I'm so addicted to his music. I listen to his entire catalog on repeat every day for the past month or more. There is so much to hear and love. I can't wait for new material ♥️
He has a become a composer unlike anyone else. There is so much nuance in his music that is hard to describe. He knows how to make each song an EXPERIENCE.
WOW! I never realized how deastically ahead of his time DMM is! Like this is 2011!? This is music that is just as relevant, if not moreso, now in 2020!
For those of you wondering how he does the downbend at 6:42 - He has a floyd rose, so if he bends any string the others will go down, because it pulls the bridge up (down?). He's also in a very low tuning, which would cause it to change the pitch a bit more than normal.
@Aaron Hooper: He's bending the 5th string which pulls the bridge and releases tension on the open 6th string that he picked. Pretty awesome trick to use with a floyd rose temolo system and so tastefully used here.
Travis Schuster A cool tip for restringing a floating bridge is to only take one string off at a time. This helps keep things relatively stable, but you unfortunately lose the ease of access for cleaning your axe while you restring. Saw this online one day and it changed my life.
Bruce Bonebrake I tuned my guitar to this tuning without changing string gauges. ouch. I did it so I could tap the first tap section. I'm having a lot of fun with this tuning. Still trying to get the last two notes in the first tapping run to sing together like he's doing it. Not surprised you knew how that bend trick works lol
8:10... my favorite guitar solo of all time. There is so much feeling and the tone is absolutely perfect. I think my listening ratio of Bilo 1.0 to any other album ever made is probably 1:1 these days. Thanks for a very insightful look into your music, David.
Aaron Hooper, he's playing the low Ab while bending the Eb. Since he has a floating bridge, this pulls the bridge closer and is basically the same as using a tremolo bar.
I absolutely love your S540TT. I have always wanted one and was never lucky in owning it. Sounds absolutely amazing man. Very inspiring and has broadened my creativity by a whole lot. I really enjoy your music and band name man. It rules.
It is a floating bridge. If you bend a string (pulling it), then you are pulling the bridge towards the neck, essentially the same thing like pulling it down with the whammy bar. It is just that it is much easier and finer controlled by bending a string instead of using your entire right hand on the whammy bar. David just manages to make it sound extremely amazing in his riffs.
hands down, you really helped me figuring out from chord progressions to rhythmic riffs... i actually came down with one of this tunings by myself a while ago! if everyone wants to try it: gauges are (from 1st string to 6th): 12 (B), 16(F#), 24p (D), 32 (A), 44 (E), 75 (E). I just use the Not Even Slinky pack from Ernie Ball and replace the 6th with a 75 bass string. The tuning would be EEADGBE, or B standard with the bottom dropped to E, one octave below the 5th string (bass E).
wow this really was helpful and inspiring much respect to you Mr Maxim! you might have just opened a world for me on the guitar thanks a bunch can't wait to hear your new material you guys need to come to Charlotte, North Carolina !
@allhailpantera123 Generally, chords aren't written with "5" in them. If there is no "+" or "b" before the "5," it is to be assumed the fifth degree is perfect. Therefore, it is merely an Ab9 chord. If anything, it would be indicated that the 3rd degree (C) is missing.
Well the flyod rose has a locking system on the guitar which keeps it in tune and equally balanced, but when you play the one string and bend a different string. The tension is increased to the one that your bending and there's less tension that the one string so the strings pitch will decrease because of balance of the flyod rose locking system
@Thollto He's playing the String below the one he is bending, because he has a floating trem it takes tension off the other strings, lowering their pitch.
To anyone bitching about the tuning, he uses a twin neck with a 7 string neck in this tuning and a 6 string neck in Eb. He's very capable playing with both but a tuning is a means to and end, no guitarist should have to box in their creativity with arbitrary criteria like tunings. Use what you want, just make it sound awesome like this guy.
