Solo instrumental acoustic guitar thread (with occasional vocal & duo exceptions)

This guy has never had formal music training and cannot read or transcribe music. Chew on that for a moment. Some kind of divine spark flew from Chet Atkins to Emmanuel.
 
Here, Emmanuel goes pretty much insane with (classical) gas, and it's a joy to listen. Note the whimsical Ventures break in the middle. As one who constantly does mashups on the pianoforte, I dig this guy. (The Frau has asked me stop doing the Battle Hymn Darling Clementine mashup - apparently the whimsy wears off after a couple listens)

 
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This guy has never had formal music training and cannot read or transcribe music. Chew on that for a moment. Some kind of divine spark flew from Chet Atkins to Emmanuel.
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Lots of great players never had lessons, they grow up listening to music, singing and if they are lucky they have a player in their lives. The guy who shows them their first chord, an older brother, uncle, gran who played piano.
I would say it is different for classical players, those great players were probably doing scales when they were 5.
Jazz players? A bit of both? I know Buddy Rich didn't read music or at least did not read well. In terms of technique he was second to none, for interpretation I would say he was the best also.
 
Is this skepticism even real, or just a facetious promotional gimmick? If actual, he just needs to counter it by pointing out all the other guitarists who use tapping style. Michael Hedges was doing it on acoustic guitar back in the 1980s, and Eddie Van Halen on electric in the late 1970s.

And using the guitar as a percussion instrument is a historic feature of Flamenco playing (which was part of Marcin's early training from age 12). Tommy Emmanuel treated his his guitar like a drum extensively on some of his compositions back in the 2000s (if not well before that decade).

Marcin: "How Music Works"
 
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This guy somehow plays three guitar parts on one guitar, on "Roundabout," and it is exquisite. Call it a morning driving through the sound, well spent.

 
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This guy somehow plays three guitar parts on one guitar, on "Roundabout," and it is exquisite. Call it a morning driving through the sound, well spent.

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And that apparently is his own arrangement that he's worked out. Three years before, he played Edgar Cruz's version of "Bohemian Rhapsody", which may have set a fire under him to adapt Yes on his own.

And speaking of Cruz -- how could I have, up to this point, forgotten him? Years ago, there was a PBS station that had him on every weekend. We came across an old 1990s issue of Acoustic Guitar Magazine with an interview, that featured notation of his arrangement of "Fur Elise". Cruz has arranged everything under the sun to classical guitar. He apparently suffers from focal dystonia now, but is still playing -- had to learn how to do things a different way.

Edgar Cruz: "Bohemian Rhapsody" (Queen)
 
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Naudo chooses a less conventional for jazz guitar. I tend to associate it with the acoustic/electric archtop with violin style f-holes. His In the Mood had some interesting buzz on the bassline - maybe a more Brazilian thing?
 
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Naudo chooses a less conventional for jazz guitar. I tend to associate it with the acoustic/electric archtop with violin style f-holes. His In the Mood had some interesting buzz on the bassline - maybe a more Brazilian thing?
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I wish he had a better acoustic pickup system. Whatever he's using, it's not doing his playing complete justice (at times). Something like Casper Esmann's utilities comes to mind, or even Cory Heuvel -- who just puts an expensive microphone in front of his guitar. (Though I know the latter probably wouldn't be ideal for the noisy tourist environments that Naudo works in.)

Apparently, spending circa a year and a half as an apprentice in a Buddhist monastery instills a hairstyle that's difficult to remain departed from for long. He's getting an age where maybe it suits him, though.

The original band version is here.

Corey Heuvel: "Walking on the Moon" (The Police)
 
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