What people think is hard on guitar VS what actually is hard
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Hi
why that felt like asturias was it asturias
@@thevibetree1Yes, it was.
OmG- you are so ethereally gorgeous as well as professionally seasoned and bad ass at classical guitar! You flutter my heart
"what people think is hard" actually is hard
As a dude that play guitar for fun sometimes and have 0 knowlegde in music, everything is hard lol. Anyways, what's important is to enjoy the moment
Exactly! 😭
@@philippebaillargeon5204 and the process as well 😂 weeks and weeks on the same stuff
I hate my mind
@@francescosi7556 😭😭😭
you know whats hard? the skin on my fingers
my calluses
My guitar teachers skin on his fingers is dead although i guess that helps him play guiutar :D
No, nylon strings on classical guitar is soft.
The ones that cause pain are the steel ones. : )
Wish I could say the same.
You know what else is hard?? 😏😏
"what people think is hard" *proceeds to play a song written for piano transposed to guitar*
Name of song please?
@@DamilolaDokun Asturias
@@leoprovost1 thank you
Cause that ain't hard.... That's impossible
Sweden mmm and Wet Hands
Me in my head : IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIIIGHTTTT
relatable
And in the morning, too!
IKRR LMFAO I THOUGHT IT WAS IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT
@@clouds643 LITERALLY
I can relate
the hardest thing: make a living playing guitar
True 😅😂😂😂😂
It's not hard. It's close to impossible
Play because you enjoy it.
Not really. Too many people want to learn the guitar & there's not alot of decent teachers. The annoying thing is getting enough students because most people don't commit to an instrument, even one as easy to learn as guitar.
@@codytheprick8554 there are a lot of good teachers out there but people underestimate the amount of time and effort needed to “master” something. I spent over 1000 hours playing and learning chess this year and while I’m getting decent, I’m nowhere near being “good”.
Anyone can become good at something if they are willing to really put in the efforts. Some might be faster learners but everyone needs to commit 100%.
what actually is hard: playing a song from start to finish
this!!
nailed
@@iansognatore ayy off topic but are you trying to learn turkish!?
.
facts
I mean, legato is not easy, but getting a clean tremolo is also quite a challenge. And playing Asturias clean is an achievement and milestone for so many guitar students xD
Agree I feel like this is a get hits video by presenting a surprise. but if we saw the hours put into the tremolo Vs the single notes the balance would tip theatrically toward the former.
how dare she use Asturias as an example of easy classical playing!! fuck that lol, what an asshole
@@60secondpages she is absolutely lying for views
I can barely play the intro of Asturias with no tremolo 😢 a milestone fs
Ikr. I overwent classical training for 4 years and I still doubt my tremolo at times. Been playing a total of 13 years now.
What’s actually hard to do on a classical guitar: restringing and keeping the damn things in tune
❤️
They don't stay in tune? Really?
@@kingadalou personally my strings go out of tune constantly for like the first couple days after restringing but after that its fine LOL
@@AndreaAbelian well that's normal. Strings have to adapt. After I string. I do bends and re-tune until it steadies out
fax.
the kurzgesagt birb plushie on the background tho lol
@@reshardaffa4278 I subscribed because of this
Birb 👍
What's harder is trying to play open chords without getting muted
You really gotta have no talent at all for that to happen
@@javierdiazsantanait happens… high action guitar, long nails combined with 4 finger notes that require your DAMN PINKY!
@@Seanybearscouts Well, lower the guitar and use the pinky. It's not a big deal to use it, and it's almost like having three legs to run a marathon...
@@javierdiazsantana Even professional players accidentally mute strings now and then.
There's nothing louder than that one note that doesn't ring out when playing legato
I feel this
Bruh
Practice your slurs with harder pressure when hammering on and pulling off, it's almost like plucking
bruh playing a clean asturias is like defeating the final boss of classical guitar.
It's pretty high up there but very far from the final boss imo. Paco's virtuoso pieces are way more divine.
You should take a look to Bach's Tocatta & Fugue in D minor (BWV 565) or Johann Kaspar Mertz's Elegie.
Um...the 4th lute suite...the violin sonata in C by Bach...variations on an Anatolian folk song by Domeniconi...any Scarlatti sonata..the list is pretty endless
Moonlight Sonata 3rd movement...
