8 Finger Tapping"Stairway to Heaven"

[deathpill100]

the question is... why?

[GNRSlashful]

someone buy that man another guitar

[redbull324]

that was fucking sick dude

[TheDeadkid89]

dude's got some super hot pickups to be able to do this

[dare4distance69]

ah 240p.....we meet again

[Johnny96Rainbow]

get some sun XD

[fefaaa21]

i dunno if you guys who saying its out of tune realise that hes playing in a different key..... just saying.

[diebydeath]

@fefaaa21 Yeah, he's playing it in the key halfway between A minor and G# minor. xD

[justinhoman]

@diebydeath You could say it like that, but there arent any keys that are in microtones in 12tone instruments. Theres a reason structured music exists. He is playing in the key of C/Am. He just has is A tuned to 430hz not 440hz. His intonation is off so the harmonies of the 6th's sounds terrible thats why.

[diebydeath]

@justinhoman It may be that his A is tuned to 430 Hz, but his harmonic intonation still sounds off. The high notes in relation to the low notes sometimes sound like they're out of tune. I might just think that it's off because of the fuzz in the video, which sounds like dissonance sometimes, or it might be that he's tapping too hard sometimes.

Either way, the guy's very skilled, he just, you know, should tune his A to 440.

[justinhoman]

@diebydeath I highly doubt he intentionally tuned it to 430hz. I'm sure he tuned it standard. Terrible intonation problems is the most likely cause of the dissonant harmonies throughout the neck and his neck is probably a little bowed and his bridge pegs are maxed out forward and the 430hz A is the closest he could get to being the right pitch.

[justinhoman]

@fefaaa21 just saying.... you're dead wrong. He is playing in A minor. He just has his A tuned to 430hz not 440hz. which is a microtone between G# & A. Technically he is still in A. Theres a reason structured music exists, and you missed out on that memo.

[MrPsychoCB]

His guitar is in tune, his intonation is just bad, get it right before you become a critic.

[yourimetaleu]

nice version but tune your guitar ;)

[tacos808ful]

i see ur mom o.o

[josh2122]

proper intonation is the key for this kind of stuff very awesome video though!!

[avisanderdDK]

At 0:50 i swear i saw a guy trying to low crawl away from the camera in the back

[0stringking0]

Everyone need to stop with this out of tune jazz - - it's only the high E string that's out of tune, and that's only when he's tapping on the upper 12 frets, suggesting bad intonation.

I just got to to solo as I was typing this and HELL YEAHH DUDE!! That rocks dick man!

I is impressed..

[soneruyan]

nice try...but with out arpegio you cant give the soul to the song...



[ahinko]

XDD I skipped to the solo, and laught cos u really fuckin did it xD Really good btw, must have wasted hours on learning this :D

[Severddans]

DUDE HOOK ME UP WITH THE TAB FOR THIS

[madjack443]

blah blah tuning, blah blah mistakes... dude you are a god among men. that was fucking impressive!

[LukasPenso]

good work but nex time tune ur guitar...anyways good job

[cantpwnme]

i really didnt expect that solo, niiiice xD

[Koppen21]

nice but your tune isn't so good

[dvlORangl]

or u could spend the time in learning the technique to make a friend who plays rhythm guitar... am completely jealous btw.

[Cookiepotato]

Damn son, fix your guitar up and tune the damn thing.

[Geoff88]

that was fucking awesome man. who cares about the mistakes, you did a sweet as job and that was raw as, the way music should be. 2 thumbs up man. fuck yeah *walks away drinking rum with the tune in head*

[kikoutthejamsman]

no stairway.

[angelamezcua]

its good nice skiil just work on the tuning and the bridge so the guitar can allow better tapping

[DJZybez]

now do the solo :D

[Monstexitus]

tune your guitar!

[carterbear7]

horrible intonation, great ideah

[afireinsidemysoul]

spite all the other bullcrap coments i think it sounded frikin great

[ImCalHi]

@afireinsidemysoul at the end of the day an out of tune guitar/bad intonation will sound bad. you will find that the people saying he has these problems are musicians, ie. People who study music and know what theyre talking about.

[MOSKII58]

nice attempt some things are better left alone espec when it comes to this tune

maybe Stanley Jordan can give you some pointers..

[MetalTillIDie461]

tab

tab

tab

gimme tabs plz *beg*

[elysium735]

Fucking awesome, I'm showing this to everyone.

[chrisGTO66]

now of u could just play a drum set with your feet....

