You're such a humble and generous man Grisha .. that's what a true maestro should have ..God bless wish you many more success ..and sharing your life experience is so inspiring and motivating for me ...
god bless you Grisha. I am your fan and I think NO ONE is compared to you in the world, and I always appreciate and adore your flamenco guitar playing and videos.
One universal assumption we have about you mr. Grisha, is that you are a great guitarrist of our times..No one plays sabicas and paco de lucia better than you..I thank you for your generosity in teaching real picados and falsetas....
Hi Grisha I live in Spain and grew up with the music of Paco de Lucía. You are a great guitar player and a humble and very nice person. I know how many sacrifices you must have done but it was worth it. You are Paco's legacy so congratulations and thank you for your art.
Thanks Grisha for sharing some of your background with us, and keeping the highest standards of Flamenco playing alive in the footsteps of Paco de Lucia. It's clear that very hard work, being 5' 9" tall, having a very talented parent to teach you, and humility is a great combination for success.
Good man Grisha - 70s kids rule! Thanks for telling us about yourself... i really appreciate your lessons - they have helped me change my approach to practice... im the opposite to you i have been playing electric guitar for years but since i bought a flameco guitar I am hooked. The techniques are a great challenge and you teach them really clearly.
Grisha, it's great to hear your talk, you never changed bro. Top 3 most humble people I met in my life (I cannot remember the other two). I took some private lesson at the New England conservatory sometime in 2009 back when I thought I had what it takes to play flamenco. He taught me a bulerias and a soleares and showed me how to play Paco Peña Rumbeando la Milonga. He played (If I remember correctly) a limited edition Martin with a sound port that used to make the upright piano in the room hum with resonance. Grisha introduced me to Thai tea at a neighboring restaurant. He recounted the story with Paco and he often talked about his dad's positive influence. It was the highlight of my short-lived musical "career" to listen and learn from him. I hope to see you in concert sometime soon.
This is amazing, maestro! Thanks a lot for sharing us a little part of your personal experiences and thanks for showing us that you're a great man. Please keep posting more videos so we can learn a little of your amazing guitar talent/skills. Best regards from México! 🇲🇽
The best moment for me was when you described your "treasure". I know exactly how you feel. I'm a simple guitarist and met Paco at a concert once and made a picture of him with me. I have framed this picture and it's always next to me. Treasures are more worth than gold!!
Wow, what a humble man you are, Grisha. You're a phenomenal guitarist. And also it always seems funny to me that people think that someone was born being good at something... You had to work a lot and practice and more likely say NOto many things to get where you are: this is the message everyone should be giving, in my opinion, so thank you for that. Keep doing this videos, I subscribed!
Grisha, often I've seen you play live and it's a huge blessing. Once, at one of Eliot's parties, back when you were still quite shy, it seemed, you were totally off the hook that night, dumping your heart in your guitar, in a zone. I had a digital recorder hooked up in the front room where you sat alone playing while everybody else was exercising Stephan's new guitars elsewhere. After about four hours, when the party was breaking up, I went in to recover my recording, but when I picked up the machine the cord fell out and I lost it all in a flat second! I nearly burst into tears right there. But the best is often that way, unreproducible, I've learned. Fortunately I have the bootleg recording of your Senior Recital which I totally LOVE-- and have worn out several CD's of it. These many words are just my way of thanking you, saying how much I admire you as a human, yes, but as The Maestro--Paco's legacy in the flesh. Thanks for these videos; they're wonderful--and the rare guitars are spectacular! I'm so glad you stuck with flamenco where, IMO, you reign supreme. Stay well and happy. Carla
Hello there Grisha, i'm a huge fan of Paco de Lucia myself to and watching your videos always get me in tears. Thanks for sharing a small piece of your life with us. Greetings from Madrid.
Your journey has yielded a great journey for me in following your career. Bravo, Grisha - and you're a cool dude, too. Thanks! (From a Texan) I'm a hack on electrical and acoustic (well, I have recorded some very enjoyable improvised and learned tracks for original music - I enjoy them!). I am SUCH a beginner on classical. I don't know what I will pick up from flamenco, but I sure dig it!!! :-)
Lol, this is awesome. 40 is the new 20 by the way (so I tell myself). Only difference is now we know what we want out of life and usually can figure out how to get it;) Anyway, thanks for being so approachable, down to earth, humble and committed to making an impact!
Thank you Grisha, what a lovely insight as to who you are. Interesting that you say you are only an OK guitarist as you can see your mistakes. I think this applies to all artists, musical or otherwise, and at all levels. The reception you get from your audience is a better measure of you undoubted talent. I would be delighted if I could be 100th as good as you.
Grisha, thanks for the great inspiring music. I was fortunate to see you play in person in Corvallis, Oregon a few years ago. Hope you can return to the Western US again.
