He made his own arrangements, took full videos with static cellphone camera, choices of tones that made his guitar alive with soul, and played in a simple room set up with a pack of local cigarettes, ashtray from used can, and a glass of black coffee. The distinct videos characteristics of the finger style guitar's God, whose real name is Alif Gustakhiyat, are that the musics were all exquisitely arranged and almost 100% smoothly played, in ways that are sometimes unthinkable even by seasoned guitar players.

There were original works of his own finger style guitar compositions as well. Occasionally he uploaded guitar style covers which were not entirely finger picking, he also sang albeit only in one song, gave tutorials and also tips. Most of the videos he made are covers of popular songs, either originally played by famous foreign or locals group bands and singers, with various music genres. Since then I rather routinely watching almost all finger style guitar videos uploaded on Alip Ba Ta's channel. The retweet, as I recall, was to a tweet wrote by a famous musician named Addie MS, who was so impressed by Alip Ba Ta's exceptional guitar skills, as well as appreciative with his modest appearance. Ini!: Dewa Gitar Finger Style Itu Bernama Alip Ba Ta It was a bit late knowing him, as Alip's subscribers were around 500-600 thousands already.

Curious, I searched and opened his channel and watched a number of his finger styles guitar cover videos. It's been a while since I started following Alip Ba Ta's channel in Youtube, just a few seconds after reading a retweet in my Twitter's timeline that mentioned his name.

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