Thanks bunch,,,,great stuff and Ur amazing citizen...talented beyond

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Unanswered questions about Nick Drake´s style. How many fingers did he have? Did he even have fingers? Did he play a guitar or a celestial stringed harp? Only Ferris Bueller can solve these mysteries :)

Josh, your dedication to detail is extraordinary and the topics you choose to delve into are exquisite. Thank you!

Lets cut to the chase, folks - practice ‘till you sound great!

well done

Great stuff! Any all-mahogany acoustic can get an authentic sounding Nick Drake tone much closer than spruce-top acoustics, even if the strings aren't completely dead. You can skip over expensive models such as the Martin "15" series (000-15m, or 15sm) which can be well over $2000 depending on region, and instead you can get an affordable Guild "20" series (OM-120 recommended) or Sigma "15" series (000m-15 or 15s) which would be great candidates that are well under $1000. Even the Yamaha Storia II model has the capacity to get a great Nick Drake sound if you take out the brass bridge-pins and swap them for bone or plastic pins, and that guitar is less than $400! The trick is reducing "harmonics" in the tone to achieve a Nick Drake sound, which mahogany guitars have fewer harmonics, whereas spruce has a lot of harmonics (deadening the strings is one method to reduce them, but not ideal as you still want the woodiness of the guitar to come through which is what mahogany excels at). And any contact points with the strings such as the bridge pins, nut, and saddle can also produce more harmonics depending on construction material, so using bone is recommended because it's nice and resonant without producing the harmonics that brass does.

Thank you from a South African fan who discovered his music back in the early seventies and never understood how he failed to make a larger impact until way after his passing your analysis is brilliant

brilliant

damn son.

Really digging the part 2.

Would love to see a remake of this someday.

What do you make of this new evidence nick played a martin D-28 and/or a levin LS-18?

Josh you just amaze me , I have followed you and your friends since you were playing in high school and on your door step at home with your mom and dad .you have come so far. I’m a fan.

Great stuff, Josh.

Brilliant

This genuinely makes me me well up in tears every time I rewatch it. The talent and energy bursting from these two… They went entirely out of their way and put in 300% of the effort required just to fulfill their passions for an instant in front of their peers… and they were given the leeway to do it. That’s what education is all about. They were given room to be themselves within a constructive context. Feels like a scene from a movie I wanna watch. Dead Poets Society type shit.

Are you available for guitar lessons?

Thank you

Thanks

For anyone wondering, this is the guitar tuning (in details) for this piece: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gpupn86G1Ly-p3k.html

Great performance of a tough song to pull off cleanly. Is that a Martin DM? I have one too!

Sounds wonderful

Wonderful . I loved John Martyn grown up but Nick Drake is the Monet of music

So so interesting! I think you have captured the sound quite well! Amazing

Thank you!!!

Youre really good at this. You got the biggest thing right for sure. Cruddy strings! And dead strings will make a big guitar sound small when recorded.

Damn he's a genuine disciple of Nick Drake🙏🔥

Zoom h2n

just a show off

Very nicely done. I was so impressed when the opening I was positive was Nick Drake, revealed you playing instead. It was more than just the tuning; you got the sound 100%.

There r some images where u can see Nick's nails were long and the hand position was other than u say.

Brilliant,he was way ahead of his time, although he never felt that in his heart I'm guessing. Fantastic music he made.

So, so incredible. Would love to see finger style lessons from you

I sadly can not follow it. It all goes well (kind of) when you are describing the left hand and the picking pattern. But then it all falls aparat since you are doing picking pattern on different string and you are doing "licks" in between that were not described previously.

Rewatching this before catching your Bygones show in SD. Stoked to see you okay live. Love your art and vibe and will be saving up for your acoustic guitar. I've had a really nice Taylor for years but want something legit that's not so anxiety inducing to take places and quasi abuse in that giggin' way. Anyways, cheers! Stoked to buy y'all's vinyl at least 🫶 curious about other merch as well

I think Nick would have been flabbergasted that someone had taken the time to analyze this..., but thanks anyway!

Excellent work putting this together. Thank you very much.

I want to add my voice to the chorus of praise for this video. I mean, it's just absolutely stupendous! Without doubt one of the best I've ever seen on KZfaq. Your playing is beautiful, and the tone is eerily perfect. It's like the ghost of Nick Drake is playing through you. Phenomenal.

5:15 This blew my mind. I definitely had my suspicions that he was playing with a more classical hand position. But this along with the nails is a staggering difference. Such a great video man.

He's probably not using the capo, the song was sped up by one semi-tone to A# Minor, and was originally recorded in A Minor.

Thank you

John Martyn played around the same time. Has a 60s mono album out. Check it out sound very similar

If you use a small body mahogany guitar with a sponge under the strings by the bridge and close mic it, you will get pretty close to his tone.

This is just masterful. If I'm correct, there aren't any videos of Nick perfoming. Perhaps Josh you could do a service to the world and cover his three albums. It would be a great body of work for the ages. Given your incredible analysis on this video, there's probably not many others in the world who could do it justice.

I'd kill for a full cover of hazy jane I from you

Nice tone. Well done!

This was fascinating. You play him beautifully, I'm sure he'd be honoured. Incredible.

I love many of your covers this however is you best work. Can listen to this all day. It really is a "job"

Hello! Any chance you can show us how to tune the guitar and play “place to be” by N. Drake?? Thanks!!!