playing eriatarka by the mars volta the right way

[@iangarrett9546]

holy shit i didn’t expect this to get any views whatsoever! this was one of my audition tapes for music school and decided to throw it up on youtube for fun (hence the title and description lol). i did not expect this to be viewed by anyone, but i’m so thrilled to have a small sect of the TMV guitar-playing community sending so much love! i appreciate it all🫶🏽 a couple things i wanna say: 1.) i didn’t look at any tabs for this cover. i learned a good 80% by ear and the other 20% was spent painstakingly watching live performances at half speed, pausing at any part that showed omar’s fretting hand. it took a solid week to get the correct chord shapes (especially the chorus, i have no idea what you would even call those chords) 2.) if people are interested, i’ll start uploading more TMV guitar covers! i want to attempt Cygnus …Vismund Cygnus or Tetragrammaton, but if anyone has a specific request i’ll try my hand at it! again, thank you all for the kind words! never in my life would i have thought that over 6.5k people would ever see me play guitar. if i had known, i would’ve cleaned my room a little bit haha

[@chrisvarley1363]

As everyone said, this was amazing! Anything you upload would be great and when you play it that well who cares what your room looks like!

[@atom3730]

You should try to play Frances The Mute

[@hannahbella1594]

Did you get in??

[@physicalandtemporarypain6037]

please upload more and show us how you get that tone 🙏

[@joshualoveless20]

Are you tuned in E standard?

[@communionshaped]

dude dropped one of the best mars volta guitar covers on youtube then just disappeared

[@luciferlucero]

Guitar drop. ✌🏽

[@diogoazevedo4976]

He sold his soul for this cover

[@darkbarrage99]

now we have two incredible interpretations of eriatarka by one and done youtubers, the other being tom2991

[@Ash_Hudson]

Seeing it like this makes you appreciate the fact that someone even came up with this composition in the first place. Incredible.

[@BTBAM819]

Omar being Omar❤

[@mrpzak]

I love in an interview when asked why he doesn’t smile on stage, he said “I’m concentrating, man. This stuff is hard.”

[@thelongestdongrod190]

​@@mrpzakthere's audio of him recording some guitar parts in a song and he keeps messing up and cursing

[@darthmetalus7469]

Challenging himself is what makes him a truely great guitarist!

[@kamikazefever]

Playing that song is a challenge but writing it.... Conceiving it.... That's awesome

[@JV-cz6fz]

Omar is such a great guitarist

[@stillshibbi6208]

Hands-down the best TMV guitar cover I've ever seen

[@leandroantelo7154]

Bro TMV rocks

[@michaelgraham9774]

Idk man I just saw a pretty amazing cover of Drunkship of Lanterns

[@OfficiallyMaidenless]

The first time I ever heard this song was on my way to see my grandfather on my dad's side. I had no idea that was the last time I'd see him, and it was almost 10 years later that he passed. I had no real bond with my dad to speak of despite him being a guitar virtuoso, and me just starting out on the strings, but I loved my grandparents so much. I listened to Deloused In The Comatorium over and over on my PSP on the coach to Merimbula, and when I got there I was so excited to show grandad this incredible music I was discovering. He was so impressed with their musicianship, and I remember that feeling of actually building a bond with him. I'm so sad that he's gone, it's been almost 10 years but it feels like I lost him yesterday. This song brings back so much warmth and pain for me, but every time I listen to Eriatarka it reminds me of the one and only memory I ever have of spending time with my grandfather John Bramley 😭 You did such a great job on this cover, it's been maybe 3 years since I last played guitar but you've inspired me to finally tackle learning this song, I tried all those years back and I just wasn't at that level yet, and after his passing I could still stand to hear the song but any time I tried to learn it just tore me apart. I think I'm genuinely ready though, I'm almost 30 years old and life is too short to be intimidating

[@RustyGonzo]

Damn dude. This was a total trip. I used to watch a lot of live TMV videos back in the day and I knew his writing and playing styles were unique, but seeing it like this is just wild. Some of those chord shapes and fret fingering just looks literally insane haha.

