1:37 GENIUS MELODY

@AcidDynamics

20 күн бұрын

that part is so pretty

When you're THE lead guitarist. I've listened to music for over 30 years now and I've played guitar and other instruments for over 20 years; I've listened to hundreds of thousands of artists and millions of songs. I've gone through Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Guthrie Govan, Marty Friedman, Paul Gilbert, Steve Ray Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Hendrix, Muddy Waters, Django Reinhardt, Eric Clapton, Joe Bonamassa, John Lee Hooker and many more. I've so far, at age of 34 never been more impressed, entertained, mesmerized or happy and all at the same time. You're the best, Max.

@thatsamazin-

8 ай бұрын

Im 48 and I agree with every bit of your statement 100%. Only discovering EVH in 1984 when I was 8 years old compares. Discovering Max has been life changing.

If youre a musician you reckognize the sheer precision and creativity here. Incredible Player!

@ultrafree9597

10 ай бұрын

He's literally playing with his eyes closed... drifting into the notes rarely finding a visual point on the fretboard. If you are a guitar player - try it! It's like playing in the dark. Now go ahead and attempt to hit that harmonic note with your right hand at about fret 20 without looking 2:02 Best of luck if you can do it in a lifetime... Max is astonishingly talented and I love watching his playing through time.

@thejazzbass76

5 ай бұрын

You can hear he’s telling a story

This kid is a gift to the world of music.

I have no idea how it's possible, but I've read some comments saying "this isnt music" & "no feeling, just fast playing for the sake of being fast". Listen, folks. Max is the best of the best. He has maximum economy. That means not wasting any muscle movement while playing. Guitar faces arent mandatory. He's telling a story through his notes & how he's arranged them. He is an absolute master of the art. I have no idea how someone could witness this & say anything other than how impressive it is. That's almost as mindblowing as the kid himself. Sorry, Max. Dont listen to those people. They have absolutely no idea what it means to be a good musician.

@Cheximus

3 жыл бұрын

Music is subjective, but this is objectively genius at work here. A prodigy who's going to reach Govan-esque heights.

@jojoversus1100

3 жыл бұрын

@@Cheximus You should go read the comments I'm referring to. Dudes username is Jordan Guitar. Scroll all the way down. Honestly, it's so ridiculously pompous it's worth a read. It's hilarious.

@JokesOnWokes

3 жыл бұрын

@@jojoversus1100 I’m POSITIVE that’s simply Jordan’s insecurities/mental defense system attempting to justify his own musical weakness. 99% of the time “No soul!/No feel!” = “I CAN’T PLAY THAT!”

@jojoversus1100

3 жыл бұрын

@@JokesOnWokes You read his comments, right? Was that not the most asinine thing you've ever read?

@jojoversus1100

3 жыл бұрын

@@JokesOnWokes He not only said Max wasnt very good, he also said he could play any of this in his sleep. What a joke lmao.

Do you know when you find really good music and you keep listening to it on loop till you're sick of it? I'm not getting sick of this, it has been 3 weeks, never happened before.

He has ascended!

He's dancing and twirling around on the fretboard. Guys, it's no longer about playing the board; it's about ice-skating on it! You feel me!! This is something that most guitar players will notice. In the game of guitar, he is truly a new artist.

@blackdog7275

2 жыл бұрын

Yep.

@panahuck9576

2 жыл бұрын

Exactly

@Martin-di5uv

5 ай бұрын

He's amazing yeah, but guthrie govan has been playing like this for years already

This guy is a beast !

@summonersummoner9536

3 жыл бұрын

Sophisticated

@stevenhubler7176

3 жыл бұрын

The best

@alexandreluizalves

3 жыл бұрын

He is beyond belief

@kennyparker8644

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah

I can usually listen to someone 'shred' for only a few minutes before it gets a bit boring. This guy changes up every few seconds. Simply incredible.

