I was in their concert in Osaka which took place a few days after this filmed concert in Tokyo. The fast scale played by Yamashita in Osaka was even more felocious than this. The whole audience went into complete silence after this movement as if we were all struck with lightening.
from Jose' Sepulveda, the Kid From Brazil........Kazuhito Yamashita is so good that I almost feel that I don't need to ever watch any other classical guitarist play. Nobody living today can surpass what he can do.....he is touched by God.
from Jose' Sepulveda, the Brazilian....El Hermeterec.......to everybody out there who heard and watched this video......you have just witnessed the greatest classical guitarist in the world, Kazuhito Yamashita! Larry coryell notwithstanding, this performance is amazing and there is nobody on planet EARTH who can surpass the great Kazuhito. Yes, even I think he sometimes plays things too fast , but it is simply a testament to his amazing technique! All hail Kazuhito, the leitmotif.
i guess, at least Larry had the confidence to play with the GOAT. he ended up looking like a fool though. if Kazu wanted me to play with him, i'd say "thanks, but no champ, you're better off without me".
This was one of those strange musical matches that who knows what producer proposed to make money. I always get the feeling that Yamshita, new to western glamour and fame, might have walked into this one unknowingly because something (like everything) was lost in translation. Larry Coryell was on an off night, playing music which isn´t his speciality and with a player who, not even in your wildest dreams, you´d expect him to cross paths with. I´m sure Coryell, a very well respected guitarrist probably regrets this, but which artist doesn´t go through embarassing moments? Oh, yes, also constant comments to "the guy on the left." With Yamashita, one doesn´t feel ego or the fact that he wants to blow Coryell away. I don´t get that. He´s just doing what he knows how to do: play the heck out of the guitar, and he certainly did that here, from the opening (those building chords in the Vivaldi transcription) to the fiery passages. Music suited for him, not for a guy with a pick and a steel-string guitar. At any rate, one should forget the bashing of Coryell as this is history and may still be enjoyed. How would an artist like to be judged by his worst moment continuously decades later? There is still music here, and the ridiculousness of the whole affair is just a curiosity. If it happened to me, I´d be laughing. No the producer of this little fair deserves to be in one of the circles of Dante´s Hell.
I feel what you’re saying, but I also see this as a meeting of two perspectives. Anyone who’s been classically trained knows how much harder tone quality and speed is on steel strings, and especially with that technique, it becomes harder to apply strength on each finger to match the classical guitarist. Similarly, steel strings being more tensile in quality makes playing them allow for dynamic sound and aggressive brashness, which just isn’t fit for intricacies of the piece, but the contextual harmony, as he did play to part. I think while some might be wondering why he’s on the stage with a steel guitar, one who knew well enough might consider instead the mash-up of modernity and classical playing
This was not a strange match at all. They were recognized as two of the top players in the classical and jazz fields, who were enthusiastic about playing classical orchestral music on guitar. Before this stage and album release, Coryell had approached classical music in succession, such as Bolero (1981) and The Fire Bird (1983), so he was recognized as a fusion jazz guitarist who was positive and capable of playing classical orchestral music with a guitar. In addition, he was known for his virtuosity, having formed a trio with Al Di Meola and Paco de Lucía, replacing John Mclaughlin. For the producer, combining him with Yamashita, who had played Pictures at an Exhibition with a guitar (1981) and was arguably the most skilled classical guitar player, was a very natural idea to make guitar music fans' dream come true. Also, for both sides, this crossover might be a great promotional opportunity to expand the fandom to each other’s fields. The problem was that there was actually quite a gap in skill between the two. Though there were probably many jazz listeners who went to this venue to hear Coryell's performance and were attracted to Yamashita's play, I doubt if there were examples of the opposite.
Although Larry's parts didn't sound quite as good as Kazuhito, I think the performance was still good and I really love the moment Larry still keeps a smile on his face at 3:03 as he's finishing the song.
Quite as good? These were light years away from acceptable, let alone good 🙂 And that smile was a sign of a stroke he had after realising the epic f*ckup he unleashed upon the world.
