Hello guys,
Well, it seems official, guitar *has* now become a sport. A guy has been seen to play "Flight of the Bumblebee" @ 600pbm using 16th notes.
World Record attempt
I never would've thought that someone could play guitar so fast that the notes almost become white noise and a tune would become so disjointed.
I mean when I was younger I could play what I thought was fast (I was wrong), but, I never wanted to get so fast that, that hapenned to the tune I was playing, I wanted to remain recognizable. It was like I was trying to hear the tune I knew at one section, and then he was already at the next section and my ear then then jerked to the that section, only to find that section already over, so, it felt disjointed and unpleasant.
Maybe this was what the blues guys were objecting to when Yngwie Malmsteen blew onto the world stage. But at 600bpm it almost like whats the point of playing fast anymore
. I cannot break that record nor do I want to. It's like if you want fast guitar on your CD/song then get this guy because mere mortals can't do it.