Marcin: a guitarist so good, he's accused of faking it

he’s not even close to japanese guitarist kent (kento) nishimura.

find him on youtube and anyone who has ever played guitar will appreciate the talent of this young man.

I see some sneering at this kind of thing - join the circus etc but it is impressive. I’ve been playing a lot longer than him and can’t do that.

Marcin plays a different style from Nishimura. He uses the guitar body for percussion while Nishimura uses the strings. They’re both amazing but not really comparable because Marcin has a much more dynamic style of playing while Nishimura is standard more passive.

Have no idea where these accusations of faking come from but they’re completely unfounded.

Rock may be dead but at least we’re getting a lot of incredible guitarists to fill the gap.

i agree, they’re different and can’t be compared directly. they have their own style, nishimura does do percussion, bass line, rhythm and melody with precision… at the same time. both of them make you want to sell your guitars and take up something else.

at the same time. both of them make you want to sell your guitars and take up something else

I dunno.

Every guitarist brings their idiosyncrasies to their playing which makes them special.

That’s what I tell myself anyway…

Obviously talented, i am no judge though, good luck to Polish guitar prodigy Marcin.

I can't say i could sit though more than 30 minutes, everyone to their own i suppose.

There are a lot of young guitarists that play like him, when i first saw Tim Henson it was like a fresh new style of playing the guitar but over time I started to dislike it, well you can get good percussion sounds from the body, the strings but adding too much percussion sounds and it's really annoying, I'll prefer much more a bluesy, jazzy or music with normal guitar techniques. It's like pro musicians playing a music with too much pro level techniques between the phrases, annoying.

There are a lot of young guitarists that play like him, when i first saw Tim Henson it was like a fresh new style of playing the guitar but over time I started to dislike it, well you can get good percussion sounds from the body, the strings but adding too much percussion sounds and it's really annoying, I'll prefer much more a bluesy, jazzy or music with normal guitar techniques. It's like pro musicians playing a music with too much pro level techniques between the phrases, annoying

Fair points. Spectacular stuff can be a bit pointless in the end. I like guitarists with a particular sound even if it isn’t spectacular in terms of technique. Some music snobs sneer at my rating of Peter Buck’s playing. No virtuoso but his sound is beautiful and identifiable.

That said, I still wouldn’t mind having Marcin’s ability in my locker. That is not easy.

Whether performing Chopin, Nirvana, Dr. Dre or Stevie Wonder, Marcin Patrzalek has perfected a technique that creates the sound of a full band with just his acoustic Ibanez guitar.

This reminds me of the story of Niccolo Paganini. He was a solo violinist but his technique was so good he was able to make it sound like there were more than one violinist (or some other player) in the room.

No, he was an innovative genius. Just like this guy.

MilesTegMar. 28  10:14 am JST

Rock may be dead but at least we’re getting a lot of incredible guitarists to fill the gap.

Rock'n'roll is not dead. I've seen Tom Morello subbing in for Little Steven when I caught Springsteen and his E Street Band in 2014. Tom can make his 6-string sound like everything from a turntable scratching to a whistling to a Moog synthesizer. That RATM can really get wild on that thing! And Mdou Moctar the Tuareg guitarist from Niger has deservedly been getting fast attention and praise from the rock media. I saw (and met) him and his band in a small local club in 2019 when he had just one CD to play, before covid. And it's safe to say he won't be playing clubs like the one I saw him in anymore, not in America. He's a fast-rising star, possibly rock'n'roll future.