Andy McKee - Drifting | London Live Sessions 

As groundbreaking as the original version was, something about this feels so perfect. Like this is how it perhaps always should've been. The song has aged like a fine wine. Andy is a boss.

I feel like he’s not just a musician playing an instrument. He’s more of a magical wizard summoning interdimensional tone fairies.

This will forever be a staple of acoustic guitar as a whole. This guy changed the game.

How lucky is that guitar to be played by Andy Mckee!

This is probably one of the greatest guitar performances of all time.

I thought it was a mere intro and he'd then start the song at the beginning but holy shit the transition from fingerpicking to his fretboard tapping, I did NOT expect that to happen so fluently, heart stopped for a moment, what a goddamn genius.

Oh my god!! This version is the best, just wow!

This will always and forever be one of my favourite guitar tunes Even years on with a little twist it’s amazing.

How technical this song is, blinds the amazing dynamics andy is showing us. IT IS JUST MINDBLOWING how andy is expressing this song his song in his own way

I like how he started playing the guitar more traditional and slowly went into the finger style drifting that we all remember from a decade ago

That part @ 0:50 is beautiful. Man, such a simple and small part of a song that just takes me to a different place. I love this guy.

I'll echo some of the comments here. I remember being taken aback by this song and Andy's style (even though I'd seen Stanley Jordan do this type of work YEARS ago) when I first saw it. It was nothing like I'd heard before. As others have said, this is an improvement over the original 'Candyrat' video. I say this because I believe that the fact that he is using an amplified acoustic makes a whole lot of difference. I find the bass notes much deeper and resonant while the higher notes are crisper and clearer. The vibrato he applies to the chords in the 1:56 - 2:10 mark are a nice little nuance that brings out just a little bit more in the melody.

fucking love that andy always seems to say thank you with his head to the fret

I just saw him a few weeks ago, and have been a long time listener. This version is by far the best. What an incredibly gifted man...

Oh my God, what an amazing performer. Even putting aside the insane amount of skill and practice it takes to do this, it's still unbelievable. His touch is soft when it needs to be and very heavy when it doesn't, the dynamics in this song are just as gorgeous as the melody

Each time he improves this tune I think, This is it. It can't get better. And then he proves me wrong with a version like this.

For some reason I recognized he's wearing a Bob Ross shirt behind that guitar. I only know because I have the same one and recognized the text font. It says, "No Mistakes, Just Happy Accidents." Somehow fitting for Andy McKee

This Song was the main reason y i started to play guitar 14years ago

This may be the most beautiful string playing I have ever heard.

Andy is the type of guy to put out a masterpiece composition and then find 10 ways to improve it immediately after. He makes it look so flawless and easy when he's up there doing his thing. Big time respect

best version I've seen ...and that guitar sound just great

Beautiful song Andy Mckee.

That's an awesome performance of an awesome tune! And man is that action low!

Legend

This version of Drafting is the best I have ever heard until now.

a true virtuoso being called that is the highest compliment any musician can ever attain. the difference is he performs all this stuff and he makes it look so easy.

One of my favorite Guitarist.

Love the slight shift from percussive to just the music.

Drifting changed my life and the perspective of how I took it. It's just amazing!

Such a good version of this classic! Was great to see in Copenhagen the other week, Andy!

Full of emotion and accumulation of thoughts.

Many fingerstyle guitarists out there. But as far as I know Andy McKee is the best.

come to Brasil!!!!!!!!!!!! We love you.

Back to the past time...still amazing to listen

Keep coming back to this !

Nobody in the whole world will achive playing that song with the passion you put in it. That´s why that is consider the most difficult song to play.

The melodies are orgasmic. 👏

was so damn lucky to see andy perform live in scotland was browsing for tickets to see who was playing live just out of bordom then i saw he was playing never bought tickets so fast in my life

Andy.... where do I start with this tune. It took me about 3 years to learn how to play it properly and I've been playing since I was 5. I took this tune to a local gig down in south Wales called "the last Friday club" in Cymaman, Aberdare. This was when I was a university student and knew nothing about life... and the people there appreciated this song no end and to this day is has remained so close to my heart. What a song and thank you Andy.

What a performance

love this version without the opening taps...also love how a song is never finished; Andy's songs always seem to evolve with new grooves, taps, subtleties over time, when you watch newer versions they're always a little different...great stuff

This guy is a LEGEND!

This takes me back. Thank you for the wonderful music and memories, Andy.

I love the evolution of this piece!

I still come back to listen to this. just beautiful

This is like an acoustic version to the acoustic version. 👍🏼

This guitar is lit...as always

I've listened to this song since Andy's first version, and to see how much he has tweaked it since the beginning is amazing. He has put so much into this song and is such a talented musician. Props man.

I love this introspective version ♥

I've been practicing this. It's quite challenging.

NICE

I love this song thx andy

Bloody incredible

I hope that guitar is at least 18 years old.

This is pure magic! Never gets old

I saw a lot of people covering this song. But no one was able to play as well as Andy McKee

blessed

what a man..

Someone could tell me who is andy? Cause i'm so amazed

Best version!!

amazing. I really love this version.

Legend as always ❤️

some people are just born to play guitar.

why isn't he drifting the way he's known to drift? This is like one day mom makes some awesome dish and you ask for it again and she gives something else that you regret to have swallowed in the first place! Going back to that old video of his!

Those chords he plays during the intro remind me a lot of MJ's Human Nature. I really love this recording though!

OH My Godness

Master !!!!!

Amazing!!! This is my favorite version. It's the most convincing music piece I have come across. Loved it. Does anyone have the tabs for this version?? If you do then please send me. Thanks

Come to Viet Nam. I like this verson. Thank Andy....!!!

heavenly

that sequential thre finger pulloff at 1:56 is masterful

That was mesmerizing.. Brilliant performance

Es un grande

fantastic, some modifications needed on my version now

At first I was disappointed because I thought he wasn't gonna play it the older way. This was great 👍

Me: 00:20 - hey, it's drifting! I love the song! nice version! 00:30 - I think i can play this version! 00:40 - Daaaammmmiiiiitt McKee!!!!!

Beautiful!

Good afternoon I've been playing the guitar since I was 11 now I'm 64 I am truly amazed how you are a great musician and the question that I have is that what tuning do you use mostly to play

Brilliant 🥇

Wow....

awesome!!!!

Woww❤️

My eyes: I got it! My hands: No you don't!

still killing it. love this guys style. :)

🌸

DADGAD

thanks for the video, but how can you use this information? I mean, its not like you can now build chords yourself, since you don't know how many of the 3 notes there are in the chord etc. You surely can use this information but i just dont see it so please let me know :)

It’s the Samwell Tarly of guitar!

I wish I could applaud in the phone

Could almost be titled, "Drifting Part 2".

Started learning this a few years ago but then forgot about it. Took it up again last week. My biggest problem is getting the volume out of my right hand tapping. I've got a great guitar and my action is really good but for some reason it is tough to get sound out. It's like he either has a really good guitar or very strong fingers. Probably both.

Guitar was perfectly in kee.

Is there no sheet music for this version?

T O N E

The new intro sounds nice, I need to figure it out

1:03 wowowowowowow

He switched the tuning and key in this version im pretty sure. Anyone know what tuning or key this version is played in?

이 버전 악보 받고싶다

i have to disagree with everyone.... the original Kandyrat video in early 2ks was the best version of "Drifting" to this day.... crazy thing is sound quality was shit and yet the video was still gold.

Could someone make a tab or a lesson about that beginning changes?