I love Rob on his own. I love Andrew on his own. But when the two of you collaborate, it's really next level every time. Probably my favorite kind of video on either channel, y'all just work so well together!
@@ajh.7 out of genuine curiosity, why leave this comment? while you definitely have a right to have a negative opinion, what benefit do you gain by sharing it here?
I've always looked up to Andrew as this musical wizard who can just do anything he wants and play whatever he wants. I've been kind of jealous, wishing that I could do what he can. Seeing him struggling and learning things in this video reminded me that he's just human, and he got to where he is through years of hard work. I better do the same
I love this comment. We can so easily forget how much of the hard work goes into it only seeing the final product. I absolutely agree being able to see these videos is absolute gold mine! Is there something you're working on right now?
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@@LegendaryMuffins God loves you all! The Father sent the Son to die for you and your sins so that you could experience freedom to the fullest! Believe in Christ's death and resurrection (which sealed the work done on the cross) for your salvation and the forgiveness of sins! Amen! God loves you all! The Father sent the Son to die for you and your sins so that you could experience freedom to the fullest! Believe in Christ's death and resurrection (which sealed the work done on the cross) for your salvation and the forgiveness of sins! Amen!!
I've been trying to get Rob's guitar flamenco hybrid style slap strumming for several years now, without much luck. The way he broke it down for Andrew in excruciating detail was exactly what I needed to finally break through the barrier. Fantastic! This was a lot of fun to watch, and reminds me a lot of when I would interact with my own guitar teachers
Honestly I still don't get how he does triplets. If I move fingers at all, I'm not able to do triplets fast. If I don't move fingers and move my wrist, it's hard to find comfortable position for my middle and ring finger in which the strums by these fingers are separate. If I bend first strumming up finger too much (I tried both orders) it just gets stuck between strings. If I don't bend it enough, first strum doesn't finish by the time second starts. If someone figured it out, help me please!
The only way I found that works without moving fingers is bending my wrist so my first strumming finger is pointed more towards the bridge instead of into fingerboard. But once again, I can't bend and unbend my wrist fast enough and I'm pretty sure that's not healthy for my wrist
One of the greatest signs of mastery is being able to deconstruct complex techniques into understandable bits. Rob is truly a master of the guitar, maybe not in the traditional meaning of the word, but a master nonetheless.
It's interesting hearing Rob talk about what got him into music, funny enough it's because of him that I found Andrew's channel and that's what got me into making music (saw the colab between them on the OP-1 several years back) and it's just been a whole new love of music ever since!
I think I found both of their channels during the one hour song challenge era. Which now that I think about it, is probably not even a challenge for the duo who keeps managing entire albums in a single day. It's kind of bonkers how much the channels have changed over the years.
I also found Andrew through Rob. I saw Rob opening for John Green (of John and Hank fame) in Seattle and was so impressed I saved his name in my phone and looked him up later. Then Andrew got me into Ableton and I'm learning to drum.
Same, I got into music after coming across Rob’s videos with musicians of instruments, and found Andrew and Brandon Acker from there. All 3 are very inspiring musicians, Brandon more classical and early music focused, Rob does metal and introduces me to various genres through those instrument showcase videos and Andrew does electronic music and music production combined with everything else.
This video is a freaking crash course on guitar and bass techniques, Rob is such a great musician and teacher, and Andrew is such a talent as well. Please make more videos like this!
I didn't know I needed this, but seeing Andrew learning from someone else and not teaching us something was really refreshing, and shows he is always ttying to improve, as all music makers should
First the hundred riffs in a day, and now this - I can't imagine how great album 5 is gonna be now that FOO is (inconspicuously) rehearsing through the year!
The danger of commenting while watching the video is that now I want a FOO song where both you and Rob play guitar 'cause MAN those harmonies at 11:05 were cool
Rob is such a fantastic teacher. Not only can he segment complicated principles into easily managed lessons, but he’s super encouraging and fun. Great video guys.
