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Pachelbel is probably spinning in his grave right now but who the hell cares. This kid is fucking awesome!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1491516901670441597

Excellent. This will be played on a continuous loop for the next four hours at high volume, and let the neighbors be damned.

Uh, isn't that a Trans Siberian Orchestra arrangement of that piece?

Uh, isn't that a Trans Siberian Orchestra arrangement of that piece?

I have absolutely no idea. Maybe playing as the backdrop?

Well he's not playing that drum beat on his guitar is he..

Well he's not playing that drum beat on his guitar is he..

He's obviously playing along to something, I'm kinda wondering what it is and where I can get it personally. :D

Not really my favorite style of music.

Though I must admit he does seem to be very talented.

I wouldn't hire him. Especially since, well, if you watch closely, he's not really playing.

Any experienced guitarist can see that.

I wouldn't hire him. Especially since, well, if you watch closely, he's not really playing.

Any experienced guitarist can see that.
I was wondering how that was being done with a pick, but I'm not a guitarist, so I figured "What'd I know..."

I was wondering how that was being done with a pick, but I'm not a guitarist, so I figured "What'd I know..."

Some of it can be done. But at his age, which I'm guessing somewhere around 17-21, he wouldn't have the experience and training necessary. Most of it sounds clearly of finger tapping and hammer screams, but he taps only once and never sets up his fingers right for the screams.

Also, on even closer examination as to the finger placement on the frets during certain notes around the middle of the opus, he would have had to radically change the tuning of his guitar while playing.

However, it is fine, fine air guitar work. I applaud him for that.

Some of it can be done. But at his age, which I'm guessing somewhere around 17-21, he wouldn't have the experience and training necessary. Most of it sounds clearly of finger tapping and hammer screams, but he taps only once and never sets up his fingers right for the screams.

Also, on even closer examination as to the finger placement on the frets during certain notes around the middle of the opus, he would have had to radically change the tuning of his guitar while playing.

However, it is fine, fine air guitar work. I applaud him for that.
See, this is why I like being a saxophonist. "Stick in mouth, blow." Not only does that sound scatalogical, but it's damn straight forward. Sure we have vibrato and scoops and the like, but you can pretty much guess how those are done-and to growl you actually just growl. (well, hum-but you can growl) And when you do there's a chance women will start striping...

However, it is fine, fine air guitar work. I applaud him for that.

So, you just wanted to make it unfun for the uneducated masses?:p

Nice work.

Some of it can be done. But at his age, which I'm guessing somewhere around 17-21, he wouldn't have the experience and training necessary. Most of it sounds clearly of finger tapping and hammer screams, but he taps only once and never sets up his fingers right for the screams.

Also, on even closer examination as to the finger placement on the frets during certain notes around the middle of the opus, he would have had to radically change the tuning of his guitar while playing.

However, it is fine, fine air guitar work. I applaud him for that.
Yep, about 2.50 in there's some tapping, and I didn't see any. And 3.45 ish as well. Indeed though, good air guitar. *wants copy of track*

EDIT: actually, at about 5.05, he sounds like he plays a bum note? Maybe he is playing some of it???

See, this is why I like being a saxophonist. "Stick in mouth, blow." Not only does that sound scatalogical, but it's damn straight forward. Sure we have vibrato and scoops and the like, but you can pretty much guess how those are done-and to growl you actually just growl. (well, hum-but you can growl) And when you do there's a chance women will start striping...

I dunno.. it took me a solid ten years to get good at the saxophone, but only about three with the guitar.. though probably because I took up the guitar as an adult..

In any case, guitar wins in my book, simply because you don't have to brush your teeth before you play it.. no way am I going to get bits of sandwich stuck in a $1700 instrument.. I'm someone who can't be bothered to pick up a toothbrush more than a couple times a week.. also, my $160 guitar survived a lab explosion that shredded my face, neck, and arms, all with only a few dings on the fingerboard and a couple of holes in the lacquer around the soundhole.. pretty sturdy for the price.. and of course, people generally allow you to play their guitar if you're sittng in their basement and they have it nearby.. saxophone players are usually more protective, even if you're sitting around at band practice with a clean, spare mouthpiece to use.. I'm kinda guilty of that myself.. :(

I dunno.. it took me a solid ten years to get good at the saxophone, but only about three with the guitar.. though probably because I took up the guitar as an adult..

In any case, guitar wins in my book, simply because you don't have to brush your teeth before you play it.. no way am I going to get bits of sandwich stuck in a $1700 instrument.. I'm someone who can't be bothered to pick up a toothbrush more than a couple times a week.. also, my $160 guitar survived a lab explosion that shredded my face, neck, and arms, all with only a few dings on the fingerboard and a couple of holes in the lacquer around the soundhole.. pretty sturdy for the price.. and of course, people generally allow you to play their guitar if you're sittng in their basement and they have it nearby.. saxophone players are usually more protective, even if you're sitting around at band practice with a clean, spare mouthpiece to use.. I'm kinda guilty of that myself.. :(
Dude, the only instrument easier than the sax is a recorder, and that's barely an instrument. (I wanted to start on flute like I should have, but my dad thought I'd get picked on...he was a flute player, dug the latin jazz...)

But yeah, listening to someone else noodle on your sax is like draging a wailing cat across a blackboard...and maintaining it is a pain in the tuckous. I just wanted to type 'tuckous.' Also, you can't sit outside a cafe and pretentiously noodle away on it while looking 'deep,' or 'complicated.' At best you can look like atmosphere for someone's film noir. And since it's loud as all hell practicing at 2am is right out. And there's none of that spontinaity of just 'pulling it out and playing a song,' you have to wet the reed, put the instrument together, line the reed up on the mouthpiece, warm the instrument. By then the chick has wandered over to the fucker with the guitar and everyone else is going "Pipe down over there, Sam Spade. We can't hear our selves think," and you're going "Sam Spade was the detective, not the saxophonist. And the song is Harlem Nocturne..." but by then someone else is kicking sand and taking the lunch money you where going to use for the coffee and the whole thing has not gone well...

