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Whats the matter with modern guitarists these days... Such technique yet what the play is an utter piece of crap . Many guitarists have great tenque , speed yet they cant make an elaborate solo that is ... well music , its either bubble or a very childish melody played fast forward . Micheal Romeo is a superb guitarist yet wasting his skill on musicly uninspired solo's(at least most of them) . The one time i was truly impresed was when he played the 3rd movement of moonlight sonata . It wasmusic
@EvekoRogue I can't even imagine what warped musical reality you live in if you think most of the solos Michael has came up with are "utter pieces of crap". You need to take your fanboy blinders off and realize that the composers of old weren't the only people that have ever created great music.
@watkent2 Hey Dude, I never said he was the first or the only. I was merely pointing out that what Romeo is playing here, is quite similar to PG's signiture licks.
wao, q velocidad a pesar de ser obeso jejeje, desde el 2008 que empese a escuchar symphony X me di de cuenta q michael romeo es sin duda alguna, el mejor guitarrista de la actualidad...
malmsteen owns romeo and gilbert and becker and that fat piece of shit shawn lane..everybody says shawn lane could do this and that bla bla but when i see his videos and i just get so amazed of why people even bring his name up..dude fucking sucks..and don´t come and say i don´t know guitar or music because i know music i produce music..and on the guitar part well im still better than those yngwie haters,romeo vs shawn lane?? romeo bitch slaps his fat stomach of donuts..fucking fat bastard
@HyperfastMalmsteen lol hey you ignorant piece of shit, shut your fuckin mouth cause you sound like you got about 3 dicks lodged in there.. you are the most misinformed fucking retard that I have came across in past weeks.. you have no idea what you're talking about, you sound like a complete fucking retard.. Shawn Lane was better then Yngwie by miles.. Michael Romeo wipes the floor with Yngwie in any way, Yngwie has got worse since his accident, jump off a bridge faggot, noone would care.
@HyperfastMalmsteen care to argue some more you fanboy pussy? ill verbally fucking decimate you for days.. its clear to me you're some 18 year old kid who thinks he knows what the fuck hes talkin about but guaranteed 200% you don't know anything about theory, anyone who knows even a little about guitar can respect Lane, and understand why he was so amazing, and you are such a ignorant piece of shit you make fun of his disease which claimed his life, fuck off you cocksucker, id stab your throat
@HyperfastMalmsteen oh and Paul Gilbert would literally fucking shit down malmsteens throat.. and if becker wasnt paralyzed he would laugh at Malmsteen, malmsteen was good from 82-89 now he blows, get a clue you faggot times have changed, you remind me of one of those jimi fanboys that wont stop riding his dick, fucking cumguzzlin faggot
@HyperfastMalmsteen you a douch bag........stop talking shit about guitar players. your videos suck. And these "fat bastards" can and always will play better than your sorry ass. Your vibrato is shit by the way. Do you even know what vibrato is?
yes i know what vibrato is..but you are commenting my video in which i used a 99 dollar squire guitar with shit pickups and fret noise..guitar sucks ass..but give me a yngwie malmsteen strat and ill smoke your ass any day any time...i play guitar even if it is not my first instrument..but im sure i can outplay your sorry ass
@HyperfastMalmsteen that was meant as a quote from you and your bad strat Theory for aweful playing. your a fuckin retard. actually you give tards a bad image.
it don´t matter that i give tards a bad name...no body cares if i was the best guitarist in the world..you can say what ever you want but we all in here will only laugh at you because we know about your Band aid on your finger from shredding your moms pussy..YOU INCEST BASTARD!!!!..SHAME ON YOU!
@SirJamestheIII no actually.. that would be yngwies signature mark if you want to be a douche about it.. and michael romeo skips way faster then both..
@alterbridge111 LOVE ANDY JAMES. he is my favorite guy from the lick library series along with guthrie. first time i saw him was in that steve vai video
what the fuck is that supposed to mean, "mulley"? You should have your house burned down and your animals raped, you pseudo-intellectual fucking prick. Fuck you.
god this guy's good but yet I guess he kinda let fans like me down by paradise lost. I mean it sure is a great piece but if I never knew them and heard this album as their first impresion, I wouldn't become the huge fan I am now. they should go back to their roots and romeo's GOTTA get that Mesa/EMG tone back...
YES!!! What you just said Chef Nic.......I've been trying to figure how to put that double axiom into effective words and you just nailed it.....SALUTE'
writing ability and emotion is always an opinion laid out by a majority of the population but speed and technicality is always a fact laid out by statistics and rate of difficulty that is why virtuoso guitarists are the best guitarists period because they can do both well.