[@minimalinterest7291]

Best cover yet!!! I’m getting so pumped to see TMV in October!!!!

[@salmonade1202]

I saw them too brother. Just heard of this band this year and have had a lot of catching up to do. This record was amazing to hear live and I didn’t realize the treat I was about to have.

[@isaaclemus3]

Dude, nota a native speaker, so I'll try to explain myself. That made my heart go a few years ago and come back good as new WOW! If you can make a tutorial, you'll made a lot of people happy! Good job! Speechless..... :)

[@Cymanytb]

he just did a full playthrough, you can hear and see exactly what he plays

[@Sticky_Lungs]

@@Cymanytb obviously, but this guy wants Tablature.

[@JL-dz8sj]

What was Omar smoking when he came up with this honestly! Such creative chord voicings, that's one of his many unique talents with song writing.

[@yayayaokoksure]

Crack probably

[@KidHellacious]

Holy moly, that chorus looks like SO MUCH FUN to play. I’m gonna learn it tonight. Good work!!!!! 🎉

[@benjaminlaureys2603]

KZbin literally recommended me this because I looked up like 8 other covers and even a few live performances, and all of them sounded wrong in some way except one of the live performances, lol. I wanted to see how the song was originally played, and you couldn't have had a better title for that. Much respect and appreciate to you for putting the work in to make this 🔥🔥🔥

[@AmericanWrathchild]

This is the best cover of any Mars Volta song I've ever seen.

[@RafaelSilvaMayo]

This song slaps so hard. Was lucky to see the bois play this live not too long ago in OKC. Please upload more covers

[@maximumroyal7954]

This song is soooo good. Nice job on decoding that f*ckery.

[@LxE9799]

Can't believe that's the only cover you uploaded here, you play really well! outstanding work!

[@Derbearltd]

Learned this song quite a few years ago. Very satisfying to play. Great cover dude!

[@2dhudson]

dude !! you're an absolute beast. Omar definitely went try-hard mode when he wrote this. absolutely phenomenal song and you definitely give it the justice it deserves - one of the best covers of this song that I now know of. thank you for uploading

[@ursaproxima]

I've been listening to this band for over a decade at this point and this is the first cover of any sort that I enjoyed :D

[@redacted1402]

come back, do more mars volta please, there’s only one other youtuber playing these songs properly i must use you guys to learn these

[@humanasornament]

Pretty much perfect execution

[@cremejockey8636]

If you learned this by ear by yourself that's fucking bonkers. Still very impressive to play it note for note without those requisites tho.

[@iangarrett9546]

i mostly learned by ear but i had to consult some live videos to see the exact chord shapes omar played!

[@cremejockey8636]

@@iangarrett9546 Word he plays some weird shit. For the most part I've been too lazy to learn any of his shit besides like Goliath, a couple other songs on bedlam and Cotopaxi (easy song but it's in 5) lol mad props my dude.

[@Dai3eb]

daaamn dude, this is sick. your tone is perfect

[@michelalexissanchezhernand8539]

Yeah! So clean and a similar efect, a great sound!! 🔥🔥 Best guitar cover

[@TheFourCornersPodcast]

Wow @1:26 I didn't realize that's what was happening years. Finally found out after all these years! Excellent job, sounds beautiful 👏🏽

[@cosmicsoul_wav]

wahhh so awesome to see this covered

[@Brandonmtlhd]

I saw a tab of this and said yeah, they must be over-complicating it. But no, seeing it played the way it's supposed to convinces me that Omar is not of this world.

[@jordanplathstone7373]

Insane awesome guitar work

[@HansyPants184]

Dude! Omar is my favorite guitarist ever but 99% of his stuff is just unattainable for me even when I was at my best! I don't even know how your ears picked up on what the hell he was doing!

