I should mention that was Stanley Jordan playing at an Eddie Lang tribute concert... not Eddie Lang performing... lol

This one guy glued picks on a fidget spinner and got glue all over his favorite guitar

Some dude in the 60s used to play with his teeth, was really good. Should have been in a band.

Well one time I saw this one guy play with hummus on his hands...

Some armless dude playing “sweet child of mine” with his toes...

For ME the strangest way to play guitar would be successfully!

Slash: plays guitar behind his head and sees NOTHING. Me: can't even play while staring at my fretboard 😂😂😂

I've seen Lil' Wayne play guitar.... that was pretty weird..

The power drill thing was the beginning of "Poundcake" by Van Hagar in 1991.

What do you want for Christmas?

Tom Morello has had some of the most bizarre techniques I’ve seen. His use of the toggle switch as a killswitch has made some of my favorite solos

The weirdest way I’ve ever seen a guitar played is when Stevie T played running around in an open field

“plays effortlessly” I think he forgot he’s watching Stevie ray Vaughan play

I saw a guy pn KZfaq playing master of puppets with Alternative picking..i was very confused

Bucketheads ludicrous speed and his “nubbing ” technique

I lost my pick one time and had left the rest of em at my house (I was visiting my mom's at this time) and I used my extra aux cord to pick

Paul Gilbert: Drill EVH:hold my poundcake

Why does Tyler's voice always sound like he's one sentence away from saying a big zinger, but then he rarely ever does?

The first time I'd ever seen a power drill used with a guitar was in the MTV Video Music Awards, circa 1994? I think. It was EVH playing the opening chords of Poundcake with a power drill. I had no idea Gilbert was doing this as early as 1988 when he played with Racer X. Very cool.

I have to say, Metallica on a strat is probably the weirdest way I've seen someone play guitar

No doubt Steve Stevens from Billy Idol using an alien lazar gun in the solo to “Rebel Yell”

the Jimi Hendrix teeth, I used to do that and behind back as well in my younger days, except I used my tongue because I hurt my tooth once

Wondering if anyone mentioned jimmy page playing guitar with a bow. 🤷🏻‍♀️ that’s a strange way to play guitar 🎸🎻

Eddie Van Halen used the drill as well. Not sure which one started doing it first Paul Gilbert or Eddie but they actually had a specific brand drill that they used, Mikita. They used that brand specifically because when you release the button the drill winds down instead of just shutting off.

"What is the strangest way you've ever seen somebody play a guitar?" Davie504: *_Yes_*

I used to play the intro to Pantera's 'Heresy' with my nose.

I went to a Ghost concert in Sioux Falls, SD and Nothing More was the opening band, and in between songs they put a guitar in a weird stand, and the guitarist was in charge of the fingerboard as the vocalist used drum sticks near the bridge. Really weird, yet oddly satisfying

First things that came to mind were the Drill Picking that was popularized by Billy Sheehan and Paul Gilbert! Those those are heroes of mine for the Bass and Guitar

Back in 2016, I performed in a talent show with my teacher, and we both love prog metal and he bought the music Man majesty at the time and I played it in the show. But in that talent show, I saw a kid that looks 100% like your standard middle school bully, and the guy held the pick with not 2, not, 3 but ALL FIVE FINGERS. His hand looked like a disheveled crab of some sort, and after he played message in a bottle poorly, 13 year old me went up there and played "the enemy inside" by dream theater, and won the show. Ahhhhh good times

8:03 i played a guitar that way a couple of times but i put it on the table and i was using guitar neck like piano keyboard. It was actually easier for me that way since i played on piano a lot before. The guitar was an electric 4 string bass with tuning keys turned up really high for higher notes.

Kinda sad that Jeff Healy didn't make an appearance here. Dude was blind and played his guitar on his lap.

In an old video of Billy Sheehan, he talks about how Gilbert was using the drill during his solo and got his hair wrapped up in it. He stood there baffled, guitar feeding back, drill stuck to the side of his head. His tech came out to reverse the drill to get him out of it, only to pull it away then right back up wrapped the other way around the drill.

I knew a guy, he used to play guitar with a violin bow. Don't know why he stopped.

Bass

I watched a dude play with his feet once. He would step on the frets to make notes and chords ring out while he played his acoustic normally. This was a few months ago. Went to a bar but not a bar (Had the typical bar layout and such, just no booze) and this group got up of 3 got up on stage. They said something about the other guy not being able to show up, and I guess that's how he compensated. Pretty badass to watch honestly. I assume the guitar on the floor was in an open tuning.

