Fastest guitarist you know!!!

I'm from france, but I have never heard his name...

I think Scotty Mishoe owns speed, but not all that tasteful, Jason Becker is king of tasteful speed, IMO ;)

Scott MISHOE is actually a monster, bacause he has a unique slap and pop technique that makes him sound like a mini Billy SHENHAN you can see a cool video at http://www.chopsfromhell.com there's a bunch of speed freaks on this site too!!

http://www.chopsfromhell.com/guest_mishoe.html
now that's the actual URL, you know, people like him were burnt in the middle ages!!!

http://www.scottmishoe.com/MalFunkShen.mp3
another one, an mp3 this time, it's my answering machine message, pretty cool, huh??

Lalimacefolle

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
finally, having a sixth finger sawn on wasn't a waste of time!!!

I have found a cool site with some of shawn lane's lessons
http://shredlikehell.homestead.com/files/laneshredlesson1.jpg

I'm a young, stupid lead guitarist that has always thought I knew "so much" about guitars and guitarists and solos and such. Not ever have taken any guitar lessons has made the mere 4 years that I've been playing a world of disillusionments. In other words, when you all talk of diatonic, pentatonic, minor, major, sweep, shred, and all that other cool lingo...I'm lost. The only scales I really know are the minor pentatonic, a small blues scale, and some other crappy scales of about 12 notes.
But I'm not here to talk about my lack of guitar experience. I have searched long and hard for really fast guitarists. It wasn't til today when I read all of this forum thread that I actually got some input on the top speed demons.
Before today, I thought that people like Eddie Van Halen, Eric Clapton, my idol Kirk Hammett, Stevie Ray Vahn, and the great Dimebag Darrell were THE GODS of guitar. Boy, was I wrong!!!

I know that I don't know much about guitars...but in my struggle towards speed, I have learned this:

Speed is not so great.

I noticed that these people you have all talked about are about as fast as one can get. If you play too fast, you don't hear anything. It becomes a huge blur and doesn't sound very nice at all. Which is why I support Slash and Hammett as one of the top guitarists of all that still use some speed. It's a challenge to be able to play fast and still put in that emotion that I'm sure you all feel when a good solo is heard. That little sound clip of MacAlpine kicked my ass. And at points it sounded good. But somewhere in the middle it started to sound like a computer going AWOL. You just hear little bleeps all mixed together. That is when you are TOO fast! These guitarists you all mention ARE fast...I cannot deny that in the slightest. But speed can be overrated in the guitar world.

Yeah, but dang, it's pretty cool when nobody can hear what you're doing... lol

TimE:
SRV IS The King. besides he was FAST, realy fast.
speed is not the most important thing. its only tool.
the players you've mentioned are good. besides eddy van halen and kirk hammet are fast players too, and they have built their careers on their ability to play fast.

Abt obsure but talented shredders like Shawn Lane and Chris Impellitteri, but pple please tell me where I cd dl their songs? Knowning abt their greatness from others doesn't help much....hearing is believing. Maybe guys cd put their songs on aimster, morpheus, etc. This wd help to let everyone in the world to noe how gd they are. Where I come from...not many pple listen to shredders...so it's hard to get records or noe of such pple...

Thanks.

shawn lane is on morpheus...

Shawn Lane IMO.. Gilbert comes close.

I CANNOT BELIEVE IT!!! I went out a few days ago and got spontaneous. I found a few Yngwie Malmsteen CDs and bought the Yngwie Malmsteen Collection. He is a GOD!!! I still need to hear Shawn Lane, but I hope he isn't like Chris Impelliterri(or whatever). Chris WAS fast...but you couldn't hardly understand it. It became rather blurred and distorted(not in a good way). But Malmsteen's stuff is so CLEAN! Yet, they are still distorted(get it? overdrive = distortion)...sorry, bad joke. But he is sooooo damn sweet. He is my new idol. Eric Clapton claims that he is the fastest he's ever heard. Rather arrogant, but does anyone think this is true in the slightest way? I dunno. But from what I've heard so far...MALMSTEEN IS THE GREATEST. He doesn't hardly use twohand tapping!!! And you can TELL that he's from the top of the neck to the bottom. Wow...I am truly amazed.

Now, take your Malmsteem CDs, play them faster, no.. WAY FASTER!!!!! REALLY!!!, with Jazz licks instead of neo classical ones, and you get Shawn Lane...

Okay...I have a few things to say. First off, Lalimacefolle, if I played Malmsteen's CD any faster it would be so blurred that I couldn't distinct one note from the other. That is a major problem with speed. You have to have a lot of talent to be able to make each note distinguishable and still extremely fast. I mean, I can play REALLY fast...but it sounds like royal CRAP because all the notes are blurred and mixed.

Now, technically speaking...yes, you are right. There are a few people that are a lot faster than Yngwie. But I haven't heard ANY that can make it that clear and who doesn't use tapping. EVERY shredder uses taps and I kind of find that as cheating. *cough* eddie van halen *cough* Sorry.

Okay, now my questions...
Aiwass says that Shawn Lane uses standard tuning...well, what the hell does Malmsteen use?

My other question...
Is it possible to play 466.7 beats per second????

Which brings me to my final question...
HOW THE HELL DO THEY KNOW HOW MANY BEATS PER SECOND HE WAS HITTING??!! WHAT KIND OF MACHINE CAN CHECK IT?

Originally posted by TimE.
Which brings me to my final question...
HOW THE HELL DO THEY KNOW HOW MANY BEATS PER SECOND HE WAS HITTING??!! WHAT KIND OF MACHINE CAN CHECK IT?

that's pretty simple! Just slow down the thing and count!! How? just check out all the digital sound software (I personally use Cool edit pro, and I can hit 19 notes per second) To me 466 notes sound like way out there... I'm gonna check it on the net...

As for shawn lane and tapping etc. Well, he is a very talented guy, and I think you should go and check out his CDs because it will blow you away...AND HE DOESN'T SOUND BLURRED!!

http://perso.club-internet.fr/fabienm/paus/secret.mp3

That's marcus paus... And yeah he is fast! It totally sounds like a Mickey Mouse tune!! I think you meant 44.6 notes per second. It's more reasonnable and it's what he does on this tune.