Watch This Guitarist Nail Eric Johnson's "Cliffs of Dover" - Blindfolded
Dre DiMura can, truly, nail this instrumental masterpiece with his eyes closed!
Even if we had 48 hours a day to do so, we'd never have enough time to highlight all of the great guitar work that lands in our inboxes here at Guitar Player. This video, however, was an immediate "drop what you're doing and tell everyone about this" situation.
In it, L.A.-based guitarist Dre DiMura nails Eric Johnson's instrumental classic, "Cliffs of Dover" - blindfolded! You can check it out above.
The Diamante guitarist - good-looking Schecter in hand - gets just about everything spot-on, no easy task even with your eyes open! Personally, after this, we'd love to see a DiMura/Johnson "Cliffs of Dover" guitar duet...
For more of DiMura's videos, follow him on YouTube.
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Jackson is an Associate Editor at GuitarWorld.com and GuitarPlayer.com. He’s been writing and editing stories about new gear, technique and guitar-driven music both old and new since 2014, and has also written extensively on the same topics for Guitar Player. Elsewhere, his album reviews and essays have appeared in Louder and Unrecorded. Though open to music of all kinds, his greatest love has always been indie, and everything that falls under its massive umbrella. To that end, you can find him on Twitter crowing about whatever great new guitar band you need to drop everything to hear right now.
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