Guitar

[Cerebral_Assassin]

This kid is awesome...............

Eight year old virtuoso

:strumma:

[KiwiCoromandel]

very cool..... :)

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

That was pretty kick ass. Wonder how soon until he gets asked to join a band.

[DudeAsInCool]

Damn - that kid can smoke on a guitar

[DudeAsInCool]

[DudeAsInCool]

Web Guitar Wizard Revealed at Last

EIGHT months ago a mysterious image showed up on YouTube, the video-sharing site that now shows more than 100 million videos a day. A sinewy figure in a swimming-pool-blue T-shirt, his eyes obscured by a beige baseball cap, was playing electric guitar. Sun poured through the window behind him; he played in a yellow haze. The video was called simply “guitar.” A black-and-white title card gave the performer’s name as funtwo.

The piece that funtwo played with mounting dexterity was an exceedingly difficult rock arrangement of Pachelbel’s Canon, the composition from the turn of the 18th century known for its solemn chord progressions and its overexposure at weddings. But this arrangement, attributed on another title card to JerryC, was anything but plodding: it required high-level mastery of a singularly demanding maneuver called sweep-picking.

Over and over the guitarist’s left hand articulated strings with barely perceptible movements, sounding and muting notes almost simultaneously, and playing complete arpeggios through a single stroke with his right hand. Funtwo’s accuracy and velocity seemed record-breaking, but his mouth and jawline — to the extent that they were visible — looked impassive, with none of the exaggerated grimaces of heavy metal guitar heroes. The contrast between the soaring bravado of the undertaking and the reticence of the guitarist gave the 5-minute, 20-second video a gorgeous solemnity.

Like a celebrity sex tape or a Virgin Mary sighting, the video drew hordes of seekers with diverse interests and attitudes. Guitar sites, MySpace pages and a Polish video site called Smog linked to it, and viewers thundered to YouTube to watch it. If individual viewings were shipped records, “guitar” would have gone gold almost instantly. Now, with nearly 7.35 million views — and a spot in the site’s 10 most-viewed videos of all time — funtwo’s performance would be platinum many times over. From the perch it’s occupied for months on YouTube’s “most discussed” list, it generates a seemingly endless stream of praise (riveting, sick, better than Hendrix), exegesis, criticism, footnotes, skepticism, anger and awe.

The most basic comment is a question: Who is this guy?

If you follow the leads, this Everest of electric-guitar virtuosity, like so many other online artifacts, turns out to be a portal into a worldwide microculture, this one involving hundreds of highly stylized solo guitar videos, of which funtwo’s is but the most famous. And though they seem esoteric, they have surprising implications: for YouTube, the dissemination of culture, online masquerade and even the future of classical music.

JOHANN PACHELBEL, the great one-hit wonder of the baroque period, originally composed his Canon in D Major for three violins, at least one chord-playing instrument (like a harpsichord or lute) and at least one bass instrument (like a cello or bassoon). With its steady walking rhythm, the piece is well suited to processionals, and the bass line is extremely easy to play, a primer on simple chords: D, A, B minor, F-sharp minor, G. A sequence of eight chords repeats about 30 times.

Read More At the NY Times

[DudeAsInCool]

This reminds me of British guitarist Dave Edmund's version of the Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov's Sabre Dance from the late 1960s. Anyone remember it?

[Lord_of_the_Dense]

Your link is to the YouTube site, Dude, not the NY Times.

[DudeAsInCool]

Your link is to the YouTube site, Dude, not the NY Times.

Corrected

[KiwiCoromandel]

This reminds me of British guitarist Dave Edmund's version of the Russian composer Rimsky-Korsakov's Sabre Dance from the late 1960s. Anyone remember it?

yes mate..i remember it...great stuff....it just shows how good a guitarist dave edmunds was....he played a great slide as well....remember "i hear you knocking?"... :)

[Starfire]

oh my god! O_O

[DudeAsInCool]

Eddie Hazel, Funkadelic, performing Maggot Brain

[DudeAsInCool]

You can find the original cut of Funkadelic's Maggot Brain right HERE at Mirror of the Eye, along with some other Funkadelic samples and a nice writeup

[DudeAsInCool]

[Warflower]

:happy:

[bmc]

[CTC Command]

BPM BPM BPM

[DudeAsInCool]

Eric Mongraine

[CTC Command]

Cool! This guy is awesome! :happy:

Reminds me of an acoustic styling of Stanley Jordan...I first saw him on Johnny Carson about 25 years ago--totally blew me away.

(I'm not even going to try to embed these youtube vids...every time I try to do it I just post a bunch of code, so you'll all just have to suffer through clicking the links )

Here's Stanley ripping through an old Beatles classic.

Then check this out, if you were wondering what that other guitar was for...

[DudeAsInCool]

Nice stuff! Toby Emmanuel doing Classical Gas

[DudeAsInCool]

Bohemian Rhapsody

[DudeAsInCool]

Michael Chapdelaine -- Come Together

[DudeAsInCool]

Andy McKee

[DudeAsInCool]

While My Guitar Genty Weeps performed on a ukelele

Via: VideoSift

[DudeAsInCool]