Congratulations for your hard work. As an Andalusian who likes flamenco but never even tried to learn to play it, it is flattering to see that people with a complete different background appreciate it and even manage to study it and become flamenco artists themselves. In this sense, thank you for your work and for sharing it.
You deserve all the good things that can happen to a human being. One of the few worthwhile talents. At last a grown up understanding of music, and most of all a grown up understanding of other forms of guitar music from someone coming from a classical perspective.
Grisha, I have been a fan of yours since I found a video of you on RU-vid back in 2006. I have yet to see anybody else that can play Paco like Paco. His spirit lives on in your playing! Thank you for sharing yourself with us. I hope to one day see you play in person.
LOL Awesome!! Thank you Grisha for sharing these stories, they are all great! The electric guitar shred story is so true! I tell all my friends that they are two different animals and have vastly different approaches. It was great meeting you in Buffalo NY! come back again soon! (Note: please turn up your microphone it is difficult to hear you) thanks
Frankly, I'm proud to be your student. Not only u're the best Flamenco player, you're truely a genius instructor, and of course so humble n generous. I'm so proud 🙏🙏🙏
I really love you when you play guitar, I think first time I saw you was 7 years ago, and until today I still hear that music, keep doing the old stuff. you are a real artist.
Hi Grisha! I've been a fan of yours for quite a few years and I totally respect you as a person and guitarist. Paco de Lucia changed me like that, when I first heard him, rock guitar became secondary. I saw him in concert in 2012 and I also got his autograph. I also saw Vicente Amigo here in Savannah GA. I hope you come here one day!! I was fortunate to see Ana Vidovic in concert and I met her afterwards. I told her "you're my favorite classical player and Grisha is my favorite flamenco player"--she kinda lit up and said "Grisha is fantastic"
Hi Grisha, hope you doing ok in this Covid time. Nice video about yourself for fan to know you a little more about you ! You have made a lot of sacrifice, traveling the world for your show, away from your family, practice for hours take a lot of hard work and determination. Hope to see you soon in California.
Thank you Grisha for the grace and humor with which you dispel some myths. It's easy to forget that creative, highly talented people are not superhuman, and that they work very hard to develop their skill. You are one of the young guitarists who have expressed deep truths through your music, and have done so with humility.
Thanks for the video! Nice stories ya told! The treasure you showed is pure gold. I suppose it's a sample that Paco got from the factory when the album was remastered as a cd and now you got it. After a while it can be quite valuable :-) It already is.
Thank you so much Grisha for sharing the personal aspects of your life. You are a humble great human being. You are a self made virtuoso in every sense - thank you so much for sharing your immense talent with us. You are always a pleasure to watch and listen to. God bless.
Dear Grisha the maestro of our time! thank you very much for the video which gives great motivation for a beginner and wish you all good health to play more and more beautiful music for the world..
This is why you’re Grisha “Grozny” in the old Russian meaning of the word not the English! Grisha The Formidable. In all seriousness, mate, you’ve been an inspiration for many of us when it has come to playing the guitar and its been lovely listening to your stories and confirming that you are definitely not an alien :) best wishes
I respect your humanity and passion for the art of both flamenco and classical, many people give up before they even tried hard to get it right, you a committed and well disciplined player well done my friend, even though we so far apart the music seems to unite us in all . From Cape Town South Africa.
thanks for this video. you are so generous to provide your lessons and to speak to people who are curious about you and your playing. a true blessing for all interested in this wonderful music.
It's all your hardwork and sacrifice that you have made which only you know about Maestro has led you where you are. You are amazing, humble and great human being . 😇 Keep playing and good to see you smile 😁 Oleeeeee ❤
What an absolute charming young man !! And yes, you are an excellent, marvelous guitarist with dare I say it...Mozart-like precision !! Impeccable tone with fingering that's pretty much flawless and the best is a right hand technique that is like De Lucia, Parkening and Van Halen all rolled in one !! So with so obviously a talent out of this world...my favorite line is when he says...''no, I'm not an alien...'' 😁 💘 🎸
You mentioned electric guitar... what about acoustic guitar? I have to say, you are incredibly, off the charts, talented and yet so humble and down to earth!
Ok so this was way more funny that I thought it would or should be.. 'I'm just human, not an alien' :P 10+ years ago I fell in love with flamenco guitar playing. You're a cool dude, Grisha!
