HIM Guitar Tutorial Series: Sweet Pandemonium

[@coachmalta]

Brian, I love your effort man...I mean I know how difficult it is to keep it up here on youtube. Please don't quit this amazing project you're doing 'cause it is fun and believe me, we enjoy it as much as you do. I'm looking forward to see your guitar cover for The Sacrament, I know it's gonna be huge!

[@MrTomfooligans]

Gabriel, please consider this reply to be emblematic of the larger situation: I sincerely appreciate your kind sentiment, and I also appreciate your spending time with my videos. I was moved when I read your comment over a week ago, and your words have stuck with me each time I've gone to check my KZbin notifications since. I've felt like this comment in particular was owed a reply (I used to reply *all* my comments, but have fallen away from that), but was unable to make myself do it before now. The videos are like that. In no way do I consider the project to be over, and I'm definitely aware there are people expecting (perhaps fewer and fewer people) the next entry in the series. I am grateful to have ever had an audience of any size for making these videos. I love that some people come for the tutorials, and others come for the acoustic covers, and still others just seem to come for me. It's all enough to make my heart swell. I'm sure I'll have to make a video to reiterate some of these thoughts for everyone who is also wondering about me, but the brief version is this: I'm all right, and I do feel guilty that the video series has stalled out. It's not intentional. It can also be explained. Much of the last several years of my life have been colored by my realization that I suffer from essentially all the symptoms of ADHD and some symptoms of OCD. I've sought treatment, both psychological and pharmaceutical for this situation, because as it has been my entire life, I am quick both to start overly-ambitious projects like this, and just as quick to hit points of frustration or mild pushback that lead me, a perfectionist, to simply give up rather than to push through to the end. My projects, for my entire life, are all ones that have never come to a natural, successful ending. College is perhaps one exception, but it took me between 2005 and 2019 to get a 2-year degree. Complicating, or causing my ADHD symptoms is significant anxiety. It's as if my brain has one and only one mode: "provide possibilities". This is in direct opposition to paying attention...to planning...to completing...to having complete or singular thoughts. It's been a devastating way to live, and why I've been unable so far to get a 4-year degree. It's part of why these videos never get made. I tried once or twice to determine a good chord sheet for Soul On Fire, and since I could not, I simply...forgot to ever try again. I've recently begun an anti-anxiety medication which seems to have almost entirely alleviated my ADHD symptoms. I'm getting a lot of stuff done these days! I got promoted at work. I have no problem following what people say to me in conversation. I can study, and take notes, and remember the things I've heard...I can learn now. And while this is all very exciting, and means I've gained more responsibilities (more things to think about) at work, and that I'm able to take improv lessons, and to re-enroll in college to get my 4-year degree...all of those things, as well as the endless slew of goings-on in my personal life, with relationships, home, etc., have been at the forefront of my mind. I've only recently, in the last month or so, unlocked a kind of superpower, to finally begin *living my life*...and the things I've been meaning to get to are just too many...the things I'm doing, like reading and listening, writing and imagining...have been too intoxicating...and I have just never gotten around to making time for these videos. Yet. Thank you for your patience. Give me a little longer to really get into the rhythm of my newly reclaimed life. I'm confident the space and the time will open up for me to get back to making these videos. They'll be scheduled, planned, and well-executed. I just don't know precisely when. Stay tuned. And thanks for your concern and well-wishing!

[@METALMEETSPIANO]

Thank you very much for your amazing tutorials ❤ you are the great guy 👍

[@kittykat1903]

Thank you for this tutorial! I've been looking for HIM's acoustic guitar covers for the last few years and here you are! Subscribed🙏

[@MrTomfooligans]

You're so welcome!

[@wilhelmvalo]

Didn't regret that I had to rearrange the guitar, I really liked your version. It's not difficult but very entertaining for a me as a beginner.

[@wilhelmvalo]

It's sound pretty decent! I will try to play it, thanks dude.

[@elijahdeconteau7931]

Dark greetings, Brian! Nice to see you again:)

[@drunkencotists4538]

Hi Brian! Thank you for all your Covers! Love them all! Greetz from Leipzig/Germany! :)

[@mentalhacking]

Oh, huge thanks for your tutorials ❤ if i have bad mood, i always go to your amazing channel 🔥

[@marceloespinoza755]

This is amazing, Brian! I love this song. Thank you for taking your time and making this possible. I can already play almost four complete H.I.M,'s songs, thanks to your cool tutorials. I hope that one day you could make a tutorial for the Sacrament song, It would be awesome! 😃 Wishing you a happy and healthy new year!!

[@MrTomfooligans]

Thanks for your kind words, Marcelo. I'm happy I've helped you. The Sacrament is right around the corner. Because I'm going in order, my next video lesson will be Soul On Fire, and the Sacrament will be right after that

[@marceloespinoza755]

@@MrTomfooligans Perfect!. Thanks, Brian! Take good care!!

[@finndearg]

Oh)) I couldnt wait so I've just pried the way Ville played The Sacrament during the Secret Gig session in Greece, hahaha) I'm waiting for Brian's cover of Fortress of Tears though I've already found the chords) but for me it's always great to watch Brian playing for he makes really cool tutorials

[@issatsumo5054]

Great tutorial. Can’t wait for soul on fire

[@elijahdeconteau7931]

Tutorial and performance as good as always

[@MiseryDay]

Loved it

[@Unknown-n2c3d]

Great job ，and waiting forward to see （ and love said no）

[@alyxandrestyx3047]

Great teacher !

[@smiley4988]

I like very much the way you do it, the best

[@MrTomfooligans]

Thank you for watching, and thank you for the compliment! I watched a couple of your videos. You are very skilled!

[@TheSoulLinked]

I still have no plans to play guitar, I just like hanging out!

[@wiltrudfriesch6781]

Me too.

[@smiley4988]

Great 👌done

[@SLAYENCE]

Thanks for this tutorial! I remember you did tutorial on "Killing Loneliness" song, can't find it on your channel, can I find it somewhere?

[@MrTomfooligans]

Thank you for your attention...you must have been watching for a long, long time if you remember the Killing Loneliness video. It is around ten years old, and it isn't reflective of how well I can play these days. It also isn't instructional. So, because it was embarrassing, and not useful, I have privatized it. When I have more time to get back to making tutorial videos, Killing Loneliness will be right around the corner, because I only have a few more Love Metal songs to cover before moving on to Dark Light. Thank you so much for watching, and I'm sorry to keep you waiting. It's been a busy year for me and videos have had to take a backseat.

[@SLAYENCE]

@@MrTomfooligans thank you for the response, I hope you'll do this tutorial again=)

[@HALAKOORA-i5x]

vimper heart

[@nets_sten]

😴😴