I can't believe how much of positive response this video is getting! Thank you guys so so much! I'll make sure to keep awesome music coming, with more daily videos and a new album on the way. I was replying to every comment but the current number has reached an overwhelming high so it will be a week or so before I can get back to each and every one of you. I appreciate every comment, suggestion and future video ideas! I did not expect this video to reach this many views in just few weeks! Wow! Among all positive responses I've noticed small percentage of misconceptions about this video so let me address that. I am a musician from Europe living in United Sates. I do music full time, that includes solo and band performances. As any full time musician knows there is no bad gig, whether it's a dive bar or a festival stage you get up on there and do your best! However smaller gigs with few or no people in the audience sometimes can feel discouraging. That is one of the reasons why I started this RUclips channel, to capture video and audio of my performances, big or small, exciting or boring. Seen by thousand people or just one, these performances can live on the internet for other people to enjoy around the world. It is a gratifying feeling to share ones music with the world even if at the time of music creation there was no one there to care to listen to it. If a tree falls in the woods and there is no one around to hear it does it still make a noise? Well, it does if you put it on video. Not every musician is fortunate to start their career with sold out shows and packed concert halls. Most full time working musicians play all the venues they can get. It is extremely encouraging to move forward and keep developing as an artist after seeing response to this video. But I am still making progress, and not every show I do is a sold out concert with packed audience. This video is from a gig I did on August 16th of 2017. It was a Tuesday night at Motorworks Brewing in Bradenton Florida. It is a nice venue with indoors and outdoors seating. I set up on stage and played form 6 to 10 pm that night. August is off season in that part of Florida so attendance for live entertainment is low everywhere. The first hour was empty, I played for my self, took some video, made up music. I have some of those videos posted on my channel. Second hour was when a party of three people showed up and that was my first audience of that slow Tuesday night. I've greeted them and began interacting in between songs. And after building up a rapport one lady felt comfortable enough to through out a request. The rest you can see in the video. Any full time musician will tell, people request songs they want to hear. Most of the time it's "Margaritaville" or "Freebird". But sometimes because of the way play people request for Jimi Hendrix, SRV, Jeff Beck, Santana, Steve Vai... Yes, music fans know these artists, and yes, they know their songs too. I get requests all the time for "Ode Como Va", "Cause we ended as lovers" or other classic hits. Sometimes it ends up in the video, some times it doesn't. But this particular request stood out and had a hilarious interaction that needed to be shared. I'm at a real venue (google Motorworks Brewing) doing a real gig, with my real solo gear (see my other videos). The voice in the audience is not my mom, my mom doesn't speak English, not my girlfriend or friend. These are real interactions that real musicians encounter around the world on regular basis, except this time the camera was rolling and I uploaded it for you to see. Thanks for watching!
The response is great due to a very simple, yet uncommon factor. People feel a sense of admiration when someone has the composure to prepare for something even if they have to do in it public. Most people feel embarrassed about checking something up in public because they fear ridicule, but only a moron ridicules people for such a thing. Unfortunately, most people act like morons when they are in crowds. Great stuff, I enjoyed watching this video. It had a certain awkward vibe to it and this made it appealing.
Me and my wife were here that night. Stu & Paula, we moved here in march. We invited a friend named Kathy down from Georgia. We were the 3 out of about 6 people. Kathy learned from her son about Steve Via thru Merritt's music. Kathy asked David if he could play Tender Surrender by Steve Via. The rest was history. I call his music tender hard rock, and i know this was at the spur of the moment, nothing fake here. Great job David, reaching two million views and 6,400 comments in just 2 months.( Stay true to who you are)
As a guitarist that playes By sound, dovydas is for real... and its not bad, its one of the best guitar pieces last decade... going across the globe... for a freestyle solo.... This piece is great... nothing like the Steve vai song but in its OWN whay with lots of arpegios like Steve vai... hè learned the chords for the backing track in few min wich is normal for a pro and hè improvised and played like the best.... dont see many rockstars improvise and play a good melodic piece
This man is playing a set at a small gig and pulled this out of his hat and just about brought tears to my eyes and stood the hair up on my arms. And there are people in studios that spend millions and still can’t make music that touches you like this.
I’m a 70 year old lady and just had a great time listening too this great music he puts out, I just picked his UTUBE channel up yesterday, and really enjoy what he does‼️ Keep it up young man you are awesome‼️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
The crazy thing about this is that if this wasn't recorded and shared the moment would be lost accept for the three people there. I go down a lot of internet rabbit holes and I do so just to find unicorns, nah, dragons like this! Carry on my dude!
Please don't take offense to this clarification of the word you used in your comment. "Accept" means "To Recieve" as in "I ACCEPT This Reward!' Or "I ACCEPT This Challenge To Improve My Spelling & Grammer!" But the word you were trying to get right in this context of your comment is EXCEPT. As in "...would be lost EXCEPT for the three people there." or "EXCEPT for a small scratch, you would never have known I had been in a fight with Gary The Gorilla!" "So maybe you didn't win the fight with Gary, EXCEPT for that part when you crapped your pants, and the smell making him really pissed off, you put up a good fight! And maybe you'll win or at least not poop in the next battle you have with Surly The Sasquatch!" Cheers! And Good Luck With Surly!
have no fucking clue how I got here....pretty sure three hops back I was watching Whitney Houston- I Will Always Love You Live....and here I am now. wtf lmao
That's the problem with someone calling out a Steve Vai or Joe Satriani request, that ohh s... moment. Thinking to yourself this woman is either and old Whitesnake fan (best case scenario 😆) or a hardened G3 following Joe Jem having guitar playing ultra critic.
