Bon Iver - Speyside (acoustic guitar cover)

[@JoZeeland]

*Tutorial with on-screen tabs* kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZWUdmqGhc95mdk

[@joshchapman4753]

I haven’t touched my guitar in a year because I got really depressed. This song makes me want to pick it up again and learn this.

[@JoZeeland]

@@joshchapman4753 Hey thanks so much. That means a lot! I really hope you'll feel better soon. From my personal experience, music/art is a really good outlet for bad states of mind like depression. I guess this is why this song appeals to so many people, since it seems to be a direct result of depression/very negative emotions, turned into music. Accordingly, I wish you all the best - and hopefully a lot of fun with this tune 🙂 Take care Jo

[@NoName-rm6ly]

Got through it. Sometimes I think that way: we learn from life so slowly. To the contrary, sometimes i think that life is too much. In any way music and art help me to escape from that aimless loops of rumination. God bless you, hope we all learn our mindfulness lessons.

[@AntonKerr-nb9ci]

Guy with feelings...shut the fuck up and grow a pair 🍒

[@JoZeeland]

Hey folks! Did this one super spontaneously - I checked the song out in the early afternoon and the video was done 4 hours later, essentially :D I'm actually a huge Bon Iver fan and have covered multiple of their songs way back when on my channel: Skinny Love, Wolves and Creeks, respectively - the former two being among my earliest videos ever. Anyways, since this was made purely from a rush of blood to the head (...get it? ;D;D lol), I don't have the tabs yet *BUT* depending on how things go and how many requests I get, I can *absolutely* make a version with on-screen tabs; Just let me know, will ya? :) Many more vids coming your way very soon! Thank you so much for your continued support and take care 🙂 Jo

[@dumbestboiinschool7641]

yes, PLEASE make a tab-version, would love it! i mean i am absolutely willing to pause, rewind and slow down this video a hundred times to get what you're playing but a tabbed version would make it a lot easier :D

[@JoZeeland]

@@dumbestboiinschool7641 :D Duly noted! Would love to make a follow-up vid to this 😊 Thank you and have a great day - Jo

[@czarandreow]

Yes please! I also love and cherish BI, always have been. This song hits hard and it would mean a lot if I could play it!

[@JoZeeland]

@@czarandreow Yes it does :) I'll see what I can do this upcoming week, but should be no problem! Stay tuned and take care - Jo

[@dominikklaus4605]

@@JoZeeland Sounds great! And same here, would be awesome to have the tabs and the tuning. Greetings from Germany :-)

[@frankiegumdrops8532]

I’ve never been good at finding exact chords by ear, but this song is so straightforward I came pretty close just noodling around last night. Then this came up on my feed and completed it for me. Thanks, man. Sounds great.

[@JoZeeland]

Hey thank you so much! So good to hear this was helpful to you :) Yeah, I feel you. The basic, underlying harmony is super straight-forward, but there are some nice little details in the specific guitar arrangement that can be a little tricky. Either way, really fun to play, a wonderful song all around! Cheers and take care - Jo

[@wilfredjrplacencia105]

3 AM, at my darkest. Yet somehow, something beautiful such as this makes you think to maybe add one more day. Thank you and wish you all the best

[@JoZeeland]

Hey thanks so much! And please be safe, man. Things will look up, eventually. I'm sure of it! Take care - Jo

[@insideout97]

Amazes me how you can perfectly nail this song when it just came out... So much talent! Nice video! The strings in this song are so beautiful you don't even need to hear the lyrics, but the lyrics are so rich as well.

[@JoZeeland]

Hey thank you so much :) Appreciate your kind words! And yes, agreed... the guitar by itself is already quite expressive. And then the lyrics add another layer to that. Take care and have a good one - Jo

[@Tigs108]

Perfect cover, again it makes me want to pick my guitar up after so many years! ❤

[@JoZeeland]

Nice! Happy to hear that - go for it :) It's a fun song to play on acoustic guitar for sure! Take care and have fun playing - Jo

[@iPrometheusQ]

Hahaha incredible! I was searching not expecting to find anything. Thanks for the upload!

