Guitareben yeah but with the bent fret there wont be a smooth transition between bent notes because the string will move against all the bent spots in the fret
Thanks! I wouldn't mind having a JEM with the bent frets. Either fixed or floating bridge would be fine with me as long as it did have that awesome fretboard.
i really like that acoustic/electric and electric setup... if he doesnt use that i'd buy that.... especialy since i switch between the two like no other
double neck acoustic electric was not done by slash first. it was douglas blair(w.a.s.p. guitarist) who did it first with his own line of blair guitars.
It's my dad who has invented those guitars.The TT guitars. They are super good! Better than usual if you did not know. TT guitars is the best guitars. Thats it. The best guitars in the World. I promise. Quite amazing guitars.
I lol'd I sure do hope this goes into production, but god forbid it ever needs refretting as I can't imagine the cost. And especially considering how accurate the PLEK system is I'm very intrigued to hear if this is better. Either way I absolutely ♥LOVE THIS GUY.
@Guitareben How would you possibly bend a note with your ears? It seems to make the most sense to use your fingers when bending (since they're already on the guitar's fingerboard). It's gotta hurt pressing your ear up against the strings, they probably get calluses, huh? Anyways, upload a video, that sounds like a neat trick! Thanks.
wait a minute, when you vibrato and the string moves across the oddly shaped frets, wouldent the pitch of the string change? when the length of the string changes with the contour of the fret since it is bent? i woul;d like to know if i am going to buy one.
Do you mean to move the guitar around? I find it comfortable and I have reasonably large hands. Otherwise, it has no impact, except maybe making the guitar event lighter than it should be.
@JediGuitarMaster429 good luck on getting it done...the wait time is super long let alone the process hella expensive...you basically have a better chance of getting a Ken Lawerance explorer before you get your frets tempermented.
it has to do with the vibration that is carried from having the perfect tone, it's a part of the reason why the chromatic scale was made the way it was. it surfs its own vibration. :D *guesstimate*
Hmm,... I am wondering what difference does it make to bending and other techniques on the guitar. Interesting... I have read Yamaha tried this a long time ago, and several other guitar makers, but never saw it in action this way.
equal temperament is convenient for playing in every key, not for resonance. In fact, a lot of it's intervals are not just. I think the sustain of the guitar in this video is all good equipment, not the frets. My opinion. Still i want a guitar like that :D
There is something I don't understand about the fret system though. Because the frets are not straight but "crooked". It seems to me that when you bend a note it would go horribly out of tune. How do you make a smooth bend on a crooked fret?I mean obviously there is something I'm missing here because if Vai is using it, it must work.
I think you have to stalk him so when he does give one away, you right there first in line. So, you might want to camp outside his home and then follow him when he goes on tour. But if he goes into a public bathroom, don't go inside, that's a little too weird.
Do a google search on the overtone series. Many people know what this is and have explained it very well. Then watch the youtube video "how not to tune your guitar". It's a three parter that explains very well why guitars are never in tune.
I doubt it, i think it's exclusively for steve vai and that's it. If they ever do that that guitar would be VERY EXPENSIVE, would you waste $10,000 Dollars for one??
oh one more thing. The open strings are tuned just the same than in a normal guitar so if the freted note he plays is sustained from sympathetic resonance of the other strings, why we don't hear the other strings vibrate? they're not even muted.