[yourimetaleu]

good job dude!

[randeze81]

nice video i like it i am trying to learn the guitar

[jengasfrerer]

lol, 4:25. nice try :)

[500kgone]

excellent my man!!!!!

been trying to do this the last few days....very very hard to do...and i'vw been plyin for 9yrs....

great fkn job.....10/10!!!!!!!!!

[Dalagastia]

Purchase a tuner, then learn how to finger tap a full octave higher where the original melody was written. , and then this has a shot being cool.

[Shortstacklover]

he can't play the lead an octave higher then he does here ya fool !

[TheLieb89]

little out of tune but well played 5/5

[meatloafgodxer]

do u use and alternate tuning?

[artusart]

nice

[bigtoeshrunk]

Not a fan of LZ or this song but I appreciate how difficult what you just did is. 10 out of 10. Very talented.

[kenrick4562]

you are not a fan of led zeppelin

wow

[wesclev83]

not everyone is a 12 year old

[kenrick4562]

what?

[Tyler5h03m4k3r]

Sounds like 8-bit music XD

[Plutoniummatt]

lawl

[civicminded76]

yeah for a ring tone from a 5 year old Nokia phone that doesn't work anymore. Actually a really good job though, no disrespect.

[Ice00z]

@Tyler5h03m4k3r Exactly what i was thinking lol x)

[devin1739]

@Tyler5h03m4k3r thats because he made the mistake of playing the starting of stairway to heaven with distortion, HUGE mistake

[petrucci3145]

please tune your guitar

[civicminded76]

yeah, and get a better camera with better lighting. Shame to see such a good job done with crappy gear. Almost as bad as my videos, but they are still worse

[holydiver6661]

ugh.

[UniversalHero69]

Fuckin' sweet shit dude

Tune your guitar compadre

lol

[XB0XFR34K]

the solo was sick

[angelfr83220]

intonation problem.

[PSYchoMIME]

I like it!!!

[XxazidxX]

nice!

[JoshMurphyShred]

Excellent interpretation, but like the others have said there are maybe some tuning or intonation problems.

[bunniescankill]

you really have to watch tapping past fret 8.

you';ll start getting messed up harmonics that always sound the best :-\

[marclikewhoa1]

is it just me or does it sound slightly out of tune?? but its still a good job man 5/5

[Starsmuse]

Its the clean channel, tapping higher on the neck causes wierd harmonics and makes it sound like the intonation is off.

[Starsmuse]

Well, i should say you get those harmonics on the clean channel, not usually with distortion.

[PinaCollana]

Amazing. Beautiful

[MrSeven73]

keep on keepin on bro thats awesome!!!

[bildo23]

very good but take the tame and fix your intonation

[sweetsweepbeat]

Seconded

[nihil1]

nice

[Paninian]

This was cool. Good job on originality, wouldve never thought of this lol.

[nlo13]

Would've been awesome if you tuned your guitar.

[ShredableGuitar]

Agreed, not a very good intonation as well.

[pieguard123]

real nice. your either a bit out of tune or yor intonation is screwed up tho. but good playing.

[wattacoolguy]

8 finger tapping is stupid.

[bond8437]

why cause you can't do it? and nor can i.

[wattacoolguy]

cause you might as well play the piano or the harp.

[checkoss]

do it the same, it's so stupid ?

[JulRog]

And a guitarist is not a musician? Or what are you trying to say? Don't act like you were the god of music, dude!

[wattacoolguy]

there IS a difference..

[JulRog]

Is that so? Well, that's YOUR opinion. And that proves, that you have abslutely NO idea about music. There's no difference between guitarists, pianists or any other instrument. They're ALL musicians...

[wattacoolguy]

ok.. then tell me you would listen to this crap if you didnt know it was 8 finger tapping.

[JulRog]

Dude please... If I didn't KNOW it was 8finger tapping. I have eyes and I can read the description. And by the way. Your sentence makes no sense. Please learn to write correctly before you take up a converstion with me

[wattacoolguy]

...read it again...

[JulRog]

... I'm tired arguing with you. Let's just make one thing clear: Guitarists are musicians.

[wattacoolguy]

all im trying to say is that if i gave this to you as an mp3 track and you didnt know that this was 8 finger tapping.. you would think, what the hell is this??

my point: 8 finger tapping makes for bad music.

[JulRog]

Maybe this guy here is not perfect. It sounds a bit...special. But if you check out Chris Broderick tapping a Mozert piece, you'll definately change your opinion.

