I was a viral hit in late 2008 for briefly holding the slowest guitarist on the planet title, with a video showing that I was playing a consistent and clean version of Eruption at 1bpm. The video was 4 hours long.
Nicceee, that’s what I was trying to figure out in my comment. Yeah it’s completely unattainable, so fast the human ear cannot distinguish individual notes.
@@omni_spirit just like frames per second, if it exceeds a certain point there will be many things not blurred captured. Like bigfoot who only reveals himself at extremely high frame rates.
@@bigassdummy46 The point is that if music could be played at such high levels of BPM, it essentially becomes comparable to the frequency of vibration of a string on a guitar. You would not be able to hear discernible individual notes or parts, it would vibrate so fast that it would blur together and form 1 sound.
My great granddad when he was a toddler hit the keys of a toy piano, he never played again in his life until the week before he passed away at 92...does that makes him the "worlds slowest pianist?"
I don't think anything is impossible if you work hard and practice enough. I've been doing it for nearly 15 years now and I'm up to 5 notes a month. I'll be releasing my 1st video soon.
Shreyash Shrestha Not really, shredding can sound really good and be fun, SPECIALLY if you combine shredding with a great melody. This is just horse diarrhea
PachiPachi Yes but if you think about it, mindless slow playing will also sound awful. Anything can sound good as long as you play every note for a reason
Of course it's Flight of the Bumblebee. Fun fact: Guinness does not recognize any attempt on this world record anymore due to the massive amount of people "trying" and "breaking" the record. We do not have to hear another sacrilegious rendition of this piece, thanks to the efforts of TwoSet exposing them
I remember watching these videos when I began really paying attention to guitarists, I have been playing guitar for 30 years, this was what I was watching in the pioneering days of the internet. Brings back memories for me, thank you for putting this together!!!
All to achieve a centripital acceleration of ~8.81ms^-2, thereby offsetting the effects of gravity acting on the guitar at that altitude. He knows that weightlessness is the secret for such fast shreading :P
This video never gets old When you stand up and the arms are still there it just gets me every time I like really long bends and stuff like that the whammy bar which just seems better played slow in any case and one thing to notice here is most people's hand movements are slow and steady Even when they're moving very very fast they're just waiting on a sound to bounce their sound off of and that's what makes you think that they are going fast is they are so steady that they can bounce that sound off that delay it just the right time to make it seem like it's coming out at a million miles an hour when in reality your fingers don't really have to move that fast you just have to catch that note at just the right time it's more about being steady and smooth and slow sometimes a pause where you don't play anything can be the best part of the song then you come in strong make your guitar sound like a lightsaber fighting Darth Vader throwing some bends to slow it back down Same thing with the bins you catch that sound that's coming out and then you make your sound and then you do the same thing until it dies out every split second that you wait before you catch that wave is going to change what it's going to sound like if you go in too fast it's also going to change what it sounds like you won't be messing up it's just a different speed wherever that noise is if you come in it before or after it the closer you can get to it the faster it's going to sound if you're a half a millisecond away from that beat it's going to sound like you're flying to space
Duudeee you had me cracking up in laughter when I noticed your head was a montage!! You almost had an out of body experience at 1600bpm lol Very funny man good shit !! hahaha
Strings resonate at a certain frequency, meaning that theoretically there is a limit to how short of a note can be articulated, without bleed over into the next note. An anecdote to illustrate the issue... Master of Puppets has parts of it sped up. Not because Hetfield couldn't play it at speed, but because the recording wasn't capturing the articulation of the notes, for the aforementioned reason. So, for the famous intro riff, for example, it was downtuned, played at a slower tempo and then sped up to match the correct tempo and tuning. The result is that incredibly clean, tight riff, no one can ever make sound quite right. If you listen, you can also hear the difference in the texture of the distortion. A dead giveaway that something has been manipulated, is clear, precise articulation of individual notes, at ridiculous speed.
Wow, very interesting. I knew that The Beatles did it, but it's very interesting if Metallica did. Do you know sources that say it's the case? I'm really interested how records in general in many cases were made to sound so good. There are always more tricks to discover. For example I've learned recently that pizzicato notes in orchestra are often replaced with MIDI in order to sound more tight. Also the piano+guitar note in Sanitarium is really interesting and not obvious.
Ok but look up Kevin Heiderich's 100% legit cover of MoP at I believe 300 BPM. He picks every single note cleanly, in a one take video. He is transparent that in certain parts he reduces the number of picked notes because of him having to play it at 300 BPM.
@@songfulmusicofsongs Flemming Rasmussen talks about it, in a few interviews. Just look him up and youll find a bunch of stuff about recording Metallica. He used a lot of recording tricks, in place of effects and post-processing. For instance, instead of reverb, he actually multitracked the guitars with delayed and fading iterations.
That was fun to watch, thanks for putting it together. Over the years, a number of fantastic trumpet players have recorded versions of Flight of the Bumblebee that are incredible. There is one of Rafael Mendez from ages and ages ago, which he played on an instructional basis. In more recent years, Wynton Marsalis recorded a version that....you just gotta hear it. Obviously trumpet players need to breathe, which may make some people question the legitimacy. Super-advanced players can do what is referred to as "circular breathing". This is when you breathe in through your nose, pocket some air in your mouth while you do that, and therefore create a continuous flow of air. It is an extraordinarily difficult technique to learn, I was never able to do it, I had my hands full with other things I never felt I mastered, but both players use that technique in their recordings. Marsalis also used this technique to play "Moto Perpetuo", and he's just sick. The ability to breathe in that manner, maintain the musculature, control the airflow, and play such that it never sounds like you are oxygen starved even though there are times when you must be.....it is simply unreal. I strongly recommend you check out these two musicians.
@@Gnomesmusher Laughs at people who think a virus that has killed less than 10,000 people in a country of 350,000,000. Yes, deaths that were caused SOLELY from covid 19 are less than 10k in America right now. Also, masks don't work.
@@elonmust7470 dude, what do you know? Masks are scientifically proven to be helpful for not giving it to others. If you're not going to do that, then you're just being a pain in the ass. You're destroying the effort that we have to try and put boundaries on this pandemic.
