how the fuck is he even doing this??? I bet even the likes of Marshall Harrison would have to use hybrid picking to get this song down as cleanly as this KID!!!
This kid probably started to play the guitar at age 4 and did only classical on an accoustic guitar. Hard work. It must be pretty easy for him to run a fast neck of a heavy metal guitar, no wonder he can play so fast on it. Very impressive.
I don't think there were any videos of Shawn Lane playing guitar at a very early age. I know there's clips of him with BOA playing when he was 16, but I'm curious to hear how good he was at age 13 or so, when he wasn't playing for a long time. Either way, Anton is a great player and I have high hopes for him!
@osamierda i feel this is gonna be a huge internet arguement so i suggest lets just drop this right here and we'll forget i said anything... k? and yea i do
This kid must have got laid when he was like 8 years old. The groupies must have been there at that time. How come he doesn´t have a signature guitar model already.
the kids got some awesome chops but that amp sounded like crap i dont know if it wasnt set right or it was the amp itself.none the less little to raw and trebly for my tastes.
Rubbish i could learn that in about 7 hours LOL nah seriously though that was really amazing and i would probably never be able to do that I need to hear more of that guy hes awsome.
The next generation guitarist, and I think that kid will be the reference for all guitar players.
He can play paganini at age of 11 what Jason Becker done at 18, he got the perfect Paul Gilbert's picking, That guy piss off over winner and all finalists from guitar idol, mattrach , and similars.
If he continues such a progress he will by a guitar god, that's for sure.
@CondeBloodySucker Paul gilbert picking = legato and picking now and then to trick the ears into thinking its really being picked lol.. but yeah.. this kid is a little bit better than I was at that age for sure. now the question is if he will throw it all away for a woman or keep dedicated?
Anyway Gilbert does play like you say on his recordings yet he is not "tricking your ear into thinking it's being picked" he can and does pick every note on his instructional videos and sometimes in solo's on record.
Besides all of that... I would have loved to have heard this played with a clean tone (as in: not distorted) I think it would have come across sounding better.
Played pretty much technically perfect. The kid's a giant!
amen to qap614, shawn lane claims he had his technique down by about 16, this kid is almost there NOW, 4 or 5 years earlier than lane. He has the potential to raise the bar completely over the heads of lane/becker/govan whoever else you can think of. QUESTION: HOW THE $%(&* DO PEOPLE LIKE FUNTWO GET MORE FAMOUS THEN THIS KID?!?!?!??!?!?
Dude he's 11 years old. If he keeps up at this pace he surely will be.His ability to string skip,chromatics and arpeggios, wicked alternate picking,blazing through wide intervals and running the gamut on on scales he's the real deal. I want to know if he was born in a test tube.
No one and I mean NO ONE since Shawn Lane have I seen such incredible picking techniques and I really think he is better than Shawn was at this age. So articulate and accurate. Best I've ever seen 90% of guys 3 times his age he smokes and the other 10% percent he is equal with at 11 YEARS OLD!! A-F-KING MAZING!!
its not about electric you fucking 8 year old. Quality comes from an instrument that has not been changed in thousands of years, not from a piece of wood wrapped in wires with a humbucker sucking up all those possibly awesome tones and spitting it out from a piece of shit made in china amp
I bet fingerstyle would conquer him though. The second he touches nylon he won't know what to do.He'll be lost without that little piece of plastic he murders those metal strings with...
Lol, I agree. I am not nearly as good as Anton, which is why I never talked about a comparison between him and me, in the first place. Thanks for saying I'm good haha. I am a drummer, not really a guitarist though. That is not to say that my skills in drumming are nearly as flawless as Anton's on guitar.
I like how he smiles and sort of celebrates himself along with the audience. He's one bad mutha and probably has no life outside of guitar, and that is awesome!!. I'm not slighting him. I think he's a very blessed and fortunate human being who found his calling at an early age. Now someone please advise this kid on how to dress!!
The earliest video footage of shawn lane was when he was 16. I'm sure you already know this. So there is no way of knowing how good he was when he was 12. Just saying..
There are tons of clips that haven't been seen or heard by the general public. One of my father's friends was Shawn's best friend. He went with him to see UK with Holdsworth, the night Shawn started wanting to play that style. He also has tons of early recordings of Shawn, far more than have ever been posted. A lot of it is stuff when Shawn was really young.
