This guy was actually my guitar teacher for a while, when i came early, i could hear him practicing in his studio. Dedication, has payed off. Congrats.

@Fixstuffsteve

9 ай бұрын

Paid off for what?

@FIyvI

7 ай бұрын

@@Fixstuffsteve It payed off, because he got a world record and can play it well

Needs more distortion. I can almost hear what he's playing.

"Wow, he plays super fast. Even if I played for 40 years, I could only play at half his speed." "That was only 170 bpm."

@esa6321

9 ай бұрын

If you do 170 x 3.5294 + 0.002 you get 600 so its basically the same.

@user-pm2xj9st6f

7 ай бұрын

Noone can play that fast. He even did a video explaining. I think the fastest humanly possible is 240bpm's 16th notes. Rusty Cooley and John Petrucci. The 300 bpm's was inaccurate and everything above that. He even admitted to that.

imagine having a right hand like that for the night

@davepetronovich4195

7 жыл бұрын

captain obvious Thanks for pointing that out

@sachavilleneuve6688

3 жыл бұрын

youll catch fire

@mitchcarson6309

3 жыл бұрын

Peak too soon. Lol

@drummyt7166

3 жыл бұрын

It’d be a short night. With months of chaffing.

@rishmatic

3 жыл бұрын

@@drummyt7166 hahahahahaha

At 600BPM I can imagine the bees flying with the speed of light.

@Jinxtiest

3 жыл бұрын

NEROOOOOMMMMM

@comment_below

3 жыл бұрын

seriously though -hes fingers just traveled through time

@ACES-BRAZIL

2 жыл бұрын

VFX lol...

@lemoonster

2 жыл бұрын

Sui

He plays so fast that it doesnt even sound like a guitar anymore holy shit

I would love to hear the 600 bpm slowed down so we can try to get an idea of the musical integrity hes able to accomplish. Not hating like "I bet he misses a buncha notes this isnt a real record blah blah blah" I would just be curious to hear how well he maintained the integrity of the sound playing that ridiculously fast.

@StaticBlaster

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. He didn't actually play the original piece that fast. It's guaranteed you'll miss notes attempting to "play" at 600 bpm. So did he actually play at 600bpm? NO! Of course not.

@Osmone_Everony

Жыл бұрын

@@StaticBlaster Yep, he should play it without distortion.

My question is, to what extent can we believe he actually played all the notes? It's pretty clear the human ear won't distinguish if he screws up a few notes here and there. The verification should involve computers... but maybe it's already the case

@Milehighshred

8 жыл бұрын

+InfinityDz I did NOT play all the notes. It's an undeserved record.

@InfinityDz

8 жыл бұрын

Mile High Shred You're a great guy for doing that. I was really skeptical when I watched these types of videos. A few days later I found Troy Grady's videos, and you happen to have worked with him as you stated in your other video, which is amazing. I'm pretty sure a lot of these other guiness world records would also turn out to be undeserved when put under the microscope. I won't believe any future claim of guitar speed record without this type of verification standard. Who cares though, you can probably pick faster than 99% of the rest of us. I don't think all that hard work went to the shitter. Up the irons!

@Milehighshred

8 жыл бұрын

RecordSetter Thank you! I appreciate that.

@xooperz

8 жыл бұрын

+InfinityDz Yeah well, as you mentioned, this is still fucking epic

@Hansly_rz

8 жыл бұрын

+InfinityDz change the video speed to 0.5

But... He isn't Asian...

@curativetouch6676

8 жыл бұрын

Oh no! That defies all laws of racism!!!

@musicjunkie8771

7 жыл бұрын

+Mr. MegaMeteor Not racism. stereotyping

@lemontree14

7 жыл бұрын

+Music Junkie exactly

@javiervelazquez2857

7 жыл бұрын

Indian people arnt very good at guitar tho.

@rahulguitar

7 жыл бұрын

Javier Velazquez What the fuck you mean to say ? How about you show us some skills

legends says his fingers are still aching

@rayden225

7 жыл бұрын

but not from the guitar

5:22 and set to speed 2x, now its 1200 BPM.

