Steven King kingofguitar.com solo fingerstyle guitar medley

[Destroysall]

I love his cover of Midnight in Moscow. Mr. King, please share to us how to play the version you played, it just sounds so awesome!

[skguitarjoyus]

You can learn this arrangement and how to play this way from me, just Google "fingerstyle college steven king"

Steven King

[moosepok]

Mel Gibson bought me here.

[ScottFree37]

He won the National Fingerpicking Contest in Winfield

[metropolitx]

breathtaking.. seems like he`s in a different time-continuum than us... mix of songs is also astoundingly .. well... find the words... in a key

[LynchburgSourMash]

MASTER

[277southtombob]

I hear a lot of Lenny Breau in there, if you never heard of him look for him, he was completely amazing

[pveg65]

I hear a little bit of Django in this tune.

[theredhackle22]

An old guitarist sees this and weeps

[TheOnix123]

love it!!! ;D jazzie

[Fernand0100]

WOW....  O.O

[CanadaGuy80]

Wow! This guy has some skills!

[638PM]

i just saw this guy live. he plays at a little place by my house every friday

[chasebjazzguitar]

man you can really hear a whole band swingin along with this! great solo performance!

[TravisMaxima]

Those were some pretty nice sweeps at the beggining.

[rleary1]

I saw this guy on a Taylor guitar tour promotion in San Angelo Texas @ Caldwell Music a few years ago. Phenomenal player. I remember he played Beatles 'Penny Lane' with the vocal parts, bass, and all of the brass parts at the same time!

[pissballs]

This is a very cool jam! Busy in a good way.

[MAGENDY]

VERY AWESOME!!!! BRAVO!!!\\mm//

[temujinofwolves]

wow

[taorob3]

Steven King is an amazing guitar player..not many can do what he can do

[jimbob56nc]

Amazin' This guy is fan damn tastic!!!

[Oilasor925]

Why in the hell havent i heard of this guy he is amazing

[silversilver1975]

Out of this world!

10 out of 5!

[mrTerraplane]

It is very old russian song "A Moscow suburbs evenings"!

Nice job!

[SotR59]

This guy's playing is a perfect example of why the guitar is the greatest of all musical instruments. He is an orchestra all by himself.

[nathwild112]

Well.... i think we can all see how difficult the fingering looks lol. 5 stars old chap!

Is the small middle pickup just to accentuate the walking bass? Never seen this done before, any one else?

[NatethePlate]

i think the middle pickup drops the 6th and 5th strings an octave

[bakerr69]

your amazing

[25jonathan]

now,

THAT man can play guitar!

[just4guitarz]

wow sounds like 2 guitars

[satrilex]

muito bom, camarada!

detonou!

[fridrikur]

My jaw just dropped.

[bobbygoesbig]

Great job, Steven!!

[danbs07]

wow

[Lahed92801]

NOT THAT PERFECT? HE SAYS IT'S NOT REHEARSED? Good lord, I hope he doesn't make a rehearsed one and post it so I don't suddenly want to quit playing! He's too good!

[grindersswitchtn]

sweet

[greenwanx]

awesome

[zeynioglu]

mein Gott! Wunderbar.. Dankeschön

[leafyutube]

Great job!

Those commie bastards had great music.

[Allen58mi]

just...wow. you are incredible guitarist.

[Gressa69]

Yeah !!!!!!!!!!!! Very great !!!

[keith101guitar]

this is awesome!

[hajo2008]

Fantastic;-)

[jonimaluco]

very good

[SaintDemetrio]

Great!

[jazzpsalti]

so you can go the Joe Pass route and become a good solo guitarist, or you can go the Lenny Breau route and take the Bill Evans feel, or you can go with Steven here and... ah fuck it, dude's like the Art Tatum of the guitar!!!

Does anyone know if he takes the same approach as Tatum? It seems like his methodology is very consistent and systematic, but his lead lines are they also based on a set of patterns in the same way that Tatum worked out his solo repertoire? Or is it all off the cuff???

[Mucklum]

From waht I know, I´d say it´s not that jazzy anyway. Steven arranges these tunes systematically (look up his instructional clips)in his style, which I agree is freaking awesome. One of the best I´ve seen ever. But I bet you, it´s nothing like "off the cuff"...you can even order tabs of his arrangements on his website, so it´s all carefully worked out stuff.

[wihaga83]

damn... really badass guitar player...

AWESOME!!!!

[TSharr626]

Hollyyy crap! It's like bass, rhythm and lead all at the same time!! Amazing!

[luukey9]

WOW! Fantastic playing. Lightyears beyond me and great fun to watch!

[carvetop01]

What color is the sky on your home planet?

Excellent!

[Guitboxchen]

haha, i agree

[DRsideburns]

great stuff!

how's the semihollow sound unplugged? i hear they're much quieter than classicals and acoustics.

[GogglesVK]

He has a piezo-electric pickup. You can see it right above the bridge.

Excellent playing!

[SUNNYD3322]

Excellent. Wish i could do that"-_-".

