The Landing - Final Fantasy VIII Guitar Cover | Anton Betita

This is probably one of the most ambitious projects I've ever done. It only took about two hours of recording, with 120 attempts to get this. My fingers are crying out for help.
Original music composed by Nobuo Uematsu

[@oddfellow8366]

Fantastic. A lot of covers on KZbin for this same piece have around 3 guitars layered on top of each other. You did it all in one performance. Magnificent.

[@10S4Y]

I can't even imagine the time it took to arrange it. The rendition is beyond all expectations.

[@MrBalfazaar]

It's crazy how underrated this performance is, it deserves far more views. Very technically impressive.

[@KieranJohnPrice]

My all time favourite final fantasy song. You fucking nailed it mate. Insane!

[@soyborne.bornmadeandundone1342]

Love how you can make that acoustic sound like a ticking time bomb in this one!

[@giuseppestrano2675]

This cover is MAJESTIC and you are flawless! I want you to play this at my wedding, my divorce, my 50th birthday and my funeral

[@DonutSwordsman]

bruh at 1:30 i my ears melted at you nailing that high ass note youre a living legend

[@wtfamiwatching7856]

This is one of my favourite FF tunes. LOVE seeing you play this. Well done.

[@haroldperez2333]

This video doesn't have enough likes or visits for the quality it has! Wonderful cover, I hope I can come close to playing something like this someday ^^

[@maxcrosby61]

you're one of the sickest guitarist i have ever seen! unbelievable!

[@Kendojin]

I'm sure after this comment, someone will jump in to ruin it... But as of today, 4/16/20, a year and some change after this video was uploaded, there are 0 thumbs down. I think that speaks for itself. This is incredible.

[@klxzz]

Maaaaaaan, only a few days ago this still had 0 dislikes. Now some dbag hit the down button!!!

[@scaf_007vs3]

I am EXTREMELY impressed with this.. incredible!

[@overlord1654]

best cover i have heard awesome

[@paulorobertocpassos5902]

I'm speechless...

[@marvelouspino98]

I’ve listened and watched to this so many I can’t remember how times

[@yo-fo]

Dude this is crazy good , you are so talented it’s an understatement. keep it up.

[@sonicextem3]

Incredibly good cover. Very impressive with acoustic guitar. And now i gotta play the game again :D

[@emilschildt5020]

So underrated, great cover!

[@willm.2271]

What kind of sorcery is this?! Damn! Amazing dude!

[@Yue4me]

hats off respect

[@sam.246]

Dude, this was as fantastic to listen as it was seeing your fingers dancing on the guitar. I hope to get to this level one day

[@JmDGamez]

Ahh I can see the boat reaching the beach and the party disembarking now 😊

[@kikisora6826]

Woww ur Amazing bro 👍👍👍👍👍

[@elnygma]

choose one of the compliment below : a. magnificent.. b. superb.. c. amazing.. d. outstanding.. e. a-d combined..

[@ianfromspace4740]

PHENOMENAL COVER DUDE!!!!! SO AWESOME!

[@kohrya]

-whistles with a standing ovation-

[@christopherhammond5539]

Gave me goosebumps great job!!

[@upierczileonheart7020]

Just Amazing dude, AMAZIING!!

[@Runebell_]

If you made tabs or notes for it, I would certainly buy it. Outstanding.

[@namme6719]

Awesome

[@analiafridman]

This is incredible. GREAT cover!!

[@kajatta_]

Wow amazing work, love it

[@karpeevkonstantin9564]

Awesome! That's my favorite ))

[@Yue4me]

I appreciate your effort. Astounding

[@sarahjertkvist5814]

Floored by this! Simply amazing

[@nonnamimma7332]

I was waiting so long for such a cover of The Landing, thank you so much.

[@kainabeki3452]

Thats amazing one of the best covers i heard

[@amgonnabakeyobread]

This is incredible thank you! ^_^

[@morpheus00]

WOW that was amazing Bravo!!

