I practiced ONLY THIS for 4 years straight. Cliffs of Dover. Eric Johnson. 

This is one of my favorite songs of all time and you did an INCREDIBLE job

You should drop the tone video bro

sounds great Ive been playing 40 years cant play that

Nice job

Nice you nailed it enjoyed the listen terrific tune loved it

Hahah that's a good one.

That was the first thing I thought hahaha

Hahahaha

As Sun Zu once said: «my balls hurt». Deep words that changed the lives of many.

​@@maks2001mail "Do no harm, take no shit"- The Buddha

Hahaha

☺️👍🏼✌🏼

This is true in Clone Hero for me.

This reminds me of a guy I met years ago when I was in a metal band. His warmup was Instrumedley by Dream Theater. He played this song almost flawlessly in its entirety. But the guy couldnt play anything else at all. Everything he tried to write and play was just a slight variation of instrumedley by dream theater. After a few practices he ended up telling us that he learned guitar 8 years ago and the first song he learned was instrumedley and that was the only song he ever played. He ended up not joining the band bc all he knew was dream theater

@@TheAngryFapper A cautionary tale.

Where do you think he missed?

@@Silentnemesis2710Look, this is THE MOST ACCURATE version of the song I've ever seen anyone play, even Eric Johnson don't do this HAHHAA- but 0:10 there's one, 1:31 tone is slightly off, 02:22 there's one, 02:32, 02:55, 03:10 tone, 03:49 is slightly off, 04:00 entry to the last shred is slightly off- but to be 100% fair, since the song has ~1300 notes, he's actually above 99% HAHAH

@@Mr.PotatoAWESOMEFitnessTips Your ear is way better than mine. Even after listening to the timestamps I see nothing obvious, maybe a missed note at 02:32?

@@Silentnemesis2710 HAHAHA too much Guitar Hero 3 growing up HAHAHA yup', there's one at 02:32

I agree. For me 3:39 was probably the biggest mistake. I feel like an arrogant a-hole, but I heard a lot of other mistakes too. Right at 0:05 the bend was too far and sharp. At 0:11 he hit the wrong note… at 0:15 the bend was wrong… and so on blah blah blah… 1:30 wrong note… 1:36 the bend was off… 2:20 wrong note…2:43 wrong note… 3:50 a huge mess… yeah yeah… BUT… does it matter? No, you’re right, it was still AWESOME!! Those mistakes don’t matter, because he essentially made the piece his own at that point. Very good playing and I agree, one of the best covers I’ve heard. The mistakes don’t matter. This was amazing to listen to! I can only imagine how much he learned through this and now how much he’ll be able to play other solos. Hats off to him! I can’t wait to hear what he has in store… well, hopefully sooner than four years from now!

lmfao XD

LOL

😂😂😂

hahahahhahaha

i was gonna comment that as well. he nailed every single notes

Thats what I was saying! I legit cant find a fault! This is the best cover on film. Guaranteed or your money back.

same!

@@St3althytoast3rTV there's some minor syncopation mistakes in the beginning, and just a few throughout. but it doesnt really matter, sounds amazing.

It's been many years since I've heard this song, but it was certainly close enough to what I remember to transport me back to playing Guitar Hero 3 about 15 years ago. Memory is a crazy thing when it ties so strongly to your senses like that.

@@St3althytoast3rTV He does 1 or 2 tiny weeeeny little mistakes but you'd have to be Eric or superhero to probably not do those! Amazing amazing cover, sat here absolutely mesmerized

there's like one sweep lol

Is there a source for that ?

I want the source too

He should have waited much longer before performing it to the public because it fucking sucks. No lyrics means poor songwriting by cowardly men

Seriously, it shows or you can tell too.

swear he wrote it in five mins

With four years of practice neck yeah. Talk about commitment

Rick Graham has the best version I've seen (since Johnson never plays it the same way twice). I highly recommend watching his version. It's eerie how easy he makes it look.

Well. Done.

Yup

@@SDesWriterI think this version is pretty spot on

My favorite part of the whole thing

I'm his dad and we have a house full of vinyl and even 78s- that's how I used to learn as well.

@DouglasOuimette What did you play on?