That guy at 6:53? I was so amazed that I sent a personal message to him in facebook about 3-4 years ago after I saw his 999bpm yt video, asking how to use the Pentatonic scale. He indeed sent me a reply and a motivation! Such cool, humble awesome guy!
You can clearly see in the window that it is fast forwarded. A shadow, and a person walking far back in the picture. And ofcourse those hand movements are not even close to realistic
Late to the party but I never looked into the fastest BPM on a guitar on youtube, the first video I watched was the Guiness Book of Records then thought how do they record or count the BPM as in recording the beats via some computer/software analysis. Glad I watched this next because it was very educational on the youtube trend of BPM masters lol. Had no idea until today so this will be fun Interneting.
"... that guy was just rubbing his hand over the guitar neck and vibrating his pick" sounds like a statement you might give the police, but yeah... you're right.
Yeah you right! So these so called fastEST players also have mansions and forgot the price! Joe Walsh still rules! Now joe is a truly funny guitarist, that I know is not fake. LMFAO!
I've seen a few clips of Guthrie Govan where he plays so fast, It's almost inaudible. It's truly amazing. Shawn Lane also. Paul Gilbert can alternate pick sixes all over the fretboard at speeds above 130BPM. I've also come to realize that along with pitch training, you have to develop the ability to actually hear accurate fast notes. I can hear them.....can't play them.....
@@meshzzizk Agreed, he's my favorite player. Check out Roy Marchbank though; he is faster and I'm not the biggest fan of his music but his technique is incredible.
7:44 If you notice, while he plays at 999 bpm people outside the window "magically" stop walking by, and also the guy next to him is not visible anymore. Plus, as soon as he finishes, people start walking by and the guy appears again. That's a bit suspicious, at least.
Yeah, and there seems to be some choppy movements of the people outside, and at the part where there's no people, it looks like a car in the distance makes unnaturally jerky movements. He also admitted it was fake. The first guy is the only one that's plausible. But one thing, it's only the picking hand that has to hit that speed. It never mentions they have to be clean notes played. I'd imagine even missed notes would count as long as the string was picked.
Couldn't you just listen to the sound and realise that his claim is bullshit or just use your common sense in conceiving of how many times a human wrist could possibly spasm in one second!? You need visual cues to help you understand that this sonic mess wasn't what the guy said it was!?
I am no guitar genius but play what you feel and feel what you play. When you perfectly and passionately execute, just 3 notes can be more powerful than 3000 notes, look at Mr. BB King.
Roy Marchbank is the only guy I’ve heard play legitimately lightning fast that’s currently out . Not really a fan of his music but I’m fairly certain there isn’t anyone out there that plays as fast as him without faking it .
Yeah man. I thought of him watching this video. If he is for real, and he doesn't seem like the kind of guy to fake anything, it's insane what he can do!
7:50 i might be losing it. i have officially lost it. i am laughing uncontrollably. the applause... the applause... why? please god tell me why? who possibly knows what actually happened during that time span? this is becoming my favorite video on youtube, please continue
I think it’s because it’s mainly chromatic compared to other songs and in a way it’s less demanding than other like the Tornado of souls Solo, Master of Puppets at 1600BPM would be down right impossible for a human since it’s a downstrokes.... Although Maybe if you sweep pick fast enough you just might be able to play at 1600BPM but how many notes will actually be accurate?😂 There’s also Paganini.... I wouldn’t even try speeding any of the Caprices up since some of them are just hard in their respective time measures😭🤣 Even though Winterwind is a very hard piano piece, I think it would be easy to play on Guitar for Sweep Pickers and it would definitely be a great refresher lol
It’s just the standard. It’s so that they r all playing an equally difficult song that sounds impressive fast. Just tremolo picking an E string doesn’t really work for a “fastest guitar player” video
Because if youre going for the Guiness world record, thats what the standard required melody to play is. They all have to play the same melody to make it fair.
I mean, we're talking about a generation who thinks most of TikTok videos are real - No faking, no extreme suprise faces, no cringe. It's surprising how much people enjoy being fooled on the internet that they don't even bother to question the realisticity of it all. Sure, most of the videos are just for fun, but man, people often believe everything.
Yeah, boomers and people over 35 are really naive and the easiest to scam, I mean I feel bad that they believe everything and lose so much, but what do you expect from them when they barely know how to turn a computer on.
@@miuletzmitzu6641 well they don't thats the thing, youre thinking of people about 10-15 years older than that, its just ironic you bagging people for not knowing something whilst being completely wrong yourself at the same time, muppet.
Bad news Tyler. I am afraid that I found a way to prove he literally played every note. I was sitting here, laughing along with you, when suddenly it occurred to me to slow the video down to 0.25 in the SAME PLACE you slowed it down to 0.25, which mathematically gives us a total slow-down time of 1/16th the original playback speed. ONLY AT THIS SPEED was I able to begin to decipher the incredibly artistry and mechanical / technical prowess this young guitarist was actually demonstrating right before our eyes. Tears rolled off my cheeks as I watched in utter befoundment, as this boy ripped through note after blistering note. I am ashamed of you Tyler, for making fun of and bullying such a prodigy. I am ashamed of myself. Pearls before swine I guess. Next time do your research before you poke fun at a professional like this. Oh and also, that guy IS from Guinness World Records, this is a daughter company of Guinness. Once again, you would have known this had you done even a little research. (also please dont take this seriously, I am memeing)
Make a video of you playing his .25 speed at your .25 speed so that I can watch you watching him at .25 speed watching him watch him at .25 speed. This way we get irrefutable evidence of the mastery beholden before us. Should there be any doubters, I shall then make a video of me watching you at .25 speed watching him at .25 speed while watching him at .25 speed so that they can watch at .25 speed.
