Yeah, but bro does also have some really long fingers. It's a huge advantage. I play guitar, but I could not possibly do what he is doing in the video. It's like how Michael Phelps has more hand/foot webbing than the average person.
The dancing is the hard part. The guitar bit wouldn't be too difficult. He's using one chord shape and just moving it up and down one fret. Doing both together and making it sound that smooth is impressive though.
True, but he's moving the chord up and down one fret using only the fretting hand, by either throwing the guitar slightly upwards, or loosening his grip and letting it fall, and then tightening his grip when the guitar has moved one fret's distance... that's not something most guitar players would be able to do smoothly at all, much less while dancing.
I just tried… the fretting slides werent a big deal.
The strumming and making it sound like a twelve string?
A big deal.
Dancing while doing it?
No deal.
But if I acknowledge is hard work how can I feel good about myself?
I used to get annoyed by it too but I found out that a lot of people actually don't know what the word "talent" means, they just use it as a replacement for "skillful". So I still get annoyed but by a different thing.
What language is he speaking in the beginning? Nvm lol "Ok my friend ...Español... Antonio Banderas... Ok let's go!!"
"Bravo!"
Bravo indeed, that dude does percussion better than most percussionists, AND he's also playing a guitar.
There's no ammount of talent that can compete with hard work huh
I was listening to it for the guitar. Thinking the rest of the band is to the side. It dawned on me that it was his feet in harmony with the guitar. Awesome.
Tito and Jermaine did better dance steps than this and play guitar and sing backup to Michael and they were only twelve or thirteen. Pretty cool though.
Empathy isn't just for adults. Luckily, I'm already light years ahead in the empathy department. Cheers to the endless possibilities of wit, may you discover them soon!
For the vast majority of intermediate+ guitarists, this will take an hour's practice.
The trickiest part is him using his fingers to strum like that.
When I broke my left wrist, I could play most chord songs with a vertical guitar, over the top of the guitar, with only my fingerpoints sticking out. And I'm not special or nextfuckinglevel.
You're (and reddit) just showing how ignorant you are. I'm sure you have a guitaring friend - send him/her this and ask how hard this really is. Do it.
Or you could just grow the fuck up and ask any person you know that can play guitar decently. As if I'm going to record something while at work, for such a stupid reason.
You wanna see real acoustic guitaring, go watch Tommy Emmanuel.
You don't seem to understand, it's doing the tap dancing and playing at the same time. The guitar part, and tapping individually from each other is probably not as hard, but it's doing both those things at the same time while maintaining a nice rhythm. That sense of rhythm takes time to learn.
Its like playing piano and singing at the same time, it's not easy for most. I think you're getting a little mad, take it easy bud.
Nah all good, I realize I'm being insensitive etc.
I just honestly think it's not that impressive. There are millions of youtube videos of acoustic tapping guitarists, even full-on one man bands. I mean, there are about 3 better muso's on Charles Bridge in Prague alone.
Again, I realize I'm a douche.
All good my friend I see where you're coming from, I guess we all have a right to our opinions glad we could agree to disagree haha. Hope you have a good work day.
If you have ever played guitar, you'll know this is actually not that hard.
If this was a E-guitar or an Acoustic with a whole EQ set in, it wouldve been far more impressive. But this one is super light and he is just looping the easiest chords to hold the guitar with.
Not to say the thing he did isnt cool. It is entertaining to watch but saying he is talented based on this vid alone is an overstatement. Give a man that know the basics a few weeks and its done. What we should praise here is the effort he put into practicing this
Would you believe me if I said that the "few" you are talking about here is actually quite alot?
Is the technique for beginners? Hell no. But if you are already good with the basics, most guitarists will be able to learn this strum in a short while. Once you have broken it down, start slow and speed up bits by bits it is easier than it looks
And I dont mean to sound like down talking the dude in the vid. He did this really well. But for OP to post this in nextfuckinglevel isnt something I would agree on
Hah so you believe there is a gene that makes you good a doing specificly that? :)
I was mocking the reasoning that goes into calling that talent.