It becomes evident, while watching this video, that Mr. Coryell's technique is really deficient compared with that of Kazuhito Yamashita's. Yamashita is a genuine guitar genius; very few in the classical guitar world, up to this point have been able to match his musical prowess.
Paco (may he rest in peace), could play the same speed if not faster....while improvising....never truly having studied....he was a true genius born with a talent and self taught. Even at times he played classical all by ear and made it sound like crystal clear. He was a flamenco guitarist and had taught himself the technique that these spent years studying in school, and this is without mentioning all the other classical guitarists who spent years studying and came out better than Yamashita. So, to say that no one has been able to match his ¨musical prowess" shows your true and genuine lack of knowledge.
@@JoseGarcia-gy5zo You think Paco can do pictures at an exhibition at the same level? I'm a fan of Paco, and we can debate musicality all day, but I don't think anyone has reached or surpassed Yamashita in pure technique.
@@JoseGarcia-gy5zo what other classical guitarists came out better that Yamashita? This is not a aggressive question... I'm really want to hear some of them!
@@mischahayek3473 Next to Yamashita, I suspect almost anyone does. And jazz doesn't requite the extreme precision that classical music does. Wynton - who has played both - once talked about his trouble with switching back and forth: - After he'd been playing jazz, his classical playing sounded rhythmically sloppy and his tone was raw and inconsistent. - After he'd been playing classical music, his jazz playing didn't swing and his tone had no feel or vocal quality.
Just came across this, had never seen this with Larry Coryell (very much missed) I first recognised his beautiful Ovation that I first saw him play with Paco De Lucia and John McLaughlin in the first Guitar Trio Brilliant playing, Yamashita plays with such passion and Larry is great as always.
Classical guitar, on a technical level, will always beat most other genres. Fingerstyle & Flamenco come close, but the discipline classical musicians have, from learning how to sightread, to clarity of notes, etc. comes second to none.
Not really. I don't think Yamashita can play Flamenco better than Paco de Lucia or Grisha Goryachev. Also, I don't think Yamashita can play Brazilian music better than Yamandu Costa or Alessandro Penezzi. And I am referring to technique when I state that (take a look, for instance, on the set of guitar techniques used by Flamenco guitar players which are simply absent in the repertoire of classical guitar)! It all depends on the chosen repertoire. I really don't know any guitarist that excels in all main instrumental genres, like e.g. classical, Flamenco, Brazilian/Latin music, and jazz. You can point out some distinguised guitar players in each of those genres, but I really don't know a single instrumentist that mastered all of them simultaneously. Here we have not the most accomplished jazz guitarist in terms of technique, playing a classical piece alongside with a very skilled classical guitarist. The result would be different if it was instead Al di Meola or Joe Pass playing with Yamashita. Moreover, can Yamashita play jazz?! I simply don't know, since as far as I know he has never taken a walk outside the sphere of classical music.
Análise excelente e certíssimo. Claro, para tocar Vivaldi...aqui o Yamashita é dono do pedaço. Mas quanto ao estilo do Yamandu ou do flamenco ou do jazz...ele poderia até aprender as técnicas digitais (preparo para qualquer dedilhação, ele tem...haja vista suas transcrições de "Quadros de uma exposiçã"...) mas o "feeling" a "cultura" dessas musicas vãoi além. Sem dúvida, ele toca coisas musicalmente muito mais complexas do que as do Yamandu ou Antonio Rey, mas a música erudita é isso, música mais elaborada..embora sem as inflexões ritmicas na musica do Yamandu ou do Grysha ou Joe Pass. Todo um swing ou uma pegada...não acho que seja a praia do Yamashita como não seria do Pepe Romero (Você imagina Pepe tocando Bossa ou choro? Seria uma coisa estilizada, algo se perde na "tradução" do espírito da coisa que não se reduz à mera técnica).
