World's fastest guitar player.....

[FarkusSWR]

Guinness names fastest guitar player in the world - WTOP.com

If this has been posted already I apologize....just wanted to share.
Kind of strange because it is a fantastic display of technique, but the faster he goes it loses all semblance of a musical piece that has any soul or flow, for lack of a better descriptor.

And where do you find a metronome that goes to 600 BPM, anyway?

[electracoyote]

Originally Posted by FarkusSWR

Guinness names fastest guitar player in the world - WTOP.com

If this has been posted already I apologize....just wanted to share.
Kind of strange because it is a fantastic display of technique, but the faster he goes it loses all semblance of a musical piece that has any soul or flow, for lack of a better descriptor.

And where do you find a metronome that goes to 600 BPM, anyway?

The metronome doesn't need to go 600 BPM, because he's playing 64th notes (or shorter) over a quarter note tempo.

It becomes an incomprehensible blur. I preferred it at its original tempo of 170 BPM.

But he's damn fast, that's for sure, for whatever it's worth (Guiness entry).

[colcifer]

The distortion did do a number on the note definition and there isn't much room for subtlety at those speeds. Still cool though. Only cool though.

[lowfreq33]

Also known as "world's least employed guitarist".

[Ayce]

I'll give him props for the hours of practice it took to do that, however, one thing I learned years ago:
"That's not music, that's just notes."

(Not that my opinion means much to GWR or Mr. Taylor.)

[HaMMerHeD]

It's not supposed to be musical. It's a show of technical ability.

That song, even when played at normal speed, sounds like an unmusical mess anyway.

[Ricnroll]

like a hummingbird on crack

[jmattbassplaya]

Anyone else lol at the guy at the end who said, "I'll sign it?"

[Ayce]

I heard "I'll buy it" LOL

[bmc]

um...it sounds like crap.

[Passinwind]

Originally Posted by Ricnroll

like a hummingbird on crack

[stratovani]

This has got to be the funniest thing I've heard yet on TB! I was laughing all the way through it! I would loved to have given him an acoustic and ask him to play something slow!

Seriously, this has a bit of the idiot savant about it. Practicing one song for hours at a time from the time he was 13 until now? After a while it sounded like an incomprehensible blur of notes, and you can't even tell if there's even a song in there.

[Pacman]

Music related (even tangentially) posts belong in Miscellaneous.

Moved.

[Waffles and Scotch]

I think it's great that he decided he wanted to reach this goal when he was 13 and followed through with it. Good for him.

[Actium]

Kinda funny the article mentions Jimmy Page and other famous guitar players that aren't exactly shredders (cept VH I guess).

[nortonrider]

I'm with Waffles on this one. The guy set a goal and reached it.
Good for him.

[electracoyote]

Originally Posted by Waffles and Scotch

I think it's great that he decided he wanted to reach this goal when he was 13 and followed through with it. Good for him.

"Flight Of The Bumblebee" is a shredder standard, and one by which shredders sometimes judge each other. I think all my favorite speed demons like Gilbert, Vai, Bettencourt, Andy Timmons, most of them have either recorded it or whipped it out on stage.

Most put a little more imagination and musicality into it though.

[Zabbo1978]

At least it got shorter each time he played it.

[Waffles and Scotch]

Originally Posted by electracoyote

"Flight Of The Bumblebee" is a shredder standard, and one by which shredders sometimes judge each other. I think all my favorite speed demons like Gilbert, Vai, Bettencourt, Andy Timmons, most of them have either recorded it or whipped it out on stage.

Most put a little more imagination and musicality into it though.

I agree it was uninspired and unoriginal, however...

When I was 13 I was playing basketball, dreaming of being a shooting guard for the Celtics. I no longer play basketball. When he was 13 this guy was playing Flight of the Bumblebee, dreaming of being the fastest guitarist in the world, and kept playing it for an hour every day for 15 years. Pretty impressive IMO. Would I want to listen to it again? No way. But I have to commend him for having the dedication to stick with it after all these years. Being a music teacher, he had to have questioned himself on many occasions as I'm sure he had better uses for his time. But he stuck to his guns and reached his goal.

On behalf of Bud Light we salute you, fastest Flight of the Bumblebee guy. Without you, we would never have known the limitations of a YouTube video.

[electracoyote]

Originally Posted by Waffles and Scotch

I agree it was uninspired and unoriginal, however...

When I was 13 I was playing basketball, dreaming of being a shooting guard for the Celtics. I no longer play basketball. When he was 13 this guy was playing Flight of the Bumblebee, dreaming of being the fastest guitarist in the world, and kept playing it for an hour every day for 15 years. Pretty impressive IMO. Would I want to listen to it again? No way. But I have to commend him for having the dedication to stick with it after all these years. Being a music teacher, he had to have questioned himself on many occasions as I'm sure he had better uses for his time. But he stuck to his guns and reached his goal.

On behalf of Bud Light we salute you, fastest Flight of the Bumblebee guy. Without you, we would never have known the limitations of a YouTube video.

+1, he achieved something, whether we understand and appreciate it or not.