Today, Jon posted on his blog a review of a Doolin guitar, a very beautiful one, that I really liked. So I followed the link in order to see more. To my surprise, I have seen an other acoustic guitar that made me very curious, due to the particular design. I am speaking about Justin King’s Double-Neck Doolin acoustic guitar (kind of a long name for a strange guitar).
So, my first reaction was WTF? How can you play such a guitar? Is it for an ambidextrous guitar player? I thought that he’ll turn the guitar around and play it the other side, cause I couldn’t see any other possibility of playing it since the distance between the two necks is so small so you could never slip your hand between those 2 necks! I didn’t know Justin King plays both hands (you know what I mean)!!
Well, the video here cleared it all and revealed an other extreme playing technique of an amazing guitar player on a strange guitar!
Enjoy!
- Tags: fingerstyle guitar, Justin King
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eric
February 15th, 2008 at 3:21 pm
An excellent instrument. I like the rosette most of all. I think it is a guitar desicned to his style of play. It’s a harp guitar with an extra fingerboard.
Looking thru the website, I’m not all that thrilled by the overall body shapes of his models, but it suits the double neck.
Ovidiu
February 15th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Well, I am quite sure it is designed for his playing style, cause I don’t think anybody else would buy it if not playing that style cause beside the lower neck, you don’t quite have what to do with the rest if you don’t play what he plays.
Jon
February 16th, 2008 at 1:25 am
Wow, he’s a bit good at the old double neck thing isn’t he?!
Ovidiu
February 16th, 2008 at 10:32 am
He is quite good, even if I ask myself when listening this kind of performance where’s the music actually.
Dr. J
February 16th, 2008 at 5:55 pm
Cool! Kinda like a Chapman stick tuning, isn’t it?
Dr. J
February 16th, 2008 at 6:01 pm
Or not…I just saw it’s DADGAD tuning, so I’m off to play around with this now!
Ovidiu
February 16th, 2008 at 11:03 pm
It’s very interesting this thing with alternative tunings, I think the origins are in the American culture, right? I say this because here in Romania, alternative tunings are not that familiar, or at least not among my fellow guitar players and the guitar players I know directly.
Do you learn alternative tunings when you learn guitar, normally, or it’s just that you go deeper into studying it? Personally I can not handle such tunings, I say this without any embarrassment.
Dr. J
February 18th, 2008 at 3:39 am
Imagine if you had no prior guitar knowledge and someone handed you a guitar. How would you likely tune it? Probably by making the strings all sound “nice” when played together. Now add a slide to help you slide from the open chord to the IV and V chords, and you have mastered the open tuning basics. It’s very pattern-oriented; you can play a pretty blues scale just by going from 12th to 10th frets using descending strings.
Check out this: the song is unbelievably easy to play once you’ve learned a few “licks”…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gUyAAxKlrQM
and here are some lessons online:
http://www.slide.neonblade.com/tech.html
http://www.bigroadblues.com/slide/guitstuff/playing.shtml
Ovidiu
February 18th, 2008 at 9:03 am
Thanks for the links, Dr J! Sounds very naturally what you say, indeed. Regarding the song, Clapton rules, I am a big fan of his unplugged concert, used to know it by heart
and I really loved that song!
Mithila Mangedarage
February 19th, 2008 at 4:02 pm
When I first saw it,I thought it was another Harp guitar,made popular mainly by veterans like drift guitarist Andy McKee,but very nice and less complex than the Harp Guitar.
Ovidiu
February 19th, 2008 at 5:12 pm
You were not the only one thinking it is a harp guitar, it gives this impression in the first moment, indeed.