Makafushigi Adventure - Guitar Cover

[Rory]

Wanted to share this piece of awesomeness with you guys.

Dunno how many of you guys are subscribed to this guy, but jesus he's awesome.

[Shiyonasan]

I just listened to this today. He has some pretty awesome covers, and this one is no exception.

In fact, I posted a topic about him almost a year ago. (Which it looks like you posted in as well.) I was wondering when he was going to do another cover...

EDIT: *Looks at older topic again*

On topic, I'm still holding out for a Makafushigi Adventure cover by Matsuda....

Well, it looks like I got that wish fulfilled.

[Piccolo Daimaoh]

Cool, I just subscribed to him.

[cRookie_Monster]

Wow what a great player!

[Shoryuken]

Found another excellent (acoustic) cover.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMmD9ifn ... re=related

[ThunderPX]

I wasn't too impressed with that Makafushigi Adventure video, but the CHA-LA HEAD CHA-LA one on his channel was pretty impressive. In the first one it felt like he was trying to overcompensate for the fact that the song isn't that hard to play by showing off with unnecessarily sliding his hand around and using some pretty irritating pinch harmonics--not to mention subsequently getting sloppy in a few parts. That's not to say he's bad, he's still pretty damn good, but things just felt off to me in that video. I dunno, maybe CHA-LA HEAD CHA-LA just lends itself to showing off more.

[Shoryuken]

I wasn't too impressed with that Makafushigi Adventure video, but the CHA-LA HEAD CHA-LA one on his channel was pretty impressive. In the first one it felt like he was trying to overcompensate for the fact that the song isn't that hard to play by showing off with unnecessarily sliding his hand around and using some pretty irritating pinch harmonics--not to mention subsequently getting sloppy in a few parts. That's not to say he's bad, he's still pretty damn good, but things just felt off to me in that video. I dunno, maybe CHA-LA HEAD CHA-LA just lends itself to showing off more.

Couldn't seem to find the Chala-Head-Chala video on his channel that you were talking about.

But whilst we are on the subject about Chala-Head-Chala:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh9MhIcd ... re=related

[cRookie_Monster]

His most impressive technical playing is in the solo section of We Gotta Power at about 2:15.
http://www.youtube.com/user/bagtone#p/u/6/fx6OUWBY6bY

The sweep riff at 2:45 is definitely the hardest riff. The backwards tapping thing is pretty cool too.

I liked the pinch harmonics in the original vid posted in this thread

[ThunderPX]

Yeah, that solo kicks ass. Kinda makes me wonder why he sort of skipped over the end of the breakdown in the Makafushigi one.

Also, I think I've figured out what bugs me about the sliding; when it comes to music, I'm primarily a vocalist, and this guy is of course playing a vocal melody on guitar for much of the songs. As such, when he slides down at the end of a sentence, that sounds unnatural to me because a vocalist wouldn't sing it that way; when it comes to short notes, or in preparation for a following sentence starting at the same note, that's not a natural thing to do. Take the verses in WE GOTTA POWER, for example; in the verse, every sentence ends with two short notes. This guitarist slides down there, even though he barely has a fraction of a second to get back up there. You'll notice Hironobu Kageyama just stays at the same note in the original performance. Ironically, in one place where the guitarist could've put a lot of vibrato and sliding (the long drawn-out notes in the pre-chorus), he instead makes up his own fills.

Re-reading all that, I'm not sure whether it's a good thing that I ended up making this mostly pointless analysis between vocal phrasing and the guitar equivalent instead of simply typing something like "Something just bugs me."

[cRookie_Monster]

Sliding down at the end of a phrase is like a knee jerk level reaction for me when playing high gain leads. I probably would have done the same thing just by instinct. Guitar leads often sound kinda awkward if you don't put a tail on an "ending" note with a rest after it.

Haha here's a good example from my own playing.

http://www.youtube.com/user/M0rganstudi ... 2kzgKtfCYg

Notice when ever I stop, whoop, there it is, slide down... XD

[TheRed259]

Makafushigi Adventure - Metal Guitar Cover ( Greek )

[DBZGTKOSDH]

Makafushigi Adventure - Metal Guitar Cover ( Greek )

Awesome!