Dweezil - I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the new “half fretless guitar with sustainiac” this is an unbelievably GOOD IDEA...a very, **VERY**GOOD IDEA!!! This video starts out giving us no clue what is going to happen after the **7:12** mark,, no *inkling* of the astonishing and groundbreaking music that you play after 7:12 in the video. It was already a great lesson for the first 7:12 - as always - I save every one of your instructional videos and I ***TRY*** to learn from them, as FZ AND DZ are two of my favourite guitarists in the universe - the lessons up until about 7:12, was very very practical and contained lots of very useful ideas, as always ... but from 7:13 onwards.... holy shirt ... this video transfers from “guitar lesson for Guitar World channel” to instead...I don’t know...”THE FUTURE OF THE ELECTRIC GUITAR”. or... “THE HEAVENLY SOUND OF A BEAUTIFUL RAGA PLAYED ON A WESTERN INSTRUMENT”.... or **any** description that somehow says “this guitar playing is **sheer beauty**”. I want one of those guitars so bad I can taste it, what a GENIUS idea... I’ve been playing guitar now for 48 years and I do not think I’ve ever heard anything by anyone, *****ever***** that sounds as amazing as the last few minutes of this video. Seriously Dweezil - this is amazing work - groundbreaking and transformative. Since I was a kid, I wanted to play Indian classical music....thanks to having been brought up on the music of Ravi Shankar via George Harrison - I’ve been hooked on Indian Classical music now for almost 50 years - I wanted a sitar, but....never could afford one, and who would have taught me anyway??...never had the dosh for that - but this...this is THE WAY to that sound. Your half fretless guitar is ACTUALLY CAPABLE of real microtonal music, and your emulations of Indian scales and techniques are already packing a HUGE wallop of “REAL “and “REALLY BEAUTIFUL” - I am just in love with that sound. I have historically, myself, specialised in being an energy bow ambient guitarist so I could get that endless sustain - to me, Sustainiac pickups are new and modern “magic” that isn’t quite real...or rather, it **wasn’t** quite real until I saw your modified guitar!!! (I ordered a sustainiac guitar the next day by the way!!!) because I can see and hear, from watching and listening to your video - that with the Sustainiac installed, I won’t need to play the E-bow live any more (as I’ve done since about 1979 lol) - the guitar can do that for me thanks to the sustainiac...that solves a problem. Or three. But your further idea of removing the frets from JUST the top 3 strings is **truly** an inspired idea - it works!! And it sounds MAGICAL. I can’t wait for you to perfect the guitar’s design, and then do some serious recording - and live playing - using this amazing new INSTRUMENT. Utterly unique, sounds absolutely stunning... I want one. (Note - happy to take *any* of your castoffs guitars or necks off your hands - your imperfect / not-quite-right prototypes - once you have the proper, full perfect build done...happy to pay the shipping from California to Scotland where I live, happy to promote this idea - I am so excited about the possibilities of this, Dweezil! You are REALLY onto a ***good***, *******good idea*******....please, *perfect* the hardware, then - play the holy sh*t out of that MF. Record a whole album of those beautiful, beautiful Indian melodies you play in the last section of the video. and - thank you so, ****so***** much for sharing this idea with us - seriously - it’s absolutely and totally brilliant!!! 😆😆😆😆😆 a brand new instrument is born - the “Gibson SG Half Fretless Sustainiac” model - and Dweezil Zappa is the one man in the universe that can not only play it - but play it like he was born to it. To my mind...this is like ***transforming your guitar*** into a working sitar that also happens to be an electric guitar...but effectively - you can play almost anything with this astonishing idea of three strings with frets for stability, chords, and standard lead playing - along with, the new and beautiful “top three” fretless strings which suddenly gives you the freedom to move from the standard electric guitar feel and sound (which is then made not standard by the presence of the Sustainiac - which supports BOTH the fretted and the fretless sides seamlessly and perfectly) giving you literally, “the best of both worlds” - on ONE neck!! Finally - some specific comments: from 8:23 to 8:31 - the most authentic Indian melody I have ever heard on a Western instrument - ever. Perfection - and when you reach the fretted strings, the transformation from fretless to fretted is just perfect, seamless - and suddenly, effortlessly, you move from “fretless Indian Classical Raga Mode” to “beautiful Sustainiac driven E-bow-like sound - but it flows so naturally it’s astonishing...like a human morphing from one instrument to a TOTALLY different instrument without seams without an issue at ALL...which tells me that the idea is right - 3 with frets - 3 without - I think no other combination would even work -and the three and three design works FLAWLESSLY... 