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Jonh Ingham

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Andy McKee - An Amazing Guitarist

Posted over 2 years ago

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Andy has 6.9 million hits on YouTube for a very good reason. He plays beautiful guitar in a way that will fill with wonder. Anyone who's a guitarist will appreciate how hard it is to do what he's doing. Like all maestros, he makes it look easy.

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RGM says Oh yea, I've heard of this guy he's a re-action to the 2 handed bass stuff that basses do. He really good at that, I dig his approach and style it's neat.

Permalink posted 09/16/2007
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disneyr says Despite the 6.9 million hits, I had not heard him before. Wow, very impressive!

Permalink posted 09/16/2007
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deadmandeadman says I'll bet I could master this in one week on air guitar! Excellent post John.

Permalink posted 09/16/2007
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steve simon says audio and visual seems a little incongruent, are we sure it is not doctored?

Permalink posted 09/16/2007
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Hermes says This is the second guy now I know, who plays the guitar completely different, than they do it usually and where it seems to work equally fine if not better - aside from the circumstance, that he also uses it as a drum. A friend of mine plays the guitar equally "wrong" - with less muscial success and without using it additionally as drum, where I saw this technique the first time. I thought it would be maybe a technical drawback to play the guitar that way but here I see that this is not necessarily the case. I never played this instrument, so I can't judge that from the players perspective. Is he maybe an autodidact regarding playing the guitar?

Permalink posted 09/16/2007
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Rawkkiddoh says this the second time I have seen his face on MOG, and its incredible to watch him

Permalink posted 09/16/2007
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Me and the Horse I Rode In On says I don't think it's doctored. He's been putting in the hours. Sounds really good.

Permalink posted 09/16/2007
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FastRMacR says This guy is amazing! Thank you very much for the post!

Permalink posted 09/16/2007
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Blue Meenie says Holy shit!!!

Permalink posted 09/16/2007
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Ben FELTEN says Very interesting. He's not the first guy (or indeed gal) to play in this acoustico-percussive way I've seen on Youtibe in the last few months. It's visually and rhythmically cool, but I can't help but find it fairly repetitive fairly fast. In other words, fun seeing, but I wouldn't buy the record.

Permalink posted 09/17/2007
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Jonh Ingham says It should be noted that on his other vids he plays in the 'traditional' way.

Permalink posted 09/17/2007
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Spike says Six million hits. On Mog, one's lucky if one gets six hits. This McKee guy also looks like he could beat me in arm wrestling.

Permalink posted 09/18/2007
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zoot says his fret tapping technique reminds me of stanley jordan, kaki king and leo kottke all mixed into one. great , great stuff!

Permalink posted 09/18/2007
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wassonii says I second zoot on the kottke reminder. Fantastic. Thank you!

Permalink posted 09/20/2007
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Ben FELTEN says Speaking of guys with an unusual guitar technique...

Permalink posted 09/22/2007
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Jonh Ingham says I can't help thinking that the bridge and hole must be feeling lonely for lack of fingerly companionship...ah- his right hand finally agreed. Seriously, that is an interesting way of fingering the fret board.

Permalink posted 09/22/2007
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wassonii says Second vid looks like he'a had some time manipulating a chapman, though some phenomenal stuff.

Permalink posted 09/24/2007