I was watching this on the Grammys and thought the bloke was pretty bloody good at about 3:45.
Is this impressive guitar pickin' or just a bit of showing off?
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I was watching this on the Grammys and thought the bloke was pretty bloody good at about 3:45.
Is this impressive guitar pickin' or just a bit of showing off?
well, its about 80% fret wanking.
faster than me, but its about the feeling maaaaahn
faster than me, but its about the feeling maaaaahn
Yeah, the bloke knows his scales but it's nowt special.
Try these two:
Try these two:
If youtube videos worked on my work computer, I'd be able to regail you with my expert opinion, including a mark out of ten.
Fret wanking? Isn't his right hand doing all the work?
Very good imo
He's playing tight very short staccato strums, not necessarily picking as one would usually do it with some nice quick finger work at the neck. I'd say he's very good myself
As for Rodrigo and Gabriela. Absolutely fantastic. Her rhythm playing is sensational and together they are as tight as fk - wonderful stuff - percussive, melodic, vibrant - do love that earthy Spanish guitar sound and feel ....a whole technique on it's own that
He's playing tight very short staccato strums, not necessarily picking as one would usually do it with some nice quick finger work at the neck. I'd say he's very good myself
As for Rodrigo and Gabriela. Absolutely fantastic. Her rhythm playing is sensational and together they are as tight as fk - wonderful stuff - percussive, melodic, vibrant - do love that earthy Spanish guitar sound and feel ....a whole technique on it's own that
Waiting for a "Look ma, no hands!" act to re-invigorate my interest in human music.
He's so fast the audio and video eventually go out of synch.
And in case you were wondering, I can pretty much play all the notes in the solo. Just not in the same order.
He's so fast the audio and video eventually go out of synch.
And in case you were wondering, I can pretty much play all the notes in the solo. Just not in the same order.
Seen them live a few months ago they were brilliant especially the girl. You really need to see them live to get her full sound when she's slapping the beat on the guitar the place was bouncing.
Diudn't they start off busking in Dublin?
Apparently they're both from death metal bands, before they decided to go all mellow.
Apparently they're both from death metal bands, before they decided to go all mellow.
Is that who's in the video Plech posted? (still at work)
And are those the two who were on Jools Holland not too long ago, on that new year thing?
If so, they were pretty cool
Yea busking and playing in bars around Grafton street. Don't know about the metal part. I can't stress how amazing they are live it blew me away.
Don't know how Gabriela can play barre chords the whole night and her wrist not feel like it's on fire.
That was an alternate strumming technique where he also seemed to mute certain strings, it's nothing amazingly spectacular to be honest, just good rhythm and fret-work. If speed is what gets you going, check out EVanHalen or Yngwie Malsteen.
Yea it was them.
What the feck?
There's music in everything. At least according to my good friend August Rush (I had to apologize eight times a day to my eyeballs for four days before they grudgingly agreed to revert from armored steel plating back to rods and cones.)
But seriously. There's music in everything.
Here's one of the great guitar performances of all time:
Metal usually produces all the best guitarists.
My instinct is telling me that you don't quite agree with that.
Your instinct is correct.
If you like Rodrigo y Gabriela, you may well like Lindsey Buckingham from Fleetwood Mac doing this....
big love live is class.
Metal produces guitarists who can pick very fast and like pinch harmonics.Being able to play fast doesnt make you a "great" guitarist in any way, shape or form.
Thus is proven: 'There's one in every crowd.'
Lindsey Buckingham sounds like a porno star...
Being able to play fast doesnt make you a "great" guitarist in any way, shape or form.
Don't patronise me boy, I know. I'm talking about some of the best technical guitarists in the world, like Satriani, Dimebag, Petrucci etc. Cheesy but technically brilliant.
To be fair, I know a fair few guitarists, and all of the most natural/talented seem to be into metal.
It's actually quite annoying.
It's actually quite annoying.
The heavier the distortion the easier it is to make it sound like you're a pro.
Only if you're not good enough to actually sound like a pro.
Not really
tbh its the age old syndrome - being technically proficient doe'snt amount to much when there's not much musicality behind it
A lot of shreders are that - lightning fast scalic techncians and although I can 'get with that' in a purely instrumental virtuosic way - it does have its own euphoria wizzing up and down an instrument at a massive speed - it is musically limiting
Although I know Via, Malmsteen, Satriani et al are great technical exponents I personally cant really name you two songs by each of them that amount to anything musical. Just my opinion before anyone gets 'hurt'
A lot of shreders are that - lightning fast scalic techncians and although I can 'get with that' in a purely instrumental virtuosic way - it does have its own euphoria wizzing up and down an instrument at a massive speed - it is musically limiting
Although I know Via, Malmsteen, Satriani et al are great technical exponents I personally cant really name you two songs by each of them that amount to anything musical. Just my opinion before anyone gets 'hurt'
I really can't understand that. Fair play if it's what they enjoy, but I can't bear to listen to the stuff let alone play.
This, is a guitar solo ladies....
I need to post a vid of me doing Freebird on Guitar Hero. I think you would all be amazed.
This reminds me of something I was talking about in the Avatar thread
Yes, metal guitarists often have excellent technique. Mainly because they spent their formative years locked in a dark bedroom practicing playing scales faster and faster between bouts of masturbation and failing to wash their hair. Unfortunately many of them never actually learnt about MUSIC.
Yes, metal guitarists often have excellent technique. Mainly because they spent their formative years locked in a dark bedroom practicing playing scales faster and faster between bouts of masturbation and failing to wash their hair. Unfortunately many of them never actually learnt about MUSIC.
I saw them at the Apollo a few months back, absolutely brilliant. Who'd have thought that 2 people with accoustic guitars could make so much noise.
Wait... the teenage years weren't like that for everybody?
Now they are what I define as people probing, creating, stretching all the known parameters of what we call music and it leaves such a fine and delicious feeling in the ear - fantastic