@inbredbanana8156

3 жыл бұрын

jesus christ

So how long before he needs his batteries changed?

Pssh I can do this .....hold my guitar.

@stejac133

6 жыл бұрын

wait...

@TheSiege703

6 жыл бұрын

hahaha lmaoooo

His girlfriend must be happy😂😂😂

@MNON-wh8og

3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

why is nobody doing this record with a clean tone? it would much more impressive

@JazzKeyboardist1

9 жыл бұрын

Excellent point. The word shredding is perfect for guitarists with lots of special effects because the effects shred the notes together and it is almost impossible to hear what they are playing but kids love it. ....It is not really good music if you don't like the exact same notes played on an acoustic guitar without any effects. Power chords without power is usually pretty lame?

@kennikuhlmann-clark9860

8 жыл бұрын

JazzKeyboardist1 .... and, (often) at the cost of the quality of the tone of each note (or double-stops/chords)

@JazzKeyboardist1

8 жыл бұрын

Kenni Kuhlmann-Clark,,yes, Most people are shocked they actually hate their favorite tunes if the guitarists plays the same notes acoustically

@anthonygamez5497

5 жыл бұрын

kzread.info/dash/bejne/hXZ9m5qfqZXacZM.html Here's a guy doing it on a nylon string at 350bpm. Way more impressive than this staticfest

@EB34763

5 жыл бұрын

Good point--I agree. However, the "fuzz" does add to the mood of the "buzz", (since the subject matter is a humming insect).

This guy is freaking insane man, much respect

Wow I feel sorry for the other guy who had set the previous world record. This guy played almost twice as fast. I guess there really is always someone who can do something better than you in life.

I would like to see you do it at all... That was REALLY clean (especially considering his fastest tempo). You can't say that at 600 beats a minute you can hear or see how he is being sloppy. That is true talent.

This is too far from my imagination..... mind blowing performance, sheer hard work and rigorous practise and has paid off well to this guy

@iceerush1549

8 ай бұрын

would be impressive if he used only downstrokes

"I've got blisters on me fingas!"

Where are the notes ? i cant hear it

@davidng7196

8 жыл бұрын

+Pietro Vitale it sounds like flight of the bumblebees lol

@avahxnley685

8 жыл бұрын

+David Ng maybe because it is

@avahxnley685

8 жыл бұрын

+David Ng maybe because it is

Truly impressive speed ... And I'm pretty sure that he is well aware that it sounds more like a wood chipper than classical music. But since the whole idea of this specific event is speed I'd say he nailed his wood chipping.

2023 Still holds Guinness World Record, amazeballz! Congratulations man

This is not fake... Please look at the clock... And please, there is a background synth which kind of covers his mistakes. In the 170BPM part, you can hear that synth.

Here, hold my beer

I would also accept this record over many others because he's actually strumming each note.

@waynickrooney9358

10 жыл бұрын

That it's fake?

@thomastimms145

10 жыл бұрын

Waynick Rooney No, it is not fake, that is why the clock is there so you can see each second tick by.

@waynickrooney9358

10 жыл бұрын

***** so guiness accepts fake records?

@waynickrooney9358

9 жыл бұрын

I'm aware lol. I was being sarcastic. Obviously someone as legit as guiness investigates such.

@armandchampion8817

9 жыл бұрын

***** you have to be the worlds biggest dumb ass look at the clock and you can tell it wasn't sped up

That was truly amazing!

Everyone is clapping at the end of every performance and the dude is just like "this isn't even my final form"

God damn I've never seen so many haters on one video lmao

@nessundorma666

9 жыл бұрын

Branden Santos they simply dont understand what is this about. I love Joey from Manowar when he plays this song! Amazing stuff

@EyeAgree

9 жыл бұрын

nessundorma666 Calling out isn't hating. Dick Dale is faster than this guy. He's all distortion. Guinness doesn't use a wall clock. They use a metronome with a read-out. 600bpm is 10 per second. You can easily count his strumming. That isn't hating, it's stating.

@othusa

2 жыл бұрын

At 600 bpm, yes that is 10 beats per second (600/60). But he's play 4 notes per beat, so he is actually playing 40 notes per second.

