The GUITAR SOLO that BROKE YouTube, Guitarist Reacts to Amin Toofani Solo
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This video destroyed its competitors. Millions of views, thousands of likes/dislikes. The controversy? If you search "greatest guitar player" on youtube, this video comes up close to the top. But is he? Does this video deserve the top spot?
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It takes years of loneliness to get that kind of fluidity in your right hand. J/k this guy is just talented hands down
Or sell ur soul ;)
That's not awesome really
@@alexander.d144 So do you think saying this is AWESOME?
@@alexander.d144 you do it then
Hehe i learnt it in 1 week
I love when musicians can hear a song and then play it right away... That's incredible Talent
those were Andalusian cadence chords
@@champions8663 My brother at practice 30 years ago. kzhead.info/sun/rd2yobONm4Schmw/bejne.html Cooking chips in the back ground. 😄
Just strong fundamentals and being able to determine notes through pitch (usually experience). Pitch is important because sometimes you’ll have diminutive notes or something else in a chord or arpeggiated phrases. Usually lead notes are in an upbeat which can help you tell which time signature someone is playing in. You know the cadence and the chord progression with whatever wonky notes they put in and you can sight read something like this fairly quickly If you want to learn more there are tons of courses teaching violin, which I think is the easiest beginner instrument to understand things like “what’s an octave… what do these notes sound like…” etc and then you learn basic music theory and you can move onto guitar tablature. One book I recommend everyone learning guitar pick up, or even if you want to learn about guitar and not play is the Guitar Grimoire by Adam Kadmon.
@@GodKiller97violin is not an easy beginner instrument lol. Might be one of the hardest. Piano is much easier to play and learn music theory.
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8:30 he played so good that the guitar caught on fire
Too fani🤣
@@Hugh_Manitee lmao bruh 🤣🤣🤣
😂😂😂
@@Hugh_Manitee too fani🤣
Bruuuh username 💀
After this “Gratitude” song in 2011, Amin Toofani’s first album came out on April 26, 2018, called “Otoño Verde.” This album contains 4 songs: La Flamenca, El Monte Claro, Orfeo Negro, and Otoño Verde. He had 2 companies and was VP of Strategic Relations at the NASA-based singularity university.
for real?
@@aaroncarr-mackay2457 yes. And he went to Harvard.
Wish my brain worked like that…or do I?
@@RobertSmith-eb9xu Do you?
I have watched more of amin. The man has a ridiculously high talent level.
He already said in one of the Tedx talks that he is not the best guitarist in the world. He is just lucky by having his video going viral.
Ofcourse he is not as he is not professional
He's kind, that's why he said that, tell an average guitarist to play that
But he is a very expert guitarist...
@@namsailavnai9611 defining the best is hard but he is certainly one of the best
@@abhinavmishra9323 that's not how it works
Hi is Middle Eastern , originally Persian/ Iranian background, that’s why you hear that Middle Eastern tune and melody
Ahhh cool, thanks Meysam.
Not to mention the huge influence that the Moorish occupation had on the culture, art, architecture, and music of Spain. I give you Flamenco!
wa wa bhai
Isn't he a Pakistani?
No wonder
I remember 20 odd years ago in Barcelona, witnessing a similar performance of a flamenco guitarist and the emotional response of the audience was exactly the same and totally overwhelming. It is an experience that remains with me today .
6:35 "OK, so he's better than me." I like your reaction style! All about the music, not your own ego. Your brief attempts to reproduce his playing were illuminating for a non-guitarist like me.
It blew up not because he's the best, simply because the song is Beautiful
It blew up because his presen and rendition is absolutely beautiful
It blew up bcs there were not many youtube guitarists showing skills back then
It blew up because of luck and things falling right
Toofani means Stormy in Farsi. Quite appropriate name in terms of his technique. Zendeh bashi Aziz
I think also in Urdu!
The guy is pakistani.
That was really bad performance
Niga that was really bad
@@MrAhtisham420 he is Iranian I’m sure
My grandfather (85) entertained us for many years around the fire with his guitar. I could watch this guy go for ever.
