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Mystery Youtube Guitar Virtuoso Unmasked as Korean.. Next Eddie VanHalen?

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Mystery Guitar Virtuoso Unmasked as Korean

A video clip of a young man playing his electric guitar has taken the world by storm. The man performs a fiendishly difficult rock version of Pachelbel's hackneyed ?Canon? by Taiwanese guitarist Jerry C in the clip posted on the video sharing website YouTube (youtube.com) last October which has since been viewed 7.7 million times. Now the legend in his own bedroom has been identified as a 22-year-old Korean, Lim Jeong-hyun.

Youtube, the site that all Net devotees turn to for rare and whimsical video clips, shows about 100 million videos per day, and about 65,000 new videos are uploaded to the site every 24 hours. Still, the 7.7 million viewings of Lim's performance have made this the sixth most-viewed video on the site.

And with the 17,000 response posted to his video, his performance has become the site's second most discussed video.

There has been a flood of praise including, "He's better than Jimmy Hendrix," "He is unbelievably talented," and so on. The clip, taken in what looks to be his bedroom room, is five minutes and 20 seconds long. Lim posted it at the domestic music site Mule (mule.co.kr) and another user posted the clip on YouTube.

Lim, who uses the ID "funtwo" at the Mule website, left a post back in October that said, "I took two months of guitar lessons and have pretty much taught myself over the last five years." The New York Times recently reported that the guitar prodigy had been found out to be a Korean, saying, his accuracy and velocity seemed ?record-breaking."

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200608/200608300024.html
 
I've seen about 20 videos of different people playing this "Canon Rock" song. Obviously some of them are fake though.
 
Hrm
This kid did it in 2-takes but without it sounding like it..... When that Walk Sign pops up, and cuts back, his mouse moved and the sheets on his bed shift
 
If he arranged that, then he deserves alot of credit. A very good arrangement of a classic. And very well played. But otherwise, nothing profound, newsbreaking, or astounding. Similar to anything by Yngwie, obviously, but it sounds very much like Marty Friedman or Jason Becker. Or something you might hear on the "Merry Axe-mas" cd's.

The New York Times recently reported that the guitar prodigy had been found out to be a Korean, saying, his accuracy and velocity seemed ?record-breaking."
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Uhhhh, no not at all. :roll:
 
Originally posted by: Demon-Xanth
That kid could hold his own with Joe Satriani
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Umm, no.

I think the kid is impressive but through my lifetime Ive met some guitarists that were thoroughly mindblowing. Give him 10 years , see where hes at then judge.
 
I dunno, at 22 years old and only 5 years of experience that's pretty damn impressive. Sure, there are some folks out there that are better, but he's well above the average of even the (current) professional music world. (20 years ago might be a different story) It's not the most amazing thing I've ever seen, but I do think nutxo had something; 10 years from now this kid could be absolutely phenomenal.

Regardless, if this kid doesn't find some other folks and start a band the world will be missing out, especially considering how little skill so many current popular artists have.
 
Originally posted by: Triumph
If he arranged that, then he deserves alot of credit. A very good arrangement of a classic. And very well played. But otherwise, nothing profound, newsbreaking, or astounding. Similar to anything by Yngwie, obviously, but it sounds very much like Marty Friedman or Jason Becker. Or something you might hear on the "Merry Axe-mas" cd's.

The New York Times recently reported that the guitar prodigy had been found out to be a Korean, saying, his accuracy and velocity seemed ?record-breaking."
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Uhhhh, no not at all. :roll:
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He didn't arrange it, he took a song that was originally arranged by another guy going by the name of JerryC and improved on it. I don't think it's anything special, either. JerryC was the original sweet asian guitar player.
 
Make sure you read the OP. The arranegment is by the infamous Jerry C. This guy just played it ... very wel apparently. Check out Jerry C playing it as well. It's great.
 
That's news why? Nothing special about it. Anyone who is serious about playing guitar can do that if not better.
 
Originally posted by: ManSnake
That's news why? Nothing special about it. Anyone who is serious about playing guitar can do that if not better.
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It's a hard song, but guess it's easy for you to discredit.

Anyway...didn't know this guy was a secret except in mainstream, I believe he has been doing guitar clinics for a while (overseas).

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Next Eddie Van Halen? What a joke.

The kid is good, but honestly nothing great. It's done in two takes and nothing overly technical. Go watch some Paul Gilbert, Joe Sat, Steve Vai and many others.
 
Originally posted by: LikeLinus
Next Eddie Van Halen? What a joke.

The kid is good, but honestly nothing great. It's done in two takes and nothing overly technical. Go watch some Paul Gilbert, Joe Sat, Steve Vai and many others.
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Unfortunately, I don't think Jerry C was intending this to be his 'star' work.
 
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