About This Piece
These Moments is Antoine Dufour's most beloved composition and one of the most viewed fingerstyle guitar videos on YouTube with over 4 million views. The piece carries a profound emotional weight — Dufour has spoken about it as a meditation on the fleeting nature of important moments in life.
Recorded for Candyrat Records, it represents the peak of his compositional and technical abilities: the two-hand tapping, harmonics, and percussive elements all serve a deeply musical purpose rather than existing as technique for its own sake.
Technical Overview
These Moments uses an open minor tuning that gives the piece its characteristic dark, resonant quality:
- Two-hand tapping: Dufour's right hand taps on the fretboard alongside the left hand throughout, creating cascading melodic lines impossible in standard fingerpicking
- Natural harmonics: Bell-like harmonics weave through the texture, creating moments of crystalline beauty above the denser tapped passages
- Percussive elements: Subtle body taps keep rhythmic pulse without interrupting the melodic flow
Learning Path
This is a technically demanding piece. Before attempting it, you should be comfortable with:
- Two-hand tapping on acoustic guitar
- Natural harmonics in multiple positions
- Coordinating tapping and harmonics simultaneously
The emotional content requires that technique is fully internalized — you can't be thinking about mechanics when playing this piece.