Andy McKee - Africa

[littletimmyeggfart]

fuck me i cant play this. my guituars are in the fire place

[danmcann94]

better than the original

[HugPie]

Sexy man!



[ffdp419]

i like the acoustics in this video, especially his beginning drumbeat. My favorite version of his cover

[AcousticJW]

are the beats he does on his guitar amplified by his pickup or a mic?

[voiceotf]

@AcousticJW it would be the mic because it sits inside the body of the guitar, and the pick-ups are suspended across the sound hole and face out toward the strings

[BuddyDog03]

It´s very nice to hear how different guys develop and discover guitar technique and playing. In appreciation for their practising and struggeling. Really great, Mr. McKee.

[jomastretch]

Is the sound set up here bad? Doesn't seem to pick up the softer notes very well...?

[Skeetergirlie]

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[cr4p3zd0m]

there are parts sounding like big mountain's baby, i love your way and a chorus from a band in 90's.

[Hell31]

@Mrhapperz yea of course he isnt god why compare god who is way inferior then him lol...

[Mrhapperz]

He messed up... SO he isn't a god!

[TheSynyster1996]

@Mrhapperz he is a human...human makes mistakes... and he is nervous

[Mrhapperz]

@TheSynyster1996 Obviously... Did you really think I thought he was a god?

[TheBenham93]

@Mrhapperz I'd like to see you do it half as good as him

[Kharnall123]

look guys no strumming :D . with fingers like this ...who needs a piano

[jsteele07189]

good thing he listened to Toto instead of Whitesnake or some shit.

[18ken18]

I forgot, thanks much for the &fmt=18

[18ken18]

OMFG. if you see someone tune his guitar like that you just already know something good is gonna come.

[Sammyson0313]

That sounded nice!

\m/Rock-On\m/

[cathal627]

Awesome

[twiggasaurus12]

15 people dont know what real music sounds like.

[deepfreez09]

Does this guy ever open his eyes while playing?!?! its flipping amazing! I want to see sombody play this song let alone any of his songs with their eyes closed!

[MattGolt]

replay button -> 1:09

[TheFattyMagoo]

@chrisghorton he utilizes the ancient powers of past musical prophets and shamans, and they (at least 1 million of them) dance through his fingers like tiny virtuosic gypsies. Or something like that...

[chrisghorton]

so when he does the strumming part is he hitting with the fingers or both fingers and thumb?? I always want to play just fingers but I can't get that wide swiping motion of his and not as much volume...?

[MrFaulconbridge]

@chrisghorton Andy strums pretty freely. Just curve all your fingers togeather a little and strum down. Use your thumb to swipe back up. Put emotion into it and you will get a classic Andy Mckee strum!

[marcindu13]

@chrisghorton

tune your guitar f.ex. in DADGAD as in "Drifting" and You will see that it works;)

[MrRichardsome1]

i paused my porn for this

[fchermom]

Hahahaha pricless. :)

[MrRichardsome1]

@fchermom :D

[Tonycaveman]

@MrRichardsome1 I used my porn as a buildup for it. I climaxed with this.

[MrRichardsome1]

@Tonycaveman hahahaha

[crazyjose111]

@Tonycaveman Yea? I never watched porn after this.... My penis exploded after watching it.

[Tonycaveman]

@crazyjose111 Yeah? Well, that happened to me too, then I grew a second penis listening to "Drifting", then I had the most earth shattering set of multiple orgasms ever recorded.

You might remember that day because there was a tsunami. Yeah...

[tomihu2]

@MrRichardsome1 good job wanker

[anubiskk]

@MrRichardsome1 me too, but i continue fapping :D

[MrRichardsome1]

@anubiskk lol but ew xD

[eggtartboy]

@MrRichardsome1 And your dick lost erection due to this africa music

[MrRichardsome1]

@eggtartboy Wrong. I got even harder.

[SidraBhatti]

@MrRichardsome1

i seriously turned my porn off for this

[speaker3600]

start playing this song in a public area, and watch how many girls start to crowd around you in the first 2 minutes.