So who is better? Don't tell me that this gay shredder Batio. The guitarist that are so close to him are Paul Gilbert, Satriani, Steve Vai or John Petrucci. I don't take only his speed skills but feeling, emotions and composition skills. All of those abilities are at the highest level and he's tone is genial. I bet there's no better guitarist :)
Well we can't argue anything other than speed and technical ability. Things like feeling and writing ability we can both just claim are better in this guitarist over the other and get nowhere because those things are a matter of tastes. ....
..... As far as speed, technique, and arguably feeling and writing ability go MAB, Rusty Cooley, Jason Becker, Petrucci, Gilbert, Chris Impellitteri, Shawn Lane, and Malmsteen are each better.
MAB mechanical speed no feeling, Rusty Cooley great speed not much feeling, Jason Becker - Master of all God and Legend of Guitar and yes he is better even if he can't play, Petrucci perfect technique great feeling, Gilbert of course phenomenal player at all, Shawn Lane I really like Romeo more because Shawn was playing more jazzy, Impellitteri and Malmsteen I'm sure that they can't play 3/4 of Romeo stuff. Definitely only Jason Becker is better Gilbert and Petrucci are close
I'd agree with your statements about feeling if you re-worded them to saying they don't play with a type of feeling that you identify with. I also disagree with your statement that Chris and Yngwie can't play Romeo's stuff. I agree that Shawn's genre should have been metal and less jazzy, though.
you'll be surprised that romeo said in an interwiew that shawn lane is one of his biggest influence and the guitarist he admires the most....and obviously he's far superior to all guitarists above....
Not really. Romeo is good at what he does, but his phrasing and execution are bland, to say the least. I personally find that his solos sound like collections of exercises, but that's my personal taste.
There's nothing here that any other 'shredder' couldn't do exactly the same. Rusty Cooley or MAB could have played that. There's nothing distinctive about Romeo's playing at all that I've heard. Compared to Shawn Lane or Bireli Lagrene, for example, he is a mere novice.
collection of exercises? I'm sorry friend but you are wrong. You should check some phrasing of his solos from paradise lost like solos from set the world on fire, seven or eve of seduction. You should check his stuff from smoke and mirrors and especially from church of the machine and through the looking glass :) you will see :)
I'm sorry, but I've been directed to Romeo's supposed best work before. I've listened to his playing and it has never impressed me, for the reasons I stated. However, to each their own. :)
Ok i understand you but for me he is the best I mean for me his tone, style, solos which has destroying structure (smoke and mirrors, set the world on fire) are like eargasm... look on pharsing... he can go with notes with awesome tapping across the whole fretboard to the highest notes this moment is ubelievable... then the great descending... for me that's the point of guitar solos, this is feeling that most of guitar players (including me) trying to find. So Romeo is the best - my opinion :)
He was a good player, definitely. Great chops, and a feel to his playing that I feel is lacking in players like Romeo/Cooley/etc. His fast playing sounded natural, which I think makes the difference here. If I listen to something by Jason Becker, I don't so much get the 'HEY MOM! LOOK HOW FAST I CAN PLAY!' thing. A sad loss to the world of music, to be sure.
He has ALS. He lost the ability to play, and indeed use most of his muscles. He now communicates using eye movements, and writes music by tilting his head and moving his mouth to select notes. Very sad, but amazingly inspiring how he has persevered despite such hardship.
I was kind of agreeing with until the last sentence... I don't know is Lagrene is, but I know Lane. While I can say Lane was both better technically and musically IMHO, you can't just say Romeo looks like a novice... I personally prefer Romeo's phrasing to Lane's. Don't get me wrong, I listen to Lane's stuff often, it just doesn't hit me as much as Romeo does.
@OzStrife I think you can compare. I'll tell everyone he is the metal reincarnation of shawn. he is by no means as fast or as multi talented as shawn but when i see his fingers move across the fretboard you can see the similarities. he is IMO one of the cleanest if not the cleanest metal guitarist out there which reminds me much of shawn
@aryaxt It's because they're having their minds blown. People express having their faces melted in different ways. Not everybody sits there like a monkey.
I definitely think he's the most technical player (shredding, tapping, sweeping, ease of playing in diff. scales, etc), followed by MAB, Jason Becker, John Petrucci, Steve Vai and Paul Gilbert. Rusty Cooley is another monster. But Malmsteen has the best vibrato and blues playing among all the shredders.
Alexi Laiho is the best 'new' shredder, followed by Jeff Loomis.
These are just my opinions.
