Got this link from Brians site. Thought it might be fake at first, this young kid playing this well, but I believe it's real. Brian does to I guess. My wife thought Brian played it and this kid was pretending lol.
Check it out, it's incredible. link
Well, I guess he's better than Brian is at 80's metal shredding, but Brian's metal shredding wasn't exactly the thing that kept me coming back to him over and over again.
Anyway, if anyone likes blues (a la SRV) and has ever heard of Eric Steckell, he would surely have known a true guitar prodigy.
I'm not a big fan of that style of playing...but I will say it takes a gift to pull it off. As a guitar player...I have found that sound of playing limits you in what kind of songs you can create.
Sebastian wrote: Brian himself admitted that kid's better than he is.
You know he's just being polite. Imagine brian saying something like 'Ah he sucks, i'm better' come on, he isn't Axl Rose.
He plays good, but his playing is very emotionless
This kid... reignites my love hate relationship with sweep picking (which I can't really do very well at all).
I mean, it sounds incredibly fast when done properly, but it becomes stale - a party trick. I found myself most enjoying the parts where he employed a bit of sustain and vibrato, fiddly bits are fine and all... but oh well, what the heck do I know?
Great player.
Regardless of trickery, fakery or whatever, that was thoroughly enjoyable.
As to whether these people are better or worse than Brian....nothing worse than relegating music to a race or a competition...
Still - it was fucking good fun to watch...
They use the same backing track but that doesn'T MEAN IT´s fake, because Guitar Magazines put backing tracks CD's with their mags.
The most impressive kid in guitar was Jason Becker. This guy played until his 20 years forming the band Cacophony with Marty Friedman, and later joining David Lee Roth band with only 19 years old. Then he got a terrifying desease that has send him to a weelchair ever since. He can only move two muscles in his entire body, but he continues to greate music. His first solo record " Perpetual Burn" is considered one of the best (and more dificult to play) instrumental guitar rock ever! If you like what you hear and see and want to have more, you can buy through his site and help the guy!
In this link, watch the Serrana video (17 yaers old) and the "Paganini 5th Caprice" (16 years old). The fifth caprice of Paganini is something that only a few guitar players can play. This guy has played with only 16 years old!! link
This is the link to his site: link
Take care
Bobby_brown wrote: They use the same backing track but that doesn'T MEAN IT´s fake, because Guitar Magazines put backing tracks CD's with their mags.
The most impressive kid in guitar was Jason Becker. This guy played until his 20 years forming the band Cacophony with Marty Friedman, and later joining David Lee Roth band with only 19 years old. Then he got a terrifying desease that has send him to a weelchair ever since. He can only move two muscles in his entire body, but he continues to greate music. His first solo record " Perpetual Burn" is considered one of the best (and more dificult to play) instrumental guitar rock ever! If you like what you hear and see and want to have more, you can buy through his site and help the guy!
In this link, watch the Serrana video (17 yaers old) and the "Paganini 5th Caprice" (16 years old). The fifth caprice of Paganini is something that only a few guitar players can play. This guy has played with only 16 years old!!
link
This is the link to his site:
link
Take care
Agreed. Becker is an underrated god among men.
Laypeople really get all bent up seeing kids play moderately well, thinking that with a little development they'll be the next Eddie Van Halen. In all honesty, the canon kid is nothing special - especially considering that the genre he's tackling has produced so many far more talented players (such as Yngwie - 'nuff said; but compare him to the pop guitarists everyone is used to, sure he's really good). In fact, I would say that May could do the canon just as well, in the same manner, but it just wouldn't be his style.
Anyway, no matter how many guitarists play the infamous Canon in D, none even come close to comparing with an orchestra. I'm sorry, but listening to the Canon, orchestrated, just puts me in a place that no one can touch. The guitar versions are just a neat show. I'm sure a lot of people can relate to what I'm talking about.