Craig Wagner on his Buscarino Virtuoso

[CommBreakDown]

what a beautiful guitar!

[huntermaui]

@iamjrod

Electric Guitar is not a hundred percent physical instrument. Considering that the volume is coming out of an amp and not the guitar makes it more mechanical than physical. The upright bass, violin, cello, or even acoustic guitar is a %100 percent physical instrument.

[normmccabe]

@huntermaui and you can add a pickup to those too, who cares?

[SayByeAndGetHome]

You must be a master at guitar to remember all those notes

[swingmanu]

@SayByeAndGetHome to help your understanding, I'll tell you one thing: this piece is not(cannot be ) to be divided in "notes" but in" parts", and these parts into phrases; then, ou may have to remember a note that gives you a problem. For instance, If you have to remember CDEFGABCDCBAGFEDF, you won't remember 17 informations, only two or three: two measures of a C scale going up from C to D,then downwards to lower D leading into an F on an F chord. In order to memorise, you have to analyze...

[druno82]

Incredibly impressive. Killer tone, too.

[elvinagrillo]

this is an ORIGINAL transcription... and this thing have 7 strings! so, if you lamerz dont have a better one, shut da fuck up!

[davidgrech1]

Awesome beautiful music.

[johnnyrocksable]

Excellent Craig! Chet would have been very impressed with your ability and style.

[johnnyrocksable]

Excellent Craig! Chet would have been very pleased with you ability and style.

[AmundLauritzen]

He makes GREAT use of that Buscarino guitar! A great performance!

[Pianobirdy]

Very, very nice, Craig. Didn't know you were sharing your talent here, and I'm glad that you are!

[jasonlmusic]

wonderful

[mbvglider]

And to think this is one of the easiest Bach pieces on piano. I do appreciate the skills and dedication that classical guitar requires but I do wonder if pieces like these miss the boat by making guitar do things it's not supposed to be able to do, such that even a very skilled guitarist can sound worse playing this piece than an intermediate pianist. It'd be like trying to play Nirvana on piano. Sure, you can do it, but it's a bit of a waste of time.

[DCTheGuitarist]

@mbvglider

Learning Bach is never a waste of time. The inventions on guitar are as valuable to a guitarist as they are to a pianist, due to the contrapuntal nature of them compared to other arrangements for the guitar like the lute, violin or cello suites

Saying what the guitar is “meant” to do is a bit daft bearing in mind the guitar is closer to the lute than the piano and composer like Dowland were writing contrapuntal music for it years before Bach was the keyboard.

[DCTheGuitarist]

@mbvglider

I’m not slating this guys playing, he plays incredibly well but there are 2 things going against him. First Bach never sounds as good on an electrified instrument as opposed to an acoustic instrument. The second is that he is playing a guitar with a fixed saddle with his fingers (right hand), it will always make that disjoined staccato sound.

[DCTheGuitarist]

@mbvglider

If he were to play it on a Nylon String with a tie saddle it would sound a lot better because these guitars are designed to be played with the right hand fingers and compensate for multiple sounds being made by the strings. They also give a much larger variety of tone, which is essentially the difference between a Jazz guitar playing with their fingers and a Classical guitarist.

[swingmanu]

@DCTheGuitarist You do get different sounds from an electric guitar using different positions and techniques. First of all-and this is not for you- you've gotta be aware that the sound is not so much generated by the instrument but by the interaction between this instrument and the various positions and pressures of your fingers or pick, that are supposed to follow your intention if you're skilled...

[DCTheGuitarist]

@swingmanu

You get a different tone production due to scale length with electric guitar, as you do with all string instruments, which is classified as a variation of tone production but not the same degree as you do with Nylon. Yes attack can be alter, fine tuned and general adjust using a pick but again not the same degree or depth (in terms of tonal range) that you can from nylon.

[leoosiku]

@mbvglider silence is your friend. Master it.

