somtimes you tube makes me want to stop

JohnW400 · #1 12-21-2009, 10:43 PM

playing.

I swear you can always find something on youtube that will keep you humble

Check this guy out. I know he's classical but damn.....

YouTube - Jorge Caballero plays Dvorak (3/4)

hot ford coupe · #2 12-21-2009, 11:13 PM

That's why I love it too. Not only does it keep you humble but it gives you more goals to shoot for. This guy really knows his way around the fingerboard.

JimBobWay · #3 12-22-2009, 12:19 AM

This guy didn't. He's obviously got stronger coffee than most, along with some octopus DNA perhaps...but 90+% of 'tube watchers would probably dig your stuff more. I'm just sayin'.

franco6719 · #4 12-22-2009, 07:38 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnW400

playing.

I swear you can always find something on youtube that will keep you humble

Check this guy out. I know he's classical but damn.....

YouTube - Jorge Caballero plays Dvorak (3/4)

Yes, that's the effect it had on me as well. Thanks for that pain.

Jake Hanlon · #5 12-22-2009, 08:59 AM

there's way more shit on YT then there is good stuff imo. I've pretty much stopped going on there for Jazz now since you end up with so much poorly recorded/captured things.

Not to mention some truly horrible playing.

Obviously some great stuff tho.

JohnW400 · #6 12-22-2009, 09:17 AM

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Originally Posted by Jake Hanlon

there's way more shit on YT then there is good stuff imo. I've pretty much stopped going on there for Jazz now since you end up with so much poorly recorded/captured things.

Not to mention some truly horrible playing.

Obviously some great stuff tho.

Agreed.

I don't normally cruise youtube for music. Usually somebody points something out (like this guy)

The first time I checked someone out it turned out to be this young Asian kid who just wailed on some Paganini piece. Kid had to be like 8 years old. Very dicouraging for an older player that has already spent decades with the instrument.

rabbit · #7 12-22-2009, 02:15 PM

Am tired, so tired, of being humble.
Could be a space alien.

FatJeff · #8 12-22-2009, 02:30 PM

Come on. This guy is clearly a professional. How can you try to compare yourself to him unless you are, too?

JohnW400 · #9 12-22-2009, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by FatJeff

Come on. This guy is clearly a professional. How can you try to compare yourself to him unless you are, too?

I've done quite a few gigs in my day and even a couple of record dates. (nothing big or famous

) So I tend to think of myself as a pro even though I make a living outside of music (one's got to eat

)

Clearly this guy is a prodigy. However as I work (read: stumble through)on pieces like Bach's violin sonata in E (flat picked) and try to perfect them, unsuccessfully, I see this and it just makes me think.

But then I go back to playing things that I can play like chord solos and such and I forget about it

reventlov · #10 12-22-2009, 03:44 PM

He has great ability for sure but!.......the arrangement of the Dvorak music he played is by the astonishing Japanese guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita, who has recorded amongst other things a complete version for guitar solo of Pictures at an Exhibition, and a guitar duet version (played with his sister) of Stravinsky's Firebird suite. You can check him out here YouTube - KAZUHITO YAMASHITA PLAYS MUSSORGSKY'S "PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION"; 2/3
...if you've never heard him before, prepare to be blown away!!

JohnW400 · #11 12-22-2009, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by reventlov

He has great ability for sure but!.......the arrangement of the Dvorak music he played is by the astonishing Japanese guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita, who has recorded amongst other things a complete version for guitar solo of Pictures at an Exhibition, and a guitar duet version (played with his sister) of Stravinsky's Firebird suite. You can check him out here YouTube - KAZUHITO YAMASHITA PLAYS MUSSORGSKY'S "PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION"; 2/3
...if you've never heard him before, prepare to be blown away!!

Yes, Yamashita's name is mentioned in the video description on the upper right. I wonder if his stuff is transcribed. I would love to see it. I couldn't play it but I'm sure there are some ideas one could borrow.

FatJeff · #12 12-22-2009, 04:52 PM

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Originally Posted by JohnW400

I've done quite a few gigs in my day and even a couple of record dates. (nothing big or famous

) So I tend to think of myself as a pro even though I make a living outside of music (one's got to eat

)

Clearly this guy is a prodigy. However as I work (read: stumble through)on pieces like Bach's violin sonata in E (flat picked) and try to perfect them, unsuccessfully, I see this and it just makes me think.

But then I go back to playing things that I can play like chord solos and such and I forget about it

I certainly wasn't meaning to imply that you're not pro-grade yourself. Some of these guys (esp. classical) just practice a trillion hours though, until the song is so perfected it's bound to blow people away. Personally I didn't care much for his rendition (not a lot of soul), but it was still technically good.

Goofsus4 · #13 12-29-2009, 04:05 PM

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Originally Posted by rabbit

Am tired, so tired, of being humble.

Me too.

Oetomo · #14 02-04-2010, 01:13 AM

Youtube is great, because it keeps me grounded and prevents me from shooting my mouth off until I can be sure that I know what I am yapping about.
It also keeps me challenging myself to be a better player, of which I have a life time to go, wait! One life time is not enough, I need 10 life times.

