How the hell is there a dislike for something like this? Is it that folks don't like the song? Classical Guitar? John Williams? This form/style of music? What the hell's wrong with the world today? Everyone has their right to an opinion, but what part do they dislike?
@faridzayish Mine was 3 MM and I played a friend's who's was 2.5mm -yeah I measured. It was a lot easier to play Asturias, so I sanded my saddle down to 2.5 mm; this meant I had to sand my bridge down a little, too. I love the lower action on my guitar. I get a perfect amount of fret buzz when I play Flamenco now, too, so that's good. If your guitar is good, get a guitar tech; if you're bold look for guitar vids on here.
I'm 12 and I play the classical guitar. The other day my guitar teacher sent me here to watch how he plays. All my friends think I am so good, but he makes me look bad!
@urockthisworld123 No worries, the great thing about watching videos is your mind will absorb his technique and musicality. The important thing is to find your self expression in your music, that's what your friends and others enjoy.
Questions : Why does Everybody cares so much about Williams...none comment about the Greatest Guitar Composer A. Barrios...? And by what kind of force and critiria you all voters give positive or negative vote? Do you know what you are voting for? J.Williams? A.Barrios? Video Director? G.Smallman maybe?
..Well My guess is that technic and "champioshism" of our future has "Blind Thousant Of Ears"...and minds.
2. Yes, if you watch carefully people also comment about the great A. Barrios
3. The kind of force that you feel when listening to this GREAT piece played by GREAT John Williams and the criteria: amazing technique, dynamics and emotions. You didn´t vote?
4. If you ask each person why they voted, they would probably answer you. I personally vote for the combination.
Eh... It's not about if it's easy to play or not. It's about rather it all comes together right to make something that comes from the composers head... in other words you can be as technical as you want but if all the riffs are just jumbled in there then its gonna sound like crap where as what seperates the good from the bad is being able to write something that's 1. Is as close to what your trying to get out of your head and 2. Will make people sit up and take notice.
@siskohellkaiser94 hopefully your just joking and you know that John Williams the composer is not the same person as John Williams the classical Guitarist? This guy is Australian and hasn't composed any Star wars music. They are two separate people. Just saying
If you think its easy good for you, don't call us retards for not being "super amazing" at guitar like you "are" (its in quotes because i'm sure you guys suck and are just pretending you can play it make you feel better about yourselves). And the only way you could possibly be justified in saying this piece is easy, is posting a video playing this song better than him, and we'll shut up.
From, non-condescending audience just listening to good music
@sifilok12 Envy, plain and simple. This level of perfection is almost impossible to achieve, thus leaving the envious only that choice. Sad, sad people. Just sad(shaking head)
A retired Japanese mister who is a classmate in my Korean language course mentioned this piece a few days ago in our cigarette break: In spite of playing guitar for forty years he could still not master it. Knowing some of Mangores pieces through living in Paraguay for some time and being a guitar amateur myself I hadn't heard this particular one and decided to check it out. I can understand this good man's fascination better now.
This is funny.... by: @bethany1954 You are right my friend! There must be a lot of beginners around here if they think this is difficult to play.........
WHY DON'T YOU GIVE IT A GO @bethany1954 and upload your rendition and let's hear how you perform it?! Fair people?
@MicrosoftMozart Tremolo is tremolo dunce, and it's one of the first things everybody learns. Everyone learns at least the basic major and minor bar chords in every position within two months of playing. Alternate thumb picking is hardly rocket science. Slides--yeah, really hard.... Rest strokes are something only beginners do until they can learn to play free strokes without bumping into other strings. That anyone would even write apoyando into a score shows it's geared toward beginners. Think.
@borgessmorges Jesus christ STOP TALKING. You're embarrassing yourself and I'm embarrassed reading your comments. Who cares what is difficult and what is not? Isn't it about the beautiful music? Why are you trying to prove something on a random youtube video to people you do not know? Rest Stroke before freestroke? It should be about HOW you do tremolo, not IF you do it. It's about HOW you play a piece, not IF you can play it. Do you even play guitar? Too muchstupidity....can not....compute.....
man... you hit the nail on the head. I can't believe some guy a few months ago kept telling me that this is such a beginner's piece! I've been trying to play it properly and commit it to memory for the past three months, and I'm only (in relation to john william's version above) a minute in... and for me, that takes about two minutes :(
@MicrosoftMozart I am seriously appalled at your stupidity and lies. Anyone who says this isn't a beginners piece might want to do themselves the honor of putting the name into the YT search box to see the dozens of beginners playing, many of them much better than Williams.
It must feel like home. Oh, and rather than watch a perfectionist like me play this, the idea is to see if beginners to intermediates can play it. Since YT is full of such people playing it, the mystery is solved. It ain't hard dufus.
