This Guitar Player is INSANE! (Matteo Mancuso) 

I've been following Matteo Mancuso for a couple of years now and I'm surprised that I've never heard anyone remark on his incredible sense of rhythm. His lead playing swings and grooves like the way a very funky bass player would play. He's not playing straight eighth, sixteenth or thirty-second notes. Phenomenal.

I saw him yesterday at Guitar Summit in Mannheim. Extremely nice guy and a perfect guitar player. One of the best worldwide

His right hand is like Paco de Lucia, Joe Pass, Jaco Pastorius... He pivots effortlessly between RH apoyando and terando conformations to suit his needs. His LH is similarly flawless, very economical movement and always curled and ready to pounce and shift. What stands out most for me is his musicality, he can spell out changes effortlessly, without stuttering or falling down ever. And he sounds like Matteo... with a very broad expression palette. He's alone on a pulpit of his own fabrication. There is no first place, only his own space.

that right hand though... incredible fretboard knowledge... unbound creativity... just pure mastery at such a young age...

I think you're spot on in your assessment of Mancuso. His compositional phrasing is second to none. And his technique has set the bar beyond what we are used to seeing. Hats off to you both

He has set the new bar. It will take an entire generation of guitarists to match his technique. It will take 10 years for current guitarists to switch from single picking to imitate his flamenco technique using all four fingers

"Son, you will play bass.. no dad I want to play guitar... Ok dad, I'll play a 6 string short scaled bass... ". 😀

Never heard of of this guy, thanks so much for sharing. I'm sure he will see a much wider audience, what an amazing style , and with such clarity.

This is very motivating since I've been learning picado picking for lead playing. I think that fingerstyle has a greater realm of possibilities than using a pick.

Finalmente ho avuto modo di vederlo dal vivo. Ha suonato due brani inediti esageratamente belli che faranno parte del suo primo album in uscita a Gennaio. Gran gusto.

Wow! Three minutes in Mateo playing with his trio is just incredible. This guy is super talented and so young. Definitely going to listen to more from him. Thanks for the video. 🙏

I'm self taught and play with similar right hand to him - especially the rotating wrist between rest strokes and when I am playing chords. Really inspiring someone to take the way I play to such a level, especially with the dominance of hybrid picking.

Great video, great analysis of the young Master's technique, I want to add that beyond his phenomenal technical ability is phenomenally Musical, he's a master phraser and composer. He is a lovely humble artist who's single handedly advanced guitar playing like the players introduced at the beginning of the video. thanks Marco, great work!

Ho avuto la fortuna di sentirlo dal vivo, semplicemente incredibile!!!

Hes using classical guitar techn. and converting it to his needs. The cool thing about the way he plays is what makes your great country players interesting. They're not just using the pick. They're integrating finger-picks or their nails and their fingers. You get a wide array of strike textures. It makes it interesting to listen to.

amazing playing. playing electric guitar with fingers at that level.. wow

Julio silpitucla of Argentina, a classical guitarist, who plays left or right handed equally well, along with Matteo are just two of the incredible players in this era.

*I've been following Matteo since he was 15 years old and he was playing incredibly even then.*

I love how at 8:20 it looks like you are the one playing.

He's like on another level of Stanley Jordan with the virtuosity of Paco De Lucia on electric guitar.

I fell in love with Matteo's playing from the first moment I heard him play. Since then I've tried to figure out what exactly is so great about him. I haven't heard him play super outside stuff like Allan Holdsworth. I think a lot has to do with his technique. It allows him to play rhythmically and melodically interesting lines and there's no boundary between his regular technique and tapping. It's like the guitar is an extension of his body. His solos just groove.

His right hand is like an octopus

Matteo Mancuso and Tim Henson from polyphia have just taken music to another level - great video

Matteo is extremely talented and played, we have no doubt that even Pat Metheny is also envious of him ! ☺☺

Manh!! Always loved ur videos !! Love from India.... Always will look up to u

Gosto muito do Matteo. E outro guitarrista excelente, que merecia mais destaque é o Richie Kotzen. Só tentando tocar e cantar as melodias como ele faz, para perceber as muitas complexidades envolvidas, e sem palheta também. Musicalidade absurda.

Matteo e un fenomeno :)..grazie marco i tuoi video sono bellissimi🙏🏽

Great video Marco - thank you👍

Very nicely done Marco.

Really cool! Thanks Marco

Absolutely love Mateo. And his style is very appealing. Almost zero wasted motion and energy

Late to the party, Marco! But most of us are. MM is simply the best of the young fusion beasts, in my opinion. And many other genres for that matter. CRAZY technique with emotion.

The best. He can play everything

Great analysis Marco!! Many thanks!!

Love his playing.

It’s debatable whether Mancuso will influence a generation of guitarists, or cause millions of experienced guitarists to sell their instruments.

