Another young star in the making (guitarist)

[Graham Orm]

Josh Turner sings Sinatra
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gE45ugGFvxc

 

[Robbo3]

Simon & Garfunkel & The Beatles to classical. What a brilliant & prolific young man.

 

[AES]

Excellent, thanks for posting Graham.

AES

 

[John Brown]

Doesn't look much more than seventeen now,..

 

[Jacob]

Never heard of im! Good though. https://eleonoregiraud.wordpress.com/20 ... c-prodige/

 

[Graham Orm]

Never heard of im! Good though. https://eleonoregiraud.wordpress.com/20 ... c-prodige/

Good find Jacob, he really is a talent.

 

[AES]

Thanks for that Jacob, I'd never heard of him either, but he's really good. As someone else also posted, he looks about 14 - wonder how he'll look & sound in 10 years?

Also, did anyone follow the link right down the bottom with the young girl singer Larkin Dodgen? (Why do so many Americans have "daft" names)? Anyway, she also looks very young but has (IMO) a great voice and interprets that song very well. Wonder what she'll sound like in 10 years time?

Thanks for posting. Makes a change from the EU debate (yes, I do have my own opinions, but as I'm no way eligible to vote I'm keeping schtum).

AES

 

[Jacob]

It was Graham who found him, not me!

 

[CHJ]

Thanks Graham for the link:- What a change to hear such clear diction and precise fingering done with humility and lack of pretention.

Yet another reminder that there are not enough hours in the day.

 

[Graham Orm]

There's lots of his stuff on You Tube with other youngsters who are all talented.

 

[John Brown]

I think youtube hammers home the fact that there are hundreds and hundreds of extremely talented musicians out there, and whether they are successful or not is often simply down to chance. Personally, as a very mediocre picker of the guitar and 5 string banjo(I can almost hear the scathing comments already!), and sucker of the mouth organ(and I already know the forum concensus on that...), I find it depressing that everyone in the world with a youtube account seems to be more talented than I am.

 

[Jacob]

.. and sucker of the mouth organ.....

Blowing might help?

Me too - guitar, 5 st banjo, gob iron and a few feeble attempts on other instruments.

Youtube brilliant for instruction too - it seems that once anybody who can do anything at all well, the next thing they want is to show everybody else how to do it.
Mind you there's a lot of cr*ap sharpening advice out there!

This is good https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VY57vYFUmBo I think he's tuned down to double B

Followed by the totally improbable - Little Wing on mandolin!

 

[AES]

@John Brown:

I think you're right about lots of talented (not only) youngsters on youtube. And it also seems also to be true that as well as talent along with genuine real musical skill, anyone needs a large slice of luck/being in the right place at the right time to "make it" - whether as an orchestral player, an opera singer, or in a pop group (as random examples). I guess then that it's a natural idea to make a youtube channel to "get yourself out there" in the hope that you may get that important first break, and possibly, along the way, perhaps even earn a few bob from it (although I believe the pickings from that are generally pretty slim).

Anyway, these youtube efforts provide, at the very least, some genuine surprises and real entertainment for blokes like me who can't do anything musical at all really, except sing a bit. (And BTW, for me that includes the mouth organ, which as has been previously pointed out, is purely a matter of personal taste).

Thanks for the Mandolin link Jacob. Good. If you (all) want something really "outlandish" though, try googling "The Ukelele Orchestra of Great Britain". If you haven't already heard of them, they play everything from The Dambusters March to Life on Mars or Wuthering Heights. Quite "ridiculous" really one would think, but as the Torygraph described them - "plucking good entertainment". That's especially if you see them live (they tour a lot).

Long may all this stuff continue. At least it often helps me learn new songs for the choir.

AES

 

[John Brown]

"Blowing might help?"
As it happens, playing cross harp style on a diatonic mouth organ uses way more sucking than blowing. I chose my words carefully...

 

[Benchwayze]

That's why I stick to a Hohner chromatic John!

 

[bugbear]

@John Brown:
And it also seems also to be true that as well as talent along with genuine real musical skill, anyone needs a large slice of luck/being in the right place at the right time to "make it"

Very good point. There are just so many people who can play well, they can't all be famous.

BugBear

 

[BearTricks]

I honestly believe that singing is something that 60+% of the population can do well enough to make a career of it given a chance to get their foot in the door. There are so many of them on youtube that they all tend to blur in to one.

There are also plenty terrible ones. The teenage buskers around here could definitely do with some constructive criticism.

 

[John Brown]

With Autotune, I reckon I could sing.

 

[Graham Orm]

With Autotune, I reckon I could sing.

I couldn't.

 

[Graham Orm]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9tt8X_fe5M

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fnA80II5EbQ