Just close your eyes and imagine two renowned guitarists performing live right before you, can you feel the heat and excitement? Well, dream no more! Brought to you by Sprout Entertainment, Sungha Jung and Preston Reed will have a live concert in Singapore on 26th May 2012. Don’t know who are they? Now it’s your time to do some ‘homework’ if you call yourself a music lover!
Sungha Jung is a well known talented Korean guitarist who had been playing guitar ever since he was a kid. He is the #1 most subscribed Korean on Youtube and has more than 400 million hits on Youtube. His music has influenced many teenagers worldwide today and let’s not forget that he is only 16 years old! Being a great influence on the young minds to go after their passion for music, Sungha Jung is continuously improving and progressing towards a greater height.
“My dream is to become a professional acoustic fingerstyle guitarist.” — Sungha Jung
Indeed, he is living his dream and people of all different ages look up to him as a role model in pursuing their goals.
Preston Reed is the preeminent fingerstyle guitarist in Scotland. He is a one-man revolution, he has virtually reinvented how the acoustic guitar is played. Being one of the pioneers of the tapping style of guitar, he has massive influence among the world’s top guitarists today. (Andy McKee and Kaki King have both credited him as one of their influences.) He practices a self-invented style, accompanied by percussion techniques with simultaneous rhythm and melody lines, bringing his music to a new level of excitement that is unique among today’s guitarists. It was said that Reed’s vast range of explosively original music will forever change one’s expectation of a guitarist.
”Widely thought of as the world’s most gifted guitarist” – Total Guitar
You have to really go and see for yourself to experience the innovative, abstract, unique but yet addictive music by Preston Reed to get a real understanding of music and guitarist. To give you a head start on the feel of their music, here are two videos of Sungha Jung and Preston Reeds guitar performance.
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