De hombres el mejor para mi es kazuhito yanashita y de mujeres li jie ahi muchos buenisimos pero ps para mi elloss son los mejores del planeta para clasica❤❤❤❤😮
Remember when you were a kid and you used to stick playing cards to the bicycle forks that would slap off the spokes to make you sound cool! I’d forgotten what it sounded like 😀
The Japanese master is playing like Matteo Mancuso here. The other guy did a shoddy work. Check out Emre Sabuncuoglu's sensational rendition of the whole Four Seasons suite on classical guitar.
for the tabs : mininova, download (with torrent software) guitar pro 5 (or buy it) and then download on mininova 55000 tab s for guitar pro 5 and look for vivaldi : 4 saisons "hiver" (op.8, no 4)
@ahhhhhhhhdude he uses a steel-string guitar, which needs much more pressure on the strings than the plastic-string, so it's bit harder to play this kind of music on the steel-stringed one.
Everyone is commenting on how bad Larry is but I don't believe he was bad. I feel they both were great. Obviously Kazuhiro kicked ass. I believe if Larry played finger style with a nylon string it would have been a lot better. Don't know what the hell he was thinking getting on stage to do a classical piece with an ovation steel string and using a pick, doesn't make much sense to me.
+james cava No, it's not the problem with the guitar and a pick. You can hear that Larry's fingers on both hands are just not getting syncronized at all, while he barely can follow the picking tempo. Which means, his being sucking is coming from his lack of exprience of playing in such an extremely high tempo, not from his unappropriate gear selection.
Ok after listening to it again I'll have to agree with you. But I also feel like his lack of experience shows by his guitar choice and using a pick. A nylon string guitar allows for more smooth transitions on the strings. At least in my opinion. So maybe if he used the right guitar, fingerstyle, proper classical guitar positioning, and practiced more he wouldn't fuck up much. Then again maybe he would suck no matter what.
Well, I play on both strings so I can tell you with sure.. Playing classical pieces on steel guitar is hard, but the most of the parts, it's not because the string is made of steel, it's just because the gaps between adjacent strings are too close. When I play some hard piece on steel guitar, I totally can handle the tempo but the difficult part is controling fingers to not to touch the adjacent string. It's pretty much impossible, my fingers are too thick. So what I'm trying to say is his gear selection was not wrong. Pretty sure that steel and nylon string duo was intended and it should had been reflected on transcription. Following that, using a pick is also good choice. Larry's part is mostly monotone scaling and chord stroke. No reason to use fingers instead of a pick. It would've been harder with fingers. I think there's absolutely no excuse for him, or only if he had some disorder. Don't get it wrong, I'm not arguing, I just simply couldn't bypass your defense for him. I've never known him but these video clips are so irritating disappointing and even insulting. You looked very nice person and I couldn't let a guy like you stand by the such guy, who sabotaged my danm auditory nerves, so the other numorous audiences', and the whole freaking stage. He should have begged a forgiveness of Yamashita and all of the audiences.
Here on Earth Yamashita is considered a genius, but he is might be average on his home planet.
pretty sure he's a genius in Japan too
Dom Pedro II he means that he’s out of this world
R/ woooosh
@@TantoFaz13 Olá meu nobre imperador
@@dafooddestroyer6499 Oh, sorry it took so long... What I implied was that Japan was another planet. (Amazing people there).
I love that I got here somehow to see and hear such music.
I love how Kazuhito looks over at Larry at 1:31 as if he's saying "Fucking watch this shit you noob".
AMEN!!!
Tundra112233 hahah "now comes that part, dude"
Dude was simply not up to the task...
OMG you are right!!!
😂
yamashita's articulation is amazing
Yamashita's articulation is so clean! it defies explanation!
Justamente No! Por ir rápido no sale tan limpia!😮
I was in their concert in Osaka which took place a few days after this filmed concert in Tokyo. The fast scale played by Yamashita in Osaka was even more felocious than this. The whole audience went into complete silence after this movement as if we were all struck with lightening.
本当にすばらしい😀今まで何回再生しただろう。
from Jose' Sepulveda, the Kid From Brazil........Kazuhito Yamashita is so good that I almost feel that I don't need to ever watch any other classical guitarist play. Nobody living today can surpass what he can do.....he is touched by God.
