Just Who Is The Fastest Shredder Alive?

AtariLegend

This is an old article that was posted at the old ROV, that I can't find the source for...

The Following is a list of the NPS of several guitar players.

Cooley, 24.7, on under the influence. - legato and sweeping licks, and one alternate picking one.

Ron Thal clocks in at an incredible 27 nps in the solo of the song Hands and 24nps in another song called Vomit

Jeff Hanneman NOT kerry king - Jeff clocks in at 23.2 nps during the solo of Angel of Death - simple legato licks in E minor, not chromatics.
Same man also responsible for the 22nps solo in dittohead.

Michael Angelo sweeps a few arpeggios in No Boundaries (2:01-2:05) using septuplets at 200, which is 23.3 nps

Steve Vai - 21.6 - the riddle

Gilbert on "snakebite" - sextuplets at 205, we have ourselves 20.5nps!

Old John Petrucci on "Endless Sacrifice" - 21.3nps!

Chris Impellitteri clocks in at 20.1 nps during the solo of Race into the Light

Frank Gambale has hit 19.3 nps on 6.8 Shaker

And now, for the odd ones -

Allan Holdsworth - 37nps

Satch has hit 32nps live, on flying in a blue dream!

Paus 44.6nps.

Al DiMeola's NPS on Mediterranean Sundance on the Friday Night In San Francisco album - hits a 5th of a second run at 25.2nps...on an acoustic . :suicide:

The last three you can ignore or discount as they arent consistent speeds, and paus is too controversial.

Not the fastest, but worth a mention so people dont ask...
Yngwie on blitzkreig (32nds at 140) - 18.6 alt picked.

So what you guys think, is Bumblefoot faster than the likes of Angelo and Vai...?

DoubleTalkingJive

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxlYnN6ZowU big_smile

James

I highly doubt it, and even if he was, it would just sound like a convoluted mess. There's not much feeling in his shredding, so playing a bit faster than someone else doesn't really mean anything.

monkeychow

There's no doubt he's an incredible guitarist in the same league as those sorts of players.

However I don't think this list is very good for comparing, as while it calculates the speed, it does not really take too much account of the difficulty of the notes being shredded.

Like for example some of them are tapping, some are sweeps, and in different places on the neck and stuff, so looking at the raw speed is meaning less.

Mikkamakka

monkeychow wrote:

There's no doubt he's an incredible guitarist in the same league as those sorts of players.
However I don't think this list is very good for comparing, as while it calculates the speed, it does not really take too much account of the difficulty of the notes being shredded.
Like for example some of them are tapping, some are sweeps, and in different places on the neck and stuff, so looking at the raw speed is meaning less.

Word.

We could only compare these guys if they played the same stuff. Well, we can compare them based on their various works, but it'd need us to know their resume pretty good.

Jimmy Zig Zag Bobiadis

DoubleTalkingJive wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxlYnN6ZowU

ah man I need to see BBF live sometime

DoubleTalkingJive

Jimmy Zig Zag Bobiadis wrote:

DoubleTalkingJive wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxlYnN6ZowU
ah man I need to see BBF live sometime

Me too, I am sooo waiting for him to go out on his own somewhere in NYC or even Jersey if I can make it there.

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