Saw Paul Gilbert play live with the drill and pick thing. AMAZING DUDE!

The strangest way I’ve seen a guitar played was when I saw a guy playing Stairway To Heaven in a guitar store

The most practical and normal way to play is Lil Wayne's style

Tyler, not that this means anything but in terms of sound and style, you're my favorite guitarist on youtube. especially when you get all bluesy. you're definitely an inspiration.

Check out Gabriel Marin from Consider the Source. He plays Middle Eastern and Sci Fi inspired Prog on a double neck guitar ONE FRETLESS, three pedalboards and can voice practically any instrument on his rig. They are a Brooklyn based trio i think. They have amazing chops and blend old world and new world with a taste of the space age. Very groovy and a diverse sound pallate. Ive never seen a guitar player do it quite like this cat.

Go Angus Young style .... Roll on the floor , do that crazy duck walk and play 😂

Eddie VanHalen used the Power Tool on the Intro of Poundcake. :-)

I'm going to leave a bunch of weird crap here because I'm an Indie-head. I don't really think any of these have a chance of popping up in your vids, but it's worth a shot: --- Thurston Moore - Just the general abrasion of his playing, in addition to the alternate tunings he uses, makes him interesting to watch & listen to (specifically when he was in Sonic Youth). Like pre-shoegaze shoegaze (or... well, noise-rock - but my way of saying it is cooler) Ted Falconi - I don't even know how to describe what he did flatteringly, so I'll simply say he was like a drummer who played the guitar & somehow harmonized total free-improv noise with super slow, dirgy, cynical punk-rock in his band Flipper. It always looks like he's trying to attack his guitar and it's struggling to escape in all the live videos I've watched because he almost always uses violent upstrokes when he picks. Flipper is kind of like the best worst band ever and they practically invented grunge and sludge-metal almost a full decade before either was a thing that existed and people knew about. Norman Westburg - Every single note or chord he ever plays is dissonant, kind of like Ted Falconi if he wasn't intoxicated & actually consistently did it intentionally. Early Swans is incomparably heavy, slow, industrial, dirge-like, repetitive and brutal. Harmonizing through sheer-volume that literally made people sick when they played in small clubs. His style is still unique in their more recent work, but not nearly as weird. --- There's my choices, and I apologize for my taste lol

i love that you have the brushless dewalt 20v set those tools are nice. i got em myself

0:50 you can see his years in AP calculus paying off

That's a really killer “Hey Joe” man.

I was there with slash on that day, it was June 16th 2017 and it was the guns n roses concert; the song was paradise city and that was the very ending of the whole concert !!

You rock it like hell in the back, impressive how accurate you are with your pick!

10:21 you should have had bethany walk in and go TYLER.... WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING? Great video as always love seeing the gutair being played in more than just the normal orientation.

*no one *absolutely no one Jimmy Page using a violin bow to play dazed and confused

The reason why SRV is able to pick like that effortlessly is because he’s doing something Jimi would do, where he’s muting every other string and basically stroking, which makes him sound louder and more full

Hey awesome video, you missed out playing the guitar across your lap, a great example for this is Jeff Healey, check him out because he was an excellent guitarist and it was him who inspired me to learn to play, keep on rocking!

That jonas guy played a guitar once. That was pretty bizarre.

Hey guys my mot pockets need to come out of the microwave in 45 minutes, remind me when they’re done ok? Edit: Thanks guys!

I enjoyed how well you played behind your head way too much. That was amazing

Lee Ranaldo played a power drill with a contract mic through a wah pedal on the burning spear if you want a completely different use of one.

I saw someone recreate different instruments with an air compressor

I've actually personally seen someone playing guitar. 🖐🏻

One thing to try is playing with a screwdriver, using it as a bow. Or any metal rod that has some texture to it, you can sand it with rough sandpaper to get the texture you need. You can get incredible Godspeed-like droning wailing that I've not really heard produced any other way.

Okay i saw a guy who plays his guitar with a violin bow once. Forgot his name but he seemed kinda talented to me. I'm sure we'll be hearing about him much, in a couple o years.

the weirdest way I have seen is when Stevie t played come as you are while going calalalalala

Hendrix must be in this video Edit: alright good

Fair play to you mate you did it. I've still got work to do on playing the usual way first lol. But maybe one day when knows

Jeff Healey's stance and the way he uses his thumb as a bar is ridiculously hard.

