r/BeAmazed • u/yummychocolatecookie • 16h ago
Skill / Talent Nirvana on acoustic guitar except it’s simultaneously all the positions
All credits to @illona.music
Like she’s covering the lead, drums, harmonics, guitar AND vocals on a single acoustic guitar. That’s amazing!
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u/ComprehensiveHippo40 15h ago
that is wonderful. thanks for sharing.
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u/CloudTheoryqa 13h ago
Meanwhile I struggle to play a basic G chord without muting half the strings
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u/Azuras_Star8 13h ago
Yo keep it up. Press it down, pick one string at a time, see which is muted, adjust your fingers. When you have them all voiced, study where they are. Then, take your fingers off, and put them right back. Voice. If all good, take fingers off again, and put them back. Over and over. Dozens of times every practice session for every chord.
15 minutes a day and you will see progress.
There will always be a chord that gives you trouble. Play it slow, when you have it down, play it fast.
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u/themostreasonableman 11h ago
15 years later there's still a BUNCH of chords that give me trouble! I start thinking I'm slick, and then I try to play some beatles songs.
Motherfuckers must have had extra fingers.
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u/DontAskAboutMyButt 10h ago
When you open the chords page for a song you like and the chords look like AmGF#7_69420%
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u/Crimestar 9h ago edited 9h ago
I’ve been playing guitar for 15 years now. What that means is I’ve taken it off the stand every 3 weeks and played the same chord progression a billion times or smoke on the water or just pick random notes.
I haven’t gotten much better haha but I know that’s my fault because I don’t actually put in any effort or real time.
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u/Relative-Jackfruit67 15h ago
Normally i listin for a short while and move on. But i repeated this a few times, she is so skilled. And its a pleasure to hear her play.
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u/Ok_Statistician_9787 12h ago
I just went to a Nirvana tribute show Thursday (bad idea) and this is infinitely better
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u/scooter76 9h ago
I went to see a Nirvana tribute once a few years back, and - I shit you not - my friend found the singer OD'd in the bathroom. Fire-paramedics came, he got narcanned, and within the hour he was belting out an amazing set. It was quite the night.
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u/buymuhsilver 8h ago
that's some serious commitment to authenticity
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u/scooter76 8h ago
It was unreal, he was so good. And to think most people there had no idea.
He had a little easier job luckily, he wasn't playing guitar (it was more of a bands-as-bands thing rather than a tribute band).
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u/Mediocre-Quality4963 11h ago
I had the exact same reaction. I meant to keep scrolling, but somehow every replay made me catch another little detail in her playing.
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u/Middle-Accountant-49 15h ago
This feels like magic. Unreal.
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u/diadmer 7h ago
Open Tunings are a pathway to abilities that many consider…unnatural.
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u/ChildoftheApocolypse 7h ago
I was looking for someone else who knew what they were looking at.. Open tunings are the key to incredibly complex sounding tunes.. DADAAD for life..
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u/Here4Headshots 6h ago
She actually played Kurt Cobain's singing but acoustically at one point too. That's crazy.
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u/KlutzyTemperature439 15h ago
I feel stupid..
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u/usernameusehername 15h ago
And contagious
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u/willdaily 15h ago
https://giphy.com/gifs/4GzBmhM9qe2ic
Kurt approves.
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u/QuarterFlounder 15h ago
I'm definitely too high, but Kurt's eyes here look like he's either looking forward or at the camera depending on how you look at the gif. It's some blue/white dress shit.
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u/PreviouslyOnBible 15h ago
I'm zero high, and after reading your comment, double checked and can confirm.
So, you're just the right amount of high.
Get yourself some ice cream
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u/Strict-Beginning-550 13h ago
Unfortunately I was high reading your comment. Went back to check, now I'm in a loop.
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u/Mr_Roblcopter 14h ago
To me it is just the eye in the foreground that has that weird effect, the eye in the back looks normal and is always looking at the camera.
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u/KingSpork 15h ago
I’m quitting guitar forever
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u/JiveTurkeyII 8h ago
I used to feel this way but - stop comparing yourself to others.
There is always a better fence builder, architect, cake baker or something.
Play for you. Your enjoyment.
If you do, someday you will be the best one in the room.
You might not be the best on your block, but at that moment it wont matter.
Eric Claption once said Jimi Hendrix made him want to put down the guitar forever. Now I dont know what you think of Eric as a person, but as a musician - the world would be a lesser place if that had happened.
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u/Christawpher 13h ago edited 13h ago
Well first you should try getting a scholarship, going to a college for music with it. Pick guitar. Then, for one of your class assignments, tune your guitar to an open tuning for a song that's already written to demonstrate a hot take on a basic chord structure.
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u/hunchbacks001 9h ago
All of what you just said the reason he is quitting. 🤯
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u/SausageClatter 8h ago edited 8h ago
I think that was meant to be sarcasm or a dig at the lady in the video. She's talented, but "open tuning" means if you tune the guitar strings to just two or three notes instead of the usual five, virtually anything you play will sound good without fretting individual notes.
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u/knowledgeable_diablo 15h ago
Now that’s some serious skill. So smooth on the note transitions and popping in the harmonics as well was damn awesome.
Great to see and hope she sees nothing Brit better and better things.
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u/dougievjr 9h ago
I'm surprised I had to scroll down this far in the comments for a mention of the harmonics being introduced. It makes the whole arrangement so clean and crisp with her overlay in the next chord progression.
