Robert Conti plays Bluesette Smokin' In
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Watch this amazing performance of "Bluesette Smokin' In" by jazz guitarist Robert Conti.
Robert Conti is a self-taught musician although he got a dozen of jazz guitar lessons with the guitar virtuoso Joe Sgro.
He has recorded numerous albums for several music recording labels. Many respected jazz musicians have been featured in Robert Conti's guitar recordings and concerts. Amongst them was the great jazz guitarist Joe Pass.
In addition, Robert Conti has authored five jazz guitar methods and twenty jazz guitar instructional DVDs. More about his work can be found at his official website - RobertConti.com.
Fly Me to the Moon in 2 guitars
Watch Zack Kim playing Bart Howard's "Fly Me to the Moon" in his 2 electric guitars.
This song was written in 1954 under the title "In Other Words". A few years later the title was changed to "Fly Me to the Moon". Its most famous performance is a Frank Sinatra's studio recording. Sinatra recorded "Fly Me to the Moon" in 1964 on his album "It Might as Well Be Swing" accompanied by the Count Basie Orchestra.
Here Zack Kim uses the guitar tapping technique. I cannot name it just left-hand tapping technique because he does it with both hands! Each hand tapes (the fingers stop the notes in a hammer-on slur manner) its own electric guitar.
Of course, I don't give him merit just for the show he makes on playing two electric guitars at the same time. The musical arrangements, here applied to electric guitar "duo", are nicely done as well.
> Watch Zack Kim playing the famous Canon in D here.
Categories: electric guitar, experimental guitar, jazz guitar
All posts from Best Guitar Clips
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Here is the complete list of the guitar videos posted in this blog:
Guitar videos for November 2007
Robert Conti plays Bluesette Smokin' In
Watch this amazing performance of "Bluesette Smokin' In" by jazz guitarist Robert Conti.
Fly Me to the Moon in 2 guitars
Watch Zack Kim playing Bart Howard's "Fly Me to the Moon" in his 2 electric guitars.
Guitar playing and singing
In this video Salome Sandoval sings and plays classical guitar simultaneously...
Playing guitar with a spoon in the mouth
Have you ever wonder how to play guitar with a spoon in the mouth? Just take a look at this guitarist...
Bohemian Rhapsody on classical guitar
Watch Bohemian Rhapsody being played on a classical guitar...
Guitar Hero
Here's a Guitar Hero trailer featuring rock legend Slash - remember him from Gun n Roses?
Joe Pass - jazz guitar player
One thing I admire is a good jazz guitar playing. Watch Joe Pass (1929 - 1994), a guitar hero, performing All the Things You Are. Take this video as a true guitar lesson...
Guitar videos for October 2007
Dominic Frasca plays prepared guitar
This is Dominic Frasca, a classically-trained guitarist best known for his customized ten-string guitar performances...
Canon in D played by Zack Kim
I present you Zack Kim, a young Australian who always plays two guitars at the same time. In this video he is playing his version of the famous Canon in D, a favorite amongst electric guitar players...
Paco de Lucia playing soleares
It wouldn't be fair to run this guitar video blog and not post anything about the greatest of all flamenco guitarists - Paco de Lucia...
Andy McKee playing harp guitar
Here is one more amazing guitar performance by Andy McKee. The composition is called "The Friend I Never Met" and it is played in an instrument called harp guitar...
Drifting - an acoustic guitar masterpiece
Here is a guitar piece called Drifting. It was written by Andy McKee, a great acoustic guitar player...
Canon Rock
This video is one of the most viewed on YouTube (over 32,574,416 times) and it has been the n.1 favorite amongst the viewers who voted...
Guitar playing and singing
In this video Salome Sandoval sings and plays classical guitar simultaneously.
The composition here performed is Aria (Cantilena), the 5th of Heitor Villa-Lobos' Bachianas Brasileiras. For those who don't know Heitor Villa-Lobos (1887-1959) was a Brazilian composer. He's very famous amongst classical guitarist because of his indisputable contribution to the classical guitar literature.
Anyone who got serious into classical guitar learning must have tried some of Villa-Lobos 12 studies for classical guitar (published for the 1st time in 1929). If not, at least one of his 5 guitar preludes or a movement from his Suite popular brasileira for classical guitar.
Bachianas brasileiras aren't originally written for classical guitar and voice (they were conceived for various combinations of instruments and voices between 1930 and 1945) but arrangements have been made in which the guitar is included.