this made me laugh too much

Keith Richards

"Ah finally. The perfect instrument to accompany my Bouzouki"

It forces us to go and research this guy. More click bait for someone. I think I’ll just let this one go. A 5 string guitar is about as gimmicky as it gets.

He’s also a super turbo nerd who has the ability to be the best musician ever, but instead makes Taylor swift-esc music.

@@johnny5494 I respectfully disagree. Mostly anyone who fairly consumes music-related content on the internet will be aware of Collier (even if not, I think they just found a treasure mine) And the possibilities of alternate tunings and a push for the player to think even a slight bit differently due to it being a 5 string can be refreshing for many. Certainly, It might not be for everyone.

@@Gliese710_ Swift just taking collateral damage.

@@christogeorgekurian I have been playing guitar for 35 years and currently own over 20 guitars. A few 7 and 8 string guitars. I respectfully pass on this one. A few gold mines to check out if you like alternate tunings are Alex Hutchings and Andy McKee

I’m not! I want regular frets! Not crooked ones

@@alexanderallegra432 they have the essential model which has them

@@alexanderallegra432many many many options out there for your requirements. Jacob didn’t make this guitar for everyone

@@ibinTZY yeah but I got 3,000 I’d love to spend on a new guitar…

@@alexanderallegra432 yeah my reply stays...many many options out there apart from this model by an Artist you clearly dont like 👍

Do you want to know what is really bizarre, is that that they introduce each other as the other person. Anybody else notice that? Weird sense of humor. Losing my mind for a minute.

​@@spottedliver you're weird

@@mendronesg just don't.

I agree, but honestly, it'll sound like any other guitar. But would have been cool to properly hear what kind of stuff he's playing with that tuning.

@@mrcoatsworth429 It's more of a mandolin tbh. They're calling it a guitar but idk if that's accurate. I recommend The String Cheese Incident if you get the chance. Their lead "guitar" player plays an electric 5 string octave mandolin and is phenomenal, and it's interesting to hear, since the different note pattern leads to a different playing style

Do you mean Ola?

that and/or Ace Ventura during the mental hospital scene when he's wearing the pink tutu. But it's admittedly more tidy here😆

​@@KC-ch6iwhahaha "alrighty then"

you can get a poor mans version pretty easily if you have a normal guitar, all you need is some pliers ;)

2 months probably

I suggest DAEGAD instead. It's what Jacob used before he received his 5 string guitar. I've accidentally snapped the 3rd string before when tuning back and forth from standard to DAEEAD with light gauge strings!

I happen to tune my 8-string D1 A1 E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4 (so an octave lower than Jacob's guitar at the bottom) to play Touch Guitar songs. I haven't thought about it as "easier" before seeing this video, though.

I moved to the guitar from bass and the extra 3rd and 4th is very confusing lol

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@@Moblinmobus I'm trying to be positive here, since there's nothing I like about Jacob colier or that guitar

More than ten years ago, jazzmen had 7 strings. But for centuries, violins/cello etc... had 4 strings. And people never changed that. I think this guitar is a great way to see guitar a different way, along with all the innovations Ola invented along the way

No. If you can explain why he's so brilliant I'll entertain it. But I see a charlatan who has successfully convinced a lot of people who don't know much about music that he's a genius. It's an emperor's new clothes situation.

@@FizzyP this is someone who has invented new scales and has the highest understanding of harmony. He's not a brilliant shredder. He's a piano player.

@@Zach-p7 I have no interest in shredding. "invented new scales" is not something a serious musician would think makes any sense. Anyone can "invent a new scale". What about it is so genius? What about G half sharp major is so genius? What about anything he does is genius? People keep holding up these token things and saying "this is genius". You ask them why and get crickets.

@@FizzyP super lydian/ mixolydian? How is the discovery of this not brilliant?

@@Zach-p7 That's not how this goes. You don't get to just invent a name for something and claim it's brilliant and I should obviously know that. That's "the emperor's new clothes" effect in action. I asked you to explain why it's brilliant. Why is it brilliant?

It really isn't

@@user-by6eb6zo7g It is. He's extremely innovative. Research his discography in detail and you'll discover an extremely diverse composer and more.

Not a guitarist (play piano and a bit of drums) but from my understanding isnt string tension an important thing in guitar. So simply removing a string on a 6 string could have undesired effects? Not to mention i believe this neck is as wide as a 6 string while only having 5 strings. So theres more room in between strings for bends. Like i said, not a guitarist so if i said something dumb please inform me 😊

@@MadeByIsmael Nah it's not dumb all valid logic. String tension would matter if you add excess tension (really thick gauge strings for example).. you could over time get warping of the neck and in the short term you would have to fix your intonation to match the new gauge. But to remove tension is never a bad thing, you could of course remove every single string and it would not affect the neck. Also with string bends it's not really limited by the room on the fretboard, more by the tension of the string. If someone is bending their strings more than 2 whole steps the strings would have to be insanely loose (almost flapping around /out of tune) when open and you would greatly benefit from a higher gauge to add tension back (which would limit your bends again) So yeah not to hate on Jacob.. I enjoy his music and it obviously is a logic that works for him - but you can totally achieve the same thing by just removing a string on any normal guitar

@@MadeByIsmael "Not a guitarist" Great than consider your take all but worthless

The strings on the JC model are spaced wider to be more like a Ukulele.

