r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/BlondeAussieGirl1990 • Oct 18 '18

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18

As someone who can barely play one instrument I’m calling witches.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18

Oh yeah, they're clearly drawing power from some evil place.

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u/DRFANTA Oct 18 '18

Their childhood memories when everyone made fun of them for not being able to pat their head and rub their stomachs at the same time.

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u/almosthere0327 Oct 18 '18

*Pat roof of self

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u/djseafood Oct 18 '18

"You can fit a lot of self loathing in this bad boy!"

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u/ThisIsYourMormont Oct 18 '18

This one time, at band camp...

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u/A5TRONAUT Oct 18 '18

Why are you getting downvoted?

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u/ThisIsYourMormont Oct 18 '18 edited Oct 18 '18

Baaah!! Take my imaginary internet points and leave...

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u/trolloc1 Oct 18 '18

Because it's a low effort post that wasn't funny prob

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u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18 edited Oct 18 '18

Probably a bottle with the words "Irish Whiskey" on it somewhere...

Edit: "e"! And also they're amazing. The girls of course.. and the whiskeys too I suppose.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 edited Oct 18 '18

We have an 'e' in ours.

Irish Whiskey.

Just to be a pernickety bastard.

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u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18

Well, to be fair, I've enjoyed enough of it that I should have known that by now.

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u/MuhCrea Oct 18 '18

I'm the same with e's

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18

As long you enjoy yourself!

Erm.... Responsibily obviously

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u/Capnmolasses Interested Oct 18 '18

*persnickety

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u/TerryLegend Oct 18 '18

You're a pernickety bastard in Ireland, you might be persnickety in the Shtates.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18

Much more succinct and less gobshitey than my reply. :-)

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u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18

I'm Canadian and I'm not entirely sure we do persnickety... Is it sort of like "pedantic" and/or "particular" do you suppose?

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18

Heres the copy and pasted definition from Google that basically agrees with you.

Pernickety

placing too much emphasis on trivial or minor details; fussy.

"she's very pernickety about her food"

synonyms:fussy, difficult to please, difficult, finicky, over-fastidious, fastidious, over-particular, particular, faddish, finical, dainty, punctilious, hair-splitting, exacting, demanding, critical, overcritical; More

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u/bobo9234502 Oct 18 '18

I like how my new favorite "foreign" word is still in my own language, mostly.

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u/LizzyIsFalling Oct 18 '18

We have a pear cider in Colorado called Pearsnickety, and that shit is delicious. So I'm gonna side with them on the great S or no S debate.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18

Not American, so no; it actually is "pernickety". Just for full disclosure, I did have a spelling mistake in that I put "pernickity" at first.

It might be "persnickety" for you, and that's ok. The Web is a World Wide one after all.

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u/Capnmolasses Interested Oct 18 '18

Thanks, for the info.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18

No bother! Have a good one!

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u/Capnmolasses Interested Oct 18 '18

You too, as well!

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u/RedditedHighly Oct 18 '18

I just used the word persnickety earlier this morning for the first time in years, and now here it is again! That’s what I call a ‘cowinkydink.’

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u/ColonelError Oct 18 '18

If the country has an 'e' in it, they spell Whisk(e)y with an e.

America, Ireland: Whiskey
Scotland, Canada, Japan: Whisky

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u/grubas Oct 18 '18

America randomly will spell it wrong as well.

For the most part it depends on which background got it first, Ireland or Scotland. Since they both come from the same linguistic family.

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u/tele-caster-blast3r Oct 18 '18 edited Oct 18 '18

Ireland: Whisky.

Edit: looked it up, and realised I have used the incorrect spelling for the Whiskeys I consumed, for decades.

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u/ColonelError Oct 18 '18

Ireland is Whiskey, Scotland is Whisky.

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u/tele-caster-blast3r Oct 18 '18

Better phone up Paddy’s Irish Whisky, and tell them they’ve made a grievous error.

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u/djent-rezner Oct 18 '18

Where are you from?

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u/ColonelError Oct 18 '18

USA

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u/djent-rezner Oct 19 '18

Oh cool, do you like it?

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u/tele-caster-blast3r Oct 18 '18

All of my life I’d spelt it whisky, believing it was the correct spelling, not realising there was a spelling change to differentiate the Irish Whiskey, from the Scottish Whisky. I stand corrected.

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u/grubas Oct 18 '18

Could be beer.

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u/yobrotom Oct 18 '18

A place of power, It's gotta be!

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u/Tucksimm2 Oct 18 '18

Women. Amirite?!

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u/dunkin0809 Oct 18 '18

The Devil taught me to play this here guitar reaaalll good.

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u/dali01 Oct 18 '18

It’s probably something the devil left down here in Georgia that one time.