[paolouma]

you are great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jclar146]

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA INSANE! DO ME!

[kurtc0841n]

hmmm, i think i might get as good as this guy now! :P

[Dusk312]

reminds me of super mario haha. awsome playing though

[brunorolf]

saw this guy live a couple years ago at our local music store for a private concert. it was a Taylor Guitars sponsored event and it was sick. notice how there is a staggered pickup in the center... he runs that pickup (strings E and A) through a bass cab and the others through a standard amp and that's how he gets the full sound of two guitars at once.... crazy.

[DarkGenneral]

really nice sir!

[COCoohkband]

I have a Quastion. Are you Human? wow.... I can't see your finger..

[Moran90]

i like it

5/5

[FretFumbler]

Its interesting that he uses barre chords ,most fingerstyle guitarists avoid them like the plague -Merle Travis made a point of saying he NEVER uses them and developed all these strange thumb chord work arounds -anyhow they work for Steven King

[NotOrdinaryInGames]

You can't properly play guitar without barre chords. I tried-does not work.

[misterwill9066]

Maybe its something to do with classical training? I always use barre chords myself and never thought EVER of using anything different - only recently found capos! heh. This playing is amazing!

[MieluChitaristu]

Not perfect, are you joking?!

F**k me, I wish I could play that "imperfect!"

5.5 starts out of 5

[TroyPepper]

Now THATS how you play guitar!

Great job, sir.

[kakuwas]

hey dad..your awesome

[LynchburgSourMash]

RESPECT

[mysteryx294]

wow!!!

[regis2south]

brilliant

[AzXZer0]

I think this pickup formation captures the sound of the 5th and 6th strings and lowering them an octave so that it sounds like and actual bass guitar.

[Sir0Chris]

no coments that's magical

[mCR2311]

that pickup formation is so uniquem damn, how much was that guitar?

[slashsdevil]

thats about a $2500-3000 guitar. Plus about $65 for the pickup. i cant afford it.

[reptilicus]

It's so amazing that I'm rendered speechless.

I have an Epi 175 and I better get my ass in gear. Incredible clarity you.

[picchaz]

Must have born with guitar in hand

[ZigWing]

No offense to you personally, but a common misconception is that natural talent is the reason a musician reaches this level. Although it's true that some are born with a higher degree of natural talent, that isn't what gets them to the top of their field - hard work does that. I'm putting this here so those willing to do the work will know they can make if they work for it. Knowledgable musicians will tell you that hard work wins out over natural talent every time. This vid shows both. :-)

[threebobs]

!!!

[olishant]

I love the alternating bass. XD

[BurtonBoyz715]

We'll now I don't know what to say... I must confess I thought you might be a one tick pony but now I see you are nothin' but a endless magic truck of surprises... I love these little packets of pleasure one stumbles across on this box... Thanks for it all!

[pejpo]

bloody brilliant

[hanzenz]

i luv da bass ^^..

[murisv]

Brilliant :D

[maticpovse]

cool

[t0sjo]

wow awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!

[Fordz]

WOW!!!

[NotOrdinaryInGames]

FreaKING sweet!!!

[guitarst234]

haha! that was awesome. sick-o.

[SotR59]

WOW WOW WOW I can't think of anything else to say. I wish I could play like you.

SotR

[TastexMyxScythe]

in the beginning it sounds like the alien song from star wars hahahah

[mjt11860]

do u pick w/ all 5 fingers? great playing!

[DrtyWrm]

That looked like fun! great playing 5/5

[xis333]

i'm hearing joe pass/tuck andress/and maybe a good bit of chet atkins!...great job!

[pizdobolol]

Haha, holy smoke, thats amazing!

[giturfo]

wuw

[lielielie999]

thats cool

[Cerri01234]

jangoman!

[123jozef]

Joe Pass...

[merycorr666]

O_O wau.... mooola

Wow.... yeees, amazing

[jellybellyhehe]

your amazing i bow down to you in amazement:o

[rorypappa]

great

[hwaug2]

Jesus Christ, amazing.

[rodnyMULEN]

причем тут стивен кинг это же подмосковные вечера

[toricos]

Круто !

[jack1gvr]

Stephen: I'd forgotten how good you were since I saw you live 10 years ago.

BTW: Thank you so much for your little book on quick and dirty improvisation. I read it, I dug it, I do it. Thanx for the inspiration. Oh, yeah, it took me 10 years to work it out...

[electrobc01]

Fantastic

[JTHewitt]

damn fine playing. if you've got the time you should put up a lesson or two.

[sammysnow]

amazing! at 1:02 my hair stood on end, my eyes crossed and my jaw fell into my lap.

[RomainChapus]

I agree, King is a monster but people sometimes dont care about great skills...

[kristopherpdavis]

Thank you for whipping so much ass on that guitar.  Thank you.

[Lahed92801]

WOW that fingerpicking is AMAZING

[iamjappy]

great...

[jonesdidid]

i really want to find out how to play this arrangment---any help?