Nothing can be said that has not already been said, his knowledge and creativity add more flavor and avoid monotony, his difficult finger placement for beautiful chords are awesome. Blown away.

I've recently quit the pick for fingers after playing for 40 years. This guitarist has entered my life at the perfect time just as page, vai, and Jack white did before him. I've seen a million clickbaity "best guitarist ever" videos but this guy is no joke

che bello sentirti anche in inglese.. Lo parli corretto e crystal clear! Spero così possa espandere la tua platea al massimo. Te lo meriti!

Minkia Matteo!! Che incredibile talento ❤

Damn! That is crazy skill. I wanted to count the fingers on his right hand but he was moving too fast.

Agreed! Thanks Marco

I also remember hearing Stanley Jordan for the first time. It was live and I was right beside the stage, totally amazing!

3:25 Na! The first thing i noticed is that the other two guys are really happy! 😂 I agree it's not his speed, but i love his speed. I never was a fan of shredding ... metal and rock style, because often, for me, it lacks musicality, ... but this is totally musical. He uses the tremelo nicely ... tastefully, and uses tapping sparingly. He doesn't turn techniques into features.

Sometimes it is a pleasure to see a hummingbird however full appreciation of the fine details are lost in compressed time. The nuances of each note in Marco's melodies hang in time so that the beautiful qualities are accessible and can be felt. It is not possible to see wings in extreme rapidity of compressed time..

6:18 looks like a big head on little body

Just an observation, Dicky Betts and Duane Allman , were doing tapping and "pick"tapping in the late 60's and very early 70's. EVH and Joe Satriana took that particular trick to the next level.

Sei veramente bravo complimenti

I love this guy presenting this has his head in the right place. So it looks like his head is on top of the body of the one in the screen below him. But his head is way to big for the body below. Especially when he turns round to talk 😄 It's a bit destracting but funny.

Great video! Thank you very much!

This picking technique is also used in classical guitar style while soloing

Matter is way up there with the best of the best, the new guitar hero.

That's too bad. I hope he gets the help he needs. Edit: Sorry. I took the title too literally. Fantastic guitarist!

Yea, but can he end a video like you do? I mean that interrupted phrase double hand finger snap immediately followed by another interrupted phrase double hand finger snap would be impressive as heck on its own… but then you throw in the premature sign-off… freakin genius! 😊

This kid is phenomenal I've been watching who's playing now for a couple of months and it is just absolutely unbelievable I think Bonamassa said it the best. It was like the first time hearing Stanley Jordan. I remember as a kid seeing the movie with Bruce Willis it was a blind date . There was a part where they Roost takes his date to the studio to see Stanley Jordan ripping some stuff off and it's like holyshit. I fWas like what the hell is this guy doing. When I was in college I really wanted to take as many classical lessons and Flamingo lessons as I could because I just always felt it that finger picking technique that they used was amazing. What this kids doing with it is just so impressive RLTW 3/75

Love Matteo's playing. Another amazing young guy is Max Ostro. They both have very technical, sophisticated, yet very musical ways of playing.

Matteo bravissimo, jazz rock musica che amo, registra che ti ascoltiamo.

Guthrie,Max and Matteo are the best players right now imo.Until a new alien comes out of nowhere

Interesting 👍😁🍀thank you.

Matteo Mancuso's talent is a gift. What makes him special is the evens of his playing. His accuracy on time is simply amazing

I have been playing with a pick for 50 years but a few years ago I got tennis elbow trying to learn Django style picking. I had take a break from picking to let my RSI heal. In the last month or so I finally decided to commit to playing everything semi flamenco finger picking style. I had tried a little when I was younger but it seemed so impossible I ended up not devoting much energy to it and stick to using a pick with a hibrid finger style. But lately I resumed the quest to migrate to all flamenco style picking. I’m not there yet but I am already starting to be feel more comfort and speed and can already play some things faster, smoother and more dynamically that ever did with a pick. Very exciting for me today to find this video of this guy that is so amazingly proving to me I am on the right track.

Finally someone else who reacted to Matteo!

Frank Gambale is the only one that can play at that speed with a pick as he has great sweep technique. This young talent will be really at a crazy level in a few more years. He is really gifted.

Ur great Marco!!!

Extraordinary!!

all this techniques comes from classic finger style... musicality top !!

What a wonderful contribution in honor of one of the most incredible guitarists alive! BRAVO!

WhenI first learned guitar I was studying classical guitar. When I first switched to electric I still used that technique with my fingers because I was teaching my self and didn’t know any better. It was before the internet and I was rather isolated at the time. I would have probably kept playing like that if I didn’t keep breaking my nails on the steel strings. Of course I eventually switched to picking and that was a rather hard process at first. I think I might have been a better player if I could’ve stuck with that technique. I never could match that speed using a pick, no matter how much I worked at it. What impresses me most about Mateo is not the speed, but his beautiful phrasing and creativity.

