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  • "Well you can also do the lick picking it".... no... no I can't

  • 1:18

    "You can also do that lick by picking it"

    No Shawn, no we can't.

  • @kibijit Hey! I was just about to comment that :(

    xD

  • @dirtydonki I think Govan is closer than anybody else

  • @Kingding6 govan,holdsworth and lane are the 3 gods.

  • @TheWhocares233 agreed

  • @TheWhocares233

    add jason becker. you gotta have jason becker if you're talking about "god level." adding buckethead would be nice too.

  • fucking took me a while to learn this

  • Whats funny is the fact that without Shawn Lane none of those guitarist would even exist or at the very least be as good

  • When he starts picking everything... holy fucking fuck.

  • This guy was in a league far above everybody. No one has even come close to that kind of technical abillity. Anton Oparin might eventually, but I doubt even he will.

  • @partlyshady jason becker? i think both of them are very close in technical ability though their music is very different

  • i cant believe im still alive after watchin this

  • ROFL!!!!

  • haha nice man

  • Idiotic statement about Petrucci and feeling. Yes, this is from 2 years ago from when I'm commenting now, but fuck, go listen to Hollow Years, Lines in the Sand solo, Glasgow Kiss from his solo album. Petrucci can be a master of feeling just as well as he can shred. You cannot base your opinion of John Petrucci on his shredding alone, you just end up making yourself look silly.

  • indeed i actually think petrucci is second to shawn lane

  • @7SethMurrant7 I would say guthrie govan

  • his hand is literally floating over the neck! he gets my vote for fastest guitarist!

  • Absurd!

  • I love Shawn Lane's playing so much, it's so awe inspiring.

    As far as his speed goes though, what I love about it (as demonstrated in this video) is that all his fast licks sound like they are impossible to play on a guitar.

    Truly one of the best guitar players that ever lived.

  • Absolutely Incredible !!!!

  • Cliff Burton wasn't even a guitarist ffs, geez..

  • No fucking way!

  • wtf, are you serious?

  • WOW!!! Incredible...

    Shawn Lane = Musical God

  • RULE # 1)open mouth and insert foot...Bucket and Shawn were good friends

  • geez

  • "well that doesnt change the fact that buckethead is stupid shit"

    Shawn Lane would have disagreed with you.

  • @jaranarm you do know that buckethead pritty much learnd off Shawn

  • @SkabCrowley

    don't forget paul gilbert and pebber brown. buckehead is largely self-taught anyways.

  • wooo go Shawn lane!!!!! 18 notes per second!!!!!!!!u rock

  • is more than 18!!!

  • I never thought I would find a shredder who was more interesting to listen to than Yngwie...I was wrong...

  • wow

    I like yngwie but he doesn't compare in the same league to the underground shred scenes

  • You cant compare many guitarists to yngwie, his passion for music is ridiculous whether you like his or not.

  • true, he's just a little too straight laced for my personal tastes though

  • What the fuck, man.

    What the FUCK.

  • JESUS

    CHRST

  • Stop with all the guitarist arguments. Shawn and Bucket both highly admired each other and did things that impressed the other. I doubt either of them would have liked or cared about what any of you have been arguing over.

  • Buckethead is stupid shit...

  • buckethead was inspired from shawn lane and yes lane is better but who is better than shawn lane id say noone so...

  • well that doesnt change the fact that buckethead is stupid shit

  • buckethead would tell you you're a fucking idiot and that he can't play that because buckethead admired shawn lane more than anyone else..

  • shawn was so amazing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!

  • Certainly not, Buckethead couldn't pick that if his life depended on it!

  • What a ridiculous conversation!

  • Shawn Lane will never be equalled in skill, technique, or raw talent. Rusty Cooley is fast, but nothing like Lane. MAB is good, but his tone sucks. That is what separated Shawn Lane from everyone else, his tone was so much better and more fluid. Being from Memphis and having seen him live a number of times I can tell you that he really is that fast and clean. Plus his talents as a songwriter and pianist far supercede Rusty, MAB, and others. Sorry folks, that's just the truth.