Well, you can get single string sets from sites like Strings & Beyond, or Just Strings, which is what I do, so I get decent tension on my sets. A decent balanced set (assuming you would want around 17 pounds of tension on the wound strings, slightly less on the unwound ones,) would be, low to high, 14-16-24-36-49-72. That'd give you about 15 pounds of tension on the Bb3, about 16 on the Ab3, and about 17 pounds of tension on all the other strings.
Destiny Potato is the Band, not sure about the song name, they have yet to realease their EP!
13 лет назад
Hej, super ti je klip. I meni kao klavijaturisti je zanimljiv. Ali me zanima kako to da benduješ zvuk na dole (ton naniže) na 6:43, a u stvari bendovanjem se ton povisuje?
It's simple tension physics. If you tighten a string, the bridge lifts due to the increase in tension. When the bridge lifts other strings go down in pitch.
Dunno if this has been answered, but as his guitar has a floating bridge, bending on one string slackens the other one, causing a lower pitch. So in this case, he's bending the 5th string upwards, but he picks the 6th string, so all you hear is the Ab 'bending' downwards.
He reminds me of Eggeh from Uneven Structure. I hear a lot of good influences, Periphery, Uneven Structure, Animals As Leaders, but this guy manages to give it new energy. Love the combination of this with the 2 female vocalists. Can't wait for Euroblast 2011!
Look it's normal, some people have been playing with this tuning for years and years, it feels like a part of them. But you can see two main categories right here: Technique players, and intelligent players. The technique players are good for, you know being a band member, playing live, they are performers. Intelligent players on the other side, are more artistic and creative with ideas. It doesn't mean they lack technique. But tuning your guitar to sound amazing, is simply... amazing :D
Yes you have a point, but you are half right. I've been playing the guitar for about 10 years. The pattern of the standard tuning is burned in my brain. Learning another tuning doesn't mean I will forget the old tuning. Yes, it will be probably impossible for me to play it with another guitar I agree, but, this new tuning is a source of great inspiration! Listen to how Bilo sounds so futuristic. The reason why DMM demonstrates his tuning, is not truly his playstyle, but the intelligence in it!
A lot inspiring and useful... I'm a guitarrist/ bassist, and i'm in love with low tunnigs. I once used a tunnig that is (from low to high) A E A(D maybe too) G B E... it's like standard with the upper strings with low tunnig. sounds nice, try it!
How do those power chords and other chords keep shape with this crazy open tuning? And keeping track of these chords in the tuning is crazy! Definitely pioneering something new! Great stuff.
God I love how much your lead tone resonates. Any advice on how to achieve that type of tone? POD HD, Axe FX, real amp... Don't care, just seeking any advice you might have.
bro i am looking to shift to this tuning .....could you do a more detailed video of the scale structure that you talked about...... as in the shapes remain straight ...i play in drop c whic is similar to this but all my scales start from the g string i.e the second string from the top and i skip the c for just riffs and different chords.....if you could point me in the right direction that would be really helpful thanks
This guy is so nice! THANK YOU, IT WAS HELPFUL AND INSPIRING! I honestly consider him an unaverage guy though I'm very critical. I'm definitely gonna utilize his instructions in my music.
Drop G? Interesting! how is the neck still intact? haha - I play an 8 string and the lowest note is just BARELY lower than that - very cool, anything online for listening?
I tried this tuning for a song. Every riff came out sounding really djenty or Tesseract style clean ambient parts that most of the time I couldn't write the heavy parts to go with. What I did get done turned out pretty good though. I can upload if anyone want's to hear it
Seems to me like you can really hear a Vai influence in the solo at 8:09, really beautiful stuff, I like this guy more and more ith everything I see. lol, dudes a badass.
The gauges 13-60 that David proposes aren't very tense, I'd say that they feel similar to 10-46 in E Standard and have a similar effect, when it comes to the neck 'surviving' it. So, if your guitar lives through 10-46 in E, then it'll most probably live through Ab Open ;)
I don't care what fucking tuning this guy uses, and non of you should either. The music he writes is absolutely incredible. And allot of the chords he plays would be next to impossible to play on a standard tuned guitar, so go listen to Bilo and Bilo 2.0 and realize this guy is a fucking smart writer.
