The World's Fastest Guitar Player - Neatorama

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John "Doctor Hot Licks" Taylor prides himself on playing the guitar very well, very quickly. Back in April, he tried to break the world record as the fastest guitar player. In this video from the event, he started playing "Flight of the Bumblebee" at 170 beats per minute. Taylor gradually worked his way up until he played the piece at 600 bpm at 11 minutes, 30 seconds into the video. Guinness World Records confirmed this effort and declared that Taylor is the fastest guitar player in the world. http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/Search/Details/Fastestguitarplayer/59283.htm -via Snowflakes in Hell

holy crap all those spoken intros were so annoying.

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NOTE: start watching at 3:00

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The distortion was a bad idea. Does he not want people to hear the individual notes?

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Ahh, the patience of Job in these youngsters, rushing the man's moment and encouraging others to do so. me blames quick edits and video game wet nurses...

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this dude should battle the devil for a guitar made of gold. badass!

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He's pretty cool to give out some free speed tips, too.

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Guinness happens to recognize me as the world's slowest guitar player. In fact, I've yet to play the first not. Top that, hot shot.

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This looks fake

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I swear i saw this video a couple years back. wth???:/

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Why the distortion? This sucks.

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Death Metal Bumblebee yeah!

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Bet he eats his weetabix

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Skillful but this is speed for its own sake..
Cant fault him though for the record

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He says it is compressed out the wazoo because of him needing to play so lightly, especially at these speeds.

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That's right phlil. He's using distortion and extreme compression because at the speed he's playing all his tone has to come from the drive of the amp. Without all of the gain and compression, this would sound like absolute barf. That said, it's amazing. Totally unmusical, but amazing.

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Right. Okay ... what does this have to do with music again?

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That was bloody amazing. Well done, John. Wicked nuts.

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