For those questioning that this is real - I'm a professional composer and producer. I'm writing this from my studio. I also play guitar in a function band that is required to do impromptu requests on a regular basis. While Steve Vai is a hell of a request for a guitarist, Tender Surrender is actually quite simple. The section that Dovydas played is a slow 3-chord groove that doesn't change, apart from going soft, loud, soft. It's a semi-improvised jam, even on the original. Because Dovydas is an excellent player who clearly knows his equipment, and has a great musical memory, he was able to busk in the style of Steve Vai over the chord sequence. When you know your stuff, this isn't difficult. If this was staged, he would have included the other chord sequences from the song. He also would have included the song's main melody, which Vai revists throughout. For the person saying "if you think this wasn't staged you're not a real musician"... I don't think you're a real musician. A real musician would know that, actually, a straightforward pop song with lots of surprising chord changes would be a harder request. And as for the person saying that this was recorded in a studio because you can hear the background noise disappear after he starts playing, this is very simple. He faded out the vocal mic for RUclips to make the video a bit cleaner after establishing the context with the woman's request at the beginning. I imagine he was running his live rig through a small mixer and into a sequencer on a laptop. Given that all his equipment is lined (electronics going directly into his PA rather than instruments with mics in front of them), once he muted the channel recording his vocal mic - no background noise. Case closed. ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY DOUBTS? COME AT ME. I'M GOING TO FIGHT THIS GUY'S CORNER.
I just went back to this vid cause he said in another one that alot of people said that was faked. I have like no theoretical knowledge of music whatsooever. I can barely read the tempo out of notes so that i could learn the drums, and dont ask me about my skills on on the guitar...But...how can one think thats fake? Like u said: its not like hes covering some prog metal or something like that
Wonderful response. I wanted to put something uo on this guys behalf but Once I read this, I didnt see a need to do anything other than support this post. I would only add that music should be something to enjoy, to express yourself, but most importantly(for my part atleast) music can bring peoe together than wouldnt normally cross paths. Ive met alot of amazing ppl at concerts, and before you could download everything the record store. I still love to go to my local guitar shop amd hang out in the evening atleast ince a week. My grandpa was a music teacher and also taught piano and violin lessons in the summer while school was out. he started me out at 4 on piano, and bought me my first guitar at 6. He passed away last year, but he left a part of himself behind that Ill always have, music. My son is 5 and is obsessed with playing already. My wife is a singer. She and my daughter sing together constantly. Its rare to see families that hangout as much as we do. Music is what helps us find time for each other. So I dont understand why anyone would want to start an argument about whos better. What the best instrument is or maker. Whatever the case. Music is so broad theres something for everyone. And listen to everything, atleast once. Dont close yourself off to just one lr two genres. Its ok to like country and hip hop. Or rock and classical. Hell i love it all. Yngwie Malmstein ayin Beethovens 5th is one of my favorites. My point is this, enjoy it, if an artist or style isnt for you, try something else. But you dont have to belittle the folks they create, perdorm, or enjoy it. Im not a huge fan of techno. Easy fix, I just dont listen to it. I will say there are a few mainstream artist that make me question hoe they have a contract with so many talentes folks scraping by that can sing and play live with out the need for auto tune but what can u do.
Exactly... Except he did better than Neo. Neo ducks from a gun in the agent training video after learning kung fu. This guy would’ve kickEd the agent through the wall
Hi, I am Peter from Germany and I am 54 years old. In former times I did music of my own and in orchestra. I played accordeon and piano, all instruments with key. Since I discovered you, specially this one, on YT, I look at it several times a month. I like the way how you put the things together.
I am impressed! He kept his cool, didn't blow off the girl and say something derogatory like 'I don't play his stuff, or that song'. Then he stood there, researched it and built the song. Played it and never broke a sweat. Very confident, not cocky, approachable, and skilled. Very very good entertainer!!!
@@shredgod6394 No, he didn't play tender surrender, that would have been much less interesting than what he did here. He takes the founding elements of the song, and builds something of his own on the, which is imo much nicer to listen to live.
Same with me. I am definitely no fan of guitar music or music like Hardrock. But this masterpiece I have to listen at least one time a month since I discovered it on YT.
No idea who you are, who Steve Val is, or what genre of music this is, but you made me fall in love with all three at once. You're an absolute legend, stranger.
@@heathertaylor8904 i will not win any popularity contest saying this, but i dont really enjoy listening to steve vai or petrucci even though they can play the guitar easier and better than i can breathe. they just arent musical to me. now this guy that made the video. he is more than a guitar player. he is a true musician. but that all just my opinion.
@@fredgarvin4482 gotcha :) well that's the heat thing about opinions... We're all free to have em! I never liked Nirvana or a lot of popular singers or bands so I know the feeling. Still going to give Steve a try in a bit. Have a wonderful day!
"Got it" ..... understatement of the year brother You could almost see the moment your heart broke when you laughed at 17sec. Full props for a great job
I suffer from bad depression from time to time but I can always come back to this sv version when I'm really down and feel normal for 9 minutes,and for that I thank-you x
hey james... meditate 2 hours a day from meditation videos pertaining to depression on youtube and eat food high in omega 3 every day like Alaskan wild salmon.. it has helped me immensely .
I'm 67 and live in Australia. Can't remember how I found this, but know that I will be coming back to it regularly for a long, long time. Thanks for the great upload. Cheers.
can't believe it took me three years to find this... just incredible how you took that request and built the song right in front of our very eyes. An amazingly inspiring talent.
As the one person who watches all your videos, I think this is one of, if not the, best thing you ever improvised. I hope your move went well and you soar on eagles wings.
i believe him cause i just googled the chords, took me 10 seconds to find them, 10 seconds to loop them, now im doing improv over it.. its really not hard, took me just as long to write this comment as it did to learn the chords haha
Peydon7777 I play this atleast 3 days a week in the morning on my way to work extremely loud and it sounds amazing in my suv with 12 Alpine type R's throughout. It's a good way to get in a better mood for a shitty day lol
@@symbiosisai what're you talking about man? That was on par with steve Vaughn and I would argue that his phrasing was actually even better than the original.
Yes us senior citizens know the best music playing around...look what young people listen to now...all the songs/musicians we grew up with P.S I'm 61 yrs young and love young peoples hip hop etc too...MUSIC IS UNIVERSAL BRINGS US ALL TOGETHER... ROCK ON DOVYDAS
No. Fckn. Way. Unbelievable that this vid crossed my path. Pure magic to see how that song was reconstructed from scratch, including that bizarre learning curve. "Ok. Got it..!" What a legend 👌
I find just as much enjoyment watching him build the songs and then play them.. Its really amazing watching him put these together. Works of art if you ask me.
Like Kelly said he is a great guy and will love it when he hears it. I'm blown away, as a musician I have been there with a request quickly looking up chords of songs I have played routinely because I don't have a good memory. But then to build it up with the looper and kill it like you did, Amazing!
