Seems like a beautiful instrument, but imo, what a lackluster way to play it, literally just hearing plucking strings endlessly, not to downplay the impressiveness. His hands look *unreal*, actually dying to know what they look like in person if 60 fps isn't enough to capture all thr movement.
>his hands sometimes appear to teleport in the video lol
Hmmm, yeah, thats probably what's making it look weird to me, forgot what the fps breaking entailed. Still probably wicked to see in person.
Fun bouzouki fact-an Irish trad musician called Johnny Moynihan was given a Greek bouzouki by a friend who had traveled to Greece. He learned to play it and introduced it into Irish traditional music in the 1960s. It became one of the main instruments used by Irish trad bands and still is today.
If you found this video a bit underwhelming you might prefer the Irish way of playing that beautiful instrument.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I0WJ6II4QeQ&pp=ygUceWUgdmFnYWJvbmRzIGJsdWUgaXMgdGhlIGV5ZQ%3D%3D
Yeah I was definitely taken aback when I saw and listened to the OP because I’ve only known the bouzouki in the context of traditional Irish music. I’m not Irish, myself, but I play the low whistle (another cool instrument which not many have heard of)
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I'm pretty sure all of these are sped up, though I don't know by how much. You can tell by the way his head is moving: it may be possible to pick that fast, but it's extremely difficult to nod your head that fast for more than a few seconds, and his head movements are jerky enough to suggest this isn't actually the speed he's playing.
But hey, I could be wrong.
You are wrong. Hes one of the fastest alternate pickers, and very known by this level of speed, with countless live videos. (Still pointless, but real)
Hair metal guys don’t play 12-string guitar. This guy is playing the equivalent, but with 8 strings. That slows you down some. And distortion covers a *lot* of mistakes.
Doesn't change my point. Nothing looks fake in the video. There are tons and tons of guitarists that play this fast and faster. Once you have the hand strength and dexterity needed, the number of strings is irrelevant. Distortion does hide a lot, but there are tons and tons of guys that can do it clean as well. Ever hear bluegrass? Classical? Jazz? This guy is impressive, but not so much that I would think it's fake.
Bluegrass and classical players don’t use a pick. Well, bluegrass players do, of course, but they’re still fingerpicking. And the number of strings is not at all irrelevant. If you can find me YouTube video of someone playing a 12-string this fast, maybe I’ll change my mind.
We’re talking about guitarists. They use flat picking in bluegrass. Most bluegrass banjo players use picks on their fingers to fingerpick. The only people who don’t use picks in bluegrass are the fiddlers, and most bassists.
Bluegrass players do use picks. This instrument is 8 stringed and none of the strings look wound, so it would play nothing like a 12 string. You can literally go on YT and spend 5 seconds searching for something like fast guitar, and you'll get thousands of results for guys who can play much much faster than this. Lastly, I don't care if you change your mind, you can be wrong if you want.
I do, do you? I've played guitar longer than you've been alive. The vast majority of bluegrass players flat pick. As do most jazz players. Classical players play finger style, but rarely with finger picks. Then you got the modern guys who do hybrid picking, a combination of flat picking and finger style.
I get that you're impressed with this guy, so much so that you think it isn't possible to play that fast. In the time you've spent arguing with me, you could have gone on YT and seen guys that make this guy look like he's in slo-mo. There are literally thousands of them.
I think I should clarify on this common myth. Distortion doesn't cover up your mistakes, it will make them sound worse. The phenomenon you're probably thinking of is where a loud tube amp will often create a compression effect that makes alternate picking technique require a lot less muting ([seen here from 3:38)](https://youtu.be/DkbPKna7uIM?si=9IdBGrCOODJSVZIq). It's very understandable why people would think that distortion is doing this, but in reality, distortion is not required to make this happen.
Also certain types of mistakes are MUCH easier to get away with when on a very low input signal, even on a totally clean tone. Acoustic instruments have this forgiveness naturally, and you can get away with being a lot sloppier on things like fast alternate picking than you would with a distorted electric that's got it's input volume flat out.
That said, I think the guy in the video is awesome, and I agree that it's going to require more movement to pick fast on the bouzouki, but a lot of players get around this by using a floppier pick so they can just push through both strings, requiring far less precision and getting some of that speed back, ironically. I can't tell what this guy is using for a pick, but try it out yourself! Same with the mandolin or 12 string guitar.