@borgessmorges I don't know if you feel like this in your home xD Anyway, can you show me a beginner that play this peace? And i hope you know where is the difference between PLAYING and TRYING TO PLAY :)
@borgessmorges Who are you trying to kid? Beginners only use rest stroke? Beginners are better than Williams? Tremolo is one of the first things everybody learns? Please. People might actually buy into your trolling if it wasn't so laughably false.
Trolling really is a desperate cry for attention. This is the only medium you have for interacting with other human beings who haven't already abandoned you in the real world for being such an unlikeable fucking turd.
@trollnemesis I agree that tremolo is one of the first things everybody learns, or at least attempts to learn. It is close to equivalent to shredding on electric guitar. To perfect tremolo is pretty hard, but it's something that most beginners at least make an attempt at.
I'm just going to go ahead and guess that anyone who is saying this is a beginner's piece doesn't actually play classical guitar. Maybe they should give it a try and see if they have a change in opinion.
Después de muchas odiosas comparaciones (tras la libertad que nos permite internet y Youtube) entre guitarrastas (Rusell, Vidovic, etc.,) llego a la conclusión de que John Williams es el mejor guitarrista universal que hoy tenemos.
bethany you couldnt be more full of fucking shit. Obviously, you can see the individual chords aren't difficult in themselves, there's no fucking Holdsworth Em11 #35 add pickles...and if the upper line was picked it isn't super fast... but to put it all together and arppegiate a bassline while playing it cleanly and in time is not something some "blues player" can do. Shush
@InDarknessLight The heat in the desert would dehumidify the wood of his guitar, breaking it. A sand storm would also damage the wood, plus you wouldn't hear the guitar. In a glacier? If you meant on a glacier, his fingers would get way too cold to do the techniques he does playing this piece. Maybe the Eiffel Tower would be a better idea :P
@borgessmorges Wrong. Changes in temperature aren't sudden and definitely not restored after 6 minutes. Yes John can play guitar, but aside from Dragon Ball Z characters no one can do instant transmission.
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I think Williams plays this song just fine. But I agree with those who say it isn't terribly challenging to perform. It's very slow and simple with no breakneck runs. I like to listen to it though. It reminds me of Bach's better pieces, most of which aren't ambitious to play either, but we still love them.
@borgessmorges It seems to be awfully black on this message board, doesn't it? You could cut the stupidity with a knife. Anyone who says this is difficult to play obviously hasn't been playing very long.
@bethany1954 Try to play this piece perfectly(technically), with the ultimate smoothness, and do not snap any note. You will know why this piece is difficult, even though each skill alone is not hard to practice(like tremolo.)
For the record everyone rogers53108 and sthugh are complete pseudo-expert idiots... hokey triplets? not a hard piece to play? These guys are either trolling or they are genuinely deluded. A tremolo like John Williams takes years, years, years of dedicated practice. This is a challenging piece for all but seasoned pro's, and if they cant hear the difference between triplets and extremely even 32nd notes they're ears are deluded as they're brains.
@stimps82 How does a tremolo take "years" to develop? What could be easier than tremolo? It seems to me that it's you who's doing the trolling here. I don't see anything going on that looks hard to do.
@gmdinformation hey man a tip of the hat to anyone who can master a classical style tremolo in anything under a few years. Not saying it isn't possible but a playing nice clear bass line while playing 32nd notes evenly at around 70bpm is difficult stuff for most of us.. There is a big difference between playing notes quickly and a refined classical style tremolo, I'm sure most of this classical guitarists would agree.
@ds7202 I've posted much more difficult pieces to play than this kiddo. Secondly, this is one of thr first tunes every classical player learns. If you'll bother to look around YT you'll find there are at least a few hundred recordings of it by people who are beginners. The tune's not terrible. It's an okay composition, but it's hardly some kind of masterpiece with all those hokey triplets.
@ds7202 Sthugh is right. This is not a hard piece to play at all. It's something that's taught at beginner level to almost every classical guitarist. I'm not knocking the tune for being easy to pay, and I don't think he is either. We're just stating a fact. I think it's a beautiful tune. Sometimes simple things are beautiful too.
yes, i agree, tremolo is easy enough. However, what makes it hard is the complex fingering of each chord, and keeping your thumb in rhythm. Like I said, this is in no way a beginner's piece. So, I challenge you to upload a video of you playing it, if it's so easy!
@ds7202 Um...okay, keeping with your twelve year old fashion of thinking and writing, I challenge you to put up a video playing my version of Eleanor Rigby without screwing up the double picking at the end. I'm confident you cannot. Neither can John Williams.
