Alexandros Tefarikis: opus 8 guitar idol 2009, licklibrary

Chilean Alexandros rocks London with his Opus 8 entry to Guitar Idol. Once again, ICMP provide the backing band and video courtesy of Lick Library.

Guitar Idol Final 2009 - Alexandros Tefarikis - Opus 8

Alexandros Tefarikis: opus 8 guitar idol 2009

Alexandros Tefarikis: opus 8 guitar idol 2009

András Pálfi: the guitar idol finalists are coming!

News:
06-05-2009:

The finalist page is building... the first two in place:

2009 Live Finalists

The votes are being tallied and checked. The judges are reviewing their favourites. The 12 confirmed Live Finalists will be announced shortly.

Well done to everyone that entered and made this years’ competition so great!

CUTTING EDGE
András Pálfi

Votes: 5311
OPUS 8
Alexandros Tefarikis

Votes: 5101

Alexandros Tefarikis: hitting the guitar idol headlines

News:
21-04-2009:
Alexandros Tefarikis just broke the 1000 vote barrier at guitar idol for his track opus 8 http://guitaridol.tv/online_final/entry/opus_8. Resting at number 1, brought about no doubt by his appearance on various Chilean news web sites: Terra

SANTIAGO, April 20 .- More than three thousand aces of the electric guitar throughout the world annually compete to prove who is more skillful with the instrument, in the contest called "Guitar Idol." This meeting, almost become the equivalent of the World Cup but with strings, has several stages, starting on the internet and end in a grand final in London stellar, televised throughout the world. This 2009 thing is already in the semis, in full online voting to decide the first four that come to that instance. And one that will lead is none other than the Chilean Alexandros Tefarikis.

Name for which is handled in the forefront of national music, Tefarikis branded as "impressive" results so far in imposing a tough competition, where they "kingpins" of all sides. They are now in the semifinal, which was decided by online voting (see subheading "How to Vote") and has come to be first, but at any time things change because the fight is very tough.

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SANTIAGO .- The guitarriasta Alexandros Tefarikis phase qualifying draw of the "Guitar Idol" run from the platform in England www.guitaridol.tv online. Ejunto with a representative of Mexico and another from Brazil is the only Chilean Tefarikis in the competition for new "guitar heroes" in the network.

Tefarikis, the guitarist of the progressive rock group Ergo Sum and solo acoustic music with three albums released since 2005, participates for about a month and a half at Guitar Idol, "and draw a preliminary stage and with about five thousand contestants around the world. Now moving into a stage of advanced above 1200 guitarists and be among the 120 best

Opus 8

Alexandros Tefarikis: getting press for guitar idol

News:
19-04-2009:

Chilean musician advances to the end of the "Guitar Idol" The progressive guitarist and composer of acoustic music and the root Mediterranean Alexandros Tefarikis pasó a la final del certamen stage which makes them 120 new soloists for over one thousand 200 concursantes. The votings are online.

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News: guitar idol voting compared to youtube statistics

News:
19-04-2009:
I thought I would have a look at the current top 5 as I type. There is a lot of negative comment going on on youtube for the top 3 artists, with people accusing others of cheating etc... so no change from last years guitar idol then... more interesting to me are the number of times favourites and the number of times the video has been rated and the total over all views.

Unfortunately you can get access to the actual video stats as this would also indicate how well a video performs, if people actually watch the video to the end. Here is an example of Daniele Gottardo's Rock Fusion video which has the highest watched ratings of all my videos. Notice how people watch to the end or start in the middle to watch the end:


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Faraz Anwar http://guitaridol.tv/online_final/entry/autumn_madness



YouTube rating: 69 ratings 4 star
YouTube views:7,317 views
YouTube Favorited: 36 favourited
YouTube comments: 62

guitar idol votes: 546
YouTube views: 952
YouTube rating: 4 stars from 4 ratings
YouTube comments: 4
YouTube Favorited: 2 times

Benjamin Teacher http://guitaridol.tv/online_final/entry/heavy_mettle


guitar idol votes: 514
YouTube views: 2440
YouTube rating: 3.5 stars from 27 ratings
YouTube comments: 15
YouTube Favorited: 9 times

Alexandros Tefarikis http://guitaridol.tv/online_final/entry/opus_8


guitar idol votes: 502
YouTube views: 6023
YouTube rating: 4.5 stars from 51 ratings
YouTube comments: 42
YouTube Favorited: 24 times

Hedras Ramos http://guitaridol.tv/online_final/entry/insanity_atoms


guitar idol votes: 472
YouTube views: 1955
YouTube rating: 5 stars from 52 ratings
YouTube comments: 51
YouTube Favorited: 26 times

Daniel Realpe http://guitaridol.tv/online_final/entry/enlightening_discussion



guitar idol votes: 419
YouTube views: 1955
YouTube rating: 4.5 stars from 28 ratings
YouTube comments: 24
YouTube Favorited: 6 times

As these are the top 5 I thought I'd compare the statistics with a number of 2008 finalists to see if there was any relationship between the votes and YouTube statistics. My finders are not scientifically conclusive, but anecdotally indicates to me that the over all voting in the final may not be fully indicative of the actual quality of players... If I had time it would be good to review some more. Fortunately there is a guitar panel who select the majority of finalists, so hopefully any anomaly will be ironed out.

Muris Varajic http://guitaridol.tv/online_final/entry/final_dance


guitar idol votes: 329
YouTube views: 28208
YouTube rating: 5 stars from 309 ratings
YouTube comments: 320
YouTube Favorited: 273 times

Marc Playle http://guitaridol.tv/online_final/entry/narcosis


guitar idol votes: 224
YouTube views: 2789
YouTube rating: 5 stars from 35 ratings
YouTube comments: 27
YouTube Favorited: 27 times

Daniele Gottardo http://guitaridol.tv/online_final/entry/cardiology


guitar idol votes: 97
YouTube views: 19368
YouTube rating: 5 stars from 251 ratings
YouTube comments: 223
YouTube Favorited: 256 times

Alexandros Tefarikis: new leader in guitar idol, the top 3

News:
14-04-2009:
OK, leads been swapping all day... out of the blue a new leader as South America wakes up:

1 Alexandros Tefarikis Opus 8 - Guitaridol Final Online Heat


2 Faraz Anwar
3 Jack Thammarat