who watches this crazy solo in 2024?

@msprague91

7 ай бұрын

I am

@DroneArgentino

7 ай бұрын

🔥🔥🔥

@Dereck.3312

5 ай бұрын

Everyone

@TONEWARSgearshow

4 ай бұрын

I am!

@user-ev5kb9yk2t

3 ай бұрын

Я смотрю 👍🤘

No wasted movement! Beautiful technique, and he makes it look so easy.

@bibana06

8 жыл бұрын

+Samurai Damni right bro ;) This is actually one of the hardest songs I've tried to learn.

@MadaraUchiha-sp3jh

6 жыл бұрын

bibana06 Try the next song in this album, Out of the ashes!

@hongodongo9053

4 жыл бұрын

@@MadaraUchiha-sp3jh i can play the entirety of out of the ashes, but the alternate picked arpeggios in the beginning of this solo gives me so much trouble. Im better with legato so the tapping part is easier. In terms of technicality it gets even more silly as romeo gets older: For example mythology suite solos or the strange rhytmic phrases in eve of seduction. Shit like the intro to Seven.

@tjhooker824

3 жыл бұрын

Precisely

@fenteflushkinfentefhluhovi7178

Жыл бұрын

Да хоть с десятью ужимками лица или плеч! Как свободней и точней играется. Как кому удобно

Lol @ the smile 0:56 "I betcha can't play this nigga"

Those who say "I cant play well because my fingers are short and fat" have no excuses now. PRACTICE god dammit.

@erickdroguett479

4 жыл бұрын

You're got damn rigth , Dijo el Heisenberg

@lakejizzio7777

4 жыл бұрын

I cant play because i don't have talent. I practice a lot but doesn't matter.

@madden7732

4 жыл бұрын

@@lakejizzio7777 look for the exercises that you think will help you the most. Im sure you're gonna be big if you master it!

@Roodski

4 жыл бұрын

Karl Sanders is the other guy with chubby digits lol

@lakejizzio7777

4 жыл бұрын

@@madden7732 Sorry for expressing myself incorrectly. I'm a post-intermediate guitarist type of guy and I'm improving slowly but surely. What haunts me is seeing people who are a lot younger than me and/or playing for shorter time than being slightly or surely better than me with same amount of practice. I know It's just meaning of talent but being a human comes with jealosy.

He is living proof that we of the stubby fingers can excel at guitar too! Bless you Michael!

@youreokayboah2128

Жыл бұрын

This is beyond excelling, he’s easily one of the greatest guitarists technique wise.

Most underrated Guitarist.

@faggotsmoker9588

7 жыл бұрын

Tim Black no way.

@MasterTortoiseMaldex

7 жыл бұрын

what the fuck you're here too

@faggotsmoker9588

7 жыл бұрын

Maldexx Problem?

@snuppssynthchannel

6 жыл бұрын

Allan Holdsworth COugh COugh

@u.v.s.5583

6 жыл бұрын

No way. Allan will forever remain in a league of his own where Romeo has nothing to seek. Allan, Shawn Lane, Frank Gambale, John McLaughlin. Thats a closed group of four all time greatest ever, and nobody will ever throw Allan out of there.

The thing that really amaze me every time I watch him play is the flawlessness and the relax of his arms and hands while he do what he do. This is the ultimate achievement for a master, what really makes the different between a "simple" professionist and something more. To make something hard looks so simple. Crazy.

@gringochucha

4 жыл бұрын

Yep, that's thousands and thousands of hours of practice, working on technique and playing with a relaxed body. His technique is absolutely beautiful to watch. And the music that comes out is amazing too, of course.

any time a student tells me they can't play guitar well because they have short stubby fingers, i show them this video, let it sink in, and tell them to get to work

@suppersready7496

6 жыл бұрын

I'm late on this but it's not about the fingers it's about the wrist

@AJDOLDCHANNELARCHIVE

6 жыл бұрын

and Shawn Lane, one of the greatest guitarists of all time.