[@josephwhitey]

Best and most accurate rendition I've ever seen

[@jonathanvalentin3499]

Beautiful!

[@mikesw3ll153]

I appreciate the loyalty to the original !! Great job !!

[@algee4054]

that guitar needed a cigarette after this one. beyond impressive my dude

[@drewbruggman]

Ok. Tabs where? Learned a version of this from the early-mid 2000s but the tab was totally different. I want to learn this so bad.

[@acorngirl]

Sick. Seeing them tomorrow and I'm so excited

[@guitarproducerenjoyer]

One of the best covers I've ever listened. I hope you to come back, please.

[@rguizar10]

Super solid man. Love the tone and ambient sounds. Totally nailed it bro! 👌🏼

[@HampusBankler]

That was really inspiring! Thanks for sharing this!

[@jamesdurkin3129]

Absolutely nailed it bro

[@dragunhero00]

Props. That's a head banger

[@clouseaux]

Helluva track

[@kilderslive]

Absolutely sick dude!!

[@Tony.F.138]

Omar achievement unlocked. Much respect.

[@Dorray]

Great job dude. Please do some more covers.

[@wy837]

Amazing playing.

[@richardfitzwell5500]

I commented already but this is so fucking good dude

[@whdoid2]

Really need someone to tab this out for us please🙏🥺

[@mauriciohermoza-suarez5166]

wow this is amazing.

[@zomni1]

Came here to watch someone play this. You sound great bro.

[@theaverageguytraveller7253]

Exceptional job, phenomenal!

[@aleksandralefearn3030]

Astounding. 💗

[@justpeekin7376]

Hell yeah dude! Well done!!

[@manscouts4803]

dude this is really good!

[@OrlandoCarlock]

Nice guitar dude 🤘🏼

[@ivankravchenko3889]

Wow this is awesome!

[@JohnBenoit46290]

FIRE - checking my work with this rn you did such a good job

[@jorgeeduardo9072]

OH MY GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD!

[@GouveiaPhill]

Amazing. keepgoing

[@Pandamasque]

Do you have this recording without the backing track? It would be way easier to learn if we could hear you better.

[@carloschavez5581]

Thank you for posting.

[@andrewsloan4228]

Fantastic!😃

[@martinhuertas545]

holly fucking shit man, nailed it.

[@robbierobby]

Fabulous... well done 😪

[@MikeyBLial]

Dude, that was soooooo good!!! You rule 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@scottrobertson2884]

Unreal man.

[@redt-rex3808]

Shared with a lot of friends

[@cryptochannel2741]

wow.. just wow!

[@TomLopez17]

you killed this brother

[@Guitarisforgrins]

Sounds great man!

[@carloschavez5581]

Awesome! We need more vids

[@alexgriffiths2873]

This was so cool! I love your tele as well! Trying to work out what Omar is thinking with the progression. In the verse it seems like Bm - Dmaj7 - Gmaj7. So like a i - bIII - bVI. So I'm guessing its B natural minor? Great video anyway, I hope it got you into music college!

[@turnleftaticeland]

Omar doesn’t know music theory

[@crackfoolman]

@@turnleftaticeland why do you think so?

[@turnleftaticeland]

@@crackfoolman Well he might’ve picked some up along the way over the years, but he wasn’t _taught_ music theory, at least. He’s said so in interviews. He doesn’t even consider himself a “musician” because he doesn’t approach things from that standpoint

[@Im_alex_h]

