Have you ever just sat in a mall and looked at a piano store and wonder how in the fuck do they ever stay open? I have never seen anyone walk in and just buy one, have you? So in short playing a piano like a guitar at the piano store is the most appropriate thing I could think anyone could ever do!
Forgot to tell 'em: *put down the pick and use ALL of your fingers*. You can do so much more using your fingers instead of chord-chopping with a pick. I've been playing this way for a long time, and especially since I learned some classical guitar. Picks are great for solos and certain material, but fingerstyle is so versatile and it's my favorite way to play.
It kind of depends for me whether to use a pick or not. While picks can be a little harsh, you can get a pretty percussive sound that's not as present with fingers. I think for solo guitar, it's ideal to drop the pick, so you can have multiple moving parts on multiple strings.
Brandon Veracka Na man. Hybrid picking Is the way to go. You can pick and chose which notes on which strings to play and still get all the great bonuses that come with a pick. Now don't get me wrong, fingerstyle is great too and when I'm playing something originally written on piano it's what I usually use, but if I'm going for that Hendrix or RHCP sound, or writing, hybrid picking all the way.
theMstanglover I agree with both of you guys' opinions. I was just commenting on playing guitar like a piano. You both made some very good points, and I love my picks. For certain genres, picks are almost mandatory. ***** I'm familiar with hybrid picking and I really like it though I have yet to get completely comfortable doing it live or for friends. Anyway, thanks for sharing your technique!
I completely agree, I was at first questioning whether i could play metal stuff without a pick, but you can still play some of the fastest sweep picking licks just with some extra practice. And it pays off too, because you aren't limited by the disadvantages of a pick that isn't flexible in itself and you have to have on you whenever you play.
Hendrix just played. i bet you anything its because he learned on an unplugged electric just listening and playing along to what ever he heard on the radio. when you learn by listening you tend to imitate what ever the main instrument being used is. i always thought he played more like a saxophone. and that super hendrixy sound is more Seattle sound.
Play guitar like a piano. "...The Jimi Hendrix style piano-like guitar playing". That's remarkable- because when I want to play the violin like a trumpet I favour Paganini style trumpet-like violin playing.
yea i tried that too, but it didn't work out. for starters i put the instrument to my mouth completely the wrong way. also the mute didn;t fit the holes in the violin.
Don't forget the emotion and playing each note at a different dynamic (not sarcasm complaining about lack of compression). It really adds to the quality of the sound. The bad and good players tend to do it the most. The bad players because of lack of skill and pros to add emotion.
Hello. Gotta say your channel is awesome - at the moment I'm too tired and bored to play (too many gigs, too many practice sessions) so I'm just watching videos for ideas. You're doing a great job, I subscribed. Give castles another look, its a great tune worth every guitarist's time. Rock on! I'll be watching :)
Or Ollie Halsall - forgotten guitar hero. Listen to Patto and their "Hold your fire", "The Man", "You, you point your finger". Amazing tracks and Halsall playing is just fantastic.
This is really cool-the bridge between playing like a guitar{chords-Single notes opposition} to moving to playing like piano{where all the notes are right THERE} is key.Practise and familiarity with your instruments{this works for mandolin ,mandola and bouzouki too !} Advice I'm telling myself really....
can't seem to find the satriani song. "broke" doesn't seem to exist. any idea what it is actually called? EDIT: Apparently it's "Baroque". Less confusing and original french pronunciation is "Ba-rock" :) ty
it's awesome that you used those jimi songs to make examples of that technique.. it's nice to se hendrix in a musical theory demostation.. i really felt it..
I would call them top/bottom if you're talking about their physical position and high/low if you're talking about the pitch. So top=low and bottom=high.
The way I see the strings is "top" being the strings closest to you, but I also refer to them as low (in pitch). Likewise the bottom strings are also the high strings
Will Jenks I see it traditionally as upper and lower register... Three bass strings and 3 treble strings. It can only help you to conform to the conventional thinking as you will learn more efficiently
It's hilarious that we have all these specific musical terms, ranging from archaic to scientific, and we trip over ourselves on which is the top string or which end is the top of the fretboard
ya I like to refer to the high strings as the top and the low bass strings as the bottom. Just like the pitches, the horizontal orientation is irrelevant.
sometimes a write something on piano and then transcribe it onto my guitar and it gives it a very van Halenish feel which is interesting because I know Eddie van Halen was a piano player before he was a guitar player
Hello good sir! I rather enjoy watching your videos and was wondering if you just so happen to do private lessons. I live in West Asheville and enjoy hitting up Musicians Workshop off of Merrimon Ave. myself! Great staff and an awesome place to shop around.
