Mark McGuigan - Mayones Guitar & Blackhawk Music Competition with Rob 'Chappers' Chapman

[sportsportsport]

fucking the best ever! 

[thoomoo]

Tasteful

[NikDonaghy23]

i love that guitar. Suhr make mint guitars there just pretty expensive.

Nice playing :)

Nick

[Sylentheartbeat]

Wow, now theres the winner...great

[SaleoMkd]

Amazing! You have a lot of feeling feeling feeling :D hehehe

[nickjitsu]

Nice one mate. Well done for getting into the top players list.

Read your wee thing in Guitar Techniques too. You'll be world famous soon.

See you around

Nick

[markmcguigan]

Cheers Nick! Caught your solo just before the end of the competition, loved those harmonics :).

GT mag thing was very cool :)

Yeah but world famous for what though that's the question ;)

[guitarinsteve]

That was amazing!You're strat sounds awesome, what pedals/amps are you putting it through?

[markmcguigan]

Thanks! :)

The guitar was recorded through a mic'ed Carvin Legacy and its gain channel only, no pedals.

[guitarinsteve]

Doesn't Vai play through those?

Wow it has an amazing sound! What mic. did you use? When I try recording with mine it sounds woeful!

[markmcguigan]

He does yeah.

Mic is a standard dynamic mic, a Shure SM58.

[guitarinsteve]

Cool, ah I've been using a condenser, that's probably it

Thanks for the pointers!

[RomanianDanIrukandji]

Seriously impressive phrasing you have. Good luck!

[boostfreak777]

sweet!

[stromstans]

Probably my favorite entry so far. Kinda shreddy, but it's done so tastefully that it's really just all good.

Check out mine if you've got the time.

[Scumkill2]

Beautiful! You're really talented.

[murisv]

Nice playing Mark, 5 stars from me. :)

[markmcguigan]

:D Many many thanks Muris!

Coming from someone I admire as much as yourself I truly appreciate such a comment :). Many congrats on the whole Guitar Idol experience, I was there at the finals and loved hearing 'Final Dance' live!

I've also just had Tom Quayle comment on another video of mine! You've both made my day! :)

[uglybird650]

Ya get my vote ...and i even entered !!

[xmusicfeverx]

By far the best Ive seen yet man.

[pianomanmty]

One of the best!

Please check mine if you have a chance

[OyvindBjorgo]

In my opinion, this is definitely one of the better entries. A good portion of emotion, and pretty much no "oooh, look at me, I'm SO fast!"

[Pentatonic12345]

oh man i loved this

[tc0nk]

Awesome dude.

[jmmiller9]

Nice Suhr man! I recently got a small artist deal with them, they make great guitars. Feel free to check out my entry to!

[thickskinnedband]

yeah master that guitar - get it?

Cool solo as well

[RidvanDuzey]

Holy shit... You just blew my entry away man ! This solo is sick !!!!!!!!!!!

[SjoerdvanO]

Nice solo. I especially like the arpeggios @ 0:22 .

[IsKeLeToR]

suhr ! forever

[theguitfiddle]

Great solo Mark, good luck dude! Killer guitar you got there too

[franciscomeza11]

dude huge bendings there, nice.. and that surh guitar I think it just winked at me :)

[reyex50]

shit,.too good!!,..man the competition is awesome,..

[atmesa300]

Great mate , its a very cool solo

[vidi74]

Hey Mark,

my Suhr-partner in craft ;)

Thanks, and I can only give that back: One of the tastier solos in this contest.

Hmm, now that I lesten again, I think I stole the beginning from you :D

PS: Also great lesson you're doing!!

[markmcguigan]

:D I wondered if that was a Suhr you were playing!

No 'stealing' at all! We just great taste in similar opening lines ;)

It's really interesting to see everyone's interpretation and different approache to the solo. Such a great competition :)

Thanks for the kind words!

[DemigodDoesNintendo]

Damn nice solo, is that a suhr guitar?

[markmcguigan]

Thanks man :), yeah it's A Suhr Pro Series S3.

[DemigodDoesNintendo]

I ENVY you purely because its a suhr, I want one of them sky blue ones with the maple neck :(

[Vinniemoore89]

subscribed

[universalmind3000]

I could kill for that surh!...great entry...lots of feeling and melody inside it!! come to watch mine if you are interested!

[markmcguigan]

Thanks guys!

The competition is going to be Epic :)

[EvoJackson]

Very nice entry dude!! I decided to give it a go myself, feel free to check it out.

Best of luck!!!

[SomethinWild]

Good luck in the competition, Mark:) You did a great job indeed:)

[kbish13]

Alright self induleget

[markmcguigan]

indeed, totally induleget.

[Jinskee]

rofl?

[guitarnoize]

The fast picking at 0:25 is insane! Great work Mark I think you blew me out of the competition!

[markmcguigan]

Not at all!!

I've been blowing noone. FACT.

[fenrirloupblanc]

Yeah you're blowing off the competition there, no chances for us mere mortals but hey, always enjoy watching you play man ;)

[enicmatic]

great playing Mark and very good solo..

Good luck

[Charbarhousemusic]

Anyone who can follow the Cissy Strut with Hanger 18 is a winner in my book! It's very cool that you've entered with such a strong solo too. Nice one.

[Adji87]

Great man. Very tasteful, great tone, and a lush guitar hehe.

[Adji87]

Also, its a pleasure to be competing alongside someof the great guys such as yourself where there will be no hard feelings no matter who wins.

[tjchep]

This is probably the best i've heard out of you man. Great playing. Good luck!

[theblackpiglet]

Excellent work mate! Just like all of your videos, absolutely killer, good audio quality, good video quality, superb playing :-)

[EddyString]

killer solo, nice use of dynamic paggages and bends + killer facial expression!

[ScottRiley]

I'm gonna be entering.....but really, I cannot think of any reason to do so compared to some of the talent here already!! That's great man, that huuuge slide you do is so accurate, the one about 20 seconds in after the juicy ascending run...GREAT! Well, good luck dude!!

[markmcguigan]

Woah! Thanks guys :D Really appreciate the feedback and kind words!

But... EVERYONE should enter, yes I'm looking at you! :)

[titusibenjamin]

M8 this is just plain excellent !!!!

[illusionfreak]

HAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!! Mark, yes man! Funny seeing you enter Chappers competition. Your going to win bro. With a great guitarist like you entering, how is an average joe like me gonna have a chance? HAHAHA, good luck bro, you deserve the endorsement, out of everyone. Which makes me wonder, why are you not already endorsed?

[martinlutherkingIII]

well, i was going to do this competition but now I know I'm not going to win lol

[Jinskee]

man, it's good to see you enter this contest! good luck, my friend :D

[ebryde]

If you don't win I wonder who will..

[Esparoba1]

you're goingt to win this for sure! you're the best one I have seen so far! 5 stars!

I'll probally enter aswell (I'll record next week)

Cheers

Rob

[sportsportsport]

Wow! almost too smooth!....5 stars, Hope you win!