Been following Dovydas since this excellent video, its where I fell in love ❤ thats why I keep coming back revisiting how it all got started my obsession for more awesomeness in action, play it!!!
"Let me try to fake it"... I love the raw humblensess and slight humor of who you are, despite your obvious mastery of your skills. This interpretation had just the right amount of the original song blended with your own abilities. Keep this type of interpretation and your requesting audience will not be disappointed.
@@LOST_HOMIE wtf... are you serious bro you gotta be trolling. youre seriously not a guitar person are you. this dude only went with extremely speedy fretting. like how can you even compare. how do you even compare to steves techniques and music knowledge. do you even know who steve vai is? like bro check this video out and tell me you still think dovys version is better than the og ruclips.net/video/Yw74sDWPH7U/видео.html
It's just so weird to think like 30 years ago you wouldn't get much recognition for your talent. But thanks to YT, you get 9M+ people who get to see it. This is the reason why I pay for Internet.
For those that gave a thumbs down, you simply have no idea how much discipline and talent is here. Bravo, I say. Simply outstanding. An absolute pleasure to watch. Thank you.
It's not note for note, in fact it's nothing like it... but that is not the point, it is the essence of the original, improvised on the spot and orchestrated well using the loops. It is a fantastic display of your musicianship which is why this deserves the respect it is getting.
Jesus christ. At the end i was waiting for standing ovations, roses get thrown at you and everything. This gave me the chills! Keep up the good work Dovydas.
I play a small amount. I've probably acquired at least half of the views off this. I saved this video and will forever play it when someone thinks they have something better to show me. You're a musical genius and I thank you for the masterpieces you continue to rock
Why the hell does this video have 3k dislikes??? This man took a song he barely knew and made it his own, and ROCKED it. There should be 1Millions likes
zambonni We have zero control over those miserable enough to click an anonymous dislike button on something this cool. This guy pulled a musical rabbit out of a hat.
Now 2021-10-27 i still think this is the best Dovydas... here you give it your all and it shows.. the new one know he is good... i like it more creative as you were. still one of the best artist around now and maybe even in future.. man you can play.
I’m going to be honest. This is the first video of yours that gave me chills. I closed my eyes and disappeared to a groovy landscape in the clouds. Absolutely emotional and deep this song has a great depth and an amazing crescendo of madness that I absolutely loved. Keep on rocking my man. The rock Gods smile on you each time you do.
She requested THE song and now I'm stuck with it....keep comming back.....I've listened maby 200 times or so....very surprisingly relaxing....good job Dovydas....
The better question is: Who is still taken in by this in 2019? No shots of the crowd, no crowd noise at all not even the expected cheering when he ends. The guy is good, I'm not trying to take that away from him, but why bother with the fake "I'm playing to a crowd at a music festival and randomly got this request for a Steve Vai song" line of bullshit? "Oh, noes! Let me look up the chords so I don't butcher it!" Just post your Steve Vai cover and let it be, no one needs the bullshit that was apparently thought to be necessary to pull in views.
I'm playing at a brewery for about three people. It's a tuesday afternoon "happy hour" 4 hour gig for basically tips. I'm trying to interact with the only people who are there. I say in between songs - "thanks for buying VIP tickets"; "You're my biggest crowd of the week". They laugh. Then this one lady out of three feels comfortable enlugh to request this. Please listen to the original. Not one line resembled it. I'm literally noodling on top of three intro chords that I found on Ultimate Guitar website.
TRUE...but thee single biggest obstacle or primary hurdle that "musical servants" have to conquer or face is the simple fact that the general audience/mainstream crowd aren't musically inclined...they are simpletons who are only able to consume 'catchy' pop hits...something that's easy to hum to, sing-along with and remember...advanced music lovers are thirsty for true musicianship but the world is musically dumbing-down generation after generation (from "technical" Heavy Metal to simple "power chords" of Grunge...from "acrobatic n' tongue-twisting" styles of Lyrical Rap down to the meaningless "auto-tune" hooks of Mumble Rap, etc.)...MAINSTREAM MUSIC a.k.a. MONEY-MAKING TUNES does not care for genuine skills & talent...SAD BUT TRUE.
I'm guessing no one was there, and this was before some fest or party. He had the lady request that, scripted, so he could film this. Shot in the dark, but doesn't look like there's anyone there
Even now after all this time I still love listening to this version ....the bass line with the lead guitar is excellent takes it up a notch from the bluesy original from the 'Via' ...good job Døvydas
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I can't believe how much of positive response this video is getting! Thank you guys so so much! I'll make sure to keep awesome music coming, with more daily videos and a new album on the way. I was replying to every comment but the current number has reached an overwhelming high so it will be a week or so before I can get back to each and every one of you. I appreciate every comment, suggestion and future video ideas! I did not expect this video to reach this many views in just few weeks! Wow! Among all positive responses I've noticed small percentage of misconceptions about this video so let me address that.
I am a musician from Europe living in United Sates. I do music full time, that includes solo and band performances.
As any full time musician knows there is no bad gig, whether it's a dive bar or a festival stage you get up on there and do your best! However smaller gigs with few or no people in the audience sometimes can feel discouraging. That is one of the reasons why I started this RUclips channel, to capture video and audio of my performances, big or small, exciting or boring. Seen by thousand people or just one, these performances can live on the internet for other people to enjoy around the world. It is a gratifying feeling to share ones music with the world even if at the time of music creation there was no one there to care to listen to it.
If a tree falls in the woods and there is no one around to hear it does it still make a noise? Well, it does if you put it on video.
Not every musician is fortunate to start their career with sold out shows and packed concert halls. Most full time working musicians play all the venues they can get. It is extremely encouraging to move forward and keep developing as an artist after seeing response to this video. But I am still making progress, and not every show I do is a sold out concert with packed audience.
This video is from a gig I did on August 16th of 2017. It was a Tuesday night at Motorworks Brewing in Bradenton Florida. It is a nice venue with indoors and outdoors seating. I set up on stage and played form 6 to 10 pm that night. August is off season in that part of Florida so attendance for live entertainment is low everywhere. The first hour was empty, I played for my self, took some video, made up music. I have some of those videos posted on my channel. Second hour was when a party of three people showed up and that was my first audience of that slow Tuesday night. I've greeted them and began interacting in between songs. And after building up a rapport one lady felt comfortable enough to through out a request. The rest you can see in the video.
