Solicaster Unique Custom Guitar

[@Xavier_Coogat_the_Mambo_King]

3:18 "and so uh... nevermind I'm groovin, let me keep goin" lol love it

[@steveburchfield5576]

Ive been playing jazz guitar for over 50 years and thats some of the best jazz guitar Ive ever heard!!! Way To Go Rory !!!!!!!

[@mainsblanches8793]

More like jazz piano played on guitar!!...

[@Inego_Montoya]

Have you heard him play Autumn Leaves at Fishtock??… Impeccable performance.

[@mortalmeans3510]

*plays guitar* Rory: And, so, uh *guitar demon takes over*

[@deaterk]

Love, appreciate and (most importantly) can HEAR the George Shearing connection Rory mentioned.

[@BenEller]

Rory, this is incredible!!!!

[@rabokarabekian409]

I know I am listening to a genius when they explain things very clearly and I still don't know what they're doing.

[@bsnf-5]

His guitar playing sound like it's a freaking one man band. Pure genius

[@JackTheSkunk]

Rory Hoffman is amazing....the only guy on the planet that could make beautiful music using that unusual tuning.

[@Cornelis-q3z]

Phenominal, George Shearing chords style on Guitar!

[@crapotodesbois9328]

This man is so good. He is top notch and full of good vibes. I love his mind

[@leewarren]

I’ve had the pleasure of watching Rory play live with 50 Shades Of Hay several times, at the Nashville Palace (my favourite local haunt). What an incredibly talented musician, with such a deep bag of knowledge. He more than holds his own, in a town known for stellar musicians.

[@Snhojbar]

Wow! I love exploring alternate turnings and stringings for guitar but this just blew me away. You are on another level. This is phenomenal!

[@steelmanwright]

Love this guy, He is a unreal...

[@stevepethel6843]

Wow...i never heard anyone so multi talented and pure genius INNOVATIVE...you got it all

[@nigelbeaumont1109]

This Man is unreal…❤️

[@sonijam]

Wow! Reminds me of the multi-track guitar sound on Les Paul and Mary Ford records!

[@MarkLAsche]

The Shearing sound! God bless you Rory.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

What a really Jazzy sounding Guitar.

[@HaileMusique]

Beautiful

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

thumbs carley was known for playing a Guitar in his Lap like a Lap steel.

[@ostinatomusicnews]

I subscribed to your channel immediately and saw on your channel that you play so many instruments, it's just awesome. Thanks for inspiring so many people Rory.

[@stevescontriano860]

GOD AT WORK. And I thought I was getting better cause I just nailed intro intro to SMOKE ON THE WATER

[@seanperrydj]

Go man Go !!! I love this channel !

[@gerdpfeil]

Narrow spaced chords on a guitar - that just blew my mind! :) Also, I wonder why apparently nobody had the idea to take alternative tunings one step further and shuffle the strings around to create really different voicings... so awesome and so much food for tought!

[@jasonjayalap]

re-entrant tuning is not uncommon, but this is... like... multi-re-entrant tuning.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

RoryHoffmanMusic Making the Melody in Octaves is akin to what some Choral arrangements of songs do w/ the Double Octave Melody because now you can hear what note is the melody.

[@zounds13]

Fretboard Journal sent me here, and I am not disappointed!

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

2:47 This Guitar is Semi-Hollow bodied which explains the 2 Sound Holes on either side of the bridge & that produces this Jazzy sound Archtop Guitars are known for.

[@wassehichdanur420]

Rory you should be a payed musicteacher! Speechless! 🙌❤

[@Aviel777Gergel]

You are a pure genius

[@stephenwillard]

Been going through your channel all night! So great!

[@anterix1999]

Wow wow! Fantastic!

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

The way I normally think of a 7 String Guitar is being a 6 String Guitar with a Low B String added to it.

[@TheDigitalVillain]

Incredible

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Rory Hoffman It does sound like a whole section of Guitars. Soli Solicaster, you get it.

[@MrGREYMATTERS]

An elegant sound, this!

[@bricology]

Definitely has that "Shearing Sound". Fantastic idea, execution and playing, Rory!

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Yeah & he will be missed.

[@tigerfitz]

Jaysus Rory! But honestly, you sound pretty much the same on a standard 6 string. This is because you are great.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Rory Hoffman I have a 12 String Guitar aka Solicaster. I call the 12 String a Solicaster cause it sound like multiple Guitars playing the same thing together. The octave strings allow me to do really tightly voiced chords like George Sheering did on Keyboards, I can do it on Guitar.

[@Pickernik]

How cool is that!?!?!?!?!

[@xanthus798]

Awesome idea and playing! Really great sound!

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

The tuning you have is so called "George Sheering Tuning" cause it emulates the sound of George Sheering's Tightly Voiced Chords. That's C#3, Bb2, Bb3, Eb3, G3, C3/C4. Fun fact Choirs would often Double the Soprano part down an Octave with a 2'nd Group of Tenors (Tenor 2) cause they'll find that having the Melody in Octaves fills in alot of gaps & produces a larger sound than it did before.