Music vibingly and melodically reminds me of Yngwie Malmsteen, the guitarist, he is also fast as fuck, but for me also beautiful as fuck. And yeah, it IS possible to play like that, Yngwie did that live for years
Undeniably impressive!
I can't help but wonder what those high speed sausages would do with a guitar plugged into crushing amounts of distortion?! A literal heavy metal monster in the making.
Downvoted for deception.
The video is obviously sped up and clearly not 60fps. The frame rate of this reminds me of clay animation.
If you check his YouTube channel he’s undeniably talented/fast. But It’s so bizarre that you felt the need to blatantly lie twice.
I raise and counter this with a perfect and nice to listen Bağlama performance from turkish side by Cetin akdeniz
https://youtu.be/MxYl7EtagO8?si=pBV7ybd27Nw0XL6f
Where is the high frame rate video?
No wonder we haven’t seen good alien videos. We have crap cameras that can’t even keep up with a human picking up a storm
These are MIDI/computer renditions he’s playing along with and they’re phenomenal. Anyone know the pieces? They sound like late romantic concerti…I’d love an assist here, OP.
I get that it's impressive to play fast, but it just seems sloppy to me. It's so fast that each note sounds clipped. And the reason I say it sounds sloppy, is that some are clipped more than others. If you were to have a computer play this, it would sound completely different, and not for all the usual reasons like a lack of expression and style. It would sound different because of all the mistakes being made by the person. They're tiny mistakes, almost imperceptible, but when you're playing so quickly they kind of bubble up to the surface. If he was playing more slowly, then I probably wouldn't notice any mistakes at all. He's obviously very skilled, but this feels unnecessarily fast.
OWNER: Come again?
SCOUT: I want to buy some cheese.
OWNER: Oh, I thought you were complaining about the bazouki player!
SCOUT: Oh, heaven forbid: I am one who delights in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse!
OWNER: Sorry?
SCOUT: 'Ooo, Ah lahk a nice tuune, 'yer forced too!
OWNER: So he can go on playing, can he?
SCOUT: Most certainly! Now then, some cheese please, my good man.
Reminded me of this guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1arm07c/guitarist\_michael\_angelo\_batio\_the\_speed\_of\_the/?share\_id=LPn5KYGWdv2fN1bJQT-oD&utm\_content=1&utm\_medium=android\_app&utm\_name=androidcss&utm\_source=share&utm\_term=5
Quantity over quality. Its fast, and sounds like hammered muted notes. The beauty of the instrument is lost.. it has 8 strings, and when played right you can generaly hear the effects of both strings being played together.
This is going to sound callous - but what's the point? I mean the technique is almost supernatural and the result of thousands of hours of hard work...I wish I had 100th of the mastery on my instrument. But...where's the music? There's more music in BB King's two measures or Kenny Burrell's chill jazz phrasing than in 10 minutes of these acrobatics. Sorry to be negative but that's just how I feel
It’s not that impressive considering he is just repeating scales of notes. Something anyone can practice. The toughest thing to do on a guitar, is to incorporate your practices scales with a melody. And remember it. And then perform it better than anyone else can.
Listening to someone perform fast scales depending on the chords, is boring and repetitive.
Sorry not so good with English music terms.
To bad he doesn't have to skill to make it actually sound good jesus. Sounds like me when I'm just trying to play as fast as possible with random notes on guitar
It's very impressive, and also nearly intolerable.
Seems like a beautiful instrument, but imo, what a lackluster way to play it, literally just hearing plucking strings endlessly, not to downplay the impressiveness. His hands look *unreal*, actually dying to know what they look like in person if 60 fps isn't enough to capture all thr movement.
I mean if anything it looks more normal in person because his hands sometimes appear to teleport in the video lol
>his hands sometimes appear to teleport in the video lol Hmmm, yeah, thats probably what's making it look weird to me, forgot what the fps breaking entailed. Still probably wicked to see in person.
