Animals as Leaders, Tosin Abasi plays "Wave of Babies" on EMGtv
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- Tosin Abasi of Animals As Leaders, shows his incredible command of the 8 String guitar using his EMG 808X pickups live on EMGtv.
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This is ten years old...Tosin Abasi has improved on this if you can believe it.
i havent listend to this in 10 years... or tosin for that matter... whats some of his new stuff i can get into?
@@BrandonHilikus check out "the joy of motion" its animals as leaders 2014 album. its great.
You aren't even exaggerating. This is Tosin Abasi in his rougher period, if people can believe that.
@@MrNeosantana right!? Like, somehow, dude became MORE proficient, more learned. Incredible guitar player
@@The_Mimewar yeah its crazy
Tosin sees six strings in his nightmares
Dickslap Mcgee and tube amps lol
Dickslap Mcgee That would not be Djent enough.
ThePhobos100 that's the point!
ThePhobos100 duh-jent!
***** There's one video of him and joe sat covering BB King actually.
This shit blew me away 13 years ago.... still to this day. Damn. Glad i went on a nostalgia trip.
I just found out about Tosin 20 minutes ago....what in the name of GOD did I just witness??? Spectacular!
Me too !!
Watch the Animals As Leaders: Dunlop Sessions. The version of Brain Dance is one of the finest musical performances I’ve seen.
Javier, the other guitarist, is amazing and Matt is probably the best rock drummer alive today.
his favorite color is Madjenta
stahp
his guitar djently weeps
Clever. AS FUCK
i'm crying xD
got me rolling on the floor like a madman mate xDDD
He looks like a real funky or jazzy dude, but plays massive and unreal djent. I guess Tosin classifies as "djazz"
Crimson Rain It still fascinates me. He could be Buddy Guy's rebelling son hahaha.
"Dad, I need to tell you something."
"What is it, boy? Have you discovered a new blues tone for your strat?"
"Kinda, but not really. I think I love djent. And I used my birthday money to buy an 8 string."
well, this guitar shape is still strat-like, just 2 additional strings
Anti Phase it's a superstrat. Basically a stratocaster but metal. And then two strings added.
I know.
This song still slays 13 years later
I saw this about 13yrs ago now and have not stopped listening to AAL since that day, probably one of my favourite bands ever. 2022/23 in the top 0.5% on spotify listeners, so its erry day bruh
The most well dressed Metal guitar player you'll ever see.
Hahaha, you're right man, I was thinking the same. The music is great, but metal guitar players usually dress like shit, nice to see someone looking great (and not just sounding great)
What about Devin Townsend? xD
Iván Agustín Ogñenovich dude is a fkn creep
But no doubt he's well dressed :P
Don’t you mean well djressed?
Steve Vai said "Tosin Abasi is the future of guitar." That's about as high as guitar praise gets. I have to agree, Tosin is a guitar genius on a level I can't even get my head around.
Lol. Its all business and connections.
@@prototype8137 yes, actually Jeff Bezos is the best guitar player in the world...
Tosin Abasi is one sharp dude. we are lucky he decided to play guitar instead of going to med school or something. The kind of person that would be in the top 10% of whatever field they decided to go into.
true
This is exactly Michael Breckers story I think haha
i would say top 0.3%
Those cascading arpeggios are just mindblowing
Wasn't that just insane sweeping?
Those are some mean babies
Mike Kanis
Crazy Babies perhaps?
they have come to Djent, kick ass and chew bubblegum
Think i saw a C major in there
JAJAJASJAQKSHASJDHASJD
Me too.
Pfft yeah. And I just saw Elvis riding Bigfoot
I saw him play an H chord at one point
we think, but it is probably a A#b Triad that is posing as a C major
he really likes his triads, incase you didnt know
2:03 Dude, that was crazy, amazing.The drum and the guitar are dancing together in a majestic way.
His hands are so big that doesn't look like he's playing a 8 string.
Chaves Junior my hands are like that. I need to get a 7 or 8 string fr, only done 6 string since I started playing
@@noahnuccioguitarworks7552 Same. I got a 7 string, and it feels so much more natural for my fingers. I wonder what an 8 string would feel like. It would probably feel like what a 7 string feels like to normal people.