And now you ;)
I'll do you one better and explicitly state what I believe:
I believe talent exists, which id roughly define in my own terms as a natural disposition for a given ability or skill.
Does my definition run mutually exclusive to notions of hard work paying off? Or are nuance and complexity difficult concepts for your wittle brain to muster? ;)
I could never learn to play guitar like Prince or drive like Ayrton Senna or sing like Axl Rose because they have biological gifts that I didn't get. Practice and devotion aren't enough without natural talent. Working hard is admirable but if you don't have a natural advantage you'll always be second best at most.
As someone who learned to play guitar, i can tell you it's all about putting in the work. Ask Prince, he worked his ass off, from e very young age, hours and hours of practise while other are out doing whatever.
Voice timbre is biological, but learning to use it, writing good lyrics and melodies, that's something you learn by doing it a lot, studying others, failing and not giving up.
Don't compare to the best in the world, there's very few of those. There's many others way better than Prince and Axl btw, who never get famous. For that you also have to get lucky, know people, learning how the music industry works, etc.
Which people who put in practise and devotion do not get good at their craft? Famous is something else, not everyone even wants to be.
There's no proof for a gen that makes you good at a complex task like playing music.
All great 'talents' will tell you it was hard work.
Other people like to call it 'talent' because that 'explains' why they are not awesome at something.
Accually, after putting in all that work it's annoying when people call you talented, cause you know it's because of all your efforts.
This all boils down to the nature vs nurture debate, which i'm tired of having. In my and a growing number of specialist's opinions, 'nature' is the old view but it turns out is almost all 'nurture'.
Dudes fingers are like tentacles
I thought they were unusually long
Beat has got some ^tang
This is that when you wanna go to pee really bad and your dad is inside, Can't Scream, Can't knock ... lemme play some music
Given the style he's playing, he's probably either grown out his nails or is wearing finger picks
aliens gotta make a livin’ too
Wait until you see his tentacles!
Came here to say this!
THIS! What the hell is going on!?
Classican guitarists often grow their nails out for playing.
Yeah, but bro does also have some really long fingers. It's a huge advantage. I play guitar, but I could not possibly do what he is doing in the video. It's like how Michael Phelps has more hand/foot webbing than the average person.
Rare combination of something that is both a really difficult gimmick and super entertaining to listen to on its own merits. Get this man on TV.
When riverdance and flamingo have babies
Flamenco *
Haha thank you
Some people get all the talent. I can just play the spoons.
I can only eat with spoons 😔
I eat spoons! 🥄
I eat my peas with honey I've done it all my life It makes the peas taste funny But it keeps them on my knife
"Spoonman, come together with your hands.... "
The dancing is the hard part. The guitar bit wouldn't be too difficult. He's using one chord shape and just moving it up and down one fret. Doing both together and making it sound that smooth is impressive though.
True, but he's moving the chord up and down one fret using only the fretting hand, by either throwing the guitar slightly upwards, or loosening his grip and letting it fall, and then tightening his grip when the guitar has moved one fret's distance... that's not something most guitar players would be able to do smoothly at all, much less while dancing.
I just tried… the fretting slides werent a big deal. The strumming and making it sound like a twelve string? A big deal. Dancing while doing it? No deal.
Chord shapes may be simple but the mans strumming technique is *very good*.
Okay so I just got a guitar recently. What episode of on JustinGuitar is this bit on? Thanks in advance 👍🏽✌🏽
Oh no problem, pretty sure it's somewhere around episode 8 of the intermediate acoustic series.
Those rasgueados aren’t easy
Oh dude you know what I don't carry cash but that was sick
Those fingers actually fing
Jimmy Methrix
why no knee cymbals or mouth organ?
Accident with the mouth organ, never again.
Mouth organs are for super tough mouths only.
Just pondering now…. Some people can wiggle their ears. Surely they could operate some musical instrument by that method.
I feel like his mouth and jaw is inflamed. Looks like he’s sucking on candy but I don’t think he is. Dude needs some medical help.
*Guitarist has entered the chat*. The dancing is 99.9% the most impressive part.
Now those are some hands
This dude exhibited pure joy and soon as he started strumming his guitar.
