John Grindey plays Yngwie Malmsteen's 'Black Star'

[pearloid01]

Really enjoyed that,welldone!!!!!

[Mitro3488]

i honestly have no idea how anyone could give this a bad review, i'm a very experienced guitar player and this is a very very good cover....the reason it sounds a litle different isnt because of his vibrato or "sloppy" runs (which i totally disagree with)....its because hes not using the same equipment as Yngwie you fools.....keep rockin man you kick ass

[peladoariel79]

monster!!

[cajunlightning]

great version ... don't listen to the critics who probably can't even play a lick.

[ch23be]

Wow, you get all the hard parts but fail on the simplest vibrato parts. Hold notes and slow your vibrato down!!! Smoooooooth it out. Feel it!! Great playing. Keep working. Love it. Thanks.

[fckugler]

it sounds horrible

[shystylzyt]

1. Tune your f**in guitar.

2. Don't ruin classical intros with distortion. Heard of clean?

3. Try bending in tune. It sounds better, for the same reason a tuned guitar sounds better.

4. Ever heard of vibrato? No, not that strained muscle spasm you do when holding a note.

5. Try actually listening to the music you're supposed to learn.

6. Picking runs are worthless if you can't hold one note properly. It's called music.

Amateurs who rape masterworks in public piss me off.

[mcolquitt]

@shystylzyt Wow...I don't imagine I have read anything quite as over-the-top ANd filled with so much douchebaggery I have to assume it is not meant as a real post. I mean nobody would really be that dead inside to REALLY mean what this Mindless twat Shystytzyt did. If this is a real communication effort from ole cum sponge here the I can only hope he has died sometime over the 7 months since he stunk up Mr. Grundy's upload. *crosses fingers*.

[thothblastbeast2]

eldemonico

[cassssey19]

nice playing :) ! i liked that

[halmjamin]

hes good but cant compete with yngwie who play that 3 x the tempo

[risingwarem]

not perfect but even though great job this for the retarded "igottakillthemall "everybody knows that its very fucking hard to cover such song like black star i would like to hear ur cover i bet u cant touch even the intro so shut up ur ass . thanks man for the cover

[pool741]

your a retard hes good

[igottakillthemall]

who the fuck is this fuck?

if this guy is pro, fucking shame on your sorry ass.

you fucking ruined paster piece and proudly posted it.

what makes me even angrier is that this guy has enough skill to play this song well, but he just deliverately screwed it.

fucking moron. go fuck yourself !! forever !!

[soundbeans]

what?

[xXJarvarXx]

Is that a bit of jel running you dont know how hard this song is to play so dont go complaining unless you can do better but just by me guessing you cant even play guitar fucking fag back up your fucking points asshole

[pool741]

you sir are very talented you must practice your ass off

[getfiddle2007]

Way kewl, thanks for the vid, brings back memories when I was a teen. Yngwie rocks! So do you!!

[satchboogiejem]

dude...........I like you, I like your style, you know as guitarists we're always trying to improve, change, evolve, and generally try to find that sound we can here in our heads. Its hard to find. you need 50 or so guitars and a million patch's. haha

[LALO4992]

arpeggios at 3:02 is the koolest part i think! its so awesome how it sounds in the original. good job man!

[myfhs]

!!!AWeSOME!!!

[monkeys350]

This guys tone is amazing

[legatoman]

His technique is great but hasn't the fantastic tone like Yngwie. The vibrato is too fast. Something like Kirk Hammet.

[chillichomper]

His vibrato is very immature but he obviously has skillz. Some ppl just don't give a shyt about practicing their vibrato and its a shame cause I think its MORE important to learn than to play fast. Good vibrato makes even a simple/easy song sound great. Practice it on an acoustic guitar till it sounds good there then it will be awesome on an electric.

[aamvb]

people love to tell whats wrong dont they on here, wrong sound, work on ur vibrato, the dude sounded awsome, and played a fucking hard song really well, if thats his style of vibrato and his sound then he is unique not just a complete copy, i thought this was a kool peace of music, rock on dude !!!

[babolatpdtp]

of course he played an awesome cover, but a lot of people here post videos (specifically musical pieces) in order to get praise and a decent critique. So long as the comments aren't rude and out of line, it's fine to say what they disliked about it. I also thought the guitar should have had a deeper sound with the distortion but it's not like I can play this... It's not like I'm saying the video was terrible because it was awesome

[Crazyfistts]

you cut out the best part at the end!!!! how dare you!

[matkishacro12]

everything great...but please get yourself decent stratocaster xD

[brutaldeathforever]

your sound is a little bad but the technique is really good

[codesixit]

I think you're using the wrong pickup config in the first part.Pretty good though..