This is a super underrated method of sharing techniques. Watching someone else learn is soooo helpful! Instead of the instructor setting the pace, the student sets the pace!
This is amazing. Slap bass finally makes sense to me. One thing I noticed while messing around with tapping is that the strum hand can bend much easier than the fret hand can but I don't see a lot of guitar players tapping and bending. So much respect for being a digital music producer that understands the value of instrumental skill.
I'm sure people have already said it but the word for Rob's "sprinting" is rasgueado. It's a spanish guitar thing... the spanish kinda mastered the guitar in a lot of ways.
Rob and Andrew always know the Best questions to ask and always have the Best explanations to answer them. As a science communicator, this and the Modular Synth video are some of my favorite explainers ever, period.
It's such a relief to hear someone who's been playing a long time to talk how difficult pitch harmonics are. It took me so long, legit years to play that one riff in laid to rest consistently
Seeing you two together is always such a joy. I never played a guitar or knew a lot about it but even I think I picked up some really cool techniques and feel like I understood how they worked. Have been rewatching your collabs recently so this came at the perfect time, always love to see more!
Holy cow, was not expecting Rob to drop a Marx Bros reference!!! I'm a big fan of the Marx Bros, and I always loved Chico's piano playing. Thanks for dropping some real old school knowledge on the kids.
The way Rob said about seeing slap for the first time and thought to himself "I have to learn that". I felt exactly the same with flat picking (bluegrass style), I see it I fell in love, taken 2 years, and still not up to speed
A note to my fellow tappers and slappers - the "magic" is the compressor pedal, which evens out (compresses) the volume of the low and high notes. That's how a twelfth fret high E can be heard while also tapping a low note.
13:27 I think harp harmonics actually refers to alternating flageolets/harmonics with open or fretted strings. There is an old Lenny Breau video where he covers this technique. Ted Greene was also good at it. It's a bit more compilacated than just playing arpeggios with harmonics and sounds sooo much cooler.
I learned so much today and I plan to come back to this video again and try to practice everything I saw in it! Thanks Andrew! And I hope we can see more videos like this in the future! :D
That pinch harmonic feeling they described immediately took me back to the first time I successfully nailed a pinch and that was all I wanted to do for days. It made me feel incredible. To this day a "nasty" well placed pinch will give me goosebumps. I still love adding them to songs that don't otherwise have them. Got me in trouble when I played in a country band.
In a condensed amount of time this had the most information and least wasted time of hundreds of videos regarding guitar playing I've watched over the past 3 years.
Oh boy do I remember those days - going to a friend's house with a printer or the school library to get They Might Be Giants tabs to practice accordion to or getting frustrated with Guided By Voices guitar tabs cause it sounded 'off' and it took me a while to realize in the old days that band may have been in tune with each other but not quite in standard tuning so it all sounded like blue notes. The kids have it easy when it comes to self-teaching, and good on 'em. Use whatever tools you've got.
Wow I wasn't expecting much from a title like that but this was an increbily entertaining and educational video. Rob is such a kind and competent teacher! Thanks for this one, I learned a lot. I liked how rob was so nice the whole time except for when the Noise gate cut off his pinch harmonic. "I think that got cut by your noise gate" had this undertone of disgust, disappointment, and vengefulness that is hard to achieve. That man loves his pinch harmonics and won't let anything or anyone get in the way of him and them.
I spent megabucks on Guitar Magazines and hit the library for books to read and learned nothing :\ 25 years I’m really enjoying these videos and learning a metric heck ton. Thank you guys very much!
that second trick rob taught where you do like a double tap is used on Hits from the bong and Son of a preacher man and might even be a sample from an older song, but it's a double tap into a slide down to the 12th and then hit a harmonic, think it's a whole step double slide into a harmonic and then a half step then a harmonic I think that's how it goes if I remember correct, but it's that part you instantly recognize about both songs, cool trick and one of the first I learned.
i feel like this should be the epitome of music, sharing techniques and allowing others to learn how they can make amazing music for others and pass the techniques on
im a bassist but when i do artificial harmonics, such as the ones heard on weather report's "birdland", i actually pick with my first finger and create the harmonic with my thumb. i dont know if anyone finds that easier on guitar but that hand mechanism is also kind of where pinch harmonics stem from as well from my observation
You got me at tip 1! Every time I've tried tapping for the last 30 years it's sounded like that noise you get if you bend off the end of a fret. This works for me!
pinch harmonics are my favs, and every show we play with our metal band, i hope i dont screw up the important pinch harmonics exactly because of all the things named in the video. love when andrew and rob makes video's together!