Can I talk about how Tosin's brother (A fashion designer) dresses him likes he's from the future?
Alonso Mendoza he very well might be. His guitar knowledge is unmatched.
He does remind me of the alien dude from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy now that you mention it...
Rockin’ Pixels Ford Prefect
wich is also a car or rather the other way around since thats where he got his earth name XD
Please, do, I need to know more
They're both masters at what they do
For me, the slapped melody at 2:49 has one of most inspired rhythms I've heard in recent memory.
the way his fingers move, so calmly and effortlessly, like he's almost bored playing this mind-blastingly difficult music
Been listening to this for many years now, only just realised how hard that riff at 4:37 hits you.
Oh yes
My favourite riff on the song
Fuck me running.
If there's a better guitarist around than Tosin, I've yet to hear him.
I'm not normally a fan of prog/wank, or instrumental bands in general for that matter.
Animals as Leaders is something special.
paul wardingham
Joe Satriani.
Pat O'brien probably in my opinion, and yngwie, but theres no doubt that Tosin is a fucking god, and he's self taught, which gives me hope since i am too
Joe Satriani.
lance trullinger For the most part, he did go to AIM
The problem is that most of people don't even know how to define "feeling and emotion". I personally enjoy AAL because of the energy I get when I listen to them, it somehow wakes up the energy inside of me and gets me started for the day. Thinking that music should always be about feeling is like thinking poetry should always be about Love, it's awfully restrictive. Don't get me wrong, I'm a massive fan of piano and ambient music, but I personally need to listen to music "in phase" with how I feel at the moment. But if I need to wake up and get confident with myself, don't expect me to listen to Simon & Garfunkel. Anyway it's not like if AAL was on all radios and you were forced to listen to it...
ifeelitbro Wow I was just thinking about this today and you wrote what I was thinking perfectly.
ifeelitbro yeah man. music describes the universe. frequencies, vibes bra!
Even thinking about poetry as words this is poetry. his use of guitar work is poetry itself. AAL is the epitome of amazingness.. yeah not a word but guess what now it is. dafuq you.
ifeelitbro "There are different stages to being a metalhead:
First there is the plebeian stage, where kids are initially turned on to the genre of metal. They peruse nu metal and other metal-lite subgenres because it’s cool, new, and edgy. They haven’t yet explored the depths of the genre as a whole.
Once they’ve become hitched on the genre they move onto stage two: contrarian puritanism. Metal engrosses this kid’s life, and subsequently becomes very, very serious business online. They love to subjugate subgenres, pigeonholing bands under a single label and getting offended when people mess up said labels. Still susceptible to peer influence, they will pick up and drop subgenres based on what they think is “real” metal. Other genres of music become a no-go zone, because metal is objectively better than any other kind of music that has ever had the gall to approach the teenager’s well developed taste in music.
The third stage happens when a metalhead ages and matures beyond the point of edgy, black-and-white interpretations of the world. This stage is called the Grand Wizard. As an adult you realize that labels are silly and inhibiting a lot of the time. Metal is integral to your life, but it doesn’t make you who you are. You are free to enjoy the music you like on the basis of you enjoying it rather than if it fits within the genre. Other peoples’ taste in music differs from your own and you realize that’s just fine. You see comments you made calling out Korn and Disturbed fans for railing on extreme metal, telling them to go listen to rap and Justin Bieber like the homosexuals they are, and you get a little embarrassed.
tl;dr Basically, it’s about maturity."
-DestroyerErase
Become Wizards my friends
ifeelitbro if music makes you feel anything, then it has feeling and emotion even if it gives you a bad feeling haha
Dude's musicianship & sense of harmony is timeless.
During these crazy times with covid-19 I find myself listening to old songs that used to inspire me
1:30 - my brain cant comprehend this level of playing
He's not human.
It's like his right hand doesn't even do anything besides gently stroking the strings.
finger rolling and sweep picking looks really effortless, but don't worry, he's said himself that shit is hard af.
azzans Oh yeah, without a doubt.
x.05 speed amazingly helps.
if we were out camping ,we can just sit around tosin while hes playing, no need fire
😂😂
@@charlieauckland That's only for people who don't know how to camp and aren't music fans.
