Each week at GuitarPlayerZen.com, we love helping to expose new guitar talent to the guitar community, and man is there a lot of it to be exposed!  This week we have a young axe-slinger from Muskegon, Michigan to show you guys.

Young Guitar Wizard

This young guitar wizard goes by the name Nicholas Scott, and holy shit can he shred.  He is 1 of 20 guitarists WORLDWIDE to be accepted into the renowned Berklee College of Music in 2008, and aspires to take his guitar playing and music to the professional level.   (It pretty much is already!)

Check out his song Crazyhead, which was featured in the March issue of Guitar Player Magazine:

I believe that the most important thing about muisic is to be completely innovative. There are, in my mind, no rules to music which makes it completely open to a man to either slaughter a song, or to make it a masterpiece; and I’m trying my very hardest to make it a masterpiece. Now, with great musicians by my side, I can;and I can have a good time doing it. I’m not saying that there aren’t influences on me, because there are, I’m saying that it’s important to reach the depths of your soul and discover the enigmas of your mind in order to make a beautiful, ingenious creation.

Something I found impressive about Nicholas was that when asked about his influences, the first thing that popped up into his mind was not a list of guitar shredders, but instead observations of human behavior and nature.

His song Chiaroscuro sounds like the love-making of a tyrannosaurus rex and a woolly mammoth. It’s some pretty wild stuff filled with lots of unique playing:

But of course, he give kudos to the following: Steve Vai, Guthrie Govan, Jason Becker, Shane Gibson (Mr. Stork), Meshuggah, Genesis, Yes, Led Zeppelin (of course), Pat Metheny, and Alan Holdsworth.

Music is what keeps me going. The thing that strikes me the most is how life patterns and events somehow match up with music almost perfectly. Also, the fact that music can cause any known (and sometimes unknown) emotion is something that deserves awe. Music is something that is intangible yet you can express everything you know through it.

Be sure to check out more of his music and show him some love at his myspace:

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