Adam Rafferty - Michael Jackson - Thriller - Solo Acoustic Fingerstyle Guitar

Enjoy! Here's Michael Jackson's mega hit THRILLER. It's very groovy
and if you poke around here on KZbin you can find him singing a
"demo" version called "Starlight"...that was the first incarnation of the song.

By the way, this video in no way indicates that I believe in the occult :-)
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[@aubrey4220]

legendary Adam

[@MrGalagomusic]

Partagez cette vidéo ! (et vous pouvez également commenter cette fin...étrange ;-))

[@anthonymajeres]

Super !!! Quel groove !

[@lefortfabien29]

J'adore, il y du groove, c'est très aérien, au top!

[@negrinator0071]

Marvelous, awesome, great guitar player.

[@minhquannguyen1930]

Master piece

[@CHICAOSBAND]

WuauuHHH....,Adam !!! Spectacular, Fantastic !!!! Gteat final cut...!!! An embrace...

[@CraigRelyea]

Can't help but do the head-bob while listening -- groove-tastic! Middle with harmonics, waterfall notes and open-sounding chords is great... opening and ending are both classic, really love the beat-box as well. Thanks as always Adam!

[@StudioHough]

What absolutely wonderful playing. Cheers Ian

[@darrian80]

Adam you're my hero

[@rhye999]

He keeps getting better

[@PanigaleV2]

That is incredibly good! One of your best arrangements you've uploaded, crazy inspiration for fingerpicking, thank you.

[@sambobl97]

Just wanted to let you know that you are awesome. My dad saw you live and showed my the Billie jean vid. 17 years old and i appreciate your true musiciainship. Just Awesome

[@kennybrown6801]

Your guitar work is mind blowing Adam.

[@elkevormfenne9240]

Great Artist🎼🎸🎼Super Music.Thank you Adam Rafferty

[@adamrafferty]

Elke Vormfenne thank you!!!

[@purplegenome]

great performance as always

[@gtrrobster]

Hilarious intro faces! How very Vincent. Lovely chord arpegios during the intro too. nice RH rolling there, Vincent. The whe whole arr. sounds awesome...very light yet very tight.

[@adamrafferty]

@livinlife245 Actually whenever I hear the originals, I get re-inspired....there's always so much I miss in the arrangements compared to the original....thank you!

[@Annaic1]

Another HIT!! Just incredible and you just have so much FUN with play these tunes. I enjoyed very much!!! BRAVO!!

[@musclehustle4566]

WTF!!!!! Outstanding feel and groove!!!!

[@adamrafferty]

Thank you!

[@bentheled]

Brilliant usual,never fail to amaze!!!

[@JimmyQuango]

I simply love it Adam :-) It's the most amazing cover i ever seen! Greetz, Jimmy

[@djbigbillofficial]

PERFECT WORK !!!!!!

[@AzBboy]

lmao me and my gf loved it, not only audio pleasing but wildly entertaining!

[@Neosh88]

I'm a super fan of Mj myself and it's always exciting to see what you do with all the songs, in your own unique way!! I thought many of his songs would be impossible to do on the guitar but you prooved me wrong :D You have this amazing ear that captures the detailes... Continue to be great Adam

[@adamrafferty]

@KalifUmestoKalifa Acoustic only - just teh 2 mics. But I have been working a lot on teh tone produced by my fingers. Recorded into a ZOOM H$ - mixed in Garage Band. Thank You!!!

[@loudandfastisbest]

Really good work, must have watched it a dozen times. And forwarded it to other musicians

[@philrafferty]

Great rendition! Evil laughter was fantastic. Love to see the beatbox in action.

[@JNemRar]

always amazing!! HUGE thumbs up!

[@JFAcoustic]

Awesome job! I liked the last bit of the video - it was hilarious. Watching videos of more experienced players is an incentive for me to keep practicing.

[@ScottTsai]

awesome, just awesome!

[@adamrafferty]

@RileyAcoustic Thank You! Yes - standard tuning!

