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    Posted: December 17 2005 at 16:11

There are lots of great guitarists - techinical geniuses, with many impressive and amazing solos, but which is the solo that impressed you the most, in terms of SPEED.

 

What's  the  most  techincal  and / or  fast  guitar  solo  you  have  ever  heard?

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I don't know for sure but it has to be something from Y.Malmsteen
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Yeah we all know and love (and if you don't, you're insane.) Yngwie, but which specific solo amazed you the most?
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How is anyone meant to judge the fastest solo? Once it gets past Malmsteen speed, the only way to really tell is by counting the number of notes per second.
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Malmsteen has lost his speed, JP is faster!

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Vai was the first guitarist to impress me with speed. He is also the best
guitarist in making fast playing sound good IMO.
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Steve Vai, Marcus Paus, Yngwie Malmsteen and Eddie Van Halen are the fastest. Some solos by Paus and Vai are just sick. 
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Marcus Paus is said to have been the fastest guitarist in the world (although how they measured it I have no idea.) There's a live song by him somewhere on the Internet. It's not very interesting, IMO, as you can't really hear the individual notes- it's that fast. Anyway, I heard that he's studying to be a classical composer nowadays and isn't interested in shredding anymore.

The best really fast solos are IMO the work of John Petrucci. He can actually make them sound great even at this speed. The solos from "Blind Faith", "Paradigm Shift" and "This Dying Soul" especially. I heard that the late Shawn Lane could play more interesting solos even faster, but I don't remember hearing any.
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The fastest solo I know is on Rising Force by Malmsteen, but that's really the only solo from him I know.
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Fast guitar master=John Mclaughlin!
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How about Michael Angelo Batio, I thought he was the fastest. Although he isn't the best in any other way than speed, he's probably the fastest I've heard.
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Anything by Yngwie, Stach, Vai (at times), JP and almost all the DragonForce solos
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Points: 16435 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2005 at 18:21

^ Satch fast?

Isn't that JUST  a bad joke?

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What's the fukking point in 'being fast'? Some practise can teach teach anyone with 2 hands to be fast at geetar playing, masturbation, solitaire etc...

Just gimme good songs...
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Originally posted by video vertigo video vertigo wrote:

How about Michael Angelo Batio, I thought he was the fastest. Although he isn't the best in any other way than speed, he's probably the fastest I've heard.

Agreed. Herman Li from Dragonforce is definitely up there, too, though. I'm pretty sure he won some award for world's fastest shredder or something like that.
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^ NO he didn't. All he did was claim to be the fastest shredder, there are probably 10000 other Music nerd guitarists who can play faster and better than he can.
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Jason Becker's Serrana.

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JOHN PETRUCCI in "Bombay Vindaloo" from the "LIVE AT THE MARQUEE" album.
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Points: 169 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: December 17 2005 at 19:59

Well you all know it takes 100 guitarrists to change a light bulb.  One to do the changing and 99 to say they can do it faster...

Anyway, Yngwie and the guy from Racer X, Paul Gilbert top my list.
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Guitar solo on Deep Purple's (studio) "Child in Time". 1970. Also my favorite guitar solo ever. Unusually fast playing, yet the solo is sufficiently long and satisfying. That solo by Ritchie Blackmore gets 6-stars on a five-star scale.

Also, notice how the guitar solo on "Dancing With the Moonlit Knight" - Genesis and three year later - sounds like an abbreviated spin-off of it.

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