Today is April 1st, year 2,924, also known as April Fool's Day. But this video is not an April Fool's joke. This video is... Deathly serious because I have chosen to be an April Fool.
I'm gonna eat Carolina Reaper before starting this Wonderwall tutorial. I'm very nervous. My camera is gonna stop working.
So I set up a second camera just in case so So here's the thing You know You know Cheetos? Like not the Flamin'Hot Cheetos, but you know just regular Cheetos? I kind of feel like those are a little bit spicy, so...
I cannot bring myself to eat an entire Carolina Reaper chili pepper. So I'm going to eat this much. It's a dried one.
I have some ice cream, but I'm not allowed to touch the ice cream until I finish the song. Oh, my God. Guys.
Okay. Okay. Standard tuning, put a capo on the second fret. We're going to start with an E minor 7 chord. Put your pointer finger on the second fret.
It tastes good. It's fine. I'm fine.
I'm fine. Pointer finger on the second fret of the second string from the top. Put your middle finger on the second fret of the third string from the top. Put your pinky and your ring finger on the third fret of the bottom two strings.
It doesn't feel that hot. I think that one was broken. Pinky on the third fret of the bottom string, ring finger on the third fret of the second string from the bottom. Those two fingers are not gonna move for quite a while. It's starting to get a little bit hotter.
On this E minor 7 chord, you're gonna strum, for me at this time, down down down down up down up two three four down down down down up down up Like it is hot, but legitimately I feel like I'm doing okay. My breathing is weird. I've noticed that. Oh, also it turns out that it's...
Okay, gotta get through the song. Down, down, down, down, up, down, up. Then you're gonna switch to a G chord.
All you have to do is have your middle finger go to the third fret on the top string. And you're gonna strum down, down, down, up. Don't throw things at my computer, it could turn it off. One, two, here we go!
One more time, play it with me guys! Then we're gonna go to a D sus chord. Get rid of your middle finger and your pointer finger. Put your pointer finger on the second fret of the third string from the bottom. With your thumb, mute the top string.
I don't know how to strum it. Okay, we go, on this one you're gonna go down, up, down, down. Down, up, down, down. Oh, I forgot to grab tissue. Okay, it's okay, I'm not gonna need it.
E minor down down down down up down up G G down up down up down down Then you're gonna strum down on the D sus again, then you're gonna switch to an a7 sus keep these two here But put your pointer finger and your middle finger on the second fret of the middle two strings And you're gonna strum up up up down up down up up up up down up down up one two where are we starting from start from the E minor one two three four down down down down up down up down down down up down up down down down up up down up down up what's that we should do it slower that sounds good One, two, three, four! One, two, do it even slower, cause here we go! Same exact speed.
That's the exact same speed. On the last couple of strums of the last chord, the last down and up, get rid of these two fingers so those strings are open. My ears are ringing.
Why are my ears ringing? 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 1, 2, here we go, and... How come I can't play it slow?
I keep playing it the exact same speed. I have a spit bucket. It's fine.
One, two. I was going to do the same speed again. One, two, slow it down. That's the intro.
For the intro you do that four times. And then the verse starts. This is more painful than I thought.
Less funny than I thought. It feels like a snuff film. You do for the verse you do that three my hands are in him You have three times and then the fourth time you go To a C at nine middle finger third fret second string for the top pointer finger second for my ears are anymore they're from the top and you go to the D Then the a seven sus again, but with no middle finger.
Does that make sense? Look, this is what I'm trying to say at the end of the verse You go like this Let's play the whole verse. One, two, start with this one. Again. Again.
Here we go. I just need to sit down here for just a minute. Pre-chorus.
Pre-chorus. You do this at nine. Keep these here. You go down, down, down, down, up, down, up. Then you go to the D sus again.
Down, down, down, up. Then we go back to the E minor 7th. That's the one we started with.
You do the strumming twice as long in this. My stomach hurts, but Ed Curry, smoking Ed Curry tells me that I'm not dying He says that I'm just sick. I'm just very very sick Pre-chorus Then you do that again Then you start it a third time.
Then you just strum one strum of G. Then put your pointer finger second for the top string. Strum that once. Then go to the E minor again.
Then go to the D sus again. One strum of each of those. Then go back to the A7 sus and go. Go.
Because maybe you're gonna be the one that goes. Chorus. Same strumming. Do the C add 9, to E minor, to the G, back to E minor.
I'm sorry there's snot! What do you want me to say? guys Here's what happened.
I told my wife my loving wife Samantha. I said Loving wife Samantha of mine. I Think would be funny if I had a hot pepper on April st. Patrick's Day I don't know how hot I want to go.
Would you pick one out for me? Be reasonable. And she said, sure. And then a few days later, she said, hey, I ordered the pepper for you.
There's one called Pepper X, but no place will let me ship it. So I just went with something called the Carolina Reaper. I hope it's spicy enough.
Did we learn the chorus yet? You go like, you go E, C E minor then G E minor You do that three times One more Then the fourth time you do it again And they just do one strum of the E minor. I think I'm actually doing better. I think I'm doing better. I'm not gonna have the rest of that pepper because Because even though I'm doing better, I'm not doing well, I'm doing better.
Look how many came in this bag. Oh my god. Oh.
Oh. I've been afraid of this for like a couple weeks now. I knew I was going to do it. And then I kept putting it off. And I finally...
I did it. Do you know what I'm thinking right now? Oh, this is so dumb.
I'm not... I'm not... No, I'm gonna...
Okay. I'm not gonna eat the whole thing. I'm just taking a little bit more.
I'm just gonna take a little bit more. Just a little bit more. Just taking a little bit more. I'm not gonna show you how much. It's my little secret how much more I eat.
I can't believe I did that. I can't even feel it yet. I'm just okay. We just need to talk through the song form really quick. Part of that I'm not joking.
I wanted the relief when I finally eat the ice cream. And if I ate it, then it was don't Okay, so then you do the verse again all the way through. Then you do the pre-chorus again all the way through.
Then you do the chorus all again all the way through three times. And then the ending is you play the chorus again many more times. And you end on the E minor. But there's also this little piano thing.
I'm trying to remember how it goes. It goes like... No. No.
How's it go? I think that's it. You can play on the second to bottom string two, then three, then five on the bottom, and then two.
That's a little piano thing. So it goes, bow-dow, bow-bow, bow-dow. I don't remember how. Let's see this pick.
I think we're good, right? It's not actually April Fool's Day. It is March 29th.
Here we go. I got myself some vanilla bean ice cream. It's vanilla, and then they add a little bit of bean flavor.
Oh, that's a good time. Guys, I can't believe this video had a happy ending. This is lime juice.
This is lime juice right here. It's supposed to break up the calypso. I think I'm in the clear now. Calispellispian.
Okay. Guys, you did it. Okay. I think we're done. I think that's it.
Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid. Here we go. Here we go. It's the Carolina Reaper. Here we go.
Here we go. No!