Hide and Seek (Imogen Heap) Solo Guitar by Antoine Dufour 

Just ate mine for dinner too. Amazing arrangement

@@samjones5286 Burp!

That's exactly what I tougth too.

You will enjoy this for years to come.

How wonderfully descriptive of your delight Rob!

For real I was not expecting that level of detail. That vocoder had a total shitload of harmonies and tones going on at once but this did a pretty amazing job of replicating that.

lol, i tried playing this song several times and got far. always wondered what kind of song this is, and today i checked out the original first time :D thats why it sounded like "not a guitar song" to me.

Arrangement *

... So, the main theme of this song is just Adel's song "someone like you" instrumental version, listen carefully...😅 Most people like this song because of that and they even know this hahha

SEKYHM check out "transit" a capella from north carolina.

SEKYHM "Music is the space between the notes. It’s not the notes you play; it’s the notes you don’t play."

SEKYHM That cover by Mike Semesky tho

exactly, sekyhm! this does a great job capturing the same emotion without a single actual word. it gives me chills.

beautiful!

So beautiful. Never thought this could be played on a guitar

Beckie Jane Brown holy crap it’s Beckie, i remember seeing your RU-vid channel a few years ago. Small RU-vid, eh

haha, sounds about right

Would be better to be in a room with him listening

Stephen Sheriff I love when a player is refined to a point of seemingly considering every detail of the note they are playing. It is incredible.

The original was nothing but vocals: layers and layers of them.

Charlee Murphee A vocoder is operated via an audio track. The vocal track is processed through the vocoder synth, so I can understand how one could interpret it either way - as a synth or as layered vocals. Though it's not pure vocal looping, you're still always hearing the vocal signal come through at all times. Vocoders are awesome like that.

What makes it beautiful though is that for a vocoder you still have to sing in key, otherwise the layering goes (horribly) wrong.

well if you keep singing into the vocoder at a steady pitch without fluctuating your voice, in most cases it tracks and layers well

+Charlee Murphee but she actually sang the song with a chorus... it was absolutely amazing...

3nn0r4th Exactly.

Well said.

Me too! Antoine is amazing.

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Rory G love your profile pic, i have the same one on my other account

i cried too...it was me and my meant-to-be fiance`s song... but it`s all gone and all i am left with is this song...

ReleaseDigest29 I hope you and Dezmaine get back together ;)

Thanks man but I'm still with her haha we got married a while back

At least 5 mins

@@MrMaRzZ At least 6 mins

@@mememyselfandi4582 No, at least seven.

@@Sinnergy No, at least eight.

@@JSS011 probably at least nine

Fun fact- he’s actually playing the strings above the nut. Listen to the end of the original; there’s a “twinkly, wind-chime-y” synth pad to give a bit of ambience, and that’s what Antoine simulated with playing above the nut.

Agreed. I'm always amazed watching him. The flawless technique, huge tone and emotion he puts into his performances...I think detailed is a great way of describing him.

+Stef De Maere 0:00 till 4:42 an perfect example of a masterpiece.

+Pedro Bermudes wow youre so original bro

>Implying that this looks easy 😅

Those harmonics are crazy.

Tuning DAEACE > It's not so bad, even simplified it sounds lovely, however Antoine has perfected it.

He really captured the essence of the song, didn't he? Loved your cover of Somebody I Used to Know too!

Rael0505 wrong guy, that was Mike Dawes that did the Gotye cover

shoetree But Michael Chapdelaine did it too; Michael Chapdelaine's cover is on his personal channel, and not the Candyrat channel as Mike Dawes' is.

True, I have seen it also and it is very good too but not Antoine Dufour

Matthew Chovanec Hey man you know the tuning . would you be willing to share?

Hey Zack, it's D-A-E-Ab-A-E (basically an A5maj7 chord with D in Bass oder Dsus2/4add9 whatever) but I would recommend you to tune it down one step to C-G-D-Gb-G-D and use a capo on 2nd fret so your D or G-String won't snap. good luck!

I know it's a bit late, but a great tip for tuning to higher tunings that risk snapping strings is to do a very small turn downwards first, before going up just a tad more. So think of it as one step down to go two steps up. It helps the strings take the progressive tension, rather than going straight into tuning higher (you do this for every single turn of the tuning peg, not just the first). And obviously you do it as slowly, steadily and consistently as possible. Hopefully it'll help in the future. And of course if your strings are still struggling, but you often use/want to use higher tunings, you can always change the gauge of the strings you use to ones that are more suited to taking the higher tension. Though for the tuning of this song a medium-range gauge should be fine (it might be an issue of string quality - Ernie Ball and Elixir are the only string brands most fingerstyle guitarists bother with). Happy playing everybody.