Since 2008 i was curious about you, i watched every videos of you, i tried to figure out lots of your movements so on and so forth... Now this video is great because you are a virtuosa and you are not dressed seriuous, you are whou you are and talking with us, i liked that style sir and may be you will be the first virtuousa vlogger of the world :)) who knows
I always assumed you had longer fingers than normal. It looks so easy for you too scale. Is this true? Thank you for sharing your amazing techniques. I just started learning guitar and flamenco style. I practice your videos 2hrs everyday and I am improving and learning very fast. Thank you so much for sharing your knowledge. Keeping the flamenco style alive is very important. You are a true musician and artist. Love from Australia ❤️
Enjoyable lesson ! Being an electric and acoustic player for years, in my midle ages decided to practice flamenco guitar, it seems like I learn playing guitar from beggining .
Please Grisha, make a video about how to avoid lesions with the right and left hand (fingers). It would be great! Thanks for sharing your music and knowledge with us.
Eres un ejemplo de pasion, technica, dedicacion mas que nada, recurerdo el primer video que vi tuyo hace 8 anos y ufff...desde simpre me ha gustado tu estilo, muchos critican tu rapidez y coordinacion, pero ese es su error tu eres unico, tu estilo de una u otra forma es diff. Sigue pa lante que eres una leyenda tavarish 😆 lol
Yo soy de esos porque el tocar flamenco es más que velocidad y técnica ... No solo se toca la guitarra, se está tocando flamenco ... Se trata de suavidad, dulzura, pasión, rabia, dolor ... Muchos sentimientos. .. Cuando uno toca el flamenco demasiado rápido la mayor parte del tiempo estos sentimientos no pueden manifestarse en consecuencia en diferentes expresiones, sonaría como repetición de sonidos ... Paco de Lucía tocó rápido, lento, suave, fuerte, con mucho sentimiento ... La parte del sentimiento no es tan evidente aquí ... Eso es lo que percibí y le considero muy bueno con todo y eso ... De hecho es el único no español que me gusta hasta ahora en toda mi vida ... I am one of those because it is more than about speed and technique...He is not just playing guitar, he is playing flamenco...It is about softness, sweetness, passion, anger, pain...Lots of feelings...When one plays flamenco too fast evenly most of the time these feelings cannot come through accordingly in different expressions, ....Paco de Lucia played fast, slow, soft, strong, with lots of feeling...The part of feeling is not so evident here...That is what I perceived and I consider him to be very good...As a matter of fact he is the only non-Spanish I like so far throughout my life...
Here you can appreciate all in one person...and he is not even a Spaniard...ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Zm5jiAv38q0.html En este video ignora los demás instrumentos pero recoge el sentimiento de estas cuerdas ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KzEFQW9CXGc.html
that last part actually surprised me, i play electric guitar and switched to flamenco 2 years ago, i always assumed electric guitar is simply easier guess i was wrong. haven't regretted the switch either tho :) flamenco music and techniques are so groovy
The greater the artist, the more humble he is. Greetings from Serbia. Ps - regarding your opinion on hard work: a few days ago, the guitar player from Serbia ( Igor Paspalj) was titled as the best electric guitar player in the world for 2020. according to the Guitar World magazine. He said that talent is 5% and the rest is hard work. He used to practice 10h per day in the first 10 years.
Wonderful...thank you for sharing! As a metal electric guitarist (44 yrs) being in flamenco for maybe 3 yrs, I have the same experience, except the reverse! Haha! Living through you my friend \m/
After viewing your clip, I have to say you are such a talented guitarist, anyway, who wants to play electric guitar when mastering flamenco like you do? And you are so humble, I'm pretty sure you would play electric like the best if you wanted, anyway with fingers or pick...much respect, maestro...
Hi Grisha.. Hope all is well 👍 It is very nice of you to share about you and personal matters with regard to your Guitar learning and musical talents in both Classical and Flamenco especially and also your inadequacy levels on Electric Guitar..👏Your meeting with the Great Legend Paco de Lucia* in his house and his memento CD signed by him which you treasure still..👌Also about your age and height showing of your fingers which makes us think that you are so kind and a very unassuming person despite your popularity as of now..👏Good job dude👏 Warm loving cheers 😊 God bless 🙏🎸🎶 TAKE CARE Grisha👍
Very good video Grisha, I hope you are able to do these kind of videos more often. We would like to know more the behind of scenes, about your playing. btw, you probably heard of Gerardo Nunez, the story goes that I bought his Flamencos In New York CD, back in 1995, to make the story short, his niece is my wife. Had I not bought this CD, I would not have met my wife....btw ...I am 62 and go to the gym daily........don't stop exercising.
Grisha this video was so enduring I have felt jealous of you and deflated at times because you are so good. You are a good person and I am more of a fan now than ever.
6:30 GMT (Ohio). I’ve just discovered your playing. I love listening how you blend technical prowess with sensitivity. I’ve also watched you play this same instrument in other videos. May I ask, and if you have the time to reply, who’s the maker and the tone woods used in its construction?