Tosin is an alien, unbelievable skills
So. God. Damn. Heavy.
Hey dude, I like your backing tracks
At 1:42 that camera had to keep distance from the brutality and insanity of the finger tapping instance of that solo. Otherwise we all could have lost our eyesight and become blind...
WHY THE FUCK AREN'T YOU AT THE TOP?
The entire audience had to be put in quarantine, as it was figured that Tosin might be nuclear-powered, and that radiation was sweeping out of his sweat pores. From now on, Animals as Leaders only plays in studios and venues that are encased in lead.
Oh yeah man, I almost called 911 to stop that guitar rape....
@@paradise_valley Tosin’s dexterity and speed caused COVID confirmed
I have been off of Zoloft for 2 weeks, and this song is extremely relatable.
Sand is considered by some to be coarse and irritating
2:49 - 3:38 is such a sick ass part man, especially the drums
Just in case someone needs a drum transcription of this song - th-cam.com/video/wdHTIsCl7pk/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
It's hard to believe that these are programmed drums
2023 in time. Tosin greatest.
The ladies in the crowd are all like:
"can I have your Wave Of Babies?" ;)
Onozawa Yuuki j think this has everyone in the crowd wanting his wave of babies
truth
I mean, I'm a straight dude, and I'd totally let him finger me.
Have you seen the way that man can move his fingers!?
"This lacks emotion"
See Translation
I like 4/4 time signatures with lyrics about relationships ending.
This song is so dissonant and beautiful and angry and happy at so many different stages of its composition. If anything I have found more emotion in Animals as Leaders than I have in almost all the music of the past decade.
+Ian Bucklowe I haven't heard such truthful comment on youtube for a while.
Songs that talk only about love is gay as fuck
+Ian Bucklowe STFU and listen!
***** I believe you may have misread what I wrote.
Ian Bucklowe No I understood perfectly... Tobin For Pres!
This video was life changing for me. From the opening chords to the final riff, this is full of nostalgia. Thank you, Tosin.
Just saw him live in Orlando a few weeks ago. He was AMAZING and we were feet away!
Not even reading the other comments. Just doing what I came here to do and listening to the music.
michael jackson is happy because you didn't steal his popcorn lol
Dig!
Agreed
Just recently discovered Tosin Abasi, this guy is a machine !
I'm pretty sure he is actually a machine.
+MrDeepFriedOnion 3 laws of rotobin much :D
Jeff Albertson guitarnator ?
Just letting you guys know that I can’t express with words what this does to my emotions sonically.
Someone sold their soul at the Crossroads.
Good reference
Nah bro, the devil sold his sold to him
Nope, just about a decade of constant practice.
Yeah, the devil did.
He is the devil.
this is exactly how an 8 string should be played
Check out Anchor by Rob Scallon for more 8-string-done-right ;)
Scallon? If you really want to see 8 string done right go check out Paul Galbraith. He basically invented the modern 8 string; he's been playing one for nearly 20 years.
Yuric Hunt
Maybe your ears are made out of dog shit so that's why you can only hear shit inside of your malfunctioned brain.
@@Blue_Nova707 the only people who bitch about extended range instruments are scared of them.
@Dixon Cider Oh no, no one came to fight you. :(
Please reupload in HD. This video needs it.
Tosin is a mad scientist 🥼
WOW THIS ECONOMY PICK IS INSANE
I like his fedora. M'djent
I laughed way to hard at this
*tips Axe-Fx*
@@gpost001 Really a true Gentleman
Matheus Henrique da Silva *dgentleman
😂
Each time I(60+)'m thinking there can be no more evolution in Rock Music guys like Tosin step in and take it to the next level. What an outstanding performance!
Tosin... will never be out done. If he is, the year will be 2076 or later. His melody lines, substructure and suporrt layers.... He is GREAT beyond our imagination,
Played with the utmost talent and class. What a fantastic performance!
