Reaction Video - Matteo Mancuso Blues in G 

He has all of the mechanics of a 60-year-old dedicated jazz player along with laser-accurate bends, tasty vibrato, and an innate sense of MELODY!!!!!!

The thing is that he doesnt miss a note, smooth and fluently flawless

I would think any guitarist listening to this would be flabbergasted by the sheer beauty of Matteo's delivery.

That little bar on the top and between his pickups is his occasional thumb rest. . .Very Very cool ! This young man is already becoming a legend. The guitar world and people who know what talent "really" is will make sure this lad has a career, ,he really is such a talent and I wish him all the success he deserves .

Brother, Matteo is getting lots of exposure. I'm seeing him continually on RU-vid. His talent is great and is not going to waste.

Al Di Meola was all fanboying over Matteo in an interview. He made a comparison to Jaco Pastorius, which is pretty spot-on.

Matteo is one of my favorite players of the modern era. So unique. I love how he mixes his smooth jazz with bluesy hard rock licks. I also love the finger picking. It's always been my favorite way to play.

He may very well be the best of all time, and I grew up listening to Lenny Breau and Ed Bickert just to name a couple of my favourite guitarists.

next level player - Robben Ford sensibilities, phrasing, time with Holdworth chops - amazing!

Matteo is now about 23 and he is still studying music, his father was a professional musician. Also Matteo already have a contract with Yamaha and is present at NAAM and other venue to promote their guitars.

You can analyse this fellow as much as you like, fact is, that he is beyond anything that we may have heard before.

This guy reinvented guitar. This is beyond next level. I was a bit sceptic because of him doing covers. But his own work now on his first album is insane.. And then you just know.... this is unearthly. I really can't recall any guitar player that comes even close to his technique. WITH 3 FINGERPIKKING but making it sound as a pick??? What? his improv boxes, schales, chromatisism, arpeggios..harmonics... creativity, all blended so well together and so clean. F*cking insane man! You know, Tina S can cover music really good, but this is another universe. And he is just 27...

I’ve been following Matteo for months now.. his playing is so amazing to listen to, but when you see him playing it, it is a whole new game.. I heard of his playing through Mike Seal , who is another finger style player with the Jeff Sipe Trio... Matteo reminds me of how I felt when I first saw Stanley Jordon play live years ago.. What a future this young man has in front of him.. the guitar is still alive and well..

He reminds of a Jeff Beck type of player. A completely different way to play and very difficult to imitate. He is phenomenal

A great talent virtuoso blessed by The Master of The Universe.

One of the best

He will be in the spotlight. He is just starting.

His right hand technique is from an old classical guitar style that has been used by many Spanish players and is the beginning of the claw and chicken picking style of that the Country players have popularized in recent times. It allows for a very consistent string attack and the facility to play with a lot of string skipping and raking in a seemingly effortless manner. Mind blowing that he is still in the infancy of his musical creativity.

Joe Bonamassa is a great, great musician, a great guitar player with great feeling - which is the most important thing of them all when playing a lead guitar, besides having perfect accuracy and technique. music is a language of emotions, transferred from the musician (and the composer) to the listener. emotions that can't be described in letters and words. directly connected to us, without the need for interpretation. but, this dude is playing in a higher league.

You're absolutely right, Sir! This guy is simply incredible!

Incredible Guitarist. He is Amazing.

GRANDE MATTEOOOOOO

SO AMAZING! GENIUS!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

3:07 all classical guitarists play without a plectrum 😃 When Alip_Ba_Ta plays fast he uses the nail of his index finger as a plectrum. Mancuso uses the flamenco technique or more simply the electric bass technique

I'm absolutely agree: Matteo plays incredibly clean and in completly relax! I heard the sound of each note more clean than pick! Bonamassa said a right thing: Mancuso reinvented the Guitar. I say he bring us the future, he playd with his soul and using an Amazing mix of Scales like pentatonic, esatonic, underdominant and a few of variosus types of scales in ambient of 5 of dominant and all relatives triton scales. But he mix everythink and we here like he raccontasse una storia, with asks and respons , continue tensions and resolutions. Ok the talent but Is evident the great study there Is in what he does. Nobody can only think what Mancuso plays in a nano second. I think Is the best actualy guitarrist in the story, for how he use the right hand too. We musicians are Happy becouse we can live in act a so Amazing genie now...and he Is only 26 Years hold. Alleluia my dear guys, Jesus Is back!!!😜👍😜👍👋❤️❤️😘

This is the first video of Matteo that I came across and was blown away from the start of the video. I had just discovered him a few years ago. I never knew this guy existed. He definitely has his own style of picking. His father is no slouch on guitar by no means either. I believe his father was his inspiration as is clearly noticeable through his playing. His playing does have an Eric Johnson vibe to it, only because of his clear and precise finger picking that eliminates the pick noise when the strings are struck. Just phenomenal. Watch/Listen to The Chicken, his three piece band. The bass and drummer are equally as talented as Matteo.

