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  • I'm fingering an E Minor

  • @thewhitebrazilian

    the joke doesnt work in that sentence man..

  • How do you keep the thumbpick from slipping?

  • @TheBibleWitness yer i got the same question. up strokes always slip

  • Thanks for the technique, I'm working on it (albeit slowly)...a tutorial on the various fingerings you use on Spiritual Groove would help, too...

  • En T'attendent!!!! Has to be one there

    Although this may be a bit late

  • Stay Puft Marshmallow Man!!! I have that exact same thing from when I was a kid :-) Wise choice in amp decor ;-) I personally go with Power Rangers and Buddha haha

  • if you dig my guitar playing

  • And In My Own Rythms!

  • It would be great to have a DVD of instructional lessons on These Moments, Cold Day, and En T'Attedant! Or really you could just do all of your tunes, they are all incredible.

  • When you do your instructional DVD, please do a note-for-note lesson on "Catching the light."

    You will make millions from it!!

  • Nice to see the Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence book on the stand. :)

  • if ever you make a DVD please have the tutorial for Drac and freinds, memories of the future and cold day!!!!

  • Digging the shirt Antoine

  • you are so good

  • That is a pretty cool rhythm for sure.

  • I would like to know the technique that you use on ashes in the sea when you hit the slap harmonics then do a pull off on the strings and still let the harmonics ring out. That is so sick!!!!! Thanks.

  • If you are going to do a dvd, i would like to see wapus, existence, development, naissance. Those are verygreat songs. I think just going over yourfundamental techniques would be great!

  • Here is an innovative new thumb pick you might like! Saddlethumbpicks

  • 1:27 "Slow it goes like this", I don't know why, but he sounded like a straight up player when he said that.

  • hi... i'm from Argentina... and the thing is that we don't have teachers who plays this style on acoustic guitar... and is very difficult to find a dvd teaching step by step how to develop your stile of playing and others like andy mc kee... so teach us please...

  • im trying to figure out Scratch but your right hand technique in that song is killing me! haha.

  • I'd say you could teach your thumbpick exercises in a "Scratch" tutorial which is your most difficult song imo.

  • @ClassicTracks2 hmm. I dare you you to learn "So Little While Road" and "The Drive Within". Makes scratch look like barre chords.

  • Great! How do you keep the pick from flying off?

  • wow you are my master your the best post more exercise i god one of your excercise!!!

  • PLEASE...make a video tutorial for ashes in the sea....or somthing in standard tuning PLEASE!!!!

  • Great attention to detail, dude!

    I reckon the best application of the thumb pick's technique would be rumba - bossa nova,

    so if you'd like to post a couple of exercises for these types of rythm,

    I think you would be fantastic :))

    Cheers, great job!!!!

  • SALUT ! hey antoine, cher pas si tu peu me dire sa mais ckoi la marque thumbpick que tu utilise ?! moi le mien lache tout le temps. I tien pas ! MERCI !!

  • You ever going to get around to that instructional DVD? ;-)

  • you are such a great player love your songs :)

  • The Vai T-Shirt

  • @MrGameposter nice.

  • song for stephen!!

  • Yo Antoine, love your music, just wondering when that instructinal DVD will be coming out., look forward to that. Also, what make of guitar is most used in your playing, and do you play classical?

  • Thanks for sharing your knowledge

  • Thanks Antoine! You rock man :)

  • Je suis définitivement preneur d'un dvd si un débutant peut progresser sans trop y être perdu. Dans le cas de cet exemple, c'est parfait. Nous avons le temps de voir et d'entendre donc de comprendre et pratiquer de la bonne façon.

    Ton approche est très appréciée

    Merci!

  • oh ! et ne fait pas que des "breakdown " de tes pièces... donne également des exercices du plus simple au plus compliqué, bien sûr ! ; ).. couvrant toutes les techniques que tu utilises et que tu connais bien !

    A+

  • Il serait bien sûr intéressant que tu "breakdown" au moins Spiritual Groove ! :) et d'autres allant du plus simple au plus difficile... car, pour ma part je n'ai tellement de technique "fingerstyle", je ne connais que la base... et encore !

    je suis plutôt un guitariste "électrique" alors ! Feel free !

    en autant que tu pars du simple au plus complexe ça me vas, je resterai plus longtemps au simple c'est tout... et le plus complexe viendra !

