Luca Stricagnoli - Sweet Child O' Mine (Guitar)

"Sweet Child O' Mine" by Guns N' Roses arranged and performed by Luca Stricagnoli

[LucaStricagnoli]

Just came here after some time, and I am so happy to read your comments. Thank you, everyone! And I am always grateful to Candyrat Records for giving me a chance back then.

[alphacause]

There are guitarists that are good. There are guitarists who are excellent. There are guitarists who could be considered geniuses or virtuosos. Then there is the type of guitarist who demonstrates such an uncanny level of skill - such a prodigious amount of talent - that you think that he is not human. This sort of guitarist is on such a level, with his creativity and dexterity, that he makes you reevaluate your worth as a human being. Luca Stricagnoli is that type of guitarist. His playing, as demonstrated here, is nothing short of a superpower in its own right. I stand in awe of you sir!

[bloodybutunbowed]

I played guitar for 26yrs, I can no longer play. I was a passenger in an automobile accident and am now a quadriplegic, paralyzed from the shoulders down. Right after my accident, I could not even listen to music anymore for like 5yrs! Then I found this video. I got so emotional, I bawled my eyes out! Slowly now, because of your amazing talent... I can begin to enjoy music again...
Thank you for that, Luca.

[craigturbyfield]

He is the number one and the number two guitarist of all time

[chriskindler]

9 years later, and this is STILL completely insane and deserves to be seen by anyone who loves this song, acoustic guitar, or immense mathematical and physical control and

Love this!!!

[RyanConnop]

I saw this guy live. He performs this song last in his set because he says himself it's the hardest one he does. Any musician watching this will know just how amazing it really is (not that other people can't be equally impressed). But he has his guitar tuned so that when he takes a capo off, which was only half covering the fretboard, and moves the other one, he's switched keys from major to minor. Simple in theory, but I've never seen anyone else do it. Luca is playing the lead, rhythm, drums, bass, and vocals all at the same time. To tell you the truth, I'm not even really into this kind of playing. I like the Randy Rhodes and SRVs and Pages of the world, but this guy is on his own level.

[sadfvsdavn]

0:00 Do you have Tabs for that?
0:05 Nevermind...

[freelancer]

I'm not sure which amazes me more: Luca Stricagnoli's incredible performance of this song on a dual guitar setup, or the thousand people who've disliked this video, combined with all the negative critiques of his playing ability. I play guitar, but am NOT an accomplished guitarist; however, because I've played the instrument, I recognize and appreciate the intense amount of focus and concentration that is required to play the rhythm on one guitar, while simultaneously playing the melody on a separate guitar.


MOST people can only focus on doing one thing at a time. On any given day you can easily witness evidence of that fact if you drive a car on public roadways. I'll be driving down the highway behind someone going 10 or 15 miles below the speed limit, all the while observing them swaying from one side of the lane to other, and occasionally, they'll cross over into the adjacent lane, and then swerve back into their own lane. When I get to a place where I can pass them, as I go by, I'll look and see that they are talking on their cell phone, which is the very reason why they are driving so slowly and drifting back and forth in the lane. When people can't talk and drive at the same time without losing the concentration required to focus on their driving, then I think it's pretty damned amazing that this guy has such a high level of concentration and focus, that he can play two guitars at the same time, regardless of the arrangement.

[jackofnone]

I had the great good fortune of watching Luca perform this LIVE on Tuesday as part of the International Guitar Night US tour 2017. For anyone who doubts, there are no tricks here, other than pure virtuosity. He has to tune to three different capos on the main guitar before playing, and he does switch between them on the fly, all the while maintaining that wonderful percussion. Unreal. Unimaginable. Unforgettable. He shared the stage with 3 other talented guitarists, and the duets were incredible. The tour is in Natick MA tonight, and then they head out to the west coast. If you are going to be anywhere near one of the stops, you owe it to yourself to go.

International Guitar Night 2017 Tour FEBRUARY DATES

14 Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Sun Valley ID
15 Ellen Theatre, Bozeman MT
16 Myrna Loy Center, Helena MT
17 Harris Center, Folsom CA
18 Herbst Theatre, San Francisco CA
19 Bankhead Theatre, Livermore CA
22 California Center for the Arts, Escondido CA
23 Bing Crosby Theatre, Spokane WA
24 Mount Baker Theatre, Bellingham WA
25 Kent Meridien Performing Arts Center, Kent WA
26 Warren Miller Performing Arts Center, Big Sky MT

[jpmontez]

The ultimate definition of "one-man show"... amazing.

[bernardsanke]

I thought I would have seen it all with my 64 years of age, but what I am watching now is the climax of guitar playing. I am struck by Luca's calmness and ingenuity as he is playing his instruments at a level that clearly defies believe. Although this video was posted five years ago, I cannot help but leave a comment at this brilliant piece of performance.

[bobbo]

I’ll never play with the kind of talent and skill Luka has but I’ll never stop playing—playing music is so satisfying to my soul.

[MrGuitaristgamer]

So everyone's seen a guy play a 3-neck guitar at this point. But this here is so insanely creative and original and clever. He switches the capos around just before solo like a pro.
He added a set of strings to one guitar just to get all the vocal notes tuned to an open string. His percussive skills on the guitar is amazing too. You'll probably never see a guitar player like Luca Stricagnoli anywhere. He's truly one of a kind.

[cdnprogressive]

oh man I love the way he didn't tone down the accompaniment during the solo. He actually turned it UP to flow with the lead properly and just played the solo within the rest of the mix. I've probably heard every cover available of this song especially solo and acoustic covers and this is the only one that kept the power of the original jam. Hell, he outclassed it. Mind-bending!

[pranavvashistha]

If there is limit to human skill, creativity or talent this guy just broke all of them amazing

[zerosiii]

Holy fucking shit
This beats Dawes' Somebody That I Used to Know cover hands down
I mean, the amount of guitar manipulation he does here is incredible. 
Spider capos, multiple capos, dynamic capo changing, switching capos mid song, two guitars at once, a modified guitar with extra strings, god knows which tunings
I'm just speechless.

[Morashiv]

3:44 best part -- the build up into key change into INCREDIBLE

[jessicafowler]

everyone hears music, some feel it in their very soil. Luca hears, feels, touches, tastes, and sees it, then projects it to others. This is beyond words, it is food for the soul.

[CarcanoGaming]

It's like the dude has two separate brains and dexterity functions to be able to play two different melodies on two different guitars at the same time with one hand focusing on each... How in the world his musical brain can process to play each melody at once with each individual hand is just legend...

[oJiiOOWGkSjNuNQ]

I have never seen such performances. Beyond paradise