@TheAxe4Ever

6 жыл бұрын

Perry D Yep! Marcel Coenen is another awesome guitarist that has short stubby fingers.

@arnavrawat9864

5 жыл бұрын

And they probably clap

@FloridaManMatty

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah...Shawn Lane had stubby fingers too. I’m pretty sure that wasn’t an issue for him.

I really can't comprehend all the comments about his weight on these videos. He's an incredible talent with that 'effortless' playing style and look that so few players can achieve, yet the majority of people can only seem to talk about his weight, and to be honest, as far as 'fat' people go, he really isn't that 'fat'.

@steelyphil6210

6 жыл бұрын

Al Bundy they attack his weight cause he destroyed their hopes and dreams to be this good of a musician.. a lot of people forget that this is not a beauty contest.

@mindstorms44

6 жыл бұрын

I DO............ITS CALLED JEALOUSY!

@dadiopimp

6 жыл бұрын

Steely Phil well said, superior musicianship has nothing to do with looks. Thats only in the mainstream music business where image matters more than music

@glenmartin9974

6 жыл бұрын

Amazing player!

@gecamposneto

5 жыл бұрын

I believe that all of these comments are from people who already saw beyond the obvious, his creativity, skill and technique are already shown clearly on the video. Everything can be made a joke about, I'm positive Michael wouldn't care.

Michael is REALLY amazing. I have no idea why he isn't more well known & why he doesn't get more press in guitar mags/sites.

@miotubo839

9 жыл бұрын

I think he likes to remain underground to a certain degree. Hi isn't heavily into self-promoting like, say, a Satriani or Steve Vai (G3 and all that stuff). Of course, if someone's into metal and he doesn't know about Romeo, he has probably lived hidden under a stone for the last 20-some years...

@sashingopaul3111

6 жыл бұрын

Mio Tubo what if Michael Romeo goes to G3 with Satch and Vai

@mark83175

6 жыл бұрын

Because he’s fat. Sad but true.

@MadaraUchiha-sp3jh

6 жыл бұрын

Mark DeCaro Lol. What about Malmsteen, Lane, Darell and many others then?

@ilikemetal2910

5 жыл бұрын

@@mark83175 dumbest thing I've ever heard

It's so good that you can listen this masterpiece twice in a row without a restart the video.

Michael Romeo = Yngwie Malmsteen that ate Michael Angelo Batio

@xeqted

8 жыл бұрын

lmao

@Mishiman

8 жыл бұрын

This is surprisingly accurate xDD

@pierre_gaston

7 жыл бұрын

Batio's donuts.

@greekfreak1980

7 жыл бұрын

More like,Michael Romeo is what Yngwie and Batio would be,if they know how to compose some good songs.

@raymondlacasse2407

7 жыл бұрын

seriously? you picked a bad thing to expose, since Yngwie composes much better than Romeo.

So effortless, so fluid, so relaxed. Very cool. Love the ESP MII also.

@andresjim6490

4 жыл бұрын

Killer guitar!

Symphony X is one of the greats in the actual musical guide to great metal bands. Literally a metal Symphony

I've loved prog rock/metal since I was 12, i'm a huge Satriani and Petrucci fan, I love technical ability. Romeo... shit that guy can absolutely play! It's an absolute crime against music that Symphony X aren't more well known! Those guys are awesome!

@EdwardGFunk

8 жыл бұрын

get a girlfriend

@Taterzz

6 жыл бұрын

russell allen is one of the best voices in metal.

@leostevanovic5205

5 жыл бұрын

Ed G you're fun at parties

@michaelsmoak691

3 жыл бұрын

@@EdwardGFunk what kind of avsolut loser r u

Been coming back to this video for about 15 years. Never gets old. Probably one of my favourite solos of all time. What a legend!