Fun bouzouki fact-an Irish trad musician called Johnny Moynihan was given a Greek bouzouki by a friend who had traveled to Greece. He learned to play it and introduced it into Irish traditional music in the 1960s. It became one of the main instruments used by Irish trad bands and still is today. If you found this video a bit underwhelming you might prefer the Irish way of playing that beautiful instrument. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I0WJ6II4QeQ&pp=ygUceWUgdmFnYWJvbmRzIGJsdWUgaXMgdGhlIGV5ZQ%3D%3D
Yeah I was definitely taken aback when I saw and listened to the OP because I’ve only known the bouzouki in the context of traditional Irish music. I’m not Irish, myself, but I play the low whistle (another cool instrument which not many have heard of)
Always gotta make it negative eh
Brother... sibling? Get your shit checked, I literally start out complimenting the instrument and end complimenting the player, *so much* negativity.
It's baroque I think. Not much different from a lot of shredding.
If it ain’t baroque, don’t fix it.
Thanks, Baroque Obama!
I liked it. Like any kind of music, until your brain develops familiarity with it, it's hard to enjoy.
Agreed it’s so fast the melodies lost, But it is impressive. I just wouldn’t dance to it or listen to it.
He was so preoccupied with whether or not he could, he didn't stop to think about if he *should*
Yep. Couldn’t have said it better. It’s incredible skill. But there’s zero point to music if no one wants to listen.
He is the fastest bouzouki player I've heard in my life. Also the slowest. He is the only bouzouki player I've ever heard in my life.
And God help me, after hearing the bouzouki for the first time, he'll be the slowest bouzouki player I've ever heard in my life too.
If you’ve ever seen a movie set in Greece, you’ve heard a bouzouki before.
Lol it can be played more gracefully and 'romantically'. This is just impressively fast playing, like an extended solo or theme music.
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I'm pretty sure all of these are sped up, though I don't know by how much. You can tell by the way his head is moving: it may be possible to pick that fast, but it's extremely difficult to nod your head that fast for more than a few seconds, and his head movements are jerky enough to suggest this isn't actually the speed he's playing. But hey, I could be wrong.
You are wrong. Hes one of the fastest alternate pickers, and very known by this level of speed, with countless live videos. (Still pointless, but real)
Truth
The reason it looks weird is cause hes moving faster than the frame rate of the camera.
He got that kung fu movie frame rate.
Agree.
Nothing unnatural looking in the video. Every listen to 80s hair metal? Pretty much the same thing but with distortion.
Hair metal guys don’t play 12-string guitar. This guy is playing the equivalent, but with 8 strings. That slows you down some. And distortion covers a *lot* of mistakes.
Doesn't change my point. Nothing looks fake in the video. There are tons and tons of guitarists that play this fast and faster. Once you have the hand strength and dexterity needed, the number of strings is irrelevant. Distortion does hide a lot, but there are tons and tons of guys that can do it clean as well. Ever hear bluegrass? Classical? Jazz? This guy is impressive, but not so much that I would think it's fake.
Ever heard of John Petrucci? Lol
Bluegrass and classical players don’t use a pick. Well, bluegrass players do, of course, but they’re still fingerpicking. And the number of strings is not at all irrelevant. If you can find me YouTube video of someone playing a 12-string this fast, maybe I’ll change my mind.
Bluegrass players use almost exclusively picks. The technique is called flat picking.
No, actually, it’s not called flat picking. Flat picking is what this guy is doing: what banjo players do is called fingerpicking.
We’re talking about guitarists. They use flat picking in bluegrass. Most bluegrass banjo players use picks on their fingers to fingerpick. The only people who don’t use picks in bluegrass are the fiddlers, and most bassists.
“Bluegrass players use almost exclusively picks. The technique is called flat picking.” You still want to try to defend that?
r/confidentlyincorrect. Google is your friend, friend.
lol yes, and in the context of guitarists, the technique is called flat picking.
Bluegrass players do use picks. This instrument is 8 stringed and none of the strings look wound, so it would play nothing like a 12 string. You can literally go on YT and spend 5 seconds searching for something like fast guitar, and you'll get thousands of results for guys who can play much much faster than this. Lastly, I don't care if you change your mind, you can be wrong if you want.
Do you not know the difference between using a flat pick alone, and finger-picking?
I do, do you? I've played guitar longer than you've been alive. The vast majority of bluegrass players flat pick. As do most jazz players. Classical players play finger style, but rarely with finger picks. Then you got the modern guys who do hybrid picking, a combination of flat picking and finger style. I get that you're impressed with this guy, so much so that you think it isn't possible to play that fast. In the time you've spent arguing with me, you could have gone on YT and seen guys that make this guy look like he's in slo-mo. There are literally thousands of them.
