Jack Gardiner: 15 on the 8!



News:
08-02-2009:
I spotted Jack Gardiner on the current Petruccifever competition as his age, just 15, made his entry stand out... more videos are being added to competition and don't forget the competition closes on 10-02-2009, visit youtube to get the backing track or just admire the 90+ entries to date!

Jack Gardiner is on MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/annurizmjack

Petrrucci Fever Contest 15 year old guitarist Jack Gardiner


Neoclassical Shred 1 (Rob Marcello's Old School) Cover


Improvising and SHRED over C Minor


Funk and sweeps


Background:
Jack Gardiner was born in Liverpool, England on the 26th August 1993. His first musical influences were the likes of Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin. At the age of 8, he began to take classical guitar lessons in school; and by the age of 9 he was the youngest student to ever achieve Classical Guitar Grade 1 in Liverpool, and passed with distinction.

Upon reaching Secondary School, he decided to pick up the electric guitar, and began taking lessons from John Wheatcroft (Head of Guitar at Guitar X, London). After several short months of playing, he was invited to join several different bands with members older than him that were impressed by his natural abiltity and dedication to the guitar. At the age of 11 he played his first live show.

At around the age of 12 he began to listen to some of the guitar world's virtuoso players such as the likes of Steve Vai and Yngwie Malmsteen. This is when he realised how much he loved the instrument. He wanted a style similar to such guitarists, but with his own unique twist; he therefore began learning various advanced techniques such as sweep picking and string skipping (which are both displayed in his videos from when he was as young as only 13).

For the past two years he has been developing his playing and has taken a great interest in many different styles of music and players from different genres, working with a number of different musicians around Liverpool and the North West in the process.

Now at the age of 15 he has taken a huge interest in a number of different players that complimented his playing style, including guitar virtuosos Guthrie Govan and Greg Howe, yet one in particular has stood out- Jack is hugely influenced by young Italian guitarist Daniele Gottardo, who inspired the 15 year old to begin studying extremely advanced techniques such as 8 finger tapping.

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