  • how does he get that weird tone from 2:43-3:08?

  • With Tone Zone pickups, scary fingers, three differents delay, and a guitar that doesn't exist anymore.

  • And a Paf pro in the neck position, but it is not the pickup he uses for that sound.

  • supposedly charvel is going to make him a signature guitar in the next few years even though he passed away the same guitar he used in this video as a matter of fact

  • I need to practice...

  • y'know, I always had a lot of respect for his legato skills, but after watching this, I am flat out SCARED of his picking skills. Anyone who says Lane has no feeling obviously hasn't listened to his music, hasn't watched him play in a live situation, NOT these instructional clips. He had so much soul when he played,that he would make Satch, Vai or even SRV bow down in reverance. His playing is by far more intimidating than even MAB, and yet, people still try and diss him, I just don't get it.

  • ridiculous nonesense playing...he should of changed his name to "shawn LAME"!!!!!LOL jk hes one of the greatest of all time...im just jealous!!!lol R.I.P. SHAWN LANE!!! what a loss :(

  • u can hear his allan holdsworth influences

  • ya.. well holdsworth is the man

  • Lane's a legend... Flawless technique and brilliant compostions. Simpletons often dismiss what they cannot understand.

  • some people have the abilety to make the simplest things speek somthing that this guy could of have never do.for example try to listen to hendrix and understand why all the covers people do to his music almost never sound good when their playing the exact same notes

  • don't ever compare that horrid sound to al demiola or petrucci just don't.there is no feel in this guy's playin and what's with that obsession with speed there are things that are harder to do than playing fast like composing somthin like fur elise or playing with real feel.

  • al dimeola is a great player... and pertucci is definetly not a bad player, although I don't know if you can compare him to lane,

  • I am sure AL diMeola will have to do some additional rehearsals only to get near that speed and precision.

  • well al's style is great just how it is.... playing isnt all about speed and precision, look at hendrix,even though I don't own a hendrix album, and he's far from my favorite, the reason he recieves notoriety even today is because he played with soul... same thing goes even for a player like stevie ray,,

  • Jimi Hendrix is great because he practiced... A lot. If you don't have soul, you won't practice.

  • Shawn Lane was and is a legend for thsoe who say he just plays random notes all I have to say is that read the description this from an intructional DVD it's not his music he is was a prodigy and still is Jason Becker,Allan Holdswroth,Shawn Lane,John Petrucci,Al Demialo,Steve Morse,Marty Friedman,Paul Gilbert,and Bucket Head!Some of the greates people out there!

  • mihcale angelo fuckin sucks

  • you know, shawn lane's family owns the rights to this, and they still sell it on shawn lane's website. You should TAKE THIS DOWN!!!!

  • Yes, Shawn Lane's family owns the right to pretty much every Shawn Lane clip on youtube, because almost all of the Shawn Lane youtube clips are from the DVD's that they sell. However, I know many who have discovered Shawn Lane through youtube clips like these and then have went on to buy his music and DVDs from Shawn's family. If someone uploaded the entire Shawn Lane instructional video - THEN I could see the problem with it.

  • buddy, it's a 4 minute vid; his family isn't gonna lose sales because of this crappy quality 4-minute vid

    plus, Shawn is finally getting some recognition thanks to youtube

  • @CRSutherland I think Shawn's family is happier that people are enjoying his music rather than worrying about making money.

  • Visit my page to hear my weird metal music!

  • If shawn was still alive, he would undoubtablly be the fastest shredder in the world over michael angelo.

  • RIP Shawn Lane! amazing legend

  • Holy crap, that's insane!! Sometimes it seems like he's just throwing his hand around doing whatever but he's not every note rings out perfectly it's amazing!!!

  • Right on man!!!

  • Some people can't read the description of the video. Go buy his albums. They're on itunes for 10 bucks a piece. I love the song "the way it has to be". There are a few fast licks but its mostly just some good melody. The guy was great. Get over it.

  • You have one of the funniest screennames I have ever seen. I cracked up when I red that!