@kayokk-

Жыл бұрын

Yes, that's because it's not even shredding. The use of an intricate, beautiful approach and challenging, yet crucial journeys define Max Ostro's playing style. He constantly incorporates uncommon methods and techniques into his melodic, lyrical playing with a focus on creating beautiful melodies.

@karayuschij

7 ай бұрын

Listen Matteo Mancuso, another "over the top" guitarist

Uncredible musician, never heard anything like Max. A true guitar phantom👽🎸😎

This song is just a memorable piece of art. This kid is amazing!!

Lost count how many times i've listened to this!

@timtorkelson7201

5 ай бұрын

No shit!! Friggen awesome

I gave a Thumbs UP BEFORE I listened, I already KNOW! We ALL Do!

Max is a wonder on the instrument…truly at ease with the most difficult insane parts and makes it look effortless. He has no limits other than what he can imagine to do. Phenomenal player!

Max is one of those guitarists where as soon as you watch him you instantly know he’s just leagues above 99.99% of guitarists. His playing is masterful in every regard from musicality to technique and he makes it look effortless. True guitar god

The flow is just phenomenal, effortless phrasing and a liquid melody line throughout. The economy of his picking hand is insane, absolute precision. Good God man please release an album!!

@semoff

3 жыл бұрын

Nailed it. Sickest shredder of the last 10 years IMO. Let's see if he can find a real band.

@latemnf

3 жыл бұрын

The accuracy of the picking hand too, the way he can just throw his whole hand away from the guitar and come back in and pick a note without even looking is crazy to me.

@thepelch7285

3 жыл бұрын

When you said the flow is just phenominal I thought "yes that hair is quite nice. Great flow"

@deloscuroalbrillo2237

2 жыл бұрын

Ufffffffffffff great Bro monster guitar amazing

@chrislaux3

2 жыл бұрын

Is it improvised?

He is the most 80s looking old young guy

@bentnosewp

3 жыл бұрын

He’s got that pre 1992 USSR rock look

Why isn't this kid a huge star yet.

The ending is classic Max as usual. 😂

He instantly transposes what he hears in his head to the fret board without any latency. Now that is the ultimate musical talent. I can't see how you can progress any more than this other than telepathy.

@rdr.erased

Жыл бұрын

evh was like that too

What galaxy is he from? Insane. Melodic. Effortless.

@paulwilliams4474

2 жыл бұрын

lol

@james7275able

2 жыл бұрын

Yep. Makes it look too damn easy.

@esotericheretic3740

2 жыл бұрын

I think it's the same place Allan Holdsworth is from.

@lamoule74

Жыл бұрын

"Effortless", thats the word T__T

@andrewcramer9200

6 ай бұрын

Smooth af. Addictive.

Leaving aside the obvious virtuosity (which is what will garner the most oohs! and ahhhs!), there are so many musically interesting ideas in his playing, that make this much more interesting than a lot of the fusion playing doing the rounds these days or in the past! Everything is somewhat approachable and ear-friendly, too. No weirdness for the sake of complexity. Impressive, in a good way!

@jntaca

3 жыл бұрын

100% agreed. His phrasing is exquisite beyond the pirotecnic style.

@NeilTurnbull007

3 жыл бұрын

I was thinking the same thing , there is a sort of melodic maturity in this , with some sections reminding me of Greg Howe. The backing has some very interesting guitar that really compliments the lead.

@cpurage

3 жыл бұрын

Well when I first heard Max was on the Kiesel guitar contest and when I heard what he play I realized that he is genuine build style even back then with so many influences at once but very well build ! Like you can hear the baby child of Gilbert, Govan, Bumblefoot, Howe and many more in his style and lets not forget the fact that he is lightning fast and darn accurate as it should ... This is one of the most greatest virtuosic guitar player of all times ! I'm really glad he even answered me in some of the KZread comments I did !