[MrFaulconbridge]

@speaker3600 Really? I must go busking today with this song. Hopefully the girls will be all over me.

[speaker3600]

I dig it.

[Bonnnzai]

6.Mai 2011 Stuttgart!

[VIEIRAfrederico]

That is the most happy guitar I ever seen *

[1313RAH]

@funsJoKeR if u liked this u will love SOULMOBILIN search it great music guys :)

[1313RAH]

if u liked this u will love SOULMOBILIN search it great music guys :)

[sylvster129]

YOu are the best man guitarist of all..

[ffdp419]

yet another song from the master, people...

[ffdp419]

@funsJoKeR fuck yeah... he got me into fingerstyle, guitar tappping, all those guitar techniques. Listen to any other artist like this man here, it really shows a different side of music

[killyourself4earth]

you would pay to have this guy tune your butt hairs

[nineinchtaint]

@killyourself4earth A+ comment

[wijayaratnam]

@killyourself4earth I'd pay someone to tune my butt hairs, than i'd play Bohemian Crapsody with them :D.

[littletingoddess96]

@killyourself4earth def

[guitarjammest]

I would pay just to see this guy tune his guitar.



[MrBig69Boy]

half of the time he doesn't even watch his fingering its to put it simply amazing

[loyeti71]

Claudio Bellato at John Lennon memorial day plays a Beatles tribute

George Harrison: Within or whitout you

solo acoustic guitar & live electronics: search: claudio bellato within without you(on youtube )

[rkmacualraig1]

I'm trying to keep up on my daughter's "First Act Discovery" guitar and it's not working out . You're doing a great job McKee!

[CloudminS]

Best part at 3:32

[JayJay1990fromwiehl]

what the... awesome

[sferreroni]

agreed!!! better ZILLION times! ;)

[AverageJop25]

can we press the like button for a million times?

[DJStuHirst]

staggeringly good

[raymondendozo]

best performance...

[poirepoire22]

i bet the crowd didn't realized how hard is this piece to play...Especially with the fading effect at the end but Andy plays it so perfectly and make it look so easy.

[illspirit1965]

this dude is incredible

[MusoJTM]

Love this version and all of Andy's Music.

[bighairydel]

i great version of one of my all time fav songs!!!!!!!!!

[zilversurfer]

andy. the man

[amateuraddiction]

this is really creative. i love it.

[kkk7hh]

omg hes like me never know capois in the left or right pocket muahahahaha

[JetStorm17277]

Just awesome!

[theycallmenavid]

i would literally shit my pants if i saw somebody playing like this live in front of me.

[shoiabrigana]

This Anyone there.!! can tell what is the tune of this song??

[aceridgey]

@shoiabrigana africa - toto

[xxguitarxxguitarxx]

omg hes good man



[Ismaelibanez18]

how is that thing tune?

[TheTanny118]

i had never see that in my live.....i am speechless

well its fantastic....i see you

[drpeper25]

we saw him at Seattle Tripple Door, to a SOLD OUT concert 6.25.2010. This guy is gifted, we love his music! a few have talent, fewer have a gift.

Thanks Andy!

[Sk8andGH3]

@drpeper25 Loved that show. It was absolutely amazing.

[Imbobby1980]

Just saw him the other night in Seattle, amazing! And for you tools giving him a hard time playing his guitar, almost every song he plays is in different tuning. Even a novice would know that you numbskulls!

[Xxexcaliburr51xX]

Tuning a guitar doesnt take that long...Takes me (a novice) about 30 seconds to tune mine. it doesnt take long.

[Nitsuki666]

@Xxexcaliburr51xX

then post that in as a video so we can see :)

[Darknvo]

@Xxexcaliburr51xX He was talking to the crowd while doing it.

Not to mention tuning it by ear.

No novice could do that.

I mean u can get the guitar in tune with each string pretty quick but not perfectly.

that's for sure.

[Grouchomx]

With all the alternate tunings he uses, 20 minutes of a show has got to be tuning up!

[CaptAdams35]

I think if he would have had his guitar tuned before he got on the stage, it would have been a much better response, JMO.