The dynamics on that performance are amazing. Soft to hard and back
Middle Eastern's music always sounds magical... Luv it
I’m indian and I guess, we all should have an accent don’t we.
@@cardcode8345 he's Iranian
That's not middle eastern music. It was inspired by rajasthani gypsy music and is now played mostly in spain
Did they move Spain?
Is flamenco Spanish
I found Amin Toofani's this video suddenly while listening Indian music 4-5 years back. Very well & fantastically he played. Picking up peak, beating guitar side by side and sudden stop & start. Immediately downloaded video and added to my music list.
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Ihhhhhhhhhghhhhhhhhh 🤣hhihihhhhhh
H 🤣hhhihhh 🤣hhhihhhh 🤣hihh 🤣hhh 🤣h
Hh 🤣hhhhhh 🤣😣gihh 🤣hhh 🤣h 🤣h
😣hhhhhhhhhihhhhhhhhhhhhi
The fact he found time for that with his studies at Harvard is impressive enough.
Yu go train hard or yu dishoner famiry !
Probably how he blows off steam. Channels that energy in all the right ways.
This performance was incredible. Sometimes I think musicians care too much about instrument chops and all these stupid little details and their tone and stuff. Music is a performance art. It was an inspiring performance. He totally owned it.
Some consider many artists elitists and gatekeepers. While I appreciate trying to keep some level of skill or ability as a measure of competence, as you say - it's an art, and art is appreciated by the receiver. This is why we have 'pop' music. It wasn't made for those with a high level of musicianship . . . . .
music is not a performance art, music is everything that make a sound and a follow a rythm in a pleasurable way. no matter if there are people or only you playing. its still music.
Like when I listen to a tech genre. Yeah the people play fast and accurate, now if only they could make it actually sound pleasant.
Says the obvious non musician and moron.
incredible..? ya nahh.. you clearly dont play guitar. His chops were steady, smooth and powerful due to his right hand but his left hand was very dirty and missed a lot of clean notes and transitions a true great guitar player would hit. And sorry , if you know anything about flamenco arrangements this was a pretty comon chord progression The flashy power picking technique he uses is a distraction for the untrained ears to marvel over (i know, i used to do the same easy tricks to get the chicks)
I paid for the whole guitar, And I'm gonna use the whole guitar
Right. I guess people tend to say "best" when they see/hear something very good. You are right he's not the best but as you said, certainly very talented and inspiring. Also wrote the piece himself. Cool. Thanks for the review!
The techniques are very easy but what really impressive is that conposition
Flamenco guitarists are just known for playing hard and fast. It's their style. Very grabby full sound. Some persons don't like that way, or sound. I do think he could play any style very easily, with no real difficult transitioning. Talented and 👍 .
not so at all, some forms are very deep and soulfull others are bright and fast
He can't play tremolo
This is very simple to play. I just played it myself… I pressed the play button and there, played it.
under rated
6:19 you did very well
Correct👍👍
He is Iranian 😅 And they are so good at music... honestly Im in love with persian music❤️
isnt he pakistani ??
He is indian amin his name and toofani means very fast
Đèàď pòóĺ 😅😅😅firstly we have toofani in persian too ... it means like tornado .... secondly he mentioned before in twitter that he js Iranian😅❤️❤️❤️
@@aliabbasmoghadam4653 yes a lot of hindi/urdu words are borrowed from Iran
@@eadpool9648 exactly
Dude loves his guitar and loves sharing the same excitement so learn to love the mistakes he has. Those flaws you sometimes find in music can be the thing that reminds you of how human the artist is.
If you want to understand this style look at Manitas De Plata. So good, and self taught. His guitar was drawn on by both Picasso and Dali. John Steinbeck also was a super fan. By the 1970s he had sold close to 100 million albums, before the internet and global marketing. His sons and nephews carried on the tradition in forming The Gypsy Kings. For a contemporary guitar genius, look for Matteo Mancuso. Revolutionary technique and improvisation maturity far beyond his years. At 21 he was getting Al Dimeola and Steve Vai praising him as equals or superior as a guitarist.