I just found this site to tune the guitar with D A E Ab A E. Select "custom tuning" and you can enter the notes you want. I'm not working for them, it's just the only one I found to do a custom tuning. This song is hard but so interesting to learn. www2.fender.com/experience/online-guitar-tuner/

"D-A-E-Ab-A-E" Dumb question, is that low string to high string or the other way around?

This is "Beauregard"guitar.

It's a played by Antoine Guitar

I would bet that the tuning evolves early on, but not necessarily before. I wouldn't consider myself on Dufour or the likes level, so I am only guessing what someone of that caliber would do haha

When transposing onto guitar, first its good to locate the lowest note and tune your low E to that, from listening to the song then we can establish it's key and mode. This song is in D lydian mode, so you can basically tune your strings around that. Start with tuning the strings to the closest note in the scale/mode and then experiment to get the different chord shapes for the many chord variants. Hope that helps

JakeyBoi1694 Exactly what I would have said. It really isn't rocket science or brain surgery.

I've never used this tuning it's beautiful thanks man! :)

Warren Turner It's really simple- just tune based by what you like, and follow your ear. A lot of people will throw theory at you- which is nice but confusing if you don't know it. They are simply trying to explain in technical/visual terms on how to follow your ear. Just tune to what sounds interesting, or good to you- you figure out what tuning after.

He's using his arm to push in and bend the wood top which causes the bridge to "stretch" the strings in and out very slightly, creating a type of vibrato. Basically the same effect a tremolo bar creates on an electric guitar.

Jake East Thanks for the information - very clear explanation. That makes sense. I would also like to say how pleased I am to have this question answered so promptly and thoroughly. Seriously, it's just amazing how that works this day and age. So cool!

i think u dont actually need to push it hard though just lightly touch the surface of the guitar top with ur arm. u should try it!

it's kind of like having a whammy bar, nonetheless. it pushes the neck away from the body of the guitar, stretching the strings more, like Jake said. :D

You do not need a lot of force to hear the effect, but the more you do the more you stretch the strings (or reduce the tension on the strings if you do it the other way around) and the more of a change in pitch you get. There is no need to be overly cautious either, the neck of the guitar is a sturdy thing and can handle quite a bit.

bending the guitar itself, literally...

+Conor Crowe not bending the guitar, damping the top vibrations and releasing them

yep, i noticed that when i tried.

+Richard Harris The timing doesn't quite work. Different speeds and different length breaks.

you gotta pause it sometimes ;)

+Aerosmith589 is it possible to listen to that version? where have you found it?

+Riccardo B. /watch?v=0N72tY5z2b8

***** Indeed, yes.

Jesse Clark I don't think its an error in pitches necessarily. I think It might be an issue with parallel intervals (5ths) between the top part and the melody. The chords should be inverted differently to avoid that. Otherwise excellent work.

Jesse Clark he's adding a lot of Maj7 and Maj9 to these chords. Also the fact that his tuning is modal means that he's trying to incorporate as many common tone connections between changes. Also he's playing around with the leading tone in many chords, especially on the subdominant making that #11(add9) chord.

Mason is right. He's got a note above the melody at that point which should be an octave lower to recreate the same original voicings of the inversion. There is no A dim.

+Jesse Clark I think that was intentional? Anyway I think if possible he actually IMPROVED that section of the song. In his version you can hear the little descending c# b a that gets kind of lost in the vocodering...

The hardest part of commenting on music is that I have no musical background so I have absolutely no tools to use to critique or compliment what I just heard. It was really good, a nice interpretation, it doesn't flow in some areas as the original does, which for some bizarre reason made me wary, but it was a beautiful rendition.

Steen Punk envy? :D

They want to hear the beat drop

>White >Male >Current Millenia

Some men just want to watch the world burn...

+chyo okya I first heard that song on an episode of CSI: Miami(yeah, i know lol). they solved a tough and very sad case and the closing shots were of the victims being zipped up in body bags and thats when they played the song. Im pretty sure Im going to hear this as soundtrack when I die and my life flashes before my eyes.

+Freakybananayo Yes, that's where Jason Derulo took his idea from.

GuitarCoversForYou From this video?

+Freakybananayo the song

Goofy Hoop Well no shit

Freakybananayo hey not my fault you weren't clear with your question

It's not his actual thumbnail. It's an acrylic nail he glues and cuts down to size for a cleaner tone when picking.

I'm glad I'm not the only one. The original did it, a euphonium version I saw did it, and this one sealed the deal. There's something mystical about this song!

imogen heap....

no shit

MIDImorphosis i think you meant, "No! ... shit."

i think you meant "im sorry midimorphosis, you obviously making joke and im a fucking idiot for not noticing since this song is associated with jason derulo who says his own name in every fucking song"

imogen heap....