// The Human Abstract - Complex Terms (Piano Cover)

[huantwothree]

Congratulations, you get my first-ever YouTube comment.

And thanks for making me shed a single manly tear.

[alexatetris]

@huantwothree Haha! I am honoured on both accounts :)

[101stCentury]

Incredible. Great work!

[MTN707]

!!!!!!!!! awesome!

[Twixgtx]

By far this is my favoriteof all of their songs. Damn , i wish i could meet you! You're so talented! I have seriously only met a handful of good musicians, people i can actually sit down and just improvise with(btw, i am in no way trying to imply that I'm better than everyone, and i play the guitar)

[alexatetris]

@Twixgtx Thank you so much, that means a lot to me. Unfortunately, I'm actually not very good at improv! I get really anxious for some reason haha.

[hshiram]

Marry me :(

[rockNrollerblading90]

fantastic... !!!

[itscoolbro2]

I think I love you.

But seriously, it's fantastic. Proves that Digital Veil is basically just an orchestral album for metal instrumentation.

[trivium666fan]

I think I just fell in love. Not with you. Your hands.

[Adamncy1452]

I can see the outline of your pecker in your pajamas.. gross. GOOD COVER THOUGH:D

[alexatetris]

@Adamncy1452 wtf dude, im a girl with no spare parts. my pajamas are baggy so there are a lot of folds lolll

[Adamncy1452]

@alexatetris ohhh sorry my bad xD but great job though:D

[rathwellben]

Your music...It is beautiful...I know this would take a lot of talent maybe I can hire you to play at my funeral....

[alexatetris]

@rathwellben Haha, I deal pretty well with morbid things, why not.

[blink7777777]

can you send me your piano sheets for your digital veil covers. very nice

[alexatetris]

@blink7777777 I don't have any sheets, sorry.

[ToastIsIntense]

I still can't get over this. I'm probably half the views haha This is what I show people when I try to explain to them how music has lost it's artistic nature and composition. When you play guitar to the point that when played on a Piano it sounds as if it was meant to be performed centuries ago in times when music was truly music. A.J. Minette is one of my idols for going so far to compose at this level. And god that sounds beautiful.

[onnmyabs]

this is incredible... better than the original!.... almost.

[GuitarNerd11]

Such a beautiful cover!!

I wonder, if this is how AJ intended on writing his music, he plays it on guitar than it just brings out the "neo-classicalness" of The Human Abstract when it's played on the piano! Keep doing more covers!! :)

[ledzeppelin605]

holy fuck! that was good

[TorikShai]

Now, see, it's this kind of thing that makes me believe Beethoven, Mozart, Chopin were all metalheads born ahead of their time.

Great job, you're crazy talented.

[WorthlessCapitalism]

And youtube won't let me post the url or upload the video... Is there any way to message you the url?

[WorthlessCapitalism]

So I finished and recorded this song finally :/

[Bukkakegrind]

bravo!

[xHorxHayx3x]

Learning this song on guitar, is an amazing experience, along with all THA songs.

[RideZeLightning4]

This is absolutely amazing thank you for making these videos! I've downloaded all the audios from you're tha covers

[pipozZz]

This is great.

[Greddy86]

Who the hell pushed the "Dislike"-Button!??!?! This covers is really great!

[ytuio9]

Very beautiful. Do you have any idea if I can get the notes for this somewhere?

[alexatetris]

@ytuio9 You can try using Guitar Pro software?

[ytuio9]

@alexatetris I see. I will try using it, thank you for the reference.

[odie0220]

still blown away !!!! please answer me this.......do you have any site where these covers can be downloaded ? i would love nothing more than to drive to work everyday and here these versions.........thanks !!!!

[ctweed816]

I cannot stop watching this vid, about half your views may be from me lol. You are seriously talented. Thanks for doing a cover of my favorite song off of Digital Veil!

[alexatetris]

@ctweed816 awww thank you so much. I'm glad you enjoyed it :')

[TokenPlaysBass]

This is my favorite THA song and I'm so glad you covered it I enjoy your work very much

[TendingToTheCorpses]

think i love you...

[WorthlessCapitalism]

Yeah, its gunna be a while though...

[WorthlessCapitalism]

Wow beautifully done.... And by ear? My favorite song on the album; in fact, I'm trying to learn it on guitar right now

[alexatetris]

@WorthlessCapitalism will you post a video when you're done?

[GuyRobinson2]

i love that you did this. AJ is an amazing classical guitarist and it shows so much when you play it on the piano. you have an abundance of talent. and truly show the parallels between metal and classical.

[Sean4806]

wait...you're a chick? Awwwesome

[alexatetris]

@Sean4806 LOLLLL, I don't understand why people are so surprised

[Sean4806]

@alexatetris Well where I'm from girls don't have a good taste in music haha

[alexatetris]

@Sean4806 fair enough, lol I think that's the case everywhere.

