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@onemanrock 3 күн бұрын
Absolutly nonsens.
@pabloregnier1808 6 күн бұрын
Superb technique, Alan. And a great performance. Thanks. I'm from Argentina, and in certain moments your interpretation sounded to me like tango. Do you notice the same? By the way, we've coose the same magnificent guitar. Greetings.
@AlanThomasGuitar 5 күн бұрын
Thank you! Yes, there definitely seems to be a strong tango element to this tune (reinforced by the Piazzolla-like accordion sound?). I believe that Metheny lived in Brazil for a time in the 80's, and picked up a lot of South American influences. Glad you like the Godin guitar too! Cheers, Alan
@pabloregnier1808 5 күн бұрын
@@AlanThomasGuitar Yes, the sound has his influence, but in some way in your phrasing also does. Between others, Metheny played with an argentinian bass player named Pedro Aznar, from Buenos Aires. Thanks for answering, you really do it great
@octavioespinoza2091 10 күн бұрын
excellent performance. 🎉🎉🎉🎉
@AlanThomasGuitar 9 күн бұрын
Thank you!
@chewoo69 24 күн бұрын
Killin' ... !!!
@AlanThomasGuitar 23 күн бұрын
Thank you!
@johnnyjay669 Ай бұрын
Very nice! Your performance of this is so inspiring I'm aiming to learn this song. May even try doing something similar with the Roland GR-55 synth. Thanks!
@AlanThomasGuitar Ай бұрын
Many thanks! Such a great tune, and would definitely be interesting to bring in some GR-55 sounds.
@bastianhildner 2 ай бұрын
Inspiring❤ thank you
@AlanThomasGuitar 2 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@kisooliveira 2 ай бұрын
Amazing!!!
@AlanThomasGuitar 2 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@oldbladderhorn 2 ай бұрын
didn't Michael do this without a looper aye just had a listen what an amazing piece of harp guitaring but this is just as good like a part two to the original.
@AlanThomasGuitar 2 ай бұрын
Thank you! Yes you are absolutely correct that Michael Hedges did not use a looper! I'm using the looper to partially replicate what he did with his left hand on its own, and have to use both hands to do the bass line that he was able to do with his right hand alone on the bass extension strings of his harp guitar. That was the only way I could figure out how to even approximate on six-string guitar what he did in this wonderful piece!
@GiovanniSalamusic 3 ай бұрын
Bravo
@AlanThomasGuitar 3 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@frankr.6578 3 ай бұрын
Great rendition with beautiful vibe... I am searching sheet music of that piece for guitar (and some other Metheny pieces)
@AlanThomasGuitar 3 ай бұрын
Thank you! It's such a beautiful tune...
@alexhall6375 3 ай бұрын
Bravo, you control that Godin nicely
@AlanThomasGuitar 3 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@AndreReisREPFARMA 3 ай бұрын
Congrats from Rio.
@AlanThomasGuitar 3 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@dani196011 3 ай бұрын
very beautiful...is it yours ?❤
@AlanThomasGuitar 3 ай бұрын
Thank you! Yes I wrote the song after seeing the Barbie movie. It's something different for me, but in fact I'm just now making a big orchestral version of the song for a forthcoming album!
@dani196011 3 ай бұрын
@@AlanThomasGuitar a curiosity...I see that you play the Godin even if you don't use it as a midi guitar...why?
@AlanThomasGuitar 3 ай бұрын
@@dani196011 In the other videos I've made recently I use the Godin with the Boss SY-1000 for its string-splitting and sonic capabilities (not MIDI). For this song though I don't actually know why I used it, because I just ran the guitar output into my computer on its own so it doesn't sound very good! Wish I had used a nice acoustic guitar instead for this!
@dani196011 3 ай бұрын
Great Alan ...if I can , how you create the sound of the accordion ? Thank you very much
@rr2147 3 ай бұрын
Absolutely beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
@AlanThomasGuitar 3 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@arno_ka 3 ай бұрын
I really would like to see how you set it up. Great performance.
@AlanThomasGuitar 3 ай бұрын
Thank you! I've got more videos planned, and want to go more in depth on the actual patch programming...
