all right guys jack here ‘jbf music and guitar lessons’ what I've got for you today
is a reaction and Analysis video to alip bata's cover of Gary Moore's song Still Got The Blues
this is a song I'm familiar with on electric guitar, having played it and taught it before
I'm really interested to see what genius things he does with her so let's hop to it
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that's really cool that's the first time I've seen him make anything remotely close to a
mistake um and he didn't play anything wrong- sometimes as musicians when we're playing
we anticipate Something's gonna go wrong or we weren't totally happy with something so
sometimes it’d better to stop I think it's incredibly cool and incredibly humanizing
that he's left this in the video because he could have just edited that out and started
later and it sounded, it sounded Flawless but for some reason he thought ‘no I'm not
comfortable with this’ and you can see the way he moved to like he readjusted how he
was sitting to get more comfortable and get more in the zone it's just really cool that
even uh a monster player like this guy will have a moment where he goes that's not happening
I'm gonna do a another properly. brilliant
really nice slides with his little finger. Notice
how he’s using his little finger as drum on the guitar
Blues lines for days! [Music] very smooth
slides and fills everywhere [Music] you can really hear, the melody coming through keeping
the chord voices a bit more sparse so they don't overpower it [Music]
a little bluesy bend as well
taking some liberties here and there, because it's a blue song after all
[Music] the pause is so effective isn’t it? That like stab where the song comes back
in [Music] really great with the way the bass line kind of moves up he’s managed to capture
that as well [Music] slides like oh pause it for a second here there's a slight in particular
he did right that. what he's doing there is using the blues note so a ‘flat five’
um it just makes things sound a bit bluesier. sliding into it because it's a note that's
very tense so if you just touch on it a little bit and then come back from it, it can add
this slight bluesy angst without derailing a song and he's managing to work these things
in to the acoustic guitar while still keeping the whole song progressing let's hear that
one more time [Music] really steady timing but also what you call ‘rubato’ which
is taking slight liberties with the timing stretching things out a little bit
like there- pulling back a tiny bit
rushing a tiny bit like he did there
to make the piece more expressive
less metronomic and more human
but still very much in time
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what it really cool here is when he strums the last note he's doing the pinky hit as
well so he's hitting the guitar with his little fingernail while still hitting a string I
don't think I've seen him do that before I've seen him do this like a snare but he's still
picking a note and at the same time it's incredibly cool you can see it here [Music] so he's strumming
and tapping at the same time [Music] very nice very nice [Music] get some of that Gary
Moore bending action in as well
more Blues note stuff going on there
just that little bit there this kind of just sliding from the third fret very quickly semitone
to the fourth back down pulling off to the first fret second fret another G see it much
better than if you go or a slight all the way not bluesy enough but this [Music] that's
it [Music] so it’s almost kind of folky on this part of the song
really, nailing that kind of bluesy quarter tone thing
Upward rake, back to the main theme [Music] tiny little bends to add a bit more inflection
a bit more emotion [Music] making use of a different tuning I think here
I just be dropped d
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I think it's a steel to bend on an acoustic like that! [Music] ah okay I’ll put that
back what um was really lovely here is, is playing more softly now this sounds quite
compressed so everything stays the same level so you don't have to keep moving the volume
control up and down but you can hear a change in timbre; the texture of the note; just a
little bit here [Music]
there I not hitting the strings quite as hard lowering the dynamic to get across the kind
of emotion sorrow that’s in the song [Music] just using this thumb! [Music] oh that's going
back just using this thumb for all that did a sweep Picked arpeggio [Music] they're tapping
as well cool
My nail isn’t long… and even if it was I still couldn’t do that, I’ve got a chance
of doing it with a plectrum, so break that down now
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okay so play that slowly and then I'll break down what's going on [Music] thank you [Music]
so we'll listen to Alip playing it one more time and this is a great example of the ‘rubato’
I was talking about before where he's not playing strictly in time here it's very exaggerated
so some parts he's letting linger and some parts he's going through faster and it just
creates a more emotional experience than if it was all you know just the same speed let’s
listen to
slowing down a bit
what did he end on?
and then ending on an A Minor so an upward rake then strumming down so the notes that
he's playing here we've got a 12th fret on the E 13. 10. 12 onto the B string 13. back
onto the E10 12 on the B 13. 10. So, so far
back into the 10th we're on the E 12 on the B 13. 10, 12, 9;the harmonic minor that note;
then back up to ten incoming up through the strings nine on the G 10 on the D nine down
to seven then sliding from here all the way up to Tenth on a d like the way we came so
nine on the G 10 on the B eight on the hammer on the 12th fret pull off 10 of the b line
on the G 10 on the B string eight on the E hammer on again to that 12th fret and tap
at 17th fret go all the way down and play a nice a minor chord to wrap up the song Those
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