Music Teacher Reacts: TINA S - Through The Fire And Flames 

Herman Li himself said that Tina killed it with this song, she nailed it. I doubt you can get better reference than that.

Herman mentioned it in his reaction of this a while ago, but the reason she's blending his and Sam's parts are because of the particular tracks that she's working with. There's a drum track, there's a keyboard track, a vocal track, a bass track and a guitar track. Yes, one guitar track, despite there being two guitarists. So there's no isolation of either Herman or Sam to be able to blank out in order for her guitar to fill in. They can remove all or none of the guitars, and for the purposes of a guitar cover... yea.

She also played it like this, since it's normally two guitars and she is doing the work all by herself. She basically did her own arrangement to make it fit properly.

Herman Li himself did a RU-vid review of Tina S playing this song and stated "this is the best cover of this song hes ever heard and should he not want to play this song anymore Tina S would be his go to person to play it" watching his review was really cool to see he actually had alot of emotions watching her play this was very cool to watch. My rant is over lol 😆 much love

When Herman Li reacted to this, he rated it "Oh shit...oh fuck...shit..." plus one additional "damn" and another "shit". And his face read "I need a new job.".

Vigier Guitars is a French company they do both guitars and basses. Their originals were Neck-through, active electronics, fixed bridge and usually Benedetti humbuckers. They were founded in the 1980s. Now days you can get bolt-ons, trim, etc.

Herman Li said that Tina's cover was probably the best he had heard. People tend to forget that she's covering the guitar tracks of 2 guitar players so she had to put her own spin on it. Herman said that in the stam tracks, the guitars couldn't be separated because they were done together at the same time. I think Tina nailed it.

She also does a great interpetation of Ludwig van Beethovens "Monlight Sonata"

Herman Li did a reaction on his channel and, from what I remember, he loved it.

As other commentators have pointed out the solo section is two guitarists playing, which shows how amazingly talented Tina is to play it like she did.

This is a superb reaction. Thank you. Understandably, most reactions are just jaw on the floor appreciations and they are fun at first but, soon become tiring. I love your knowledge, your respect for the artist and the quite softly spoken presentation. I really appreciate it. Can't wait for more. :)

She already out plays a lot of thr pros out there its crazy how effortlessly it is for her I wish I could play half as good as she does

I just, I mean, I I yi Tina S so amazing a person, I can imagine the discipline she went through training learning studying guitar. She a pleasure to watch and hear her play, I get, I really get emotional. She is the epitome of cool and beautiful.. and professional master one to listen to and say these words without shame. I feel blessed to have seen and hear her, even if only via youtube. I think I would be humbled to my shame if ever in her presence. For I have not committed myself to a art as on the scale she Tina S has. I could imagine her joy of learning as well as her trying circumstances that life throws at everyone, yet she persevered to always got to her guitar lesson, go to her room to pick up her guitar her instrument of choice and learn more even on cold nights of pain life's cold circumstances had each of us at different times through each of our years of life, she (as others like her) chose to not stop, not give in or give up but chose to practice and hone her skills mastering each level through each year of her life. I imagine the guitar can be a great escape from trying times as well as a great unity for social occasions. I don't know, I played a little drums before, and one time a real band was visiting. I was just learning drums, practice, and to my amazement the visiting band walked into where I was practicing. I started to stand up to yield the drums to their drummer. One of the band members said, hey what are you doing, stick around, stay right there, play with us. I said I am new and just learning. He said something like O' thats nice. As we spoke these words the band members were gearing up guitars and Keyboards. I was so intimidated, yet felt invited and friendship. I sat back down thinking I gotta do more than my fall into 9ne two three beats, I have to pushing some rolls (see, I never even learned the proper terminology pfft sry) So I sat back down, he told just jump in, and I did, I was new to the songs they chose, but I was able to hear a few cords correctly and started playing, before I knew it, I'm am not bragging on trying to say I can play drums, but something awesome happened, I'll remember it the rest of my life, I really joined in, I felt the music, I went somewhere special like never before, I got a happy nod from the guitarist who told me to stick around and man a live it was more than great, but yes, my thinking actually interrupted me, I starting realizing where I was while playing and enjoying being in the music, my thinking started telling me to not mess up, keep that kick going keep those sticks in this amazing groove I was in, my thoughts pulled me out a couple times, but the band never missed their place and kept playing, and so I quickly put myself back in that special spot of music flowing. All honesty, I never felt that before in any lessons that the locals gave me. So yes, I have amazing respect for Tina S and hope only health happiness and GOD SPEED to her and her Family (her friends too). She is shooting for the distance of life long musician. Okay, sry for so much here, going now. Great video teacher, loved hearing you break down for us viewers what Tina was doing to deliver the amazing sounds on the guitar

You know, when Herman Li says that out of the hundreds of covers he's heard, this one is by far his favorite, there shouldn't be any controversy.