Any full time musician will tell, people request songs they want to hear. Most of the time it's "Margaritaville" or "Freebird". But sometimes because of the way play people request for Jimi Hendrix, SRV, Jeff Beck, Santana, Steve Vai... Yes, music fans know these artists, and yes, they know their songs too. I get requests all the time for "Ode Como Va", "Cause we ended as lovers" or other classic hits. Sometimes it ends up in the video, some times it doesn't. But this particular request stood out and had a hilarious interaction that needed to be shared.
I'm at a real venue (google Motorworks Brewing) doing a real gig, with my real solo gear (see my other videos). The voice in the audience is not my mom, my mom doesn't speak English, not my girlfriend or friend. These are real interactions that real musicians encounter around the world on regular basis, except this time the camera was rolling and I uploaded it for you to see.
Thanks for watching!
That's your backyard, and that someone who requested it sounded like your Mom. The crowd looks... You pretty lonely, huh?
DOVYDAS Music you pulled it off!🏆
Charles Moore google search Motorworks Brewing company.
DOVYDAS Music Here's your subscribe button my good man. That is it. Keep creating, keep sharing and play for one, 100, or 40,000 people.
The response is great due to a very simple, yet uncommon factor. People feel a sense of admiration when someone has the composure to prepare for something even if they have to do in it public. Most people feel embarrassed about checking something up in public because they fear ridicule, but only a moron ridicules people for such a thing. Unfortunately, most people act like morons when they are in crowds.
Great stuff, I enjoyed watching this video. It had a certain awkward vibe to it and this made it appealing.
"Do u know calculous?"
"no"
*looks at formula for 3 seconds*
*Discovers origin of the universe *
Ya, pretty much
😂😂😂 yep
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Taena pre haha
I laughed so hard at this one 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Me and my wife were here that night. Stu & Paula, we moved here in march. We invited a friend named Kathy down from Georgia. We were the 3 out of about 6 people. Kathy learned from her son about Steve Via thru Merritt's music. Kathy asked David if he could play Tender Surrender by Steve Via. The rest was history. I call his music tender hard rock, and i know this was at the spur of the moment, nothing fake here. Great job David, reaching two million views and 6,400 comments in just 2 months.( Stay true to who you are)
Please tell Kathy thank you for me what a great job on this song
and now its 10.5 million views, 17k comments, 188k thumbs up. the mans a legend and doesnt even know it.
thank you
@@davesnothere2782 And still counting .
Thank you. Never heard of him.
When your 'exit strategy' is blowing a hole straight through the audience.
Epic
Literally the best comment on here hahaha
Great comment
I love this guy. Who else would have a soft hit with a song about an Amish Whip
4 years and 3 days later, it's still awesome.
Sept of 2022 and im blown away by this performance..
Funny, I come back to see this video once a year!
2023 still going strong
I just found it and I'm blown away!
Oct of 2023 and still bumping this gem and until I die.
One of Dovydas best performances. Every time I go down the Dovydas rabbit hole, I always have to come back to this video.
Like wise
I like this one, but I almost always come back for Tennessee Whiskey collab. Highly recommended 👍
Same
Me too ! That's the first video of him that I saw and whenever I talk about him to someone I have to show this video.
Same here
Even more amazing than the performance is that some lady requested a Steve Vai song at a brewery.
It would be the only amazing thing of the video if not a fake
@@brusombear3823 A fake that the song was unexpected. He has to look online for the 3 chords but he knows how to play (bad) the notes on guitar?
@J D No problems, I accept criticism. But at least use the right word: it's envious not jealous. And surely I'm not 😂
@@MarcoServadei Made yourself look quite bad there bud
As a guitarist that playes
By sound, dovydas is for real... and its not bad, its one of the best guitar pieces last decade... going across the globe... for a freestyle solo.... This piece is great... nothing like the Steve vai song but in its OWN whay with lots of arpegios like Steve vai... hè learned the chords for the backing track in few min wich is normal for a pro and hè improvised and played like the best.... dont see many rockstars improvise and play a good melodic piece
I'm a guitar player and this is the most amazing FUCKING thing I've ever seen.. someone give that man a medal!!
This man is playing a set at a small gig and pulled this out of his hat and just about brought tears to my eyes and stood the hair up on my arms.
And there are people in studios that spend millions and still can’t make music that touches you like this.
BEFORE HE STARED PLAYING I WAS ENJOYING THE NICE RAIN HIT ON GROUND ☺️LOVE SOUND OF RAIN .😊
Well stated! I couldn't have said it better! FANTSTIC!
I have a feeling it was a plant, but regardless...stellar performance.
Very well said. I felt the same exact way
Dude has got the "pick of destiny "
Only 6 people got this reference, what a tragedy
Hahaha true!!
👏🏻🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😤
Nice reference
LMFAO FUCKKK 😂😂
I’m a 70 year old lady and just had a great time listening too this great music he puts out, I just picked his UTUBE channel up yesterday, and really enjoy what he does‼️ Keep it up young man you are awesome‼️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
I discovered this amazing talent myself less than a month ago and have been hooked since,enjoy this incredibly talented young man 👍
@@Lightning2001 yessir you must start somewhere, I'm 1 year in now and just getting started
I am right behind you Sista, I will never ever stop at any age listening to music. ❤
Did you see the one with Vere Hill coming up and singing the song Tennessee Whiskey ?
Exquisite. ❤
@@tck2253 That’s the video that got me hooked on Dovydas Tennessee Whiskey 🥃
The crazy thing about this is that if this wasn't recorded and shared the moment would be lost accept for the three people there. I go down a lot of internet rabbit holes and I do so just to find unicorns, nah, dragons like this! Carry on my dude!
Same here dude!!
except*
Take the free lesson, don't hate.
Please don't take offense to this clarification of the word you used in your comment. "Accept" means "To Recieve" as in "I ACCEPT This Reward!' Or "I ACCEPT This Challenge To Improve My Spelling & Grammer!" But the word you were trying to get right in this context of your comment is EXCEPT.
As in "...would be lost EXCEPT for the three people there." or "EXCEPT for a small scratch, you would never have known I had been in a fight with Gary The Gorilla!"
