How To Play Holocene by Bon Iver (guitar lesson / tutorial) Part 1

[@nesniping6378]

Been going a lot deeper into guitar these past few weeks and I'm a huge fan of indie music. Every time I look up a guitar lesson for an indie song, you always come up. Thankful you've got great music taste.

[@ph0bya]

wait, bon iver's music fits in the indie category? i had no clue!

[@dep6898]

@@ph0byacomment was 7 year ago, cuck

[@BrotherNoomkie]

Don't ever apologize to people for talking too much. Let the people who have a problem with it just leave and then just be yourself and talk as much as you feel fit. You're putting out a free service so screw the haters

[@jessemeehan4177]

Talking is a huge part to learning any song. How he explains everything is amazing. Every detail is crucial. Fuck all you haters. This tutorial is great. Dude, keep being elaborate as possible.

[@almostpositive]

Thanks for this. When teaching, for many reasons it is helpful to demonstrate the destination in the beginning. For those seeking to learn, he finally puts the pieces together at 8:08.

[@jeepersmcgee3466]

Stephen Hebert he does demonstrate in the beginning

[@ElizabethHethera]

I would just like to say that this was a GREAT tutorial. Anyone who gave you a "thumbs down" should upload their own tutorial if they know so much instead of wasting time looking up others' tutorials because they obviously are just negative complainers who prolly can't play anyways! Sorry, off my high horse. Really great job explaining this song and it is the most accurate of all the versions I have seen. it is now the one I use. THANK YOU!!

[@LouieGrind]

Don't apologize dude! You're doing a fantastic job and should take all the time you want! You're doing the best tutorials on youtube so you can talk all that you want!

[@Kn0rK3n]

Hey guys, captain here. Just wanted to mention that there are actual string sets for this tuning being sold. I'm using the Daddario EJ38H, cheers! And gr8 tutorial btw!

[@clucaspik]

This song can be played quite simply note for note w/ regular strings if you tune low to high: CGDGBD (G tuning over a lowered C), and capo on the 6th fret.

[@brianfulda]

Hell yeah man! I had suspected he had restrung his thicker strings with thinner gauge strings and now that you explained it, it makes absolute sense. I have found a way (in an odd tuning) to play it accurately to the CD recording in the same octave and everything. But it's certainly not how they play it.

[@joannemamo8177]

your videos never fail to amaze me

[@Unfinishedbasementpr]

Here's the stringing Gareth mentions in the video. 3rd 'G' string - 1st 'E' string 4th 'D' string - 2nd 'B' string 5th 'A' string - 3rd 'G' string 6th 'E' string - 4th 'D' string

[@stargirls0304]

does it mean changing regular strings for those?

[@haileypearl]

That is the most beautiful sounding guitar I have ever heard

[@GarethEvansYT]

EADGBE - standard tuning . D & G being an octive higher than usual. what is unclear the word octave?

[@davedwse]

Re-strung my guitar but snapped my strings, will hunt down these 'nashville tuning strings' as someone stated below and try again. Cant wait to get this song bang on! and thanks for the tutorial :)

[@christianwallowingbull]

This is the best and most accurate tutorial of this heavenly song. Thankyou so much bro!

[@kevkracker]

Nashville tuning is typically used when referring to basses. Nashville tuning on a 4 string base just bumps up the tuning of the strings one string. (a standard bass would be EADG; Nashville tuning would be BEAD)

[@cc4spawn]

Gareth you have come a long way watching your videos today! Thanks for your contribution all these years! :)

[@Mr42Harry]

Just a little confusion that took me a couple of minutes to work. At 7:13 when Gareth mentions playing "all other notes the same except the first note", I believe 5/7 notes in the tab are different. Basically, the middle finger should be open, not in C. (2nd fret). Only two left hand fingers should be in use.

[@emilybutsonmusic]

You have to replace them with a different string that allows them to tune higher. The strings that are initially placed for D and G won't tune that high and will snap. So you put on a string (probably a 1 string) that will tune higher.

[@hannahgrove4216]

this is a great tutorial! and it stills sounds awesome on a regular-tringed guitar

[@josh3rno]

The tuning or strings are octave higher strings. Ie. the second set of strings on a 12 strung guitar. Also known as Nashville tuning!

