airtap tribute

[fenderinter90]

Hi you have the tab please?

[sacredsilence91]

facfcf right?

[skdprp1]

@sacredsilence91 justin biber is better did you get it ? and now shut the fuck up . this is shit. this is can't be music. there is no melody and there is no vocal.

[AGWStudios]

@skdprp1 Actually it does have melody, but to your ears I guess not. None-the-less music doesn't need melody or vocal if it has rythym....even your precious Beiber could understand that...

[DisturbedByCheese]

It's very nice, shame it's not quite in sync

[andrewsciberras]

sound and video are not synchronized :(

[GheloPunk]

ich liebe es!

[exhailuk]

some nice melodies in there. good job.

[sillyhaircut]

tune your guitar properly you paddy bastard!!!

[ox0Jason0xo]

@sillyhaircut you can see he's only just srung his guitar i no my guitar always goes outta tune abit after restringing for a little bit but tbh dosent sound like his guitar is far off beign in tune

[jumpman93LP]

@sillyhaircut and what can you play dumbfuck?

i can't find any good video on your channel.

[mrremix12321]

@sillyhaircut Its ignorant people like you that ruin youtube..go flame a video that has somebody doing something with less skill than you thatl keep u busy

[dustnbones]

@sillyhaircut  Nice ear. But I hate you. And you suck,

[sowaswiepilot]

not bad

[ranga5110]

did u have 2 lower the action on ur guitar so u didnt get "2 tones"

[trishwosere]

Simply epic! you've made me want to go out and buy a guitar just to play even remotely as good as you.

[TheGoldenWildcat]

You think there is a lesson in air tapping?

[toysindahood]

Fair play bud sounded alright alot of hanging around the harmonics but i guess you gotta with this.

Should try some of the crazy slides he does they soudn epic.

What tuning you in here? and what you got it running through?

[mwhite1994]

I think he uses open F tuning.

[BMTHnoahJFAC]

dumbass, this is real

[Rostislavd]

ur life is fake, didnt u know? =)

[nancyl2]

WOW Really a great job. I admire Erik and you certainly do him proud. I know that is very difficult and LOTS of practice went into this "mini-concert" Thanks for sharing it with us. Keep up the great job. : -)

[metalheadmattdrift]

much respect. very good tribute and skill all together. i have been playing guitar for 9 years, and it would take me forever to learn that. wow, thats all i can say.

[pepcre8tr]

its pretty good, started copying air tap in the middle there though so i wouldnt necesarily call it a tribute but otherwise good.

[IdyllWind]

Beautiful, simply beautiful... :-)

[VladTepesph]

Only a few can do that. Good job!

[frazerisbad]

what tuning do you use for this?

[mobilesuitZer0]

Dude that shit at 2:56...that tapping has to go...it makes you sound like a retard.

[skaterpeep94]

hahahahah i laughed so hard when i read this. then watched it

[mobilesuitZer0]

It makes him look like a fucking retard.

[whitefalcon113]

I disagree, and believe that you should have kept your opinion too yourself, next time please do.

[DarkTunnel4]

i disagree

[kebyonatin]

it is what we call...

......"improvisation"....

not all improvisations are perfect..^_^

[toavezon]

Dang, it's pretty good.

[KirstyCakes]

This was pretty sweet. Nice job :)

[equitably]

Erik Mongrain is awesome!

[SHACOMB]

holy shit!! dude that was 1 of the best things ive ever seen in my life :D i wish i could play the well :P awesome job!!!

[Kriller1987]

wtf u doin?

dosnt even sound like air tap LAWL!

[kricket05]

he didn't say he was playing air tap smart one he said he was lap tapping using erik's technique and tuning god

i can't do that on my guitar it hurts my fingers =[ but you're doin it pretty cool dude

[Kriller1987]

grow longer nails if u look at the vid of erik doin his air tap u can see he has pretty long nails that might hepl against the pain

[jonnykid555]

doubt you could do anything like that

[Kriller1987]

yeah i doubt that too

[madmonkey56]

hey what is the tunning??? and like where did u get eric's songs from.... tabs? cause i wanna learn

[TheSystemReset]

cool stickers on ur guitar bro

[malstessers]

I think he used the FACFCF ..

yah..

that tuning make a cool harmonics and sounds.

try experimenting and do some cool variations.

try watching erik mongrains air taps..

