Michael Jackson - Acoustic Cover - Black or White

[mamouchka9]

Hihi stop smoke weed man, you're high (and alone in your cosmic trip)

[SquishToGo]

@mamouchka9 I'll keep your feedback in mind, it's not uncommon with my acoustic playing. You probably articulated it best. I'm going to put an album called "High on my Cosmic Trip" on my to-do list. Here's my response, and it's very solid and core, not grasping for straws. What I'm involved in are very developed and difficult methods to do alone on acoustic guitar. I'm doing things difficult for a non-guitarist (and near-impossible for a non-musician) to even pick up, let alone appreciate..

[SquishToGo]

@mamouchka9 [cont.]... Notice that most of the comments involve the instrument, style, niche, or the nature of an accomplishment. Your comment is dead-on via a slight modifcation: "You and the guitarists who like your stuff are alone in your cosmic trip". Absolutely. And that's something I didn't even realize initially at all. I was like WTF?? to all the dislikes on this, before I started to figure this out. See unless you're guitar-fluent, you have no idea that the style itself is creative

[SquishToGo]

@mamouchka9 [cont #2]... You're used to hearing almost identical sounds with styles of music involving more than one instrument, performer, or track. You don't realize consciously that the extra rhythm I'm creating is by slamming the guitar very hard in a way that's damaging it, actually, and would need a new type of instrument to do properly. In fact, if I were so much as tapping a wooden floor with my foot to create that sound, it would loose all that value that's invisible to you..

[SquishToGo]

@mamouchka9 [cont #3]... Another thing you likely don't know is that I'm using harmonics that are incredibly difficult to manipulate, ones that just about no one but experienced fingerstyle guitarists would ever attempt to use in an actual performance (let alone paired with purposely damaging their instrument). In fact, many would be very easy if the strings were tuned differently (or if I had 20 high E strings). I'll work on explaining this in future videos, and try to label them better.

[aymyeyehurts]

What kind of guitar is this?

[SquishToGo]

@aymyeyehurts I don't know Tranq's model number off the top of my head. He's like a $400-level Yamaha acoustic-electric. Don't confuse the guitar with the style, though. What you might more mean is how I'm getting the sound I'm getting out of him (see what I explained at length about the style in response to mamouchka9).

[oxcupcaakexo77]

Hahahaha i just enjoy hearing you say "Hey, i'm Squish To Go"

[ngapuhihardd]

wow nice guitar

[Bettysdolls]

people are assholes! great cover!

[caiomusic]

pretty awesome!

A bit weird, but fantastic!

Congratulations!

[danilotudella]

porra, toca bem bagarái, mas cantando... acho q o cara tá doidásso!

[vstrum23]

You've used nice harmonics... sounding very sweet.

[har990]

Awesome........

[Ringo2345]

really like the guitar

[SquishToGo]

Thanks, I've been developing/learning these techniques (mainly the harmonics) for awhile now; they're very difficult so all I can post is drafts really. I just sit in a room and play them oover and oover for months and they're still totally draft-ish. Check back now and then, I'm improving them all the time and hope to have some real polished final covers with complex harmonics at some point.

[diggit03]

great!

[karenaf92]

i like your covers and your style :)

[SquishToGo]

thanks=)