[MehosPhace]

Bad music makes bad music. Check out Stanley Jordans version of Stairway.

[firave]

ur a dumbass

[xEXSEIGEx]

you really need to read what youre fucking writing

everyone thinks youre retarded

[wattacoolguy]

takes one to know one. retardo.

[xEXSEIGEx]

youre too stupid too insult..

[guitarrhythymfool]

how is a guitarist not a musician? wtf is wrong with you?

the only problem with this video is the tuning, its all screwy. but other than that, its very well done. a musician is a person who makes music, regardless of instrument, be it guitar, harp, piano, even VOICE

and it doesnt help that your argument is flawed. as a guitarist, i dont find this to be the coolest thing. i find it original, yes, but there is guitar music that i enjoy much more than this

i suggest you become less ignorant

[wattacoolguy]

SHUT YOUR FACE FOOL.

[MCDPMM]

@wattacoolguy your stupid

[wattacoolguy]

@MCDPMM you're* stupid.

[MCDPMM]

@MCDPMM wtf are you like 5 ? your a dumbass who has no business talking about music when you obviously have no business giving his bitch ass opinion about shit he dosnt even know about

[wattacoolguy]

@MCDPMM did you seriously make the same "your" mistake after I corrected you...

[OpieTheRipper]

@wattacoolguy What's funnier is he also insulted himself. Look he didn't say @wattacoolguy... He said @MCDPMM... himself... Hilarious.

[Scarified2012]

I don't know about anyone else but this is the coolest rendition of stairway to heaven i've ever heard... it almost reminds me of like an 8-bit game soundtrack.. the like techno-y sounding synthesizer soundtracks... man this sounds so cool haha

[mounthydra]

Great Job, maybe tune the guitar a bit more. Dont worry about making it too perfect because the sound thats coming out of your guitar has a distinct tone that should remain

[imcold13]

:] send me the tabs plz

[lafierra]

no, big fail!

[KRUDZFM]

omg soooo sick

[shadowboxer2024]

That guitar needs ionized badly

[pochilds]

Yer man, sweet effort, few stray noises in the sound quality, they give it character !

[debeaser]

You have the potential for this to be great. Just tune the guitar and fix the sound and it will be awesome. Go for it man!!!

[mahfouz666]

good job, but your E is way flat. Post an improved version :)

[Bdwag]

what happened to your High E... or was it Low E i really cannot tell for some reason but usually i can :(

[ChrisToeThomas2]

Your E string is really flat and your sound is awful, but other from that, it was a really good. Also it would of sounded better if you hadn't tapped it I reckon.

[Orbit91]

If it's Stanley Jordan's version, then he's tuned to EADGCF

[BlackSpartan1012]

ehh ur E strings really flat but really good otherwise

[travvvvvvvvv]

Well done but your out of tune and your guitar is rubbish.

[ATinyStormInYourTeaC]

Great version. Good work and well played

[chickenmush222]

ur out of tune

[MorganMcDaniel]

Your E string was out of tune, but overall, A+++!

[spartafxrs5]

sounded original... i mean the tonality of the guitar mad it sound as if it was from led zep's era...

[LukeEdwardsUK]

Awesome idea and cover. Just one thing, when doing tapping like this you really gotta have fresh strings because the old ones make the octaves go off. Would sound lush with some new stings :)

[jollyZOLLIE]

Remember the old days of video games and the way they were composed? This is like the score to a zelda game on a gameboy as he ascends the stair way to heaven. Cool deal I say.

[theSofiaAndersson]

when you point it out, it really sounds like that. cool.

[Drega001]

Cool, but after seeing someone do the Turkish march its a bit flat.

[clocktower420]

pretty sure i spy i ganja plant there in the background

[fvboss429]

lool...me 2

[nickheck]

at 5:50 do you just hit the note and bounce off quickly?

taht called a natural harmonic?

[drjekyll66]

Without words !!!!!!!!!!

[fallenangels999]

how the fuck did u learn this

fuck u guys the tone is regular its prolly jus the strings the sound worn out

u needed new strings

[zooflagette]

the solo was beautiful like this

[zx666zx]

cool...great song and great interpretation...

8 fingers tapping rules...chris broderick

play a mozart song using 8 fingers tapping

check it out...is cool too

[bongolow07]

Cool cover.

[TMF58]

Great cover, but you guitar tone kind of reminds me of Mario Paint

[cornboy111]

it does!

+1

[WhiteGrande93]

sound sucks but my my what technique

[METROIDFANTEN]

I agree, the tone sucks, but It's a cool take ona song that's been beaten to death.