[@davegillplaysguitar]

Another amazing Rafferty rant. In addition to the usual great playing, the scratchy intro and spooky outro had me cracking up. There are definitely demons in dat guitar of yours...

[@pointbreak333]

Lovely!

[@adamrafferty]

Thanks & groove on! 😊

[@doggedif]

so nice playing, this is among my favorists now!

[@Guitarman504]

The intro was great the middle was amazing and the ending was hilarious. Great cover....again!

[@adamrafferty]

@wintersnowman Black & White and The Way You Make me Feel are up on my channel now, enjoy!

[@jorggomes2]

Great ... you are the best... gretings from portugal.

[@cliffordmiller4398]

Hey Adam. Watching the clones. We all know were the original came from~:-)

[@adamrafferty]

@dunco278 Thanks for asking. I would love to, but the publishers have blocked the project! Really a pity. In any case - there will be a Stevie Wonder Vol II DVD coming in 2012 with: Isn't She Lovely, Higher Ground, You Are the Sunshine of my Life, and Cherie Amour. All the best!

[@stefan64sch]

Hello , really groovy and cool version of this great song! And a nice surprise at the end! FANTASTIC! Keep on groovin', Stefan

[@Ericejazz]

As usual Adam. You killed it! Wonderful! --Eric E.

[@adamrafferty]

@Annaic1 Aw, shucks - thank you. I have a whole MJ playlist on my channel....enjoy.

[@cantsleepboavista]

Ah Adam! Please please release a DVD with how to play this on it!!! This is nothing short of amazing.

[@bathory1234567890]

I looooove your music!!! Please never quit playing guitar!!!

[@sungminleeguitars]

Oh my goodness! I have to play this too! Haha! Great Job Adam! :D

[@juanpanchoec]

'Awesomest' intro of ALL time!!! And of course, the whole thing is just great, I'm green with envy at how good you play Adam :'-(

[@MrStuClark]

As Awesome As Ever, Looking forward to doing some gigs together again here in the UK April 2011.

[@adamrafferty]

@trevorm1 Silly disclaimer? Please explain - I am sorry if it put you off. I'd like to avoid putting anyone off, my apologies!

[@Rafaeloupacheco]

Fantastic!!!

[@TommyBea]

Awesome Adam!!! I laughed and cried and wowed and.... WOW.... You're amazing!

[@SimplyLuo]

You had me smiling for a straight 5:40. I don't think that's ever happened before haha awesome work!! Jon

[@bluezman4]

Good work my man! I'm still trying to play along with my old Marcel Marceau records and you're pulling off stuff like that. Love your percussive technique and use of harmonics. Beautiful and fun!

[@DareneXx]

Brilliant!

[@WillLiang]

@crescentridge I've seen those. You're incredible, wish I could play like you. How long have you been playing and how many hours did you put in a day when you started?

[@JFAcoustic]

Awesome job! I liked the last bit of the video - it was hilarious. Watching videos of more experienced players is an incentive for me to keep practicing. What kind of guitar is that by the way?

[@jchristiant]

wow, you played with feeling, i wish i could play your arrangement like that

[@NatashaSV]

Amazing ~!

[@adamrafferty]

Thank you so much 😊

[@smondello]

So cool!

[@Tsutsomu]

Great job. THanks a lot for your music. STeph.

[@jhanisims466]

He was feelin himself. Great cover man!

[@rarch1968]

Awesome, I just subscribed...very inspirational playing.

[@mrimmortalis]

It's amazing, again. But it's no surprise, this is what we expect from you.

[@MrElectricwave]

AWESOME!!!

[@ChristofferBrandsborg]

You are an amazing guitarist Adam! The intro is amazing xD It actually scared me for a moment...I had the volume on FULL... Great job:)

[@draivenn7]

GENIUS!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@godinlowden]

this guy is great !

[@adamrafferty]

@JFAcoustic Thanks! MATON guitar...now get to practicing! I am....

[@buggld]

The beginning was ingenious!!!

