An INCREDIBLE Guitar Jam with Matteo Mancuso 

Was a joy to listen to.

you are so incredible to watch Matteo....and kudos to Tyler playing with you....inspirational

Hope to see more albums available on spotify soon! Listened to The Journey more than is probably healthy at this point 😅

YOU ARE AWESOME MATTEO. Hoping you come to my city

Matteo I love your playing thanks for doing this with Tyler

perfect answer!

And what's great (and scary!) is that he is still moving. He's only getting started! 🤙

I still hear superfast licks almost like a machine but musically he still hasnt brought anything like the greats. little wing is a good exemple.

@@wellington66440 , people have been saying that about every player on every instrument who breaks technical boundaries, for the last couple hundred years. Unless you're an old black blues player, some people are going to say that about you.

@@wellington66440 Different skill set.

yes I agree with your great comment Mario ,,,,,,,,,,greetings Renee

I think he practiced about 70 years worth. So he kind of *is* 70 years old...

I think that someone should interview his father too.

​​​@@chuckmaceanruigaddirittura dovrebbe farlo anche suonare, perché è un ottimo jazzista.

Far from a kid tho, he is 27.. think I can remember a few guitarists who were pretty influential at that age :D

If you want to hear a guitarist who is on another level it's must be either Alexandr Misko or Tim Henson.

Effectivement, ce jeune garçon est un prodige, mais il a encore beaucoup de chemin à parcourir pour atteindre le niveau de créativité et de personnalité de Jimmy Hendrix, d’Eric Clapton, Tommy Emmanuel, Gary Moore, et de bien d’autres: la dextérité seule est loin de suffire pour oser établir la moindre comparaison avec les plus illustres guitaristes et compositeurs … Ce n’est que mon avis. 🎶🎸🎶

Same age as you (plus 5 more years), and I was also into all the fusion guitarists during the 70's as well....totally agree.

Couldn’t agree more.

Quelli che non apprezzano possono essere solo gli invidiosi ed incapaci

It's usually jealousy, wrapped in bitterness, surrounded by resentment.

Hmm, who the virtuosos of decades past for you? First person that comes to mind is Guthrie Govan

@@MandKStudios2 Agreed!

@@MandKStudios2 Shawn Lane

Guthrie for me too, his emotion and ability to play any style is so great. Guthrie went from working at McDonalds to transcribe music for a living, I guess all those early years transcribing non-stop taught him to see patterns on the guitar like no other.@@MandKStudios2

Agreed! When Tim Henson popped onto the scene suddenly I was completely blown away. Mateo is completely different. Both are changing guitar in a revolutionary way. Anyone who can do that deserves our admiration and respect.. I Find My tales music extremely easy to listen to. Just as I can listen to sonny Rollins or John Coltrane or Jimi Hendrix or Mick Taylor or Peter Green. Tim Henson for me is more challenging but I love it that he challenges us he challenges our ears. Thank you Tyler for the welcoming and Homeaway you brought in what tail and his dad, Into our wonderful world of music. A great jam.!

@@lopezbTim is great, but Matteo is a whole different brand of “fluid”…it’s truly insane.

He uses no pick…..all fingers dude

this is the problem with the new generation, their attention span is shorter than complete sentences@@jvw82 🤦‍♂

@@jvw82 That's what he said ...I think he wanted to say "pluck" instead of pick

AMEN

Same

such a beautifull jam, it gave me the chills on my hands.

God yes! Wish it were a whole song! Make it So!

Time will bring everything he already can do into ramdom. The things he struggle with today will be played with ease👍🏼.

Another level?.. can you explain which kind of level you are thinking?.

​@@tonytg9099non è un livello per gli invidiosi

Totally.

Yes being open to new ideas can help us grow. The dude is a helluva player yo! Love that Les Paul with P-90s and the tone you’re getting out of it. Love what you do- really appreciate the post! 🎸

I hear Jordan when he plays as well. I don’t really care for the super speed runs, but he’s great.

Infatti questo lo dovrebbero capire innanzitutto gli invidiosi

I primi ad apprezzarlo sono stati Al Di Meola, Joe Bonamassa, Steve Vai eTommy Emmanuel. Dei 4 solo Joe Bonamassa non ha ha avuto l'occasione di suonare insieme a Matteo, i restanti tre lo hanno fatto. 10:24 10:24

​@@poppya54E adesso anche Joe ha suonato con Matteo🎉

That don't makes sense , you are saying if you have no idea what you are doing and switch your thinking brain off you can play better? It's more like muscle memory mixed with a illegal substance to make your playing flow .

@@tonytg9099 I think it's a matter of conscious versus unconscious thought. Thinking about hand position, where you start a particular arpeggio, or any other technical detail of guitar playing is an impediment to masterful improvisation. That's my interpretation of Matteo's comment and it certainly matches my experience.

@@WilliamDaugherty yes but all the fundamentals you need to get to a certain level before you can play unconsciously takes plenty of thinking and years of practice.

@@tonytg9099 yes, obviously, which is why we aren't talking about learning to play an instrument but rather "masterful improvisation". One of my first teachers really emphasized this to me at a time when I thought I wasn't very skilled. As a more mature player, I still find myself sometimes thinking about a specific technique rather than "flow", i.e., melodic or lyrical elements. I think this is why I had such a strong reaction to Matteo's mantra.

He got that statement from Vinnie C. and said so on Rick Beato's channel.

