Great Young Guitarists

Valuebets · Dec 25, 2006

Hey everyone Merry Christmas. I just opened up my gifts today and found a CD of this great young guitarist Andy McKee. His talent and music are amazing. I didn't even know one of his song had over 1M views on youtube.com. Make sure you check out "Drifting" and "Shanghai", they're just perfect songs for this time of the year.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bI1PfmDl8fo

fivedoorsdown · Dec 25, 2006

randy rhoades was also good. (ozzy)

shemp · Dec 25, 2006

Catch Chris Duarte in Vegas sometime, plays around elsewhere too.

RobFunk · Dec 26, 2006

Thats pretty neat. Dont think I have ever seen a guitar played that way.

barman · Dec 26, 2006

FUNK, he's pretty much just using steel guitar moves there, which is pretty cool.

A steel guitar as you likely know sits lateral on a table and the bass string is closest to the player. So you learn to play it with that "forward" positioning of the left hand.

MattRain · Dec 26, 2006

There are a bunch of guys doing the "lap tapping" thing, Erik Mongrain is another very good one:

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