Hey, I just wanna say that I've never learned so much from a teaching system before. When I first started playing like over 10 years ago, I kinda just learned cool songs that like I loved to play and just practiced those till I felt comfortable playing them. But I never realized how much music theory there really is and how much you can expand your knowledge playing. Like i rarely wanna play songs anymore and I just wanna learn music theory and different techniques on the guitar through the super system. Just a big thank you Tyler because I didn't think I'd would improve much more. I wasted so much time starting out. Like a year ago I posted a very crappy video of Highway to Hell on youtube that is just completely off beat. If you have any tips or tricks on trying to get down like learning the scales and understanding where to input them, please let me know ! Thanks so much man !!
I think pretty much the closest I've seen to a legit attempt was Tiago Della Vega with his 320bpm. You can actually hear the individual picking sounds, and for the most part it doesn't sound like a muddled mess at the higher BPM. Not to mention it was relatively low gain, so there wasn't too much there to mask the mistakes like most of the others.
At least the first got some clarity in his notes and had decent enough fretting hand technique that it looked within the laws of physics. The others are just such a blur of notes (the chromaticism of the piece helps hide any wrong notes) that it's impossible to tell whether it's in time with the metronome or not. It's like the violin players that just tremolo as fast as they can and glissando up and down in the vague area of the notes because the result isn't clear enough to pick out what's going on.
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I've heard that many times from old timber fallers in their 70s and 80s back when I was in the woods. You'd watch one of those old men work and think to yourself, "he'll never get anything done at that pase", then you'd come by his strip at the end of the day and he cut down more trees than you did lol.
I don't know why people are so crazy for fast playing ,, music is not about just playing fast ,,,,, a proper tempo , dynamics swings etc is whats make a good music ..
The trick metal guys were using back when I was playing, was they'd learn something for real. BUT, not very well. They'd then record it slow perfectly DI, speed it up, re-amp it and then mime to that.
I believe the act of playing guitar has to have feeling and Melody not just to be fast. If you look up the name Randall Padilla. He was the fastest guitar player in the world at one time. But he used it to develop a way to be melodic and play with feelings. Sometimes it's not what you do it's what you do with what you do.
King Spieler I was the first double bass drummer to play 16ths at 350 and it sounds like a Buzz roll the 1600 means the Guitar play would have to down pick at 200
I burst out with laughter, alone, walking down a grocery store aisle with that first guy with the classical guitar. The second guy at 499 bpm sounds like a dentists drill.
Come on dude, if you play you will realize this is real. It’s so completely obvious how real this is that’s it’s almost insulting how you would question the reality of it!
you should try to put on your guitar 6 strings by 6 brands (for example: low E - Ernie Ball; A - Dunlop; D - D'Addario; G - DR; B - Fender; high E - Ibanez) that would be interesting
The problem with that is not all strings are the identical size. So you may have scale differences mid way through strings. D'adario's g3 may sit at a different thickness than elixirs g3. Even though the scale is still 9- 42
Playing that fast makes a woodpecker fighting a mosquito sound. Every song has that knock and buzz. Antonio Salieri once commented to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that some of his works were too fast, and had too many notes for the human ear to hear and fully enjoy. He was right. The human ear can only pick up so much, let alone enjoy it. After that it's a buzz and an eventual headache. Playing brilliant music fast that you can hear every note is where it's at. Buckethead and Steve Vai are where I think the limits of brilliance playing fast ends. Any faster and you don't get haunted by what's coming out of the instrument being played. Breakup of tempo and speed of note differences being played is what draws me personally to music. 300 bpm for a brief moment in a song is impressive. Doing it the entire song and it's where's my bloody Tylenol? Keep it at just over 200 BPM and play clean and you'll be in the turf of a proper guitar God.
Yes. Once it goes "too" fast it just sounds mickey mouse, if you can hear the notes at all! I think 16th note triplets at 165bpm sound great and plenty fast enough when weaved into an expressive solo. At the end of the day it's about expression. However fast you play if you can deliver with expression then it's all good. May, Johnson. Malmsteen, Petrucci, Satch .. all very different players but they deliver their music with style.
I had a guitar teacher when I was a kid. He was this cool guy name Ozzy(yeah I know..). A few months in I asked him how difficult a song he could play and he pulled out Flight of the bumble bee. He played it faster than I would have thought possible, and it actually did sound similar to the first guy. This was on a strat IIRC(it was like 28 years ago). He said he made some mistakes though but fuck it if I caught them. That is still the craziest guitar speed I've seen I'm person in my life.
Believe it or not, some people actually think I hold the record of 'World's Fastest guitar player' after performing Flight of the Bumblebee in 21seconds at the end of a short documentary I made about it. I actually highlighted some ways people cheat and I thought it was obvious that I was cheating on my performance as I even green screened Shia LeBoeuf in but people still believed it!!! In fact, I even made the clock go backwards in time to prove how you can cheat but no, I'm still the fastest in some peoples eyes!
actually that's not that impossible, most people would be able to do 20, human limit is more around 30ish, you forgot to account for the fact that there's more than one note per beat the math adds up to 106.6 notes per second for 1/16ths
@@biscobisco1882 well it wasnt clean in the videos either, just talking about max raw speed the frequency you get from tensing so hard you shake, or from when youre shivering, is roughly 16hz, then x2 cuz you can pick on the way back, im sure anyone who bothers practising for speed without care for cleanliness could break 20s not really the same thing but i used to be able to 30 on guitar hero, pretty darn close to that theoretical max
I can't remember what band it was but i remember seeing a music video in the late 80's where the guitar player put the guitar pic in a drill and used that to play while the pick was spinning in the drill. Really awesome!!!
The 1600 BPM is so fast even at 0.25 speed i still cannot hear it impressive!!! Well young guitarist... That is the achievement of 10000 hours practicing alternate picking..
how fast can u play
Slow
at 300 BPM
Music is Win slow
69,420 bpm
-5 bpm
I was a viral hit in late 2008 for briefly holding the slowest guitarist on the planet title, with a video showing that I was playing a consistent and clean version of Eruption at 1bpm. The video was 4 hours long.
😄
How does it sound sped up to normal speed?
@@BramCohen... Like David Lee Roth pushing a fart through spandex.
mind posting the video
@@mni_7 video?
David Lee Roth pushing a fart through spandex?
Dude you in the wrong tube!