Too bad you missed out on Jeff Healey. playing on his lap. Lots of interesting techniques to see and consider.

I always play my guitar by just eye-balling it, and expect to get better at it. *Cries in shame*

Someone from I think Ozzys band put cocking type tips on his fingers. His fingers were so it I’ve apparently and it made a distinct sound

Man you forgot about Jeff Healy! He played the guitar sitting down with it lying flat on his lap pushing down on ths strings like a keyboard. He was AWESOME, blues legend

I tried doing the one with whatever tool that is, it broke everything literally everything

The weirdest way I have seen someone play a guitar is talor swift

i love that you didn't explain the hendrix bit. was hoping you wouldn't. would have been disappointed if you did.

I once saw Buckethead play his guitar with one of his rubber mask stage props, that was pretty sweet. I also once played my guitar with my ukelele, in tribute to Nigel Tufnel

When Jimi Hendrix guitarist with his teeth

double-hand tapping, but no Rob Scallon's "For That Second" ....

I saw the drill technique once, but the guy used it on the pick ups and nailed the bulls on parade Morello solo. It was about as close as a man could get to playing it right, without playing it like morello

It's actually encouraging to see you struggle with something.

my mate Finaly he plays his bass sitting with it like a cello and with a drum stick

I thought it was Stevie T on the thumbnail…

The only reason I can see Sonic Youth not being included here is that you've either talked about them before or restringing to get the weird tunings to sound right and not permanently damaging the instrument with some of their more, uhhhhh, *creative* techniques would be tall asks.

Saw a guy that used a whisk attached to a drill that sounded SICK!

I don't see anything weird about playing guitar those ways

when u have braces and break a string trying to play with your teeth

I saw Micheal Hedges (RIP way too young) it was amazing: the fluidity, percussion and sounds he achieved solo on stage.

Needle-nose pliers: Adrian Utley of Portishead uses them on the live recordings of Wandering Star (I noticed him doing it in 2008), the effect is like a violin bow mixed with a metal finger slide. It seems you hold the pliers on the string as if it were a slide to get the desired pitch, and then you oscillate them....meaning there is no fretting going on. It's haunting with a little bit of echo. I'm damn sure almost no one in your audience knows about this trick. Check it out!

Why does that bass have 6 strings..?

I know I’m not the only one concerned about Tyler’s teeth

I saw Buddy Guy this summer. He played a song (and very well) by snapping a towel on the strings. He played using the mic stand as a slide, he played by rubbing it on his shirt. He was just incredible, and, in his 8s!

Not inspired to play weird, but love your tone... It's just perfect.

There was no guitar in rewind 2019

Strange way playing guitar: fingers

I’m surprised you didn’t mention Eddie Van Halen using a power drill is Pound Cake. It’s basically the same as the first, but more rhythmic

I play telepathically through Steve Vai. I take over his mind like Charles Xavier would, and I play through his fingers. Really.

You should do a "Strange" Way To Play Guitar...with emphasis on the quotes. And do a vid on players who play "upside down" guitars. Ala Albert King, Gales etc

The boys from Sonic Youth have been sticking things between their guitars strings for every, like drum sticks. With enough gain or fuzz, makes an interesting bell sound. The first time I heard The Burning Sphere, I thought it was some junk metal, like King Crimson was doing a decade before, but nope, sticks between the frets. I think they also did the drill thing before Paul Gilbert (revving, not the other thing 'cause who shreds in noise rock).

There's a guy in California (I think) who has no arms but can play beautifully just with his feet... I don't recommend you try it for yourself, this may take far longer to master than any of those others. ;) Quick note on Paul Gilbert's drill technique. I assumed you were aware of this but perhaps not. In the 90s when he used that technique with Mr Big on Daddy, Brother, Lover, Little Boy, he was using (and still does as far as I know) and old style Makita drill which took longer for the motor to stop. That apparently was flagged as a health and safety hazard by Makita and they no longer make this specific model of drill (though I hear you can find them on eBay sometimes) and that's why your DeWalt doesn't sound quite the same. And I'd like to know how folks manage to play with their teeth, my nose gets in the way if I try :/

The intro to Van Halens "Poundcake" is played with a drill.

Check out what Adam Jones does with his guitar in Tool’s 1994 performance of Disgustipated.

😄👍 well done lad. Fantastic playing all funky ways of utilising the geetar 🤘 Love your vids 🤘

Hi Tyler I love your new blue Guitar!

Adam Jones also used a drill on his guitar for one of the live performances of Disgustipated