Alright guys, Jack here ‘JBF Music And Guitar Lessons’ and what I’ve got for you here
is one of these reaction, analysis videos from the guitar maestro himself; this amazing
player Alip Ba Ta.
So here is cover of him doing Sweet Child O’ Mine, I’ve been really looking forward
to, eh, to hearing this one because it’s been recommended a lot.
So, he’s set the bar pretty high, but I’ve got a feeling he’s going to maintain it,
or just smash it out the way!
Before we crack in to it, I want to say a massive thank you to all, all the support
and lovely comments I’ve got over the last two videos I’ve done on Alip Ba Ta.
Which you can check out with the ‘i’ up there.
You guys have just been so welcoming and nice and friendly, it’s just I appreciate it
so much.
So, I have my guitar in hand to hopefully breakdown some of the stuff that is going
on here, but more than enough from me, lets listen to this guy!
Ok, this is incredibly clever in terms of arrangement.
He’s playing the riff completely differently.
What’s the point?!?!
You’ve got guys like this!
Doesn’t need a bassist!
See, like these are [laughs] this is amazing!
So you’ve got two parts here- you’ve got the guitar and the bass part.
But he’s just doing them both, on one instrument…
at the same time.
Wonderfull.
Oh man, he even did the build up!
He’s using his thumb to get a percussive sound!
So, ohhh, beautiful!
So, we’ve seen him do this pinky thing before, where he kind of hits the guitar body with
his little finger.
Here he’s using his nail on the string, to get a percussive snare sound that kind
of sound.
There!
He’s switched to the vocal line, beautiful.
His arrangement skills are just… amazing.
Lovely little bends and little legato lines to make it sound so vocal.
Chorus time, oh wonderful!
Has he put a harmony in???
He has!
This is insane!
He’s manged to capture, emmm, the sentiment of the song as well in his arrangement.
Sounds very heartfelt.
He’s doing the solo, with the rhythm!
He’s got the solo, he’s doing the bass line and he got the drums… on one guitar.
There is so much There is so much going on mechanically here,
it’s mind bogolling And we’re about to get up to a solo I’m
assuming.
Yeah these little slides he puts in are lovely, little bends for a more vocal quality.
Playing a little harmonic there
Ohhh!
Wonderful.
So he’s playing the chord on the first beat, keeping the bass line in, putting the melody
over the top as well.
Still keeping his little snare drum in.
And a little bit of Falmeno to finish it up!
Nice job.
Yes!!
Ohhh, pfffft So…Yeah, he just, wow.
He just keeps delivering.
Little tricks in all of them.
That one was just…
So, [laughs] at this point I usually break stuff down on guitar, but at this point I
[laughs] really don’t know if there’s anything I can actually pick out or play there!
Ok, so the first thing I would suggest doing is we are in a really interesting tuning,
it’s sort of standard but with a few variations.
So you’ve still got an ‘E’ here an ‘A’ for the next string.
This next one, has been dropped down a tone to a ‘C’.
Right?
So this would normally be this note (D), but we’re ‘C’.
The ‘G’ string- keep that the same.
The ‘B’ you want to keep the same and this high ‘E’ you drop that down a tone
to ‘D’ as well.
So, from the bottom to top; E, A, C, G, B and then a D. So once more, we’ve got an;
E, A, C, G, B and D. Then what you do is you take your capo and put that on the 3rd fret,
when you do this a guitar sometimes goes out of tune.
So I’m just going to take a wee minute here and tune back up.
So I’m going to attempt the play the start here and then explain what is going on.
Ok!
And if you enjoy seeing me struggling trying to work out how he does this stuff, then subscribe
and enable notifications to keep up to date with the channel.
I cannot get this up to speed, but I have worked out what he’s doing.
So I’ll break it down and hopefully you guys will have better luck, than, than I have
with it!
So what we’re going to do is we’re going to hammer on from nowhere, so you just take
you finger and hit it against the fretboard on the 5th on the D string, right?
Then we’re going to go up to the 6th fret on the B, hit that.
Again, this hand is not doing anything.
And then you’re going to hammer from nowhere one more time on the G string’s 5th fret.
Then we’re going to pull off to the open string.
So you have.
Then we’re going to hammer on to this note here, this 8th fret on the E, back down to
that 5th fret on the G. Up to the 7th fret on the E, back down to this one here.
So that together you have.
And you repeat.
Next time we just change one note- the very first note.
So rather than playing here, we’re gonna play this here, this 7th fret on the D string.
But the rest stays the same, so you have this.
Repeat.
Then he does something very clever here, was he does is pull off to the string.
Because this is the 3rd time round, so the first note changes again.
So you’re just pulling off to this, this note here the G string- it’s that 3rd fret
we’re pulling off to.
And it’s just the same other than that.
So you have the pull off, then hammering on like we did before.
Then repeat.
And then the final time round we go back to that first version.
As, as you can see I’m struggling and that’s just the first part of the song, that’s
probably the easiest part and this guy is just, goes off from there and just does more
wonderful weird, miraculous things!
But I’ll play through this slowly, eh, and hopefully I’ve explained it well enough
that if you really like this technique this will give you at least a foot in the door-
a starting guide of how to play.
So let’s go.
Hit subscribe if you want to keep up to date with the channel, or you can check out these
two other Alip Ba Ta reaction & analysis videos, but take it easy guys and have a good one!