Hey uhhh I'm Tosin Abasi from the band uhhh Animals as Leaders
TheSuperMarioBros2 I can hear him in my head omg
TheSuperMarioBros2 that’s real haha
Wave of blackmidi when
His concentration power is in his playing and compositional abilities... no time for conventional speaking
Just because he has a large amount of skill doesn't mean he plays without heart. You people saying otherwise are just jealous of his skill, which is way higher than yours will ever come close to being.
So you should only listen to music that is complex and technically hard to play? I don't like this kind of music, but it is not because I am jealous of his playing. It just doesn't do anything for me. I just heard this song, and already I can't remember anything about it. Its boring to my ears. Reading all these comments here gives me some understanding of why people like this kind of music. Most people who like this music are talking about how skillful this is. I see a lot of comments about musical taste and why some music is better then other music. I see a lot of comments of people who think they are somehow superior just because they like this kind of music. To me this whole discussion is completely pathetic. When I listen to music I want to enjoy it for the music. When I listen to the music I love, I don't care about the skill that is involved to make it. It is irrelevant to my liking of the music. I like simple songs, I like complex music. I listen to anything that I might enjoy. Jealousy doesn't come into play at all.
Some people can't handle having something they "adore" being criticized. Too many people have their lives based around the exploits of others instead of their own.
Envious*
@@TSgitaar Excellent comment, however of everything this guy has written this one is one of the more memorable ones for me
This sucks just as much as jazz. Throwing disjointed progressions together and using theory to justify the splatter of noise that comes out. David Gilmour says more with a single bend than AAL does with 40 key and time changes. There is no emotion conveyed here. Unless he's trying to paint a picture of madness then it hits. Not my bag.
This has to be my favourite drop in any song. So evil sounding, it's like the ground around me is shaking
Still my fav era of AAL. 1st two albums are absolute masterpieces. 🔥🔥🔥🔥
This is real black metal
underrated comment
Sh00r lol. I love this dude
Too bad it's one-of-a-kind...
Sh00r have you discovered Living Colour in the past 3 years?
not really at all
I love his style. Definitely one of the most unique and imaginative players out there in my opinion.
A musical algorithm/AI could never out-do this dude.
11 years ago, fuck... Time flies man
Monster of the 8 string guitar. ..a pleasant and dangerous player..worth listening
AMAZING. THANKS FOR SHARING.
There is so much symphony here. There is alot of thought put in this composition, and alot of drama and tension. This isnt souless at all.
This Guy is Amazing!
chills every time. I can only handle this before court dates or during thanksgiving dinner.
Are we all sure he isn't a robot sent from the future to blow our collective minds?
+Alexander Wang no, he is just black
+Alexander Wang no he is not a robot, a robot could not be that perfect, a god maybe
You;re right he does plays guitar like a robot.
who gives a shit if he’s black
Alien from the 4th demension of platroidium from the 7th moon of the 6th planet Betyoucantplaylikethisson
which is a hot planet where many lifeforms come together to form humaniod things that we see as people
THUS indoctrinating us with their "music" (so our brains tell us) as we become mush for their planet to survive off of.
Or was that rings of saturn?
This should be 4k.
To me, this is our era's Jimi Hendrix. Just discovered and I'm blown away!
He looks like he's about to yell "GET OUT"
yoooo I just noticed that ahaha
Lmao.
This comment 🤣
this dude is my mentor and he doesn't even know.
Lol same.
I never cease to be amazed by the sheer dexterity and virtuosity of modern musicians today. Their technique and improvisational talents are boundless. This is the way forward, but don't get me wrong an emotionally uplifting piece of music will always steal my heart, while the head is into virtuosity and imagination.
Man, he excels at so many picking styles in unconventional scales, it's MIND BLOWING!
These guitar tabs must be in Chinese algebra.
哥们儿你真是一语双关
Lmao
chinese aldjebra
I think Tim Henson would agree
this guy is awesome. Heard this for the first time last week. I smashed my guitar and bought all of his music.
it's like jazz metal but good.. Really really good. I can listen to them all day. The phrasing and complex breakdowns are just fkn insane. So much powah!!
Tosin Abasi can play anything. He can also play Gospel Music w/ Extended Range Guitars in Churches.