[@dadudezpr]

Genius

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

2:47 What song is that?

[@leyetnin1]

You are amazing, sir. Thank you! You’ve inspired me to Frankenstein my Strat.

[@alan4sure]

So did you render it useless?😅😅

[@thunderhorse6666]

This guys an absolute maniac!!! If anyone wants to hear Rory throwdown some outlaw country guitar solo checkout his solos for Bob Wayne in 2014.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@Rorry Hoffman 1st song name? It sounds like a George Sheering song. I have a 12 String Electric Guitar and when I'm playing Jazzy Chords, they all get very tight voicings like George Sheering did on piano. Your method of holding a string instrument works on your songs, holding a Guitar the normal way might be appropriate for other songs.

[@doodleedledoo]

I’m starting to feel like Rory is the best musician that has ever been.

[@bsnf-5]

Tommy Emmanuel is just as good as an acoustic guitarist

[@doodleedledoo]

@ Absolutely but Rory plays so many other instruments and I think as a singer he’s great too, but yes Tommy is as good as they get on acoustic

[@bsnf-5]

@@doodleedledoo yeah. Of course I admit that Rory is exceptional and enormous talent. I think that Tommy couldn't care less about anyone being technically better than him. It would be difficult, but even if so, he is so much ahead musically. He used to play with Chet Atkins, and many other old time greats. He feels it and he is also a hard worker, from what I observed over the years... Except, his work is his passion. So I guess that is a dream come true for him

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

Rory Hoffman you forgot about the 2 Humbucker Pickups and the controls for the Guitar cause it sounds very Jazzy. Keep on Jazzing up my Man.

[@kellyspoolhall761]

Bravo! I really hope someone reads these comments to Rory. It appears everyone here is as blown away as I am.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

RoryHoffmanMusic That George Sheering Sound from the Solicaster is Jazzy. Keep it going dude, you're jazzing it up.

[@carrollgarvin2136]

Rory, you’re straining my small Brain. But the Guitar sounds great! CG

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

RoryHoffmanMusic Very Jazzy sounding Guitar, I play Jazz on my 12 String Guitar & the Octave strings allow me to do Tightly Voiced Chords in order to get that George Sheering effect going.

[@beamifrend]

I guess the Martin HD7 could be modded to accommodate this setup.

[@sandrasumpter1814]

Hi. This is wonderful! I teach students with visual impairments, and I'm just wondering if you read braille. If so, how can you read it when playing string instruments causes so many callouses on the fingertips? Just curious how it affects your braille reading. Thanks. I watched some of your other videos. You are so talented!

[@roryhoffman485]

I don't read braille much anymore. Though I grew up reading it every day in school. I would read novels regularly up into my 20's. Lately I've migrated mostly to audio. But to answer the question, I don't get really hard callouses, because I am not squeezing the neck to get enough pressure. Since I lay the stringed instruments across my lap, I just press on the fretboard, which doesn't require as much pressure on the fingers. Also, I would tend to use more of the entire pad of my finger for certain chord shapes, and for reading braille, I guess I just subconsciously developed a style where I used a part of my finger that didn't really callous. In any event, it was never an issue for me at all.

[@sandrasumpter1814]

@@roryhoffman485 Thanks!

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@roryhoffman485 The George Sheering tuning on the Guitar really pays tribute to him.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@roryhoffman485 That's a very Jazzy Sound. Well good job dude, it sounds perfect for Jazz Bands.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@roryhoffman485 At least we can hear The Solicaster sounds like a whole bunch of guitars.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

4:10 Bye, bye Blackbird on Solicaster.

[@tomthomas8472]

WOW!

[@alfonsomango_suyu]

Hi, how do you do? What's the tuning in that guitar?

[@guidemeChrist]

what if you had a normal guitar but with a special pickup that picks up each string individually, then you could run it through a pedal that when you activate it, it moves the D string up an octave and gives the high E a lower octave doubling

[@guidemeChrist]

then you could have another switch to it that you click on when you go into your drop 2 voicings on the inner 4 strings. Then the pedal would move the A string up and give B string the doubling

[@roryhoffman485]

I have the Roland VG8 guitar synth, and a guitar with a pickup under each string, and indeed yes, one could do exactly as you have described here.

[@roryhoffman485]

@@guidemeChrist With the VG8, you also have to set up what pickups you want inside your virtual guitar. You cannot just switch from neck to bridge sound on the fly. SO it would necessitate setting up lots of patches. Also, I have never found that large pitch shifts sounded that clean. Certainly useable, but not like having a string dedicated to the pitch, rather than a machine changing the pitch by an octave or more. But your ideas are certainly doable.

[@RockStarOscarStern634]

@@roryhoffman485 That Guitar is Jazzy

[@johntaylor6243]

Laptar!

[@LuisFerreiraTor]

What a genius guy

[@roryhoffman485]

!

[@dallasmobley9359]

Very impressive 👍👍👍

[@alan4sure]

Amazing, but I don't really like jazz to start with.

[@joeyserrapede]

Awesome~