Gibson Robot Guitar

Fishy

Fishy

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I'll admit at first I thought this was really cool! Then I got to thinking, an intelligent guitar with a computer brain? Oh boy! Plus it just makes ya lazy as a player. Yeah I know tuning is a bitch but it's part of the gig man! Next thing they will invent a guitar that actually plays itself...it'll be the biggest thing since that annoying fad "Guitar Hero":doubt:

[video=youtube;WetVXbYRfWk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WetVXbYRfWk[/video]
 
I saw this a while back and went researching... they don't make 'em anymore as far as I could find...

So, while pretty cool gadgetry, the only practical use I could see is changing tunings on the fly. That'd be cool if I could play in any alternate open tunings. :D

I guess G modal is one I can play in, but that's pretty easy. In the words of Neil Young, "That's where you tune the top and bottom E down to D and play like nothing happened." (I paraphrased, but the gist is there.) About the only exception to that statement that I've come up with is don't play a what would normally be a G chord. It doesn't sound right. Leave the high e open and it sounds fine.
 
Ha. I just watched the videa and saw them mention double drop-D for Neil Young's Cinnamon Girl.

Right before I watched I had just grabbed my mini guitar and tuned it to G-modal and realized that it made the opening to that song WAY easier to play... I had been fretting all four bottom strings separately... with G-modal, you can just barre them and you get exactly the same notes.. I just had to lay off the high E in one of the subsequent chords and it worked out...
 
There are only a couple tunings I play in. Standard, Drop D and sometimes B(?) for that really low grungy metal stuff...which i rarely play as I hate tuning! :D
 
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