Hi Brian, You made a excellent video lessons about Ville's songs. Keep it up bro! 👍🏼😁 You bring it back my childhood😁 Acoustic guitar 4 ever 🤘😎 Greetings from Hungary
I've got catching up to do with your uploads. Been crazy this side. Awesome lesson and performance again mate 🤘 One of my favorites from deep shadows. But honestly every song is haha.
hey bud. I hope you're doing well. and hope you upload again soon. I can't find you on twitter anymore? if you have social media, please put them up on your bio.
Thanks for your videos man! TH-cam really needed this tutorials 😄 HIM is my favourite band and you're helping me to figure out a lot of things that i couldn't myself. Greetings from Mexico, hope you doing well and continue with this tutorials! 🤘🏻
That makes me feel so good to hear! I visited Costa Rica once. It was only a brief visit, but it was a beautiful country! I'm so glad to know someone there has watched my videos :D
@@MrTomfooligans Oh, good thing you came to Costa Rica, I hope you had a good experience. And yes, I watch your videos constantly but to this day I dared to comment. I really like metal, mainly folk metal, but to practice I prefer to start with another type of metal-rock, I think...
Ryan, thank you for watching, and thank you for the compliment. I'm sorry: strumming is not my strong suit, and I do it very inconsistently. This is part of why I overlook strumming in all my videos. It's a real area for growth. It's tough, because I'm only behind my keyboard now, and that's not any kind of way to offer guidance on music, but I'll try. Start with the standard pattern, D-DU-UDU (down (4th), down (8th)-up (4th), up (8th) down (8th) up (8th)). If you are unfamiliar, or a total beginner to music, then my description will not be very helpful, so you should then seek out a video on beginner guitar strumming patterns. It will come up for sure. You can probably also just TH-cam search "DDUUDU" and I bet it will come up. That is more or less what my arm is doing throuhout this song (I think). That being said, it's modified, because I will swing past the strings (skipping over them) at different times than the standard pattern. What you may notice though is that my arm is essentially constantly going DUDUDUDU (or, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up), which is to say, evenly, whether my pick connects with the strings or I skip them. That's really all a strumming pattern is for a beginner: keeping an even rhythm with your arm, and connecting with the strings when you mean to (on the ups or downs that are occurring naturally in your even up-down rhythm). I'm sorry this isn't more helpful, but I promise, if you stick to playing guitar, and keep taking advantage of the many free resources out there (TH-cam, JustinGuitar, etc.), then a year, or three, or five, or ten years from now, you will look back at this video, and not only understand what my arm is doing, but you'll almost certainly be doing it better than me. I stagnated in my technique ages ago, and I'm looking for an opportunity to open someday in my schedule for me to take lessons from a professional so I can start growing again. There's always room to improve, so take what you can from my videos, and don't let their shortcomings become your shortcomings. If you have a question, seek out the answer. If something is difficult, practice it until it becomes easy. You got this!
Honestly people do this alot it's fun if you ever played vrchat you don't need vr but there is always a open mic thing that happens it's actually fun and you hear alot of talented people but I think it be interesting if you did him songs there you do them so perfectly
It's me again. I've almost got this this thing down pat. I could probably play it with my fingers in my ears if I had more hands. The next step is to learn how to play and sing at the same time.
Be forgiving of how difficult that process will be in the start. Try just down strumming on quarter notes while singing for a start. Doing that and changing chords in time will be tricky. At some points you'll have to make the conscious leap to sing and strum, knowing you're going to do it poorly and derail what previously felt like it was going well. It helps to practice in private because those moments can be embarrassing but it's also important to allow for being embarrassed 'in front of' yourself. Those brain-scrambling off-the-rails moments are integral to carving new neural pathways. So be patient with yourself but willing to take the risk of sounding bad and feeling silly. Then, it'll come together faster than you think.
Do you happen to know what does Ville do when going from Am to C first time on the recorded acoustic versio. I'm truing to pull and hammer my pointer but can't get to the wanted end result. Thank you!
I believe what I was referring to (2 years ago; forgive me if I get this wrong) was flexing the grip of your fret hand on and off in order to make the notes you're strumming sound a little more staccato. The only way I can think to describe it in text is for you to strum a chord and then release the strength in your fret hand, and hear how that sounds as the note falls away. Play with that a bit. Strum and release, strum and release. You're not lifting your fingers off the strings...just changing the tension in them so the strings stop vibrating. Now, if you combine this changing of grip (on and off) with your strumming, you can add a bit of...well, punch, to the strumming pattern you were going to play anyway. It adds a touch of personality.
I come back to play along and sing along to this song often
I love HIM so much. I finally found someone who teaches how to play him songs. Luv u man
Thank you for watching! I'm glad you find the videos valuable!
Love your videos. Finally a helpful tutorial for him songs! Thank you so much. Greetings from Germany
Thank you so much for watching! I appreciate the compliment, and I am glad you find the videos useful!
Amazing content and talent. Thank you. Greetings from Tenerife ;)
Thank you for the compliments, from so far away! Thanks for taking the time to watch my video!
Thank you, I have so much joy playing this one 🤗
Thanks so much for these lessons. Never before have learned such an awesome song in less than ten minutes
I'm so glad you enjoy these videos! Thanks for watching.
Hi Brian,
You made a excellent video lessons about Ville's songs. Keep it up bro! 👍🏼😁
You bring it back my childhood😁
Acoustic guitar 4 ever 🤘😎
Greetings from Hungary
WOW! All the way from Hungary! Thank you so much for watching!!
