Fastest Guitar Player Ever
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- TheBlueOne0
As much as I bag on the guy, he's still the once and future king of that style...
And here he's doing it chit chatting over an espresso...
- when he plays fast it still actually sounds like music and he's got an instantly recognizable toneand vibratoTheBlueOne
- Yepismith
- barbtastic0
my friend is way better at this
- I take it they're the species of musician that makes odd jokes and use the words "cat" and "dig" alot...TheBlueOne
- I'm diggin that cat.harlequino
- he does a lot of old man jokes, but don't use the old hipster lingo too much...barbtastic
- crazy joe has his own band, he used play for deke a lot on tour... i can't speak for what lingo deke chooses to usebarbtastic
- see link below for more music...
my fave is "baby's behind"barbtastic
- fafore0
Batio.
- harlequino0
Hey barb, you into the Squirrel Nut Zippers? They're doing a free show here tomorrow night. You're Crazy Joe posts made me think of them.
- OOOOOO!!! Is that crazy Big Band Jazz thing back again? Do I have to dust off the ole' Zoot suit?TheBlueOne
- I hope so!
Bring yer spats!harlequino - *buries head in handsTheBlueOne
- i like them okay, i would go to a free show fer shurbarbtastic
- Actually, SNZ have been around for a good 15 years, way before the Zoot Suit Riot crap around '97 or so.harlequino
- thought they broke up a while back.... LOVED perennial favorites7point34
- Didn't one the guys' books get stolen, with all his charts? And he had no copies. Maybe one of the sax players?harlequino
- Corvo0
fgpe my arse.
- ismith0
At a certain point if you don't have hands the size of Allan Holdsworth your playing just sounds like percussion. He obviously worked hard on his picking technique, but I found his actual music (from the MySpace and presumably the end of this video) extremely dry and inarticulate...
- Finding technical masters who are also extraordinary in their artistry and creativity is a rare thing.harlequino
- I don't think he's reached technical mastery. Speed yes, but articulation, rhythm, etc not really.ismith
- Holdsworth is the man. I'm not a huge fan of fusion or shred guitar but he is a heavy player.MrRemote
- But what you're saying is very true. I find Allan Holdsworth to be the best example of achieving both...ismith
- Hah, didn't see your comment.ismith
- Shawn Lane as well..although it took me a while to get into him...TheBlueOne
- Corvo0
playing on an electric guitar with distortion, cutting bars as you move your picking hand faster and faster doesn't seem like a solid way to prove you are fast. He's just reducing the theme's difficulty as he accelerates. Give Paco or Al Di Meola an electric guitar and stand back.
- I don't like DiMeola's electric work honestly...TheBlueOne
- _niko0
the one and only gypsy master.
Django.
the greatest guitar player in history and he only had 2 working fingers on his left hand.- did django use alternate tunings?TheBlueOne
- improvisation genius7point34
- fav guitarist of all timeharlequino
- Fariska0
I guess that the fastest guitar players
are Janick Gers / Dave Murrray and Adrian Smith when they're on the Iron Maiden airplane in flight.
- Mojo0
oh my word! It was boring as hell, but seriously, if you're a guitarist you'll really appreciate how amazingly fast that is. I'm pretty fast, and only ever broke to around 140bpm on flight of the bumblebee, he hit 320bpm! that is sick!! that's like, pff 30ish notes per second? pfft!!
- dbloc0
The Gnar Gnar
- Mojo0
It looks like he's not moving his fingers at all, because to get to that kind of speed, you have to train yourself to not lift your fingers very high off the fretboard after hitting a note. Michael Angelo Batio (4-neck guitar guy .. haha) talks about it on speed kills. Makes sense - if you're neck is 2 cm away after each note, you have to move it 2cm back to hit the next note.
- threadpost0
Manita de Plata and Brigitte Bardot
- slinky0
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- slinky0
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