[unicyclejoel]

@CaptAdams35 pretty much every song he plays is in a different tuning, do you really expect him to come on stage with 20+ guitars all tuned differently? :s

[MrQuickBone]

@unicyclejoel and the fact that he does it while continuing to talk to the crowd is no simple task either.

[CaptAdams35]

@unicyclejoel Wow, that's pretty impressive. What is the tuning for "Africa" anyways? And why doesn't he explain that to the crowd so they don't sit there like they aren't enjoying watching him tune his guitar? Maybe it's his facial hair and NOT the sitting there watching him tune his guitar for "Africa" that made them seem like a lackluster crowd.... clue us all in Joel. Why was this crowd less enthused than the San Diego one I was commenting on with CFYDRUMMER?

[virdafjell]

Why is aabody suy hoched up aboot d croods in different countries?

God sake, Wir no screamin beciss wir bein respectful un listenin ta whut hes dain, Un you canoo really hear onythin whin dirs folk just screamin at him whin hes tryin ta pluy.

Good footage o d festival by d wy

[Mr73ditto]

cool

[ibolify]

damn .. :O

[MusicXeef]

I like itt (:

[lunchboxrapper]

this guy is an incredible artist we need more guitar players like him in this world. alot of people express through words but this guy has found a way to communicate to everybody no matter what color or creed through just the guitar.

[lenrico]

great song, great cover too

[Myxin666]

Perfekt!!!

[intheflesh316]

so amazing

[FargoGamingNetwork]

1 word - Amazing!

[NESZX]

I'll be seeing him next saturday :D

[alienwareufo]

Andy is a real genius

[ReadingFc2007]

Wheres the beard

[gejoseph]

I would like to second that you are the best acoustic guitar player in the world

[imagineall92]

AWESOME ! keep tap those string. and we loved it .. lol

[matsboks]

Dman this is good

[TeamDSM]

Candyrat and their talent kick soo much ass. Bless you for bringing this to the world.

[ostepops82]

I wish I could play that good...

[Mirandavh]

It's sad that the original song of Andy Mckee and Africa dissapered. :[

like it very much <3

[rockadio1992]

Musical Genius

[ExlposiveToast]

i love this song. This is beautifully done!

[santaninha06]

i love yours songs Andy!!!! the best of guitar player world

[camaro88mustang]

woooow!!!

[ncphillips19]

That's pretty bad ass. Probably work better if there were two guitars though.

[KazzaCat]

Beautiful Andy, your awsome.

[t0v3]

Andy is awesome.

[pankrat00]

суперабол!

[MurderPlague]

Nice Job Andy :)

You kicked ass!!!

U hit that song right on the mark :)

[CupCeyk901]

i think it was played quite good considering hes playing only with his guitar no other background instruments not.. that im an expert on music technicalities but i think its pretty cool..nice job man!!!

[Woodpig91]

@WFR

If u think that anything in this song is played badly, you should be aware that you have no musical sense at all. Congratulations.

[WFR]

You are very narrow minded then. I didn't mean it was played badly, i ment it doesn't sound as good as it should. Ive seen atleast one cover that is better than this just because the chorus sounds better in it than here. Its a legend of a song and the chorus is so fucking awesome but here you can't hear the high notes so well. Hard to explain cos english is not my native language

[jkshoujk]

Where is this cover? I'd like to see a different version of the chorus...

[WFR]

Africa - TOTO - acoustic cover - Igor Presnyakov

Copy that to the search bar. Should be the first result. In my opinion it is overall better, but hey - thats just me.

[spehero]

I just listened to that version and this dude is much better than igor, Igor misses the lows and isnt nearly as technical as Andy. I dont know that much about music though, I only graduated from Berklee

[WFR]

@spehero

I know, Berklee sucks. Well its a matter of opinion, Igors chorus ain't as good as it could be, but imo better than this

[TheBrowndawg]

@WFR i hear what youre saying dude. anyone who has to go to college to study music is missing the point of music in the first place

[krook06]

@WFR Igor's version lacks a little thing that makes a big difference, and that is feel...

i would much rather listen to an artist that feels the notes than one who walks through them

[WFR]

@krook06

Im not sure which Igor you have seen then :D

[krook06]

@WFR the one that sounds like Andy ate it and then shat it back out while playing it better on the toilet...