[@ChrisTopheRaz]

G0liath1012: their nashville strings. You can get them at any music store. Simple as that.

[@JosephCannell]

I think you should write the tuning for every song in the description, it will be easy and people will like it.

[@paulhamilton9411]

What you could have possibly said for the first four & 1/2 minutes is beyond me. But thanks for finally showing me

[@ilenehmitchell]

So when you said he restrung his guitar, he actually moved his strings, removed them and placed them in different spots? He didn't just retune them as they were? That'd be ridiculous. I don't even know if I'm just confused and have it wrong or what.

[@kimjunejohnson]

you're so small and young here! Thank you for this tutorial. :)

[@thebee18]

i'M GOING TO GO RESTRING MY GUITAR SO I CAN PLAY ONE SONG!!!!!!! YAY!

[@rw7799]

so did bon ivor know the guitar so well that they restringed it to get the sound they needed for that song or is it a different method to string a guitar for many songs? or maybe they wrote on a piano and changed the strings to make it easier to play?

[@BeNashed]

Can you please type out what notes or octaves the strings need to be (lower to higher preferably), it gets confusing when you explain by calling them 6th, 5th, etc. to me at least. Thanks and great job!

[@GarethEvansYT]

@chicketyfick uum i guessed the strings thing as i was trying to puzzle it out how he got the high notes. .. and ive never heared of nashville tuning :)

[@GarethEvansYT]

the tuning is standard, as i stated. Can you be more specific with your problem?

[@AFM864]

Great work! Happy to discover your tutorials through this video. Haven't even finished wathing this yet but - I'm curious - how did you work out what strings Vernon replaced and with what string? Seem to remember something called Nashville tuning. Is this something like?

[@kayleeadams4191]

so when your talking about the strings is the bottom little string the 1 or the 6?

[@lylydisiz]

It's a great tuto, But I just can't get my head around the tunning. I'm learning the guitar and I fell in love with this melody. Can you please be more specific for people like me who aren't quite confortable with the words octave and all. Sorry to bother, oh did I mentionned that i'm french ? It's not easy and your version is the best for me. Thanks in advance.

[@GarethEvansYT]

@thepumpdontwork you're welcome as always dude. Although i understand it's a lot of effort for just one song, i happen to think some songs are just worth it :)

[@BARACKD127]

i don't understand where the regular tuning part is ? :)

[@kelley22189]

This is amazing! Thank you! ❤

[@HazmatSuitUp]

Holy shit, it's Gareth! I watch pretty good gaming all the dang time. Knew I recognised him from somewhere haha

[@jonahellis]

You're a real blessing thanks for this mate!!

[@michaels1527]

Thank you so much for this video! I just want to make sure I got your stinging correct. So on your guitar that you are playing you’ve only re-strung strings 3 and 4, but you tuned strings 3 to 6 an octave higher? Is that correct?

[@kayleeadams4191]

So is the bottom little string the 1 or the 6?

[@rjcadmin]

Thanks for the advice, but @Gareth Evans, I just broke a guitar string. It's a standard D'Addario Light on a Washburn Guitar. Any advice?

[@IntoAWorldAtWar]

You're awesome man! Sweet run down!

[@mrsspargel]

Oh man i will never play this well! anyways, great tutorial :)

[@Ilovesammy17]

Can anyone tell me what an octive higher means in guitar string terms?

[@sarahnickel8405]

This is really great. Thank you.

[@brettharris9060]

That's because you can't use a normal G string. You have to replace your 3rd string with a 1st string and your 4th with a 2nd. It helps to pay attention; he gives clear instructions on how to tune the guitar.

[@pedropolin]

Awesome tutorial

[@Finnen96]

Great work! More songs of Bon Iver would be awesome!

[@TheMaximillian1]

love his stuff thank you so much!!

[@LTuts]

please can u start writing the tunings in the description please mate! its easier for some of us more advanced players just to whack it into the tunings and figure it out ourselves! great tutorials though

[@joerghenn3450]

is this nashville stringing?

[@FrafriMartin]

I cut the string

[@UruzStrong]

mine snapped too

[@aaronagre2993]

in the beginning of the video he talks about how he doesn't like talking in the beginning of the video ;) also in regard to nashville highstrung, google it

[@YukalayleeGames]

My G string just snapped when I got to the B note tuning it up. Fucking brilliant.

