Archive: 29 posts

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Now if anyone can prove that this guy isn't the worlds fastest guitar player i'll kill myself just watch this short video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgIC6KOFySk This guys is seriousley good.

2010-03-10 10:34:00 Author: lbpholic Posts: 1304

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Fast but I don't think he would be the fastest, maybe the worlds fastest blind guitarist though. Still incredible.

2010-03-10 10:50:00 Author: SR20DETDOG Posts: 2431

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What he's blind i didn't realise that lol.

2010-03-10 11:14:00 Author: lbpholic Posts: 1304

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I don't think he's the fastest guitar player ever. I'm pretty sure my guitar teacher can play that. Any professional guitar play can play fast though. There's much more harder things to guitar than playing fast.

2010-03-10 12:11:00 Author: qrtda235566 Posts: 3664

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BynUZOJc8QI (Starts at 3 minutes- fastest speed at 7:38)

2010-03-13 12:08:00 Author: S-A-S--G-U-N-R Posts: 1606

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Beat me to it....

2010-03-13 13:06:00 Author: iGotFancyPants Posts: 1355

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/unimpressed. Yes i like some fast playing, to an extent. That's just not nice at all, it sounds awful Also, are you going to kill yourself now?

2010-03-13 14:35:00 Author: Unknown User

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Found an even faster version- 370bpm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKdJ0FRqjk0 Skip to 3:20, the rest is wierd...

2010-03-13 15:41:00 Author: S-A-S--G-U-N-R Posts: 1606

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Here's a video of Jeff Loomis, one of the faster sweep pickers. So don't expect super strumming, but that sweeping is so **** clean! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xgYpb6Kcf60

2010-03-13 16:19:00 Author: iGotFancyPants Posts: 1355

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Imagine what else that guy can do with his right hand! :O Anyway, whilst fast is impressive, it sounds crap.

2010-03-13 16:43:00 Author: Leather-Monkey Posts: 2266

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Yngwie Malmsteen's pretty darn fast... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aS_IYe5JTZ4 So is Buckethead! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTcg9JybEp8 Those are two of my favorite 'fast' guitar players... But to be honest I prefer clarity and melody over speed. Guitarists like Eric Johnson can achieve fast enough riffs while maintaining amazing clarity and quality.

2010-03-13 17:05:00 Author: Duffluc Posts: 402

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yes, but none of the aforementioned players can kick this much butt: Spoiler tags added for langauge: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlVXFuE3AwQ Flight of the bumblebee shred challenges have been done to death, that it's hard to care anymore. As for Jeff Loomis.... meh.

2010-03-13 17:12:00 Author: Thegide Posts: 1465

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So apparently this is just a "fast guitar players" thread now? If so, then I think Michael Angelo Batio is probably the best guitarist out there. Sure, his song writing is garbage and he's an all-around ****** bag, but he plays pretty frickin' fast. Not to mention he can do it with two guitars at one time and sweep upside down. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hb5QaCfm7bg&feature=related In terms of favorite guitarist, I'd say mine is Buckethead or the dude from An Endless Sporadic.

2010-03-13 17:30:00 Author: qrtda235566 Posts: 3664

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Well the topic was world's fastest... and sas-gunr posted it. Not much else to say other than "I bet that's the only song dude has ever played". Heh, MAB was pretty fast back in his day, but the bar has been raised, and there's a bunch of guys who can play just as fast, if not cleaner. What they lack that he has though, it's a sense of ridiculous showmanship that evolved into true ambidexterity. But other than for show, what good does it serve? As you said, his songwriting is garbage and he's an all around assbag. I'm a big fan of Michael Romeo too. He's a pretty decent writer and the cleanest shredder I know of - his two handed technique is terrifyingly good. There are few guitarists I cannot keep up with, but Romeo's solos are consistently about 10% too fast for me, for the most part. Rusty, well I don't even try. His forearms could crush skulls. Yngwie and Buckethead... not that fast, but at least Buckethead writes interesting music. I met Yngwie in '03. Also total assbag. I watched him autograph a kid's $5000 10th anniversary Ibanez Jem, signed 'Yngwie - Play Fender'.

