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Posted by: Ctodd Dec 11 2007, 05:12 AM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=0C6XzzDDWOs&feature=related
you guys would know more than me, cuz ive only been playing for a few months but this guy seems legitimate.
Anyone think they can go faster?
his fingers seem to float around the fretboard...
and how long do you think it would take to develop that kind of speed?
Posted by: Smikey2006 Dec 11 2007, 05:20 AM
Idk.. it seems.. fake.. like sped up maybe.. it just doesn't seem humanly possible.. lets get the shred expert Pavel in here to do a video analysis..
Posted by: golfrocker Dec 11 2007, 05:24 AM
He's pretty fast. Have you checked out Hisham's lessons though? Hisham is superfast and has great structure with his playing. We should see if we can get him to do a lesson going as fast as he can. I bet he would blow that dude out of the water? I'll keep an eye out. Thanks for the post.
Posted by: fkalich Dec 11 2007, 05:32 AM
you guys would know more than me, cuz ive only been playing for a few months but this guy seems legitimate.
Anyone think they can go faster?
his fingers seem to float around the fretboard...
and how long do you think it would take to develop that kind of speed?
as far as impressing me, he is right up there with the guy having the world record for sliding on snow down a hill the greatest distance, on his bare ass.
you don't need pavel. just download one of these guys, convert it to mp3, and then run it though slowdowner. one is much less impressed after that.
Posted by: Zephyr Dec 11 2007, 05:32 AM
It's fast but, I think it sounds absolutely horrible... just my opinion, though!
Posted by: Wyvernx Dec 11 2007, 05:33 AM
This guy is pretty fast, but only for tremolo picking
http://youtube.com/watch?v=O8Wbb8r8PUs
The guy you posted though has some pretty crazy sweeps though!
Posted by: fkalich Dec 11 2007, 05:47 AM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=O8Wbb8r8PUs
The guy you posted though has some pretty crazy sweeps though!
i tried to listen, but he kept jabbering. after about 30 seconds I figured "that's all you get, shut your yapper, geez", and clicked him off. I highly doubt on my death bed i will say "gee, I wish I has listened to that fast speed picker when I had the chance".
Posted by: swingline Dec 11 2007, 06:01 AM
Everyone knows the fastest guitarist is Skuissgar.
Posted by: fkalich Dec 11 2007, 06:11 AM
I define it as the guy who is fastest and also musical. There would be argument, but Batio would be a contender. I am not sure if Gilbert is as fast. But Gilbert can play at 140bpm, and still he is playing faster than these guys who think they are playing 58 notes a second. Fast crap don't count.
Posted by: swingline Dec 11 2007, 06:20 AM
I'm not sure you know who Skuissgar is. 
Posted by: kebsis Dec 11 2007, 06:47 AM
I am the fastest guitarist in the world.
That is to say, I can play the opening riff of Enter Sandman while running down the street at thirty miles an hour
which personally I think is more impressive than the guy in the video
Posted by: Arrival Dec 11 2007, 07:22 AM
That is to say, I can play the opening riff of Enter Sandman while running down the street at thirty miles an hour
which personally I think is more impressive than the guy in the video
Well, technically, you don't even need to be playing anything right? I'm a guitarist and one time I drove my car like 103 miles per hour. CHAMPION!!
This is ridiculous lol.
Posted by: shredmandan Dec 11 2007, 07:33 AM
This was my opinion aswell.Like in this video the dude was doing very fast swep motions along with throwing in some tapps but it wasent really musical.Sounded more like an atarii game on Crack.No doubt the guitarist is good but i think this is a area were a guitarist looses skill due to speed obsession
.Please dont get me wrong i love fast really fast sweeping solo's but man its got to have something in it that just catch's you 
.Some of you will know what i mean.Also i have to go check out this dude you all listed on here as the fastest
Posted by: fkalich Dec 11 2007, 07:38 AM
I'm not sure you know who Skuissgar is. you misspelled it.
