Flamenco Guitar by Jason McGuire "El Rubio"

[deepapo]

i am not an expert, so i want to ask if there is any better flamenco guitar player from this guy?

[FlamencoArash]

@deepapo : no there isn't ! ...... seriously, this is not a good question. There is no "better" flamenco guitar player. Once you reach a certain level, there are lots of extremely good players , all with different styles. But non of them is "better" than the other.

[boldguy1]

So, so beautiful..

Melbourne Australia, please visit sometime, we would love your music to be played.

[BeeRocket2010]

TRIPLE H... IS THAT YOU?

[MsAguaCaliente]

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[elmusic007]

superb performance, passionate, aggresive, at times tender and quite, full of melody and plenty of back beats which makes this piece more interesting.

I very much would enjoyed being there in the audience, I would like to know if there is a difference in sound with each guitar that he uses........was anybody there???

[QuistTV]

erm... that's pretty brilliant as far as flamenco guitar goes. (Now let me just pick up my jaw...)

[misfitstattoo]

I can play that good, I just don't want to.

[greenguitarist1962]

I get tired of Jason McGuire popping up on every youtube search for guitarists. Like this guy is the only flamenco guitarist in the world? i personally don't like the guy.

[katecutiekat]

he played at my school a few days ago! amazing:D

[Guayabero1977]

Definitivamente uno tiene que nacer para ser musico...

[jessydist]

who got owned..THE GUITAR

[yunusex]

adam gitarı sikiyor beyler dağılın...

[LittoBUbbo]

god I want to learn how to play this so bad but my room mate won't let me play loudly x..x

[Zimx02]

Does this piece have a specific name?

[julina2303]

hermoso

[mrojas6869]

oleeeee guerooooo

[Zeeceei]

fab! great!

[DeportedAllan]

bloody genius

[SandmanLiquid]

This is the first guitar video my eyes hurts.

[ihath]

amazing guitar playing

[bbyrd009b]

other worldly.

[deviltemptation5]

beautiful!!!



[deepapo]

I can't avoid watch this time to time ... one guy said and I agree

[Re1Mu2R3]

Sweet cum face!!

[onebigbear]

Love those golpes.. 2:10. epic moment... 4:54 to 5:10. This solo really is amazing.

[onebigbear]

f-ing great.. love it.

[akaten916]

The first minute was really great then it turns into a bunch of distorted crap, can hardly hear the melody at all.

[BvOBart]

I'm a death metal fan, and I like this. It's the real music, it's that kind, that needs actual skill, that needs years of practice. That kind of music, I like it. I pity the fact that today's popular music is all auto-tuned stuff that everyone could replicate.

[TheNino6969]

burit biru

[UNIVERSALRESOLUTION]

That is badass!

[arturoper26]

Espectacular Jason!!!

[GruppeSechs2004]

Why is it, that everytime I click on a random flamenco video, every single one is just so full of awesome!?

[mechael]

Unbelievable! Bravo!!!

[supremeG1000]

This has no rythem it sucks

[TheSonsofHorusx]

damn this guys fast

[Gastinio]

A guitar is never really played, until used to play flamenco on it!

[mechael]

@Gastinio

sadly agreed.

that also means my guitars were never played, and I've never played guitar... :(

[Gastinio]

@mechael Well, as it turns out, you played it but not as intense you know ;D

[hyperboogie]

Amazing playing ...



[finitofl]

no hagas caso, paco de lucia, vicente amigo y mas de los mejores guitarristas del mundo son payos tambien, tanta mierda con lo mismo siempre.

[Vassilis61]

Simply amazing...!!!

[Shribble11]

diablo 3! music!

[Manatoro]

I cant avoid watching this from time to time

[longshotgreen]

just took off that clam and he's powerless

[vamp556]

Fantasticooooooo!! Wow!!

[mikelus2006]

which guitar do you use in this video?? congratulations! you have a very power guitar technique!

[Bikhiyal]

@mikelus2006 its a Montalvo...... (BerkeleyMusic(dot)com)

[PEPE4491]

eres un fenomeno ijo

[ohtajeule]

PAYOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Bikhiyal]

@ohtajeule Si..... soy payo de kalifornia

[willy1986tralara]

@Bikhiyal ajajaja buena buena

[HomoYoutubus]

@ohtajeule Qué comentario más tonto. Seguro que tú no tocas ni la mitad de esté tío.

[VMGIAN]

first time when i watched this I said that this is brutalisation of music...i see now that i was totally wrong...Jason is monster guitarist and this bulerias can be compared with bulerias of Jeronimo.....it is really master piece by Jason...sorry Jason for my first comment....:):)

[patconnelify]

I have to have a lie down after watching that, how does he remember all that?????