Don't even mention manitas de plata he was a genuine gypsy,this kid gets nowhere near him as a guitarist,and mantas was not a genuine flamenco player
My mother gave an album of his "Tribute to Bardot"
@@jonadams6846 bro chill TF. He said for similar style. Because it's a viral video not all of us for musicians
@@gnanasabaapatirg7376 Yea I do get a little protective of my love for flamenco,having been struggling to play this genre of music for many years,to me it comes from deep in the soul,playing it takes me to a place I cannot explain,it's magical and painfully all in one,yes I did have the pleasure of once meeting Manitas a showman and a very humble man all in one
I have respect for Manitas de plata but you can't Say that. The real genius in flamenca was paco de Lucia. He could play all the palo 's flamencos.not manita. He play wth the great flamenco singer camaron de la Isla. Not manita,.he Plays with aldi meola for many years and Aldi had always said with John mc Laughlin that paco was the greatest flamenco guitarist of all time.joaquin Rodrigo himselfs said that Paco was the best player of his concerto de Aranjuez that he never heard. I think you better listen and see the album and documentary of paco de Lucia 's carrear. You will learn a lot of things very important about what you don't know and don't understand about flamenco music. Just listen to paco's music( entre dos aguas, potro de Rabia y miel buleria with camaron de la Isla, el panuelo ,almoraima, reflero de Luna taranta..etc..) and don't forget the greatest old player like Nino Ricardo, sabicas, Ramon Montoya etc.. i'm sorry but Manitas is juste a kid in comparution of those great guitarist of History of flamenco..
great performer, intermediate guitar player with very developed right hand technique
Yeah, he mainly improvises over a few basic chords/barre chords. It's his right hand technique that makes the song special
It’s called being a beginner in flamenco music
developed right hand technique? did you see his makeshift tremelo? that flamenco strum is very simple btw. practice finger picking and or classical for a couple months and it comes super easy. people that know how to click their nails on a table in a sequence, never have played guitar, could do it in a couple days. .
Jelly bro...doesnt look good
I love your relaxing aura, keep it up
Nice reaction. You have an honest straightforward way of speaking. Stay well.
This guy is great and I definitely enjoyed the video (microphone issues included) but I am spoiled because twenty-some years ago I was blessed to have the repeated opportunity watch a guy named Stephan at the Dome Bar in El Paso play this and so many other flamenco pieces much more masterfully... and without audio issues.
Strong Uli Jon Roth vibes at 5:50. Sounded alot like the main riff from Sails of Charon. Awesome stuff!
There is definitely a reason why the guitar is shaped the way it is. This man showcases that
I dont know how to play the guitar but I know a LEGEND when I hear one. This guys amazing!!!
Andrew this is my first time watching you and just wanted to say I admire your willingness to openly say hes better than you. It is a breath of fresh air in a world full of people who spend more time in a mirror than thinking of others thank you.
He starts out by saying it was about his time at college. I remember the first days, how fitting it is to play the guitar backward. Then he turns around the guitar and plays a quick piece; I remember that also. Things gradually fall into place and get better with moments of greatness. Yep, that was college!
never thought of that! Cool. I'm currently in the backward playing days (hopefully not for too long)
thanks for the honest review your awsm
This young man is gifted.
Saw this one some 10 years ago and it blew my mind. But now after learning the instrument for a few years now I can say that it's not that hard actually. However, he executed it nicely. The sad thing is Amin himself cannot play this well enough recently (I saw a video of him playing this a couple of years ago)
I was going to say something similar. I've been playing 37 years. He's okay. There are many players that make him look like somewhat of an amateur.
Thank God someone else who know the truth about this guy. YES WHAT HE PLAYED IS "NOT" HARD TO PLAY. I AGREE 100% WITH YOU...
Looking forward to all of your videos playing better than him.
@@saurabhsonic take a chill pill and stop wasting my time
@@saurabhsonic woah you really got them there, really took the wind outta their sails, with your great clap back 👏
There is difference between interesting and difficult… this is very interesting music performed by Amin…
how is it interestinf
im pro guitar player, I think isn't so hard the piece, actually I think is a bit easy.. but I love it how he managed his crowd, so that is a very important part in the art. so, thumbs up! 👍🏻
playing Gratitude is not hard but composing Gratitude is hard...
