i miss this guy.. his talent and attitude towards music cant be matched by many. damn it i need to hear his new compositions!

@SebastianMartinez-mx4gw

5 ай бұрын

He’s currently my professor right now!

@joshjardim

5 ай бұрын

Amazing!

I play stuff from Dream Theater or Polyphia or chon these days (not all songs lol but many) and this man single handedly got me into mathcore and other rock in HS in 2004. Since then I’ve evolved. Thanks AJ!

Nice video, I can't wait to try this. I wish AJ the best of luck. He gives lessons at his house.

This is my dude.

Thank god he's back.

Nice video again by FPE~

TELL HIM I LOVE HIM

Thanks. I'mma get practising.

He uses the red jazzIII picks or the Black dunlop tortex 1.14mm small same shape harder picks. He is my favorite guitarist, the reason why I can play anything other than blues pentatonics, thanks buddy =)

he looks like a really really chill dude

he is officially back to the human abstract

soooooooooooooo good

damn i miis him

@HTHAR1 HES BACK BABY

Oh okk, I'll look try find a GP tab so I can learn it, because not only is it a good warm up, it's sounds nice as well. Cheers mate. Have a great Christmas btw. :D

@Budgetgravy Dean Herrera said that the band isn't officially broken up. The bassist said they were breaking up without consulting the band first, but there is a chance of them reforming.

i had no idea you could do that with scale and iv been playing it with down strokes lol guess i learned something new today

no idea, I just remember seeing that on their myspace. Also, the first time I saw them live I think I saw a marshall head, but I'm not sure.

Thanks man, I'm gonna do a cover of movement from discord soon. I'll let you know.

Much like Tosin Abasi he has picked up on the warm up exercises of John Petrucci. Nothing wrong with that at all ;)

It is one of John Petrucci's sig. guitars Ernie Ball Music Man

hes so good he makes me wanna cry lol

he came back to the band in april if you guys dont know.

i want to know what he did with the 7th arpeggio D: sounds so awesome.

Well that's what I thought too. I was just confused, because he was showing the same normal patterns, but alternate picking instead.

Dude my tube screamer makes my amp what it is. I love my pedal.

aj come back to THA please!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@HTHAR1 YEAH RIGHT wait till you hear the next disc in january. NASTYYYY

I just wish they could have both AJ's music skills and nathon's vocals. like one big happy family again.

@jclp777 Thats the best thing ive EVER heard xD

It's a major scale, but played a little differently than how you may have learned it. It's just a different shape of it. Also, the string skipping makes it sound different. He actually uses this pattern in the chorus of movement from discord.

AJ reminds me of Mikey Way :D

Wow, he has a ton of reverb going on 0_0

wow thx for the "news", im pretty sure every1 already found out about that like 6 months ago.

YEAH MAN!!!!!! You are totally correct. I listened to them right from when they released their demo and then was blown away by Nocturne. But Midheaven doesn't have the same feel or style. I WISH SOOOOOO BAD, that I had of gone to one of their concerts before they split. WORST DECISION EVER!!!!

for all the people who are wondering if AJ left The Human Abstract. well he did. he said that he didn't think he could get on stage and play metal any longer, so he left and is going to a music school to learn more about classical guitar. who knows he might end up coming back, but i doubt it. thanx, Inferno117

does anyone know where i can see a tab for the part starting at 0:18?

@dtma24 well accually ive heard and seen people that can alt. pick arpeggios and they do it damn well. just sayin, but youre right about sweeping being much easier and fluid

no actually, it's just a different shape of the major scale. People usually learn it a different shape because there's not as much stretching. It's the same scale but yeah there are 3 notes/string. Basically it moves the third note in the scale to the 6th string, and so on. Nocturne.

@xouris123 Nice! this makes me so happy lol

Does anyone know what the scale for 3 note picking is? It's quite nice.

@erniesux Literally called the John Petrucci 6.

@HTHAR1 NOT ANYMORE!! LOOK UP FAUST!! NEW SONG!!!!! AMAZING HE IS BACK!!

Thank you, I'm assuming that's because the 3 notes per string shifts it...? Which album is that from?

