Insane High School Talent Show Guitar Solo

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Hello. This is me playing at my high school's talent show with my amazing PRS SE Paul Allender guitar. I've only been playing for 1.5 years, so don't say that I suck. Have a most excellent day, everyone.

[@Chad_Sandridge75]

Have you "critics" forgot this is a KID that has only played 1.5 years? It's a high school talent show! His objective is to impress other teenagers, not middle aged want to be elitist guitar players. Plus this is a 5 minute showoff solo, not him playing with his band. Hardly enough evidence to judge his creativity or emotional connection with his playing.

[@Meccarox]

Chad Sandridge so true

[@thegoldenllama8787]

He could just be lying about that 1.5 years so he doesn't get hate, y'know.

[@Fin2001]

Chad Sandridge Way better than I was at 18 months.

[@pieproductionstv4886]

Did you not here the sweep picking part

[@squiggly_lines]

@@pieproductionstv4886 a good teacher and student can accomplish even more than this given 18 months of steady work.

[@Hawaiiweekend]

At least he's not sitting on the couch, commenting....

[@jenidu9642]

I'm sitting on the toilet, thank you VERY much

[@lapinus]

If this was him 1.5 years into guitar playing, I can only imagine what he is capable of today. It was a really nice solo !

[@lynchlink01]

Having long hair helps.

[@ovguy2k]

It actually does!!

[@lynchlink01]

ovguy2k 😊 short hair is for rappers

[@wGScopez]

and thats why i hate nickleback cause chad cut his hair

[@8renato8]

lynchlink01 rob halford its rapper i didnt know it

[@joeytollison9238]

***** no, no hair is for rappers lol

[@peterapazidis8889]

All you people on here ever do is insult a guitarist by saying "yeah thats an easy riff" I see this on nearly every video of someoe playing guitar. And I bet half the people who say it don't even play guitar

[@brocklesnerd1283]

And for the 90% werent as good at this kids age

[@mikeburns4379]

I hope this guy won that night

[@copaxan]

hopefully but alot of people dont realize the amount of talent this shit takes also why am i responding to a 7 year old comment lmfao

[@Shady1029]

@@copaxan same reason why I’m replying to a 7 month old comment

[@josephhill2868]

@@Shady1029 🙃

[@dasjake116]

If I had a dollar for every time a kid played eruption at a talent show I would have 6 hundred million dollars.

[@smoshfan587]

Jequisha how? there are only 7 million people in the world????

[@dasjake116]

smoshfan587 You dumbass. I know you are joking, haha.

[@smoshfan587]

Jequisha :D

[@alexveldhuis6004]

+smoshfan587 try billion

[@byrne5948]

DasJake if I had a dollar for every time someone plays smoke on the water I would be a rich man

[@blueheron5232]

How many guitar players does it take to change a light bulb? Just one to do it but as many as you can find to say... "I could do it better." The young man's demonstrating very strong technique. His timing is clean and consistent throughout. He clearly has a very good teacher, one who's taught him how to get the most out of his practice time. Once this guy has a couple years of regular gigging under his belt I'd pay cash money to see him.

[@conflicttv1153]

He probably trained himself. From what I've seen, guitarists who train themselves are usually the best and learn faster. Chuck from Death taught himself, and he's crowned Father of Death Metal.

[@willykakka]

Conflict TV I do think this kid can play! But picking few examples from the pool of millions don't really count. There's more people that can play and got teached and actually the ones that got teached are indeed much better. (comparing is for retards. music is about indivitiuality, not competition). I have 2 students but i don't find myself as "teacher"... but i do know lot of techniques, tricks and some theory. I learned on my own but occasionally my older brother has helped me develop myself... it's not about do you get teached or do you learn it by yourself... it is about PRACTISING!!! figuring out music! Many people spend their time arguing (me on this hand) and not playing... playing makes you better and playing more with variety makes you more open minded musically...

[@REEFBLUENOTCH]

P Czapla................Well it's BEEN well over a "couple years" (coming up on six years) since this video was put out. He's out of high school...it's now 2015, and he's come a long way since.

[@gregraines1599]

Conflict TV Even Jimmy Page took lessons from John McLaughlin.