I've been playing in DAEGAD on a six-string acoustic guitar (same tuning Jacob used before his 5 string) for a couple months now and while you absolutely can remove one string and play in DAEAD, it gets really awkward. The benefit of having a 5-string guitar on a 6-string neck is that you get much more space in between the strings for bends and whatnot. I'm not positive but I think that the strings he uses are also specifically made for the guitar. The reason I believe that is because when you try to play voicings that are way high up on the neck, it's really easy to accidentally bend the string and play a different pitch but I don't see Jacob struggling with this in his videos.

I play 6-string bass (exclusively for a few years, now mostly 4 again), I hear it all the time.

Keith Richard would like this with a Tele body.

displacement of social media burnout

I know. Like why did Segovia, Joe Pass, Jimi Hendrix, Tony Rice ever need two E strings? Oh boy can you imagine Tony Rice on a 10string. So glad you and Jacob get it. If only we had a time machine you and Jacob could go back in time and teach Michael Hedges, Leo Kotke, and Stanley Jordan about alternate guitar tunings

@russellzauner buddy I have 3 E strings. Its called versatility. This guitar is the equivalent of a 3 wheeled car.

I did just that on my old forgotten baritone guitar (an OLP MM5 Baritone) after learning about Jacob's tuning - it's amazing! But I tuned it GDAEAD, so another fifth below, but all two semitones higher. I already had the GHS Zakk Wylde .010 to .060 strings on it which work great for that tuning. The .011 to .070 set might work even better.

D A D D Y?

@@andreethrasher5790 😂

Check out tenor guitars (4 strings, usually 23 inch scale) or plectrum guitars (4 strings, usually 25-26 inch scale length). Tenors have had somewhat of a resurgence over the last 10-ish years. There are many different tunings you can use for them as well.

7? I need 8:(

@@anvilleite198 You are my hero !!

A flute has so many holes, why? we only have 10 fingers. Lmaooo this guy

@@eliasmsv3156 don't even start with the piano

As someone who revolved around more "regular" open tunings (like open C CGCGCE), it sounds like a joy to play around.

could you tell us more about the advantages of this?

@@kilocharlie1100it’s fun 😃

@@kilocharlie1100 • the scordatura (open string ‘tuning’) makes for two areas with very regular finger patterning o three adjacent strings in fourths (here, EAD), inviting fast movement, easy triads (including in most inversions) for scales/arpeggios and chords, and familiarity to people who already play guitar or bass o three adjacent strings in fifths in the low end (here DAE) where we would expect less need for speed, relative to higher parts, with familiar and regular patterns of both scales/arpeggios and chords, especially for players of violin/viola/’cello/mandolin/mandola/mandocello (or people who might want to learn those later) • and the overall arrangement allows playing major, minor, suspended, and sharp 11 chords with only one finger on the E string in the open position  DAFAD (D minor) with a finger on the first fret  DAF#AD (D major) with a finger on the second fret  DAGAD (D suspended) with a finger on the third fret  DAG#AD (D, sharp 4/11) with a finger on the fourth fret o or any of these with two fingers if one is used as a barre - leaving two fingers free for making accompanying melody or for extending the complexity of the chords o barring is easier and less stressful with 5 strings than with 6 • with standard guitar tuning there is often a need to mute a string or two while making chords; less so here • in order to make the 6-string guitar to have the resonant and convenient two-octave span in the outer strings, it interrupts the all-fourths pattern with a major third (G to B), which disrupts the regularity of the fingering patterns; not so here o that tempered major third is very sharp, out of tune, and the out-of-tuneness is present whenever you use that string; if you tune the open B in Just Intonation to get it right in one chord, it will be out of tune for other uses - this problem is not remedied on the guitar above (because the fretting is in 12-tone Equal Temperament, and the thirds will show up out of tune elsewhere, anyway - though microtonal fretting would solve that), but at least it is not baked into every scale or chord It's probably not for everyone, but I have been enjoying it!

@@e_ederer thank you so much for the explanation! I have to try this

Bro have you heard of Mancuso. But i agree, he's so full of himself

@@eliasmsv3156 yeah I do know of him, he is an outlier tho. 99% of shredders play with a pick in some way. Whether they’re using alt/econ to change strings, or hybrid/legato/sweeping. If Jacob could play like that guy after a few years I would be impressed. But it was never going to happen because getting shredded is actually a shit load of work, haha

He doesn't care to impress anyone. It's a useless coversation. His music is the vehicle and whatever he decides to put in it is what works for his styles. You can do nearly unlimited things with fingers, some take more work than others.

@@beanzthumbz Jacob doesn't write music to be the fastest or the cleanest. He likes to explore interesting rhythmic interactions and concepts, and expand or recombine certain ways of writing harmonically, etc... he really doesn't care how technically skilled he is (past a point of being useful). He puts a ton of work into a million different aspects of music.

@@Proghead88 ya I agree with you. I would say his rhythmic prowess is really lacking on the new album compared to what he's done in the past though. I was just making fun of his comments about getting shredded, because he seems to think it would just come naturally to him without putting in any work like you have to in order to become really technically proficient on guitar

Because he is not an artist, but a strange pedantic cult leader

@@user-by6eb6zo7g lol ok troll

Listen to his albums one by one. You'll realize how extensively creative and expressive he is. And how much fun he has.

@@user-by6eb6zo7g He's an extremely creative and diverse songwriter. Check out his discography and you'll notice he writes songs combining many styles, types of production, moods and harmonic or rhythmic diversity not found in almost anywhere else in the music scene at once in 1 person. Not to mention he is very positive, encouraging, and engaging with everyone around him. Whether you are aware of this or not, doesn't make his art have less meaning for millions of people for many reasons I just mentioned.