Calum Graham - I do believe - Canadian Guitar Festival - 2010 FingerStyle Champion

Here is Calum Graham playing a song he wrote called I Do Believe
Congrats on the win last year

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Music

Tags:

• festival
• canada
• believe
• acoustic
• guitar
• toronto
• guitar cover
• calum
• graham
• canadian

[gjlguitar04]

Is there a video for what he played next??

[SOLOGUITARVIRTUOSO]

@gjlguitar04 no sorry... just this one...:D

[schosmosis]

@weasel4915 The beautiful thing about music is that one elitist jerk doesn't get to decide how a song is relevant to each individual. The same song can mean 1000 different things to 1000 different people. So you can sit there and try to put him down and belittle his work, but it doesn't make you right. You seem to be under the impression that complex is the same as good. Some of the best songs ever written were very simple, yet they moved people. You need to get over yourself.

[DannyJaureguiMusic85]

damn you guys are a bunch of douche bags. A talented and creative young man playing a song he wrote and all you can do is criticize? Hmm, how many guitar competitions have any of you won?

[megaman90]

I love it.

[mattyprice17]

i agree how can you judge some one else's music he did a great job and has a lot of talent i would like to see people who put down other's show as much effort in their talent if they have one its not easy

[TheRockMoreChannel]

@weasel4915 and you said he's only been playing for two years. maybe he's at a growth stage in his musical development where he's trying to find that one road that hasn't been taken yet. he still has some progress to make and things to learn of course that's what music is about. don't criticize him before he's finished his work. he's still young. he won't be done for another few decades so get off his back about it.

[TheRockMoreChannel]

@weasel4915 what he makes doesn't sound like the music that's already been made that you consider "good music"......isn't that usually the beginning of a break through of "forward progress"? it's when someone steps out of what's already been considered good and deemed acceptable to create a new modern era of style and/or taste. maybe i'm wrong. maybe the forward progress you're thinking of means "complex" or "dire straights" (which has already been done by the way)

[weasel4915]

Ad Hominem.

Look it up.

[weasel4915]

@schosmosis We have fundamental differences in what makes music "good," which doesn't make you right. So you can sit there and belittle my logical, constructive criticism of this "musician," or try to understand my point of view so that we may have a productive discussion.

I can definitely see why you would think that a song's value is determined by how it moves and inspires people. This is a more practical opinion on music. As a musician, music is more important to me than that.

[weasel4915]

@TheComment123 You have no idea how to spell "subjective." Or how to respond to a person you disagree with, without insulting them. I think you should leave.

[weasel4915]

@mfcsocten I had the impression this was part of it, by the video's title.

They're okay. They're nothing new.

If all the mathematicians in the world decided to suddenly stop using calculus and go back to using primitive algebraic methods to solve problems, is an equivalent situation to what Graham is doing. Not only is he not exploring new avenues of music to personalize it to represent himself, he's going backwards on the progress bar...

[weasel4915]

@oatmeal71 Just because I don't like this song, and don't think he deserves all your fan-boy-ism?

How about you tell me what's so great about it. None of you have had a constructive counterargument to why I think it's awful.

[weasel4915]

@erosennin4203 This is probably the only really intelligent response I've had. And yes, you're right. My original reaction was to say simply that I'm "not impressed." But then idiots start cursing at me and berating me for having my own opinion.