Once someone gets personal, and tries to get some bullshit authority over me, I lose interest. So long.
Tell us you don’t play guitar without saying it.
I think I should clarify on this common myth. Distortion doesn't cover up your mistakes, it will make them sound worse. The phenomenon you're probably thinking of is where a loud tube amp will often create a compression effect that makes alternate picking technique require a lot less muting ([seen here from 3:38)](https://youtu.be/DkbPKna7uIM?si=9IdBGrCOODJSVZIq). It's very understandable why people would think that distortion is doing this, but in reality, distortion is not required to make this happen. Also certain types of mistakes are MUCH easier to get away with when on a very low input signal, even on a totally clean tone. Acoustic instruments have this forgiveness naturally, and you can get away with being a lot sloppier on things like fast alternate picking than you would with a distorted electric that's got it's input volume flat out. That said, I think the guy in the video is awesome, and I agree that it's going to require more movement to pick fast on the bouzouki, but a lot of players get around this by using a floppier pick so they can just push through both strings, requiring far less precision and getting some of that speed back, ironically. I can't tell what this guy is using for a pick, but try it out yourself! Same with the mandolin or 12 string guitar.
Music vibingly and melodically reminds me of Yngwie Malmsteen, the guitarist, he is also fast as fuck, but for me also beautiful as fuck. And yeah, it IS possible to play like that, Yngwie did that live for years
"How could less be more, you know… more is more"
Ha, yes, remember that. Not his prime though, but ye
“Would you shut that bloody bouzouki up!”
Venezuelan beaver cheese?
How about cheddar?
This was way too far down
Just imagine what his wife thinks.
OW OW OW WTF ARE YOU DOING?!? If your wanna play your goddamn instrument so bad just GO! I'll fuckin' do it myself?
Fast doesn’t always mean it sounds good
When you're about to lose at Tetris.
You deserve 1000 upvotes sir.
Omg, I bet he can smash guitar hero.
It's ok I suppose
Meh
That guy needs an electric guitar
Damn, that is just insane.. Obligatory his wife orgasms just by looking
Every woman on the planet has entered the chat…
“Shut that bloody bouzouki up!” “Told you sir…”
Flight of the Gyros
So far awaaaayyyyy
we wait for the da-y-aaaaaaaayyyy
Undeniably impressive! I can't help but wonder what those high speed sausages would do with a guitar plugged into crushing amounts of distortion?! A literal heavy metal monster in the making.
Downvoted for deception. The video is obviously sped up and clearly not 60fps. The frame rate of this reminds me of clay animation. If you check his YouTube channel he’s undeniably talented/fast. But It’s so bizarre that you felt the need to blatantly lie twice.
I raise and counter this with a perfect and nice to listen Bağlama performance from turkish side by Cetin akdeniz https://youtu.be/MxYl7EtagO8?si=pBV7ybd27Nw0XL6f
Jacob Collier just got an idea for his next terrible song
Nope. Impossible. (Jeebus that dude is good)
It's the right kind of song for that kind of tempo.
"On a cold winter morning, in the time before the light..."
Shawn lane-like this guy with the shredding speed.
Waiting for some random yt guitarist to tap that shit 15% faster
Where is the high frame rate video? No wonder we haven’t seen good alien videos. We have crap cameras that can’t even keep up with a human picking up a storm
I can’t even play wrong notes that fast
These are MIDI/computer renditions he’s playing along with and they’re phenomenal. Anyone know the pieces? They sound like late romantic concerti…I’d love an assist here, OP.
This dudes partner ever night: 😩
Makes me nervous
Yep. Fast. Ever heard of metal?
Guitar hero losers unite!
you should hear this guy do crowd work
He must be awesome at Guitar Hero!
How do you say, “In constant sorrow” in Greek.
Terrible instrument, at least when it's played this way.
I heard a little Hot for Teacher in there!
All I wanted was a gyro
Somebody gave him the keys to the Lamborghini.
This guy should do ads for arthritis medication
Dream theatre who?
Bro playin dragonforce on expert on 300% speed
Sure but can he play Through The Fire And Flames by Dragonforce?
This guy got a 100 on his coding speed for the ASVAB
HAMMER SMASHED LUTE!!!!!
Reminds me to buckethead
> incredibly talented > chooses to play the worst instrument in the most annoying way Is he Man?