@ds7202 If you want to see/hear this tune done right, look for a YT user by the name of "opustenzy". His real name is Milan Dimitrijevic, and his puts this to shame.
I've taught guitar for 30 years and this is not beginner stuff. What a fool;
several tremolo sections with rubato, pizacatto, long stretches. many bar chords, positions all over the neck, wide tonal changes, slurs...right, real beginner stuff. What a moron to spew such nonsense.
Pizzicato is hard now? How is muting strings hard? Bar chords? If you aren't playing bar chords within 2 months then you might as well give up the guitar. Long stretches? Where? I don't see any. You're 50 something and still say things like "spew"? Please... you're 10 or 12 at most. This is not hard at all. Besides, it's only classical guitar, not jazz. When you get good enough to play jazz then you'll know a few things and won't be so ignorant as to refer to "tremolo" as something difficult.
@Rexicano Hot air? You're the one who actually referred to tremolo as being something only pros do. As if every first year blues player in Harlem doesn't do it to death. If you were any dumber you'd forget to breath.
Show me one example on YouTube where any Blues player plays tremolo with p a m i....(if you even know what that is)...you can't —because they don't use that technique.
MORE hot air; it is not tremolo you play in Blues at all dumb ass.
Stick to whatever it is you might know, but it sure isn't Classical Guitar chump.
And as far as quotes NO WHERE do I say "something only pros do". So get real and stop making shit up.
I'm sure I was right; you can't play Classical guitar at all.
Williams may not have that Bream-ish way of interpretation, but there is nothing out there for solo guitar that he can't play. I find he has a way of standardizing pieces for us so we can look at his and say "Man, that was great, but here's what I would have done..." Plus I personally love his tone and I'd rather focus dynamics around what gives the best tone. I wish Barrios had done video recordings so we could have seen him play! XD
@trimetaler its suppose to inspire you, not make you want to quit. You should just quit guitar now instead of later if your going to have that kind of an attitude. How will you ever get good if you cant watch good performances and learn?
alright. its decided. im learning this song next. ive already learned asturias. this sounds really good.
jdouglas9494 3 days ago
well actually i play better than him
sadaukard 1 week ago
He knows how to practice...
Musificationization 1 week ago
well...I know what I'm doing this weekend...
guitarguy098 2 weeks ago
How the hell is there a dislike for something like this? Is it that folks don't like the song? Classical Guitar? John Williams? This form/style of music? What the hell's wrong with the world today? Everyone has their right to an opinion, but what part do they dislike?
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DealMartClassical 1 month ago
my classical string action is 3.2mm on 1st string.. is it normal or consider too high? i find it so HIGH... i'm new to classical guitar
faridzayish 1 month ago
@faridzayish Mine was 3 MM and I played a friend's who's was 2.5mm -yeah I measured. It was a lot easier to play Asturias, so I sanded my saddle down to 2.5 mm; this meant I had to sand my bridge down a little, too. I love the lower action on my guitar. I get a perfect amount of fret buzz when I play Flamenco now, too, so that's good. If your guitar is good, get a guitar tech; if you're bold look for guitar vids on here.
derfilmmacher 2 weeks ago
Sooooo delightful
Payammostafapour 1 month ago
I'm 12 and I play the classical guitar. The other day my guitar teacher sent me here to watch how he plays. All my friends think I am so good, but he makes me look bad!
urockthisworld123 2 months ago
@urockthisworld123 No worries, the great thing about watching videos is your mind will absorb his technique and musicality. The important thing is to find your self expression in your music, that's what your friends and others enjoy.
derfilmmacher 2 weeks ago
Espectacular....
Guitarrista7777 2 months ago
Questions : Why does Everybody cares so much about Williams...none comment about the Greatest Guitar Composer A. Barrios...? And by what kind of force and critiria you all voters give positive or negative vote? Do you know what you are voting for? J.Williams? A.Barrios? Video Director? G.Smallman maybe?
..Well My guess is that technic and "champioshism" of our future has "Blind Thousant Of Ears"...and minds.
mythegean 2 months ago
@mythegean I feel free to answer your questions:
1. Because he´s an amazing guitarist.
2. Yes, if you watch carefully people also comment about the great A. Barrios
3. The kind of force that you feel when listening to this GREAT piece played by GREAT John Williams and the criteria: amazing technique, dynamics and emotions. You didn´t vote?
4. If you ask each person why they voted, they would probably answer you. I personally vote for the combination.
Any more questions?
HitokiriDiaz 2 months ago
@mythegean I'm voting based on how much I enjoy it. In this case the hairs on my fore arms stood up and that should earn a thumbs up no matter what.
