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NECROPHAGIST ON A UKULELE? WHY NOT!

 Tuesday, November 10th, 2009 at 12:00pm by

Covering Necrophagist on any instrument would be pretty impressive… their music is very technical to say the least. But the tricky part here, as far as ukuleles go, is that they aren’t tuned like guitars; they’re tuned (bottom to top) GCEA, meaning you can’t just take the guitar line and play it on the same strings on a uke. I’m guessing this fine chap’s first instrument is guitar (although that’s just a gander) meaning he had to learn it on guitar and then transpose it into a different tuning and re-learn it on the uke. That’s really fucking impressive! If you’re wondering why the normally placid ukulele sounds all keyboard-y here, it’s because it’s an electric uke played through (I’m guessing) a midi controller.

Apologies to whoever submitted this video, as I can’t find the email/comment… but you know who you are, so I thank you!

-VN

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  • Alaskan King Crabcore

    This seems pretty obviously dubbed to me… and it sounds like it’s being played by a keyboard.

    • Alaskan King Crabcore

      By that I mean, it doesn’t just sound like it’s being run through something that sounds similar to a keyboard… it sounds LIKE A KEYBOARD.

      • http://themetalgrinder.com Matt Kraatz

        It’s fucking Guitar Pro.

        • Alaskan King Crabcore

          Ah. I’m not familiar with that program… I’m just a stupid drummer. :]

  • Michelle

    What’s with the cum spit at the beginning of the video? Everybody knows it’s metal to swallow.

  • IAmTheClitCommander

    Fake or not, I really could’ve done without seeing this disgusting bastard hock up loogie.

  • Double D

    Nice, spit into the McDonald’s BBQ sauce cup there at the beginning. When you gotta spit indoors, everything is a spittoon (Usually the carpet).

  • Master Shake

    The transition @ about 1:44 -1:46

    It looks like he fucks it up, his left hand is behind the music, but it keeps playing normally…

  • http://www.themetalreporter.net iRoar

    it’s like rocking out to a mario castle stage, only a fat guy is shredding a ukulele and spiting in a cup…

  • Double D

    Yeah, there’s something weird about this. And just consider the sound made when fingers hit a keyboard. That is the sound prevalent throughout the song, when he plays a note.

  • brookh

    this is fake

    • http://hoodedbeef.blogspot.com/ Dorian

      This is a cocktease, dubbed with Guitar Pro. I was seriously excited to see some Uke shredding. Vince, you are retarded.

  • Double D

    Oh, yeah, and how many fucking fat, goateed, white dudes are there into metal? I’d say you guys make up about 98% of the metal world fanbase.

  • Sammy

    It may be impressive, technically speaking, but c’mon, it’s a fucking uke! It’s like showing how fast you can ride a bike…by riding a Big Wheel.

  • CARTER

    there are no midi ukeleles out there. cmon. this is just him playing along with a midi.

  • Karl

    I’m pretty sure he hit the space bar, which in Guitar Pro, starts the song.

    • Tim the Enchanter

      Yeah I was going to say that it sounds an awful lot like the playback from Guitar Pro

      • Marc

        I’m gonna have to third that opinion, those notes being played sound a lot like guitar pro sound effects.

  • g

    yeah seriously, vince if you were being serious about the midi thing, you’re really dumb

  • puppetofmasters

    nice MIDI ukulele :D

  • timmah

    probably one of the worst posts i’ve seen here…

  • orbital

    i love how he gets pumped up to play it like the coach is about to put him in. FAKE

  • soup

    what a horrid creature. he’ll be dead by 30.

    • SlickerDrip

      Bingo. I could deal with a fat Hawaiian dude playing a ukulele, but this crosses the line.

  • http://www.myspace.com/sensorydeprivationtank Alnilam

    That’s fuckin awesome!

  • http://www.gravatar.com/avatar/46e389eb8b79606050d3d447431ff6ac?s=80 Nate

    My band uses a uke for clean parts. I think it’s pretty cool. It has an interesting sound, and the string structure lets you come up with some pretty cool combinations. Ukes are pretty metal if you use them right.

  • http://www.youtube.com/DuncanDonuts3 Benjamin

    He’s playing the midi file someone made and playing along with it on the uke.

    Therefore, fake!

    Also, I want to hear what his uke sounds like plugged into a Bogner Uberschal for christ sake.

    This was a let down.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Jason-Crispen/100000169530540 Jason Crispen

    a ukelele does NOT sound like that

  • deadlow

    This shit is not even real, overdubbed with a cheap ass keyboard, fuck this guy.

  • Kevin

    Fake it sounds like a Power Tab or Guitar Pro tab

  • Andrew

    Looks totally fake to me.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Brandon-Fountain/1391790047 Brandon Fountain

    Gotta be fake, sounds just like MIDI files heard in Guitar Pro and shit. Fuck this fat guy and his nasty loogie hocking ass.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Nick-Rothe/563436630 Nick Rothe

    its obviously a fake, i mean you can hear when the sound cuts out when he starts “playing” and you can’t hear all the background noise

  • Facebook User

    that shit may be fake but check this REAL violin cover out http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5bmD3u0fhU

  • SourDeez

    I’m just gonna put this out there…Necrophagist is terrible. Everyone I know who likes Necrophagist, and people LOOOOOVE them, is only into it because the music is hard to play and therefore “impressive”. They will freely admit that there are no memorable moments and that they only like it because they like to hear the sound of someone masturbating furiously. Suicmez is obviously a talented guitarist, but he’s a terrible composer. Necrophagist songs have no discernible structures or memorable sections. It’s complex for the sake of being complex. It’s all wank, basically, the death metal version of Michael Angelo Batio. In short, listen to Spawn of Possession, they’re a thousand times better.

    • I’m not racist, but I hate Oceano

      I like Necrophagist, but it’s because the guitar is uniquely beautiful and brutal . I mean, its cool if you don’t like it, but people crack me up when they say theres no emotion, and its just sensless guitar masturbation. Maybe for you, but I’m actually moved by it, so maybe you should just respect other people’s opinions and stop acting like your’e better then everyone else. And how can you say there’s no structure? Maybe you should actually listen to a Necrophagist song.

      • SourDeez

        Well hey, to each his own. I’ve never heard anyone say they were moved by Necrophagist, but if you are that’s totally cool. I just said I don’t like them personally. Most Necrophagist fans I know don’t ever claim to be “moved” by the music the way they are by, say, Opeth. They just talk about how hard it is to play, and how CRAAAAAZY that one riff is etc etc. And by no form I mean they don’t ever take a theme and develop it, they play riff after riff after riff but the riffs never have anything to do with each other. In other words, you could take just about every Necrophagist song and separate them into individual sections, and then jumble them up at random and put them back together and it wouldn’t really sound different than the way they play it. There doesn’t seem to be any continuity or development in their songs, but maybe I’m just missing something.

        • Sirhan Sirhan

          People who are moved by opeth are dumb

    • thebenthic

      your retarded necrophagist=fuckin legit as fuck, but so is spawn of posession though.

  • d00shc00gr

    You’re welcome, guys. I thought it was cool too

  • Are you retarded

    Notice him press play right after he spits out some lung…
    I come here a lot and almost never post.
    Enough said.

    • Panda

      I think you may be retarded he is just picking his pick back up after he spits out “some Lung”

  • Fuck You Vince Neilstein

    For wasting my time. Stupidest video of the year, hands down. It’s clearly PowerTab/GuitarPro, and it you think otherwise, well, fuck you.

  • zach

    He even dropped the cord on the ground, you can hear it hit the floor. This is just a regular ol uke.

  • The Baron

    Necrophagia > Necrophagist