Wow!
This guy is impressive!
Do you think it's real or sped up?

Youtube link

I think this one is the fastest: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGjDdfT8Ppg...feature=related

It's fast but... it's pretty much the worst guitar playing I've ever heard (the fast part, I mean, the rest sounds alright.)

heres some fast pickin

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Wbb8r8PUs&NR=1

well it sounded like crap but it was extremely fast...

that being said, everybody knows that the fastest guitarist alive is Skwisgaar Skwigelf

Those guys are really fast guitar players, but it's not the most important. I prefer having a good vibrato than being able to play 60 notes per second
Of course it's important have a good technique but not spend all time in technique Music is not gym

Beside the fact that he is trying to do a world record, i think his invention to fuel is labtop with liquor is much more impressive ..
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This "fastest" playing is all cool but can any of those guys play something that makes sense and sounds good? I doubt that...

Haha Juan, 60 notes per second .. that would be very very very fast...

I'd be happy if I could manage 6 notes per second

Couldnt agree more man.

ya ive seen that before, pretty crazy

There becomes a point where something is fast to the point where all melody is lost and the notes blur, Michael Angelo Batio, Rusty Cooley, John Petrucci, Jason Becker, are some of the few people i know who have approached the 35-40 nps thing.

What makes these players so great is that they can not only maintain these speeds, but keep a melody going.

i wonder if this one is sped up

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28abpbNwZlU...feature=related


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Im not sure if theres any point of that speed- tho john petrucci finds many uses for speed

- he plays way cleaner to, you can hear every note...this just sound like a blur

I can't believe I watched all of it. Sloppy as fook.

Hey guys, I stole the audio from the youtube video and slowed this guy down in reaper to about half the rate he was at, I had to notch it up a few semitones to get the audio to shine through.

I wouldnt say he was doing 60 nps, it all seems a bit random to me, no like super defined pattern, theres a bit of an idea and stronger sound on the high strings, he's really quite fast but I'd also say sloppy, but I'll let you all have a listen and make your own minds up.

I trust the guy with the clock and the liquor just because he's got a clock... and liquor.

My first impression of him was "if I showed that to someone unfamiliar with shred, and said this guy was just making a joke video, he can't play guitar at all, I expect they would believe it".

I knew it was crap, I can tell easily, but just for kicks, I cleaned it up a bit (the hum) and slowed it down to 20% of his recorded speed.

I have two observations:

1) It is garbage, just listen. And yes, if you listen to someone really good like Gilbert or Batio slowed down, they still sound musical, clean. Even listen to Muris in his Gilbert 2 lesson, which is at 150bpm. Slowed down, you hear he is still precise with his note groups. This guy just is playing garbage, but it is like a V8 engine that has some screwed up cylinders. If you rev it fast enough, you can't hear the garbage distinctly anymore, it is going to fast.

2) Even then, if you listen, it does not sound very fast here. Now according to him it should be over 10 notes per second, which is like 150bpm 16th notes, which is pretty fast. But he sounds slow at 20%, much slower. Why? He is not hitting all those notes, just some of them, most he just passes over, only a fraction of them sound out.

What amazes me, is how anyone can be impressed with this. But I figure, the universe has hundreds of billions of galaxies, each with hundreds of billions of stars, and it is 15 billion years old, and heck, according to M theory there may be an infinite number of universes, so one has to figure in all that time and space, sentient beings can think quite a few things that I find hard to understand.

+1 fkalich. Also as Warhol had it everyone now gets there 15 minutes. Everyone - regardless of ability, talent, effort .

'Come the day, come the hour
Come the power and the Glory...'

Sadly no longer - we all get our 15...

Cheers,
Tony

+1 fkalich. Also as Warhol had it everyone now gets there 15 minutes. Everyone - regardless of ability, talent, effort .

'Come the day, come the hour
Come the power and the Glory...'

Sadly no longer - we all get our 15...

Cheers,
Tony

+1 fkalich. Also as Warhol had it everyone now gets there 15 minutes. Everyone - regardless of ability, talent, effort .

'Come the day, come the hour
Come the power and the Glory...'

Sadly no longer - we all get our 15...

Cheers,
Tony

Totally agree. Theres thousands of these guys, complete joke.

Congrats on the triple post Tony

- sorry guys. I'm on a laptop - my excuse for the triple. Either that or it was so good I had to say it 3 times Owen .

We had this before,many opinions I see.

Triple Recto!!

Less jealousy please.

This guy is extremely fast and extremely clean. First of all, in the description it says "demostration." If you guys wanted to hear a melodic song why did you click on a thread that says "Fastest guitarist in the world?" It doesn't say "Melodic song," why? Because once again, this is just a mere demonstration. And speed doesn't define how good someone is but I think everyone can agree that it is a great tool to have and this guy has mastered it.

Just look at John Petrucci for example, he has made plenty of good solos and I don't think anyone can deny that. He also can play extremely fast. He uses speed as a tool to create good solos with. And listen to "Under a Glass Moon" solo. There is one part where the notes are pretty much a blur because they are like 25 notes per second, like you guys say he doesn't create note blurs. If you play fast enough, the notes will eat eachother, no matter how good you are.

