This Track is available on SPOTIFY! Search for "Ancient Fretless Improvisation" or follow this link: open.spotify.com/track/36SPyi2QF86tmmpM6sVPfQ?si=6C20_MGSSnSZjrVi2iPKwA Thanks to everyone for your interest and nice comments.

@chudyjoza

3 жыл бұрын

Hey man, could you put in on Tidal? This is awesome, i don't have spotify though... ://

@Roberto_MR

3 жыл бұрын

@@chudyjoza hi, thanks! it should be on Tidal under the name of “Ancient Fretless Improvisation”. Let me know if you find it.

@chudyjoza

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I found it. Thanks

you got it...ive lived in egypt almost my whole life and ancient styles are still used over there, even in modern music at times. the constant plucking of the top E string is what makes it sound so real because there is always that constant wavering solid note in the backdrop of egyptian music

@svenjansen2134

Жыл бұрын

Drone

now, i feel like i'm in Egypt.

@PanjulKrenz469

3 жыл бұрын

haha same, like in movie

@ecgodsmack86

2 жыл бұрын

Ramses status

Thanks to everyone for your comments and interest. I feel really happy knowing some of you enjoyed this improvisation, i never thought it was going to get so many views and comments. After i graduated and got an "office" job i haven´t been playing as much as i´d like, but I hope to take the guitar again soon. Those were great times and it was really fun to record videos. I had to change my old user "654321654321" to reactivate my account and be able to write comments (it really annoyed me, but well... ). Greetings, Roberto.

@kingjungle6918

9 жыл бұрын

Сказочная музыка у вас, погружает в мир странствий, тайн и загадок.

@danieldemayo6209

9 жыл бұрын

Roberto M R i think you should bring your guitar into the office job...play this and quit! lol

@Roberto_MR

9 жыл бұрын

King Jungle большое спасибо.

@Roberto_MR

9 жыл бұрын

Daniel DeMayo haha.. i might do it someday.

@Roberto_MR

9 жыл бұрын

skunkFU25 thanks. i´m glad you like it.

Dude, you don't know how long I've search for this kind of music!....keep making these, more power to you bro!

@Roberto_MR

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I´m glad you like it. Now you can find it on Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/36SPyi2QF86tmmpM6sVPfQ?si=6C20_MGSSnSZjrVi2iPKwA

@hichammanseur8179

4 жыл бұрын

i'll be happy to share with you my play on a similar instrument that is a fretless guitar here is the link : kzread.info/dash/bejne/gqGj3KdqmafPYbg.html

@unknownalien5424

2 жыл бұрын

@@hichammanseur8179 good job.

Be proud, I made this my phone's ringtone for a very long time. :)

@Roberto_MR

8 жыл бұрын

+Far From Perfect Thanks, that´s a great compliment.

@keem85m

8 жыл бұрын

What part of it? :)

@farfromperfect4643

8 жыл бұрын

from 6 seconds to 36 seconds. :)

I'm a music student but I've always just felt that "yes!" thing, that "that's for me! That's what I like!" feeling for middle eastern sounding music more so. It just speaks to me more deeply. I have so many books from school about western music analysis. Where can I begin education on Arabic style music? I'm looking for deep theoretical knowledge.

@karimsherif88

7 жыл бұрын

Laura Gilbert the arabic scales called makamat مقامات you can copy and past it and listen to them u have to learn it first

@iberius9937

5 жыл бұрын

Same here....along with any modal, non-standard music not just based on "major-minor" western scales.

@ahmadsarayreh7319

4 жыл бұрын

I think you will have to learn arabic or turkish first because resources in english on maqam music are very scarce.

@aryanarya5982

3 жыл бұрын

There's a Book called "inside arabic music" by Johnny farraj You'll find it useful

@TheMadisonHang

3 жыл бұрын

thats just roman 'classical' i've gone into bach mozart beethoven anything harmonic minor is middle eastern for me thats the thing though, its like the bible and the europeans they bleach everything associated with the the middle east for nationalist reasons but its there it might not be ethnically authentic but its there

I am studying Ancient Egypt at school and this is perfect for background music. Thank you! I wish it was longer!

i didn't even know they had cameras back then....240p isn't bad for that long ago

@panjuma1

9 жыл бұрын

Daniel DeMayo thou sarcasm hath gone unnoticed

@mr.makermcmakington7857

9 жыл бұрын

Pan Rodriguez sarcasmeth*

@nicholashansen1768

9 жыл бұрын

Pan Rodriguez thy*

@farfromperfect4643

8 жыл бұрын

+Pan Rodriguez Epic faileth thou hast done.

i do love the sound of this impro, very nice performance in the research of sounds ; compliments, patrick

indescribably mesmerizing,, i had know idea you could play that on a fretless guitar!! its so beautiful

There is some very impressive picking this song. I really like the different plucking and picking styles you worked, a huge understanding of the style and feel you were going for must have been behind this for such a great improv.