Shawn Lane is the greatest electric guitarist to ever walk the earth. BUT, there is absolutely no way Shawn was anywhere near this good at age 12. Not to mention that Anton played Paul Gilbert's 'Frenzy' FLAWLESSLY when he was only 8 years old.
i doubt shawn was this good when he was 12, but that's only because he started playing when he was 10. this kid could shred like a pro when he was 8 or something ridiculous like that, so he's probably been playing since he was 3 or something ridiculous like that (like govan)
If one puts the name "anton oparin" into Google Translate (English to russian, duh) and then does a search on the results, you can find all sorts of things.
Come on...he doesn't have the sophistication of Govan. That's not to say that in a couple years he won't.
I seriously doubt Oparin would be able to hold his own in a jazz improv session like Govan can. This kid is incredible and it would be absurd to expect him to be as creative as a musician as experienced as Govan.
There's technical proficiency (which Oparin is overflowing with) and there's musicianship. I have no doubt that one day this kid will have plenty of both.
men !!! he plays it just like aviolinist just as fuckin clean !! , i mean you have a lot of good 11 year old pianoplayers but kids like this you don't see everyday ,I mean men !!! he is better than jason becker etc !! if he has a good fantasy for composing stuff later he will become the best guitar player ever thats for sure , and he is so down to earth no arrogance thats good
Jimmy died and was reborn into this kids soul
Zachj888 5 months ago
Keep coming back to this. Effing brilliant is all i can say.
thrashmetal4life1 6 months ago
Hahah i like the "Yeahhh" at the end :P : 1:05
jeph0309 6 months ago
Thanks for making all us older players cry at not practicing enough! lol
tommyfied 6 months ago
16th Caprice perfectly played at the correct speed. Mother fucking amazing.
thrashmetal4life1 9 months ago
i hate this in a good way :)
odaystar 9 months ago
how the fuck is he even doing this??? I bet even the likes of Marshall Harrison would have to use hybrid picking to get this song down as cleanly as this KID!!!
AngryLlamaAttack 11 months ago
*Puts guitar in case and sets it on fire*
grumpy165 1 year ago
*starts practicing
xEMeehanx 1 year ago
Once his playing has more soul, he will be the best guitarist for sure... just another couple of years and he will rule the guitar world >:D!!
and I love at the end everyone is just like "woooooooooooooooow"
YanmingYuMusic 1 year ago
jaw dropping. He just played the complete paganini's 16th caprice without one mistake. Hes truly the greatest shredder in the world, Period.
poisoneyes 1 year ago
Outstanding !!!!
wheeldeal 1 year ago
This is what I mean when I say "The next generation is gonna come and bite all you older people in the ass"
DannyDaWiz 1 year ago
can anyone tell name of this etude? cause I'm going to learn it
r0kas 1 year ago
This kid probably started to play the guitar at age 4 and did only classical on an accoustic guitar. Hard work. It must be pretty easy for him to run a fast neck of a heavy metal guitar, no wonder he can play so fast on it. Very impressive.
richbrutus 1 year ago
what song is this? it's awesome!
FreyaAndAsher 1 year ago
Its like he died in an ealier life as an epic guitar player and remembered everything!
Kriptykality 1 year ago
His left hand is like a printer. So effing precise!
sympx 1 year ago
I don't think there were any videos of Shawn Lane playing guitar at a very early age. I know there's clips of him with BOA playing when he was 16, but I'm curious to hear how good he was at age 13 or so, when he wasn't playing for a long time. Either way, Anton is a great player and I have high hopes for him!
alspageddi 1 year ago
wow...jason becker without the lou gherig's disease
MrJuetenglord 1 year ago
Kicks the whole world's ass!!! buckethead, go back to music school
osamierda 1 year ago
@osamierda dude.. buckethead could kick this kids ass any day!
flipedup 1 year ago
@flipedup You don't play guitar, do you?
osamierda 1 year ago
@osamierda i feel this is gonna be a huge internet arguement so i suggest lets just drop this right here and we'll forget i said anything... k? and yea i do
flipedup 1 year ago
@flipedup Ok, I agree
osamierda 1 year ago
@osamierda thank u!!
flipedup 1 year ago
Funny all the comments comparing this kid to 30 and 40 year old guitarist.
