This guy was actually my guitar teacher for a while, when i came early, i could hear him practicing in his studio. Dedication, has payed off. Congrats.
I would love to hear the 600 bpm slowed down so we can try to get an idea of the musical integrity hes able to accomplish. Not hating like "I bet he misses a buncha notes this isnt a real record blah blah blah" I would just be curious to hear how well he maintained the integrity of the sound playing that ridiculously fast.
Agreed. He didn't actually play the original piece that fast. It's guaranteed you'll miss notes attempting to "play" at 600 bpm. So did he actually play at 600bpm? NO! Of course not.
My question is, to what extent can we believe he actually played all the notes? It's pretty clear the human ear won't distinguish if he screws up a few notes here and there. The verification should involve computers... but maybe it's already the case
Mile High Shred You're a great guy for doing that. I was really skeptical when I watched these types of videos. A few days later I found Troy Grady's videos, and you happen to have worked with him as you stated in your other video, which is amazing. I'm pretty sure a lot of these other guiness world records would also turn out to be undeserved when put under the microscope. I won't believe any future claim of guitar speed record without this type of verification standard. Who cares though, you can probably pick faster than 99% of the rest of us. I don't think all that hard work went to the shitter. Up the irons!
Excellent point. The word shredding is perfect for guitarists with lots of special effects because the effects shred the notes together and it is almost impossible to hear what they are playing but kids love it. ....It is not really good music if you don't like the exact same notes played on an acoustic guitar without any effects. Power chords without power is usually pretty lame?
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-SBI98fy2tA0.html Here's a guy doing it on a nylon string at 350bpm. Way more impressive than this staticfest
Truly impressive speed ... And I'm pretty sure that he is well aware that it sounds more like a wood chipper than classical music. But since the whole idea of this specific event is speed I'd say he nailed his wood chipping.
Wow I feel sorry for the other guy who had set the previous world record. This guy played almost twice as fast. I guess there really is always someone who can do something better than you in life.
It's interesting that when Tiago Vega set the world Bumblebee record of 320 BPM his fretting fingers hardly lifted off the fretboard but Taylor's at 600 BPM take flight like Guthrie Govan.
I would like to see you do it at all... That was REALLY clean (especially considering his fastest tempo). You can't say that at 600 beats a minute you can hear or see how he is being sloppy. That is true talent.
This is not fake... Please look at the clock... And please, there is a background synth which kind of covers his mistakes. In the 170BPM part, you can hear that synth.
Despite not being certain that he picked every single note correctly, he shredded faster than anyone on planet earth has or could shred. That’s guaranteed
nessundorma666 Calling out isn't hating. Dick Dale is faster than this guy. He's all distortion. Guinness doesn't use a wall clock. They use a metronome with a read-out. 600bpm is 10 per second. You can easily count his strumming. That isn't hating, it's stating.
Perhaps he should of tried it without distortion. The notes dont sound very clear to me so either he is sloppy due to his inability to accurately play at that speed and/or the distortion prevents any real clarity. I think it's probably a combination of both.
While it is impressive (I know I couldnt do it), as a guitarist its not practical. When you get up to those bpm's everything becomes a blur. I dont even think the human ear could hear it if he missed some notes. None the less, he is a great talent. I would like to hear some of his original work.
He’s actually said that he has removed his Guinness record from his promos and website, and that the 600bpm attempt was unsynchronised I admire his honesty!
"its fake because he has hair" thats how you all sound attempting to justify that hes actually playing that fast. yes I am looking at the clock and I've seen this done more than once. Great editing!
Sandeep suman Identified by whom? The give away if the cable come out of the bottom of the guitar. It's clearly sped up. A cable wouldn't move like that. They are trying too hard by putting the clock on there - you'd never see him doing the 600bpm without a fixed camera position and the clock anywhere near where he's playing. Probably done on Adobe After Effects. I know a lot of the fastest guitar players in the world and this isn't just faster, it's like 10 times faster. It would be like running the 100m in 2.1 seconds rather than "just" 9.5 seconds.