These guys practise tirelessly to get where they are, so they all deserve our respect.
i think he doesn't train that much like in the past, but mostly i think it's his sound- he doesn't use neck pick-ups and the most gain and distortion possible- even if he plays pretty exact it sounds lil dirty
You heard wrong dude, I've met Michael Romeo, face to face in person and he was cool as fuck. We shaked hands, he signed a CD booklet for me. And in the past few years he's cut down a lot of the weight. Probably tired of playing his ass off and all people can ever say is "he's fat" just to cut the guy down.
michael romeo knew what he's doing dont need any advise from anyone coz he prove that he is a good guitar player any finger can use as long as far as michael romeo is concern
PLEASE go to my favs (I only have 3) click on SUBURBAN GUY ROCKIN OUT
he plays by ear only, really feels what he plays and improvises his songs. the other 2 vids are him also ARIEL (awesome shredding) and ARIEL SIMANTOV (awesome sweeping) pls view comment and rate them as we think he deserves recognition .thanks everyone!
yeah it does make more sense to use the middle finger. but who knows. maybe the index finger can physically move faster so it doesn't matter that you have to switch the pick
Yeah it would seem so, I used to use my index until i trained my middle, But Paul Gilbert and Romeo use this method and it doesn't seem to be a problem for them. I've decided that people don't need to lsiten to all this crap about perfect technique and all this. Alot of the big top players do things that would be considered as improper technique such as thumb over the board etc, but you should jsut do what is right for you, and have your own unique style.
well some things undoubtedly are bad to copy, but this doesn't really matter. like just use which is easier or whatever, and i think van halen used the forefinger, but he already picked holding it with his middle anyway so that was the most practical for him
I think it's all in preference. Not that I'm at Romeo's level, but when I do tapping sections in the middle of my solos (when I know I'll have to pick soon after), I use my middle finger because it's easier. When I do extended tapping passages, it feels better (and sounds better to me) to use my index. Whatever. Romeo kicks so much ass.
it might eventually get that way after some years if with callous and whatnot my middle gets too big or something, but i would like to learn some 8 finger tapping stuff anyway so that would include being able to do it with index
Yeah, that 8-finger stuff is the shit. I can't seem to get my right-hand pinky to do what I want it to do. It decides to go "mlah!" and point to the wall.
at least then there will finally be something good in my right pinky being like way thicker and stronger than my left. that has pissed me off for a while
Little question. What is more difficult to play? Scuttle butting or Arpeggios From Hell? I think Yngwie takes far more effort and talent to perform flawlessly.
Plus, all great guitarists have some technique or something that they are really good at. Michael Romeo can tap out arpeggios nicely, chris Broderick can do 8 finger tapping, Rusty Cooley plays 4 notes per string, and Yngwie has a lot of talents too. So eventhough they can all alternate pick and do the regular stuff about the same, they all have strengths in some areas that the other guitarists might be weaker at. No one is the best at everything.
what is the name of this dvd ?
georgesfadel1 1 day ago
una bestia...simplemente!!!
Industrialdesign2010 4 months ago 2
Any musician who puts real time and talent behind that instrument I give credit to not matter if I like the music or not.
parkerflydeluxe98 6 months ago 4
@EvekoRogue haha, I love it when nerds try to sound like experts
chobybutcher 6 months ago
Lol Epic Camera!
SatanLovesMetal 8 months ago
look at those fingers flop around :O
long live Michael!
maxman2324 9 months ago
no mames el hijo de malmsteen
puertaalinfierno2 9 months ago
He's great. If you disagree, you're fucking dilusional.
Ziltoid314 10 months ago 5
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Whats the matter with modern guitarists these days... Such technique yet what the play is an utter piece of crap . Many guitarists have great tenque , speed yet they cant make an elaborate solo that is ... well music , its either bubble or a very childish melody played fast forward . Micheal Romeo is a superb guitarist yet wasting his skill on musicly uninspired solo's(at least most of them) . The one time i was truly impresed was when he played the 3rd movement of moonlight sonata . It wasmusic
EvekoRogue 11 months ago
@EvekoRogue I can't even imagine what warped musical reality you live in if you think most of the solos Michael has came up with are "utter pieces of crap". You need to take your fanboy blinders off and realize that the composers of old weren't the only people that have ever created great music.
Alacress 9 months ago 7
@EvekoRogue shut the fuck up!!!!!!!!!!
TheLtlpxru 1 month ago
KILLER!! \m/ xD
theindians190 1 year ago
I came
Anne272727 1 year ago
1:02 - end, it looks to fast to be true
Deroryst 1 year ago
If you like romeo his solo's, CHECK MY PROFILE
GevERs89BjORn 1 year ago
a fucking god
shadow06031992 1 year ago
it's me with michael romeo's mask
greatcadavrman 1 year ago
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kiimanehirvi 1 year ago
1:06 Paul Gilbert rip-off ;)
Willbartonrg550 1 year ago
paul gilbert wasnt the first, let alone the only person to string skip you jackass.
watkent2 1 year ago 3
@watkent2 Hey Dude, I never said he was the first or the only. I was merely pointing out that what Romeo is playing here, is quite similar to PG's signiture licks.
