Australias Got Talent 2011 - Semi Final 3 - Tom Ward (With Judges Comments)

[IskassasyaVideo]

With those fingers...his girlfriend died.

[juarjuarjuarjuar]

mad props. I have tried many times to play that piece and just cant finish it.

[xlx4poloxlx]

Asturias RULES.!!!

[florh]

Pitty he went that way, i love that piece (asturias - isaac albéniz).

I wonder why he went inspirational on us right up to the point, where it actually becomes difficult to play. Can he play that chord, because i've been practicing for over 7 years, and still i can't get my fingers on such a way, that i play that chord fluently.

Why play half the original, and than start playing inspirational after? why not just do an impression of that song instead of that way??

[sergiodiezsant1]

liriclal clasic spanish guitar 

[ZeroThreeJuice]

Skill Level: Asian.

Wait... What?!

[SocciMatthew]

This guy has amazing talent but I think it's a shame that he got famous from this kind of show because people will immediately slate him and say other guitarists are better. However, in my opinion this is one of the best interpretations of Asturias I've ever heard, I think Isaac Albeniz would be proud :)

[cyreander]

.. not that I could play it any better.. but tom is an amateur compared to al di meola, paco de lucia or even yngwie malmsteen.. or Tommy Emmanuel...

[JimmyGr90]

he butchered it

[SecretGrower6]

And GOD said to the world"you may only choose one to battle against Satan".....the world chose TOM WARD

[grs1963ct]

@MusicaLatina123123 He does not call it his own composition but arangement. That is a huge difference. To put it simply: he is doing a cover of a origin but his own arrangement. Before you slander me: I do not know this guy, just uploaded the video.

[MusicaLatina123123]

@grs1963ct ow oke my bad:p.. and i wast going to slander you:p hehe

[d3tach3d]

@MusicaLatina123123 since when did anybody on these shows play on original song?

[Dazalinco]

@MusicaLatina123123 Cunt all you do is complain. Fucking hell he acknowledge that its not his song. Shut the fuck up and enjoy it. If you don't then fuck back off to your cave from which you came from. CUNT

[Dazalinco]

@MusicaLatina123123 Its because you said he took credit for it being music when he knows its not, thats why everyone is calling you a fucking dick

[Nmydown22]

@MusicaLatina123123 dude shut the fuck up , in hell you could play like him , your just a fat kid behind a computer screen complaning about its not hes composition, then make a video that you can show all how "good you are" and that you are "better" The

n this guy.

[dmp2392]

Is he playing Leyenda?

[ahmadguitar87]

@dmp2392

Yes he's ,,, but in his own style

[orangefriends]

Escucho solo bulla!!!



[Cronos656]

In the last part 1:51 he fucks the armony :S

[Samuelhj]

You're kidding right? it is Asurias (Leyenda) by Isaac Albeniz for the part you're referring too

[hungariansweet]

Someone please go listen to Spanish Caravan by The Doors. He so ripped off Krieger. And Krieger could smoke this chump.

[brunosk8faria]

this is Neymar? IoooI



[elchamucko]

...lo siento mucho, pero la guitarra española, es para los españoles.

[RANCiDRUGBY]

@elchamucko si

[vacuumlover1]

I bet he has a great looking ass

[FaKe9999]

I love Asturias, but not this version, sorry...maybe it's not for his aggressive style.

[JuanOnJuan01]

is it me or are some of those frets broken?

[Deathatheist]

@JuanOnJuan01 no they arnt. its how guitars are made when their frets are really really high....

[shoonger001]

@JuanOnJuan01 they are made to have notes all along the fret board closer to tuned then straight frets do...

[RafaelCS3D]

This guy can do the soundtrack for an entire movie alone.

[replayboy88]

who choosen dislike, who thinhk it's dowload button.

[19MinKo84]

The best in Youtube....!!!!!!!!!!!

[MDDReaper]

... asturias played on steel strings :\ my ears are bleeding.



[skurtpersson]

@MDDReaper Indeed.. Bad performence of it too^^

[sleeplessingc]

its a poor and sloppy version of it too.

[skurtpersson]

@sleeplessingc Have you listened to Ana Vidovic doing this song? If not, do it;)

[sleeplessingc]

@skurtpersson yes I have and she was stellar. to correct my self the correct spelling is "Koyunbaba" by" carlos dominiconi". not this guy..

[sleeplessingc]

thats koyunaba. that is not his. its by carlo dominiconi....plug it in for you're selves. that is not his...that is wrong...

[TimeOfDepression]

Where's the tab? Don't be scare, i'm asian.

[RandomMocker]

Wow, he does what most guitarists do in their bedroom but are too embarrassed or ashamed to do in public.

This is shite :/

[firefou]

Asturias ... Good but this not like yepes or segovia ...

