This guy... WTF?

Sascha Franck said:
Pretty bad example. Watch the guy's Instagram channel.
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Sure, the dude has impressive technique but I hate his music. The two videos posted in this thread, and whatever clips I checked on Insta were just...ugh.

It's rare that I genuinely dislike someone's music but this felt like it's either that gimmicky "ticking" muted playing or "metal for people who enjoy trap music".
 
We may be impressed and captivated for a while with the playing. We may find some technique or lick that we would like to try. But the question is: do we find the music pleasurable and meaningful enough to purchase a record to listen to it repeatedly in the future, like when we bought records from Vai, Satriani, Yngwie, Jason Becker, Vinnie Moore, Andy Timmons, Michael Lee Firkins, Tony Macalpine, Paul Gilbert, Richie Kotzen, Nick Johnston, etc? Would we sit on the sofa just to listen to a whole album? Or while driving, as @GuitarVST has just said.
 
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laxu said:
Sure, the dude has impressive technique but I hate his music. The two videos posted in this thread, and whatever clips I checked on Insta were just...ugh.

It's rare that I genuinely dislike someone's music but this felt like it's either that gimmicky "ticking" muted playing or "metal for people who enjoy trap music".
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It’s the kind of music you listen to when you suffer from OCD and forget if you’ve flipped the light switch 36 or 37 times, so you decide its best to just start back over. :ROFLMAO:
 
There's so many insane players out there that no one has ever heard of and may never be noticed


Like this dude who casually uploaded one of the most insane guitar feats ever IMO


 
One can appreciate abilities and new approaches without necessarily liking the style of music. It's about respect. Spiro fits that example for me. I was just never really into the more modern styles of metal of the last 20 yrs. There are some exceptions but it's not something I listen to much these days.
 
As said before, I would never listen to any such music for my own pleasure at all. But both his technical expertise and (!) musicality (which is undoubtedly there as he's no copycat and has some really tasty phrasing and bending going on) are just outstanding. I mean, watch those sweep things he's doing on a nylon guitar. I've never seen anyone with such a clean sweeping technique, it's really outstanding. All of his picking actually looks as if it almost would be faked. Like "dude, it's impossible to pick that many notes so fast with your hand and fingers barely moving".
 
Piing said:
We may be impressed and captivated for a while with the playing. We may find some technique or lick that we would like to try. But the question is: do we find the music pleasurable and meaningful enough to purchase a record to listen to it repeatedly in the future, like when we bought records from Vai, Satriani, Yngwie, Jason Becker, Vinnie Moore, Andy Timmons, Michael Lee Firkins, Tony Macalpine, Paul Gilbert, Richie Kotzen, Nick Johnston, etc? Would we sit on the sofa just to listen to a whole album? Or while driving, as @GuitarVST has just said.
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I’ve never bought a record from any of those guys, but Instagram clips and product demos are rarely good “songs”. That said I can’t find anything on Apple Music that isn’t him throwing something on someone else’s track, some of it is cool, a lot of it is the same “wow, sick, what did you play?” feeling as any of other shredder guys. Not gonna be humming it later, but fuckin A I can’t play anywhere close to that.
 
Devin said:
Nah he has a full album of original material that is some of the most insane shit you could ever hear; completely unique (not saying it's good or bad but it's *certainly* different)

Pretty fuckin wild that you could watch that and automatically dismiss him as "just a copycat and nothing else" (n)
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Sascha Franck said:
Well that guy is just a copycat, nothing else.
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This is an aspect of the internet that I’ve had to fight myself against trying to combat; there’s this general sense that when you see one clip, or even a full song, that what you’re hearing is ALL the musician has to offer, like they just put their life’s work into the 15/30 second clip or the one song you’re hearing and there’s nothing else they can do.

I don’t know where that notion was born, but as a result of getting feedback similar to that when posting my own music around the internet I caught myself a few times ‘worrying’ I wasn’t doing enough in the songs to show what I’m capable of and that’s the quickest way to just ruin a song. I’m glad I was able to navigate myself away from thinking that way.

I just made a few ‘Guitarist/Vocalists Available’ ads to post locally and to even cover the different vocal styles I utilize I had to post 4 different songs and that doesn’t even cover them all….and they’re all metal songs. It would sound like shit to stick all those styles into one song, the same way it would ruin a song to stick every guitar thing I knew into one song.

I spend stupid amounts of time nailing Gilmour solos, but that’s maybe 1/16th of my musical output, it’d be pretty dim to say all I’m capable of is covering Gilmour based off one video.
 
DrewJD82 said:
This is an aspect of the internet that I’ve had to fight myself against trying to combat; there’s this general sense that when you see one clip, or even a full song, that what you’re hearing is ALL the musician has to offer, like they just put their life’s work into the 15/30 second clip or the one song you’re hearing and there’s nothing else they can do.

I don’t know where that notion was born, but as a result of getting feedback similar to that when posting my own music around the internet I caught myself a few times ‘worrying’ I wasn’t doing enough in the songs to show what I’m capable of and that’s the quickest way to just ruin a song. I’m glad I was able to navigate myself away from thinking that way.

I just made a few ‘Guitarist/Vocalists Available’ ads to post locally and to even cover the different vocal styles I utilize I had to post 4 different songs and that doesn’t even cover them all….and they’re all metal songs. It would sound like shit to stick all those styles into one song, the same way it would ruin a song to stick every guitar thing I knew into one song.

I spend stupid amounts of time nailing Gilmour solos, but that’s maybe 1/16th of my musical output, it’d be pretty dim to say all I’m capable of is covering Gilmour based off one video.
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Points taken.
But then, there actually *are* plenty of folks not doing anything else but copying. And in case people aren't, please let me hear it but don't bore me with things others have played before.
 
I've followed him for a while on Instagram. Obviously crazy abilities. The whole semi muting thing he does is rather innovative imo -- or I hadn't heard it before taken to this extreme.
 
Dimiguitar said:
The whole semi muting thing he does is rather innovative imo -- or I hadn't heard it before taken to this extreme.
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Me neither.
Also, the way he sweeps is so incredible. Almost no pick slanting (at least not visibly). There's that one clip where he's going at it on a nylon string and at first I thought it was fake, just that it isn't.
Not the one I meant, but totally insane:


Ah, here (not on a nylon, but still):
 
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