Willbartonrg550 1 year ago
@Willbartonrg550 Drinking some Haterade, I see...
savirreef 1 year ago
@Willbartonrg550 You're crazy! String Skipping? wow....A lot of people do it.
megaluisdeth 1 year ago
Lol at this argument XD.
MattBoy16 1 year ago
wao, q velocidad a pesar de ser obeso jejeje, desde el 2008 que empese a escuchar symphony X me di de cuenta q michael romeo es sin duda alguna, el mejor guitarrista de la actualidad...
carlosymphony7 1 year ago
malmsteen owns romeo and gilbert and becker and that fat piece of shit shawn lane..everybody says shawn lane could do this and that bla bla but when i see his videos and i just get so amazed of why people even bring his name up..dude fucking sucks..and don´t come and say i don´t know guitar or music because i know music i produce music..and on the guitar part well im still better than those yngwie haters,romeo vs shawn lane?? romeo bitch slaps his fat stomach of donuts..fucking fat bastard
HyperfastMalmsteen 1 year ago
@HyperfastMalmsteen lol hey you ignorant piece of shit, shut your fuckin mouth cause you sound like you got about 3 dicks lodged in there.. you are the most misinformed fucking retard that I have came across in past weeks.. you have no idea what you're talking about, you sound like a complete fucking retard.. Shawn Lane was better then Yngwie by miles.. Michael Romeo wipes the floor with Yngwie in any way, Yngwie has got worse since his accident, jump off a bridge faggot, noone would care.
alterbridge111 1 year ago
@HyperfastMalmsteen care to argue some more you fanboy pussy? ill verbally fucking decimate you for days.. its clear to me you're some 18 year old kid who thinks he knows what the fuck hes talkin about but guaranteed 200% you don't know anything about theory, anyone who knows even a little about guitar can respect Lane, and understand why he was so amazing, and you are such a ignorant piece of shit you make fun of his disease which claimed his life, fuck off you cocksucker, id stab your throat
alterbridge111 1 year ago
@HyperfastMalmsteen oh and Paul Gilbert would literally fucking shit down malmsteens throat.. and if becker wasnt paralyzed he would laugh at Malmsteen, malmsteen was good from 82-89 now he blows, get a clue you faggot times have changed, you remind me of one of those jimi fanboys that wont stop riding his dick, fucking cumguzzlin faggot
alterbridge111 1 year ago
@HyperfastMalmsteen you a douch bag........stop talking shit about guitar players. your videos suck. And these "fat bastards" can and always will play better than your sorry ass. Your vibrato is shit by the way. Do you even know what vibrato is?
shredacuda 1 year ago
yes i know what vibrato is..but you are commenting my video in which i used a 99 dollar squire guitar with shit pickups and fret noise..guitar sucks ass..but give me a yngwie malmsteen strat and ill smoke your ass any day any time...i play guitar even if it is not my first instrument..but im sure i can outplay your sorry ass
HyperfastMalmsteen 1 year ago
@HyperfastMalmsteen let the excuses fly... I had a band aid on my finger from finger banging my mom, and i got a friction burn. Just go away
shredacuda 1 year ago
i believe you about the band aid on your finger and fingering your mom..fucking INCEST BASTARD!
HyperfastMalmsteen 1 year ago
@HyperfastMalmsteen your an incredible idiot. stick with that.
shredacuda 1 year ago
lol..but you still told us that you have a band aid on your finger and fingered your moms pussy..hahahaha..stick with that!!!! INCEST BASTARD!
HyperfastMalmsteen 1 year ago
@HyperfastMalmsteen that was meant as a quote from you and your bad strat Theory for aweful playing. your a fuckin retard. actually you give tards a bad image.
shredacuda 1 year ago
it don´t matter that i give tards a bad name...no body cares if i was the best guitarist in the world..you can say what ever you want but we all in here will only laugh at you because we know about your Band aid on your finger from shredding your moms pussy..YOU INCEST BASTARD!!!!..SHAME ON YOU!
HyperfastMalmsteen 1 year ago
can anyone tell me is that a esp mii ctm or stander guitar?
Lucas19891124 1 year ago
Looks like a standard one.
JoelGuitarMetal 1 year ago
men, you should know that this was an improvisation
86267571272 1 year ago
CHECK OUT BLEED ACAPELLA. its my top video of my channel. so take a look. =O)
synth000 1 year ago
clear influence is paul gilbert xD
Den1sVengeance 2 years ago
I'd say Yngwie has had the biggest influence on Michael Romeo
royfan3035 2 years ago
yep yngwie is an influence, but I think his biggest influence is Shawn Lane...
