Paul O'Dette

[paulgiamb]

I knew him as a great Lute player, yet he's incredible as a barock guitar player, too!

[kipthecourtjester]

My I ask the tuning for these 5 courses? Thanks!

[abenomatto21]

@MrRatzinger1986 Beautiful.

[larosablanca100]

On a scale of 1 to 10, this is a 20 !!

[abenomatto21]

Time traveler. I met him back in the early eighties in Rochester NY.

[apazeia]

that is interesting indeed, I never thought of it that way, that the early music has the seeds of later evolutions. I still hear flamenco at 3:35 though, but it is the phrases that 'feel' that way.

[apazeia]

I would have NEVER thought this was the music that was gonna be played. I was waiting for some delicate Baroque masterpiece, and WOW, blown away full flamenco... masterpiece indeed!

More sheet music to find, more music to learn, not enough years in this lifetime...

[spiroth10]

@apazeia its not flamenco, thats a style of music associated with the spanish dance. this is... baroque guitar music which predates both classical guitar and flamenco, pretty sure these actually existed during the baroque era and eventually evolved into romantic guitar, then the spanish varieties we see today.

although some techniques used in classical, flamenco and baroque are pretty much the same... except you use your pinky in flamenco...

[m1sd3m3an0r]

What the ...?! Freakin' awesome, or to put this a little more politely: Brilliant!

[harry811]

This man plays very well

[dropkicksmurphy]

i will remember him now.

[douskara]

Fantastic!!!

[Sadornicus]

this is how headbanging was invented!!!

[johnmk19]

Сказочный мужичок!))

[dropkicksmurphy]

@johnmk19 i dont speak/ read rusky...but i agree with you.

[spinycrayfish]

Youtube needs more videos of this guy!

[paperchasin23]

can you give me tabs please mr. o'dette

[bluesourire]

What Murcia's work is he playing?

[nwitron1]

@bluesourire It's a fandango.

[TheMarcos772]

Bravo!!!



[1977ledzep]

GENIAL

[Michaelwolf1000]

nicely done. 

[therawrawr]

Too much head bobbing in my opinion.

[treco85]

Does someone has the score of the second music or know how can I found it?

[sebastianrojas]

that ukulele is so big!!

[liltalafaire]

Он Мастер, с большой буквы.

Таких как он - единицы..

[eghatchy]

i am going to see him play live in a few days at California State Univerity Northridge. i cant wait to get my face melted

[coreyagraph]

saw him front row in atl years back. spoke with him afterward

........a really nice guy.

[assa123assa123]

Astonishing!

Some fragments sound like Bach and some have something similar to harmonies of flamenco and techniques as well

[BFGUITAR]

For a baroque composer this guy had a lot of fire! Flamenco was badass for as long as we know!

[BFGUITAR]

@assa123assa123 Yeh. It's very nice to see the evolution of harmony in the music itself.

[StopTheMoti0n]

2:21 he's so good he made someone gasp

[Pichounator]

Paul is far beyond 9,000.

[StopTheMoti0n]

WHAT 9,000?

[Pichounator]

"He's over Nine-THOUSSSAAAAAANNNDDD!!!"

*Crunch*

[emrahcccp41]

waauuuuuuuuuuvvv!!!!

[Thm46]

Even hundreds of years from now, this man will be remembered.

[ASPTrustr]

@Thm46 I hope so :-)

[TheKingdomofErnor]

@Thm46 Lol, I somehow doubt that.

[LowKeyFloa]

what a badass

[Tocinator]

Realmente impresionante, el sonido que le saca a esa guitarra me produce escalofríos...

[barbarabarbi]

me encanta tu nick

[Tocinator]

jajaja, gracias =)

[makitfunkee]

Incredible economy of technique--the notes belie the apparent stillness of the fingers.

What an inspiring player!!!

[kingvictory2003]

Listen to the diversity of colors maestro is able to coax from his guitar...le envious sigh.

[OspiteEleate]

ma è una chitarra barocca o una battente? e che differenza c'è?

comunque complienti!!!!

[digiacomo05]

Does someone know the name of the second music on this video ?

[654321654321]

it is a Fandango.

[hairottolapalla5]

Wow suona in una maniera meravigliosa !=,(

[lollox95]

un maestro

[colchicmu]

un maestro.

[cullenstephen]

i like the tie. his guitar likes his tie too. listen to it.

[buchananstreet]

He looks like a figure from THE NAME OF THE ROSE ! ( great  playing, though !!!)

[AmericanDiaz]

God I hate New York. It seems like you people hold festivals just to aggrandize yourselves in the world community like everything else New York does. It is all for show and I do not get very much feeling and love for the classical art form. Paul manages to capture the spirit here thank goodness. Listen to the song by the band FEAR called New Yorks alright.

