Great clip: Fingerstyle on a 12-string

[Brucebubs]

The player is Eiro Nareth and he's playing 'Interstellar' by Hans Zimmer.

I don't know what brand his guitar is but the 1st full strum at 2.10 is mighty powerful!

[Bear Davis]

That was great! Thanks for sharing!

[AndrewG]

Lovely piece.

[joelhunn]

Nice! I’ve tried a bit of 12 string fingerstyle. It isn’t easy!

[donlyn]

Originally Posted by Bear Davis

That was great! Thanks for sharing!

Hey Bruce,

Bear Davis has the right of it.

Don

[Trevor B.]

Originally Posted by Brucebubs

The player is Eiro Nareth and he's playing 'Interstellar' by Hans Zimmer.

I don't know what brand his guitar is but the 1st full strum at 2.10 is mighty powerful!

The guitar is a Baton Rouge AR11C/ACE-12. It's disclosed in the video notes when Show More is clicked on the youtube site.
Here are a couple of relevant links: https://www.thomann.de/gb/baton_rouge_ar11c_ace_12.htm
https://www.batonrougeguitars.com/ac...uditorium.html

In the 2nd link the path to the guitar featured in the video is Baton Rouge.com>Acoustic>Specials.
Scroll down to the second row. It's the 2nd guitar (1st 12 string).

[Glennwillow]

That was impressive and really beautifully done. I don't know if I have ever seen anyone play a 12-string with a classical approach like that!

I don't particularly care for the sound of the 12-string -- it sounds a little tinny to my ears. But he did a beautiful job with this piece!

More than 8 million views on the video is also pretty amazing! Or 243,000 subscribers!

That is the kind of musical theme that really gets stuck in a person's head!

- Glenn

[opencee]

Among other things, Neil Jacobs does some nice fingerstyle on 12-strings.



On Bolero, he uses two same-sized strings for the A course. Without the lesser diameter string, he can make them lightly buzz against each other for a drone effect.




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[donlyn]

Here's an interesting one on 12 string, also fingerpicked:

Michael Fix plays Johann Sebastian Bach: "Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tt1i8pDeCf4




Maybe this classifies as a 'classical approach' too.

Don
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[Brucebubs]

Thanks for the guitar information and those clips guys.
The Neil Jacobs 'Bolero' clip got me wondering if this piece was the inspiration behind Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac 'Albatross'?

[Bear Davis]

Here is a 12 string clip of End of the Innocence. Too bad the guy playing is a total loser.

[Brucebubs]

[QUOTE=Bear Davis;6127349]Here is a 12 string clip of End of the Innocence. Too bad the guy playing is a total loser.

Judging from the black & white clip I think that was Bob Hite from Canned Heat.

Only kidding ... that was great!

For those interested .. that Baton Rouge 12-string being played in my original post sells for $349.00 in the US.https://www.thomannmusic.com/baton_r...11c_ace_12.htm

[Cocobolo Kid]

Thanks for posting that 12-string fingerstyle arrangement of Interstellar. Eiro Nareth has an instructional video and tabs available for this song on his website if anyone is interested in learning this song like I am. I am always looking for more interesting music to play on a 12 string.

Thanks again!

[KevWind]

Originally Posted by Brucebubs

The player is Eiro Nareth and he's playing 'Interstellar' by Hans Zimmer.

I don't know what brand his guitar is but the 1st full strum at 2.10 is mighty powerful!

First thing I noticed was the octave strings are above their respective main strings
Made me curious after some googling Looks to be a Baton Rouge
I think this one
https://www.batonrougeguitars.com/en...12-150006.html

[David Eastwood]

Originally Posted by KevWind

First thing I noticed was the octave strings are above their respective main strings

... which would be the normal arrangement for just about every 12-string ever, except for Rickenbackers, which have always be the other way around.

Made me curious after some googling Looks to be a Baton Rouge
I think this one
https://www.batonrougeguitars.com/en...12-150006.html

I'd agree - looks like the same guitar.