[dizzinicol]

thats wicked! wat a beautiful guitar! and ive got that exact mirror behind u in my house niceeeeee

[Jonas5Krawulsky]

mad skills man

[azharkamal]

mindbogglingly goooood!!!!!!

[nesmrten]

great:)

[sumpm1]

That is beautiful mastery that will give any virtuoso a run for their money!!!

[gensoholicar]

brilliant man f˘°king amazing

[robbourassaguitarist]

Great job. I thought of you as just a writer of horror fiction till now.

Midnight in Moscow was excellent. You sound like you've had a banjo in your hands for awhile as well. Great job.

[ChaosEnigma1978]

it's not THAT Stephen King dude lol

[taorob3]

Amazing

[Rarity39]

really really great :)

[overseez]

I can't listen to Joe Pass anymore... sounds too lame after hearing Steven.

[Rarity39]

amazing

[Rarity39]

that was sweet

[Phillitalian]

the beginning sound malmsteen-ish

AWESOME

[Coopamon]

I don't know how many of the 70k+ views are mine...but I bet it's alot of them :)

[reptilicus]

That's too amazing for words. I have an Epiphone ES295 w/ bigsby. I wonder sometimes if the bigsby renders it a not quite a jazz guitar guitar. Especially after watching this video.

[0ldfinger]

You ain't human. This is unbelievable. What a gift.

[mikeberk810]

this is really amazing. It's so hard to arrange other people's tunes for solo guitar.

good job!

Michael Berk

[mikeberk810]

this is really fantastic- it's so hard to arrange other people's tunes- much harder I think than writing originals.

nice work!

Michael berk

[americanexe]

that was great :D well known melody altough i dont remember from where i know it XD

[1badass04z]

showoff

[carlaulbrich]

ow.

my mind was just blown.

you know i've been playing fingerstyle a while and there aren't many players who can do this. his sound is great- it is one thing to sound like a guitar, but he actually sounds like a bass, a snare and a guitar in places.

[LynchburgSourMash]

I have seen pretty muccha pickers, BUT this is realyy something SPECIAL!!!!!!!!!....L.S.,M:

[LynchburgSourMash]

it is so fantastic that i can not say anyting more than,,,, terrible guitarman!!!!!!!!!

L.S.M.

[ndn898]

This is great!!!

[Spiritu39]

Whoa! You sound like a complete band! You rival even Joe Pass!

[Hannibal777]

gracias a Dios que se cortó .. porq ya me iba a matar

[bhudafish]

i would be honored to study under you..... seriously...

[KataarSolo]

what happened to the last bit?!?! i was really enjoying that!

genius technique mate, holy amazing.

[jjjjkc]

I've rarely seen by-the-book technique played so well - you never see his thumb come up around the neck. This is how guitar is supposed to be played, it gives you more range with fingers. No fret noise when he shifts positions....this is truly outstanding work, and the first time I've heard of Steven King or heard his playing.

[nbwhy]

awesome and great to see people like you - keeping alive those (jazz-) techniques and sounds.

[pesciolinoad]

te si che suoni daBBestia.....very good

[NicktheStripper]

Nice mate!

[sjiairboi]

wow! i love his walking bass lines bits

[vrankulj]

DAMN!

this is amazing!

i was grinning the whole time i watched this.

[ihazaburgr]

well this one is amazing. great job! love the melody...

[psyentist420]

make it sing sing sing

[KosDem]

many gods of guitar..and they are hiding!!!!

this is from another planet...

[bluenote335]

Are you sure you're human? Geeeeeeezus man, that was beyond comprehension.

[ttsibe]

Az irigység bűn de most asszem beleestem!

[icepotato89]

wow it sounds like theres a bass and a guitar

[Lizziegram]

very good

[ZenAesthetic]

Hah.. Incredible man.

[turbonbc]

fucking cool guitar

[devilbush]

Really nice walking.

[johannesgroth]

Sweet........

[drix01]

you must be the stevie ray hendrix i have heard so much about ?

[SuperSerialDave]

Anyone know how he pulls off those fast lines with his fingers?

[Thoughtland]

Excellent and faster than me on lead finger picking boo hoo!

Right, back to practicing the scales for me then.

ARGH!

[StunnedOo]

wow

[NeilPiersRobinson]

this guy is the baddest motherfucker in all the land. and thats a fact. I could watch him for hours, and if he ever plays in the UK, i'm there with bells on.

[Ledzeppelin926]

totally awesome

[EmmanuelPons]

C'est de la technique, de la virtuosité et en plus c'est BEAU!!!

Bravo

[iadmike]

what the hell was that at 1:01? my god...

[Svetlailieva]

Man - it was sooo cooool! Haha.. Great!!!

[wingedboy]

You are a virtuoso!!!!!

[mrchucknorris]

fucking unbelievable

[mrchucknorris]

this is unbelievable

[esgimasd]

Holy shit! lol That is some slick playing.

[herbiesnerd]

Unconcious!!!+++

[cettyboy]

Well played Steve!

Mark Hill