R.I.P. Shawn
Guitarslap 1 year ago
Shawn is also a huge influence. You would be hard pressed to find a modern metal guitarist not influenced by Shawn or Yngwie.
royfan3035 1 year ago
@royfan3035 i'm a metal guitarist not influenced by shawn or yngwie
ironwolg 1 year ago
@ironwolg i was just speaking in generalities, of course not everyone is going to be influenced by shawn and yngwie
royfan3035 1 year ago
Michael often stated his influences, Randy Rhoads, Yngwie and Paul Gilbert among them, but he never stated Shawn Lane...
JoelGuitarMetal 1 year ago
thumbs down, how is this a paul gilbert influence, michael romeo is same time period pretty much..
alterbridge111 2 years ago
@alterbridge111 WTF are you talking about? @ 1:00 is a trademark gilbert lick
SirJamestheIII 1 year ago
@SirJamestheIII no actually.. that would be yngwies signature mark if you want to be a douche about it.. and michael romeo skips way faster then both..
alterbridge111 1 year ago
@alterbridge111 yngwie.... String skipping three note per string sequences. never happened.
watch this: /watch?v=7X1WirRw0lk
SirJamestheIII 1 year ago
@SirJamestheIII ive seen that for ages, check paul gilbert crazy solo i prefer those skips more
alterbridge111 1 year ago
@alterbridge111 yeah i've seen like every video out there. saw him live too and got to meet him in person
SirJamestheIII 1 year ago
@SirJamestheIII awesome, watch andy james contest video.. just type andy james contest watch the first one
alterbridge111 1 year ago
@alterbridge111 LOVE ANDY JAMES. he is my favorite guy from the lick library series along with guthrie. first time i saw him was in that steve vai video
SirJamestheIII 1 year ago
@SirJamestheIII actually that didnt work, type up ANDY JAMES Guitar solo contest that is the title :) cheers
alterbridge111 1 year ago
@SirJamestheIII /watch?v=Lv5wtdfq6v0&
alterbridge111 1 year ago
lol
sepisepsep 1 year ago
romeo is a monster
takayamagotfryed 2 years ago
Crazy stuff! I'd love to see the rest of that show.
Redrinkarnation 2 years ago
I can compare yngwie and him in being fat!
Pirotehnicar1 2 years ago
what the fuck is that supposed to mean, "mulley"? You should have your house burned down and your animals raped, you pseudo-intellectual fucking prick. Fuck you.
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IbanezDaemon 2 years ago
god this guy's good but yet I guess he kinda let fans like me down by paradise lost. I mean it sure is a great piece but if I never knew them and heard this album as their first impresion, I wouldn't become the huge fan I am now. they should go back to their roots and romeo's GOTTA get that Mesa/EMG tone back...
ah what the hell...I love'em anyway...
Resmanthes 2 years ago
YES!!! What you just said Chef Nic.......I've been trying to figure how to put that double axiom into effective words and you just nailed it.....SALUTE'
oldaxekid 2 years ago
writing ability and emotion is always an opinion laid out by a majority of the population but speed and technicality is always a fact laid out by statistics and rate of difficulty that is why virtuoso guitarists are the best guitarists period because they can do both well.
Chefnik06 2 years ago
It's so damn annoying when people act like just because they think that someones better than him, that he just sucks
Whoever you're favorite is, which Romeo is mine, they all put years and years into practice, give em some damn credit
allstarcmanscuzin 2 years ago 39
Sorry man Michael Romeo IS Fucking the best ... He is not just an shreder he has a great feeling ... :)
HuberttXXX17 2 years ago 2
I totally agree.
eucalyptus3480 2 years ago
He's not the best, but he's up there.
MrSalamander7 2 years ago
So who is better? Don't tell me that this gay shredder Batio. The guitarist that are so close to him are Paul Gilbert, Satriani, Steve Vai or John Petrucci. I don't take only his speed skills but feeling, emotions and composition skills. All of those abilities are at the highest level and he's tone is genial. I bet there's no better guitarist :)
HuberttXXX17 2 years ago
Well we can't argue anything other than speed and technical ability. Things like feeling and writing ability we can both just claim are better in this guitarist over the other and get nowhere because those things are a matter of tastes. ....
MrSalamander7 2 years ago
..... As far as speed, technique, and arguably feeling and writing ability go MAB, Rusty Cooley, Jason Becker, Petrucci, Gilbert, Chris Impellitteri, Shawn Lane, and Malmsteen are each better.