[Unknown10121]

We are not Worthy! YOU ROCK DUDE! LIVING LEGEND! Keep Rocking! Get the led out! Turn it up to 11! AWESOME!

[bbdigi]

Are u playing this by ear?? Wolf Marshall tabbed it out 20+ yrs ago. If u have been playing 30 plus yrs wtf haven't u found it?? This is what shred guitar was based upon. Nice Try Brother!! U reaaally would better your playing trying some albert king, david gilmour, clapton, george lynch, type vibratos. U need a much wider aggresive bending technique IMHO 4 what it's worth keep jamming!!

[VLombardi01]

nice job!

[uzumaki1994]

great technique but ur sound is pretty bad but in terms of skill ur pretty good

[mikekerr]

your picking and stuff is good, if i was you maybe i would practice a little more, Vibrato and bends thats all. Nice video.

[yngwiess]

vales harta caca

[CobHatecrewNor]

u got lotsa skills,, but improve the vibrato alot

[danztal]

terrible sound, good playing

[RHCPfan]

awesome job, though not so good tone, and some bends were pretty off

[the4445]

the timing too

[demover7]

u sould check this guy out his swells are amazing...watch?v=5FiGuwTjbCw

[achimkoenig]

no hoper

[doodhooskoo3]

the main riff of this song is intoxicating. i can't get enough of it, i'm learning how to play it now. best guitar ever.

[framcod]

the best cover of this song is by jason becker. no more to say.

[SkaterpunkAaron]

queer

[xdefyance719]

whered u get ur tabs? but good fuckin job man. =]

[MajeedSan]

Awesome man keep it up ^_^

[arpinz]

Awesome ! Very very good job

Ps : A little bit more fastness to the pick and it's perfect ^^

[bmxfrestyle5152]

i can do the whole thing but i just cant get down the apegios in the solo

[B3rg3ron]

nice job for the violin effect, my volume swell is kind of broken :s

+1 for the treble ;)

Good job though :p

[Achtelnote]

nice playing,i watched more of your vids,but the guitarsound on this vid is terrible.only treble ,no full tone.i had to turn down volume cause of my ears.

[masterbolt99]

So far, best cover of "Black Star" I saw. Good Work. Wish i could play this like you. Yes, i envy you :P

[daskalaras]

Great except from some bends :)! Keep up the good work!

[paulandlesson]

just wanted to make sure you know when I wrote "tone" "vibrato" I was referring to other's comments. I was not implying you needed to change anything! I will listen to your other music, I am sure I am in for a treat.

[paulandlesson]

ib133d,

vibrato? tone? Come on man. I will say with all due respect, you have mastered this shit, now write some music for you fans. GREAT PLAYING.

[johngrindey]

Listen to my 'Guitar Widow'

[paulandlesson]

Just like your other vids great. I have an awesome Gibson Chet Atkins I will sell you so you can do the intro just like Malmster. I think this is one of the hardest YJM because of the little things. I respect it more, because I don't think YJM has ever used such little distortion.

[roids8735]

ernie ball?

[martijnb100]

better than Yngwie live on stage.this is played like fuckin awesome dude. thanx for the music. keep it up. greetings from holland.

[glennguagmire]

shit. i just saw the sweeps. i cant do them to save my life!

[nickguns]

very good

[1FilthyRich1]

due your awesme but why are you wasting your time doing malmsteen thats guy is ass his music is crap like his guitar playing. i watched most of your vids and well very nice man.

[dead666money]

it's funny how sum idiots just make comments and critize and advise,but THEY DON'T HAVE THE BALLZ(or the talent) TO POST SUM SHlT UP,thanx dude, nicely done.

[ibl33d]

the playing is all good except for small little things like some of the bends are missing a vibrato or are too high etc but overall its good.

just please fix your tone. add more bass , turn down the treble and maybe the mids and add some reverb and delaty and a compressor. what do u think?

[Richprincess307]

Someone's jealous if its so bad YOU do it!

and then video it then post it on you tube

[COBHATECREW4LIFE]

kick asss dude

your tone just needs more sustain

[theorigjustintime]

nice man your sick!

you remind me off billy corgan

[krelbar]

except for the playing...I think he blows Billy Corgan away...

[TheKillingRatzingers]

Great! Very well done!

[Freedomm1987]

Very awesome cover. Please do not take this as an attack on your performance, but your tone sucks. But you're light years ahead of any other Youtube guitarist I've watched.

[NeoBarockLoki]

Really remarkable how you played the song ! Congratulations !

[insanegtrdude]

This sounds like the real thing

i did evil eyes check it out if you want

[Baaaaaaaa]

You need some more gain in your sound i feel - it sounds a bit gritty.