Posted by: Pavel Dec 11 2007, 08:23 AM
you guys would know more than me, cuz ive only been playing for a few months but this guy seems legitimate.
Anyone think they can go faster?
his fingers seem to float around the fretboard...
and how long do you think it would take to develop that kind of speed?
His sweeps are really crazy, but his AP sucks. He doesn't hit one note while AP so he's not a real shredder like Rusty or Fareri.
Posted by: Muris Dec 11 2007, 09:16 AM
And even these sweeps aren't well accurate imho,would be nice to slow it down if possible,
probably 3 of 10 notes are played,rest of it is raking.
Posted by: Pavel Dec 11 2007, 09:25 AM
probably 3 of 10 notes are played,rest of it is raking.
Possibly true. I was listening it at really low volume - was afraid to wake up my neighbours
Posted by: PlayAllDay Dec 11 2007, 09:31 AM
I watched it and I think it's been sped up. Watch his facial chewing movements at the end.
Anyway - music is not a race, it's about feelings and that vid only gives me one feeling, ewww
Posted by: mattacuk Dec 11 2007, 10:09 AM
Interesting topic, but I think when your becomeing uberfast it is only of use if you can still be musical in the process !!
Posted by: David.C.Bond Dec 11 2007, 10:30 AM
Hear, hear.
Posted by: Robin Dec 11 2007, 12:26 PM
Sounds ridicilous, but if thats real, its very impressive. I'd like to see a digital watch or something in the backround.
Posted by: Smells Dec 11 2007, 12:57 PM
yea good spot, after you pointed that out I studied that bit and I agree with you
+1
Posted by: Bogdan Dec 11 2007, 01:05 PM
Too bad the fastest guitarist in the world don't have better audio/video quality to record his achievement.
Posted by: Milenkovic Ivan Dec 11 2007, 01:16 PM
This is truly terrible. Even a monkey can learn to beat a nail in a wall with a hammer 100bpm. Not what music is all about at all.
Posted by: MickeM Dec 11 2007, 01:31 PM
haha yeah, think I agree with your thoughts there. He, the fastest guitarist in the world, has something to hide
gave me an idea.... a good one for a change.
I'd like to see Mr guitartube challange these guys, with a clock in the background. When the video is speeded up and the clock spins faster he can explain that is because he shreds so fast it makes him travel in time
Posted by: skennington Dec 11 2007, 02:52 PM
I would half to 2nd Batio.
Posted by: Xranthoius Dec 11 2007, 03:00 PM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=evTTHS9hwvU
Posted by: Freebird Dec 11 2007, 03:07 PM
This one is better LOL
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Uea8k5sJ5qg
I like it when he makes the earth explode
Posted by: Bogdan Dec 11 2007, 03:11 PM
ahahah that reminded me of Petrucci phych excercises (http://youtube.com/watch?v=SKMYeXkYcgs&feature=related)
Hmmm I think that it can be done in the video to leave the background watch normal speed and other stuff up the speed..Just shoot the same scene two times once with background other with you in it, and do some cutting and cropping
Posted by: Juan M. Valero Dec 11 2007, 03:55 PM
BTW Music is NOT a competition, but he plays very fast ...
Posted by: steve25 Dec 11 2007, 07:55 PM
I think you're all misunderstanding. To the people who try and play super fast its not about playing music its about seeing how fast you can play and showing it off. They know it isn't music but its not why they do it. Personally i can't really tell if that's real anyway it didn't sound like it was 58 notes per second.
My guitar teacher has just tried to break a record while doing this sort of thing. He said he'd let me see the original tape so i might do that, at least i know it'll be real and no chance of it being edited, he wouldn't know how to anyway. He told me the technique and stuff for doing it but theres no way i can do it. He apparently has been contacted by Guitar Techniques magazine to do something for them, don't know if anyone reads that? He's a good player but he admits playing fast isn't music, he just did it for fun
Posted by: Muris Dec 11 2007, 08:00 PM
Only thing I would like to know is HOW you can count notes per second,
and I mean 58 of then,ohh come on
Posted by: steve25 Dec 11 2007, 08:14 PM
Good point, i don't know. Is it not true that the human brain can only take in 30 something things per second so wouldn't you have to slow the tape down to find out how many you were doing?