MrSalamander7 2 years ago
MAB mechanical speed no feeling, Rusty Cooley great speed not much feeling, Jason Becker - Master of all God and Legend of Guitar and yes he is better even if he can't play, Petrucci perfect technique great feeling, Gilbert of course phenomenal player at all, Shawn Lane I really like Romeo more because Shawn was playing more jazzy, Impellitteri and Malmsteen I'm sure that they can't play 3/4 of Romeo stuff. Definitely only Jason Becker is better Gilbert and Petrucci are close
HuberttXXX17 2 years ago 3
I'd agree with your statements about feeling if you re-worded them to saying they don't play with a type of feeling that you identify with. I also disagree with your statement that Chris and Yngwie can't play Romeo's stuff. I agree that Shawn's genre should have been metal and less jazzy, though.
MrSalamander7 2 years ago
you'll be surprised that romeo said in an interwiew that shawn lane is one of his biggest influence and the guitarist he admires the most....and obviously he's far superior to all guitarists above....
nicometal88 2 years ago
You are quite correct, good sir.
JRBain7 2 years ago
Not really. Romeo is good at what he does, but his phrasing and execution are bland, to say the least. I personally find that his solos sound like collections of exercises, but that's my personal taste.
There's nothing here that any other 'shredder' couldn't do exactly the same. Rusty Cooley or MAB could have played that. There's nothing distinctive about Romeo's playing at all that I've heard. Compared to Shawn Lane or Bireli Lagrene, for example, he is a mere novice.
JRBain7 2 years ago
collection of exercises? I'm sorry friend but you are wrong. You should check some phrasing of his solos from paradise lost like solos from set the world on fire, seven or eve of seduction. You should check his stuff from smoke and mirrors and especially from church of the machine and through the looking glass :) you will see :)
HuberttXXX17 2 years ago
I'm sorry, but I've been directed to Romeo's supposed best work before. I've listened to his playing and it has never impressed me, for the reasons I stated. However, to each their own. :)
JRBain7 2 years ago
Ok i understand you but for me he is the best I mean for me his tone, style, solos which has destroying structure (smoke and mirrors, set the world on fire) are like eargasm... look on pharsing... he can go with notes with awesome tapping across the whole fretboard to the highest notes this moment is ubelievable... then the great descending... for me that's the point of guitar solos, this is feeling that most of guitar players (including me) trying to find. So Romeo is the best - my opinion :)
HuberttXXX17 2 years ago 2
What's you stance on Jason Becker?
MrSalamander7 2 years ago
He was a good player, definitely. Great chops, and a feel to his playing that I feel is lacking in players like Romeo/Cooley/etc. His fast playing sounded natural, which I think makes the difference here. If I listen to something by Jason Becker, I don't so much get the 'HEY MOM! LOOK HOW FAST I CAN PLAY!' thing. A sad loss to the world of music, to be sure.
JRBain7 2 years ago 3
is he dead?
bosnaisgreat 2 years ago
He has ALS. He lost the ability to play, and indeed use most of his muscles. He now communicates using eye movements, and writes music by tilting his head and moving his mouth to select notes. Very sad, but amazingly inspiring how he has persevered despite such hardship.
JRBain7 2 years ago 3
I was kind of agreeing with until the last sentence... I don't know is Lagrene is, but I know Lane. While I can say Lane was both better technically and musically IMHO, you can't just say Romeo looks like a novice... I personally prefer Romeo's phrasing to Lane's. Don't get me wrong, I listen to Lane's stuff often, it just doesn't hit me as much as Romeo does.
JesterIF 2 years ago 4
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shawn lane played some nice slow jazz, but when he started playing fast he just rusty cooleyd it most of the time.
mulleygraves 2 years ago
Lol... You can't compare Shawn Lane to Michael Romeo. Shawn Lane is just beyond this world
OzStrife 2 years ago 9
Indeed... I can't argue with that!
JRBain7 2 years ago
So....how does that mean you cant compare them?
xPurpleDrinkx9001 2 years ago
Well you can but i wouldn't
OzStrife 2 years ago
@OzStrife You just compared them right there.
xPurpleDrinkx9001 2 years ago
@OzStrife I think you can compare. I'll tell everyone he is the metal reincarnation of shawn. he is by no means as fast or as multi talented as shawn but when i see his fingers move across the fretboard you can see the similarities. he is IMO one of the cleanest if not the cleanest metal guitarist out there which reminds me much of shawn
SirJamestheIII 1 year ago
@OzStrife but romeo is still amazing...But i agree shawn is not even human...Closest to shawn would be guthrie
TheWhocares233 1 year ago
@TheWhocares233 I reckon some of the fusion guys (Holdsworth anyone?) get pretty close to Shawn too.
Steve128967 1 year ago
@OzStrife silence drone!
xPurpleDrinkx9001 7 months ago
@OzStrife
of course.