1600 BPM=26 beats per second
16th notes at 26 bps=106.6 notes per second, which is almost the frequency of the open A string on the guitar
Nicceee, that’s what I was trying to figure out in my comment. Yeah it’s completely unattainable, so fast the human ear cannot distinguish individual notes.
@@omni_spirit just like frames per second, if it exceeds a certain point there will be many things not blurred captured. Like bigfoot who only reveals himself at extremely high frame rates.
Your point is???
@@bigassdummy46 The point is that if music could be played at such high levels of BPM, it essentially becomes comparable to the frequency of vibration of a string on a guitar. You would not be able to hear discernible individual notes or parts, it would vibrate so fast that it would blur together and form 1 sound.
@@omni_spirit I think you missed the sarcasm. I know it's hard to detect via text.
“But he has no feel”
Have you heard the Tragedy of Steve vai
Obi_wan1 Steve Vai’s music is mixed with everything. Feel, non sense shredding, and cool melody’s
He can feel it in his muscles
@@obi_wan1541 it's not a story the jazz players would tell you
@@jamesalexander958 it's a Rock legend.
I'm still in the process of setting the World's Slowest Guitar Player record.
Any day now we'll hit that first note.
I can Beat You. period!!!!
Well you'll have some trouble to defeat John cage
Almost 30 years and not a single note, beat that
@@Infernoblade1010 My dreams are gone
@@Infernoblade1010 67 years !
So there. Of course any non playing 80 year old will beat us both! Lol
My great granddad when he was a toddler hit the keys of a toy piano, he never played again in his life until the week before he passed away at 92...does that makes him the "worlds slowest pianist?"
Hundred percent
Yes. Yes it does.
@@bigblueplanet1968 Hurray, is there any kind of reward that I can claim on his behalf? Nothing much just you know a plaque or something.
That comes to 2.11x10^-8 bpm. Impressive
@@Chris.1812 props on calculation.
If you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly.
- Sacrilegious violin player on BBC
Amazing
Hello fellow twoset violin fan
@@GeoTheZodiac well, hello fella
Sacrilegious
I knew there would be Twosetter here ... !
"Alright we're gonna start very slow"
*350 Bpm*
*300
*200
Archspire be like
666 likes xD
Bmp*
I don't think anything is impossible if you work hard and practice enough. I've been doing it for nearly 15 years now and I'm up to 5 notes a month. I'll be releasing my 1st video soon.
Real or fake, whatever.
It sounds B A D
Like most of “shredding”
Shreyash Shrestha Not really, shredding can sound really good and be fun, SPECIALLY if you combine shredding with a great melody. This is just horse diarrhea
@@johnp.smithasimpleman7281 Yes shredding can sound awesome but mindless shredding is usually really awful as well
PachiPachi Yes but if you think about it, mindless slow playing will also sound awful. Anything can sound good as long as you play every note for a reason
@@johnp.smithasimpleman7281 Can't argue with that
Of course it's Flight of the Bumblebee.
Fun fact: Guinness does not recognize any attempt on this world record anymore due to the massive amount of people "trying" and "breaking" the record. We do not have to hear another sacrilegious rendition of this piece, thanks to the efforts of TwoSet exposing them
SACRILEGIOUS
INTERESTING
hmm, what an interesting comment
AmAZinG
Very lamentable!
I looked at my Guitar
My Guitar : Don't even Think about it
Me : 😐
Xlnt.
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@@jit4312
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Lmao
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This comment made my day.😅
I remember watching these videos when I began really paying attention to guitarists, I have been playing guitar for 30 years, this was what I was watching in the pioneering days of the internet.
Brings back memories for me, thank you for putting this together!!!
The astronaut guy who played guitar on the space-station was going 18,000 mph+, that's fast...
All to achieve a centripital acceleration of ~8.81ms^-2, thereby offsetting the effects of gravity acting on the guitar at that altitude. He knows that weightlessness is the secret for such fast shreading :P
@@joshuacanfield569 He may be fast, but I've been higher while playing guitar....
Yes, but his circuit went dead. There was something wrong.
@@Peasmouldia And you probably sound much better than any of these players. I'm sure!👍😘💨🤘🤘🎸🎶👌
@@Peasmouldia I'm having a rotten day today, you have just made me laugh like an entire bunch of schoolgirls. You, my friend, win today's interwebnets
Tyler: is being super fair, gives everyone a chance as a guitarist and person
Stevie T: B U R N T H E W I T C H
I agree!
Stevie gives them a trial.
@@AzazelFox I don’t mean it as shade, I just find it fun to compare personalities
@@forevernow9459 ah yes, a man of culture
Incidentally, none of them has played more than 10 gigs each in their lives. It tells you all you need to know...
First guy sounds like he just found a Pokémon on gameboy.
😂
Ahahahahhaha
This video never gets old
When you stand up and the arms are still there it just gets me every time
I like really long bends and stuff like that the whammy bar which just seems better played slow in any case and one thing to notice here is most people's hand movements are slow and steady
Even when they're moving very very fast they're just waiting on a sound to bounce their sound off of and that's what makes you think that they are going fast is they are so steady that they can bounce that sound off that delay it just the right time to make it seem like it's coming out at a million miles an hour when in reality your fingers don't really have to move that fast you just have to catch that note at just the right time it's more about being steady and smooth and slow sometimes a pause where you don't play anything can be the best part of the song then you come in strong make your guitar sound like a lightsaber fighting Darth Vader throwing some bends to slow it back down
Same thing with the bins you catch that sound that's coming out and then you make your sound and then you do the same thing until it dies out every split second that you wait before you catch that wave is going to change what it's going to sound like if you go in too fast it's also going to change what it sounds like you won't be messing up it's just a different speed wherever that noise is if you come in it before or after it the closer you can get to it the faster it's going to sound if you're a half a millisecond away from that beat it's going to sound like you're flying to space
if you can play it slow, you can play it fast.
Agree
LingLings?
False
Amazing
@@irti_pk didnt get the joke
There's a limit to how fast muscles can contract and expand with a conditioned reflex.
There's just no way some of these clips are legit.
