he's doing the keyboard as well!
all right guys jack here jbf music and guitar lessons I’m back with another reaction analysis
video to the supremely amazing ali bata and once again I want to say a huge thank you to the
overwhelmingly positive response that these videos I’ve done and I’ve got so far it's so amazing just
thank you so much and if you'd like to see any of those videos you can get them with the “i” up
there. I have been trying to add in subtitles to these videos so please let me know how accurate or
how inaccurate they are and I will try to adjust accordingly this is a song I am really quite
familiar with I have the images and words Dream Theater album that I got many, many years ago
John Petrucci is a spectacular guitar player just incredibly
technically demanding and intricate solos and some really memorable lines.
I’m so interested to see how Alip tackles this, what unique flavours and twists and
uh techniques he had- since this one has been requested rather an awful lot I suspect because,
because I’m a guitarist, and you guys have not led me astray so far so
far too much from me let's just get into this one okay.
beautiful suspended cards
just playing it like the original
are we going to get the lead line?
oh there's line harmonic nut band that was amazing
oh chord voicings for days man
keeping the dynamic low
great use of the chord voicings
Allowing the coincidence and dissonance
just weave through the piece.
Yhe keyboard as well I think that's the keyboard part I could be miss remembering
great pre-chorus as well
he's doing some drumming on his guitar again really like that
using that as a kick drum, fill
just all these little trills
make the vocal line pop
make it so much more expressive
getting so much of the song into this is so recognizable
using simple chord shapes so well
and a cool suspended chords for this bridge
i remember rightly the solos kind of coming up again here
that was cool little rhythmic slap as well
sick harmony is brilliant, cool
octaves really making the melody pop having the same note both lower and higher
okay he's going straight for the outro oh okay no this is solo completely mistaken
the octaves again
do the song so much justice
lovely trill to finish it off one of these… Wonderful! What I find really outstanding
is that he takes pieces that have a lot of emotion in them like this part
and while it's difficult enough to try and kind of convey the passion on one instrument just
playing one note at a time he still manages to do it while doing this kind of monster technique
simultaneously but enough of my lead playing nonsense what I’m going to do now is break down
a very small part of the intro he plays here one of the few parts I might actually be able to do
okay so the good news is the very, very start of this isn't quite as brutally difficult as
the rest of it is still challenging it's also in a strange tuning so I’m just going
to run through that first we've got to begin with an e flat the next string is an a flat
the next string will be tuned to an e so it's going up from a d to an e and then a g flat
a b flat then I think the next string is an e flat but I’m not
entirely sure because I haven't come far enough for the song to find out
so he uses this tuning very creatively
break that down and hopefully demystify it just a tiny bit. Rather than
explain every finger movement and every fret you're holding down I’m going to
bring up the tab but basically talk about the chord shapes he's using the
first one I use your first finger on the second fret of the fourth string
now put your fourth finger fifth fret of the third string then we just do the picking pattern
so you're picking five and three together four two and back to that four
fingers I’m using her like this
okay more or less repeat that
back to back
you play this note one more time the third friend the sixth string
and we're on to the next shape first fret sixth string first finger
first fret second string second finger we're gonna pick the sixth and the second strings together
go four three lift up your second finger to get an open string
I think there's a small hammer-on on the fourth string open to two
you're going to thumb the open fourth string simultaneously fretting the second fret
the third string the first fret on the second string
pick then the third string and just slide the upper tone
so that part
to finish up this part you play the third fret on the sixth string
simultaneously play the open third string put that all together slowly
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