Not exactly. He's using the 5th string in place of the whammy bar. When he pulls the string down, it pulls the bridge, thereby lowering the pitch of the low Ab string, which is what your are hearing. It's actually a lot easier to do sometimes when you don't really have time the grab the bar with your picking hand
There are loads of tunings that are really djent for a 6 string, I use loads of different ones that work for me, but I haven't started experimenting with string gauges, I'm not sure if I'd like to go to a 60 gauge again, I had flat wounds, and I don't think you get that natural djent "out of tune" effect, without using effects to enhance the tone (such as POD Farm etc). But thats just my opinion
He has a Floyd Rose whammy bar, meaning when he bends the Eb (A) string it pulls on the bridge, bringing the tremolo system up out of the guitar body, meaning all of the other strings, including his low Ab, are looser, and so they go down in pitch.
HELPP: Does he play the guitar chord shapes of a standard tuning or play the new shapes and positions of the new tuning....Because learning the new shapes and positions of a new tuning will take a lifetime.
Seven years later, this dude is a gift to the world. One of the greatest musical minds alive.
I'm so addicted to his music. I listen to his entire catalog on repeat every day for the past month or more. There is so much to hear and love. I can't wait for new material ♥️
He has a become a composer unlike anyone else. There is so much nuance in his music that is hard to describe. He knows how to make each song an EXPERIENCE.
11 years after he released one of the most beautiful albums outhere :D
Here we are,10yrs later and nothing has changed - still a genius ❣️
Hellyeah :D
I give much respect to this man for taking time out of his hands to teach us something.
WOW! I never realized how deastically ahead of his time DMM is! Like this is 2011!? This is music that is just as relevant, if not moreso, now in 2020!
I seriously thought he had a 7 string guitar.. im buying a new pack of strings tomorrow :D yessss
For those of you wondering how he does the downbend at 6:42 - He has a floyd rose, so if he bends any string the others will go down, because it pulls the bridge up (down?). He's also in a very low tuning, which would cause it to change the pitch a bit more than normal.
I came looking for an explanation for this, thank you :)
He's picking the most upper string, and bending the 2nd string. As long as you have a floyd rose guitar, it's automatically can be achieved.
Wow! I was wondering what was going on there. I thought my ears were deceiving me!
I like how he named his EP after Borat's brother.
Matthew Grygoruk his guitar tuning bilo
Bilo actually translates to "being".
I always think of that, too. It's funny, but his music is so good to me 🤘😊🤘
I’ve listened to Bilo III countless times and it’s still amazing every 👏 single 👏 time 👏 !!
@Aaron Hooper: He's bending the 5th string which pulls the bridge and releases tension on the open 6th string that he picked. Pretty awesome trick to use with a floyd rose temolo system and so tastefully used here.
Anyone who was curious this is 100% accurate. Thats why its a pain to restring your Floyd.
+Bruce Bonebrake HOLY SHIT THATS WICKED! This has been bothering me since the first time I saw him do this. THX!
zack freeman Happy to help solve the mystery! It's such a subtle technique that it's really kind of difficult to tell what's going on.
Travis Schuster A cool tip for restringing a floating bridge is to only take one string off at a time. This helps keep things relatively stable, but you unfortunately lose the ease of access for cleaning your axe while you restring. Saw this online one day and it changed my life.
Bruce Bonebrake I tuned my guitar to this tuning without changing string gauges. ouch. I did it so I could tap the first tap section. I'm having a lot of fun with this tuning. Still trying to get the last two notes in the first tapping run to sing together like he's doing it. Not surprised you knew how that bend trick works lol
8:10... my favorite guitar solo of all time. There is so much feeling and the tone is absolutely perfect. I think my listening ratio of Bilo 1.0 to any other album ever made is probably 1:1 these days. Thanks for a very insightful look into your music, David.
Is that solo from Bilo part I then?
