FPE-TV AJ Minette Human Abstract Guitar Lesson

[@joshjardim]

i miss this guy.. his talent and attitude towards music cant be matched by many. damn it i need to hear his new compositions!

[@SebastianMartinez-mx4gw]

He’s currently my professor right now!

[@joshjardim]

Amazing!

[@snop6176]

@@SebastianMartinez-mx4gw DUDE really? That is amazing. Where at? I miss these guys so much it's unreal. Been marathoning digital veil and trying to learn faust lol

[@SebastianMartinez-mx4gw]

@@snop6176 He’s my professor at LMU, my song writing and producing professor, guy can play the damn guitar! Crazy talented

[@TheZeroviral]

I play stuff from Dream Theater or Polyphia or chon these days (not all songs lol but many) and this man single handedly got me into mathcore and other rock in HS in 2004. Since then I’ve evolved. Thanks AJ!

[@Eddi_Music]

Nice video, I can't wait to try this. I wish AJ the best of luck. He gives lessons at his house.

[@nategrady]

He uses the red jazzIII picks or the Black dunlop tortex 1.14mm small same shape harder picks. He is my favorite guitarist, the reason why I can play anything other than blues pentatonics, thanks buddy =)

[@shijiro]

Nice video again by FPE~

[@DustiestDog]

TELL HIM I LOVE HIM

[@mellodello4900]

This is my dude.

[@TheBlackDahlia815]

he looks like a really really chill dude

[@Jowellzzz]

Thanks. I'mma get practising.

[@Javeness]

Thank god he's back.

[@ExistUNDRGROUND]

@Budgetgravy Dean Herrera said that the band isn't officially broken up. The bassist said they were breaking up without consulting the band first, but there is a chance of them reforming.

[@juanoftheabyss]

i want to know what he did with the 7th arpeggio D:< sounds so awesome.

[@pyro9299]

he is officially back to the human abstract

[@smiff0009]

no idea, I just remember seeing that on their myspace. Also, the first time I saw them live I think I saw a marshall head, but I'm not sure.

[@juanoftheabyss]

@LukeBodom Where haven't you heard it?

[@thtdudewiththehair]

does anyone know where i can see a tab for the part starting at 0:18?

[@danielhimebauch]

i dont understand, hes not muting the strings at all, but he plays with a lead tone all the time and it sounds clean. does he change his style on leads?

[@TuGinecologo]

I was thinking the same

[@Jowellzzz]

Oh okk, I'll look try find a GP tab so I can learn it, because not only is it a good warm up, it's sounds nice as well. Cheers mate. Have a great Christmas btw. :D

[@TheMediocreJack]

Well that's what I thought too. I was just confused, because he was showing the same normal patterns, but alternate picking instead.

[@graysonshred]

Much like Tosin Abasi he has picked up on the warm up exercises of John Petrucci. Nothing wrong with that at all ;)

[@duckattak]

this was one of my favorite guitarist and im a drummer haha. anyone know what happened to him since he left human abstract?

[@Voz34]

I’ve been told he teaches at the juliard

[@marrag1]

i had no idea you could do that with scale and iv been playing it with down strokes lol guess i learned something new today

[@smiff0009]

Thanks man, I'm gonna do a cover of movement from discord soon. I'll let you know.

[@Ibanezkid84]

It is one of John Petrucci's sig. guitars Ernie Ball Music Man

[@kingsnake241]

he came back to the band in april if you guys dont know.

[@ryansmyly658]

for all the people who are wondering if AJ left The Human Abstract. well he did. he said that he didn't think he could get on stage and play metal any longer, so he left and is going to a music school to learn more about classical guitar. who knows he might end up coming back, but i doubt it. thanx, Inferno117

[@Jowellzzz]

Does anyone know what the scale for 3 note picking is? It's quite nice.

[@JoeLerum]

hes so good he makes me wanna cry lol

[@wrokjon]

@dtma24 well accually ive heard and seen people that can alt. pick arpeggios and they do it damn well. just sayin, but youre right about sweeping being much easier and fluid

[@rawvibing]

@HTHAR1 YEAH RIGHT wait till you hear the next disc in january. NASTYYYY

[@Eisengrind]

aj come back to THA please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@LukeBodom]

@killath303 whered you hear that?

[@HeroFloyd]

I just wish they could have both AJ's music skills and nathon's vocals. like one big happy family again.

[@HappyRedDemonSkater]

Dude my tube screamer makes my amp what it is. I love my pedal.

[@smiff0009]

It's a major scale, but played a little differently than how you may have learned it. It's just a different shape of it. Also, the string skipping makes it sound different. He actually uses this pattern in the chorus of movement from discord.

[@adamisuber]

@HTHAR1 HES BACK BABY

[@MohammadNurhadi]

damn i miis him

[@dojorocks]

g major on standard or f major on a step down

[@Project88Alex]

YEAH MAN!!!!!! You are totally correct. I listened to them right from when they released their demo and then was blown away by Nocturne. But Midheaven doesn't have the same feel or style. I WISH SOOOOOO BAD, that I had of gone to one of their concerts before they split. WORST DECISION EVER!!!!

[@smiff0009]

no actually, it's just a different shape of the major scale. People usually learn it a different shape because there's not as much stretching. It's the same scale but yeah there are 3 notes/string. Basically it moves the third note in the scale to the 6th string, and so on. Nocturne.

[@cloud041089]

it's more important to know what amp he used. pedals like the tubescreamer are just for a good boost.

[@lewymcgee]

wow thx for the "news", im pretty sure every1 already found out about that like 6 months ago.

