I love twelve strings. They sound haunting yet beautiful

@1nfius948

Жыл бұрын

Actually that has something to do with the (I think) "Sheperds Tone". Basically a tone that sounds creepy and you can do it by playing the same note on several different octaves. Well for the haunting part atleast

@Terence.McKenna

Жыл бұрын

I'll never forget someone describing David Bowies voice in a similar way

@yeasstt

Жыл бұрын

​@@1nfius948 Not at all. Shepherd's tone is a specific phenomenon where high octaves fade out while low ones fade out. This causes a perceived infinite rise in pitch. 12 strings sound "haunting" because of harmonic beats and harmony. Our brains like octaves, which makes 12 strings sound pleasing. Since it's impossible to have the strings perfectly tuned to octaves, there will always be a slight warble due to harmonic beats. This is often described as a "shimmering" sound. Harmonic beats are also used to tune instruments, and as an essential component of balinese gamelan music

@onemanswrld405

Жыл бұрын

@@Terence.McKennaword, I think Roger Waters has that same quality to his voice, creepy but beautiful

@brianstrutter1501

8 ай бұрын

Yes

As soon as you played the 12 string it brought a smile on my face

@JamseyBoy

Жыл бұрын

Literaly same thing happend to me

No riff is forbidden on that 12-string. ❤

@MentMicro

4 ай бұрын

Uhh sir stairway is mainly on a 12 string

The 12 string guitar sounds so impactful. It just drills into your heart effortlessly.

Thanks for reminding me, I need a 12 string for my collection.

Guitar Center: NOOOO

As a drummer…when I hear this seminal part of Stairway before “he” nails the timpani’s…I get chocked up from his immense immeasurable presence that is missing…and what could have been had he been here to this very day. If I could talk to him…I would tell him that in the years since he’s been gone, his footprint in music has been no less than everywhere, especially within drummers’ circles, to this very day. His name alone is probably mentioned more today than it ever was in the 70’s. I’d also tell him that his sound over which he obsessed and fine-tuned, HIS sound…is that same sound that guides most drummers today for their own drum sound and style. Emulation is the ultimate complement. Thank you, John Henry.

@hunterhess9105

Жыл бұрын

That was literally beautiful!🔥

Rookie issue, 6 string electric with a 12 string effects plug-in

@frafrafrafrafra

Жыл бұрын

It's not the same

@robertgager1

8 ай бұрын

Sounds nothing like the record or the live version of the song.

Love your channel, man. It's really cool to see the parts of some of my favourite songs of all time on different instruments!

Jimmy only played that Double neck live for Stairway. On the recording it was a Fender electric XII and a Harmony Sovereign H-1260 acoustic for the six string parts. The solo was recorded on his Telecaster he painted a dragon onto and used in The Yardbirds and most of Led Zeppelin 1 (though a Gibson Flying V that he borrowed from someone else was used on You Shook Me)

Man! I always thought that was two guitars overdubbed in different octaves... Nuts!

The young guys back in the day knew their business, most late 60s 70s early 80s music is some of the greatest

J. Paige, many times, playing with a two guitar. And the resulting sounds are phenomenal You nailed it.

He played a massive amount of guitars on the original recording. I think he played that part on a fender twelve string electric guitar. Rick beato did a great video about it. You did a great job: sounds gorgeous 👍👍

Are you really pretending that you couldn’t listen to the song and immediately know it was played on a 12 string? It’s a pretty distinctive sound… fake story

@jackhaugh

Жыл бұрын

Not to novice child that may not have known that 12 string guitars even existed or what sort of sound they made.

I love 12 strings. I watch that video of Jimi Hendrix on a 12 string every day. They are so beautiful sounding

That operation ivy vinyl is sick dude

It has a bit of a bagpipe sound with the drones. Not a part of the melody, but definitely present and absolutely required for that iconic sound.

When I was startign to learn to play my dad would play along with me and show me stuff. Then I corrected his Stairway to Heaven. He never played with me again.

@arloc357

Жыл бұрын

That’s…unfortunate

@jackhaugh

Жыл бұрын

I used to play chess with my stepdad. He was an actual Grand Master. Once I beat him for the first time, we never played again…

why is your tab just lying bro 😭

Record a 12 string to a single track through a single microphone and try to mix it. You'll figure out why recording engineers hate 12 strings with a passion. In a recording setting, you're better off overdubbing a Nashville strung guitar over a regular 6 string, because the octave strings on a single instrument are constantly moving in and out of phase with each other while simultaneously competing for volume, and it sounds like hot garbage in a mix.

Amazing sounds from that 12 string.

With the 12 string it sounds more like a heavenly song

he didn't play the double-neck on the studio version of Stairway to Heaven I believe that was a 12-string Hammer acoustic but for sure it was the 12 string double-neck

That had to dawn on you? You couldn't immediately pick out that it was a 12 string?

I play this on my 6 string like once a week and haven’t even noticed that

Love the OK COMPUTER poster. Nice.

Absolutely amazing song. I've been learning to play it on the drums recently. John Bonham is a legend.

No way you figured that all out by Yourself you are a genius.

Great... Now I have to buy a 12 String.😐

There's something about the 12 string gtr that makes classic songs like this sound best!!!

I love that op ivy album you got hanging behind you

YA dude.....I figured that out when I was 14

Jimmy didn’t have the double-neck when he recorded Stairway. He got it so he could play Stsirway live

It should not have dawned on you, it should have originally been there

It wasn't the double neck, it's a Fender XII

@a456987

Жыл бұрын

Well he used the double neck for live shows

@NytronX

Жыл бұрын

@@a456987 yep

@mobipete8001

Жыл бұрын

When I saw him in 75 and 77 he used a double necked Gibson SG

@NytronX

Жыл бұрын

@@mobipete8001 Yep, it was a necessity to use the double neck for a live show, but on the album it was a Fender XII. See Rick Beato's video on this.