[Bleakwing]

@WFR Not bad but doesn't sound as close to the original as Andy's or have the same feel, imho :)

[noneactive]

He is amazing.

[TableWolfMusic]

Hmm, found this in my youtube recommends. Im not keen, mainly for the strummy chorus. That said, he's a talented guy and I love some of his other stuff.

[failmeister51]

we should all be thankful that we have musicians like him

[maobrien2]

Ive seen tons of great guitarist but honestly Ive never seen anyone with so much talent, it must take such a crazy amount of control to use both of your hands like that, absolutely incredible guitarist and very few can compete with him.

[PERRADE]

Que guitarra usa , Avalon?!?!?

[selphie08]

hes much better looking here than the other one! the one that he wears red in the studio? the beard dude he looks like a HOBO! but a godlike guitarist HOBO! but still the best of the accoustice guitarist i've ever seen.

[Pyrofreak321]

"hope you dig it." hes the most awesome dork ever.

[hulkhulkhulk]

exelent tone!!!

[FRAMBEN]

wow you can really see how he's feeling the music! love it

[Erekai]

Absolutely amazing... totally speechless.

[Thil15]

you absolute amazing, i can't subscribe this what are you doing with quitar. You are best :)

[17lio]

Andy belongs to the greateast

[MsJoaozao]

mto massa ... hehe esse cara manda no violão

[Xtem666]

fucking awesome

[Charlzvanz]

great job indeed ! (Y)

[Bengz0r]

I fucking love Andy McKee

[imstuckinthevcr]

ur freakin amazing

[xshootingblanksx]

i think its awesome that he can get into his own music

[balvason]

@xshootingblanksx its not his music... its toto... but yeah i know what ya mean

[snowman134]

"hope you guys dig it" - yes. absolutely! I would have loved to be there. I'm guessing live must have sounded fantastic!

[eddierocket72]

fukln class

[canucktheclown]

Good for you that you can play guitar.

[GuitarHendrixMetal]

He normally plays lowden's but im not sure this time the logo on the head stock looks different from the lowden one.

[jcdentonmale404]

its an avalon guitar

[M34tgr1nd3r]

There's always the one coughing, kick his ass.

[jaytab180]

this is awesome!

[cfybbdrummer]

oh they were drunk alright, but trust me, we were freakin entranced by the music. i was there, we were there for the music. haha it was a dang funny crowd tho. he loved it.

[cfybbdrummer]

wow orlando crowd was soooo much better. these guys are lame. check out this same song from backbooth in orlando, you wil see what i mean.

[selkie72]

I checked it out. Sounds like the Orlando crowd were pissed up on booze and couldn't give a toss about the music haha!

[Xerxes4242]

@cfybbdrummer Any crowds that are completely silent during the performance are the best kind.

[cfybbdrummer]

@Xerxes4242 i totally agree, i jus feel like they werent giving him any love. rowdy can be distracting, but still, be a crowd y'know?

[Xerxes4242]

@cfybbdrummer I still say show him between songs, not during it:P

[markguitarman]

There's tab for this in November issue of Acoustic Guitar. Believe it or not the beginning tapping is the hardest part. For me anyway. It'll be a few months before I play this for anyone.

[DannyDeathboy]

Idk if anyone else caught it, but he messes up at 2:15.

haha,

But still a great song,

:D

[Andreterragt]

I waited for 3 days for my rersponse video to be aproved by candyrat, then i got bored. I was lucky to find this one. I just wanted to thank the person who posted this video for leaving the internet free!! And the video is awesome as usual. Keep it up!!

[bronceisoldkidding]

the suspensions are heart melting :)

[AwkwardTV]

is there a tab for this

[ARXHMalakas]

how come this guy plays small venues?

he's grade A arist

[BiZZiEBucKZ]

its Niche market he is selling to,

plus usually acoustics in large venues suck.

[Backae]

Amazing..

there's nothing more to say...

go on like this!