@@naean7518 Part III. I prefer the crazy solo that comes later tho.
The song's called Beautiful Light with Aleksandra Radosavljevic on vocals.
Where is this song available
I never knew you were in destiny potato! I always dug your solo stuff like bilo anyway, but that's pretty crazy dude
Aaron Hooper, he's playing the low Ab while bending the Eb. Since he has a floating bridge, this pulls the bridge closer and is basically the same as using a tremolo bar.
Little did he know this open chord would lead to such an amazing song, called someone else's hat
I absolutely love your S540TT. I have always wanted one and was never lucky in owning it. Sounds absolutely amazing man. Very inspiring and has broadened my creativity by a whole lot. I really enjoy your music and band name man. It rules.
David you are amazing. Dont ever stop.
his sound, riffs and technique are really great!
It is a floating bridge. If you bend a string (pulling it), then you are pulling the bridge towards the neck, essentially the same thing like pulling it down with the whammy bar. It is just that it is much easier and finer controlled by bending a string instead of using your entire right hand on the whammy bar. David just manages to make it sound extremely amazing in his riffs.
This is so inspiring David im blown away by your project also!!!!
hands down, you really helped me figuring out from chord progressions to rhythmic riffs... i actually came down with one of this tunings by myself a while ago!
if everyone wants to try it: gauges are (from 1st string to 6th): 12 (B), 16(F#), 24p (D), 32 (A), 44 (E), 75 (E). I just use the Not Even Slinky pack from Ernie Ball and replace the 6th with a 75 bass string. The tuning would be EEADGBE, or B standard with the bottom dropped to E, one octave below the 5th string (bass E).
wow this really was helpful and inspiring much respect to you Mr Maxim! you might have just opened a world for me on the guitar thanks a bunch can't wait to hear your new material you guys need to come to Charlotte, North Carolina !
This is my favorite video on the internet
11 years later still underrated
@allhailpantera123 Generally, chords aren't written with "5" in them. If there is no "+" or "b" before the "5," it is to be assumed the fifth degree is perfect. Therefore, it is merely an Ab9 chord. If anything, it would be indicated that the 3rd degree (C) is missing.
Well the flyod rose has a locking system on the guitar which keeps it in tune and equally balanced, but when you play the one string and bend a different string. The tension is increased to the one that your bending and there's less tension that the one string so the strings pitch will decrease because of balance of the flyod rose locking system
@Thollto He's playing the String below the one he is bending, because he has a floating trem it takes tension off the other strings, lowering their pitch.
He's come such a long way
To anyone bitching about the tuning, he uses a twin neck with a 7 string neck in this tuning and a 6 string neck in Eb. He's very capable playing with both but a tuning is a means to and end, no guitarist should have to box in their creativity with arbitrary criteria like tunings. Use what you want, just make it sound awesome like this guy.
Well, you can get single string sets from sites like Strings & Beyond, or Just Strings, which is what I do, so I get decent tension on my sets. A decent balanced set (assuming you would want around 17 pounds of tension on the wound strings, slightly less on the unwound ones,) would be, low to high, 14-16-24-36-49-72. That'd give you about 15 pounds of tension on the Bb3, about 16 on the Ab3, and about 17 pounds of tension on all the other strings.
I just stumbled across this video and I didn't know anyone else knew about this band.
How the fuck does he downbend at 6:42? Does he have a pitch shift pedal or something?
+Aaron Hooper no, its a floyd, so when you pull down one string, it pulls the bridge and causes the other strings to change pitch
Destiny Potato is the Band, not sure about the song name, they have yet to realease their EP!
Hej, super ti je klip. I meni kao klavijaturisti je zanimljiv.
Ali me zanima kako to da benduješ zvuk na dole (ton naniže) na 6:43, a u stvari bendovanjem se ton povisuje?
It's simple tension physics. If you tighten a string, the bridge lifts due to the increase in tension. When the bridge lifts other strings go down in pitch.