Spread joy and goodwill to everybody " Very well said...✅♻️💚🍀

The song "Silkroad" is a masterpiece Begins and ends with the acoustic guitar with the whammy stuff in the meat of the tune...wow. LLM Long Live Matteo 🎸

@@12xenn45what hendrix track should i listen to to convert me because I haven’t heard anything that moves me at all yet everyone sings his praises. Is it that he was just good for his era but out of context everyone sounds like him now?

​@@12xenn45 nothing robotic about it. No one puts in the hours of practice to get better at the instrument to express less emotion. And the kind of music Polyphia, Abasi, Ichika, Manuel, Mancuso and ilk are making IS groundbreaking, they have distinct sounds and inspire imitators because of their novel approaches. Don't conflate sloppiness with raw energy, and don't conflate proficiency with roboticness, they are not the same thing.

​@@morlun838 I still sort of see what 12xenn45 is talking about to be honest. I feel like this is a larger cultural issue, however, that's not unique to music or guitarists. It's a huge brush to paint so I'm not an ideologue about it. There *is* plenty of good, emotionally driven guitar playing, don't get me wrong. However, I often find that what I'm hearing in some of the most vaulted guitar gods' playing of today feels like a performance of emotionality rather than the real deal. I can't put my finger on exactly why, but I find much of the music from 60's and prior to feel less performative in terms of the emotions on display, and I didn't even grow up in that era. Partly I guess it feels like a symptom that few people really believe in anything anymore. We're in the age of scientific materialism and determinism. We were told as kids that our genes determine most of who we are. We're awash in philosophies that say the only meaning in the universe is that which humans create. I'm not at all sad about the abandoning of traditional organized religion, but I think there's a void, a crisis in meaning, in our era, that has been going on since the 80's. The 60's and 70's saw a large swell in social consciousness and a belief that humanity could resolve its differences and establish a peaceful, loving society. Many people really felt and believed that, and you could hear that love in the music. Today, you still see some of that (there's some really great socially conscious hip hop and funk), but it's pretty rare and almost seems anachronistic to the average listener. This is an era where we immerse ourselves in simulated, virtual versions of just about everything, where many despair as to the potential for a more beautiful world or finding genuine meaning and fulfillment. The notion of belonging to the world, to humanity, to life... feels antiquated, and when there is spirituality, it's often commodified. It's not anyone's fault, of course. The factors are largely systemic. Still, I feel that you can hear that simulated, virtual reality in much of the best music. The technical proficiency is awe-inspiring, of course, and I still enjoy listening to it, but it doesn't stir my heart the way, say, listening to Bold as Love or While My Guitar Gently Weeps (especially Prince's rendition) does. That said, I've found many good artists still holding that torch, it's just they're often not the ones the critics and the algorithm is hyping.

I'll give another example: take Jacob Collier. He's an amazing musician and I'm genuinely a fan, I'm looking forward to seeing him in concert this year. He has songs that are sort of trying to do what Stevie Wonder did in the 70's, anthemic ballads that inspire and stir the heart. He cites Stevie as a huge influence, and got his career going by doing covers of Stevie songs. Despite how amazing his music is and how much I admire him, I still get that feeling that some of the emotion in his songs is simulated. That it's not coming from the heart, but from his left brain's simulation or model of what a song like that should sound like musically and lyrically. Maybe it's just a personal problem. I definitely don't think he's a bad dude or a fake, and I hope it doesn't come across that way. I just think it's really hard in today's era to be a genuinely open hearted, sensitive person who allows themselves to feel their full range of emotions while attending to the situation in our world and making meaning of your relationship to it while still doing what it takes to succeed in the business and get noticed. I can see Jacob and many other artists trying, I really can. However, it still feels like sometimes it's missing some of the genuine collective consciousness that inspired emotionally powerful works like Stevie's classic Songs in the Key of Life.

​@@morlun838 Sorry for the triple reply, but I did check out the artists you recommended, some of whom I hadn't heard yet like Ichika. I saw the same thing that I see with a lot of these millennial and zoomer guitar gods. Flat facial expressions and calm bodies while they shred away. It is probably conducive to high-performance shredding, but I'm not seeing genuine, intense emotions with their playing. I want to see a guitar solo that brings me to tears, I want to see the guitarist almost breaking with emotion or barely containing the joy rushing through their body. I want to see them in pain, ecstasy, or preferably both throughout the space of a song. Not just moving and bobbing or banging their head in a way that makes them look cool, but genuinely expressing the full gamut of human emotionality. I want to see vulnerability.

È migliorato anche con la lingua anglo americana 😂

@@poppya54 Sì, il suo inglese è molto migliore adesso!

Glad you were able to evolve ⏳♻️

Gary Moore is the best

Same here. I picked up a guitar for the first time at 12. I am now 66 and never stopped playing and being fascinated by the instrument. When I see someone mastering the guitar like Matteo does at his age, I am in awe. Once in a long while, someone incredibly talented like him, Greg Koch, Eric Johnson, EVH, Alan Holdsworth, etc. comes up with something unique and new and influences future generations of players. The negative criticism towards these musicians generally comes from people who are not equipped to understand what they hear and see…

He doesn’t make me feel lesser. Anytime he wants to do a show, I’m willing to crush him! 😆

bit early to call that one I think.

😂

What happened?

hm?@officialx_musiciswin