Larissa Liveir makes no bones about it: The 21-year-old Brazilian shredder wants to be a role model for other female guitarists. “There’s a lot more females who love rock music and playing the guitar than people think,” she says. “If I can help to inspire them to get out there and make music and join bands, I’ll feel as though I’ve had some real impact.
” Judging from Livier’s recent success on social media, it’s clear that people are paying attention. Between her Instagram, YouTube and TikTok accounts, she boasts close to five million followers who tune in for her weekly guitar-playing videos in which she performs note-perfect renditions of classics by Pink Floyd, Guns N’ Roses and Van Halen, among others. “People ask me, ‘Your videos are so popular.
What was your plan?’” she says. “I tell them, ‘There wasn’t a plan at all.’ I was studying engineering at school, but I had to come home during the pandemic.
There wasn’t anything to do, so I started making videos of me playing songs I love. Before I knew it, they took off.” Livier is pretty much the definition of and in addition to full-song covers, she posts attention-grabbing 10-second clips in which she nails famous riffs and solos.
“I actually put a lot of effort into those short videos,” she says. “I make sure the angles are right and that everything sounds good. Then I pick a popular song and choose the right part of the track so that people watch it again and again.
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