Dunno if this has been answered, but as his guitar has a floating bridge, bending on one string slackens the other one, causing a lower pitch. So in this case, he's bending the 5th string upwards, but he picks the 6th string, so all you hear is the Ab 'bending' downwards.
He reminds me of Eggeh from Uneven Structure. I hear a lot of good influences, Periphery, Uneven Structure, Animals As Leaders, but this guy manages to give it new energy. Love the combination of this with the 2 female vocalists. Can't wait for Euroblast 2011!
Look it's normal, some people have been playing with this tuning for years and years, it feels like a part of them. But you can see two main categories right here: Technique players, and intelligent players. The technique players are good for, you know being a band member, playing live, they are performers. Intelligent players on the other side, are more artistic and creative with ideas. It doesn't mean they lack technique. But tuning your guitar to sound amazing, is simply... amazing :D
You make it look so easy!
Yes you have a point, but you are half right. I've been playing the guitar for about 10 years. The pattern of the standard tuning is burned in my brain. Learning another tuning doesn't mean I will forget the old tuning. Yes, it will be probably impossible for me to play it with another guitar I agree, but, this new tuning is a source of great inspiration! Listen to how Bilo sounds so futuristic. The reason why DMM demonstrates his tuning, is not truly his playstyle, but the intelligence in it!
Inspiring indeed. Great insight David!
This band ans Sybreed fall in the same category I love this style of sound and music very futuristic
Wow, that bending tremolo trick is awesome, gotta try out! And intesting video as well, checked out your band =)
With a floating bridge, if you bend the Eb string while playing the Ab string, it will cause the string Ab string to go down in pitch. Try it.
Going to turn my old Schecter Hellraiser into this tuning! Thanks alot, really digging your music.
A lot inspiring and useful... I'm a guitarrist/ bassist, and i'm in love with low tunnigs. I once used a tunnig that is (from low to high) A E A(D maybe too) G B E... it's like standard with the upper strings with low tunnig. sounds nice, try it!
that's just Drop A on a 7 string guitar lol???
This was really help full. Cool tuning. Cheers mate :)
How do those power chords and other chords keep shape with this crazy open tuning?
And keeping track of these chords in the tuning is crazy!
Definitely pioneering something new! Great stuff.
why is there no link to his channels etc in the description?, i gonna serch for it now but it would have been nice to have the links here.
Are you kidding me? Destiny Potato is one of the the awesomest names ever!
@catharsis2609 Not yet, they're supposed to release an EP later this year or early next year
sounds great and nice lesson..and wich song can we hear from destiny potato (in the beginning?
Incredible playing and writing!
HIIIII
OH HAI
damn, this video helped me a lot to unterstand the way how you play your guitar. still jamming to this awesome melody at 7:02.
thanks a lot dave! :)
God I love how much your lead tone resonates. Any advice on how to achieve that type of tone? POD HD, Axe FX, real amp... Don't care, just seeking any advice you might have.
bro i am looking to shift to this tuning .....could you do a more detailed video of the scale structure that you talked about...... as in the shapes remain straight ...i play in drop c whic is similar to this but all my scales start from the g string i.e the second string from the top and i skip the c for just riffs and different chords.....if you could point me in the right direction that would be really helpful thanks
You are a genious David keep it up man!
Superlike,awsome explanation ,sweet tone n licks
This is a really different, and interesting approach to guitar. This guy is fucking cool in my book.
that part that starts @ 0.09 is pretty dope i never like vocals but that will do...... whats the name of that song?
actually this was inspiring, thanks man
Oh my god, sir. You just won my respect.
This guy is so nice! THANK YOU, IT WAS HELPFUL AND INSPIRING! I honestly consider him an unaverage guy though I'm very critical. I'm definitely gonna utilize his instructions in my music.
Drop G? Interesting! how is the neck still intact? haha - I play an 8 string and the lowest note is just BARELY lower than that - very cool, anything online for listening?
