john doe didn t i tell you john doe to shut the fuck up? Ps: wish i knew who decided clapton was god. The poor guy is boring to death. "You look wonderful, tonight" waow. "Leila, got me on my knew." Etc.. John.. how about that shine box it told you to go get earlier? Go home and get it

74dart man he's the one who taught toby how to play

Harold Joy that's awesome! Music is in his blood! His uncle is a fabulous teacher, for sure!

Tony Gleeson i absolutely agree with everything you say!! i've played and replayed this so many times now. the solo at 3:30 is exquisite!! often less is more. slow bent note is blues in its purest form imo. i definitely think that in kids there's a tendency towards showmanship and associating skill with playing as many notes as possible as fast as possible!! another young guitarist who seems to think like this is dustin tomsen in germany who recently put out a video of himself just playing faster and faster in three speeds!! i asked him recently if he would consider playing some guitar with his dad who is a guitarist on youtube. he says that he will soon so i'm looking forward to that and hopefully having his dad on with him will lead to some serious playing because he's very talented if not all that prolific in his output but also seems to get a bit giddy at times!! generally gain speed lose feel and without feel blues becomes soulless. perhaps guitaring is like life and you just slow down naturally as you get older!? toby is a very bright kid and still only thirteen. long career ahead of him!! in most instances i'd rather hear him play than some adult guitarist because there's a freshness and almost experimental quality in his playing that I find so musically exciting. only brandon niederauer in the states impresses me as much as toby. it's top of the premier league stuff and i'm following both teams!!

I find it really interesting how his face completely changes when he begins to play. His focus is great. He has very good listening skills and seems to draw inspiration from everyone he plays with. He also has very subtle but effective communication skills - looking at other musicians, nodding, smiling and then waiting with some considerable humility until someone gives him permission to go for it! And then he does.!! I know some don't like his presentation style but to me he comes across as a very bright young lad with good 'in front of the camera' skills and THEN he begins to play. I love it when anyone has clearly 'found their thing' and what he has achieved is a result of hours of work. How great would it be if he hooked up with Avery Molek?

Tony Gleeson it's uncanny!! like you're reading my very own thoughts!! again i agree with everything you say. if you look a little bit more deeply into things it often pays dividends in the form of insights!! i have now listened to toby's "bluest blues" 200 plus times and i'm still amazed by the sheer musical brilliance of his playing of it!! compositionally as well. previously i called him the "young mozart of the guitar"!! i noticed on bb that as you say his face changes and he almost looks a different person at really intense moments of playing. he's "in the zone" as they say and it's beautiful to watch!! concentration is key to success at everything in life!! in so many ways brandon niederauer is the same as toby. one of his youtube videos playing with ghost note and mononeon is described in the header as a "face melting solo"!! i've noticed with toby that even at eight or nine years old if you study his back videos from then like "8yr old blues sensation" or say "happy blues on dad's strat" at 9yrs his playing seems brilliantly smooth and flowing even then!! a lot of my favourite stuff of his comes from this very early "experimental" stage of his musical development. before 8yrs old i've seen nothing at all as i remember. toby must have acquired his "skills" before 8yrs old. but just how good he was at 7yrs 6yrs or even younger still i just don't know. i've seen the video of james bell strumming away on an acoustic guitar in his "video to remind me who i am" at six years old. but i don't know how competently he was playing it. i also noticed that both toby and james had plastic ukuleles when very young. i think that toby's appears in his "red house" video for a small cameo and james has his in some sort of "pirate" video imr. brandon's very early playing doesn't seem as good as toby's. it's more pedestrian and far less fluent imo. it all seems to come together for him at 10 or 11 yrs old. btw the reason for the great nvc between toby and his uncle is i believe that he is at least one of toby's teachers and his "guitar mentor". about avery molek? check out toby lee and john "the stickman" from 2016 playing "sweet child of mine" together in a "collaborative" video if you've not seen it already on youtube. but to be honest i think that i prefer to hear toby's guitaring pure and unadulterated sans drowning drums.

Well, it's Toby's jam and I didn't want to steal his thunder!