"Ragtime should never be played fast" Scott Joplin.
I suppose it's great that you can play so fast but the problem is the notes don't get to breathe. You really can't tell what you're playing in all that flurry which is too bad because you're probably a great player...
well he plays great but i think he need to slow down a bit more, he is playing like it was a banjo the music needs to breath,imo, but still great to listen to!
Keep it going, very nice in the footsteps of the masters; I feel given enough time that you too can develop into being viewed as being "Renowned" you are certainly on your way.
How does your brain think the fast. I like 1:38 to slow us down, but only to drive us insane as we adore your fingers pace!!! Talent, dedication, but mostly God's gift.
I agree with MarceloLaraM. You can't win in this business. Someone makes the effort to come up with a new style of playing and what happens, he gets criticised because it doesn't sound like another style. The sound could be better but the playing is brilliant. I've just downloaded the sheet music from his webstie and am going to have a go. Wish me luck !
idk how people are saying this is lacking. its on beat, structurally the song is good, his technique is more than impressive, yea it has that cheesy ragtime sound that sounds like it belongs in a mario game, but its intended to sound like that. i dont think its lacking, if u dont like it, im cool with that, i dont blame you, but in my mind, and maybe im wrong, this song was everything it was trying to be, and more. good job
Hi Derek-very nice playing.I do however agree with "Biblioholic" in his conviction that your performance lacks "umph" and "focus".My feeling is that while the syncopated finger picking is very agile and hypnotic ,the beat is rather ill defined.I think all that is required to really pull everything together is for you to work on nailing down that bass string beat.Remember what the man said: "It don't mean a thing if it aint got that swing".Good luck and keep it up.
It's good, you're obviously an excellent guitarist... but, to me, it lacked a certain "umph." A beat. If you can play so much on one guitar, then throw in a beat to tap your foot to. All melody had me drifting off and losing focus about halfway through. It's pretty, but it was the same all the way through. Change it up. Mix it up.
great technic, fast fingers and neat touch... but u think that u need to try another of music... i not that i dont like what ur playing... i like it very much... but i think that u maybe would do it better if u try to play some "bossa nova" songs from brazil... i mean that because of ur playing stile and technic, try it!!!!!
Excellent pickin,' but this track is too laden from the acoustical reverb. It really takes a wired guitar and a mic not more than a few feet back from a tiny warm tube amplifier for all the realism you would ever need.
Great! Usually you dont see much musicality in a normal acoustic guitar picker, but he really brings the melody out like a ragtime piece. I can definitely see the classical influence, its hard for me to finger pick on a acoustic cause it ruins my nails haha. Great music keep it up!
thanks (Derek--newark)---I DID like it...I would only add that (I) love when all is not filled up---the 'pauses' are what are ears---'pickup'---but well done---Do I know this person?
1 in 300 people who view this are deaf or 1 jealous crap guitarist has 20 accounts! well played that was an amazing solo I can see you becoming a household name would love to see you in a night with Jools Holland lineup Awesome!
Génial! Rapide, précis. Thanks!
Licinianus313 1 week ago
Good stuff. Congrats. Check my channel
XabraXiss 2 weeks ago
Very nice!
chillax411 3 weeks ago
excellent - thanx!
jsagn 1 month ago
hes good but just not my type of music
hendrixplusmustain 1 month ago
Nice work. Sounds like ragtime and I like that sound too! Thanks
MrB17FlyingFortress 1 month ago
man i can do shredding and sweeping. but this? hahaha sweet. :) man i respect you! XD super....
mokoto6000 2 months ago
que bonito
666Zammuel666 2 months ago
super
TomaszMazepa 2 months ago
awesome, but slow down lol^^ ur nearly suffocating the notes;)
MrHenkit 2 months ago 2
doubtless a good player but not my favortite kind of songs...perhaps he has some other...until good work
jherbu 2 months ago
I hear some Django, some Segovia, Emmanuel, Atkins, Ricky Skaggs.....all great! Brilliant work!
akroguy 3 months ago
Muy bueno, Very Good, ipsum, muito bom, sehr gut, très bonne, molto buona... ^^
MAMG1990 3 months ago 2
@MAMG1990 Te falto en japones ore ore ore!!!
NeryNicolas 3 months ago
Excellent.
CA5EY11 3 months ago
he reminds me of chet atkins
thatdude2468 3 months ago
Slow it down and articulate! It loses a lot when you rush. Very good playing, mediocre feeling.
markjtapply 3 months ago
hm.. nice :D
silet170 4 months ago
Pretty rad man! Keep up the lightning-fast picking!!!
jborgmeyer26 4 months ago
"Ragtime should never be played fast" Scott Joplin.
