Jeffrey W. Hughes "The Pretender" My Grammy Moment

[stairwy2heven]

that was spectacular!

[sasukeslover9]

where did "the pretender" come in?! that sounded just weird.

(im not saying this to be mean)

[cmac565]

beautifully played! I have played the instrument myself and from the way you play, you must love it, it is a beautiful instrument especially when you know how to play it! Don't stop the music!

[HelloOfficerGL]

How the heck did you not win???

[JasperHaleRox]

Wow u put a great spin on that song!

[drakonwol]

im not a fan of voilin but its a gud honour 2 watch one of my favirite songs by such a pro on it welll done

[MrMilk77]

literally shredding the bow

so cool!

[mystic1fire1angel]

cant stop watchin this you rock! taylor

[uponachair]

brilliant, positively brilliant

[akumaDsainted]

cool bro

[beautifuldancer31]

very good

[andicandi225]

that was amazing!!!!

[Rokuskai]

Ay cuz that was hard it sound like he was playing a guitar 5 stars motherufucking up

[Cellozawsome]

Its sounds so awsome

[bathwater1994]

Regardez mon canal!

[hkguitarslinger]

dude...that was most triumphant...tasty licks...indeed...

[INeedMoreBlood]

OMG... this is awesome!

[wardark2142]

this is truly awsome

[qxtroidinare]

wow, that incline was wonderful!

[police1545]

that was amazing

[DAVISMAEL]

Dude, that was great!!!! but u need to get ur right arm a bit lower.. :D

I bet ur teacher tells u that all the time.

[Orandajiny]

omg! so awesome <3

[Gmpatterson21]

Nice job my brotha!

[Tonythetigertuba]

That was mind blowingly jawesome.

[cheaok8]

yo man that was fly. wish i could play like that. i am no where near that good...yet lol

[robertenapoleon2000y]

Damn hes fine and he plays my favorite instrument!!!!!!

[Ragredon]

AMAZING! More power to you!

[thechoaschild]

Shit.... The was fucking amazing

[moominking13]

Oh yeah, mate you fucking own on the violin, I'd kill to play like that.

[moominking13]

Great, go tell someone who cares how fucked up your country's culture and politics are. We are all happy here in west being openly gay so don't treat us like a Chechen rebel on You tube you commys and sort out your own government before you act hard on the internet.

[xXxbeisel76xXx]

Awesome dude! 5/5. It was a litlle of at the end butyou got tempo, dynamics, note configurastion pretty much all correct. Great job.

[SasukesMagic]

Kinda funny at the end, but overall you did good. YAY!

[dragonforce540]

VERY NICE

[ILikeThePies]

Just Beautiful. WELL DONE! *****

[sweetsoad]

This guy is the ownage. I'd really like to learn how to play this on violin. I'm not creative or good enough to write it myself.

[Xeillo]

skillz...

[bon2bonn]

i could actually here the pretender song in this violin cover type thing

[ronaldsander]

That was nice man!

[samuelshepard]

the little asian chicks was betta

[iwonderaboutit]

thats what your bf said to you

[samuelshepard]

oh a GAY joke. you're not american...*sarcasm

[xXxbeisel76xXx]

America is one of the most openly gay countries, In some countries you could be killed for just implying your gay so please think next time you say something like that.

[samuelshepard]

someone implied i was gay so you yell at me? this is wonderous

[xXxbeisel76xXx]

Quit over reacting, I'm just trying to save you from further embarrasment. And no I did not say u were gay so honestly back off. Just trying to help.

[samuelshepard]

you're not trying to help you're being a fucking ignorant asshole. you obviously had no idea what was going on but you jumped in anyway. someone implied that i was gay and meant it as some sort of insult and the only country where people do that is in america. i would know, i live there.

[xXxbeisel76xXx]

Oi! Fucktard I live there too. And I'm saying go to Russia or the Ukraine and say your gay and you'll get fucking pumelled to death.

I wonderaboutit had no right to call you gay, but you had noright to make an unfair assumption about Americans. And yes I WAS trying to help you by correctiing you in hiopes you wouldn't make urself look like an idiot, but apperantly you'll do that anyway so have a nice fuckin' day asswhipe.

[samuelshepard]

unbelievable . only some politically spoiled american would think that insulting someone would somehow help them.

