This has to be the DEFINITIVE Live and Learn tutorial on youtube at this point! Wanted to learn this song for so long but it never felt so accessible. Also love the SA2 graphics used throughout the video
I'd like to go more in detail on the discrepancy between my TAB and the original recording in bar 115 of the guitar solo. (I didn't want to bog the video down with super nerdy info!) There are two TABs for that bar on-screen - one says "original recording". In short, I believe Senoue made a mistake that was kept in the recording (it's clear and sounds perfectly fine at that speed). When analyzed, however, it's a strange and unusual sequence that doesn't lend itself to an evenly-weighted descent. While the raised 6 and 3 are common enough in songs like this, they would be unlikely in a run of this sort over a minor chord. Additionally, it's unlike him to play a line like that - he plays a chromatic blues scale at that speed in countless songs, so it's more likely that he meant to do so here as well. I believe the cause of this mistake was the tuning offset between the B and G strings. In playing the run, you have to shift your hand down a fret as you go. In trying to hit the 13th fret on the G string with his ring finger, he accidentally picked the B string - where his index would've been sitting on the 11th fret - throwing the pattern off. I think some credence is lent to this theory by his live performances. While he never plays this run particularly cleanly, he started it on the B string in its first few live performances. In 2011, he switched to the G string, moving the whole run up several frets. This puts the scale into a square "box" that's easier to navigate and requires less movement from the hand, and I think he did it exactly for this reason, making it easier to play. None of this is to call Senoue an unskilled guitarist - he's my favorite of favorites and his imprecise style of shredding is common among many of the greatest guitarists in the world. It has a feeling that simply can't be reproduced by more technical performances. All in all - if you're struggling with the run in bar 115, don't worry so much about it. Let your fingers fly and get on with it. It's all about the feeling at the end of the day. Live & learn...
This is exactly why i want to learn music theory properly, idk these little fun nerdy side notes you can find on the composure of many songs seems like a deeper understanding on the artist craft and how they manage to give its personality on the way it is composed!
You know, I consider it a big personal failure I still haven't learned this song. I was very surprised by the notification for this video in the morning and I'm taking it as a divine message that it's about time to stop fooling around.
oh DAMN. i did not expect to see such a thorough lesson on this one, let alone by the internet’s #1 crush 40 expert. i can already tell this is going to be very educational since i do not have this one down well at all lmao
Holy shit. I didn't even make the connection that it was YOU who made that kick-ass cover I saw so long ago now until I clicked on your channel. Absolutely stellar work there and here, amazing to see you still going so many years later.
TAB is in the description! Comment if you need any help and I'll do my best to reply. Thanks for watching!! 0:00 - General Information 0:25 - Intro 1:22 - Verse 2:52 - Prechorus 4:40 - Chorus 6:00 - Verse 2 6:46 - Prechorus 2 8:10 - Guitar Solo 9:50 - Bridge 11:07 - Chorus 3 11:32 - Chorus 4 12:04 - Outro
This is so in depth and has so much effort put into it! I always thought the demo video that Jun himself uploaded all those years ago was educational. For a seemingly simple demonstration he put some extra spice on certain licks and phrases, it still blows my mind to this day!
I don't even play the guitar but this is really interesting and I'm glad you shared it! I love learning about the work put into music production and performance, this helps me appreciate it even more
The big red X cracked me up, people always miss that part haha (and I did too before you taught me the right way years back!!). Brilliant video, I'll definitely be referring back to the solo to make sure I have it precise for kokoro :)
I have never played guitar and know 0 of music theory, but wow, I can sense this is a really amazing learning experience and just wow, you are incredibly skilled! Thank you for this!
You have the best cover of this song im so glad you did a lesson . Im glad to see your backing tracks being used. Hope for more success in your future works. Thank you Joshua
Would love to see more for other crush 40/senoue songs you're familiar with. The dedication is insanely impressive here, sounds flawless to me, who's also listened to this song an uncountable number of times
You know Josh, I had just recently watched your other video on your other channel and reminisced about talking about this song years ago with you. Now I go to learn the song since I'll be covering it and find that the video I'm watching is also...you! What a nice surprise!
Wow, I'm impressed by your story and the quality of this video. Thank you very much for this in-depth analysis of one of my favourite video game songs! Keep up the good work, you've just gained a subscriber!
