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Guy playing guitar CRAZY fast, is it real? (video)

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ArmenK

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My friend showed me this video of a guy playing guitar. About 2 minutes into the video he starts doing some really crazy stuf. I thought it was fake but my friend insisted that he has read about this guy and that its real. What does everyone think?

(The video can also be found on Kazaa, search for "speed kills")
 
Skills.
Just like the rapper with the quick tongue and the DJ with a crazy skratch, guitar man doin his thang... Very impressive, except for what BigBong said about his hand going up and around the guitar that fast, that looked to be edited.
 
I think that is an artifact of the frame rate of the video, so yes, I think it's real.

I saw Richie Blackmore(Deep Purple/Rainbow) play to a blur for about a ten second span.........or maybe it could've been the drugs.

 
I guess you turn blue if you shred too fast. A tragic side effect.

My hands cramped up just watching that.

The fastest guitar player I ever saw was John Petrucci of Dream Theater, now that guy can play.
 
I think this vid is real, it came from some instructional video in the 80's (as if the Aqua Net horror, pointy guitar, and Gold's Gym muscle shirt didn't give it away 😛) on how to play shred guitar. I personally can't listen to shredding for more than a minute but there's no denying this guy's technical ability. One of the big guitar magazines dubbed him the world's fastest player I think.
 
its for real, i was watching other videos with this guy in it (yea, its an instructional video series, like yellowperil said), and he was talking about how he needed to buy the hardest picks he could get made of something crazy hard, as normal picks would just start going mushy from the heat :Q

his technique for playing fast was that you needed to be able to play the same thing slow in order to play it fast 😛

he was also playing some wierd looking custom-made guitars (a double guitar)

check out the 'what's new' and 'michael angelo' links

edit: this was the video i was watching
 
I've seen some acoustic players do some amazing speed things. Phil Keaggy comes to mind. The things he does with an acoustic and using harmonics - first time I saw that my jaw dropped to the floor.
 
That's Michael Angelo, and yes he *technically* is that good. He's absolutely amazing. But it's all show and fluff; his music is AWFUL. If you don't believe me, go download anything by the band "Nitro", specifically off of the O.F.R. album (stands for Out F&cking Rageous). Guitarists like him are like magicians; take away the smoke and mirrors and showmanship, and what are you left with? Nothing.

*edit* thanks datalink 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Triumph
That's Michael Angelo, and yes he *technically* is that good. He's absolutely amazing. But it's all show and fluff; his music is AWFUL. If you don't believe me, go download anything by the band "Nitro", specifically off of the O.F.R. album (stands for Out F&cking Rageous). Guitarists like him are like musicians; take away the smoke and mirrors and showmanship, and what are you left with? Nothing.
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Don't you mean Magicians? (sp?) 😉
 
Originally posted by: rh71
Damn. I don't think Kirk Hammett can do that. :Q
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*stomach hurts from the laughter* Kirk Hammett is the most over-rated, undertalented guitarist to enjoy the spotlight in the entire history of music. Seriously, I feel that I am at least as good as him technically. As far as quality of solos, well that's very subjective (I consider his uninspired, unoriginal, and formulaic), but he is by no means technically proficient.
 
Originally posted by: Triumph
Originally posted by: rh71
Damn. I don't think Kirk Hammett can do that. :Q
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*stomach hurts from the laughter* Kirk Hammett is the most over-rated, undertalented guitarist to enjoy the spotlight in the entire history of music. Seriously, I feel that I am at least as good as him technically. As far as quality of solos, well that's very subjective (I consider his uninspired, unoriginal, and formulaic), but he is by no means technically proficient.
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Then, seriously, stop wasting time on AT and get yourself signed. Let's take this out of the music context for a second. You're a talented graphics designer/animator. Your friends think you're the $#!t. You think the people at Disney/Pixar are no better than you and you may even be the next big thing with the best ideas this side of the Atlantic. What do you do ? Certainly not point and laugh at the accomplished artists who've "made it" from your computer chair.
 
Much like the other guys like him, Joe Satriani and Steve Vai for example, he's all technique and not a whole lot of soul behind his guitar playing.
 
Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: Triumph
Originally posted by: rh71
Damn. I don't think Kirk Hammett can do that. :Q
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*stomach hurts from the laughter* Kirk Hammett is the most over-rated, undertalented guitarist to enjoy the spotlight in the entire history of music. Seriously, I feel that I am at least as good as him technically. As far as quality of solos, well that's very subjective (I consider his uninspired, unoriginal, and formulaic), but he is by no means technically proficient.
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Then, seriously, stop wasting time on AT and get yourself signed. Let's take this out of the music context for a second. You're a talented graphics designer/animator. Your friends think you're the $#!t. You think the people at Disney/Pixar are no better than you and you may even be the next big thing with the best ideas this side of the Atlantic. What do you do ? Certainly not point and laugh at the accomplished artists who've "made it" from your computer chair.
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Do you know if he has a band? Metallica got big in a day when labels were sucking up new bands all over the place. The music industry is in a very different stage right now, and not everyone who wants to produce music can get onto a label.
 
Originally posted by: Beast1284
Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: Triumph
Originally posted by: rh71
Damn. I don't think Kirk Hammett can do that. :Q
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*stomach hurts from the laughter* Kirk Hammett is the most over-rated, undertalented guitarist to enjoy the spotlight in the entire history of music. Seriously, I feel that I am at least as good as him technically. As far as quality of solos, well that's very subjective (I consider his uninspired, unoriginal, and formulaic), but he is by no means technically proficient.
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Then, seriously, stop wasting time on AT and get yourself signed. Let's take this out of the music context for a second. You're a talented graphics designer/animator. Your friends think you're the $#!t. You think the people at Disney/Pixar are no better than you and you may even be the next big thing with the best ideas this side of the Atlantic. What do you do ? Certainly not point and laugh at the accomplished artists who've "made it" from your computer chair.
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Do you know if he has a band? Metallica got big in a day when labels were sucking up new bands all over the place. The music industry is in a very different stage right now, and not everyone who wants to produce music can get onto a label.
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With his supposed talent, he better be looking harder to get signed than he's leading me to believe. If his band as a whole is keeping him from making it big, I'm sorry, there are bigger decisions to be made.
 
As said earlier, John Petrucci of Dream Theater is not only one of the nicest guys I've ever met, but he is amazing on guitar.
 
Originally posted by: rh71
Originally posted by: Triumph
Originally posted by: rh71
Damn. I don't think Kirk Hammett can do that. :Q
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*stomach hurts from the laughter* Kirk Hammett is the most over-rated, undertalented guitarist to enjoy the spotlight in the entire history of music. Seriously, I feel that I am at least as good as him technically. As far as quality of solos, well that's very subjective (I consider his uninspired, unoriginal, and formulaic), but he is by no means technically proficient.
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Then, seriously, stop wasting time on AT and get yourself signed. Let's take this out of the music context for a second. You're a talented graphics designer/animator. Your friends think you're the $#!t. You think the people at Disney/Pixar are no better than you and you may even be the next big thing with the best ideas this side of the Atlantic. What do you do ? Certainly not point and laugh at the accomplished artists who've "made it" from your computer chair.
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Do you even play guitar? Because you don't understand what it is that I'm saying. There are thousands and thousands of bedroom guitarists out there who are as good as Kirk Hammett with their fingers (if not better). Do you think that it's some great feat to be able to play Metallica songs? They're challenging, but it isn't impossible. I can play many of them. I could play all of them if I took the time to learn them. I'm not claiming to be some exceptional guitar talent. I'm your run of the mill "computer chair" guitarist; I'm nothing special. And neither is Kirk Hammett.

I have no aspirations to be signed by a record label, or to even be in a band. I play for my own enjoyment.
 
Originally posted by: Greyd
I've seen some acoustic players do some amazing speed things. Phil Keaggy comes to mind. The things he does with an acoustic and using harmonics - first time I saw that my jaw dropped to the floor.
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Phil Keaggy - excellent. Truly an exceptional player.

The clip is real. Anyone who's seen the other training vids, Keaggy, Malmsteen, Vai, Van Halen or Satriani (among many others) live wouldn't doubt that.

 
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