I love the two of you together sharing the unique expertise each of you have with one another! I hope to see a lot more of these sorts of videos! Thank you!
Honestly, these days I feel a lot of music youtube guys are kind of annoying and out of touch. I really like both of you and together you guys are really fun to watch👍🏼
As a classical guitarist, I find the artificial harmonics with a fretted fundamental is much more easily done plucking with the middle finger of your picking hand rather than how Rob demonstrates with his thumb on the picking hand. Muting the fundamental is still done with the index finger. This gives you a bit more control over the dynamics of the note as you don't have to "push through" the string to sound the string and it also allows you to setup for another pluck while (ideally) not changing the structural set of the hand as this technique really requires it. Its also a bit more comfortable in the long term if you do it a lot, mostly due to the existing curvature of your fingers. I don't think there is any risk of injury using the technique demonstrated in the video so definitely do it like this if it works for you but because you have to set your hand muscles to control it and make it clean, I find that it can cause quick fatigue/cramping in the plucking/picking hand and forearm. This is used a lot in the more complex and modern classical pieces and I personally find it much easier to do using my middle finger to pluck. Great video otherwise, lots of good information here!
The joy of playing a tasty pinch harmonic for the first time is such a fun thing to witness haha. I remember the first time doing it, I was absolutely thrilled. “Look mom, I can squeal!”. Any non musician looks at you like you’re crazy haha.
This was amazing, I felt like I was taking part in the lesson, was just sitting there with my guitar and also trying whatever was shown on the video. Great stuff!!
a lot of people, at least people i know, don’t really understand how important muting the strings you don’t want to hear is. also i’ve been learning slap lately and at least for me it helps having my strap as high up as it goes. for me at least it helps me to not completely miss the strings
Some of these techniques are such essential building blocks, I'm amazed an experienced and talented musician like Andrew didn't know them yet. Looking forward to seeing how you use them in future songs!
What an amazing, informative video. There are so many core concepts to build up that will benefit guitarists everywhere while understanding the technicality behind. Thank you for this Rob and Andrew!
Andrew takes instruction incredibly well. Having a good teacher is only part of the equation in learning. You have to be a willing, open learner to get the most out of the lesson.
I would love for Andrew to take a look at the things Steve Bailey has done with harmonics on his fretless 6 string bass. It's magical stuff, it seems like the guy plays two different instruments on top of themselves.
You could get the same effect of a pinch harmonic if you use the same technique on the 12th fret, but on the 3rd & 5th fret as well. & then you could bend & vibrato that bruther to heck
Was surprised how easy it was to start doing pinch harmonics once I had a decent explanation of the technique. It's not as though I'm particularly good at anything else, so it's funny that that would be the one thing I nail. One of my favourite things to do lately is to use my thumb to slam the strings inward towards the pickup while muting the strings I don't want to sound. Doing it through distortion creates a noise that's somewhere between a strum and a harmonic and it can make for some really nice noisy rhythm riffs. I'm not sure if it's something you'd want to do in a typical rock or metal sound but for the industrial styles I'm into it's great for adding a little more demented-ness into the mix.
Rob's unique slap strumming style is pretty much how Justin Townes Earle (RIP) played. If you don't know him, check him out. That technique made JTE a real freight train of a folk guitar player.
Thanks for doing this and please do more, you two working together create some of the most cohesive, informative, and entertaining material out there - seriously had some breakthrough moments on topics that I've been working on for months in these 20 minutes!