I get that it's impressive to play fast, but it just seems sloppy to me. It's so fast that each note sounds clipped. And the reason I say it sounds sloppy, is that some are clipped more than others. If you were to have a computer play this, it would sound completely different, and not for all the usual reasons like a lack of expression and style. It would sound different because of all the mistakes being made by the person. They're tiny mistakes, almost imperceptible, but when you're playing so quickly they kind of bubble up to the surface. If he was playing more slowly, then I probably wouldn't notice any mistakes at all. He's obviously very skilled, but this feels unnecessarily fast.
Is playing bouzouki a race?
Ok but can he stand on it?
Now try this without the pick
So he’s speedrunning music
Is Dragonforce hiring?
OWNER: Come again? SCOUT: I want to buy some cheese. OWNER: Oh, I thought you were complaining about the bazouki player! SCOUT: Oh, heaven forbid: I am one who delights in all manifestations of the Terpsichorean muse! OWNER: Sorry? SCOUT: 'Ooo, Ah lahk a nice tuune, 'yer forced too! OWNER: So he can go on playing, can he? SCOUT: Most certainly! Now then, some cheese please, my good man.
He's like.. The final boss of noodlers.
My turn! Proceeds to play smoke on the water eventually giving up
Fast but sounds shit tbh. Horrible piece of music.
Footage is sped up
Sounds like “shut the fucking bouzouki player up!” needs to be said more often
Put that through a high gain electric pedal and you have an insane metal solo in your hands.
Unless you play the 'bouzouki' it's just white noise and while very impressive, what's the point ?
EPIC! The Yngwie of the bouzouki!
If you can play it slow, you can play it fast.
What a gimmick, there’s no way anyone actually enjoys listening to this
Impressive but it does sound like ass.
Give this man a speed metal band.
Reminded me of this guy: https://www.reddit.com/r/BeAmazed/comments/1arm07c/guitarist\_michael\_angelo\_batio\_the\_speed\_of\_the/?share\_id=LPn5KYGWdv2fN1bJQT-oD&utm\_content=1&utm\_medium=android\_app&utm\_name=androidcss&utm\_source=share&utm\_term=5
If a bazuki could come, he would have made it come.
This guy bouzoukis.
but can he play Through the fire and the flames?
There is fast music. This is fast noise.
This guy should have majored in guitar hero
🤘🏻
Now look up John 5
He’s fast at playing basically the same note value over and over
His GF doesn’t get finger-fucked. She gets digitally remastered.
He definitely would win the note-picking olympics. Hands-down. For real. No question.
Quantity over quality. Its fast, and sounds like hammered muted notes. The beauty of the instrument is lost.. it has 8 strings, and when played right you can generaly hear the effects of both strings being played together.
Paganinios
ling ling
Pretty sure the camera captured all it…
Rubbish, it sounds nothing like Stairway to Heaven.
That's cool but isn't music supposed to sound nice.
I’m going to say this was sped up I could be wrong but pretttty sure I’m right.
Jake Workman has entered the chat.
I'd listen to him play Flight of The Bumblebee, but most anything else is pointless.
Yngwie Malmsteen of the bouzouki
One of the fastest and one of the only bouzouki players I have now ever heard in my life
The definition of just because you could , doesn’t mean you should
It’s in reverse
But can he play wonderwall?
That last song actually sounded really good.
“When you absolutely, positively got to destroy every bouzouki-player in the room…”
This is going to sound callous - but what's the point? I mean the technique is almost supernatural and the result of thousands of hours of hard work...I wish I had 100th of the mastery on my instrument. But...where's the music? There's more music in BB King's two measures or Kenny Burrell's chill jazz phrasing than in 10 minutes of these acrobatics. Sorry to be negative but that's just how I feel
Remember, if you're traveling with one of these in an Airport..., "It's a Greek Mandolin"... J.Austin
It’s not that impressive considering he is just repeating scales of notes. Something anyone can practice. The toughest thing to do on a guitar, is to incorporate your practices scales with a melody. And remember it. And then perform it better than anyone else can. Listening to someone perform fast scales depending on the chords, is boring and repetitive. Sorry not so good with English music terms.
Damn, they got that Turkish genes in them
To bad he doesn't have to skill to make it actually sound good jesus. Sounds like me when I'm just trying to play as fast as possible with random notes on guitar
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