Beautiful ! And very nice sound. And the improvisation...sublime !

Very beautiful, I spent much time in Andalucia Spain and simply love the Flamenco atmosphere, you're introducing this same language here,more on a pedal bass note,beautiful the vibrato technique you're using, suddenly the high E functions as a pedal note while you play melody underneath,great Ideas,great playing,Vic.

Sounds like something ancient and dark...

@RZAJW

7 жыл бұрын

mysterious and adventurous

@Redh0und

7 жыл бұрын

approaching and erotic

@SassyPantsy

7 жыл бұрын

dude wtf lol

@autizmo2963

6 жыл бұрын

Joe Bartholomeus You mean exotic?

@xeno126

6 жыл бұрын

It's basically classical Arabic music.

This sounds like a metallica song is about to start at any moment. They must use this musical scale a lot.

Thank you for such beautiful music!! Love it!!

Beautiful!

This has a great sound. So otherworldly.

Very nice work sir. Some of the most incredible music is discovered while just freestyle jamming and improvising.

that was seriously amazing, complete improv one take and its flawless, amazing work man

hi! i´m glad you like it. I´m not arabian, i´m from Chile. I like arabic music :)

amazing how you get the harmonic sound even without the frets. well done.

Brilliant, thanks for this wonderful musical journey!

I love it! I have been drawn to the sound as long as I remember! :)

it sounds like Oud.

@khaled11840

7 жыл бұрын

this is exactly what i'm thinking too

@JosephKingV

6 жыл бұрын

The oud is also fret less

@JosephKingV

6 жыл бұрын

And also most likely this has been tuned to sound more Arabic

this is so COOL! I love the vibe

excellent, amazing for it being improvised, sounds quite polished

Damn that was beautiful. If you could do tutorials or something along does lines would be great, in addition I would love to purchase an album of your music if that is something foreseeable in the near future. Thank you, I appreciate what you do.

@Roberto_MR

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Bo88y, thanks for your nice comment. I´m taking guitar/youtube back again and created Facebook/Instagram pages (look up for Rotmor Music), so I might upload a tutorial there in the future. I have released new music in the channel, it´s in a different setup but the same spirit I think. It is also available in bandcamp and soundcloud. Thanks again.

thanks!! i´m glad that you think this music sounds evocative of ancient ruins. (the tuning is DAFCGD)

wundervoll gespielt.....tut einfach nur gut zu hören...DANKE !!

... love the Jackson electric 'unassumingly' lurking in the background. =) Really nice piece.

effortless microtonal flibbidy bibbidy, i'm in love

Thanks to everyone for your comments.

love the composition on this video, plus sounds awesome

Hello Robert. Beautiful Egyptian style improvisation . You could do a tutorial on acoustic guitar to touch please? Pleasse :D :)

Would love to hear this infused with death metal. Nile don't use enough of these "clean" passages in their music.

@Roberto_MR

8 жыл бұрын

+2StrokeHeretic Yes, that would be nice.

@CASHXRAT

8 жыл бұрын

I may be one of the few people here who knows what you're talking about haha. Nile is dope, but you're right this would make for a great interlude between the heaviness.

@obi-wannabekennotbi2418

6 жыл бұрын

Obscura's "Melos" has a fretless guitar part, but yeah Nile should focus more on the atmospheric aspect of their music

OMG!!! This is flawless!!! Perfect!!! I don´t have any words left!

very beautiful...one of the most valuable moments ever spent on youtube to me....thanks for amuses me master!

Makes me want to invest some time intro defretting my acoustic.

