Actually, your fingerboard wood is just fine.

[stubhead]

Yet more thunderous proof that it ain't the instrument, it's the player:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPtBdY5i8BA&feature=related

yikes.

 

[llmtelecaster]

I've always preferred SRV's take on this song.

 

[reluctant-builder]

I'm sure the little hat is her secret. :icon_biggrin:

 

[bagman67]

The silly hat is a little offputting, but perhaps that's my cultural insensitivity (aka ignorance) showing.  You gotta admire the discipline of nailing a note-for-note cover of a tune with a substantial improvised component to the original - on an instrument that was never designed with wild bluesy music in mind.

 

[mayfly]

That is really cool.

 

[anorakDan]

There's no argument about her chops.

I have never been able to listen to any Asian stringed instrument for long. It's just too irritating to my ear. Like bluegrass or almost all Celtic music. The tonality is just annoying.

Like a mosquito within earshot but still invisible. Must be a sawtooh wave thing. Makes my fillings itch!

Bravo on choice of music, though. It shows thought and imagination.

I'd still rather hear it on a Stratocaster, though.

 

[line6man]

I have never been able to listen to any Asian stringed instrument for long. It's just too irritating to my ear. Like bluegrass or almost all Celtic music. The tonality is just annoying.

Yeah, they all tend to have that very irritating quality about them, that can only been taken in small doses. It is not limited to Asian stringed instruments, however, many cultures have similar sounding stringed instruments.

I like her cover of Satch's Starry Night, though. :blob7:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=sC4IZmM3v28

 

[Tonar8352]

Astounding!

 

[tfarny]

Wow! I'll never look at a behind the nut bend the same way again....Impressive, thanks.

 

[stubhead]

Eric Johnson, SRV, Satriani, Vai, Tommy Emmanuel - she ain't pulling any punches in her choices. She's got like 16,000, 24,000 views so far - she won't be stuck in Korea much longer, which is surely what's she's planning. It's hard to even measure just how much and how fast YouTube is changing things - she'll surely be playing a "duet" video with Steve Vai within a few months (he seems to like girls?).  And Carlos Santana is bound to be sniffing around, he's never met any kind of music he can't bend his three notes and make faces to....  :laughing11:

I took Japanese koto lessons for a few months back in the late 70's, just because it was there and I have always liked "funny" furrin music... this "gayageum" of hers is like a double-size Korean koto, more or less. One thing's for sure, you're not supposed to do anything like that with it. She's gotta have, like, 14 generations of venerated ancestors spinnin' around in their clay pots by now.

 

[crash]

Yeah, I'd hit it, I mean she's pretty talented.

 

[elfro89]

Yeah, I'd hit it, I mean she's pretty talented Skilled.

FTFY  :icon_jokercolor:

 

[mgaut051]

Is it just me or does she need to tune up?

:icon_jokercolor:

Truly greatness IMHO.