Uploaded May 2018 | Updated September 2026, 51 seconds ago

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My own (slightly condensed) fingerstyle guitar arrangement of "My Life" by Billy Joel. Great tune!

This video also serves to demo the sound of the plugged-in Maton AP5 pickup (aka "AP5 Original") on this Maton TE1 from 2010. The guitar is plugged directly into my audio interface with a jack cable and that's it. Some reverb added in post. No external microphone.

The AP5 original pickup in this guitar was the standard system in Maton's electro-acoustic guitars for many years, and it predates the current AP5 Pro system that Maton are now using across most of their models. This original AP5 has no built-in microphone, it's simply an undersaddle piezo/preamp system. Sounds pretty good to me, especially live!

Acoustic guitar: Maton TE1
Tuning: Drop D
Thumbpick: Dunlop white medium
Strings: Santa Cruz Parabolic (low tension)
Camera: Nikon D5300
Audio: Zoom H4n
Cable: David Laboga Gold Perfection Series