thanks for the response, by the way if you are looking for an "over the top" fiddle player, Peter Huntlinger (a great finger style guitarist) was touring ,about two yrs ago with a your lady, about your age, as his fiddle accompanist-unbelievable-, I dont know her name, perhaps thru Peter Huntlinger, ..if your interested
Fantastic...as are all your tunes. Please check out "busker12" (Macyn Taylor) on you tube especially her Leo K cover of Airproofing Two. I think you will really appreciate it. There are only a handful of people in the world who handle and even inprove on some Kottke tunes, and Macyn is one of them.
Oh Yea, the tuning. You will tune down two whole steps or tune the bottom E string at the fifth fret, A note, down to where the first fret is or what would be the F position. This means the A should ring at the first fret. Tuning is the standard EADGBE.
I gotta tell ya, that is just fabulous playing. I can do Vasaline Machine Gun and there is plenty to learn the subroutines. It took years of work to get it and the help of a vid by slightreturn / Matt. Damn he is good. Your playing, even Leo Kottke himself would say, great bravo. A lot of people molest peoples stuff. You didn't do that here. One thing I learned, it doesn't have to be dead on. It can get sterile. Yours is right on, right there and your skill just great.
Good job kiddo. I've been listening to Kottke since about 1972 and you do a fantastic version. A little fast, but well.... we get carried away don't we?.....
Excellent! This is no problem, at your age, but, someday you may have to ditch the fingerpicks. By about the age of 35, they started messing around with my circulation and tendons. I was set right using brush-on acrylic nails. Only slight changes in technique were required. Keep up the mighty playing. You're good!
Hey kid, you are GOOD! This is my favourite Kottke track and you've done a great job with it. Normally I'm embarassed by the standard of covers on YouTube, but not with this one. Bravo!
yes and no. its like standard tuning, only ive tuned the whole guitar down 2 whole steps. for the most part theyre pretty normal chord shapes. a g, c, c7 and d7 which is played just like the c7 but up two frets.
on the 000-28h? i like it a lot. it is particularly good for finger style and blues (eric clapton's martin is a 000). it it easy to bend the strings and fairly easy to hit chords that require a bit of a stretch. admittedly for flat picking i might prefer a bit of a longer scale length, but ist still works fine. the string spacing is good for all of the aforementioned styles; fairly far apart and therefore pretty easy for stuff where youre playing only one/tw strings at a time, etc. its great.
Good going bud! One hint for you, Leo does the 2nd half of that harmonic riff at the 7th & 5th fret (in that order). The last note of the riff will be the harmonic at the 5th fret on the g string.
HA! I hate relying on "modern slang" but hot damn man, you're right...I have been pwnt.
Keep it up! Your control and timing are both ridiculous, and you're improving exponentially. I agree with Joe completely -- kick-ass in every sense of the phrase...I'm going to go check my posterior for welts now.
thanks for the response, by the way if you are looking for an "over the top" fiddle player, Peter Huntlinger (a great finger style guitarist) was touring ,about two yrs ago with a your lady, about your age, as his fiddle accompanist-unbelievable-, I dont know her name, perhaps thru Peter Huntlinger, ..if your interested
petersinesi 4 months ago
Fantastic...as are all your tunes. Please check out "busker12" (Macyn Taylor) on you tube especially her Leo K cover of Airproofing Two. I think you will really appreciate it. There are only a handful of people in the world who handle and even inprove on some Kottke tunes, and Macyn is one of them.
petersinesi 4 months ago
@petersinesi Thank you very much. Yes, I've seen quite a few of her tunes and they're dead on. Really impressive stuff.
200000028 4 months ago
Oh Yea, the tuning. You will tune down two whole steps or tune the bottom E string at the fifth fret, A note, down to where the first fret is or what would be the F position. This means the A should ring at the first fret. Tuning is the standard EADGBE.
Spitfireseven 9 months ago
I gotta tell ya, that is just fabulous playing. I can do Vasaline Machine Gun and there is plenty to learn the subroutines. It took years of work to get it and the help of a vid by slightreturn / Matt. Damn he is good. Your playing, even Leo Kottke himself would say, great bravo. A lot of people molest peoples stuff. You didn't do that here. One thing I learned, it doesn't have to be dead on. It can get sterile. Yours is right on, right there and your skill just great.
Spitfireseven 9 months ago
SICK!
jackrowet1234 1 year ago
Good job kiddo. I've been listening to Kottke since about 1972 and you do a fantastic version. A little fast, but well.... we get carried away don't we?.....
TheScottie19 1 year ago
hey, great job. do you have an accurate tab for this song? thanks a lot =)
hooblagoo 1 year ago
Hey dude, Fucking loved that!!
was so good! :D
Just wondering what tuning is the guitar in?
not too sure because of the tweleve strings! :P
MenaPaws21 1 year ago
You should be very proud of your playing of this Kottke classic. It's outrageously hard to play and you pretty much got it down.