DeadBeatBert 1 month ago 2
Oh hes an epic musical madman he is
ToasterHead007 3 months ago
Eh... It's not about if it's easy to play or not. It's about rather it all comes together right to make something that comes from the composers head... in other words you can be as technical as you want but if all the riffs are just jumbled in there then its gonna sound like crap where as what seperates the good from the bad is being able to write something that's 1. Is as close to what your trying to get out of your head and 2. Will make people sit up and take notice.
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John Williams was one of my greatest influences in my youth. Behind Segovia, the greatest classical guitarist ever.
fungoo989 3 months ago
John Williams was one of my greatest influences in my youth. Behin, the greatest classical guitarist ever.
fungoo989 3 months ago
What a masterpiece interpreted by a magnificent guitar player. Excellent music for the spirit. Thank you for sharing with us...
luisperezmd 4 months ago
and i thought he was only awesome because of star wars. silly me
siskohellkaiser94 4 months ago 2
@siskohellkaiser94 you do know they're both different people
gaphoogys 3 months ago
@gaphoogys yeah i looked it up later and felt like a dumbass. still a beast
siskohellkaiser94 3 months ago
@siskohellkaiser94 hopefully your just joking and you know that John Williams the composer is not the same person as John Williams the classical Guitarist? This guy is Australian and hasn't composed any Star wars music. They are two separate people. Just saying
bokehpete 4 weeks ago
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I'm not really feeling this piece, excellent playing though.
LTDGuitars420 4 months ago 2
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LTDGuitars420 4 months ago
tremolo perfeito, caraca
MrTomasplc 4 months ago
Easy? It may be easier to PLAY than others (which seem impossible), but it is not easy to FEEL ...Unlike your mother. Maturity points.
sharkboy1800 4 months ago
This is what happens to your technique when you hold a guitar in your lap for 40 years playing Vivaldi.
device9 4 months ago
Yes show please oh master naysayer
device9 4 months ago
Dear le trolls saying this piece is easy,
If you think its easy good for you, don't call us retards for not being "super amazing" at guitar like you "are" (its in quotes because i'm sure you guys suck and are just pretending you can play it make you feel better about yourselves). And the only way you could possibly be justified in saying this piece is easy, is posting a video playing this song better than him, and we'll shut up.
From, non-condescending audience just listening to good music
Sturrfry 4 months ago
why the hell is he playing this like if it was a piece of cake!!
zacazinz 4 months ago
too bad the recording has noise..
yohanesniko 4 months ago
What an idiot..tremelo is for advanced players..john williams has the best tempo and control out there..fucking dumb idiot
hyp4solutions 4 months ago
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this vid is awsome especialy that im playing guitar
8426dada 5 months ago 2
this vid is awsome especialy that im playing guitar
8426dada 5 months ago
This composition is as gorgeous as anything by Villa-Lobos. Williams, of course, is stunning. Elise
erscott13 5 months ago
nvrmind this is a different john williams i guess
MrDellDude 5 months ago
This is beautiful but its not John Williams
MrDellDude 5 months ago
Amazing guitar work
Beautiful Music
DieHardBeatlesFan 5 months ago
the music is magical
guitrz1 5 months ago
how can 30 people dislike thiiiis? <3!
sifilok12 5 months ago
@sifilok12 Envy, plain and simple. This level of perfection is almost impossible to achieve, thus leaving the envious only that choice. Sad, sad people. Just sad(shaking head)
martingoldfire 5 months ago
to each his own. I enjoyed this. thank you.
SANDIBAY1 6 months ago
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well anyway ..just beautiful
Bruchag 6 months ago 2
I like this-- I like this a lot...
TheNietzshe93 6 months ago
The only way this guy could be more precise is if he was a robot.
BowTie2222 7 months ago
@BowTie2222 Nah because then he would sound all auto-tuned. I'm glad I stumbled upon this guy
DrunkenPig90 7 months ago
Hey all classical guitarists! Let's stop arguing with these hard-headed self-announced "Jazz" people (@borgessmorges)
Let's just focus on our music and do not give a shit on their boastful claims.
Viva la John WIlliams!
andhiekaputra 7 months ago
@andhiekaputra Viva "el" John Williams :)
theviciousguitar 6 months ago
@andhiekaputra Amen dude. Music is art. It is to be enjoyed. If you don't enjoy it, don't waste your time listening to it.
AndrewMusic123 5 months ago
A retired Japanese mister who is a classmate in my Korean language course mentioned this piece a few days ago in our cigarette break: In spite of playing guitar for forty years he could still not master it. Knowing some of Mangores pieces through living in Paraguay for some time and being a guitar amateur myself I hadn't heard this particular one and decided to check it out. I can understand this good man's fascination better now.
Protenor 7 months ago 2
Every time I watch this guy play, all I can do is shake my head in amazement... words fail me.