[SanctumZero]

@patconnelify It's only a 6min piece... piano concerts (which, as we know, involve 2 hands playing phrases) prolly last half an hour or something on average, and modern avantgarde composers have created solo pieces that last in excess of 8 hours

[Bikhiyal]

@SanctumZero This is the final part of a 50 minute, multi-movement composition called "Blow it Out Your Ass".... the other parts of this concert are posted on YouTube so you can get the gist of the entire work if you want.... Cheers.

[SanctumZero]

@Bikhiyal Yes, thank you, I have watched several of them ;D and rated them thumbs up. I even have this one favorited. You shouldn't be trolling your own vids, though. Better things to do. And of course you are welcome to provide patconnelify with a different answer to his question. I stand by my post, though. I think it's entirely objective, and it doesn't mention you anywhere in it. 

[patconnelify]

@SanctumZero

8 hours of playing with that ferrocity on a guitar and he' d only have stumps left for fingers :)

[DrEviscerator666]

Give him a Dean Guitar and a ENGL amp and see how he Shreds the shit out of it! This is the amusingness of a great technique!

[DrunKid]

why couldn't he carry the 2:26 part a little longer? its the best thing i've ever heard

[mrceebees14]

Damn

[lyallf]

beautiful....

but his hand look abanormally tiny

[bentleycoustic]

Absolutely astounding,the more often i watch this the scarier it becomes...wish i had a fraction of his ability..

[ashay919]

my ears just were in heaven for 6:18

[Sol1taryMan]

How come the guitar did not explode?

[HungKinMak]

I am a classical guitar beginner. Want to know why he hold his classical guitar in this way? Is it better to hold it like this or the traditional way?

[gwood1991]

@HungKinMak because hes playing flamenco. its a different aproach in guitar playing and its called a flamenco guitar. they usually have a ligther sound and the strings are generally closer the the fret board for fast picados.

[Ireneluvsfanfics]

@HungKinMak The traditional way is better for your back and the guitar is more stable, but this way you can view your left hand better and it's closer to you. For fast pieces like this, I think this way is easier.

[Bitchflakes666]

break me off a piece of that motherfuckin kit-kat bar

[jonnylawrence010]

i forgot to breathe and blink for 6 minutes

[mishasita]

No Tab for me, thank you. How 'bout a Fresca?

[Dolphidood]

Beautiful...

[JJengineering]

of ALL the music i Know slow and fast,hard and soft THIS is the best mix and ost emotional i know,there's everything in it

very wonderful touch,groovy as the devil himself,classic beyond everything and so on

omg GO ON MAN!

[VoltioXXX]

­¡Bravo! Se vé que sabe mucho.

[VoltioXXX]

­¡Bravo!



[xNoobFromHell]

this is coming from another planet

[mouseonthemetro]

im new to the flamenco style, so i don't know any terminology yet. but i find the beginning of this piece so hauntingly beautiful and would love to play similarly. is there a term for how he's playing in the beginning?

[joanlimasmp]

es un maestro!!!

[chewbacca138]

=) yeah!

[kentd600]

How... do you play like that!? o.o

[Dorkus89Malorkus]

@kentd600 you pluck like you always do but instead of strumming you hit the guitar with your nails so you get that fast triple or quadruple down-strum sound a la flamenco.

[gnrcr]

FUCKING BEAUTIFUL !!!!

[JasonLeonPike]

Really great.

[prseo6868]

I like this clip and i like website runhau.vn

[Kazuyasan9999]

This riff is different than other Flamenco videos I've seen. I'm getting sort of a dark vibe out of it.

[argieboyjohn]

After watching Japanese play and dance Tango better than Pugliese...this guy is natural, expected and a genius..Which goes to probe that music has no passports. I understand The Gipsy Kings are Dutch!!! Am I wrong?

[JoshSwartzberg]

joder, como toca este payo.

[Hucking]

@5:23 god_mode( );

[ramuiovik]

fait cier a chaque fois que je regarde cette technicité. chapeau bas

[shrynakesavan]

FAAAkkkkk…

Faaak you….

AWWSOME…….

SUCH VIOLENCE…..

what a TURNON….

I was thinkin he was gonna smash me face any moment with that guitar…

[Flamencanta]

@shrynakesavan its not violence; its tension and passion

[matrags]

I don't know if this is real flamenco or not and to be honest I don't really care. What I do know is most flamenco guitarists pale in comparison to this gut.

[JohnOpheim]

At people dissing, let him play a SOLO PIECE how he wants! I find Jeronimo Maya's playing very rough at times, is he not gitano, not flamenco? If you watch some of his other videos you'll see Jason KNOWS flamenco.