Duudeee you had me cracking up in laughter when I noticed your head was a montage!! You almost had an out of body experience at 1600bpm lol Very funny man good shit !! hahaha
Strings resonate at a certain frequency, meaning that theoretically there is a limit to how short of a note can be articulated, without bleed over into the next note. An anecdote to illustrate the issue...
Master of Puppets has parts of it sped up. Not because Hetfield couldn't play it at speed, but because the recording wasn't capturing the articulation of the notes, for the aforementioned reason. So, for the famous intro riff, for example, it was downtuned, played at a slower tempo and then sped up to match the correct tempo and tuning. The result is that incredibly clean, tight riff, no one can ever make sound quite right. If you listen, you can also hear the difference in the texture of the distortion.
A dead giveaway that something has been manipulated, is clear, precise articulation of individual notes, at ridiculous speed.
Cool story bro, but watch Eric Johnson live
@@ashtonbeggs8205
Idiot
Wow, very interesting. I knew that The Beatles did it, but it's very interesting if Metallica did. Do you know sources that say it's the case? I'm really interested how records in general in many cases were made to sound so good. There are always more tricks to discover. For example I've learned recently that pizzicato notes in orchestra are often replaced with MIDI in order to sound more tight. Also the piano+guitar note in Sanitarium is really interesting and not obvious.
Ok but look up Kevin Heiderich's 100% legit cover of MoP at I believe 300 BPM. He picks every single note cleanly, in a one take video. He is transparent that in certain parts he reduces the number of picked notes because of him having to play it at 300 BPM.
@@songfulmusicofsongs
Flemming Rasmussen talks about it, in a few interviews. Just look him up and youll find a bunch of stuff about recording Metallica. He used a lot of recording tricks, in place of effects and post-processing. For instance, instead of reverb, he actually multitracked the guitars with delayed and fading iterations.
That was fun to watch, thanks for putting it together. Over the years, a number of fantastic trumpet players have recorded versions of Flight of the Bumblebee that are incredible. There is one of Rafael Mendez from ages and ages ago, which he played on an instructional basis. In more recent years, Wynton Marsalis recorded a version that....you just gotta hear it. Obviously trumpet players need to breathe, which may make some people question the legitimacy. Super-advanced players can do what is referred to as "circular breathing". This is when you breathe in through your nose, pocket some air in your mouth while you do that, and therefore create a continuous flow of air. It is an extraordinarily difficult technique to learn, I was never able to do it, I had my hands full with other things I never felt I mastered, but both players use that technique in their recordings. Marsalis also used this technique to play "Moto Perpetuo", and he's just sick. The ability to breathe in that manner, maintain the musculature, control the airflow, and play such that it never sounds like you are oxygen starved even though there are times when you must be.....it is simply unreal. I strongly recommend you check out these two musicians.
I love how you find humor in the guitar world. Love the channel.
11 minutes of Music is Win telling us that the fastest guitar player in the world isn't fake, but is fake at the same time
Nice to see you here
@@mogu-mogu2335 Of course he's here.
lol i see you everywhere from fitness videos to anime to guitar guess we have same tastes or are you just everywhere
Why are you here
Gotta worry about lawsuits. I do get his concern
"we have improved as a society since then" **laughs in tide pods**
My laugh was cinnamon flavored.
*laughs in anti-masking during pandemic*
Covfefe
@@Gnomesmusher Laughs at people who think a virus that has killed less than 10,000 people in a country of 350,000,000.
Yes, deaths that were caused SOLELY from covid 19 are less than 10k in America right now.
Also, masks don't work.
@@elonmust7470 dude, what do you know? Masks are scientifically proven to be helpful for not giving it to others. If you're not going to do that, then you're just being a pain in the ass. You're destroying the effort that we have to try and put boundaries on this pandemic.
The 999 bpm guy sounds like he's playing a power drill
And yet he couldn't 1000 bpm.
The 1600bpm was like a power saw
That guy at 6:53?
I was so amazed that I sent a personal message to him in facebook about 3-4 years ago after I saw his 999bpm yt video, asking how to use the Pentatonic scale. He indeed sent me a reply and a motivation!
Such cool, humble awesome guy!
You can clearly see in the window that it is fast forwarded. A shadow, and a person walking far back in the picture.
And ofcourse those hand movements are not even close to realistic
@@velstadt6125 haha you are welcome!
Late to the party but I never looked into the fastest BPM on a guitar on youtube, the first video I watched was the Guiness Book of Records then thought how do they record or count the BPM as in recording the beats via some computer/software analysis. Glad I watched this next because it was very educational on the youtube trend of BPM masters lol. Had no idea until today so this will be fun Interneting.
Woke up at 4am and can't sleep. This was straight up pure entertainment. Love your channel dude.
Did you get back to sleep yet?
Even in slow motion that guy was just rubbing his hand over the guitar neck and vibrating his pick.
"... that guy was just rubbing his hand over the guitar neck and vibrating his pick" sounds like a statement you might give the police, but yeah... you're right.
That’s what SHE said.
Since Joe Walsh had a Maserati that did 185, I submit that he's the fastest guitar player in the world until proven otherwise.
He was, until he lost his license.
Buddy Holly had a plane that did 250, so….
Yeah you right! So these so called fastEST players also have mansions and forgot the price! Joe Walsh still rules! Now joe is a truly funny guitarist, that I know is not fake. LMFAO!
@@programmer1840
Now he can't drive🤔
I think this thread released the kraken of digs on that song now🤣
You don't think every rockstar has a Ferrari or lambo wich are superior to maserati
Whoa! Such a great video! Thanks my dude.
"That was very interesting music Marty."
maybe you guys aren't ready for that yet!
@@invisiblekid7374 But your kids will love it. :)
Well, it's an oldie where I come from
I read this as "Morty" and then read it again in Rick's voice.
I’m waiting for the guitar world record for “most feel”
I think David Gilmour is the defined record holder in that genre
Real toan
That's subjective
I think SRV, Hendrix or Gilmore would have that one in the bag.
Mateus Asato and Guthrie Govan have that one dialed.
