WHO IS THIS GUY???!!!!!

I hate him too. This guy completely sucks. Look at him playing better than I ever will and looking BORED doing it. Jerk. I totally subbed and added that song to one of my playlists though...just in case I forget how much I hate him. Also another creative way to torture myself with jazz aspirations. Going to go cry over my Real Book now. Such a jerk. Badass fusion monster jazzbo jerk!

 

It's technically incredible, an amazing technical display. But there is absolutely no way I would listen to that for fun.

 

You know what I hate about guys like him that play all “bad ass and awesome” and stuff!? That they play all bad ass and awesome while reading a book and also ghost dog whisperer therapist while still getting his doctorate in hydro physic jet propulsion on his spare time. What a creaking loser!

 

I feel like I’ve wasted the last 40 years of my life when I see people who play so well and make it seem effortless

 

Couldn't listen to that for enjoyment. Five minutes and I'd be out the room.

 

I see this guy and say, "That's great - now I don't have to try to do this style - someone is doing it already." Good for me to practice hard, good to admire this player and others like him. But not good to think of virtuoso playing like this as "the best" because of amazing speed and accuracy. Like, who is the fastest singer, ya know?...

I gotta ask myself what I can play that nobody else can - if only to sound like "me", my own personality, slow fingers and all.

Like what they say about business startups - you want to be in a category of one.

 

Dayum! Just dayum!

 

Nail on the head here... Alternate picking will open doors for anyone to be this fast. Aside from chicken picking, I don't think there is any other method of picking to be able to play that fast.

I want to eventually learn it as well, but I fingerpick 3 fingerstyle, and I can't bring myself to abandon it. My speed is never going to be that fast, but when you can pick chords and melodies with your fingers, you gain something that alternate pickers simply can't do as well.

Toss up I guess... Last time I tried alternate picking, I hated it... But seeing guys use it so well, like Johnson, Bucket, and that dude, really makes you wonder.

It's nice seeing it done on a T style guitar. I was wondering about those speed guitars as well...

 

A lot of talent and a lot of notes. Not my thing but I can appreciate the work he has put in to make it look so effortless.

 

second coming of Pat Martino?

 

He has crazy chops.
I wish he would play music though.
This thing is unlistenable.

 

It is not unlistenable, it is exhausting to listen to. ANd ONLY a musician or a stoned out hippie with an 9000 lp collection will really dig this. What is this guys name, Callum, Wadsworth?

 

so Josh Meador seems like a gypsy jazz fusion picker from down under who is astounding

 

Al Di Meola lite without the musicality. Return to Forever wannabe. Just one man’s opinion.

 

This popped up in my YouTube feed and I thought it was noteworthy to mention here and I’m glad it already was.

As someone who watches the original Lingus version pretty regularly, I thought it should be linked here as well for those unfamiliar with the original work and more importantly for the proper context from which Josh’s video is derived.

cory’s solo is an instant classic the moment he improvised it (the double handed octave runs, comping over his own solo, etc). I thought Josh’s take is straight fire!

the solo starts @ 4:18 in but do watch the whole thing because greatness.

 

I knew that, and while he's really impressive as hell, he's also not very interesting to me. The posting caused me to peruse videos of Skinny Puppy, and I'm very impressed. Never have I seen a flugelhorn played with a wahwah to sound like a guitar solo! They are brilliant!

 

Not my cup of tea either, but mighty fine alternate picking.