8:32 to 8:38 - that section is STUNNING, it’s not only an amazing riff - well done young man that rocks!!! - but it really shows of the VERY VERY different tones you can get just by altering your approach - you start out on the fretted strings, playing what sound# like an awesome high speed E-bow riff...but then the instant you hit the top three fretless strings, your entire technique, you approach, your mindset, your “feel”... it does a quantum “shift” which allowed you to do those amazing, slow, deliberate long descending slides at 8:34 and then again at 8:35;- that is “proof of concept” if I have ever seen proof!! Dweezil - this ***works***, this is already working and you haven’t even finished making the guitar yet!!! I am absolutely overwhelmed with the sheer beauty of this sound - and I know that when your Dad hears this amazing music floating upwards he is gonna smile and say “that’s my boy!!” with a huge grin on his face - and over in the Krishna Section of the Departed, when he-who-once-was-our-dear-uncle-George-Harrison - when George hears those familiar raga melodies the he studied and loved all of his adult life.... floating up from your brand new instrument - that he would give us that wry Liverpudlian smile and say “hey Dweezil - THAT’S the instrument ***I*** needed back in ‘66 when ***I*** was trying to learn how to understand and play Indian music”. Frank would have LOVED this. George would have LIVED this. Higher praise I cannot summon!! Finally - from 10:49 to 11:05 ... well - come on, that is just *****showing off**** now. 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆. So beautiful man - good work! I can’t ***WAIT*** to hear where this instrument - and your obvious study of Eastern scales - I can’t wait to see and hear where those two powerful forces take you - in five years, ten years, fifteen years - when you are the new keeper of the flame, the new “Master Of The Half-Fretless Sustainiac Guitar” playing an amazing, amalgamated but seamless combination of rock, blues and Indian classical / microtonal music - all thanks to this remarkable, transformative idea. The best new innovation in guitars since the whammy bar if you ask me. All guitars should have a Sustainiac and a fretless top three by Royal Decree - why not?? Best of both worlds - sure, but really - the best of ALL worlds - as the ability to add microtonal elements and slides to the orderly set of fretted notes, is an idea that really is pure genius. So amazing Dweezil - absolutely awe-inspiring - thank you again for sharing this remarkable and utterly creative invention with us - it made my day. Awesome ! 😆😆. Dave from pureambient - it just sounds so, so good !!
Thank you so much Dweezil for taking time to teach these things about Frank's guitar playing is absolutely wonderful of you to share the special insight that you have you are a great person for sharing this so that people like myself can gain knowledge
Dweezil never fails to bring the beyond to you .. and in what seems to be bite size chunks .. until you wrap your mind around the twisting of things .. amazing .. HNY .. TY
Derek Trucks would probably sound even more amazing on that Fretless/Microtonal SG. Great lesson DZ! Lastly, if anyone wants to hear some even morse amazing slide/ Eastern scale style guitar playing, check out Shawn Lane's live videos with Jeff Sipe and Jonas Hellborg. Unreal.
As an actual pedestrian who is in the middle of the road, I'd like to confirm that -Yes- I am a bit boring, and only hope that I don't get run over. Neat guitar stuff here, too.
@dark days no I'm referring to every time she talks. Haven't you noticed? There's no doctoring. I'm pretty sure she's a functional alcoholic. She slurs her speech and stutters a lot.
@dark days and she probably does drugs too because her district has a lot of homeless people and is polluted with drugs, needles, condoms, and other drug paraphanalia. She apparently has no concern for some reason. She makes hundreds of millions of dollars as a politician. Where does she get it? I know her son gets millions of USA tax dollars that are laundered through Ukraine along with Hunter Biden and Adam Schiff's son. They've been scamming the American taxpayers for a long time. You didn't know?
@dark days I don't use Facebook. I watch actual videos and do research. Where do you get your info? The communist news network propaganda brainwashing machine?
Dweezil - I ABSOLUTELY LOVE the new “half fretless guitar with sustainiac” this is an unbelievably GOOD IDEA...a very, **VERY**GOOD IDEA!!! This video starts out giving us no clue what is going to happen after the **7:12** mark,, no *inkling* of the astonishing and groundbreaking music that you play after 7:12 in the video.
It was already a great lesson for the first 7:12 - as always - I save every one of your instructional videos and I ***TRY*** to learn from them, as FZ AND DZ are two of my favourite guitarists in the universe - the lessons up until about 7:12, was very very practical and contained lots of very useful ideas, as always ... but from 7:13 onwards.... holy shirt ... this video transfers from “guitar lesson for Guitar World channel” to instead...I don’t know...”THE FUTURE OF THE ELECTRIC GUITAR”. or... “THE HEAVENLY SOUND OF A BEAUTIFUL RAGA PLAYED ON A WESTERN INSTRUMENT”.... or **any** description that somehow says “this guitar playing is **sheer beauty**”.