Sandeep suman Well it is hard to tell if it's real or not. First reason is that the video can be easily manipulated even with the clock. Second reason is that even if it is real then it's hard to tell if he picks the notes flawlessly when he is supposed to play 40 notes pr. second, because if someone were to speed the clip down then the sound would end up being blurred. And.. the greatest guitarists I know is playing no more faster than 26 notes pr second so I'll say that wikichris got a good reason of being skeptic :P btw sorry for my bad english
at the 600 bpm part of the video if u hear closely the claps start super early and the dude's hand jerks off the guitar really fast after he's done but if i am mistaken then this guy sure as hell is extremely skillful.
But string instruments tone doesn't change the way wind instruments do. Of course playing fast would affect breathing and embouchure there but as long as the instrument is in tune for a string instrument then shouldn't the sound be the same?
+1999beachboy This piece is in 4/4. Which means 4 crotchet beats per minute. Follow me so far? Good. In every crotchet beat there are 4 semiquaver beats. Still with me? Excellent. This piece is composed entirely of semiquavers. Every note is a semiquaver. So for every 4 notes that is played, that is 1 crotchet. And by counting each crotchet in beat, you discover that the piece is in fact 145 beats per minute. If the piece were to be in 600 bpm, you would not be able to hear the gaps between each note, and it would just be 1 long note. That is humanly impossible. If you don't believe me click this link. a.bestmetronome.com/ and type in 170. You can count 4 notes in every 1 click on the metronome.
I understand music. What I don't understand is how you know all the terminology but still manage to gets things so horribly wrong. I was using that very site today. I can play most parts of this song at 200bpm (and yes I understand that there are 4 notes in each beat). also "This piece is in 4/4. Which means 4 crotchet beats per minute.".....?????? that's just wrong. so wrong. You are right that the piece is written in 4/4, but that doesn't mean 4 crotchet beats per minute. That means there are 4 crotchet beats per measure. The beat per minute is simply how many of those measures (in the case of a 4/4 piece, each measure is one beat.. it's basic math. 4/4 = 1) fit in a minute. 4*145bpm = 580 notes in a minute. divide that by 60 and you get roughly 10 notes per second. that is NOT impressive for an experienced guitar player trying to set a world record. I agree that 600 bpm would be physically impossible, but 145 bpm is NOT impressive.
The majority of the distortion you hear is from the mobile phone microphone that recorded this video, that distortion is what's eating most of the articulation off of the notes. What went out in the music store this was recorded at was both compressed and distorted by fx processing, but as I recall, the Guiness guys got a clean recording (tapped from the signal of this same event, of course) for the record evaluation. And, to the feeble unbelievers who whine about the clock being fakeable, sure, but that's moot since there were heaps of people in the store when this was shot.
It's definitely not fake. I have had the pleasure of jamming with John in person, and even without the constant practice it takes to maintain a max speed like that, he was still able to hit completely freakish speeds. One way you can tell that this isn't fake is that he is actually using his fingers. you'll notice that with every attempt since John's (where you get people claiming ludicrous things like 1400 bpm), they are just sliding up and down the fretboard. They change the way they play the song every time once they get to certain speeds. John is consistent and plays the same thing every time. There hasn't been anybody who has actually played faster FOTB faster than John yet.
What are you going on about? You can just Google the sheet music to learn the actual bpm; a measly 161 bpm. Besides what really matters at this speed is notes per second. And the distortion is very light & helps w/clarity here. You must really be disappointed & hard on yourself, because only self-loathers leave pathetic comments like this.
+Kenni Kuhlmann-Clark you do realize there are different frequencies/pitches for metronomes right? I've been in music classes and lessons and everything my entire life and I have a metronome that counts down for you like that. It goes "1,3,1,2,3,4 1,2,3,4" (etc.) to keep your tempo so you can hear if you slow down. The higher pitch is so you can hear it over the instrument
This example of it doesn't, but being able to play fast definitely has it's place in music. This is only an exercise, I hate when people say it doesn't have a place in music, as if it's not already obvious.
