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  • shredding ain't shit

  • who's rusty cooley? i thought this is HBK shawn michaels, isn't he?

  • who is better Malmsteen or Cooley?

  • IT SOUNDS LIKE A FUCKING HARP!!!!!!!! THAT SHOULDN'T HAPPEN ON GUITAR!!!!!!!!!!!

  • It's a bit like technical death metal.. ultra speed shredding, sweeps and so on...l but at the end it's not music nor listenable ^^

  • @Spieleschummler it's just a warmup :D

  • My Guitar's already got a Coffin Case.. R.I.P Brutha !!!!

  • Sounds like shit

  • I have been totally shown up and I put down my guitar and now I play bass XDXD

  • So.. eeh.. that's.. a minor or sumthing?

  • @FlareStorm10 a warmup exercise.

  • I play stiffarm style too and this gives me hope that I can actually be good!

  • Whoa, Shawn Michaels playing guitar? :D

  • hes fast but sounds awful. paul gilbert may not be as fast, but thats cos he doesnt spend all his time doing four per string pickings and sweeps. he does string skips faster than rusty coolaid ever could :)

  • @sunnyjim98

    No offense, but you obviously haven't seen enough of Rusty' playing.

    His does the three note per string pentatonic string skipping stuff way faster than Gilbert does...

  • @ExtremeBogom my main problem with rusty coolaid is that he is TOO fast! everything he plays sounds like mush! paul gilbert plays fast, AND sounds good! there is no point in playing THAT fast if it still sounds like shit XD

  • @sunnyjim98 Cooley, is faster then Gilbert, but also is more of a teacher, and most of the stuff that he plays, is part of his lessons. if you actually listen to his music, not his lessons, he has a unique voice and a decent sense of melody, nothing like Gilbert whose play is extremely vocal, but a decent sense.

    Cooley is really more comparable to guys like malmsteen in terms of technical ability, but with the teaching abilities similar to satch, seems like a really cool guy.

  • to much sweep pickin but fast as fcukn ferrari's

  • THIS GUY IS A FUCKING TALENTLESS DOUCHE

  • @janderson2000 Youre just jealous cuz you cant play like him. Douche.

  • @realityfrominsanity I'm just happy I'm not retarded so don't have to play like this. Cunt.

  • @janderson2000 You obviously are too retarded to see the talent.

  • @realityfrominsanity you're obvious too fucking stupid to know this is pretentious nonsense

  • @janderson2000 you're obviously gay

  • @realityfrominsanity you wish fagboy

  • @janderson2000

    We are all entitled to our opinions, but check out the Outworld album before you judge Rusty.

  • 4 flashes running around the frets. omg this guy is good

  • he is as fast as they come--and no disrespect because i would do the same thing he is going if i was that good--but i just don't hear much emotion in his songwriting. i much prefer shawn lane, vai or satch's compositions.

  • @shagrath68 Amazing speed and wild exotic sound but his composition is really poor considering all he does is elaborate ascension, descending, brief inversions then back to ascending or descending. There's absolutely no artistic quality to it and I say this as a fan to make a point.

    He gets his share of hate and some is certainly jealousy but plenty is due to poor composition. Speed is a trap and people that deem him the best are blinded by technique and deaf to artistry.

  • nice, rusty cooley just casually checking if his guitar is in tune...

  • "Rusty Cooley Playing Guitar" ... UNDERSTATEMENT OF THE CENTURY OR WHAT?? who's with me?

  • Rusty is more of a "GUITAR ATHLETE" than a Musician.

  • @kalabiandarkness and what are you? youtube athelete?

  • @ubershredder1989 Actually these are one of my first comments on youtube. I can safely say that I'm a musician.

  • @kalabiandarkness I second that!

  • That's the right way of warming up..:P

  • I used to play guitar...

  • haha, if i could play that fast id be doing the same shit

  • man this is an old video

  • ...that was fretboard rapage!

  • dont hate on me or anything lol but after about 10sec of that....gets kinda boring and Owww WOW Thats Fast kinda wears off....but he is great

  • hey man why you not doing some sport

  • I went ot junior high and high school with this guy and he was awesome then and now he is a true guitar god. You rock Rusty!!!!!!

  • He's gonna have arthritis like a mofo.

  • Wow i always thought that Batio or Petrucci was the fastest guitar player in the world but wow Rusty Cooley is just amazing.

  • i didnt see that was a seven string

  • what the fuck.........

  • Just because its fast doesn't technically mean its not a musical piece. It is music, just really fast

  • it's also musical to play fast with musicality... but even if i'm not a rusty cooley fan... i must admit that his playing is fuck'n amaizing

  • he must have a pretty beast broom to be able to sweep like that o.o

  • at the end of his life he will just have bloody callused nubs...

