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World's fastest guitar player.....

#47
I'm sorry Alvaro, but you're wrong. They both play 16th notes. 4 notes per click. And if you would've followed the whole thread you would've noticed that the guy in the video you posted was the old record holder. He set the 340bpm record that the guy in the originating post beat.

If you open both videos in your browser and stop them at each fastest takes and switch back and forth you can clearly hear that one is significantly faster.
 
#50
This is all a bit silly, really. It's a bit like Tim Watterson holding the 'worlds fastest drummer' record, in that he has expertly nailed the whole heel-toe speed thing. However, I'd take a jam with Jean-Paul Gaster every time.

By the way, I hold the world record for 'Most Wanted Number 2', which I have spent the last four hours setting.
 
#51
A by-product of this record/obsession is that this dude is now physically capable of playing anything he or anyone else could ever dream. I play guitar as well, I did something similar years ago on a much smaller basis where I practiced Steve Morse's "Tumeni Notes" for about 6 months, maybe about an hour a day. At the end of that I could mostly play that twisted thing, but everything else I tried to play was a whole lot easier, and that has been the foundation of my guitar technique ever since. And there is and always has been a whole culture of competition among shredders (Even since the days of Paganini and Rimsky-Korsakov and the performers who could play their music) which is openly recognized as being "musical sport" and pure feat/show, and this guy gets to be the Usain Bolt of it all, so good for him for working his ass off to be a champion of this game.
 
#52
bassophil said:
But, Alvaro, I absolutely agree with you that the old record holder played way cleaner at the same speed :)
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Hey man, not trying to open a can of worms here. Again, music is not a competition. :)

But anyway and respectfully, I think I'm not wrong. Fortunately, I have in my PC a trasnscription of the piece in Finale, so the Finale MIDI guitar player (nobody can beat him speedwise :D) will help me to prove my point.

1. Here's the piece played at 300 quarter-notes per minute (which equals 600 eighth-notes per minute), which is what I say (countoff included):

Audio

2. And here's the piece played at 600 quarter-notes per minute, which is what you say:

Audio

In all honesty, do you think that John Taylor's version sounds as fast as in the second audio file? I don't think so.

Again, with all the due respect. This is just a case of "I still think I'm right" and I'm trying to prove it. This is not war. :)
 
#53
Hehe :D yea, I agree that it does sound funny and stupid in MIDI but I do think it is as fast as in your second sound file.
Skip to about 12:10 of the video to hear the last 2 notes and listen to the last 2 notes of your MIDI guitar sound files and will probably agree.

And of course there is no "war". All is cool :) And I appreciate you providing the sound files. Thanks for that!
It's just that I am also convinced to be right, just as you are ;)
 
#54
And I must add:

I am not claiming to be able to actually make out 4 notes in each click @600bpm! So I would not be a valid Guiness judge at that record. I am just using significant points in the playing to try identifying as good as possible.
 
#55
electracoyote said:
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).
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EXACTLY. 600 BPM -- gimme a break. I begin to question the musicianship of everyone in that room if they all buy that garbage. :rollno:
 
#56
TripleDouble said:
A by-product of this record/obsession is that this dude is now physically capable of playing anything he or anyone else could ever dream. I play guitar as well, I did something similar years ago on a much smaller basis where I practiced Steve Morse's "Tumeni Notes" for about 6 months, maybe about an hour a day. At the end of that I could mostly play that twisted thing, but everything else I tried to play was a whole lot easier, and that has been the foundation of my guitar technique ever since. And there is and always has been a whole culture of competition among shredders (Even since the days of Paganini and Rimsky-Korsakov and the performers who could play their music) which is openly recognized as being "musical sport" and pure feat/show, and this guy gets to be the Usain Bolt of it all, so good for him for working his ass off to be a champion of this game.
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Yep! And he's got a thread dedicated to him on TB. Win. ;)
 

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