Writing on the Balalaika
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- čas přidán 23. 04. 2018
- Chatting about my balalaika, how it's tuned, what it's like playing it and how I wrote Balalaika Metal.
Balalaika Metal: • Balalaika Metal
A far less rockin' tune: • Balalaika Jam
Bass playthrough of Balalaika Metal: • Balalaika Metal (bass ...
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One of the first recorded mentions of balalaika is that a servant was chased by a bard who wielded a balalaika and tried to hit him with it.
balalaika can be a deadly weapon🏌♂
Still thinking of the celery in that globe...
me too man, me too
who u
@@vmdp8790 Commando Lemon63
@@kaymonyoung1054 :000
Dude, it's the wild tangents and the feel that we're hanging with an interesting/knowledgeable buddy that keep people watching 2nd channels imho. (I still watch Anderton's reviews though I have no intention of buying anything because I like learning from folks that are goofing off :) Thanks for not deleting the fun digressions!
Dude i want more balalaika tracks so bad.
PS: I really hope you read this. I think intruments like the balalaika (the metal balalaika song in specific) are able to produce realxig metal music that is easy to listen without being super evasive. Basically like how chilltep is to dubstep. Something far more relaxing and easy to keep on in the background. I'll definitely be personally be exploring this myself for now.
DefCat exactly! As I see our instrument becomes more and more popular. Rob’s works proves this. Greetings from Balalaika player from Moscow!
@@RSFArocks Earth is a good doom metal band for background/relaxing music. Especially The Bees Made Honey in the Lion's Skull,
Let me hear your balalaikas ringing out, come and keep your comrade warm.
Step 1: Vodka
Step 2: More vodka..?
Шаг 3: Выгода
Stalin and vodka
Ocherednyara _Perdona, no hablo ruso, muchacho_
@@jimdanielhoxworth3374 nop, nada de rushki
Jim Daniel Hoxworth nice interlingual pun!
I like you saying "балалайка"
Greetings from Belarus :)
О, земляк! Hey, Rob! Greeting from TWO guys from Belarus :D
Interesting, we also say земляк in Croatia (zemljak).
mario1997281, slavic languages actually have much in common
That balalaika metal track you made is awesome. In my opinion folk can sound really metal if you add proper bass line and drum line which you did. I tried that myself and the results are pretty damn badass. Hope to see you do more of "Metal on instruments that aren't metal" since its so fun and refreshing :)
The fisheye on this video is scaring me. Your head is SO BIG compared to your shoulders
I didn't notice so I went back with that in mind and whooaaa that's jarring.
I learned about this instrument in a world music class. I'm so stoked to see you play one.
I quite enjoy these videos where you detail your writing stuffs
Наконец-то до нашего фолка дошёл, долго ждали.
Rob, try to get electrobalalaika, it would be interesting
sadly, they don't exist, I desperately want someone to make one though
Dude, check this out -V9ePD6k6Mg
Link didn't work :/ sorry man
Maybe you didn't capture the hyphen?
How about this one? muzikkon.com/muzikkon-electric-prime-balalaika.html
I love your "second channel" production style. :D
This is so cool! Haha! Support from Chicago
The instrument should sit between your thighs, Rob, which should eliminate the dreaded "arm stab". It will make the instrument sit right for playing and more comfortable for you. I built three electric ones, two of which I tune A-e-a. I have also explored A-e-g, which opened up new chord shape possibilities. Here is a challenge: a MESHUGGAH cover, say, DEMIURGE! ;)
I've just started learning myself, and it's a crazy instrument! The two immediate things I'm gonna have to get to grips with is its position and getting used to using my thumb to cover those top two strings.
Rob during a zombie apocalypse. Rob: picks up balaka
I inherited one of these from my Granddad. He used to work as a crane driver on docks in my city. And one day in 70's he traded a Russian sailor a bottle of vodka for his balalaika. I kind played around on it a bit when i got it. Though i never really bothered to look up how to tune it. I just tuned it GBE like the bottom of a guitar. Then I put it behind my other instruments and kind of forgot about it. But you inspired me to take it out for a spin again, with he correct balalaika tuning, this time. And i must admit it is much more fun this way :) Though I do really need some new strings for it. since htey have never been changed (they are like 40-50 years old).
I like the second channel cause it feels more real, more personal.
Nice! Also glad the duck has been making appearances🦆
A friend of mine was a really skilled balalaika player. Once he played on a private party and got drunk and lost the instrument. A real story from Russia 90's
How do you lose an instrument? Lol
Such a beautiful mess, a wonderful second channel post.
Appreciate the duck being back 👍🏼
Try Hurdy-Gurdy.
Valentine Silvansky oh yeeeaaaahhh
Valentine Silvansky he did
Did you know jimmy page was a hurdy gurdy player
@@haydnmcdonnell2397 no. That is quite interesting.
Неожиданное место встречи😅 1 февраля 2019. Столько мебели за день и 127 отверстий... руки до сих пор от дрели дрожат🤣
We need balalaika and harp metal togheter!
fun stuff
Purchasing balalaika now
Cool
I see, in the Balalaika Jam video, that you are in fact holding it correctly. :)
Keep it second channel yo. NO JUMP CUTS
please get a shamisen next!
Заебись, четко!
Have you ever played bass balalaika? It is pretty craizy.
Oh. I play it
I'm thinking of getting one, dies anyone know if it's worth it to go for a 500 dollar one as opposed to like a 150 dollar one?
You must to play on Merlin by Seagull. This guy is great :)
That's a nice balalaika. Thanks for Wilhelm Scream.