  • all these people saying that theres to many mistakes...HAVE YOU ANY IDEA HOW DIFFUCLT THIS IS 2 PLAY CLEANLY...and why not upload a video of yourselves playing it without mistakes

  • fast and awesome!!!

  • I can't play like this, I wish I could. Funny how most of the people that slate it and say 'no feeling', or 'just wank' or showing off can't play like it either. It's very easy to say something is shit make you feel better for not being able to do it yourself. I really appreciate this because it really takes talent, commitment and loads and loads of hard work.

  • He only plays this fast to cover up all his mistakes.

  • @SongsForMyGirlfriend hahahahahaha come on dude you wished you could play half as him you are just so full crap that you dont want to admit it

  • @SongsForMyGirlfriend

    dont you mean he plays this fast to cover all of YOUR mistakes?

  • just a warm up for him.. he's good...!

  • gay

  • disgusting

  • ok, thats very fast but too much mistakes

  • I Swear! after this he was going to perform with his bluesband!! Rusty Cooley and the Shipwrecks.. to bad that didn't happen XD

  • LMAO-I can't believe someone threw neil young out for a comparison. WTF, are you referring to that "amazing" one note solo on cinnimon girl? HAHAHA, now thats some funny shit! Lennon was a good writer, he wasn't much of a guitarist, legend or not.

    As for the "feel" purists, you probably would have bashed Paganini in his day.

    Fuck'em all rusty. Do what you "feel" like doing.

  • oh well this is overspeeding....should be banned........seee if u slow this down like 200bpm or something u will get feel....try it out....download the video...slow it down.....ull see,,,this is basically flush of emotions or a flush of feel(if that was a phrase)...or in human slang.....this is basically meth on steroids on guitar...the ass has feel....but hes givin u cocaine man.....so a rush .....lol...slow it down ...ull see im right..

  • well hes got good technique, but it doesnt sound epic like Finntroll, or Arkona

  • @seventhbrokenstring

    or a man fisttfucking a goat

  • Fucking bad sound quality awesome skill !

  • DAMMMMMMMMM !!!!!!!!!!!! I've never heard of him but he makes me not want to go pick up my guitar LOL

  • All these retarded comments can fuck off.Just pick up a damn guitar and shut up already.

  • Well, neither of you can spell. So just open a new page and keep quiet.

  • This is not very musical. Sounds like there are 7 video games being played all at once.

  • rusty's insane. but i just cant get into his style... not bashing it just doesn't hook me. but keep on shreddin rusty.

  • some people need to learn when not to write their toughts.

  • @gorgolbutt

    seriously dude this stuff is good even if hese not having an orgasm while playing like you want him to it seems

    you clearly cant get this frustrated over such a simple argument so its pretty obvious that you are jeleous of his speed (which not EVERYONE can accomplish by practice btw it doesnt happen) and your looking for a reason to bash it

    and by the way, trying to sound smart in your replies doesnt justify your argument

  • @zooyork1325

    Wow... Amazed I am.

    You sure got me there, brains.

    Hence my advise to you: I'd suggest you to first, learn how to phrase words, and type so that you don't come off as an monkey.

    Second of all: try to learn how to read, and most importantly: don't comment, if you cannot figure what is been said. Your post hasn't got anything to do with my arguments, and what I wrote, which shows how dense and incompetent you are, when it comes to trying to UNDERSTAND written text.

  • as AN monkey...?

    LAWL

  • gorgolbutt, it is like you would compare rolls royce with formula 1...

  • (continuation ---->) modal patterns and music books. That has nothing to do with being creative and original.

    Feeling, and in other words, soul, is based on intuition. Prewritten rules, and stagnated modal passages do not have either feeling, or soul, and when someone is too depended on them, you can hear it in his playing.

    I think this is essentially the problem with Rusty's playing, and with many other "shredder gurus".

  • I think guys like Neil Young, John Lennon or Lou Reed ( who btw are all rather inequipped _technically_) show you, that soul has NOTHING to do with either, theory, technique, or the amount of effort you have put into the precision of playing.

    I bet the saying "less is more", has never occurred to you? John Lennon knew a lot of theory, but he still didn't depend on it 100%. he also experimented and explored uncoventional areas in his songs, which is a lot admirable, than someone depending on

  • i'm not looking to join this discussion, but i can tell you that John Lennon did not know a lot of theory at all. He just had an ear for what he was writing. Infact he referred to tritone substitution as something like " that off sound" Rather than a suspended 4th or whatever the chord ends up being.

  • ANYONE, and I seriously mean anyone who isn't disabled from his hands, can learn how to play fast, but VERY few people, can tell a story, by just playing a few notes (like Stevie Ray Vaughan, BB King or Jeff Beck to name a few).