[@conflicttv1153]

greg raines I meant generally guitarists who teach themselves are good. I know there are many guitarists out there who took lessons, but I know many, such as Chuck Schuldiner, Alexi Laiho and many others were decently young when they bought their first guitars, and then taught themselves to play (like literally taught themselves. No KZbin or shit (because they didn't have KZbin)).

[@leoli6116]

I'm at the 1.5th year on guitar and consider myself a relatively faster learner. This guy is light years ahead of me.

[@jonztwn]

For all those guys saying they can do better, give us the link to your solo we'll decide.

[@BPskiSchool]

exactly.. and they wont.

[@G.IJoshua]

Not one after 7 years lol

[@starplatinum727]

Still none

[@joemikep503]

2:45 Buckethead - Big sur moon, thank me later

[@piacere_lore]

Joe Mike P Comment section never disappoints me

[@tedpeek76]

Bucket head is the man.

[@mattthemetalguitarist]

I don't know if most people in the crowd even knew what he was playing. ;(

[@1954ggb]

Keep at it son, Rock & Roll is ALIVE and well. To all you young people out there, the music is the secret to internal transformation. It is Life.

[@danyeun01]

i know this is random but who else agrees moonlight sonata mov. 3 sounds great on electric guitar? if you havent heard it, you should search it up.

[@typocat9168]

finger tapping xD nothing like that shit to make the crowd look on awe nice one kid your secret is safe with me

[@GrimmsHouseofHorror]

DJMinX finger tapping can be fun as shit to play in a song though, only if you do a small portion though, you gotta feel all parts of the guitar lol like your making love to the thing

[@thomasvee329]

I've been playing for 35 years and couldn't perform 5 seconds of this, let alone 5 minutes! Way to go, dude...you're awesome!

[@astraluna6is9]

🤣

[@shanealan2995]

Takes balls to get up and do a guitar solo like this in highschool!

[@andreit3601]

Very nice! Good form. You clearly have a good, high paced guitar teacher and it seems you have put in a lot of practice (yet its still hard to believe that you managed to do all this within 1.5 years). But if i may politely critique, although it was a wonderful showcase of technique i thought that it lacked soul and logical musical progression. You got all the tricks in the bag: tapping, pick sweeps, palm mutes, pulloffs, hammer ons, etc, but unless you arrange them in a melodic way, you produce a piece that sounds impressive yet bland and tasteless. Guitar soloing is not all about how fast you can play random licks. Learning scales can help a lot. My god... how many years of pain i could have saved if i had your guitar teacher! :)

[@chanceybryant4972]

Keep in mind this is a kid lol look at the one reflecting here this kid is amazing

[@PPioner]

typical middle aged guitar «elitist». let the guy play, soul into it will come later. with that said i don’t think you are able to play this lmao🤣🤣🤣

[@andreit3601]

True, 7 years later, this kid would still kick my kid ass any day.

[@rockmetallyrics7359]

the problem with kids today is that they dont know how to get off the gain and all the pointless metal shredding

[@EndlessVoid98]

Stereotyping like usual...

[@mbs100k]

The kid is showing it off in a couple minutes. So shred it up. It kicks the shit out of cRAP.

[@rockmetallyrics7359]

i mean you can do so much more with a Schecter

[@tonymarinelli7304]

Michael Shutes Very good point, I would rather listen to this than that shit they call rap (crap)

[@rockmetallyrics7359]

Michael Shutes how does cRAP came here?!?

[@theresehughes7323]

This kid is amazing. I always come back to this video. Ive showed this to alot of people. Crazy good.

[@isucktoesmomdealwithit1396]

Man in so stoked this is still on KZbin, I remember watching this for the first time like 2-3 months after it was originally posted and I’m still blown away with your incredible talent, imma have to check out your channel a bit and see what kinds of stuff you’ve been dabbling in the past decade

[@guitarjam96]

That was a great guitar solo! My favorite part of your guitar solo was when you played clean with reverb. Good job! ☺👍🎼🎵🎸

[@theshybabe]

oh my god. I've never heard anything so amazing aside from anything Eddie Van Halen has played. GREAT JOB! (:

[@kizzoken9759]

Bro absolutely destroyed that talent show. Hands fkn down. Period. He’s winning in life for sure. 💯💪🏽💪🏽💪🏽

[@johnsanuy]

way to rock it kid. it takes talent to get up there and do what you did and you naile it I hope your guitar playing days are long and endless.