[QueenToKingOfSpades]

I cant tell if this guy is 12 or 40...

[riceboii101]

This is ridiculously wonderful playing!!!!! I have no idea what the hell these people are talking about race for this performance and the music of Bach transcends any barrier known!!!

[jazzman3071]

Great stuff man. The playing is spectacular and looks effortless...as if you are living every note bro. To the haters...you would eb shocked to know how many jazz greats have studied classical stuff in depth to get their chops together...

[ricaard]

Incredible!

[jgl2222]

Spider fingers.......great playing!!

[Mathew175]

Im a jazz guitarist living in kansas city. Very Beautiful Man!!! Post more. Im glad I ran across this. And who ever is leaving comments about "being too white and not black enough" Dont hat..congradulate..coming from a black musican who's using his friends account.

[1twistedtree]

wow, can i have just one please.

[flaegin]

That piece translates well on the archtop!...very nice.

[DannyDesperate]

And as for the playing being 'white' I say three cheers for that! We need black and white music, we need Bach and we need Miles, it's called dialectic and we are all the richer for it. And let's not forget all the the other world musics we are blessed to hear in this era that previous generations never experienced!

[hakanozelguitarist]

@DannyDesperate I agree with DannyDesparate..isn't it wonderful to live in a world where you DON'T have to choose between Bach and Miles ? :-) There is a famous account somewhere of some jazz musician (I forget who now but I'm sure it can be found on the internet) going round Mile's pad and Miles is listening to the Bach Cello Suites which he says he is fascinated by. BTW lovely playing here!

[DannyDesperate]

The playing is sweet, the recorded sound is thin - but not so thin that the guy's ability doesn't shine through. Put some decent mics the guitar/amp and a warm valve pre amp to match the dynamics and you'd all be crapping yourselves because most of you nit-pickers couldn't get past the first 4 bars anyway. Record it again, Sam, you are doing yourself no favors...

[pradogEcia]

this sounds so white, I have to wear sunglasses to hear it. Someone give this kid a nylon string guitar and a time machine so he can go back a few hundred years.

[pveg65]

Nice playing. It sounds kinda "Baroque".

[wsmyersart]

@pveg65 No shit.

[pveg65]

@wsmyersart  Well excuse Me!

[wsmyersart]

@pveg65 No offense intended.

[6stringdaveyM]

To all you idiots post your stuff so we can critique it with idiotic comments......

[wsmyersart]

@6stringdaveyM AMEN! If you can't do it, stfu!

[mrhippyman100]

wtf is up with that guitar?

[penerek1]

prawa ręka sztywna jak kłoda, lewa też po dłuższym graniu odpadła by. bardzo brzydki dźwięk jak na gitarę jazzową. ogólnie źłe ;////

[howardmorgen]

Beautiful Musical Sensitive and A.... rtful. Clasical,.... Jazz,.... What matters is that its musical energy from a master! Howard

[loveoftheconchords]

He's my guitar teacher. I feel even more guilty that I don't practice now.

[Hoopermazing]

That was sublime... and that guitar is drop-dead gorgeous... just elegant as all get out.

[maciejgrebowicz]

meh. boring.

[IsmaelAliCatalan]

the piece or the performance?

[maciejgrebowicz]

the performance. useless. the piece is brilliant. i can't believe they censored me. the guitarist isn't very good.

[asc2310]

Part II

I know he is a very virtuose musician and I love the few things I have heard of his music. However, he is clearly not a classical guitarist (look at the right hand - the wrist is flat like a folk-picker and not arched) and perhaps therefore he is a jazz player making an excellent fist of playing Bach!

Either way it's good to hear this on the guitar.

Just occurred to me - have I entirely missed the point and is this a demo for the actual instrument?!

If so - sorry! :))

[ontheganges]

Surely most sincere players I have spoken to would love if wanna-be armchair critics like your self and other manic "classical guitarists" would shut up with your comments and accept that there are many guitarists with wondeful technique and understand the language (yes...music) that most "classical" players/parrots I have encountered will never approach much less become fluent in. SInce you must be a "virtuose" musician to be criticising on we would love to see/hear some of your playing.