Two things I have to say: 1. This is NOT sped up or fake! Please direct your attention to the analog clock to the right. 2. I'm not an expert on music theory but lets look at exactly how fast he plays. 600BPM x average of 16th notes (4 notes a beat) song = (600*4=2400) He's playing 2400 notes per minute (average) or 40 notes per second (average). I'm not exactly sure how he accomplishes 40 notes per second but I believe he may be a descendant of Chuck Norris.
hahah this guy is not fake, currently he is the dude with the Guinnes World Records certificate for fastest guitar player alive. He just got an show by the Cracking The Code guys alongside with Rusty Cooley on the thematics of monster speed. This guy plays fast as HELL!
props to this guy playing at 150 BPM and for the video creativity. Of course this is fake, he is playing the piece at 150 bpm each time, then speeding it up in After Effects. It's easy to mask out the clock and the bystanders in the back so that they DON"T speed up. It's a pretty convincing effect. People PLEASE don't believe everything you see and hear on the internet. I give this guy (and the others that say they've done 999 bpm (OMFG). These type of people are the same people that would use a cheat in a game and brag about how good they are. You say it's not a fake? Then you're not looking at the subtle give aways. Also, look here --> The Worlds fastest Guitarist HOAX
What I can tell from watching at half speed is, that his picking hand is not picking every note at higher speeds. In the beginning he is doing that, from 350 ppm upwards his picking hand is not doing it anymore.
+Kenni Kuhlmann-Clark Hmm, what I actually meant is, that in the beginning he makes an upstroke or downstroke with his picking hand for every fret he puts a finger on with his other hand. on the high tempos like 350 and upwards, his left hand still seems to play the same frets but his picking hand does not keep up with the speed, so he is not making a down- or upstroke for every note. Some notes seem to be played legato then. If it is synced and mimed, I have not tried to figure it out, I just wanted to point out that fact I described ;-) But: I also think, that the correct notes are running with as a backing track and he plays to it. Thats not a prove for correct and accurate playing, just saying... ;)
TozSanchez .... Oh okay I sure agree with much of that... But synced/mimed or having a 'backing track' is almost the same thing to me..... If there's a backing track then this is not a solo, and not authentic.... Moreover, the excessive distortion (deliberately) obscures what is being heard (confuses whether it's the backing track or the player), and obviously at faster tempos, or difficult passages, the player can simply 'drop out' and let the backing track cover for the playing (much like many lipsync singers can do -- they sing some easy parts to make it look 'real', and leave the hard parts for the recording).... I also agree with the use of 'legato' (although the traditional proper term is slurring; slurring could be legato, but not all legato is slurring -- legato just means smoothly) -- but that doesn't bother me as much as the synced track (he's probaby doing much more miming in the faster tempos then 'playing along with')... But how can this possibly be a 'world's record'? (btw, did you see the newer one with an Indian player that 'record-setter' has out -- it's hee-lariously entertaining)... So, we have to ask why these 'fastest' videos are being done, and for me the answer is simply to get views/likes/comments for the channel in order to generate revenue -- that seems like the real purpose...
+TozSanchez You are correct. I went back and viewed my performance, and I did not pick every note at 350 bpm and beyond. Undeserved records! You would have made a better judge than Guinness and RecordSetter :)
+Mile High Shred I actually don't wanted to say, that the record is undeserved.I don't know what the rules are, but if every note is played, at least with legato, it should still count, I guess. But if the rule says, that every note has to be picked separately, then the record should not count. :D All I wanted to say is just, that your picking was changing, as the speed increased. ;-)
Segovia wasn,t a fast player but he is a ledgend admired by all guitarists. This guy is the fastest player in the world. And nobody's heard of him. The moral of the story is music is not about speed
Impressive. Looks like it's based on a hyper picking technique some guy had on a instructional video back in the 80's. Have to dig that VHS out haven't seen it in years.
Uh,uh,uh,i've got one: Why the hell isn't the guitar burning... no,wait,now i've got it: where do all these fingers come from!! No,sorry,really,here it is: Title: Bumblebees on LSD - LOOOOL^^ No,really,very good performance!!!
