I just checked out Marcus Paus, have to admit I never of him before this thread. And yes, that is the fastest playing I have ever heard, horrible, but insanely fast. I'm a little suspicious though, I tried to match one of the high notes on my own 24 fret axe and found that it was at least 5 maybe 6 frets higher... does this mean that he was playing on a 7 string? Or did he tune up so high that the strings were on the verge of snapping at all times or... that the track was sped up? I'm interested to know because if the guy could actually play that fast, regardless of how it sounds, that's pretty damn impressive.

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You might be onto something here... I'll try slowing it down on my computer and see at what speed the pick attacks sound normal

Or perhaps he was playing some sort of monster guitar like Azreal's Dragon (32 frets or something)

I am also amazed that he wrote something that bad. If that's what too much technique practice does to your songwriting... I hope I never get that fast.

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I'd like to see a video of him playing it...

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Sorry buddy, There are no video available for Marcus Paus. Even the controversial record he did was removed by Guiness. I e-mailed the Guiness Official 2 years ago asking for it, and they said they dont consider that record to be official because they admitted that there is a mistake in counting the notes-per-second, because their machine counted even the extraenous noises and the blurs created by the distortion and his stacked amp. Marcus Paus refused to play with out his own amp. I wonder whats in it

Anyway here are some videos where Francesco Fareri played some passages of the "Caspersens Secret Fetish" where he played it as FAST as Paus did.
If you want to see that insane handspeed. better check this links, you will see what it looks like to sound and play like that. And if you have that Marcus Paus MP3, Im sure you will recognize those blurry distorted guitar passages and lines from that song. Check this Francesco Fareri cover.

http://www.francescofareri.com/lesson_legatoplaying.mpg

http://www.francescofareri.com/less...natepicking.mpg

Extremely fast, but extremely boring.

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While I find Fareri very boring in all of his playing, he is very fast and very technical.

Paus was quoted as saying once, "I'm playing so fast the tubes can't reproduce the notes."

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How can anyone take a player like Francesco Fareri seriously? How can anyone look up to that garbage?! I seriously cannot fathom it. His playing is so unemotional, uninteresting, and utterly TASTELESS that I can't believe he even gets recognition. The dude plays fast, great. I jack off fast, and that's basically the same thing, so.. Insane picking speed doesn't make the music better. Fareri is the epitome of wank.
Alright, I'm gonna go practice 64th note picking at 300 BPM now, maybe people will think I'm the greatest guitarist ever.