Posted by: Toni Suominen Dec 11 2007, 08:23 PM
Dont know if it's speed up or fake, but that playing just generally doesn't sound very interesting, this is just my opinion though. The are many fast players that also make great music rather than just shred for 3 minutes
-Toni
Posted by: Muris Dec 11 2007, 08:25 PM
Dunno but that was always funny for me,counting notes per second,
like when someone said that Vai played 20 in some solo,than Yngwie did 22,
seems like children's job imho.
Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 11 2007, 08:48 PM
Yeah hes fast, Which means nothing, other than he practiced technique more than practicig phrasing or vibrato or something thats appealing to the ears.(his vibrato was horrible to me!).
If he could apply that to making Music, then ill take notice.
Posted by: Gerald Dec 11 2007, 08:52 PM
My thoughts on the whole speed thing is I'd like to shred some notes, but I don't want to compose a whole piece of nothing but 16th note triplets at a bizzion bpm. It would be nice to uncork something like that when I want to, but I'd rather be slower and play with more emotion and rythym than uber fast.
Posted by: mattacuk Dec 11 2007, 08:55 PM
Maybe we will never know who the worlds fastest guitarists are..... but we already know where the worlds coolest guitarist hang out!
Posted by: Smells Dec 11 2007, 08:56 PM
heheh +1 good answer Matt
Posted by: Muris Dec 11 2007, 09:01 PM
Yep
Posted by: shellshock1911 Dec 11 2007, 10:37 PM
To be honest, I don't care if this guy has "emotion" and all that other random stuff that has no relevance. I clicked to see the fastest guitar player, not a melodic song, and I assume you guys did as well, so why criticize him for irrevelant stuff? I'm sure this guy plays other styles and stuff, and if he wasn't "passionate" about his instrument, why would he spend hundreds of thousands of hours perfecting his technique? Learning heavy bends, phrasing, vibrato, pentatonic scales, etc. don't take 1/100 as long as it takes to learn how to play 16th notes clean at 250 BPM.
Look at Yngwie Malmsteen for example. People always criticize him because he is extremely fast (out of jealousy, I assume). Yet he has written many "emotional" pieces like Blue, and Black Star, but people refuse to take those into account, because they would rather look at a guitarist that can't play fast but does the same "emotion" thing like Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour, Dimebag, etc. (no offense) because their level of playing is something that anyone can reach and have fun doing it, whereas playing as fast as shredders takes tons more boring hours of just running up scales to a metronome over and over and over, which no one but extremely dedicated players want to do.
And if it really comes down to who is the most "emotional," classical composers defenitely knock out all 20th century guitarists. Listen to Beethoven's 9 symphonies, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, etc.
Posted by: Unleash-The-Shred Dec 11 2007, 10:44 PM
This is not sped up. You can tell because his other actions like moving his head and all that would be sped up too. I think this is pretty sick.
There is a way to tell how many NPS there is in someones playing by using this formula.
(notes per beat) x (however many beats per minute) / 60
Posted by: shellshock1911 Dec 11 2007, 10:48 PM
There is a way to tell how many NPS there is in someones playing by using this formula.
(notes per beat) x (however many beats per minute) / 60
Following a formula similar to that I came up with him playing 16th notes at 750 BPM, which unfortunately, is not possible.
Posted by: Muris Dec 11 2007, 10:49 PM
There is a way to tell how many NPS there is in someones playing by using this formula.