[@MyEnglishTeacherRob]

Absolutely beautiful arrangement of a beautiful piece of music. Brings a tear to my eye!

[@OsirisMH5678]

A gem. Nice cover.

[@evaristoinfante4005]

Wow!! That was excellent!! Keep on rocking!!

[@Daredevil792Thefinalfantasy]

Amazing cover

[@olschemoesack]

Awesome! 👌😁

[@darionwinters2542]

Absolutely incredible. Stunning. No words can describe this performance, really.

[@jamiebestminiatures]

God damn! That's some piece from an amazing game.

[@Duhemsounds]

This is well done, I love this track, you've made a very good version :)

[@bsawyer2587]

Deserves way more views!!!

[@TheItalianFun]

great job!

[@TheSilverGunner]

You play just Awesome👌

[@gloomstones]

Fantastic! I can't wait to learn some of your arrangements! Starting tonight on Balamb Garden theme!

[@SpanishSebas]

This is... absolutely fantastic. I would have never think that a guitar could perform such powerful melody...

[@Corphish_]

so perfect i can imagine the cutscenes!! more ff8 songs!!

[@timothygallagher8744]

Hell yea man. You killed this one. The percussion is insane

[@PhilharmonicVivern]

Guitar genius

[@Bertatouille]

Wow good job with solo guitar !

[@pierre-martindjaz963]

excellent !

[@lacy4677]

I love this and by extension love you. I use this to help me write sometimes!

[@antonyduhayon279]

Insane arrangement, you brought the younger me back to Dollet. Congrats ! :D

[@esdrasventura7729]

Cara ficou muito bom mesmo, parabéns!

[@leokiedis1107]

I wish KZbin let me thumbs up this like crazy.. vid is just surreal man! Congrats… what a performance!

[@christopherpatterson4851]

A simple "like" is not enough to encapsulate the awesomeness of this video!!

[@Pedro4tunato]

Que técnica incrível, simplesmente impressionante! =D

[@MrOffspringskater]

Dude! It's been a few years since I've played this game, your version is sick!

[@AntonBetita]

Thank you! It's been over a decade since I played this game but the music definitely has stuck with me!

[@Bevtone]

Amazing how much this makes sound like a yes song

[@SteSmithADI]

This is absolutely ridiculous!! I am hearing 3 or 4 different bis of music al being played on one guitar!! Like, serious, rediculous is the best word to use!! I am struggling to even watch what you are playing never mind you playing it. Dude, buddy, YOU ARE REDICULOUS!!!! and yes, this is meant in the most awesonest of ways!!! Rediculous!!!!

[@remilepandaquirouleenboule2898]

Epic!

[@moifaireflute4683]

was casually checking the playlist and I heard the beat. Then I saw the title. Your arrangement skills are beyond amazing, and you seem to have no limit as to what genre you can tackle. The results always feel so natural and so awesome. Massive respect.

[@Odiseo012]

BELLISIMO PAPA!!!!

[@xxFireMagexx]

Godly 😮

[@jeffersonfreitas7831]

Nice!

[@elMaTAdor6661]

Whoever disliked this video did so by accident. 100% factual. Great stuff man.

[@nathaneyerley3598]

Clicked on this smugly, expecting the worst, but still curious how this could be played solo. Pleasantly surprised, well done!

[@jocajoca1875]

Amazing cover!! I really would like to learn it :)! Have you think about make a tutorial of it or release tab? Looks pretty hard but I think it has to be worth it to feel playing this amazing cover.

[@barykys]

Прям уважение и восхищение !

[@love99love70]

wow!!!!

[@benjaminburgosjr.9339]

I'm late to the party, but hot damn that was a fantastic performance.

[@maverickmilestone]

Wow

[@ChefalD]

Nice

[@boat409]

Ffvlll sound bueaty

[@DhiegoRodrigues]

geniouss

[@AmandaJeansComics]

epic!

