Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I know a bunch of people didn't like this all that much, and I have liked it from the first time I saw it. No accounting for taste, I guess.But watch/listen to it again.Pay extra attention to her picking hand. The single notes near the beginning she picks individually (although she throws in some quick, tasteful hybrid picking if you watch closely).What impresses me most is that for the 2nd half of the song, she is doing skank picking: the funk style where you hit all the strings, but all the strings are muted except for the single notes you want to play. It's difficult as hell to do, takes a good amount of practice and discipline.http://youtu.be/IN21lcvIsvMNow slow it all down (easy to do if you download it and use VLC player)Even at extremely slow speed, she looks extremely fluid, smooth, effortless. Like or dislike the song, I think most of us would recognize she is both talented and skilled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armitage Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I could still kick her @ss in a fight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZR Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I could still kick her @ss in a fight. Yeah, but I bet she'll score higher in her SAT test than you did! Man, some of these young guitarist coming up...scary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tres Aardvarks Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Good stuff!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
burningyen Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 I could still kick her @ss in a fight.I dunno, she's Asian, don't all Asians know kung fu or something?j/k, I wish my rhythm were half as solid as hers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolfeel Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 She looks bored Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mail4kev Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 She looks boredShe may be bored but she's fluid... wish I could be bored playing like that too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamerhead Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tres Aardvarks Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 She looks boredShe may be bored but she's fluid... wish I could be bored playing like that too.Almost everyone playing into a video recorder looks bored (when they are clearly trying to show how well they play). I think it's most people's "Recording face". Mine usually involves furrowed brows, cursing, and hitting the Record button over and over and over and over.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldskoolrulz Posted March 27, 2014 Share Posted March 27, 2014 if that's bored, then I prefer that over strange facial contortions any day and that fact that she is smooth as silk also and made zero mistakes, excellent playing all day long in my humble opinion! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ting Ho Dung Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 I could still kick her @ss in a fight.I dunno, she's Asian, don't all Asians know kung fu or something?Yeah, you didn't know that? Also, when they speak English, their lips move but not to the words. I've seen it on Saturday morning TV. It's a riot if you're stoned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ib2010 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 I think i hear a little Phillip Upchurch in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolfeel Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 if that's bored, then I prefer that over strange facial contortions any day and that fact that she is smooth as silk also and made zero mistakes, excellent playing all day long in my humble opinion! Really? I suppose I prefer a few good fuck-faces while someone is playing, especially FUNK. Well-scripted funk sounds mechanical - too pretty for my tastes. Give me some improvised groove any day - mistakes and all. Listen to some early Nile Rogers if you wanna hear some funk. There's a swing element in funk as well - some guitarists capture it better than others. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldskoolrulz Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 i've seen you post the 'looks bored' statement a few times, and i guess i'm trying to figure out why a 'fuck-face' has anything to do with this kid's or anyone else's talent/ability? when i'm watching someone play the hell out of their guitar, I rarely think to myself "man i wish they were doing the fuck-face a little more it's ruining the whole vibe for me" i get your point, just doesn't seem to be relevant in this situation. again, my humble opinion... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mc2 Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 I don't know. I watched this video and was hungry again a half hour later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolfeel Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 i've seen you post the 'looks bored' statement a few times, and i guess i'm trying to figure out why a 'fuck-face' has anything to do with this kid's or anyone else's talent/ability? when i'm watching someone play the hell out of their guitar, I rarely think to myself "man i wish they were doing the fuck-face a little more it's ruining the whole vibe for me" i get your point, just doesn't seem to be relevant in this situation. again, my humble opinion... I comment "He/She looks bored" on many of the videos posted here - I try to be consistent. The fuck-face comment was less about this kid and more about playing guitar period - with, what apparantly was not well-received, humorous intent. I kinda dig seeing the passion expressed on someone's face when they kick it in - think Hendrix. Different strokes man, that's all. Context can certainly get lost when making comments on a board... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan of Brainfertilizer Fame Posted March 28, 2014 Author Share Posted March 28, 2014 I thought the "he/she looks bored" was kind of a running gag.I knew what you meant, coolfeel.Still, in this case I really dig her playing. I thought the last time I posted this I was in a very small minority of approvers.But it really works for me. I'd buy a CD of this kind of tasteful and skilled playing, but of course with the assumption it would not all be in an identical style.When you break down the song, it seems also like a music performance class's project, with the assignment being to use various standard blues/funk licks in a composition.But it really works for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucSulla Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Dear god, we've offshored the funk to South Korea. America is doomed, I say. DOOMED! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a.bandini Posted March 28, 2014 Share Posted March 28, 2014 Yeah, we are doomed. Doomed! No other explanation makes any sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Montelovesco Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Normally I don't like those "shredding like f**ck" asian girls. They do not only look bored, they sound boring, too. But this one is different. I like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCChris Posted March 29, 2014 Share Posted March 29, 2014 Simply put, she's better than me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toadroller Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Thanks for posting it and for the description of the picking style. I learned something and enjoyed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tres Aardvarks Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 John Mayer and his over the top expressions killed the guitar face. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichRS6 Posted March 30, 2014 Share Posted March 30, 2014 Is Su funkjam her real name ?? . I think she looks like she's concentrating hard on getting it right rather than being bored, it can be hard to tell the difference. It's more important to get it right if your going to post it on line as millions will see it so she probably played it 10 times before a take was good enough to post and had probably lost any enthusiasm she may have had for the piece she was playing. Personally, I'd rather watch someone I can tell is having fun and making a couple of fuck ups. She still kicks my ass all day long, great playing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptm1diver Posted March 31, 2014 Share Posted March 31, 2014 Was she fed to the dogs in North Korea? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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