VIDEO: 4:12 - Fastest Guitar Player in the World

**Cuz** · 10-25-2013, 08:27 PM

Very impressive. Almost sounded like a speeded up version of "wipeout"

**Honkey_Kong** · 10-25-2013, 08:31 PM

The fastest he was playing was 1400 notes per minute. Which is fast, but by no means makes him the fastest in the world. I've seen people online playing Flight of The Bumblebee at over 400bpm. The piece is also chromatic so it makes it easier to play the notes.

**--->>405<<---** · 10-26-2013, 06:31 AM

Originally Posted by Honkey_Kong

The fastest he was playing was 1400 notes per minute. Which is fast, but by no means makes him the fastest in the world. I've seen people online playing Flight of The Bumblebee at over 400bpm. The piece is also chromatic so it makes it easier to play the notes.

thats what i thought he was playing.. move over Vahid..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?featur...TsX3O-2E#t=316

**--->>405<<---** · 10-26-2013, 06:37 AM

move over john taylor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE-T...etailpage#t=75 (wowsers)

**austinite** · 10-26-2013, 06:41 AM

Originally Posted by --->>405<<---

move over john taylor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE-T...etailpage#t=75 (wowsers)

Jibber Jabber! I can do that!

See, done. I did it so fast you couldn't even see it!

**--->>405<<---** · 10-26-2013, 06:51 AM

Originally Posted by austinite

Jibber Jabber! I can do that!

See, done. I did it so fast you couldn't even see it!

LOL.. yeh i kinda thought the same thing there, but the 600 BPM was something!

however, on second thought i betcha dem der guinness world record folk could slow dat der speed down to see if it was legit!

**austinite** · 10-26-2013, 06:52 AM

^ Agree! power fingers!

**Honkey_Kong** · 10-27-2013, 08:46 AM

Originally Posted by --->>405<<---

move over john taylor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LE-T...etailpage#t=75 (wowsers)

As fast as he is, he doesn't play very clean at all. Even at his 200bpm. If you took his distortion pedal off, he'd probably be duffing half the notes he played. At 1400bpm, he duffed all of them. It just sounded like scratches. Some of that could be just the encoding of the youtube video itself, but I doubt he played it very clean.

Truth be told, it's harder to play slow than it is to play fast. Things that don't typically get noticed when you're storming through notes becomes more important when you're going real slow. Tone matters.

**austinite** · 10-27-2013, 08:52 AM

Would be interesting to see a slowed down version of the video. That would tell all. I Suspect that Honkey would be right, and it would sound sloppy.

**Honkey_Kong** · 10-27-2013, 12:51 PM

Originally Posted by austinite

Would be interesting to see a slowed down version of the video. That would tell all. I Suspect that Honkey would be right, and it would sound sloppy.

I mean it's still cool that he can play that fast. Even if it's chromatic and straight 16th notes rhythmically. But yeah every guitarist (aspiring or not) at one point or another tries to play fast. You can hear the difference between guys like that and guys like Paul Gilbert and it all comes down to how they learned to play fast. The guys who play fast and cleanly are the ones who practice very slow and work on their hand technique. They work on getting the right tone from their fingers (which even on electric makes a huge difference in quality of sound) and the efficiency of their picking. And then you have guys like this guy, who just by fact they can play 16th notes at 1600bpm (which equals to 6400 notes per minute) is a feat, but they lack clarity and good tone.

To me, the whole point of developing chops is to have another tool to contribute to the overall product of the music. Without good tone and clarity, the chops are just useless. And that took me a long time to not just realise, but accept.