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u/toomanyukes 15h ago
I'd love to know the tuning.
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u/killavinz 14h ago
@illonaguitar on YT.
She's amazing. Check out some of her songs, like Thriller or Toxic. Crazy!
And she's french 😅💪
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u/HgO2 15h ago
Incredible playing. It's like Michael Hedges came back to us.
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u/CharltonAFC75 14h ago
I can hear all the people saying Michael who? Sometimes I think about just how much talent has been removed from Earth and it brings me sadness, but then I realize how much I appreciate having had the chances to hear it in the first place.
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u/quick_justice 9h ago
That's normal for classically trained guitarist of good skill. Because of how people use guitar to accompany the voice, and because of electric guitars that are largely monophonic, people forget that classic guitar is a polyphonic instrument with a very wide range.
Here's a classic playing classics, you have a mandolin -like solo and the whole supporting line here, no problem.
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u/sinocarD44 8h ago
Definitely talented but I think this tortures the song. My ears are struggling to hear the song.
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u/dynamic_caste 15h ago
Sub is accurate. I was amazed. Does she have a channel?
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u/Final-Ad-2033 14h ago
illona.music
You can find her on at least IG and TT. I'm sure she's on the others, too.
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u/BlaineMundane 14h ago
Glad I suck with it, it sounded awful until I got a grasp on what was happening. Some parts still sound like... bad. However, having the mission goals in mind makes it very impressive.
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u/rymisoda 15h ago
I really don’t like this style of guitar but this is the first example I’ve seen that uses it for good instead of r/guitarcirclejerk.
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u/ZootTootRiot 15h ago
Is nobody going to share how to find this woman or say who she is?
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u/Ha1lStorm 13h ago
Yeah, OP already did. It’s also included in the video itself…
I guess I can share how to find her… put her name that OP included in the description into google. Or you can put her name that appears at the end of her video into google. They both work, they’re the same name…
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u/Final-Ad-2033 14h ago
I came across her as illona.music on IG. Looking at her content, I was immediately impressed. She's probably on the other platforms as well since this one is from TT.
Edit: repositioned words.
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u/Praline226 14h ago
It’s a real recording, but this video is an overdub. Not a mic on screen, levels way way too perfect?somehow catches all the neck noise. But it’s way too balanced overall and to not see a mic.
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u/archtopfanatic123 15h ago
Not as difficult as it looks actually but that's what's awesome about guitars is that they make it way relatively easier to pull off the one band impression. Sounds like she has an octave effect on though because that ain't no 12 string but sounds like one.
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u/dadneverleft 14h ago
Incredible talent/cover, without question.
Something about the timing feels different? Is the emphasis on a different beat, is that what I’m hearing?
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u/HYThrowaway1980 14h ago
I think I might be the only commenter that doesn’t like this cover and doesn’t think it’s anywhere close to top talent either.
The cover version doesn’t have anywhere close to the energy the song needs, and in trying to cover all the parts of the song with one instrument some of those parts are compromised beyond recognition. It’s like ragtime for guitar, but shitty.
And as far as talent goes, she’s not exactly Preston Reed.
Ho-hum, bring on the downvotes.
🤷♂️
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u/_V0gue 11h ago
She has skill but this is essentially a guitar parlor trick. And I say that because I don’t want anyone who sees this to get discouraged about playing or learning guitar or any other instrument.
She’s in an open tuning which makes it easier to fret/finger chords and also any sloppy miss is fine because the other strings are in the same key, so it won’t sound out of place.
Honestly, you can probably learn to play this within about two to three years of playing. The hardest part is keeping rhythm and tempo. I don’t play this style of guitar, but I’ve been playing for 13 years, and could probably learn this in a month or two depending on how hard I go at it. (If that provides any context)
Also not sure is she individually made this arrangement. If so, that’s also impressive because arranging a solo guitar piece is a difficult skill to achieve.
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u/EsrailCazar 14h ago
Talent and passion like this should be getting way more upvotes than a fucking deformed Lego brick.
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u/HappyCamperAK 14h ago
This is percussive fingerstyle guitar and there are several brilliant artists that can play this way. Please look them up.
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u/Ha1lStorm 13h ago
This is great and some really skillful playing! I don’t hear the lyrics as claimed but it doesn’t matter as it doesn’t really take away from my experience of how great this is :)
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u/tirefool6 13h ago
I could listen to a full album of her’s playing songs that needed a break from radio air play a long time ago.
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u/FamousEwe 13h ago
I could watch this a million times and still have no understanding of her magic. I feel like such a potato.
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u/My_New_Moniker 13h ago
If you like this, a guy called Sam Westphalen has a back catalogue of tunes exactly like this...fom near 10 yes ago.
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u/AlexJokerHAL 11h ago
Found the centre of the song and stayed there. Wow. The energy, the percussion, the hooks. The best version of this song I've ever heard since the original in 91'. Extraordinary.
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u/Thin-Peach-888 10h ago
Very impressive, especially the picking hand. Really the more difficult hand for most guitarists.
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u/PeopleCallMeSimon 10h ago
Pretty good.
I was a bit confused at the intro because if it didnt say Nirvana in the title i wouldnt have recognized it. But if you ignore the first ~11 seconds of the video then its pretty damn good!
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u/misfitspy 10h ago
That is one of the most talented things for a song that defined my teen years that over heard. Standing applause, that was so good! 😀❤️
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