[LoquaciousLee]

what tuning are you in? is this Drop d?

[gosch89]

thats unreal

[DzikLethal]

good work man.. impressed. ! : )

[BarbarianAsh]

Cool!

[Mers76]

Beautiful sound..... Incredible vibrations.... my heart is still pounding!

[JHLGuitar]

Good

[jdsal62]

what can i say.genius

[KosmycTheMusicMan]

Good to see you've been inspired too. Know you posted this a long time ago so have probably improved massively since then, but I've only just started trying to tap and am pretty shit atm :P

But practice makes perfect so keep it up and maybe i'll catch up one day.

[dupbr13]

whats the tuning?

[KissekattX]

So show us how it's done, please.

[Lif3OnTheEdge]

You got right to talking crap so you show us how to play it cuase if you cant play better than this guy you have no room to talk he did a good job

[Jumboshrimp17]

we need to help fellow musicians. if they have the guts to post it up, we gotta have the guts to tell the truth! you guys want me to post a video up so you can prove a point and knock me down no matter what i do or how good it is. he doesnt need to take my advice, but i garantee if you put that in front of a pro, he's gonna say that same and worse. wouldnt he want to hear the truth? shoot after hearing us go at it, i bet its inspired him. and thats what its all about

[Kodders92]

you may be right in saying hes not completely imitating erik.

but post a video and lets see you do better.

then i'll take back what i'm saying now.

[Jumboshrimp17]

i live in germany for a year cause i am doing a tour with a band called Dizmas.

(look em up on myspace)

i dont have a webcam nor the time to prove myself. whether i can play it or not, doesnt take away fact.

and the fact is, that its amature and it needs work!

period!

i am not shooting him down, i am just advising him instead being like all of you and tell him what he wants to hear.

thats not how you make it in the real world, and thats not how you make it as a muscian

[radrsrcul372]

NOWS NOT THE TIME FOR DICK MEASURING!

[gkuly]

watching you makes me depressed about my guitar skills !! so i guess that a good thing for you!

[PhbBen]

Pretty good song, I really enjoyed the riffs you came up with. :)

One question though... is the thing glinting on the right some string you just replaced and didn't crop yet? It's bugging me. :P

[jeu19]

What is that song?

[chinoxdark]

dude something is wrong with ur sound XD

[maugbj]

Well done on working out some of his riffs, bloody hard to work out what's going on! Great work

[Septimius]

Too bad it's out of sync. Sounds good.

[alanmartin18]

i wish i could play like you

[steelers0515]

how long did it take you get learn and get good at air tapping from playing regular chords?

[Clarkedj2140]

Just from a technical point of veiw, I would guess that tapping your foot makes it harder to play...

But you do a brilliant job anyhow.

You could be very good one day.

[langerCAN]

nice lost prophets sticker =)

[muss3r86]

dude awesome job, you just proved to me that tapping is "learnable." I'm determined to learn how. Again, well done

[RenderedGore]

Yeah mate - good job, nice to see someone actually motivated enough to practice this difficult technique. :)

[kungkuno]

good. finally some one who actually can play tap except for Eric mongrain:P nice job! im impressed

[sask13]

okay...cool playing but dood....not cool stickers...i mean lost prophets??? get some decent taste....(lol im only joking awesome playing, awesome tribute:D)

[Dezibell3000]

Which guitar tuning do you have?

[SurfCompton]

I think he has it at FACFCF, only way you can easily get that tapping noise without the string being too tight. In my opinion anyways, could be wrong.

[EdLeicester]

Yeh, ive just tuned to this and started slapping the frets, sounds pretty good without any effort

[Dezibell3000]

Do somebody have tabs or something like this??

[Jdawg0492]

Lol, I don't think you can have tabs for this, maybe I'm wrong.

[futsol55]

cool. but the stickers..... not cool.

[bodomchild01234]

omg je crois pas que ceux qui postent des coms ici se rendent compte comme c dur le tapping sur une seche...

[GusGoneSolo]

Good job man keep it up.. people don't realize the work involved... so don't stop doing what your doing

[saynotorice]

it isnt fake...cos its not that good. why would anyone try to copy something that doesnt sound very good?