OMFG!!!!!!! This Yamashita Kazuhito is amazing!!! I love this arrangement for two guitars...
Yamashita's fingerings are incredible (talk about painfully executed chords) more but importantly the result is very musical.
1:33 Kazuhito throwing a quick glance at Larry: "OK Larry, watch how it's done."
Pensei nisso também. Magnífico
from Jose' Sepulveda, the Brazilian....El Hermeterec.......to everybody out there who heard and watched this video......you have just witnessed the greatest classical guitarist in the world, Kazuhito Yamashita! Larry coryell notwithstanding, this performance is amazing and there is nobody on planet EARTH who can surpass the great Kazuhito. Yes, even I think he sometimes plays things too fast , but it is simply a testament to his amazing technique! All hail Kazuhito, the leitmotif.
OMFG.
That's one of the most amazing things I ever heard.
This video is so old yet so good!
Yamashita to Coryell after the gig: "next time you practice more, Mr. Fumblefingers"
What I enjoy about Yamashita is his passion when playing.
My goodness what a truly amazing beautiful guitarist musician artist.
i guess, at least Larry had the confidence to play with the GOAT. he ended up looking like a fool though. if Kazu wanted me to play with him, i'd say "thanks, but no champ, you're better off without me".
Gives me the chills listening to it. Amazing
Yamashita to Coryell after the gig: "ah, Mr. Fumblefingers-you practice harder next time."
Maravillosa interpretacion
1:54 Casually tunes while playing
He is indeed, and what a joy to be behold and listen to him.
Восхитительно! Бесподобно! Виртуозы гитары!
simply and beautifully orchestrated.... no other words describe such a piece
Hey r u alive
So underrated! One of the best guitar interpretations I've ever seen
This was one of those strange musical matches that who knows what producer proposed to make money. I always get the feeling that Yamshita, new to western glamour and fame, might have walked into this one unknowingly because something (like everything) was lost in translation. Larry Coryell was on an off night, playing music which isn´t his speciality and with a player who, not even in your wildest dreams, you´d expect him to cross paths with. I´m sure Coryell, a very well respected guitarrist probably regrets this, but which artist doesn´t go through embarassing moments? Oh, yes, also constant comments to "the guy on the left."
With Yamashita, one doesn´t feel ego or the fact that he wants to blow Coryell away. I don´t get that. He´s just doing what he knows how to do: play the heck out of the guitar, and he certainly did that here, from the opening (those building chords in the Vivaldi transcription) to the fiery passages. Music suited for him, not for a guy with a pick and a steel-string guitar. At any rate, one should forget the bashing of Coryell as this is history and may still be enjoyed. How would an artist like to be judged by his worst moment continuously decades later? There is still music here, and the ridiculousness of the whole affair is just a curiosity. If it happened to me, I´d be laughing. No the producer of this little fair deserves to be in one of the circles of Dante´s Hell.
Agree
was going to comment about this but I guess some ppl already got the msg themselves
Exato, Roberto.
I feel what you’re saying, but I also see this as a meeting of two perspectives. Anyone who’s been classically trained knows how much harder tone quality and speed is on steel strings, and especially with that technique, it becomes harder to apply strength on each finger to match the classical guitarist. Similarly, steel strings being more tensile in quality makes playing them allow for dynamic sound and aggressive brashness, which just isn’t fit for intricacies of the piece, but the contextual harmony, as he did play to part.
I think while some might be wondering why he’s on the stage with a steel guitar, one who knew well enough might consider instead the mash-up of modernity and classical playing
This was not a strange match at all. They were recognized as two of the top players in the classical and jazz fields, who were enthusiastic about playing classical orchestral music on guitar.