[ShinGouki86]

lol. fear is awesome, but so is new york

[bachgod]

Congratulation Mr paul, this another gift from God.... Live the music....

David. Colombia-USA.

[guitarclasic4693]

great

[matsuuradesune]

Very beautiful!

すごいです！

[menganoyou]

this man is incredible I LOVE HIS INTERPRETATIOns!!

I would like to begin to play barock guitar, how can I get a instrument? how much is a properly instrument for the begining? some body knows? tahnkyou so much

[ddanze]

real nice man!

[encompinchao]

excelent Paul....from Caracas ,,,,Venezuela

[suvarbal]

Paul Odette one of Earth's treasures

[andrefrica]

very beautiful...

[drodpal]

amazing...

[kayele]

BEAUTIFUL!!!!

[lsoprimus]

He looks both young and old at the same time I suppose becoming that good will happen to you.

[PeriodinstrumentfaN]

Maître O'Dette !!! :>

[noyearold]

Great performance!

[SirPubert]

Thanks for posting

[BuddhaMaster84]

this video is all about proportions ?

nice playing.

I wanna see him playing a Electric

[NanoOnTheBass]

Why?

[BuddhaMaster84]

yeah sorry...

but if you look at the video, the first thing i recognize is: big guy, small guitar and big hair's everywhere.

Just looks like funny somehow

[Thebookguy1]

It's santa!

[LutenistDeMari]

"looks like funny" - do you mean 'looks funny'? I wouldn't mention it, but its just that the mistake makes you sound incredibly stupid. You're not incredibly stupid are you?

[JesuitFarmer]

perhaps english is that persons second language, or third, are you incredibly ignorant or you just take pleasure in ridiculing people you don't know? Either way, practice love, not hate.

[jamminjimi8]

Famulous, a master indeed!

[fodera6]

What a tie!

[kamochachii]

italian renaissance guitar. niiice!

[saturn6153]

Baroque guitar

[kamochachii]

yes. my mistake.

[nickfromdtown1992]

i love how into it he gets

[wholtone]

a young santa claus

[spoombung]

Icredible.Beautiful playing

[BlackHeartGuitar]

Who wrote this piece???

[BuddhaMaster84]

i did

[russelltoddinc]

awsome, just awsome.

[5stringofFernandoSor]

Read, asshole.

[gutplucker]

played like a master!

[tiikiitii]

He's a master

[riceboii101]

does anyone know the tuning of a baroque guitar?

[kidneykutter]

e bb gg Dd aa

The fourth course typically has the upper string at low D and the lower pair one octave higher. The fifth course has both strings at "A" one octave higher than the low D. Because of the octave and re-entrant stringing, arrangements for modern classical guitar miss many of the notes intended by the composers.

[PeriodinstrumentfaN]

thanks for that thorough explanation kidneykutter... :->

...and thanks for pointing out what's lost when modern instruments are used. :->

[BubCar2]

Impressive playing - would have been even better with fingernails :)

I've heard it said that the baroque guitar, when properly made, is a very loud instrument, & that modern classical guitars are only bigger because they contain a lot of dead wood that contribuites nothing to the sound. A very controversial subject.

[philomelodia]

Yikes. didn't realize posting was actually done in English, sorry. I like the piece and the performer but I must say, I prefer the modern incarnation of the guitar. I'm biased since I play it myself. Wonder how this would sound on one. Is it possible to transpose music from a baroque guitar to a modern one? Either a modern classical or a cuban-style 12-string would sound incredible with this piece.

[BlackHeartGuitar]

This is what it sounds like on the instruments they had back then. They didn't have 6 strings (courses). It sounds very Baroque, Renaissance.

[ecgdude]

You know what they say if aint baroque then don't fix it

[philomelodia]

La musique est tres belle mais je n'aime pas l'instrument. Moi, je prefer la guitar moderne. Elle a plus puissance. Cette petite guitar est difficile d'ecouter. Je ne dis rien contre M. O'dette. Il est extra. Est-ce qu'il est possible jouer cette piece sur une guitar moderne?

[wryone]

Beautiful, beautiful, beautiful!

[guidovg]

very "on point"with that comment. ur a tool.

[rullstensas]

I'm sorry, what does that mean?

forgive my stupidity, but I am a swede!

[MonkeyMagics]

Haha, that is a big tie.

[rullstensas]

yeah! and what's so "thumbs down" about that?

[jacquillo]

Santiago de MURCIA (1682-1735?)

Guitariste, compositeur et professeur particulier de la Reine d'Espagne Marie Louise Gabrielle de Savoie. Santiago de Murcia passa sans doute le terme de sa vie au Mexique où furent découverts ses derniers recueils.

[thecritiquevirtuoso]

pourquoi est-ce que j'apris la langue francaise? je n'aime pas...

[SteveFeces]

this owns

[beerdeddi]

That´s one whisble.