Lol I'm pro guitar player 🤡 sounds weird to say that yourself
@@sagesmoon8422 well, it's my profession
Really mam all u need to practice is the flamenco rumba and the andalucian chord progression... More than half of the song is done
@@sr.castro1031 Playing crazy train & thunderstruck doesn’t make you a pro
Good honest review. I appreciate your critique.
Guitarist I am no musician I cannot read music but I grew up with my mother playing Five Finger open flamingo! And that was the closest thing to a one-person band with only one instrument I've always found it extremely incredible! Thank you for the video
Nothing wrong with the performance the problem was the word “best” in the title I think.
Being able to strum the notes AND get the little drum taps while he does it is impressive
Its the only thing in the song of real difficultly. His strumming, minus the slaps, Rasgueado, is not that difficult to learn on nylon strings with fingers, but Andrew Friedberg had zero chance of replicating it on steel strings with a pick in his hand. Nylon string guitars have a different skill set.
@@williamhogge5549 getting the slaps in is easier than you'd think. Once you've got the strumming pattern down integrating finger slaps and/or wrist thumbs is fairly straight forward.
@@williamhogge5549 i did it on steel string
Very beautiful and a joy to watch, listen. I love the guitar tapping, it's brings another dimension.
What were you playing before you started talking? Man! I love it! That brings out some passion in me!
4:12 love watching you listen intently
This dude is massive, when he goes up on stage at the end he towers over the other people. Good tune
It did look like a small guitar at the beginning, but I'm guessing it was a normal sized one 🤣
@D Doherty I am 199 sm. In my hands dreadnought looks like classic guitar.
what could anybody say negative about this man's amazing talent my god its beautiful
He’s not talented.
@@hitthecouch you would know 😂😂 your being a professor of music lol
It's literally not impressive . Sorry any first year student could do this
His right hand its so fluid it takes years of practice
@@gotama570 no it doesn't. Seriously listen to literally any gypsy kings song for better. Any random song
With a hand and fingers like that the guitar ain't the only thing he be strumming. But jokes aside he must have practiced with a passion to be able to play like that.
The backbone of all sounds like "Concierto de Aranjuez". Really cool!
Start of the piece is an homage to C de Aranjuez in a lower octave
You might be curious to know if some part of his music was actually a persian pop song called "chera nemiraghsi" from the singer "viguen derderian". I am wondering how did he said that it was composed by himself while the pick of his song was composed in advance by some others.
Dude's freaking good! Reminds me of Roy Clark's Maleguena in many ways.
people were ready for this it was very inspiring
He's is the one and only 😲 😱 😲 😱 😲 it was amazing 👏
Check out Alejandro Aranda's he was on American Idol, and is very unique playing style. Also, there is a boy named Taj Farrant that is amazing on guitar. My favorite guitar players are BB King, Eric Clapton, Santana, Keith Urban and Brad Paisley.
Do u know Marcin Patrzalek?
@@chhayankgupta9056 No, but I just looked him up, he is good, but Alejandro is more unique.
Stevie Ray Vaughn, Roy Clark. Nuff said.
@@starkenterprises2371 Not my cup of tea.
I grew up with my mother as a ballet teacher, I absolutely love flamenco.
I remember this video! It was on the original KZhead app on ipod touch! It never left the the front page of KZhead.
Ah yes the Flamenco style of guitar, excellent choice in my opinion ja true cousin to the Zambra style of guitar. Although I must confess I have heard some amazing developments in the legendary Fandango style of guitar which of course is due to its rich historical tapestry and body fluidity in an ever increasing quest for perfection. Good show sir!
Whatever one might think - This video is the reason i started playing flamenco guitar 10 years ago
That is the chord progression is the same as the music from the cut scene in Mike Tyson’s punch out on NES where Mac is running behind Doc when you get your passcode. So there you go.
The way brings comb to the play is just cherry on top
what he said is showing how humble he is, and he is not lucky but very talented, even if it is his hobby.
