damn. i think more kids in the US could be this good if their social structure wasnt so pathetically oriented to DUMBING activities like video games, and mainstream music
@37sikora don't stereotype. i love jazz more than anything. i ignore my girlfriend half the time for my trumpet. and i hate video games, those things are life suckers.
Jesus... I have watched hours upon hours (each day) of guitar players on the tube, and this guy by a long shot takes the cake as the most impressive young guitarist.
@athiest83 I completely agree with you. It's very selfish and unfair to attribute this young man's ability to the work of some divine being. This boy has a passion and has obviously dedicated his life to it. Please give credit where credit is due and leave the supernatural ideas out of it. It is very disrespectful to insist that this boy did not develop his ability himself.
Perhaps this "God's gift" nonsense stems from the fact that art has been gradually phased out of young people's education.
@confoozled3737 Therefore allowing many fewer musically-inclined youth to "break though" and become successful. This boy was obviously placed in a nurturing musical environment as a child.
Remember that Mozart's father was a concert violinist, and musicians develop a better ear when exposed to tonal concepts from an early age. There are many conclusive studies on this topic.
It's the completeness, the totality, of his playing that shocks. How can a kid like this have so many ideas, so much technique, and emotive feel? Precocious (early age advanced) indeed!
And where, precisely, do you think 'gifts' and 'natural talent' come from, Sainsbury's? No preaching, just a suggestion that you think things through.
And where, precisely, do you think 'gifts' and 'natural talent' come from, Sainsbury's? No preaching, just a suggestion that you think things through.
Psh, I can do that with my eyes closed. LOLJK, I'm 14, been playing guitar for a year and I think I'll start crying if I can get 3 seconds of this song right. This kid is a child prodigy. He's truly something.
@TheWeeklyTelegram Every player? Well that's a huge overstatement. I know plenty of musician's in music at Uni who are amazing composers as well as players. You have the picture all wrong my friend.
You have to have an ear for sound and your mind has to be sharp with playing a melody in your head. Then just follow that melody on the strings and let it take you there. It comes from endless, countless days nights and hours of improving over different styles, songs, arrangements and keys and just being able to recognize when a change happens with your ear and be able to make a split decision where to go next. Theory can't write what people that play by ear play.
@xeridian It's way more complex and organic, that's why people like him, Benson and Montgomery are so fluid, their ear tells them where to go and they listen.
@holyswordsmanoffaith ha agreed - I wasn't being serious. I understand fully how JB is actively contributing to the dumbing down of America and is a product of a soulless music industry based entirely on money and not at all on art.
@niciraci ... you say, "OH YEAH well Justin Bieber plays guitar AND drums AND sings!!"
... and I respond, "Your point?"
Bieber has his gifts, which are many, but this Varady kid is like a "once in a lifetime" kinda guy. His jazz playing is both an inspiration and a humiliating reality check for people like me that have spent decades attempting to do what he has accomplished, effortlessly in his short life.
u know what...good to know that theres some awesome jazz out there still..good to know that we all will have tens of years listening to this kids :D alot more great music to come from him
He is not a Django, because Django never played strait jazz, he played Gypsy Jazz, and never followed theory, he played from his heart, and reinvented the instrument. Besides that, this little guy can play :)
Maybe many of us (meaning me!) have approached jazz academically. This kid ain't thinking mixolydians or super locrians, and he sounds freakin great. Way to go Andreas!
the reincarnation of django ,very very cool,wait and see when he hits his twenties he will have more authority in his picking and just burn us all,great guitarist now young or not,,he plays with real maturity and real improvisation and a great ear
Yes, yes, yes!! It's so awesome to see a young brilliant musician who shows a real passion for the music and instrument they play! The technical part is only one aspect...truly pouring music from your soul is the other! Thank you Andreas!
Good God! How is this lad's brain wired to be able to get so far into jazz at such a young age - you can't just learn that, it has to come from somewhere else. Fantastic.
Guys, the kid is a natural musician. Call him a prodigy if you want, but the reality is more basic. He loves what he does more than anything else in the world, and he has the talent. Combine those two things and you have the formula for greatness.
@bock Yeah& most prodigies hate what they do and have no talent..Lol ;-) I'm just messin with you man!..But what you said was funny. all you did is just find another bunch words that captures this guy..but to make it simple:He IS a PRODIGY.That's just Semantics! It's OBVIOUS he LOVES what he does...and it's OBVIOUS that he has TALENT...but THOSE TWO THINGS DO NOT necessarily result in a formual for GREATNESS...if that were true there would be MUCH more virtuosos like him around. U need THE GIFT.
