Kids who play amazing guitar in their bedrooms
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Following on from my post in the Stairway to Heaven thread I checked out the lad who learnt the STH lead in his bedroom.
Having struggled to learn electric guitar for a few years in my late forties, complete with weekly lessons for five years, I'm often amazed but mostly depressed by some of the YouTube clips of young talented guitarists.
Anyway here's the same lad totally nailing Sweet Child of Mine all the way through - pretty well note perfect I'd say (barsteward).
Do you know of any more?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyfDLAmh16Q&fea...
Having struggled to learn electric guitar for a few years in my late forties, complete with weekly lessons for five years, I'm often amazed but mostly depressed by some of the YouTube clips of young talented guitarists.
Anyway here's the same lad totally nailing Sweet Child of Mine all the way through - pretty well note perfect I'd say (barsteward).
Do you know of any more?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyfDLAmh16Q&fea...
Edited by RegMolehusband on Wednesday 30th January 09:40
Callum Williams.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AB2R_M2Rywk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3nQx0tFkZs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZ8DbNrutsI
The boy can play.
RegMolehusband said:
Following on from my post in the Stairway to Heaven thread I checked out the lad who learnt the STH lead in his bedroom.
Having struggled to learn electric guitar for a few years in my late forties, complete with weekly lessons for five years, I'm often amazed but mostly depressed by some of the YouTube clips of young talented guitarists.
Anyway here's the same lad totally nailing Sweet Child of Mine all the way through - pretty well note perfect I'd say (barsteward).
Do you know of any more?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyfDLAmh16Q&fea...
That sort of thing makes me fill up, lots of emotions including awe, sadness (that they're still in their bedrooms and not earning a fortune) and sheer bloody jealousy. Having struggled to learn electric guitar for a few years in my late forties, complete with weekly lessons for five years, I'm often amazed but mostly depressed by some of the YouTube clips of young talented guitarists.
Anyway here's the same lad totally nailing Sweet Child of Mine all the way through - pretty well note perfect I'd say (barsteward).
Do you know of any more?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uyfDLAmh16Q&fea...
Edited by RegMolehusband on Wednesday 30th January 09:40
Posted this up fairly recently:
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Watching it again, it just amazes me. For such a seemingly young lad, his technical ability and feel for the music (in this case, an obscure piece) is breathtaking.
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
Watching it again, it just amazes me. For such a seemingly young lad, his technical ability and feel for the music (in this case, an obscure piece) is breathtaking.
It's what I did. I got fed up of not being very good & spent over a year holed up in my bedroom playing the same stuff over & again night after night until it all started to click into place. I was in my early twenties at the time & it worked. It always works & that's why kids do it.
It does my nut in when people say they don't have time for this & that. If you want something badly enough, you make time for it. When I loo at the stories about poeple like Knopfler, Clapton & all the rest of them, they all did the same thing - spent hours on end and I mean thousands of hours learning their craft. It's all in the desire.
It does my nut in when people say they don't have time for this & that. If you want something badly enough, you make time for it. When I loo at the stories about poeple like Knopfler, Clapton & all the rest of them, they all did the same thing - spent hours on end and I mean thousands of hours learning their craft. It's all in the desire.
Caesar Huesca covering For The love of God, which is pretentious enough on it's own as the album version
Then some kid rips off the live intro from G3 note for note, and tighter than Vai did it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGwJY8gyaEU
And Vai's version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDZuNM3HmU4
Then some kid rips off the live intro from G3 note for note, and tighter than Vai did it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGwJY8gyaEU
And Vai's version
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDZuNM3HmU4
God there are 1000's of them on youtube - I constantly come across them when looking for backing tracks.
Thing is I learnt guitar when I was 14 to 18 back in the 80's - I SO wish I had the learning resources that are available now - I'm sure I would be so so so much better than I currently am.
I think the main reason (aside from great learning sources now) is as a kid you have so much free time. I remember playing guitar at least 3 hours every day..
Thing is I learnt guitar when I was 14 to 18 back in the 80's - I SO wish I had the learning resources that are available now - I'm sure I would be so so so much better than I currently am.
I think the main reason (aside from great learning sources now) is as a kid you have so much free time. I remember playing guitar at least 3 hours every day..
Practice, practice, practice. I've done it myself and don't think its a coincidence I was the best technical guitar player locally. I couldn't write a decent song for toffee though. I imagine most of the kids on YouTube are similar, they'd be great in a covers band and their own stuff would be derivative tripe
100% agreed. You don't have to be good to make it. Here are a few crap guitarists off the top of my head:
Hugh Cornwell
Mick Jones
Joe Strummer
Billy Duffy
Heavy metal aside, which most people grow out of quite quickly, very few bands need a blinding guitarist and most blinding guitarists are more interested in showing off than contributing meaningfully to the song. What you have to be is original or lucky which basically means right place at the right time eg George Harrison.
L.F.
Hugh Cornwell
Mick Jones
Joe Strummer
Billy Duffy
Heavy metal aside, which most people grow out of quite quickly, very few bands need a blinding guitarist and most blinding guitarists are more interested in showing off than contributing meaningfully to the song. What you have to be is original or lucky which basically means right place at the right time eg George Harrison.
L.F.
Anyone can plunk away in their bedroom (as we all have/do).
The secret to make the transition from the bedroom to a band is to understand how to play in an ensemble and serve the 'sound' and the song.
It took me a year of playing semi-pro gigs to learn about dynamics and volume control and that knowing when NOT to play was just as important as stepping forward for a solo.
The secret to make the transition from the bedroom to a band is to understand how to play in an ensemble and serve the 'sound' and the song.
It took me a year of playing semi-pro gigs to learn about dynamics and volume control and that knowing when NOT to play was just as important as stepping forward for a solo.
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