Somebody That I Used To Know - Mike Dawes - Live At Cedars Hall

I'm going to start this next song with... ...a little bit of a guitar lesson... ...for the guitarists and non-guitarists alike. The style of music that i play is a little bit unusual to a lot of people but is actually very very simple although it seem rather complex it's all to do with building lots and lots of very simple layers so when I'm writing a piece of music in this style I'll start with something simple like a bassline just like this, ok? very simple, it's just a bassline no offense to any bassists, but it doesn't have to be that complicated. two notes is fine some of the best bassline in the world are two notes that's one... I... that's the only one I can think of right now the bassline is played by the right hand just sort of picking the strings like this, ok? let me get out the guitar and the guitar is played by sort of adding hammer-ons to the frets down here you see, I'm not picking the strings. I'm just sort of pressing down bass and guitar... and now drums... now, the drums are played by the right hand sort of hitting the wood of the guitar, just like this. Just like a drum it's worth mentioning at this point, by the way, if anyone here books concerts I'm considerable cheaper to hire than... bass, guitar and... I like to think: more space in the van so we have our bass, our guitar and our drums but we are still missing one layer, the most important layer of all the melody this song is dedicated to all of your ex-boyfriends and girlfriends Somebody that I used to know here we go!

Channel: Wells Cathedral School Music

Views: 9,393,998

Rating: 4.9355416 out of 5

Keywords: Wells Cathedral School, Cedars Hall, Guitar, Mike Dawes, Gotye, Lesson, concert, Mike, Dawes

Id: XwCK1z3wT8g

Length: 5min 53sec (353 seconds)

Published: Thu May 18 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/hereticnasom]

Andy McKee - Africa (TOTO cover)

Andy McKee - Purple Rain (Prince cover)

Don Ross - Crazy (Gnarls Barkley cover)

Antoine Dufour - Hide And Seek (Imogen Heap cover)

Sam Westphalen - Black or White (Michael Jackson cover)

[u/PierceArrow64]

My go-to example of this technique.

[u/Innuendoughnut]

I feel like this is another situation where the audience didn't really get how complicated the things he was doing were, like people who watch jugglers in complete silence..

[u/ZorgHCS]

Thought he was going to use one of those pedals to loop bits and then add layers with it. Nope... that's not what he did at all!

[u/ajk23]

This takes me back to the early 90s when I first heard of Michael Hedges, whom I would almost consider the Godfather of this style. All Hail Michael Hedges. Aerial Boundaries was a breakthrough in the 80s, and his style blew me away. Died tragically young in '95, and I only wish I had the chance to see him live. YouTube does a nice job of making that as close to a reality as possible.

If you have a chance, I highly recommend listening to Hedges' album, Taproot. If for nothing else, his setting of the E.E. Cummings poem, I Carry Your Heart (with Graham Nash and David Crosby singing background harmonies) is worth every moment of your time. That album was a fantastic soundtrack to my study hours in college. It just fit so nicely into the background, allowing me to focus and relax. I hope it leaves you with as good a feeling as it did me.

(Honorable mentions of others in this style, and beyond, would be Preston Reed and Tommy Emmanuel).

[u/Crealone]

welp, he nailed more than Rob scallon ahaha with just 2 hands :) (almost 90% of the song)

[u/binkerfluid]

As a guitar player it disgusts me how he can do this

;)

[u/SmaugTheMagnificent]

The dude even includes Bass Face