⁠@@turnleftaticelandhe definitely picked up some theory along the way, probably a lot from hanging out with Frusciante and Flea. You can see him calling out chord names to Flea in some of the Antemasque behind the scenes stuff. Also, in some of the vids for the latest stuff he put out under his name (with the jazz band reimagining his old songs) you can see they have charts. Regardless, music theory doesn’t have to be prescriptive, and it is only limiting if you think of it that way. Omar might not have known the formal nomenclature of music theory when he wrote deloused, but he had some sort of internal logic (guided by incredible intuition) that he used to navigate the fretboard. Like on take the Veil he might not have thought of it like “ok, I do an arpeggiated D minor triad, pull off on E, then B, then slide up a minor third for a diminished triad, then another full step up for a diminished 7 arpeggio. Then I strum D minor, make it quick Sus 4, back to D minor, and then I’ll hit a few voicings of the diminished triad on b2”, but that’s one way to communicate it. Omar has said before he’s a very visual learner, and I think that’s pretty evident in his playing style: he often plays very visually symmetrical shapes. Anyway, my point is that music theory is just a language. Like speaking English, there is formal language, the way sentences are usually structured, how words are defined, that sort of thing, sure, but really that’s just a way of trying to formulate a map for how language is used by the people, which is a bottom to top process. The way we speak and the meanings of terms changes over time depending on how the majority of people use it. So yeah, if you try to treat hundreds of years old classic harmonic theory as the end all be all “official music guidelines” it’s going to be limited and outdated. Like an old rule is you shouldn’t use parallel fifths, but meanwhile rock and metal plays tons of power chords back to back all the time. But knowing things like key signatures, intervals, how common chords are formulated, how to augment them, etc. is going to do nothing but help you understand your, and other’s playing on a deeper level. And even if you don’t think you “know music theory” your ear is so accustomed to common key signatures, scales, and chords just from listening to music your whole life that your intuition is picking up on when something sounds “wrong” or “right”. Putting those intuitive feeling into a communicable form is the purpose of music theory. Like a lot of people think minor 2nd and flat 5 intervals are kind of ugly and dissonant, the same with diminished chords, but I absolutely love them, and clearly Omar does too. They give me a feeling I really like and now any time I want to express that feeling I can think “ok I bet a nice passing diminished chord here will give it the tension I want.”

[@robertzurface9042]

Very nice!!

[@notsamoht]

muito foda cara, parabéns!

[@ivanknowswhat]

fucking incredible man

[@drumduder]

Thems are some long guitar playing fingers for sure!!!!

[@hannahbella1594]

AMAZING!!

[@bonbonjames16]

amazing job

[@josephpickard3108]

You did an amazing job 👏🙌

[@CarlosIrigoitia]

Awesome

[@NightOfTheRevolution]

I WILL be learning this holy shit. Omar Rodríguez-López is legitimately a fucking guitar god and his music heals something in me I can't explain. I flew all the way to SLC last night from Seattle to see them perform live tonight it's going to be... cathartic. I might cry. Update: I did cry

[@igydkygs00kwhi]

Despite their convoluted lyrics, debatably terrible storytelling and cryptic meanings, this is one of the best and most slept on bands ever, best vocals ever thats for sure.

[@thepinebarons]

Jeez this is awesome well done 👍🏽

[@seattlanis00]

sick now do MORE

[@lynxcore]

fucking sick dude

[@Dai3eb]

also if you would teach me to play this song, i would pay you. hit me up if you have a link

[@EhFookinShark]

Sick dude

[@Highmagic]

good shit dude!

[@Clothbirds]

I usually hate telecasters. I like the one Johnny Greenwood played in Radiohead, and yours.

[@x0xStockingsx0x]

Woweee

[@rufusrose]

Dude you are fucking amazing

[@thefuturejulio]

hell yeah

[@claireholt4552]

Tutorial please?

[@jonathanstevenson6753]

Just wow...

[@dirtydrowningman4963]

awesome. came here to see what effects you're using.

[@huttonbanks3306]

Think you got on the team

[@joewitowski54]

The intro was wrong. The last chord goes back to the 2nd chord.

[@ambrosenardini]

I need someone to make a lesson on the whole album, please. I’m begging someone, anyone to please just help out the Omar wannabes like me

[@Voiddok]

sheeesh

[@cevichesurfco.7911]

Dude!

[@Ilyena225]

tab please bro omg so good!!