[Sean4806]

@alexatetris Yeaaa, it truly is a shame. but at least their are a few! and btw you should do a cover of Horizon to Zenith :) that would sound really good, probably really hard with that off beat weird breakdown. but you can do it!!

[fighterx]

Haunting man. This really displays the quality of Ajs writing for people who can't appreciate thas music

[Woundheir]

Congrats bro, this is awesome.

[jzstern]

pajama's excused :) and btw, i bought 8 copies. 3 to listen to and 5 to be framed and hung up around the house

[StandBehindTheGiant]

Hearing this on piano really makes the classical influences more obvious.

[lobster272]

Nice black fingernails.

[stchums]

may you be doing antebellum or horizon ?? :) you are a great musician

[alexatetris]

@stchums thanks! I'm currently attempting antebellum, and so far it's not going too great haha.

[stchums]

@alexatetris youll do great.

[stchums]

any tabulecture for this?? :)

[alexatetris]

@stchums not that I'm aware of

[hunnydew32]

I wish I had an ear like you!! I can read just swell, but picking it up by ear is really amazing! If you do know how to put it on paper I'd love to get it from you!

[stchums]

i love you

[PoopOnMyLip]

this was absolutely amazing :) you play this better on piano than alot of people play it on guitar.. this was flawless. i really wanna see a cover of faust soon. pretty please? :D

[alexatetris]

@PoopOnMyLip Wow thanks! That means a lot to me. I'm kind of avoiding faust, digital veil, and holographic sight because they have the most screaming in them and it's harder to translate to piano. But I'm currently working on Antebellum and it will probably be my last one for a while.

[PoopOnMyLip]

@alexatetris well, im really looking forward to your cover of antebellum :) and why the last one for awhile?

[alexatetris]

@PoopOnMyLip Because Antebellum and Horizon to Zenith ar both sort of difficult :P

[PoopOnMyLip]

@alexatetris haha well maybe if you didnt suck at the piano, you could do them.. lol im joking, youre pretty awesome:D is there any other bands' material youd be open to suggestion to for covering on the piano?

[alexatetris]

@PoopOnMyLip I only cover bands that I am madly obsessed with & have relatively "translate-able" music. Thus the only other bands that I have covered in my life have been Muse and Radiohead. Sometimes it's tough to muster the willingness. Recently I've also tried the faceless, and would possibly consider opeth.. other than that, would take a great deal of silent debate.

[PoopOnMyLip]

@alexatetris well then i guess btbam is out of the question isnt it? what about bands like scale the summit, instrumental stuff? have you ever listened to scale the summit?

[alexatetris]

@PoopOnMyLip Oh goddddd I would love to be able to cover btbam lol. The only issue with them is that they have classical parts, but their sound is less classically based so it's a lot harder to translate. And I only recently started listening to scale the summit, but from what I've heard so far, they're great.

[Deathxcore18]

Fuckin' awesome. I would marry you based on these videos alone. How long have you been playing piano, btw? And are you as good on guitar or better?

[alexatetris]

@Deathxcore18 LOL, thanks, you're funny. I've been playing piano for like 12 years .. I think.. not sure at this point :P And I suck at guitar, haha! Never had lessons, so I usually only play if I'm fooling around & writing lyrics or working on a vocal cover, sometimes it's easier than on piano.

[ronaldito91]

Will you marry me?

[frednuclear]

just two words

HOLY FUCK!

very big up...

[alispie]

How long did it take you to write all of this out and get it down to play it without the sheet music in front of you? (at least from what I can see)

That was awesome.

[alexatetris]

@alispie I don't write it out, I just listen to the music, translate to piano, memorize, repeat. Over and over. Probably not the most efficient way to do it, but if I do it in one sitting, takes like 6 hours.

[RisingMetalDemon]

Hey, great job! There's not many classically trained pianists that play metal out there, like you and I.

[PrimalDirective]

You should try doing some of Born of Osiris' new stuff once it comes out, its pretty good and would work as a piano cover.

[alexatetris]

@PrimalDirective Will definitely consider it. Came out today no?

[PrimalDirective]

@alexatetris

Yep.

I recommend Automatic Motion or Regenerate, my favorites atm.

[AttiLink88]

This is amazing and very talented! You have a fan here.

[thralloforcus]

I love you, will you marry me? Also, THA is amazing, and I haven't stopped listening to Digital Veil since it came out.

[yogurth666]

you are a big dick!!

[alexatetris]

@yogurth666 why? :(

[yogurth666]

@alexatetris because you play great! ;)

[cloudx1339]

Very impressive. Is this a chick playing??

[alexatetris]

@cloudx1339 Indeed I am a "chick". I hope that's not surprising.