[@1p6t1gms]

I love how he exited the stage at 5:07; he gives everyone the one finger salute.

[@rrhoads007]

1p6t1gms haha It does look like I'm flipping everyone off! I never noticed that! It's actually the \m/ gesture.

[@bailyfranklin3450]

1p6t1gms d

[@euphoricatlast]

The song he was playing after the sweep picking was Ewan Dobson - Level 2, if you're wondering. Originally played on Acoustic.

[@rrhoads007]

marie nora It's actually Big Sur Moon by Buckethead

[@euphoricatlast]

11THLANDING Then someone's plagiarizing the other because they sound awfully similar..

[@euphoricatlast]

I'm assuming Big Sur moon came first though.

[@rrhoads007]

marie nora Yes. Late 90's, I think.

[@madnsdestiny]

marie nora apparently any song that has an echoing effect is copying something lmao, ewan dobson doesn't even have a song called level 2 and time 2 isn't even close to this

[@VexedDeath]

Beautiful man, keep on rock'en

[@seirrafjones]

This is awesome. No doubt best thing I've seen.

[@Hollywood14895]

Kids some real talent! Don't let haters knock you down!

[@FrankPCarpi]

Fast fingers man, wow!

[@briansimons3576]

this kid has extreme talent and taste. great sound, timing,control, and rock savy. boys and girls ... meet the future , rock on brother from another mother

[@dianaldavis8081]

I personally love this great job man

[@TheChungassSupreme]

Lordy, a Paul Allender SE? And only 1.5 years at that time? Son, you're gonna go places. I'm sure you're gonna be the next Freddie.

[@koreyhudgins1431]

Oh no no noooo, close, but not Freddie. :) He did really good though.

[@luckythewolf6411]

it's 1 1/2, not 1.5

[@TheChungassSupreme]

wolf master same thing, genius.

[@luckythewolf6411]

Just saying

[@TheChungassSupreme]

wolf master both are correct. Woo l why the semantics?

[@szymonbalcer]

No thats not insane. Thats just tapping. Probably the easiest thing to learn when you spend some time on it. An insane solo is a solo that is enjoyable to listen to. Not fast.

[@benlangbein924]

Exactly No emotion, no feeling,

[@bsg563]

so true! young musicians are playing nothing but same fast power chords and tapping but they don't even know the greatest guitarists such as Joe bonamassa, eric johnson or mark knopfler

[@lalogreiner]

Simeey I agree. Technique is not art.

[@szymonbalcer]

Lalo Greiner Creativity is art :)

[@Itzsfo0]

Simeey no thats just your opinion, someone can like this MORE then some slow "emotional" solo w/ what you call "heart" some may prefer this, I prefer fast over anything zeppeling has ever done w/ jimmy page (doesnt mean i dont respect them as artists I do) but I dont like the average rhythm and blues guitar player...I prefer eddie van halen, I prefer joe satriani, steve vai, speed metal, "virtuosity" speed and precisioN DOES take skill say whatever you want its music, its PREFERENCE/taste nobody is right :)

[@allytrevino2506]

Dude, this is AMAZING!! I am in love with you right now!!

[@nashavi5738]

OUTSTANDING!!!

[@Mudge0001]

great playing the first 3mins was a bit hard on the ears really but I'm old .. and I know it still took some learning to do.. but the 2nd part of the video after the pedal change was excellent.. well done.

[@yaya2006]

starting @ 2:46 till the end is one of the sickest guitar i have ever heard, awesomeness!!

[@emagist]

Search youtube for Ewan Dobson (Time 2)

[@crypto_div]

completely agree, no joke i've used this this as my ringtone for like 2 years

[@tonymarinelli7304]

HE is using a friggin delay pedal and is only playing a few notes at a time. You need to get out a little more.