Put another 13 year old kid next to him and we can start making comparisons.
Who are we bullshitting?
This kid is a bonafide prodigy.
jwandhistools 1 year ago
@jwandhistools
..maybe even a savant!!
jwandhistools 1 year ago
This kid must have got laid when he was like 8 years old. The groupies must have been there at that time. How come he doesn´t have a signature guitar model already.
NisseEricsson 1 year ago
what song is this??
stefanopunkskate 1 year ago
@stefanopunkskate Paganini's 16th Caprice
marcocosmic 1 year ago
the kids got some awesome chops but that amp sounded like crap i dont know if it wasnt set right or it was the amp itself.none the less little to raw and trebly for my tastes.
72sidler 2 years ago
Rubbish i could learn that in about 7 hours LOL nah seriously though that was really amazing and i would probably never be able to do that I need to hear more of that guy hes awsome.
Iamfukenripped 2 years ago
The next generation guitarist, and I think that kid will be the reference for all guitar players.
He can play paganini at age of 11 what Jason Becker done at 18, he got the perfect Paul Gilbert's picking, That guy piss off over winner and all finalists from guitar idol, mattrach , and similars.
If he continues such a progress he will by a guitar god, that's for sure.
CondeBloodySucker 2 years ago 14
@CondeBloodySucker Paul gilbert picking = legato and picking now and then to trick the ears into thinking its really being picked lol.. but yeah.. this kid is a little bit better than I was at that age for sure. now the question is if he will throw it all away for a woman or keep dedicated?
musichopper 2 years ago
@musichopper That IS the best question!!!
Anyway Gilbert does play like you say on his recordings yet he is not "tricking your ear into thinking it's being picked" he can and does pick every note on his instructional videos and sometimes in solo's on record.
Besides all of that... I would have loved to have heard this played with a clean tone (as in: not distorted) I think it would have come across sounding better.
Played pretty much technically perfect. The kid's a giant!
intervalkid 1 year ago
@musichopper
no paul picks everything. hes one of the few guitarists that can do that.
guitarfreek1 1 year ago
@guitarfreek1 He doesn't actually pick everything, as he says in a couple lessons and interviews, but he CAN pick everything.
Fendershred50 1 year ago
Yea well i bet my penis is bigger than his...
jk
glad to see him having fun, which is the most important thing.
vjr1113 2 years ago
funny
Equestional 2 years ago
Seeing a kid this young be this good makes me want to throw away my guitar and write myself off as a failure :(
ThaWhiz 2 years ago 3
guitar isn't about being the best, it's about having fun. If your playing for other reasons , it's probably not a good thing.
DreamTheater2269 2 years ago
Skull crusher are stompboxes made by tonebox and they look like little skulls they're prety amazing
guitarmanDDI 2 years ago
what type of distortion do u use?
BluSailer 2 years ago
im pretty sure he uses a skull crusher, but thats just a guess.
guitarmanDDI 2 years ago
What's a Skull Crusher?
BluSailer 2 years ago
he picked every fucking note. ALL of them!
EchelonIV 2 years ago 4
That's fucking amazing.
hmm2112 2 years ago 3
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to much Paul gilbert ... clearly seems that he wants to be the paul ... the technique of picking it is the same!
Rennanxp2 2 years ago
he took lessons with gilbert, genius....
chechoguitar112 2 years ago
hes fuckign 11 years old, how can you criticize an 11 year old for anything?
TroalAnne 2 years ago 9
Where did you see the criticism ?
Rennanxp2 2 years ago
he's 13...watch his other videos...he says it. even so, this kid is a prodigy and should be signed immediately haha.
insidiousvertigo 2 years ago
But the question is, who dont want to be as good as Paul?
TuplaBonus 2 years ago 4
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he needs to get rid of that shitty 80's paul gilbert tone, and find his own voice.
t3hgir 2 years ago
pauls tone is even worse than this lol way too much treble..no balance
Equestional 2 years ago
amen to qap614, shawn lane claims he had his technique down by about 16, this kid is almost there NOW, 4 or 5 years earlier than lane. He has the potential to raise the bar completely over the heads of lane/becker/govan whoever else you can think of. QUESTION: HOW THE $%(&* DO PEOPLE LIKE FUNTWO GET MORE FAMOUS THEN THIS KID?!?!?!??!?!?