2010-03-13 17:51:00 Author: Thegide Posts: 1465

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When I heard Yngwie for the first time, I was like holy crap this dude is flipping crazy. Now I just think he's a jerk Thegide - just out of curiosity, how long have you been playing for?

2010-03-13 21:58:00 Author: SupaSack34 Posts: 180

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I started taking lessons in Jan of '92, so just over 18 years. Can't say that I play nearly as much as I used to, and I suppose video games are partly to blame But I teach on the side and run a small recording studio in my home too.

2010-03-13 22:09:00 Author: Thegide Posts: 1465

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Wow. I've been playing for only 5 months lol

2010-03-13 22:14:00 Author: SupaSack34 Posts: 180

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Yeah, me like thegide play from '92, when I was 14, but I never took lessons. Since I disbanded my and 8 years ago, I didn't play quite anymore, and work doesn't help, so I found myself playin' maybe 2 hours a month, but thegide is really right. Today to be considered an average player you must play Yngwie blindfolded, and i you play at least 4 hours a day, you can reach that target in 2-3 years if you apply with passion and you're honest with yourself while doing exercises. Rusty Cooley is great, still I prefer Michael Romeo, since I think he has a better taste, and an overall better knowledge of techniques, not only alternate picking. What I think is that some speeds are ridicuolus, since what you play is undefined and remembers the PacMan jingle played on speed. Another great player is Kiko Loureiro from the Brazilian Angra. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2Ju5OX80Fc http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--TYp43PVgY Chris Broderick is also awesome (new Megadeth guitarist) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xkpZ645ztl0

2010-03-20 19:13:00 Author: OmegaSlayer Posts: 5112

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Wow well there is some pretty fast guitar playing going on in this thread lol.

2010-03-22 11:58:00 Author: lbpholic Posts: 1304

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I've loved that Chris Broderick vid since I first saw it. It serves as a good reminder to shredders out there that the pursuit of speed is only a small part of the virtuoso puzzle. I haven't really been driven to become an 8-finger tapping god, but the last six months or so playing a lot of Symphony X has given me a whole new set of chops for tapping and overall, the stuff in Chris' vid is far more challenging to play cleanly even at a slow tempo than shredding scales at high speed. I think what blows my mind with Rusty's playing is that he handles monstrous stretches with absolute ease, and can shred through them with absolute power. Eh maybe my hands just aren't that big, but I've adopted other ways of doing that kind of stuff.... either two handed or arranged something that's more friendly for me to play. Anyways... awesome tapping @ 2:32. This is my current homework: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ES1RypBww_g

2010-03-23 18:44:00 Author: Thegide Posts: 1465

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Broderick is a really standing point in guitar virtuosism since he has knowledge over every techniques, not only speed, and his classical guitar video shows it. Cooley has an hand that has the size of a shovel, so that's no wonder he has a lot of strength in his hands an impressive stretch. Paul Gilbert is awesome, I studied his method, along with Malmsteen's and Satriani after learning Slash's stuff. Too bad I've got little patience in learning finger positions and patterns The tapping fraseggio is cool, though nothing compared to Michael Romeo's Sea Of Lies, and Petrucci's first section of http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PG2804ggsI0 This is clean as hell! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0d6DyV-CA8w Check 4:00 And a little pearl This is from the Dutch prog band Elegy, back in 1994, when Henk van de Laars and Gilbert Pot still played there Best sweep intro ever http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e17I1lFA-7c

2010-03-23 19:49:00 Author: OmegaSlayer Posts: 5112

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Yeah I like that bit of Sea of Lies too. I was practicing it late last year again to speed up my pedal point. Can't neglect those classical techniques! As for sweep intros, I'm surprised you didn't throw up Romeo's intro to Smoke and Mirrors.

