Gwenifer Raymond: Hell For Certain

[@lukechampion7208]

That guitar immaculate. Is one of a kind and the player is one of a kind. Very well

[@TheIkaraCult]

Gwenifer attacks everything. Its pure speed. Its what makes her great.

[@jackadoddle]

John Fahey in heaven smiling 🙏

[@paulashley2041]

Astonishing. Took up guitar at the start of lockdown. I have a new guitar hero. Beautiful work

[@tonykerry]

This lady is quite outstanding!

[@doubleotwentyone]

She plays with an authority beyond her years. Reminds me a lot of early Gordon Giltrap. Love it.

[@stephaniemclean2451]

Absolutely perfect, i can't believe i found this gem, this just released all my blues into the air, she just randomly appeared on my soundcloud. She's up there with the best, awesome stuff and I hope to see you live one day! Big sounds and big lov,e.

[@EdwardBox]

Superb. Great tone. So robust!

[@jonathaneves5847]

Who on Earth would give this a thumbs down, apart maybe her ex!

[@kalixtus3397]

Just brilliant. Modern take on delta thing. I thought it was non-existent.. love it!

[@jamiescott1080]

Check out Charlie Parr of you haven’t already.

[@peterfussenegger2058]

Thats is incredible,great!!!!!!!

[@jamiescott1080]

I knew this was going to be good as soon as I saw the collings. You got to be shit hot to be having one of them at that age. Not disappointed. Outstanding work.

[@TheDennzio]

Specifically a Waterloo

[@PauliHeisenberg]

It's actually not a collings. I thought so too at first

[@ryangunwitch-black]

Your stuff is amazing. The whole thing. I love it.

[@mcmSEA]

Wonderful.

[@michellelaverickmusic]

Fantastic playing!!!

[@chrisstone4279]

Love it!

[@debbiejohn8492]

You are amazing!!!

[@brendannewsome1330]

Excellent.

[@coordinacion-flashesandsou3736]

This is BRILLIANT

[@Darren-D.C-Cross]

Great!

[@walkingpictures]

Incredible

[@georgegeranios2918]

Hell yeah!

[@MarcoCapaldo]

THIS IS LIT!

[@psychobuzzard]

have mercy, I'm in love

[@rogercordiner2810]

Brilliant playing. I'm never going to match that!

[@nidumite]

A duet with Rev Peyton wouldn't go amiss, great stuff.

[@obscuredtexts8818]

wow just wow

[@704studio]

A++

[@cpdt64]

Yes.

[@iainstewart2102]

beautiful

[@cognoscenticycles4351]

Hells bells. That was a knee to the knackers.

[@drbekken]

hell yeah

[@davidgomorrah2977]

YEAH 🤘

[@culturalvisions]

Wonderful guitar work. Hands on fire.

[@culturalvisions]

I finally figured out that if I played along at half speed I could keep up. Still have not made it to normal speed yet.

[@ryangunwitch-black]

I was just playing 2 notes and it sounded ok.

[@lsdanik]

What is the tuning? Thanks in advance!)

[@culturalvisions]

@@lsdanik CGCGCEb

[@jarrodworlie6288]

Your amazing young lady

[@skylerscribner722]

Wild.

[@sszogg]

This is why i say i play at guitar and not play guitar...

[@kobrian58]

Right! Like this is hard. You could do this. She’s just a Welsh video game developer. Just devote 12 hours a day to playing at your guitar. Nothing to it! It’s all in the tuning.

[@hellion7514]

What I *think* I sound like when I play guitar

[@sunrise1936]

lovely stuff Gwen - what's the tuning ? DAGDAD?

[@Marco_Venieri]

it's open C maybe, CGCGCE

[@nigelmadeley7798]

Could be. That’s one that Stefan Grossman uses. Bit darker than DADGAD.

[@lysonnite]

It's CGCGCEb

[@lsdanik]

This is heavier than any metal I ever listened to.

[@yarmouk334]

Tuning?

