Who is the FASTEST guitar player?
(Click here to view the original thread with full colors/images)Posted by: twisttt
The read the Topic about who was the best guitar player.
There are many really good guitar players and i started to thinking about it.
Then i player Guitar Hero 3, The last bonus song i F**king crazy hard.
The song Dragonforce - Through fire and flames.
Guitarist: Herman (http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Li) Li
I think he is the fastest guitar player.
Know anyother ?:w00t:
:frusty:
Posted by: digmen1
Alvin Lee from Ten years After was very fast and tasteful and a good singer too !
Jazzy Rock and Blues.
Regards
Digby
NZ
Posted by: snowultra
steve ray vaughn
Posted by: jonzaleg
It's hard to say whether there is one guitarist who is the absolute fastest. It definitely wouldn't be the overrated Herman Li though. Perhaps Rusty Cooley would come close
Posted by: N4riX
YNGWIE MALMSTEEN would have to be the fastest although i can't stand his stuff. Also Joe Pass was a madman
Posted by: DyNast
Michael Angelo (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=michael+angelo&search=Search)
Posted by: lee551
agreed^^ about michael angelo.
also:
rusty cooley
paul gilbert (racer x)
and yea, yngwie, satch, vai etc... all the usuals.
Posted by: semiring
Good call on Paul Gilbert. Since lee brought up Racer X, I feel like I should toss Bruce Bouillet out there as well. Anyone who can keep up with PG in 2-part harmony has to have some pretty serious technique.
Marty Friedman is pretty fast too, as is John Petrucci.
All of the guys named above are fantastic. My personal favourite is probably Joe Pass -- when I hear him play, I wonder what the point of my own playing is.
Posted by: Scavenger
Flea have amazing playing speed.
Posted by: nkhlsrf
the dream theatre lead..i think john petrucci...he is damn gud...other than him..the fastest is yngwie malmsteen no doubt abt tht..though his music is crap but he is the fastest
Posted by: Ac3Dunk
Malmsteen is so melodic thats even my mom enjoy listen to him :lol: i like also to listen to Symphony X, Adagio and some old school Guitarist.
Posted by: trevor2000
Slowhand (Clapton):D
Posted by: Tarniz
Well i watched a recording from competition in shredding from the 70s with several famous guitarists. Yngwie Malmsteen won that one, competed with e.g. Van Halen and Clapton if im right.
But hey, its impossible saying who is the fastest. However, i would put my vote on Steve Vai! I think Joe Satriani was Vais music teacher or the other way around, he's fast as hell also anyhow.
@Luchohhh Flea plays the bass, I strongly like you if you count the bass guitarists as simply guitarplayers, i sometimes do as well. If so i throw one in for Flea and one for Jonas Hellborg.
Posted by: DragonForce
herman li, nuff said
Posted by: Deathless
Jimi Hendrix or Eric Clapton
Posted by: digmen1
Jimi Hendrix or Eric Clapton
You obviously don't know much about guitarists or music.
Clapton's knickname was Slowhand, and Jimi Hendrix wasn't very fast either. They were/are both very good guitarists, but neither was fast.
Regards
Digby
Posted by: krunktastic
There is a discrepancy as to who the fastest guitar player is, as even when measuring speed there are multiple factors to take into consideration. I think Michael Angelo Batio is considered the fastest, but there are some other guys who are really pushing the limits of speed. John Petrucci, Steve Vai, Herman Li, and Joe Satriani are some brilliantly fast musicians, although I usually don't dabble in said music.
Jimi Hendrix or Eric Clapton
You obviously don't know much about guitarists or music.
Clapton's knickname was Slowhand, and Jimi Hendrix wasn't very fast either. They were/are both very good guitarists, but neither was fast.
Regards
Digby
Just for the record, Clapton's nickname "slowhand" was an intentionally erroneous nickname as he was so fast (for the time period) that they, the public, considered it ironic to call him slowhand, kind of like the cliche mafia thug named "Tiny". Jimi Hendrix was incredibly fast as well, and brilliantly creative.