I'm out of here . I don't understand your language of guitar
ngl, doing a fast clean tremolo is much harder than a clean legato melody
I think the poster means it's hard to play a legato melody that's beautifully worth recording.
You boy missed the point completely, if it's just for a tremolo a computer can do it better than you. A heartfelt execution of the melody is what makes an accomplished musician.
I would think so! It is!
A clean tremolo, with a good attack that gives the desired sound, a tempo, I think it is more difficult
@@irokosalei5133well dont you sound like a pretentious twunt 😂
I find that a similar thing happens with visual art too. People are always blown away by realistic rendering because complexity is conflated with difficulty, but that same complexity is very good at hiding mistakes. I find that heavily stylised illustration is much more difficult to get right, as a single line out of place will destroy a likeness or make your perspective look wrong.
When all you have are a dozen notes you have nowhere to hide even the tiniest mistake.
I learnt about painting that the more simply you want to show something the more intentional you have to be with your brushstrokes cuz every stroke matters so much, they have to in the right place. And with slow, simple music I feel the same. The less notes you have to shape the music, the more intentional you gotta be
@@beatrixguitar @Hudston I love both comments and agree, thanks guys for the awesome contributions!
This guitar sounds heavenly and you are such a great guitarist
What people think is hard: Fast notes
What actually is hard: Trying not to film these kind of videos over and over again
I mean clearly it works because we're both here watching it, right?
@@DesertWitch666 clickbait works also, yet it doesnt mean its good
@@DesertWitch666 I always see these videos when on shorts, but if I click not interested the algorithm might think I don't want to see guitar videos
That’s the problem with guitar videos is that it’s just the same shit with somebody different telling the joke, it’s very annoying.
@@keegansheppard1416 after spending more time learning to learn about guitar theory ^ this is so true, pick 3-4 videos then master them, otherwise it's just procrastinating.
What is actually hard: "Earning a living from your music"
@@agustinfrustowhat is her name
Some days I eat like a king some days I am surviving barely on bread and water.
For me it’s not getting distracted and start freestyling when trying to learn a piece
This is so much my problem, even when trying to make my own backing tracks. Then making one mistake, becoming conscious again and getting lost like I dont know where my car is.
Hey, it's future you. Stop it. Not learning songs because you like making your own stuff better will lead to you playing guitar for over two decades with nothing to show for the last 15 years. Sincerely, a dude who started 20 years ago
@@jarrettguthrie1670 Michael Angelo Batio's entire career is based off this method.
So it's not really a sound theory as to why you lost enjoyment.
Accurate as hell
European classical musicians in the 18th and 19th centuries didn't just play straight from the page; they embellished pieces and added ornaments and didn't treat them as carved in stone.
You make it so look simple Beatrix.... thank you for sharing
A lot harder to hide mistakes when there’s 1/1000th of the notes being played.
@@Thepoweroftheriffcompelsme hold my beer
Thats why The Edge, from U2, uses all that delay and echo, so you cant hear thats he is really playing Jingle Bells or Fur Elise, badly...
@@bipolarminddroppings wow, what an asinine comment. Imagine trying to bring other musicians down for no reason. Did The Edge kill your family or something?
He's not a technically gifted guitarist, but he is massively influential, lifting the delay/echo sound into the mainstream. He does not play difficult guitar lines, but the lines he does play, he plays well. If you can show me any time The Edge has played "badly" I'd love to hear it.
@@Tocaraca the real ignorant commentor is you, not understanding the joke.
Hardest thing is to maintain pokerface while making a mistake so nobody notice it
can we not pretend like Asturias is by ANY measure an easy piece.😭 but yes tone and making a piece makes sense is something that only comes with intimate spent with the music.
What you think is hard to do on guitar:
What is really hard to do on a guitar:
Making money
Fr 🧍🏻
Yea it's kind of sad how shitty artists like lil Uzi vert, cardi b, lil Yachty, etc are rich when they have zero talent and can't even play an instrument. How do you call yourself a musician when you can't even play an instrument. To top it off most of those hip hop artists and rappers act like they're the shit when there is nothing that remarkable about them. Just because you're rich doesn't mean you're talented. Record companies just want to make money and sometimes what sells is some stupid catchy bullshit. Shit is backwards. At least people who play guitar can say they're able to physically play an instrument.