Classic video from my childhood, i wasn't even a big Symphony X fan a the time but i watched this video religiously when i was 12 y/o getting my hands into the electric guitar. This guy is one of the GOATs.

A true master, his tone while sweep/tapping sounds incredible

@DeathBringer769

4 жыл бұрын

His is a true master, but just for the record, the video description is wrong. He's not sweeping at all there -- he's just doing string skipping tapping, super smoothly. I know the lick myself and it's a bitch to pull off nearly as well as he does, lol ;)

@myfavsandlikes7478

4 жыл бұрын

Deathbrewer u get it yet? I just started practicing it and its like impossible to get full speed lol

@lucluclumiere1isthebest922

Жыл бұрын

It's not sweeping it's string skipping

He started tapping arpeggios and I almost cried lmao, this shit takes me way back in the best way.

I just put my guitars on Ebay after watching this!

@larsbonnet17

3 жыл бұрын

Oh yes. Thanks for those by the way. They were cheap too! I’m using them when I want to play Eric Clapton tunes.

This ranks as one of my favourite guitar solos - everything about it is pleasing - both visually from the sweep tapping to aurally to that lovely motif repeated. This solo makes me both want to learn to play guitar (if only to play this one solo) and simultaneously not want to play guitar (knowing that I will never be able to play this one solo) - to evoke such polar reactions is truly a mark of great Art.

@Fkod88

Жыл бұрын

Never say never! Dedication and sitting on one’s arse practicing can help achieve great things! 😂

@MajesticDemonLord

9 ай бұрын

@@Fkod88 Heh - Still occassionally come here to watch, still don't play guitar - but I appreciate the kind words of encouragement.

Love that tapping section, such great chord play

I've first seen this before KZread even existed. And i keep coming back time after time again. What a fantastic bit of playing, Michael Romeo really is a tremendous guitarist!

The little smile at :56 haha he knows the lick is a bit monotonous by then but he also knows hey, I gotta play this AND it is a cool arpeggio. I mean, at that speed, who could play that picking? MAYBE Gambale. But it'd be more choppy at its very nature with picking every note. This guy took Malmsteen and so many other styles and paid his dues, learned his stuff and he's damn good. I don't remember any of their tunes but that was during the whole "super progressive" phase when Dream Theater morphed from the "just progressive" days of Rush who was birthed by Zep and Yes. Odd that the more technical players are not really known because their licks were not embedded into a hit song.

@chickenbeek

3 жыл бұрын

Heh. Interesting to see you here. I see you are a man of culture. Another guy that probably arrived late and got no major recognition is imo George Bellas. Dude is rippingly clean an has a nice raw mid punchy tone. His first two albums remind me in the vein of Vinnie Moore mixed with Yngwie. Absolutely ripping.

@georgearrows7701

3 жыл бұрын

I think Gilbert or Batio could play this with picking. Maybe Romero could too.

@lba08001

3 жыл бұрын

Tons of people could play this picking nowadays. He is still a monster though

@quazzydiscman

2 жыл бұрын

Live life and love

Insane skills. His control of finger movements is just out of this world.

2023! I would love listening to this in the early 2000’s

That tone is worth a billion dollars.

2020 whos listening to GOD ?

@eemilhilden4202

4 жыл бұрын

tHCpsIlocyBIN 99% Romeo is god indeed

@sdiabr6792

4 жыл бұрын

Been here since 2013 bro :)

@Giovane38

4 жыл бұрын

always o/

@Gam3SetGo

4 жыл бұрын

Insane solos !

@badgertaken8169

4 жыл бұрын

me brother... listening while bouncing on my boys dics!! yeahh!!

Well, I can't play as well as him, but at least I managed to get as fat as him, so I got that going for me, which is nice!

@GerardUmbert

8 жыл бұрын

+Lucas Rodrigues obviously not enough, u can't play this song at half speed. It just does not sound good. Keep it up.