Posted by: tenis69
Mark Knofler Dire Straits or Jimi Hendrix or Eric Clapton.
Posted by: Neszton
Hermann Li and master Malmsteen, in my opinion.
Posted by: snowultra
fastest ever was, i think ---stevie ray vaughn
Posted by: popcop23
hard to say....
its intresting what is your opinion...
Posted by: benchez
Chip Monk. :unsure:
Posted by: Ronnie Coleman
This is Banjo Guinness World Record: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbNlqXHVyoM :D
World Record Guitar Speed!? : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8Wbb8r8PUs
Posted by: Einar
Jimmy Page!!! Not the fastest but the BEST!
Posted by: svr
I really like Steve Vai's work.
Posted by: iamKy666
Satriani fan here...
Posted by: jikimida
i think Yngwie Malmsteen
Posted by: Gish
there are many fast players that are shitty players because if your altimite goal is just to go fast believe it or not its not that hard. take the Penintonic scale which many rock solos are based on. many fast player just use that and nothing else, meaning they practices it up and down over and over and and thats all they do, it sound really bland and very plain. many really fast players do this and it sound incredible because of the speed yes but listen to heartbreaker (led zeppelin) and you will hear a guitarist using many scales, techniques and keys that many fast players are just unable to do.
I'm not naming names but listen to def leppared (oops just did), and other 80's bands then listen to Jimmy page or Hendrix and you will see.
Posted by: diope
slash ( velvet revolver and guns and roses old guitarist )
Posted by: MegLeetch
Jimmy Page!!! Not the fastest but the BEST!
the best is Jimmy Hendrix
the more faster i don't know
Posted by: DeadCell
the one from bowling for soup?
Posted by: Septimus
slash
Posted by: DasFox
Michael Angelo (http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=michael+angelo&search=Search)
HOLY CRAP:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rutyA12z3Ok
Posted by: ..::Prince::..
rusty cooley
Posted by: Evil_Monkey
Daron Malakian
...that baritone iceman is the shit
Posted by: bigboab
It is no use being fast unless the end result is perfect. I can type 200 words a minute, but you cant read the gobblygook output.:lol:
Here is my all time favourite guitar player;
Mat 'Guitar' Murphy
http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=L7nRV9LT3nk&feature=related
Posted by: Quarter
Slash from Guns n' Roses.
Posted by: will17
Jack White has some great moments both live and on albums.
Posted by: RyCooder
Zakk Wylde or Malmsteen! They're great!!
Posted by: cpt_azad
The read the Topic about who was the best guitar player.
There are many really good guitar players and i started to thinking about it.
Then i player Guitar Hero 3, The last bonus song i F**king crazy hard.
The song Dragonforce - Through fire and flames.
Guitarist: Herman (http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Li) Li
I think he is the fastest guitar player.
Know anyother ?:w00t:
:frusty:
LMFAO, Herman Li's is not that fast man, he can't even play that solo from Through the fire and flames at full speed live, they ahve to take it down to 180bpm instead of 200 which is a huge diff considering 16th notes are the meat and bone of the solo from that song.
My choices would be:
(Based on the solos/leads they play, not counting how fast a person can tremelo pick, I'm talking either sweeping or 3 notes per string kinda thing, you know, actually shredding not fake shredding.)
Note: Other than Michael Amott and Jeff Loomis, I'm not a fan of the other artists listed here, I've heard A LOT of their work but I'm not a fan of them. This list is about as unbiased as it's going to get.
5) Jeff Loomis of Nevermore, he's not as good as Rusty Cooley, but if there was ever an award for "2nd best sweep picking/shredder", he would get it. His sweeps are fucking fast and beautiful, and the only person I've heard that can beat him in sweeping is Rusty Cooley and maybe, just maybe Jason Becker.
