Since getting back into playing guitar after a 20 year break, I've found myself on YouTube looking for guitar lessons and watching other players who are much,much, MUCH better than me. I love watching anyone playing guitar!
My passion is in blues guitar, rockabilly, and I've alway wanted to learn fingerstyle. I've come across some really great guitarists on YouTube who do fingerstyle playing and I thought I'd share a few for my #MusicMonday post.
Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle - Mary Spender cover
This has always been one of my favorite songs since I was a little kid. I've even spent several drunk nights falling off the occasional bar stool singing this with friends.
Mary Spender is a YouTube guitarist. She gives lessons, talks about music, specializes in fingerstyle guitar, and shares a lot of her original songs too. This is a really great cover of her doing Stealers Wheel - Stuck in the Middle.
Justin Johnson - Blues Slide 1 hr
This guy is one of my favorite guitarists of all times. If I could ever strive to a certain level of excellence this would be my ideal style of playing. In this video he plays fingerstyle slide combining two incredibly difficult styles of playing into one! On top of that, he makes it almost look effortless. I'm completely blown away every time I watch this guy play!
Diễm Hương & Thanh Điền Guitar covering Zombie by The Cranberries
OK, I have no idea who this pair are but WOW! I just discovered this as I was searching for fingerstyle guitarists to share in this post.
The Cranberries were one of my favorite 90s alternative bands. This song has always been one of my favorites. I had clicked on the video because I wanted to hear a fingerstyle version of this song. As I began to watch it, I was just blown away.
I love when you see a guitar player or any musician for that matter, who just loves what they're doing and you can see it in their face and body language as they're doing it. The old guy in this video just melted my heart with his incredible style and bright smiling face as he played this song!
Tobias Rauscher - Still Awake (Original)
Here's another fingerstyle guitarist I discoverd searching through YouTube. Guy's like this take it to the next level. Just blown away. Makes me wish I never took that 20 year break in playing. Truly inspiring!
7 Ramstein Songs In Fingerstyle
I mention every week how my musical tastes are all over the place. I'm a huge fan of goth and industrial music. When I seen someone converted seven Rammstein songs to fingerstyle I had to hear! Incredible. This is Eiro Nareth playing Rammstein as fingerstyle guitar.
Watching and listening to guitarist like these is so inspirational to me. I love watching people that are at the top of their game. I just started playing fingerstyle guitar. My main focus is currently on blues but I'll often practice fingerstyle patterns while I'm watching tv and after several months of fumbling around I'm finally starting to slowly make some progress.
We've all heard that saying, "I'm all thumbs" when someone is uncoordinated. Well trying to learn fingerstyle guitar, it gives an all new meaning to "I'm all thumbs".
Well that's it for this weeks MusicMonday selections. Hope you found these tracks as beautiful and inspiring as I did. Till next week! Rock on!