A jet-black grand-concert guitar standing upright against pure black under one hard light, a full mother-of-pearl tree of life running the length of its fingerboard and a pearl bird in flight on its lower bout.

E10 · Creep

Jet black, tree of life

The tree guitar

A grand concert in jet-black gloss carrying a full mother-of-pearl tree of life, and a pearl bird in flight on the lower bout.

The inlay

One inlay, the whole length of the board, for the song that ends the season.

Fret 3the trunk
Fret 5the first branches
Fret 7the branches spreading
Fret 9leaves
Fret 12the crown

A pearl bird flies on the lower bout, off the board.

What the episode teaches

Borrowed chords — the “wrong” chords, on purpose. The season finale.

The instrument

Body: Grand concert
Woods: Jet-black gloss, ebony board
Hardware: Bone nut
Song: Creep · Radiohead, 1992
Key: G
Chords: G B C Cm
Numbers: I III IV iv

Where to watch

This episode is not posted yet. When it is, it goes up on YouTube @NumbersNotTabs

Imagined instruments. Each guitar here is an AI-made photograph of a one-of-a-kind guitar, designed for its song. They are not for sale and they do not exist. Every chord, fret and number in the episodes is computed, never generated — AI makes the mood, code makes the truth.