I saw your cover a long time ago, the best i ever saw of this song, you a great guitarrist, hope you go far, i trying to learn again and this unexpected return got me really happy
Avout a year ago i spent about a month compiling other peoples covers who had done it by ear and also looking at Sunoe in any footage I can find. As someone who really srugges with figuring out music by ear this video feels like a cheat code and is a genuine god send after seeing so many different versions (especially the solo) ao thabk you so much/!
oh my god i didnt even realize you were the same guy with a blue prs covering the song like 10 years ago, that video was what i used to get a basic idea of the song!
i can't imagine the effort this must have taken - this video + the detail in the tabs are a work of art 🙏 i used to watch your sonic covers as a kid and though i already learnt this song, this is hands down the best lesson out there!! i hope you continue to make more crush 40 lessons in the future - jun's style of playing is so underrated in the wider guitar community
Awesome job yall. The m115 run I can't get clean without cheating by doing a slide down on 11 fret to 9th fret tho. On Songsterr you might be able to link the specific revision version of the tab in the description in case that tab gets changed.
The SLO is his main amp and it’s all over SA1 and stuff from 2010-onward. In the 2000s he was almost exclusively recording with the POD Pro (SA2) and POD XT (Heroes-onward). The PODs were capable of amp, cab, and effect simulation, and Jun used all of this, sometimes in combination with real pedals. On Live & Learn specifically, he used a Koa/Maple guitar with an EMG 89/SA/SA config (his main recording guitar) into a VHT Valvulator I (a tube buffer he always placed before the POD) into the POD Pro. The Valvulator is important to the sound and added the dynamic response of a real tube to counteract the digital “coldness” of the POD. The “Pro” is the rack unit but the bean has the same sounds. The POD was then used for all effects/amp/cab, perhaps apart from the delay added in post. Which amp/cab models he generally used are unknown, but on L&L he used the “Modern High Gain” amp model, which happens to be modelled after an SLO. That would go into the stereo flanger within the POD and then split out into two cab modules, and recorded directly into a mixing board most likely. Generally speaking, according to the March 2010 interview in a music production magazine in Japan, he would split the signal from the amp module and run it out into two cab modules (all within the POD) and blend those two signals, sort of like using two cabs or mics IRL. The guitars themselves were double-tracked. He didn’t start quad-tracking until Shadow. The POD units are easy to find cheap these days. Alternatively you can get Line 6’s “Amp Farm” which is effectively a plugin form of the POD XT. That’s what I used on this video.
@@atelierjoshua Bro this is insane news - I always thought it kinda had a POD vibe to it, and with my Helix at the moment, a lot of the legacy stuff sounds VERY close to what he was doing out the box, especially one of the flanger presets that nails the SA2 flanger sound lol. Very cool info, thank you!
I think you missed writing down the open low strings strummed once then immediately followed by hitting the G sharp power chord right before the prechorus / at the end of the verse
I wrote them with X’s. Since they’re not intended to be processed as “notes” and rather “noise”, this is a common way of writing open-strums between chords, so they’re not misinterpreted as meaningful harmonic content.
Sad you didn't include the arpeggios the second guitar is playing in the verses (especially since they're different for the first verses and the ones after the chorus) or the second guitar in the prechorus that is adding extra chord flavour beyond the power chords. The effort making this is amazing but can't call it a definitive tutorial when it's missing parts of the song. Especially since those are the harder to hear parts tho the guitar parts you covered is good if playing live so I get it.
As mentioned in both the video and description, all parts are written in the TAB, which is accessible both on Songsterr as well as in downloadable GP + PDF formats. It's a lot of work to create a demonstration, so I played the parts most people would be interested in that could get them all the way through a cover or live performance. If they want to learn the remaining parts, i've written them down.
If you have Guitar Pro, the linked GP file is the best way to view it. On Songsterr, there's an expandable menu on the bottom left that you can use to change which track you're looking at.
This has to be the DEFINITIVE Live and Learn tutorial on youtube at this point! Wanted to learn this song for so long but it never felt so accessible. Also love the SA2 graphics used throughout the video
Your cover for "Open your Heart" is the most accurate cover on TH-cam, no one else seems to get it right. A video like this would be awesome
15liters/bug'ssound movies are pretty accurate
My old cover is close but not 100%. I know it 100% now... Maybe I'll do a tutorial. :)
@@atelierjoshuaplease do. It's the ultimate Jun Senoue guitar song imho
Yes please!! @@atelierjoshua
@@atelierjoshuaPlease!!
