Thank you for sharing. R.I. P.

God Bless you fellow sailor ! When i was in boot camp in early 70's (San Diego) after Mass @ the Catholic Chapel on base, the priest invited a recruit to play for us ......"Classical Gas" and he nailed it !!! This was just a few years after the release of this hit song, no internet etc......amazing . I can only suspect his intent was to go Navy Musician school complete his tour and get G.I. Bill for Julliard.

God bless you,my friend. And from one US military veteran to another, thank you for your service. It's hard to watch someone die. I've had to do it over a dozen times.

La música en tu tiempo era oro puro. Seguro volverás a ver a tu amiga en otro tiempo y lugar.

@@debussy3222 i was fortunate to have grown up in that era. The music today... I flush more valuable things down the toilet.

If it sounds perfect, what does 3% matter?

That's true but she was also playing 8 hours a day in her early years, that's a lot of practice to get good!

@@Romans8-9 Right. You're exactly right. 👍 19 years ago I went to Europe to play a 5 country, 13 concert solo guitar tour, and practiced for 4 to 8 hours per day for 6 months, playing all the sets in order to "muscle memory" them and try to perfect them. It only took the first month to go from 80% to 90% proficiency but it took the other 5 months to get from 90% to 97% proficiency. Any musician who is in that level of playing will tell you those last 3% are like approaching the speed of light. It's impossible to get past 98%. My comment from 2 years ago puts her video at 10 or 11 years ago. The difference between them and now is absolutely amazing. I'll just sit on the sidelines now, and listen to masters like Gabriella and Mike Dawes... My mom died 3 weeks after I completed my China / Malaysia/Singapore/Japan tour a few years after Europe. It took all the wind out of my sails and I don't play anymore. I utterly quit playing after some live stuff in 2010. No desire to play, though I've got guitars and a violin right beside me. In the late 90's I was telling some students of mine that "The DESIRE TO PLAY is that GIFT OF MUSIC saying, HERE I AM, WORK ME. Music is a form of spiritual communication" One of them said, "I just read that somewhere." I said "I wouldn't doubt it I've been saying it for 20+ years since the mid-70's." Nathan said, "No, I read it in a magazine." Next day he brought a "Guitar" magazine from an interview with Michael Hedges just before he died, where he said that last part... that music was a form of spiritual communication. Why do we enjoy music so much? I mean GOOD music that actually transcends this dimension into a different dimension, closer to God's dimension where He dwells alone. I'm not talking about K-Pop or backstreet blokes, or pop music. (Pop is short for popcorn pumper music. Manufactured) We know the answer to that question. Music is the language of the soul to another soul. If it is inspired, it has 10,000 times more impact than uninspired music.

Who, in their right mind, complains about her playing? Do people really do that?

Did anyone really complain?? She played it perfectly. Holy moly

@@jasonfella265 Yeah there are some real jerks out there. Plus 278 thumbs down. Go figure

This is absolutely my favorite version of this tune. Why would anyone complain?

@@roadwarrier7358 "Why would anyone complain?" Because some people are jerks!

Even more unbelievable, she's only 23 years old now. She was 15 when this was recorded. Gabriella Evelina Quevedo (born 12 January 1997, Kinna, Sweden)--Wikipedia

Thesaurus as well! (ditto)

Damn Colin, that was what I was gonna say...(not). Very beautiful and accurate commentary.

cool name , I'll do it too

@@anastasiavolkov7245 read again today its up

@@anastasiavolkov7245 Views don't update instantly on the video itself. But yes, repeat views DO count. Source: KZfaq Studio statistics.

Me too, I think I have contributed a 1000 views.

Obviously she has some natural talent but she also practised 5-8 hours a day in her beginning years. That's hard work!

It's not perfect but there such a natural way about her music. Someone could play that perfectly and still miss what she's doing.

They’re there on any kind of music video,always criticizing and finding fault with everything,I don’t think they are very intelligent.

In music timing is everything. If your are not born with it then must learn it. Tempo is critical to successful performance just like memory. If you don't have it you must learn it.

How do you know what Mason Williams would think, you simp?

eddie lasowsky i think he’s probably right,you moron.

She is priceless.ive never seen a mistake in her videos.

