It's pleasant random noodling. It sounds OK but I personally think it lacks any kind of musical direction. It doesn't come across as a piece of music. It's like if someone picks up a guitar in a guitar shop and starts playing if they don't play someone else's music they'll typically play some pentatonic stuff you kind of know they're not really playing anything they're just noodling. All the Anderton's guitarists do this too - I think that's possibly because they don't want to play famous riffs for fear of copyright issues and they're not very skilled musically to create something. I think it's marked if you see Guthrie Govan demonstrating his guitar - he has far more ability to set a tone on his guitar and construct a piece of music rather than just noodling - and there's a marked difference even compared with he just noodles if, for example, he's talking about that very subject of how people use the pentatonic scale. But, it seems unlikely given that pretty much every guitar player on the planet who has been playing for more than a few months can do this that it's a sign of genius. Right? A few musicians write pieces of music. They'll note that if, say, you wanted to play rhapsody in blue by Gershwin there's a much more complicated structure, it's not just noodling notes from a scale. When you look at the structure of a random noodle vs a composition I think it self evident that the former is lesser and not only requires far less of the performer but far less of the listener too. I'd argue that, if there's a genius playing the guitar that his solo pieces will sound like this complex, structured music and not like random pentatonic noodling. Like Ted Greene's pieces do, for example. So that genius can't be Chris Buck. The only structure I see in evidence is from the rest of his band. When they're playing the verses and choruses then the random noodling thing stops for a bit. Albeit the music is not of the high complexity that you'd normally associate with genius is it? It's very straightforward popular music - nothing wrong with it, it has an audience but it's not genius. And even if it took a genius 50 years or more ago to invent it, 5+ decades later pretty much anyone can do it after a short amount of study. It's like in maths maybe Pythagoras was a genius to note some facts about triangles but you can teach his formula to school children now - these children are not geniuses. In more complex music, e.g a Beethoven piano sonata you can see the structure on the page and most definitely hear it. How he plays a motif and later refers to it. There are multiple parts in different registers creating rhythm, counterpoint and harmony even on the same instrument. It's like listening to for the love of god or cliffs of dover - the evidence of composition is there. Noodling? It sounds pleasant enough but it's not on the same level musically is it? Whereas whenever I hear Chris play anything he's just noodling some pentatonic stuff. It's technically ok he's clean, the strings are being fretted properly etc, but it's never a piece of music. I won't remember anything he played 2 minutes after hearing it and you can't really tell one bit of his noodling from the next. I'd suggest that's mostly because creating and playing a piece of music is much more difficult both to come up with and to perform than noodling randomly is. If you search any number of youtube guitarists who have learned a few "jazzy" chords they are playing them randomly. It's rare to find one who can use them to create a piece of music - and even if they get a backing track (which is a ready made structure) they just noodle over the top - and that is the easiest part of learning guitar. Single note soloing without any structure or aim.

@@michael1 have you heard any of his music?

@@SorenAraujo I've heard him playing the guitar in numerous settings, this video being one and others where there's a couple of people singing a drummer and a bass player which I assumed was a band and no, I've never heard any music per se in these contexts just someone noodling away random stuff. Unfortunately if you're interested in yamaha revstar and start searching for the guitar youtube starts feeding you this stuff.

Hmmm 🤔… I feel like Hendrix was the first to really throw major notes into the minor scale… Red House

@@Domn879 That’s true… The original blues guy’s did it first but Hendrix took it to another level

Anybody who understands jamming over chord changes and trying to build up to a climax does this... anything else is repetitive and more or less just fills

@@ficknoti Except when Clapton was literally inventing long improvised blues rock solos and the overdriven Marshall sound, nobody did it as well as him with Cream and in tunes like this....and they still probably haven't. The clue was in the word I used "master'....Have you ever played anything that rivals this solo? Let's hear it then.

I'd mistake him to DAVID GILMOUR. 1st time I heard him I thought this is so controlled and every note a symphony.

GREAT guitarist...MEDIOCRE songs....BORING band....:)

most annoying part of the guitar community.. people always asking for tabs

Some of us learned how to play with tab books back before the internet. Some of us still look up the tab to a song that catches our fancy and think "Hmmm, I sort of see what you are doing there, I'll keep playing".

@@BoxTunnel tabs makes you a worse musician. It doesn't teach you how to read music, and it hurts your ear training. It's like everything else in the last ten years.. we can't be bothered actually learning something on our own, we need it now, with little effort.

@@obhmusic I can read music, however when I first picked up a guitar 30 years ago tab made more sense to me as a visual guide to what I was supposed to be doing. Many great guitarists do not read music, yet they have great ears. However, after re-reading my post it was a little confrontational for which I apologise as this was not my intent. I have edited it slightly.

@@BoxTunnel I never said you couldn't. I said reading tabs doesn't teach reading music.

Did you know that is a HWY 1 strat?

@@shckltnebay how could it be a hwy1 if the headstock is not the 60s/70s one?

@@joeysgear1419 he has videos about it on his channel

You mean slosh

I notice that there seems to be a lot of young players of the youtube generation who has this sorta sliding rather than hammer on/off style. You see him do it here a lot, but there's also that girl that Mayer did a shout out for that's pretty awesome as well. They both seem to hit that style and its not quite how I've seen a guy like Hendrix or SRV do it in the sense of as often. Lends a different vibe to their play despite it often being in a style we're familair with.

Yes, this is a different vibe indeed, trending among contemporary players. However, besides this, I feel Chris has something distinct in his style, his own spices, which makes him special.

@@LeviGuitar Yes, beyond that little way of playing licks he has a way of phrasing things. He's already his own player where he's navigated all his influences and is more than just a sum of them. First time I heard him play was on That Pedal Show and it was just so nice to see how he plays when he's fooling around and not just as a song.

Find yourself a guitar with a narrow nut width. A vintage Fender 1.625" or one of those Yamaha 611s with a 1.615".

PauL TerL on his channel (Buck & Evans) he has a video about his strat. It's been months since I've watched it but I think it's a Highway One? Strat with his signature pickups from Radioshop. Hope this helps

@@willis2396 Uh, thanx, I was just curioius.

@@xandermohan6331 yeah, it sound well! Thamk you very much.

It increases the vibrato of a note.

It can add subtle vibrato to a chord

Its more kinda soul-ish blues, but i get why you'd think that

Christ, I wish I'd had the same book you had 😂

Tortex the purple ones

Very good. Made me chuckle😊

Haha, it sounds amazing, right!? Even when he's just running a scale, it's like wt?! (I just busted out the strat cos of this. Put the prs & lp to the side for a sec!)

you sure you can tell its the exact same one? theres a lot of strats that are sunburst xD

It’s a highway one with the radioshop chris buck id sig pups

@@WhataDayDan Sure. Just complementing his playing really.

It's because you probably don't have hair like his.

I hear a lot of Hendrix in both of them , I love Chris and John - they are carrying the flame for the next generation 🙏🏻

sammy reynolds yes that’s where he got it and made it his own along with watching Buddy Guy.