Steve Vai - True Temperament video free download

drollroll

I'd like to hear that guitar played in 432 Hz tuning

MisledDan

But wait, didn't he unintentionally make an argument against tonewood by demonstrating the sustain???

prosnake2005

creeppy flawless guitar.... I like it :)

Sid Vicious

what a fucking cock face

MRLein93

Or you could go fretless like a violin or a every other classical instrument with strings or slide guitar, like a real man.

JohnPKnuckles

I know you just blew all your money on an American strat, but Steve Vai says you'll never be able to play chords in tune, so you'd better just throw it in the trash and get one of his guitars.You mad bro?

EGGJAZZ

fuck me this is shit quality

Janne Andersson

Thank the Swedes.

gscgold

would be great if Ibanez made it an option on the Jem 

48mastadon

What happens when you bend a note? And how does it feel when you bend a note?

Massive Tits

Playing a single note doesn't mean shit for sustain when it comes to these frets. A Note is a note. Even if you are microtuning it doesn't change how the notes ring out. Just because a single note "A" is -.006 "Flat" doesn't make it purer than a 100% "a". Because "A" itself is only deemed A because we named it that. Sure this system will help chords because all the notes are being played together. But don't fool yourself into thinking just because a note is flat or sharp here and there played completely solo is any less pure then a note somewhere else. It's just a different kind of note. A note in the USA and a note in classical China are different and were for quite awhile. This is why Orchestras have all kinds of fine tunings for pitches between the normal notes we use today. So saying the note has more "sustain" because you fine tuned it is a tad retarded.

Daniel Alonso

I think Vai doesn´t fully understand the logic of true temperament.

Steven Edelmann

I'm tired of people saying this idea isn't good. It may be the greatest innovation for the guitar since making it electric. The way the system works is simple, and I'm going to explain it simply to you ; In todays music we use Equal Temperament. This temperament means that every semitone is 100 cents apart, making every interval that is the same quality, sound the same. This allows us to play in every key without having to retune our instruments (this goes for all instruments, piano, guitar, trumpet, flute, etc). To a person without absolute pitch (if you don't know what absolute pitch is, look it up), all the keys sound virtually the same in equal temperament.The way that guitars are built is based on equal temperament. It tries to have every interval the same distance. However, until the True temperament freeboard, the way that the guitar's fretboards were designed only thought of one aspect: the distance of the notes. It didn't take into account the different thickness of the strings, the distance of the strings from the fretboard as they go up the neck, etc. The true temperament fretboard takes into account all these variables, and each freeboard is uniquely designed for every guitar that it is made for so that all the notes ring out at the perfect frequency (A4=440hz, A#/Bb=466.16hz, etc). This allows the guitar, for the first time, to be perfectly intonated on every fret at the same time.That's not to say that there aren't some limitations; Because of the nature of the true temperament freeboard, only one style of tuning may be used (Standard tuning, for example). This means you can't ever tune your guitars in weird tunings and mess around without it sounding horrible out of tune (even more so that normal guitars do). However, for standard tuning, the true temperament freeboard is vastly superior to the standard fretboard of the guitar.If you tune your guitar and play a chord, then go a few frets up the neck and play a different chord, and it sound fine to you, there are 2 possible things: One, the most likely, is that you are used to the unique sound of the guitar and how it is slightly out of tune. Two, you have a really bad ear and should train your ear on a piano keyboard (as they are always perfectly in tune you you can get used to perfect intonation).Try this; Play a chord on a guitar with a standard fretboard. Go to a piano and play the same chord, voiced in the same way in the same octave(s). I guarantee some of the guitar notes will be slightly flat or slightly sharp. For the most part this doesn't matter as people are used to guitars being out of tune, but for people with absolute pitch (like myself) or for people with good relative pitch, and people who use the true temperament freeboard, the slight out of tune-ness is almost unbearable.I don't understand why people don't like this system. It is truly great. The only reason you wouldn't like it is if you're a traditionalist who hates innovation. A true lover of the guitar and of music should welcome this with awe and open arms: Guitars can finally have perfect intonation! Why would anyone hate that??

Shadow07Warrior1989

@Mad Dek - You obviously don't have a trained ear if you think tuning the guitar to the open strings makes all the chords in tune. Go do some ear training. Say perhaps two hours a day practicing nothing but ear training for about two years, and maybe you'll start to understand what a guitar that's truly in tune sounds like. When you play an out of tune guitar, it sounds in tune to you because that's what you've gotten used to. But real musicians with trained ears can hear the difference, and this fretting system is actually incredibly legitimate and as proven in the video, it works. The proof lies in the sustain of the instrument, as the relative frequencies will either raise or lower the sustain of the instrument due to their resonances. The lower the sustain, say about five good seconds of sustain, the crappier the frequencies and the less in tune the instrument really is. Go play your guitar and play it on the clean channel and try to sustain a note without a sustainer. Guaranteed it won't sustain more than about 3-5 seconds. On the guitar Vai used, the sustain was almost continuous. Why? It's not his gear, if you were thinking of using that as an excuse. It's the guitar neck. The frequencies produced by the fret bending are resonating with each other and creating the sustain which means the guitar is almost perfectly in tune, if not perfectly in tune outright.

fredmachine

People claiming that this is bullshit don't seem to understand chords and temperament... The frequency ratio of major and minor thirds depends on the temperament, and a normal guitar uses the equal temperament. That means that the octave is split in twelve equal parts. Pure temperament(s) split the octave in integer ratios, yielding integer ratios for the intervals and thus a more harmonic sound. You can't have that with even fret spacing for every interval, though, and that's where true temperament frets come into play. Equal temperament is fine most of the time, but if you do have a trained ear you notice that chords will always sound slightly dissonant. Normally one doesn't even notice it, but once you hear equal and pure temperament side by side it's really quite clear. Yeah, these frets are overkill for most players, but I think especially for classical guitarists they could make quite a difference.

MysticalBelEbutton47

I'm no Steve vai fan but I stumbled upon this and what he is saying is absolutely true. For the people saying it's bullshit and that they just tuned their guitar and every note is perfect, that's wrong. Your tuner is most likely cheap and not even chromatic. And you are probably aren't actually plugging the guitar straight into the tuner. Also acoustic are different to electrics when trying to intonate. Point is - you can intonate all day but after playing it all goes back out of tune again(aside from the open notes)

LemonCrushMusic

This is such bullcrap. We've been tuning and playing guitars for almost 100 +/- years with no problems. There's no need for this at all. Additionally, can't play A chords and D chords in tune thing...never have I ever experience that problem or heard it on record or live or anythingAlso, Slash did the acoustic/electric double neck way back in the 90s on his guild signature model

Mad Dek

What the fuck are all these people talking about? They're basically saying that if you tune your guitar pitch perfect on the open strings, it will be out of tune on an A chord? And then you have to tune to the A chord, and then when you play a D, THAT is gonna be out of tune?... that's an outright lie. I just tuned my acoustic guitar pitch perfect on the open strings, and then i played an A chord, guess what, it wasn't out of tune. Then i played a D, which was ALSO in tune. Product propaganda?

Tim Silk

until you meet him your opinion doesn't matter to anyone else.

Matt Tedstone

Jesus, the Vai fans get really butthurt when you disrespec' their god. Ya'll need to get your noses from out this dudes asshole, you're all conditioned to see through the arrogance. Steve Vai's clearly not a shit player, just a bit full of himself, I'd probably be the same if i were as good as him but he's about as genuine as a Chinese made fender. It's an opinion, i'm entitled to one - I don't really like Steve Vai, both musically and as a person, not my thing. Feel free to get all rustled.

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