teenager awesome guitar

[Apache]

http://bcove.me/jzivv4k4

[kiteless]

Very good, that.

Nice to see a faithful rendition of the studio version of Eruption.

[Gaspode]

Excellent technical skills, it's a shame she can't manage to look like she's actually enjoying playing.

[Baryonyx]

Hard to imagine a time when that turd of a solo was ever interesting.

[Mastodon2]

Not quite a perfect rendition, but it's not the kind of solo that requires one. Her phaser setting is way too aggressive for this though, this sounds like something you'd use for the start of "Ain't talking 'bout love".

As a big EVH fan, I have to agree it's a boring solo. It might have been mindblowing back in the day to those who didn't know better when shred had not yet arrived, but there were many, many technically superior musicians in other fields.

[B17NNS]

Gaspode said:

Excellent technical skills, it's a shame she can't manage to look like she's actually enjoying playing.

Keep seeing this over and over. Great technical players doing renditions of other peoples work.

I'd love to see some kid completely fking rocking out, playing with soul.

It's a guitar solo, not a violin recital . Play from your fking heart.

Edited by B17NNS on Sunday 26th May 20:03

[Mastodon2]

B17NNS said:

I'd love to see some kid completely fking rocking out, playing with soul.

This is something I keep seeing, how do you quantify "playing with soul"? Is it in the player's body language? How slow or fast the notes are, or how many they use? Is it in their scale choice?

[B17NNS]

Is it in the player's body language? Yes

How slow or fast the notes are, or how many they use? Is it in their scale choice? No

It's that unquantifiable thing that some musicians have. Not knocking the girl but she could try standing up for a start, there is no feel or emotion.

You may be a technically brilliant painter for example, capable of recreating the work of the masters time and time again. It doesn't make an artist.

She could probably play this note perfect. But she wouldn't feel it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrz00Rs7mbA

The girl needs to get her gurn on.

[Mastodon2]

Sorry if I came across as genuine, I was being completely facetious, you can't measure a musisican's emotional involvement with a piece based on their facial expression, body language or anything else. What people often refer to as "soul" is, in the eyes of most guitarists, nothing more than exaggerated facial expressions, holding long, sustained notes and playing lots of bendy, slow to mid tempo pentatonic pieces.

[otolith]

That whole style of guitar playing bores the tits off me, it's just masturbation.

[Gaspode]

doogz said:

I enjoy driving fast and having sex, and you should see the faces I pull doing those things.

But do you look like you're enjoying yourself?

[Gaspode]

Mastodon2 said:

Sorry if I came across as genuine, I was being completely facetious, you can't measure a musisican's emotional involvement with a piece based on their facial expression, body language or anything else. What people often refer to as "soul" is, in the eyes of most guitarists, nothing more than exaggerated facial expressions, holding long, sustained notes and playing lots of bendy, slow to mid tempo pentatonic pieces.

I can see what you're getting at, but I have to say I would find it extremely difficult to imagine how someone that is experiencing genuine emotional involvement with what they are doing could fail to communicate that emotionality through their facial expression and body language. I'm not a fan of gurning away like some ham actor, but a spark of life in the eyes at least lets you know the player is into th music, rather than the mechanical reproduction of a stream of notes.

[Justin Cyder]

otolith said:

That whole style of guitar playing bores the tits off me, it's just masturbation.

Me too. It should stay in the 80's where it belongs.

[Centurion07]

B17NNS said:

Gaspode said:

Excellent technical skills, it's a shame she can't manage to look like she's actually enjoying playing.

Keep seeing this over and over. Great technical players doing renditions of other peoples work.

I'd love to see some kid completely fking rocking out, playing with soul.

It's a guitar solo, not a violin recital . Play from your fking heart.

You've seen one clip of her playing a piece composed by somebody else and from that you've ascertained she has no feel for playing the guitar?

I would suggest the thousands of hours she has invested to be able to play that piece perfectly means she is indeed playing from her heart.

[Monty Zoomer]

Gaspode said:

Mastodon2 said:

Sorry if I came across as genuine, I was being completely facetious, you can't measure a musisican's emotional involvement with a piece based on their facial expression, body language or anything else. What people often refer to as "soul" is, in the eyes of most guitarists, nothing more than exaggerated facial expressions, holding long, sustained notes and playing lots of bendy, slow to mid tempo pentatonic pieces.

I can see what you're getting at, but I have to say I would find it extremely difficult to imagine how someone that is experiencing genuine emotional involvement with what they are doing could fail to communicate that emotionality through their facial expression and body language. I'm not a fan of gurning away like some ham actor, but a spark of life in the eyes at least lets you know the player is into th music, rather than the mechanical reproduction of a stream of notes.

Why? She must be enjoying it, otherwise she wouldn't've learnt to play it.

Why would anyone learn to do something that they don't enjoy. and then upload a video of it?

She might not want to do all the amateur dramatics that some guitar players do. If you ask me, I honestly think she's enjoying playing that, she just isn't getting all egotistic like most music people do.

Anyway, there's one thing we can all agree on: Ar least she isn't sitting around listening to Justin Bieber and Michael Booblay.

She deserves all the encouragement she can get.

[Gaspode]

Monty Zoomer said:

Why? She must be enjoying it, otherwise she wouldn't've learnt to play it.

Why would anyone learn to do something that they don't enjoy. and then upload a video of it?

She might not want to do all the amateur dramatics that some guitar players do. If you ask me, I honestly think she's enjoying playing that, she just isn't getting all egotistic like most music people do.

Anyway, there's one thing we can all agree on: Ar least she isn't sitting around listening to Justin Bieber and Michael Booblay.

She deserves all the encouragement she can get.

Fair enough, the last thing I want to do is discourage the kid

[celticpilgrim]

technically - wow
emotionally - don't call us

it's a;most a throwback to where the japanese kids would be able to play Steve Vai noto for note but with no emotion whatsoever..

I'd rather see someone with half the skill but twice the emotion