Before this stage and album release, Coryell had approached classical music in succession, such as Bolero (1981) and The Fire Bird (1983), so he was recognized as a fusion jazz guitarist who was positive and capable of playing classical orchestral music with a guitar. In addition, he was known for his virtuosity, having formed a trio with Al Di Meola and Paco de Lucía, replacing John Mclaughlin. For the producer, combining him with Yamashita, who had played Pictures at an Exhibition with a guitar (1981) and was arguably the most skilled classical guitar player, was a very natural idea to make guitar music fans' dream come true. Also, for both sides, this crossover might be a great promotional opportunity to expand the fandom to each other’s fields.
The problem was that there was actually quite a gap in skill between the two. Though there were probably many jazz listeners who went to this venue to hear Coryell's performance and were attracted to Yamashita's play, I doubt if there were examples of the opposite.
素晴らしい！！！！！
感謝してます！！！
ありがとうございます素晴らしい演奏です！
i love how he plays with such a happines very nice duo interpratation
Although Larry's parts didn't sound quite as good as Kazuhito, I think the performance was still good and I really love the moment Larry still keeps a smile on his face at 3:03 as he's finishing the song.
Hhh
Quite as good? These were light years away from acceptable, let alone good 🙂 And that smile was a sign of a stroke he had after realising the epic f*ckup he unleashed upon the world.
@@urbsurbisf why are we guitarists always such assholes to each other? jesus man can you shut up for one second
@@urbsurbisf agree
the best of the four seasons
i prefer summer
KAZUHITO YAMASHITA tiene una tecnica impresionante! como me gustaria llegar a tocar asi!
It becomes evident, while watching this video, that Mr. Coryell's technique is really deficient compared with that of Kazuhito Yamashita's. Yamashita is a genuine guitar genius; very few in the classical guitar world, up to this point have been able to match his musical prowess.
..ze Paulo Becker......
paco could play same speed and clean sound
Paco (may he rest in peace), could play the same speed if not faster....while improvising....never truly having studied....he was a true genius born with a talent and self taught. Even at times he played classical all by ear and made it sound like crystal clear. He was a flamenco guitarist and had taught himself the technique that these spent years studying in school, and this is without mentioning all the other classical guitarists who spent years studying and came out better than Yamashita. So, to say that no one has been able to match his ¨musical prowess" shows your true and genuine lack of knowledge.
@@JoseGarcia-gy5zo You think Paco can do pictures at an exhibition at the same level? I'm a fan of Paco, and we can debate musicality all day, but I don't think anyone has reached or surpassed Yamashita in pure technique.
@@JoseGarcia-gy5zo what other classical guitarists came out better that Yamashita? This is not a aggressive question... I'm really want to hear some of them!
1:33 "il show you how this shits done..." :)
Larry Coryell is not a technically accurate player but is a very passionate player, especially when improvising. That is what he is best at.
That’s a polite way of saying he sounded like crap!
@@mischahayek3473 Next to Yamashita, I suspect almost anyone does. And jazz doesn't requite the extreme precision that classical music does. Wynton - who has played both - once talked about his trouble with switching back and forth:
- After he'd been playing jazz, his classical playing sounded rhythmically sloppy and his tone was raw and inconsistent.
- After he'd been playing classical music, his jazz playing didn't swing and his tone had no feel or vocal quality.
Painful to hear, especially the desynchronization between the pick and fingering.
It is very hard to get every note precise and clearly articulated at this speed. You can’t compare with Yamashita!
(・・;⚡❤す、す、すすすすす素晴らしい演奏をありがとうございます！
素晴らしい動画をありがとうございます🙏✨✨✨✨✨
Favoloso, Complimenti, siete fortissimi
ooooo beautiful
they are great
the best perfomance that i ever heard
They???? No......
Only Yamashita was great here....Larry was lame😅
Me quedo maravillado ante tan maravillosa interpretación 👏👏👏👏👏👏
YAMASHITA IS A GENIUS OMG, I'M SO GOING FOR HIS CONCERT
FANTASTIC!!!
Здорово Благодарю!
Браво продолжайте творить радовать!😂🎉
Just came across this, had never seen this with Larry Coryell (very much missed) I first recognised his beautiful Ovation that I first saw him play with Paco De Lucia and John McLaughlin in the first Guitar Trio Brilliant playing, Yamashita plays with such passion and Larry is great as always.
amazing shit right there. look how fast and super clean he plays even pass the 12th fret. the guitar doesnt even have a cutaway
He is definitely a genni!
