Wow, I'm so totally shocked that the BBW blues instagram influencer is a fake

[Monkey Man]

I hear ya, although he shows some self deprecating humor later in the video (7m16s), which helps him, and throwing some shade on Davy504 is good in my book as well.
Davy kinda looks like he's related to Lyla Storm.

He's actually buddies with Davey.

He was just ribbing him.

 

[dstroud]

HOW WERE SO MANY FAMOUS PEOPLE WERE FOOLED BY THIS SHIT???

There's no way on earth a real person could get that much sustain with that clean of a tone, that's completely retarded

She popped up on my Facebook feed I immediately notice bends in the audio where she would slide in the video. I perused the comments to see if anyone said her hands don’t match the audio. of the hundreds of comments no one pointed that out. I was like wow lololol

 

[DanTravis62]

She popped up on my Facebook feed I immediately notice bends in the audio where she would slide in the video. I perused the comments to see if anyone said her hands don’t match the audio. of the hundreds of comments no one pointed that out. I was like wow lololol

I was completely blown away that all these people, even famous people, got fooled by this

Like, come ooooon man the vibrato magically starts without her moving her fingers, slides magically become bends and vice versa, her almost clean bb king tone has as much sustain as my engl, like NONE of it made any sense

And like Famous Youtuber© Adam Neely and all these people were fooled by it, absolutely ridiculous

 

[Speeddemon]

Actually thanks to the Danny Sapko video, I found out about the whole Giacomo Turra thing from last year.
Never heard of the guy before, but then again, I do not have Instagram.

For those of you who don't know what happened;
he stole licks,
he pretends he plays live
he pretends to have a certain level of virtuoso skills (when in fact his real live skills were -and I quote- between disastrous and forgettable.)
and he does the smug 'yeah we nailed this awesome take' nod to his bandmembers in their 'live' takes, when everything is too clean, pre-recorded BS.

Troy Grady, who I do know off since he had no grey hair and did an awesome rendition of NITRO's "Freight Train" 4 neck solo has done an excellent video pointing out what's wrong with all of this:


And for funsies,
The original NITRO solo video (at least 17 years old

 

[VonBonfire]

She popped up on my Facebook feed I immediately notice bends in the audio where she would slide in the video. I perused the comments to see if anyone said her hands don’t match the audio. of the hundreds of comments no one pointed that out. I was like wow lololol

It's possible the comments section was being policed.

 

[lol]

Actually thanks to the Danny Sapko video, I found out about the whole Giacomo Turra thing from last year.
Never heard of the guy before, but then again, I do not have Instagram.

For those of you who don't know what happened;
he stole licks,
he pretends he plays live
he pretends to have a certain level of virtuoso skills (when in fact his real live skills were -and I quote- between disastrous and forgettable.)
and he does the smug 'yeah we nailed this awesome take' nod to his bandmembers in their 'live' takes, when everything is too clean, pre-recorded BS.

Troy Grady, who I do know off since he had no grey hair and did an awesome rendition of NITRO's "Freight Train" 4 neck solo has done an excellent video pointing out what's wrong with all of this:


And for funsies,
The original NITRO solo video (at least 17 years old

I remember when I first discovered Troy Grady. Pretty sure this is the first video I saw by him. Guy is a beast.

 

[DanTravis62]

I remember when I first discovered Troy Grady. Pretty sure this is the first video I saw by him. Guy is a beast.

Dude is a beast of a player, but even more importantly he codified all the weird shred science that made it so everyone could learn how to play guitar like non-ass

I have nothing but respect for TG, and also he has helped me immensely in dissecting my playing and learning other peoples playing

 

[lol]

Dude is a beast of a player, but even more importantly he codified all the weird shred science that made it so everyone could learn how to play guitar like non-ass

I have nothing but respect for TG, and also he has helped me immensely in dissecting my playing and learning other peoples playing

Yeah I watched his cracking the code series in its entirety. He got into the really “geeky” aspect if that makes sense and really broke things down. The break down of the picking techniques used by shredders was uber fascinating.

I recommended the series to a friend of mine who is absolutely obsessed with bpm and just shredding in general lol.

 

[DanTravis62]

Yeah I watched his cracking the code series in its entirety. He got into the really “geeky” aspect if that makes sense and really broke things down. The break down of the picking techniques used by shredders was uber fascinating.