[@Gromik191]

You're a guitar master. It looks extremely difficult. Perhaps the most difficult what I have seen. I can't imagine how many days you spent to learn this up. I'm novice that to even to play "breezy" is difficult to me.

[@AntonBetita]

Thank you! This piece was super complicated to learn and play. To this day, I still feel like this was one of ths most ambitious projects I worked on. It was hard 😭

[@Neoplasie1900]

@@AntonBetita But damn, you nailed it!

[@Combs05]

Sick

[@Sotek_Will]

Is it a gunblade or a guitar ? You're awesome ! Thanks for this amazing work

[@adivarioustrad]

So cool :D

[@LoneTreePeak]

That harmonics part at 1:35 is super cool man wow! Also your technique at 2:53 is insanely unique. I've ever saw anyone play like that before. You're the best man. I could listen to your covers all day! Great job on this one as well as all the others. 🔥 🎸 🎶 🎵

[@AntonBetita]

Thank you! The technique I do at 2:53 is basically slap harmonics. It's probably not as unique as it seems. In fact, I feel like it gets unnecessarily overused by a lot of fingerstyle guitarists lol. But this was one of the rare occasions where I felt like it was appropriate to go crazy with slap harmonics 😆

[@LoneTreePeak]

@@AntonBetita Thanks for the information. In any event I thought it was amazing and it went well with getting me pumped up watching the video haha. Maybe I'm just not familiar with watching people play as much but I thought you displayed passionate playing, which I why I find your covers so unique aside from how well you play the melodies. I feel like you put a lot of flair into it for lack of a better term. You make it seem so easy and fun at the same time. It displays a lot of character in your style. I'm like a super fan now in short time no kidding! Do you have a personal favorite Final Fantasy game?

[@AntonBetita]

@@LoneTreePeak Thank you, I really appreciate those compliments. Hard to say what my favorite final fantasy game is nowadays, but I'm starting to lean towards FF14, which is not unexpected I suppose 😅

[@LoneTreePeak]

@@AntonBetita You're welcome and thanks for the answer. I'm always curious as to which FF artists enjoy the most. There are so many it's hard to choose 1.

[@AntonBetita]

@@LoneTreePeak yeah absolutely. I'm actually not that well versed in the final fantasy franchise as a whole. Most of what I know are limited to FF4, FF8, FF9, and now FF14. And all of those have excellent music that I want to cover so much of. FF14 happens to have the biggest soundtrack of all of them though so it's given me a lot of options as far as covers lol. FF14 also does lots of throwbacks to older games, including remixes of old themes. So imagine my surprise when I heard tracks from ff4, ff8, and ff9 play in 14 as well.

[@endeshaw1000]

cooool :)

[@jeremym2816]

if i was military i would charge to hell on this music

[@real_poker]

tfw you are galbadian soldier occupying your own business and you hear this tune blasting on the beach

[@Medal71]

Niceeeee!!! ;)

[@DNLErwick]

ingin Misoh rasanya.. Skill nya di Atas rata" nih, Clean banget 😂

[@JK-vf2hp]

This cover is unreal man. Listened to tons of acoustic guitar vgm covers and am only just now discovering you. Dang KZbin algorithm! On a side note, I am about to get back into playing acoustic guitar seriously, and want to learn to play like you. How did you learn to play how you do? Are you self-taught? Wondering if I should get a classical guitar foundation/what steps I should take to learn this percussive/fingerstyle style. You're an inspiration man, thank you

[@AntonBetita]

Thank you for the kind comment! You are correct, I am mostly self-taught. I never took classical lessons or anything so I'm not really sure if a classical foundation is what you'd need to be able to do this stuff lol. But I CAN tell you the foundation I use for my arrangements; chords. It's mostly just knowing the chords, and then trying to figure out everything else from there. My instrumental fingerstyle journey started when a cousin of mine showed me how to find melody notes based on chords. Most of the time, the notes to the melody fall just around the area of the chord shape that you're already fingering, and you just have to move a couple fingers around to get them. Of course, the actual process of doing that is not as simple as I'm making it sound here, but that is the overall concept and foundation that guides me through my arrangements, even to this day.

