Gwenifer Raymond TD

Never heard of Gwenifer Raymond but she is quick! Never seen anybody play that fast and aggressively at the same time. I probably wont be listening to her outside of this Tiny Desk but her playing is impressive. She must have about a million practice hours and counting :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

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I haven’t heard of her either and it sure is impressive. Her thumb is acting independently of the other fingers. The speed comes from alternating between her 1st and 2nd fingers, gives you twice as many notes as 1 finger alone.

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Impressive indeed. If she keeps this up, she’ll have her own trigger in no time.
Fun to see that it’s already starting… :grin:

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It makes my thumb tired just watching. :grinning_face:

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Hi Sonyal!
Gotta admit - Gwenifer is very fast but that particular song at the first of the concert wasn’t ā€œmusicalā€ to me…

Here’s a couple of my favorite ā€œSpeedyā€ efforts:

and -

Roy Clark was a big surprise the first time I saw this video…
John Butler is an amazing player…

Hope you like these 2 clips… thanks for your post!!! :grinning_face_with_big_eyes:

Tod

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I have to agree with Tod, what she’s doing isn’t that difficult as long as you’re picking hand is fast. She’s in an open tuning so if you watch her fretting hand she’s not doing much.

There are lots of very fast players that play fast with out being in open tuning which is a lot harder. Even harder while playing with someone else.

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Yeah, I hadn’t heard of her either, super impressive!

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First video was definitely the fastest I’ve ever seen, wow! I really enjoyed the second video! To get that tone at that sleed speed requires so much control- very nice :grinning_face_with_big_eyes:

Well that was technically impressive, but to my ears wholly unpleasant to listen to.

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I think she is pretty rad.

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