I'd like to go more in detail on the discrepancy between my TAB and the original recording in bar 115 of the guitar solo. (I didn't want to bog the video down with super nerdy info!) There are two TABs for that bar on-screen - one says "original recording". In short, I believe Senoue made a mistake that was kept in the recording (it's clear and sounds perfectly fine at that speed). When analyzed, however, it's a strange and unusual sequence that doesn't lend itself to an evenly-weighted descent. While the raised 6 and 3 are common enough in songs like this, they would be unlikely in a run of this sort over a minor chord.
Additionally, it's unlike him to play a line like that - he plays a chromatic blues scale at that speed in countless songs, so it's more likely that he meant to do so here as well. I believe the cause of this mistake was the tuning offset between the B and G strings. In playing the run, you have to shift your hand down a fret as you go. In trying to hit the 13th fret on the G string with his ring finger, he accidentally picked the B string - where his index would've been sitting on the 11th fret - throwing the pattern off.
I think some credence is lent to this theory by his live performances. While he never plays this run particularly cleanly, he started it on the B string in its first few live performances. In 2011, he switched to the G string, moving the whole run up several frets. This puts the scale into a square "box" that's easier to navigate and requires less movement from the hand, and I think he did it exactly for this reason, making it easier to play.
None of this is to call Senoue an unskilled guitarist - he's my favorite of favorites and his imprecise style of shredding is common among many of the greatest guitarists in the world. It has a feeling that simply can't be reproduced by more technical performances. All in all - if you're struggling with the run in bar 115, don't worry so much about it. Let your fingers fly and get on with it. It's all about the feeling at the end of the day. Live & learn...
This is exactly why i want to learn music theory properly, idk these little fun nerdy side notes you can find on the composure of many songs seems like a deeper understanding on the artist craft and how they manage to give its personality on the way it is composed!
You know, I consider it a big personal failure I still haven't learned this song. I was very surprised by the notification for this video in the morning and I'm taking it as a divine message that it's about time to stop fooling around.
oh DAMN. i did not expect to see such a thorough lesson on this one, let alone by the internet’s #1 crush 40 expert. i can already tell this is going to be very educational since i do not have this one down well at all lmao
You are, and have been for about a decade, an inspiration to me. Thank you ❤
Holy shit. I didn't even make the connection that it was YOU who made that kick-ass cover I saw so long ago now until I clicked on your channel. Absolutely stellar work there and here, amazing to see you still going so many years later.
You clearly put so much effort into this tutorial. Everything is laid out perfectly from the tabs to the gear, and love the presentation. Thank you!
It will be 26(?) years since the game came out. I turned the corner in Toys R' Us to see a Dreamcast and Sonic standing in Emerald Coast.
TAB is in the description! Comment if you need any help and I'll do my best to reply. Thanks for watching!!
0:00 - General Information
0:25 - Intro
1:22 - Verse
2:52 - Prechorus
4:40 - Chorus
6:00 - Verse 2
6:46 - Prechorus 2
8:10 - Guitar Solo
9:50 - Bridge
11:07 - Chorus 3
11:32 - Chorus 4
12:04 - Outro
I’m starting to learn guitar, this song here is my goal, and ima be using this guide, thank you man
I don't even play guitar BUT, this was the most detailed tutorial i've ever seen!
This is so in depth and has so much effort put into it! I always thought the demo video that Jun himself uploaded all those years ago was educational. For a seemingly simple demonstration he put some extra spice on certain licks and phrases, it still blows my mind to this day!
I don't even play the guitar but this is really interesting and I'm glad you shared it! I love learning about the work put into music production and performance, this helps me appreciate it even more
The big red X cracked me up, people always miss that part haha (and I did too before you taught me the right way years back!!). Brilliant video, I'll definitely be referring back to the solo to make sure I have it precise for kokoro :)
This has to be a Christmas gift, I been wanting to properly learn this song and no one gets close and the amount detail is perfect. THANK!
Now i can LIVE at peace & be calmed after LEARNing this song on the guitar, thanks a bunch!