[@Avenged_foREVer]

its big sur moon from buckethead

[@Numberfourwithextrasauce]

Hell yeah, crazy potential and skill

[@toxicwhorestar]

great work; you have a gift. stay excellent.

[@Gabyrhcp15]

U rock!!! u play for 1.5 years and can do all of that!! I can't play even a half, congratulations! U remember me very much my friend...I'm sorry for my bad English,I'm brazilian...

[@Gabyrhcp15]

esse menino é mto bom....cara

[@Double0Smirk]

I feel like I suck now since I've played for nearly a year now and am nowhere near that level

[@TherealHRF]

Haha you and me both dude but I am closer to 2 yrs and still suck!

[@SuperplayerThe]

All I can say just keep on rocking.

[@D7J7W7]

Incredible, man ! Keep it going !

[@bobbybays9591]

Cant tell if all the people saying he sucks are trolls or if they have never touched a guitar in their life

[@musicjunkie421]

+LENNON BLACK The whole solo is lackluster until he turned on the echo peddle. This solo is only amazing to people who don't know shit about music

[@maaaaaap]

i think it is more likely to be the other way around. Though he is pretty good for playing only 1.5 years

[@musicjunkie8771]

+LENNON BLACK Whoa. what'd I say? i don't remember ever watching this. sorry if I was an asshole.

[@miyukiichigo9870]

+Music Junkie lol maybe they typed the name wrong xD

[@BPskiSchool]

And you do? especially at that age?

[@martelli1273]

O mlk manja, pena que as pessoas não conhecem as músicas e, nem sabem oq ele ta fazendo, isso q me deixa triste quando vou tocar fora

[@shelliewerner5624]

EXCELLENT job young man....

[@Vlad-fg5ru]

That's amazing!

[@adarkerlight]

Came here for the title "Insane". Then I see the player is the uploader is the titler is the self-labeling ego.

[@nick718r2]

+adarkerlight I thought it was pretty insane. He deserves to be able to brag!

[@56conn6h]

+adarkerlight no shame

[@brocklesnerd1283]

Jealous of the success of a kid uh ? :)

[@thisispodracing3040]

Holy shit dude, extremely good. You're really going somewhere ;D

[@kickbam213]

yep he is going to be dissapointed if he leaves all cuz of his guitar cuz he got positive comentars on youtube (who most dont even play guitar) and then when he steps up to real crowd who plays that and knows to recognize good from bad he will be pushed to ground...I finished primary school (classical (spanish(Solfegge))) 6 years and I am going to rock middle academy school...trust me just that isnt good...but practice and maybe..

[@thisispodracing3040]

I love how you assume that I don't play...

[@kickbam213]

Hatty Hattington I love how ignorant you are...you can ply and suck like thius guy above and if that is good to you then you suck like him or eve n worse sorry..

[@thisispodracing3040]

Tim Slim Thanks man. Glad to see some cool people are still on the internet these days.

[@devilpuppetsinc]

Hatty Hattington I have watched a few different videos tonight (don't usually watch youtube but went through the rabbit hole tonight) and it seems on every video Kick Bam makes the same comments about his school and how great he is and how much these people suck. 11thlading, if you're ever in the Chicago area hit me up. I have been playing instrumental music for 12 years now and you are kicking some ass in this 5 years ago. I will look up your actual band later. Congrats man, that is great stuff for high school talent show and those who want to tear you down are probably cry baby dick heads. www.lostinblue.com

[@paradiseangel72]

Man this brought me back to my 1989 Junior HS days there very talented rockers and you remind me of them ❤️

[@danieljones1402]

Added you guys.. awesome take bro.. do not stop.!!!

[@ktown4life1337]

3:15 buckethead!!!

[@sparkster21]

2:10 Van Halen- Eruption very nice :)

[@scarlett92584]

You rock..........Keep up the good work

[@keith9713]

Awesome man !! That was incredible! Keep it going...

[@HorrorEdits]

I mean yeah it wasnt like crazy insane, but it was pretty damn good but yeah now that you have been playing a while im sure you are much better than this, still one of the best performances i have ever seen

[@theo9952]

Shredding will eventually evolve into non-music.

