Comments on: Classical guitar strikes back!

By: Vladimir Gritsenko

Vladimir Gritsenko — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 22:38:06 +0000

Shai,

My hat off to Victor Wooten. As for Yamashita, I wouldn’t call his performance “cacophony”, unless you didn’t like the originals as well.

Mike,

I missed his performance here. It happened only a few weeks before I started learning myself, I didn’t even know who he was back then (actually, it was only six months ago…). Hope he’ll come here again.

By: Mike K

Mike K — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 23:09:49 +0000

I saw Paco de Lucia live last year. He was amazing, even though he played mostly fusion stuff, which was a tad dissapointing for me. I prefer him doing classical, or even better, traditional flamenco stuff.

By: Shai Deshe

Shai Deshe — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:14:08 +0000

You’re welcome :)
I just wanted to emphasize a few points regarding Yamashita:
1) Well, he is a very talented guitarist, and by the way he builds his transcribes one could certainly say that he’s a very (VERY) strong theoretician. But these qualities are neither a requisites nor a guarantee that the subject is a top notch musician. What use is his talent when he (ab?)uses it to create highly precise cacophony? The question “how many people can do that?” is a valid one, but so is “how many people can listen to that?”. Now, I’m not saying that I’m not impressed! It’s just not my cup of tea.
2) Just for the principle – Victor Wooten also retunes his guitar while playing, to play certain overtone melodies – you can see that in the first video in my Youtube musicians post.

By: Vladimir Gritsenko

Vladimir Gritsenko — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 17:41:29 +0000

Ah, yes, well, that’s because you suck :D

More to the point, it appears that classical music is an acquired taste. But that’s OK. We’ll win in the end.

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 11:48:22 +0000

ah, another post full of youtubes inserts.
was pleasant to the ear, but can’t say I liked all the pieces.