[BrestRipper]

He is playing Spanish Caravan.

[nathanevandi]

ow yeah espanol

[gitarrist96]

Whats the song he play?

[xritaras]

@gitarrist96

the name of the song is : Asturias( Leyenda), and th composer is Isaac Albeniz.

[MrNovokmet]

THe doors spanish caravan :D pro style :D

[rrrrockin]

very much tremolo

[TyneGibbs12]

I saw this live when they first broadcast it last year. Suddenly I could hear thousands of guitar cases closing

Hmm

[EpicLOTR]

too long nails.. they make the sound bad...

[kbamz25]

love to see this with an electric... sick....

[houmanna]

Asturias (L)

[RadicalSimon69]

i like how the guy says it's his own arrangement but most of it was almost note for note spanish caravan by the doors

[jvadams72]

@RadicalSimon69 "arrangement" meaning his adaptation of the piece...not that he actually composed the original. The Doors also did not write the familiar tune you are referring to. The original piece was called Asturias (Leyenda) and was written by Isaac Albéniz

[RadicalSimon69]

@jvadams72 yeah i guess you're right. but still, would it of killed him to compose some oc?

[MySecretWeapon77]

im in a band and i can shred but this dude is amazing its like heavy metal on the acoustic/classic guitar

[MySecretWeapon77]

Dude i dont know how i can type bcuz i just melted he is my new guitar idol holly crap

[Tombone315]

im just glad that im not the only person who likes this shit

[Polackpack]

Imagine him masturbating

[Raceking023]

@Polackpack

no, that is just gross 

[anakonda13]

Sake, what the fuck did i just hear?

[danbas1996]

what song is this

[FordGt96]

@danbas1996 Asturias - Isaac Albeniz (Best version John Williams) This is not the original! And that is not a Classical Guitar! I don't like it very much! : (

[jvadams72]

@FordGt96 John Williams is amazing but Andres Segovia's version is the best...just my opinion though :)

[xritaras]

@jvadams72

don't you think that Andres Segovia's version a little bit slower than John Williams's. I just prefer it as fast as possible....

[darkoanton5]

@FordGt96 I also like John Williams version the best. This to me is gruff. But it is different.

[yakfish007]

How can there be a dislike........you can't better this.....what a sad world...,,,geez

[spanishitalianmix]

pretty bad compared to PACO DE LUCIA.

[luishc93]

@spanishitalianmix I think everyone is shit compared with Paco

[Dantallon]

Whats the name of the fucking intro song bitches?

[spanishitalianmix]

@Dantallon Isaac Albeñiz - Asturias ;) from spain with love :P

[roadster81TS]

fucking awesome. fuck anyone who talks down on this. that shit sounds fucking cool

[crossvain12]

I love that old thrashed guitar... reminds me of Willie Nelson's

[Thepassionoff]

Dit is een aanfluiting onbeheerst en slordig en uit ritme, Meer niet minder niet, leer eerst eens een gitaar vast houden en dit zewg ik niet om het vasthouden maar in deze houding zijn vele nummers niet te spelen.

[thefineartof1]

the music's name is leyenda, i played that too but without the tremolo :)

[spanishitalianmix]

@thefineartof1 the music's name is Asturias by Isaac Albeñiz

[yinyangwzrd]

still prefer andres playing this... but still this is EPIC!!!

[Schufti17]

Its asturias or leyenda but its a realky free arryngment after about 1 minute.

A pity that you cant se his fingers betwedn 1.15 and about 2 i wonder if he plays kind of tremolo there

[CoochersGH]

dude is just trying to activate star power...

[romanowilhelm]

@7is7a hehe :)



[patrick6419]

Idiots with the fingering comments. Ignorant newbs, look at the fingernails. You think he'd let a girl sit on those?

[grs1963ct]

@patrick6419 Sorry, I will "clean" this all up, right now.

[skurtpersson]

@patrick6419 Do you think they're real?:P

[bbbnnnnbbbb]

good song

what is it asturias maybe??

[SwinburneSam]

why is freddie crouger playing the guitar?

[matheusallan22]

Very good

[mardolful]

AWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW YEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH­H

ASTURIAS OF ALBENIZ

IM FROM ASTURIASSSSSSSSS

[advaitkarulkar1]

/watch?v=Nx7vOb7GNBg&feature=r­elated

Interesting competition with this one

[chelseygodbold]

this is not his own arrangement, this is him destroying Albeniz's asturias, a perfectly good classical guitar piece on its own without all the stupid octaving and smashing the shit out the guitar. This is a disgrace to classical guitar, and I hope he puts a hole through that perfectly good instrument. Please people don't be fooled, he's not one of a kind he's putting flare on normal classical techniques. Watch Andres segovia play Asturias, and tell me this hack is "one of a kind"

[ironwolg]

@chelseygodbold personally i prefer ana vidovic's performance but that's just me. hopefully i can play the piece soon, tons of practicing to be done to pull it off though!