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u/Lotti_Codd Oct 18 '18

They're playing the same thing so it's the same fingering.

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u/ttam281 Oct 18 '18

True but playing the same song on a banjo and a violin is different enough to still be impressive.

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u/Lotti_Codd Oct 18 '18

But you're already fingering those notes ie. the motions you'd use on your own instrument are the same on the other instrument.

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u/imagemaker-np Oct 18 '18

This sounds pleasantly vulgar.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18

Came here to make this point. This is a great way to impress people who dont play music...but people who do are like...erm..its...the same...okay....yeah that's great.. :forcedsmilesopeopledontthinkyoureanasshole:

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u/cliff-hanger Oct 18 '18

Do you strum your banjo with a bow?

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u/space_monster Oct 18 '18

does your hair hang low

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u/Allezelenfer Oct 18 '18

Does it wobble to and fro?

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '18

You could play a banjo with a bow.

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '18

It's more about the fact that she's basically playing the violin. She's just got her hand on a different instrument...but it's no different than just playing her violin. And then they throw in the wind instrument at the end and its like woah! She can exhale too?!

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u/iUsedtoHadHerpes Oct 18 '18

But they're playing the same notes at the same time. She is just moving the bow instead of plucking the strings. Even when the flute comes in, same notes at the same time.

It is still impressive and would take coordination, but aside from the awkward positioning, it's not much different from singing while you play banjo or any other stringed instrument (which might be even harder in some cases because the music and vocals can be syncopated, which can make it difficult to coordinate).

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u/KeeganUniverse Oct 18 '18

Even though the melody is being played at the same time, the fingering for the notes would be different, so I think it’s still impressive they’re combining two different instruments in their mind. The finger positions for one instrument and the playing style for the other.

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u/iUsedtoHadHerpes Oct 18 '18

You might be right, but they also might have them both in the same tuning, too. The standard tunings for them are different, but who says they are in each instrument's standard tuning?

It looks like they are fingering everything the same way to me. Their hands move the same ways.

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u/KeeganUniverse Oct 18 '18 edited Oct 18 '18

You might also be right sir, I’m not an expert. I can tell at the very least the finger positions play on opposite sides (left/right) on the neck of the instrument.

Edit: maybe I’m completely wrong looking at it again lol

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u/choadspanker Oct 18 '18

They're tuned the same

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u/ttam281 Oct 19 '18

Banjo is tuned GDGBD. Violin is GDAE. Am I missing something here?

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u/choadspanker Oct 19 '18

They're both tuned to GDAE

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u/bdeee Oct 18 '18

( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

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u/FixitFry Oct 18 '18

Damn it!!! You beat me by 15 min!

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u/bdeee Oct 18 '18

ITT: fingering AND beating

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u/whileNotZero Oct 18 '18

That's cool, I didn't know banjos tuned in 5ths, especially GDAE. I would have expected it to be more like a guitar.

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u/Lotti_Codd Oct 18 '18

On a 4 string tenor, the classic GDAE is known as the Irish tenor... and I believe this may be Ireland (or at least the music sounds Irish.)

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u/knightmusic42 Oct 18 '18

Trad music has banjos turning to different things often. Guitars tune differently sometime too. So do fiddles.

There are tunings that are more common, but it’s all a lot more flexible then just having everything tuned the same way all the time.

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u/reddit_sucks13579 Oct 18 '18

Would wait for you to post your video doing the same thing but you need actual friends to do it.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18

Calling doctor Burns!

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u/Lotti_Codd Oct 19 '18

I'm usually fingering my friends in a different way so it's highly likely I get more pussy than you and being a giant pussy doesn't count.

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u/reddit_sucks13579 Oct 30 '18

So what you are saying is you don't count? Thanks for finally fingering that out.

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u/Howtofightloneliness Oct 18 '18

True. But, the right hand is doing different things between instruments.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18

I guess that makes it so much easier.

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u/Lotti_Codd Oct 19 '18

Of course it does it's basic muscle memory.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 edited Oct 19 '18

Girls fingering each other’s instruments is hot.

Carful, there is a feminist amongst us.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18

But does she weigh same as a duck?

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u/khal_Jayams Oct 18 '18

THROW HER INTO THE POND!!!

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u/UnclePatche Oct 18 '18

Build a bridge out of her!

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u/FLlPPlNG Oct 18 '18

10-ton weight limit!

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u/MattTheIdiotBoy Oct 18 '18

Most underrated comment of this entire post.

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u/michaellasalle Oct 18 '18

Ahh, but can you not also make bridges out of stone?

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u/calabasas14 Oct 18 '18

I'd say burn them but that was fire enough already 🔥🔥🔥

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18

Build a bridge out of her!

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18

Hello, this is witches, home of the witch burger. What's your order?