[@paulgreene7424]

like most music nowadays

[@LordGeyBoi]

Its still music to me

[@hillierutopia4554]

theo9952 I like the shredding. to me it is music. it's a passionate way to throw in emotion. but this rap music now a days has no passion.

[@theo9952]

Charles Hillier Well, when it comes to rap I agree with you. To me it is not even music. Shredding is impressive, no doubt about it, although some of it sounds like finger acrobatics which in my humble opinion, rather lack emotion. Still, I admire a shredder's dexterity.

[@mattvanhorn6866]

Just because you underappreciate the musical value of and dedication and advanced technique required to execute shredding, does not mean it isn't music. Grow up. Like it or not, music by definition is not limited to sappy repetitive, two note string bending, or electro dubstep.

[@danieljones1402]

awesome lil' dude... you nailed it!!!!

[@manuelperez9652]

This kid is amazing. Much respect. I'm sure he will go far.

[@buzzspiker]

Pretty good but that sweep pick at 1:30 or so was a hot steaming pile of shit no offense

[@BPskiSchool]

Yours?

[@AndiAndDane]

You guys shouldn't be judging his head. Am I right or wrong? You know the answer.

[@DigitalCrack202]

2017 and its still awesome.

[@elijahapperson7222]

This guy killed it!!! What a beast!

[@gss.L-05]

Delay.... Big Sur Moon...

[@Justanother94]

Yes I was stoked to hear that. Buckethead is one of the best

[@gss.L-05]

He did it justice.

[@HShawnWilson]

"Insane?" ... Talented?..yes.. skilled?.. yes.. Excellent? yes.... Impressive?..yes.. Insane???.. not QUITE.... there but definitely sounds like could be cutting records! hopefully he gets/got a band together and creates his own music...would be great hearing a composition of his own!.

[@johnnyneves19]

+Shawn Wilson did u even read the description

[@geoff3610]

Most excellent dude

[@tharealchef2539]

Thumbs up man! That was pretty frickin' awesome!

[@Tyler_Kahl]

Sounds like Van Halen and dragonforce amazing

[@GulfNegrol]

dont compare this to dragonforce, if it was anywhere near dragonforce he would have to be asian

[@user-eh2pz2yl5k]

***** Hate to tell you that Dragonforce are shit compared to people like Synyster Gates, Ben Higgins, Ygnwie Malnsteen, Paul Gilbert, Brian Haner etc etc

[@anthonywellentin2654]

Dimebag is the greatest of great jus sayin

[@user-eh2pz2yl5k]

HOW DID I FORGET DIME?!

[@darrellowns3]

Pandasaremetal synyster gates? l0l

[@DavidGrimes2112]

The only thing you have to do to impress teens these days is have a flashy guitar and start tapping away.

[@joshuahathorn7570]

And make sure you have long hair :)

[@swamprooster7003]

Joshua Hathorn A bald guy with a guitar is a reflector or....... Joe Satriani..

[@johnmorgan3038]

Ya because sweeping doesn't take talent, I love how people after like "oh ya a bunch of pull offs" but yet there re harmonics in this and a lot of sweeping

[@BPskiSchool]

All you nay sayers cant play this stuff..why do you even talk?

[@gandalfthegrey9524]

A New Shredding Legend Has Been Born.

[@randyenglebretson4431]

SWEET! we need you in the fold! rock on brother!

[@dftba171]

This wasnt that impressive. Tapping sounds super hard but its quite easy... and most of the other stuff was just sort of fast picking/licks from songs that are memorized in a days work..

[@dftba171]

***** Obviously. I know that.

[@cabinfever5605]

It doesn't have to be hard to be good, look at how popular AC/DC are and they aren't exactly technically brilliant, neither are KISS.

[@dftba171]

Cabin Fever Angus does do some good improvision solos though.

[@SkezZHD]

***** He never compared them he said that nor Kiss or ACDC uses any really hard techinque for their music in guitar playing.

[@letigidou2052]

Bah , lots of people flag ac/dc as super easy but when you give them an actual rock overdrive without five truck loads of distortion they realize it's not so easy to make it sound good.