Loomis in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oipOtikCJQM (solo at 2:56=about 1/4 times faster than Herman Li can play, solo at 4:54 = fastest sweeps I've heard [sound quality is shit, download actual song entitled "Godless Endeavor"] right up there with Rusty Cooley's)
Loomis in action part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vhGotdgXuqM&feature=related
4) John Petrucci of Dream Theater, super fast, pretty clean, def. untouchable in most areas.
Petrucci in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT39qE9UDm8
3) Michael and Chris Amott of Arch Enemy, listen to the solo from "Vultures" (it's the 2nd main solo after Chris' solo), that's fucking fast man and its not a simple scale either, while most of the "fastest" guitarists just play scales, Michael Amott makes things pretty intricate and tricky, finger positions are as fucked up as Malmsteen's were. And yes, he can outplay #'s 4 and 5. Chris Ammot is also a shredding bastard, he's not the "fast" player in the band but he sure can play fast when he wants to (he just doesn't like playing fast I guess), Nemesis will always be the song that outshone most songs in the metal scene. The solos from Nemesis are a hell of a lot faster than what most guitarist can even fathom let alone play, to the original poster: Herman Li has got nothing on the Amott Brothers.
Amott brothers in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gu4J8aD5IVw&feature=related (1st solo @ 41sec= Chris Amott, 2nd solo @ 1:35= Michael Amott)
2) Rusty Cooley. God damn, look him up on youtube or download some of his stuff from Outworld. He can play circles around anyone, and I truly believe that he can easily outplay Malmsteen. The only problem is every single solo he plays sounds almost the same (his leads have variation, but solos, not so much). Yes, its ludicriously fast and it doesn't involve tremelo picking the same note, but its so fast that sometimes it sounds like a "slur" and seems that not much thought was put into it, he doesn't play from the heart and there is no emotion in his fast solos, but he can shred to kill.
Cooley in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Eo1bXom2I&feature=related (if you think you know anyone faster...good luck)
Cooley in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gd5Y-IND1LU&feature=related (lol)
1) Malmsteen tied Jason Becker, there's really no need to explain anything about this guy, Malmsteen is a fucking legend and he might be over rated but god damn he reinvented shred guitar in the 80's. Fast as fuck. Becker is also a great guitarist whom I have tremendous respect for, its such a shame that he was diagnosed with that disease, if he were capable of playing today he'd be this generation's Malmsteen.
Honorable mention:
Michael Angelo Batio <-- great guitarist, fast, clean, and his stage antiques are top notch, double guitars anyone?
Paul Gilbert <-- his work in Racer X is amazing, I decided to learn "Scarified" the other week, fuck its hard work lol, those sweep shapes are intense.
I'm still laughing about the Herman Li comment lol
Posted by: Morer
Yeah, they should check how fast someone can shred something with some tune/melody instead of blindly picking strings, like typing tests where they measure the speed based on typing some words/passages instead of blindly tapping keys.
I think michael angelo is the fastest shredder, but I like buckethead the most because of his soulful shredding (not true for all his songs though)
Posted by: cpt_azad
Slash from Guns n' Roses.
No.
The thread starter said fastest, I can play as fast if not faster than slash cann(last time I checked Slash didn't do sweeps, so yes, I can play faster than he can in some aspects), I don't get why people are so obsessed with a GnR guitarist, yea he was great and probably still is, but no where near the fastest. Not even on the top 1000 list (for fastest), there are a lot of guitarists out there....
Yeah, they should check how fast someone can shred something with some tune/melody instead of blindly picking strings, like typing tests where they measure the speed based on typing some words/passages instead of blindly tapping keys.
I think michael angelo is the fastest shredder, but I like buckethead the most because of his soulful shredding (not true for all his songs though)
Angelo isn't the fastest, stage antiques are his forte.
Buckethead, shit forgot about that guy, not in the top 5 for fastest, but damn he can play, probably ranked number 6 or 7 if the list was a top 10.
And your idea about playing a passage is kind of flawed, if a test similar to the one you're suggesting was administered to a bunch of guitarist the results would be worthless. Every guitarist out there has a different learning curve for learning a short (or long) piece of music. So I'm not sure how one would devise a "speed" test for guitar.