    A+

  • fantastic!!!

  • Antoine, all these videos are incredibly helpful, thank you for taking the time to share this. If you made an instructional DVD with techniques (as in proper form, along with slap harmonics, etc.), exercises, and a few songs, I'd buy it and I'd encourage every guitarist I know to buy it too. Just my two cents. Thanks for making such amazing music, you are truly inspirational.

  • wow! i have no idea thumb pick can be use like that. i have to start using thumb pick from now on. thanks!

  • I'd like to know as well. This video was really helpful! A full DVD would be really nice!

  • When is your DVD ready?

  • Very clear instruction! You instruct as good as you play. I will definately be on the buyers list for this instructional DVD when it is available.

    Is he playing with his natural fingernails or some glue ons? Sorry for my stupidity. I've hear of people doing that.

  • Extremely useful!!! Thank you very much

  • Thank you sooooo much

  • I have a thumb pick now, it's harder than I thought!

  • First time viewing ,,thankyou ,,, just learning too ,,and love right hand arpegios,,,ya may I suggest just a bit better quality vid on the up close shots of your amazing right hand ,,, your amazing ,,and thanx for giving back ,,,rrrrockin

  • today I'm gonna buy a thumpick and I will try this to practice first. Then, I would play 'jerry's breakdown' as you already showed in a video with gauthier =P really really thanks! you and andy mckee are my idols xP keep the good work buddy! =) cheers

  • Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence ^^

  • i want my instructional Dvd ;)

  • Nice! I'm trying to play fingerstyle.. like Tommy emmanuel.. this will trully help me to do that!.. thanks

  • What affordable ( I'm not wealthy ) guitar would you recommend?

    I've got two acoustic guitars, a Fender Gemini and an Encore GS composite body, but I don't get the sound that I really want from either of them. One was a present and the other an impulse buy because it had built in pick ups ( now I'm showing my age )... they both sound thin and weedy, so if you cold suggest a good buy for around £250 I'd be 'all ears' .

  • There are some good art & lutherie (sp?) guitars that have really nice tone for around $300. They don't have any finish on them, so they're prone to scratching, but it gives them more resonance and makes the tone deeper and more unique. Try it out!

  • i have an art & lutherie CW semi electric, it is amazing i love the tone and play it like crazy. i've started to wear out the finish on the neck from all the playing i do on it. im going to save up for a stonebridge acoustic 23CR, they are the best acoustics i've every played.

  • I love Stonebridges :) It's too bad they cost more than my university tuition ;p

  • @LukeNosredan They aren't that expensive! where the fuck have you been looking?! :P 

  • Thanks Antoine! It would be great if you could have a double DVD. One with techniques and instruction on how to become a great guitarist like yourself and maybe an another which breaks down your songs so we can see your technique in practice? Thank you!

  • for spirituell g. you found a good toturial :))

  • Oh Lord I need this dvd. Learning to play the guitar like this god....I would love to...

  • I dig your guitar playing :)

  • Is the dvd out yet?

  • SPIRITUAL GROOVE PLZ.

  • 0:17 I was watching this with my friend (who doesn't know dick about music) and he thought this says "So I'm fingering any minor"

  • What is the thingy that u put at the hole called?

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  • For an instructional DVD an intro to your style of playing with real basics of your technique and in depth breakdowns of the techniques would be good. Slowly getting more and more complex and advanced, its a dvd so people can always rewatch things. I play a lot of guitar and understand a lot of theory so this wouldn't need to be explained but i still admire your technique and i find it very difficult to pick up after years of a different style of playing, Love your work, keep it up, thanks, Matt

  • hey Antoine,

    I've learned most of your song "song for Stephen"

    I'd like to learn how to play the part following the switch to drop d

  • eres un genio de la musica gracias por enseñarnos un saludo antonio

  • this is cool this vid not hard too play but awesome cool sound

  • E-mior only tells me something on the piano but thats the left hand finguring on that cord??