@killath303 whered you hear that?

he's always studied classical. he was in collage for composeing bro.

i dont understand, hes not muting the strings at all, but he plays with a lead tone all the time and it sounds clean. does he change his style on leads?

@TuGinecologo

Жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same

No, hes not. Dean says he's not in the band. He's just helping write the new album.

@Javeness And ripped now.

yeah john petrucci uses it, it's his signature guitar. It's the ernie ball music man bfr. I have that guitar and it is the greatest guitar ever, its pricey but defienetly invest if your into neoclassical :P

R.I.P

i like how whenever he screws up he does a quick skank before trying again i really wish he hadn't left. He wrote and influenced a lot of the music on nocturne, and the band isn't quite the same without him

what pattern was he using for the first example?

@iplayguitar0217 wait, he's back in the band? SOMEONE TELL ME THIS IS TRUE, BECAUSE I'VE BEEN LISTENING TO MEA CULPA FOR LIKE OVER A YEAR STRAIGHT, AND I NEED MORE OF HIM

g major on standard or f major on a step down

We should disable comments after this because "iplayguitar0217" has said everything exactly as it needs to be said. Truer words have never been spoken.

anybody know which 7th arpeggio it is??

@LukeBodom Where haven't you heard it?

you can kinda hear dean noodling in the background around 2:25ish hahah

it's more important to know what amp he used. pedals like the tubescreamer are just for a good boost.

@xouris123 I suppose you're right, there isn't a right or wrong way to do it. But when I, personally, practice chromatics I like to hit every note in the scale (so you go up a string and back a fret).. so when I saw this i was like wat.. Still, AJ is a shredding bad ass, and he can do whatever the fuck he wants!

this was one of my favorite guitarist and im a drummer haha. anyone know what happened to him since he left human abstract?

@Voz34

2 жыл бұрын

I’ve been told he teaches at the juliard

A.J. is a teacher. Like Mat Bruso. Wish I played guitar, I'd learn something. I'd be better at drums. I aced the trumpet in junior high, but that's a totally different story.

what kind of metronome is it?

Actually I'm pretty positive that AJ ditched them. Equally as unfortunate though. I hope to god the next album continues the first one.

Aj grew up in the house across the street from me. He also happens to be my Godfather

@iangarza990

3 жыл бұрын

Tyler Staves where is that?

Super stache

probably jazz pick alot of artists use it cuz its smaller and real hard nice for alot of techniques i guess...

Why was he alternate picking the arpeggios in the beginning? Was that solely as an exercise? He doesn't ACTUALLY do that when he's playing in the real solos does he?

What band did he move to?

Lol on his facebook wall or picture, there's a funny comment. It's like this "AJ, is it true you left the human abstract to focus on growing your mustache?"

Can you ask him what kind of musicman model hes using in this video? lol

Why'd he leave?

I HAVE THAT METRONOME!!!

His arms are like twice that size now!

So what's is AJ doing now? Is he in a new band or something?

No he was doing it to exercise single notes per string. Now way can he pick it that way live.

tabs?

i like how he's using john petrucci's signature guitar XD

me too XD

aw who ever gave me thumbs down is buggin.....mab is serious, if not give me reason

Thats what it looks like

@iplayguitar0217 God you have no fucking idea how right you were/are...

yes and michael angelo batio = music god!

what a guitar??

do you want a candy for that :]

good call on leaving abstract, midheaven was so bad

i see a seedy moe!!!

like, he didn't shuffle back on the g string but thats about it

"minette" means girlie in french.

great gtrist too bad he left human abstract... im sure we havent seen the last of him thow cant wait to hear what hes got cooking

I think he joined an indie band

I just bought a amp head off of him hahah

framus

Anybody else think he didn't do the chromatic right?

probably dean

@jngarza7 he looks like a nerd in this vid, but in the digital veil video he looks like he could knock some teeth in...here's hoping I never meet him in the pit lol

its funny how he was the head of a metal band, so advanced with guitar technique and what not.. but he's not even into that stuff which was why he left THA. he mostly listens to classical, post-rock and indie. if he was amazing in a metal band, imagine how good he would be playing/writing something he actually enjoys.

he looks like my friend LOL

NOT "softer", less aggressive, and their sound still holds the name of "abstract"