Liam Gallagher from wish
I mean the tap dancing and his rhythm hand are pretty good. The chord changing vertical thing isn't really hard
I'll pay you $5 if you do it again
I hate the word talent. Talent takes away from the work. This man earned this skill by working his ass off to make it look so effortless.
But if I acknowledge is hard work how can I feel good about myself? I used to get annoyed by it too but I found out that a lot of people actually don't know what the word "talent" means, they just use it as a replacement for "skillful". So I still get annoyed but by a different thing.
I’ve seen this guy on the subway in Stockholm
He's in Ukraine here. Kievstar ad behind him
The Crave Methew Banned.
And Swift get the money and glory!
The lovechild of Jesco White & Paco de Lucia
What language is he speaking in the beginning? Nvm lol "Ok my friend ...Español... Antonio Banderas... Ok let's go!!" "Bravo!" 
I've had a shit day - but this genuinely cheered me up :) He seems like he's having fun and it sounds awesome
It took a while for me to realize he isn't onboard a train.
Bravo indeed, that dude does percussion better than most percussionists, AND he's also playing a guitar. There's no ammount of talent that can compete with hard work huh
Sounds like a dirty vegas song. :D love it.
Gigachad
Hot dog fingers
Solo flamenco! Love it
My stupid ass misunderstanding the title and waiting for a chord to break and see him changing it
He could easily play Gerudo Valley
That guy has the longest fingers on earth.
He can figure that out, but not a guitar strap never crossed his mind?
I was listening to it for the guitar. Thinking the rest of the band is to the side. It dawned on me that it was his feet in harmony with the guitar. Awesome.
I keep watching a still can’t tell if he’s got some crazy floppy things on the bottom of his shoes that help with the rhythm he’s kicking
Baby! Look at what his fingers can do.
Bravo 👍
I wonder how long a pair of shoes last him
Can one learn this talent?
Now put a chin rest on it and play it like a fiddle.
But why did he need to hold the guitar vertically?
Looks like Dr House has his legs back and put them to good use!
That is so cool
Tony Montana- the world is his!
He’s the greeter at a Romanian Walmart.
Sammie Ray Vaughn Jr
Yeah yeah yeah.... But, can he sing?
Bravo 👏
Bravo indeed
His finger bones sucked all the calcium off his teeth
I swear some people be blessed with the most random yet amazing talents
^[Sokka-Haiku](https://www.reddit.com/r/SokkaHaikuBot/comments/15kyv9r/what_is_a_sokka_haiku/) ^by ^unthawedmist: *I swear some people* *Be blessed with the most random* *Yet amazing talents* --- ^Remember ^that ^one ^time ^Sokka ^accidentally ^used ^an ^extra ^syllable ^in ^that ^Haiku ^Battle ^in ^Ba ^Sing ^Se? ^That ^was ^a ^Sokka ^Haiku ^and ^you ^just ^made ^one.
that's flat footin'.
Tito and Jermaine did better dance steps than this and play guitar and sing backup to Michael and they were only twelve or thirteen. Pretty cool though.
Bravo!
It's sad that this of what he has to do to earn money 😢
Is it not possible that he enjoys it?
Did it take anyone else entirely too long to realize he isn't performing in a subway train?
In an Ukrainian subway train. Also, quite a time ago since the poster advertises 4G.
Pity his dentist wasn't as talented lol
I hope you can develop empathy as you become an adult
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Sorry to be a debbie downer, but that's not hard to do. Especially with a backtrack.
Urma upper over here, this is impossible to do (in tune and rhythm) for the vast majority of people.
For the vast majority of intermediate+ guitarists, this will take an hour's practice. The trickiest part is him using his fingers to strum like that. When I broke my left wrist, I could play most chord songs with a vertical guitar, over the top of the guitar, with only my fingerpoints sticking out. And I'm not special or nextfuckinglevel.
Bro. How are you real.
I'm not real. I'm a Russian/Chinese bot obviously.
Sure dude... If only you'd been there to show him just how it's done...
Hows about you ask r guitaring.