"So maybe you didn't win the fight with Gary, EXCEPT for that part when you crapped your pants, and the smell making him really pissed off, you put up a good fight! And maybe you'll win or at least not poop in the next battle you have with Surly The Sasquatch!"
Cheers! And Good Luck With Surly!
Same here,every night but very few Diamonds,this is a Diamond 💎 play on dude 👍
have no fucking clue how I got here....pretty sure three hops back I was watching Whitney Houston- I Will Always Love You Live....and here I am now. wtf lmao
“I’m looking up the chords. I don’t want to butcher it completely.” Lmao! 😂
Exactly.
Yeah right 🤣
Same here.... Just wandered into it... Glad I did...
That's the problem with someone calling out a Steve Vai or Joe Satriani request, that ohh s... moment. Thinking to yourself this woman is either and old Whitesnake fan (best case scenario 😆) or a hardened G3 following Joe Jem having guitar playing ultra critic.
For those questioning that this is real - I'm a professional composer and producer. I'm writing this from my studio. I also play guitar in a function band that is required to do impromptu requests on a regular basis. While Steve Vai is a hell of a request for a guitarist, Tender Surrender is actually quite simple. The section that Dovydas played is a slow 3-chord groove that doesn't change, apart from going soft, loud, soft. It's a semi-improvised jam, even on the original. Because Dovydas is an excellent player who clearly knows his equipment, and has a great musical memory, he was able to busk in the style of Steve Vai over the chord sequence. When you know your stuff, this isn't difficult. If this was staged, he would have included the other chord sequences from the song. He also would have included the song's main melody, which Vai revists throughout. For the person saying "if you think this wasn't staged you're not a real musician"... I don't think you're a real musician. A real musician would know that, actually, a straightforward pop song with lots of surprising chord changes would be a harder request. And as for the person saying that this was recorded in a studio because you can hear the background noise disappear after he starts playing, this is very simple. He faded out the vocal mic for RUclips to make the video a bit cleaner after establishing the context with the woman's request at the beginning. I imagine he was running his live rig through a small mixer and into a sequencer on a laptop. Given that all his equipment is lined (electronics going directly into his PA rather than instruments with mics in front of them), once he muted the channel recording his vocal mic - no background noise. Case closed. ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY DOUBTS? COME AT ME. I'M GOING TO FIGHT THIS GUY'S CORNER.
I just went back to this vid cause he said in another one that alot of people said that was faked. I have like no theoretical knowledge of music whatsooever. I can barely read the tempo out of notes so that i could learn the drums, and dont ask me about my skills on on the guitar...But...how can one think thats fake? Like u said: its not like hes covering some prog metal or something like that
I'd just tell em to fuck off into their sad lives whilst we enjoy the music.......
Wonderful response. I wanted to put something uo on this guys behalf but Once I read this, I didnt see a need to do anything other than support this post. I would only add that music should be something to enjoy, to express yourself, but most importantly(for my part atleast) music can bring peoe together than wouldnt normally cross paths. Ive met alot of amazing ppl at concerts, and before you could download everything the record store. I still love to go to my local guitar shop amd hang out in the evening atleast ince a week. My grandpa was a music teacher and also taught piano and violin lessons in the summer while school was out. he started me out at 4 on piano, and bought me my first guitar at 6. He passed away last year, but he left a part of himself behind that Ill always have, music. My son is 5 and is obsessed with playing already. My wife is a singer. She and my daughter sing together constantly. Its rare to see families that hangout as much as we do. Music is what helps us find time for each other. So I dont understand why anyone would want to start an argument about whos better. What the best instrument is or maker. Whatever the case. Music is so broad theres something for everyone. And listen to everything, atleast once. Dont close yourself off to just one lr two genres. Its ok to like country and hip hop. Or rock and classical. Hell i love it all. Yngwie Malmstein ayin Beethovens 5th is one of my favorites. My point is this, enjoy it, if an artist or style isnt for you, try something else. But you dont have to belittle the folks they create, perdorm, or enjoy it. Im not a huge fan of techno. Easy fix, I just dont listen to it. I will say there are a few mainstream artist that make me question hoe they have a contract with so many talentes folks scraping by that can sing and play live with out the need for auto tune but what can u do.
Go Laurence..this guy is pure manic..love his skills.👌👌
@@mossfloss What? 😂😂
Tender Surrender literally requires 6 strings and a trem. I think he's good. 😂😂
Looks at phone for 5 seconds.
"I know guitar"
Lawrence Fishburn leans in.
"Show me"
Lmao matrix reference
Exactly... Except he did better than Neo. Neo ducks from a gun in the agent training video after learning kung fu. This guy would’ve kickEd the agent through the wall
comment section under the video is insane xddd
Totally Neo'd that shit.
Cube Gordon Jr say show me the money, but this time toms like they said no
I'm 73 and sometimes I despair over the music of today then I hear this thank you young man .I sat and played it to some nice single malt made my day
Thank you so much! I'm glad you liked it!
Hi, I am Peter from Germany and I am 54 years old. In former times I did music of my own and in orchestra. I played accordeon and piano, all instruments with key. Since I discovered you, specially this one, on YT, I look at it several times a month. I like the way how you put the things together.
I am impressed! He kept his cool, didn't blow off the girl and say something derogatory like 'I don't play his stuff, or that song'. Then he stood there, researched it and built the song. Played it and never broke a sweat. Very confident, not cocky, approachable, and skilled. Very very good entertainer!!!
jackvisn
He didn’t play tender surrender though...
@@shredgod6394 No, he didn't play tender surrender, that would have been much less interesting than what he did here. He takes the founding elements of the song, and builds something of his own on the, which is imo much nicer to listen to live.
Hyde
Decent guitar improvisation is always enjoyable.
But like 4:57 to 5:03 was just ear rape
It wasn't that off really... also - 6 seconds out of an entire unexpected improv? Now that's bitchy. LOL
NameSake Radio
That’ wasn’t the only time.