Fluffypopcicle 6 months ago
Romeo is the man !
Romeo/Vinnie Moore/Satriani rule !
GuilleBlitzkrieg 2 years ago
such a bitch lol
244547 2 years ago
SUch SPEEEED
Clifurd 2 years ago
I fucking hate those fucking idiots who cheer during the nice guitar solos, instead of listening and enjoying.
aryaxt 2 years ago 34
I agree, can't really hear it too well over their retarded wails.
miketbf 2 years ago
TOTALLY AGREE !!
LemonheadFr 2 years ago
@aryaxt they pay to fuckin see the show they can do whatever they fuckin want mate. u peasant.
abo1993isgay 1 year ago
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tortoise656 1 year ago
@aryaxt It's because they're having their minds blown. People express having their faces melted in different ways. Not everybody sits there like a monkey.
Beholder505 1 year ago
@aryaxt If I was delivering such an awesome guitar solo I would love it if people started to scream and cheer to show that they're enjoying it.
Sperzel 1 year ago
he'd tap that
good guitarist
metalheadblues 2 years ago 3
I definitely think he's the most technical player (shredding, tapping, sweeping, ease of playing in diff. scales, etc), followed by MAB, Jason Becker, John Petrucci, Steve Vai and Paul Gilbert. Rusty Cooley is another monster. But Malmsteen has the best vibrato and blues playing among all the shredders.
Alexi Laiho is the best 'new' shredder, followed by Jeff Loomis.
These are just my opinions.
These guys practise tirelessly to get where they are, so they all deserve our respect.
Peace
burnnlearn 2 years ago 7
Lissen to Joe satrioni he actualy tout steev via how to play.
death174128 2 years ago
maybe i can teach you how to spell
ayybudayy 2 years ago 2
i do agree that they do deserve our respect
theshreddingking101 2 years ago 2
alexi is a bit sloppy compared to every other guy you listed there, don't you think?
zdlrrebel 2 years ago 8
true, but he's still a pretty good composer
schwarg 2 years ago
i think he doesn't train that much like in the past, but mostly i think it's his sound- he doesn't use neck pick-ups and the most gain and distortion possible- even if he plays pretty exact it sounds lil dirty
circleofpit 2 years ago
y eso que¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?¿?
CARLOSDAVIDVITE 2 years ago
Fuck look at his fingers at 1:07
He's not human.
ChunkBlower 2 years ago 3
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argentina13509 2 years ago 6
tiene dedillos de salchicha
pero como toca chingon
zoologicoansioso 2 years ago
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stevemaster247 2 years ago
i hear more shouting than guitar solo
Franktheman149 2 years ago 5
he has suck a dark sound.. AWESOME!!!!!!
not2getto 2 years ago
zeke, listen racer X...
Govanmaniac 2 years ago
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he "borrowed" a lot of licks from Mr. Paul Gilbert!
shredftw 2 years ago
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jakethecooldude 2 years ago
No he didn't.
seth3556r 2 years ago
uh, his style is no where near paul gilberts. its rare to see paul gilbert use the harmonic minor scale, and that is definately Romeo's cup of tea
zekeLindgren 2 years ago 5
You heard wrong dude, I've met Michael Romeo, face to face in person and he was cool as fuck. We shaked hands, he signed a CD booklet for me. And in the past few years he's cut down a lot of the weight. Probably tired of playing his ass off and all people can ever say is "he's fat" just to cut the guy down.
Chris641340 2 years ago 7
michael romeo knew what he's doing dont need any advise from anyone coz he prove that he is a good guitar player any finger can use as long as far as michael romeo is concern
CANIOGAN 3 years ago 2
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suburbangal 3 years ago
Aybilatsingkarangyahu!!! Ayos burds!!!
Noy234 3 years ago
what video is this from?
sangsaratrip 3 years ago
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he should use his middle finger to tap and not his index
staticxfrk 3 years ago
and why?, if e can tap with index finger that fast and clean as hell, let him play in the way he think it's better
matteomastretto 3 years ago 5
he can tap with all of his fingers
nicometal88 3 years ago 7
I don't know think you're in a position to tell Michael Romeo how to play.
