http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H35fBjI8j0g

Thats why....

Great video. I saw him in London on the street with his family 2 days before the Guitar Idol competition. Brilliant player.

He's so good because he has no life. He locks himself in his room for 24 hours a day and relies on his parents to give him money probably. Most humans don't have enough time to get that good.

*yawn* meh hes ok I guess

Awesome player, great control of legato and economy.

Of everything.

I'm afraid this did nothing for me, sure is technique his great but i didn't think it sounded good at all, hmm. Don't get me wrong i love shred but not this kind of shred

All you need is Dave Gilmour

He has a life, It just so happens to be guitar.....

Maybe Dedication was the word you were looking for ?
Lots and Lots of Dedication.....


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Pi-AVqa1OU More your taste ?

Well, I liked his guitar idol entry/performance much more than this.

I know the video you posted is for a shred contest, but it is not very musical. It is kind of shredding for shredding. I mean, it does not fit very well the backing track.
Still, very impressive performance.

Yeah i think he has no life:) He almost forgot to eat the last 3 years or something look how thin he is.
I think that's not a very nice way of living you life, but he is very good and when he loves to play the guitar 24 hours a day why not:)

Realy good player,shows if you put the hours in its worth it in the end.Loved his tapping section,and he is real slippery on his diatonic arp shapes bringing some colour to his solos.I think his phrases could be better,but thats nit picking as he matures he wil be playing some finger twisting lines

great player

Yeah I know what you mean. It was just to show how hightly developed his Technique is .



Thats kind of harsh. He's obviously made a carrer out of what he loves doing, playing the guitar. Performing in London, Going on T.V Show's, Traveling , Playing. I dont quite see how you could say he has "no life", and then we look at people like David Gilmour, Steve Vai, or any other respected pro and we dont say such a thing. Kind of hypocritcal in my view.



+1 Sometimes I feel like he overuses the Arp. Shapes, but hes beggining to mix them up well !

Amazing young player!

Pity that his english is really bad so we couldn't talk a lot
in London but when it comes to guitar Danielle is just brilliant.

I think he is technically a genious, but if you asked him to play a standard blues would he be able without shredding?
I respect him for beeing so technically good, but my point is just i don't like it

Well I hope he would.
Higher technical ability usually leads to less "control"
but I wish that is not the case with Danielle.

I'm confused. Or I guess what you mean is that being able to shred like that sometimes makes you destroy a song because you want to play fast when the song doesn't call for it.

Kind of,yeah,some player with too much practicing are just
not able to control themself,they often play more then it's required for certain song/style.
I said some players of course, not all of them.

That's because Gilmour and Vai are good and write cool music

I see what you mean, I suffered from this a little. Hopefully I am cured. My brother is a singer/songwriter that writes soft mellow music, and I play the guitar for him, whenever I was playing and I would see a smile on his face, it would mean "there he goes again with that metal shred nonsense". And I would of course ask him "Did I overplay", he would laugh again and say, "you need to work for the song, not against it, fitting every note you possibly can is not the purpose"

Wise words, I have matured as a player now, and every now and then I see a kid doing the same I used to do.

I guess if you are young player, you will probably have this problem, with the years you will understand better how to work for the song.

I don't know much about Danielle Gottardo, but certainly I admire his shred ability and technique, I haven't seen a slow Danielle Gottardo solo, I am certain that he can, and even if he doesn't right now, he eventually will as he matures as a player.

Some guys cannot deal with it even after many years,
just look at YJM

True, even though YJM he is one of my early guitar heroes, I walked out of a concert in Louisville KY, because it got very repetitive. Plus I didn't like the vocalist he had for that tour.

He can play slow,his vibrato in this shows that.

Vibrato is normaly the easiest way to spot how many hours a player has put into his art

Many shredders out there try to run before they can walk and have no vibrato at all-they can only
play fast scaler patterns and dont know what notes to end on

I wish a lot more of these guys would knuckle down and get back to basics,rather than rush
for that need for speed.I see and hear it all the time

Well said,vibrato is surely one of those "mature" aspects of playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1HaOJR0rzU...feature=related He has a nice mix of fast and slow licks here. Shows off more of him as a player!




Nice example.YJM. Its almost a joke in itself I laugh every time I see his hair.



+1 Another good point. Vibrato seperates the Pro's from the average Joe's.

Who's Joe?