Classical guitar, on a technical level, will always beat most other genres. Fingerstyle & Flamenco come close, but the discipline classical musicians have, from learning how to sightread, to clarity of notes, etc. comes second to none.
Not really. I don't think Yamashita can play Flamenco better than Paco de Lucia or Grisha Goryachev. Also, I don't think Yamashita can play Brazilian music better than Yamandu Costa or Alessandro Penezzi. And I am referring to technique when I state that (take a look, for instance, on the set of guitar techniques used by Flamenco guitar players which are simply absent in the repertoire of classical guitar)! It all depends on the chosen repertoire. I really don't know any guitarist that excels in all main instrumental genres, like e.g. classical, Flamenco, Brazilian/Latin music, and jazz. You can point out some distinguised guitar players in each of those genres, but I really don't know a single instrumentist that mastered all of them simultaneously. Here we have not the most accomplished jazz guitarist in terms of technique, playing a classical piece alongside with a very skilled classical guitarist. The result would be different if it was instead Al di Meola or Joe Pass playing with Yamashita. Moreover, can Yamashita play jazz?! I simply don't know, since as far as I know he has never taken a walk outside the sphere of classical music.
Análise excelente e certíssimo. Claro, para tocar Vivaldi...aqui o Yamashita é dono do pedaço. Mas quanto ao estilo do Yamandu ou do flamenco ou do jazz...ele poderia até aprender as técnicas digitais (preparo para qualquer dedilhação, ele tem...haja vista suas transcrições de "Quadros de uma exposiçã"...) mas o "feeling" a "cultura" dessas musicas vãoi além. Sem dúvida, ele toca coisas musicalmente muito mais complexas do que as do Yamandu ou Antonio Rey, mas a música erudita é isso, música mais elaborada..embora sem as inflexões ritmicas na musica do Yamandu ou do Grysha ou Joe Pass. Todo um swing ou uma pegada...não acho que seja a praia do Yamashita como não seria do Pepe Romero (Você imagina Pepe tocando Bossa ou choro? Seria uma coisa estilizada, algo se perde na "tradução" do espírito da coisa que não se reduz à mera técnica).
Nope
crazy! unbelievable！
Simply awesome !
wow thas was so beautiful..
Yamashita y li jie los mejores del planeta gracias por existir
One word....Amazing
A GENIUS!
Its not about who is better. Its all about music...
Wow the music is very moving Thx for posting this
De hombres el mejor para mi es kazuhito yanashita y de mujeres li jie ahi muchos buenisimos pero ps para mi elloss son los mejores del planeta para clasica❤❤❤❤😮
i love this
On thie clip Classic Guitar beat Acoustic...
AMAZING, INCREDIBLE!
Larry Coryell is giving jazz guitarists a bad name with this performance.
lmfao yea
AGREE.
***** Stripping them of any name if you ask me... This rendition of his goes right into the les miserables hall of fame.
larry is wishing he never picked up a god damned plectrum 😂
Remember when you were a kid and you used to stick playing cards to the bicycle forks that would slap off the spokes to make you sound cool! I’d forgotten what it sounded like 😀
This needs more VIEWS!! This is awesome.
Magic.
you're not supposed to make mistakes when you are playing with a master
wow ! 1:34 this is the best part.
長崎に住む50代です
素晴らしすぎます
I would’ve loved to see Mozart or others composers seeing this in person
@insanmukmin1 I love classical music and I think it's great to hear new interpretations of different pieces.
Hey guys I can play the ''Smoke On The Water riff''......
Noatak Kenway Exactly man. That’s what I’m saying.
lol
WOW those guys are the real deal!!!
Yamashita is a genius.. The other guys is Just.... A party pooper
Impresionante, demasiado talento
Genius of Vivaldi.
The Japanese master is playing like Matteo Mancuso here. The other guy did a shoddy work.