This guy has a great sense of humor. Anyone notice he is huge 👀. Look at him compared to other guy when he walks back on stage! If you havent, check out Estas Tonne. He is amazing. He makes 1 guitar sound like 2 or 3.
He is a portfolio manager now graduated from harvard and he performed 10 years later in other video as well
As you, him and others have said , he is not the best , but he is marvelous , has very good rhythm , very talented and experienced in the way he performs the song , and wrote the piece himself. Overall he is kinda high on the ladder.
The guitar lick you was playing at the intro was flawless I wold love to see more please
Your playing was just as good minus the guitar banging portions. Great job!
Amin Toofani... His music made me take my music serious. Saw him first around 2014
I like that blues tune played at the beginning. Quite nice
Paco de Luci is an amazing master of the flamenco.
Paco de Lucia was one of the best Spanish flamenco 💃 guitar players. He’s a legend. Can you please react to his music ?
@@ksenijajemensek6126 but paco is not popolist he is not for ordinery people
Was a best flamenco guitar player. RIP
he is amazing guitar player
Very talented. Well done 👏
there’s an older Segovia biography where the documentarians claim that he saved the guitar from existing primarily as a flamenco instrument. I tend to agree, but damn, the guitar really shines and excites in this style
Yours was really good you just did it by just looking
it's all in the strumming pattern...guitare manouche...loads of guys can do this...not removing the credit to him in any way...but still not the best in the world in his style. but he has talent for sure
Yes its practice, can you perform on any instrument? or do you know any better than Mr Toofani? if yes then upload and let the world compare, or else keep your Rupee in your pocket, you indians make some outrageous statements with out evidence or source, most pretentious on the planet.
@@ravis.9937 not indian and I actually think this guy is exceptionally good. So why the hate???
@@ravis.9937 what he meant was people think he is the best guitarist, which actually isn't true there are a lotttttttttt of guitar players who can do that, now most guitarists believe Marcin patrazalek to be the best.
@@ravis.9937 Dimebag Darrell. Checkmate, brah
Look he wrote this piece himself. Definitely deserved love
Roy Clark's flamenco on The Odd Couple fascinated me more but this dude is fantastic.
The tele style guitar you are playing is the prettiest I've seen. I'd love a quick detail or two.
So how do we start to compare so many amazing guitar players over the past decades? We as an audience of a number of genres judge music. Roy Clark has been said to be the most amazing, greatest guitar player of the past decades. Then we have players in rock and heavy metal. Eddy Van Halen, who some have called the greatest player ever. Then we have player people have called a virtuoso, like Yngwie Malmsteen. These are some of the greatest guitar player to give us their gifts, and there are more! So how can we say this particular guitar player, “or the master of any other instrument” is the best in the world?
Buddy he's not a Flamenco guitar player🤣 he's a PhD in physics and now works in NASA. He's Iranian by ethnicity.
Wow
I don't think that is true.
Dude he is dead
Flamenco Is a technique, It's often used with bassists while they Slap and pop as another example. Clearly he is entertaining and Working a crowed while playing guitar. I don't get why people think Music is a special club. If you aren't learning anything new on Guitar you are doing it wrong. I know this because I play myself. Are you lacking musicianship? It's great. I give it an A, I have came across A* in that style I enjoyed it.
@@kunaljaju646 hopefully, dude's cocky af
10 years, that’s how long it takes for something to become ancient in video. The quality looks like it was from the 80’s and I’m watching it in the 90’s, or it was made in the 90’s and I’m watching it in the 00’s!
When you play alone, you are the show. No accompany all him. Bravo !
I hope people watch Amin's video agaon and again to get relieve from stress or depression 😊😊😊
The trick is in his right hand. He doesn't just strum like conventional guitarists. He flicks his fingers the returns with a kind of percussive slap. Flammenco is a great style. At times I borrow from it
I hate it when you tell someone you're a guitarist and they show you this video and expect you to be in awe of it.
When she wonder “what ‘dem fingers do” and he pulls out his guitar and absolutely crushed it in the dating scene that year
He played So well , even The Video got corrupted
Great guitarist, amazing music.
