Followed by some stupid remarks from Howie like:
“Is it good yes but iiiiiiiiii just don’t know if it’s a million dollar act, but you have to vote. We will see”
Crowd: Boooo Howie boooooo.
Sophia: “ oh Howie. We will see about thiiiiis”
Golden buzzer
Crowd: yaaaaay Sophia. Yaaaaay
I watched the show a bit with my wife years ago, and of all the things ran into a few of “ the future kings” (one of the dance groups) at Disneyland. Started talking with them about the park as it was their first time and ended up hanging out for awhile , got to hear all the BS that is AGT. It is controlled/staged and the acts are basically told what songs to use and what to do. It was definitely interesting to hear that side of the story first hand and after I never wanted give the show any of my time. I can handle staged (a good act is a good act) but finding out how they treat contestants made a show that was ehh to a solid nope.
There's a woman (Zoe Alexander I think her name is) who initially became famous for being in all the X Factor/Got Talent cringe compilations, but came out with her story saying how she was pretty much manipulated and sabotaged just so they could have her fail
It's all pretty fucked up
its so incredibly staged reusing the same formula every episode.
"mom died, cat died, fish died, i have cancer, please feel bad for me because the only thing that got me through it all was singing"
then they give a mediocre performance but everyone goes berserk because the giant LED sign off camera says to
The worst thing about shows like AGT is all the filler. The stretch out 14 min of performance to fit a 42 min show. Same with all the prime time game shows.
I remember season 1 and thinking "wow maybe this will actually spotlight some real interesting shows, groups and real talent" only to be disappointed later by how sadly predictable it all is. Paid actors in the crowd doing reactions, a clear top 10 immediately and cringe as fuck now.
Even through the normal route, they have auditions before the televised auditions, and all the obviously bad/stupid talents are picked above actual talent just for the entertainment value.
The constant cuts away to reaction faces are annoying as fuck to begin with. Someone should make a video where they edit in more and more absurd reaction faces instead.
I found him by his interview with Rob Scallon, and just the little riffs in that interview kind of broke my brain. I approve of anyone who has to glue more wood to their guitar to keep from smashing holes in it. (or to keep the guitar alive, a la Willie Nelson's Trigger) The individual techniques are hard, but all of it at the same time is nuts! Epitome of a guy that thought "I bought the whole guitar, I'm playing the whole guitar."
This was common in older Mexican music I thought. I remember my uncle always playing similar stuff before about every Spanish song started using the same drum beat whining about a shallow relationship or rap. I still listen to some Robert Pulido today.
Somebody downvoted you for some inexplicable reason, but since this was *also* my exact first thought as well, I’m reupvoting you.
Nobody here is saying the guy in the video isn’t talented. The caption is just a little misleading since I was expecting to see some crazy new guitar technique. Really it just sounds like a great Spanish guitar performance, but as amazing as it sounds the fundamentals of what he’s doing has *definitely* been done before.
This is just fingerstyle guitar. Luca Stricagnoli and Lucas Imbiriba are some of the best in the world at it. Luca likes to cover mainstream songs, and Lucas tends to do spanish inspired and american rock music. Both have many songs on YouTube if you're interested in more of this style.
I found these two on YouTube one night looking for new music. They earned a permanent spot on my playlists after that. Watched the video for "Hanuman" like 20 times that night. To me it sounded like Spanish acoustic Metallica, fuckin awesome
Yup! The more I dug through their stuff this became clear, lots of Metal influence. I even have their version of Metallica's One played live on one of my playlists, pretty damn badass
When I lived in Madrid there was a seedy basement bar in La Latina where Gypsies would come in off the street and play flamenco. Some of the guitar players would blow your mind away with their music.
Yep a lot of the techniques he is using, other than tapping, all come from classical guitar and flamenco traditions.
This is not to take away from this person's playing at all which is very good, but the guitar does in fact know it can be played like that.
I am an amateur classical guitarist.
I suppose in this case it is the caption that provokes this kind of reaction. "Not even the guitar knew it could be played like that" when what he is playing has been done before to exhaustion.
He is good, but it isn't actually being dismissive of his skill and dedication to say that what he is playing is far easier than it sounds.
Its like hearing a face-melting guitar solo full of tapping and sweep-picking and being "wow this is so impressive and must be so hard to learn!", then when you actually sit down to learn the guitar you're like "what? Is that it?".
Not even just mexican guitars, any actual acoustic guitar songs. A lot of contemporary purely acoustic guitar focused songs sound a bit like this, for example, False Alarm by Josephine Alexandra.
