Originally Posted by: VHLODont know if someone post this list :
TOP TEN FASTEST BEAST
1 steve vai 20.8 notes/sec (the riddle)
2 george lynch 19.8 notes/sec (wicked sensation)
3 kirk hamett 19 notes/sec (damage inc)
4 paul gilbert 18.8 notes/sec ( addicted to a rush)
5 eddie van halen 18.7 notes/sec (you realy got me)
6 joe satriani 17.6 notes/sec (the mystical potato head groove)
7 nuno bettencourt 17 notes/sec (he man woman hater)
8 yngwie malmsteen 16.8 notes/sec (far beyond the sun)
9 marty friedman 15 notes/sec ( ashes in your mouth)
10 steve morse 14 notes/sec (tumeni notes)

maybe this gives you an idea how fast is you favorite guitar player

Actually, that list isn't really accurate. I've clocked a few of the songs, and Yngwie's fastest moment is not even in far beyond the sun. In a few live tracks (Baroque and Roll) he plays a bit faster. Kirk Hammet is not the third fastest guitarist in the world (not saying that to be difficult, just honest). That 19 notes per second from Damage Inc. is a tapping lick. Any player up there can do that. If people want to talk speed, tapping like the simple, simple lick from Damage should not be included. Anyone can play that, and the fact that it's there at all is bull****. Alternate picking, sweeping, and COMPLEX tapping licks measure speed. Not wankery. In fact, by their very logic, Kirk Hammet's solo in "One" is BARELY slower than the one in Damage. And since almost everyone on these boards can play the tapping lick from One (certainly almost everyone in the guitar store I frequent) we can disqualify Kirk from this competition. In fact, the fastest alt picking run of his I can think of is in Seek And Destroy where he plays 13.8666667 notes-per-second, but it's the sloppiest piece of crap I've ever heard on a studio album. Well...in Master of Puppets he plays 14 nps almost on the nose (faster actually, but the run in which he goes faster doesn't count. Anyone can do it).