Would love to see a remake of this someday.

What do you make of this new evidence nick played a martin D-28 and/or a levin LS-18?

Josh you just amaze me , I have followed you and your friends since you were playing in high school and on your door step at home with your mom and dad .you have come so far. I’m a fan.

Great stuff, Josh.

Brilliant

This genuinely makes me me well up in tears every time I rewatch it. The talent and energy bursting from these two… They went entirely out of their way and put in 300% of the effort required just to fulfill their passions for an instant in front of their peers… and they were given the leeway to do it. That’s what education is all about. They were given room to be themselves within a constructive context. Feels like a scene from a movie I wanna watch. Dead Poets Society type shit.

Are you available for guitar lessons?

Thank you

Thanks

For anyone wondering, this is the guitar tuning (in details) for this piece: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmbcnZ6LpLuNrac

Great performance of a tough song to pull off cleanly. Is that a Martin DM? I have one too!

Sounds wonderful

Wonderful . I loved John Martyn grown up but Nick Drake is the Monet of music

So so interesting! I think you have captured the sound quite well! Amazing

Thank you!!!

Youre really good at this. You got the biggest thing right for sure. Cruddy strings! And dead strings will make a big guitar sound small when recorded.

Damn he's a genuine disciple of Nick Drake🙏🔥

Zoom h2n

just a show off

Very nicely done. I was so impressed when the opening I was positive was Nick Drake, revealed you playing instead. It was more than just the tuning; you got the sound 100%.

There r some images where u can see Nick's nails were long and the hand position was other than u say.

Brilliant,he was way ahead of his time, although he never felt that in his heart I'm guessing. Fantastic music he made.

So, so incredible. Would love to see finger style lessons from you

I sadly can not follow it. It all goes well (kind of) when you are describing the left hand and the picking pattern. But then it all falls aparat since you are doing picking pattern on different string and you are doing "licks" in between that were not described previously.

Rewatching this before catching your Bygones show in SD. Stoked to see you okay live. Love your art and vibe and will be saving up for your acoustic guitar. I've had a really nice Taylor for years but want something legit that's not so anxiety inducing to take places and quasi abuse in that giggin' way. Anyways, cheers! Stoked to buy y'all's vinyl at least 🫶 curious about other merch as well

I think Nick would have been flabbergasted that someone had taken the time to analyze this..., but thanks anyway!

Excellent work putting this together. Thank you very much.

I want to add my voice to the chorus of praise for this video. I mean, it's just absolutely stupendous! Without doubt one of the best I've ever seen on KZbin. Your playing is beautiful, and the tone is eerily perfect. It's like the ghost of Nick Drake is playing through you. Phenomenal.

5:15 This blew my mind. I definitely had my suspicions that he was playing with a more classical hand position. But this along with the nails is a staggering difference. Such a great video man.

He's probably not using the capo, the song was sped up by one semi-tone to A# Minor, and was originally recorded in A Minor.

Thank you

John Martyn played around the same time. Has a 60s mono album out. Check it out sound very similar

If you use a small body mahogany guitar with a sponge under the strings by the bridge and close mic it, you will get pretty close to his tone.

This is just masterful. If I'm correct, there aren't any videos of Nick perfoming. Perhaps Josh you could do a service to the world and cover his three albums. It would be a great body of work for the ages. Given your incredible analysis on this video, there's probably not many others in the world who could do it justice.

I'd kill for a full cover of hazy jane I from you

Nice tone. Well done!

This was fascinating. You play him beautifully, I'm sure he'd be honoured. Incredible.

I love many of your covers this however is you best work. Can listen to this all day. It really is a "job"

Hello! Any chance you can show us how to tune the guitar and play “place to be” by N. Drake?? Thanks!!!

To be honest, I think Nick´s dead strings was not a choice he deliberatly chose, but rather a lack of attention to the fact that strings lose their quality of making sound over time. You on the other hand have the knowledge and emphasis on this fact, and can point out this suttle differece. While he would just go on making his music regardless of string-wear until they broke, or he felt like he should change them because he was afraid they would break. But, when that is said. Your re-impartation of his guitar and songs are amazingly well done. Did he play dead-strings on purpose? We will never know. But I am glad young people like yourself take up the heritage and play them again for a new generation. Nick Drake would probably have wanted you to join his band, it what I am thinking.

Nick never replaced his strings. He used old strings and it gave it a very flat tone. His sister told me the guild guitar that he was on the album holding belonged to Eric Clapton and he played that quite a bit. I believe that's the one that he used because it was a 12-ft guitar.

OK, I realize this video is seven years old ... Do you think Nick had any classical training? The reason i ask is that, given the right hand position, there is a lot of tension in the wrist. There is a reason classical guitarists rest their guitar on the left thigh. Lets us keep the wrist straight and remove that tension. (Also helps with the left hand) Great video. Sorry it took me forever to find it.

You rule dude

Love you guys! ❤

I bought this album when it came out in the height of my Hi-Fi addiction. I had no idea what it was, and bought it for the production choice. (D to D). Fell in love with it. It was lost at some point before I digitized all my records. I thought of it today, and here it was. Thank you for bringing it back to me.

I’ve always thought it could be the paring off a short scale and flat wound strings.

Well, I've got the never-changing-strings part of it down! Thank you, Josh, that was a brilliant demonstration of ND's tone and style.

I read somewhere that Nick played using all five fingers when he used the fingerpicking style, which if true is very unusual. Never seen anybody do that and can't really think how that would work unless he used his thumb for just the two bottom strings.

This is wonderful! Many thanks for putting this together. If I can get anywhere near as good as yourself, I'd be extremely satisfied. Right, much work to do..... I'll be back here again and again! 😃

Why has none of the guitar tab publishers released a Nick Drake guitar tab book.. really annoying.