And it’s a goddamn sour bend. That’s not just any little messup
the guitar just got vai-olated
Bu dum tssss
You stole that from the actual tender surrender video, and it probably wasn’t even originally from there
@@squidwardstesticles5914 then whyyyy do you fucking care bro
Chief Captn because stolen jokes that I’ve seen before aren’t funny
Chief Captn Squid balls makes a decent point
I can never listen to Steve vai's version after hearing this...can't tell you how many times I've listened to this....dayyyyaammm❤️
Same with me. I am definitely no fan of guitar music or music like Hardrock. But this masterpiece I have to listen at least one time a month since I discovered it on YT.
@@peterschnabel1564 cliffs of dover
How about Brothers in Arms by Dire straits??? Dovidas would totally own this unless he already has a video and I missed it
Have you actually heard Tender Surrender? Cos this sounds nothing like it.
@@concerned1 thought the same, tender surrender is a Master piece
If the algorithm recommended this to you you're doing something right.
So so true thats how I came across this amazing video.
Hi from Australia
Hell yeah BOIIII
It did
Right on
Who are you and how do I obtain the knowledge
That guitar needed a cigarette after this.
It was said it couldn't walk for a week...
Fire and Ice Issa joke
danclapper626 this comment funny as hell 😂😂
Whatever happened to this guy?
Oh my God. You made my night
No idea who you are, who Steve Val is, or what genre of music this is, but you made me fall in love with all three at once. You're an absolute legend, stranger.
Right on. That was beautiful, bravo!
you should search for steve vai Heather...
@@fredgarvin4482 thanks! I tried Val and didn't find anything so it looks as if I mistook. last letter. You're awesome!
@@heathertaylor8904 i will not win any popularity contest saying this, but i dont really enjoy listening to steve vai or petrucci even though they can play the guitar easier and better than i can breathe. they just arent musical to me.
now this guy that made the video. he is more than a guitar player. he is a true musician. but that all just my opinion.
@@fredgarvin4482 gotcha :) well that's the heat thing about opinions... We're all free to have em! I never liked Nirvana or a lot of popular singers or bands so I know the feeling. Still going to give Steve a try in a bit. Have a wonderful day!
I come back here from time to time. Pure heaven for ears
Come on back fred it's been over a year
Like Scattered Black and Whites?
you sir, have the most well behaved and respectfull bandmates I have ever seen. Bravo
bob bobbinson I know what you mean. Can't stand when the drum machine decides to try to steal the show with a badly timed drum solo.
"Got it" ..... understatement of the year brother
You could almost see the moment your heart broke when you laughed at 17sec. Full props for a great job
+lancekamau haha, thanks!
Steve Vai has made a nice cover of this.
Ha ha ha
😂
Lmaoooo
Steve who?😁
Yeah close, but still not up to this guys abilities. After all, Steve only plays one instrument.
I suffer from bad depression from time to time but I can always come back to this sv version when I'm really down and feel normal for 9 minutes,and for that I thank-you x
Hey James! Sending love and good music your way X
hey james... meditate 2 hours a day from meditation videos pertaining to depression on youtube and eat food high in omega 3 every day like Alaskan wild salmon.. it has helped me immensely .
bohren & der club of gore- midnight black earth listen at least until minut 4
You’re never alone brother. We will alway be here for you. I love those type of songs
When RUclips algorithm works well
Albert Hofmann for once^
I'm 67 and live in Australia. Can't remember how I found this, but know that I will be coming back to it regularly for a long, long time. Thanks for the great upload. Cheers.
ring ring
Here we are in Melbourne in July 2020 all masked up for Corvid 19 watching RUclips videos at midnight.
Audience: What kind of songs can you play?
Dovydas: *Yes*
Literally
Bruh he doesn’t know many of the songs they ask
Hahaha lol
Yes, like Roundabout and Heart of the Sunrise?
😂 Dovydas.. yes. rofl
can't believe it took me three years to find this... just incredible how you took that request and built the song right in front of our very eyes. An amazingly inspiring talent.
shit day, get home, stick youtube on, come across this and suddenly life's got meaning again ~
lol
YES
Don’t get your hopes up. Life still has no meaning 😂
You sure have a shit life if this video renews your faith
William Chapman - the account name is "TheUKtoday"... sounds accurate 😂😂😂
If I’m ever put on hold on a phone line I would prefer to listen to this . When they interrupt i would ask to be placed back on hold until I’m ready.
Ahahahahha :-D
This is the best comment I've ever read. Respect
Right on brutha
This version or the original
It won't be this
You dont just casually look up the chords to a Steve vai song. This guy can shred
brent noreen fact
Straight facts. Literally like someone saying...oh little wing? Hmm I have heard it. Let me look it up and wing it.
You right there brother, hoghead enjoying
@@allexandergibbs9295 Exactly!!! well said.
lol 100%
As the one person who watches all your videos, I think this is one of, if not the, best thing you ever improvised. I hope your move went well and you soar on eagles wings.
When you accidentally feed your guitar acid instead of taking it yourself lol
"Let me look it up. I don't want to butcher it." Then proceeds to compose a masterpiece. Damn bro. Absolutely incredible.
I hope you gave your guitar a safe word
Clifton Greening underrated comment!
perfect comment mate made me laugh dude
Hahaha
FLÜGGÅӘNKб€ČHIŒßØLĮÊN
Hahahaha. That’s funny.
You know there has got to be a God when someone this gifted exists...
Straight up beautiful.
Watch how he looks upon them in every master hes created, hes asking for their powers and he rightfully deserves them
There is a god. He’s right there in the video..
"I'm so glad I was recording. No one would ever believe I pulled this out of my ass for a crowd of two on a Tuesday night at a brew pub."
I would have believed you bro . Stay zen
i believe him cause i just googled the chords, took me 10 seconds to find them, 10 seconds to loop them, now im doing improv over it.. its really not hard, took me just as long to write this comment as it did to learn the chords haha
That was awesome
"Got it" was such an understatement.
"Nailed it" would rather be more appropriate though.
Understatement of the century.
"He's beginning to believe"
Yes 😂
Just watched that movie. Nice
Trinity can you plug in every guitarist throughout history, I have a request to comeple
Best commentary ever!
Best. Comment. Ever.