7:47 sounds like a Slayer solo
that's exactly what i thought
That actually is every slayer solo. He didn't abuse the whammy bar though. Thats key.
LOL
Kerry King! Greatest bullshit Guitar player of all time!
I've seen a few clips of Guthrie Govan where he plays so fast, It's almost inaudible. It's truly amazing. Shawn Lane also. Paul Gilbert can alternate pick sixes all over the fretboard at speeds above 130BPM. I've also come to realize that along with pitch training, you have to develop the ability to actually hear accurate fast notes. I can hear them.....can't play them.....
Sixes (aka 16th note triplets) at 130bpm isn't that fast dude, it's only the equivalent of 16th notes at 195bpm.
shawn lane was an absolute monster guitarist. he was operating with a different nervous system than the rest of us or something
@@meshzzizk Agreed, he's my favorite player. Check out Roy Marchbank though; he is faster and I'm not the biggest fan of his music but his technique is incredible.
7:44
If you notice, while he plays at 999 bpm people outside the window "magically" stop walking by, and also the guy next to him is not visible anymore. Plus, as soon as he finishes, people start walking by and the guy appears again. That's a bit suspicious, at least.
wow you know cause he scroll the video from 420bpm to 999 bpm ,it's actually not happen at same time
Yeah, and there seems to be some choppy movements of the people outside, and at the part where there's no people, it looks like a car in the distance makes unnaturally jerky movements. He also admitted it was fake. The first guy is the only one that's plausible. But one thing, it's only the picking hand that has to hit that speed. It never mentions they have to be clean notes played. I'd imagine even missed notes would count as long as the string was picked.
It's also suspicious how he says in the description that it's faked. I guess you chose to solve this one on difficult mode
Couldn't you just listen to the sound and realise that his claim is bullshit or just use your common sense in conceiving of how many times a human wrist could possibly spasm in one second!? You need visual cues to help you understand that this sonic mess wasn't what the guy said it was!?
Two set needs to see all of these!
I am no guitar genius but play what you feel and feel what you play. When you perfectly and passionately execute, just 3 notes can be more powerful than 3000 notes, look at Mr. BB King.
Agreed!
If you ain't feeling it, no one else is
@@UR_Right24 me too except it was David Gailmore
Look at dimebag
I like guitar playing like that better.
dude this is by far my favorite video ive seen from you haha
The last one seemed like a couple of school kids joking around.
The flight of the bumblebee thing sounded like a midi sequence
The most unreal thing about the video of the Spanish guitar guy is the haircut.
yes
Dude, I came here to say that !
Even at 999 BPM, this fucking hair don't move at all ! Fucking amazing !
As a Lou Ferrigno haircut
@@smdsoldering Or Michael Angelo Batio's haircut
Subscribed! Excellent, humorous, and educational video, sir. Thank you
Roy Marchbank is the only guy I’ve heard play legitimately lightning fast that’s currently out . Not really a fan of his music but I’m fairly certain there isn’t anyone out there that plays as fast as him without faking it .
Finally, someone who knows Roy is the fastest guitar player ever! He's out of this world!
Yeah man. I thought of him watching this video. If he is for real, and he doesn't seem like the kind of guy to fake anything, it's insane what he can do!
I found an even faster guitarist than Roy!!! Check out Daniel Owen, he will blow your minds!!!
@@leviburris3744 He's not faster. Not even close
@@theofiloshatzigiannis5308 yes he is! 58 notes per second! Roy can only do like half that speed!!!
7:50 i might be losing it. i have officially lost it. i am laughing uncontrollably. the applause... the applause... why? please god tell me why? who possibly knows what actually happened during that time span? this is becoming my favorite video on youtube, please continue
oh shit he said exactly what i did a second later - i swear this was genuine which should make it more funny im still losing it
Not just the applause, but the look of absolute satisfaction on his face 😂
Well "If you can play it slowly, you can play it quickly."
Sacreligeous
Bass > gayolin
iNTerEsTinG 🤔
Faster guitar player: "Wanna see me play really fast? Wanna see me do it again?"
why does every "worlds fastest player" always play flight of the bumblebee
Just tremolo pick the high e or something
I think it’s because it’s mainly chromatic compared to other songs and in a way it’s less demanding than other like the Tornado of souls Solo, Master of Puppets at 1600BPM would be down right impossible for a human since it’s a downstrokes.... Although Maybe if you sweep pick fast enough you just might be able to play at 1600BPM but how many notes will actually be accurate?😂
There’s also Paganini.... I wouldn’t even try speeding any of the Caprices up since some of them are just hard in their respective time measures😭🤣
Even though Winterwind is a very hard piano piece, I think it would be easy to play on Guitar for Sweep Pickers and it would definitely be a great refresher lol
It’s just the standard. It’s so that they r all playing an equally difficult song that sounds impressive fast. Just tremolo picking an E string doesn’t really work for a “fastest guitar player” video
Because if youre going for the Guiness world record, thats what the standard required melody to play is. They all have to play the same melody to make it fair.
Why do they all produce an unbearable, crappy, pointless noise?
I mean, we're talking about a generation who thinks most of TikTok videos are real - No faking, no extreme suprise faces, no cringe.
It's surprising how much people enjoy being fooled on the internet that they don't even bother to question the realisticity of it all. Sure, most of the videos are just for fun, but man, people often believe everything.
Yeah, boomers and people over 35 are really naive and the easiest to scam, I mean I feel bad that they believe everything and lose so much, but what do you expect from them when they barely know how to turn a computer on.
@@miuletzmitzu6641 people over 35 grew up with computers lol, you've got no idea.
@@Neishy4AGTE Is that why they have trouble with even the SIMPLEST tasks (such as installing windows/basic computer software)? Lol.
realisticity?
@@miuletzmitzu6641 well they don't thats the thing, youre thinking of people about 10-15 years older than that, its just ironic you bagging people for not knowing something whilst being completely wrong yourself at the same time, muppet.
