Discovered your channel only a few days ago, fell in love (in a stranger para-social don't stalk me, but I send you good vibes "love you" kinda way) with you, great personality. I also play guitar and sing, do you happen to have Telegram so we can text from time to time ? That's definitely one of the most weird comment I wrote on RU-vid period.
@@MorgulUruk thanks for your support! I'm afraid I don't use Telegram. I'm old enough to remember when RU-vid felt like a community and you could DM people! Unfortunately, the times have changed and it would seem we're limited to comment-based interactions, these days. Kind regards!
Thank for saying so! I had the rare negative comment today, and as if the Bat Signal went up, I got a few very lovely comments including yours, out of nowhere! I'm so glad to know people enjoy what I do. And I promise I'll finish the rest of the songs someday!
@@MrTomfooligans then i'll keep waiting, i feel like this channel is like a table with wine and good friends, so dont let haters get in between something that is made by a fan for other fans
Hi this is from Puerto Rico, I’m a really big fan of HIM, and I was just searching up covers and when I saw this lesson on how to play it I immediately clicked on it. I’ve loved this song for years, I watched the entire video and I’m really inspired. Thank you so much for doing this, I know I’m a little late to the video but I really enjoyed it. I have difficulties learning and this is exactly how I learn thank you!😊
Ryan, thank you for watching, and thank you for the compliment. I'm sorry: strumming is not my strong suit, and I do it very inconsistently. This is part of why I overlook strumming in all my videos. It's a real area for growth. It's tough, because I'm only behind my keyboard now, and that's not any kind of way to offer guidance on music, but I'll try. Start with the standard pattern, D-DU-UDU (down (4th), down (8th)-up (4th), up (8th) down (8th) up (8th)). If you are unfamiliar, or a total beginner to music, then my description will not be very helpful, so you should then seek out a video on beginner guitar strumming patterns. It will come up for sure. You can probably also just RU-vid search "DDUUDU" and I bet it will come up. That is more or less what my arm is doing throuhout this song (I think). That being said, it's modified, because I will swing past the strings (skipping over them) at different times than the standard pattern. What you may notice though is that my arm is essentially constantly going DUDUDUDU (or, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up), which is to say, evenly, whether my pick connects with the strings or I skip them. That's really all a strumming pattern is for a beginner: keeping an even rhythm with your arm, and connecting with the strings when you mean to (on the ups or downs that are occurring naturally in your even up-down rhythm). I'm sorry this isn't more helpful, but I promise, if you stick to playing guitar, and keep taking advantage of the many free resources out there (RU-vid, JustinGuitar, etc.), then a year, or three, or five, or ten years from now, you will look back at this video, and not only understand what my arm is doing, but you'll almost certainly be doing it better than me. I stagnated in my technique ages ago, and I'm looking for an opportunity to open someday in my schedule for me to take lessons from a professional so I can start growing again. There's always room to improve, so take what you can from my videos, and don't let their shortcomings become your shortcomings. If you have a question, seek out the answer. If something is difficult, practice it until it becomes easy. You got this!
It's me again. I've almost got this this thing down pat. I could probably play it with my fingers in my ears if I had more hands. The next step is to learn how to play and sing at the same time.
Be forgiving of how difficult that process will be in the start. Try just down strumming on quarter notes while singing for a start. Doing that and changing chords in time will be tricky. At some points you'll have to make the conscious leap to sing and strum, knowing you're going to do it poorly and derail what previously felt like it was going well. It helps to practice in private because those moments can be embarrassing but it's also important to allow for being embarrassed 'in front of' yourself. Those brain-scrambling off-the-rails moments are integral to carving new neural pathways. So be patient with yourself but willing to take the risk of sounding bad and feeling silly. Then, it'll come together faster than you think.
My friend showed me this in high school maybe 2001 and I was just like who is this guy?! I love him. They teased me said he looked like a girl but I was love at first song and sight. Cky video I think it was. To me it felt so fresh but 80's style and reminded me of billy idol and I absolutely loved billy idol and all 80's music. A few years later I got my hands on everything they created and went to their first US tour in 04, then again in 05, 06 & 07. This band and Villes voice and poetry saved me so many times. Thank you for sharing! I have to learn this song 🙌🏽🔥❤️
Thank you for the compliment! HIM is what I grew up singing and arguably, that's how I began learning to sing, driving my car in high school. I'm sure I modeled my singing voice on Ville Valo, haha.
Great! My first and only song i know on acoustic since 2004! )) When i take any acoustic guitar for all these years I’m always playing these chords 😂 also to check if guitar is tuned.
So how I got into him was through a friend him and his fiancées song was right here in my arms and he played it for me one day and since that day I’ve been hooked right here in my arms is my favorite I also really like your sweet 666 heartache every moment and killing loneliness also you have a nice voice and I like your tattoos
Hi, I'm not very good at playing guitar, so I'm looking for simple guitar tutorials on RU-vid. And your teaching helps me learn the songs of my favorite band. Thank you for this. I would be very grateful if you made a video about Vampire heart, this is one of my favorite song
Thank you for watching my video! I have every intention of making a Vampire Heart video someday. Unfortunately I am very busy right now with home, work, and school. But I have not abandoned my channel and someday I expect to make a video for every HIM song.
Thanks for this once I learn and master basic chords I’ll definitely learn this I’ve never learned bar chords tho so hopefully I can learn it just knowing basic chords
Glad to have you here! But to my mind it sounds like you're at the exact right place to start learning barre chords! Just start with F and work on that for a while. If you can do F, you've won half the battle!
It's fun as hell. There's a lot of a little caveats with chords, and the opening riff is just from the live version. They use that lead up at their concerts and its always different
Entirely possible. I often come back to these videos years later and decide something was wrong or inauthentic. The nice thing though is that if you've got the ear for detecting a way in which you think you can improve on it, then you probably don't need too much of my help anyway.
I believe what I was referring to (2 years ago; forgive me if I get this wrong) was flexing the grip of your fret hand on and off in order to make the notes you're strumming sound a little more staccato. The only way I can think to describe it in text is for you to strum a chord and then release the strength in your fret hand, and hear how that sounds as the note falls away. Play with that a bit. Strum and release, strum and release. You're not lifting your fingers off the strings...just changing the tension in them so the strings stop vibrating. Now, if you combine this changing of grip (on and off) with your strumming, you can add a bit of...well, punch, to the strumming pattern you were going to play anyway. It adds a touch of personality.