Next level of music
Just discovered this band. Simply amazing.
This is like when Music Theory and Schizophrenia have a baby....And Jazz fusion and Nu-Metal have a baby..and those two babies grow up and fall in love, and get married..but the household is dysfunctional because they were never meant to be together, they're completely contrasting ideas, growing up at the far ends of the spectrum from one another....but they stay together anyway devoid of emotion.
Don't listen to Behold The Arctopus. You might have a stroke.
+KingJFree If you think aal is devoid of emotion the problem lies with you, not the music..
+A Sloth To be fair, I think he was mostly having fun with the anecdote ;p
holy shit perfect hahaha
@@Jotun184
It's emotionless drivel.
I will never forget the first time I watched, and listened, to this. Tosin's work still moves me, to this day. GENIUS. \m/
This man was ahead of time.
If only my parnets gave me a guitar insted of a Sega Genesis, oh how different my life would have been lol
Yup
This comment wins. @Matt Benoit I did it a few years ago, you will not regret it.
Yep exactly!!
It's never too late, JUST DO IT
Well with that attitude I would imagine you would have picked up the guitar and 'quit' within 24 hours.
Its always so sick when he's playing with just his fingers.
This guy is the robert johnson of 2020! The new world shredder! Abasi!
Dude idk. This kind of feel is unmatched. It really is. This particular performance with the backtrack sounds so sick
I feel like no one will ever be as good at anything as Tosin Abasi is at guitar
John Petrucci
+Brother Jauffre Tony MacAlpine, Nili Brosh, there's a few that I would put at the same lvl of competence, they just have different styles ;)
+durcorr Buckethead
Steve Vai at making multiple orgasm faces per second and doing weird sounds on a 3 neck guitar...
Jason Becker
Hold my beer
+Mr Plainview anytime bro haha
This hit me like a wave of babies
😮wow he blows me away every time! He’s beautiful and boy can he play!
Everyone is surprised about him being black and I'm just surprised about his thumbs
+Kevin Toma
For suree
Some of the best guitar players are black
hendrix
B.B king
chuck berry
slash
prince
eddie hazel.....
+Raphael Neves slash ? haha
+Raphael Neves i really hope you don't think slash is black lmao
+Cursed Gamer He's half.
+Kevin Toma Dude, BB King, Albert King, and Hendrix were all back, and are some of hte best guitarists ever!!
am i the only person who thinks this set is where they filmed P90X?
Almost a decade old! The video that set the course for modern metal for the next 10 years. Usable VST metal drums, the Fractal FX (and plugins in general) replacing a cab, extended range guitars, that clean jazzy look, DJENT. A perfect storm of technology and talent.
One hell of a guitar player 🎸🤘🎸🤘
This isn't metal, this is jazz played with metal instruments.
Actually this is Progressive Metal with Jazz elements.
***** Nobody cares.
I care.
So?
You still get my point. It's not something that's important.
Well probably only people that want to write music like this, would care to know that
This is otherworldly. The sound, the backing track and Tosins ability to own that 8-string is astonishing. Oh why oh why did I sell my Axe-Fx?
That's what complete mastery of an interview looks like. Wild
I still can not believe this video is not on HD
You realize most of you are comparing him to his influences...?
The people you speak of have been playing for decades longer than Tosin.
come back in 2030 and see what hes playing, then come back and compare him to his predecessors.
Well at least I now have a decent supply of mahogany firewood...
My word I really respect this guy. When I watch his videos I always feel as though I'm in the presence of absolute class and a gentleman who writes and plays music that is absolutely on another level.
Heavy man , over the top, really radical. Lets set the bar higher and higher !!!
Not my kind of thing but the guy is clearly a master guitar player, unbelievable.
Honestly, I think Tosin is the best thing since sliced bread. This is beyond the scope of just guitar playing, and if you can't recognize that then just stop listening to him.
I have discovered Tosin only a couple of years ago, but seeing how far ahead of his time he was still amazes me everytime I see a video like this that is already 12 years old 😅
11 years and this still hard as fuck. Just saw animals play a few weeks ago, if you get the chance, go.