Boggle...

[demoneyes_phil]

This guy is ... good. Maybe not the usual way to play guitar, but...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbndgwfG22k

Comments

[smallship1.livejournal.com]

Have you not seen (or heard) Joe Giacoia? He's a filker who does much the same kind of thing, only with the guitar held in the usual way. I saw him at Marcon in 2000. I boggled.

[thnidu.livejournal.com]

(Giacoio, IIRC.) Yeah, I was gonna mention him. When I saw him -- Arisia maybe? Noreascon 4? -- my reaction was, Nobody should be able to do that much with the fretting hand!

The basic technique isn't new. It's called hammering on when you get a note by, well, hammering your finger down onto the string, and pulling off when you get it by releasing -- including, I guess, plucking it with the fretting hand. (I'm deliberately not saying "left hand", since there are left-handed players who reverse the usual functions of the hands.) Or so I was taught many and many a year ago, in a kingdom by the sea... uh, in a summer camp in the hills.

[musicmutt.livejournal.com]

Not bad, for a tool-usung ape. Stanley Jordan to the estreme. Thanks for linking that.

[rinioth.livejournal.com]

Wow! really good.

reminds me of the technique used to play "the stick"
http://www.stick.com/