Flight Of The Bumblebee on guitar?!! The way he plays it sounds sooo freaking epic

By the way, it's easy to toy with the timing in parts of the screen so the clock and the background seem normal when other parts are sped up...

Do this on a Tele through a clean Deluxe Reverb. THAT would be truly impressive.

He’s actually said that he has removed his Guinness record from his promos and website, and that the 600bpm attempt was unsynchronised I admire his honesty!

That moment you know they left the packaging on the clock just so they can return it to the store later........ O.o

@tomscioscia9869

9 жыл бұрын

Or they left the packaging on the clock so it's an easy square to edit a clock running at real time while the rest of the video is sped up.

What makes this video great is the audience

He was playing so fast @1:40 that the sales associate in the back was stuck in the space time continuum

@Infinitevoice2

2 жыл бұрын

I was there. He really played like that.

Despite not being certain that he picked every single note correctly, he shredded faster than anyone on planet earth has or could shred. That’s guaranteed

@Norman-Bates

Жыл бұрын

You know this was fake right?

@Absolutely_puck_fakestine

Жыл бұрын

@@Norman-Bates You know you just have to type "john taylor world record" to see that it's true.

@delsi3795

Жыл бұрын

Tiago Della Vega does it way cleaner.

@AndersonLima-we5io

10 ай бұрын

@@Norman-Bates Do you think they put a clock by his side for what purpose?

Unintentional Forced Perspective makes the guy in the background during the 350 BPM part look like a tiny guy standing on the amp. haha!

Impressive. Looks like it's based on a hyper picking technique some guy had on a instructional video back in the 80's. Have to dig that VHS out haven't seen it in years.

he went so fast i didn't even know if he was playing the same song lol

plot twist: he sped up the video

Impressive technical feat. Good speed and control. Interesting record to hold.

I'm in love with that guy.

very nice cover!

take away the overdrive and we'd see how many of those notes he's actually playing

@kennikuhlmann-clark9860

9 жыл бұрын

+Tom Norman yes, distortion is annoying.... and obscuring... wish we could hear it clean anyways

@mar-keywholebrook8810

5 жыл бұрын

Reduce the speed to hear note for note. It's so fast it's beyond your brains processing power.

@mar-keywholebrook8810

5 жыл бұрын

After all that meticulous practice! Now what? Divine Ascension as an immortal transcending beyond the three modes of material existence

@nandvinchhi1217

5 жыл бұрын

bro you can sustain a note wayy longer with overdrive, which is used for hammerons and pulloffs

Perhaps he should of tried it without distortion. The notes dont sound very clear to me so either he is sloppy due to his inability to accurately play at that speed and/or the distortion prevents any real clarity. I think it's probably a combination of both.

i love you, man

Superb! Fantastic

Now do it without the obscene amount of distortion which is clearly hiding all the mistakes. :-)

I wanna see this on an acoustic :)

at the 600 bpm part of the video if u hear closely the claps start super early and the dude's hand jerks off the guitar really fast after he's done but if i am mistaken then this guy sure as hell is extremely skillful.

Stranger: Wow, you are good at guitars... Guitarist: Oh I'm just testing my guitar

I bet he could do through the fire and flames on expert.

do it on acoustic :)

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

very good. glad i saw this.

He needs more cowbell

Best part at 5:55

And they found a receipt for guitar skills in his glove compartment, the cost, one soul.

loving the guitar

Further proof that playing faster doesn't make you sound better.

@ShinySilverGamer

7 жыл бұрын

But string instruments tone doesn't change the way wind instruments do. Of course playing fast would affect breathing and embouchure there but as long as the instrument is in tune for a string instrument then shouldn't the sound be the same?

Real to begin with then clearly fake.

@smnsandeep

10 жыл бұрын

This is identified worldwide as the fastest playing. u cant just say its fake sitting there.