[supern00b25]

@7is7a His*

[AQWNERD]

lol my fingernails are long too, alot of guitarists grow out their fingernails, good picking style that way, and keeps you from always losing your pick lmao

[ironwolg]

o.O gotta say he kinda ruined it for me lol and is pretty uneven in it. i'm going to start working on this piece this semester. just because you've got the speed to do it doesn't mean you can do it accurately, i learned that this semester playing villa lobos prelude 4 in the arpeggio section.

[smbalf]

I want to watch Desperado now.

[SetApart4Christ777]

at least he never has to buy guitar picks ever again haha

[CocoaBeanWhip]

The song is Asturias composed by Isaac Albéniz, though this guy obviously starts taking a bunch of liberties, especially from 1:50 on.

[dvdsmlprstylr]

what's up with his frets?

[MultiMinecraft123]

i could beat him i jack offf daily :>

[smylie787]

he has turned the pick of desitny into nails

[Sensfan613]

Id be scared to see this guy on a Oud

destroy it wow

[crazyweininger]

Is this spanish caravan from the doors?

[dvdsmlprstylr]

@crazyweininger it's his own composition (as mentioned at the beginning), but he might've taken influence...

[BibleStorm]

@dvdsmlprstylr It's not. It's Asturias by Isaac Albéniz, as has been said before. He arranged it differently and added new stuff, but it's not his composition.

[andrednb1]

@7is7a fingers tecnique? looks at his nails o.o xD

[MrSilicon605]

@andrednb1 GODDAMN!...I HAD NO IDEA PEOPLE LIKE YOU ACTUALLY EXISTED B4??..."LOOK AT HIS NILS?"...EXCUSE ME "MORON!", BUT THOSE ARE GUITAR PICKS WHICH ARE ATTACHED TO ONE'S FINGER TIPS "DUFUS!">

TRY LISTENING TO SOME JANGO RHENHARDT TO GET SOME TERRIBLY NEEDED EDUCATION!

IDIOTS LIKE YOU THINK THERE IS NO LIFE AFTER THE, SPICE GIRLS, SPEARS, RHIANNA AND THE REST OF THOSE SLUTS!

"THE TRUTH BEHIND THE MUSIC INDUSTRY" BY STEWART SWERTLOW ON YT, WATCH IT AND "LEARN".

REPLIES NOT READ.

[Revam]

@MrSilicon605 stfu

[Revam]

@MrSilicon605  stfu

[Revam]

@MrSilicon605 replies not read but hastily deleted. you shout for an opinion and shoot down anyone else. you sir are the moron. BECAUSE USING CAPS LOCK MAKES YOU SEEM CLEVER. Dufus now fuck off

[Revam]

@MrSilicon605 absolute dickhead.

[46lespaul]

i would put this on my ipod

[lovewatashi]

Ate imagino ele tocando GUITARRA'

[punked137]

wow, check out THAT guitar of his++++

[Danuet]

He broke his frets!!

[xxjabarri2xx]

bugs me that people dont know this song already existed forever ago and believe he created it -_-

[dankospeedy]

this is a video response to impossible guitar...

[bunnimau5]

a guy on a chair on a table on a stage...uhh wtf

[NikolaG97]

you guys do realize those aren't his real nails..lolll:)

[MrMeissour]

aw i promiss you'd never seen a fingur move like this or was it a hand ?? lol

[thebuoshoninja]

i heard he fingered a girl,she died!!!



[AlphaGinga]

@7is7a Yeah I'm sure she loves getting the inside of her vag sliced up. I bet if he really wants to plesure her, he covers his fingers with salt first.

[poofypot]

asturias ! 

[kogzpl1]

@poofypot a no fucktycznie

[poofypot]

@kogzpl1 what ?

[sanman1231000]

that wasnt the best cover kinda sloppy the whole finger picking wasn't anything new

[balcaju]

I wouldnt lend him my Ipad

[1DoGTiny]

wow you guys can't know much about playing guitar cuz ive playe'd for quite some years

[thehollow1462]

I guarantee anybody with any type of background in classical guitar is most certainly NOT melting when they hear this. I might have been more impressed if he had played the piece correctly, but I guess he can get away with fudging it since it's "his own arrangement"... Nothing amazing or innovative here, people are just freaking because when they think guitar they think pop or rock and they have no idea that the guitar predates those genres by centuries.