Before I comment, I really enjoy your posts. I've heard you play that specific PRS SC before, however, in this vid your bass strings sound super distorted (darkly) & IMHO detract from the specific tone you're trying to achieve. Almost sounds like it's overdriving the mic.? *I really like the triad comparisons* do more of that :) No offense is meant here, so keep on doing what you're doing it's great. Maybe back down the drive so that it translates better through the mic (condenser-I assume). Have a GREAT NEW YEAR~!
Top strings are the highest in pitch and they go to bottom as the strings get lower in pitch, or closer to the player. Of course if you play upside down and left handed like Albert King, Otis Rush, Tony Iommi or Doyle Bramhall III, that is reversed. Hendrix played left handed but strung the guitar in the conventional manner - Low to high in pitch and going away from him. Confusing, isn't it? But you are using your "top" strings to your "bottom" strings, which are the lowest. Top=furthest away, Bottom=closest to the player. Ok, that's enough.
I was learning a solo, so the playing speed was reduced to 0.75% . Then i started this video and went to make coffee, for a solid minute i wasnt realising that its still slowed down
On paper the top string appears as the high E as it is on top in tabs and classical transcriptions. But if your just holding the guitar with no knowledge of theory. The low e is the top string. Like a mirror image if you will. I gave up and call em by name.
well, there are no different chords for pianos and guitars. i think of the Hendrix chord (7#9) in E as (E)- E-G#-D-G-(E) from lowest note to highest. but E7#9 with the piano would (usually) be played E-G#-B-D-G, which is the "correct" way. With the guitar you leave the fifth out if you want to play it the way Hendrix did.
@ amine Mauktafi I only reviewed the CAGED system once, but I thought it was funny that they have both the C and the D in that system. The C chord and the D chord are essentially the same chord shape/inversion. The D is just up one step and the lower strings are not usually played.
Yeah, I tried playing a piano like a guitar. Long story short I got kicked out of the music store.
lol
Have you ever just sat in a mall and looked at a piano store and wonder how in the fuck do they ever stay open? I have never seen anyone walk in and just buy one, have you? So in short playing a piano like a guitar at the piano store is the most appropriate thing I could think anyone could ever do!
They make most of their money from rentals and online purchases
I tried to play a female cop like two congas. Now I am on parole and forbidden to play any instrument in 3 states for the next 18 months.
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#allcongasmatter
Forgot to tell 'em: *put down the pick and use ALL of your fingers*. You can do so much more using your fingers instead of chord-chopping with a pick. I've been playing this way for a long time, and especially since I learned some classical guitar. Picks are great for solos and certain material, but fingerstyle is so versatile and it's my favorite way to play.
It kind of depends for me whether to use a pick or not. While picks can be a little harsh, you can get a pretty percussive sound that's not as present with fingers. I think for solo guitar, it's ideal to drop the pick, so you can have multiple moving parts on multiple strings.
Brandon Veracka Na man. Hybrid picking Is the way to go. You can pick and chose which notes on which strings to play and still get all the great bonuses that come with a pick. Now don't get me wrong, fingerstyle is great too and when I'm playing something originally written on piano it's what I usually use, but if I'm going for that Hendrix or RHCP sound, or writing, hybrid picking all the way.
theMstanglover I agree with both of you guys' opinions. I was just commenting on playing guitar like a piano. You both made some very good points, and I love my picks. For certain genres, picks are almost mandatory. ***** I'm familiar with hybrid picking and I really like it though I have yet to get completely comfortable doing it live or for friends. Anyway, thanks for sharing your technique!
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I completely agree, I was at first questioning whether i could play metal stuff without a pick, but you can still play some of the fastest sweep picking licks just with some extra practice. And it pays off too, because you aren't limited by the disadvantages of a pick that isn't flexible in itself and you have to have on you whenever you play.
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I've seen this before. From what is this?
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Great, I just chipped my tooth on the middle C.
Hendrix just played. i bet you anything its because he learned on an unplugged electric just listening and playing along to what ever he heard on the radio. when you learn by listening you tend to imitate what ever the main instrument being used is. i always thought he played more like a saxophone. and that super hendrixy sound is more Seattle sound.
Play guitar like a piano. "...The Jimi Hendrix style piano-like guitar playing".
That's remarkable- because when I want to play the violin like a trumpet I favour Paganini style trumpet-like violin playing.
lol
lol
yea i tried that too, but it didn't work out. for starters i put the instrument to my mouth completely the wrong way. also the mute didn;t fit the holes in the violin.
Holy shit that compression on his voice is extreme.