[gurucow]

his playing is a little jumpy...

[piepou]

my dad has the same kind of guitar O_O

:p

[voivod206]

look for him playing the lute btw

[voivod206]

this is sweet

[kimoshanakel]

this man is wonderfull it's amazing wooooooooooooooow

[gkertsopoulos]

excellent interpretation.Bravo!

[vjdthird]

that is a funny looking man... Awesome playing!!!

[voivod206]

lulz, u can like hear ppl lulz in background

[mixcoaquense]

Me parece que el maestro O'dette es de los mejores intérpretes de esta clase de instr. en la actualidad. Me gusatría saber si la guitarra barr. que toca en el video la construyó Ivo Magherini. Felicidades!

[johnboyw90]

the vihuela...classy

[tbiggsy]

its a baroque guitar not a vihuela

[luisdiazsantana00]

Muy bien maestro, felicidades.

[godsfavoritecherub]

Bravo Master Paul!

[RighteousCitizen]

wow! how many times did he have to play that to master it like he did. and his touch, impressive.

[lambizzi]

I'm quite fond of the second piece he plays (after he turns the page)

[kingvictory2003]

Maestro O'Dette's voicing floors me every time I listen to him. Also, that beard OWNS.

[CarlosMacMartin]

A window into the past! I'm glad there's guy's like

Paul Odette,Hopkison Smith,Jose Miguel Moreno,& Nigel

North keeping Early Music alive! Bravo Master Paul!

[ranwnye]

Aggree. Paul, Hopy, and Nigel are great.

[Midroken]

This is just beautiful.. full of technique and passion.. smithsherman you are really a morron and an ignorant..

[epamin371]

That is not a Vihuela, it is a Baroque guitar.

[mikaelk2007]

brilliant!!! He has captured the spirit of the Renaissance - I feel like it sounds almost like a precursor to Flamenco music very polyphonic.

[hermanopaz]

This is not Renaissance! but baroque! and, course not! arabic and gipsy music are the precursor of flamenco music, not baroque.

[zombiemanchego]

beautiful sound!, brillante ejecución, bravo!

[smithsherman]

You guys are confused.Classical music is filled

with tens of thousands of musicians who play with this

kind of technical clarity.And just like most of

the rest of them this is more mindlessly unemotional

poorly phrased playing.Try and listen

to the rhetorical aspect,because that is where ex-

pression and hence meaning live.

[sab3156]

You have no idea what you're talking about, smith... pity that you try to speak so eloquently on a subject you know nothing about. I'd like to know your background in art... Do you even study anything?

[eirinikos]

wtf are you talking about you pseudo intellecual? shut up and enjoy the music.

[boblob2003]

I'd have to disagree with you... I hear a lot of forward motion in the phrasing. I've seen O'Dette live numerous times and his performances are not "unemotional" at all. He plays a lot of stuff too fast (because he can!) but with 100% conviction. Your "my way or the highway" view of performance practice is rather pompous.

[zbaby82]

Very nice!

[cursillo]

I subscribe to the previous comments

[Curatica]

I subscribe to the previous comments... but what a necktie...!

[patoruzitopampeano]

Me gusta más en láud, la guitarra barroca se la toma a pachanga española..le falta un poco de delicadeza y finura (que la tiene de sobra), sobre todo en los rasgueos...

Mi máxima admiración para Paul.

[danensago]

es contradictorio tu comentario, alomejor no te gustaria ver cómo era tocada la guitarra barroca en las calles del siglo XVII en España y Latinoamérica y éso es lo que se pretende mostrar sin abandonar la música cortesana

[CarlosMacMartin]

Si se pudiera visitar lo paso,porque no? Claro que me

viera gustado ver los grandes maestros de antes.Pero,

eso es impossible! Por eso hay jente como los que dije

en mi primero comentario.Nunca se va saber exacto.I'm

sorry but English is my first language.Saludos de USA!

[hermawanlukman]

Beautiful music, with immaculate technique. I wonder if I can do that.

[RFeynman]

Inspired playing. Brilliant.

[thoyo]

pretty music, great musician !!

[groove67]

great musician! great right hand! Nice guy,I caught his concert in Cordoba ,Spain last summer,I was amazed by those soft lovelly fluid and fast picados he does...I only dont like the fact that he always has the sheet music in front of him...even when he does not really needs it...I think for us classical guitar players he teaches a lesson...if you want to play fast,fluid picados just do it soft...dont use too much strengh on you right hand,you´ll see....

[mercoid]

I enjoyed that very much.

You mention that you don't like the fact that he always has sheet music in front of him. Is that somehow "wrong", or is it some kind of "point of pride" among certain musicians to be able to play from memory? Because frankly, I see nothing wrong with doing that.

[zorksloss]

Playing from memory IS a lot easer but if you forget what's next it's very helpful to glance up at the music.