Name: Guthrie Govan Vigier 無品吉他演示 - 吉他互動雜誌 (Guthrie Govan Vigier Fretless Guitar Demo - Guitar Interactive Magazine)
Uploaded: 2025-06-06T13:33:06.000Z
Duration: 13 min 22 s

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情態助動詞 B1

Hello people on the internet, or wherever you may be.

互聯網上的朋友們，你們好，無論你們身在何處。

情態副詞

I'm Guthrie Govan, guitarist from the UK, and what I'm brandishing before you today is a rather odd looking instrument made by French people, specifically the good folks at Vigier.

我是來自英國的吉他手 Guthrie Govan，今天我在你們面前展示的是由法國人，特別是優秀的 Vigier 公司製造的一種外形相當奇特的樂器。

Not like other guitars, it's fretless, although some pedantic types have pointed out in the past that it actually has one giant fret.

與其他吉他不同的是，它是無音格的，儘管過去有些迂腐的人指出它實際上有一個巨大的音格。

I just thought I'd spend a moment trying to tell you what kind of things you might want to explore if you walk into a shop and see one of these and want to try it for the first time.

我只是想花點時間告訴你，如果你走進一家商店，看到其中的一個，並想第一次嘗試，你可能會想要探索什麼樣的東西。

Obviously in Indian classical music or Turkish classical music people have been playing fretless instruments forever, and in the string section of an orchestra, again violins, cellos, all that good stuff, fretless instruments.

顯然，在印度古典音樂或土耳其古典音樂中，人們一直在演奏無空格樂器，而在管絃樂隊的絃樂組中，小提琴、大提琴等所有樂器都是無空格樂器。

But in our crazy world of rock and roll this is quite a young instrument and no one's quite sure how you're meant to play it yet.

但是，在我們這個瘋狂的搖滾世界裡，這是一種相當年輕的樂器，還沒有人知道該如何演奏它。

I'm still trying to work out what works and what doesn't.

我仍在嘗試找出哪些有效，哪些無效。

So what I've discovered so far is the first thing you have to do on a fretless guitar is just check that you can play in tune, just playing regular notes, no vibrato, no bending, nothing like that.

到目前為止，我發現在無品吉他上要做的第一件事就是檢查你是否能彈出合拍的音調，只彈常規的音符，不揉弦，不彎曲，諸如此類。

And the trick there seems to be not to think about it too much.

其中的訣竅似乎就是不要想太多。

I think mostly your fingers remember roughly where the notes are from their previous experience playing a fretted instrument.

我認為，你的手指大多能根據以前演奏有品樂器的經驗大致記住音符的位置。

So what you have to do with one of these is not to be too distracted by the fact that there is fretlessness.

是以，你要做的就是不要被 "無憂無慮 "這一事實所困擾。

There's some helpful markers here along the side, there's a little notch where every fret would be and the familiar position marking dots at the 5th fret, 7th fret, etc.

側面有一些有用的標記，每個音格處都有一個小凹槽，第 5 音格、第 7 音格等處還有我們熟悉的位置標記點。

One thing to remember, I guess, if you're a blues or rock guitarist, maybe your fingers approach the strings at that kind of angle and you have to remember that the frets, were they here, would in fact be at this angle.

我想，如果你是藍調或搖滾吉他手，有一點要記住，也許你的手指會以這樣的角度接近琴絃，你必須記住，如果五線譜在這裡，實際上也會是這個角度。

So you have to think in a straight line that way rather than this way whenever you're crossing strings.

是以，每當跨越絃線時，你都必須用直線思維來思考，而不是用這種方式。

And apart from that, there's an element of something resembling singing in the sense that you play the note, listen to it coming out of the amp, and then if you can monitor immediately whether it needs to be sharpened or flattened a little bit.

除此以外，還有一種類似於歌唱的元素，那就是演奏音符，聆聽它從擴音器中發出的聲音，然後如果你能立即監測到它是否需要變得尖銳或平緩一些。

And you can almost do that just by rolling the fingertip from side to side.

你幾乎可以通過指尖左右滾動來做到這一點。

So if there's a small discrepancy in your pitching, you should be able to fix it without doing anything too drastic.

是以，如果您的投球出現細微差別，您應該能夠在不採取任何激烈措施的情況下加以解決。

Then if you want to try bending notes, don't do that, because these come with 12s as standard and I think you could actually put heavier strings than that.

如果你想嘗試彎音，千萬別這麼做，因為這些琴絃的標準配置是 12 號弦，我認為你可以使用比它更重的琴絃。

One of the crazy French innovations is to put this graphite strip in the back of the neck, which, to quote Zappa, renders it totally insensitive to climatic changes.

法國人的一項瘋狂創新是在琴頸後部裝上石墨條，引用扎帕的話說，這使得琴頸對氣候變化完全不敏感。

But if you try to bend them this way, it will hurt and not really achieve anything.

但是，如果你試圖這樣彎曲它們，就會很疼，而且不會有任何效果。

The way forward is to bend like that, just by sliding up and down the fretboard.

前進的方向就是這樣彎曲，只需在指板上上下滑動。

So you might want to translate some of your favourite blues licks and then, of course, you realise you can bend as far as you like.

是以，你可能想翻譯一些你最喜歡的藍調樂段，然後，當然，你會意識到你可以隨心所欲地彎曲。

There's really no pain threshold you reach after a certain number of semitones.