You know what? I need, Matteo Mancuso, Charles Berthoud and El Estapario jamming together!

Congrats ti the host for making a fantastic video

Nice Video! Was the end on purpose or a cutting mistake?🤫😂

Molto gradevole ascoltare i tuoi video/racconti. Ottime doti comunicative, oltre che chitarristiche. P.s. Matteo è un fenomeno.

I fell into a piano keyboard bent with my music right now after going to ukulele from guitar, just really like it becasue so comact and easy to transport anywhere, now gone to piano and loving the possibilities of using the sustain peddle opening up, it is quite a thing to master but so amazing if used right, also can use head phones and produce minimal actual sound so able to be quiet and just hear my own playing with good head phones outside noise is minimal but still able to be conscious of what is going on around me but it is cut down to a minimum and so easy to ingnore. Probably I should have used digital piano a lot earlier but in some ways am glad to have played so many other insturments. Yeah still getting a lot from music at the age of 67 and mostly just love to worship my Lord and saviour on whatever instrument I got my hands on but piano keyboard is become my go too.

The way Matteo uses fingerpicking seems to be closer to the classical 'apoyando' (rest stroke) guitar technique than Flamenco's 'picado'.

Hadn't this technique of using fingers instead of a pick at high speed already been used by Claudio Quartarone a long time ago?

8:13 super-imposed Marco profile on this young phenom guitarist🤭

One error, Matteo uses THREE FINGERS not two like Flamenco Picado picking. Matteo's classical ideas remind me a bit of Captain Fingers.

The right hand rest stroke is very akin to classical guitar

Don't forget Mike Oldfield, he has similar finger style technique, as seen on his much loved song 'Moonlight Shadow'

Next level!

Bro actually I can hear some phases of paco de Lucía! Awesome!

Matteo on classical guitar reminds me of Ralph Towner Stanley Jordan… but Enver Izmailov used the tapping technique before him (but as he is not american nobody knows him)

impressed with his technique, it must be like first time hearing Jimmy Hendrix or Eddie VanHalen...its just amazing when something new arise, somewhat like Mark Knopfler but much faster and the dynamics... but when can we find his own compositions? ive only seen covers, and im just browsing right now..

New to your channel, love Matteo Mancuso's playing, hate you for not even put a link for him in description. It won't affect your sales of online courses. But still, thanks for bringing him to me, I also don't use guitar pick for electric guitar, he brings hope for how far I could get.

Love form Ethiopia

Brazil and Spain are loaded with guys who play like this with the right hand.

The last statement about Stanley Jordon for you that may be correct but there's another "Amazing" Musician prodigy named the "Late-Great" Arthur Rhames equally incredible guitar player, piano, and Saxophone and til this day never heard know one play guitar like him just Wikipedia his name "Arthur Rhames" Gods talented is just everywhere no doubt "Bravo" great video !!!!

What make/model of guitar is that 6 mins in with that lovely jazz tone?

*_An interesting/ different analysis video._*

It’s reminds me Richie kotzen playing with his fingers.

It's scary to think he's only 26 & has so much ahead of him.😮

La técnica del picado Flamenco y del Maestro PACO DE LUCIA el más grande de todos

classical prep is always the best...from there you can go wherever you wish.

Marco hai fatto una meravigliosa panoramica sulla tecnica di Matteo. Io farei i complimenti a te anche perche' a Matteo i complimenti li abbiamo gia' fatti. Pensa mettere sul piatto un doppio vinile (o CD) tutto di tecnica. Che due palle (con tutto il rispetto per l'artista). Ho passato un periodo dells mia vita ad ascoltare musica fusion. Tanta tanta tecnica ma dooo un po ' sono tornato al mio amato ptogressive rock. Quindi grazie comunque per la competenza chd hai ed anche per come suoni (i tuoi tutorial mi piacciono molto e mi rilasssno)

Mangusto makes me to burn my guitar and my hands every time I see this kid plays. I want him not to stop!

note - i think MAtteo has a special physical difference in his anatomy that allows him to fluidly sing with his fingers - it looks like he has fairly small hands

I have been doing this for decades when i studied flamenco in Granada and Andalusia, Spain in the mid 1990s. I would always grab the electric guitar without a pick and had to remind myself so i ended up laying down the pick because i have 5 natural picks with my right hand instead of using 1 causing me to be sort of disabled and limited . I'm also from Palermò, Sicilia When i went to the U.S. other guitar players didn't know what i was doing and all was intimidated and i told them if you're that way don't travel to Spain you'll encounter players that play like this on every street corner.

Wow! Just friggen wow

Nice Eric Johnson inspired lick @ 10:31

This is very similar to the way the guitarist plays on the fingershred site here on RU-vid & just being honest while I like the note choices more in these scale passages the dude over on fingershred is playing faster passages while maintaining I very clean approach.