Bruhhhhhhhh🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ah, a Davie 504 viewer
@@rowanmcalpin haha you got me
I KNOW RIGHT, it’s actually crazy how hard it is to slow down, especially when learning a new fast piece.
This is extremely true. People don’t realize how hard it is to get clean sustain off frets. Playing quick and dirty though, often “mistakes” get completely washed and nobody notices. I always get a little sweaty playing simple stuff
Never realised the glitch master himself played guitar. That's awesome! 👍
The hardest part about that solo was making those faces lol
What people think is hard: playing guitar
What is really hard: playing guitar without making a funny face
THE HARDEST PART IS THE NIGHT.
Bon Jovi
I used to be quite comfortable playing both. About 15 years ago.
Now I pick up a guitar and I honestly think I need to start all over again.
If you ever learn to play an instrument well, _please_ keep it up.
Because the second time around it's a lot harder, and will probably make you very sad
The curse of knowledge.
Learned to play when I was young. (Proper guitar lol). Was in a few bands. Didnt play really for about 10 years, then started up again 7 years ago.
Now im in a semi pro band and have to play some fast solos. At some point I realised that I never used up stokes with a pick.
Its taken years of 'unlearning' to correct this so I can move further!
Here I am struggling to tie the knot at the bottom after changing the strings..
you tie the bridge first then the turning key silly
@@brucelevine6517 lol
Ha! Lots of people won't believe you, but, imo, you're correct. Connecting a beautifully shaped melodic line is definitely one of the most difficult things to execute on the Classical Guitar. I've been enjoying your stuff, kudos!
As a rock and metal guitar player I find classical guitar so fascinating because it is a completely different method of playing. I want to be able to play it and a variety of styles masterfully someday. I want to be a well rounded virtuoso!!
Rock on!
If you don't know it yet, check out Rik Emmet's lesser-known stuff, like the brilliant Petite Etude. It ought to be very pleasing to your "rock but interested in classical, too" brain.
@marthajean50 you know I'm almost certain I've been recommended him before. I'll have to give it a listen, thanks!!
what is actually hard:
strum slap but you only strum the G and B without touching the high E
Can't u just pluck them with your fingers
Or mute the high e and strum?
Im currently playing Asturias (the first song) and tbh it is hard. For some people it takes a couple of years to fully learn it so dont underestimate it bc its popular
Asturias is definitely an extremely difficult song
SONG?!?!?!?! SACRILEGIOUS
Also a classically trained guitarist myself- I'd have put a piece like Cavatina as pieces that people think are easy but is actually hard -Expressive Legato melody underneath constant arpeggios, but this is still 👌
100% agree with cavatina being hard while it sounds easy def one of my favorite pieces ive ever learned though
I want to hear this on electric so badly
Exactly! The same thing on the piano. The hardest thing to play is a quiet, sensitive slow melody, not fortissimo arpeggio shredding :)
This piece is difficult no matter what, but the ease you have shows just how much practice has gone into your playing! Wow 🤘🏼🤯🤘🏼
What’s it called?
@@kashjtv Asturias by Isaac Albeniz. It’s a popular piece but is definitely a difficult one from a technical standpoint. Incredibly pretty to listen to.
OK BUT HOW DID YOU PLAY THAT SO DAMN WELL OMG
She is literally killing that piece, it's clearly too difficult for her. Go listen to the one by John Williams on youtube. It's called "Asturias"
too slow
Let’s just say everything on classical guitar is hard lol. Excellent playing
This is so true! When I first started playing, my hand is at electric, and one of the easiest things to do on that instrument is fast fret tapping. I am trying to branch out more into classical guitar, and I completely hear what you mean here.
You're very talented! Brava wherever you are heading!
What she says is actually hard is actually hard. Nothing in this post is wrong.
I remember my guitar teacher pretty much summing this video up. He insisted that the crucial first set learning music in general was rhythm and timing.
