Guitarist Shreds Heavy Metal Riffs on a Traditional Sitar

Musician Bernth, who previously poured water into his guitar and used rubber bands to replace the three bottom strings on another guitar, shredded heavy metal licks on a sitar. He found that the traditional instrument worked very well for the genre, particularly when it came to bending strings.

I used the traditional Mizrab finger pick for a lot of parts. …You can bend like crazy on the sitar.

Metal Riffs on Sitar

via The Awesomer

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