[Brain0damaged]

I got some latency on the image with the sound: at about 0:45.- 'till end... To bad, 'cause it's not bad at all. And at the 'connard' here, I do lots of things and I probably won't be as good as the 'best' my whole life. Do I have to cry now and stop living?

[skytrance666]

Your so ridiculous, you will never be able too be the same thing taht erik does... sorry...

[Brain0damaged]

That's why it's a tribute.;.

[skytrance666]

Je suis heureux de voirr ca car comme ca je me dit que peu importe ce kil font ou combien il s'entraine, personne n'arrive a la hauteur de erik... a point c tout...

[yellowjello42]

awesome :]

[ironcheese1]

nice dude

[bockbeam]

not fake, its ok,but seriously doesnt impress me enough, keep tryin man

[mackjacoba]

i like how anytime people show their talent on youtube there is always someone who says its fake every damn time

[Creationstepper2007]

Es ist Zeitverzögert... das ist alles. Kein Fake kein Nichts... er kanns halt.

[whosarnold]

danke schon

[Creationstepper2007]

no problem :) do you speak german? cause I read in your profil that you are from ireland... peace and great playing.

[madmonkey56]

thats really good what song is that?

[Maremann]

if it really is fake, what the hell would a guy sit and do that for ? :p that would just be weird, lol. it's called a bad lag, and can happen to everyone.

[Genamildo]

Is there a delay in the sound? Cuz I think there is giving the illusion that he's not the one playing, lololololol!!

[george14141414]

how long did it take u 2 learn how 2 do that??

[omgitslane]

i see korn :)

[blueredfred2]

just bad lag, not fake

[JTDmusic]

that is so fake. notice when he moves his hand away at 3:06-3:07 for a brief second a note plays.

[mackjacoba]

you can see the lag through the whole thing come on guy open your eyes

[JTDmusic]

sometimes it makes a stumming noise when he's not strumming. hmmm?

[roberlucas]

good on you man, erik mongrain would be happy to have inspired this amazing guitar playing.

[Afivestarkindaguy]

hmm

[dairylove]

ya wono is a bit weird listing all tings, its real get over it!

[dairylove]

love it unreal!

[ernie325]

Also sorry about the many psts i wish i could put em together. It's really annoying how i left them.

Thanks for reading this and hopefully you don't take it the wrong way, after all youtube is for ppl who wanna watch videos and have a fun or constructive time doing it. :)

[ernie325]

Sorry if I was rude in a couple of these. It is understandable that some people might have doubts about the originality of the video because the sound doesnt match up with the video but I direct this to the others who are not even willing to believe there is a POSSIBILITY that this is real(a possibility, thats all i'm asking from ppl in general with the entire youtube community, and that goes outside of this video as well).

[ernie325]

Here's various reasons why this video is probably real:Here's various reasons why this video is probably real:

1. First of all, even if he didn't actually play this song, this song has to come from somewhere. Music doesn't just pop out of thin air(or grow on trees for that matter). I am pretty sure that something of this quality would have been seen somewhere else if he wasnt the creator or "airtap tribute"

[ernie325]

2. Just as many people have said here, the audio isnt sync'ed with the video image, the camera was perhaps of not very good quality or the audio might have lagged when he uploaded the video to youtube which converts it into a flash file.

3. If you look at what harmonics and frets he plays, the sound ACTUALLY matches with the video image that came first. Can you believe it? it actually matches

[ernie325]

4. As bob Dylan says is his very well known song "Times they are A'changin'": "don't criticize

What you can't understand". Its pretty simple. Whenever I have something to say i think to myself, do i actually know what im talking about? I have either of two choices either I do and post the comment, or I don't and shut my mouth.

5. This video has been watched over 86 thousand times. Usually something fake doesnt get this much popularity unless it is extremely stupid or funny in some way etc.

[PaperArrows899]

this is really good keep it up! people are dicks and refuse to believe somethings real just cus its a bit off when it got encoded. anyways i like it!

[michy5683]

It's real, Yo dont listen to dumb people man that was sick keep it up!