@marceloloustau7142 3 ай бұрын
Awesome musical performance & guitar sound!! 🙌
@AlanThomasGuitar 3 ай бұрын
Many thanks! More videos coming soon, so please keep an eye out...
@jameslawrencewirth 3 ай бұрын
I would hate to have to read from that score! Not easy listening, but many good sonorities!
@AlanThomasGuitar 3 ай бұрын
Yes, it is a bit different! The idea (as I saw it many years ago when I recorded this) is really to compose your own piece using the written material as a starting point.
@jameslawrencewirth 4 ай бұрын
i know this technique requires a classical guitar approach.
@jameslawrencewirth 4 ай бұрын
SonOfAGun! sweetness!
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@jameslawrencewirth 4 ай бұрын
I've played professionally for 60 years, now I wanna take lessons from you!
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Many thanks James, you're too kind! It's been so nice for me to connect with fellow guitarists through the videos I've been making. More soon I hope (if I can get my act together...).
@jameslawrencewirth 4 ай бұрын
Woah! Good job, and great tune selection!
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Many thanks!
@anonimoanonimo6967 4 ай бұрын
What a beautiful arrangement!! definetely you're master of guitar.
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thank you! It's such a great tune, I never get tired of playing it!
@LeonJohnEdwards 4 ай бұрын
Sweet!
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@johnbanzali3278 4 ай бұрын
❤❤❤
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
🙏
@patpercu 4 ай бұрын
hours and hours and hours of practice ....... Beautiful rendition.
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@awaywithpaul3423 4 ай бұрын
Fantastic performance! Lovely guitar too
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@royswan 4 ай бұрын
Bravo! Great arrangement, beautifully played.
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Many thanks!
@joseph2707 4 ай бұрын
Bravo! I just subscribed. That was beautiful!
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thank you! Another video coming soon!
@MrMjp58 4 ай бұрын
Excellent solo arrangement.
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@massimobruschi4374 4 ай бұрын
Great
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@jabelsjabels 4 ай бұрын
I've listened to some Metheny before but I've never heard this tune. Thanks so much for introducing me to it! Excellent playing!
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thank you, glad you liked it! Metheny is so prolific, it scares me how much music he has produced in his career. "James" is from one of my favourite Metheny albums, Offramp--definitely one to check out!
@billvill61 4 ай бұрын
Aside from the Boss (which is great!) , this is the best cover of James I've heard anywhere. Kudos! Well done.
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thanks so much for this very kind comment--much appreciated!
@ddslahsddslahs6690 4 ай бұрын
wow excellente
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@DrJoeyBean 4 ай бұрын
In the spirit of something constructive, I love your playing you are obviously a pro, I also own a multiac nylon. I find the sound "plasticy" for lack of a better word. I'm switching to a flemenco guitar with a pickup and then running the pickup line through a chain. But not a syth... Would the Boss SY-1000 work for that? Personally I don't think an electric instrument can compete with the beauty of acoustic sounds.
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the thoughtful comment. You've summed up the challenge with the Godin perfectly--it's that plasticy quack, which to be fair, seems to affect all piezo pickups. My goal is to get as close to a nice acoustic sound as possible, but I'm still working on seeing how possible that is. The SY-1000 wouldn't be much use to you with your flamenco guitar, because its capabilities really need the hexaphonic pickup to use the modelling and string separation. My main suggestion would be to use an impulse response, which really does help to remove the piezo quack. Good luck with it all!
@DrJoeyBean 4 ай бұрын
@@AlanThomasGuitar Thank you for responding Alan. I'm inclined to say that a a gizmo could be built to send an acoustic sound into something like the SY-100. The companies that make these products are just not hearing that from players. I tend to think we are going to start going back to acoustic sounds. People will get tired of the artificial sound. In fairness the godin is amazing. What they did with that instrument was new at the time and the build quality is great. I have no complaints about mine.
@scotjonschwestka5107 4 ай бұрын
This is beautiful, Alan
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@selfwitness 4 ай бұрын
Beautiful. Thank you!
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Glad you liked it, thanks! Hopefully more videos coming soon!
