Sunday, February 12, 2006
Cool/Talented Video
I've started putting up a talented/cool video I find every week, usually right before Shabbos. This week, I didn't have a chance to put anything in before Shabbos, but a good friend (DeepThroat) sent this to me tonight, so I figured I would put it up instead: Enjoy! It's Canon in D on guitar, in case you can't figure it out. I'm especially curious what the musicians out there think about this one... my friend plays violin, and thought it was incredible.
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Yeah, I saw this a while back. I'm a guitarist for years, but I ain't in this kid's league.
ReplyDeletei'm not a musician at all but that is a great version!! enjoyed it lots :)
ReplyDeleteXVI: I agree with you on Malmsteen, but I disagree about Vai, he plays with talent and speed, and I don't belive his music sounds too dry or too methodical. Eric Johnson is another guitarist who I just love, with a great combination of speed and feeling. Of course no discussion of this sort is complete without mentioning Satriani and Petrucci. Satch is today's father of shred, I mean the guy did teach Kirk Hammet how to do his thing. :)
ReplyDeletePer your suggestions... I watched some Vai clips last night - there's a really great 'guitar duel' from some movie. I'm actually more impressed that Ralph Macchio was able to fake playing it himself...
ReplyDeleteBut Vai was usually great, weird a couple times. Satriani is great, a friend used to listen to him a lot. Malmsteen is just ridiculous - everything looks effortless.
Ezzie:
ReplyDeletehttp://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6833529017668510290&q=eric+johnson
Wow. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteThat made me wonder what the other musicians think when they're playing with someone like that: Is it hard to play when you almost want to just stop and watch the other guy do his thing? They say that it happens sometimes in basketball - a superstar is taking over, and his teammates space out a bit just watching him do his thing. I wonder if that happens in music?
It's interesting that he's playing along to a prerecorded track. So either all the other instruments are there but the lead, and he's playing his part (where would he get such a tape?), or he's doubling the lead that's there, or he's just air-guitaring it. If it's the latter, he's getting all the fretting right and seems to be getting the volume knob controls down as well (that's for the parts where the guitar sounds like a violin).
ReplyDeleteEither way, it's a great track. My guitarist from the Moshe Skier Band, Mendel, plays like this. At first I found it intimidating, but I've actually grown quite a bit by watching him and playing along with him, and now we're extremely tight. Basically, when we learn a new piece of music, it sounds like we've been playing it for years, because we zig and zag at the same time.
I found a number of other (not as good) renditions of the same song, also played to a track without a lead guitar, so I don't think he's airing it (I actually did for the first 45 seconds or so).
ReplyDeleteWhen are you coming to NY so the NY bloggers can hear you play? Have you ever considered it (or done it), or is it not worth it?
I've always been curious - do most musicians learn pieces from hearing them, seeing the notes... how? When you say Mendel plays like this, what do you mean?
ReplyDeletePsycho, JerryC does not do air guitar. I've heard of this kid before, he's real.
ReplyDeletehttp://jerryc.tw/
He has a bunch more vids there.
Seems to me he's playing with 2 tracks, probably with a foot trigger. A loud, overpowering drum track which drowns out the instrumental track completely. You hear the instruments when you don't hear the drum. I may be wrong though.
You have to hear him play. Check out some of the live tracks at Mosheskier.com.
ReplyDeleteI was just listening to a few songs a couple weeks ago, guess I'll have to again. :)
ReplyDeleteShtender - thanks. He's really talented, wow.
actually my first thought when seeing this was that he plays like mendel
ReplyDeleteInteresting... I listened to a few songs, and on Shoshanas Yaakov, for example, I understood what PT meant.
ReplyDeleteYou have to listen to the stuff where he really cuts loose, like Barchi Nafshi or Tzama or The Carlebach/Jeff Beck number. The live stuff is where he shines. Also check out the solo he plays on Hafachta live at THe Note. You can hear Yosi Piamenta saying "bravo" at the end of the solo.
ReplyDeleteActually, this brings up an interesting point. I don't know how old this guy is, but I've been playing for 25 years and I will never sound anything like this. Most of the great guitarists that I know were great guitarists when they were teenagers.
ReplyDeleteI think this is one of those cases where either you got it or you don't.
I'll be sure to check those tracks out, but I was thinking about your point as well. Can someone with quick hands and a good ear learn to play this well? I wonder. Clearly, you can recognize the true extraordinary talents early on in life - not just in music, but in everything else as well.
ReplyDeleteI've always wondered if I could play an instrument well - I never really bothered to try. A music teacher and a few other musicians have said I have a 'good ear', but is that enough? I don't think I'm patient enough to really learn to play an instrument.