This guy isn't just 'good for a twelve year old', he is an incredible guitarist full stop. Every time he starts tearing it up I'm just left speechless.
I was NOT underrating his talent...I was just listening and thinking about the prodigy that learn and play and someone else with a gift ...yes obviosly he is a prodigy but I don't like the word..and I don'tl like ppl offending just to do something..
Young Adreas born into a Hungarian gypsy family from Slovakia according to the most recent Guitar Player magazine but lives in Ireland after migrating a few years back. Born with natural talent and plays like he has been doing this for way beyond his years. Amazing (!) and will be interesting to follow his music career for years to come. And he has stated he really doesn't want to know how to read music just chord charts because he plays by ear following the chords. He is a prodigy!
@bwm89085857 Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Too bad how it all turned out for teen stars like, oh, I don't know: Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Prince, Tony Williams, ... shall I go on? Dare I mention the blonde pop darlings of late - I recall of few of them getting an early start. Sure, just as many or maybe even more have fallen off; but happens to ALL? Uh ... How about you let the kid enjoy the moment and ride it out. Who knows where it will take him.
Moonshack965.... Perhaps you should look up the definition of "prodigy". Let me do it for you: "an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration."' Fit's pretty well I believe. Great music Andreas!
He plays by ear; learned by listening to albums and playing with his father. He has been playing since he was four and is just now starting to learn how to read music. He is the cover story of Guitat Player magazine's April 2011 issue. Read it. Prodigy is right! Wow!
wow...a bunch of atoms held a meeting and said they wanted to unite in a jazz soul and be born as a mad genius with more chops than bruce lee, jackie chan and jet li combined...et voila - the universe responded and allowed us all to bear witness to the music sensibilities of one Andreas Varady...what a blessing to the world!
HE's NOT a prodigy..........he has a great sense of music... maybe you can assume a prodigy a s a artificial product of training...but this is MUSIC HE LIKES WHAT HE IS DOING............
@moonshack965 What are you talking about? A "prodigy" is someone who demonstrates a "prodigious" ability that does not seem in sync with a natural progression or in spite of a limiting factor(s). For example, you have demonstrated a prodigious ability to be a giant deek.
how is it possible? haha golly ... I've been playing for 4-5 years, got in music theory class, and played with good players, and pretty much suck compared to this little jazzy mozart! I'd love to know where and how he learned all of this
I think Ill pick up bowling and quit the music business....all kidding aside Andreas is already a monster, I cant imagine him when he is 23.... keep on tearing up the jazz scene... What a gift.. truly amazing
sehr geil!!!!
daFrettchen 2 days ago
the drummers to loud he needs to sit back on the groove
roach4946 3 weeks ago
damn. i think more kids in the US could be this good if their social structure wasnt so pathetically oriented to DUMBING activities like video games, and mainstream music
37sikora 2 months ago
@37sikora don't stereotype. i love jazz more than anything. i ignore my girlfriend half the time for my trumpet. and i hate video games, those things are life suckers.
4tothepowerofcheese 1 month ago
@4tothepowerofcheese thats refreshing to hear man. but you are not the majority of kids these days... keep it up. thats awesome.
37sikora 1 month ago
@37sikora oh and i'm 15
4tothepowerofcheese 1 month ago
jim hall ....john mclaughlin marc ducret ...grant greene.... nels cline joe morris sonny sharrock
jabu003 3 months ago
watch this space! Great!
dragondix 3 months ago
yea very soulful you can hear teh blues the funk.. anyways kid got swag
AakwardAardvark 3 months ago
Pat Metheny, Pat Martino, George Benson, Earl Klugh, Birelli Lagrene,
babinm 3 months ago
Where do I get this album???
Lucasquinamo 3 months ago
drummer sucks....dont play with that drummer again
ayteksermet1 3 months ago
@ayteksermet1 Guy needs a pocket baaad!
tgphotodesign 3 months ago
Great Young Musician, Bravo !!!!
darominu 3 months ago
This is the best jazz guitarist I have hear so far. But I am pretty new to the genre. Any suggestions of good jazz shredders?