@deldia

10 жыл бұрын

Sandeep suman Identified by whom? The give away if the cable come out of the bottom of the guitar. It's clearly sped up. A cable wouldn't move like that. They are trying too hard by putting the clock on there - you'd never see him doing the 600bpm without a fixed camera position and the clock anywhere near where he's playing. Probably done on Adobe After Effects. I know a lot of the fastest guitar players in the world and this isn't just faster, it's like 10 times faster. It would be like running the 100m in 2.1 seconds rather than "just" 9.5 seconds.

@Sathera440

10 жыл бұрын

Sandeep suman Well it is hard to tell if it's real or not. First reason is that the video can be easily manipulated even with the clock. Second reason is that even if it is real then it's hard to tell if he picks the notes flawlessly when he is supposed to play 40 notes pr. second, because if someone were to speed the clip down then the sound would end up being blurred. And.. the greatest guitarists I know is playing no more faster than 26 notes pr second so I'll say that wikichris got a good reason of being skeptic :P btw sorry for my bad english

I like the way all of the notes blur into one.

Has he done anything else? Can't find much about him on Google

Can someone bother to slowdown the video and check he's playing correctly?

@marchansen8508

10 жыл бұрын

He did play it correctly, it's been confirmed already.

When the audio is slowed down you can hear two disparate instruments, most notably on the faster "attempts". This is definitely a fake.

@xmonikerhotmailcom

9 жыл бұрын

Yes it is, use your ears. I have transcribed solos by everyone from Yngwie to Holdsworth to sax players like Charlie Parker and super fast violinists like Mark O Connor. This is FAKE as fake can be. You can trust my ears, yours are clearly not working. When you hear two notes from two different timbre'd instruments out of time no less and on several occasions, the gig is up.

@pietro93vit

8 жыл бұрын

+Dylan Sotelo wow, who cant do that ?

@KregorEight

8 жыл бұрын

+Dylan Sotelo I'm pretty sure that the piece playing in the background is to verify that he actually was playing it correctly. If he goes out of sync with the machine, then he's made a mistake and the record wouldn't be verified.

@pietro93vit

8 жыл бұрын

Keith Ross There are an italian guitar player that beat this guy IN LIVE without this things

Christ, the guy's time is all over the map even at the speed he starts with. But thanks for posting, this is hilarious!

Nice to meet you, Mr. Metal

why that seems to be fake to me? :)

@naliujgaming

10 жыл бұрын

This is not fake.

@laughingatevolution4249

10 жыл бұрын

its not look at the clock derring the whole video and the second hand is moving at correct time

@RizmicGamers

10 жыл бұрын

their is a thing on the bit where you turn off annotations that you can slow down the speed and it is real

@sterlingarcher3981

10 жыл бұрын

it doesn't seem that fake to me

@Returnality

10 жыл бұрын

It's definitely not fake. I have had the pleasure of jamming with John in person, and even without the constant practice it takes to maintain a max speed like that, he was still able to hit completely freakish speeds. One way you can tell that this isn't fake is that he is actually using his fingers. you'll notice that with every attempt since John's (where you get people claiming ludicrous things like 1400 bpm), they are just sliding up and down the fretboard. They change the way they play the song every time once they get to certain speeds. John is consistent and plays the same thing every time. There hasn't been anybody who has actually played faster FOTB faster than John yet.

Wow, this dude is awesome. But why did he play it with distortion. It's so hard to hear the strokes :/ Would've been better with a clean sound imo.

@eniakk

9 жыл бұрын

The majority of the distortion you hear is from the mobile phone microphone that recorded this video, that distortion is what's eating most of the articulation off of the notes. What went out in the music store this was recorded at was both compressed and distorted by fx processing, but as I recall, the Guiness guys got a clean recording (tapped from the signal of this same event, of course) for the record evaluation. And, to the feeble unbelievers who whine about the clock being fakeable, sure, but that's moot since there were heaps of people in the store when this was shot.

@martinsvard89

9 жыл бұрын

eniakk Jaha okej. Tack för infot :)

Great job

This guy isn't playing Flight of the Bumblebee : he IS a Bumblebee.

To bad its fake.

@NextDaniZ

8 жыл бұрын

The clock, sherlock. It's the clock.

@frankiedavis3766

8 жыл бұрын

+Kenni Kuhlmann-Clark so he can get the tempo?