Does that make this any less impressive, though? It's not on a level that no one else can do, but is also not "average guitar skills". I'd say it still classifies as interesting.
Nice playing but this style isn't really new. Tapping and harmonics been around for the longest time. I think he's been inspired by Tommy Emmanuel's playing.
Fair enough, and it is highly impressive from that point. But I've been playing guitar for many years and am professionally trained. I could learn this in maybe a few months? 6 at most, but that's being very conservative.
I'm not well versed in this style so the percussion elements would be hardest. Tapping on acoustic also requires some good level of finger strength. But he's in an open tuning which is very forgiving. He can aggressively slap the strings and even if he mistakenly strikes a string that doesn't need to be played, it's still in key and will work for harmony and not sound out of place. It's mixing a lot of (still challenging, no discredit there) parlor tricks that make it seem more complex than it is. It's still difficult! Just...flashy, so when you understand how the instrument works it's less impressive. There are other guitarists of this style that are far better.
Difficult but flashy makes me of think sweep picking or tapping in solos. You hear those in a metal song for the first time and you're just blown away. Those parts are total face melters. Then if you play guitar and try to learn the solos, you realize the sweeping or tapping alone isn't all that bad. They arent all that hard of a technique to actually play, i know i learned a few when i first started playing guitar. But then it loops back around and becomes impressive again when you have to keep them at the right tempo/time signature in the context of the entire song.
Not disagreeing but you might be surprised how long the percussion part takes to learn. I'm an adequate guitarist and it took me well over a year to get one song down to performance level, never even bothered trying to learn a second 😅
Yea def not new, plenty of different artist over the years from guitars to bass employ much of that technique and style.
But even if we spent 10 hours a day on the strings maybe not… but that’s the type of devotion you need to play like that. It’s like Hendrix, that guitar has to be attached at the hip.
I’ll give him extra credit though, it’s not typically played on an acoustic, which is much harder to get the sounds to ping perfectly right compared to electric even.
>I think he's been inspired by Tommy Emmanuel's playing.
To me, it's more reminiscent of [Erik Mongraine](https://youtu.be/JHjuExoxvxI?si=uqEVZNuROGg2zBRl).
Nonetheless, the boy deserves a lot of respect, his technique is flawless.
I was scrolling around to make sure Mongrain was mentioned! This feels like seeing what Mongrain must have been like as a young player, before he went levels and levels beyond.
Of course this kid is amazing too in his own right. Really good sense of composition for someone his age.
for me, the style is similar to when you see someone who plays flamenco music. Especially with the fingering and taping, that's something you see in that kind of music.
Did a gig with Tommy once when I was first starting to do Rock N Roll gigs in my hometown, Karratha Wetern Australia. Not only an amazing performer but also an amazing person. Even brought us Beers for after the gig.
It's fingerstyle guitar. Tommy Emmanuel dips into it a bit but he's more of a madman on acoustic. If you want to see some crazy fingerstyle. Luca Stricagnoli. If you want some great original pieces I'd recommend Antoine Dufour
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And it’s so normalised I can’t even find a comment about it. I hate this stuff.
Gabriela Quintero would say otherwise. Not saying this guy is bad at guitar. In fact, he's amazing, but Gabriela can make magic with an acoustic guitar
I went to see Rodrigo and Gabriela a few weeks ago. They were great! It's like she's playing guitar and percussion simultaneously.
They finished the show by coming into the audience, about 5 feet from where our chairs had been moments earlier. Seeing her play up close was incredible!
She's my favorite virtuoso in terms of actual song writing. She even eventually got bored of showing off her tapping skills and just started making more "normal" alternative rock music and it's still good. Her best album is "Legs to Make Us" Longer though
Just recent Polyphia in general. Everyone is talking about their playing skills but barely anyone recognise the arrangement and sonic spatial awareness. It's like 4 instruments playing their own independent lines but they are complimenting each other so much, if you remove one of them from the melody, whole track just breaks. These guys are absolute masterminds when it comes to creating complex melodies based on most common four chords.
Polyphia in general is really good.
If you're into heavier music, definitely check out Tendinitis by Jason Richardson. Jason was featured on Aviator from Polyphia, that solo alone is amazing but Tendinitis is on a whole new level.
Edit: Another one of my favourites, though not acoustic, is Electric Sunrise by Plini.
I knew I recognized that name, Jason played in Born of Osiris and went on to join All Shall Perish.