This song is really inspiring, I want to play it one day once I get very good with my guitar and wish we could have a tutorial on how we can play it
My man’s been putting in that work with his right hand😄
Just watched this.. heres my take... hes played that piece a hundred times. And you almost got it immediately. YOU are an amazing artist
That's because he can see the chords in the video.
...still just strumming 3 chords in a fun pattern while stretching for some single notes
Andrew the style of guitar playing that you played right before is my favorite, I can listen to it all day, what type/style is it
Oh my god I remember seeing this guy. Holy shit this unlocked a memory.
A business major and pro guitar player, yeah, great. And he managed to insert humor at the beginning and the end, the way he raises his head to sway his hair. Good for him and the world if he is honest. I can do programming and art for a living, but i chose to be a Qualified Elementary Education teacher. What is there to hate if someone is multi-talented???
My thought was the title of the video.
He had nails. That means he is seriously a player. No classical guitarist (the instrument) would have cut nails.
The main chord progression for some reason just makes me think of someone I love and wanting to dance with them.
I would like to know what beautiful melody you opened with, it was beautiful
That was very nice. Thanks for the reaction. Can you/anyone tell me what kind of guitar/ type of strings Amin is playing on, please? Thanks
Nylon string acoustic designed for classical/flamenco style players. Can't see the brand though, sorry.
Hey, thanks a lot for the reply, I was thinking he had some steel string ones as the sound was so good. I guess I ha Be no excuse now as mine is classical too😞😞😅
Just a bit of FYI the style he's playing here is called flamenco (Spaniard gypsy)which is a mixed of Spanish, Portuguese and Moroccan cultures all rolled neatly into one. They use the guitar as a "drum" that's how they learn to play as the flamenco dancers use it as their rhythm along with castañuelas.
This isn't traditional Flamenco, it's sort of using a Rumba palo(one of the styles in Flamenco), but it isn't technically Flamenco. Also, the guitar follows the dancer/singer, not the other way around. And the castanets are not a Flamenco instrument, you're confusing it with classical Spanish dancing, which is not the same as Flamenco - which is a Spanish Gitano(gypsy) music, with no connection to Morocco or Moroccan music. People hear the Phrygian mode and become cinfused.
Flemenco is said to be spanish now but Flemenco is associated to the Romani people and you know where Romani people come from right
@Koushik Vemuri there's a lot of Rmani influence all through Spain and several other Latin American countries including mine (Argentina) just saying
@@koushikvemuri3130 Don't confuse Spanish Gitanos with other Romani. Gitanos have been in Spain for centuries and have mixed in with Spanish genetics. Flamenco comes from Gitano folk culture, but is very much a part of Spanish culture now.
@@ericaarcas8161 it's mostly in the south of Spain, in places like Seville, Granada, and Cadiz, but generally all through the south.
If you ever find yourself in Spain … go to a Flamenca show … totally amazing!
Impressive percussive strumming. Fun to listen to. Right hand is acrobatic. I'd like to hear him play some Bach. Just to see if that left hand is as impressive. Musical pet peeve here, if there's no words and singing...it's not a "song". Definitely a hell of a composition and technical skill. Song is the art of singing. Words put to song makes the art so amazing and difficult to do well. I can't sing nor can I write songs. If he was a music major he probably wouldn't have called it a song.
Fact is he is playing the most basic Andalucian Chord progression.... If you can move your hand, You'll easily play the song
@Ed M chord progression is easy but right hand technique may be hard to get down and is tiring
@Ed M practice flamenco picking
@Ed M I play some flamenco, and I can assure you that you can play the same piece that guy is playing in a few weeks. It's not that difficult as it seems
+1 to that. The RH technique can be learned in a few weeks to a few months depending on natural ability. I'm kinda shit at guutar/ukulele and it took me around 2 to 3 months. It is however a very basic skill for flamenco style and definitely considered to be something you learn as a beginner. He had a couple little flair moves in there which showed that he's either a bit more talented than average or has been playing at this level for a while.
Actually it's not that hard. Real guitarists would know this already. If you want something really hard then try learning Neon by John Mayer.