Cool playing though.

Check out guitarbt - put it in google

They have a backing track for this song...

[ShreddingDutchman91]

Wow! That's good, I covered this song too. But I'm not as good as you. Haha! Keep up the great work!

[0neironaut]

great playing but your tone is painful and makes you sound worse than you actually are.

[pokerstick]

john good job, your an awesome guitarest and a nice guy but this aint my scene really lol, what do you think of other guitarist like slash and curt cobain?

[glennguagmire]

Curt Cobain wasnt a guitarist but oh well :)

I think his major influence is Steve Vai, although you wouldnt think so :)

[Hadsatriani]

cobain is and was a fag!!!!

[glennguagmire]

Thanks for that

[Hadsatriani]

any time!!

[bobbyrubio]

Great job!!!

[zakkkclyde]

that is JOE satriani, he is the real satriani.. hes the g3..

[fatalitydeath]

keep it up dude!

[ST3]

Too trebly. But other than thatm GREAT JOB!

[progressivelife]

that was nice, but you were out of tempo sometimes.

not that i'm any better ;)

[skeats20]

hey john hows it goin mate. im oinching this video and putting it on my bebo site to make me look cool haha! You should get on to bebo every1 has got it and we can keep in touch better. How is everything u well? good... talk soon mate Adam Skeats

[Trahira517]

That's pretty good man.

[Vinniemoore89]

tone sounded fine

[AtticSnake]

The tone is horrible, but the guitar looks great and your technique is great.

[vaelh8]

Almoust...

[glennguagmire]

lol shut up

[Pier88ita]

great guitar!

[akirebsb23]

masomenos ah

[vman456]

Don't like the tone, but it's well played.

[libertydenied]

is don't like the trebly tone but nevertheless it's just fantastically played

grats dude!

[BLSmetalhead]

Crazy sweep picking, great job.

[jigga699]

man i hate when people come on here and give bad comments it makes me so mad ... i bet half the people who say this is bad probley cant even play the first note of this song lol ! so fuck you people who say shit about this guys hes fucking crazy

[mhskeide]

great sound and feel you play with, good work!!

[DiegusMaximus]

out of tune but other than that and missing some notes it was great

[glennguagmire]

im sorry to say that you are the ONLY one that has said that and i think ur wrong...

[trugangsta600]

Easily one of the best covers of Black Star on youtube, awesome job.

[orangecrunchvs65r]

omg are you the dude who teaches in warsash?! you teach gareth..& josh??

[johngrindey]

yes

[surfnicaragua]

nice work dude

[kIwiZaLegEND]

he s amazing...you hater ...i bet youcant play this or even do the volume swelling...so just sell ur guitar...or let us see you do better

[cross1313]

devoid of all emotion!

[b0b1919]

" cross1313  (4 weeks ago)

devoid of all emotion! "

the typical cry of someone who can't play. Go on, describe emotion. go on. i FUCKING dare you

[cross1313]

It's obvious that you don't know what it is a-hole. I'm not here to school YOU on how to play with emotion, if you don't have, you don't know what it is. This guy doesn't have it, and I'd be willing to BET that you don't either. fuck yourself

[will6780]

cross1313, 'devoid of all emotion!'. that is a real insight, thank you for guiding us poor saps who dont know what good playing is. of course you are a regular 'jimi' arnt you. are you available to teach lessons?

[asharp12]

the coolest part in the vid is probably the volume swells...those were awesome lol

[lozz1986]

terrible sound.

[glennguagmire]

shut up

[Statikhed]

WOW...Excellent Playing /5 star awesome

[bucfan327]

Hey man really great playing, but I also think you may be tuned a bit higher than yngwie's origional version... but overall awesome!!!

[sophiegromit]

PHENOMENAL!!! Accurate notes and tone!!!! WOW!!!

[Sodacake]

is it me or is he playing that song half a step higher than the original?

[Lewishred]

Awesome!!!

[robertthoma]

i like

[BlakFlame25]

i love this song and i like your tone very malmsteen like

[arp3g]

loved the volume swells

[rockerstorm]

hey john.

its storm here, nice guitar skills, .like all the videos yup.

jesus christ john get a haircut, its getting too long. love you xx haha

[lennapiretkati]

Hey! It's Rosanna, used to have lessons with Ben. Nice job dude!

[glennguagmire]

Hey john its sam who has lessons with tom. like the hair do! how long ago did u do this coz your guitar clock is on the other wall?

[Bloodlust46]

Nice one! Great harmonics and plec control ;)

[s0ulfire]

awesome work john

[fuckyalife]

man you ripped it from 3:21-3:23 real nice

[roblet92]

Good job John!