I suppose it's great that you can play so fast but the problem is the notes don't get to breathe. You really can't tell what you're playing in all that flurry which is too bad because you're probably a great player...
acountrygent 4 months ago
well he plays great but i think he need to slow down a bit more, he is playing like it was a banjo the music needs to breath,imo, but still great to listen to!
3880yes 4 months ago
nice :D
hapeajaib 4 months ago
nice
hatredflame 4 months ago
great man
brymacbluesband 4 months ago
great music!
Artsjurt 4 months ago
Nice rymthmatic melody
also check out my weak guitar sining skills
SCREECHINGJCWEASEL 4 months ago
I found Nemo! And he plays some MAD ragtime!
great going ^^
leitegabriel 4 months ago
I found Nemo.
leitegabriel 4 months ago
Holy crap. Keep it up and you could get UBER famous! :D
Pingu65716 4 months ago
this is excellent
branden17896 4 months ago
This made me happy!
TheRevNation 4 months ago
this is great! keep playing man!
zoso1027 4 months ago
is there a score this somewhere?
jhazeyhazey 4 months ago
very nice
ccal2284 4 months ago
Very nice! So skilled and precise :)
thelizardking887 4 months ago
nice.. ;)
lorainneann04 4 months ago
It's cool but ragtime isn't my thing. Great job though!
TheKimmy106 4 months ago
some very swift finger movements...very cool
FluffyJetProductions 4 months ago
Thanks for sharing the video, Derek. Reminds me of Steve Howe's work.
RoseTaxService 4 months ago
Pretty cool.. sound really good
78Jwalk 4 months ago
Oh my.....wow.....I am deeply impressed!!!!!!!! Thanks so very much for this lovely video!!
BiancaAmanda1 5 months ago
wow that's pretty intense! Sounds like a piano haha
jazzpman 5 months ago
I could get jiggy with this
BigCanOfBeans 5 months ago
Great song!!
MarSilF 5 months ago
Keep it going, very nice in the footsteps of the masters; I feel given enough time that you too can develop into being viewed as being "Renowned" you are certainly on your way.
vubeic 5 months ago
extra preemo good
mckennar 5 months ago
very cool.
bwalsh8012 5 months ago
Very nice! Thanks for sharing. Keep up the good work...
cvondalee 5 months ago
woah, that guys pretty good
maitaiman 5 months ago
awww man thats awsome :)
billy061061 5 months ago
I enjoyed it, thanks
brianfurchner 5 months ago
and i rode along every note, enjoyed the music, thanks
SuperVkg 5 months ago
if you don't slow that finger pickin` down you're bound to start a fire!
SuperVkg 5 months ago
thats some really nice music
pinchosalcarbon 5 months ago
did he uses all of his finger ?
fleacock131313 5 months ago
verry nice sorry for responding so late greets rinus
rinus1967 5 months ago
acoustic poetry, thank u..
ivanozr7 5 months ago
B-E-A-UTIFUL
SCOMizzine 5 months ago
You shred and you play a clever synergy between classical and ragtime, creative, beautiful and limitless talent, i like your style kid
tommywoodcock 5 months ago
Uoooou, very nice... great perform. I loved it. you really know how to play a guitar. Thumbs up for u :D
RRC2608 5 months ago
dude your great ! bet u practice alot love it man i miss this type of music
Ayjay717 5 months ago
nuts. and that's on a steel string. lol. that's gotta be hard. i like it. :) great job.
guitardaddy6 5 months ago
Thanks to @anna14567 to send me here!!
ProSilent 5 months ago
pajaro campana!!!
ridtherion23 5 months ago
How does your brain think the fast. I like 1:38 to slow us down, but only to drive us insane as we adore your fingers pace!!! Talent, dedication, but mostly God's gift.
Lexilea68 5 months ago
Awesome.
kingskush666 5 months ago
Excellent stuff........
bentleycoustic 5 months ago
this was sent to me thumbs up if this was to u to
zXGuitarXzGod607 5 months ago 2
this is pretty baller lol
teganyavo 5 months ago
Props to ruth4856 for sending this to me! This is DOPE!
godthegourd 5 months ago
i hope to be this good one day
ninjamonkey940 5 months ago
nice playing... always amaze when seeing acoustic player performing
JohnPaulIvan 5 months ago
I think it's great. Thanks to ruth4856 for sending it to me.
kevjay777 5 months ago
nice nice nice :)
sazci25 5 months ago
amazing.
ventor11225 5 months ago
I agree with MarceloLaraM. You can't win in this business. Someone makes the effort to come up with a new style of playing and what happens, he gets criticised because it doesn't sound like another style. The sound could be better but the playing is brilliant. I've just downloaded the sheet music from his webstie and am going to have a go. Wish me luck !
guitarman9994 5 months ago
You are an amazing guitar player!!!