2024 AND STILLING LISTENING TO THIS MARSTER PIECE
nearly two years later and i find myself coming back and listening to this again and again. insane.
postworldgames jim pinto same
postworldgames jim pinto right!!! I’m back for the 8-10th time. Its crazy
Peydon7777 I play this atleast 3 days a week in the morning on my way to work extremely loud and it sounds amazing in my suv with 12 Alpine type R's throughout. It's a good way to get in a better mood for a shitty day lol
When dovydas tells his girlfriend "I can do something like that", her world is about to be rocked.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
She ended up marring him funny you said that im dead serious 😆
That was mind blowing....you were born with a wonderful gift. I'm 66 years old and you are one of the best if not the best I have ever seen and heard.
Well you obviously haven't heard that much
@@symbiosisai what're you talking about man? That was on par with steve Vaughn and I would argue that his phrasing was actually even better than the original.
@@symbiosisai he says that from his own experience.. if u actually saw someone better, then who tf cares.. abdool..
Yes us senior citizens know the best music playing around...look what young people listen to now...all the songs/musicians we grew up with
P.S I'm 61 yrs young and love young peoples hip hop etc too...MUSIC IS UNIVERSAL BRINGS US ALL TOGETHER...
ROCK ON DOVYDAS
This is my favorite Dovy "cover"!🔥.
I have it saved in my library and listen to quite often.
No. Fckn. Way. Unbelievable that this vid crossed my path. Pure magic to see how that song was reconstructed from scratch, including that bizarre learning curve. "Ok. Got it..!" What a legend 👌
He texted Tank to upload the song through the Matrix.
Underrated comment. Take a like.
Best comment on this thread💯💯💯
😂🤣😂🤣😂
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Good shit
Don't worry... All the dislikes are my neighbours.
hellicobacter pilorys you have 6K neighbors? That’s one compact and big apartment complex.
@@polarisrust haha you were here an hour before me youtube reccomendation brought me here.
@@polarisrust BIG SPIKERS MY FRIEND COVERS A BIG NEIGHBORHOOD
Mine too. Hahaha
Lol
I find just as much enjoyment watching him build the songs and then play them.. Its really amazing watching him put these together. Works of art if you ask me.
Song building extraordinaire! I hope Steve Vai stumbles across this!
+MrAVTN thank you! If he does I hope he likes it!
I sent it to him, he will listen and care. He's a great guy
Like Kelly said he is a great guy and will love it when he hears it. I'm blown away, as a musician I have been there with a request quickly looking up chords of songs I have played routinely because I don't have a good memory. But then to build it up with the looper and kill it like you did, Amazing!
At first I thought this is another troll video. But you just made me speechless. Hats off to you bro. You are a true musician.
Thank you!
Dude, i have no bigger thrill in life than discovering music. I am once again happy to find out I can still be thrilled. rock on !
+YesItsReallyKeith that's awesome! Thank you!
Been following Dovydas since this excellent video, its where I fell in love ❤ thats why I keep coming back revisiting how it all got started my obsession for more awesomeness in action, play it!!!
Only a few guitar players would dare to play Steve Vai, that makes you a good one! congratulations!
exactly! Im not anywhere in this guys league. BUT even if i had been playing 20 years id break out laughing at someone asking me to play vai
MrViolero I concur with your statement
WE WANT SATCH BOOGIE
"Let me try to fake it"... I love the raw humblensess and slight humor of who you are, despite your obvious mastery of your skills. This interpretation had just the right amount of the original song blended with your own abilities. Keep this type of interpretation and your requesting audience will not be disappointed.
I'd pay good money to see this dude perform! Super talented and seems like a cool guy!. 😎👍
Agreed!
All of it was perfect but the ending,
“Something like that, right?” Is
Pure
Gold.
Well done 💎
Hahaha you basically don't listen to Steve Vais songs. How could this be perfect? Hahahaha
@@PussyDevourer69 Nie chodzi o to jak gra Vai?To improwizowane wykonanie było zajebiste.
@@PussyDevourer69 still perfect Steve vai was to much electric guitar dovy is far superior of a musician
@@LOST_HOMIE wtf... are you serious bro you gotta be trolling. youre seriously not a guitar person are you. this dude only went with extremely speedy fretting. like how can you even compare. how do you even compare to steves techniques and music knowledge. do you even know who steve vai is? like bro check this video out and tell me you still think dovys version is better than the og ruclips.net/video/Yw74sDWPH7U/видео.html
69 likes thank me later - me
Who else just happened to stumble on this GEM💎.
Quite a JEM. I'll show my way out.
wow just came here from jimmy fallon and miley ciryus
Me
michael marks sure did
just wow, he just made that song right there on stage, MUCH RESPECT
This is how a musician doesn't disappoint the people. Great man!
+Hazardgeek thank you!
It's just so weird to think like 30 years ago you wouldn't get much recognition for your talent. But thanks to YT, you get 9M+ people who get to see it. This is the reason why I pay for Internet.
oh... you pay for your internet?
@@marcaiz2496 sir?
@@marcaiz2496 pay?
Nahh it's just one million people that's watched it 9 times each cuz it's that good lol
@@lunchbox1553 you mean you don't?
Dude this is so much better than just playing the song as the original version. You made tender surrender your own song
This video is so good it's finally made me stop being a lurker and write a comment. Wow man, pure skill. Amazing.
Tom Marshall hello Tom Marshall I now
Have your name address and mother’s maiden name your swat team will be arriving any time now
I like the part when the guitar goes wah wah waahhh
Byron Swan lmao
That wast the best part
I need to know what your avatar is right now
Byron Swan bra..
🤣
I hope you're getting more than free drinks. =) Great job!
I've been listening to this for 6 years and it never gets old
For those that gave a thumbs down, you simply have no idea how much discipline and talent is here. Bravo, I say. Simply outstanding. An absolute pleasure to watch. Thank you.
It's not note for note, in fact it's nothing like it... but that is not the point, it is the essence of the original, improvised on the spot and orchestrated well using the loops. It is a fantastic display of your musicianship which is why this deserves the respect it is getting.
Jesus christ. At the end i was waiting for standing ovations, roses get thrown at you and everything. This gave me the chills! Keep up the good work Dovydas.
Probably the best comment I've ever seen
I play a small amount. I've probably acquired at least half of the views off this. I saved this video and will forever play it when someone thinks they have something better to show me. You're a musical genius and I thank you for the masterpieces you continue to rock
Random person: hey, play this song
Dovy: idk that song
Dovy 2.5 seconds later: got it
For real. 😂
the power of editing
I have a requeeeeest
The honest answer would be.. Hey I don't know tender surrender, but I will play a song that kinda sorta sounds like it could be in that genre.