[metex75x]

hi grup etken listen please thanks

[robertpmc]

Excellent !! Very well done. Hard work does pay off (based on talent of course).

p.s. Note to bkjoelover:

Is it when head is entering arse that you get to smell "ass hair" or when trying to withdraw it?? The latter seems unlikely in your case!

Thought I'd ask the expert lol.

[ImNoPunkKid]

!!!!!!!!!AMAZING!!!!!!!!!

[usofweed]

great : )

it sounds really good

I thought that the arm movements for those cross-string parts were too big, which makes it much more difficult to play, but it looks like you made it work.

try bending your your right wrist up a bit.

the vibrato in the beginning sounded a little shakey, but other parts were great.

[coolman10151015]

your amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dimondback434]

try playing some blue grass. you would sound better...

[kamikazex3]

I'm still mad that you didn't win the Foo Fighters competition. This is absolutely amazing.

[Psyclem]

Bravo

Ça fait du bien d'ententre quelqu'un qui joue et le ressent.

J'adore

[iamthebs]

great talent and playing skills! maybe you can create some music for my best "Racial" slur video!

[paijolatip]

wow... wow... and wow. this shit is perfect!!!

[lositahh]

WOW!

I wish i could play like that.

hopefully someday (:

[YogurtPuffRecords]

wow! This is great. Your an extremely talented violinest playing a great song....

[vesji]

Who won? :O

[freshaca3]

OMFG!! IS THAT WHY HE LOST?!

Music isn't about how you look or present things, it's about how it sounds and how it makes you feel!

My opinion is that this guy is very skilled and should have won!

[cardude990]

this guy shouldve won! cmon

[foxycleopatra965]

omfg this guy should've won by far!!!!!!!!

[bkjoelover]

Do you know why he lost? The presentation, not only tune, is the most important aspect of music literature that one can create. It is very blunt in the video that the expenditures of facial importance was not demonstrated.

[EelsOnWheels]

being verbose doesn't make what you say any better. stop sounding like a tool.

[bkjoelover]

Hi!

You smell like ass hair.

[Dforce36]

WTF IT ROKS MS SOXS

[james10124]

A brotha that plays the violin, thats awesome!

[RockLeeThaiJutsu]

I don't see the pretender in this ?

[RollRSkateGirl]

It's the background melody that the guitar plays, not the vocal melody.

[csabeszkow]

Tud a cshávó nagyon

[Bulldogs111]

I'll definitely give him the 5 star for this one. Well done.

[contessabrilliante]

So will I

[ShatterdKhaos]

Dammit, you shoud've won!

[Bulldogs111]

I'll definitely give him the 5 star rating. Well done.

[JSinuYasha]

this was very good! i'm not sure but i think this guy was apart of the group that got to play in the orchestra during the foo fighter's performance.

[dire8straits]

ha, you lost it.

[Sazaka]

Great sole!

[LaDitsterNo1]

so much better than ann marie

[foxycleopatra965]

holy fuck

[mistycalpunk]

OMG so cool!!

[ptblood]

OMGGGGGG CRAZYYYY LOVEEEE you shoulda won man I would have voted but i guess it's too late

[LaDitsterNo1]

he couldn't win...i don't think...he's a professional...check out his website, it's really neat :)

[contessabrilliante]

You might have a point. I'll check that out. So, are you saying that once you turn pro you are not supposed to enter this? and if that's the case, well, wouldn't HE know this?

[iloveseattle123]

hella bomb! =D

[Suki40330]

Sorry about the grammar. I have a migraine headache. Anyway, I meant that YOUR playing is excellent!!!

[Suki40330]

Awesome. You playing is excellent!!!

[imakeudrool]

wow that was amazing!!! GREAT JOB!!

[d4kl12345]

NICE JOB MAN!!!!@@@@!!!!!!!

hey everyone, u think thats COOL> watch my vidio, its good after the first 10 seconds, just remember to watch the mirrror. it will tripp u out!!! leave comments!! plz and thanks

[tctebsrules]

at 0:39 it almost sounds like yer playing a guitar or keyboards

[shaysrebellion23]

ok this is an amazing video and you're talking about the ELECTION?

[Doremi11]

Amazing!!!!!

[robertantonnyc]

you ripped into that man. great.

[xxsylviexx]

so much talent in those few fab 49 sec's

amazing

x

[Linzerlocks]

love it

[prdrblkqt]

u piece of shit what the fuck is wrong with you.

[mrb3213]

wait what?