SwingSwangSwung · #15 02-08-2010, 09:06 PM

OK, here's a YouTube clip that will make you feel better about your playing (NOT!)

YouTube - Paganini_Caprice_no_24

RememberClifford1 · #16 02-09-2010, 07:39 AM

Daaaaaaaamn. Our guitar professor at school talks a lot about how the emersion in classical technique in Latin America produces so many incredible players. This is ridiculous though. I know piano players that complain about playing orchestra reductions. By the way... I hope SwingSwangSwung is a Gordon Goodwin reference. I like it.

franco6719 · #17 02-10-2010, 07:37 AM

[quote=SwingSwangSwung;65675]OK, here's a YouTube clip that will make you feel better about your playing (NOT!)

YouTube - Paganini_Caprice_no_24[/quote

You can only post performances by HUMAN BEINGS.

franco6719 · #18 02-10-2010, 07:46 AM

I think she started late actually. She must have been at least one and a half months out of the womb, no?

franco6719 · #19 02-10-2010, 07:46 AM

How old is she now? THREE?

coolvinny · #20 02-27-2010, 12:26 AM

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Originally Posted by SwingSwangSwung

OK, here's a YouTube clip that will make you feel better about your playing (NOT!)

YouTube - Paganini_Caprice_no_24

Wow. Not to mention that her hands are so small compared to the fingerboard that at first I thought like she was playing at least a 7-string.

Jazzyteach65 · #21 03-06-2010, 01:58 PM

I mainly go to youtube for "caught on tape" videos where people are caught doing crazy things

TommyD · #22 08-23-2010, 10:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Jake Hanlon

there's way more shit on YT then there is good stuff imo. I've pretty much stopped going on there for Jazz now since you end up with so much poorly recorded/captured things.

Not to mention some truly horrible playing.

Kind of depends on whose name you type in the slot, doesn't it? IMO, Youtube is marvelous! It has provided exposure to the very best in jazz and classical music that the younger generations would never have seen or heard. Youtube is providing kids with the musical education that our public school system has long since abandoned.
Of course there's crap on it too. It wouldn't be America, otherwise. But that's where our discernment comes in, eh?

best, tommy/

hydra · #23 08-24-2010, 03:25 AM

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Originally Posted by reventlov

He has great ability for sure but!.......the arrangement of the Dvorak music he played is by the astonishing Japanese guitarist Kazuhito Yamashita, who has recorded amongst other things a complete version for guitar solo of Pictures at an Exhibition, and a guitar duet version (played with his sister) of Stravinsky's Firebird suite. You can check him out here YouTube - KAZUHITO YAMASHITA PLAYS MUSSORGSKY'S "PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION"; 2/3
...if you've never heard him before, prepare to be blown away!!

kazuhito is sick that stravinsky is just wild i've had the cd for years

hydra · #24 08-24-2010, 03:27 AM

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Originally Posted by JohnW400

Yes, Yamashita's name is mentioned in the video description on the upper right. I wonder if his stuff is transcribed. I would love to see it. I couldn't play it but I'm sure there are some ideas one could borrow.

there are transcriptions but very expensive and hard to find. i had located at least 1 of them a few years ago but will have to look through the computer to see if i still have the info somewhere let me know if you are interested

franco6719 · #25 08-24-2010, 04:24 AM

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Originally Posted by TommyD

Kind of depends on whose name you type in the slot, doesn't it? IMO, Youtube is marvelous! It has provided exposure to the very best in jazz and classical music that the younger generations would never have seen or heard. Youtube is providing kids with the musical education that our public school system has long since abandoned.
Of course there's crap on it too. It wouldn't be America, otherwise. But that's where our discernment comes in, eh?

best, tommy/

ABSOLUTELY, 10,000% agreed! It is no exaggeration to say that Youtube actually saved my life. I had abandoned music and jazz guitar for a long period of time, as I've said before on this forum, and watching Youtube videos of Bird, Trane, Metheny, Scofield, Martino, et al, just sparked something inside that had lain dormant almost since my few years in Boston. It is also woke up an important aspect of my personality and gave me new enthusiasm for living through all of the troubles and misfortunes that I had suffered.

Of course, it is a great way to expose people to jazz and all other kinds of music that they have never experienced. Also, it can be used as an educational took to some extent. In any case, I really believe that the Internet has done and will continue to do extraordinary things for music and jazz. People may never learn to appreciate some piece great of music, for various reasons, but they can't learn if they are not even allowed to the possibility to be exposed to it.

KShri · #26 12-09-2010, 12:47 AM

I just heard him come to perform only a few weeks ago!

I went backstage during the intermission because I like to hear what other musicians do between intermissions and what they do.

He prepared for his repertoire in the next half. You'll be happy to hear that he is mortal - he was going over a particular phrase that was troubling for him.

I sat content, knowing that we all make mistakes, even in music.

You'll be happy to know he is a super nice guy as well. Not uptight or a jerk at all. And his masterclass the next day was a bright spot as well. So very knowledgeable and kind.