Lawson Rollins: Flamenco virtuoso

[Leo Chang]

I am sure that sweep arpeggios is no big deal to most of us here... but that's with a pick

Check this out:

Fire Cadenza by Lawson Rollins

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ9PRzIyzFA&feature=channel

Blazing fast sweeps... finger picked
(or rather... what most electric guitarist would play as sweeps were it played on an electric)



He has a better quality video (different song of his) here:
Santa Ana Wind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1g9Hv...eature=channel

Amazing skill and great songwriting aside... awesome camera work in this video! What I would call "technique porn"

Check it out, you'll see why.


- Leo.

[QuantumRider]

Those videos were great! Thanks for posting them!

[Snoogans]

Wow! Scarey good - well worth further investigation.
Cheers for bringing that to our attention

[Endrik]

not really flamenco... he can play though (but don't care for his tone and soft attack) but the compositions are somewhat uninteresting, no complex rhythms and the melodies don't do much for me

[khabibissell]

not really flamenco... he can play though (but don't care for his tone and soft attack) but the compositions are somewhat uninteresting, no complex rhythms and the melodies don't do much for me

I agree. Technically impressive for sure, but both of those videos reminded me of your typical Rusty Cooley video. Alot of shredding and not much substance. IMO of course...

[tomanyjacksons]

I'm sure he's afraid of breaking a nail. I remember in the late 80s when everyone had the sniffer pinky nail but this dude has a whole hand worth,HA. Great technic but no real filler, plus the second song sounded to much like living laveda loco. I do like different cultures though, so thanks for posting them. I wouldn't have found them on my own.

[Robert Burns]

Id like to see him change chords as fast as John ! Not likely...:-))

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP7NlPbyVeg&feature=related

[khabibissell]

Id like to see him change chords as fast as John ! Not likely...:-))


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP7Nl...eature=related

Not really my thing, but that was pretty cool!

[Larz]

There's a lot of difficult things that I think I can play if I really put the time in.

That is not one of them.

[Leo Chang]

not really flamenco... he can play though (but don't care for his tone and soft attack) but the compositions are somewhat uninteresting, no complex rhythms and the melodies don't do much for me

Yeah, I know, not really flamenco... but I was really struggling for what to put down as the thread title... so I thought, what the heck, I'll go with the convenient label that will draw some attention


- Leo.

[Leo Chang]

Wow! Scarey good - well worth further investigation.
Cheers for bringing that to our attention

I've been learning Flamenco lately, that's why I was looking at stuff like this

I find that practicing on my Flamenco or Classical or steel string acoustic really help with my electric stuff, and vice versa. Cross-training with acoustics (any variety) is definitely a fun and beneficial thing to do.


- Leo.

[Endrik]

if you can play flamenco (hell that shit takes like decades to really get it) then playing an electric is as easy as pissing into snow

[Rupe]

not really flamenco... he can play though (but don't care for his tone and soft attack)

His tone and attack are the first thing I noticed...and exactly what I did like about this piece...anything more aggressive would have absolutely killed the dynamic flow IMO.

[Endrik]

His tone sounds very muffled to me. I like very rich tone (and that's why I hate Mexican vihuela's )
As far as his dynamics go... to much of the same feel in my opinion. I like Flamenco players because they play more from the gut and vary the dynamics more. Melodies with softer feel and the level can increase or decrease to create a specific mood and then can express aggressiveness with rasqueado or play more aggressive and faster lines with picados or tremolos. This guy just didn't sound very expressive.
One of the reasons I like Paco De Lucía so much is because he has ridiculously heavy attack. When it's time to burn you gotta play with balls and attitude. And yet he is also the master of dynamics. Joaquín Rodgrigo's "Concierto De Aranjuez pt.II Adagio" needs to be played very quietly and with tremendous feel. And Rodrigo himself, who is probably the greatest Spanish classical composer, said that out of all great musicians who have played it, Paco's version was by far the best, and because he's not a classical musicians but more of an feel player.

[Trem]

Id like to see him change chords as fast as John ! Not likely...:-))


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP7Nl...eature=related

holy shit that was awesome