right guys jack here jbf music and guitar lessons I’m back with one of these analytical reaction
videos to the supremely amazing Ali Bata I’ve got here hide and seek or ding dong finger style cover
so this guy always amazes me and blows my mind, so let's see what he's got in store
loads of harmonics. Lots of artificial harmonics as well, oh wow
sounds like a classical piece?
he's like a one-man orchestra!!
pinky rhythm alright, staple
really beautiful chord progression as well
Superb chord voicing is really nice.
Is this an original piece or if it's a cover please let me know? Or
from a horror film or something like that?
dynamic control; playing hard… softy in places
On another level, it’s amazing.
Lovely theme.
Really strong movement. The notes he’s hammering on from nowhere,
really strong chord progression. I’ll explain what he's doing with his finger a little bit later on
with their artificial harmonics and on top of all the finger picking and hammers from nowhere.
lovely drone of the “A” string there
so much problem-solving going on here
figure out what he wants to play, how to play it and then get it to the standard
so much goes into this! What key he’s in and to make sure you can make use of the open strings.
beautiful
ah the amount of harmonics in that was amazing and I’ll just quickly break down
what I’m talking about with harmonics before we get on to that if you want to check out my other
reaction and analysis videos to this fantastic Alip Bata you can get them with the “I” up there
So I was told he used a lot of harmonics in this song and you guys really didn't exaggerate that!
They're really interesting from a compositional point of view as well which I don't really want
to dive into just now that's something you'd like to see let me know. And also if you could
tell me a little bit about the song if this is an original if it's a cover because it's really
quite beautiful and if it is a cover I’d like to check out the original as well. I’ll give a quick
overview of some harmonics I’m going to break down a tiny, tiny part that he plays here I’ve
talked quite a lot about harmonics before and how to get them so you can get those videos with the
“i” up there essentially rather than holding the fret down properly, you just rest your finger kind
of above the fret wire. There's certain places they happen they- they don't happen on every
fret so somewhere like the sixth fret you don't really get a noise somewhere like fifth the ninth
seventh fret twelfth fourth and there's even three on the third if I can get them.
so very faint but you can hear that. An artificial harmonic is the same idea except you use your
right hand and you rest it lightly above the fret wire so the ones he gets here are on the 12th fret
on the e string so you're just resting your finger above the fret wire picking the string
with your thumb rather than holding it down you just get a slightly different sound the
other note he's going for is here so that would be the 19th fret of the g string and again we're
just resting our first finger above the fret wire taking it with our thumb okay so the notes they're
moving from an e to a d but using these beautiful harmonics and letting them ring into each other
now underneath this he has a chord and to do this we're going to need to down
tune so you want to take your e string turn that down to a d
we'll look at the left hand part first so what you're going to do is hammer-on,
on this eighth fret on the, the now d string this lowest string
your second finger hammering on from nowhere so this hand doesn't pluck the strings you just have
to use strength and technique. I have covered this before as I’ll link to the video up there
we're then going to use our first finger on the seventh fret
And then we're going to use only on the a string there right we're going to go over to the d string
and we're going to hammer on the eighth fret with our third finger there we go and then
you're going to go back to that seventh fret on the a string so you've got this
and this hand isn't doing anything it's all left hand finger strength and technique
at the same time he's applying these artificial harmonics so he's hitting one on this e string
this first one we looked when you do the first hammer so you're going to do these together
hammer on from nowhere simultaneously do that first artificial harmonic hammer on the next note
when you get to this third note here that's when we do this other
harmonics so we do this at the same time as hammering on the d string from nowhere
so we have this first one hammer on with nothing else harmonic with the next hammer on
then the hammer on here by itself so play that slowly without talking
I’m trying to get up to speed if I can
this one little thing is taking me a considerable amount of time to try and get and I’m still
nowhere near getting it there consistently so he is playing this said beautifully haunting chord!
if we look at the notes we have b flat e another b flat I suppose and a d
so really to my ears I’m e half diminished or e minor seven flat five if you prefer but starting
on the fifth starting on that b flat so the reason we get the d note in there is from the
harmonic up here if you remember earlier we said those notes were an e and a d so that's where
the seventh is coming in you check it more early batter stuff for more general reactions there hit
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