[IsmaelAliCatalan]

You can sound good and have bad technique

[ontheganges]

please post your technique along with your critique iamael

[ontheganges]

It would be wonderful if you posted stuff on a steel string as well as a nylon string instrument......

Oh...It just occured to me that I may have entirely missed the point and you and you weren't criticizing because you yourself are a well-rounded, supportive, and complete guitar player and musician.

If so - sorry :))

[Hoopermazing]

@asc2310 All of the ridiculous orthodoxy spouted by classical guitarists is arbitrary. As with everything else, someone made it up and a bunch of sheep adhere to it as though it was the word of god. Thankfully there are those who thumb their noses at tradition or we wouldn't have jazz, blues, rock etc...

[asc2310]

This is a 7 stringed instrument - surely this is primarily a jazz guitar. (George Van Epps et al?)

Very nicely played and I realise the cutaway makes it easier but this really deserves a classical guitar (or even a lute) to sound appropriate to the idiom.

The steel strings do not sound particularly nice when plucked with the nail (or picks) and do not respond to all the nuances of the right-hand technique one spends so many years learning and practicing.

cont.....

[IsmaelAliCatalan]

right hand on electric can sound good, his technique gives it a really thin sound though.

[Funkatronical]

thin.. I think its the recording...

[TheLCshow1]

Meu sobrenome é Luiza Tessaroto Buscarino

[bonobo428]

i think you shoudl all shut the fuck up cuz this guy can play his ass off

[KDong3]

I can play this on piano, but it looks pretty crazy hard on guitar...

[viniguitarjazz]

VERY  GOOD GUITAR CLASSIC ! *****STARS

[murdelabop]

Yeah. As much as I love archtops, this piece really needs the bell-like quality of a good classical guitar like the forementioned Ramirez or LoPrinzi.

[murdelabop]

That's likely because he's playing it on a jazzbox. If he were playing it on a Ramirez or a LoPrinzi then it would sound better as classical music.

[jeovantino]

white people plays classical guitar like if they were solving a math problem in others words NO SOUL

[SweetUpDown40]

It's not easy music to play, so i guess you develop the skills and then you begin to put soul into it.

It's just like when people struggle with their grammar, they need to learn it before they can use it properly.

[iamJROD]

To jeovantino...The Guitar is 100% physical instrument, unlike the Piano which is a mechanical instrument. To make guitar playing look effortless , with all the dynamics,colors,and so on, is not easy.

[GorgonTheMagicMan]

I think it depends if your talking about technique. There are far more techniques that are possible on a guitar than on a piano.

[wsmyersart]

@iamJROD I am very curious to know what you mean by the piano being a "mechanical" instrument. And, since you are making statements about the nature of the piano, how many years (or decades) have you been playing it and what is your repertoire?

[iamJROD]

@wsmyersart ... What I meant by saying that the piano is a mechanical instrument is, that in order for the piano to create sound the hammer has to strike the string.  On the guitar, classical,flamenco, ect. the fingers create the sound. To answer your question about me playing the piano. I dont play the piano,I play the guitar.

[murdelabop]

Jeovantino, it's *BACH*! It's supposed to sound like that. This is why, when you see math majors sitting listening to music while working problems it's almost always Bach, because it makes sense to them. Being white has absolutely NOTHING to do with it!

[ShiffronLandren]

This looks and sounds extremely diffcult. Very well done.

[jaxeman34]

okay, nothing special by any means, a little plingy sounding and lifeless, no emotion...

however, this guy can play!!! i've heard him live at shows.

CRAIG, post roundabout , or some jazz

[ShiffronLandren]

I love Bach, and I love this.

[behradng]

he is really good and unique as long as he doesnt end up in some MTV or other stupid shows.

