This is really cool!

Bucket

A friend showed me this recently.

I was very impressed... I love the style of playing you see at around 0:26-0:38, with all the slides, fast but totally seamless position changes and weird, wide chords etc... I know one guy who plays a little bit like this (he's influenced by Periphery and Veil of Maya, who do a similar thing in a modern metal context) and I can't for the life of me work out how he does it. Where does this style of playing come from? If I had to guess I'd say it's a 70s progressive rock thing which has been evolved...

The most amazing thing is at 1:10 though, where he appears to actually be sliding to change the pitch of natural harmonics. I can't work out if this is even real, let alone how the fuck he does it. I didn't think this was possible.

I'm envious of his hair too.

Ché

Dude, tha 1:00 mark is sublime.

Aidanspaghetti

Lovely! Just realised its that old gypsy kings tune....

sweepy

Clever, but tedious imho and wtf was that tone !!! If you want to hear gymnastic guitar playing with a better tone and more feel, check out Daniel Gottardo

stuagu

It is very clever and the technique is way beyond my comprehension but I just didn't find it pleasing to the ears. Still as always each to their own.

guitarfishbay

It sounds like those harmonics might be being moved by the trem?  Whatever he's doing with his fingers isn't what's happening there.  If you move your finger from a natural harmonic it will stop it resonating.

guitarfishbay

Whenever I see anyone do harp harmonics it reminds me of when I first heard Tommy Emmanuel doing them.