@@jortimant This right here. Parenting done right.

what a beautiful comment

If he's already lived 2 dozen times how many lives does he have left?? Perhaps he's some type of super cat 🤔

I played Guitar Hero 3, so I am also choked up.

I live in Austin where a good friend of mine is a guitar player and as he says “I’m a pretty good guitar player. But Austin doesn’t need any more pretty good guitar players.”

@wyleftw fav internet comment ive seen in years

This is from one reddit post I remember before: "I remember being about 8, and in the car with my dad. I was in the front seat and we were driving somewhere, and this song came on the radio. He cranked it and said something about it being the best guitar playing ever. He really jammed out, which was really uncharacteristic because he was usually so stoic. It was the only time I heard the song, and he died before I could ever ask him what song it was. When I asked around, no one knew wtf I was talking about or what song I was thinking of. So I had this melody in my head for years, but how do you look up a song that has no lyrics? So for years and years, this song stayed on the back burner in my brain. I was afraid to forget it. Somehow this story pops up when I'm like 26 or so, chatting with my husband and we searched RU-vid for "best guitar songs". After about 15 minutes, we find it. Cliffs of Dover was the song that I'd burned into my brain on repeat for 16 years. Now I jam out to it with my kids." u/1thruZero

I never liked this song.

My friend and I are in our early 50s and his mom would drive us to EJ concerts when we were 15 years old and arrange for us to attend promising we wouldn’t drink. These shows were at the famous Rockerfellas in Houston, TX. We’ve seen Eric play full Hendrix or Beatles sets before and YES this song goes all the way back to at least then.

@@iceWaterProductions1 I miss Houston , Backstage , Power Tools , Kel Dogs !!!

​@@bradleymorris8875no one asked or cares

nooooo that first bend at 0:14 was shit

plus his vibrato sucks

his vibrato was shit to

he needs to practice his technical skills 100%

I was about to say the same thing. Most importantly you captured the emotion of the tune. Well done. I can only imagine the quantum leap your playing took in the 4 years you worked with a tune like that…

yes, you

Such an amazing movement, He plays this song as it is something really easy to play.

I saw it, chuckled!

No

That was killer!

hahaha

Not near. It is perfect.

SAME. Feels good that someone carried that torch to the finish line

Same here. I played guitar almost every day for 5 years when I decided I was ready to try to learn the song. Looked at the tabs and pretty much ended my music career right then and there.

I look up Clone Hero charts and play along in the air when I have nothing else to do. Guitar Hero got me into TBDM. RIP Trev ❤

Lame story, went to a highschool dance purely because they had a guitar hero 3 competition. Got 2nd place because of this song taking me to the final battle of me and another guy playing TTFAF, needless to say I got my ass kicked. But its a funny memory from that time going to a dance purely to play guitar hero on a huge screen in front of everyone lmao.

You should play again. You don't have to be Eric Johnson. Just be yourself! This is a hard lesson we all deal with. ​@@dirty__cowboy_

😂

@HeAintGonnaEmailYou I Don't care about it that much.

With 4 years of practice, he will nail the song every time 💯

@@peterlyon185 Unless he knows how to play it but his volume was off. Then you just listenend to Eric Johnson. A Milli Vanilli.

Same!!! I bought this tab book back then, along with countless others! I have no reservations about my self-taught guitar skills, along with some light classroom learning on the Violin, Trumpet, and maybe a third of a semester of classical guitar... but I basiclly ended up quitting the guitar. Partly due to being poor, and having to sell most decent guitars I had - but MOSTLY because I just got sick of just playing other peoples music, and I couldn't think of my own stuff because I was so fearful of sounding like someone else?!?!

Same! I play ukulele and paint. I would love some of that determination and patience! Your cover is nothing short of exceptional!!!

it takes about 25 hours of solid practice . go slow 4 notes at a time

yeah but he's staring at the guitar neck. he should look at the camera....the whole time...with his tongue out. come on!

As I just posted. Great to see other old timers still cranking it out!🤜🤛🍻🍻

Dude! I saw Eric Johnson around 1991 on a smaller stagel. He had just released Ah Via Musicom and had a gig in Hamburg in the Große Freiheit 36 and nearly all of the people in the crowd were musicians and knew what to expect. Me not and Eric Johnson just blew me away. Jonas picked a masterpiece here and did good on it! Made me happy to hear it.