I want one of those guitars so bad I can taste it, what a GENIUS idea... I’ve been playing guitar now for 48 years and I do not think I’ve ever heard anything by anyone, *****ever***** that sounds as amazing as the last few minutes of this video. Seriously Dweezil - this is amazing work - groundbreaking and transformative.
Since I was a kid, I wanted to play Indian classical music....thanks to having been brought up on the music of Ravi Shankar via George Harrison - I’ve been hooked on Indian Classical music now for almost 50 years - I wanted a sitar, but....never could afford one, and who would have taught me anyway??...never had the dosh for that - but this...this is THE WAY to that sound.
Your half fretless guitar is ACTUALLY CAPABLE of real microtonal music, and your emulations of Indian scales and techniques are already packing a HUGE wallop of “REAL “and “REALLY BEAUTIFUL” - I am just in love with that sound.
I have historically, myself, specialised in being an energy bow ambient guitarist so I could get that endless sustain - to me, Sustainiac pickups are new and modern “magic” that isn’t quite real...or rather, it **wasn’t** quite real until I saw your modified guitar!!! (I ordered a sustainiac guitar the next day by the way!!!) because I can see and hear, from watching and listening to your video - that with the Sustainiac installed, I won’t need to play the E-bow live any more (as I’ve done since about 1979 lol) - the guitar can do that for me thanks to the sustainiac...that solves a problem. Or three. But your further idea of removing the frets from JUST the top 3 strings is **truly** an inspired idea - it works!! And it sounds MAGICAL.
I can’t wait for you to perfect the guitar’s design, and then do some serious recording - and live playing - using this amazing new INSTRUMENT. Utterly unique, sounds absolutely stunning...
I want one. (Note - happy to take *any* of your castoffs guitars or necks off your hands - your imperfect / not-quite-right prototypes - once you have the proper, full perfect build done...happy to pay the shipping from California to Scotland where I live, happy to promote this idea - I am so excited about the possibilities of this, Dweezil!
You are REALLY onto a ***good***, *******good idea*******....please, *perfect* the hardware, then - play the holy sh*t out of that MF. Record a whole album of those beautiful, beautiful Indian melodies you play in the last section of the video. and - thank you so, ****so***** much for sharing this idea with us - seriously - it’s absolutely and totally brilliant!!! 😆😆😆😆😆
a brand new instrument is born - the “Gibson SG Half Fretless Sustainiac” model - and Dweezil Zappa is the one man in the universe that can not only play it - but play it like he was born to it.
To my mind...this is like ***transforming your guitar*** into a working sitar that also happens to be an electric guitar...but effectively - you can play almost anything with this astonishing idea of three strings with frets for stability, chords, and standard lead playing - along with, the new and beautiful “top three” fretless strings which suddenly gives you the freedom to move from the standard electric guitar feel and sound (which is then made not standard by the presence of the Sustainiac - which supports BOTH the fretted and the fretless sides seamlessly and perfectly) giving you literally, “the best of both worlds” - on ONE neck!!
Finally - some specific comments: from 8:23 to 8:31 - the most authentic Indian melody I have ever heard on a Western instrument - ever. Perfection - and when you reach the fretted strings, the transformation from fretless to fretted is just perfect, seamless - and suddenly, effortlessly, you move from “fretless Indian Classical Raga Mode” to “beautiful Sustainiac driven E-bow-like sound - but it flows so naturally it’s astonishing...like a human morphing from one instrument to a TOTALLY different instrument without seams without an issue at ALL...which tells me that the idea is right - 3 with frets - 3 without - I think no other combination would even work -and the three and three design works FLAWLESSLY...
8:32 to 8:38 - that section is STUNNING, it’s not only an amazing riff - well done young man that rocks!!! - but it really shows of the VERY VERY different tones you can get just by altering your approach - you start out on the fretted strings, playing what sound# like an awesome high speed E-bow riff...but then the instant you hit the top three fretless strings, your entire technique, you approach, your mindset, your “feel”... it does a quantum “shift” which allowed you to do those amazing, slow, deliberate long descending slides at 8:34 and then again at 8:35;- that is “proof of concept” if I have ever seen proof!!
Dweezil - this ***works***, this is already working and you haven’t even finished making the guitar yet!!! I am absolutely overwhelmed with the sheer beauty of this sound - and I know that when your Dad hears this amazing music floating upwards he is gonna smile and say “that’s my boy!!” with a huge grin on his face - and over in the Krishna Section of the Departed, when he-who-once-was-our-dear-uncle-George-Harrison - when George hears those familiar raga melodies the he studied and loved all of his adult life.... floating up from your brand new instrument - that he would give us that wry Liverpudlian smile and say “hey Dweezil - THAT’S the instrument ***I*** needed back in ‘66 when ***I*** was trying to learn how to understand and play Indian music”.