NoaOno 4 months ago
@NoaOno Joe Pass, Al di meola, Herb Ellis, Charlie Christian, Pat Metheny, Barney Kessel, Freddy Green, Ted Greene, just to name a few.
8123Ben 4 months ago
Where do I get his album?
Lifesblood1 4 months ago
more soul then jazz on this one. nice...
dezertfox4323 4 months ago
Jesus... I have watched hours upon hours (each day) of guitar players on the tube, and this guy by a long shot takes the cake as the most impressive young guitarist.
FUCKING CRAZY SHIT BROO
Carthsgtr 4 months ago
@athiest83 I completely agree with you. It's very selfish and unfair to attribute this young man's ability to the work of some divine being. This boy has a passion and has obviously dedicated his life to it. Please give credit where credit is due and leave the supernatural ideas out of it. It is very disrespectful to insist that this boy did not develop his ability himself.
Perhaps this "God's gift" nonsense stems from the fact that art has been gradually phased out of young people's education.
confoozled3737 5 months ago
@confoozled3737 Therefore allowing many fewer musically-inclined youth to "break though" and become successful. This boy was obviously placed in a nurturing musical environment as a child.
Remember that Mozart's father was a concert violinist, and musicians develop a better ear when exposed to tonal concepts from an early age. There are many conclusive studies on this topic.
confoozled3737 5 months ago
@athiest83 nope god did it.
Thebattlewalrus 5 months ago
Good lord!!!!! If I didnt watch the video and just listened, you'd have me played a fool!!! SOO amazing to see such young talent!
dvlslittleangel 5 months ago
It's the completeness, the totality, of his playing that shocks. How can a kid like this have so many ideas, so much technique, and emotive feel? Precocious (early age advanced) indeed!
Drblooter99 7 months ago
@athiest83
And where, precisely, do you think 'gifts' and 'natural talent' come from, Sainsbury's? No preaching, just a suggestion that you think things through.
esrataf 7 months ago
@athiest83
And where, precisely, do you think 'gifts' and 'natural talent' come from, Sainsbury's? No preaching, just a suggestion that you think things through.
esrataf 7 months ago
thats freaking amazing!!, he is very talented and he's not chinnese lol
tomateycebolla 7 months ago
Amen Brother! You said it!!
spagooty 8 months ago
Psh, I can do that with my eyes closed. LOLJK, I'm 14, been playing guitar for a year and I think I'll start crying if I can get 3 seconds of this song right. This kid is a child prodigy. He's truly something.
iluishi 8 months ago
@TheWeeklyTelegram Every player? Well that's a huge overstatement. I know plenty of musician's in music at Uni who are amazing composers as well as players. You have the picture all wrong my friend.
hartery5 8 months ago
benson's son!
remofirmani 9 months ago
Olha esse moleque arrebentando!!
kadumaranhao 9 months ago
Where can I buy his album?????
capitaopapa 10 months ago
This is a Indigo Child.
Adalberto Tripicchio PhD
tripicch 10 months ago
@tripicch a reincarnate perhaps?
pariah206 10 months ago
God bless you andreas your gift came from JESUS CHRIST for sure
i am from brazil here in south american this is amazing..
prromulorolim 10 months ago
watching him is not even funny, it's a what the f@@@!
8goong 10 months ago
You have to have an ear for sound and your mind has to be sharp with playing a melody in your head. Then just follow that melody on the strings and let it take you there. It comes from endless, countless days nights and hours of improving over different styles, songs, arrangements and keys and just being able to recognize when a change happens with your ear and be able to make a split decision where to go next. Theory can't write what people that play by ear play.
xeridian 10 months ago
@xeridian It's way more complex and organic, that's why people like him, Benson and Montgomery are so fluid, their ear tells them where to go and they listen.
xeridian 10 months ago
what the fuck this kid is fucking amazing hahahahha the white george benson
xboxslimkid 10 months ago
i think im just gonna smash my guitar and strangle myself with the strings after watching this!!
igvu92 10 months ago
Made the cover of Guitar Player Magazine...April 2011....this kid is really quite something....
nascargas 10 months ago
Perfect!
massimomoccia 11 months ago
ill hopely remember to upload and recrord andreas varady brand new video on youtube in the jazz festival in may
saxzphone 11 months ago
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saxzphone 11 months ago
OH YEAH well Justin Bieber plays guitar AND drums AND sings!!
niciraci 11 months ago
@niciraci and has no musicianship, nor soul, nor balls to call hi own....your point?
holyswordsmanoffaith 11 months ago
@holyswordsmanoffaith ha agreed - I wasn't being serious. I understand fully how JB is actively contributing to the dumbing down of America and is a product of a soulless music industry based entirely on money and not at all on art.
niciraci 11 months ago
@niciraci LOL ok thanks god. Sarcasm doesn't work as well in text -_-.
holyswordsmanoffaith 11 months ago
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@niciraci ... you say, "OH YEAH well Justin Bieber plays guitar AND drums AND sings!!"
