and three two one… Alip Ba Ta in the
morning! and we're back. look who's here, wave potter! what's up quarter pounders? welcome
back to my channel! my name is wave potter and today i am finally going to watch an Alip Ba
Ta cover that has been requested, i don't know… at least a thousand times, i would say. but this
is actually a song that i had never heard before, so first i'm going to listen to the original
version. get a feel for the song. The song is numb by linkin park. i know it might be hard
to believe that someone as into music as i am hasn't heard numb by linkin park. i know it's a
shame.
But it's never too late to learn! so first i'm going to listen to the original then i'm going
to watch alip ba ta's acoustic fingerstyle cover! i like that synth sound very gritty awesome drum groove okay i wanted to let that first grouping
of the song pass before i pause it, just so i could really experience the
feel of the song, but, i'm guessing this is chester bennington singing who passed
away a few years ago. so rip chester. but man he has a really beautiful voice and
dynamic range. the difference between his voice in the verse and his voice in the chorus was
insane. and also absolutely beautiful lyrics. very relatable. all right let's do the second verse.
oh i was gonna say, i love the fusion between hip hop and rock. this other singer is on
the piano. i didn't know that. you know… hearing linkin park songs on the radio, whenever
i heard piano i thought maybe that was a sample. i didn't know they had an actual pianist.
so far i love the fusion this music has. like, his voice switches to butter
for the verse and then he's got a nice full rasp for the chorus.
It's so cool. i really like the description of the
undertow too. that sinking feeling. being smothered. it's a really cool description. i love how the hi-hat keeps
going in the chorus to maintain that bouncy hip-hop groove. also that
drum pattern that's playing throughout the song with the offbeat snare and
everything… it's such a cool feel! another cool drum pattern chang-up! i don't
want to talk over this because this is a powerful bridge here. chester went
from buttery vocals in the verse, more powerful vocals, raspy in the
chorus, now he's like almost screaming.
Powerful. wow. that was intense. i love how this song really captures the human
experience of the overwhelming feeling of trying to live up to someone else's standards and
feeling smothered. the frustration ultimately leading to numbness when you're struggling
to find joy in life. such a powerful song! love that squashed sound. wow. that
was an awesome song. and i love how, even though it was so deep and powerful, it still
made me want to move and dance. because the drums stayed relatively hip hop throughout even though
the rest of the music was almost numetal sounding. okay, that was really interesting. now i'm really
curious to see how Alip Ba Ta's version… i'm not gonna compare, like this one was better, this
one's worse… i just want to compare them as in, what i appreciate from both styles.
obviously this original version is a masterpiece. now let's switch it
to the acoustic version. Alip Ba Ta.
Coming right out of the gate with the harmonics. oh my gosh. and even though Alip is one person,
there's so much to watch here. so much to pay attention to. he's doing
this percussion again with both hands, in between playing the notes, the harmonics… he
must have used ten different techniques already between the harmonics, the regular notes, the
finger picking… it's almost incomprehensible when i watch him to pick up on
everything, but i'm gonna try. nice down strum. nice tapped
harmonic… oh my gosh. whoa! did he just sweep harmonics
down over the sound hole? right here. how do you even do that? this is the thing
about Alip… even though what he's playing, the notes the techniques are already insanely
difficult, he's also, not just playing one part, but playing the bass, the rhythm, the lead
and percussion even. it's so ridiculous! oh and there he had that nut bend. behind the nut. so beautiful that was really cool too. He used his fingers and hand to get different sounds
out of the guitar. right here. nice. very classical guitar vibes there with
that fast finger trill picking.
Beautiful. i gotta shut up and let this wash over me. oh those harmonics were even off beat there. i can't imagine the coordination just between the
thumb and the index finger. because he's plucking the string with his thumb while fretting the
harmonic. and that's on top of everything else he's doing with the finger picking, the strumming,
the percussion, the bass, the rhythm, the lead. how does he keep it all straight?
he must have like 10 brains… i love that part. that slide. by the way, kopi
mana kopi?! i just gotta say before this is over, Linkin Park with this song, created their own
beautiful work of art. a masterpiece in their own way. it was their style, their really cool fusion
sound, their powerful emotional lyrics.
But, this version, even though those lyrics are
stripped away, the story is stripped away, all the fusion elements are stripped away,
and it's all just done on an acoustic guitar, it's become its own work of art. completely
separate from the original. there's so many things to appreciate from both versions, and that takes
so much talent to be able to take a song that exists and throw away all the elements besides the
melodies and the chords and everything, and still make it a beautiful work of art. and it really
shows how beautiful the original melodies were. that classic hammer on from Alip! okay where's the tutorial for
that lick, like he did for ct43? that was so cool! i gotta hear that again! playing the root and the
minor note, and then you're walking up to its dissonant note
between the fifth and the fourth. that dissonant note that sits right up there.
and you're doing the minor of that one, and then you keep walking up in a dissonant way.
I'll
just do a quick demo of what he just did there. it has such a cool sound. because i actually used
this technique in one of my original songs this… that sound. just such a cool interval.
you're combining minor with dissonance and making such a unique sound. it
feels weird, but it sounds awesome! that part too is so cool when he slides
up, because the rhythm of the finger picking changes so much from what he was
doing throughout most of the song, it's going to triplet rhythm with the finger picking
and it's just such a highlight of the song. wow. that's beautiful. serious question. would you
like to see me play drums with alip's cover here? bring back that hip hop feel, but still have
Alip's masterful creation? let me know. if people want to see that, i'll definitely try to make
that happen soon. let me know in the comments. anyway thank you all so much for watching! thank
you for the endless requests for me to watch this song.
i'm glad that i finally got to experience
Linkin Park for the first time. i can't believe i haven't before. i love fusion music. especially
when it's rock fused with some other genre. so i'm excited to listen to more linkin park! i want
to say thank you so much to all my patrons! i really appreciate you. if you want me to react to
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