@monkeesfan1965

8 жыл бұрын

+DarkestofTimes It's worth the effort! I did this to an old Hondo acoustic, yanked the frets, sanded, re-sanded, then used the fiberglass resin from an auto kit (minus any "tiger hair" or fabric- just the clear resin. A bit of blue painter's tape, some Playtex gloves and some patience (Lots of fine sanding between 6 coats) produced a very fun, playable result.

@DarkestofTimes

8 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks for the information. Very helpful.

@yasenkalchev7664

8 жыл бұрын

+John Jenkins Hi, what about the volume, is it high enough to hear the guitar from lets say 2 or 3 meters ? Thanks in advance :)

@monkeesfan1965

8 жыл бұрын

Guitar was Every bit as loud as before I De fretted it

@yasenkalchev7664

8 жыл бұрын

+John Jenkins Thanks :)

Too much Cooool to control *_* Can you do a tutorial of this ?

such a listening pleasure. great job man really

THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!! THANK YOU SO MUCH SIR !! AND HAPPY NEW YEARS (Y)

heyy can you tell me which scale is that???really love it.

@nicholas72611

9 жыл бұрын

Probably some variant of the Harmonic Minor or Phrygian Dominant.

@vaas45

9 жыл бұрын

***** sounded closer to phyrigian dominant

@0mik3mik3

9 жыл бұрын

Agoraphobic I agree with most people who commented on this. But one more thing: It is a fretless guitar, so he can obtain some tones called microtones. You can't obtain these on a normal-fretted guitar, no matter how exoticy-phyrigiany-harmonicy-thingy the scale you use is. Edit: Actually, you can do that using microbends, but it's hard to get the pitch right.. I think

instead of just droning the E string you should maybe drone the A or D occasionally and follow with soloing over those notes to break it up.this started great but needs a little more variety. does sound hypnotizing though,good work.

@chrisgreen8539

9 жыл бұрын

The caption/ title says it's an improvisation, so not a completely worked-out composition. That could come further on down the road, I think.

@chrisgreen8539

9 жыл бұрын

For the most part, modulation from the root key to other keys (going from E to A and then to B7, for example) didn't begin until maybe 800 years ago, if even then. It's still unusual in, say, raga music played on a sitar - at least on any I've heard...

@stubhead

9 жыл бұрын

Chris Green This is drift, but on "Full Circle" Ravi and Anoushka Shankar play a raga that modulates - she holds the changing drones - and she is now exploring playing lead sitar over changes - "Breathing Underwater", "Traces of You" - amazing stuff.

@chrisgreen8539

9 жыл бұрын

stubhead I have an old 'student/tourist' grade sitar here, but don't play it: I found the 'fret spacings' too large, and the drone strings are all tuned to A, which reminds me of bagpipes/ sackpipa in that it limits modulation as a soloist. Maybe if I had started trying to learn the instrument when I was younger, say 9-10 years old....I might be able to play something on it. AND.... Just to let things drift a little further away and farther back in time....to Ancient Sumeria and Babylon: www.newsweek.com/what-did-ancient-mesopotamian-hits-sound-something-291543 Check Newsweek's Soundcloud samples from The Lyre Ensemble's cd, The Flood, at: soundcloud.com/newsweek-tech-science/the-flood-1 And a video here: www.stefconner.com/the-lyre-ensemble/ The ~playable~recreation of the Lyre of Ur used in this project is tuned to C This newly released cd sold out its' first pressing in under 2 days because of the Newsweek article published Dec. 12th, and sharing. It's not music that will appeal to every one, but an impressive number of people have listened to it and really liked it. Click 'heart' if you do like it, and feel free to share it if you want. You can order a cd, which includes a 16-page booklet, or download it from iTunes if that's your preference. (I don't know if the iTunes includes the booklet to download....I don't have an account there at this time.) See also: www.lyre-of-ur.com Thanks in advance for listening. :-)

@Conan2403

7 жыл бұрын

you would be right but in oriental music they rarely make changes to IV or V. Instead they try to archive that deep playing on the same ground note

One of the best videos demonstrating these incredible scales on KZread.

Its beautiful! Thank you!

oeeeh what is this tuning?

@Skatino69

9 жыл бұрын

seems to be DADGAD But i am not sure.