But on stage you're almost as cool and dissaffected as the bass player...

Hes playing it.

But hes not playing it "live".

He's playing along with a background pre-recorded song, wich as someone else has noticed, is Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
His guitar probably isnt even plugged in.

But, he can play.
Thats easy to tell from his fingering.

Hes playing it.

But hes not playing it "live".

He's playing along with a background pre-recorded song, wich as someone else has noticed, is Trans-Siberian Orchestra.
His guitar probably isnt even plugged in.

But, he can play.
Thats easy to tell from his fingering.


Yup.

Dude, the only instrument easier than the sax is a recorder, and that's barely an instrument. (I wanted to start on flute like I should have, but my dad thought I'd get picked on...he was a flute player, dug the latin jazz...)


I think that's the problem with having an instrument kinda forced on you at a young age.. I had no real conception of music at ten years old, no real likes or dislikes.. so it was a long, tedious trip playing classical arrangements and marching-band garbage for all those years before I actually woke up one day, hammered out my own style and began to enjoy the sounds I was producing.. guitar is so prevalent in popular music that I basically knew where I wanted to go before I even picked it up the first time.. that's probably why I learned it so quickly. :p

I think that's the problem with having an instrument kinda forced on you at a young age.. I had no real conception of music at ten years old, no real likes or dislikes.. so it was a long, tedious trip playing classical arrangements and marching-band garbage for all those years before I actually woke up one day, hammered out my own style and began to enjoy the sounds I was producing.. guitar is so prevalent in popular music that I basically knew where I wanted to go before I even picked it up the first time.. that's probably why I learned it so quickly. :p
Ah, see I found Lester Young shortly after getting my first saxophone. It was the like fifth instrument I had asked for. First was the drums, then the cello, then the flute, trombone...then I saw a Rick James video with a saxophonist on a white pedistal, I knew that was the instrument for me. And it was the intrument I finally got when I asked for it. I wonder how different things would have gone for me if I was cellist...

Ah, see I found Lester Young shortly after getting my first saxophone. It was the like fifth instrument I had asked for. First was the drums, then the cello, then the flute, trombone...then I saw a Rick James video with a saxophonist on a white pedistal, I knew that was the instrument for me. And it was the intrument I finally got when I asked for it. I wonder how different things would have gone for me if I was cellist...


A good cellist may get to play at the White House.

A mediocre saxophonist got to shag an intern.

I wonder how different things would have gone for me if I was cellist...

Probably would've gotten a full-ride scholarship to some Ivy-league school and been making 130 grand/year lecturing on Chopin right now or something.. :p There's certainly less competition among players of the less "popular" instruments.. I learned this when I volunteered to learn the bassoon during my Sophomore year in high school.. I had all kinds of offers to play events and festivals and such, even before I was at all comfortable playing it.. it was just me and one other guy in the entire school district.. :p

Probably would've gotten a full-ride scholarship to some Ivy-league school and been making 130 grand/year lecturing on Chopin right now or something.. :p There's certainly less competition among players of the less "popular" instruments.. I learned this when I volunteered to learn the bassoon during my Sophomore year in high school.. I had all kinds of offers to play events and festivals and such, even before I was at all comfortable playing it.. it was just me and one other guy in the entire school district.. :p
Hurdy Gurdy here I come!

Cellists get all the chicks! :)

A good cellist may get to play at the White House.

A mediocre saxophonist got to shag an intern.
Well, at one point I was asked to audition for the 'President's Only' band, but I'm pretty sure it was just a trick to get me in the Marines. "Well, you auditioned and didn't make it, but it's too late now, you're a Marine. Here, go shoot this..." Meh, how exciting could it really be to play Hail to the Chief over and over again....*sour grapes*

See, this is why I like being a saxophonist. "Stick in mouth, blow."

Hey I'm with ya. I'm primarily a drummer. We get to be sweaty and stinky from banging sticks on things all night and *still* get more girlies than the bass player. ;)

Cellists get all the chicks! :)
I have a thing for chicks who play cello. The other day (well, actually months ago, but anyway) there where these two hot chicks playing cello together on a corner downtown...it was like public pornography for me...I almost needed some 'alone time'...if one of them had started breathy singing in french I would have been arrested for public indecency....

Hey I'm with ya. I'm primarily a drummer. We get to be sweaty and stinky from banging sticks on things all night and *still* get more girlies than the bass player. ;)
Ah, bass players wouldn't know what to do with chicks even if they did get 'em...always staring at thier feet, not sayin' anything...all pissy because they think they're the only ones who know the structure of the songs...

Ah, bass players [...] they think they're the only ones who know the structure of the songs...
And we do, too!
Also, while the singer is too bent on pretending to be a rock god, the guitarist is trying to look mega cool and the drummer can't actually see over his kit, us bass players can scan the audience at leisure for groovy girls for a bit of after show bass thumping :)

I have a thing for chicks who play cello. The other day (well, actually months ago, but anyway) there where these two hot chicks playing cello together on a corner downtown...it was like public pornography for me...I almost needed some 'alone time'...if one of them had started breathy singing in french I would have been arrested for public indecency....

And to think I've been wasting my time watching women eat ice cream cones! :p

And to think I've been wasting my time watching women eat ice cream cones! :p
ROFLMAO!! Man, you're a trip! :D