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tristan avakian
Приєднався 3 бер 2006
tristan avakian, professional musician. here are some things I've done, and things I like.
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H.E.R. Super Bowl Solo - Rock Guitarist Reacts!
In which I unpack this epochal event - an actual guitar solo in a worldwide media extravaganza - there's a lot to unpack. And unpack it I do. I get down to the nitty gritty - what is happening here??? Original video not included because the NFL is blocking harder than a Chiefs defensive back. But you can see it here: ua-cam.com/video/7hYbrdC_-s8/v-deo.htmlsi=5-UGNh4bCygY16B-&t=499
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Moonage - Ronno
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Getting warmed up for a Bowie night at the Basement East in Nashville last August. Guested on this number and a few others. I am a fan of every Bowie era and guitarist, but Mick Ronson will forever be my favourite. Tone courtesy of my heart, hands, experience and Neural DSP's legendary Quad Cortex.
Solo Guitar Arrangement for Dummies
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Learn how to come up with solo arrangements for a beloved Christmas tune - or for anything - with a few simple steps, even if you have no jazz or classical training. If a dumbass rock player like me can do it, so can you - using stuff you already know! Private lessons including tabs available! app.fortelessons.com/teacher/profile/ab37a406-3087-4e01-bcac-d9f0eb093de5? Performance 00:00 Introduct...
Warmups Suck!
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A short video about warmup exercises, why I hate 90% of them and what I do instead. Tabs available by request. Or book a lesson today - app.fortelessons.com/teacher/profile/ab37a406-3087-4e01-bcac-d9f0eb093de5?
The Time Jumpers, w/ Tommy Emmanuel sitting in.
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9/4/2023. 3rd And Linsley, Nashville, TN. Just goes to show you... never know who's gonna turn up.
The Wizard - Demystified!
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In which I break down the iconic Tony Iommi riffs from this Black Sabbath classic in forensic detail. I made this video for one of my students, and it was so much fun to do I decided the share it with you! It's the first of what will be a series of tutorials I'm putting together for my forthcoming suite of courses, Guitar Mastery with Tristan Avakian. For more information or to sign up for priv...
December 24, 2022
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Merry Christmas, everyone! I made this for you. I hope you visit my website when you get a chance. Take lessons, or surprise someone you love with one! The support you get from personalized instruction, the pleasure you gain from your newfound freedom on your instrument, the increased confidence, and the pride in your discipline is more than worth it. tristan-avakian-s-school.teachable.com/p/home
Guitar solo, Schlossfestival 2022, Bruchsal Palace, Germany
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I was pretty focused on what i was doing, as usual, so i'm glad a friend was recording this from the audience. Such beautiful production in a magnificent setting.
DOES IT QUEEN??? The Mop Top Liverpool Pedal from Tech 21
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In which I demo the latest offering from Tech 21 NYC - the Mop Top Liverpool, from their new Character Plus series of compact amp simulation pedals - for the Brian May gear enthusiast community.
The Future
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My contribution to Metropolitan Community Church of Toronto's Leonard for Lent - a month long series of Cohen themed sermons and musical offerings. @MCCTorontoTV I love the iconic original, but have always felt that Len's songs got short shrift in the studio. I am all for understated, tasteful production, but thought this tune deserved a lot more contrast and saturation to bring out the graphic...
Let It Be/Take It With Me
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If you like this, you may like my artist channel, As Waters. Many original songs and a few more covers there. Please like subscribe and share, over there - it will help a lot. Thanks. ua-cam.com/channels/5NE4c-ynsR5ZJw0WWSW9mQ.html
CHROMATIC PANDEMIC!
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As long as I'm hunkered down in the bunker, I may as well start making some quality content for you.... it's been a while. I promise never to neglect you again. Weird times... We gotta stick together! Isolation is a gold-plated excuse to goof off, but also a really good opportunity to work on your chops. Today my offering is a chromatic warmup that'll get you off the couch, fingers flying, in n...
Fantastic Voyage (acoustic cover)
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An acoustic rendition of an underexposed Bowie song from 1979’s “Lodger” that has, sadly, only grown more relevant with the passage of time. Also an excuse to keep my “Under Pressure” voice in good nick during my time away from Ultimate Queen Celebration starring Marc Martel. And a chance to try out some new gear: IK Multimedia’s iRig Stomp I/O pedalboard and AmpliTube Software, which is provid...
UQC 2019 AUS/NZ Tour #marcmartel #ultimatequeencelebration
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I give you an up close and personal look at daily life, on what has to be the favourite tour of my life so far, with some of my favourite people. Maybe *too* close.