  • Not close to Lane in any aspect.

  • Holy crap- there is a god.

  • shawn is amazing so fast jesus

  • That guy was really great, his technique was superb and he had a unique sound. R.I.P. Shawn

  • F*ck me he is amazing! Jaw dropping technique, and the sounds that come out of this guys guitar is freaky!

  • random notes?? hahah u dont know nothing, i see

  • I feel like I'm being abducted by aliens.

  • This man is the greatest guitar that ever lived and he will most likely hold that honor for a very long time.

  • amen

  • Is it true this guy did the South Beach Diet and came back as buckethead?

  • u, are an idiot

  • This coming from a guy with "cherub" in his name. Go suck an egg brother.

  • Guys this is instructional video for God's sake. Check his brilliant work and then express your opinion.

    His arrpeggios are exotic. I have been listening to metal-shred stuff for 20 years and I have not seen something more difficult than this. THE GREATEST GUITAR PLAYER OF ALL TIME.

    Check out his work with Hellborg-Marchesini.

  • greatest ever by far?, don't insult all of the greats out there, and the guitar history that's been made, with idiotic statements, especially with this dim/wholetone soup, you want excercises? buy a book, shame he died young though, too bad the music is expressionless. Sounds like excercises strung together, what audience was he targeting? he cut everyone out within listening range, what a mess and a waste of talent. this belongs in a book of licks. this is boring, not music.

  • have you read what I said in the description?

    this is off an INSTRUCTIONAL VIDEO for god's sake!

  • greg howe is awesome too.

  • Shawn Lane was the greatest electric guitarist who ever lived - even better than the only other player in his league, the immortal Allan Holdsworth.

  • Exactly.

    Even Allan admited this, though Shawn himself would never say he was... I am sure deep inside he did know.

    Just like at NAMM when he would jam with all the greats and they would have their jaws drop when his part came up.

    The beauty is, he writes great songs aswell and has some very catchy slow passages. Gray Pianos for example.

  • shawn lane and stanley jordan owns the jazz scene --> my opinion

  • No problem; Debashish Bhattachara, Allan Holdsworth, Steve Vai, Jennifer Batton, John Stowell, Jimi Hendrix, Ron Thall, John McLaughlin, Etc.

  • SBE1 its actualy sound good for me. realy you think that thechnical speed for speed but men play at this speed is like flying in heaven! Poeple who heard shred and dont know music.. will say its shit. but someone who actualy know what shred is will say its emotion its a sorte of "anger". sorry man... but its actualy sound good to me and that about taste say that you dont like it is a thing.. but say it sound bad is another

  • Oh...My...God. Wow.

  • Fast? Yes. Technically impressive? Yes. Sound good?  Nope.

  • hahah your right, but he sounded good sometimes tho, nice player

  • petrucci and lane are tyhe best guitarist to ever live, try playing or writing any of their material and you'll see what i mean/

  • "Petrucci and Lane" go together like "Kenny G. and John Coltrane". Nobody can touch Lane; Petrucci has tons of superiors on guitar.

  • no he doesnt, the only superior he has is shawn lane, and petrucci writing abilities are out of this world, he write insane lyrics that go that suit his singer and lane writes instrumentals...

  • guitar for sale

  • His playing is totally unique and full of amazing, sophisticated ideas. The reason some call it monotonous seems to have more to do with the speed at which his thoughts are expressed, rather than the content of said thoughts. One thing's for sure; it ain't mindless shredding, or speed for speed's sake.

  • Wow, I had no idea Shawn was so violent. That's a shocker. Not sure of the relevence of Gambale's fashion sense, or his sexual orientation. Or what qualifies 408's asinine remarks as "homosexual".

  • While I agree that it can get a little monotonous after a bit...the man was a genius. Give him his due.

  • AMAZING TECHNIQUE! UNREACHABLE!

    (and im the oposite of a wannabe shredder -_-)

  • I've been a big Holdsworth fan for years, but I now love Lane just as much. They are both incredible, and with totally different styles. They were fans of each other. How can you decide who's "better", when they both have such wonderful, and unique gifts? Why does it matter? Just enjoy, and be thankful.