[@christiansectas]

I'm sorry but at that age, Jason Becker was doing that with one hand and playing with the yo yo with the other... I'm not kidding, I just think the title of this video is too misleading, I mean good job playing tons of good well done exercises, now, start composing and play something amazing cause you definitely have the potential to do that!

[@TheLastAbacus]

Kazbur lol That's the guitarist for Sectas, you're delusional my friend.

[@TheBeefychorizo]

Fuckin amazing bro. That ending was mesmerising.

[@emilykalinoski1167]

Amazing job!!!😃😃😃👍👍👍

[@tweedyburd007]

lookin hella like jimmy page at royal albert hall

[@barryvyskocil511]

Vaxtin Are you some kind of NUT! this wanker is playing bits and pieces of arpeggios scale runs using the tapping, hammer-on and pull-off's in a rather random fashion! I never heard a hint of Jimmy unless it was during a sad drunken 5 minute beer bottle for slide solo where he is lamenting the boredom that music has become. I heard nothing that this twerp played that reminded me in any way of say, the solo in Whole Lotta Love! The all time best guitar solo ever played! It is all there, and in just a few dozen seconds Jimmy plays everything that needed to be played as well as the most important parts where he didn't over play. Learn it, love it, understand it, and you can be up there with the greats! Until then Get a hair cut and get a real Job! YOUR GUITAR PLAYING SUCKS- TOTAL BOREDOM!

[@tweedyburd007]

Bruce Swansong i said he looks like him. not sound.

[@charliebrother8432]

Lol what a dumbest...

[@charliebrother8432]

*dumbass

[@waynesmith747]

+Barry Vyskocil just because you want to blow jimmy page doesn't make him the be all to end all, i love zepplin but i also love yngwie malmsteen,buckethead,gnr,metallica,lamb of god ,judas priest iron maiden,accept,rainbow,dio,black sabbath,five finger,van halen etc etc etc.

[@ZomboBoxL7]

It's not called solo.... just several licks. solo is a whole composition. + here we can only see arpeggios, legatos and taping.

[@mrbianco1979]

shut up!

[@alejandrorubio118]

mark young delay pedal........ kinda obvious

[@markyoung5037]

obvious to someone who plays electric maybe! as i mentioned i only just got mine and unfamiliar with all the amps, pedals, effects! thanks for the arrogant response! appreciate it =)

[@ImminentCare]

It's called solo because he's playing alone.

[@ZomboBoxL7]

It's called playing solo part not solo. solo is whole composition not lots of other licks mixed together and warming up licks.

[@serarev8315]

AWESOME!!!!!!!!

[@philipbrailey]

Most enjoyable. Thank you.

[@blackfalcondown580]

He has a few mistakes here and there, some are hard to notice, others are really clear. He is not bad to be honest, but I can do a lot better. Just kidding, he can fuck me any day of the week in a battle, really great player, I don't get why a lot of people keep pointing out his mistakes and keep saying that they can do better. Is this the kind of response you get when you start getting good at playing the guitar?

[@shaneasmith6]

nah mate this is what you get when you get good at anything, the talent-less drag down people with talent so they can feel good about themselves.

[@Musictutorials101]

Not really a solo, more of a collection of parts of various songs

[@chrisdubay02]

You're not really a solo

[@organist660]

this is a awesome van halen song you really rocked it.

[@detroitrockcity22]

This is the video that introduced me to big sur moon. Love that song.

[@longdark4ever]

The thing that gets me people say Insane and then try to impress with finger tapping, give me a break.

[@Chrisandjack666]

he needs a haircut

[@skyswift-]

i thought it was a girl ರ_ರ

[@DarkEmoSophia]

A REAL MAN NEVER CUTS HIS HAIR

[@diegopalominoss]

NOT IF YOU'RE PLAYING ROCK/METAL, NO THANKS NO HAIRCUT!!

[@marcelinegh]

LONG HAIR FOR BOYS IS AWESOME !!!!

[@sammysanchez1417]

Rockers don't get haircuts your in the wrong place go back to your Bruno Mars shit

[@derekmartin6833]

amazing!

[@metalskinstudios]

What a beautiful PRS....