He is not wromg
tbh everything is hard when you're completely new to guitar with having no music background 😭
Ah yes, I can confirm, People always want to hear Asturias and think that's the hardest piece, but it definitely isn't. I play a piece of Bach (BWV 1000) and I can guarantee you, that that piece is both musically and technically much harder
You are completely right.
literally i was thinking in asturias as a song that most people think its hard but its actually easy before i clicked on the short lol
Asturias in the first half sounds flashy but isn't super difficult but the second half IS difficult
@@unscripted483 yeah, thats also true but that song is such a masterpiece
Absolutely right! I'm a jazz musician and I was taught early on that if you really want to learn something do it VERY slowly. There are so many elements to every note, how they connect to each other, and what the overall presentation of a melody contains. ❤
Agreed. Awesome playing!
Watching you playing makes me wanna comeback to guitar! Work hard girl, you're gonna make it!
I remember when I was learning a super hard song, got used to it, played it rlly well but then, when my teacher gave me a new song to learn which was slow as hell, super easy notes, I just had this rlly annoying instinct of playing overcomplicatedly and I made things 1000x more difficult then what it actually was
what is actually hard: putting the text in a position where the viewers can read it
Nice music and beautiful artwork! 😊
All of us, my classical guitar mates, know the pain in the ahh it gave you when you had to learn where each fret was
(We don't have fret dots)
Asturias is one of the most beautiful songs ever written.
Shoot, I need me a guitar goddess. Your playing is so beautiful
Jesus Christ the good true sovereign lord loves you a lot :" )
I hope you can find hope in
the Holy Trinity who miraculously healed me of a years long chronic breathing issue instantly in an anointed prayer
Cringe
@@joshua2400 you’re cringe too
@@Wangrock_hardJohnson you calling my comment cringe is cringe.
Omg so do I. A guitar goddess to take care of a clarinetist/oboeist/saxophonist/flutist wife (me)
I been working on Asturias for a year… I feel attacked
Same! Started january and finished learning it yesterday
Don't worry about it. Keep practicing. Don't get discouraged because some narcissist on UA-cam uploads an excerpt of a difficult song and claims it's not difficult... Is this the most difficult song to play? No. But you also don't see beginners accomplishing this...
❤😊🎶 Really love the way she smiles ! Thanks for sharing your gift!
Hi Beatrix! Awesome guitar and finger skills! That takes so much skill! I can imagine the hours of practice💪🏽🎸☝🏽 I can’t wait to be there one day!
Partially agreed. Trying to play Poulenc's Sarabande in a way that clearly projects the melody throughout, in a way that is engaging and interesting, is a world of a suffering.
Or the Cancion in Lauro's Suite Venezolana at 40 bpm, I love it but God does it make me work hard.
Me be like:
I can do melodies.
Me seeing "what people think is hard"
That's ACTUALLY HARD
Ow, the second one almost killed me. God I can't- WHY
@nassersalim1351No, I don't, sorry
Classical guitar is so freaking beautiful I dont know how to describe it. I'd definitely prefer the faster songs on it more than a piano
I mean tremolo is hard. A lot of very advanced players still need to work on theirs. Very few people I can think of have great tremolo.
So true! It seems to be easier for some than others, all else being equal. I remember hearing Segovia play something and thinking his tremolo in it wasn't very good. He just plowed through it hoping it would be done soon, seemingly. It was probably some der rigueur piece like Recuerdos or something, and demand being what it is, he likely couldn't NOT play it, though it seemed he'd rather be playing anything else!
She plays the part "what people think is hard" and still not manage to play it equal and precise xD
Clearly a spammer 😂 and even a 10 years child playing in 6 months can execute that melody
@@Gizzardx0 i recommend you to listen to Sokolov la poule :)
But i agree, it is very difficult to earn such high level. But i simply wouldn't do stupid video showing that "what people think is hard" is not capable for me..
"What people think is hard" proceeds to play at like half speed.
As a guitarist I get so annoyed when I’m learning a hard song and someone say “You can play thunder struck, why can’t you play that” 😭
Just play Thunderstruck and walk away then. Maybe see if they want to hear Wonderwall before you turn away... LOLOL
Beautiful!!!❤
Tutorial for this please 🥺
Legato melody so hard she couldn't even show us one.