Frank would have LOVED this. George would have LIVED this. Higher praise I cannot summon!!
Finally - from 10:49 to 11:05 ... well - come on, that is just *****showing off**** now. 😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆😆. So beautiful man - good work!
I can’t ***WAIT*** to hear where this instrument - and your obvious study of Eastern scales - I can’t wait to see and hear where those two powerful forces take you - in five years, ten years, fifteen years - when you are the new keeper of the flame, the new “Master Of The Half-Fretless Sustainiac Guitar” playing an amazing, amalgamated but seamless combination of rock, blues and Indian classical / microtonal music - all thanks to this remarkable, transformative idea.
The best new innovation in guitars since the whammy bar if you ask me.
All guitars should have a Sustainiac and a fretless top three by Royal Decree - why not?? Best of both worlds - sure, but really - the best of ALL worlds - as the ability to add microtonal elements and slides to the orderly set of fretted notes, is an idea that really is pure genius. So amazing Dweezil - absolutely awe-inspiring - thank you again for sharing this remarkable and utterly creative invention with us - it made my day. Awesome ! 😆😆. Dave from pureambient
- it just sounds so, so good !!
Thank you so much Dweezil for taking time to teach these things about Frank's guitar playing is absolutely wonderful of you to share the special insight that you have you are a great person for sharing this so that people like myself can gain knowledge
Respect to the dweez always a amazing player
A fun project Dweezil! Thanks for the challenge
Awesome sounds from that modified guitar. Love that. Thankyou for sharing this
Exactly
Micro tones is where it's at
Great to get a rare glimpse of Dweezil. He's a fantastic player!
Dweezil never fails to bring the beyond to you .. and in what seems to be bite size chunks .. until you wrap your mind around the twisting of things .. amazing .. HNY .. TY
Great thinking out of the box. Sounds great with half the frets gone. I like Asian music and it sounds like a sitar but different.
Great lesson! 🎸🎯
Wow! I loved that.
Happy New year's Guitar World and keep giving us great vids like this Yhanks 2020 . 🎇🎇🎆🎆🎸🎵🎶🎶🎶🤘🤘🤘 lol TroyFrost / Troyster 😎 cool riffs cool 🎸🤘🤘🤘🎸
"Make your guitar sound drunk for more authentic blues sound."- What a great analogy!
Derek Trucks would probably sound even more amazing on that Fretless/Microtonal SG. Great lesson DZ! Lastly, if anyone wants to hear some even morse amazing slide/ Eastern scale style guitar playing, check out Shawn Lane's live videos with Jeff Sipe and Jonas Hellborg. Unreal.
Fantastic
cake.Happy New year Zappa!
Microtonal. Your guitar is singing! Very Cool!
Kool , MEENALS & HANNELS & SQUEALS > Forever😊😊😊.
As an actual pedestrian who is in the middle of the road, I'd like to confirm that -Yes- I am a bit boring, and only hope that I don't get run over. Neat guitar stuff here, too.
STUPENDO top 2020
peep that Echopark semi-fretless mod. props to Gabe
Who did that modification one of the better ones I've seen , you say a Gabe at Echopark guessing that's in los Angeles probably by echo park
@@kittymarlu526 Gabe/Echopark used to be based in cali, yea. they're currently in Detroit
CHUNGA!
Dweezil Zappa vs Steve Vai vs Joe Satriani vs Jimmy Page in a guitar player battle for a future video please ❤️ Thanks 🎶💕
Hey Dweezil, what do you think about your brother's hologram project ?
Definitely a cool technique. A bit of Jimmy Page if my ears aren't failing me
I will listen to In the Evening after watching this 😎
is frank his dad?
Make your guitar sound like Nancy Pelosi -- drunk. I really like the Eastern riff sounds.
muh politics. shut up and play yr guitar
@dark days no I'm referring to every time she talks. Haven't you noticed? There's no doctoring. I'm pretty sure she's a functional alcoholic. She slurs her speech and stutters a lot.
@dark days and she probably does drugs too because her district has a lot of homeless people and is polluted with drugs, needles, condoms, and other drug paraphanalia. She apparently has no concern for some reason. She makes hundreds of millions of dollars as a politician. Where does she get it? I know her son gets millions of USA tax dollars that are laundered through Ukraine along with Hunter Biden and Adam Schiff's son. They've been scamming the American taxpayers for a long time. You didn't know?
@dark days I don't use Facebook. I watch actual videos and do research. Where do you get your info? The communist news network propaganda brainwashing machine?