DarthMohammed 7 months ago 22
@DarthMohammed yes, yes they do. lol jks :P
ArpTic903 6 months ago
Barrios creo la pieza de tremolo que más exigencias técnicas requiere del ejecutante. Todo un genio.
hemc88 7 months ago
Guy is a legend.
Dwaynethesock 8 months ago
barrios... my favourite
Scaar81 8 months ago
youtube com /watch?v=98pUUNZ8vsA
opustenzy 8 months ago
l'alcazar di siviglia!!
amunindi 8 months ago
how the F*** does he do that?
Noogabar 9 months ago
such elegant an beutiful guitar playing
grunt12394 9 months ago
Williams is by far my favorite performer. Everything from his perfect technique to nonchalant manner leave me horribly jealous.
GonnaFlyNow 9 months ago 2
i prefer russell (=
nideaband 9 months ago
i prefer russell
nideaband 9 months ago
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This is funny.... by: @bethany1954 You are right my friend! There must be a lot of beginners around here if they think this is difficult to play.........
WHY DON'T YOU GIVE IT A GO @bethany1954 and upload your rendition and let's hear how you perform it?! Fair people?
richtube911 9 months ago
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@richtube911 Or...she could play things she wants to play and you could play things you want to play. Fair moron?
borgessmorges 8 months ago
Simply amazing!!!!!!!!!
richtube911 9 months ago
Just a master.
mimbster1972 9 months ago
The technical difficulty of this piece is irrelevant, it sounds terrific and is a favourite of mine, especially by John Williams.
MrMalcie 9 months ago
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MicrosoftMozart 9 months ago 8
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@MicrosoftMozart Tremolo is tremolo dunce, and it's one of the first things everybody learns. Everyone learns at least the basic major and minor bar chords in every position within two months of playing. Alternate thumb picking is hardly rocket science. Slides--yeah, really hard.... Rest strokes are something only beginners do until they can learn to play free strokes without bumping into other strings. That anyone would even write apoyando into a score shows it's geared toward beginners. Think.
borgessmorges 8 months ago
@borgessmorges Jesus christ STOP TALKING. You're embarrassing yourself and I'm embarrassed reading your comments. Who cares what is difficult and what is not? Isn't it about the beautiful music? Why are you trying to prove something on a random youtube video to people you do not know? Rest Stroke before freestroke? It should be about HOW you do tremolo, not IF you do it. It's about HOW you play a piece, not IF you can play it. Do you even play guitar? Too muchstupidity....can not....compute.....
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MicrosoftMozart 9 months ago 10
@MicrosoftMozart
man... you hit the nail on the head. I can't believe some guy a few months ago kept telling me that this is such a beginner's piece! I've been trying to play it properly and commit it to memory for the past three months, and I'm only (in relation to john william's version above) a minute in... and for me, that takes about two minutes :(
ds7202 8 months ago
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@MicrosoftMozart I am seriously appalled at your stupidity and lies. Anyone who says this isn't a beginners piece might want to do themselves the honor of putting the name into the YT search box to see the dozens of beginners playing, many of them much better than Williams.
borgessmorges 8 months ago
@borgessmorges I wanna see you playing this piece xD So many retards here.....
Venomancer86 8 months ago
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@Venomancer86 "So many retards here."
It must feel like home. Oh, and rather than watch a perfectionist like me play this, the idea is to see if beginners to intermediates can play it. Since YT is full of such people playing it, the mystery is solved. It ain't hard dufus.
borgessmorges 8 months ago
@borgessmorges I don't know if you feel like this in your home xD Anyway, can you show me a beginner that play this peace? And i hope you know where is the difference between PLAYING and TRYING TO PLAY :)
Venomancer86 8 months ago
@borgessmorges Who are you trying to kid? Beginners only use rest stroke? Beginners are better than Williams? Tremolo is one of the first things everybody learns? Please. People might actually buy into your trolling if it wasn't so laughably false.
Trolling really is a desperate cry for attention. This is the only medium you have for interacting with other human beings who haven't already abandoned you in the real world for being such an unlikeable fucking turd.
trollnemesis 8 months ago 40
@trollnemesis And you just gave him attention....
nosebleed84 6 months ago
@trollnemesis I agree that tremolo is one of the first things everybody learns, or at least attempts to learn. It is close to equivalent to shredding on electric guitar. To perfect tremolo is pretty hard, but it's something that most beginners at least make an attempt at.
yawmwen 5 months ago
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trollnemesis 3 months ago
@trollnemesis ownage. bravo.
uniballpenman 4 months ago
@trollnemesis Dont worry bout stupid metalboys that believe theyr better than Williams, Segovia etc.