Thought the "What's actually hard" bit was going to be "Earn money" 😂
"You think that's hard? Try waterboarding. THAT'S hard!" - Sue Sylvester, coach of Cheerios
And only people who don't play guitar believe a word you just said
A lot harder is to get paid
Correction: Playing one simple legato melody with out looking in to the camera with a smirk
Comments not passing the vibe check. She's illustrating what most musicians say. When you've practiced enough hours, it's not about the technique in the playing, but the feeling behind the artist, how you emote with the instrument. Playing notes fast is difficult, but eventually achievable, the next challenge is learning to play notes slowly again, exude the right feeling and catch the attention of the room.
I practice sometimes slow (40bpm) as a challenge. It's easy to get it, but hard to get it perfect. :)
I play more piano lately than guitar but let me say, this translates well. It feels so hard to slow down or play "simply" at times. I'm always wanting to hammer out arpeggios or do ton of extensions to chords. If I'm not using all my fingers all the time it feels wrong 🙃
What name is song?
The fast one is Asturias I'm not sure about the other one though
@@cbsheaves2187 Scriabin
Right?!
I tried playing that super slow intro solo to Blasphemian by Infant Annihilator. It's really hard lol
yet I can nail the solo to Neutered in utero just fine even though its faster.
ha
I learned that first song in school, but never played that fast, it was fun learning classical guitar
Both hard, but you make it all look so easy. Thank you for sharing!
Legato is the most beautiful technique of all time for good reason
lol the index finger on Asturias slamming down on the barre chord looks funny I can’t unsee it now.
Everything is difficult on a classical acoustic, there is no hiding, and there is no room for error. Anyone who masters the classical guitars is a master in their own right and should be commanded with respect.
I can’t with facial expressions 😂
The hardest: perfecting the emotional facial expressions.
you're play amazing.
You are 100% pure perfaction.
I agree with her. Stuff like tremolo and playing fast or playing lots of notes is pretty easy because it doesn't require any thought, you've just been up the muscle memory over months or years of practice.
Playing slowly, however, is pretty tough because you need to think a lot more about dynamics, tempo, tone color, and more, and be able to execute it perfectly and beautifully in order to convey whatever mood or emotion you want to convey.
Edit: After 2 months I change my mind, tremolo is hard ): Playing slowly with dynamics and good tone however just kind of comes naturally ive found, after lots of experience and comfort/confidence with the instrument in your hands
what is actually hard to play: something I haven't practiced...
I don't get when people say easy music is harder, especially when they say, getting the tone or playing slow songs is more difficult because you have to articulate. Articulation applies to hard songs as well people. Its just its twice as hard to get proper articulation on fast songs so you don't really try. In this case the song played first is harder and I really don't think that's an opinion I would even say its more of just a fact.
It‘s so true, I remember when I was a musician and we recorded in Studio. The fast arpeggio run needed only one take whereas we had to record simple Powerchords often cause it‘s harder to get it clean.
I can confirm this as a punk-rock guitarist...😂😂😂😂
I was looking for just the first 3 minutes to play during dnd thank you
That smile is pride. All my successful guitar videos on my phone have me with a big shit eating grin on my face at the end 😂
Beautiful melody btw
As a blues guitarist, I knew that classical guitar playing is hard compared to just playing. 👍 to you ‼️
Thank you kindly!
YOU WHACH KERUZART! There's a birb stuffy in the backround
When i first learnt guitar the first song is the first song my teacher played me and said. Youll be able to do this soon enough
This whole entire process is fucking hard! Must be nice to think it ain’t! I feel defeated af! 😂😂😂
Even playing electric with I feel is easier for legato it's still what I consider my sloppiness technique. Kudos to you for your talent
This is for all instruments. The technical stuff is pretty straight forward. But for the slow legato pieces you have more time to listen to each individual note so the sound matters more and people can listen to and criticize it more too. One little mistake will be very apparent. Whereas for a fast technical run it can be covered up or not even noticed because it's too fast
In most cases when it comes to my playing classical guitar, less is more and the timing of what most would call "simple" is so challenging! You really REALLY need an internal metronome and your knowledge of advanced music theory needs to be DRILLED into your brain. This is a perfect example of what the audience would think is more impressive.
What people think is hard: Coming up with a title for a video . What actually is hard: Coming up with an accurate title for a video
I subscribed after hearing this. Insane