Un(flight of the bumble)beelieveable
10:09 ✊🏻yes! We all knew you could do it Tyler! 🎉👏🍾
Bad news Tyler. I am afraid that I found a way to prove he literally played every note. I was sitting here, laughing along with you, when suddenly it occurred to me to slow the video down to 0.25 in the SAME PLACE you slowed it down to 0.25, which mathematically gives us a total slow-down time of 1/16th the original playback speed. ONLY AT THIS SPEED was I able to begin to decipher the incredibly artistry and mechanical / technical prowess this young guitarist was actually demonstrating right before our eyes. Tears rolled off my cheeks as I watched in utter befoundment, as this boy ripped through note after blistering note. I am ashamed of you Tyler, for making fun of and bullying such a prodigy. I am ashamed of myself. Pearls before swine I guess. Next time do your research before you poke fun at a professional like this.
Oh and also, that guy IS from Guinness World Records, this is a daughter company of Guinness. Once again, you would have known this had you done even a little research.
(also please dont take this seriously, I am memeing)
I have been bamboozled
Make a video of you playing his .25 speed at your .25 speed so that I can watch you watching him at .25 speed watching him watch him at .25 speed. This way we get irrefutable evidence of the mastery beholden before us. Should there be any doubters, I shall then make a video of me watching you at .25 speed watching him at .25 speed while watching him at .25 speed so that they can watch at .25 speed.
@@FirstLast-zv5od Stop or you will uncover the secret of the universe
😊
First Last nice.
Michael Angelo Batio did say "Speed Kills."
Charlie Parra said Speed F^cks
"Fast cars, cheap thrills" sorry I just had to throw that Agent Orange line in there lol
He gave us the keys to the Lamborghini
Sorry, not impressed with speed for speed's sake.
Yea, If I’m on drugs, then speed will be soothing to my mind..but..that’ll never happen...
I use to say that when i was jealous
Speed racer would like a word with you.
Not only that, this is pretty unrealistic. No one sounds precise playing this piece above 400bpm at best, this is just a sloppy hell.
Jj do you honestly think anybody could be really jealous of this supposed record-craving jackwagons? Come on.
That purple PRS in the outro is GORGEOUS.
Hey, I just wanna say that I've never learned so much from a teaching system before. When I first started playing like over 10 years ago, I kinda just learned cool songs that like I loved to play and just practiced those till I felt comfortable playing them. But I never realized how much music theory there really is and how much you can expand your knowledge playing. Like i rarely wanna play songs anymore and I just wanna learn music theory and different techniques on the guitar through the super system. Just a big thank you Tyler because I didn't think I'd would improve much more. I wasted so much time starting out. Like a year ago I posted a very crappy video of Highway to Hell on youtube that is just completely off beat. If you have any tips or tricks on trying to get down like learning the scales and understanding where to input them, please let me know ! Thanks so much man !!
I mean, I don’t want to say I could do that but.....
But the cameras weren’t on
Hamilton Mechanical Movement: *claims to be highest accuracy time measurement*
Quartz crisis: *so you have chosen death*
I think pretty much the closest I've seen to a legit attempt was Tiago Della Vega with his 320bpm. You can actually hear the individual picking sounds, and for the most part it doesn't sound like a muddled mess at the higher BPM. Not to mention it was relatively low gain, so there wasn't too much there to mask the mistakes like most of the others.
The perfect video to teach non-guitarists that speed isn't everything and ultimately means nothing when comparing guitarists.
I love jamming at 70bpm
Speed in context of a song can be useful but using it as a dick measuring contest isn't
howdareyouspeediseverything!
what? how does this video teach non-guitarists? it only exposes fake playing
There's 3 type of guitarist:
1 : Music lover
2 : Guitar lover
3 : Musik & Guitar lover
k
Haha I guess
K
At least the first got some clarity in his notes and had decent enough fretting hand technique that it looked within the laws of physics.
The others are just such a blur of notes (the chromaticism of the piece helps hide any wrong notes) that it's impossible to tell whether it's in time with the metronome or not.
It's like the violin players that just tremolo as fast as they can and glissando up and down in the vague area of the notes because the result isn't clear enough to pick out what's going on.
The violin ones are pretty funny to watch
I used to be a fan of this guy but now....
Im a whole air conditioner
I love and hate your pun so much. It makes me
ANGRY AGAIN
Angry again, angry again, angry again
And again and again, again
Engaged in crime I grasp my throat
Enraged my mind starts to smoke
Enforce a mental overload
Angry again, angry again, angry owe!
You just got megadethed.
@@captainriker9088 Lmfaoo
Captain Riker I support
Yes! Of all the puns, that one is so obvious and yet, i never woulda thought of it. Touche
That was dumb. But I giggled so you get a like.
Great video! I thoroughly enjoyed this very much. I love your sense of humor
Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
Fast is slow
@@IEEteammateMATT1 slow is slow
@@pickitupdope That's an Einstein right there
I've heard that many times from old timber fallers in their 70s and 80s back when I was in the woods.
You'd watch one of those old men work and think to yourself, "he'll never get anything done at that pase", then you'd come by his strip at the end of the day and he cut down more trees than you did lol.
@@bobbyundercover4905 danke schoen
I don't know why people are so crazy for fast playing ,, music is not about just playing fast ,,,,, a proper tempo , dynamics swings etc is whats make a good music ..
Yeah playing ur fingers off (Lizst and Paganini) only makes us beginners feel so far behind!!🤣😑
3:56 but play on .25 speed
😂😂😂
Very underrated
Thanks dude
"I'm not saying they're aliens....But they're definitely aliens"
--Giorgio Tsoukalos
The trick metal guys were using back when I was playing, was they'd learn something for real. BUT, not very well. They'd then record it slow perfectly DI, speed it up, re-amp it and then mime to that.
I believe the act of playing guitar has to have feeling and Melody not just to be fast. If you look up the name Randall Padilla. He was the fastest guitar player in the world at one time. But he used it to develop a way to be melodic and play with feelings. Sometimes it's not what you do it's what you do with what you do.
But can he play, smoke on the water..
I don’t know, but can you play Wonderwall?...
I don't know, can you play Stairway To Heaven?
“Play Freebird!!”
How about iron man
Yeah he can. At 1600 BPM 🤣
Sounds great. Does he have an album? I'd listen to that all day.