Can you remaster The Winter's months but with a Balalaika?
the part at 4:55 reminds me of opeth soooo much (in an awesome way of course)
Tune in to watch Rob "Pull Off" :)
Rob , you should really try "ooud" it's Arabian strings instrument it will make magic in your hands
As we play the Balalaikas in Moscow: czcams.com/video/VJboSby7nW0/video.html
yo were do i get a balalaika
would love to see shamisen metal
Why would you an instrument have two strings with the same tuning? Can someone explain?
Well, I sometimes use open tunings, but the strings are not beside each other. It makes sense on a six string guitar, but a guitar with 3 strings? Well, thanks for your explanation
After seeing your question I`ve read some articles in Russian on this topic, and basiccaly there are two versions:
1. This is made for polyphonic playing. Lower (it terms of pitch) strings are used to represent the "bass" or the "alto" voice, while the highest one represents the "tenor" or the "soprano" voice. That`s also the reason why the lower strings are made of nylon, and the higher one is made of metal - this way the higher voice will ring out and be heard as the loudest (exactly how it shoud be according to classical harmony traditions) while the lower voice will be soft, but would not be to quiet.
In this case a player shoud put his thumb over the neck to barre both of the lower strings in unison (kinda how blues and fingerstyle guitar players do with the bass strings on a guitar, but they ussually press down only one string at a time). And thus, the balalaika player have four fingers of the left hand free to play intricate details of the higher melody on a high string, also, as i mentioned, it feels like two instrumenst played together and good for playing whitout any actual accompaniment.
2. Originally balalaika was a two-stringed instrument, and V.Andreyev (who re-opened this instrument to public and made it popular again in the late 19-th century, because after the Csars and church opressed and persecuted Russian street musicians, perfomers and comedy actors known as the skomorokhs some hundred years earlier, the balalaika almost got extinct) made it the three stringed one to match the new, triangular shape of balalaika`s body (which he designed), but he did not want to extend the range of an instrument, so he just tuned the new string in unison whith the old one.
The funny part is that the versions are not really excluding each other, but the "three strings to match the three angles" one is a bit less reasonable and plausible in my opinion.
Хатуль Мадан has a great explanation. As well, I know the mandolin is tuned like a violin (g d a e) but each string is doubled.
Thank you very much for the effort! New knowledge is always appreciated!
12 string guitars have the top 2 strings tuned the same.
How 'bout strumstick metal?
💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
Поздравляю тебя товарищ Rob 😂👏 перед началом надо выпить водки и закусить солёным огурцом✌🤗
Contact jared dines do you can play the 18 string guitar he has
Rob! You could’ve filed off the sharp edges!
You are the Destin Sandlin of music.
Hey Rob, what instrument do you play?
Ай молодец парень
Do you have a bass amp
Еееееее балалайка!
"it keeps stabbing me in the arm!!" well your not even holding it right so...
That instrument reminds me of a ukulele in terms of how you play
Wilhelm Scream! 0:31
1:30 this is soooo second channel
And this is a compliment
Balalaika Essentials : Kalinka and Only Kalinka
You should try a Ronroco or a charango
Круто звучит. Местами гармония напоминает YOB.
ясно, Робу надо новая балалайка. Ну что, скидываемся?
I honestly liked it better by itself, it seemed overshadowed by the instruments
This is like a personal timestamp for me because I enjoy the talking, but want an easy way to listen to the pretty sounds n stuff, but he starts actually playing and explaining the chords and whatnot around 3:25 ish :]
I really didn't understand why you would have two strings with the same tuning and octave? Wouldn't it just be a redundant string then?
shakalaka boom
So just what is the duck normally
...een de willich...de wallalaikas...make soch viewtiful mew-sick...
hi
You are not holding it correctly, it's held between the legs with the left leg out.
Alexey Arkhipovsky. The Best.
Balalalalallalalalaika
0:31 Wilhelm scream
Bouzouki metal?
you sitting incorect wiht balalaika
*quack*
I watch this video drinking vodka and playing balalaika. My bear is playing Soviet Hymn on bass-balalaika now. Nazdorovie! Клюква такая клюква, особенно про "бла-бла", это "бла-бла" в русский язык пришло только в 2000х
2nd channel rules! quak
0:32 actually scared me
WHEN YOU REALIZED THE BALALAIKA, HIS BASS, AND SIG. GUITAR ARE SIMILAR WOOD COLORS......
DUCK!!! @1:43
DUCK2! @7:32
BOUZOUKI METAL!
It's hurting you because you're holding it wrong. The bottom triangle goes between your legs and that drops the upper triangle between your leg and elbow
Trubloff. :)
Oh. So that's how you write on the balalalala.
I had a wierd dream about getting cancer meeting rob then getting arrested for djenting to loud amd j thoughg theyd fine us but we went to jail and j was in a wheel chair then somehow rob got a guitar or he might have been playing on the jail poles or somwthing and started dj0nting even more
Darby Ball sounds fun
*COUNT ME IN*
nabil shaikh was an odd but good dream
I always djent to loud amd
Premonition
If anyone can djent on metal poles, it's Rob.
Бала л ай ка
4:45 sounds a bit like Tenacious D.
No it doesn't
Need moar!
Yeah, this edge is sharp, but you shouldn't keep it the same way as guitar. Except this corner should be between your legs.
I don't play balalayka by myself, but I saw a lot of people who actually plays, so I'm quite sure about this 🌚
But does it djent
you need to throw a humbucker on that thing and electrify it!!!!
this video has no dislikes after 4 days !
Yes but can you play anchor on 6 string and bass?
Make turkish saz(baglama) jam XD
Try a tenor guitar and tune it EADG
Bruh 0:32 I jumped
shred on a 1700s lute
you're supposed to rest thr spike BETWEEN your legs