... and I respond, "Your point?"
Bieber has his gifts, which are many, but this Varady kid is like a "once in a lifetime" kinda guy. His jazz playing is both an inspiration and a humiliating reality check for people like me that have spent decades attempting to do what he has accomplished, effortlessly in his short life.
bloozintro 11 months ago
u know what...good to know that theres some awesome jazz out there still..good to know that we all will have tens of years listening to this kids :D alot more great music to come from him
sulaimanswaleh 11 months ago
He is not a Django, because Django never played strait jazz, he played Gypsy Jazz, and never followed theory, he played from his heart, and reinvented the instrument. Besides that, this little guy can play :)
GorgonTheMagicMan 11 months ago
@GorgonTheMagicMan But the amazing thing is that this kid knows very little about theory either--see his interview this month in guitar player
jswilker 11 months ago
Penis
ClaptonandSlash 11 months ago
amazing.. just amazing absolutely raw talent there... thanks for the performance today :)
PennyForTheBlindMan 11 months ago
fantastic !
viniguitarjazz 11 months ago
Maybe many of us (meaning me!) have approached jazz academically. This kid ain't thinking mixolydians or super locrians, and he sounds freakin great. Way to go Andreas!
zipzango 11 months ago
This kid is awesome! Great chops, good feel. You gotta nice future coming your way man!
TheDavidGram 11 months ago
Holy smoke! Great stuff. The kid is a monster at age 13. I don't care how old he is, this is some terrific playing!
jongreek 11 months ago
the reincarnation of django ,very very cool,wait and see when he hits his twenties he will have more authority in his picking and just burn us all,great guitarist now young or not,,he plays with real maturity and real improvisation and a great ear
fraterlucifer888 11 months ago
Yes, yes, yes!! It's so awesome to see a young brilliant musician who shows a real passion for the music and instrument they play! The technical part is only one aspect...truly pouring music from your soul is the other! Thank you Andreas!
rust1021 11 months ago
Good God! How is this lad's brain wired to be able to get so far into jazz at such a young age - you can't just learn that, it has to come from somewhere else. Fantastic.
AlanSturgess 11 months ago
This kid is brilliant,a Mozart of jazz and guitar.u either have it or you dont by god he has it.brilliant:)
cassyfromgarry 11 months ago
Wow, just amazing. The kid has alot more soul than other child guitar whizzes you see. Yikes.
GregTheBunny100 11 months ago
Wow...good thing this kid grew up in Slovakia. If he had been raised in the U.S. he would have been proficient on video games or Rock Band!
dbmxerinca 11 months ago
Guys, the kid is a natural musician. Call him a prodigy if you want, but the reality is more basic. He loves what he does more than anything else in the world, and he has the talent. Combine those two things and you have the formula for greatness.
bocktherobber 11 months ago 24
@bocktherobber
Indeed you are absolutely right.
Did you have the kid listen to Bireli Lagrene and Sylvain Luc yet?
A must if he has not done so yet.
Best, museric.
muserik 11 months ago
@bocktherobber eh, still a prodigy.
TheRealrocker74 11 months ago
@bocktherobber I just belive in hard work. Im sure he did it.
pcguimaraes 9 months ago
@bock Yeah& most prodigies hate what they do and have no talent..Lol ;-) I'm just messin with you man!..But what you said was funny. all you did is just find another bunch words that captures this guy..but to make it simple:He IS a PRODIGY.That's just Semantics! It's OBVIOUS he LOVES what he does...and it's OBVIOUS that he has TALENT...but THOSE TWO THINGS DO NOT necessarily result in a formual for GREATNESS...if that were true there would be MUCH more virtuosos like him around. U need THE GIFT.
keybobrob 1 month ago
I am.....speechless.
weirddreemz 11 months ago
What a performance, I am in complete awe over this kid - what a phenom!