I recommended the series to a friend of mine who is absolutely obsessed with bpm and just shredding in general lol.

I am really thankful for Cracking the Code as well - especially the pickslanting stuff

Making sense of the mechanical aspects of shredding has made being a guitar teacher so much easier it's not even funny

And also it's helped me understand my own playing, and adapting and working on things i thought "im just bad at _____ "

Well it turns out it's not that im just magically bad at ____, it's that the way I hold my pick I would have to completely change my technique so of course I suck at it. Which in turn becomes "how can I adapt this or make it work"

And that's led to the biggest increase in "shred gains" for me since I was a teenager

 

[lol]

I am really thankful for Cracking the Code as well - especially the pickslanting stuff

Making sense of the mechanical aspects of shredding has made being a guitar teacher so much easier it's not even funny

And also it's helped me understand my own playing, and adapting and working on things i thought "im just bad at _____ "

Well it turns out it's not that im just magically bad at ____, it's that the way I hold my pick I would have to completely change my technique so of course I suck at it. Which in turn becomes "how can I adapt this or make it work"

And that's led to the biggest increase in "shred gains" for me since I was a teenager

Yup, the pick slanting thing blew my mind. It was like an obvious thing that was totally not obvious to me lol.

If I do decide to take a break from bass and play some guitar again, I intend to revisit the series for sure.

 

[BlueParfait]

A fake! On Instagram!

Inconceivable. That's like finding a knife and a fork in a kitchen

 

[Laputan Machine]

does she have an onlyfans?

 

[Alpha Stryke]

Yeah but does she Fuck on the first date ...

 

[Music&Chaos]

As fake as the sustain is, it's not nearly as grating and annoying as the fucktard that made the video.

I cannot listen to anything with him in it - absolutely insufferable.

 

[shredi knight]

I thought that was very sweet and tasty. Of course I’m talking about her signature table syrup.

Just in case you weren't referring to Aunt Jemima...

 

[Alpha Stryke]

Samantha Fish FTW >

 

[TheGreatGreen]

I am really thankful for Cracking the Code as well - especially the pickslanting stuff

Making sense of the mechanical aspects of shredding has made being a guitar teacher so much easier it's not even funny

And also it's helped me understand my own playing, and adapting and working on things i thought "im just bad at _____ "

Well it turns out it's not that im just magically bad at ____, it's that the way I hold my pick I would have to completely change my technique so of course I suck at it. Which in turn becomes "how can I adapt this or make it work"

And that's led to the biggest increase in "shred gains" for me since I was a teenager

I remember a breakthrough moment for my own understanding was when something weird occurred to me and I asked, of all people, a drummer, a question. "So how much of drumming is about balance?" And his response was "dude, drumming is almost entirely about balance. Balancing the sticks on your hands, balancing one hit to flow into the next, balancing your feet on the pedals, balancing yourself on the seat, all of it."

And it kind of occurred to me that playing anything complex on pretty much any instrument, or I should say in this context "executing" the part, especially on guitar, is like that. It's all about positioning yourself in a way that accommodates the part. That's everything from posture to arms placement to how you place your right hand relative to the bridge, how you hold the pick including what parts of your fingers and thumb the pick rests against, pick angle, how much pick edge you stick out from your fingers, how much movement you put into your shoulder vs elbow vs wrist vs fingers, how forward or back your left hand is on the neck, whether you plant your thumb on the back classical style or baseball bat grip it, whether your left hand is completely perpendicular to the neck classical style, resting against it or floating, or slant angled where only the base of your index finger rests against it and the rest of your hand floats, rock and blues soloing style, whether you fret with the tips vs pads of your fingers, etc.

All of that stuff is important. It influences everything, your sound, phrasing, and tone.

 

[romanianreaper]

I'm not trying to be deep here but I can't imagine pretending to do some type of hobby to get people to think i'm cool. Just think of how crappy your self confidence has to be to "learn" what guitar playing looks like and miming it. It is the epitome of pathetic. I'd rather throw myself in front of a stampede of bulls.

With that said, I have always made a good living for myself and worked hard in life. If someone is making money doing this and people want to watch her sway and do the millennial head tilt and slight smile, that is in every photo and video now, then go for it.

 

[Eazy-ESP]

I prefer BBL blues players.

 

[johnny q]

BBW Did Ashley Graham plays some 12 bar stuff on this channel?