He's good.

To the question is he the greatest living guitarist. Probably not. Most likely not. I have seen a number of totally amazing, jaw droppingly good, makes you want to burn your guitar and take up potato farming, guitarists in my time. Some of the kids I see on the internet are astounding. Some of the players I see do mind boggling things on the guitar that I, as a player for close to 5 decades don't have a clue on how to start doing what they are doing.

When you think you've found the best and greatest, all you need to do is wait a few and there will be someone else coming along that says, here. hold my beer, and they will blow you away.

There's always a kid sitting in his or her bedroom listening to player like him and learning their chops and figuring out how to do it better, more tastefully, faster, or in a more unique fashion.

All that aside, yeah, he's a really talented guy. From that video, he changed convincingly into the style of the 20 guitarists.... although I thought the Hendrix thing was more closely aligned to Via or Satriani's playing style than Hendrix. But still really good. He'd be a handy studio session player for sure. I don't know enough about him, aside from a quick lookup on Wikipedia.

I'm with Floyd.... it would be nice to be able to DL those tabs..... patterns didn't look too far off from what I use.... it's just that he uses them a bit differently and better that I think I do. He's a teacher of guitar so I don't doubt they're for sale on his website somewhere.

EDIT: if you are in any of the hundreds of musician/guitarists facebook groups, you can't help but seeing a lot of obscure but amazing guitarists.... from the little 3 year old Chinese kids playing guitars bigger than they are, like seasoned professionals, to the teen age girl who shreds like a monster, to the guy who taps everything on a classical guitar, to the guy who plays with both hands on the neck and never picks a single note. Who's the greatest? I don't have a clue. They are all amazing. And me... well I know a few chords and can pick out a lead and hang with good musicians in a jam session. That's my claim to fame.

Last edited by Guitarhacker; 07/27/20 03:36 AM.
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