Musical virtuosos

[private joker]

Everyone's seen that guy on YouTube who plays Pachelbel's Canon on his guitar, right? And you know the scene in "Deliverance" with the Dueling Banjos.

Start throwing out performers and musicians who are virtuosos at their instrument, and specifically, perhaps movies or YouTube videos of, like, duels between two virtuosos -- going back and forth in battle almost like the rappers in 8 Mile but with their guitars or violins or pianos or trumpets or drums.

I love that stuff and I'm looking for more of it.

Here's Dueling Banjos

Here's the Canon on Guitar kid

(The latter has 19 million views)

[scotchnrocks]

this one's good link

here's a good one with dueling guitars, gets going at about 1:20 link

[dizong]

drum duel

[z28dreams]

This was a series on TV about this kid - absolutely amazing - be sure to catch the duets in the later parts.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kwjDLHX92w

(1st of 5 vids)

[Edge34]

I'm not sure if I'd call him a virtuoso, but he plays virtually every instrument. I'm not even a big Godsmack fan, but Sully Erna (lead singer) battling Shannon Larkin (drummer) was pretty sweet when I caught it on InHD.

Godsmack drum battle (Batalla de los Tambores)

[ClassicBob]

While My Ukelele Weeps

[AngusThermopyle]

Drums...

Simon Phillips & Louis Bellson

Lionel Hampton, Louis Bellson, Don Lamond

Dennis Chambers, Louis Bellson, Greg Bissonette

[MagicNinja]

piano; watch evgeny kissin play anything on youtube he is basically the best virtuoso pianist ever.

also watch the guitar battle between steve vai and karate kid lol! on youtube it's there somewhere under 'Crossroads battle'.

[WalkUpCondo]

Little black kid on drums

[The Glidd]

Trumpet:

Wynton Marsalis:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hHOza5OixBA

Allen Vizzutti:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=RF4NgNn3F88

(This is hardly musical, but is really hard to do on trumpet)