@robertgager1

8 ай бұрын

​​@@mobipete8001I believe it is an EDS 1275. And yes that guitar is on the studio track as well. So on the album you had 6 and 12 string acoustics, the fender 12 and the EDS 1275 and by the time the solo comes in there is a literal army of guitars which is exactly what Jimmy was intending for the song as it built up verse by verse.

It's even more of an epiphany when you play the song correctly.

@johnwilliams1223

8 ай бұрын

Yup

Enjoy your channel 😊

Also, Jimmy and John Paul were expert studio musicians. Aka hired badass guns

I may be a lowly bassist, but I'm still a sucker for anything played on 12-string acoustic guitar.

This is incredibly observant!

So question about 12 strings, are the pairs of strings just octaves of each other? Is it all still EADGBE In standard?

@jackhaugh

Жыл бұрын

Yes, until you get to the B and E strings, then they’re just paired strings of the same octaves.

Gawd- That 12 string sounds so rich.

How could you not know it was a 12-string?

Yea, that made quite a difference

Beautiful

You gave me a jumpscare because I thought you were Jordan Peterson at first, but then I recognized you as another one of those chill guitar guys I've been seeing a lot of lately.

Beautiful tune. Be cool to use the Donner high strung with split screen of the regular tuned 6 string

That’s a beautiful wedding ring

Wow didn't expect you to pull out the same Breedlove as I have haha

Close… but still not quite Zep.

on the album he's not playing a double neck. he's playing a Fender 12-string for those parts.

Hell ya operation ivy 🤘

Next video: record this while playing in the music store.

12 stings add the spice to the meal.

Hope you have a band, Shur it would be a great one, watched you for a while

Sounds even better when ya drop the pic and use your fingers to strum and combine pluck

Nice op ivy poster!

I play it with an octave generator on my 6 string and it sounds closer than just clean 6 string... nowhere near as good as it does on your 12 string tho!

Took you how long to figure that was a 12 string?

If there ever was a tune that just didn't conger up emotion it's gotta be this one...sure we can get addicted to shopping but Joe Cocker said it best,"i gotta stop believing all your dam lies!"...js

❤🎵🎶😎✌️ Beautiful!🎵🎶

THAT WAS THE LAST SONG THAT THEY PLAYED WHEN I SAW THEM IN SEATTLE

Now I need a 12 string

It's more jangly with the twelve

Wow! Mystery solved FINALLY

I love Breedlove guitars they are made and built in my home town of tumalo Oregon

Operation Ivy Love it

My grandmother had me play this & Amazing Grace at her funeral. She didn't care what the song was about, she thought the music was beautiful. I couldn't disappoint.

A 12 string sounds different than a 6 string? Huh

This guy looks and sounds a lot like Ken Shamrock!

Do you have any online tutorials on learning how to play a 12 string guitar? Or if not could you please recommend some? Thanks!

Always thought it was a Chorus effect

I want to hear a 12 string strung with 2 sets of 08 to 38s (twinned).

That last Am chord is not strummed twice. Just once.

Played a cheap 12 string the other day I forgot the brand name but I think it starts with either a k or a v, it’s like 100 something dollars online, but I played it and it was a religious experience lol I HAVE to get one

Ty, 12 string is a dying art

It's a short. Play first, talk never.

Cool

12 string guy for life!

How come so many musicians, play stairway to Heaven live very well but when jimmy page plays it live it’s a train wreck?

@jackhaugh

Жыл бұрын

He did a lot of horse back then….

based operation ivy enjoyer

how to get that Radiohead poster??

Tbh I thought they jus put on a chorus pedal 😭

yooo is that an operation ivy poster???

12 strings so beautiful sounding, but tiring to tune lol

Plus they tweeked their 💩 all the time with in studio tempo changes and tunings in different hertz.

No with a BeedLove sounds like that..wow factor 100% on the 12 string BreedLove no BreedMusic...RocknRollFlat5

No offense intended, but it’s quite obvious hearing the difference between a six and a twelve string guitar.

Do you feel a connection to Page when you make those sounds with your guitar, when your hand moves as his did the day he found that lick?

Skynyrd took that, played it on a 6 string and called it Simple Man Listen to the intro Poetic justice really as Led Zeppelin "borrowed" liberally from others

What model and finish is that breedlove? It is beautiful

Personally not a fan of 12 strings. Tuning is a nightmare and you get lost much easier for which string you're actually playing

I don't get it, I can clearly hear the two different sounds, although the same note. It's like two guitars were playing the same thing but one of the was playing over the 12th thread. Then I came to know there was a 12 string guitar

I always through it was played on 2 guitars. Interesting

So the question is: if something is originally played on a 12 string are we not allowed to learn it on a 6 string? Do you think if your playing some song for a chick she's gonna freak for not playing it on a 12 string?

Didnt he use the fender electric 12 string for stairway?

@Jeffcatbuckeye

4 ай бұрын

Yea. A danelectro sounds pretty similar to a fender 12. It has that more trebly/gainier sound over say a chimey Rickenbacker..

Bro where do you get your tabs?

Jimmy didn’t use the double neck guitar in the studio that guitar was made specifically for playing live. He used an electric fender 12 string in the studio

@doriangray2020

Жыл бұрын

Not true. In fact there are photos of him in the studio with that double neck.

@digiorno1142

Жыл бұрын

@@doriangray2020 There are pictures of him with it in the studio because he used it for different songs. Use your brain.