I've got catching up to do with your uploads. Been crazy this side.
Awesome lesson and performance again mate 🤘
One of my favorites from deep shadows. But honestly every song is haha.
Thanks so much for checking in! Glad you're here!
hey bud. I hope you're doing well. and hope you upload again soon.
I can't find you on twitter anymore? if you have social media, please put them up on your bio.
Thanks for your videos man! TH-cam really needed this tutorials 😄 HIM is my favourite band and you're helping me to figure out a lot of things that i couldn't myself. Greetings from Mexico, hope you doing well and continue with this tutorials! 🤘🏻
Thank you! I'm glad you find these videos helpful!
Perfekt ❤
Hi, I'm from Costa Rica and I'm learning to play guitar. Your videos have helped me. Thank you
That makes me feel so good to hear! I visited Costa Rica once. It was only a brief visit, but it was a beautiful country! I'm so glad to know someone there has watched my videos :D
@@MrTomfooligans Oh, good thing you came to Costa Rica, I hope you had a good experience.
And yes, I watch your videos constantly but to this day I dared to comment. I really like metal, mainly folk metal, but to practice I prefer to start with another type of metal-rock, I think...
You have been an amazing helper in learning this! Seriously, thank you
You're so welcome! I'm happy to have been of assistance.
This is awesome!
Love the video. Im a beginner and dont understand the strumming pattern
Ryan, thank you for watching, and thank you for the compliment. I'm sorry: strumming is not my strong suit, and I do it very inconsistently. This is part of why I overlook strumming in all my videos. It's a real area for growth. It's tough, because I'm only behind my keyboard now, and that's not any kind of way to offer guidance on music, but I'll try.
Start with the standard pattern, D-DU-UDU (down (4th), down (8th)-up (4th), up (8th) down (8th) up (8th)). If you are unfamiliar, or a total beginner to music, then my description will not be very helpful, so you should then seek out a video on beginner guitar strumming patterns. It will come up for sure. You can probably also just TH-cam search "DDUUDU" and I bet it will come up.
That is more or less what my arm is doing throuhout this song (I think). That being said, it's modified, because I will swing past the strings (skipping over them) at different times than the standard pattern. What you may notice though is that my arm is essentially constantly going DUDUDUDU (or, down, up, down, up, down, up, down, up), which is to say, evenly, whether my pick connects with the strings or I skip them. That's really all a strumming pattern is for a beginner: keeping an even rhythm with your arm, and connecting with the strings when you mean to (on the ups or downs that are occurring naturally in your even up-down rhythm).
I'm sorry this isn't more helpful, but I promise, if you stick to playing guitar, and keep taking advantage of the many free resources out there (TH-cam, JustinGuitar, etc.), then a year, or three, or five, or ten years from now, you will look back at this video, and not only understand what my arm is doing, but you'll almost certainly be doing it better than me. I stagnated in my technique ages ago, and I'm looking for an opportunity to open someday in my schedule for me to take lessons from a professional so I can start growing again. There's always room to improve, so take what you can from my videos, and don't let their shortcomings become your shortcomings. If you have a question, seek out the answer. If something is difficult, practice it until it becomes easy.
You got this!
Thanks for getting back with me. That helps out so much! Look forward to learning more
thanks a lot )
Honestly people do this alot it's fun if you ever played vrchat you don't need vr but there is always a open mic thing that happens it's actually fun and you hear alot of talented people but I think it be interesting if you did him songs there you do them so perfectly
Thank you! I've got a friend who does a lot of VR Chat DJ'ing actually. Maybe I'll have to look into it sometime :D
It's me again. I've almost got this this thing down pat. I could probably play it with my fingers in my ears if I had more hands.
The next step is to learn how to play and sing at the same time.
Be forgiving of how difficult that process will be in the start. Try just down strumming on quarter notes while singing for a start. Doing that and changing chords in time will be tricky. At some points you'll have to make the conscious leap to sing and strum, knowing you're going to do it poorly and derail what previously felt like it was going well. It helps to practice in private because those moments can be embarrassing but it's also important to allow for being embarrassed 'in front of' yourself. Those brain-scrambling off-the-rails moments are integral to carving new neural pathways. So be patient with yourself but willing to take the risk of sounding bad and feeling silly. Then, it'll come together faster than you think.
@@MrTomfooligans thanks, I’ll try giving that a shot.
Do you happen to know what does Ville do when going from Am to C first time on the recorded acoustic versio. I'm truing to pull and hammer my pointer but can't get to the wanted end result. Thank you!
I think my best guess is: open B, hammer to 1st fret of B, pull to open, 2dn of G, open G, 2nd of D, 3rd of A
4:25 what’s the “punchy thingy” you’re talking about and how do I replicate it?
I believe what I was referring to (2 years ago; forgive me if I get this wrong) was flexing the grip of your fret hand on and off in order to make the notes you're strumming sound a little more staccato. The only way I can think to describe it in text is for you to strum a chord and then release the strength in your fret hand, and hear how that sounds as the note falls away. Play with that a bit. Strum and release, strum and release. You're not lifting your fingers off the strings...just changing the tension in them so the strings stop vibrating. Now, if you combine this changing of grip (on and off) with your strumming, you can add a bit of...well, punch, to the strumming pattern you were going to play anyway. It adds a touch of personality.
@@MrTomfooligans thanks for the response. I'll try that out.
@@MrTomfooligansit looked like you hit an Em, something else than a G. I’m really just getting started so I have a hard time telling finger placement.