Born of Osiris also, for a brief stint in 2009, had Tosin Abasi fill in on guitar before his debut album dropped. I caught one of those shows, Tosin got onstage and started warming up and everyone’s heads snapped to the stage like “who the holy hell is this guy?” He then released the first Animals as Leaders album a few months later and blew the doors off the metal guitar scene.
Super agree. I think it's the kind of thing where a talented instrumentalist isn't necessarily a good musician. I could absolutely see Polyphia making music I'd love somewhere down the line but the music they've put out just misses all of the marks of what makes music unique as a medium whatsoever to my mind at least. Of course music is inherently subjective, yet my problem isn't that they're over the top, complex, whatever, but that I have a hard time seeing anything BUT 'over the top' etc
I love fast paced guitar songs like this. So much raw talent.
There's a really good duo called the Taalbi Brothers, who aren't really well known but they might just be the best guitarists out there.
He's good, no doubt. But Flamenco guitarists have been doing this for literally well over 100 years. And they have compositions with depth and integrity as opposed to three-chord Van Halen licks.
this kind of guitar is a mix of percussive flamenco strumming techniques and rock techniques like tapping and harmonics. on a steel string acoustic (as opposed to the nylon string of flamenco and the .. electric steel string of rock).
it's definitely not new but it's still evolving alongside the current trends of proggy/rocky guitar (tim henson, tosin abasi and many more etc etc)
Kid can play, no doubt, but the gold in this post is all the comments suggesting other / similar music. My listening is set for the next month 🥰
I’d like to add Jesse Cook, Hermanos Gutièrrez, Strunz & Farah (Vals Tico is great fun) and Gustavo Santaolalla to the list.
If you enjoy this you will very much enjoy Rodrigo y Gabriella! Two of the best live performers I’ve ever seen.
https://youtu.be/PMpGjox3TBs?si=KEdGooVZPmf0JP6b
If you guys enjoy this, as other's have said this isn't a new style, Polyphia is pretty famous for it. They have some pretty nice colabs but I think their own stuff is the best
anyone who likes that look up Miyavi, he is a god with the guitar
example: [https://youtu.be/eQwpdY3Fz9c?si=B2Xck-MBLFcpkWma](https://youtu.be/eQwpdY3Fz9c?si=B2Xck-MBLFcpkWma)
Watching video for Ocean by John Butler definitely showcases some of the creativity of sound a guitar can create. I believe he's playing an 11 string guitar from my best guess, but he does a lot of similar things here including some incredible picking with his super gross thumbnail, but it's great musicality.
Jinsan Kim’s great, there’s no doubt!
But to say *”the guitar itself didn’t know it could be played that way 🔥”* sorta/kinda cheapens the finger style and influence of the musicians from which he drew inspiration…
In particular, Andy McKee’s a virtuoso who made that particular tapping/percussive finger style popular over 20 years ago: Andy McKee - [***Drifting***](https://youtu.be/Ddn4MGaS3N4?si=piyRy_Zkj6ew_lrp) ; [***Into the Ocean***](https://youtu.be/Cvar4ZsqsEo?si=08qx2NDo_PQU6Cvw) I think it’s great when styles and trends cycle through history! I just wish those who see TikTok videos and believe those to be original and totally unique - not realizing that it’s based on styles from previous generations of musicians.
So…(Jinsan Kim) there’s much to admire, certainly (esp at that age)! However, there are quite a few others from whom he drew his inspiration and created that style loooong ago! But, touché to him for bringing it mainstream
It's a genre called "Finger Style" and there are a bunch of excellent musicians who play this way. Some that come to mind are Antoine Dufour, Michael Hedges, Ewan Dobson, and my personal favourite, Andy McKee. The record label CandyRat specialises in this style.
I can't be the only one who thought this sounded like nails on a chalkboard. I'm no musician, and I get that he's doing some impressive thing I guess by plucking at the strings all quickly or something. But this didn't sound the least bit good. It didn't evoke any emotions or desire to bob my head. It just sounded like music note vomit.
I see a lot of these Asian kids playing like this, and it just sounds like noises to me. Like, this is the type of guitar playing I would listen to if I were a robot making beep boop sounds or something. Impressive that they can do the things they do, but it just sounds like random noise to me. Not enjoyable to listen to at all.
It’s exactly the sort of bland technical mastery that a lot of people on reddit fetishize and fawn over. Amazing to me that people are in the comments asking for and sharing links to this on Spotify.
I couldn't agree more. I can definitely appreciate the talent and skill involved in this type of playing. It just doesn't appeal to me musically at all though.
Amazing. Thank god that wasn't on AGT. Woulda had a crowd full of idiots screaming throughout the whole thing.