2010-03-24 14:01:00 Author: Thegide Posts: 1465

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Well, Smoke and Mirrors is a given, and it's an arpeggio that you can master with a little of patience, you only have to figure out the pattern of the pick sweep, since the position of the left hand is quite simple, the standard ones for minor and major arpeggio, not like most of Marty Friedman's ones; what bothered me the most was the legato on the 5th string while I was learning it, since I'm better in picking techniques than legato ones...and maybe that's the reason why I bow in front of people who is damm good at legatos. I can play it, not as clean as Michael Romeo, but I can do it, and I didn't have to take a shower to wash the shame from me because I don't suck, I only don't play it as good as him. lol I think that the best legato section that I can play is the one in the solo of "The Electric Crown" from Testament, but at least I do it real good LOL and again no showers Alex Skolnick perhaps is another guitar player that I really love. Sea Of Lies, right now would be completely out of my league, since I've lost a bit of speed and elasticity during the last years since I practice very few and during wy work I have to lift many weights and I suffered several (don't know the name in English so I'll just invent a new word) "inflammation of the wrist tendins" during the last 3 years. I think that I would need at least 2 hours a day for a year to get back where I was before starting to work. I still can play Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth, Pantera, Priest and some Malmsteen, Children Of Bodom and Dream Theater solos, but the most difficult stuff and most of the patterns of Symphony-X are quite hard now, since I get really tired when I have to play on speed consistently or do wider movements like string skippings.

2010-03-24 14:23:00 Author: OmegaSlayer Posts: 5112

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Ah yes, repetitive strain injury (RSI) or more inaccurately referred to as tendonitis. Back about 5 or 6 years ago when I really started pushing the limits of my playing, particularly with shredding big arpeggio shapes I had an RSI injury in my left hand, just at the base of my thumb. I had to stop playing with the guitar on my knee, and now play it in classical positioning, with the butt of the guitar between my legs. When I started to explore speed, I played almost everything legato since I couldn't alt-pick cleanly at high speed - or I'd combine it with a bit of economy picking. I have the chops now to do that kind of stuff, but I still had to properly learn to pick. Afterwards I think was the point when I realized I was playing with the big boys. I love playing Petrucci's stuff, but since I don't own a 7-string, I haven't bothered to thoroughly learn some of my favorite DT solos. I do remember putting in a lot of work to learn Fatal Tragedy, and I got most of the way though In the Name of God, but that was a few years ago now. I haven't listened to DT in quite some time. Just about everything Michael Romeo does is bloody hard. Sea of Lies isn't too bad for me now that I've spent some time on his style - it certainly improved my multistring tapping abilities, especially after learning the legato sections of songs like Savage Curtain and The ****ation Game. I really need to lower the action on my D-tuned guitar though - any time I sit down with a Romeo tab I'm sure I'm making things harder than they should be O.o

2010-03-25 17:55:00 Author: Thegide Posts: 1465

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I'm a competitive guy, so you really give me vibes to start playing back with sweat and blood, if I only had the time... I never really had a serious RSI back in the days, since I always kept the wrists warm with sponge bands, but the lack of excersises make me really prone to wrist aches now. My suggestion for high speed picking is using a fat pick, since they clear the string, they don't "spring back" after you hit the string, and they need very few strength in the pick. (Learnt this trick from Malmsteen guitar method) I use the Big Stubby series from Jim Dunlop USA, 2.00 mm, I feel them very confortable, they're like a second nature to me. Sometimes I would really like to buy a 7 or an 8 string, since my "innerself" says that it would be a good way to get back into the action, since you have to shift a bit your style of playing, deconstruct your favourite patterns and give a new shiny look to your play. I absolutely love to play Under A Glass Moon solo, since it's one of the most complete solo I've ever played. I always use a low action on both my guitars. A Yamaha RGX custom (very few pieces out there of this wonderul Japan made guitar) with a wonderful solid body, a fat but very quick neck. It has a quite warm sound, especially on the neck pick ups that I always use for solo. I have this one in dropped E, while I have my 1992 Ibanez JEM 777 tuned in D.