  • Both A and D strings second fret, and leave the other strings open

  • year i tried it out myself and came to the same result ;P but thx

  • um...I really like that song could you send me the tab of it please

    thank you so much :)

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  • Hey Antoine. Would have been very nice if you added instructions and tutorials to the various techniques you use in your songs. Like the double slapping thing with your right hand, the gold rain, and so on. That would really help to understand the techniques completely. This will not only help me to play your songs better, but it will also help alot in my own compositions:) Thanks:)

  • excellent !! never thought about that specific technique ...cool

  • I'd really like to see a hiding place for the moon tutorial, that would be really great.

    Also, are you going to be recording the trio version of hiding place with andy and craig any time soon. That's an awesome arrangement.

  • I would love to see an instructional video on Naissance, maybe you could even bring in Tommy Gauthier to talk about his violin part too :)

  • keep on doing what you do, finally someone who has taste to teach. Not some schmucks... :)))

  • great vid!

    my suggestion like you asked would be to stop being so badass!!

  • amazing fingerpicking its pretty difficult to pick up aswell! but i'll try! thx!

  • Hey Antoine could you possibly do a little tutorial on Song for Stephen? That song is one of my favorites standing beside Andy Mckee's Rylynn and Tommy Emmanuel's Angelina. Funny how they're all dedicated to a special person ... :)

    Thanks

  • amazing what he makes one cord sound like

  • I was thinking the same thing

  • thirded

  • Naissance is pretty tough when it comes to thumb picking. Great song.

  • Please make the DVD, and try to explain Catching The Light

  • do it do it do it!

    make the DVD

    and show me how you do that tap thing in the song ashes in the sea at 2:42 ish.

  • I also appreciate you uploading these very much! I will continue to practice this technique

  • I really do appreciate you taking the time to post these instructional videos. I have always used my index and thumb fingers to pick. Not anymore! Do you ever incorporporate your pinky finger? Thanks

  • Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence. Wow.

  • any updates ojn that dvd? I'm really looking forward to it.

  • Thanks a lot for this video. Many instructional videos don't show you the stuff in a slowed down tempo which can be a drag sometimes since you have to play it by ear, really great that you do that. thanks!

  • can you post a video for the tutorial for catching the light and it's tuning? thank you.,

    I'm from philippines and one of your fan.,

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  • About the DVD. It would be nice a instructional video of the Trilogie song. If it's not possible, just the harmonic parts in the beggining and the slapping in the end would be coooool.

  • Thank you so much Antoine! Love your playing.

  • Ok ..... back to the thumbpick. Thanks Antoine!

  • Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence books... Steve Vai t-shirt... Not to mention all the amazing music I've heard from you the last few years... Excellent!

  • These technics, how often would you say are used in your music, I have been already practicing all of them. Also are they in anyway in any combination, used in any of your music together?

  • Hi Antoine,

     Just looking to know when that instructional DVD will be coming out, and how it can be purchased?

  • XD You make a DVD and I will buy it, that I promise you.

  • hi antoine i just want to say that you're absolutely amazing.

    mm i'm waiting your dvd.

    my favourite song is development.

    See you and plz come to Chile i wanna see you in real life playing.

  • Antoine,Greetings this is very helpful, it truly explains to me those certain tricks (or skills) that I would not have figured out on my own. thanks for the work you are doing, in helping others (beginners) like myself

  • Hey Antoine, recently discovered your music right on You Tube, and it's great stuff, not just good but really great stuff. I am seriously interested in this fingerstyle (or tapping) of playing. I also am a novice at best, but, would love to learn your music, one in perticular is "Catch The Light", my favorite so far! Would you consider putting that song on your DVD tutoral? thanks for your endeavors to teach others!!!

  • you can buy the tabs from the candyrat website

  • Rather than lessons on how to play your songs like many ask, I really dig the techniques you use. I've been playing a lot of Andy Mckee songs and some of yours now too. All these different tunings! It would be helpful to know your creative process when dealing with these tunings. Thx for the info you have given thus far, it really has helped.

  • Thanks a lot, your great, im definetly going to buy ur dvd !

  • Awesome lesson. Many thanks. I noticed that you played a lot in open tunings. When your DVD comes out I will be one of the first to purchase one. Keep up the great art.

  • Love the stuff so far, but perhaps some more indepth stuff on good tone production and close ups, maybe some excercises for the RH as well to exercise better tone as well.

  • I know it's very late, but if you are still taking suggestions for your DVD, the parts of "A Hiding Place for the Moon" using tapping and harmonics would be great stuff to add.