Love that feeling of being in the pocket. It's like a little taste of heaven.

Have you ever heard of Sergio Quevedo?

@Joe Duke was it really difficult... I mean can any type of music, like classical be self taught? Thx

@@rabiesdogchalot492 it’s a challenge but as long as you have patience with yourself and take it step by step and are consistent…you can learn any style, genre, instrument purely by teaching yourself.

Sergio does not play fingerstyle.

She is a superstar

Excellent!!!

Hank Clark It did move me emotionally and physically. Got a warm feeling & a physical rush.

*brava

Me too, time and time again. ;-)

Wonderful

👍👍👍👍lindo

Look up FENG E. AMAZING

I play it solo to myself in the late 60's, and played at that tempo as well.

Because if you sacrifice the essence of the song with stunted overlapping notes that are often accidentally muted and cut short by playing too fast you no longer have a coherent composition. i'm sure Ray Charles did a fine job provided he did not make those sacrifices. Tempo is established based upon the composition and can vary from artist to artist .

@@sbalak "stunted overlapping notes that are often accidentally muted...", That's a possibility, but not a rule of thumb. I've watched other videos from her where she plays at a lower tempo, and people will still criticize her. Though I def agree here, but also about covers: "Tempo is established based upon the composition and can vary from artist to artist".

Load of BS

Dude for real she plays it way faster than I can too

In the classical repertoire, this is a simple piece. This young lady plays it very well.

***** , Yes! Absolutely.

sowelu924 the look & that pretty smile . . . awesome!

Barbara Dixon I couldn't have said it better........And this young lady IS incredible !

Barbara Dixon Lol defensive much? Fact is fact. If the tempo is off, then the tempo is off. Nothing to get defensive about. You don't have to be a rocket scientist, or in this case, a classical guitarist, to point this out. I seriously have no idea how, in your world, someone has to be better than you to criticize your work. What you said is as silly as saying, "Don't you dare point out someone's spelling errors unless you're a better writer than them!!"

Underr Siegee Did you happen to see that line of text up above, the one just below "Published on Mar, 2012?" Yes, the next line down that says "arranged by Ulli ...." That word "arranged" brings with it all the artistic license you can use to do anything you want. Play it faster. Play it slower. Play it upside-down and backward. It is YOUR ARRANGEMENT and IS NOT meant to be an exact, note-by-note meter-perfect reproduction of the original.Your "Fact is fact" point is baseless and myopic.

I agree Tim....and that is correct. artistic licence is one's own rendition of a score etc... Excellent point !

Barbara Dixon Thank you I am also a fan of guitar and everything involved. If this was a live performance then OK sure, the tempo is off, Darn, but its not. its an amazing young girl showing off her talent. not because she is bragging but because people can often get signed this way. She is very talented andI' sure that if she wanted to that she could have perfect tempo. And Gabriella, Well done :)

This is Ulli Boegershausen's arrangement. That doesn't take away from her awesomeness though.

You are quite right , Tommy Emmanuel seems to need always unnecessary frills. I wonder if he could play the songs the way they are meant to, I suspect not. Artists who need these frills are allways hiding something.I don't like listening to him either. Gabriella rules!

Thought it was just me! Totally agree with both comments.

@@rs7349 I enjoy them both. I balk at the line "..play the songs the way they were meant to.." as if the original version is the only way somethings ever meant to be played. Most artists get tired of the same old way and tweak their own songs all the time

ITAMrPink I agree. There is technical skill - which Tommy Emmanuel has by the truckload - and there is musicality. Most of the time when I listen to Tommy Emanuel it just sounds too fast. Sure every note is correct, and the virtuosity is dazzling, but he plays so fast it crushes the natural, beautiful sustain of acoustic guitar into a flurry or percussive ‘drum rolls’. Which even then is fine for a traditionally percussive, fast genre like flamenco. But it really sucks the soul out of blues or melodic finger style pieces in his repertoire. Nice to know I’m not the only one who feels this way.

@@Ric-Phillips i partially agree as well, but I found his arrangement online and some of his moves are better than the original. I think a combination would sound good.

@Mr. Eric Moonwalk Sorry buddy, I'm here because Gabriella is a world class guitarist.

yes same here world class..