[@JoZeeland]

@@iPrometheusQ Haha nice :) Any time! I enjoyed working on this one 😁 Take care and have a good one - Jo

[@el_chibrolata]

Bro , this is insane. 100% accurate❤❤❤

[@JoZeeland]

Thank you so much :)

[@micbernard7140]

Hello Jo, c’est une belle découverte pour moi. Je ne connaissais pas ce groupe. C’est très beau et très mélodieux. Par curiosité je suis allé écouter l’original, une fois de plus je suis impressionné par la qualité de ta reprise. Je suis très sensible à la fidélité en matière de reprise. Comme toujours tu as fait un remarquable boulot. Ton tuto est également de très haut niveau. Bravo encore 👏👏👏

[@JoZeeland]

@@micbernard7140 Merci tellement, Michel :) J'apprécie ton support hors des vidéos Coldplay aussi! Vraiment! Je te souhaite une bonne soirée et à la prochaine fois - Jo 😊

[@SamSchlehuber]

Dang you’re quick! Amazing as always!

[@JoZeeland]

Thank you!! Yeah, luckily I had some time on my hands today and got it done in one quick session :) Have a good one and take care - Jo

[@melissadistante]

Wowwww I hope to learn this one day 🙏 thanks for the inspo

[@JoZeeland]

Hey any time :) Thanks for checking this out! Cheers - Jo

[@AnthonyMariucci]

Insane work!!

[@JoZeeland]

Thank you :)

[@harrys-cane]

What a great job! Beautiful. Thank you 🙏

[@JoZeeland]

Thank you so much! Appreciate you tuning in :) Cheers Jo

[@unpoto3153]

Thank you for this and the tutorial, you rock man.

[@JoZeeland]

@@unpoto3153 Hey thanks so much! It was my pleasure :) Take care and all the best to you - Jo

[@debajyotisg]

Absolute perfection!

[@JoZeeland]

@@debajyotisg Thank you so much 😊

[@curtisphillips3219]

man, I've been trying to do this all week. great job, sounds awesome.

[@JoZeeland]

Hey thank you so much! Have fun with the song and take care :) Jo

[@ybnrml121]

Perfect from start to finish. I have one more week in a cast for a broken wrist, and I will be coming back to strum along with you.

[@JoZeeland]

@@ybnrml121 Hey thanks so much :) Appreciate it! Good luck on the rest of your recovery and have fun with the song 😊 Cheers Jo

[@brendamadeiro9607]

Perfeito ❤

[@JoZeeland]

Muito obrigado :)

[@buttonedsleeves]

Thank you! Sounds amazing. Cannot wait to learn this too.

[@JoZeeland]

Thanks so much :) Tab video coming tomorrow, day after tomorrow at the latest!

[@fOx02400]

So well done. Cheers!!

[@JoZeeland]

Thanks so much :) Have a good one - Jo

[@frontroom]

great cover!

[@JoZeeland]

@@frontroom Hey thanks so much! Appreciate it :) Have a great day and take care - Jo

[@justins9968]

right on man - well done

[@JoZeeland]

Thank you :)

[@Randymarsh2069]

I would LOVE tabs for this. Incredible job

[@JoZeeland]

Thanks so much :) Working on them!

[@flangelouder]

Excellent work

[@JoZeeland]

Thank you so much :)

[@botasorin-andrei3398]

waiting for those tabs, awesome job!

[@JoZeeland]

Thank you! Video just dropped :D

[@javieraaronzarateflores1254]

capo

[@JoZeeland]

@@javieraaronzarateflores1254 Muchas gracias :) Saludos desde Alemania!

[@monamalek9344]

Sehr sehr schön Liebling🥰❤️

[@JoZeeland]

@@monamalek9344 Ich danke dir ❤️😘😘

[@ElijahMabanaMusic]

Great job

[@JoZeeland]

Thank you 🙂

[@juniusmaltby2162]

Perfetta 👏👏👏

[@DaytonTurnerVoxter]

It almost sounds as though you double tracked it with two different takes - but I can see you're doing DI and a mic capture, so the amazing spacious effect you're getting must be through blending these + some plugin chain. Would you mind sharing how you achieved that? It sounds fantastic.

[@JoZeeland]

Hey thank you so much :) Yup, that's pretty much it already. Just two different mics recording the same guitar (condenser mic + DI), then I set the signals to about 50% pan L and R, iirc, and just used some standard audio processing tools. I think the "doubling" effect comes from me attempting to play as precisely as possible over the notes of the backing track, ie the actual song running in the background. If I had actually doubled the guitar for this one, it would have sounded way too messy, since it was difficult enough as it is to play over the original :D as it's not set to a click track. Hope that has cleared things up! Let me know, will ya? :) Take care - Jo

[@JoeyRackovan]

I’m working on a version in open C low with a capo on 7, but the cowboy chords sound really good, too.