@petermuller161

3 жыл бұрын

I know dude, those old school jazzers are willing to just meander off into the sunset while the audience is there acting so impressed. Max is right to the point

@5urg3x

3 жыл бұрын

I’m just not hearing it. To me it sounds like a total lack of actual catchy and memorable melodies, and just a bunch of generic weird jazzy sounding lines over jazzy sounding chord progressions, albeit played with an insanely amazing technicality. Elevator music, basically…I just can’t get into it, personally. But then again I grew up during the grunge era, Cobain playing an E major and then a C major and singing some crazy lyrics over it is the end of the world for me, it stops my heart. Haha…maybe Nirvana ruined me :(

This is the Weather Channel music we always needed and truly deserved.

@SeptemberChild1835

10 ай бұрын

Ha Ha Ha! Yeah! 👍😂🤣

It’s like a guitar epiphany every time I watch a video of his. He’s so freakishly good, and given his age is only bound to get even better. An absolute joy to watch and hear. 👍🏼

How anyone can play at this level for so long and somehow keep the whole piece fresh and interesting is beyond me. If I played to that backing track I'd be repeating ideas and phrases by the third cycle. The phrasing, note choices and technique of that lead was nothing less than superb. My mind is officially blown...

@codychickadee5095

Жыл бұрын

3 minutes zipped by so fast I couldn't believe it was over. Max continues to amaze me, for a young man his talent is so far beyond his years, he is a true pleasure to listen to.

@billypilgrim3969

Жыл бұрын

He said in a Q and A that it's his goal when improvising never to repeat the same phrases or ideas! You can really hear his vocabulary in this piece!

@stephenhensley5631

Жыл бұрын

Me too !

There's just no words really.. here is a young guy that just blows all our guitar heroes away. Music is not dead thank god

Liked before it even dropped. Max Rules.

Best I’ve ever heard. Bar None.

@hughjeale1948

2 жыл бұрын

At last someone has said the truth

This guy is just so good. You'd expect hearing the stuff he plays to be someone with decades of experience, yet I bet he's hardly decades old. Absolutely insane talent. People can wax about how good someone's fret work is about being a good guitarist but a lot of this guys sound comes from that picking hand. He just knows how to use them both with such expertise it's honestly mind blowing. Truly a master at his age, I can't wait to see what else he puts out.

@hughjeale1948

2 жыл бұрын

Perfectly put Sir. I just can’t stop listening to this number and 2 or 3 others. That’s just not happening with Govan, Gilbert and Co…one or two plays from them and I’m back here again!!

@Istisaac

2 жыл бұрын

He is 16 years old now

Отвал фляги произошёл какая вкуснятина!

No1 , no questions asked.

Не выразить словами, насколько изысканно это звучит! Спасибо за море эмоций!

@user-mw1pk8wk4x

2 ай бұрын

да, музыкальный вкус у Макса отличный - это действительно изысканно😇

Greg Howe.....the next chapter... Great job Max

The lad shreds ...and he shreds all day long 🎉🎶 ❤🎶 🎉

I’ve never seen someone play a guitar so effortless as he do! This is just different

Max is easily up there with the best guitarists in the world.

@Raulenriquedd

3 жыл бұрын

totally agree, he is going up!!!

@nowmonk

3 жыл бұрын

Along with Mateo Mancuso if I am allowed to say...

@Jordanguitar

3 жыл бұрын

Can you sing a melody he’s written? In public on the spot?

@padywac1970

3 жыл бұрын

@@Jordanguitar yes.

@Jordanguitar

3 жыл бұрын

@@padywac1970 🤣

I make “stank face” just tuning my shit up. I would look like I’m having a stroke trying to play some of those licks. Now I’m inspired…inspired to throw my guitar away. Keep it up, beautiful playing…

Extremely good and young, listening to and seeing him is a delight, I wish him all the best, a job like this deserves it.

This Guy is Fu*** great... I believe is the best!!! He plays everything great

Hearing Govan in there, but also hearing some Greg Howe influences in there too. One of the best players in this genre that ive seen in a few years at least. Bravo Max..