  • Those amazing note flurries contain brilliant and beautiful phrases, if you can take it in. It's too intense for some; understandable, but to say that it's "too fast" is simply a statement of your own limits as a listener. It's silly to fault the artist for your limitations.

  • Holdsworth is way better on all accounts, most importantly, being musical. Still, this guy is good.

  • Shawn laughed at the people solely obsessed with speed. He was so much more than mere technique.

  • Very few guitarists make me go "wow" and this did.

  • He's technically UNBELIEVABLE. But the live performance part of this video is quite monotonous and so fast that it has no soul or musicality. Sorry.

  • that's because he's playing in a instructional guitar vid :p

  • Soul and musicality have no speed limit. The ideas and passion in the duet with the drummer are awe inspiring if you can hear them. The limitations are yours, not his.

  • Sorry Gregorypeckory. The "technical ability" is awe inspiring. Yes. But even Lane says that "it's a cool thing to do - EVERY NOW AND AGAIN - to sound out of the box." You have to use that technique sparingly. It's hard to listen to more than 30 secs of that. 1:43 - 3:57 gets old fast. Yes, that's my limitation. Although a bit of "soul" peaked through at around 3:24-:26.

  • We're talking about two different things. The duet with the drummer wasn't just a bunch of repeating diminshed licks. It's kind of useless arguing whether a performance has "soul", an impossible quality to define, let alone measure. I'll never talk you into loving it, and you won't talk me out of it. So be it.

  • this is the fastest ive ever seen

  • check out Abstract Logic

  • i say the same.. nobody comes close shawn... just a note: he only studied technique until his 17 years old! There's an old video of him with 17 yo and he has pratically the same technique...

  • he destroys almost everyone at speed.. heard some close people but no one that insane.. and he was pretty unmelodic when he was 17, i saw that video too..

  • FG is good, but not even close to Lane. Nobody I've ever heard could come close to doing the things Shawn did imho. 

  • You're a total moron!

  • Shawn was a great player no doubt. A genius in fact. No-one can call him "shit" even if you hate jazz fusion. I'm primarily a neoclassical dude but i love this playing too. Lane can do emotion- check out Grey Pianos Flying & Get You Back if you think he can't. His tech is insane, my bruv who is into urban music was awe struck when i showed him my Power Solos vid.

  • there not random notes, there arpegios going up in minor 3rds, think yngwie times the speed by 100 = this video

  • except his phrasing is way beyond yngwie's comprehension.

  • ive heard some of his music, just doesnt really do it for me. he is inhuman however, but what is he trying to say?

  • in-fookin-sane

  • Fucking Inhuman!!!!

    

  • f0rsaken408 is the biggest douche in the whole fuckin universe.

  • FG is better only at sweeping,Shawn Lane is/was better than him in every other techinques+the feeling.

  • How many guitarists does it take to screw in a light bulb? 12. One to screw it in and 11 to stand around grumbling about how this guy or that other guy could've done it better.

  • never heard that before. what are your career plans?

  • lol n00b, u judge his playing by this vid? noob... and still, this vid shows he has awesome techniqe, so he cant suck -.-

  • shawn>every one else

  • i heard somewhere that buckethead was heavily influenced by this dude, i can totally see the similarities between their licks, buckethead totally stole this dudes licks.

  • Hahaha...Shawn...I like when he goes "And you can also do that lick picking every note!"

    No...YOU can do that,Shawn! We can't! Not at that speed anyways...

    RIP..what an amazing player.

  • Whoever gave Shawn Lane a 4 star rating should go fucking suck their own dick.

  • Yes, but he'd have to cut it off first, which might make the punishment a little excessive!

  • so?

    he could still rip a new asshole to any mindless shredder out there

  • Don't get me wrong man, I'm a big Shawn Lane fan, I just did't like the massive delay on the guitar tone. I wish I could've heard that with no effects.

  • WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY too much effects on his tone.

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