@@theknightsofawesomeness2701 the power of knowing wtf
2018 where your gig in front of a handful of people turns into a performance for 5 million.. What a time to be alive
Bro you give me chills I had to put my socks on
itzSaucy Baby chills so extreme socks are needed
I've seen this video over 100 times now and that damn guitar never stops giving me the chills or putting a smile on my face. Incredible 🎸
"Something like that, right?" Yes! You fucking legend!
+John Pitchers haha, thank you!
DOVYDAS Music b
Why the hell does this video have 3k dislikes??? This man took a song he barely knew and made it his own, and ROCKED it. There should be 1Millions likes
zambonni We have zero control over those miserable enough to click an anonymous dislike button on something this cool. This guy pulled a musical rabbit out of a hat.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA Innocent living being.
They thought it's a download button :)
Cuz some people r really aliens. And not the cool kind of aliens.
It just shows you how many assholes there are out of the 79000 people...
I'm 75 and I am so impressed by your musicianship. I can't believe one person can play like that. Thanks for sharing.
Now 2021-10-27 i still think this is the best Dovydas... here you give it your all and it shows.. the new one know he is good... i like it more creative as you were. still one of the best artist around now and maybe even in future.. man you can play.
When music is just in your soul...
"I don't know it note for note." Might as freaking well. Holly hell dude. Superbly done.
I’m going to be honest. This is the first video of yours that gave me chills. I closed my eyes and disappeared to a groovy landscape in the clouds. Absolutely emotional and deep this song has a great depth and an amazing crescendo of madness that I absolutely loved. Keep on rocking my man. The rock Gods smile on you each time you do.
This is one of my favorite videos of at time.....
My jaw just hit the ground... My God, this guy is AWESOME!!! Thank You, Sir!!!
Agreed! I had to pick mine up off the ground too!
me three.. ;o )
you're a wizard harry.
Hahaha
2:30
I am a wat?
She requested THE song and now I'm stuck with it....keep comming back.....I've listened maby 200 times or so....very surprisingly relaxing....good job Dovydas....
go listen to buckethead, you will have music to listen to 24/7
i cant stop to😂🥳💪🏽✊🏾
"you try to do your best." Understatement of the year; that was heart and soul, man.
"there is no bad gig" - That's what a true musician says.
except if you have to go after some one like GG Allin lol
Some gigs are better than others though haha
great job dude i play music everyday also. and u really put all the parts together . outstanding
you ever looked up where Led Zeppelin's name came from?
It's still a learning experience.
Who is still blown away by this in 2019? OMG! Amazing!
This guy right here "i applause" standing ovation!!
No doubt. Extremely talented. I hope he gets to do this all day every day. This talent shouldn't be wasted.
The better question is: Who is still taken in by this in 2019? No shots of the crowd, no crowd noise at all not even the expected cheering when he ends. The guy is good, I'm not trying to take that away from him, but why bother with the fake "I'm playing to a crowd at a music festival and randomly got this request for a Steve Vai song" line of bullshit? "Oh, noes! Let me look up the chords so I don't butcher it!" Just post your Steve Vai cover and let it be, no one needs the bullshit that was apparently thought to be necessary to pull in views.
I'm playing at a brewery for about three people. It's a tuesday afternoon "happy hour" 4 hour gig for basically tips. I'm trying to interact with the only people who are there. I say in between songs - "thanks for buying VIP tickets"; "You're my biggest crowd of the week". They laugh. Then this one lady out of three feels comfortable enlugh to request this. Please listen to the original. Not one line resembled it. I'm literally noodling on top of three intro chords that I found on Ultimate Guitar website.
@@DovydasMusic its still fukin cool!
Easily the most impressive thing I’ve seen on RUclips in recent memory. Pure skill.
This is my first time hearing this and I see I am not alone.... I’m blown away man. Incredible!!
I honestly don't understand how you haven't blown up by now. You are so absurdly good with that looper.
Or go blind ;-) LOL
Exactly my thoughts
TRUE...but thee single biggest obstacle or primary hurdle that "musical servants" have to conquer or face is the simple fact that the general audience/mainstream crowd aren't musically inclined...they are simpletons who are only able to consume 'catchy' pop hits...something that's easy to hum to, sing-along with and remember...advanced music lovers are thirsty for true musicianship but the world is musically dumbing-down generation after generation (from "technical" Heavy Metal to simple "power chords" of Grunge...from "acrobatic n' tongue-twisting" styles of Lyrical Rap down to the meaningless "auto-tune" hooks of Mumble Rap, etc.)...MAINSTREAM MUSIC a.k.a. MONEY-MAKING TUNES does not care for genuine skills & talent...SAD BUT TRUE.
guess he just hasn’t come across any land mines
Fucking imaizing, a just keep watching that video, blows my mind
This must be the toughest audience in the universe. awesome job man :)
+Steven Barnes thank you!
Steven Barnes o
Jim Davis of the 6 people in the beer garden that night at least the one who requested it should have that look
I'm guessing no one was there, and this was before some fest or party. He had the lady request that, scripted, so he could film this. Shot in the dark, but doesn't look like there's anyone there
VERY impressive!!!!!! I love how the song was built from the beginning in real time. Wow!!! Very talented!
Even now after all this time I still love listening to this version ....the bass line with the lead guitar is excellent takes it up a notch from the bluesy original from the 'Via' ...good job Døvydas
I don't even know how I got here... but I am glad I did. WOW! What a pleasant surprise. Bad ass, dude!
David C. Theiss you are awesome!!
David C. Theiss me to
haha same here
i know how, but i wont repeat it here
brewing brought you here
I get a new set of speakers, I come here for a test drive.
Me too :)
What kind?
"Contemplating escape strategy". LOL!
Who else are scrolling through the comments, listening to Døvy and smiling from ear to ear? Have a nice day♥️
Me... :D
Epic musician, epic personality.
Me binging for hours can’t stop watching!!! 🤘🤘✌️😎🎶🎶🎤⭐️
:) Yeah okayyy.. you got me 😂 Have a great day you too! 😘
@@dannycarver6259 Me too and battery currently sitting at 2% hoping it hangs in until it’s over.. ^^