PinguimAfricano 5 months ago
Great!!
MarceloLaraM 5 months ago
idk how people are saying this is lacking. its on beat, structurally the song is good, his technique is more than impressive, yea it has that cheesy ragtime sound that sounds like it belongs in a mario game, but its intended to sound like that. i dont think its lacking, if u dont like it, im cool with that, i dont blame you, but in my mind, and maybe im wrong, this song was everything it was trying to be, and more. good job
markus0neill 5 months ago
very good
4salraalaikum 5 months ago
Impressive!!! Thanks to Anna for the share
slickerflicker 6 months ago
Hi Derek-very nice playing.I do however agree with "Biblioholic" in his conviction that your performance lacks "umph" and "focus".My feeling is that while the syncopated finger picking is very agile and hypnotic ,the beat is rather ill defined.I think all that is required to really pull everything together is for you to work on nailing down that bass string beat.Remember what the man said: "It don't mean a thing if it aint got that swing".Good luck and keep it up.
bluesborn 6 months ago 2
pretty good i just hate classical acoustic stuff :P
FunStuff141 6 months ago
Very nice !!
delialah02 6 months ago
Good, but not amazing.
vrin1 6 months ago
its ok...
Lildemon215 6 months ago
It's good, you're obviously an excellent guitarist... but, to me, it lacked a certain "umph." A beat. If you can play so much on one guitar, then throw in a beat to tap your foot to. All melody had me drifting off and losing focus about halfway through. It's pretty, but it was the same all the way through. Change it up. Mix it up.
Just my 2¢.
Liked it, just trying for Constructive Criticism.
Biblioholic1993 6 months ago
amazing but not my type of music
camz4ever 6 months ago
lols nice work man :)
PhinxCrusader 6 months ago
awesome :D
very nice and clean riffs :)
halfpipefreak 6 months ago
:O omg perfict music omg soooooo goodddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd the best music in the worlg :D
letsgetdrunkonbeer 6 months ago
Well played :)
fasiistyrer 6 months ago
very nice
Giannis97x 6 months ago
fuck hes good!
poopyodb 6 months ago
:D
CryssiNorie 6 months ago
Nize dude! awsome : D
vegardone 6 months ago
Whoa yeah this is really awesome :D
yoyohiphopx0x 6 months ago
very good !!!
johno3884 6 months ago
Awesome playing! Liked it
Krosmos2728 6 months ago
Thanks for informing about this video)
HeyIamTheJay 6 months ago
I should say - THIS IS ABSOLUTELY AMAZING AND MUST BE RECORDED IN STUDIO!
And I will say - YES. IT IS.
HeyIamTheJay 6 months ago
fantastic!
aerosmith425 6 months ago
wow very interesting i like it thumbsup if you agree ^-^
jimenez845 6 months ago
great stuff man...thanks.
beeps123 6 months ago
Super great. What a great player.
boogiemaam 6 months ago
Pretty damn good left had technique...
GrungeyDude 6 months ago
great technic, fast fingers and neat touch... but u think that u need to try another of music... i not that i dont like what ur playing... i like it very much... but i think that u maybe would do it better if u try to play some "bossa nova" songs from brazil... i mean that because of ur playing stile and technic, try it!!!!!
nightwisher23 6 months ago
Excellent pickin,' but this track is too laden from the acoustical reverb. It really takes a wired guitar and a mic not more than a few feet back from a tiny warm tube amplifier for all the realism you would ever need.
ChezKiva 6 months ago
super,thx friends for sharing.I like it!!!
1narca 6 months ago
lovvin it, wonderful performance
nickwiz13 6 months ago
wow its good !
ugnuy 6 months ago
this is absolutely amazing!
strgaltdelete 6 months ago
nice!!!
bingbang333 6 months ago
quicky fingers and happy guitar. OHyeah!
sarteman01 6 months ago
awsome stuff m8
tippa2kk 6 months ago
Nice! :D
jessicascorpio1 6 months ago
nicee
l0r3nz0m 6 months ago
I'd stand on that.
smoothjamskillmoure 6 months ago
very nice play, I like it
Raff1795 6 months ago
wow very nice ,I like it ;)
Raff1795 6 months ago
wow...your really good =O very nice song, and nice rythme...go on like that ;D Thumbs up
TheKillerqw 6 months ago
i enjoyed ths video i wantd to learn how to play ragtime guitar. hey im going to london next year lets meet up and jam out in th uk LOL aight???
graffitinj 6 months ago
thanks for that, Ruth.Most enjoyable! Thank you also for thinking of me. Best regards... Andre (donjuandre).
donjuandre 6 months ago
cool man, just a tip, make sure your left hand is also in the shot so we can see if u've got technic too:)
wHa22wHa 6 months ago
nice :)
19Marni96 6 months ago
Epic, some dude gave me the link. And it was worht it :)
Cool playing :D
Suma146 6 months ago
Nice song thank you
danielos190 6 months ago
Cool theme and nice playing!! Greets from Brazil!!
lucasxsr 6 months ago
Wow... that was cool.
yurgen95 6 months ago
Sure looks like a Gibson J-50. I have one but can't play like that!
