Ye Olde Videoe Clippe Threade - Page 29

Beestie · 03-05-2006, 02:00 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by SteveDallas

The kid's got potential, if he doesn't get beaten up first. (For those not familiar with The Magic Flute, the piece he's singing is a) very famous and b) usually sung by a woman.)

Historically, women were not allowed to perform opera so the women's parts were always performed by pre-pubescent boys. It may be that traditional opera training limits the curriculum for boys to women's parts until they are older. He might also consider some martial arts training to balance his vocal training, though.

Undertoad · 03-05-2006, 08:52 AM

Blind guitarist should hook up with Bill Clements, the one-handed bass player. (Warning: extreme talent)

xoxoxoBruce · 03-05-2006, 10:40 AM

Damn, UT. Think of all the things you could be doing with the other hand.

Pi · 03-05-2006, 12:50 PM

With that hand? Like what? Crushing a can?

But damn cool playing

Clodfobble · 03-05-2006, 01:34 PM

I don't understand. What's he plucking the strings with?

wolf · 03-05-2006, 01:53 PM

His (only) left hand.

He could probably fit a pick to the prostethis, but that wouldn't be as cool.

Clodfobble · 03-05-2006, 03:24 PM

But what about when he has a fingering that requires his pinky to go down? Is his pinky always plucking and it just looks like it's pressing down on the strings?

Undertoad · 03-05-2006, 03:31 PM

When you push down or "fret" the string fast and hard enough, it will ring the string a little without having to pluck it. It's known as "hammering on". This guy has a bandanna around the top of the neck so the strings don't vibrate unless he's doing that. So he can turn up and get the most out of the hammer on.

mrnoodle · 03-07-2006, 01:46 PM

My fingers are tired just from watching that. Leet shredding skills. If he could figure out a way to get a little more attack on the notes, he'd be better than 90% of all bassists, and with only half the arms. He's still better than most. Kinda makes me feel like a dolt for not practicing.

mrnoodle · 03-07-2006, 04:29 PM

I just saw the blind guitarist

I have a hard time with some of that stuff playing with my eyes open and my hand where it's "supposed" to be. I *still* suck at sweep picking. Damn. Back to the woodshed.

BTW, why do blind guitarists play with their hands upside down?

xoxoxoBruce · 03-07-2006, 07:02 PM

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why do blind guitarists play with their hands upside down?

I was wondering that for awhile, then I was wondering why everybody else doesn't?

Elspode · 03-08-2006, 02:07 PM

I can't see either video from work, but I am aware of an amazing blind guitarist, Jeff Healy (he's rather well known in fact, not the least of reasons being his appearance in "Roadhouse", the Patrick Swazey barfight movie). He plays with the axe flat on his lap, plucking with one hand and fretting with the other. It is a much more traditionally percussive sort of technique, akin to hammering-on ala Stanley Jordan, but with plucking thrown in as well.

Talent pisses me off. People who have it piss me off even more.

barefoot serpent · 03-17-2006, 05:51 PM

fasten your seatbelts and place your tray table in the upright and locked position
Hang a left at the Louvre

some pigeons may have been harmed in the making of this film

xoxoxoBruce · 03-17-2006, 08:27 PM

Damn, that was stupid and dangerous and juvenile and sooooo cooooool.

Gromitspapa · 03-17-2006, 10:12 PM

Outstanding!

*clap clap clap*

03-05-2006, 10:40 AM	#423
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Damn, UT. Think of all the things you could be doing with the other hand. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-05-2006, 12:50 PM	#424
Pi desperate finder Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Luxembourg Posts: 437	With that hand? Like what? Crushing a can? But damn cool playing __________________ Complex simplex

03-05-2006, 01:53 PM	#426
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	His (only) left hand. He could probably fit a pick to the prostethis, but that wouldn't be as cool. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

03-07-2006, 01:46 PM	#429
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	My fingers are tired just from watching that. Leet shredding skills. If he could figure out a way to get a little more attack on the notes, he'd be better than 90% of all bassists, and with only half the arms. He's still better than most. Kinda makes me feel like a dolt for not practicing. __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

03-07-2006, 04:29 PM	#430
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	I just saw the blind guitarist I have a hard time with some of that stuff playing with my eyes open and my hand where it's "supposed" to be. I still suck at sweep picking. Damn. Back to the woodshed. BTW, why do blind guitarists play with their hands upside down? __________________ Sìn a nall na cuaranan sin. -- Cha mhór is fheairrde thu iad, tha iad coltach ri cat air a dhathadh

03-05-2006, 08:52 AM	#422
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	Blind guitarist should hook up with Bill Clements, the one-handed bass player. (Warning: extreme talent)

03-05-2006, 01:34 PM	#425
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	I don't understand. What's he plucking the strings with?

03-05-2006, 03:24 PM	#427
Clodfobble UNDER CONDITIONAL MITIGATION Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: Austin, TX Posts: 20,012	But what about when he has a fingering that requires his pinky to go down? Is his pinky always plucking and it just looks like it's pressing down on the strings?

03-05-2006, 03:31 PM	#428
Undertoad Radical Centrist Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Cottage of Prussia Posts: 31,423	When you push down or "fret" the string fast and hard enough, it will ring the string a little without having to pluck it. It's known as "hammering on". This guy has a bandanna around the top of the neck so the strings don't vibrate unless he's doing that. So he can turn up and get the most out of the hammer on.

03-08-2006, 02:07 PM	#432
Elspode When Do I Get Virtual Unreality? Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Raytown, Missouri Posts: 12,719	I can't see either video from work, but I am aware of an amazing blind guitarist, Jeff Healy (he's rather well known in fact, not the least of reasons being his appearance in "Roadhouse", the Patrick Swazey barfight movie). He plays with the axe flat on his lap, plucking with one hand and fretting with the other. It is a much more traditionally percussive sort of technique, akin to hammering-on ala Stanley Jordan, but with plucking thrown in as well. Talent pisses me off. People who have it piss me off even more. __________________ "To those of you who are wearing ties, I think my dad would appreciate it if you took them off." - Robert Moog

03-17-2006, 05:51 PM	#433
barefoot serpent go ahead, abbrev. it Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Lawrence, KS Posts: 2,623	A quick tour of Paris fasten your seatbelts and place your tray table in the upright and locked position Hang a left at the Louvre some pigeons may have been harmed in the making of this film

03-17-2006, 08:27 PM	#434
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Damn, that was stupid and dangerous and juvenile and sooooo cooooool. __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-17-2006, 10:12 PM	#435
Gromitspapa Knight of the Oval-Shaped Conference Table Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 377	Outstanding! clap clap clap

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