This is a video of 7th grader Tanner Benedict, who’s been playing guitar for four years, performing a metal medley on electric guitar at his school talent show. He’s, uh, he’s pretty good. His set list, which I begged him for his hard copy of after the show along with
This is a video of what Marvin Gaye’s rendition of ‘I Heard It Through The Grapevine’ sounds like with his vocals isolated. SPOILER: Amazing. Man….what a voice. For reference, my voice kinda sounds like– “A cross between a garbage disposal full of gravel and a fart in an airport bathroom.”
This is a timelapse video of an insanely large drumkit being set up at concert venue Turock in Essen, Germany. It’s allegedly the world’s biggest, but Youtuber Dr. Mark Temperato begs to differ. In his own words, which certainly sounded like fighting words to me: It takes 4 drum tech’s
This is a video of flutist Ariana Piknjac and sister/pianist Ella Piknjac performing a lovely rendition of The Simpsons theme on their respective instruments. Delightful, wasn’t it? I felt like I was right there in Springfield, racing to the sofa along with the rest of the family. I’m not though,
This is a video of skinny Batman covering Han’s Zimmer’s ‘No Time For Caution’ from Interstellar on the accordion. You might not think an accordion cover isn’t going to work, but it works. Me? I am not going to work, I’m just going to pound on my keyboard and pretend
Because the internet knows what you need even better than you do, this is Blur’s 1997 banger ‘Song 2’, with all the woo-hoos performed by Mario. It was exactly what I needed on a Wednesday afternoon to lift my spirits and help– “It’s Friday.” What what what! *blasts off through
This is a video of guitarist Luca Stricagnoli covering The Beatles’ ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ on acoustic guitar along with his latest invention, the “reverse slide neck”, attached to the bottom of the instrument. Luca says the slide can easily be attached or removed in a matter of seconds,
This is a video of one-man band, unconvincing unicorn and Tik Tok user aaronpaulsen1 performing all the instrumentation for the intro of Rage Against The Machine’s ‘Killing In The Name Of’. I was skeptical at first, but he did a good job. As good a job as I could have