[loveoftheconchords]

omg hes so awesome its weird to think hes my guitar teacher.

[Southernmetalhippie]

Me too. He kicks ass.

[animeimport]

oooooooooooooooo so cute:) so beautiful, so relaxing:)))))

[alwayslistening4444]

Wow!!  Very beautiful and excellent execution!

[consityis]

what song is this

[Rizantar]

Invention in A minor by J.S. Bach.

[jarasmusic]

love it, great

your are making youtube interesting to watch

[jazzguitardotcom]

Craig is a monster! I remember seeing him play at Bellarmine College in Louisville back in the early 90s... and it's always good to see a fellow Buscarino player out there!

[bennoach]

Beautiful, man!

[giovannimiami]

I love the sound, although you don't pluck, you caress the strings. With time, this technique will get better and the sound will become clearer. Keep practicing!

[oldpython]

Craig, that was a wonderful performance #13.

I recorded all 15 of the two part inventions on classical guitar in 1982. After that I spent 10 years working up Paganini's Moto Perpetuo. It was a wonderful journey that I am lucky to have had the chance. Thank you for the memory recal. I see in your hands the some finger dance. Enjoy the journey.

[defay11]

-1 Cllasic ???????????

[ddanze]

Love the sound of this guitar! what are the

strings tuned to? (please) Seems to me some

full piano rags could be more easily played

with a 7 string, with the high E tuned up to

A, the other strings proportionally tuned ending at a low D or C. Not at all sure.

Thankx for fine/inspiring playing!

[Eventual420]

Nice video, impressive fretwork, and a fine instrument.

[Lahed92801]

GENIUS O_O

[fodera6]

That was good! And what a beautiful instrument. Jim Buscarino sure knows how to build 'em!

[fodera6]

I mean John : )

[Eric333333333]

Craig rules, not only that hes my guitar teacher at steilberg string instruments :D

[catscratchass]

yes .. !~,,,, this is music.. love it.

[evo17v]

incredible talent. im fortunate enough to know craig personally, and have the sheet music for his arrangement. while very impressive, this video does little justice to how great he really is..

[rosskolnikov]

A great player I remember from the 1990's scene in Louisville. Wish he'd record more . . . He wrote some good jazz tunes for Java Men.

[fakesoundsjazz1983]

im sure he's very good but he's obviously not a classical player. people shouldnt get so offended by other peoples opinions. wish i had a guitar like that!

[GX3D]

"BRILLIANT!!!"

[Makave21]

so simple ... i can do that

[KingWak]

DO IT, make video responce!

Nice Video,

never heard a classic song on an archtop.

Sounds great

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[kevinyoung00]

Impressive, great technique, posture, tone. Audio Could be a bit louder, perhaps thats a issue on my end. Great job..

[bridog6996]

yeah, kbkesq, that was just plain awful! I bet you could play circles around this guy! Post your own video and show us all how it's done!

(sarcasm hopefully noted)

[TheAnalogKid1029]

i was fortunate enough to meet Craig this weekend in Louisville Kentucky during a jazz festival, and he instructed the guitar clinic i attended. lets just say i havent seen anyone play jazz guitar quite like him. its amazing. now if only i were fortunate enough to have had the chance to play his guitar....

[calebl75]

Outstanding!

[kbkesq]

why bother playing the video with so many botched notes? The unearned look of self-satisfaction at the end says it all. He needs to tackle Sor studies, not Bach.

[Poopiedoo7]

Your negativity is overwhelming,you must brighten everyones day.

[kbkesq]

You are being negative about my comment. You should say something positive about it.

[SteveOsbourne]

Beautiful guitar- I don't even want to know how much that thing cost. Mr. Wagner has set the bar....time to get practicing.

[Feesharp9er]

No. 13 wicked

[Segovia69]

Awesome sound!

few mistakes,but he is a magnific guitar player

[Gabe777]

magnifico

[christian6657]

beautiful