[@sarojpandey8903]

WOW GREAT!!! can you please play hazelton BY JUSTIN VERNON

[@stasia5463]

thank you!

[@Noir0rioN]

Like this dude.

[@abatti95]

how do I tune one octave higher?

[@richardburt9812]

lesson starts at 4:18

[@freshlineproductions]

As much as I love this song theres no way I'm restringing my guitar every time i want to play it :(

[@dirtyturps]

Brother I was just about to write the same comment!

[@sebtyler7262]

Alex I’m gonna buy a new guitar just to play this 😂

[@JeredtheShy]

Christ on a bike. And I thought changing tuning was problematic. How do you get so deep into a Thoreau thing that you start restringing the guitar like that just for a song? And how, how goddammit, do you understand the thing so well that you can grasp all that restringing enough to tell me about it? Thankfully Gareth is enough of a bleary poet to understand and communicate it to us.

[@Samodinio98]

waittttttttt!!!!!!what about the first and second strings what goes there???

[@Kn0rK3n]

+Samodinio98 They stay the same.

[@HazmatSuitUp]

I think I might wait until I get a second guitar to learn this properly. Screw re stringing every time. Changing the tuning all the time to play Bon Iver is annoying enough. Although I suppose they way they sound in the end is worth it.

[@kayleeadams4191]

oh thanks! :)

[@cleertjen]

Thnx :)

[@MsSk8tification]

I live in Nashville, and never heard of these type of strings. Wha..?

[@CassOleBLACK]

same here with the g string!

[@MrJkca]

i don't think he's being a jerk. I think he forgot the comma so he was asking if the guy was unclear about the word octave. I don't know... but i dont think he was trying to be a jerk

[@justinjlamb7563]

You need Nashville Tuning strings. Go to your music store and ask a guy to locate them for you because you NEED them for this song. Without em you'll just break strings like I did >:(

[@KidsWithGuns1992]

haha damn i was so excited to learn this and then my string broke while tuning!

[@bushlite333]

damn good

[@thebronte]

He already start this tutorial at 4:30 nice

[@ChrisTopheRaz]

Nashville is one octave higher other than the g string.

[@__skyraia]

I don't get how to tune it :-S

[@ChrisTopheRaz]

Sorry meant "they're

[@YukalayleeGames]

Wow. Im guessing I missed that in the video..

[@alec3474]

4:11

[@freshlineproductions]

You have to restring your guitar. Is that where you're confused?

[@ppchev]

Tuning is unclear... can you simply write it down, please?

[@carlsong6438]

I skipped through landing on maybe 10 locations and I didn't hear a single note XD

[@JimHast]

thnks handsome

[@xwavestr]

It's a good but the second part of the intro is way off man, sounds different.

[@brettharris9060]

You cost yourself a G string by not paying attention to what he said about using a 1st string in place of your 3rd and a 4th in place of your 2nd.

[@Eoink730]

man great tutorials, but jesus im a tuning noob.. . I wish you would just play the string open so I knew what It sounded like... you cost me a g string! :/

[@adamasrinsky]

I started yawning at 2:39, wrote this comment at 2:52, and hit the back button

Leo Messi!

[@ainguyen8644]

I snapped the string twice

[@OmgDallas]

Ai Nguyen eek

[@eleonoradonofrio8468]

Broke my strings☹☹

[@ChrisTopheRaz]

Bonkskey: .028-.017-.012-.009-.014-.010

[@ekelly507]

I've had it all wrong the whole time! D:

[@ChrisTopheRaz]

Ha ha sorry I meant the 5th or B string.

[@brettharris9060]

Or pay attention to what he says in the video and use common sense well enough to not try tuning your strings up an octave.

[@О.Б-о2э]

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[@faraazelan2322]

You're hot , just sayin .

[@sdhokie]

Lose the shirt.

[@Wumbeast]

You don't have to be a jerk about it. It's just a simple question, not all of us our as musically talented nor have as much musical knowledge as you do.

[@george8912]

sooooooooooooooo boring

[@yosuairfon666]

talk less

[@__skyraia]

I don't get how to tune it :-S