[@lulu44109]

@HTHAR1 NOT ANYMORE!! LOOK UP FAUST!! NEW SONG!!!!! AMAZING HE IS BACK!!

[@anathema009]

you can kinda hear dean noodling in the background around 2:25ish hahah

[@blindedmeloon]

soooooooooooooo good

[@clearlynotme]

Wow, he has a ton of reverb going on 0_0

[@kamikaz1k]

anybody know which 7th arpeggio it is??

[@TheDrumminMan08]

@erniesux Literally called the John Petrucci 6.

[@gaara1303]

@iplayguitar0217 wait, he's back in the band? SOMEONE TELL ME THIS IS TRUE, BECAUSE I'VE BEEN LISTENING TO MEA CULPA FOR LIKE OVER A YEAR STRAIGHT, AND I NEED MORE OF HIM

[@schecter99]

what pattern was he using for the first example?

[@Jowellzzz]

Thank you, I'm assuming that's because the 3 notes per string shifts it...? Which album is that from?

[@TheTroyWonder]

he's always studied classical. he was in collage for composeing bro.

[@SicSolution]

AJ reminds me of Mikey Way :D

[@Pandameter13]

i like how whenever he screws up he does a quick skank before trying again i really wish he hadn't left. He wrote and influenced a lot of the music on nocturne, and the band isn't quite the same without him

[@juanoftheabyss]

No, hes not. Dean says he's not in the band. He's just helping write the new album.

[@danielfgray88]

@xouris123 I suppose you're right, there isn't a right or wrong way to do it. But when I, personally, practice chromatics I like to hit every note in the scale (so you go up a string and back a fret).. so when I saw this i was like wat.. Still, AJ is a shredding bad ass, and he can do whatever the fuck he wants!

[@gaara1303]

@xouris123 Nice! this makes me so happy lol

[@kevstew26]

yeah john petrucci uses it, it's his signature guitar. It's the ernie ball music man bfr. I have that guitar and it is the greatest guitar ever, its pricey but defienetly invest if your into neoclassical :P

[@thrasher305]

what kind of metronome is it?

[@TheProtoflex]

A.J. is a teacher. Like Mat Bruso. Wish I played guitar, I'd learn something. I'd be better at drums. I aced the trumpet in junior high, but that's a totally different story.

[@Shinozoku]

@Javeness And ripped now.

[@BobbyEshleman]

Actually I'm pretty positive that AJ ditched them. Equally as unfortunate though. I hope to god the next album continues the first one.

[@NeCroughdamus]

We should disable comments after this because "iplayguitar0217" has said everything exactly as it needs to be said. Truer words have never been spoken.

[@tylerstaves533]

Aj grew up in the house across the street from me. He also happens to be my Godfather

[@iangarza990]

Tyler Staves where is that?

[@VarsitySmurf]

What band did he move to?

[@7heory777]

Lol on his facebook wall or picture, there's a funny comment. It's like this "AJ, is it true you left the human abstract to focus on growing your mustache?"

[@Kaelan66]

Why'd he leave?

[@thrasher305]

No he was doing it to exercise single notes per string. Now way can he pick it that way live.

[@TheMediocreJack]

Why was he alternate picking the arpeggios in the beginning? Was that solely as an exercise? He doesn't ACTUALLY do that when he's playing in the real solos does he?

[@thrasher305]

Can you ask him what kind of musicman model hes using in this video? lol

[@getupnbomb]

probably jazz pick alot of artists use it cuz its smaller and real hard nice for alot of techniques i guess...

[@KNEEDEEP760]

tabs?

[@alekseihoff]

what a guitar??

[@atomixmax]

So what's is AJ doing now? Is he in a new band or something?

[@getupnbomb]

aw who ever gave me thumbs down is buggin.....mab is serious, if not give me reason

[@raffa824]

i like how he's using john petrucci's signature guitar XD

[@Arcnaught]

R.I.P

[@smiff0009]

me too XD

[@jngarza7]

His arms are like twice that size now!

[@bigdavid351]

Super stache

[@Yas_AMD]

do you want a candy for that :]

[@fwdyd]

great gtrist too bad he left human abstract... im sure we havent seen the last of him thow cant wait to hear what hes got cooking

[@EvilPopsicleDog]

@iplayguitar0217 God you have no fucking idea how right you were/are...

[@raffa824]

I HAVE THAT METRONOME!!!

[@rifewithfear]

like, he didn't shuffle back on the g string but thats about it

[@noskos]

good call on leaving abstract, midheaven was so bad

[@raphexe]

"minette" means girlie in french.

[@aektzis91]

i see a seedy moe!!!

[@danielfgray88]

Anybody else think he didn't do the chromatic right?

[@franchise5673]

Thats what it looks like

[@brittanygordon1]

I just bought a amp head off of him hahah

[@getupnbomb]

yes and michael angelo batio = music god!

[@cloud041089]

its funny how he was the head of a metal band, so advanced with guitar technique and what not.. but he's not even into that stuff which was why he left THA. he mostly listens to classical, post-rock and indie. if he was amazing in a metal band, imagine how good he would be playing/writing something he actually enjoys.

[@0redthunder0]

I think he joined an indie band

[@TicalWave89]

@jngarza7 he looks like a nerd in this vid, but in the digital veil video he looks like he could knock some teeth in...here's hoping I never meet him in the pit lol

[@RockStar5656]

NOT "softer", less aggressive, and their sound still holds the name of "abstract"

[@smiff0009]

framus

[@thatisstupid1212]

mush-tash

[@darkenedelegy22]

damn hes a badass, sucks the human abstract dont have him anymore, they suck ass now

[@TheDissentience]

May he rest in peace, lol.