(notes per beat) x (however many beats per minute) / 60
Ohhh yeah,IF it's played clean and accurate on and per beat,
which obviously isn't the case here,lots of notes are "eaten"
Posted by: FretDancer69 Dec 11 2007, 10:49 PM
What do you guys think about this? is it sped up? Its this "Troy Grady" playin MAB's solo in one guitar!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQWnDDE1ehI
Anyway - music is not a race, it's about feelings and that vid only gives me one feeling, ewww
well said PlayAllDay
Posted by: Pavel Dec 11 2007, 10:53 PM
Look at Yngwie Malmsteen for example. People always criticize him because he is extremely fast (out of jealousy, I assume). Yet he has written many "emotional" pieces like Blue, and Black Star, but people refuse to take those into account, because they would rather look at a guitarist that can't play fast but does the same "emotion" thing like Jimi Hendrix, David Gilmour, Dimebag, etc. (no offense) because their level of playing is something that anyone can reach and have fun doing it, whereas playing as fast as shredders takes tons more boring hours of just running up scales to a metronome over and over and over, which no one but extremely dedicated players want to do.
And if it really comes down to who is the most "emotional," classical composers defenitely knock out all 20th century guitarists. Listen to Beethoven's 9 symphonies, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, etc.
That's a good post with some good points! Agreed 100%! I commented on the guy only by judging his technique.
You actually succeeded in telling what i was always trying to say but never managed to.
Posted by: Unleash-The-Shred Dec 11 2007, 10:56 PM
Thats because that was already calculated.
Posted by: drummingguitarist06 Dec 11 2007, 11:24 PM
I'm not sure if that was sped up or not. But I agree with Muris... his raking made it sound like crap. Good that he's that fast though, maybe if he slowed himself down and played it musically he would be a great player.
Posted by: Unleash-The-Shred Dec 11 2007, 11:28 PM
Here is his myspace.
http://www.myspace.com/danielowenfastestguitarist
Posted by: shellshock1911 Dec 11 2007, 11:29 PM
Yea, I'm just sayin' there is no way it is actually 50 notes per second. People don't realize how fast that actually is that means he is hitting like 1 note per .02 second. I would say it is about 30 max, he sounds about like Francesco Farrei, which I think his record is like 33 as well.
Posted by: Unleash-The-Shred Dec 11 2007, 11:33 PM
A couple more things I found on really fast guitarists.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Wbb8r8PUs
http://worldsfastestguitarplayer.com/
Posted by: FretDancer69 Dec 12 2007, 01:23 AM
What do you guys think about this? is it sped up? Its this "Troy Grady" playin MAB's solo in one guitar!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQWnDDE1ehI
Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 12 2007, 01:26 AM
Ive seen MAB Play that fast (and faster live), i dont see why anyone else couldn't achieve the same speed, Appears legit.
Posted by: Juan M. Valero Dec 12 2007, 08:33 AM
hehehehe, well done
Posted by: Goliath Dec 13 2007, 04:51 PM
Obviously you're not familiar with the stylings of Skwissgaar Skwigelf
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wg2nyfTLB8E
Harvard professors declared him the worlds fastest guitarist alive.
Also, there are a lot of people crossing the highly subjective "worlds best guitarist" with "worlds fastest guitarist". The all encompassing "best" category include elements such as discussed above. You don't need to cheapen their accomplishment simply because you don't understand what they're trying to achieve. Certainly one aspect of playing is musical knowledge, but there's also the technical side of actually executing.
In the meantime, I can't wait until this CD shows up in the mail.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=MIleK5CRcjo
Posted by: Gerald Dec 13 2007, 06:39 PM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wg2nyfTLB8E
Harvard professors declared him the worlds fastest guitarist alive.
Would you happen to have a link for this study?
Posted by: Goliath Dec 13 2007, 07:05 PM
I guess we should clarify for our international friends about "Metalocalypse", it's a cartoon about the fictional band "Dethklok" and their fictional guitarist "Skwissgaar Skwigelf" in the show it's widely accepted that he is the fastest guitarist alive and hosts the pay per view event "Advanced Fast Hand Finger Wizard Master Class".
You can see Skwis play in the youtube video.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wg2nyfTLB8E
Posted by: Gerald Dec 13 2007, 07:37 PM
Oh - sorry wasn't in the know about that! I saw that YouTube and was like what's up with this?
