Fastest guitarist you know!!!

I actually haven't seen any trustworthy sources on the net that said 466.7 notes. I think this is a rumor. Unless you find a good source (recording, or official page). The only source we have so far is this recording I have posted... That is still pretty scary!!

You should know that Ingwie malmsteem actually was the first to play neo classical music, even though he is boring, he kind off 'created' the style... So every band you mentioned owes him a lot.

Originally posted by aiwass
BS! Malmsteen did not invent neoclassical rock! Just listen to solos by Rhoades and Blackmore that were played when Yngwie was still back in STockholm playing his toy guitar! And if I'm not mistaken, Cacophony (Becker and Friedman) was also touring Japan a couple of years before Yngwie arose to take the throne as The King of Shred.

He made it a style on its own... Van halen didn't invent tapping,(Billy GIBBONS and Tal FARLOW had it down before he was born) but he is the one that made it such a big thing for wannabe guitarists. That's the same with Yngwie.

ive read all responses about the fastest guitarist we know and its sad to see that a lot of you are just "guitar fans" and not really "band fans". all the guitarists mentioned are all good and fast but what about other greats such as NUNO BETTENCOURT and DIMEBAG DARRELL? as guitar fans youve even left out eric johnson

Originally posted by kristian
ive read all responses about the fastest guitarist we know and its sad to see that a lot of you are just "guitar fans" and not really "band fans". all the guitarists mentioned are all good and fast but what about other greats such as NUNO BETTENCOURT and DIMEBAG DARRELL? as guitar fans youve even left out eric johnson

It wasn't a thread about " fastest guitarist in a band" and Eric Johnson isn't that fast!!

Hey guys,
The Fastest and Cleanest guitarist (but also a bit boring) is GEORGE BELLAS (check out his masterpiece "Ripped to Shreds"). He recorded 2 solo albums, and appears with Vitalij Kuprij (1 album), Mark Boals (the last album of Ring of Fire "Thre oracle"),...
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You guys heard of rusty cooley or Tony McAlpine? I haven't heard much Michael Romeo (just a little on a brilliant Rush Tribute album) and I was pretty gobsmacked, I've heard some George Bellas samples and I was also fairly stunned, there's a hairs breadth in quality between these top of top players, it just depends what you like I don't think there will ever be a time (as there was in Hendrix's day) when one player will hold the monopoly on technical abillity. There's a lot of talent out there but I very much doubt anyone is physically capable of playing anon-chromatic run at a pace greater than 30 notes/second, 466? How many times a second can anyone physically move a plectrum across 6 strings? 466/6=78 times/ second! I don't think anyone could tremolo pick one string at half that speed, forget full strums! Pick tapping perhaps, two notes for the price of one? Still doubt it. If there are that many notes in the sample then some cheating is going on, some delay or it's been sped up and pitch shifted back down. I don't want to put a dampner on an interesting thread but who needs to play faster than Malmsteem (and lets face it we're talking about a measly fractionally greater pace)? If you can, then I don't feel sorry for you (well maybe a little.. don't you get time to eat, sleep, go to the loo) but do your family still recognise you or have they died without you noticing, perhaps you couldn't hear them pleading with you to stop? Above a certain pace it's a blur, the notes become superfluous. The pick attack would sound longer than the string. Surely the great thing about that level of technique would be that it would give you the coordination to play more complicated things at a more human pace?

Originally posted by u10ajf
Surely the great thing about that level of technique would be that it would give you the coordination to play more complicated things at a more human pace?

I think this is the whole point. A french saying goes "who can the most can the least".

Originally posted by u10ajf
I don't think there will ever be a time (as there was in Hendrix's day) when one player will hold the monopoly on technical abillity.

it wasnt so in the hendrix time as well..
ever heard about people like george benson?
he had technique which was much better than hendrix's, and this is only one example.

Very good point. But hendrix was the whole package: showmanship, tone, songs, innovation...

Jonny Greenwood (radiohead) is definitivt the fastest guitarist....

Quote Zeppelin (in response to my assertion that Hendrix had some technical monopoly of the day).

"ever heard about people like george benson? he had technique which was much better than hendrix's, and this is only one example."

Nope, never heard any, what do you recommend?

Come to think of it I heard some awesome play by Robert Fripp (King Crimson's awesome and very weird guitarist) which I was told was contemporary with Hendrix.

greenwood!!??! ok i am a huge fan of radiohead and i love his playing and style but he isn't fast. what song were u thinking of as i havn't all of them but i do have all the albums execpt Kid A

People, we are talking about tasteless, brainless, going through the motions SHREEEEEEEED... Mentioning Vai, Hammet, or anyone else with a pytiful 20 notes per second is not appropriate... Paus is fast (check the link I have posted higher). As long as you can decipher the notes, it's not fast enough...

yeahhhh!

[Edited by lalimacefolle on 01-23-2002 at 07:43 PM]

Yes...that man is definitely not hitting 466.7 bps. I think Lalimacefolle's 46.6 is a lot better. I calculated it out. Okay, now listen to this...if I play the G chord, I am hitting 6 strings, right? And no matter how fast I'm playing that chord...there are itty bitty microseconds in between each string. Well, I tried playing that G chord as fast as I could. Hitting about 8 - 10 chords per second. That means I am only getting 46 to 60 bps if you count every string that I hit. THAT'S WITH A FREAKIN' CHORD!!! Now, tell me...how can a person do 10 TIMES THAT while using SINGLE-STRING, LEAD PICKING?!!!!!!! That is humanly impossible.

But Michael Paus(or whatever his name is) is definitely the fastest guitarist I've heard. Those "Mickey Mouse" scales do sound like a weird type of slide.

im really sorry if sounded like i hated you or something. your cool man. i just didnt memorize the spelling of your name, and you mentioned that you were french. sorry man. thanks for your opinion. nuno's my fave guitarist and it hurts me not to see his name. now i see that it's all about speed... mindless speed. then i guess my vote goes to yngwie malmsteen. he's boring. once youve heard one album, youve heard them all.

im such an idiot! can anybody tell me how to erase a thread? i was supposed to just reply when i accidentaly clicked on the "post new thread" ........ oh and paul gilbert is faster than yngwie

I'm the only one who can do that. It will go away after a while...

This is my first time on so don't yell at me if I do anything stupid OK. If you ask me I think the best solo'ist was Randy Rhoads. he play for Ozzy & he started Quiet Riot at age 16 he was born in 1952 and he died in a plane wreck in 1982.