1969AmericanMuscle Please read my comment to: (P) Newest Comments. My name is Terry Grove I came up with the Concept of Intonated Bent Fretts in 2000. Thydell internationally Patented my idea in 2003. (Ouch!) One of the owners of Ibanez USA Custom Shop Scotty Bevilacqua was one of my Guitar Students 1999-2002 I told Scotty all about my concept of individually intonated Fretts on the guitar & how it would result in custom bent frets; because streight Fretts are just a amalgamation/ across the Frett board of about where the pitches are located. Strobe tuner shows where all the perfect notes are on the frettboard. My idea also included the nut intonated but as Scotty had reminded me; Buz Fetton Patented the intonated nut way back around 1989. How I started thinking along these lines is the Buz Fetton nut is only good for open notes. When your fretting the nut is not being used, my tuner showed me clearly that all the notes are off (barely) in a perfectly intonated normal guitar. That's when I thought about locating every perfectly intonated note, every frett, every string & marking it. When I did it resulted in the intonated Bent Frets idea. I asked Scott in 2001 to build it on a Jem, include me on the Patend. and try to have Steve Vai endorce it. Scott moved & (Something happened) I don't have those details. But as it stands my wonderful idea came to fruition with True Temperment. And I'm thrilled that Steve Vai is promoting it. 👍👀 If you can find the time; Check out my new website: Google www.guitar4men.com
Piotr Hobbysta😃 Hello my name is Terry Grove, I came up with this concept in 2000. Shared it with Scotty Bevilacqua -Ibanez Custom shop 2001MY IDEA: Intonated Bent Fretts; Came to fruition with True Temperment. Every note has been intonated with a strobe tuner & exact, better than human hearing. Because of this the Fretts are bent to exactly the perfect note spot. Pitches are frequencies and when perfect frequencies vibrate in the wood together they harmonize & resonate together with no cancelation; Even a single note has harmonic undertones, -Perfect Intonation = No vibration cancelation; means better sustain and when you crank an amp it can be endless sustain. I really wanted Steve Vai to endorse this idea because I thought it would blend in estheticly with the flower inlays and I love the Jem & Steve Vai is Awsome! And no one can be as thrilled as (I am) about Steve's remarks about the bent Fretts concept. Thank You Steve Vai!!!😎 I should of Patented it before I shared the concept with Scotty Bevilacqua, he was one of my Guitar Students;1999-2002. Thydell put International Patents on my idea in 2003. (OUCH!)
Steve Vai is always on top of the newest developments in guitar design. Just an awesome musician!
This guitar with "funky" frets is just perfection!!!!!!
I want to say a big thanks to the guy who had the idea of working this way! You're a great genius!
It does seem like a great Idea but Vai ended up not putting them on all his other guitars. So I must’ve not made that big of a difference.
It's Called True Tempraments Fret If You Need It.
i dont know man.... steve vai is actually one of the best guitar players in the worlds, and you cannot refuse that... his virtuosism, his sound, his velocity, he is really special... and he is Alive by the way...
That weird fretted guitar is so genius. I'd love to find one to try out
クッソ爽やかで草はえる。
hey ur right shenybhoy1
slash got it made in 1992 and he has shown up with his electric-acoustic double neck guitar in the video of "
stranged"
steve has a good sense of humor..love this guy..genius guitar player...sounds bizzare most of his tunes...but it defines his skill in a creative way...
"A double-neck party" sounds kind of dirty. Count me in.
evo does indeed contain evolution pickups,,,but flo is named because its a FLOral pattern jem that steve painted white.
i have been playing guitar for years and that blew me away.
holy shit its Steve Vai....holy cow man is this guy fukking awesome.
FLO = It actually a JEM 77 Floral Pattern, steve has it painted in white just like the vwh
@tefolase Most of the chords were awkward due to inversions. I'll spell them out.
Between 2:03 and 2:08, the first 'chord' was a C power chord, the second was notes D and E played together, the third was C flat 5 which is known as a tritone (the most dissonant sound in music). Fourth was a D major chord, fifth was a C major chord in 2nd inversion, sixth was D major, seventh was G major in first inversion, and the last one was an E sus 4.
This is why they sounded strange.
I defiantly agree with you. I find my self doing it naturally each and every time i pick up the guitar. nice observation.
@Guitareben yeah but with the bent fret there wont be a smooth transition between bent notes because the string will move against all the bent spots in the fret
i played a strat with those frets. dweezil had it on the side of the stage. its a brilliant design.
Thanks!
I wouldn't mind having a JEM with the bent frets. Either fixed or floating bridge would be fine with me as long as it did have that awesome fretboard.
i really like that acoustic/electric and electric setup... if he doesnt use that i'd buy that.... especialy since i switch between the two like no other
double neck acoustic electric was not done by slash first. it was douglas blair(w.a.s.p. guitarist) who did it first with his own line of blair guitars.
the new fretting system has the most accurate (almost perfect) tone and very long sustain... it's the 'holy grail' in guitar construction then...
Actually, an acoustic / electric doubleneck has been done before. Guild beat him to it by building a 12-string acoustic / 6-string electric for Slash.
It's my dad who has invented those guitars.The TT guitars. They are super good!
Better than usual if you did not know. TT guitars is the best guitars. Thats it.
The best guitars in the World.
I promise. Quite amazing guitars.