TheDistortionist 3 years ago 8
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ultimaice 3 years ago
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ultimaice 3 years ago
yeah it does make more sense to use the middle finger. but who knows. maybe the index finger can physically move faster so it doesn't matter that you have to switch the pick
parquar 2 years ago
Yeah it would seem so, I used to use my index until i trained my middle, But Paul Gilbert and Romeo use this method and it doesn't seem to be a problem for them. I've decided that people don't need to lsiten to all this crap about perfect technique and all this. Alot of the big top players do things that would be considered as improper technique such as thumb over the board etc, but you should jsut do what is right for you, and have your own unique style.
benj2101 2 years ago
well some things undoubtedly are bad to copy, but this doesn't really matter. like just use which is easier or whatever, and i think van halen used the forefinger, but he already picked holding it with his middle anyway so that was the most practical for him
parquar 2 years ago
I think it's all in preference. Not that I'm at Romeo's level, but when I do tapping sections in the middle of my solos (when I know I'll have to pick soon after), I use my middle finger because it's easier. When I do extended tapping passages, it feels better (and sounds better to me) to use my index. Whatever. Romeo kicks so much ass.
kungfuman82 2 years ago
it might eventually get that way after some years if with callous and whatnot my middle gets too big or something, but i would like to learn some 8 finger tapping stuff anyway so that would include being able to do it with index
parquar 2 years ago
Yeah, that 8-finger stuff is the shit. I can't seem to get my right-hand pinky to do what I want it to do. It decides to go "mlah!" and point to the wall.
kungfuman82 2 years ago
at least then there will finally be something good in my right pinky being like way thicker and stronger than my left. that has pissed me off for a while
parquar 2 years ago
Hell yeah man! Use that to your advantage! I've got freaky Vai fingers so I try to use a lot of stretches and stuff like that.
kungfuman82 2 years ago
You're lucky, I have chubby little romeo hands. But they get the job done.
Chris641340 2 years ago
Hey, getting the job done is what matters!
kungfuman82 2 years ago
totally, I just tap more like Romeo instead of doing huge strectches.
Chris641340 2 years ago
hahah I have Paul Gilberts hands... monster!
shredftw 2 years ago
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check out my 8 finger tapping lick if you like :P for normal tapping though i use my middle finger :)
jakethecooldude 2 years ago
0:09 - 0:14
INDEX FINGER OF DOOM! O:
kitchensink01 3 years ago 2
They should ask this dude to be on G3..either him or Michael Angelo
guitarslave 3 years ago 7
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Micheal Angelo is a douche
kitchensink01 3 years ago
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lol, that last alternate picking lick at 1:00 is jacked straight from Paul Gilbert.
xthehooplex 3 years ago
that climactic lick was shit-your-pants good.
justchillton 3 years ago
aprende a hablar ingles no pendejo?
aprende a hablar ingles no pendejo?
aprende a hablar ingles no pendejo?
Sammerick 3 years ago
That Alternate Pick Run @ :40 Makes Me Sad. =)
322072322072 3 years ago 2
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que grande el gordo este loco...la verdad un maza
feterno 3 years ago
aprende a hablar ingles no pendejo?
CrackenO07 3 years ago
I haven't listened to Michael Romeo much or Ywngie Malmsteen. But who would between the two??
DiStUrB3d0n3 3 years ago
Don't bother comparing guitar players. It all comes down to musical preference.
Veillentif 3 years ago 22
michael romeo was influenced by yngwie malmsteen...
adeclah 3 years ago
Little question. What is more difficult to play? Scuttle butting or Arpeggios From Hell? I think Yngwie takes far more effort and talent to perform flawlessly.
LessthanJake14 3 years ago
There both just ace! prefer Romeo to be honest! got some weird phrasing!
joeparkes 3 years ago
Plus, all great guitarists have some technique or something that they are really good at. Michael Romeo can tap out arpeggios nicely, chris Broderick can do 8 finger tapping, Rusty Cooley plays 4 notes per string, and Yngwie has a lot of talents too. So eventhough they can all alternate pick and do the regular stuff about the same, they all have strengths in some areas that the other guitarists might be weaker at. No one is the best at everything.
Bodomguitarshredder 3 years ago 2
check out fernando miyata.....
Worshipsatch 3 years ago
lol, who would "own" romeo?!
by being influenced doesn't state that the influence is better than the one playing
if petrucci is the master, romeo is the devil himself playing guitar
and you call others "bitches"
Picurs 3 years ago 4
probably the best sweep tapper in the world an one of my favourites
ultimateRupture 3 years ago 4
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lol check out bill peck or dave celentano
Worshipsatch 3 years ago
Damn that noisy crowd!
Dazsturbed 3 years ago 2
Looks like he's put on fast forward, but it's kinda freaky to know he's not... Makes me wanna smash my guitar on my computer screen
ICanPlayTheGuitar182 3 years ago 5
he would own us all just with his left hand, so stop ur bitching ladies xD
ProgOn 3 years ago 4
great but a little too noisy
king34180 3 years ago 2
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im the best that ever lived....fuck you all
Vantenkiest 3 years ago
Right. When is your next CD release coming out hotshot?
HXCpr0n 3 years ago 3