@JeeWeeDonkers 4 ай бұрын
Splendid and tasteful!
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Many thanks!
@GamblorLA 4 ай бұрын
Outstanding. Congrats on learning and executing this so well.
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@visog 4 ай бұрын
Joyous... great rendition of a lovely tune.
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@sullenpuffin 4 ай бұрын
This is really lovely work. Perhaps there’s still some tweaks to be made so that the loop doesn’t intrude on the solo section quite as much, but it was a treat nonetheless!
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Many thanks for your kind comment! And I appreciate the suggestion about the loop volume--I'm still working on how to get the looper output to predictably balance when it plays back. Or maybe I just need to have a slight volume boost patch for the solo, which for some reason never occurred to me, so thanks for the idea!
@jackthompson5863 4 ай бұрын
Great video. What model is the Godin you are playing?
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thank you! It's the ACS slim model Godin.
@JeeWeeDonkers 4 ай бұрын
Great playing and well taken advantage of the technology!
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thank you JeeWee! By total coincidence I just yesterday watched your video about using the RC-500 as a substitute for a wood stompbox--I hope you don't mind if I steal this idea for an upcoming video (with full credit to you of course)!
@RubenCordero1962 4 ай бұрын
Very nice
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@GaryTartell 4 ай бұрын
To weird for me not a pat metheny fan.😢
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
if you like the Beatles, maybe try this one....kzbin.info/www/bejne/on7bd36Zqt-Jn6c
@StewartGartland 4 ай бұрын
Lovely. Great feeling and a hard but wonderful toon. Thanks for posting.
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Many thanks, I really appreciate that!
@12nicky34 4 ай бұрын
Hi Alan. I’ve watched a few of your videos now and whilst I’m impressed with your lovely playing, I’m equally impressed with the nylon string sound you are getting. I own a Multiac-sa and I use a Roland gr55 (mainly for recording) do you recommend me changing to a different synth board to get a nicer sound? I really want as natural sound to a classical as I can get (ironically 😂) Thanks.
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Hi there, like you, I have had the seemingly paradoxical goal of getting the "guitar synth" to sound as much like a real nylon-string guitar as possible. There is an initial (and perhaps insurmountable, but I'm still experimenting) problem of getting the feeling of acoustic resonance from the solid-body Godin, and further to this I have found that a nylon-string input just seems more problematic for the Roland systems than a steel-string. My limited experience with the GR-55 was that it wasn't as good for this application as the GP-10 and SY-1000, but maybe someone on here with more experience of the GR-55 can correct me!
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
For what it's worth, I have ended up using the steel-string modelled instrument block for the sound in my videos. For some reason I just can't get the nylon-string model to work convincingly. Hope that helps!
@12nicky34 4 ай бұрын
Thanks for the reply. Yes I also struggle with my Raimundo classical too. I’ve tried using so many different pick-up/mic combinations and pedals. I’m currently using a fishman aura pro installed in it. I used a d-tar multi source that worked well too, but it’s still not right. I think I’ve got to the stage where I’m letting the fear of my sound not being just right dominate my live performances.🫣🤔
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
@@12nicky34 Sounds like you've really been trying everything! That last point though, if I may say so, is the key one (in a negative sense)--for what it's worth, I try to remind myself to not let all of those worries get in the way of making music, because you can just end up paralysed. “Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good” is the quote!
@12nicky34 4 ай бұрын
You are right and I understand that too. It’s just so much nicer when your fingers hit that auto pilot moment and drift away when it all drops into place. I don’t know what I’d do without music. 👍🏻🎸
@alanpickering4497 4 ай бұрын
sublime
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Thank you!
@Mr.S369 4 ай бұрын
Also, are Godin 'Multiacs' not absolutely superb?
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
I certainly agree! I'm still working on how to get a slightly more "acoustic" sound and feel to the solid-body Godin, but I do love the instrument.
@Mr.S369 4 ай бұрын
@@AlanThomasGuitar Keep experimenting with EQ, I don't know what else to do.
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
@@Mr.S369 👍
@fencore 4 ай бұрын
this was amazing, thank you!
@AlanThomasGuitar 4 ай бұрын
Many thanks!