[@matthewearl9824]

looks like a PRS. cost more than the kid.

[@stackhom656]

doesn't it look like an SE? or just me?

[@larrythepython2005]

Did he even play any actual cords? All tap and effects? Big deal!

[@russinwestrant8950]

That's what I thought

[@not_relevant1353]

Solos generally don't use chords when done in the style of metal

[@LavenderTownWasTaken]

Playing chords in a metal solo can sound really cheesy, this is way more impressive

[@BPskiSchool]

show us your stuff or shut up.

[@jasonstewart2590]

Awesome! Nothing wrong with a guitar player who has potential to inspire the next generation of metalheads. Keep it up cause you can only get better 🤘🤘

[@TheZodiacKatGamer]

I love this~

[@Arak_Drakoniz]

That kid has technique, but no creativity what with him overdoing it with the tapping... and that amp sounds terrible. Also, I doubt he was only playing for 1.5 years at the time, I'm sure it was longer than that. That seems to be a thing among musicians, saying that they've been playing for less than they actually have been playing.

[@russjones3415]

Suck it

[@santeriyla-jarkko9719]

Tapping needs no creativity and a good solo is creative. Listen to Guthrie Govan's solos, technique and creativity

[@ShortySeconds2Mars]

Arak Drakoniz Actually you can develop this level of technique in matter of weeks... I've been playing guitar for a long time (too lazy to remember when i started and calc). These are just some very basic scales, i think only1 scale to be honest but i skipped a lot in the vid, with distorted tapping that just looks and sounds complicated. After that he switches to a clean channel with heavy delay effect, also sounding complicated, but its a simple riff with the effect repeating it. These are just some fancy and easy stuff to make yourself look cool, or to get people into playing guitar when you say "i can teach you this in a month"

[@Arak_Drakoniz]

Zsolt Molnár He has technique, he has talent, but everything he played in this video is just stuff most metal guitarists can play. It really isn't all that creative. Also, tapping isn't complicated. I like metal and whatnot, but in some respects it's just a genre to impress people. I've been playing for about 6.5 years. I still can't solo worth a damn, I still don't know scales and I didn't start learning how to play chords (other than power chords) until just early last year. I'm just estimating that about 80% of what I've learned was from listening and self teaching. Personally I'm just influenced by simple stuff (i.e. Xasthur, Autumn's Grey Solace, Smashing Pumpkins).

[@ShortySeconds2Mars]

Arak Drakoniz He doesnt really show neither technique, nor talent here, i'm not saying he don't have any, just not showing it on this video, these are kind of the cheap tricks of playing the guitar. Also as a little side note, i'd like to point out that the amp is really underpowered, also it's recorded with relatively low quality so... Anyway, he's a cool kid, but he shouldn't waste his time doing these kind of stuff and thus praising him for this stuff isn't good imo. No offense, but if you can't do some solo, i don't mean Joe Satriani level, just some stuff that would go for an amateur band, i would call you a hobby guitarist. You basically just look up tabs for songs you like, am i right?

[@ericmathena]

Nice technique. No heart, no emotion, no music.

[@BPskiSchool]

And you? back your bs up at least

[@angrybasque]

Awesome!

[@jakefisk1308]

holy crap dude! your are amazing you don't even need anyone on here to tell you that but damn grate job keep going I know we will all be seeing you soon. damn man you gave me chills xD

[@modelcitizen1977]

Typical guitarist nervous tic. Touches knobs 300 times. Adjusts nothing.

[@BPskiSchool]

show us your stuff or just shut up.

[@Jordan-rb28]

1-12-1-*pick scrape**-borning tapping-*--1-12-1-*pick scrape* so boring....

[@slumdogjoe]

Whoaahh way to go... you say you have been playing guitar only 1.5 years and can play all that?? i couldnt even play 1/10th of that..... when i was 1.5 years into guitar. Kudos to you... may you become better and may your hard work pay off.

[@Brice855464]

Damn dude. This is amazing. I'm not a guitarist but I'm a vocalist, if I got into a band with your kind of talent I might actually get somewhere. And this is coming 5 years after this video was posted, you're probably much better than you were then.