200K subs racked up for Emily this week on You Tube. And she makes one of the best songs of the 80s for her new video today. Simon Tomkins, Emily's guitar teacher, on the classic lead guitar parts

Emily closes out her 2022 musical year, a phenomenal year for her with her videos racking up huge numbers on You Tube. So Emily is joined by one of her brothers for her last video of the year. She always drags one or both of them into the studio when they come home for the christmas holidays.

Emily digs out a good one from the hit songs of the 70s...

Emily was live in the studio again at Dubai Eye Radio last Sunday. She's a regular guest at the station with her guitar to chat and play some songs live on air. This was her choice to play last weekend. And she turned it into a heartbreaking acoustic ballad. The video is not the radio station performance, its from her home studio for her own channel.

Those amazing young Germans... And a great ending too!

I'm back with another backing track! Really enjoyed free soloing over this one. Could you tell 😁 - Taj

The epic battle of the brothers...Taj vs Taj

Taj does a lot of improvisation videos over backing tracks. This is one of my faves

I've done a search for some Taj stuff, but come up dry. So I thought I'd start a thread for him. He's got a huge following on You Tube and Facebook. Taj is 12 years old from Australia, played on stage with Carlos Santana in Vegas when he was 10. He's played with Orianthi too. Rock, blues, metal, country, jazz - he can play it all. And he's the youngest guitarist ever endorsed by Gibson - at 9 years old. See how he goes...

Emily's new video "I'd like to pay tribute to Gary Brooker with this timeless masterpiece by Procol Harum". - Emily

Emily's new video "I love Bob Dylan's music and his unique voice! Special thanks to Simon Tomkins for adding some extra cool acoustic parts and bass guitar. Thanks also to Elvis Garagic @SoundStruck Studio Dubai for the mix/mastering." - Emily

The Beatles are Emily's favorite band, she's covered a lot of their songs, but its the more challenging songs that she likes to record. And she always picks the best songs. This is her new one

Her first video of 2022, Emily taking a very complex song and stripping it down to just piano and one vocal. She's not 13 any longer, Emily had her 14th birthday last month.

A christmas cracker from Emily as she is joined by her two older brothers for her new video

Emily's new video

"It was a challenge to learn this magnificent song, but I loved it" - Emily

Super talented 13 year old from Dubai. I've been following Emily's progress as a musician since the summer of 2020. She makes covers of mostly classic songs, often in her own style, from multiple genres. And now she's releasing her own original songs too, four of them in the last few months. She'a a real wordsmith. Oh, her surname is pronounced "Linger" - its a Norwegian name. She has an English mother and Norwegian father, but was born and lived all her life in Dubai.

Alyona has now moved to the USA! She spent 18 months in the US in 2011-2012 as a gigging musician. And she's wanted to get back there ever since. "Hey guys! We just moved to the USA. I got a visa called Alien with extraordinary ability, it is an immigrant visa type which allows me to work here as a musician. At the moment we are in Florida. We flew here on the 16th of March and couple of days later they stopped almost all the flights from Russia to the US so we were lucky!" - Alyona on Facebook So with Alyona now armed with her new special visa, I guess it must be time for the...Immigrant Song!

Alyona's new video, released today "DISCLAMER!!!!! If I would try to copy Jagger's unique manner - that would just look clownish. My main parts were female parts and as far as there had to be Jagger's parts there I recorded them in my own manner to make the song sound altogether" - Alyona

Alyona being Christine, Stevie & Lindsey at the same time...

This was Alyona's first video of her new look You Tube after she moved from audio to filming videos in her studio in 2014. Its been her most viewed video ever since. After 5 years unbroken at no.1, it finally got toppled from the top spot last month. Alyona's since gone on to record a bunch of Aerosmith covers. "This song, I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing (Aerosmith cover), I made completely myself using my MAC laptop, Logic Pro and M-Audio Oxygen keyboards. I also recorded my voices, did mixing and mastering myself. And also filmed the video completely myself and edited it" - Alyona

There's a separate thread for Alyona's Zeppelin covers. Alyona's covered more Zeppelin songs than she has any other band or artist. So this is for her other work. She releases a new video every Sunday. Alyona does all her own recording, mixing, filming, video editing, herself in her home studio in Moscow.