    There is a BIG difference, when someone just noodles a C minor blues scale back and forth (which im sure Rusty for example can do), as opposed to someone interpreting it so, that the listener can hear beautiful melodies in it, and most importantly, DYNAMICS.

  • @gorgolbutt

    Feeling as you said is based on intuition, and has no written rules, yet you criticize someone's personal style saying they're going about it the wrong way? Contradictory much? Musical notes themselves in the simplest terms have no self-perpetuated "meaning"; it's up to the listener to analyze it and derive emotion from it, so no matter what your theories regarding "feeling" are, you'll never be "right". Could've saved yourself a lot of typing.

  • how the fuck did this post get 3 thumbs down? FAIL.

  • wat happened i blinked

  • its pretty obvious that people who say "Speed has no feeling" simply can't play fast. shredders don't go commenting the same blues lick played every damn song, slower musicians shouldn't be commenting on faster dudes

  • Now feeling (which in the context of guitar playing is measured by the ability, to create somekind of emotion in the listener) has nothing to do with the ability to play fast.

    A guy like this, clearly doesn't have ANY kind of dynamic in his playing - it is just chromatic passages, played very fast. There's no distinguishable melody in it - thus there's no feeling.

    Any musician, guitar teacher or a guy who's older than 14 (and not mentally handicapped), will tell you, that that's pure shit.

  • @gorgolbutt what i said wasn't in reference to this actual video. this is just him showing his speed. listen to actual pieces with speed, its used as a tool to add intensity, usually leading up to more dramatic slower parts, although people such as coltrane used it to create "sheets of sounds."

    my comment was simply saying unless you have the skill of the person playing, you really have no right to judge it. no one is telling you to listen to this.

  • your a fag. this guy's technique is insane have you completely missd the point. its as pure shit as anything else taken that amount of devotion. you dont really know at all from this clip how much this guy knows about theory and you dont know how well he can play blues or how creative he is. you are assuming things. even if he didnt know much about those things this is a pretty impressive skill. why does feeling need a distinguishable melody you oldfag?

  • all music has emotion. what he's playing is just an exercise, not a composition. before you all go a bash him and say he doesn't play with emotion, listen to his compositions. this guy knows what he's playing and he executes it in an amazing fashion

  • maybe playing with feeling was too boring for him. His awesome

  • Yeeeaaah..... I give up.

  • is just speed without feeling!

  • Very cool.

  • spped is soul, it takes more soul to get to that speed then it takes to use "soul" like blues scales..

  • How would you justify that? Just blatantly stating something that idiotic, doesn't hold much ground know doesn't it??

    Speed is mearly a quality acheived by excersicing your brain, to learn how to synchronize your fingers in a simultaneous fashion (when done repeadetely, you of course learn to do it gradually faster).

    Now one doesn't need ANY musicality, to learn how to do a series of notes in rapid fashion, because in itself it isn't a musical quality. It is sport, not music.

  • I didnt say just playing random shit is soul. I ment in the context of music ( like his other stuff) learning the correct way to arrange notes, using modes , and praticing and writing for all those years is SOUL.

  • and rusty has alot of soul. just because someone is good and has the ability to play fast dosnt mean shit. Because i hear the term soul refered to sports and other shit because the person is good and they put their life into it. well from what i seen rusty has alot of hard earned talent. Soul isnt judged on speed its judged on how much of himself is put into what he loves.

  • sometimes speed kills feelings...

  • @hateofgod666 Sometimes it kills babies....

  • @Som1onu2be oh my god xDD ahahahahaahaha

  • @hateofgod666 Just Like In Sex

  • @Eliseon7711 yeah!

  • @hateofgod666 you must hate piano playing, cause piano playing, and fast guitar is the same thing.

  • @teamSKDM if anything, violin and fast guitar is the same thing... but you can't compare 2 different things, piano is piano and guitar is guitar... motorbike and fast cars are the same things?

  • @hateofgod666 well, when you think about it, people hate on the SOUND of the fast guitar, not the fact that it is a guitar. so therefore i am comparing the SOUND of teh guitar and piano. which do infact, SOUND the same. note im not sayign anything about the individual instruments,or the style fo playign of the,.

    the way they both SOUND. if you like the SOUND of fast piano playing,then you should enjoy the SOUND of fast guitar. SOUND SOUND SOUND.did i mention SOUND?

  • Get sum soul

  • lol

  • fucking yawn

  • OH FUCK SOMEONE AGGROED BOWSER!

  • the limit is when your sound seems like a ringtone...

    impressive, ok, but it bores me

  • @Pegamush

    dude its not like he plays that for like every song, all he is doing is a warmup. some of his songs are actually really good, its not like he plays this fast for songs.

