all right guys jack here jbf music and guitar lessons and what I’ve got for you
here is another one of these reaction analysis type videos. If you want to see my first time
listening to this amazing guitar player you can check that with the “I” up there,
it's rather beautiful arrangement of my heart will go on. I’ve got bohemian rhapsody finger
style by queen here so I’m really keen to hear what the guy can do with this song so
I’ve got my guitar in hand the idea is I’ll be able to analyze some of the stuff that's
going on kind of break it down and maybe explain a little bit too so let's up to it
nice
so so basically what he's doing is he's taking the essentially kind
of four-part harmony the queen did says each member singing a different
note and he's converting it into a chord so you're getting this nice
rich sound that last thing he did there was really cool use the string as a drone so you can see here
so he's letting that note ring out underneath the chords when he changes them beautiful touch nice
making it more vocal by these little slides he's doing oh nice man
raking through the chords for a bit of variation
nice bit of vibrato harmonics genius
nice
okay as loathed as I am to pause this I want to explain what's going on there he's doing
artificial harmonics; I’ll break this down later in the lesson so I don't disrupt the flow too
much; but he's basically using his finger to get a kind of hidden note up here and it has this really
lovely shimmer to it so it's not just a showing thing he's using a technique which is quite
difficult to do Tommy Emmanuel's version of somewhere over the rainbow uses this to great
effect as well in the intro well I do want to say, just before we get back to a lot of these videos
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that one beyond the fretboard, madness
nice
beautiful crisp tone he’s got- really clear
he did this before using his pinky to get rhythm
so the little finger is imitating the snare drum it's coming on the second and fourth beads
harmonics just make those pop!
using the finger again, for the snare so one two three four where you'd expect that's there to be
nice little bluesy fills & stretchy chords, man
great control and dynamics here
so that I mean he's able to hammer on notes and also pick them make it sound really even
wow
okay we're putting that solo back that was ridiculous he was playing brian may's solo
while still playing the,
the baseline of the chords underneath the song so we knew, uh ah, that is next level stuff, okay
if you watch his thumb that's where he's doing like the root note that's the kind of
chord the music that's going on underneath the solo and then he's just letting rip with his
fantastic bit of finger style picking. Savage!
oh man, his arrangement skills are remarkable
nice, so with the “magnifico” uh, when it happens in the video and you know all the kind of faces
come back the vocals spill into each other so instead of being like oh, oh, oh, oh, they kind of
overlap and he's letting that happen here with the chords he's chosen with the chord voicing right
brilliant
brilliant adding in little harmonies to make the lines pop
i can't wait to see what it does when it rocks out here
it's amazing how it sounds so much like the song
there we go bringing this kind of fake snare back in
brilliant
such a unique way of approaching the guitar not heard arrangements like this before
great steady timing throughout
a tempo shift coming up
nice nice nice
and it's not just like being able to play them as well as is to be able to figure out all the moving
parts and how you're gonna put it together so many challenges involved in this type of playing
amazing, amazing stuff
it's just he's getting so much of the song in
cheeky little artificial harmonic to wrap it up smashed it
okay so like before he's got his capo on the first fret I’m not too sure if this is so he can play in
the same key as the original song or if there's another reason so if you know better than me put
it down in the comments, but basically what this is doing is making this the new open string so
it just bumps everything up one semitone higher and what I want to look at was the our artificial
harmonics he did there so the easiest way to I’ll explain how you get an artificial harmonic
first and then show how you use them a little bit in context so let's just say we take this
this open string here this d what we can do is we can go all the way up an octave so it'd be this
13th fret here this is 12 notes and an octave right so one two three four five
six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve and then the octave would be here. You can hear
the same note so what he's doing rather than just playing the note with his finger you get
that sound he's resting his finger very lightly above the fret wire
you can hear the difference in timbre and difference in total textures so the normal note
compared to the harmonic it's like a softer kind of slightly more mellow it almost sounds a bit
like an oboe or something like that so that's the technique. I’ve probably broken this down before
in more detail so you can get that, listen to that that “i” have there and also if this guitar
stuff is boring you and you just want more kind of reaction stuff so I’ll put a link to the playlist
up there as well but let's take a look at how he uses this series of part that's a bit like
right so break down what he's doing is basically if you know your open chords like an f shape
here okay so we got that on the eighth fret d string so in front of the g and sixth fret of
b so we're just going to play the six and seven on the b move that down a semitone back up so you
have this okay so the way he's playing this is he's thumbing the open a string which is
any sharp because we've got a cap on and he's playing this little chord but at the same time
going down a semitone and then sliding back up right so you get this
bit slower
and what it looks to me like he's doing after this but
he's using his thumb to play this eighth fret here so you bring down your third finger play that
eighth around the d string thumbing the g string just the same fret and he's taking his finger
and putting it over what would be the 20th fret here on the b string just lightly over the fret
wire you take your little fingers simultaneously this is this is just like one part of the song
this is how intricate this type of arrangement is right you put your little finger down on this
eighth fret you hold for your index finger over this fret wire in the 20th fret and you pick it
with your thumb right so instead of holding it down you get this lovely little harmonic okay
so he's doing that over to the d string where we're holding this note down so we're going to
pick the 20th fret here so again finger just above the fret wire picking it with my thumb
and then what we're going to do is lift up the little finger right lift up the fourth finger
so we're now framing the sixth fret here and we're going to move to the 18th fret of the b string
same idea index finger is resting just above the fret wire lightly on the string
you don't push down too hard and you're just going to pluck that with your thumb
right so slowly that little part is
then probably back down to this note here to wrap up that 20th fret on the d string so I’ll put that
all of that together I’ll keep it relatively slow but I won't talk through this time okay
okay
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