kiserasd 1 month ago
@borgessmorges Is your actual opinion? If so, find a hole somewhere remote, curl up in it and die please :) xxx
MrSamTheFlowerMan 1 month ago
Zenab and Taha xx
Kilchattan7 10 months ago
I'm just going to go ahead and guess that anyone who is saying this is a beginner's piece doesn't actually play classical guitar. Maybe they should give it a try and see if they have a change in opinion.
ltjkid 10 months ago 2
why do they shot a lake.. i want to see his hands
Semibrucelee 10 months ago
Después de muchas odiosas comparaciones (tras la libertad que nos permite internet y Youtube) entre guitarrastas (Rusell, Vidovic, etc.,) llego a la conclusión de que John Williams es el mejor guitarrista universal que hoy tenemos.
oigrescalvo 10 months ago
Agustin barrios es latinoamericano del paraguay , i love agustin froom mexican city, veri nice paraguay south american vivaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
beto2682 10 months ago
It can not be more beutiful, it´s like sound from haven
jonnyvallin 10 months ago
bethany you couldnt be more full of fucking shit. Obviously, you can see the individual chords aren't difficult in themselves, there's no fucking Holdsworth Em11 #35 add pickles...and if the upper line was picked it isn't super fast... but to put it all together and arppegiate a bassline while playing it cleanly and in time is not something some "blues player" can do. Shush
kmal2t 10 months ago
......so anybody at all interested in the fact that Mr. Williams gets to play in the best locations?
carnagegerman 11 months ago
@carnagegerman lol he should play on top of the sphinx or somewhere crazy like that like in the sahara in sand storm or in a glacier
InDarknessLight 10 months ago
@InDarknessLight The heat in the desert would dehumidify the wood of his guitar, breaking it. A sand storm would also damage the wood, plus you wouldn't hear the guitar. In a glacier? If you meant on a glacier, his fingers would get way too cold to do the techniques he does playing this piece. Maybe the Eiffel Tower would be a better idea :P
Hakan625 10 months ago
@Hakan625 None of that would happen in the 6 minutes it takes to play this.
borgessmorges 10 months ago
@borgessmorges Wrong. Changes in temperature aren't sudden and definitely not restored after 6 minutes. Yes John can play guitar, but aside from Dragon Ball Z characters no one can do instant transmission.
Hakan625 10 months ago
@InDarknessLight sandstorm?? but then his instrument would be ruined!!!! his skill can't protect the wood from 0 humidity XD
carnagegerman 10 months ago
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I think Williams plays this song just fine. But I agree with those who say it isn't terribly challenging to perform. It's very slow and simple with no breakneck runs. I like to listen to it though. It reminds me of Bach's better pieces, most of which aren't ambitious to play either, but we still love them.
borgessmorges 11 months ago
@borgessmorges It seems to be awfully black on this message board, doesn't it? You could cut the stupidity with a knife. Anyone who says this is difficult to play obviously hasn't been playing very long.
bethany1954 11 months ago
@bethany1954 Try to play this piece perfectly(technically), with the ultimate smoothness, and do not snap any note. You will know why this piece is difficult, even though each skill alone is not hard to practice(like tremolo.)
MrGayItUp 11 months ago
@bethany1954 Lol, I have just realized that you fail really hard at playing classical guitar.
MrGayItUp 10 months ago
@bethany1954 You are right my friend! There must be a lot of beginners around here if they think this is difficult to play.
borgessmorges 10 months ago
For the record everyone rogers53108 and sthugh are complete pseudo-expert idiots... hokey triplets? not a hard piece to play? These guys are either trolling or they are genuinely deluded. A tremolo like John Williams takes years, years, years of dedicated practice. This is a challenging piece for all but seasoned pro's, and if they cant hear the difference between triplets and extremely even 32nd notes they're ears are deluded as they're brains.
stimps82 11 months ago
@stimps82 How does a tremolo take "years" to develop? What could be easier than tremolo? It seems to me that it's you who's doing the trolling here. I don't see anything going on that looks hard to do.
gmdinformation 11 months ago
@gmdinformation hey man a tip of the hat to anyone who can master a classical style tremolo in anything under a few years. Not saying it isn't possible but a playing nice clear bass line while playing 32nd notes evenly at around 70bpm is difficult stuff for most of us.. There is a big difference between playing notes quickly and a refined classical style tremolo, I'm sure most of this classical guitarists would agree.
stimps82 11 months ago 2
@stimps82 Speed With the classical tremolo is not as important as eveness!
