New Acoustic Music
But not like any acoustic music you probably listen to. Allow me to introduce Rodrigo y Gabriella.
I listened to their album a bit and I couldn’t really wrap my mind around how in the hell Gabriella was strumming so fast. Even after watching this video, I have no idea how she’s doing it.
Anyway, apparently, both of them met while playing in a speed metal band (think Slipknot) in Mexico City, and decided to do an acoustic version of that with some Spanish guitar influences, and this is what they wound up with. They actually do covers of Metallica songs and other metal songs in their shows. This is crazy awesome music, folks.
March 12th, 2010 at 7:00 am
wow! that is some really impressive strumming…it looks like she is strumming with each finger individually, kind of like banjo picking on steroids. People like this make me want to break my guitar into pieces and never try to play again.
March 12th, 2010 at 8:45 am
Yeah, they do some completely insane stuff on some of their live recordings. I’m definitely getting into this group.
I heard another girl that did something like this–a lot of percussive playing and playing with both hands simultaneously. All instrumental. I totally forget her name. I’ll have to see if I can find her, too, because that was some pretty impressive stuff.