RushTabConner 6 months ago
Awesome finger style playing!!! thnx abby for the link!! =)
mnashfaq10 6 months ago
thats crazy :) pure talent right there
BizkitBoii 6 months ago
good
epiaef 6 months ago
That was fun...thx abby
lucian4384 6 months ago
Holy cow!
barkulator 6 months ago
AWESOME Vibes, luvin' your Broadway Rag dereknewark,...thumbs up to ya and thankin' our buddy ruth4856 for sharin'! =)
qualqui 6 months ago
wow thats amazing :D
starhope14 6 months ago
muy bueno!!
MOHOTEL 6 months ago
excellent!!! hours and hours of practice that's all i can think of! and talent i'd say!! keep it up!!
Dreamalley00 6 months ago
Great playing!
Thanks for sharing abby
tanDlegen 6 months ago
This is amazing :D
Metalpupett 6 months ago
When a musician becomes this good, it's easy to understand the feeling to want to jam all day; playing tunes like this :)
Ibanezx123 6 months ago
Exceptional talent!
ApollosInsight 6 months ago
amazing
hoizdel 6 months ago
Great!
loyeti71 6 months ago
i wish i could play like him ;)
inter26061996 6 months ago
Respect man that was amazing
iloveart555 6 months ago
Am I the only one thinking Super Mario?
KiraPlaysGuitar 6 months ago
Amazingly skilled. How i'd Love To Play Like That!!
woohhah 6 months ago
Really wonderful!! :-)
TheKooledd 6 months ago
muy bueno excelente
manitognr 6 months ago
great man ^^ realy nice sound
Ashitaka2111 6 months ago
wow!
khabriel 6 months ago
Awesome playing
Barberakias 6 months ago
Very cool
XxXxSabooxXxX 6 months ago
skilled, and sounds great
angLer1337 6 months ago
Great! Usually you dont see much musicality in a normal acoustic guitar picker, but he really brings the melody out like a ragtime piece. I can definitely see the classical influence, its hard for me to finger pick on a acoustic cause it ruins my nails haha. Great music keep it up!
zacrichey 6 months ago
Just amazing !
quentin361 6 months ago
very nice sounds well thought out
bobthedistroyer 6 months ago
not my usual style but i really liked this!!
mahalannah 6 months ago
his fingers r super fast o.o
luvmussiiiccc 6 months ago
I could die happily if I was half as good as this guy.
GuitarFretMan 6 months ago
Very good player.
theblindoc 6 months ago
thanks (Derek--newark)---I DID like it...I would only add that (I) love when all is not filled up---the 'pauses' are what are ears---'pickup'---but well done---Do I know this person?
charliesechos 6 months ago
1 in 300 people who view this are deaf or 1 jealous crap guitarist has 20 accounts! well played that was an amazing solo I can see you becoming a household name would love to see you in a night with Jools Holland lineup Awesome!
nornironbloke 6 months ago
Wow, this is great. All the notes are very clear, and I can't hear any places where he hesitates, a great performance.
galaxion2 6 months ago
Bravo
KanchoKomancho 6 months ago
Nice bro
tjghjgfd468hg 6 months ago
I like it.
LeaChan94 6 months ago
Amazing !!
quentin361 6 months ago
fantastic
Bon0 6 months ago
Great talent and most enjoyable. The artist perhaps could highlight himself more even just by smiling more.
CX500rider 6 months ago
That was fuckin amazing
hanesmanhimself 6 months ago
Pretty good.
vassephardi 6 months ago
Very good. While the music is unique, I sense a bit of Steve Howe and Lindsey Buckingham influence in the style of playing.
Cerebralcinema 6 months ago
Incredible playing!!..
susan462 6 months ago
Hey i have that guitar! Sweet solo cheers for sharing
mountieable 6 months ago
very nice
chrono1valentine 6 months ago
Glad I was pointed in this direction, unfortunately it's not my thing, although the skills are obvious and impressive.
greengolfkid 6 months ago