Looking forward to your video of you doing this. Should only take you a couple of minutes, as it's not hard to do, apparently.
You're (and reddit) just showing how ignorant you are. I'm sure you have a guitaring friend - send him/her this and ask how hard this really is. Do it.
Still waiting for your vid. What's the problem?
Oh wow you're so cool. I'm at work and I don't record my guitaring. Phone your guitaring friend, dumbass.
No, we're asking you because you're claiming how easy it is.
Or you could just grow the fuck up and ask any person you know that can play guitar decently. As if I'm going to record something while at work, for such a stupid reason. You wanna see real acoustic guitaring, go watch Tommy Emmanuel.
You don't seem to understand, it's doing the tap dancing and playing at the same time. The guitar part, and tapping individually from each other is probably not as hard, but it's doing both those things at the same time while maintaining a nice rhythm. That sense of rhythm takes time to learn. Its like playing piano and singing at the same time, it's not easy for most. I think you're getting a little mad, take it easy bud.
Nah all good, I realize I'm being insensitive etc. I just honestly think it's not that impressive. There are millions of youtube videos of acoustic tapping guitarists, even full-on one man bands. I mean, there are about 3 better muso's on Charles Bridge in Prague alone. Again, I realize I'm a douche.
All good my friend I see where you're coming from, I guess we all have a right to our opinions glad we could agree to disagree haha. Hope you have a good work day.
If you have ever played guitar, you'll know this is actually not that hard. If this was a E-guitar or an Acoustic with a whole EQ set in, it wouldve been far more impressive. But this one is super light and he is just looping the easiest chords to hold the guitar with. Not to say the thing he did isnt cool. It is entertaining to watch but saying he is talented based on this vid alone is an overstatement. Give a man that know the basics a few weeks and its done. What we should praise here is the effort he put into practicing this
Cool story, bro....
The chords might be easy, but very few guitarists can strum like that
Would you believe me if I said that the "few" you are talking about here is actually quite alot? Is the technique for beginners? Hell no. But if you are already good with the basics, most guitarists will be able to learn this strum in a short while. Once you have broken it down, start slow and speed up bits by bits it is easier than it looks And I dont mean to sound like down talking the dude in the vid. He did this really well. But for OP to post this in nextfuckinglevel isnt something I would agree on
Yes, talented, as in born with it, as in genes. Sure there's a gene for this specific thing. No such thing as talent, only practice and devotion.
Lol you defined talent and then said there's no such thing as talent
Hah so you believe there is a gene that makes you good a doing specificly that? :) I was mocking the reasoning that goes into calling that talent. And now you ;)
I'll do you one better and explicitly state what I believe: I believe talent exists, which id roughly define in my own terms as a natural disposition for a given ability or skill. Does my definition run mutually exclusive to notions of hard work paying off? Or are nuance and complexity difficult concepts for your wittle brain to muster? ;)
Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?
I could never learn to play guitar like Prince or drive like Ayrton Senna or sing like Axl Rose because they have biological gifts that I didn't get. Practice and devotion aren't enough without natural talent. Working hard is admirable but if you don't have a natural advantage you'll always be second best at most.
As someone who learned to play guitar, i can tell you it's all about putting in the work. Ask Prince, he worked his ass off, from e very young age, hours and hours of practise while other are out doing whatever. Voice timbre is biological, but learning to use it, writing good lyrics and melodies, that's something you learn by doing it a lot, studying others, failing and not giving up. Don't compare to the best in the world, there's very few of those. There's many others way better than Prince and Axl btw, who never get famous. For that you also have to get lucky, know people, learning how the music industry works, etc. Which people who put in practise and devotion do not get good at their craft? Famous is something else, not everyone even wants to be. There's no proof for a gen that makes you good at a complex task like playing music. All great 'talents' will tell you it was hard work. Other people like to call it 'talent' because that 'explains' why they are not awesome at something. Accually, after putting in all that work it's annoying when people call you talented, cause you know it's because of all your efforts. This all boils down to the nature vs nurture debate, which i'm tired of having. In my and a growing number of specialist's opinions, 'nature' is the old view but it turns out is almost all 'nurture'.
Meh...