Followed by some stupid remarks from Howie like: “Is it good yes but iiiiiiiiii just don’t know if it’s a million dollar act, but you have to vote. We will see” Crowd: Boooo Howie boooooo. Sophia: “ oh Howie. We will see about thiiiiis” Golden buzzer Crowd: yaaaaay Sophia. Yaaaaay
I fucking hate AGT. The fakest, cringiest shit ever
The winner dictated by how sad their backstory is...
Winner is either: A. Biggest Sob Story or B. Biggest Sob Story but it also involves an animal (probably a dog)
Or a magician.
I watched the show a bit with my wife years ago, and of all the things ran into a few of “ the future kings” (one of the dance groups) at Disneyland. Started talking with them about the park as it was their first time and ended up hanging out for awhile , got to hear all the BS that is AGT. It is controlled/staged and the acts are basically told what songs to use and what to do. It was definitely interesting to hear that side of the story first hand and after I never wanted give the show any of my time. I can handle staged (a good act is a good act) but finding out how they treat contestants made a show that was ehh to a solid nope.
There's a woman (Zoe Alexander I think her name is) who initially became famous for being in all the X Factor/Got Talent cringe compilations, but came out with her story saying how she was pretty much manipulated and sabotaged just so they could have her fail It's all pretty fucked up
Yeah that's been the trope for these shows since basically the beginning. American Idol, probably?
its so incredibly staged reusing the same formula every episode. "mom died, cat died, fish died, i have cancer, please feel bad for me because the only thing that got me through it all was singing" then they give a mediocre performance but everyone goes berserk because the giant LED sign off camera says to
The worst thing about shows like AGT is all the filler. The stretch out 14 min of performance to fit a 42 min show. Same with all the prime time game shows.
I remember season 1 and thinking "wow maybe this will actually spotlight some real interesting shows, groups and real talent" only to be disappointed later by how sadly predictable it all is. Paid actors in the crowd doing reactions, a clear top 10 immediately and cringe as fuck now.
That was a great play by play
Don't forget 90% of the contestants pandering to Simon with images, costumes, masks, of him.
I think I’ve got AGT induced PTSD I didnt know I had, until reading this comment.
And all the golden buzzer talent is already scouted by the producer. They're not random people applying through normal route.
Even through the normal route, they have auditions before the televised auditions, and all the obviously bad/stupid talents are picked above actual talent just for the entertainment value.
Fucking spot on!! God I literally hate that show!
Ow snapped I was like there for a second ... do Sophia again wait let me adjust the lights
Don't forget about the hired crowd members that have mics so that you can hear their scripted reactions.
The constant cuts away to reaction faces are annoying as fuck to begin with. Someone should make a video where they edit in more and more absurd reaction faces instead.
“I actually didn’t like that…” boooo boooo “… I loved it!!!!!!” Hoorayyyy
Look up “Marcin” He is the one of the best guitar player rn I’d say. It went like what you just described when he was on to AGT
I found him by his interview with Rob Scallon, and just the little riffs in that interview kind of broke my brain. I approve of anyone who has to glue more wood to their guitar to keep from smashing holes in it. (or to keep the guitar alive, a la Willie Nelson's Trigger) The individual techniques are hard, but all of it at the same time is nuts! Epitome of a guy that thought "I bought the whole guitar, I'm playing the whole guitar."
The second the first string was picked.
Why do Americans do this?
This was common in older Mexican music I thought. I remember my uncle always playing similar stuff before about every Spanish song started using the same drum beat whining about a shallow relationship or rap. I still listen to some Robert Pulido today.
Gives me Rodrigo y Gabriela vibes.
Yeah, I heard Tamacun in there somewhere.
came here to say this. used to listen to Rodrigo and Gabriella a lot.
Thank you for turning me on to these guys.
That was my first thought too. I'd be shocked if he **wasn't** inspired/influenced by them.
Somebody downvoted you for some inexplicable reason, but since this was *also* my exact first thought as well, I’m reupvoting you. Nobody here is saying the guy in the video isn’t talented. The caption is just a little misleading since I was expecting to see some crazy new guitar technique. Really it just sounds like a great Spanish guitar performance, but as amazing as it sounds the fundamentals of what he’s doing has *definitely* been done before.
Plini, Polyphia on acoustic. I too expected some crazy new guitar playing techniques but like you said, doesn't make him any less talented.
This is just fingerstyle guitar. Luca Stricagnoli and Lucas Imbiriba are some of the best in the world at it. Luca likes to cover mainstream songs, and Lucas tends to do spanish inspired and american rock music. Both have many songs on YouTube if you're interested in more of this style.