[JohnOpheim]

PAYO is an expression gypsies use whenever they want to make clear that they are the only ones who can play flamenco. It's a defense mechanism they use when they feel threatened, nothing more ;-)

[DajaWaja]

@JohnOpheim no man you're getting it wrong, learn some spanish

[JohnOpheim]

@DajaWaja just looked it up: Payo, ya: m. y f. Para los gitanos, persona que no pertenece a su raza.

[JohnOpheim]

@DajaWaja Maybe you misunderstood. I know the real translation, I only wanted to explain how the word is often used by gitanos in the flamenco world.

[DajaWaja]

@JohnOpheim perdon, my bad

[ChollieD]

@JohnOpheim Yeah, payo is what gypsies say, akin to what black American musicians used to say about white folks not having the right "soul" to play (take your pick) jazz, blues, gospel.

Another parallel: the Andalusian gypsies have suffered great oppression historically. So while it's just a flat-out joke to suggest that there's some skill that's unavailable to you *because of your race*, there's a legitimate sensitivity in there that I try to respect.

[lahancodon]

My speakers are still on for 6:18 after the vid ends :)

[michaelilb2014]

wtb those fingers

[clouds5]

Guitars are such good rythm instruments. <3

[christosmadas]

OH Shit!!!! his hands are on fire!

[orgi13man]

Even Paul Gilbert can't do this. That's hardcore. P.S if you dont believe me, look up Paul Gilbert flamingo, he admits he can't play real flamenco, so he calls it flamingo.

[loquibambia55]

I suppose it depends on who you are delivering to and why. As a guitar aficionado myself I respect all that dedicate their lives to the strings. Yes his approach is different and it is doubtful that it would be welcomed in Sevilla but he is here and if people here like it, that is great. As one who was born and raised in South America and who resided in Spain for years, I may not like the interpretation, but if it furthers the cause and introduces others to the music it is good. Salud.

[GuitarraFlamenca1000]

This happend when a Payo doesn't understand Flamenco..

this aggressive style is very awful and has nothing to do with Flamenco...

[VMGIAN]

@GuitarraFlamenca1000 that is a thing that I'm talking about all the time...it's maybe attractive but has noting to do with flamenco..I agree with you...

[TrippyTheShroom]

@GuitarraFlamenca1000 everyone has their different styles, if you dont like this, then dont post a comment dissing the guys playing style. he prefers a more aggressive style of flemenco...then let him be, its his choice how to play

[wwwjohnjewelcom]

@TrippyTheShroom

I know Paul Gilbert and when someone disses him , it makes him get stronger and make more money. Just because you have an idea that even Paul Gilbert is lossing his girlfriend and moving into a new apartment does not mean , he wont find a better girlfriend and move into a newer better place ... hey Paul , hows M.I. Tokyo doing ! When are we going to start the China School ..ni ho w! ma.

[TrippyTheShroom]

@wwwjohnjewelcom what....the....holy hell....are you talking about?

[Three02andhalfdays]

???

[turnbacktime]

@TrippyTheShroom lol

[CowboyFromHell092]

@wwwjohnjewelcom are you fucking...trippin' ?

[spacemanzabs]

@GuitarraFlamenca1000 what is a Payo? I really like his playing. I play guitar too and I like a lot of different styles but always try to do my own thing often using different aspects of techniques others have used as well as my own imagination. Why does it upset people to do this? If everyone did it the same way we would really only need one guitarist in the world per generation. the beauty of having many is that each one can express him or herself uniquely.

[Ugallardo]

@GuitarraFlamenca1000 Estas equivocado amigo. El flamenco es rabia,tristeza, pasion y muchas cosas mas. El lo toca como lo siente. Ya me imagino lo que dirias si tocara mas suave. "Ese estilo suave no tiene nada que ver con el flamenco". Eso dirias verdad? ;). Que ganas de joder nadamas. JAJAJA.

[jucamo007]

dude plays astonishing.i never heard of him.

[JohnOpheim]

I love the falseta at 4:56

[alis18052006]

oleeeee!!!!!!!

[stp751]

someday...i'll play just as good or better

[dive682]

all styles of guitar and music are great and very hard to master. keep comparing styles , which ones is harder is not understanding music or styles. comparing this style to shredding. there both hard and difficult to master. to play with a pick fast and clean is very hard, to play with finger picking is also very hard. it depends on what style you want to master . i respect them all , and learn form them all. and everyone brings there own ways of doing styles , which makes it more interesting.

[acolytes777]

this guy makes schredders look like begginers.........this is way harder since he is finger picking

[VMGIAN]

this is brutalisation of music.....i don't see point in that.....only beginning is respectable...