@joker57

3 жыл бұрын

I hear a bit of richie kotzen in there also

@raksh9

3 жыл бұрын

Definitely hearing some Greg Howe in there.

@hs1607

2 жыл бұрын

Tom Quayle too

@kayokk-

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, both are audible, but Howe is a solid influence there. The phrasing angles especially. Riff entries and exits.. so Howe. But, Max is all of Shrapnel records in a smoothie form. Gorgeous player!

@raksh9

2 жыл бұрын

@@kayokk- Remember when everyone who signed to Shrapnel did a neoclassical album? Then they went and did their own thing, almost like Mike Varney made a neoclassical album part of their contract. Greg Howe, Vinnie Moore, lots of those guys. Firkins is the only one I can think of who didn't, but maybe it was after the Shrapnel shred era.

The way his fingers move just boggles my mind.

This kid is awesome, there have been a lot guitarist that could play fast but frequently it’s just fast and not that musical this kids riffs are melodic and fast

1.01 woh !!! Amazing virtuosity high level !!!

His playing is beyond great, but what really gets me every time is his composure. He is so sure of himself, and he puts every ounce of being into every note, and lack there of. A true musician's musician. All hail M. Ostro!

Clearly Max is a major league player. Great technique and nice amount of risk taking as well. He does not sound too shreddy. There is music behind the moves.

He’s feeling it in his bones it just doesn’t show on his face. And personally, I’m totally here for it!

@iamsancho443

6 ай бұрын

Prolly those Russian and British genetics xD

Max Ostro very good .

Макс - великолепная игра! нет слов выразить восхищение! Успехов тебе!

Its sickening that's he's this seasoned of a guitar player at such a young age. But I'm glad because he's carrying the future of shred into the future 👍🤘

@ManfredElsingBielefeld

3 жыл бұрын

This is truely unbeleaveble.....great playing!

@pdub4600

3 жыл бұрын

Sickening?

@JoseReyes-fz8xs

3 жыл бұрын

Carrying the future into the future?

@sansubr

8 ай бұрын

@@dr.faustus922 There is a future for everything if one knows how to use it.

Perfect in every way

I accidentally clicked on this video and glad I did. I had to watch til the end. Excellent. Just excellent.

Being him when playing guitar may be like being able to scratch absolutely any part of your body in any way you want.

Max is in that finely tuned spot where virtuosity meets creativity, and it's mind blowing. The whole track is killer, but that accuracy after 2:00 is lethal

I have a new favorite song now

Man.. that little harmonic while already bending at 0:03 gives you the whole idea on how the dude is starting.. mesmerizingly clean

How can you watch this and then dislike it? This guy is amazing

Max Monstro what a beast..

In order for a guitarist to play with feeling, he must invoke feelings in the listener. When I hear max play I am flooded with emotions. Happiness, excitement, wonder, and many others. No one else besides Mateo plays with as much emotion and technique as Max. The way he strings together notes and melody is next level. I enjoy a lot of great guitarist out there but this kid, forget about it.

He rocks!

I'm pretty sure Max is mocking me... Bet ya can't play this, no i cannot sir. Never change this so refreshing and unique. Well done.

He did it again. Don't ever stop Max. Thanks for sharing your talent with us.

Amazing

HUGE !!

His note choices are perfect 👌🏻

1'08 love this dance attitude! So fresh in the middle of a guitar improvisation... Kudos 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

holy smokes! @2:16 that is very unorthodox and awesome!

The ultimate in muscle memory training. 🎉 ❤

I love the wood of the fretboard and headstock of this Ibanez. Max is killing it, per usual 🤘

Just absolutely amazing! Bravo Max!

I got [frisson] goosebumps here!!! Beautiful!!!

Max Ostro, un Mostro

Thanks you so much JTC Guitar, after "Joker" now "Promenade " keep promoting this genius Max Ostro just loving it, his playing is another level and can't wait enough to hear his full album of this vibe. GOOD LUCK

This is the best guitar piece I think I will ever witness. Truly its perfection in my eyes. WOW WOW AND WOW.