I lol'd I sure do hope this goes into production, but god forbid it ever needs refretting as I can't imagine the cost. And especially considering how accurate the PLEK system is I'm very intrigued to hear if this is better.
Either way I absolutely ♥LOVE THIS GUY.
apparently it's so when he does a big trem dive the trem arm does get stuck from the pick up or the lower e string, usually the string
@Guitareben How would you possibly bend a note with your ears? It seems to make the most sense to use your fingers when bending (since they're already on the guitar's fingerboard). It's gotta hurt pressing your ear up against the strings, they probably get calluses, huh? Anyways, upload a video, that sounds like a neat trick! Thanks.
I have seen these kind of responses from Slash's fans before. Never from a Steve Vai's fan though. Guess he's getting popular.
wait a minute, when you vibrato and the string moves across the oddly shaped frets, wouldent the pitch of the string change? when the length of the string changes with the contour of the fret since it is bent? i woul;d like to know if i am going to buy one.
yeh they do!
Do you mean to move the guitar around? I find it comfortable and I have reasonably large hands. Otherwise, it has no impact, except maybe making the guitar event lighter than it should be.
@JediGuitarMaster429 good luck on getting it done...the wait time is super long let alone the process hella expensive...you basically have a better chance of getting a Ken Lawerance explorer before you get your frets tempermented.
I played a "Flo" the other day. Best feeling guitar I have ever touched. Also best sound.
that sustain..that sustain
it has to do with the vibration that is carried from having the perfect tone, it's a part of the reason why the chromatic scale was made the way it was. it surfs its own vibration. :D *guesstimate*
Double-necked guitar both at drop C! All About Eve with an electric guitar solo? I think so!
You are awesome
Hmm,... I am wondering what difference does it make to bending and other techniques on the guitar. Interesting... I have read Yamaha tried this a long time ago, and several other guitar makers, but never saw it in action this way.
I loved his black jem :(
Steve You're wrong. Slash Actually did the double neck, acoustic electric before.
equal temperament is convenient for playing in every key, not for resonance. In fact, a lot of it's intervals are not just. I think the sustain of the guitar in this video is all good equipment, not the frets. My opinion.
Still i want a guitar like that :D
if tune to the open strings on the guitar at 1:00 will the notes still be the same?
"you know, im not . . . ehhgh" lol
must be that good
There is something I don't understand about the fret system though. Because the frets are not straight but "crooked". It seems to me that when you bend a note it would go horribly out of tune. How do you make a smooth bend on a crooked fret?I mean obviously there is something I'm missing here because if Vai is using it, it must work.
love the hands at 3:30
That is so clever. I wish I had ability to know what chord is in or out of tune.
I think you have to stalk him so when he does give one away, you right there first in line. So, you might want to camp outside his home and then follow him when he goes on tour. But if he goes into a public bathroom, don't go inside, that's a little too weird.
Pick up any guitar and if the A is in tune, the D isn't .. that is SOOOOOO true!
Allways knew he was part alien. Oh and guitar god!
It should be noted that the True Tempered Frets were NOT an Ibanez creation.
Do a google search on the overtone series. Many people know what this is and have explained it very well. Then watch the youtube video "how not to tune your guitar". It's a three parter that explains very well why guitars are never in tune.
I doubt it, i think it's exclusively for steve vai and that's it. If they ever do that that guitar would be VERY EXPENSIVE, would you waste $10,000 Dollars for one??
true temperament
cool
anyone see that guitar anywhere else? id love to see one in person
Sorry Steve slash made the double neck back in the 90s with guild guitars
He's talking about no one having made a double neck with an acoustic on top and an electric on the bottom (or vise versa)
@@RolanTHUNDER and that is exactly the guitar used by slash since mid 1993 . Made by Guild , called " Crossroad " . Half acoustic half electric .
@@johnrobert385mm Oh ok
does he still use the "in tune" neck a lot or was it a whim at this time?
@JediGuitarMaster429 From a swedish company called true temprament
can someone please tell me what's the name of that neck?
EVO means = he uses dimarzio evolution pick-ups
FLO means = it has a sustainer
"I came, I played, I bought it", (Julius Ceasar)
where can I get one of thouse necks?
You should say if Anders Thidell license it for Ibanez to make guitars for the public market!
Holy shit @ the sustain
@brooklynstudio haha :)
good job!
whats with the frets? They look crooked?