在達到一定數量的半音後，就真的沒有疼痛閾值了。

So you might then want to explore what you can do just phrasing differently by trying to join up different parts of the neck.

是以，你可能會想通過嘗試連接琴頸的不同部位來探索不同的樂句。

If you listen to anything resembling Indian music or, indeed, any of the great slide players, you've probably noticed that those guys play more along one string rather than keeping in one scale position on the neck.

如果你聽過任何類似印度音樂的音樂，或者任何偉大的滑音演奏家的音樂，你可能會注意到，這些人更多地是沿著一根弦演奏，而不是保持在琴頸上的一個音階位置。

So there's a lot of fun you can have there.

是以，你可以在那裡找到很多樂趣。

If you listen to anything resembling Indian music or, indeed, any of the great slide players, you've probably noticed that those guys play more along one string than the other.

如果你聽過任何類似印度音樂的音樂，或者任何偉大的滑音演奏家的音樂，你可能會注意到，這些人更多地是沿著一根弦演奏，而不是另一根弦。

And sustain is surprisingly good because of this mysterious alloy that they use for the fretboard.

由於他們在指板上使用了一種神祕的合金，是以延音效果出奇的好。

The harder your fretboard is, well, fingerboard, the longer the notes ring out.

指板越硬（嗯，指板），音符響得越長。

是以，即使在最高音的 E 弦上...

It's an odd sound, but it's usable and there's certainly some sustain there.

這種聲音很奇特，但還可以使用，而且有一定的延續性。

If you want to go crazy, if you're the experimental type, you might want to throw one of these into the mix.

如果你想瘋狂一下，如果你是實驗型的人，你可能會想把這些東西扔進去。

Maybe front pickup toned down a little bit, and you get...

也許前置拾音器的音量會稍小一些，您就能...

Or you could add in some volume pedal just to hide the beginning of each note.

或者你也可以添加一些音量踏板來隱藏每個音符的開頭。

So this thing is keeping the string sustaining the whole time.

是以，這東西能讓琴絃始終保持延音。

Sooner or later, everyone wants to have a go at playing chords, and that can be a little bit soul-destroying.

每個人遲早都想嘗試彈奏和絃，而這可能會讓人有點魂不守舍。

Something like this, the old-fashioned A-shaped bar chord is almost doomed to fail because you need all those fingers basically stacked on top of each other, and what they want to do is be like that.

像這樣，老式的 A 型小節和絃幾乎註定要失敗，因為你需要所有的手指基本上都疊在一起，而它們想要做的就是這樣。

So you might want to re-finger it this way.

是以，你可能需要重新用手指按一下。

Or that one, the E-shaped chord, because again, you have to get them on top of each other like that.

或者是那個 E 形和絃，因為你必須讓它們像這樣相互疊加。

So you might just go through all the chord shapes you normally play and then put a big black cross against the ones which are unlikely to work when you try them on a fretless.

是以，你可以把平時彈奏的所有和絃音型都看一遍，然後在那些在無品上嘗試時不可能奏效的和絃音型上打上一個大大的黑叉。

And then just enjoy chords like that, which seem to work rather nicely.

然後就享受這樣的和絃，似乎效果相當不錯。

那麼，無品樂器還能做些什麼呢？

You can try maybe a little bit of wah-wah.

你可以試著用一點哇哇的聲音。

That seems to work quite well and give everything a more vocal quality.

這樣做似乎效果很好，讓一切都更有聲有色。

You could maybe try to copy some slide licks without a slide, and the trick there is maybe to pick a chord shape like that to synthesise the effect of having an open tuning and then treat that as your bass.

你也許可以試著在沒有滑音的情況下模仿一些滑音樂段，其中的訣竅也許就是選擇一個類似的和絃音形來合成開放調式的效果，然後將其作為你的低音來處理。

I know some people approach this instrument in terms of trying to get microtones, either trying to play normal western music more in tune than you can with equal temperament, or just to be a little bit crazy and try something different.

我知道有些人演奏這種樂器的目的是為了獲得微音，或者是為了演奏比平均律更合拍的普通西洋音樂，或者只是為了有點瘋狂，嘗試一些不同的東西。

I'm more interested in trying to get it to sound in tune, but then use the fretlessness to accentuate the way I get from one note to another.

我更感興趣的是讓它聽起來合拍，然後利用無音來突出我從一個音到另一個音的演奏方式。

But of course it is great for any bluesy type phrasing where you want to bend the minor third or the minor seventh a bit sharp or the fifth a little bit flat to make it sound more authentic.

當然，它也非常適合任何藍調類型的樂句，您可以將小三度或小七度彎曲得尖一點，或將五度彎曲得平一點，使其聽起來更真實。

So, yeah, just a few little things you might want to experiment with.

所以，是的，只是一些你可能想嘗試的小東西。

So if you ever meet one of these, it's called a surfretta, despite what it says here, Excalibur.

所以，如果你見過這種東西，它叫 surfretta，儘管上面寫著 "神劍"。

You'll know it when you see it because it will have this crazy-looking fingerboard.

當你看到它時就會知道，因為它的指板看起來很瘋狂。

I hope you have fun messing around with it and deciding whether a guitar like this is the one for you.

我希望您能在使用過程中獲得樂趣，並決定這樣一把吉他是否適合您。

I hope to make another video like this in about ten years when I've learned how to play it properly.

我希望大約十年後，當我學會如何正確演奏時，再製作一個這樣的視頻。