KeiraForsyth 1 year ago
Excellent! This is no problem, at your age, but, someday you may have to ditch the fingerpicks. By about the age of 35, they started messing around with my circulation and tendons. I was set right using brush-on acrylic nails. Only slight changes in technique were required. Keep up the mighty playing. You're good!
bcpipes 1 year ago
You're bloody great. Keep it up.
maxtib 1 year ago
well done! Great job.
jdhuntley 1 year ago
Well done. Clean sounds, good reproduction of the original. Thanks for sharing here.
netdoctor1 1 year ago
marry me.
kasimovaya 2 years ago
Leo would/will be proud of you awesomeness
danielc121162 2 years ago
I hate youtube. Just when you think you know someting, a teenage kid comes out of the blue and sends you back to school.
albionminer 2 years ago 10
Yeah don't you know it huh?
danielc121162 2 years ago
wow your deadly!!!!
bennysonthehill 2 years ago
Incredible performance!! You even look like Leo in his younger years.
fouramhq 2 years ago
wow kid i agree you need to go out and perform in public (if you don't already)
fromthenorthwest 2 years ago
you're doin real good. beyond impressive. keep it up
xviper22x 2 years ago
...thisdifficult even, that Leo doesn't get it right in front of the mic and the camera himself (since yesterday on youtube)...
somewhere59 2 years ago
Best Kottke cover on youtube, this piece isn't easy...
stratomaster136 2 years ago 7
It's a slight bit rushed, but fantastic nonetheless.
dwdyer 2 years ago
wow thats perfect playing 5 stars from germany
1wiesehoefer1 3 years ago
This kid is incredible. I suggest you get out of your bedroom and start going to open mics at coffeeshops.
Mark9309 3 years ago 2
Great job!!!
bkors 3 years ago
Serious props, dude! Thanks for a great cover!
Mjollnir50 3 years ago
bravo man, awesome work!
bolson567 3 years ago
Very good indeed. Nice job!
TwelveSticks 3 years ago
i'll admit it..i'm slightly jealous!
NuG919 3 years ago
DAAAAAAMMMNNNN! great cover bro
themothaflippin 3 years ago
Very, very good. You hit the harmonics perfectly!!
fouramhq 3 years ago
dude. i'm floored. you teach yourself that?
Syrinx77 3 years ago
BAD ASS!!!! NICELY DONE!
hosscollar 3 years ago
Nicely done.
gjn300 3 years ago
damn good stuff
Humphreysguitar 3 years ago
Hey kid, you are GOOD! This is my favourite Kottke track and you've done a great job with it. Normally I'm embarassed by the standard of covers on YouTube, but not with this one. Bravo!
poacher007 3 years ago
Very well done. Keep up the good work.
Gianelli9 3 years ago
whoa--ive been watching a couple of your videos. youre incredible......fantastic. keep it up--you need to be famous so everyone can enjoy this.
shaynaface 3 years ago
Wow!
pontil1 3 years ago
Excellent cover!
Orsbore 3 years ago
nice job! is the guitar tuned standard or not? Im tryin to figure this out for myself
peacemaker9080 3 years ago
yes and no. its like standard tuning, only ive tuned the whole guitar down 2 whole steps. for the most part theyre pretty normal chord shapes. a g, c, c7 and d7 which is played just like the c7 but up two frets.
200000028 3 years ago
thanks bro
peacemaker9080 3 years ago
Holy cow! You are fantastic. So wonderful. Keep it up, buddy. Kottke has three hands, so I don't know how you're able to do this.
kookoobirdz 3 years ago
You are so young and talened never stop playing leo would be so proud
Andrew57110 3 years ago
Good Work,but the tempo is too fast i guess.
manmankhel 3 years ago
Nice work...that has always been one of my favourite Kottke tunes.
taylor355 3 years ago
Can you talk a little about your guitar? How do you like the 24.9 scale and the 1 11/16 neck combo?
d28den 4 years ago
on the 000-28h? i like it a lot. it is particularly good for finger style and blues (eric clapton's martin is a 000). it it easy to bend the strings and fairly easy to hit chords that require a bit of a stretch. admittedly for flat picking i might prefer a bit of a longer scale length, but ist still works fine. the string spacing is good for all of the aforementioned styles; fairly far apart and therefore pretty easy for stuff where youre playing only one/tw strings at a time, etc. its great.
200000028 4 years ago
Excellent performance. How long did it take you to learn all this? Must've been months?
prasiddha 4 years ago
well sort of months. i'd work on it, then give up for a while, then work on it some more, until it finally got presentable.
thanks.
200000028 4 years ago
you should really get rid of those pics...you're gonna hurt yourself
Michaelwhislermusic 4 years ago
Good going bud! One hint for you, Leo does the 2nd half of that harmonic riff at the 7th & 5th fret (in that order). The last note of the riff will be the harmonic at the 5th fret on the g string.
Again, kick-ass. SlightReturn will be pissed! ;-)
Joe
Tenntoad 4 years ago
thanks, and thanks for the tip. that does make more sense.
200000028 4 years ago
HA! I hate relying on "modern slang" but hot damn man, you're right...I have been pwnt.
Keep it up! Your control and timing are both ridiculous, and you're improving exponentially. I agree with Joe completely -- kick-ass in every sense of the phrase...I'm going to go check my posterior for welts now.
SlightReturn 4 years ago
haha thanks! you should try this piece if you haven't already; its a trick to get it up to speed bet its really rewarding
200000028 4 years ago