know that something will go wrong but
not so much sometimes it happens okay
so let me introduce myself my name is
alexandra misko and i’m a fingerstyle
guitarist from russia I’m really excited
to play for you tonight because that’s
my second trip to a foreign country and
you know I have already met so many
great people here so I feel really
comfortable but there is still a thing
that makes me nervous all the time
that’s my Russian sense of humor when I
do gigs I need to constantly return my
guitar between songs that’s my hobby and
like I’m doing now and I need to talk to
audience you would not fall asleep and
usually usually my jokes in Russian are
decent but when I start to joke in
English I constantly forget the right
words then I say that I’m not funny at
all and then I just give up and
basically want to get back home and cry
all night excuse me
so if you would not like to see my tears
today but let me continue my lecture in
Russian to dressed with you Kakui yoga
answer with Sasha misko okay just joking
I’m here to play my original music for
you and to tell a little bit about my
style of playing which is called
experimental progressive percussive
finger style it’s so boring routing yes
but it’s it’s much more interesting to
tell about that as you have already
noticed I use my guitar
Natick
exactly as just a guitar there are many
instruments hidden inside of that box
and that’s really fascinating you know
the most important thing that the style
exists not to impress you with flashy
maneuvers and the thing is that we just
want to express our joy and excitement
using the full potential of an
instrument and here’s my philosophy when
I do when I write music I know I’m not
trying to make as many noises and sounds
as possible I try to think like I’m
writing melodies for different kinds of
instruments with independent lines for
every musician inside of that box it
sounds a bit ridiculous but I would like
to show you an example how I can slowly
build all those layers and eventually
create four instruments playing
simultaneously and you know my musicians
are not lazy they would like to play
really complicated stuff for you so I
would like to start my explanation with
with my drummer because drumming is the
most obvious thing that you can get from
my playing and I really like drumming
maybe that’s my guitar maybe that’s why
my guitar doesn’t look so perfect I
don’t know okay so we have two basic
drums here that’s the low sound which is
the bass drum or kick drum okay and
here’s the high sound which is called
snare drum anyway
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but I would like to leave on that
drumming for a moment because I would
like to show you other parts and I don’t
want to distract you okay the next
musician is my bassist and I don’t know
there is a common belief that bassist
really liked to play some some simple
stuff like this maybe that’s in Russia
only I don’t know but my bassist wants
to play something really complicated he
has a strong groove and here is
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okay the next musician that I would like
to add is the guitarist because we
obviously heaven head and guitarists on
stage okay and my guitarist will play
some simple metal melodic licks like
that
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and I need to blend it with my bassist
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thank you so much okay but this is not
all as you can see my drummer is really
lazy he just doing this he just pressing
the pedal to make kick drums so his
hands are absolutely free I need to give
him more complicated exercise so I would
like to use some snare drums here and
also I would like to add some scratches
because I really like stretches maybe
I’m just too nervous okay and that’s
what we what we have here’s the here’s
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thank you okay that was pretty simple
so we have so many sounds we have so
many instruments at this moment but
there is still something is missing
something really important and you know
what that’s the melody the melody is the
main thing of every piece of music and I
would like you I would like to
demonstrate you this technique this
little guys called natural harmonics and
that’s my favorite technique on guitar
it’s so great I can even do some this
thing I’m sorry okay and I would like to
add this melody to my arrangement to
make it senseless
this is oh no to make it more yes and
okay and you can imagine that it sounds
like a flute playing or maybe female
vocals it doesn’t matter really but
that’s my melody and I need to stop
just a little bit come on
okay and I think I’m ready to play full
song for you it’s called a delayed
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thank you
okay I guess I need to go I’m sorry this
is not my gig what a pity
okay but I hoped you but I hope to meet
you on Facebook somewhere so it would be
nice okay thank you so much
my name is alexandre misko it was a
great pleasure to play for you tonight and cheers from Russia thank you