2010-03-25 21:26:00 Author: OmegaSlayer Posts: 5112

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Another JEM owner, sweet I have a 2002 7DBK with DiMarzio breeds. That's my main guitar, tuned standard with low action. I usually use 1.0mm Dunlop mini stubbys, but more recently prefer .88mm George Dennis sharps. The edges are beveled for precise attack and they have one helluva textured grip on them. Unlike the stubbys, I absolutely never drop these. They're hard to find, though. Only one shop in town orders them. I'll probably buy a 7-string universe or 7-string Schecter as my next or next to next guitar. I'm eyeing a black Gibson Explorer next possibly. I'd like a hardtail and love the shape, plus everyone calls me Skwisgaar already. Also considered maybe having a 7-string ESP custom built too.

2010-03-26 02:02:00 Author: Thegide Posts: 1465

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I dreamt a Universe since day one, but I heard many times that they're not reliable and they're very weak under the bridge, more than that they don't stay in tune. As I said that's what I heard, and I fear it's true since a mad friend of mine broke the wood behind the bridge of a 777 after using 0.12-0.58 string tuned on E for some times, since the tension was maybe too high. I'm way more inclined to buy even a K7 just to get a first hold of it. I can't like Gibson in any way, I really don't like them, anyone of them. I really like a lot of Jackson guitars, I like the shapes, and even how they sound, but I feel unconfortable to play them, since their necks are tiny, small, they give me the impression to be really fragile, to be on the verge of cracking in two pieces in my hand, and I don't have a hand like the one of Rusty LOL ESP are really awesome, while Schecter are really hard to find down here in Italy, so I never had the chance to even lay my eyes on them in reality. They really seem to be the next great $ h ! +

2010-03-26 08:23:00 Author: OmegaSlayer Posts: 5112

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0.12-0.58 for standard tuning? That is madness.... When I first had my ESP C-tuned that was the gauge I had set up and even then, I found them too stuff. I'm surprised he didn't snap that ultra-thin wizard neck. I've tried the K7 numerous times, but absolutely hate the styling of it. I'd take a 7-string prestige model over it, even if just to get away from the U-bar. I've also played a Universe on one occasion, and it felt solid enough to me. I've not heard anything about any of those issues you've mentioned. Jacksons I have tried to love and simply cannot. I hate the feel and sound of them. The necks feel slow and I find the mega jumbo frets to be clunky, not to mention I don't like the sound of Seymour Duncan pups. At least those could be swapped with some EMGs or DiMarzios, but there seems little point in doing so when I could just grab an ESP and be pleased. It's a shame too because Jacksons are very nice looking, but even a $3000 Jackson Kelly felt like a $400 piece of crap to me. Schecters are rare around these parts too, but I see a few of them stocked by my local shop. I've had a chance to play a few of them, they seem pretty good. Still trying to get my hands on a high end one for a proper appraisal, but they seem to be one of the few manufacturers that offers 7-string models with a floating bridge.

2010-03-26 14:51:00 Author: Thegide Posts: 1465

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Would you like to know how far madness can reach? He was so pis*** up for what happened that he decided to start studying liutery to repair the guitar by himself. Now that guitar is a sort of Frankestein with bolts and metal plates everywhere, EMG pickups and whatever. He completely manhandled an almost vintage guitar, but now it sounds like hell. He needs to play with a thick set of strings since he has a hard, nervous picking style, reminding me the one of Iced Earth's Jon Schaffer. He's really good and impressive for me, since I stroke the strings very lightly while he really brutalizes them. even a $3000 Jackson Kelly felt like a $400 piece of crap to me. I couldn't have said it better. Anyway, it seems like we've hijacked the thread LOL

2010-03-26 17:19:00 Author: OmegaSlayer Posts: 5112

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