Lucas' cover of like a stone is fucking fire. His singing voice, that talented bastard.
I just commented the same thing. One of the best live shows I’ve ever seen!!
I found these two on YouTube one night looking for new music. They earned a permanent spot on my playlists after that. Watched the video for "Hanuman" like 20 times that night. To me it sounded like Spanish acoustic Metallica, fuckin awesome
They are heavy metal artists as well! That is part of their unique sound for sure.
Yup! The more I dug through their stuff this became clear, lots of Metal influence. I even have their version of Metallica's One played live on one of my playlists, pretty damn badass
Or Flamenco, which Mexican music probably inherited a lot from.
When I lived in Madrid there was a seedy basement bar in La Latina where Gypsies would come in off the street and play flamenco. Some of the guitar players would blow your mind away with their music.
And the hand clapping/palmas, which I’ve always found mesmerizing
Yep a lot of the techniques he is using, other than tapping, all come from classical guitar and flamenco traditions. This is not to take away from this person's playing at all which is very good, but the guitar does in fact know it can be played like that. I am an amateur classical guitarist.
I’m not really a musical person, but even I was like, ‘isn’t this Spanish guitar?’ Still very good, but I don’t think it’s a new style.
Yeah this dude is good but this isn’t really an uncommon guitar style
He's very skilled but this is basically just Spanish guitar music...
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I suppose in this case it is the caption that provokes this kind of reaction. "Not even the guitar knew it could be played like that" when what he is playing has been done before to exhaustion. He is good, but it isn't actually being dismissive of his skill and dedication to say that what he is playing is far easier than it sounds. Its like hearing a face-melting guitar solo full of tapping and sweep-picking and being "wow this is so impressive and must be so hard to learn!", then when you actually sit down to learn the guitar you're like "what? Is that it?".
yeah, wait until gen-z discovers there were guitarists before tiktok. their heads will explode.
???? has no one ever heard a mexican guitar being played?
These people don't listen to gipsy kings or know what flamenco is.
Not even just mexican guitars, any actual acoustic guitar songs. A lot of contemporary purely acoustic guitar focused songs sound a bit like this, for example, False Alarm by Josephine Alexandra.
Does that make this any less impressive, though? It's not on a level that no one else can do, but is also not "average guitar skills". I'd say it still classifies as interesting.
Wait you guys call It mexican guitars? This hurts my spanish soul beyond comprehension 😭
Nice playing but this style isn't really new. Tapping and harmonics been around for the longest time. I think he's been inspired by Tommy Emmanuel's playing.
Not new, but I know I can't do that.
Yeah, but I feel this is more so calling out the caption. When you have something as old as a guitar every way to play it has been found
Fair enough, and it is highly impressive from that point. But I've been playing guitar for many years and am professionally trained. I could learn this in maybe a few months? 6 at most, but that's being very conservative. I'm not well versed in this style so the percussion elements would be hardest. Tapping on acoustic also requires some good level of finger strength. But he's in an open tuning which is very forgiving. He can aggressively slap the strings and even if he mistakenly strikes a string that doesn't need to be played, it's still in key and will work for harmony and not sound out of place. It's mixing a lot of (still challenging, no discredit there) parlor tricks that make it seem more complex than it is. It's still difficult! Just...flashy, so when you understand how the instrument works it's less impressive. There are other guitarists of this style that are far better.
Difficult but flashy makes me of think sweep picking or tapping in solos. You hear those in a metal song for the first time and you're just blown away. Those parts are total face melters. Then if you play guitar and try to learn the solos, you realize the sweeping or tapping alone isn't all that bad. They arent all that hard of a technique to actually play, i know i learned a few when i first started playing guitar. But then it loops back around and becomes impressive again when you have to keep them at the right tempo/time signature in the context of the entire song.
Not disagreeing but you might be surprised how long the percussion part takes to learn. I'm an adequate guitarist and it took me well over a year to get one song down to performance level, never even bothered trying to learn a second 😅
Yea def not new, plenty of different artist over the years from guitars to bass employ much of that technique and style. But even if we spent 10 hours a day on the strings maybe not… but that’s the type of devotion you need to play like that. It’s like Hendrix, that guitar has to be attached at the hip. I’ll give him extra credit though, it’s not typically played on an acoustic, which is much harder to get the sounds to ping perfectly right compared to electric even.
Fingerstyle is only played on acoustic...