I have never played guitar and know 0 of music theory, but wow, I can sense this is a really amazing learning experience and just wow, you are incredibly skilled! Thank you for this!
I safe this for later. I think such a video was needed because there are techniques on this that I haven't considered.
this is incredibly amazing. I wish every guitar tutorial could be this detailed. you are the MAN!!!
You have the best cover of this song im so glad you did a lesson . Im glad to see your backing tracks being used. Hope for more success in your future works. Thank you Joshua
Would love to see more for other crush 40/senoue songs you're familiar with. The dedication is insanely impressive here, sounds flawless to me, who's also listened to this song an uncountable number of times
THANK YOU SO MUCH!! Its so weird because I just discovered you and learned how to play some of Open Your Heart from you!! THANKS!!
This was a joy to watch. I had goosebumps during the solo part
Glad to see you're back.
You know Josh, I had just recently watched your other video on your other channel and reminisced about talking about this song years ago with you.
Now I go to learn the song since I'll be covering it and find that the video I'm watching is also...you! What a nice surprise!
Wow, I'm impressed by your story and the quality of this video.
Thank you very much for this in-depth analysis of one of my favourite video game songs! Keep up the good work, you've just gained a subscriber!
thank you
Holy shit thank you for this. I've always had a bit of trouble learning Crush 40 by ear so this is a MASSIVE help!
I saw your cover a long time ago, the best i ever saw of this song, you a great guitarrist, hope you go far, i trying to learn again and this unexpected return got me really happy
Avout a year ago i spent about a month compiling other peoples covers who had done it by ear and also looking at Sunoe in any footage I can find. As someone who really srugges with figuring out music by ear this video feels like a cheat code and is a genuine god send after seeing so many different versions (especially the solo) ao thabk you so much/!
THANK YOUUU
i would love more tutorials like this for other crush 40 songs!
This tutorial is sick as hell! I'm very excited to hear you live at sonic expo!!!
sadly the show w/Johnny was cancelled… (scheduling conflict). i’ll still be playing one song at a panel there next Sunday! 4pm
Awesome
Dude this is exactly what I've been looking for! Now all i need is one for Magna Fi's version of All Hail Shadow
well played and organized presentation. Subbed for sure
impressive. very nice.
oh my god i didnt even realize you were the same guy with a blue prs covering the song like 10 years ago, that video was what i used to get a basic idea of the song!
i still have that guitar… using it for low tuned stuff these days :)
I LOVE YOU FOR THIS!, you are the man, man.
Dayum boi, nice vid! A proper way to make a tutorial. Gz!
Joshua, thank you very much for your guide!I have been waiting for this!
this is amazing thank you so much
started teachin myself guitar a couple weeks ago, gonna do my best to learn this. thank you!
I LOVE THIS THANK YOU
This is SO great! Thx!!!
holy smokes, the hard work put into this video is off the charts. earned a sub! keep doing what you do, you'll get big one day!
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! AAAAAAAAAAAA
Thanks!
i can't imagine the effort this must have taken - this video + the detail in the tabs are a work of art 🙏 i used to watch your sonic covers as a kid and though i already learnt this song, this is hands down the best lesson out there!! i hope you continue to make more crush 40 lessons in the future - jun's style of playing is so underrated in the wider guitar community
holy shit please do more
Thank you!
THANK YOU!!
gotta make a cover before the movie, thanks man!!!!!
well it took me very long to know the song decently so now im going to make the cover xD
Oh hai Josh!
HIS WORLD PLEASE
PLEASE do a tutorial on Open Your Heart, your covers are amazing!
OUTSTANDING DUDE!!!! Can you please do the tutorial of “Open Your Heart”? That would be amazing
Awesome job yall. The m115 run I can't get clean without cheating by doing a slide down on 11 fret to 9th fret tho.
On Songsterr you might be able to link the specific revision version of the tab in the description in case that tab gets changed.
🤘🔥🤘
Can you do “what I’m made of”?
Please please please please do a Dreams of an Absolution Tutorial please please
wish me luck bois
oh sick, i own a pod xt i could replicate this easy if i understood the tone lol
Could you show us the tabs for the solo on the symphony version and the other live shows
Do you plam mute at the start
yes. “P.M.” lines on the tab stand for “palm mute”
Dude, sick! I always thought Jun used an SLO100, are you able to shed more light on the recording setup he used for this, more info on the POD?