For a close look at pure insane skill, check out Moonlight Sonata 3rd Movement. For pure feel/soul check out her Stevie Vai For the Love of God cover. Tina was classically trained from age 6 until age 13 when she switched to electric and began studying under French jazz rock guitarist Renaud Louis-Servais. Her last post was the Beethoven performance at age 17. Oh, beware of a troll account claiming her demise with "In Memoriam" posts. It's a fake and sick.

First you think she's so cute but then you realise she's a classically trained musician no rock guitarists can match. She's something else.

Tina S is amazing, I love her. Vigier is a french brand well know for it's 90/10 system which consists of a wood neck reinforced with a carbon slab. A normal wood neck is too flexible, resulting in the strings losing energy when played, reducing both the sustain and impact of the note. The 90/10 system alleviates this problem. Additionally, the carbon prevents the neck from deforming due to climate or a change in string gauge or tuning. Normally, this is why a truss rod is used, but with the 90/10, there is no need for one.

Been watching Tina’s videos for a couple years now and I have to say your reaction is one of, if not the, best. Loved your breakdown of the chords and picking which helped me understand and appreciate it that much more. Great video! PS - check out her cover of For the Love of God..almost brought me to tears 😭

Wow!! I’m tired from just watching her! Time to take a nap 😴 Great breakdown DJ. I had no idea about pick angle or many things you talked about!!

Speed, harmony, feeling...very deep, mixed up together. We instantly eat all of it, no need water to flush it. She is guitar master, the best I have ever seen.

Loved the Guitar Playing and your "react" to it. Loved her cheeky smile at the beginning and end of her cover too. I wish Tina S would come out of retirement. watching her play anything with such enthusiasm and skill just has to cheer you up.

Herman Li reacted to this video and he was super impressed. Sent out an invite for Tina to come play with them anytime she wanted. No issues from his reaction video.

This is a great analysis! Thanks for it!

This is an excellent breakdown explanation. Subbed!

Somebody below (or above) noted that Herman Li did a reaction to Tina S and about the only criticism he could find was that Tina should have had a fan blowing her hair! He was 100 % appreciative. And at least at the time of that review thought it was the probably the best cover of the song, and noted that if he needed someone to step in for him, he knew whom he could call! It's really a fun review by Herman Li. Her cover of Beethoven's "Moonlight Sonata" is really good, but I prefer Tina's Cover of Steve Vai's "For the Love of God" over that, just for the beauty of that song. [ Of course, the Moonlight Sonata on piano would place above "For the Love of God" ... for me! ]

If you haven’t seen these yet for the love of god is amazing and altitudes is just crazy amazing. Even if you have seen it, I really enjoy your breakdowns of what’s happening.

The "controversy" is that a bunch of middle aged men (ok, I'm guessing a bit there...) can't fathom a girl is able to play this and believe it is sped up. Herman Li said 'This might actually be the best cover I've seen'. I like that she plays partly Herman's parts and partly Sam's parts. It makes it more interesting to me. As a lot of people have suggested, check out her Moonlight Sonata. Makes this look like a warm up exercise.

The best reaction to Tina S Through the Fire and Flames came from Herman Li. Herman didn't have one bad thing to say about this.

How awesome must France be that when you are fed up with fame you can just return to a normal life without hassle. 👏🏻

"Take one" - The only take she needs.

I personally love her version of Jason Becker's Altitudes and just for a fun listen, I really enjoyed her version of Megadeth's Tornado of Souls. Would love to hear your breakdown on both of those.

EXCELLENT reaction and musical guitar technique recognition TMA! You should have a master class too! (Former drummer turned baseball player who loves the details in everything}.

herman reacted and loved her version...he was critiquing the online opinions that she was the best...he actually stopped to watch certain parts over and was wowed...he ended up saying the shev IS the best cover of this song...herman was particularly astonished at the lead sction at 8:47 played here...."HOLY SHIT" he said

2:32 Vigier is a French brand specializing in high-end electric guitars and basses. The company was founded in 1980 by Patrice Vigier and manufactures its instruments in Grigny, in the Essonne department.

Guitar brand is a Vigier, model is Excalibur. It's a high end manufacturer from France. That model is quite expensive ;)

It is a Vigier Excalibur Custom. Made in France. I have a Vigier Excalibur Supra, has a zero fret. Best playing guitar I have ever played. Incredibly low action. Pricey. One she is playing, probably around $4500 or higher.

Anyone that critiques Tina S. In any way,shape or form. Needs to step off the podium and impress the class. I've been playing for thirty five years. And seen alot of great guitarists. And she blows the doors off them. Good reaction video. Impressive as hell. Nicely worded.

