I stumbled onto some musical awesomeness. I’m not even really sure how I got there, but that “related videos” section is something evil.

This is Tina Guo. She auditioned for some Grammy thingy…and plays the cello with such buttery ease that I’m totally engrossed. Well..I mean..it’s not just her…lots of great musicians exude that quality, but she’s so young and also asian so it relates to me a little more. The point of the competition is to play the Foo Fighter’s song “The Pretender”.

And then I saw a link on your “more info”…and she’s in some kind of rock band. I’m honestly not sure if an electric cello fits in to all this. I think it has something to do with the vibrato that makes it just sound like it’s not supposed to be there. Also, she plays so hard that she loses a lot of bow hair. I wonder how often she needs to get it rehaired?

And then…this is the grand finale of my post about her. So she won the Grammy thingy, or was in the top three, and other finalists were in the same hotel together to preform at the Grammys. The amazing part in all this is that they were bored and just decided to improv something. Like “hey, I’m bored…I’m going to start playing a note, I’ve mentioned the theme we’ll be playing and..uh….let’s just see what comes up”.

Uh…that’s pretty sexy. I wish I could ever become a part of something like this. But if I were…it would probably end up sounding a lot like Mary had a Little Lamb.

Here is also another great version of the same Foo Fighter’s song that they had to perform. I think I might like this better because it’s not so crazy and I like the use of double stops.