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Hopefully not sarcastic. Ironic? His skill is pretty astounding and Rick Beato discussed it with him on his channel. I was pointing out what I thought was a Classical guitar no-no, which is not addressing the strings at right angles, but it was only to contrast with, and emphasise his remarkable skill at picking the melody. Sorry for any confusion. Humour should occasionally be dry, maybe not. (I did point directly to you in my other post though )
Right; that was my immediate impression as well. I am all for dry humour, but had a pang of insecurity about possibly missing some baroque forum-insider reference
That said, he does use a lot of legato (which, with that guitar and setup, sounds very much the same as picking the note) in these runs, so the runs sound even more impressive than they are already.
While he is great and impressive, this novel thing of the right hand (requiring the mute) is interesting in the same way Stanley Jordan was interesting. He did the college circuit and I got to see him and was like "this guy is so great, and doing this low level gigs??", despite the public praise by Edward Van Halen etc., he did not become the future inspiration of guitar kids or a house hold name in jazz etc. Not to take away from Mancuso, but it does not inspire me (even a guy that could play finger style on electric) to do such a thing. I prefer the basic scalar lines of his left hand frankly and am semi interested in picking that out (though it sounds like several other Mike Stern etc. type stuff maybe).
As for players that need that mute thanks to whatever the heck their right is doing that is interesting (Jennifer Battan was another), my favorite weird technique guy (by far) is Gabriel Guardian:
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