I love this Dragonforce cover... they are one of my favourite bands. I've paid money to see them live. But, you have to listen to her do Moonlight Sonata...

Amazing thing is that she was 15 when sh did this...now she's 21

Astounding ❤

Remember, this was back in 2015. She''s only 16 and she's chewing gum! LOL. I just watched a video of Herman watching her. When it was over, he was pretty much speechless. He said her version of this song was the best he had ever heard. Here is the link: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-k6b_IyM42hc.html But he did say he is a big fan of adding your own touch and style.

what cracked me up was when I saw Herman react to this and you could just tell by the end, he just didn't even want to show examples of licks live. To me it just seemed like he thought at this point in time that girl probably could shred that thing way better than he could lol... he had his guitar in hand with like a dozen others lying around and it's like as he said "let me show you" he just thought about it and went like meeeh.. huh... Oh I can't sowy..

Herman Li himself said..."Making a cover isn't about playing 1 to 1" he was reacting to this video when he said it.

You really know what you’re talking about dude! Awesome job!

check out her Stevie Vai For the Love of God cover

❤Tina with out a doubt TARES A PATCH!!!!! ON THE GUITAR 🎸 UNBELIEVABLE ❤

5:27 You can see that this was filmed in two parts. In the part where you see her entirely, her hair falls in front of the guitar, but when it zooms in on her hand 5:31, her hair is behind the guitar.

Well a 16 year old playing like that she’s got a fan right here I will tell yA she’s in collage now can’t wait till she’s out and hopefully playing still miss her

Ive watched so many covers of this, she has by far the best and its not even close, and of course Heman li himself said so.

I believe she was 15 when she recorded this. While her friends were failing miserably to nail this on a plastic guitar with colorful buttons...she was doing this. While chewing gum. And barely looking at the fretboard. *sigh*

She is amazing! I hope she does a good warming up before playing; she won't want to suffer any injuries.

Oh god I hope she comes back to YT at some point. My face needs more melt :D

I found the channel because of vocal reactions but I didn't know you did instrumentals as well. Are we going to see more of this? I'm really curious what comments you would have on some John petrucci performances from dream theater or liquid tension experiment.

Mary on Richard's phone from Florida whoa little out of my league I'm loving it and understanding what you're talking about so hey some improvement here I got to just keep watching ya

Herman Li's reaction of this is classic. He was so impressed.

Herman Li told us exactly how she did this. The track from Guitar Hero # was downloaded to set the guitar track apeart.

Thank you… very interesting video.

She was 16, just like Becker when composing the 1st (albeit still a bit primal/crude, different than the final) iteration of this song.

Vigier also make bass guitars, iirc Deep Purple's bassist plays one (ever since the company's owner demo'd it for him, by standing on the neck, it bending until the strings got all floppy, and it still played in key.

DJ !!!!! I EFFIN' LOVE YOU !!!! MISS YOUR FACE! I'mma tune in more

"Oh fuck........shit." - Herman Li

Vigier are, I think, French. Roger Glover of Deep Purple has used their basses for about thirty years.

You are correct about Herman, he much prefers people add their own flair to a song.

Try her cover of Altitudes by Jason Becker. Superb.

I believe Vigier guitars are French. The ones she plays the Excalibur Customs I've seen run from 3 grand to 6 grand depending.. I also believe they are like a special order type deal like real ESP ( not LTD). I think to get one new you have to actually contact them and do a Custom order etc. She has or had quite a few back when she was doing these YT video's.

After watching this Herman Li said: "Well, I know who to call if I don't want to play that song any more."

Another band to check out is unleash the archers from BC,Canada. Start with awakening live studio play through then just branch out. Also check out nikko whitworth’s channel he was the bassist for uta back in 2015-2018 till they went there separate ways

Yeah I think Herman Li’s reaction video sums it up very well. Oddly enough he didn’t criticize her on her power chords fingering lol

One of greatest ever 👍👍👍👍

yes it's live

Vigier Guitars, France. I kinda want one for myself since my 57 strat was stolen ;x I just can't have nice things!

Herman Li at one point was trying to contact her to invite her to come play on stage at their Paris show but never received a response from her rep

3 very unique versions of this song: Audrey🛸Shida [guitar/pod bass] Dragonforce; "Thru the Fire & Flames" [full playthrough] ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-z6Nqq2QXBiE.html 💗JUNNA💗 [drums] Dragonforce; "Through the Fire and Flames" [full playthrough] ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UKr1H4Jv6is.html 🎹Gamazda🎹 [piano] Dragonforce; "Thru the Fire & Flames" [full playthrough] ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rsSRpyxNJPc.html

She's a machine,that's all there is to it!🤘

For the love of god, by Steve Vai. Even better than the original imho. Beethoven Sonata.