[cloudx1339]

@alexatetris

Surprising only to the extent that I hardly come across females playing piano and especially one that appreciates the music of THA. How long have you been playing piano?



[alexatetris]

@cloudx1339 True enough, metal has been solely a man's world for too long haha. I took formal lessons for around eight years then played on my own for four.

[cloudx1339]

@alexatetris

aha that it has. Very nice I assume then you have a particular interest within classical music? Particularly Western Europe? lol

[alexatetris]

@cloudx1339 During the eight years that I took lessons I despised classical music. Not so much because of the music itself but simply due to the fact that I didn't really understand it. I was just playing because someone else was telling me to. It wasn't until I quit piano that I really became absorbed in the universe of classical music and began to appreciate the emotion and intellect it had to offer. I guess that's how it is with everything... you have to take a step back sometimes.

[cloudx1339]

@alexatetris

haha how funny. I actually was inspired to become a musician as a small child by a classical piece lol. That;s very true sometimes you have to re-look at things to fully give them appreciation, especially depending on what stage of development in life you are at. Do you write your own music? Facebook/myspace music page links??? lol

[ValedictionOfficial]

dude you should totally get some quality recordings of these and put them up on itunes or something. i would buy the shit out of this.

[paurullan]

You make me want to learn to play the piano. This was just awesome!

[Sonic10003]

Hella sick. Metal covering pianists will get me every time.

[Razolo]

Excuse the jizz stains that are now in my pajamas.

[mikehabada]

!!!!!!! XD oh this is why i love METAL MUSIC!!! for all of you who say it has nomusical composure! this is metal composure at its best!!!!

[PMFtheman]

Super cool that you can do this. Good work.

[rustynail2112]

This is rad, I wish I could play like you can

[Sharkizzz]

This is wonderful

[EvilJesusWTF]

whoa, awesome job, man.

[distantplanetTrance]

THA just posted this on their facebook ha

[xMontblanc]

Amazing. Funny thing is if you played this in front of "intellectuals," they would praise you. If you played the actual song, they would shake their heads in disgust ._.

[EpsilonX]

@xMontblanc yea. it really brings AJ's writing into a new light

[alexatetris]

@xMontblanc

It is quite a sad thing, that the less than mediocre metal bands that are constantly in the lime-light manage to make people biased against the whole genre. These "intellectuals", I suppose, have legitimate reason to be skeptical, but that does not give them an excuse to be cynical. It closes them off to the unyielding talent of bands such as THA and the like.

[abortji]

@alexatetris the simple powerchord bands are certainly creating prejudgements of metal and its subgenres. I think that people don't even hear the complexity though, when they listen to something like THA for the first time. I, myself, had to kind of grow into this kind of metal in order to hear everything that I appreciate now. I notice that when I show this music to someone who's not into the genre, it comes across as noise and monotone. Lovely cover that also shows their classical influences.

[giblaz]

@xMontblanc That's fine. People care a LOT more about tone than they would care to admit. The tone of the instruments involved (distortion vs clean, growls vs the other types of singing) can completely shift someone's opinion on how an arrangement of notes make them feel.

[RockLeeSmile]

@xMontblanc I love this comment. This is something someone should do science experiments on or write a thesis about. Also, to Alexatertris, beautiful playing. Thanks for making this!

[tristanmarmont]

@xMontblanc so, so true... 

[ThatGuitarGuy]

@xMontblanc Then they're not real music lovers. I'm a music major (that likes metal) but I had the same mentality and I talked to a few composition majors here at my university and they all said "I don't see why it matters if it's metal or not, music is music."

Maybe I'm just around awesome people.

[Trevormcgoldrick]

I bet you feel special now that you've caught the bands attention with this. haha.

[alexatetris]

@Trevormcgoldrick I feel embarrassed more than anything :p

[Trevormcgoldrick]

@alexatetris Well you shouldn't! They liked it!

[12345smith67890]

fer dudes man. this is brilliant. love THA, and this is closely on par with their stuff :D

[The13thRow]

Your Piano Says "toronto" Does That Mean You Are Canadian, more or less a torontonian

-Simply Amazing, I love Human Abstract And I Love These Covers-

[ihadheart]

sounds absolutely amazing! great job :]

[aimeedou]

I absolutely love all your THA piano covers. Keep doin' what you do :]

[alexatetris]

@aimeedou :') Thank you so much.

[greenbeaner69]

@aimeedou hehe

[synester666]

The tuning on that piano was a little distracting and timing could be better. But other than that, fucking awesome. Definitely not an easy song.

[alexatetris]

@synester666 Yeah, I agree. My timing sucked! I was so nervous, haha.

[Pablothe]

My favorite cover sounds really good!

[TheReaperM7]

This is just the most incredible thing I've seen. Great effin' job!

[YoYoHall]

Freaking amazing!