[@cje5055]

I love playing this style, but can never find people who do it like this. I'll definitely being be trying learn this one.

[@makanig]

better than the original! Great job Adam.

[@livinlife245]

just incredible!!!! i hope you didnt spoil yourself though, you must have listened to the song a thousand times while arranging it, hope you can still stand to hear it ;)

[@adamrafferty]

@Neosh88 Thanks! Everytime I start a song it seems impossible....it takes a while to get a concept for an arrangement!!! Thank You!

[@miqiee]

Fantastic, if I wasn't watching, I'd say there were two guitars playing. Mucho talent!

[@calebclunie4001]

Beat Boxing, too. Fantastic!

[@adamrafferty]

aw, thanks!

[@geomango20]

another stunning arrangement adam! well done :)

[@Ericejazz]

As usual Adam. You killed it! Wonderful! Love the ending too. --Eric E.

[@RAQUEL2942]

Amazing song!! i love it!!

[@adamrafferty]

@TheSeungChanBeag What part made you cry? :-)

[@SIfaz]

thanks for making my day :)

[@adamrafferty]

@JayFresh93x Very big ones, made by Sennheiser...

[@IdoCareForPeople]

Amazing Adam....

[@JimmerSD]

Groovy!

[@jodyjohnson5980]

Awesome music. My 3 year old daughter loves dancing to your music. Thanks!!!! She also thought it was me on there.( Same hair cut)lol

[@adamrafferty]

Thanks Jody!

[@euro2795]

hahahahahah!wow! it's awesome!! it is the only one thing today that made me smile!very very cool arrangement! and absolutely love your perfect and funny performing!! Thank you Adam!

[@goldensleeves]

Thank you so much for sharing your music with the world. Ordering some of your dvd's off your website. I have a question...when you play the bass riff from 0:54 to 1:01 and you play the "G" note with your fingers, do you play that G note from the open G string or do you play that G note on the 5th fret of the D string???

[@rafybass11]

Wow! this one was totally unexpected thanks! BTW you doing any shows in NYC?

[@gallito1010]

One of the best expressions in a video hahahah !!

[@VLombardi01]

Amazing! Cool arrangement.

[@adamrafferty]

@abotoft I nkow Gareth personally and he is an AWESOME player and all around cool dude.

[@dunco278]

Hey adam, I was just wondering, are you planning on making a michael jackson instructional dvd? are you trying to get rights to publish michael jackson tabs? or have you given up on that? I own both your jackson 5 and stevie wonder dvd, which are great. Would love to add a few MJ songs to my repertoire

[@wushuCross]

Superb sir. Loved it :D

[@KalifUmestoKalifa]

Is this just acoustic guitar or is it amplified? If not, you have a wicked good recording device. BTW, Excellent job, with arrangement and playing, as usual and thanks for sharing with us.

[@MrTherstalker]

you're great man

[@Nevyle]

@crescentridge Stefano Mirando does (kinda) that I think. I personally like to utilize the (nice low) open bass strings (with capo maybe) something like 3 0 3 0 0 *slap* ( G A C D A ) for the base line. Makes the melody end up in G Am C etc chords. Trying to tab my own arrangment now, inspired by you and pearson. But for me the left hand just didnt go along, so I took to the open strings, haha :)

[@adamrafferty]

@dopemcee Sign up - you get a link for Vitamin E...then in subsquent mailings I send links. I may revise this to make it easier sorry! Adam

[@AmauryRichard13]

Super vidéo !

[@lorihompoth]

Very nice!

[@Cire_Eric]

Very cool!!

[@mikereynolds3294]

Grammy winner right there !!

[@E4Shamurai]

OMFG! Another amazing job! I miss the old "star" rating system... You get 5+ stars anyways. Not for nothing, but your videos sometimes make me want to quit the guitar, and other times, they make me woodshed like a maniac, lol. And WTF is wrong with the 5 people that missed the "LIKE" button? Stop doing drugs children...

[@adamrafferty]

@wintersnowman I am planning on both of those - stay tuned!