[ElasticFroggy]

Cool

[soulxreaper56]

wow very nice

[everascendingworship]

amazing man

[AZimmerAZ]

you are amazing and forget about all the racist they r just jealous!!

[Akkinub]

phuz1on and latinolova what the fuck is the mather with you? you know aids was created by the white right? if I met any of you in real life I would smash your faces so bad.. fucking hate racists like you, just simply awkward reading what you are writing. This dude got skills on the violin, give him a compliment instead of being Adolf Hitler.

[hawakinata]

i could never agree more.

[logansmalley]

That was incredible man

[link1123]

That was awesome.

[tiannaxmarie]

i just want to say this is truely amazing.

but to all the racist comments...

im 17, i've played viola for 5 years, and yes im mixed. ok so what the fuck do you want to say to me about that? cause really race has nothing to do with how good you are at something, its practice makes perfect.

[crateball]

love ur style

[chrism2012]

you need to keep doing what you're doing. this was the most amazing violin performance i have seen in a long time. the lady who won was obviousley good but this was truly better.

[starvinmarvin933]

uhh

what?!

[nathanieldolan]

That was truly amazing. You are very talented! Wow.

[Keikofromelbow]

pfffffffff! I can play violin better than that!.......and I'm white!

[thepacificsound]

so you should.... and it shouldnt matter whether or not your white.... but if anyone should play violin better..its you.. cos ur white... and the only music white people ever invented is classical music.

[thepacificsound]

It has its own style, and can be pretty awesome..... but if you want to be discriminative..then yes...u should be good.. cos classical music is your territory if u wanna own it.

But talk Jazz... R&B... Pop... Disco... Rap etc etc etc... now ur talking black territorry.. BUT WHAT THE HELL DUDE!!!!! MUSIC IS FOR EVERYONE!!!!! No matter u black or white.. hell...i dont care if u white with pink poker dots... So dont make a judment over his Race Keikofromelbow

[HouseAddict8240]

great!! it was better than a lot of other peoples vidoes of the pretender. nice job!

[nwesrytony]

didnt hear the music but the video looks fine

[jbfan00]

spectacular

[GoobaKitty]

Gorgeous! You have true talent.

[luckystiky]

nice job!!

[fr3thinker]

That's impressive. So much effort to be able to do that. So much skill shown in playing it.

[angelkitty02]

Wow ur awesome!

[larsdeheer]

nothing special -.-

[bobhnewyork]

Now there is one talented violin player. Thanks Jeffrey for reinforcing my ideals of what passion, ability and virtuosity are all about.

Oh yes, and for those few who seemed to have crawled from under an 18th century log to make a comment here, just go back to sleep.

[ZR2plowboy]

Awsome great work.

[rendstar22]

By far the best out of all of them

[chocolateeyoung]

GREAT!

[pmsou]

I don't think it's about the notes, I think it is about the feeling evoked from the music. I'm for emily.

[jpulevic]

nice! good luch!

[Vertzacle]

Brilliant.

How can any fuckwit judge anyone on there colour? Most people who chastise this or say this is weird seeing a black man play are roped into the stereotypical view of different ethnic groups..

Well played man..

[hadenofeshin]

Plain brilliant!

Keep on makin magic!

PS and forget about all these rasists. Just dudes wanking away their life on the internet and thinking that they sound bigger if they say shit like that.

[jasonsony735]

Well im not Racist but i did find it wierd to see a black guy playing as you just dont see black dudes doing this ! its like seeing a black man Play Darts ! LOL

[koolskater5]

hah, man you just got to do what you love, and that guy is doing it man :)

[RunEmDown]

That's bad ass, I love it.

[Koepex]

nice

[21RollDeep12]

oh dear, fuk u guys ur fukin sick , just cos he black doesn't mean he cant play violin na phuz1on fuk u racists should breathe diffrent air if u dont like it fuk off

[beachdude87]

wtf is wrong with you guys? this man is amazing, leave him the f alone

[joselosanchez]

Baby it don't matter if you're black or white! AMAZING! U R Blessed! Keep on playing!

Viva Mexico Cabrones...

[Devilcrow91]

omg what is with all you racist turds!

[phuz1on]

Black people should breather different air, i dont want to catch AIDS or sickle cell....

[latinolova]

There's a white kid somewhere with a missing violin

[CapCrunchAmv]

How are you talking shit and your a mexican? latin, Mexican same thing. Stop hatin on black people cuz your family got caught hopping the border.(Im not racist or anything just saying)