I tried this tuning for a song. Every riff came out sounding really djenty or Tesseract style clean ambient parts that most of the time I couldn't write the heavy parts to go with. What I did get done turned out pretty good though. I can upload if anyone want's to hear it
+cubby3o5 I would love to hear that if it is possible
How is he bending the A but making the E drop? Help me!
It's a trick that you can do on Floyds. Try it out.
Floating tremolo. Bending the string, he's pulling on the bridge, which drops the pitch.
thanks
Seems to me like you can really hear a Vai influence in the solo at 8:09, really beautiful stuff, I like this guy more and more ith everything I see. lol, dudes a badass.
The gauges 13-60 that David proposes aren't very tense, I'd say that they feel similar to 10-46 in E Standard and have a similar effect, when it comes to the neck 'surviving' it. So, if your guitar lives through 10-46 in E, then it'll most probably live through Ab Open ;)
this guy is amazing.
I don't care what fucking tuning this guy uses, and non of you should either. The music he writes is absolutely incredible. And allot of the chords he plays would be next to impossible to play on a standard tuned guitar, so go listen to Bilo and Bilo 2.0 and realize this guy is a fucking smart writer.
Not exactly. He's using the 5th string in place of the whammy bar. When he pulls the string down, it pulls the bridge, thereby lowering the pitch of the low Ab string, which is what your are hearing. It's actually a lot easier to do sometimes when you don't really have time the grab the bar with your picking hand
What is the name of the song played in the intro? .09 - .014 seg
Yeah I already know that but is it possible to change something to make the strings go up in pitch instead of going down?
Love his tone!
the first you mentioned is Bilo part II (my personal favorite) and at 2:00 it's Bilo part III
There are loads of tunings that are really djent for a 6 string, I use loads of different ones that work for me, but I haven't started experimenting with string gauges, I'm not sure if I'd like to go to a 60 gauge again, I had flat wounds, and I don't think you get that natural djent "out of tune" effect, without using effects to enhance the tone (such as POD Farm etc). But thats just my opinion
INSPIRATION at last,
Thanks you
hey David what guitar are you using in this vid ?
Lol, i love in the tunning that is full open you can do tapping and escales go full symetric.
awesome ! danm
whats the song at the beginning
Quinkiller beautiful light
He has a Floyd Rose whammy bar, meaning when he bends the Eb (A) string it pulls on the bridge, bringing the tremolo system up out of the guitar body, meaning all of the other strings, including his low Ab, are looser, and so they go down in pitch.
@Thollto Since his guitar has a floating bridge, when you bend one string, the other string pitches go lower.
It's Bilo Part II from the Bilo EP
@Smallhand20
By bending the Bb string the trem drops and that drops the Ab string.
So in stead of diving the trem bar he bends a diff string/
How do you get a kick drum to sound like that? I cant get a good sound like that with S2.0
What's the name of the song at 0:09? I assume it's a Destiny Potato song
Wouldn't that tuning be an Ab5add9? Just wondering, since it doesn't have the 7th.
@PrismaticBlack thanks, do u have a copy of it?
What is the song on the begginining ?
Can’t find it anywhere
awesome solo , Dude
Actually it is not a Custom shop guitar, but a high quality model like the Prestige series.
Why is the pitch dropping when he bends up?? Is it just a latency thing?
the tuning is in the video. are you slow?
I'm in love with your music.
hi guys, where I think or how to ride this string gauges are: 60 46 36 26 17 13
HELPP:
Does he play the guitar chord shapes of a standard tuning or play the new shapes and positions of the new tuning....Because learning the new shapes and positions of a new tuning will take a lifetime.
@mario4526 It is a custom tuning also though, Ab Eb Ab Db Gb Bb would be G#, he has it all Ab Eb alternating
I respectfully demand a playthrough video for Rise and Shine or Along for a Ride.
He's bending the string above the one he's playing, which pulls the trem down.
I love when guitarists know the what chords and notes they're playing, makes the lives of us keyboardists so much easier haha
Does anyone know what amp and pickups he uses? I'm really digging his tone