@JrMedieval

8 жыл бұрын

+Gerard Umbert he meant his weight not solo lol xD im at a third of it and about to start the solos

@maskingsoul

8 жыл бұрын

+James Smith ROFL!!! hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

@SpykeZ0129

8 жыл бұрын

+James Smith ROFLMAO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH I JUST CHOKED ON MY CANDY YOU SHIT.

@theaterofsouls

7 жыл бұрын

my thoughts exactly hahahaha

A true master of guitar and an amazing composer. In my opinion he is the best guitarist of all time.

This dude is a superhuman! Freaking x-man of guitar!

@marcioarend1

6 жыл бұрын

That's why he play bei symphony X ;)

That riff is so killer the soloing is flawless but that riff just drives the whole song.

another Italo-American Master along with John Peter Petrucci, Steve Vai, Michael Angelo...

@salvatoremonaco141

5 жыл бұрын

Joe Satriani....Frank Zappa....and more!

@Centerbez

5 жыл бұрын

@@salvatoremonaco141 yeah thats a strange thing many guitarists are Italo-American....

@rayvandragon

4 жыл бұрын

Warren de Martini...

@namesurname8904

4 жыл бұрын

Antonio Vivaldi was Italian too. An early virtuoso.

@matteo9826

4 жыл бұрын

Joe pass

Imagine if this guy, Jason Becker and Marty Friedman had gotten together and done a record together before Jason had to stop playing. It would've been beyond epic

One of the best guitarists of all time.

That tone is so smooth

Thats Helga Malmsteen. Yngwies sister

@nabilrekaya45

6 жыл бұрын

Looooool

@asesuserasnaidzelas

5 жыл бұрын

Im ded xDDD

@shreder89

5 жыл бұрын

looooooool

@theverdestreet

5 жыл бұрын

Alright, I don't give a shit about his appearance , this dude is a legend. But this comment nearly fucking killed me.

@aafisher100

5 жыл бұрын

Lmfao 🤣

That little bluesy shred at end of solo is so sick! I gotta learn that right now lmao

I keep coming back to this vid, i could listen to it all day long.

Bloody hell, what surprised me the most just now is that this video was posted before the dawn of civilization! 17 years ago, I mean, I didn’t think KZread existed that long in the first place. What an amazing video too. Such a beautiful piece and Michael Romeo is definitely one of the guitar gods for it.

That was awesome! He's such a great guitarist! I just got into his band's music recently - Symphony X :)

He is cleaner than Yngwie overall

The tapping sequence is wondrous. Amazing skill and touch, a true master.

I could watch these videos all day and every day. Such an art

One of my absolute FAVORITES. I love this man sooo much. Fuck man, now THAT is how you play guitar!!

Love Romeo and Symphony X

That tapping riff will forever be one of my favorites.

His playing is just so great, that tap/ string skipping part is awesome, and he seems to be a very kind man!

Romeo is an amazing mix of the best progressive and neoclassical metal players. I love his blend of Yngwie-esque work with Groove metal and Prog. I always find myself going back to Symphony X way more than Dream Theater because of X's ability to be just prog enough without getting over indulgent and losing the flow of the song. Don't get me wrong, I love DT, and Change of Seasons is one of my favorite songs of all time. But Labrie's vocals and the inconsistent songwriting (in my opinion) makes it harder for me to come back. SX has not only Romeo's amazing fusion style, but Allen's top notch, legendary vocals. And SX just know's how to bring the metal when they need to. Inferno and Sea of Lies are just two examples of complex songs that are also straight up head bangers. I'm hoping they release at least one more album. Underworld was fantastic, but I'd love to see at least one more follow up. They've changed without sacrificing the core of their sound and it would he worth one last go around to see what they can come up with now.