  • haha hell yeah a ringtone that's the word i was looking for or the sound of Mario Kart when you lose

    po popo podo ro dam

  • IMO there is a speed limit beyond which any sweep arpeggio sounds shit.

  • this was not a musical piece, this was basically just a technical display. Stop judging it and saying it has no feeling, it makes you look stupid.

  • @dmcgraye it has feeling to it actualy if u think of the notes colectivly more than singular

  • yo man pple should only sweep wen needed not all the time..like its sick but wen its pure sweepage fuk that add sum sick builds with a sweep to like a defining note and then sweeping is sick

  • all of his shit sounds the same

  • Yer shit

  • Nice legs.

  • *Rusty Cooley Fucking Guitar

  • goddamn rusty is ridiculous...anyone wantin to learn some shred licks should check out my channel. I'm posting nothin but 30sec videos with tabs. The Face Melter! \m/

  • ahahahaahha YOU are ridiculous...ahahaah

  • vaffanculo ridicolo del cazzo!

  • Rusty is obviously pretty talented. I just don't hear anything but mush. I'd rather stick to players that add some feeling to their shred..a la Jason Becker

  • By Frusty Fooley

  • Diminishred from heaven?

  • what alot people get caught up on is how fast his fingers are moving your eyes deceive you if u look away and listen its sounds really sloppy and their are mistakes

  • His fingers are HUGE!!!

    His pinky is like the size of my middle finger O_O He plays in godlike mode... AMAZING!

  • CONGRATULATIONS KillBloodRaven! You've won your way onto my idiots to kick list.

    BTW that guy's got some quick fingers --- very talented ;D

  • doods got skillzzzzzz

  • If you find it pointless then just don't watch it!

    Fucking idiot(Y)

  • yeah hes good but there was like no structure at all to that, it was just shredding

  • Yeah, he doesn't want it to sound good or anything, he's just messing around...

  • Guitar is harder ;)

    He's only using 4 fingers.

  • you only need 1 to sweep on a piano.

  • You can't sweep on a piano.

    You can play arpeggios.

  • You can sweep on a piano, and you can play arpeggios, you can even sit on a piano! =)

    Im not refering to sweeping arpeggios, one thing doesnt mean the other, but to sweeping the Cmaj scale or whatever.

    In other words, playing fast, senseless things just to play something fast.

    Im just saying I find playing this fast really pointless, and showing it off more than pathetic, and that I consider "investing" *rofl* so much time in being able to do it to be failure.

    If it floats others' boats..

  • Sweeping refers to the way the pick moves, 'sweeping' across the strings, so can't happen on a piano. Of course I know what you're trying to say, it was just the wrong terminology ;)

    Obviously, all of Rustys' music isn't like this.

    I happen to own a copy of 'Outworld' and there's alot of melodic phrase, aswell as Rustys' trademark style of shred.

    And as the description of this video states, this is just Rusty Showing off, his music is not just diminished arpeggios (although he does like them ;))

  • Sweeping also refers to 'sweeping' the floor, smart boy ; )

  • I know this guy has some good songs with fucking fast bits to it, which is fine, its another style and all you want to add to that, but im talking against those songs that are 5 minutes of rushing from a fret to another, playing """"25 NPS""", and that kind of shit like if were meant to be an extension of the player's dick.

    And I say its really annoying because those who think that is the only way of being "good" just look down on others and try to be elitist douechebags, ruining music.

  • Well that's true, but I can only really think of Micheal Angelo Batio who is JUST shred.

    The fan boys try to argue differently, but even during his melodic solos he HAS so slip in some shredding, he can't stop.

    It really annoys me when people talk about Shawn Lane being able to play however many notes per second, because quiet frankly, I doubt he could have cared less, his music was just purely beauty :)

    And yes, but why would you talk about sweeping on a piano? ;)

  • loll u r an idiot xD

  • If Shawn Lane had no musicality he'd have sounded like Rusty Cooley.

  • GAY.....

  • insane

  • Is this only coming out of the left speaker for anyone else?

  • yes

  • only coming out of my right speaker

  • me too

  • ah yes back when jackson's were the real deal.

    now they're kinda like...meh

  • WHAT...THE...FUCK!

  • fretboard masturbation!

  • nice shorts

  • check out one of his songs outworld - riders. its fucking crazy intro.

  • War Cry is my favorite track on that album. Good God that song is just fucking awesome!

  • holy fuck he is fast

  • sooooo good :|

  • no shit it is noise,

    but its major blooody cool noise!

  • agreed. his music is sweet, man. i found a new site, Fret12 and you can ask him questions and he will answer through a video....it's pretty sweet, man

  • It's not supposed to be music, it's him showing off.

  • You're wrong. He CAN sweep that fast.

  • you have no clue who rusty cooley is to say that