@frankiedavis3766

8 жыл бұрын

+Kenni Kuhlmann-Clark you do realize there are different frequencies/pitches for metronomes right? I've been in music classes and lessons and everything my entire life and I have a metronome that counts down for you like that. It goes "1,3,1,2,3,4 1,2,3,4" (etc.) to keep your tempo so you can hear if you slow down. The higher pitch is so you can hear it over the instrument

@vautier_

8 жыл бұрын

+Kenni Kuhlmann-Clark Because you don't need to show something you can hear

@ozzy9691

8 жыл бұрын

It really isn't though. Troy Grady hooked him up to monitors and electrodes to examine his picking technique. He really is a freak.

600bpm? Not even close. Thats about 145bpm, which is still very impressive but 600bpm is nearly impossible. It would just sound like tremolo.

@_Darragh

9 жыл бұрын

The original tune is 170 which is what he played at the start?

@1999beachboy

8 жыл бұрын

+Matt Bellamy do you need another chromosome? unless 145 was a typo... that would be flight of the turtle.

@Alex-sm4wi

8 жыл бұрын

+1999beachboy This piece is in 4/4. Which means 4 crotchet beats per minute. Follow me so far? Good. In every crotchet beat there are 4 semiquaver beats. Still with me? Excellent. This piece is composed entirely of semiquavers. Every note is a semiquaver. So for every 4 notes that is played, that is 1 crotchet. And by counting each crotchet in beat, you discover that the piece is in fact 145 beats per minute. If the piece were to be in 600 bpm, you would not be able to hear the gaps between each note, and it would just be 1 long note. That is humanly impossible. If you don't believe me click this link. a.bestmetronome.com/ and type in 170. You can count 4 notes in every 1 click on the metronome.

@1999beachboy

8 жыл бұрын

I understand music. What I don't understand is how you know all the terminology but still manage to gets things so horribly wrong. I was using that very site today. I can play most parts of this song at 200bpm (and yes I understand that there are 4 notes in each beat). also "This piece is in 4/4. Which means 4 crotchet beats per minute.".....?????? that's just wrong. so wrong. You are right that the piece is written in 4/4, but that doesn't mean 4 crotchet beats per minute. That means there are 4 crotchet beats per measure. The beat per minute is simply how many of those measures (in the case of a 4/4 piece, each measure is one beat.. it's basic math. 4/4 = 1) fit in a minute. 4*145bpm = 580 notes in a minute. divide that by 60 and you get roughly 10 notes per second. that is NOT impressive for an experienced guitar player trying to set a world record. I agree that 600 bpm would be physically impossible, but 145 bpm is NOT impressive.

@1999beachboy

8 жыл бұрын

the average professional "shredder" plays fast bits at around 15 notes per second. In a 4/4 piece that would be 225 bpm. ((15*60)/4)

it stops sounding like individual notes and starts sounding more like a lazer

omg !! what incredible john taylor !!

so fakeee🤣🤣🤣

Yep he did. Broke the record this year.

Does anybody know were I can get the notes for this?

very cool stuff :D

"its fake because he has hair" thats how you all sound attempting to justify that hes actually playing that fast. yes I am looking at the clock and I've seen this done more than once. Great editing!

This example of it doesn't, but being able to play fast definitely has it's place in music. This is only an exercise, I hate when people say it doesn't have a place in music, as if it's not already obvious.

is that why the clock's seconds hand remains at the same speed?

Well done man!!!!!!!!!

That wrist has seen a lot of action!

AMAZING

Bro, since 670, 740 and even 999bpm have been done up to this day, 600 is believable enough for me. and no, its not sped up at all.

Superhuman dexterity! Awed and spellbound!

Awesome!

Mind blowing!!

this guys a freak at the guitar, good job

I think that's what the clock next to him is for, to show the footage is being played at real-time speed.

This dude is from another planet

The first one I thought was the 600 bpm one lmao and I was like oh that's not too bad

amazing

Wait what was that second note.

how many frets does he covered?

holy moly

He has a video up admitting he did not pick every note .

that was amazing.