[beenyj]

thats rather good

[Dinostra]

Not bad dude, keep grinding and you'll get there soon=) synch the next one

[GTFRANKS]

god some people are such pricks why would he waste 4:25 pretending to play guitar its real its just not in sync cant exactly be helped

[spandy22]

Nice skills, you should re-post this as its out of sync, you'd get much more credit if it was in sync, any how - looks quality - well done.. :)

[Mantrabass]

i love how you keep the beat throughtout the song and not lose it to random harmonics like alot of other wannabe air tappers.. im been try to learn those freaking harmonics for like 4 years.

[danielthomastanner]

he's using "slap harmonics" not artificial. its really quite impressive seeing you do that on just one of the high strings at a time.

[SLBmusic]

Very cool, man! Nice to watch AND listen to. Nice triplets, too.

[davadov1]

Great stuff johny,goey here

[truth1995]

nice fake gutair palying

[shaunoftheundead]

did you know, some cameras have a slow reaction time.

[truth1995]

Yeah I know, As a fellow guitar player I was making a joke considering the other people that think it is fake do to the video portion

[shaunoftheundead]

aahh.. Normally I catch onto sarcasm.. Sorry about that man

[Clasisw]

He was RLYfunny.... NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT

[shaunoftheundead]

People who sound like Borat really are quite lonely.

[dberry02jr]

I don't know... at first I thought it looked real... Now I'm having doubts...

[Shooter1444]

I think the sound is off, not sure though.

[mmggppmgp]

no... the video is just out of sync with the sound, but it sounds like he is playing it.

[114201514]

how do you do that? is it something like harmonics (artifical?)? great video by the way! thank you, 5 stars!

[TakesTwoToTango]

If it's done with harmonics (I think harmonics are a part of it), I'd say more natural than artificial. But especially tapped harmonics.

[CapitaineBuisson]

hey sucse me but what is the tuning to get that sound? thx a lot and nice ;)

[Xanaden]

Open F: FACFCF (down to high)

[CapitaineBuisson]

thanks ^^

[FatBullocks]

Yeah, the sync was a little off, it was messin with my head! I was like... Wow this guy's either really fast, or really slow. Just Kidding, awesome job, that song is very cool. Erik Mongrain is a very talented individual. Just wondering, how long after you saw him do the "Airtap" did it take you to get it down so well.

[guts777]

about two weeks asshole

[epeep]

wow!

just wow man thats was great! :)

god job

[nytasurferspain]

it's really good! but the audio was wrong!!

[Damasko12]

increible una lastima q este desacompasado

[danielthomastanner]

please please please fix the sound! i would be completely mezmorized if i werent distracted by the audio and the visual being out of sync! i love this.

[danylizotte]

That's exactly what I was going to write. Really, it would be great if you could rearrange the sound to fit the picture. Because your music is really nice!

[Seanyerzy]

Nice

[Eric205gen]

i think this is a yamaha..i have the fx-310..its awesome..great job

[sloestep]

good job!

[SpazzlePop]

noice!

[gilmur]

tuning???

[effteapea]

nice playing!

[onemon22]

Don, I was wanting to do a shout out video to Erik and I was wondering if you wanted to participate. You have the style.

David.

[Blight21590]

are you posting the same comment to everyone?

[andypandy248]

i can do this a bit but it makes my fingers sore:(

[paulecase]

ok that was freakin sick!!!!

[dizzyrapture]

Wicked!

[capo420420]

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[loafin1234]

not bad keep it up

[nixiki]

nice video! SUPER!! PERFECT!!!

[filipegcm]

I wish I could play something like this lap tapping stuff... it's really amazing

[666wrathofheaven666]

Stop wishing and go practice.

[pik92]

Pretty good, sounds great.

Check my video too for airtap style.

[jose83mitchell]

you are doing it...sounds great

[sandystoner]

just fuckin strum the thing

[drewser091]

im almost positive it is in open f tunning

[schwarg]

out of sync

[joedodd123]

whats the tuning??

[Draugoth]

I'm guessing e-tuning, I don't know. Sounds like it to me.

[666wrathofheaven666]

Standard

[goulden]

hey wat tuning is your guitar in??

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[EquusTwo]

i loved the tri tone at 1:26, although, i think it might have been an accident. keep it in, it sounded cool!

[langerCAN]

awesome.

[aIpha]

sync this stuff please!

[trapper6341]

incredible, sweet improvisation