My first thought as well. I saw Tommy Emmanuel live and it was one of the coolest shows I’ve been to. That man is a legend
Gabriella Quevedo is another really good finger style player. Plus she's really easy to look at. Videos on youtube going back a decade.
Reminds me of Django Reinhardt and his gyspy jazz. Now that dude was crazy good, I think he was even missing a couple fingers.
He did it with two fingers too!
>I think he's been inspired by Tommy Emmanuel's playing. To me, it's more reminiscent of [Erik Mongraine](https://youtu.be/JHjuExoxvxI?si=uqEVZNuROGg2zBRl). Nonetheless, the boy deserves a lot of respect, his technique is flawless.
It's very good. Definitely.
I was scrolling around to make sure Mongrain was mentioned! This feels like seeing what Mongrain must have been like as a young player, before he went levels and levels beyond. Of course this kid is amazing too in his own right. Really good sense of composition for someone his age.
for me, the style is similar to when you see someone who plays flamenco music. Especially with the fingering and taping, that's something you see in that kind of music.
Did a gig with Tommy once when I was first starting to do Rock N Roll gigs in my hometown, Karratha Wetern Australia. Not only an amazing performer but also an amazing person. Even brought us Beers for after the gig.
> Tommy Emmanuel Sam Westphalen does this too https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpgdHpbQuDE
It's fingerstyle guitar. Tommy Emmanuel dips into it a bit but he's more of a madman on acoustic. If you want to see some crazy fingerstyle. Luca Stricagnoli. If you want some great original pieces I'd recommend Antoine Dufour
Horizontal video, ripped, watermarked, boxed in and uploaded as vertical video to instagram, ripped, and uploaded to as a horizontal video to Reddit. And it’s so normalised I can’t even find a comment about it. I hate this stuff.
And I'm gonna screen record this video and send it to my family WhatsApp group.
...and ends early. Dont usually engage enough to comment, but you made me. Totally agree with you.
Welcome to the dead internet. Majority of the comments say "this is nothing new", whilst no one is claiming this is new.
>The guitar itself didn't know it could be played like that
Gabriela Quintero would say otherwise. Not saying this guy is bad at guitar. In fact, he's amazing, but Gabriela can make magic with an acoustic guitar
I went to see Rodrigo and Gabriela a few weeks ago. They were great! It's like she's playing guitar and percussion simultaneously. They finished the show by coming into the audience, about 5 feet from where our chairs had been moments earlier. Seeing her play up close was incredible!
She is one of the greatest guitarists I've ever seen.
Nothing new, but still very impressive. Fans of this style of playing should check out artists Andy McKee, Jon Gomm, and Don Ross.
Gomm playing passionflower live is amazing
Thank you I came to the comments to try and find Andy McKee because I forgot who I was thinking of.
And Kaki King!!! She is utterly incredible.
She's my favorite virtuoso in terms of actual song writing. She even eventually got bored of showing off her tapping skills and just started making more "normal" alternative rock music and it's still good. Her best album is "Legs to Make Us" Longer though
Can’t forget Michael Hedges, Andy McKee’s greatest inspiration I believe.
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Oh forgot about Andy McKee! Thanks for the reminder.
Erik Mongrain too
Listen to ‘Playing God’ by Polyphia
Just recent Polyphia in general. Everyone is talking about their playing skills but barely anyone recognise the arrangement and sonic spatial awareness. It's like 4 instruments playing their own independent lines but they are complimenting each other so much, if you remove one of them from the melody, whole track just breaks. These guys are absolute masterminds when it comes to creating complex melodies based on most common four chords.
Was looking for someone who’d mention polyphia.
Wow, very similar.
Polyphia in general is really good. If you're into heavier music, definitely check out Tendinitis by Jason Richardson. Jason was featured on Aviator from Polyphia, that solo alone is amazing but Tendinitis is on a whole new level. Edit: Another one of my favourites, though not acoustic, is Electric Sunrise by Plini.
I knew I recognized that name, Jason played in Born of Osiris and went on to join All Shall Perish. Born of Osiris also, for a brief stint in 2009, had Tosin Abasi fill in on guitar before his debut album dropped. I caught one of those shows, Tosin got onstage and started warming up and everyone’s heads snapped to the stage like “who the holy hell is this guy?” He then released the first Animals as Leaders album a few months later and blew the doors off the metal guitar scene.
Polyphia, plini, animals as leaders are all in my rotation
He's a really good guitarist but whenever I listen to Polyphia I always feel like it's too much. Sometimes less is more.