Check out Emre Sabuncuoglu's sensational rendition of the whole Four Seasons suite on classical guitar.
Lo impecable que suena
A lot of ghost notes that must sound clearly!
すげぇ
for the tabs : mininova, download (with torrent software) guitar pro 5 (or buy it) and then download on mininova 55000 tab s for guitar pro 5 and look for vivaldi : 4 saisons "hiver" (op.8, no 4)
Yamashita is from another planet....
Yes, he is a genius.
Crazzy!!!
this is what heaven must sound like well execpt for the dude with the glasses
Amazing
Que gran guitarrista el Hombre de Asia y tan joven!!
hombre de asia is a new superhero from malaga, right ?
@@XanAxDdu Buen día vivo en Argentina y no sé nada del hombre de Asia de Málaga pero me ha parecido excelente tu video
Man the emotion in Yamashita
Até no violão essa música fica foda ❤❤🎵
Genius
Rapaz fiquei triste agora, tava aqui tentando aprender a montar os primeiros acordes. Agora tô pensando em vender meu violão
Larry- BIG mistake even being on the same stage as Yamashita!
god of guitar
He is á genius!
Directly from Mars
@ahhhhhhhhdude he uses a steel-string guitar, which needs much more pressure on the strings than the plastic-string, so it's bit harder to play this kind of music on the steel-stringed one.
1:33 O_O holly shit
Best version of Winter on guitar.
I would be terrified of only holding a guitar near to any of them..
Everyone is commenting on how bad Larry is but I don't believe he was bad. I feel they both were great. Obviously Kazuhiro kicked ass. I believe if Larry played finger style with a nylon string it would have been a lot better. Don't know what the hell he was thinking getting on stage to do a classical piece with an ovation steel string and using a pick, doesn't make much sense to me.
+james cava No, it's not the problem with the guitar and a pick. You can hear that Larry's fingers on both hands are just not getting syncronized at all, while he barely can follow the picking tempo. Which means, his being sucking is coming from his lack of exprience of playing in such an extremely high tempo, not from his unappropriate gear selection.
+james cava So I'm still gonna say, yes, he was seriously bad.. no offense to your opinion.
Ok after listening to it again I'll have to agree with you. But I also feel like his lack of experience shows by his guitar choice and using a pick. A nylon string guitar allows for more smooth transitions on the strings. At least in my opinion. So maybe if he used the right guitar, fingerstyle, proper classical guitar positioning, and practiced more he wouldn't fuck up much. Then again maybe he would suck no matter what.
ok so yea he was bad but not the worst playing ever. But still bad
Well, I play on both strings so I can tell you with sure.. Playing classical pieces on steel guitar is hard, but the most of the parts, it's not because the string is made of steel, it's just because the gaps between adjacent strings are too close. When I play some hard piece on steel guitar, I totally can handle the tempo but the difficult part is controling fingers to not to touch the adjacent string. It's pretty much impossible, my fingers are too thick.
So what I'm trying to say is his gear selection was not wrong. Pretty sure that steel and nylon string duo was intended and it should had been reflected on transcription. Following that, using a pick is also good choice. Larry's part is mostly monotone scaling and chord stroke. No reason to use fingers instead of a pick. It would've been harder with fingers. I think there's absolutely no excuse for him, or only if he had some disorder.
Don't get it wrong, I'm not arguing, I just simply couldn't bypass your defense for him. I've never known him but these video clips are so irritating disappointing and even insulting. You looked very nice person and I couldn't let a guy like you stand by the such guy, who sabotaged my danm auditory nerves, so the other numorous audiences', and the whole freaking stage. He should have begged a forgiveness of Yamashita and all of the audiences.
山下さんのが一番いいね
やっぱ早くないと冬の緊張感がでない
Coryell has a very wide spectrum of styles, and compositions.
Great!
A chi ha lasciato commenti sul'eventuale confronto fra i due dico: Ma perche' non pensiamo solamente a goderci lo spettacolo e la musica?
wow, excelente!! gracias notime2006..