How To Sound like Brian May with Sh*t Gear
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How To Sound like Brian May with Sh*t Gear
Musical Theater for Rock Guitarists
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Musical Theater for Rock Guitarists
"Bloody Stream" (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part II theme) MORE GUITAR!!!
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"Bloody Stream" (Jojo's Bizarre Adventure Part II theme) MORE GUITAR!!!
We've Only Just Begun - The Carpenters (BG Mix)
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We've Only Just Begun - The Carpenters (BG Mix)
as waters - letter to hermione (David Bowie)
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as waters - letter to hermione (David Bowie)
It is not the guitar you are using and it is not that red cloth. It is YOU play like Brian May 👏👏👏👏
Really good. I’m 50 and learn something new everyday
That was awesome
That was seriously the most beautiful sung song I have ever heard ❤ I would absolutely love to hear you sing my favorite Bowie song Heroes ❤
That cocked wah tone. Well done.
Dude, you made me lol. Well done. I'm going to Walmart right now in search of the perfect red tea towel.
Glad I got this on my recommended, the guitar just sounds so good
Man, you're such a genius !
What are you playing through?
Love it...Bowie is still alive....😮
reality is so way much further out than any sci-fi ... my life in context is the only movie I watch ... and the most freaking tripped out part is, it's real.
the reality is so far beyond any sci-fi .... my life in context is the only movie I watch....and the freaking most tripped out part is, it's real.
it's pretty difficult trying to communicate anymore, without triggering automated censoring.
Linear human evolution was the same "Postulate made theory", science obscenity, which bump-starts every science in it's infancy.......but that people are still being taught that Postulate, is schools, is proof that some people are on drugs that they can't get off of. In FACT: that postulate made theory wouldn't even make any scientific sense to Any scientist. my usage of the term, science "obscenity", here in reference to Freud. it's like institutionalized rape.
i figured out all kinds of american music history. The Mystery of the resonator guitars, which no one in america could even afford to own; except those "poor" black delta blues players who also had enough free time to play all day long.the missippi delta area was an african heroin hub; and still today there are unreported incomes, with black panhandlers doubling as heroin dealers for those they have reduced to the streets....read more- ------------ And Jazz was actually an innovation brought about by genuinely poor Europeans, people who contributed to society and earned their time to play music, but would purchase necessities before a second guitar, and where guitars where more expensive in america being in shorter supply. how to make one guitar sound like two ? add scale tones to the chords !!! and those are European scale tones. ------ of course the Pentatonic Scale is the oldest Asian scale, but also found widespread use as a "one can do no wrong" scale to tech children, so they could play along with more complex music. of course there are many more complex Asian scales, but pentatonic is still asia's most popular scale. ----- and the Blues Innovation, was of course adding the One note which was documented everywhere as being the most horrifically discontent note in any key, to the most pleasing notes belonging to the penatonic.
Wow, what a weird and slightly racist thing to say. Please take your dog whistle elsewhere.
@@tristanavakian i have done the research, and i Didn't say anything until i was damn sure i knew what i was talking about... the unmentionable ethnicity does Not even do that, they just spew BS because being black makes it true?
@@tristanavakian like they call childless genocide victims "racist" while they are falling out of the gene pool, and they wont stop calling people "sexist" unless the person is gay.
@@tristanavakian they also call people, who Do Not Ignore their criminal activity,"ignorant"
@@tristanavakian but Do Not talk to them about it, because they get information about everyone else faster than anyone else gets information about them, if at all.
Thank You for giving H.E.R. performance clarity, she's an amazing Guitarist who's upsetting a lot of people because She's GOT IT!!!
Thanks. I do realize that she’s no Matteo Mancuso or Guthrie Gowan, but I’d rather focus on the positives than tear her down as many others are doing… even though negativity generates more likes, subs, clicks, viewing time etc. There’s already enough shittiness in the world!
I have both the Tom Anderson Classic S, 2018; and an Icon Classic S, 2024. I like them both a lot. I think the Icon Classic comes closer to a Stratocaster sound than the Classic, in my case. Might just come down to the individual guitar. Both are way better players than any F Stratocaster I ever owned or played. But, they do not sound exactly like a F Stratocaster. The Icon comes close enough, though. That said, unless I was doing a tribute show where a Stratocaster was required, when I would use a Stratocaster, which has a shaky, brittle top end that is pleasing/not harsh, but there, I would just use the TAG Icon Classic, which seems to lack that top / brittle but pleasing shaky fizz to it that F Stratocasters have... I think it might be the bridge (?). Anyway, the sound of the TAGs is more broad-spectrum "hi-fi" sounding... more rounded and broad. Less direct and narrow than a Stratocaster, IMO. But, that's why I like the TAG sound. But, I will always have at least one F Stratocaster, too, for it's unique and "Iconic" sound.
