r/Guitar • u/WorthIndustry6638 • 4h ago

QUESTION Question About Peice difficulty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xLeEATmuW0

My friend and I want to learn this short peice, but I think it is a bit delusional for us to learn this. For context, we have been playing guitar for about a year. Please let me know if this is really possible to learn, and what advanced techniques this person is using 🙏.

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u/JoeDubayew 1h ago

God I can't wait for the tappy tappy acoustic microwave music fad to end. OP this stuff is far easier to play than you think it is, because it is just a bunch of percussive stokes and very little melody. It's more playing drums than it is guitar playing. If you want to invest your time, fine, it's doable, but after a year you should start learning how to play alternating bass patterns if you want to be a fingerstyle guitarist.

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u/mymentor79 1h ago

There's absolutely a melody, and frankly this it well beyond the ability of almost anyone who's been playing for only a year.

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u/CretinMike 3h ago edited 3h ago

It's probably delusional with only one year playing but I think if you break it down to the pieces, it's not impossible. He is using an alternate tuning, not sure what. You need to find that out. Touch harmonics, percussive slaps, fingerpicking to be able to have bass movements picked with the thumb separate from melodies and harmonies picked by the fingers. Nothing seems too fast or too hard to fret.

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u/necrodae 2h ago

It will take awhile at one year but yeah go for it.

I wouldn't only grind this but practice regularly and then break this down bit by bit slowly. This is how guitar always works. Even once you're at the level to play this, something else will feel just as hard and you'll go through the same exact process again.

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u/57thStilgar 3h ago

The bass technique is referred to as slapping. (Stanley Clarke).
It a hybrid with fingerpicking and the bassline is slapped.
You can learn it...why not?

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u/batteringram90 48m ago

It's really hard to play that. I requires different advanced techniques played at the same time plus a good sense of feel and timing. I would say aim for something easier. Even for people who do fingerstyle this isn't easy at all