Another deep breath after he made it through. Whew!

❤

Just don’t take away from this that you will slave away learning just 2.5 songs per decade, that guitar is so hard you need to dedicate four years to nail something. To nail THIS, maybe! But you can practice lots of other stuff along the way.

How do you know this song was out of his league? And why is it taking so long to learn it? It takes way more determination to actually practice. A musical instrument in totality learning all the necessary components to be able to compose a song like this or to improvise a song like this. That is much more impressive than just learning the song itself. Anybody with a reasonable amount of ability can copy somebody else it’s a good learning tool, but it’s not that impressive.

Thank you!

Wow, thanks!

Especially the licks at the end. Good lord!! 🥵

Better than the original, when Eric Johnson plays this live it's really rushed somehow.

@@AlbertWeijersyep, this sounds better than Eric live

For sure i just adore this song and this is the cleanest i've heard it as well. I mean damn near on the money to the studio recording just incredible.

Was that a reference on Keralis?

@@cibulovyknedlik5773 what's that?

That's what happens when you(Shiver!) Practice Don't fret! I've been playing professionally for over 40 years. And 20 years just playing. Sometimes there's pay, sometimes there's not. And no matter what it's always a kick in the ass!

Because he's talking shit and obviously didn't practice only ONE song for 4 years

Any time you play, you practice. Don’t be afraid to

I don't have the discipline either to practice. But I get a little dopamine hit every time I learn a new section of the song that I didn't know before. That has been enough to keep me going

Looked more like he was just feelin it to me 😅

lol!!

who cares

your mom care last night, a lot, like mouths full of care@@astroboirap

@@astroboirap you gave up 10 years ago bro, pretty pathetic talking shit at your age

Man... thanks so much!

​@@jonasanttilaI couldn't best this on guitar hero, you are a BEAST

Haha, thank you very much!

This.

You haven't seen @CalvinBorja

Was thinking the same thing. Haven’t seen anyone shred it this perfect maybe ever. He seriously studied this.

Thats because when you play something 20,000 times, typically you don't want to play it note for note anymore.

@@Jacksongamma yeah if you listen to a released single of a song and then listen live it is never exactly the same and I think that is one of the things of being a good instrument player or song maker. you can make it the same song even when playing it idfferent

​@@JacksongammaThis is so true, great comment.

Dude... that's nuts. Thanks!

This version does sound amazing. I can't remember Rick's exactly, but I think I recall his was more of a different interpretation closer to his own style. Both versions are incredible!

awesome

Wow, thank you!

ERIC performance

I feel the same way. His effort is so beautiful.

Agreed, shed a little tear :) All the best Jonas ! Youre an inspiration to us all

AMAAAAAAAAZING!!!! Young man.

it did make me shed a tear. it was a real treat to see this being played note for not. dang near flawless. thank you for taking me back to freshman year in college when this was released before spring break ‘90. what a time. but man what a performance here. there is hope for the next generation of musicians yet.

Haha, I'm covering the studio version. But the tone is definitely more inspired by his Austin city limits sound!

Austin City Limits performance is totally different. This is the album version as the OP already said

Lol wut? This is the studio version, ACL is pretty different

Same here. I gave up

Thanks!

Thanks so much man! That really means so much!

Yes, I saw that!!!

Wow! Thank you! And thanks for taking the time to leave this comment! Very kind of you!

lol nah he has the tools in his bag to play Cliffs of Dover.

@@PBeetheFox tell me you don’t know how music works without telling me you don’t know how music works.

@@PBeetheFox what do you actually think he couldnt learn with the skills displayed here? short of really high speed metal galloping type riffs and sweeping solos i cant think of much that hasnt been covered by learning this whole song

Lol almost 19 years of RU-vid existing and this is the only one you've found tolerable? Bit hyperbolic, eh? This is great, as are many others, ya goon.

@@logangrzesiek8749 ya goon? Who says that? Is your iq 85?

Did you ever get it down?

@@Mkj119 I have the intro down about 90% of the way, hope to post a cover soon!