[@BlackHoleBrew42]

im guessing open dm

[@lysonnite]

CGCGCEb

[@robdellinger1983]

Open Cm7. Spooky.

[@spinecat]

ye gods...

[@larrybristow4330]

whats the tuning

[@drewdidrewdi2590]

I think it’s CGCGCEb

[@ronpudding9598]

@@drewdidrewdi2590 thanks! I’ve been trying to figure it out but couldn’t. I thought it was open D lol

[@drewdidrewdi2590]

@@ronpudding9598 A lot of American Primitive is in C (same tuning but the highest string is an E) or even B so the B string doesn’t have to go up a semitone.

[@jpwaterman5104]

My freind's guitar teacher was calling it open D minor (Dadfad). John Fahey played in open C like was mentioned but he did not restrict himself to that tuning by any means. Seems to me the general concept of the open tuning is partly what drives the "American Primitive" technique, but not any specific tuning. Letting those open string ring when the guitar is banged upon, getting the drones and dissonance in there...

[@BlackHoleBrew42]

Ripper.

[@avfn8981]

fuckin hell

[@sszogg]

Surely the recorded version is being played by more than 1 guitar? Amazing and beautiful!

[@sszogg]

Thanks for showing us a live version!

[@spinecat]

yeah and she clearly knows what sort of trap is marriage!!

[@ryangunwitch-black]

Zoom in on her purple thumb. That’s how you know she doesn’t have a choice but to do this. The pain of compulsion compels me!

[@johnwallace2319]

Imagine what would happen if Django Reinhardt played with her

[@Insolation1]

Led Zep in there somewhere , 'Friends' or 'Ramble On', not sure

[@oliverk191]

How to make a guitar sound demonic

[@EdPettersen]

What kind of knucklehead gives this a thumb's down???

[@daltonvanhorn5167]

Did you sell your soul to play like that?

[@christianlacheze3323]

I don’t get the point of imitating so slavishly John Fahey

[@bill582]

Then buzz off

[@alexarchibald9783]

Is anyone composing finger picked pieces for acoustic guitar then, automatically a slavish imitator of John Fahey? What a sad, reductive, monotone world that would be... Beautiful work I say!!

[@psychobuzzard]

Yeah, there is a point you apparently don't get but I don't think it's the one you stated

[@jpwaterman5104]

I feel as though she has her own voice. She in some ways may be more intricate and intense than John Fahey.

[@fieldstone1934]

@@alexarchibald9783 As somehow who listens to Fahey almost religiously, Gwenifer takes her composition and note selection almost entirely from Fahey's early records (Vol. 1 through 3 mostly). Her right hand is much more manic, and her rolls much more banjo like - but the imitation is very real.

[@stephenpatt952]

hmmm...well she has passion, but little control, sense of time, or discipline. I wish she lived closer, would take her on as a student. Promising but little more than an unsmiling face with a few chops. I wish her luck and hope she has the sense to grow...

[@patrickmckinley2980]

Funny, I just clicked on your channel and I see no evidence there of your being awesome at the guitar, let alone more awesome than this artist. Troll much?

[@stephenpatt952]

@@patrickmckinley2980 has a funny bone...no, no trolling, just playing guitar for sixty years, and I have a decent sense of time and proportion. Time to grow up Patrick--yes, she's cute, but that only gets one so far in life....

[@patrickmckinley2980]

@@stephenpatt952 sure, mate. Sure. Just let me know when you create something worth listening to. I like this song quite a bit, so I can only imagine what a true master like yourself must sound like. In the meantime, I guess keep telling young women to smile more, I hear they love that.

[@georgegeranios2918]

Let us know when your profile in Guitar Player is coming up.

[@jpwaterman5104]

Be easy, on Stephen, everyone- he's had a guitar stuck up his ass for...60 years...thats a mighty long time to have a guitar stuck up one's bum, yes indeedy. I really like this song, too! This guitarist is inspiring to me and I like the recklessness. Its edgy and its what she's going for. And I'm quite sure she doesn't give a damn about what some old man thinks of her appearance vs. her playing.

[@DHPshow]

Incredible