This gives me hope. #ShortStubbyFingers

@TheNickJonathan

7 жыл бұрын

e minor sweep picking arpeggios 7th fret root that one is a bitch

@keyboardwarria

7 жыл бұрын

his fingers are actually quite long, he's just got a bit of fat in them so they look stubby lol

@faggotsmoker9588

7 жыл бұрын

it's joke his fingers are actually not long. I'm pretty sure that he himself admitted that his hands aren't big on an interview.

@keyboardwarria

7 жыл бұрын

ᶘoᴥoᶅ o yea?

Absolutely love the finger tapping part amazing

So damn good.

Los vi en directo en Leyendas del rock, y quede pasmado con este guitarrista. Una maquina, Viva Symphony X

tomorrow I sell my guitar! 😅

Wow 🤩 I’m so glad I found this again !!

This video has almost 2 million views. Maybe Michael finally gets the recognition he deserves so much.

despues de tantos años!! escuchando webadas!! DESCUBRO LA VERDAADERA MUSICA!!!! OMGOOODD!!!! GRACIAS DIOSSSS 2018

@andresjim6490

5 жыл бұрын

Metalvirgin

@hermanodejesus7264

5 жыл бұрын

Num né el maestro de maestros es George Bellas.

@carolinavalencia8017

4 жыл бұрын

Jajajajjjaja

@ALEXISGNFR

2 жыл бұрын

Osea eatabas hasta las webas y ah9ra si viste la luzzzz

He's the star of all small handed guitarists. His play is amazingly noiseless and he does the dampening so well. Usually for small handed players, synchronization of left and right is poor, also dampening is always the problem. I bet he must have practiced 10 times as much as those with gifted big hands.

I remember this video when I started playing the instrument, I was back in Cuba and had very little learning material like videos and rock stuff, this one and one of Kiko got me really into the guitar, that was 15 years ago and I still sucks 😂😂😂 but still Romeo is one of the really really good ones

So classic... used to watch this all the time on "Google Video" back around 2007 or so.

Imagine how good he would be if he was actually trying!! Bloody hell his moves are effortless

Goku + vegeta = super powerfull saiyan Michael Angel Batio + Malmsteen = Michael Romeo

Since you uploaded this video, I come back each year to watch it :)

It's 2022 and I still come back to this video after being blown away back in 2014.

Michael Romeo has three speeds: Fast, Faster and KILL!!!

This man is the most underrated guitar player ever. Is a TOTAL GENIUS: Technique, control, feeling, speed, originality... He has everything.

Love this! He should be giving lessons on anyone of the sites offering! Love this solo piece! I want to learn! Teach me!!!

Never gets old, even 13 years later

He played the tapping part so clean here. He messes that part up in alot of the newer live shows. It's a super hard part. But in general you could tell he practiced more often here. Probably alot of that has to do with the setlist being smaller back then. It's easy to remember a hard ass part when it's only a part of a smaller setlist. But mixed up with a bunch of newer songs I can see how it's easy to forget the little details

@myfavsandlikes7478

2 жыл бұрын

That tapping riff is super hard to play at full speed, not that the entire song isn’t any less difficult lol.

Sea of PIES.

@andreesj9589

8 жыл бұрын

+Mio Tubo XD

@Erzmagister

7 жыл бұрын

I'm a fan of Symphony X and this is quite funny lol

@RulezAPower

7 жыл бұрын

I see what you did there bruh

@SimonHoweGuitar

6 жыл бұрын

Big hearty LOL at that :-D

@MadaraUchiha-sp3jh

6 жыл бұрын

Omg I laughed so hard

I like how watching this makes me think it’s easy to play because it’s all dripping off him like water in the rain. He can’t help but play! Master of all guitarists

AWESOME! M🤘🏻❤🎵🎶🎵🎶🍂🍃 My favorite Guitarrist ever!

0:55 for a brief second Michael expresses personal satisfaction with his own badassery.

Hell yeah! He's crushing that solo like it was a flimsy lawn chair he just sat in...

