I'm doing something similar where I stand on the stage, and i have midgets throw two guitars backwards and forwards at my hand. We played a few songs at a local bar last week using this technique, and all went well until someone requested Flight of the Bumble Bee. We went through 17 midgets in the first verse, then had to give up. RIP: Strippy, Boffo, Viagra, Domey, Tipsy, Kotter, Wookie, Pogo, Scuppers, Draino, Bulldog, Twelve, Velvet, Daisy, Bonzo, Urcle and Graham. You will be sorely missed :( #midgetsarepeopletoo
I personally prefer the intense, more staccato sounding alternate-picking, but this is absolutely mindblowing, uber fast, clean and smooth as silk, phenomenal player...
this is similar to the shawn lane technique,....he seems to be double jointed as well,.....doesn't even sound like music though,.....sounds like a old Atari video game,...but hey that's cool,!!!
Its pretty awful how much Shawn comes up in relation to Roy, because that means people just see speed. Not a thing in common with their styles or technique, but oh wow look how fast they are!
this is incredible, but I am curious as to how picking of that speed sounds on non synth electric guitar through an amp, not doubting the speed, just curious about the sound difference. Also was there a angled slope to those 3 picks ? or were they glued flat on top of each other, was hard to tell in the video. crazy stuff either way Rowan ! Cheers
+Cring0r I heard it unamplified. Sounds very clean and precise. Watch the video carefully, you can see the shape of the pick as I hold it up to the camera. Cheers Rowan
+Roy Marchbank Hi, crazy technique, I'm really interested in trying to create a similar pick myself to give it a try but it's hard to make out the pick from this video, could you give us some more detail please? Thanks
Incredibly fast. I must admit, I like the sound of a note with no angle on the pick, actually the same angle as the string. I'd rather play a little slower with a fuller sounding note but hey, everybody's different! Enjoyed it nonetheless!!
WOW This guy is faster than Holdsworth and Lane! And picking every note! And remember you said nobody could be this awesome before you remember? LOL Happy Thanksgiving
but Roy asked me not to call him Lord Marchbank anymore... lol, btw... I could listen to you guys all day!!! And is there Lager or Ale? (giggles) BEST WISHES!!!
Rowan. Didn't realise until I saw this video how funny you are : "Git it up ye" !!!! Also does the "J" in your name make you play faster : it helped Yngwie, is this where I'm going wrong ? I have a middle name beginning with "E": thinking of giving it a few more years of practice then changing it.
I found that as soon as I became known as Rowan 'J' Parker I could play twice as fast so I would recommend it with one caveat. You'll be sharing your initial with Donald J Trump, so maybe not...
+Ryan Simmons Indeed. Redefines the meaning of shred and raises the technical bar to unprecedented levels. Meet your new god. Lovely chap as well. Sickening.
@@jessebillson Yes, strange that the MIDI-sounding intro 'playing' somehow hits speeds in excess of 16th notes @ 360bpm+(rhythmically irregular) yet the live playing in this video maxes out at 16th notes @ 276bpm, even just as a single note tremolo. Magic, huh?
Funny nobody has commented on this, except Thomas Vammen Jensen, but the examples on this video are very sloppy for the sake of speed. Watching the videos carefully, one can see the large vertical movement needed to move the long surface of the three picks across the string. This is a good cheating gimmick, glue three picks and with one stroke you get three hits on the string.. combine this with three fingered scales = amazing speed. The problem is that if you take away the gimmick (the triple pick), you have just a regular player no faster than anyone out there. Shawn Lane didn't need any gimmicks to play at an amazing speed, he could do it with any guitar and any pick. If Mr. Roy is so amazing, let's see a video of him playing with a normal pick, to see what kind of feats he can do :)
right, instead of blowing smoke, why don't you record a video of Mr. Roy playing against you using a normal single pick? .. you won't do it, because that will expose the truth: wihout his gimmick pick, Mr. Roy is not any faster than you, or anyone else..
@@kirkwahmmet8406also if you watch the Shawn Lane a Second Look videos, he uses a range of picks to achieve different tones required to help replicate Shawn’s sound. If he wants to use a Phat Bhoy pick to create his own sound, for his own music, that’s his prerogative. Pick size doesn’t limit him at all. I am a life long, and beyond, follower of Holdsworth, I wouldn’t waste my time on following guitarists not worth their salt. We can all see from the plethora of material here and on Roy’s own channel that he is one of the greats, even if some are not yet willing to accept that fact.
Sorry but I've compared this to Shawn lane and analyzed it. Shawn went from 18-22nps, Roy goes 33nps, much faster than the late Shawn Lane and Jason Becker on their primes.
@@stu73ke Yes. Roy is no alien he’s a human who is insanely good at what he does. I gather this arises from insane amounts of practice and no doubt a great deal of thought has gone into that. Much more than speed. Some of the comments here disgust me. Jealously seems at the root of the negativity.
@@madden7732 I don't think you've analysed his playing very closely then. Slow Roy's picking down in this very video and you'll see that his speed is in fact matched by a good number of players when playing actual scalar patterns: 0:17 - equivalent of 16ths @245-250bpm (16.67 nps) 5:53 - equivalent of 16ths @245-250bpm (16.67 nps) 6:17 - equivalent of 16ths @240bpm (16 nps) Rowan calling out the 'non-believers' and telling us to marvel at his playing like it's unparalleled at the end of this video is a little ridiculous in light of the above, not to mention that the quality of the playing is incredibly noisy, prone to double-striking of notes and very restrictive upon the actual musical tones coming through because he's picking so close to the saddles with a big weird pick - which probably gives listeners (who aren't familiar with slowing down audio and transcribing) the impression that his playing is faster than it is. There's quite a few guys in that ballpark of speed who also don't need to pick at the saddles and overwhelm the actual note with such a noisy pick attack - off the top of my Shawn Lane, Stephen Taranto, Martin Miller, Dave Davidson, Greg Howe, Jason Richardson, Jeff Loomis, Rusty Cooley, Al di Meola, Yngwie, Daniel Mongrain have all hit speeds around there and beyond, and in a much cleaner and more musical fashion.
lastwinj I don't think it's a valid comparison. There is no control or articulation from this guy at all. Loathe avant garde in any case. Utter bollocks IMHO.
@@ledhendrix5054 There are plenty of players who don't sound conventionally guitaristic at all. Allan Holdsworth, Stanley Jordan, Adam Fulara, TJ Helmerich to name just a few. I'm just not into the idea of being the arbiter of what is acceptable to do with the instrument or how to make it sound. If there is a fixed notion of how the instrument should sound then you are closing off or ruling out the possibility of innovation which to me seems an incredibly narrow and insular way to view the instrument and music in general. Re the whole speed debate, I'm beyond bored with it. Technique is just a tool to make music with. You need it as if you have none you can't play. The point really is technique should serve the music but this is subjective and again its not for me to dictate to someone how they should play. I will say that if you listen to Roys music it does contain passages of technical insanity but thats not the focus, he clearly has something to say and its really up to him how he chooses to do so. You can say subjectively that you don't like it or prefer something else, thats fine but always better to keep an open mind I think. Sometimes stepping outside your comfort zone is the best thing you can do, who knows what might come out of that. Cheers R
@@RowanJParker I'm way to busy to read that , and way to busy to go through the comments section and reply to things that really dont matter. I do appreciate it.