Posted by: Iluha Dec 13 2007, 07:42 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQWnDDE1ehI
It's not sped up, MAB's solo is playd on one guitar, he just plays around with the other 3 necks in the video for show.
Posted by: Goliath Dec 13 2007, 07:43 PM
I highly recommend watching the episodes
"Dethtroll" and "Skwisklok", as those are some of the better ones. Lots of talented metal musicians make cameos in the show, even James Hettfield and Kirk Hammet stop by.
Posted by: Owen Dec 13 2007, 08:07 PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Wbb8r8PUs
http://worldsfastestguitarplayer.com/
Checked out the second URL, Am I the only one that thinks the guy is sooooo far up his own ass, here, some choice quotes:
So Legendary I've never heard of him, is this just complete self worship or what?
Am I the only one who noticed the complete lack of my name from the passage? Grossly innaccurate
If he's a god then I'm technically not actually 100% sure he's for real.
Epic Fail - so big he's not even on YouTube.
5: At Over 6,000,000 Million Copies Sold, "Infusion-Live" Has Sold More Copies Than Any Other Instrumental CD In History...
You know 83% of people will believe you if you randomly start quoting figures?
Posted by: Freebird Dec 13 2007, 08:21 PM
Yes Owen.... We don't even have any audio samples That site is totally invented....
Plus I can't find him under the Jackson guitars endorse hehehe
Posted by: Owen Dec 13 2007, 08:26 PM
That site is totally invented.... Plus I can't find him under the Jackson guitars endorse
hehehe I was just looking at this:
http://www.jacksonguitars.com/artists/
No record here
Being Stabbed, Being Accidentally Shot,
Being Bitten By A Rattlesnake,
Being Bitten By A Poisonous Spider,
2 Stage Collapses & 3 Tour Bus Crashes...
16: Casey, An Amateur Skydiver & Freefall
Jumper; Was Fined $5,000 For Freefalling,
Without A Parachute, Off The U.S. Side Of The
1,000 Islands Bridge...Casey Survived The
Jump Unhurt, But Was Arrested By U.S. Border
Patrol As He Swam Ashore...
Later On, That Same Night, Casey Played A
Sold-Out Show In Montreal, Canada...
17: Casey Has Also Been Fined $750, &
$1,000 For Jumping Into Both The Liberty & The
Pretty-Boy Resevoirs In The State Of Maryland...
18: When Not On Tour, Casey Spends Most Of
His Time Completely Alone In A Cabin
He Built Himself On His Land
In The Mountains Of North Carolina...
Casey's Nearest Neighbor Is 31 Miles Away
By Dirt Road,,
Who is this guy, Chuck Norris?
Posted by: ibanezkiller Dec 13 2007, 08:36 PM
http://youtube.com/watch?v=iGjDdfT8Ppg&feature=related
This made me laugh...
Posted by: fkalich Dec 13 2007, 08:57 PM
Anyone who does not see serious flaws is the quality of play of guys doing this sort of thing, well that is unfortunate, because of what it implies.
There are physical limits to how fast one can play and still play with quality. These types of carnival sideshows go way beyond that. Basically they get good with the pick, and make compromises with the left hand. You have a steady pick noise rhythm that is dominant, covering up the fact that he is not fretting things cleanly. Yes we can all play faster, if we make compromises to our quality of play. And I am supposed to be impressed with that?
If this guy can play like that and we can slow him down, and listen and hear individual notes all standing out clearly, I will be impressed. I will also be impressed if my dog can sing the Star Spangled Banner backwards.
Posted by: FretDancer69 Dec 13 2007, 09:10 PM
This made me laugh...
LMAO!!!
Posted by: The Uncreator Dec 13 2007, 09:14 PM
http://www.jacksonguitars.com/artists/
No record here
Who is this guy, Chuck Norris?
I agree, he is VERY FAR up his own ass.
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