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  • A lesson on 30 Minutes In London would be helpful, as well as a lesson on Memories of the Future.

  • suggestions for a dvd...some more advanced fingerstyle technique stuff...and how you come to use different tunings and such...

  • hey Antoine, if you ever get around to making your guitar DVD or if you're already in the process of making it, I hope it's not too late to ask for some instruction on your rhythmic tapping sections to both "Inspirations" and "As in the Sky". Both songs have some really interesting tapping sections.

  • SIX DEGREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!!­!!!!!! You rock men!!! Besides being a superb guitar player you like excelent music!!!

  • I noticed this right away.

    Thanks for the vid!

  • I'm really wondering when Antoine is going to release any DVD lessons at all. He did mentioned he would long time ago, but it feels like forever...

  • I would love for your help on:

    30 Minutes in London

    Song for Stephen

    Scratch

    Spiritual Groove

    Thanks a lot Antoine!!!

  • the third exercise is sick dawg, but i don't have a finger pick ima get one though....

  • Heey Antione.. big fan of your music and i recently bought a guitar myself!

    Though all the ''expirienced'' guitar players would like you to teach them cool stuff and all, i would really appreciate it if you took some time for the really beginning guitar players, couse i'd say a large portion of your fans are still beginning and we would love for our hero to give us some biginning excercises and stuff.

    I'll deffinetly buy it if it has some ''beginning'' guitar stuff on it!

  • Beginner guitar lessons can be found anywhere. Just search around youtube

    The main reason people would be buying antoine's DvD would be to gain a little of his expertise, hes very very talented in playing the guitar in somewhat obscure ways. We're looking to learn his songs and techniques, not chords, stroking patterns, and scales.

  • Correct, the main reason...to gain a little of his expertise. Though the original point remains. People with heros have a passion to do what they can to emulate. Beginners have an unclouded if somewhat naive passion. To quench that by sending beginners all to the same schooling is absurd and unforgiveable. People who WANT to play like Antoine want to do so BECAUSE he plays DIFFERENTLY and EXPERTLY. A good demo so far Antoine! Some good basics and pic angles. I recommend broad scope-from easy up.

  • Hey Antoine!

    Dude i have a really dificulty time with the timing of Ashes in the Sea, i can't do the bass line and play at the same time, yeah its rythm, wich i dont have lol

    Another song i would like to see instructions in your DVD is Song for Stephen, the palm mutes (i think is this the name) sometimes its hard to control, i mean, how you do the palm mute and still let the strings surronding?

    sorry my english sucks!

  • wow i didn't think a simple Emin could sound like that

  • I would LOVE to have a tutorial for Development on your DVD Antoine! :D

  • antoine u are the best guitar player u inspire me alot to play u andy mckee u have to make a instructional dvd

  • man, u rock so much :D hmm, a song i'd like to learn is Into Your Heart. it's so beautiful... specially the ending part =D peace

  • lol he said "im fingering an E minor in standard tuning" i wonder if that E minor enjoyed it

  • LOL

  • hahahahaha

  • lol. he's wearing a Steve Vai shirt. what a beast XD

  • If you could show how to do those slap harmonics, and the ones where you just press your finger on it and it makes a harmonic. Show us how to do that!

    I love harmonics in guitar playing. :D

  • Since you guys seem pretty tight over at Candyrat, when you make your instructional DVD, could you possibly include some examples of Don Ross' more challenging pieces? Also, I've been working on "Development" for a while and have it down pretty well, but a few parts get sticky. Maybe if you included a slowed down version of several of the main bars that would help. Also...what kind of thumbpick do you use? Thanks.

  • THANK GOD YOU MADE THIS VID! I have a bunch of your sheet music and love your tunes, but the thumbpick upstroke has always been the adversary. This helps alot.

    When you make your instructional DVD I would love it if you included a whole section similar to this on thumbpick upstroking.

  • yeah, you're born to be a guitaris !!! you good !!

  • I HAVE THAT SHIRT! hahaha

    love Vai. he's the reason i became a guitarist.

