Bireli extensive feel, knowledge and skill can play all types of music, no matter what he plays or how fast he play he knows every note he wants to play way beforehand and never misses it, what a musical mind!
Nicely said. Also, jazz players practice improvising changes to death. That's why everything he plays here fits so perfectly on each chord. He's also a gypsy player, so he's used to shredding a lot on acoustic. He sees the music in a completely different way than most metal guitarists do because of his gypsy/jazz background.
Grande Bireli naciste para dejar tu tatuaje en la musica...me honra haber compartido escenario como percusionista en dias de Gloria con Sioux y geschichte des rocks. abrazo desde URUGUAY.
Naaa! Bireli is the best, for all times. Even the son of Django said : the difference between Birelli and Django Reinhardt is that Birelli has 10 fingers for playing"....Do you understand what he wanted to say?(Django had a fire accident and lost 2 fingers)
Awesome video. With Bireli being a jazz guitarist who dabbles in metal, I would love to hear him jam with Alex Skolnick from Testament; who's primarily a metal player but also plays jazz on the side.
@Neogothicmetal666 "He´s not better than Yngwie, but he´s very awesome" In this style of music, it's debatable, but I'm impressed, as well as surprised that Birelli did what he just did. He could certainly hold his own against Malmsteen in terms of pure speed and technique in the Metal genre of playing. However, Malmsteen hardly comes close to Birelli when it comes to Jazz, so therefore, Birelli is no doubt the superior and more versatile player overall...
You really have to hand it to the guy...he's extremely versatile. There are only two other guys I can think of who seem so comfortable in many idioms...Danny Gatton and Larry Coryell. That's good company.
***** Not if they practiced because metal is pretty much straight line melody, sequential patterns, and scales. Anyone can learn how to play it in time. I've seen more metal and rock players struggle with jazz because the phrasing and timing is not linear, or predictable. Bluegrass, like metal, is also lightning fast and highly technical, but it is still simple straight line melody - if you stick with it you'll get it down. You just have to practice a couple of hours a day.
tinian33 Anyone can play jazz. Anyone can play metal. Not many can play both convincingly. Being a great metal guitarist is more akin to a classical style. But jazz is improv. But most jazz guitarists copy styles of others, or play the same ole songs that have been played for over half a century, so it is nothing new. Write great songs in any style of music is more difficult than jazz or metal playing.
Jim Richman I don't agree that anyone can play jazz "well" since a lot of it is more art than science. I studied Baroque, some classical, Villa Lobos, etc., on the guitar, and since most of the work were "set pieces" it was not that hard as long as you practiced. To get melodic lines in jazz just right as it pertains to the big picture in a song was a different animal - no real science behind it but a lot interpretation based on stuff you have practiced.. I do agree that composition and creating new catchy music is the hardest of them all.
Jim Richman True....it's all relative. And I have yet to meet any elite guitarist who can play Baroque "guitar" on a Hawaiian ukulele like the late John King who I studied with: watch?v=WAgMqbsKhgw
@NikTheFix Agree with the clean technique thing, early Yngwie was inhumanly clean and fast.However after 20 years of guitar playing having studied metal,classical guitar and jazz, i find that the ability to play over changes is the ultimate musical skill.
I don´t care Ynqwie, this is incredible...Bireli...after to see this.... now and always you are one of the most versatil and coolest guitar players in the universe as well as Scott Henderson, F Zappa, Brett Garsed, Gary Moore and a very very Few more....
He would smoke any shredder any day. He was just laying back and letting go. Nothing against shredders l respect many of them. But he could do this on his acoustic all day. Not many can.
I believe wholeheartedly that Jazz and Metal are natural allies in music world. And if you listen carefully to this new generation of metal musicians who have finally felt this need to educate themselves, you could definitely hear jazz in there. in their timings, their phrases, modulations...just sounds like jazz to me. Check out Animals As Leaders...
You guys need to listen to Frank Gambale and then come back here - that means the disappointed Bireli fans and the shredder aplogist. I love Bireli but if had to shred and still be jazz need to listen to Frank. But who knows where he was in his life when this was recorded. he is constantly evolving though.
Bireli did not go all in on this kind of music, did he? This was more of an experimental period when he was trying to escape the Django typecast. Frank's brilliant in one or two styles, but as a musician there are not many like Bireli.
It seems a lot of people here don't get it.. malmsteen plays classical metal, he has his own style and he's amazing yeah ( big fan here)..but bireli started to play gypsy jazz when he was young, and then played EVERY STYLE he could with differents artists, and he is just amazing in all of them... thats the difference. Bireli doesn't play in the same yard than 99.99% of the guitarists. If you don't understand me , just try to check all malmsteens videos on internet, then bireli's. You'll realize.
Trust me there are tons of metal guitar players that actually play jazz.he problem is that people only "look for" the mainstream metal which is not correct at all
Also if you put Loomis or other metal shredder with bireli or mclaughlin on one stage, average metal fans woud say that the jazz player doesnt play metal and that metalist is far better
IMHO, they all tried to prove their cross-over ability but paying close attention, metal guitarists could produce jazz-like sound but failed to produce the depth and very soul of jazz and jazz guitarists could mimic Metal music but there's a void of adrenaline rush in the phrasing no matter how fast they can articulate. Technique is not the only thing that makes the music genre but also is expression. Peace :)
I am familiar Andy James of course, he's a respected and a great metal guitarist, metal shred to be more specific, precise technique, flawless execution, great straight ahead metal phrasing. But in rock/ metal I personally like guys with more fusion tendencies, outside lines are badass ie: Guthrie Govan, Greg Howe, Alan Holdsworth
Guys, bireli is good, but in his own genre. In metal, yngwie or other neoclassical shredders such as loomis are another league, this is just jazz played with distortion :) And dont compare guitarists, music is art not competition
yes tommy is good technician,that is the big difference. I'don't really feel nice too about his music. but Bireli is nice. his double CD with Gipsy Project is amazing and very creative, alother creative is Angelo Debarre, playing with Moreno Trio!!! Rosenberg Trio is really amazing too. all the rest seems to be good technicians.
You probably have never heard about him because he is not a metal guitarist actually, here is just an experience, he is currently a Gypsy Jazz player ;)
Bireli is a legend but your call that he puts to shame all the electric shred and fusion players, in this clip at least, is a big one. I don't think I'd have the grounds to state such a thing. I think you need to give Yngwie and players like Vinnie Moore their due as they've certainly earned the kudos for their stylistic and technical prowess.
I did not know it was up. LOL Anyway, Bireli is great. This clip is pretty funny considering he really does not play like this much. If the other clip is better quality, I will delete this one. But check out the Shawn Lane clips I put up. They are from the original tape.
To all you Shredders... you just been Shredded ! I was a good enough player to know what I'm hearing. I ain't never heard anyone play so effortlessly across the fretboard like that. Came from his 13 yr old Acoustic performance. Wow!
everybody listen to me.Bireli lagrene is my favorite guitar player in the world and he kills at jazz and fusion and can do and come up with alot of things that others cant do.to say that hes better than all these other guys isnt right.even though this is pretty cool and sounds great, to compare him to whom are recognized as the best shredders isnt right.of course the fans will be pissed.bireli is great though but so is malmsteen and metal fans will listen to malmsteen b4 bireli.
did someone mean neo-harmonic minor? Does explotation.... even at amazingly high speeds (albeit primarily in adjacent ascent and decent)...of principally just one scale (the Harmonic Minor) in music conveniently with typically no modulation, and very few rhythms, qualify as a genre?