[@JK-vf2hp]

Thank you so much for the long in-depth reply. Awesome advice - I will try implementing this. Do you know some basic music theory to help with arranging or do you mostly arrange by ear?

[@AntonBetita]

@@JK-vf2hp yes, I know a little bit of theory, but mostly just basic stuff. Most of the time I arrange by ear after I get the chords. But there are times when figuring out the melody by ear gets confusing because it's either too fast for me or there are multiple layers of melodies happening or something. If I had music sheet available for the song/piece in those instances (like I had for this song), then I look at the notes on the sheet to learn the melody. So it helps to be able to read the staff sometimes. You don't have to be fast at it (unless you're trying to sight-read while playing), but just being able to identify what the notes are on the staff can help. And I did that for like 12 years before I even started to really learn music theory.

[@JK-vf2hp]

Very helpful stuff. Thanks a million for the thoughtful reply. And thanks again for the awesome content!!

[@szabos1]

NIGGA THIS IS THE TIGHTEST SHIT EVER WTF

[@magic_hour7223]

i'm big fan of you from japan I listen this 10+times per a day lol because I have been fascinated by your playing. would you mind making this song's tab or chord progression or something?? I wish to practice your arrange but it is difficult for me to copy from video...

[@AntonBetita]

Thank you for your support and for the many views! I'm not gonna lie - I don't remember how to play most of this song. It was a very difficult song to learn and even more difficult to record, so after I uploaded the video I kind of wanted to just forget about it for a while, and before you know it, "a while" becomes "a long time" and now it's been so long since I last played this on the guitar that I no longer remember most of it 😆 I unfortunately don't have a tab or chord sheet for this available at the moment. I got the chords from a music sheet (for piano, lol) book that I got from Amazon a few years back. I'm always hesitant to post pictures of that music sheet because I'm worried about copyright stuff concerning the authors of the official sheet book. I suppose I COULD try to do a handwritten chord sheet for it, but it's just that I have so many other songs that I'm working on and making handwritten chord sheets for right now that I can't find the time to revisit older arrangements and do handwritten chords for them - especially ones that I can't even remember how to play fully! Maybe someday I'll make it, but I can make no promises at this time 😅

[@KittyStar251]

Pleeeeeaaaaase play eyes on me 😍😍😍

[@Fuchsia_tude]

I don't understand how your fingers are enough to produce the sounds coming out of this guitar.

[@loganjk8990]

how u get this good bro tell me what scales you used to figure this out or something lol I've been halfass playing guitar for a long time and am not close to this level Do you go one note at a time and write it down for each part and problem solve positioning to fit them all later?

[@AntonBetita]

Hi! Thank you for the compliment and the question. I enjoy being able to share the thought process behind my arrangements lol. I don't usually use scales to figure things out. I use chords. And I just happened to have sheet music for this piece that included the chords on top of the notation. As long as I know the chords to a song/piece, I can usually figure out the melody by ear based on those chords. The thing about the melody notes is they usually fall just around the chord shape that you're already fingering. So most of the time I'll just hold down the chord shape and play around with the surrounding notes with my free fingers to find the melody by trial and error. There are exceptions to these of course, but I generally follow the same principle for most of my solo arrangements. Chords go a long way in figuring out everything else!

[@loganjk8990]

Yooo I figured som of it out It's basically fingering around the b and e strings on a barrechord using scales on the second and seventh fret using the shape of Am while strumming the adg strings But you got such better um precision and enunciation and fancy flair tricks Still though Ty for this Still missing the intro but I figured a way to play those harmonics but my guitar is tuned a step down soy harmonics on the 12tj fret

[@naabiioww724]

I need to buy this tab and hurt my fingers. Sincerely

[@yakuroxiii9749]

Does anyone know where we can find the sheet music??