[stix471]

@thehollow1462 couldnt agree with you more, the only impressive thing here for me in his right hand, and thats it :P

[billytheguitar]

@thehollow1462 Correctly!!! you mean your correctly? Or do you mean Asturias. Before you start trying to educate people you should learn that this is an old Spanish/Arabic melody that Albinez used in Asturais. There is no right way of playing it. AGT has a two minute time limit thats why tom played it like this. Go to 'tom ward fantasy' on you tube before you 'educate' people with your judgemental comments.

[aduc92]

the song name is Asturias Isaac Albeniz, you can check out John Williams and Andres Segovia playing this piece

[beeeefcurtains]

@aduc92 John Williams' is far superior, but that's okay because he's not even human.

[tatotura]

spanish caravan - the doors

[MrMeissour]

his good with his fnguers its 2012 i know lmao

[fluklove880]

ตื่อ ตื๊อ ตื่อ ตือ ตือ ตื่อ 5555

[MrBCRMBST]

Not bad, but I really don't see what all the excitement is about...he's got an amazing tremolo, but the actual song was just good, not amazing. But that's just my opinion :P

[maor1993]

John Petruci can do that in double time

[MrYellowsnowmann]

It is bucket head



[krawallyy]

wtf never see somtiing like that before so awsome so different so fu***in good thumps up for a some awsome men!!!!

[MsGiorgi13]

what is the name of this song?

[CAM465123]

@MsGiorgi13 Asturias - Isaac Albeniz

[monkeyy992]

@MsGiorgi13 the doors - spanish caravan

[Ventilator313]

His own arrangement? This is Leyenda Asturias, isn't it?

[donniedarkowow]

@Ventilator313 arrangement as in arrangment of a song, his version :)

[MareLFC92]

masturbation days paid off for him :)

[NskAsurak]

I'm wrond or his making somethings in his fingers of the right hand

[kinsley1994]

i like his style, yes u are really talented bro..u are the best guitarist for me man, i really appreciate you! people may hate you but still u are going to rock ;) two thumbs up for u :)

[HulaHoopRocket6]

Dude it doesnt really matter what you say about "technique" or "talent" because the fact is HE is on an international show and YOUR correcting people on Youtube :P

[MotherFunkAndWagnall]

@HulaHoopRocket6

LOL! Nice shot.

I'm sure Tom's most prolific critics, HERE, are all deLucias and Dimeolas.

[superwazza1000]

nails are long eww

[panequefonfreke]

Paco de Lucia´s legacy.

[bloodyz16x24]

Does the reporter says "with his own arrangement"???? If he does he doesn't clears out that this is asturias by albeniz and people that dont know this song will think that this song is his. + in my opinion he is not THAT great. i mean imagine if brouwer, albeniz, segovia or cotsiolis showed up at that show... Anyone who doesn't know anything from classic guitar would be impressed by something like this but there are a lot greater talents than him everywhere in the world...

[MrGuitarz21]

@bloodyz16x24 His technique isn't perfect anymore. If this gent was in the classical guitar business, he would be torn to shreds by the industry.

[bloodyz16x24]

@MrGuitarz21 what do you mean? He was perfect but not anymore? Of course he would be torn to shreds! Classical guitar business needs guts and actual talent! Not just a fast and "good-looking" technique! I admit that he is pretty good but he is not great. He just shows off. Watch this video /watch?v=SwnBw4DVITI . The judges are so retarted... Does the ending even sounds nice? And why is he holding the guitar like that? dont tell me that its more comfortable! 

[Gimmeyomoney101]

his fingernails are bloody long

[Stealthgamer1000]

@Gimmeyomoney101 Freddy Kroeger xD

[reedtmartin]

@Gimmeyomoney101 LOL Those arnt fingernails...there finger picks they slide of the nail to help pluck the strings...Haha

[karkrashful]

@Gimmeyomoney101 check out john butler trio. hes got fucking talons

[austinpratt11]

@Gimmeyomoney101 not his nail its a piece u put on ur thumb

[RavenGlenn]

@Gimmeyomoney101 Those aren't his nails.

[MrNick2D]

@Gimmeyomoney101 They act as picks.

[sp33dfr]

@Gimmeyomoney101 i think he maybe needs them to play the guitar like that...^^

[bizarrefruit]

He's an amazing guitarist, but really, not really for the classical/flamenco style of guitar, look up John Williams playing it, there is a difference no?

I'm not nay saying but if the competition were for that kind of guitarist alone, he wouldn't win. People with guitars have the advantage of always seeming better than they are to people who don't play.

He's still pretty damn good though./

[brucefulton]

Kinda sloppy.

[Dazalinco]

lol the thing is I have seen someone who can play faster and better than him, a lot clearer to.

[DA7701]

هذا الشاب قام بمضاجعة تلك القيثارة باحتراف :)



[balkeztanulmany]

nothing special..