Boy is this guy good. His name is Steven King and I will be watching out to see if he will be playing in Toronto any time soon! Also, check out the positioning of his middle pick up on his guitar, neat huh?
He may come across to some guitar players as the typical technically perfect musician with a lack of feel, but that’s ok, he’s really good at what he does. The best part comes at 1:02 of his performance.
This was the feeling that I got when listening to this type of player when I was 13 – 14 years old. I couldn’t get my thick head around the idea that this was great or, to a greater extent, cool music to play for audiences.
Then again, I was in a Kiss tribute band at the time, see earlier posts from this era of my career. Once again, my best and most influential guitar teacher was looking out for my development without me even realizing it.
He started teaching me little ditties to play that were both cool and technically satisfying for me to play at the time, and also some kids my age thought that it was good to listen to as well. Later on, I started to play “Suite Case” blues by Rik Emmett of Canadian Super Group Triump, from the Just a Game album. This direction of guitar playing has truly stood the test of time with me.
So take a little listen to this style of guitar picking. You might even try to decide if this is a style that you may want to add it to you own repertoire of techniques. Also go to youtube and input his name to find more of his work. You’ll envy this guitar guru!
Keep on Jammin’
God I wish I could do that!
Steven is an excellent player. You might be interested to know about a terrific site I run called Free Solo Guitar. It offers free, legal MP3 downloads of really gifted players…acoustic guitar in the fingerstyle and tapstyle traditions. Steven has a song on there, as do a bunch of others. I bet you’d enjoy it!
http://FreeSoloGuitar.com
Nice site Chuck! I will check it out fully when I get a chance!
Keep on Jammin’
Amanda, are you a guitar player at all? If you are, the only thing holding you back it time and determination!
You just to remember, when you start off, play everything so slowly and take apart every aspect of the song that it makes people think that you’ll never make it or that your a bit slow 😉
Seriously, (1) understand everything there is to know about a song and and it’s chord progressions and
(2) record it and play it back to listen to what you have just played. This WILL show you what you need to concentrate on!
Keep on Jammin’
Watching clips like this make me kinda jealous, I can’t play anything but CD and mp3.. I’m a musical handicap, lol. Wish I could learn something but I just don’t have the discipline for it.
kalamaf, I have 6 simple words for you … it’s all in the mind grasshopper!
Keep on Jammin’ or what ever it is you do 😉