@hughjeale1948

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree. You can parade all the big names out there but I have never heard anyone play like this

@SeptemberChild1835

10 ай бұрын

Exaggerate much??

The future of guitar gods, Max Ostro is one of them

absolutely GENIUS

Whatever spectrum this guy is on, I wish I was on it. So clean and amazing vibe.

This young guys talent is insane. Everything about his look, playing style and music is totally 80s

Jesus, that tone is heavenly 😉

Damn! That mode change @ 1:37 is soooooooooooooooooooooooooo tasty!! 😢😂

Max, one of the best out there atm. He flows with such ease, with chops and technique to spare but still sounding melodic. None of his absolute shreddery comes off as just to shred. Well done my friend.

I'm so jealous of him.. He's very good guitarist.. For him, playing a guitar just like eating a peanut.. Best bruhh

Max sometimes looks at the guitar as if he was wondering - what is it? Some living creature !!?! What's going on? Real magic!

Wow!!! Amazing! Hugs from Brazil!

I can't even string 2 simple chords together and this guy is playing like this while hardly looking! Nice work mate! 👍

Крутой парняга! Завидую по доброму.

Magic sound

Genius

Max should be more famous. This is once in a generation kind of talent.

The best thing about this guy's playing is how he always seems to use his shredding to amplify his phrasing, not just for the sake of being fast. Shredding with purpose.

most times I 'like' a video I like almost immediately... this one i've watched about 50 times in the last month or two and and just realized i didn't 'like' it. That's how you know it's good! simply incredible.

Max ostro uses a guitar as it was intended. He makes his guitar sing. His articulation in his runs are absolutely amazing. He would have to be the best guitarist of his generation. Absolutely insanely amazing 👏 🤘🤘🤘👏👏👏👏👏👏

A very enjoyable 2 minutes, and forty-nine second escape from it all. I am just a casual-follower of Max, but wow, how have you progressed from just some kid with talent. Really, really impressive.

Max is proof that humans are evolving. The stuff that he plays effortlessly was considered impossible a few years ago.

@RAREFORMDESIGNS

3 жыл бұрын

Not true.

@rudybigboote3883

3 жыл бұрын

@@RAREFORMDESIGNS Name 1 guitarist before the year 2000 who played at the level of guys like Max, Guthrie Govan, Tim Henson, etc. Go ahead, I’ll wait.

@drewb5775

2 жыл бұрын

@@rudybigboote3883 EVH

@rudybigboote3883

2 жыл бұрын

@@drewb5775 No doubt about it EVH is a legend who popularized the whole two handed tapping thing but the level of the game has gone up since then. I actually think that the most technically proficient guitarists pre 2K were guys like John Petrucci, Paul Gilbert, Marty Friedman among others. However… not even those guys are at the level of Guthrie Govan, Plini, Tim Henson and the other current guitar virtuosos. Everything evolves man… everything!

@dragomirkanalev9701

2 жыл бұрын

Frank Gambale,Brett Garsed,Allan Holdsworth,Greg Howe and many more.They are waaaaay before 2000 :) And they have so many brilliant records.Anyway...MAX is Monster for his age!!!I hope we will see him in many projects, not just short improvisations and solos.

His playing sounds like it´s his natural form of expression... no words needed + it´s funky/rockin´like hell!!! Colo back track too!

Astounding Technique!!

Max is reading scientific papers to solve mathematical problems while playing the guitar. Too easyyyy.

@murphy9238481

3 жыл бұрын

while*

@murphy9238481

3 жыл бұрын

mathematical*

@roba1899

3 жыл бұрын

easy peasy .. lemon squeezy.

Finally Guthrie's successor has arrived!! I don't think I've seen before so much technical prowess entirely devoted to musicality. There's no spurious technical ities, it's all to serve the music. I'm so glad to be alive to witness this talent develop in real time.

Mad respect for this guitar nerd from That '70s Show.

GIFTED😎 most underrated !