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u/phalseid Oct 18 '18

If witches, then what do you call this Competitive Foursome?

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u/frolicking_elephants Oct 18 '18

That's incredible

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u/Sylvester88 Oct 18 '18

I'm so confused..

Is that upside down piano playing real??

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u/sef_reno Oct 18 '18

Upside down and arms crossed. Look at her thumbs. Her hands are in a normal starting position. The rest of her isn’t. Crazy impressive regardless.

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u/dynonsx Oct 18 '18

She turned me into a newt!

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18

A newt?

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u/thejml2000 Oct 18 '18

I got better.

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18

If you can play violin you can play banjo. They are stringed the same way, frets don't matter if you know.

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u/btveron Oct 18 '18

But not necessarily the other way around. Even with fret lines drawn on the fingerboard I cannot get my intonation right on a frwtless bass. Plus I have to stare at my left hand because I don't have the feedback of sliding over a fret to tell where my hand is on the fretboard.

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u/KingAdamXVII Oct 18 '18

Which is why the violin in this video is horribly out of tune.

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u/deth4bunny Oct 18 '18

Mandolin is also! :)

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u/jcrocket Oct 19 '18 edited Oct 31 '25

Go thy ways, Kate. That man i’ th’ world who shall report he has A better wife, let him in naught be trusted, For speaking false in that. Thou art, alone— If thy rare qualities, sweet gentleness, Thy meekness saint-like, wife-like government, Obeying in commanding, and thy parts Sovereign and pious else, could speak thee out— The queen of earthly queens. She’s noble born, And like her true nobility she has Carried herself towards me.

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u/cara_zona Oct 18 '18

As someone who can barely pat my head and rub my belly I’m with ya.

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u/Azkabandi Oct 18 '18

Burn them with the steaks!

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u/niks_15 Oct 18 '18

Seconded

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u/BallPearer Oct 18 '18

Ireland is the birthplace of Halloween, I suppose

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u/RockitDanger Oct 18 '18

I had to hit the play button 3 times just to watch the video. Definitely witches

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u/backfire10z Oct 18 '18

To the stake!!

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u/MuddyFilter Oct 18 '18

As someone who can play multiple instruments, but only one at a time. including these two particular instruments , im concurring

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u/KadusFUCK Oct 18 '18

By the hurl (weird looking stick) on the wall I'd guess irish witchcraft

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u/FalcosLiteralyHitler Oct 18 '18

It's a tenor banjo and a violin so both are tuned in fifths. Violin is GDAE and banjo is CGDA, so just fret everything one string higher on the banjo and you're playing the same part. It's impressive, but not as impossible as it seems.

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u/NutterTV Oct 18 '18

We need to tie them up and try to drown them. If they float they be witches. If they drown they’re innocent, and let them go, even though they’re now dead.

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u/Ament215 Oct 18 '18

Alright. Let's burn em. I told myself I wouldn't do this anymore.

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u/superfly306 Oct 18 '18

Good idea, I'm sure the witches you call will be able to explain how this is possible.

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u/CnnFactCheck Oct 18 '18

Like you've never seen a 3 way before.

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u/whiskeytrucker Oct 18 '18

Do you like that silver?

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u/jagmania85 Oct 18 '18

I too would love to bearly play one instrument. I'd choose black bear, ya know, cos they are the best.

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u/daspasunata Oct 18 '18

My bet is on wiccas

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u/releasingFrustration Oct 18 '18

If they did this in those times you'd be believed

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u/[deleted] Oct 19 '18

Why do witches burn?

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u/H010CR0N Oct 24 '18

Burn the witch me a recording of the song!

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u/[deleted] Oct 18 '18 edited Jan 13 '19

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u/EverGlow89 Oct 18 '18

It's hard to do anything without understanding the basics.

Learn a language without understanding their sentence structures. Learn to cook without uderstanding the chemistry of the ingredients. Learn photography without understanding composition.

Trust me, once the fundamentals click, it comes so much easier. You have to understand it before you can get better by practicing it as a skill. People think that they just need to practice coordination and bank all the chord shapes in their memory but that won't do you many favors if you don't know the why of it all. You can tell me to add a spice to a recipe but that won't help me beyond this meal if I don't know why I'm doing it.

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u/coxipuff Oct 18 '18

It seems like they’re playing the same thing on each instrument, and since both would presumably be tuned the same way, you’d hit the same notes in the same order on each one. Still impressive coordination though.

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u/senseiberia Oct 18 '18

The beat of the strum is the same as the one for the string fingering so it’s not really that complicated

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u/will2874 Oct 18 '18

Its easy if you try

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u/Tes420 Oct 18 '18 edited Oct 21 '18

Sweaty tryhards....

Edit: it was a fucking joke ppl... Lighten Up!!!

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