Posted by: Biggles
I think someone already mentioned him but Alvin Lee from Ten Years After has to be one of the fastest guitar players in Rock. I would imagine there is someone faster (there is always someone faster) but Alvin probably had the greatest critical acclaim of the really fast guitarists.
Clapton, Hendrix, Page, even Peter Green and numerous others probably have a greater stake in the all time greatest guitarist claim but Lee certainly was quicker.
Posted by: cpt_azad
I think someone already mentioned him but Alvin Lee from Ten Years After has to be one of the fastest guitar players in Rock. I would imagine there is someone faster (there is always someone faster) but Alvin probably had the greatest critical acclaim of the really fast guitarists.
Clapton, Hendrix, Page, even Peter Green and numerous others probably have a greater stake in the all time greatest guitarist claim but Lee certainly was quicker.
I know whom you talk of, and I agree. He was the pick of the crop from the guitarist you listed, he wasn't by any means "great", but he sure was fast.
It's a shame not many people know of him and instead always talk about how Van Halen was/is god.....Alvin Lee can play circles around Halen, Clapton, Hendrix or Page, and those guys were guitar gods (of sorts), so that's saying a lot! I was watching "night of the guitars" on youtube a few weeks ago, great great guitarist.
Posted by: altar
Malmsteen
Posted by: ca_aok
It's definitely not Herman Li... Dragonforce can't play live period. I have no idea how they originally got the intro to through the fire and flames recorded (let alone the solos), but in concert they have to dub it on a synthesizer. I suspect they did multiple takes until he finally successfully hit the pattern, and then just looped it a few times to complete the intro sequence.
I'd agree with Michael Angelo... and John Petrucci definately has some quick moments.
Posted by: THEWHO27
two of my all time fav hendrix & eddie van halen
Posted by: bigboab
Wrong thread. Fastest post swapper.
Posted by: brotherdoobie
I really like this lad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGujRQh1FBU
-bd :01:
Posted by: M3dium
One of the fastest, and best in metal today has to be Zakk Wylde.
For Alt., I gotta give to Mike Einziger. He may not play the fastest, but he's one of the most creative. :P
Posted by: cpt_azad
It's definitely not Herman Li... Dragonforce can't play live period. I have no idea how they originally got the intro to through the fire and flames recorded (let alone the solos), but in concert they have to dub it on a synthesizer. I suspect they did multiple takes until he finally successfully hit the pattern, and then just looped it a few times to complete the intro sequence.
I'd agree with Michael Angelo... and John Petrucci definately has some quick moments.
The solos' on "Inhuman Rampage" (album) were all sped up, they played them at about half to 3/4 speed then just sped them up. A lot of people will argue that if you speed up the original recording then it would become high pitch, this is true. But if you increase the "tempo" then it's not a problem, heck I can record a slow sweep pattern at about 100bpm on a program called Audacity (freeware) and then speed up the tempo without messing up the pitch of the audio.
I've seen em play live twice, my god they suck, there are some parts (not even solos/leads) that they stumble on like simple power chord tremelo picking/etc. They get so wasted it's unbelievable how they manage not to fall over drunk. The only solo that Herman can do live is the one from "Valley of the Damned" and even then he can only do the intro to the solo, once the whammy pedal part comes in he just kinda improvs and it sounds like utter shit.
@THEWHO27:
Van Halen is not the fastest, neither is Hendrix, great guitarists though.
@M3dium: Zakk Wylde is a pretty cool guitarist, by no means the fastest though. Michael Amott can play circles around him and M.A. isn't the fastest either.
Posted by: Afronaut
allrite, but who teh fattest?
Lars Johan got close couple years ago...
Posted by: brotherdoobie
allrite, but who teh fattest?
Lars Johan got close couple years ago...
:glag:
-bd
Posted by: maged918
Yngwie is the fastest in my opinion..
The best however are Gilmour , Clapton And Page...
