https://www.youtube.com/user/mattrach

check him out. he's like 17 years old, and a pretty freaking amazing guitarist for his age. very steve vai influenced. probably my favorite young unknown guitarist on youtube. he has that JEM that seems very popular here at GMC

Well he has been playing since age 7, so he;s already got 1o years under his belt!

Ooh yes I have heard him play cannon rock or whatever it is... Gosh I don't understand how everyone loves that so much. I dont know who the original is by but I have only heard bogus covers of it and I believe it has been destroyed, or maybe it was never too special.

But back to 'Mattrach' yes he seems to be pretty good. thanks for sharing Asphyxia Feeling

- Hemlok

With the help of GMC, I expect my belt will be very sparkly in 10 years time

I am for certain never giving up guitar. Not until I die or lose both my hands and feet.

ya i'm subscribed to his videos, great player.


Probably the best is this guy

https://www.youtube.com/user/CesarHuesca

He's done a number of satriani and vai covers, perfect tone



https://www.youtube.com/user/GGuerra


I like this guy also

yeah, Ive seen him before,, I was amazed by his fingerstyle skills O_O

He's now 1 of my inspiriations, because he can play so many styles

I also like Cesar Huesca but I love Gustavo Guerra LOL

This post has been edited by ezravdb: Jul 14 2007, 05:36 PM

He is good at guitar but the cannon rock thing is annoying after 5min to me.I watched like 3 people do the same thing and it was all i could take.I also cant stand the faces this guy makes when playing guitar .He is good but not that good

I agree about the Canon Rock! Can't stand that song at all! I really don't know what's so special about it!

Mattrach played Tender Surrender by Vai and he screwed up the most interesting part of it because you have to pretty much be Vai to be able to play it!! Also it seems like he never went to school or something - like he is playing the guitar the whole and he has lots of signature guitars...i really wonder where did he get money for those guitars!

About his skills - really guys it's nothing impressive! With GMC you'll get much further than that because you have constructed lessons, instructors give you best possible advises and we eliminate the "doubt" about all things so you will play way better than him! You just have to be dedicated to practicing!

Ahh, makes me feel a lot better!!

I htink all he gots on me right now. Is the sweeps, and harmonics. Oh yeah, and his guitars!!

This post has been edited by Ryan: Jul 14 2007, 06:15 PM

Gustavo Guerra is probably the number 1 "Youtube" guitarist, He writes excellent original stuff and his covers do all the songs justice.

Thanks, Pavel that was an encouraging post

BTW, I have the same with Canon Rock, the first time I saw it I was like:...ok cool
Then I saw how much attention it gets and I was like : Dude... :S
And then my brother heard it and now he keeps pushing me too learn that song.
And I don't want too learn it XD (well not yet, maybe after 20 other songs)

So I'm starting to hate it pretty badly O_o

And yeah Gustavo Guerra is my favourite

This post has been edited by ezravdb: Jul 14 2007, 06:20 PM

Yeah, i learned some of it, but then got bored of it, and forgot it all

BTW, Pavel, maybe Mattrach is taking lessons from GMC undercover

Who knows

Gustavo is great! BUT his compositions are a bit boring to me - no actual development of the musical sentence there! It's just basically all day long same backing track and he just improvises over it! But covers he did are really high quality!

Also - Mattrach is copying Steve Vai WAY TOO MUCH! In his playing you can hear a great deal of licks literally stolen from Vai and i bet he spent some time learning to make faces like Vai!

You'll play better - keep that in mind and get your guitar!

I was going to make a Mattrach guitar topic. I liked his take on Canon, he put his own twist on it. The New canon rock is what im talking about. But on another note I do think hes a good guitarist, just not well rounded and he did screw up big time on a part in tender surrender, Idk if someone already said that . But the bottom line is, No one is going to sound close to Steve Vai ,ever. Why would I make such a bold statement? Because the only person who can play exactly like Steve Vai, is well Steve Vai .

Mattrach does have some talent, but I think my favorite guitarist on youtube would have to be Troy Grady. Ik hes not mainly featured on youtube but I respect what he does. He isnt just trying to play every Steve Vai or Joe Satriani song out there ,but he is trying to find of the real secrets of shred guitar. I think 90% of youtube guitarists out there are nothing more then Robots. Learning others Riffs and licks and trying to be exactly like there idol. But what we dont relize is we may want to play exactly "like" steve vai or what not, but what we really want is to one day have a style of are own and inspire others to want to learn ARE OWN STYLE.

Does that make sense ? And also I have a lot of respect of Cguerra, Wish he spoke english in his lessons though


Edit : Wow I should have read the posts above, Pavels right I agree with Pavel.
- John

This post has been edited by Eat-Sleep-andJam: Jul 15 2007, 08:17 AM

This is cool - we have 99% same post!

canon rock is a damn great play
one of the first non-vocal songs i heard, i think its very good

Original played by Jerry C http://youtube.com/watch?v=by8oyJztzwo

By an Asian http://youtube.com/watch?v=m7Jh1BV1EOc

and by mattrach http://youtube.com/watch?v=owAj5LiXG5w


Check out this one too, it isn't canon rock, but "rock on"
http://youtube.com/watch?v=kdlovtN7gZw

Have to disagree
I think this was a beutiful peice of music until it got in the hands of these people.

Nice "For the love of God" cover , I enjoyed it v much

ha, i see MattRach is a semi-controversial topic.

I'd like to add (this is an honest opinion, it's not brown-nosing or anything)

i kinda forgot you, pavel, are pretty young too. (i'm 17, FYI. i just use "young" because as a good guitarist that's a pretty young age, especially compared to my skills :S) really. just because all your stuff is wayyy good. i've never heard any of your personal songs (aside from some recordings from your band (or old band?) a while ago on some website)... but from lessons etc i (and everyone else) sees that you have a pretty good grasp on mostly everything about guitar theory / technique / knack for melody and if you posted videos of yourself doing songs i'm sure you'd gain / suppass mattrach's popularity. (you'd probably have to do 2 or 3 Canon Rock covers though, just for good measure / search hits, hehehe)

Did you guys see Mattrach's Tango En Skai cover?
fricking sick fingerstyle playing man :|