The latest video from Rick Beato once again showcases a wide-ranging and in-depth conversation. In this interview, he sits down with Per Nilsson to talk about founding Scar Symmetry, filling in with Meshuggah, and how he incorporates his vast jazz fusion vocabulary into some of the heaviest improvised music you will hear.

Among many topics, the discussion also touches on intonation and the True Temperament fretting system. Below are two excerpts from the conversation:

Per Nilsson:
I mean, every guitar player who has ears has struggled with intonation at some point.
Like open chords, you tune the guitar and the A and the E and the D sound good and then you play a G or a C. And it feels like a bummer.
So that is one of the things that True Temperament fixes to a great degree.
Yeah. So, and I just fell in love with the True Temperament fretting system, it’s just a problem solver in all kinds of scenarios.

Rick Beato:
So, I have a Strandberg guitar that has the True Temperament frets on it, and I thought, “Oh, this is going to be strange to play”. And then as soon as I played it, it’s like, first of all, it’s perfectly in tune and it’s not weird to play at all. You don’t even think about it.
With the True Temperament frets what are the kind of chord shapes that it really benefits? Is it actual chord voicings that are more in tune? I mean, everything is more in tune, but is there like I find when I play stuff with seconds in them that you really notice the benefits of it?

Per Nilsson:
Yeah. Basic major, minor chords benefit greatly.
Like you said, everything sounds better, but for sure certain things sound even better than others.

Be sure to watch the full interview to experience the complete conversation.
Many thanks to Rick Beato and Per Nilsson.