Shes a beast!!! Loved your break down DJ. Can you break down and walk us through Tina S version of Steve Vai's For the Love of God? I'd love to get your take on it. Thx

When the actual guitarist says -"Holy Shit" you have no reason to criticize

Would love to see you react to Frasier Edward's stop saying we sound like dragon force is an awesome parody, even dragon force reacted to it

I think she is using that fingering for the chords because she started as a classical player where you learn to use a different finger for each note of the chord (when possible) instead of barring with one finger. This is much more conducive to finger picking different note by lifting fingers.

Not sure if anyone else has answered this or you have invoked the power of Google in the meantime but Vigier is a French high-end guitar manufacturer. They make some very interesting guitars, including fretless. The major guitar of note of their you may have seen is Bumblefoot's doubleneck with a fretless and fretted neck.

Herman Li said : Sh*t, she kill it "

Herman Li said in his reaction that he thinks this actually is the best cover of the song, which is an awesome statement and i completely agree with it.

12:40 talking about not covering a solo note for note and that's probably what Herman Li wants - that's literally exactly what he himself said on his reaction video.

How come, that every shot we get from her upper body, there’s hair hanging over the fret board, once we get a closeup of the fret board, the hair is gone?

It's an auto wah that's pick/volume sensitive so it's always on time.

And its Totman Sam Totman.And Herman Li said this is by far his favorite most accurate cover hes seen so far.

Guitar's a Vigier Excalibur Custom I believe. Pretty fuckin' good guitar in my experience. Also Herman watched this on stream and does love the solo lol so you're on point

Fantastic amazing talent if someone is going to be critical of this performance they better step up to the plate and demonstrate

Fist video from yours I've watched I know it's a Fairly old video. And I don't know if you have heard of Cole rolland but you should check out his cover of through fire and flames

If you look at the comments of the original guitarplayer ; he explaines why she did it differently: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-k6b_IyM42hc.html

I think that was the Herman Li Pac-Man noise. Super cool

Long story short, Tina S is amazing!

A must reakt is junna dragon force drum Cover!!!!!! She kills IT.. 😅

i hate people who say "it looks sped up" or "she has no emotion" no its not sped up and you can see with her head movements she is into it.. also one other point if you think this is good you should check out moonlight sonata and for the love of god.

10:29 He is like : He he, I can do tha........AMN

This girl here is the best guitar player on the planet! There is not one guitar player she can not play note for note but at the same time add her own style and sound. She does this guitar thing for purely fun and excitement of her craft thus she's no longer on RU-vid anymore I'm pretty sure she went off to college but could be wrong. Just one last note I see comments all over her stuff saying "she's the best female guitar player" Uhhh this has nothing to do with female or male its all about guitar playing and for me she is the BEST. Enough ranting lol play on Tina

Tina is French the guitar is French made and is a very good guitar . She was given several guitars from this manufacture , She is probably the best female guitarist there is , she disappeared about 3 years ago , no word where or why , your guess is as good as mine .

She was chewing gum and in some of the solo section she was not even looking at the guitar while she was shredding the shit out of it hands down best female guitar player i have ever heard

Now check out a 10 year old girl doing this same song. “Nene Royal” RU-vid channel. One video is “10 year old Thai girl shredding the guitar” to Through the fire and flames song. And the other video is “Dragonforce-Through the fire and flames cover by Praew Chaofa (guitar and sing)” She’s a big fan of Herman, Sam, and Dragonforce. The only 10 years old girl that can play “Through the fire and flames” and sing at the same time. Show her some love and check her channel out. You will have a smile on your face.

I believe Tina was 15 years old when she posted this song. To someone like myself who is a guitar player wannabe, Tina is a Goddess; however, I enjoyed your analysis given that you know what you are talking about. Vigier is a French guitar manufacturer and, I heard (so take it with a grain of salt) that they supply Tina with her guitars. She is French by nationality and Herman Li, when he reviewed this same video, indicated he had tried to reach her to invite her to come to one of Dragonforce's gigs to hang out or sit in (he repeated the invitation in his reaction video). Tina, after she posted her incredible Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata - 3rd Movement video (done when she was 17 years old), disappeared from RU-vid (and everywhere else, it seems) giving rise to all sorts of rumours both silly and, in a few cases more probable. Couldn't tell you if any were true but the most likely is that she went to university and took a break from RU-vid and social media. I pray that is true as I'd love to see all she can do. You really must watch her Beethoven - Moolight Sonata video as it is mindblowing and has been reviewed by many none of which were not blown away, guitar or not. The video is: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o6rBK0BqL2w.html I will be very interested to see what you have to say about it.