Mystery Guitar Man - Who Cares if He Can Really Play

Not too long ago, I forwarded a video to many of my guitar-playing and music-enthusiast friends - and those who replied to me had the same impression I did.... WAY COOL!

There's a guy on YouTube known as "Mystery Guitar Man" - and it's anyone's guess as to whether he can really play the guitar. But what he does do is create (or in this case "recreate") some unbelievable pieces of music using stop-motion video. In other words, he takes an individual shot of himself playing each individual note of a musical piece. Then, using some type of editing application, he cuts the individual video clips onto a timeline and then he builds the songs linearly - note by note - as it was originally composed. In some cases, he's got to take more than 1,000 tiny video clips to do this.

So... can he really perform the piece? I don't know - and I don't really care. He gets major points from me for creativity - and just for having the time on his hands to make something like this in the first place.

You can watch Mystery Guitar Man play Mozart's "Marriage of Figaro" on YouTube and if you think it is as entertaining as I do, you might also want to watch him explain how he does this by playing "Flight of the Bumblebee". Pretty wild stuff.