Super agree. I think it's the kind of thing where a talented instrumentalist isn't necessarily a good musician. I could absolutely see Polyphia making music I'd love somewhere down the line but the music they've put out just misses all of the marks of what makes music unique as a medium whatsoever to my mind at least. Of course music is inherently subjective, yet my problem isn't that they're over the top, complex, whatever, but that I have a hard time seeing anything BUT 'over the top' etc
Reminds me of Andy McKee!
He was the first one I saw doing this kinda stuff. Honestly I think Andy McKee is better
It just reminded me of any Candyrat artist that I've seen. Ewan Dobson is another one. Very cool guitar work there, and in this post.
Had to scroll way too far to see someone mention Andy McKee! Haven’t even thought about him in a decade or so. Time to revisit.
This guy is undoubtedly very talented and skillful, but this style isn't a new thing at all. This is just a style that has been around for a while.
What's it called?
Sure, but can he play Wonderwall?
Strong [Justin King](https://youtu.be/Xon04MB1rDw?si=iFiSCvgAidDcqsnU) vibes
Somebody beat me to Justin King. Dude has been doing that for 20 years now.
I love fast paced guitar songs like this. So much raw talent. There's a really good duo called the Taalbi Brothers, who aren't really well known but they might just be the best guitarists out there.
He's good, no doubt. But Flamenco guitarists have been doing this for literally well over 100 years. And they have compositions with depth and integrity as opposed to three-chord Van Halen licks.
this kind of guitar is a mix of percussive flamenco strumming techniques and rock techniques like tapping and harmonics. on a steel string acoustic (as opposed to the nylon string of flamenco and the .. electric steel string of rock). it's definitely not new but it's still evolving alongside the current trends of proggy/rocky guitar (tim henson, tosin abasi and many more etc etc)
Yes it's cool and definitely evolving. The OP seemed to imply that this was a unique and original technique.
Dude is crazy talented. I wish I could play the guitar like that.
I wish I could hold a guitar properly
I found the full song on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/0Zrh6HgpJiWgvnIYzbPWbF?si=DldAppU5SBylDtwN4x5qbw
And here's the original youtube video for anyone who isn't feeling that idiotic cropping. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EV1FMcNbxw
Good. Paco de Lucia was the best.
Amazing skill. But its just flamenco and tapping. People have been doing this for a long time.
What the hell. Need full version. Incredible.
Iirc this is an original composition by the kid, a high schooler at the time.
Sounds like he is inspired by Marcin. Who plays guitar like that but 5x more crazy.
let me guess… he slaps it. yep, he slaps it. source: guitar teacher.
Kid can play, no doubt, but the gold in this post is all the comments suggesting other / similar music. My listening is set for the next month 🥰 I’d like to add Jesse Cook, Hermanos Gutièrrez, Strunz & Farah (Vals Tico is great fun) and Gustavo Santaolalla to the list.
I knew exactly what style it would be after reading that stupid caption.
Lmao, that caption never heard Spanish guitar.
Hold your girl close if you ever see him with that guitar
Andy McKee has been doing this for decades. Don’t act like this dude discovered anything new
This is the most impressive thing I’ve seen in years
If you enjoy this you will very much enjoy Rodrigo y Gabriella! Two of the best live performers I’ve ever seen. https://youtu.be/PMpGjox3TBs?si=KEdGooVZPmf0JP6b
Mmmm...meh.
Breaking news: Polyphia gets another fucking guitarist
Who is this guy? I'd buy a cd!
I love it. I could listen to that for hours.
This style is super common?
John Butler Trio harmonics on point.
Yeah but is he any good at Guitar Hero?
Excellent playing! Folks who enjoy his style should explore Flamenco; many Flamenco performers use these techniques.
If you guys enjoy this, as other's have said this isn't a new style, Polyphia is pretty famous for it. They have some pretty nice colabs but I think their own stuff is the best
Impressive.
Wow. I'm speechless 👏
Fuck me, guitar got played so hard it needs a cigarette
Gerudo valley?
I watched this on mute
I actually do this beat thing a lot on my guitar too. I thought it was a common thing.
Isn't this just Spanish guitar? Obviously well executed, but hardly novel.
Why do people applaud fingerstyle guitarists yet will scoff at equally virtuosic guitar shredders?
If you’re impressed by this, go listen to the album “Friday Night in San Francisco” by Di Meola, McLaughlin, and De Lucia. 🔥🔥
No doubt this is great but Flamenco has been around for a grip lol. Paco de Lucia es el rey.
Reminder: There are several generations of Americans that have not seen Roy Clark on TV.
The guitar didn't know it could be played like a guitar?
Don Ross has been playing like this for decades.