'it has this kind of a motion to it' lol
whats the name of the guitar
i understand what hes talking about with the tuning issue, but its never caused a problem with any of his music over the past what, 2 decades?
what is double neck party???
2.28 xD great sustain ;]
oh one more thing. The open strings are tuned just the same than in a normal guitar so if the freted note he plays is sustained from sympathetic resonance of the other strings, why we don't hear the other strings vibrate? they're not even muted.
the acoustic double neck was originaly done buy slash
O.o
yeah!!!
Yeah, it has already been done.
lol, of course it does change the pitch, even on guitar with ordinary frets. vibrato itself is like little bends, so..
He gave away 2 Jems.....like he always does.
Throw one of those bad boys my way.
true temperament. look into it xD
it's called true temperament fretting system
flo uses sustainiac pickup, but somebody know what is the name??
Fernandez sustainer on flo , flo 3 and Bo.
sure thing
son ibanez????
can someone please tell me is the handle comfortable?
WHERE DO I GET MY FRETS LIKE THAT???
Wow that guitars sustain is long af
Excuseme, but where is the infinite note "trick" in this jewel of guitar?
the tempered neck has nothing to do with the sustain of that note if no other note is freted.
How the fuck can you get a floyd to sustain that well? Impossible...
STEVE tell the world WHO came up with these frets!
Anders Thidell
1969AmericanMuscle Please read my comment to: (P) Newest Comments. My name is Terry Grove I came up with the Concept of Intonated Bent Fretts in 2000.
Thydell internationally Patented my idea in 2003. (Ouch!)
One of the owners of Ibanez USA Custom Shop Scotty Bevilacqua was one of my Guitar Students 1999-2002 I told Scotty all about my concept of individually intonated Fretts on the guitar & how it would result in custom bent frets; because streight Fretts are just a amalgamation/ across the Frett board of about where the pitches are located. Strobe tuner shows where all the perfect notes are on the frettboard. My idea also included the nut intonated but as Scotty had reminded me; Buz Fetton Patented the intonated nut way back around 1989. How I started thinking along these lines is the Buz Fetton nut is only good for open notes. When your fretting the nut is not being used, my tuner showed me clearly that all the notes are off (barely) in a perfectly intonated normal guitar. That's when I thought about locating every perfectly intonated note, every frett, every string & marking it. When I did it resulted in the intonated Bent Frets idea. I asked Scott in 2001 to build it on a Jem, include me on the Patend. and try to have Steve Vai endorce it. Scott moved & (Something happened) I don't have those details. But as it stands my wonderful idea came to fruition with True Temperment. And I'm thrilled that Steve Vai is promoting it. 👍👀 If you can find the time; Check out my new website: Google www.guitar4men.com
of course...
but i dont finally understand why the frets are so bend... i dont understand man...
0:35 JEM giveaway? 0.o
1:40 *runs to pick up guitar*
He is the male look alike of Danielle Staub
That was his Flo that he picked up
Why it (temperament frets guitar) resonates without sustainer? Who knows?
Piotr Hobbysta😃 Hello my name is Terry Grove, I came up with this concept in 2000. Shared it with Scotty Bevilacqua -Ibanez Custom shop 2001MY IDEA: Intonated Bent Fretts; Came to fruition with True Temperment. Every note has been intonated with a strobe tuner & exact, better than human hearing. Because of this the Fretts are bent to exactly the perfect note spot. Pitches are frequencies and when perfect frequencies vibrate in the wood together they harmonize & resonate together with no cancelation; Even a single note has harmonic undertones, -Perfect Intonation = No vibration cancelation; means better sustain and when you crank an amp it can be endless sustain. I really wanted Steve Vai to endorse this idea because I thought it would blend in estheticly with the flower inlays and I love the Jem & Steve Vai is Awsome! And no one can be as thrilled as (I am) about Steve's remarks about the bent Fretts concept. Thank You Steve Vai!!!😎 I should of Patented it before I shared the concept with Scotty Bevilacqua, he was one of my Guitar Students;1999-2002. Thydell put International Patents on my idea in 2003. (OUCH!)
omg~! i fucking have to get one of those fucking axes! omg omg! that is sick!
@2lek i know but still.....
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Me:
Steve Vai:
lol steve it is called controlled feedback
JEM prestige neck
@tefolase he was showing how chords were in tune.. lmao