Ya this guys awesome.. I've been watching his videos for a few yrs now

All i can say is ,, WOW !

Phenomenal player, currently doing work with DriftLab which showcases his fusion chops with some other AMAZING players who don't get enough attention here in the States. His Italian trio work is also jaw-dropping!

That's what so unique about matteo is that fingerstyle playing is so clean it's revolutionizing guitar picking

Totally agree with you that young players like Matteo needs some Love. As me being a piano guy there are many euro artists that are phenominal that have no notice. Thanks for the post because good music from artist like him needs to be recognized.

Matteo started playing because of his father. He was a little kid, so seein' his dad playing fingerstyle thought that was the way to play guitar. He found out later that guitar can be played with a pick: so he simply didn't know :D Anyway, he developed his own fingering technique: the "bass" one is for fast runs on close strings, while the other one opens new way to approach sweeping since he can selectively string skip (at least on his own words). Still waiting for his debut album which should be on the way: never enjoyed a "jazzy" player as much as Matteo

Another in the long line of great Italian guitarists bravo👍👍👍👍👍

I first heard him in 2017, he did a version of Chick Corea´s Spain. He needs to develop his own voice though, because he does have the chops to be an All time Great. If I hear Frank Gambale, I know it´s him, even though I might not have heard the song before, same with Pat Metheny, Scott Henderson, ect.

Après avoir vue cette démonstration, je pense que beaucoup de musiciens vont ranger leurs guitares au placard... Quelle technique aux doigts incroyable ! Jamais vu ça...

Amazing Talent!!!

Matteo es un verdadero genio del instrumento 👍🏿🇲🇽

The take away for me is to use your technical prowess as a means to enhance the overall musical quality or phrasing as opposed to some stand alone pyrotechnics display that we see all too often on youtube. Matteo has that unique ability to still make music in spite of his jaw dropping technique. His interpretations are super clean, creative, awe inspiring, but I still feel like I can groove and tap my feet to it all.

wow, never have I seen this playing style. Looks like he was a bass player turned guitarist

This kid is gonna do to his generation what Hendrix did to mine. He is one level higher than anyone else out there.

Another thing I noticed, I think he is double picking with the first finger and adding notes with the second finger during the fast stuff. A lot of fusion players that use a pick do something similar by using the Hybrid Picking technique where the main notes are played with the pick (thumb and first finger together) and secondary notes are played with the second finger. Already you can see the disadvantage pick users have. It takes them three fingers to do what Matteo does with two.

Check out ‘the chicken’ … he and his mates totally nailed it, and there, he was even younger.

Just freakin amazing!

He does is the NEXT level!

WHITE FLAG!!!! I GIVE UP!!!! Great videos my friend. You have come a long way. I watched you from the start and I truly enjoy. THANK YOU!!!!

no limits .

Matteo is absolutely amazing! Check also Joshua Meader.

Same thoughts here for Matteo. Thank you for helping Matteo get exposed. He deserves the same with Larry Carlton, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani etc.

Ah I was wondering what the little bridge was for between the bass side of the pick up rings. A thumb rest! Great video Tony. Cheers

And...He is very humble. Di Meola said Mancuso is like Jako : an Unaspected Miracle .. He got it.

A right hand like Paco de Lucia and Joe Pass, with otherwordly harmonic/melodic synthesis in his lines - its almost like a stream of conciousness, a conduit with something transcendental - he's that good. He really cops some Robben Ford and Frank Gambale vibes on this one whilst staying true to himself. He does have that Eric Johnson like clarity, and a kinda similar full rich tone, a bit more midrange dense perhaps.

dont forget in shrapnel daysz Richie kotzen im suprised didnt use a pick and he is blistering fast ,mixing neo-classical funk and blues and tapped notes

FENOMENOOOOOOO

Matteo is the new guitar innovator ... after hendrix van halen satriani/vai he is the real new innovator

He's got chops and MUSICALITY!

I saw him in 2018 I think and when he plays the chicken with an incredible trio of young musicians and I noticed what talent he has and that he will be very big.