The SLO is his main amp and it’s all over SA1 and stuff from 2010-onward. In the 2000s he was almost exclusively recording with the POD Pro (SA2) and POD XT (Heroes-onward). The PODs were capable of amp, cab, and effect simulation, and Jun used all of this, sometimes in combination with real pedals. On Live & Learn specifically, he used a Koa/Maple guitar with an EMG 89/SA/SA config (his main recording guitar) into a VHT Valvulator I (a tube buffer he always placed before the POD) into the POD Pro. The Valvulator is important to the sound and added the dynamic response of a real tube to counteract the digital “coldness” of the POD. The “Pro” is the rack unit but the bean has the same sounds. The POD was then used for all effects/amp/cab, perhaps apart from the delay added in post. Which amp/cab models he generally used are unknown, but on L&L he used the “Modern High Gain” amp model, which happens to be modelled after an SLO. That would go into the stereo flanger within the POD and then split out into two cab modules, and recorded directly into a mixing board most likely. Generally speaking, according to the March 2010 interview in a music production magazine in Japan, he would split the signal from the amp module and run it out into two cab modules (all within the POD) and blend those two signals, sort of like using two cabs or mics IRL. The guitars themselves were double-tracked. He didn’t start quad-tracking until Shadow.
The POD units are easy to find cheap these days. Alternatively you can get Line 6’s “Amp Farm” which is effectively a plugin form of the POD XT. That’s what I used on this video.
@@atelierjoshua Bro this is insane news - I always thought it kinda had a POD vibe to it, and with my Helix at the moment, a lot of the legacy stuff sounds VERY close to what he was doing out the box, especially one of the flanger presets that nails the SA2 flanger sound lol. Very cool info, thank you!
Would you be able to do a tutorial for Green Light Ride? That would be so cool!
Probably not... Lots of work. Standard tuning, opens in C# Minor, chorus in D Minor. All standard chords.
@atelierjoshua OH ok. I didn't know it switched tunings so much.
@@guero1422 Tuning is the same throughout. Key changes at several points. I gave that info in case it helps you work it out for yourself.
@atelierjoshua Gotcha thanks
9:00 any reason you're not using your pinky?
Weaker finger. Don’t be like me, practice with it. :)
@@atelierjoshua i'm the pinky afficionado that's why i noticed B)
Live version when?
i added a tab for the live version of the solo to songsterr
plsplspls do undefeatable tutorial from sonic frontiers im BEGGING 🙏😭
i'd have to borrow a 9-string guitar... hahaha
no one should ever make a tutorial for this song ever again because there is no way that theirs could compete with yours
i have negative ego but this is the one song i’m sure i know better than anyone else on the planet
You have one for open your heart?
strongly considering
I think you missed writing down the open low strings strummed once then immediately followed by hitting the G sharp power chord right before the prechorus / at the end of the verse
I wrote them with X’s. Since they’re not intended to be processed as “notes” and rather “noise”, this is a common way of writing open-strums between chords, so they’re not misinterpreted as meaningful harmonic content.
@@atelierjoshua got it, thanks
Sad you didn't include the arpeggios the second guitar is playing in the verses (especially since they're different for the first verses and the ones after the chorus) or the second guitar in the prechorus that is adding extra chord flavour beyond the power chords.
The effort making this is amazing but can't call it a definitive tutorial when it's missing parts of the song. Especially since those are the harder to hear parts tho the guitar parts you covered is good if playing live so I get it.
As mentioned in both the video and description, all parts are written in the TAB, which is accessible both on Songsterr as well as in downloadable GP + PDF formats. It's a lot of work to create a demonstration, so I played the parts most people would be interested in that could get them all the way through a cover or live performance. If they want to learn the remaining parts, i've written them down.
What about the secondary guitar in the background during the verses? 😢
As stated in the video, all guitar parts are in the TAB, including that.
@@atelierjoshua my apologies, I didn’t find it in the Songsterr tab, thank you
If you have Guitar Pro, the linked GP file is the best way to view it. On Songsterr, there's an expandable menu on the bottom left that you can use to change which track you're looking at.
@@atelierjoshua duh, that’s what I get for opening it on mobile and completely forgetting this. Thanks again