One of the greatest guitar Player of All time

This video terrorized me back in 2006. I remember picking it up probably in DVD or VHS and I could not believed guitar could be played like that. His odd number groupings are quite cool to improve a phrase

Some cruel comments on here. This guy obviously has a lot on his plate at the moment.

@u.v.s.5583

6 жыл бұрын

Your mama is so fat she plays Sea of Lies in guitar instructional videos.

@sspark2686

6 жыл бұрын

U.V. S. I don't know why the fuck i laughed because of your comment, i shall die now

@MustangDesudiroz

5 жыл бұрын

ded

@GoulartGH

5 жыл бұрын

@G OA aren't you body shaming skinny people, though?

Michael Romeo looks like he ate a Sea of Fries.

@keyboardwarria

7 жыл бұрын

ROFL you cracked me up

@GeorgeLifterMann

7 жыл бұрын

Lol but seriously,he's not fat! He's just a bit chubby he just has a quadruple chin!

@calebproductions5970

5 жыл бұрын

Who cares ...is there a rule that chubby people aren't supposed to play guitar or something geez

2024 and this 240p video is still epic as f

Truly ahead of his time.

1:10 Tony Macapline style lick

He has short fingers, like me, so he's an inspiration.

the tapping is so wonderful

I can watch this video 3000 times and I be impressed all times

I bet that he enterd, just before he was born: down, down, left, reght, left, A, B, select so that he enabled the awsome guitarist mode!

@jimbometal1734

4 жыл бұрын

super contra or delta force, right ...

How can those fat fingers move that fast? It's an enigma.

@metafull

9 жыл бұрын

Same question to malsteem and shawn lane.

@killerdamocles69

9 жыл бұрын

Pedro Omar Soto At least Shawn Lane could blame his medical condition. Malmsteen just likes Donuts.....sometimes

@metafull

9 жыл бұрын

Damo Bozo What i mean, they are all fat, but talented.

@MrASE666

9 жыл бұрын

Hidious Vanity karl sanders leader guitarist of nile is 10 times this guys and he plays like him xD.

@metafull

9 жыл бұрын

PETER G LOL so funny, watch his "betcha cant play this". He doesnt play like michael romeo.

The talented chubby fingers of an underrated virtuoso

Damn he makes it look so effortless!

He looks like Beverly Hills Ninja ;)

@moonbabiefactor5526

4 жыл бұрын

Hahahahahahahahah xD

Him, Alex Skolnick, Jeff Loomis, for G3?

@DeathBringer769

4 жыл бұрын

G3 is run by Satriani. It's his tour/festival that he invites two other guitarists to come tour with him on it. He has to be in there as one of them, even if you don't like him, lol. Otherwise, it wouldn't be a G3 -- it'd have to be another differently titled guitar-based tour since Satch owns the G3 name ;) I love Romeo, Skolnick and Loomis, just for the record too ;)

@xeroblade012

4 жыл бұрын

@@DeathBringer769 I thought it was Vai's though. Haha! But yeah, you're right, we can't have G3 if Satch won't be with them. :D Though it would be very interesting to see them perform together.

sooo clean

This is some sick sweep tapping! He's really a guitar beast!

sea of liesagna

i can do the exact same , except i cannot smile during playin

@clevanrecords849

Ай бұрын

Hahahhahaha

I saw Michael Romeo in 2012 ;provably Symphony X the most perfect performance who i,d never seen

the string skipping tapping is so sweet!

Sadly, girls nowaday love guys play 4 chords Wonderwall

@mejorpegaleunllamadoaesteg7601

4 жыл бұрын

Right. Nowadays to know a plenty of guitar technique is useless. Is like to be master in yoh-yoh or some else.

@nickh1933

2 жыл бұрын

Don’t worry, those are the dumb girls….you don’t want them.

Guys he's not fat. He trained his finger so much, that the muscles in his fingers grew so big that there wasn't enough room in his hands, so the amount of muscle got spread through his whole body.

I'm a first-time listener. Very impressive!

Incredible.