I dont think there was any jealousy, me and Fkalich were just doing the rational thing in slowing the sound down to see if he was hitting all the notes, even if there is a blend at high speeds, upon slowing down there should still be articulation of the notes, take a look at Fkalich's mp3 file, you can hardly say that each of every 10nps is being hit.

Melody has only been mentioned once in this thread, by Uncreator, no-one was completely outing his lack of melody because as you say that is not what this video is about. No, it was about speed, and I think we can fairly say, with conclusive evidence, that there is a lot of lost notes, this guy is no master, he is just sloppy.

Not trying to get flamed.. but.

Did you not hear the 20% slowed down version?

His hands are completely synced up but, at that speed the room for error is so small the no one can controll it, and he did not hit many notes.

exactly. Well said. Im really sick of all these "guitarists" on youtube who think that speed and technique are everything. if it doesn't have feeling, a soul, then theres no point. all your doing is playing a guitar really fast with no emotion. that video was the equivalent of taking a crap really fast. its fast, and its crap.

I can drive my car 200kmph...and probably hit the wall or a tree...guess I'm a speedy driver

Really,I don't think that was fine "demonstration" of the speed,
pretty lot of "swallowed" notes,ok,that was damn fast so you can't control everything,
and that's why I say it was not the best way to demonstrate it,imho.

Well.. What kinda car do you have man

That's not important,what's important is that I can,but result won't be that great

Well, I have to hand it to anyone that can invoke M theory to explain why a messy player gets away with it ...

You, Bobo, and the night vision goggles certainly get my attention

BTW, what is your position on the use of the Anthropomorphic principle as a justification of multiple possible universes allowed for by String Theory?

That's HILARIOUS! :-)

What you meant to say was, "The music doesn't strike emotions in me."

Sound waves don't have emotion. The sound waves interract with you to create the "emotions."

You, like many others probably have an extremely narrow vision of what "emotion" is. It is much more than just sadness. If it doesn't make you feel sad, then that doesn't mean the artist isn't conveying his emotions. For example, Dragonforce is usually picked on as being having emotionless guitarists. However every song I hear by them is extremely uplifting. Happiness is an emotion too!!! When I watch an extremely fast guitar player shred, I feel intimidated. There we go, another emotion.

Anyway music is subjective, no one can say who plays with emotion and who doesn't, because everyone does. There is no way to measure it. That is right. Shredders play with just much emotion as any other guitar player like Jimi Hendrix or David Gilmour; just in a different way.

Once again, it is ALL subjective. It isn't as simple as:

Music you like= emotion.
Music you don't like= no emotion.

And technique is a huge part of guitar playing. Good luck getting your emotions across when your technique causes the music to sound like total crap. The emotion you will be conveying is frustration.

And speed, while not the most important part of music, is still a great tool to have in soloing.

i know, he's a real SWEEP MASTA

I definitely did not feel jealousy here. Maybe he was drunk. That would explain things.

Good point !! I mean , its unlikely this guy is every going to be in a famou band ! hes just gunna be some guy on youtube (like me )

I haven't seen sweeps there,only pure alternate machine gun.

Hmm that AP sounds like some sweeping arpeggios!! He's Out of this world!!

Im jealous of the 10,000 note per second guy not the first guy posted-

sheesh its simple maths people...

10,000 = more than 60


Plus that was some killer hair

yeah, he should do a Betcha Cant Play this video :lol

Thank you so much for telling me what i was actually trying to say! keep saying stuff like that and someones going to knock you off your high horse one of these days. also im so glad you see fit to judge me by saying i "have an extremely narrow vision of what "emotion" is". thats a very ignorant thing to say. i can see you probably only respect guitarists that can play really fast, which is too bad. your missing out on alot of good music. you fail to understand music, all you seem to understand is the theory behind it. if you want to be a soulless robot shredder, be my guest.

I think we should slow it don't a bit,
this isn't topic for arguing I'm sure,
lets keep it friendly and available to hear everybody's opinion,ok.

Isn't YouTube enough? If you look at it the other way around, YouTube is the biggest stage EVER

@Fkalich: i love your "garbage" word - i'm still on the floor laughing

I was just telling you that no one person can judge if music has emotion or not. It is all up for debate. However, technical skill is not up for debate. And yes I respect people who dedicated thousands of hours out of their time to play fast and clean? You don't have to enjoy it, but do you not respect them at least? Anyone who has more experience on guitar than me I respect. And I listen to pretty much every genre of music from classical to shredding to metal to jazz to whatever, so I'm not really missing out on anything at all, in fact I own albums from all three of the artists in your signature. I understand music very well. It is about me enjoying sounds. Sometimes I enjoy fast sounds, if you don't enjoy the same type, that is ok, because once again music is 100% subjective, but I enjoy it. And once again, speed is a great tool to use in soloing and doesn't not automatically discard emotion and make one "souless" like you seem to claim.

i NEVER claimed speed made ones playing soulless, secondly im done wasting my breath on you, you just dont understand what im saying.

That was smooth...and not to mention polite...

Ok, guys, take it easy and slow down. Blues players will never understand shredders as to them emotional playing is just 1 huge bend lasting for 45.5 minutes - at least that's the picture you painted in my mind.

If you don't like shredders than don't fight it - just skip the topic or at least state your opinion without making it into a fight.

Shake your hands and stop fighting