@thatoneguyonyoutube5220

7 жыл бұрын

sounds more like DGCFAD

It sounds like it could be a Metallica song

@gingercore69

7 жыл бұрын

the thing that should not jump in the fire from whom the bell seek and destroy all nightmare long... thats the official name of this song

@centoanni8502

7 жыл бұрын

could you be any more obnoxious

@gingercore69

7 жыл бұрын

me? i could try...hey apple! hey apple! hey apple! :D

@elcheco26

7 жыл бұрын

Wherever i may roam

@worldwarwang

7 жыл бұрын

Is that a Nile reference?

I love it, those slides that you do around the beggning and then towards the end omg, I love it, I've always heard of vocalizations using those notes in movies or whatever but on a guitar it sounds so goood. Im trying attune myself into the arabic/flamenco/spanish style but...I guess I havent't been playing for that long, Youre very good!!! :)

love the whole feeling of the piece!

N I L E ! ! !

Sounds like oud!

@tamtamte

8 жыл бұрын

+Demetrios Arcolakis I heard this one too. But what strings and tuning used?

@demetriosarcolakis4821

8 жыл бұрын

I guess it is only the playing style

@tamtamte

8 жыл бұрын

I try to play, and even I play this style, but ,my string on my classic don't sounds like that... probaly is the guitar

@Bl3ss3dburrito

8 жыл бұрын

+Melinte Simon I'm fairly certain this is a nylon string guitar. They often have this sound while steel string acoustics will obviously have a more metallic sound.

@tamtamte

8 жыл бұрын

I know

Bravo, i like these kinds of impovisations.It is pure emotion

Really love it. This is my ultimate goal. Well done

i was specifically looking for this egyptian style sound, thanks!

this is AWESOME, I loved it soooooo much, thanks

Man you rocked the world with that song it was awesome

Mysterious and spellbinding, absolutely fantastic.

i've downloaded the video and convert it as my favorite song. i listen to this frecuently and inspires me so much on my artworks and stuff

I really enjoyed your piece. Also, after reading your description, I had to look up Hamza El Din. Thanks for that as well.

Nice feel on this. Just what I was looking for. Inspiring.

thank you very much, i´m glad you like it. i love flamenco too, the feeling that flamenco "transmits" is amazing! greets, R.

Great man!!Amazing melodies!

this is absolutely fantastic. you did an amazing job

totally zoning out to this song. great job!

who could ever dislike this? this is great! i love playing over these arabic scales

This was exceptionally done, keep it up!

This literally transports me to another place in my head I don't know how to describe it.

Wow. Sounds really beautiful.

i am speachless man. . . . amazing amazing !!!!

enchanted by this.AWESOME

nice jamming,man. good that you shared it with us, I don't usually see musicians plasying fretless guitars. great .

That's something to be proud of my friend good work

Kudos... I dig the fretless slides over a droned open string

this sounds so excellent

amazing! i really liked and enjoy it! go ahead my friend!

Deep in the rabbit hole that's the guitar side of youtube, and got on a fretless guitar kinda path. This is incredibly interesting music, and very captivating as well! I'm just starting out with guitar, and I hope I manage to be able to play as well as you just did. Props, dude!

@Roberto_MR

8 жыл бұрын

+Glacier Nester Welcome to this side of youtube. I´m glad you liked this recording... and thanks for the compliment!

Sounds amazing. Great job

Dude, this thing is amazing! I'd love to play something like that!

I like the use of the pedal E on the bottom, almost drone like but suites very well. Great stuff.

don't worry about the length at all mate, it was awesome and i definitely liked it

brilliantly stunning.

Beautiful! I love this kind of music.

great stuff Thanks for posting very inspiring

There is no Doubt your THE MASTER ,This is Great ,Awesome I love it KEEP posting broo PLZ

i really enjoyed this! and i never heard of a fretless guitar---very innovative!

That is really haunting, amazing job man!

I have this in my mobile and i always listen to this to make myself relax....

wow fantastic melody

muchas gracias! me alegra que te guste.

This is brilliant :D. Been writing some pretty standard acoustic music but this is very inspirational.

well done, very calming

@rockster07 wow it is something else !! the sound is just amazing

fantastic!!! excelent job mate..hope to see some more ^^ goodevening from greece!!!kalispera

Beautiful just beautiful music

this is simply amazing.reminds me of the Oud/Lute sound.

awesome sound!!

Great song, I really like it! :) Very relaxing!

those slides sound amazing =) i really like it so much that im favoriting it