Posted by: JBolinha
Rusty Cooley
Posted by: Afronaut
Yeah, hows these:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=98y0Q7nLGWk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ydZeU0jovCA
Posted by: Nogof
Chip Monk
Posted by: j2k4
Tommy Emmanuel doesn't suck.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=e_P_-cFbGbU&feature=related
Posted by: armandox
Tommy Emmanuel is very good
Posted by: j2k4
Here's one of my favorite players, Leo Kottke; this isn't so much fast as, well...there's just a lot of stuff going on at once - you decide:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=gJthGsBB5YQ
Yeah, hows these:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=98y0Q7nLGWk
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ydZeU0jovCA
I also failed to mention my awe of classical players, Slinger...they're on another entire plane, ability-wise.
BTW-
I still have your clips archived, and will show them to my grandchildren. :)
Posted by: Aermetikvm
i ll go for the fastest rhythim guitar player...it would be max cavalera for sure...check out the beneath the remains album
Posted by: formos
kirk hammet is really awesome
Posted by: Kallileo
John Butler
I don't know if he's the fastest, but is most definitively my favourite :)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6VAkOhXIsI0&feature=related
Posted by: jelo1vs1
Chris Impellitteri
Posted by: intralios
John Butler
he is very good
Posted by: EMZ
Brian Carroll (Buckethead) is the fastest imo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86DEKFissl4
Posted by: copacabana
John Butler is amazing in Ocean
Posted by: brotherdoobie
John Butler is amazing in Ocean
I love his playing. The song is beautiful. Nice choice, lad.
Peace, brotherdoobie
Posted by: IdolEyes787
http://www.iguitarworld.com/2008/04/24/worlds-fastest-guitarist-videos/
Posted by: soulreaper
Apparently,Michael Angelo's the fastest. Malmsteen,Gilbert,Becker,they're all really fast but what matters is if you appreciate that type of music. I'm into the smooth stuff like Knopfler,Page so I'm not into neoclassical.
Posted by: mirkan
John Butler
I don't know if he's the fastest, but is most definitively my favourite :)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6VAkOhXIsI0&feature=related
Wow that was quite a performance. Prob the fastest i've heard on acoustic guitar. Great song
Posted by: j2k4
John Butler
I don't know if he's the fastest, but is most definitively my favourite :)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6VAkOhXIsI0&feature=related
Nice, really nice.
Super, in fact. :)
Posted by: FLEA
FLEA of course :P
Posted by: j2k4
FLEA of course :P
Well.
That was easy.
Posted by: rammsteinQc
i would say buckethead
he must be very very fast to play the solo of jordan
Posted by: cpt_azad
allrite, but who teh fattest?
Lars Johan got close couple years ago...
Easy, Dino from Divine Heresy, check out vids on youtube, too funny for words lol (he kinda just "sits" there playing haha)
Posted by: staticx
nuno bettencourt or at least one of the best guitar players ever
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaMcf63f7Ic
Posted by: cpt_azad
Not the best at all, just good music, thought I'd share:
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=HFQOZ8mL4-g&feature=related <--zakk wylde, amazing, nuff said
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=jryd6Xtm0dM&feature=related <--chris amott, his solo to vultures
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Cd_P1-zRUNA <--loomis, born solo, masturbation for guitarists
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=34Rp55wDI0k&feature=related <-- best cover of engines of hate solo on youtube I think
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=Bs9XjpjmrXY <-- solo from "beyond the dark sun" by wintersun, great sweeps imo
Posted by: KFlint
once heard the fastest guitarist was canada's flamenco player jesse cook, he's freaking fast on a classical guitar
Posted by: brotherdoobie
John Butler
I don't know if he's the fastest, but is most definitively my favourite :)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=6VAkOhXIsI0&feature=related
Wow that was quite a performance. Prob the fastest i've heard on acoustic guitar. Great songhttp://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/f-music-21/t-who-fastest-guitar-player-256872/page7#post2874778
Agreed.
-bd ;)
Posted by: afunckygirl
I love jimmy hendrix... and also Slash...