[@JoZeeland]

Thank you! Your tuning sounds interesting as well - and more than fitting for a Bon Iver song for sure :) Good luck with it and have fun! Cheers Jo

[@JoeyRackovan]

@@JoZeeland I want to say he did Re: Stacks in something very similar (more likely open D, based on where I initially learned it). Open C low is just open D with everything dropped a full step. I was learning some Phoebe Bridgers songs, and I started using it because it’s got some very riff-y potential for what I like to write.

[@corruptedndg]

great cover jo!

[@JoZeeland]

Hey thank you! Appreciate it :)

[@brandyarney1170]

Hello, new subscriber here. Great video,audio. Would you please tell me exactly which martin you have there? The rosette threw me off

[@JoZeeland]

@@brandyarney1170 Hey thanks so much! Appreciate your support of my channel :) That's a Martin 0x1e. Unfortunately, it's no longer in production. Really don't know why, it's an amazing guitar for a pretty affordable price! Hope this info helps :) Take care - Jo

[@red_dune898]

Technical question, why do you have two chords plugged into your focusrite? Is that for the mic and another one for the guitar? Just curious because I'm getting into recording guitar as well

[@JoZeeland]

Yup! Two different "mics" recording the guitar: 1) direct input = pick-up system inside the guitar and 2) the condenser mic that you see in the bottom-right corner of the screen. You can then pan the two signals slightly left and right in your DAW to create more of a full surround sound, since the mics record the same thing, but still sound quite different and complement each other nicely :)

[@OliverBergMusic]

Hey great cover! Just wondering, are you using a pick as well as finger picking, or just finger picking?

[@JoZeeland]

Hey thank you so much :) And it's just fingers! I used the line-in signal from the guitar pick-up system in addition to the condenser mic for recording. That gives it this super bright, direct sound, which you'd usually get from playing with a pick. Plus, heavy use of fingernails for the strummed parts :D I'll try to explain it in the tutorial later this week!

[@DomTheHammerMan]

How confident are you at the 1:37 part? Can’t quite hear how he does it in the song

[@JoZeeland]

Yeah, I do think it's pretty close to what's happening in the recording! The "chord" should definitely be correct; what the strumming hand does could be a little different, but since the song, or rather the repeating riff, has so many tiny variations, I think that this is close enough, I guess :D Cheers and take care jo

[@flynndcruz9983]

Sounds great! Tabs or tutorial for that intro would be really helpful.

[@JoZeeland]

Thank you - and working on it! Check back soon 🙂 Take care and all the best Jo

[@cesarmoralesrentero2151]

Top!

[@JoZeeland]

Thank you :)

[@cassiuswest]

Brilliant! What mic are you using?

[@JoZeeland]

Hey thanks so much :) The condenser mic I use is an AKG P 220. However, for this recording, I did also use the line-in signal from the guitar pick-up system to emulate that super bright, close sound from the original. Hope that helps :) Cheers and take care! Jo

[@cassiuswest]

@@JoZeeland thanks man!

[@victorpovedano5664]

Bro what’s that guitar model? Stunning sound

[@JoZeeland]

Thank you so much :) Yeah, I love this guitar. It's a Martin 0-X1E - great sound, amazing pick-up system and such a cool look at a still somewhat affordable price. Unfortunately, it's been discontinued by Martin :/ Such a shame.

[@kitgrier7031]

I'm just jealous of your guitar. How much did that thing cost?

[@JoZeeland]

Hey thanks :D Really happy with the guitar as well. It's a Martin 0-X1E and it cost about 700 bucks at the time I got it (about a year ago). However, I just checked and it appears it's now "retired" according to the official website and I can't find it in any of the big music shops either. That's a real shame if you ask me :/ Wasn't too pricy imo relative to how good of a guitar it is...

[@10emac27]

Tabs please! this is amazing!

[@JoZeeland]

Thanks so much :) And yes, tab version is coming later this week!

[@sarkirdo980]

are you hidding the pick ;O?

[@JoZeeland]

Nope! Didn't play this with a pick, fingers only! I used the guitar's pick-up system in addition to the condenser mic to record the guitar. That usually gives it a super direct, bright sound, similar to playing with a pick :)

[@duz4]

woooo tabs pls :)

[@JoZeeland]

Yupp working on them! Video with tabs should come out tomorrow night, day after tomorrow at the latest :)

[@brycedozois3826]

maybe a tutorial for the fans? 😬

[@JoZeeland]

Coming out tonight, tomorrow night at the latest :)

[@brycedozois3826]

you’re the best