Glad I'm not the only one who noticed that...
every plosive sounds like a tom lol
that's playing a guitar like a guitar. playing single note melodies that are typical on a piano on a guitar is that
@TheBeInzLad yeah three years later
Isn't it going to be great if YT is around for decades and when we are all old someone can respond to some comment we made 30 years ago?
just play arpeggio section from jason becker's altitude at normal tempo , it will sound like a piano if keem 'em clean, good luck guys
Vertigo 101 hv
Don't forget the emotion and playing each note at a different dynamic (not sarcasm complaining about lack of compression). It really adds to the quality of the sound. The bad and good players tend to do it the most. The bad players because of lack of skill and pros to add emotion.
Hendrix is remembered for crashing around and making a load of noise but few people know how good his chord work was.
I thought he would put a guitar horizontally and start tapping the strings like pressing keys on piano :P
the weird thing I play piano like Guitars and people think I play Guitar Like hendrix.
a reverse Jimi
Ross Whitlock I guess you can call it that
Jimi a God though lol
Yellow Synth ...Jazz legend, Earl "Fatha" Hines played the piano like a trumpet!
Dallas Cheked forreal thats pretty dope. but hendrix to me still a god of this shit along with Funkadelic
Yellow Synth ...Hendrix was without a doubt, in a league of his own and well ahead of his time.
Hello. Gotta say your channel is awesome - at the moment I'm too tired and bored to play (too many gigs, too many practice sessions) so I'm just watching videos for ideas. You're doing a great job, I subscribed. Give castles another look, its a great tune worth every guitarist's time. Rock on! I'll be watching :)
Tyler: Good morning, good afternoon, good evening
Me watching the video at 4AM 4 years later: hi :)
That guitar tone is soooo good!
as a bassist i might not play chords but eatching how guitarists do so i can learn how to back them up when they do so.
yeah, like Hendrix...or also John Frusciante
Or Eric Johnson!
Love Frusciante
metalman661001 yes Eric Johnson
Hendrix is Frusciante's hero.
Or Ollie Halsall - forgotten guitar hero. Listen to Patto and their "Hold your fire", "The Man", "You, you point your finger". Amazing tracks and Halsall playing is just fantastic.
This is really cool-the bridge between playing like a guitar{chords-Single notes opposition} to moving to playing like piano{where all the notes are right THERE} is key.Practise and familiarity with your instruments{this works for mandolin ,mandola and bouzouki too !} Advice I'm telling myself really....
can't seem to find the satriani song. "broke" doesn't seem to exist. any idea what it is actually called?
EDIT: Apparently it's "Baroque". Less confusing and original french pronunciation is "Ba-rock" :) ty
Baroque.
thank you. i thought he jokingly pronounced it wrongly xD
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Baroque
Baroque
One name: Tommy Emmanuel
it's awesome that you used those jimi songs to make examples of that technique.. it's nice to se hendrix in a musical theory demostation.. i really felt it..
I would call them top/bottom if you're talking about their physical position and high/low if you're talking about the pitch. So top=low and bottom=high.
Dude that was a classic 'didn't see ya there!' NICE!
the tone is so sweeeet~~
The way I see the strings is "top" being the strings closest to you, but I also refer to them as low (in pitch).
Likewise the bottom strings are also the high strings
I call the lower strings the bottom ones, but I play bass so it might be different
Will Jenks everyone else calls the top the highest in pitch so it's prolly best that you make a habit of doing that so people understand what u mean
Will Jenks I see it traditionally as upper and lower register...
Three bass strings and 3 treble strings. It can only help you to conform to the conventional thinking as you will learn more efficiently
It's hilarious that we have all these specific musical terms, ranging from archaic to scientific, and we trip over ourselves on which is the top string or which end is the top of the fretboard
Your going to get really confused then . Top and bottom strings refers to tone / octaves.
I sub'd last night, you have some great content! I learn something new from everyone of your videos!
You can also play guitar like a harmonica by blowing into the soundhole and holding chords
ya I like to refer to the high strings as the top and the low bass strings as the bottom. Just like the pitches, the horizontal orientation is irrelevant.
You need to post that song in the background as a youtube video, awesome progression.
Basically learn how to do hammer ons and offs and learn to use your thumb a lot, Hendrix used his thumb on the neck all the time!
sometimes a write something on piano and then transcribe it onto my guitar and it gives it a very van Halenish feel which is interesting because I know Eddie van Halen was a piano player before he was a guitar player
Hello good sir! I rather enjoy watching your videos and was wondering if you just so happen to do private lessons. I live in West Asheville and enjoy hitting up Musicians Workshop off of Merrimon Ave. myself! Great staff and an awesome place to shop around.
Before I comment, I really enjoy your posts. I've heard you play that specific PRS SC before, however, in this vid your bass strings sound super distorted (darkly) & IMHO detract from the specific tone you're trying to achieve. Almost sounds like it's overdriving the mic.?
*I really like the triad comparisons* do more of that :)
No offense is meant here, so keep on doing what you're doing it's great. Maybe back down the drive so that it translates better through the mic (condenser-I assume). Have a GREAT NEW YEAR~!