JoelD212 2 years ago 5
this kid needs more recognition than he gets.
Gmanmusiclover 2 years ago 3
Dude he's 11 years old. If he keeps up at this pace he surely will be.His ability to string skip,chromatics and arpeggios, wicked alternate picking,blazing through wide intervals and running the gamut on on scales he's the real deal. I want to know if he was born in a test tube.
qap614 2 years ago 3
He got marshall walls and the sound is not beatter than that!?
haamilt0n 2 years ago
All the other kids are playing freakin guitar hero..... Parents buy your kids real guitars.
qap614 2 years ago
im better
NOT
eleph4nt 2 years ago
No one and I mean NO ONE since Shawn Lane have I seen such incredible picking techniques and I really think he is better than Shawn was at this age. So articulate and accurate. Best I've ever seen 90% of guys 3 times his age he smokes and the other 10% percent he is equal with at 11 YEARS OLD!! A-F-KING MAZING!!
qap614 2 years ago
i wouldn't go that far he's hella good but not shawn lane good
brandon5pennies 2 years ago
i love paganinis 16 caprice
davtones 2 years ago
I just putted my guitars and amp on ebay... :O
HarvesterBob 2 years ago
its not about electric you fucking 8 year old. Quality comes from an instrument that has not been changed in thousands of years, not from a piece of wood wrapped in wires with a humbucker sucking up all those possibly awesome tones and spitting it out from a piece of shit made in china amp
preston12 2 years ago
someone's a little jealous that they can't do what he does..
jakeshred 2 years ago
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I bet fingerstyle would conquer him though. The second he touches nylon he won't know what to do.He'll be lost without that little piece of plastic he murders those metal strings with...
preston12 2 years ago
bah.. what a jealous asshole..
sowhat123 2 years ago 2
So? Totally different styles. I bet the best finger style guitarists couldn't play stuff like this, that's not to say they are bad musicians.
Amerikhastan 2 years ago
And I bet if I give you an electric guitar you wouldn't be able to play like that.
JEESherazi 2 years ago
I bet you have never played a musical instrument in you life and is illiterate in reading music
preston12 2 years ago
''in you life and is illiterate in reading music''
And you're illiterate period. -- Look, go in my channel, I have a video of myself playing guitar.
JEESherazi 2 years ago 2
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I went into your channel...
You sucks !
MauricioCaran 2 years ago
Watched your vid...good, but you are not 1/10th as good as this kid. He is light years ahead...
DEATH2JIHADISTS 2 years ago
@DEATH2JIHADISTS
Lol, I agree. I am not nearly as good as Anton, which is why I never talked about a comparison between him and me, in the first place. Thanks for saying I'm good haha. I am a drummer, not really a guitarist though. That is not to say that my skills in drumming are nearly as flawless as Anton's on guitar.
JEESherazi 2 years ago
in my opinion he sounds way more clean then becker did when he was young, and becker did not have videos at this age 8-11 years....
alterbridge111 2 years ago
THE NEXT JASON B.
chon30 2 years ago 3
im quitting guitar
Gmanmusiclover 2 years ago
yeah... we should stop watching guitar prodigies huh? XD well, it just means we all need to practice harder wih the standard raised THAT high!
Syntraediace220 2 years ago 2
Jason Becker would be proud
Vinniemoore89 2 years ago 5
WTF..is this kid on! Nothing short of amazing except for his stature!
6661victor 2 years ago
In a odd way it reminds me of jason becker?
BramSmoker 2 years ago
Yep. Lets just hope the kid doesnt end up like Jason Becker, God bless him.
Scarified2012 2 years ago
wow niccolo paganini caprice #16, i really just feel like giving up playing guitar.
mosesposes 2 years ago
I forgot which caprice this is :(
johnaiton 2 years ago
That amazing...:)
ipl10956 2 years ago
wow kick all american ass plz
NuclearBanjo 2 years ago
hahaha
SolntsaSvet 2 years ago
Fuck me sideways.... :-O
edcollante 2 years ago
I like how he smiles and sort of celebrates himself along with the audience. He's one bad mutha and probably has no life outside of guitar, and that is awesome!!. I'm not slighting him. I think he's a very blessed and fortunate human being who found his calling at an early age. Now someone please advise this kid on how to dress!!