[MrSister127]

@VMGIAN how is this  a brutalization of music?

[VMGIAN]

@MrSister127he has good falsetas especially one at 2:24 but he strike his guitar so violently in what I don't see the point.He is great guitarist but in his playing you can find only musical theory and hours and hours of practicing without true flamenco duende,which is most important thing if you want to play flamenco.His desire for brutalisation I can see and in unnecessarily fast tempo.For him speed and desire to show people that he is a virtuoso is more important than the music itself...

[JohnOpheim]

@VMGIAN I see what you mean but the violent expression is also a part of flamenco and what he wanted to express with this piece. I think it's fitting for a buleria, but it's a question of taste. He has other things, too. I play a lot of Jason's melodic falsetas for dancers and always get a big grin from the dancers in return.

[VMGIAN]

@JohnOpheim I agree partially with your opininon.....

[lcpyt1]

GOOD JOB, TAKE A LOOK AT CHEMA VILCHEZ, MY FRIENDS

[Drew8599]

hahaha yeeaaahhhhh



[angelamariasebastian]

¡¡¡ o te sobran dedos , o te falta guitarra.!!!

[angelamariasebastian]

¡¡¡ o te sobran dedos , o te falta guitarra.!!!

[alkaun123]

This proves that even a gringo like me can play mariachi

[Cobe1976]

@alkaun123 Mariachi is a totyally different style, bro.

[alkaun123]

@Cobe1976 My bad, I just searched up mariachi and this popped up in the list

[SantomPh]

@alkaun123 mariachi is more upbeat and played in a group standing up,

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[kingkung82]

seeing them on friday!!!

[Tepicoelano2]

OOOOOOOOOOOOOOO FUUUUUUCCCCCCKKKKKK SO GOOD

[brendangray]

I can do this just picking with my baby toe nail.

[samljer]

man.  he enjoyed playing that piece. A+

[blueshaldag]

קטע מדליק ביותר 

[shysix]

For anyone who wants the tab, I will post it here:

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[JMPalassis]

@shysix I I would love the tabs. But that really didn't help. lol

[christosmadas]

@shysix

lmao

[HillbillyJ]

@shysix Ok, you've got the first bar, what about the rest? LOL.

[mikspeed74]

@shysix

You missed the 1212421121-21-5454-12-5-45-212­125-5-4-5 at the intermezzo, but else its 100% correct! Good Job :)

[Sagnak91]

@shysix thumbs up if you tried to transpose that to guitar anyway...

[matrags]

@shysix What in the name of all things holy is that!?!

[snakesuicide]

@shysix are these meant to tabs or somthing??????????? cuz you suck

[herbnik]

@snakesuicide are these meant to reply or somthing?????????? cuz you mis

s the point

[AlexIsonSanders]

@shysix Hey thanx man, Followed it perfect, Only one error a quarter way in it sais: 13085r, thats supposed to be g. xD

[coolmafiaboy]

@shysix no free trial ?? hhhhhhh

[whatthebollocks]

@shysix LOL i actually copied this and then realized "WTF? this isn't a URL"

[Guitarman461]

@shysix you forgot this part

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[kcvidsonline]

@shysix Noticed one little error, apart from that it's perfect!... ;-).

[metalmusicman18]

@shysix that's just the first 3 measures, mind posting the rest?

[edson429]

@shysix this tab looks like matrix code

[ESRD69]

@shysix LMFAO XD

[ooosteve]

@shysix got it on the first try, thanks

[schnisha95]

@shysix wait... how do i know which string it's on????

[Alembic77Series1]

This isn't really Spanish, this isnt' really flamenco, this isn't really classical. but it's damned good!

[warriorbysword2]

@Alembic77Series1 I agree it's pretty unique. It's a nice form of dissonant flamenco. It is sort of old gypsy style.

[TheObviousTruths]

i can play this with my eyelid. jk. no way.

[Leetkangaroo]

He should be playing metal with aggression like that

[flashbackguitar]

anyone have any recommendations on books for learning flamenco guitar playing?

[kakan147]

OLÉ!!!

[MrMino503]

who are the 147 lol?? i doubt they even know how to handle a guitarl lol

[xcaluhbration]

Stop people. This is music, not a competition. There is no "BETTER" in artistic expression, only the expression itself. If it resonates with you then good, if not, find something that does and love it. But please lets stop this nonsense.

[TonusPerfectus]

A lot of idiotic arguments going on here...if you are incapable of making objective comments then get away from your computer and practice (not just the guitar but how to construct decent English sentences)...Morons.

[2020rhal]

cannon rock, eat me!