Another way to play "like a piano" is to detune the top strings an octave so your chords get close piano-like voicings, Frank Gambale style.
That intro tho..
everyone was all in on playing a guitar like a piano until they heard hammers were involved!
Love Ray Charles! Always had a weird time of transposing the songs to guitar. Thank you for sharing. Cheers, G :D London
that top bottom thing messes with my brain too!
listen to ted greene the master
Well said
absolutely the master
Anyone else think Stevie T intro? "Woah, didn't sea there!"
Your class is great, thank you very much
beautiful sounds
i saw you, but you startled me a bit surprised :) when you do the surprised intro thing :0
;) nice style
This is beautiful
this is nothing like how a piano is played.
What's the song in the background during the beginning of the video?
He says it at 0:30
Holy shit, I never noticed this! Thank you!
Top strings are the highest in pitch and they go to bottom as the strings get lower in pitch,
or closer to the player. Of course if you play upside down and left handed like Albert King,
Otis Rush, Tony Iommi or Doyle Bramhall III, that is reversed. Hendrix played left handed
but strung the guitar in the conventional manner - Low to high in pitch and going away
from him. Confusing, isn't it? But you are using your "top" strings to your "bottom" strings,
which are the lowest. Top=furthest away, Bottom=closest to the player. Ok, that's enough.
This tecnhique reminds me of "Fire and Ice" by Poison, riff by Ritchie Kotzen
“Oh.. didn’t see you there” and then I hit subscribe
This is basically R&B, and Curtis Mayfield.
I was learning a solo, so the playing speed was reduced to 0.75% . Then i started this video and went to make coffee, for a solid minute i wasnt realising that its still slowed down
I don’t know if any of you have heard of Polyphia, but they do this exactly. They write on piano then translate it to guitar.
On paper the top string appears as the high E as it is on top in tabs and classical transcriptions. But if your just holding the guitar with no knowledge of theory. The low e is the top string. Like a mirror image if you will. I gave up and call em by name.
Frost Jofrie but top and bottom are both E .
I think he meant keyboard sound.
Fred Sokolow for even more
i was kinda hoping he'd be talking about 2 handed tapping. look up Rob Scallion, for that second. you'll see what i mean
What's the background music ?
badass dude
a guitarist that teaches satriani moves! at last!
So thus is what it would sound if a piano plays guitar.
Awesome video!!!
What's the song playing in the background called?
nice presentation
The hendrix chord was also based on a piano chord
well, there are no different chords for pianos and guitars. i think of the Hendrix chord (7#9) in E as (E)- E-G#-D-G-(E) from lowest note to highest. but E7#9 with the piano would (usually) be played E-G#-B-D-G, which is the "correct" way. With the guitar you leave the fifth out if you want to play it the way Hendrix did.
wow I did once to play guitar like a piano but I was expecting Tyler should play taps like Rob Scallon did.
Great sound man!
i really don't understand how this videos have so little views...
chuck berry is the first one to play a guitar like a piano
Awesome!!!!!!
5:59 that face!
Btw the song at the beginning is the most underrated joe Satriani song ever
Hey how did u get those birds/doves on your fretboard? Custom or stock?
It is a distinction of PRS guitars. Check them out.
Jon D A - How do you not know about PRS!?
its just a regular prs guiitar
the chords youre playing on castles made of sand is wrong? its F-Am-Em-F-C-G, not F-Dm-Am
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I can't find the audio for Castles Made Of Sand anywhere.....
Can you do this with Knopflers style?
Nice one
Top Strings
I only really play my guitars piano like.
I played a piano like a guitar once, I got kicked out of guitar center
nice.
what is the song he was playing in the beginning
Anyone else found the song he played in the beginning?
Hey nice patriots hat in the background. #patsnation keep up the good work!
So basically how to play arpeggio style. You know, like the acoustic guitar...
Liking just for the intro, "didn't see you there" 😂😂😂😂
execellent smithers
the icon of the video looks like he's grossed out by Jimmi
Its like you'd play a string bass.
0:25 omg Inscope
Can anybody tell me what is the background music in this this video?
you play baroque of Joe it's song is hard
im having trouble with my amp wire to plug in my gutar is their any way to fix it
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didn't know pianos could play guitar
Put simply learn the CAGED system, maj and min pentatonics.
@ amine Mauktafi
I only reviewed the CAGED system once, but I thought it was funny that they have both the C and the D in that system.
The C chord and the D chord are essentially the same chord shape/inversion.
The D is just up one step and the lower strings are not usually played.
@@jimmiizzy6283 jokes on you im tuned a whole step down lol
what studio monitors do you use.
How about...035 on the piano
The introduction was satriani
You said it when the video proceeded ...