  • Hi Antoine, love your songs, love your videos. For the instructional DVD, I personally would like to see more fingerpicking basics. Something on your first video that was helpful: plucking the strings in such a way that they vibrate parallel to the guitar rather than against the guitar. Something I wouldn't have thought about! More stuff like that would be great for a beginner like me.

  • nice vai shirt ~:D

  • Very helpful. Thank you!

  • I can't wait to see your instructional DVD. Please add plenty of beginner videos :] Being an beginner, I have an idea of what types of things newbies struggle with: Smooth chord changes, bar chords, achieving even tone, etc. I'm excited to see what other ideas you come up with.

  • please update us about the status of your instructional dvd.

  • thanx for the exercises antoine, they've really helped me with some of the songs that i do from u, and also i've put the upstroke thumbpick into some of my own pieces

  • hey antoine i guess i can say that a lot of your fans out here (including myself) would really appreciate that instructional DVD, i sort of have some problems especially with my right hand jaja... but sincerly man, thanks a whole lot... you have inspired a lot of us who play guitar :D

  • can anyone help me, I;m trying to learni how to use the thumb pick but i've bought two now, a metal and a plastic and both of them just kept moving when i picked up strummed, it would either slides around my thumb up around it.

    Have you got to grip the thumb pick with the index finger as well? Or should it stay still?

  • if you're still wondering, no you shouldn't grip it with the index finger as well, you've simply got to go out and buy a smaller one. seriously, just find one with a nice fit around your thumb. and i'd recommend plastic over metal. hope that helped.

  • I think maybe a tutorial section on harp harmonics and artificial harmonics, theres a phrase in trilogie that's really difficult to get in time.

    Thanks antoine your playing is awesome.

  • Thank you!

  • I love u man!

  • it would be nice to have an explanation about how to play Memories of the Future with the whole four capoed string and two open ones and working from both sides of the capo. anxiously waiting for some new music from you

  • I would really like to see some instructional material on the slaps and drumming you do on both the strings and the body! :) I never seem to get them as clear and groovy as you :/

  • reality

    i need the tutorial of reality =)

    i love you

  • Hey Antoine, can you please update us about the progress your making with your instructional dvd? did you start with it yet? when is it finished? i think you will have lots of buyers!

    and i can't wait to here new compositions :)

    keep creating!

  • I'd love to see an instructional dvd. Particularly the main riff at the begining of Ashes in the Sea, and that great stumming technique in 30 Minutes in London.

  • i would really like to dig in on reality ^^ it's such a beautiful tune =D peace

  • I would love to see the technique shown for heart of the matter especially right index finger "slap" harmonics. Thank you for your insight into music.

  • Thankyou, monsenior Antoine!

    God loves you!

  • I NEED YOUR DVD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Ma suggestion serait de faire le DVD en français ;)

    Technique incroyable, je t'ai manqué à Saint-Eustache pour la St-Jean, je travaillais. Je voulais tuer mon patron. Peu importe, keep going!

  • ta mis ton message ici pour rien il faut que tu le mette sur son canal pour qui le voie SUCSCRIBE

  • Hey man, thanks for this excellent technique. I will probably use this a lot when messing around. Seriously thank you.

    I really want to learn Ashes In The Sea, it's my favorite song of yours. Just anything to help us learn that song would be excellent.

  • my suggestion is to show us things and exercises that would make your songs come to us with ease, and if you wanted to actually teach the songs, i would suggest reality and scratch

    but if i were to heavily suggest anything that would make me very pleased in what i learn from your dvd, it would be exercises that are very challenging that will make fingerstyle songs come with ease if you understand.

  • you should spen a lot of time teaching us exercises that teach us things that are in your songs, but the exercises should be harder than your msuic parts so that when we learn your songs it comes much easier

    im pretty sure u can show us stuff like that, anything u practiced to amke you better adn at the skill you are at now from picking, haromics and tapping the acoustic, etc...

    independence between fingers and different rhythms, etc etc

  • Thank you...you are an awesome player and very, very helpful to those of us starting out:)

  • DEQR - Thats a magnetic pick-up he is using to amplify the guitar through an amp. It looks like a Fishman Rare Earth pickup, but I maybe mistaken as there are a few with the same design.

  • on your dvd you should do a step by step on how to play each song. with few camera angles and tabulature on the screen.

  • I am an idiot for asking I know,...but what is that accross the sound hole?