[supert95]

pretty sweet

[maciej131313]

where can I find a tabs?

[xImarjanIx]

Ultimate guitar website top of the top 100 you should feel silly if youve never heard of this site

[maciej131313]

yes, I heard of this side and I can play this, but not witch tapping.

[BurialWarlock]

he probably got the guitar pro tab and learnt to play the vocals through that. Awesomely done.

[Darkdevil1584]

any guitarest that has a computer and doesnt know that site has problems

[h8tenonyou]

Guitarest? Nice grammar. I wonder if your just as good at playing guitar as you are a typist.

[Darkdevil1584]

srry im not the "best speller" around here hehe but i have only been playing for 2 months and i think im doing good

[h8tenonyou]

I make you sound like a piece of dog shit.

[Darkdevil1584]

uhh ok? i dont like fighting so im not

[AorLight]

jeez, then stop bragging about how you know all this stuff about guitarests (:P) jeez...

[inknstrings]

I think it would have sounded nice on a nylon acoustic or a strat.

Good job! 5 stars!!!

[zappaelcrappa]

pretty good but the tone is terrible

[rbellegrave13x31]

tunings way bad... but otherwise sick

[rocker796]

amazing!

[moneypolo12321]

If the tuning was right then this would be phenomenal, but it's just amazing with the bad tuning.

[PiercinPete]

You have a fucking gift

[Spongeboy87]

solo was kick ass dude

[gvl123456]

thats awesome, it may sound a little off because tapping is hard but this is a pretty kickass job

[SvenIsHere]

that was fucking crazy mate, GREAT job :D 5/5

[axeit]

I actually like that the guitar sounds a bit out of tune. It makes it sound like an old video game!

Anyways, you did a really good job man.

[GuitarmanMo]

tunin seems kinda low but otherwise its deadly. it was cool how ya done the vocals and ya even got the solo. i take off my virtual u tube hat to ya

[01septum]

well,i hope the gay becomes like jeff loomys hahahaha.keep your way¡¡¡¡¡

[ph34rONE3443]

Gonna cut off your hands and steal them.

[CptMend0za]

Yeah his tuning is a bit off but whatever. point is he still has the discipline to learn eight finger tapping, which is not easy by any stretch of the word. So for all the people doggin this dude for the slightest thing, CAN YOU DO THIS, RIGHT NOW no o ill learn it then do it BECAUSE IF YOU CANT DO IT BETTER THAN YOU HAVE NO ROOM TO TALK.

[voodoo778]

Well no, that's not really true otherwise no-one could EVER criticise, for example, Picasso.

It doesn't matter how good I am - this guy's tuning is WAY off.

Now shut the fuck up, you stupid, inbred son of a bitch and stop being so utterly retarded as to say that no-one can criticise anyone better than themselves. To even say so tells me that you are, bluntly, fucking stupid.

[CptMend0za]

i did not say you cannot criticise him, i said you simply have no room to talk if you cannot match or beat this. like a game of H.O.R.S.E if you cant do it take your letter and sit down.

Also, all the insults you catapulted at me had really no impact. all it did was show how far you can fly off the handle in 30 seconds.

[rumney84]

and because his tuning is way off this is SHIT and i cannot listen to it because its ruining one of the greatest songs ever, if ur gunna post this and play it eight finger tapping u better be able to figure out wut fucking tuning the songs in for christ sakes.....

[fasterthanyou6]

wow this is a really really really cool way to play it, looks hard. great job

[pointpurple]

A-fucking-mazing!

[aceofcooly]

i know how to play this song and he is playing on the wrong frets

[KeithMark13]

there is no 'right' frets, theres things called octaves making multiple frets capable of sounding the same note. Make sense?

[WasteBasketx]

Wrong dude. It's called Unison. same note on different strings. Octaves are same note but higher/lower pitch. Now that being said there are also different tunings you can use aceofcooly that change everything. And Keith could also be right in saying that he playing the song right just an octave lower (meaning same now but lower pitch on the scale). Just think of it as C-D-E-F-G-A-B-c (c being the octave of C)

[inknstrings]

Obviously aceofcooly is somebody who doesn't play guitar nor has any idea what music theory is ha.

[TheHusky9]

what keith said.

[Zanzubar502]

The correct way of playing this song is not finger tapping, thus you could deduce that from the title of it, he is not intending to play it in the conventional matter.

[papernicolas3]

i know how to recognize smartasses and you are one