They both blow away Fender. Only thing they make that comes close to the feature set is the Fender Ultra, which still doesn’t have the same attention paid to the final handwork in fit and finish. Andersons play like a forty year old guitar out of the box, and also feel like the future. Unreal.
Pre -recorded! Unlike when Prince played it raw!
12 years then: So cool 😎
You do realise she mimed - it was pre-recorded! ua-cam.com/video/lJzzU_7Y6jA/v-deo.html
I do realize that. As I mentioned straight away in the introduction, I don’t really care. It’s an analysis of a simple but fairly effective performance. With a clickbaity title, yes: I am guilty of that, along with nearly every successful UA-camr, including some of my favourites - I’m looking at you, Justin Hawkins ;)
Just found this……Thankyou Tristan….love you’re Bowie in “under pressure “……. It’s damn close, and to the uninformed, they would be pushed to know it wasn’t David.👍👌🇮🇲
The solo she did with Usher was not her playing it live. she may have recorded it and fake played it live. her fingers dont match up
you are making a big thing out of nothing
Well, it’s already outperformed my other recent videos by quite a bit, so it’s fair to say that it’s a topic of interest, at least in my tiny demographic. I try to provide some value in my videos regardless of whether they reference current affairs. Feel free to view my other content if you like.
Olsom. Give her the great credit she deserves. I think this guy nailed it. When he explains. Thank you. So sad to see that many cant except she is a great artist. Im almost sure this is why she played for the half time.
Nice Anderson bruh
The pentatonic scale has a curious effect because depending on who you ask it's "underrated" or "overrated" but what's undeniable is that if you know how to make the most out of it you can manage to do great things with it. Imho anyone who despises the pentatonic for being "too basic" doesn't know anything and just wants to sound smart. Good video mate, and the solo from H.E.R was pretty neat.
enjoyed this c:
It wasn't answered if the solo was mimed or not. I would presume it was. My understanding is almost all instrumentation at Super bowl performances are not performed live. Its understandable
I believe it is mimed. Just listen to the tremolo part and watch her fingers. Nothing against her though. The solo was great. Definitely someone played in the back or it was pre recorded.
Spoiler alert: it was mimed. As I said right at the beginning, I decided to focus on what happened musically and how an aspiring musician can apply the general concepts to their own solos. The miming issue has already been discussed past the point of exhaustion by other UA-camrs.
@@tristanavakian ahh I must've missheard you the first watch. I thought you said something along the lines of 'we'll discuss if it was mimed or any good' but I now realize you actually just clarified that wasn't the point of the video. My apologies and I appreciate the response
You realize she was not playing that live right? There are other female guitarist on the planet that blow her away. She's a chosen industry demon. Wise up !
Great breakdown, an absolute gem of a video.
Glad it was helpful!
On of my favourite solos Tristian and you totally aced it!!
Ever considered a role in Bowie act?
I’m on Visconti’s bench 🤞
Great stuff Tristan!!
Just like Prince would have performed ❤🎸❤
No.
Very interesting points about tension, singable, guitar/voice unison. Great insights about her background in music that shines through in this performance. Appreciate the church comment too 🙂 know your place in the setting, and be about the music first. Cheers!
This is everything. ☺️☺️
Great breakdown of H.E.R.’s performance. She’s quickly becoming one of my favorite musicians.
She wasn't playing....it was a scam. lol ua-cam.com/video/lJzzU_7Y6jA/v-deo.html
Much much <3 for Mick and The Pig
Wowwwww 😍😍😍😍
cocked wah? Check!
Ronson was the best Bowie had but should mention Earl Slick who was great on Station to Station, as was his mostly forgotten replacement, Stacy Heydon.
Effortless mastery at its finest
YES!!!!
Hi all! Is it the same Tristan Avakian that played on the We Will Rock You musical and the awesome Red Dawn (1993) album? I love that album - and this video is really well explained too
Nice tutorial!
Thanks!
You make it look seemless. And it is if we follow your lesson. Another great tutorial for all of us.
You can do it!
Sounds wonderful as you always do.❤
Thank you!
Gorgeous, Tristan. So glad I came across your channel. Keep on keeping on.... M. Suall
It's a shame what silvertone has become I have a 1948 silvertone 1300 tube amp I use flatwound strings on my homemade electric guitar that me and my grandpa built and I still get that Brian's tone with a treble booster
😊This is Amazing. Now I'm looking for Towels and something Red and Special.