Banjo style picking. Nice to learn across all aspects of string instruments. I ASSUME thats what hes done. Its what im trying to do. Banjo picking is just too much for me hopefully at this point😂

I literally just threw my guitars off 4 stories..I'm done...😠 😠

Yomandhu Costa (Brazilian virtuoso) ...well worth a view .

Funny you should mention Eric Johnson, I recently had a drink with Matteo when he played in Ireland and my first question was who is your absolute favourite guitarist, his answer.. you got it .

00:11 "... new generation doesn't like a pick..." - I think in Matteo's case, it's more the fact that he started with classical guitar and went on to realise that he could accomplish technically what he needed to (and more!) with his dual fingerstyle playing. I say 'dual' because of course Matteo uses at least two different techniques for plucking the strings - one at 'side' of the strings and the other with his hand positioned above the strings. Rest position and ... I forget the other. Anyway, the guitar is amazing, not just technically of course, but his musical 'mind', his ability to execute what he hears in his head with his hands and his ability to choose excellent notes.

5:39 Yeah. I'm a drummer and I got this problem with Williams or Colaiuta stuff.

Jan Akkerman mentioned him. he is 2.0. Not only his technique is fenomenal, but also his harmony , timing etc.

Check out Max Ostro. He's younger and also from The Next Dimension...

I don't know about sounding like Eric Johnson. He sounds like Robben Ford to me. He mentioned in another video that he heard Robben Ford and learned his style of playing.

Why would anyone use a pick when he's got 5 of them on his right hand. I think this guy proves that picks are pointless. More dexterity and ability to be dynamic with what I've seen here. Soooooooooooo clean...... whew.....

Wooow...So good👍👍mantaaap!!!

Guitarist now days plays super good at younger age, Abim Finger under 18 years old doing well too and many others.

Matteo Mancuso = Blackmore grande matteo

Amazing guitarist. Matteo's also the one who put Yamaha guitars on my radar.

His tone and style is all Robben Ford in this clip.

You should also check out joshua meader

Tony....great stuff...I would love to see more unknown talents!!!

Joshua Meader

You should hear his Alan Holdsworth style playing...Alan would be proud! He also has a Frank Gambale influence.

Lot of Robben Ford sound also

Yeah he's classically trained or adopted the right hand technique because he's using the plucking that a classical guitarist uses, I studied classical guitar.

Josh Meader is on the same level as Matteo, Dude plays Coltrane solos note for note on guitar like it's nothing .. There's a new crop of young guitarists that are just straight crazy !

Next Fay Ehsan Video, He has been created Wirang drumming technique on guitar playing, awesom

Matteo is indeed getting much coverage but he’s still in school and we have Covid. Check his videos which are genuinely astonishing. Also check out Yevgeny Podovich who won last year’s Herbie Hancock competition. Less flamboyant than Matteo but oh so impressive

This is Allan Holdsworth for the next generation...

I don't understand why claudio quartarone is not mentioned since he is the inventor of that right hand technique on the electric guitar?

..like Eric Johnson? I see no comparison..as good as EJ is this kid is at a totally different level IMO..

He explains why he changes his hands, The thumb is a resting place. I watch this video everyday May 8 2024

His father is great also.

NUOVA GUITAR PARADISO

Just wait till you watch his jazz tunes!

Sounds like he has been listening to some robben ford .check out his 335 video

I think I hear a Robben Ford influence

here we go again ...........................

Pat, John, Larry and Robben peuvent dormir tranquilles. La relève est là.

I ran into this a few years ago, after that I threw away all music I had i am looking for that guitar 🎸 any ideas ?

People acting like Greg Howe has not been doing that for 35 years. Come on

Few guys can turn heads like those of Al DiMeola who has called out Matteo's skill. Matteo's dad was a guitarist of some note in Italy I believe, so he had a leg up. Matteo has earned a chapter in the history book for right hand technique for sure. You can even find a nice compilation of him explaining his right hand method on RU-vid. With his dad: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EHqrrewKWYY.html

To play devil's advocate - try finding a video of him playing without the sock tied on the 1st fret. What happens when you pluck two or three strings but only fret one of them using the strap/sock? He is a remarkable guitarist - highly skilled and fun to listen to.

Which musician was he in a previous life.....

Try "Balawan"

Mancuso is off-the-scale, just amazing. But do you know EVGENY POBOZHIY? Check it out.

Unfortunately, great musicianship is lost on everyone except for other musicians.

Don't get discouraged get motivated look we are all unique and different so there are just some human that can do things a little differently so it's good think what it would be like if everybody did the same thing nobody would want to learn because they would be sick of hearing it