TheAlanWilson 5 months ago
stupid guys arguing stupid things , making stupid challenges that they know the other guy would never fu.king do it
Pikangu 11 months ago
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sthugh 11 months ago
@sthugh
Also, if this is such an easy peice, play it and post a video!
ds7202 11 months ago
@ds7202 I've posted much more difficult pieces to play than this kiddo. Secondly, this is one of thr first tunes every classical player learns. If you'll bother to look around YT you'll find there are at least a few hundred recordings of it by people who are beginners. The tune's not terrible. It's an okay composition, but it's hardly some kind of masterpiece with all those hokey triplets.
sthugh 11 months ago
@ds7202 Sthugh is right. This is not a hard piece to play at all. It's something that's taught at beginner level to almost every classical guitarist. I'm not knocking the tune for being easy to pay, and I don't think he is either. We're just stating a fact. I think it's a beautiful tune. Sometimes simple things are beautiful too.
You're a very rude, obnoxious human by the way.
rogers53108 11 months ago
@rogers53108
@stugh
How in the world is this a beginner piece??? If it is taught at the beginner level, why wasn't i taught it as a beginner??
By comparison, would you say Asturias is a beginner piece as well?
ds7202 11 months ago
@ds7202 What's hard about it? It's not like it's full of 32nd notes. And like the man said, triplets are easy enough.
rogers53108 11 months ago
@rogers53108
@sthugh
yes, i agree, tremolo is easy enough. However, what makes it hard is the complex fingering of each chord, and keeping your thumb in rhythm. Like I said, this is in no way a beginner's piece. So, I challenge you to upload a video of you playing it, if it's so easy!
ds7202 11 months ago
@ds7202 Um...okay, keeping with your twelve year old fashion of thinking and writing, I challenge you to put up a video playing my version of Eleanor Rigby without screwing up the double picking at the end. I'm confident you cannot. Neither can John Williams.
sthugh 11 months ago
@rogers53108
wait a minute, I just looked at my copy of this song.
IT IS DEFINITELY FULL OF 32nd NOTES!!
In my copy, however, they are short-handed with "tremolo" to save space.
ds7202 11 months ago
@ds7202 If you want to see/hear this tune done right, look for a YT user by the name of "opustenzy". His real name is Milan Dimitrijevic, and his puts this to shame.
sthugh 11 months ago
@rogers53108
A beginner piece?
I've taught guitar for 30 years and this is not beginner stuff. What a fool;
several tremolo sections with rubato, pizacatto, long stretches. many bar chords, positions all over the neck, wide tonal changes, slurs...right, real beginner stuff. What a moron to spew such nonsense.
Rexicano 11 months ago
Pizzicato is hard now? How is muting strings hard? Bar chords? If you aren't playing bar chords within 2 months then you might as well give up the guitar. Long stretches? Where? I don't see any. You're 50 something and still say things like "spew"? Please... you're 10 or 12 at most. This is not hard at all. Besides, it's only classical guitar, not jazz. When you get good enough to play jazz then you'll know a few things and won't be so ignorant as to refer to "tremolo" as something difficult.
bethany1954 11 months ago
@bethany1954
You're a bag of hot air.
Where's your video?
Oh, right, you can't play even a simple piece.
Rexicano 11 months ago
@Rexicano Hot air? You're the one who actually referred to tremolo as being something only pros do. As if every first year blues player in Harlem doesn't do it to death. If you were any dumber you'd forget to breath.
bethany1954 11 months ago
@bethany1954
Show me one example on YouTube where any Blues player plays tremolo with p a m i....(if you even know what that is)...you can't —because they don't use that technique.
MORE hot air; it is not tremolo you play in Blues at all dumb ass.
Stick to whatever it is you might know, but it sure isn't Classical Guitar chump.
And as far as quotes NO WHERE do I say "something only pros do". So get real and stop making shit up.
I'm sure I was right; you can't play Classical guitar at all.
Rexicano 11 months ago
Williams may not have that Bream-ish way of interpretation, but there is nothing out there for solo guitar that he can't play. I find he has a way of standardizing pieces for us so we can look at his and say "Man, that was great, but here's what I would have done..." Plus I personally love his tone and I'd rather focus dynamics around what gives the best tone. I wish Barrios had done video recordings so we could have seen him play! XD
rawrgDX 11 months ago
bravo mr. williams..ur da best!!
serlinluv 11 months ago
muy hermosa , beautiful :) 27 people are deaf
SarahW4023 11 months ago
beautiful
757birdie 1 year ago
The man has 20 fingers. I'm convinced. The're in there somewhere. haha :-)
boardfu 1 year ago
Estudo sueno em la Floresta a algus anos, é uma peça infinita no aprimoramento,
cada vez se entende mais no que que tenta expressar, Bravo Maestro John, te saúdo do Brasil.
retremulo 1 year ago
Que Triste.........., Que Otros Chavos De Mi Edad No Vean La Belleza De El Arte En La Guitarra Classica..............