jonjr0325 2 years ago
Paganini's Caprice #XVI in Gminor, nice!!!
zenguitarguy1 2 years ago
Shawn Lane reincarnated
philm00r 2 years ago
the next shawn lane paul gilbert all in one haha..
ishredpotatoes 2 years ago 2
fuck that shit, in 10 years this kid is gonna eat them for breakfast. I guarantee neither shawn or paul was this godly at 11
zekenstyne 2 years ago 21
he 12 and amazing!
ishredpotatoes 2 years ago
Shawn definitely was...
waylay00 2 years ago
The earliest video footage of shawn lane was when he was 16. I'm sure you already know this. So there is no way of knowing how good he was when he was 12. Just saying..
GutiarFag 2 years ago
There are tons of clips that haven't been seen or heard by the general public. One of my father's friends was Shawn's best friend. He went with him to see UK with Holdsworth, the night Shawn started wanting to play that style. He also has tons of early recordings of Shawn, far more than have ever been posted. A lot of it is stuff when Shawn was really young.
waylay00 2 years ago
Post some of it man. What are you doin holding out on everyone? haha
GutiarFag 2 years ago
I know, ha. The thing is that he has the videos, and I've begged him to post them, but you know how that goes with some people, lol.
waylay00 2 years ago
Shawn Lane is the greatest electric guitarist to ever walk the earth. BUT, there is absolutely no way Shawn was anywhere near this good at age 12. Not to mention that Anton played Paul Gilbert's 'Frenzy' FLAWLESSLY when he was only 8 years old.
SabuPtolemy 2 years ago
No, Shawn was at this level at 12. Take my word for it....Regardless, they are both outstanding
waylay00 2 years ago
i doubt shawn was this good when he was 12, but that's only because he started playing when he was 10. this kid could shred like a pro when he was 8 or something ridiculous like that, so he's probably been playing since he was 3 or something ridiculous like that (like govan)
FreyaAndAsher 2 years ago
5 years old.
If one puts the name "anton oparin" into Google Translate (English to russian, duh) and then does a search on the results, you can find all sorts of things.
That's all I got to say about that.
Twi11ig 2 years ago
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TheWhocares233 2 years ago
Well, now you just went ahead and said something really silly... And you know it :P
robertklokk 2 years ago 2
well he doesn't quite yet but im sure he will
TheWhocares233 2 years ago
Come on...he doesn't have the sophistication of Govan. That's not to say that in a couple years he won't.
I seriously doubt Oparin would be able to hold his own in a jazz improv session like Govan can. This kid is incredible and it would be absurd to expect him to be as creative as a musician as experienced as Govan.
There's technical proficiency (which Oparin is overflowing with) and there's musicianship. I have no doubt that one day this kid will have plenty of both.
Drewb18c1 2 years ago
WTF is this kid human? seems like the second coming of christ
KancerStick 2 years ago 2
I think ur right, this kid is fucking god, haha, or he will be in 10 years
zekenstyne 2 years ago
Holy hell
His picking is like immense
Doing clinics at 11!!!!!
EddieVanAidan 2 years ago
He reminds me Jason Becker
johnmaclane54 2 years ago 6
WOW.... i wanna kill my self cuzz hes soo good
JasonXeMoXcoRe 2 years ago
holy shit,
just holy shit.
his picking is insane.
soooo fucking clean.
fuck this kid, i'm jealous. lol
jakeshred 2 years ago 4
THE NEXT JASON BECKER??????? I think this kid is the best!!!!!
penesuelo 2 years ago 16
men !!! he plays it just like aviolinist just as fuckin clean !! , i mean you have a lot of good 11 year old pianoplayers but kids like this you don't see everyday ,I mean men !!! he is better than jason becker etc !! if he has a good fantasy for composing stuff later he will become the best guitar player ever thats for sure , and he is so down to earth no arrogance thats good
xSnoweyexp 3 years ago 3
anyone pls tell me wat is the name of the song??
hydejing 3 years ago
Paganini 24 Caprices NO. 16
madlee0110 3 years ago
He is God.
brunotomazini2 3 years ago 5
he must be the youngest guy to ever do a clinic.
incredible.
MParseface38 3 years ago
nice playing. geeky smile!
freakystyley73 3 years ago
amazing :O
Venzafire 3 years ago