The opening is hilarious. His face looks like what that guitar sounds like
“300 to 400 bpm is almost humanly impossible”
Stevie T: hold my 3mil sub club bottle
King Spieler I was the first double bass drummer to play 16ths at 350 and it sounds like a Buzz roll the 1600 means the Guitar play would have to down pick at 200
And I am still trying to finish a verse without a mistake
I feel so assured…
Everyone is playing flight of the bumblebee, but no one is playing flight of the wounded bumblebee by Extreme.
Love your channel brother....Thank you for your insight and your wonderful guitars. You cheered me up man!!!!😃😂
I burst out with laughter, alone, walking down a grocery store aisle with that first guy with the classical guitar.
The second guy at 499 bpm sounds like a dentists drill.
10:10 Did... did anyone else unironically enjoy the sound of that?
💯 Totally. It's way more musical than anything I could do pretending to shred at lightning speed!
I can’t tell is it fake or not but I know the first person he is amazing.
Come on dude, if you play you will realize this is real. It’s so completely obvious how real this is that’s it’s almost insulting how you would question the reality of it!
Yeah borats pretty good
Dude, we get it. You’re cool you own a Paul reed smith and a Hamilton watch. Ok I'll subscribe..
you should try to put on your guitar 6 strings by 6 brands (for example: low E - Ernie Ball; A - Dunlop; D - D'Addario; G - DR; B - Fender; high E - Ibanez)
that would be interesting
My you have one brilliant mind
The problem with that is not all strings are the identical size. So you may have scale differences mid way through strings. D'adario's g3 may sit at a different thickness than elixirs g3. Even though the scale is still 9- 42
This reminds me of that family guy skit where Peter was like ”I can say all 50 states in under one second” and then just screams rahhhh
The guitar community has definitely improved. Technology has made it even easier for people to fake speed at higher resolution!
Playing that fast makes a woodpecker fighting a mosquito sound. Every song has that knock and buzz. Antonio Salieri once commented to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart that some of his works were too fast, and had too many notes for the human ear to hear and fully enjoy. He was right. The human ear can only pick up so much, let alone enjoy it. After that it's a buzz and an eventual headache. Playing brilliant music fast that you can hear every note is where it's at. Buckethead and Steve Vai are where I think the limits of brilliance playing fast ends. Any faster and you don't get haunted by what's coming out of the instrument being played. Breakup of tempo and speed of note differences being played is what draws me personally to music. 300 bpm for a brief moment in a song is impressive. Doing it the entire song and it's where's my bloody Tylenol? Keep it at just over 200 BPM and play clean and you'll be in the turf of a proper guitar God.
Yes. Once it goes "too" fast it just sounds mickey mouse, if you can hear the notes at all! I think 16th note triplets at 165bpm sound great and plenty fast enough when weaved into an expressive solo. At the end of the day it's about expression. However fast you play if you can deliver with expression then it's all good. May, Johnson. Malmsteen, Petrucci, Satch .. all very different players but they deliver their music with style.
guitar: _white noise_
audience: amazing absolutely wonderful
I had a guitar teacher when I was a kid. He was this cool guy name Ozzy(yeah I know..). A few months in I asked him how difficult a song he could play and he pulled out Flight of the bumble bee. He played it faster than I would have thought possible, and it actually did sound similar to the first guy. This was on a strat IIRC(it was like 28 years ago). He said he made some mistakes though but fuck it if I caught them. That is still the craziest guitar speed I've seen I'm person in my life.
Aye what’s up Tyler when your signature ever is finished I’m for sure gonna buy it
9:59
No one:
Friends that don't play guitar when they pick one up:
Believe it or not, some people actually think I hold the record of 'World's Fastest guitar player' after performing Flight of the Bumblebee in 21seconds at the end of a short documentary I made about it.
I actually highlighted some ways people cheat and I thought it was obvious that I was cheating on my performance as I even green screened Shia LeBoeuf in but people still believed it!!!
In fact, I even made the clock go backwards in time to prove how you can cheat but no, I'm still the fastest in some peoples eyes!
Man! Cruising through RUclips… I’m always finding a lot of incredible players! Cool find my man!
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We need a Music is Win, Two Set Violin collaboration
But I don't know if it's possible. Music is Win made that bow video and 2set made that mojo video. They don't seem to like each other.
we can make it work
Yes I agree, it is going to be Interesting
Omg there's so many TwoSet Violin replies!!! We should totes crash the comments on their next video!!
I will only make up my mind if one of them plays No Boundaries by Michael Angelo Batio at normal speed not Flight of the Bumblebee.
The MATH says 1600bpm/60 seconds=26.66 notes per second. No way a single string can be audibly plucked in an efficient manner that fast.
actually that's not that impossible, most people would be able to do 20, human limit is more around 30ish, you forgot to account for the fact that there's more than one note per beat
the math adds up to 106.6 notes per second for 1/16ths
@@DDracee His math is wrong, but I disagree that there a many players out there who are capable of clean tremolo picking past even 15-16nps.
@@biscobisco1882 well it wasnt clean in the videos either, just talking about max raw speed
the frequency you get from tensing so hard you shake, or from when youre shivering, is roughly 16hz, then x2 cuz you can pick on the way back, im sure anyone who bothers practising for speed without care for cleanliness could break 20s
not really the same thing but i used to be able to 30 on guitar hero, pretty darn close to that theoretical max
I can't remember what band it was but i remember seeing a music video in the late 80's where the guitar player put the guitar pic in a drill and used that to play while the pick was spinning in the drill. Really awesome!!!
There’s a video of the Nepali kid playing it live at his college or something
Even at 320 bpm it stops sounding like music and more like an old school video game sound effect
Honestly with some of these the frequency notes are being played are higher than the frequency of the notes
The 1600 BPM is so fast even at 0.25 speed i still cannot hear it
impressive!!!
Well young guitarist... That is the achievement of 10000 hours practicing alternate picking..
Imagine playing 1600 tempo without using economy picking hahahaha
I went to the world's fastest guitar players concert, He played 40 songs. The concert was over in 58 seconds.