Nsbskater11 11 months ago
My God! Those Benson octaves at around 3:00! I nearly fell off my seat. ;)
ubernaffa 11 months ago
This guy isn't just 'good for a twelve year old', he is an incredible guitarist full stop. Every time he starts tearing it up I'm just left speechless.
Absolutely mind blowing guitar playing.
ubernaffa 11 months ago
I was NOT underrating his talent...I was just listening and thinking about the prodigy that learn and play and someone else with a gift ...yes obviosly he is a prodigy but I don't like the word..and I don'tl like ppl offending just to do something..
study...
moonshack965 11 months ago
Young Adreas born into a Hungarian gypsy family from Slovakia according to the most recent Guitar Player magazine but lives in Ireland after migrating a few years back. Born with natural talent and plays like he has been doing this for way beyond his years. Amazing (!) and will be interesting to follow his music career for years to come. And he has stated he really doesn't want to know how to read music just chord charts because he plays by ear following the chords. He is a prodigy!
rwm48 11 months ago
Just awesome.
JeffKnight 11 months ago
When he's out of his teens, no one will care any more. Happens to all teen musicians!
bwm89085857 11 months ago
@bwm89085857 Riiiiiiiiiiiiiight. Too bad how it all turned out for teen stars like, oh, I don't know: Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Prince, Tony Williams, ... shall I go on? Dare I mention the blonde pop darlings of late - I recall of few of them getting an early start. Sure, just as many or maybe even more have fallen off; but happens to ALL? Uh ... How about you let the kid enjoy the moment and ride it out. Who knows where it will take him.
chrisbuonovideos 11 months ago
Moonshack965.... Perhaps you should look up the definition of "prodigy". Let me do it for you: "an unusually gifted or intelligent (young) person; someone whose talents excite wonder and admiration."' Fit's pretty well I believe. Great music Andreas!
MrBluescruise 11 months ago
He plays by ear; learned by listening to albums and playing with his father. He has been playing since he was four and is just now starting to learn how to read music. He is the cover story of Guitat Player magazine's April 2011 issue. Read it. Prodigy is right! Wow!
elizabethrider22 11 months ago
not fair
riles6789 1 year ago
wow...a bunch of atoms held a meeting and said they wanted to unite in a jazz soul and be born as a mad genius with more chops than bruce lee, jackie chan and jet li combined...et voila - the universe responded and allowed us all to bear witness to the music sensibilities of one Andreas Varady...what a blessing to the world!
1Ma9iN8tive 1 year ago
HE's NOT a prodigy..........he has a great sense of music... maybe you can assume a prodigy a s a artificial product of training...but this is MUSIC HE LIKES WHAT HE IS DOING............
moonshack965 1 year ago
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jts2398 11 months ago
@moonshack965 What are you talking about? A "prodigy" is someone who demonstrates a "prodigious" ability that does not seem in sync with a natural progression or in spite of a limiting factor(s). For example, you have demonstrated a prodigious ability to be a giant deek.
jts2398 11 months ago
how is it possible? haha golly ... I've been playing for 4-5 years, got in music theory class, and played with good players, and pretty much suck compared to this little jazzy mozart! I'd love to know where and how he learned all of this
Kalebemery 1 year ago 9
@Kalebemery Crossroads? haha jk jk =) He's a talent for sure!
holyswordsmanoffaith 11 months ago
@holyswordsmanoffaith hahaha :p has to be.... :)
Kalebemery 11 months ago
@Kalebemery same thing over here my friend
thedominantscale 8 months ago
@Kalebemery ----- He is a Gypsy and it's in his soul
tonyjzrose 8 months ago
Benson, Martino, Hancock were all child prodigies. This kid is well on his way to join them.
lee95757 1 year ago
Who has he studied with?
JimTheGuitarMan 1 year ago
Has me dancing :)
RomantiqueVoyage 1 year ago
Absolutely amazing. It will be fun watching his progress. A fabulous gift.
bob4247 1 year ago
I think Ill pick up bowling and quit the music business....all kidding aside Andreas is already a monster, I cant imagine him when he is 23.... keep on tearing up the jazz scene... What a gift.. truly amazing
wbutrico7627 1 year ago
Wow !!!!! Amazing !!!!
rudyrudy54 1 year ago
It is great !!!!!
dusanbester 1 year ago