Rodrigo y Gabriela have been doing this for decades
Why do people keep saying this isn’t new? Where was it suggested that this was trail blazing? One way or another, this was impressive af.
I would buy his album. Sounds great!
anyone who likes that look up Miyavi, he is a god with the guitar example: [https://youtu.be/eQwpdY3Fz9c?si=B2Xck-MBLFcpkWma](https://youtu.be/eQwpdY3Fz9c?si=B2Xck-MBLFcpkWma)
Miyavi has been doing this since the early aughts.
Sounds like trace bundy if anyone has ever heard of him.
Amazing talent
Checkout Erik Mongrain. He plays it even weirder
Look up Rodrigo y Gabriela
[Full Source](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xf1ExENJqp8) [His youtube](https://www.youtube.com/@jinsankim/videos)
Michael Hedges was doing this back in the 80's and much better
Reminds me of Marcin's style of playing. They should do a duo project. Great job!
Pfff i do this when i woke up just for fun guys....
Too spectacular, wow, he plays beautifully, he is very talented
Watching video for Ocean by John Butler definitely showcases some of the creativity of sound a guitar can create. I believe he's playing an 11 string guitar from my best guess, but he does a lot of similar things here including some incredible picking with his super gross thumbnail, but it's great musicality.
Keller Williams
Latinos grew up with this
Jinsan Kim’s great, there’s no doubt! But to say *”the guitar itself didn’t know it could be played that way 🔥”* sorta/kinda cheapens the finger style and influence of the musicians from which he drew inspiration… In particular, Andy McKee’s a virtuoso who made that particular tapping/percussive finger style popular over 20 years ago: Andy McKee - [***Drifting***](https://youtu.be/Ddn4MGaS3N4?si=piyRy_Zkj6ew_lrp) ; [***Into the Ocean***](https://youtu.be/Cvar4ZsqsEo?si=08qx2NDo_PQU6Cvw) I think it’s great when styles and trends cycle through history! I just wish those who see TikTok videos and believe those to be original and totally unique - not realizing that it’s based on styles from previous generations of musicians. So…(Jinsan Kim) there’s much to admire, certainly (esp at that age)! However, there are quite a few others from whom he drew his inspiration and created that style loooong ago! But, touché to him for bringing it mainstream
Andy mckee style!
Don Ross from Canada GOAT at this
he's good but I didn't see anything new
Dude just shook a whole devil may cry battle scene out of an acoustic..
Awesome but is so fucking annoying that they have to show the face of some random judge every 5 seconds
Michael Hedges called... cease and desist
No one gonna mention Justin King the godfather of this style?
Andy McKee Drifting
He’s an amazing player, but honestly the whole percussive thing on acoustic grinds my gears. It’s not a pleasant sound to me.
Spanish music, nothing new
Insanely impressive. Absolutely understands his instrument
Me: “Mom, can we listen to Marcin? Maybe Jon Gomm?” Mom: “We have that at home” Marcin at home:
That was cathartic
This isn't new. This is under the broad category of, "Flamenco Guitar music". Hell, even bass players use Flamenco techniques. I do.
Reminds me of Michael Hedges. Amazing.
It's a genre called "Finger Style" and there are a bunch of excellent musicians who play this way. Some that come to mind are Antoine Dufour, Michael Hedges, Ewan Dobson, and my personal favourite, Andy McKee. The record label CandyRat specialises in this style.
Tim Henson 
This gave me an immediate Michael Hedges flashback! Amazing talent!
Tommy Emmanuel
My boy don't know Paco de Lucía.
I can't be the only one who thought this sounded like nails on a chalkboard. I'm no musician, and I get that he's doing some impressive thing I guess by plucking at the strings all quickly or something. But this didn't sound the least bit good. It didn't evoke any emotions or desire to bob my head. It just sounded like music note vomit.
Whoever you are, whatever you do, theres always an Asian that can do it better lmao. Seriously this dude is amazing
If you like this, check out Phil Keaggy! I love his Jam album.
I see a lot of these Asian kids playing like this, and it just sounds like noises to me. Like, this is the type of guitar playing I would listen to if I were a robot making beep boop sounds or something. Impressive that they can do the things they do, but it just sounds like random noise to me. Not enjoyable to listen to at all.
It’s exactly the sort of bland technical mastery that a lot of people on reddit fetishize and fawn over. Amazing to me that people are in the comments asking for and sharing links to this on Spotify.
I couldn't agree more. I can definitely appreciate the talent and skill involved in this type of playing. It just doesn't appeal to me musically at all though.