Hey dude, moakalatte here (moak-a-latte, like "mocha-latte"). First of all, thanks for checking out this video. As someone in the comments noted, this was a part of a series of Masterclasses in a collaboration between the Academy of Contemporary Music (ACM) in UK and Radar festival. AAL were playing Radar and Tosin came in and did this masterclass. I was tasked with shooting and editing it as part of my role working at ACM, and I (obvs) jumped at the chance being a fellow guitarist. As most things like this go, we had little prep time, one static cam and one roaming cam and an issue with the audio that was recorded which is why it sounds a bit like there's an echo on his voice and the backing/original track he was playing along to was a little too high in the mix. Anyway, I had to wait at least a year before I could share this, and I honestly thought that I'd get a request to take it down, but so happy that it's reached so many guitarists and has helped them out. Tosin's technique is killer, his clinic was super chill and informative, and he was a great chap to hang out with and chat to. Glad you like the video, there's a Rabea Massaad masterclass video on my channel, too. 🤟🏻
17:07 i LOVE this. seeing dean realising that he wrote a sick melody and then replaying it, figuring it out and enjoying it. this has been such a wholesome and interesting video
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Burrito wrapping is easy. Put your contents in a line on the tortilla, take one end of the tortilla where the line is, fold it inside, the grab the outsides and fold them inwards. Probably harder to read than it is to see it visually but I promise you it's a gamechanger
Tosin is insane. He's created such a unique voice on the instrument, it reminds me of when I heard Steve Vai as a kid. Also for the tone - you mentioned you weren't getting the same percussive quality that Tosin is - think less distorted/OD tone and more clean/comp on the signal instead. It'll give you that 'thunk' sound in your hammer ons and popping and help the process along. But the techniques are insane. I can't do any of them really effectively yet, but I really dig the selective picking best.
Position 2 on Abasi guitars is similar to position 3 on Kiesels: split (inner) coil neck + bridge and kind of mimics a Tele position 2. They use a Schaller megaswitch set up for: 1) bridge humbucking, 2) s coil inner bridge and neck, 3) both humbuckers, 4) neck single coil (neck side), 5) neck humbucker.
This content has been so helpful Dean, as an intermediate guitarist getting your pov on these techniques and ideas that feel out of reach makes it so much more digestible. Stay Tech
Tosin is so sick. I saw him when he was in Reflux twice in the 2000s. This was before he went to school. He was great at technical metal stuff back then but it was more riffs based. It's really cool to see what a legend he has become.
I attended a Tosin clinic back in 2015. The only thing I understood was when someone asked him the first ever solo he learned, and he says "I think it was Smells like Teen Spirit" 😂
For those that want to know: This was a clinic for RADAR Festival in 2019. Afterwards we all got to hang out with him, get pics and try the guitar from the video, great way to spend an afternoon.
That second sweep picking technique is so fascinating. While sweep picking its all your fretboard hand, while the other method is all your playing hand #Intriguing
In terms of the thumping stuff Ando san is really underrated for it. Mad the technique his own and applies it to a different style of music super well. If you like the sound of the technique he's definitely one to check out.
He says " did bro just play bleed with his thumb"? 😂😂 in all honesty that was INSANE. Hard not love Tosin. Love how positively different his style is and what he will inevitably inspire future players to reach for.
Tosin was the person who got my family to respect what I did and listened to. Before showing them Tosin all I listened to was "devils music" and "noise". Which I was raised on Dillinger and Converge so, fair. But when they heard Tosin and showed them who Tosin inspired and who looked up to him, they finally relented. They were raised on all the stereotypical rock guitar legends. And when they saw all them say, "Yeah, Tosin is in another league." They shut up about my music.
6:14 biggest dosage of euphoria I've had in a long time. You're pretty much 20 years ahead of me as far as skill and practice goes. But seeing you blank out on that was really funny to me 😂
Not sure if you’ve already thought of this but he probably also a good callous build up on his thumb which helps get the tone. I know bass players for sure know calloused fingers help a punchy articulate tone
I dont know if Tosin mentioned it in this video but when your're doing groups of 4 and more (where u involve more then just index finger) u should start from the farther finger to you. ex- grups of 4 should be picked: thump down, thump up, mid finger, index finger. This motion is much more effective. Also visualize your fingers getting thru the strings and not picking on them
I've found that especially with thumping and selective picking that compression is super important. Usually running a slow attack and fast release. It gets that percussive quality and thats why even though he is on split coil he is getting that slappy in your face type tone even with very little gain on the amp.
some the audio from the tosin videos is slightly doubled or echoed or something. Nice video though, Tosin da man. My favorite videos of his is still probably the super early EMG TV ones of him playing 'wave of babies" or 'song of Solomon'. That was some of my first introduction to him, been a huge fan ever since
Charlie Robbins from Artificial Languages and Syncatto has some insane selective picking riffs in his recent videos. The one from Nightfall (Syncatto) is probably my favorite selective picking riff. He also does mix thumping and selective picking sometimes (selective thumping?).
DEAN you can't have delay an verb smacking back has to be clean distortion. but Fishman actives have profiles totally different than a split on a passive but several options
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cleanliness of the tone might be better if you turn off the delay and tighten up the reverb also maybe a bit of compression good sir , no hate bro but just noticed a thing
When he is making the 4 and 5 bite groupings with the thumb slap in the beginning part, is he used his middle finger for the third note, then the ring finger for the fourth? If so, how is he getting the fifth? Is he really using his pinky for that??? Thank you
I wonder wether having a Hitchiker's Thumb contributes to this slapping technique. I can't bend back my thumb at all and I also can't slap on guitar for the life of me. But maybe that's just me coping, dunno.
Dean Lamb your and exceptional guitarist i have faith you can learn this but If I remember correctly Tim Henson from Polyphia took some lessons with Tosin to better learn and understand that technique, I'm sure If you were to reach out to him that he would be more then willing to do lessons online or maybe in person I'm pretty sure Tosin is familiar with you I would guess and he always seems to be down for teaching and learning and advancing what can be done on the guitar. Just a thought obvious I'm speculating a bit but I bet he would If you hit hmu up. Just a thought.