FranciscoRivera777 1 year ago
perfect john !! you are the best !!!
magica20 1 year ago
I know people are going to react, but I honestly am not a fan of his tremolo, it doesn't sound even to me.
yyy12232 1 year ago
@yyy12232 I actually agree with you. But hey, nobody is perfect, not even John Williams ;)
HitokiriDiaz 1 year ago
@yyy12232 That's an excellent point, actually. It definitely has a gallop.
aibangmaini 1 year ago
Perfecto! Bravo JW !!!
philipwesley4 1 year ago
Stephen Spielberg-" BACK TO WORK!!!!"
hushbaby12 1 year ago
beautiful...
bodomboy22 1 year ago
PERFECT !!
WONDERFUL !!!
trungchimcut 1 year ago
WOW !!
hallettking12 1 year ago
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smrndoff 1 year ago 13
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@smrndoff It's just you.
Mod74 1 year ago
@smrndoff fuck you hes a god and disney can or could suck his cock
ACDCman73 1 year ago
@smrndoff Just you buddy ;)
007Moosy 1 year ago
@smrndoff dude are you high? this is timeless music and sounds nothing like disney
TheLkLkLkLk 1 year ago
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smrndoff 1 year ago
youtube.com/watch?v=98pUUNZ8vsA
opustenzy 1 year ago
just brilliant
jkton2008 1 year ago
brilliance!!!
Dalmenco 1 year ago
sei insuperabile williams; e' sempre emozionante ascoltarti, grazie
jamesdiabolik1 1 year ago
@jamesdiabolik1 il miogliore resta richardone benson
lucadepu 1 year ago
I got to see him play this song live on tuesday!!!!! it was great! I love how he plays!! :)
OscarA23 1 year ago
williams hizo renacer a mangoré maestro de maestros.
luis1261 1 year ago
I like Enno Voorhorsts version more! but respect anyway!! Majestro..
Shanavur 1 year ago
simply perfect
almost moved me to tears
Utubesuxmycock 1 year ago
John Williams is the best.
19ZoSo93 1 year ago
thanks for posting this! maestro your inspiration, beauty, and dedication are boundless!!
dlevita 1 year ago
the great John William
BOGZASV8MA 1 year ago
Man is a true musical genius. To have so many awards and to still just....ahh his talents seem endless.
Forensicchick1 1 year ago
Williams thinks that Agustín Barrios is the best of them all, guitar composers. Those are not light words coming from someone like him.
weareallmusicians 1 year ago 2
didn't know he's such a big shot! All academy awards and that... wow
godra051 1 year ago
To a man with the right hand ability like john williams, anyone using a pick must seem so.......unevolved
Ah mine envy
liquidhouston 1 year ago
His left hand never even THINKS about tensing up. Brilliant playing. Not to mention that its drop D and drop G tuning...
GyveTurckee 1 year ago
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GyveTurckee 1 year ago
To Good. Disgustingly Good. Makes me want to stop playing guitar.
trimetaler 1 year ago
@trimetaler its suppose to inspire you, not make you want to quit. You should just quit guitar now instead of later if your going to have that kind of an attitude. How will you ever get good if you cant watch good performances and learn?
ditman333 1 year ago
@trimetaler Hmm weird.. it makes me want to pick up the guitar and play it :)
HitokiriDiaz 1 year ago
Many can play this piece but not the john williams's way....true virtuose!!!
pacoheam 1 year ago 17
@pacoheam I prefer Barrios own recording of this piece! :)
keman25 1 year ago
@pacoheam John suona tutto meglio
skanjohnny 10 months ago
A more than beautiful piece by GREAT Agustin Barrios Mangore,who was a Genius composer and a Marvelous guitar player...
pacoheam 1 year ago 9
@Soulfree2008 Nope. Different guy, same name.
angrykoolaidman 1 year ago
@Soulfree2008 No, it is not John Williams the composer. This is John Williams the guitarist. They are very mixed up.
Patriot3332 1 year ago
@Patriot3332 i guess just carrying the name has such strong musical implications that anyone who possesses it will become a genius in music.
xhkxboix 1 year ago
Horrible recording though, Hishshshhfhfhftfthtfhftfttfhfhtfh
MilesB1975 1 year ago
i was like "cool i could play this" until 1:00. I should take some lessons. That's pretty awesome.
daytimecloudsurfer 1 year ago
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Pikangu 1 year ago
@daytimecloudsurfer Have trouble with Tremolos? Those take a while to learn for sure. Im still struggling with them.
JezusFish 1 year ago
@JezusFish yeah my pinky finger doesn't behave that way
daytimecloudsurfer 1 year ago