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  • did you catch that arpeggio thing he does at like 0:05?

  • BEST EVER

  • Let us all pray that Jason Becker can be cured and his ALS given to Justin Bieber.

  • @KetamineAddict why would you wish that on someone

  • Broderick is good in his own right. But this is Jason Becker. He is a musician guitar composer extraordinaire. Those who know his music knows his innovative approach to composition. Musical genius.

  • Holy Shit, CCCCCCCCOMBO BREAKER!

  • As Marty Friedman himself said, improv was the only area in which Jason could be considered weak.

  • @VoyagerAbove You call this weak? What the hell are you smoking 'cause I want some.

  • @DillonBerkley I won't say it's not impressive, but it's not interesting. It isn't memorable. His songs are. And don't get me wrong, I'm a massive fan of Becker.

  • who dislike this video from heaven the guitarist ever

  • Edward Van Halen was the reason Jason started to play guitar.

  • @aapoaalto2 : heeeyyyyy !!! britney spears is the main reason y jason becker love to fuck a guitar.. ok shut up all of you,..

  • just put it this way... the next generations will always surpass the previous ones... but without the previous generations the new ones could have never existed......

  • I'm gonna quote another Jewtuber "Arguing over the internet is like the Special Olympics. Even if you win, you're still retarded"

  • sweet phrasing and tone on display here!

  • Jason's improvisation isn't as good as Marty's, but god he is fast.

  • @mingebag851 jasons is better

  • @mingebag851 excuse me...jason is untouchable..in every aspect of guitar playing.

  • @jimmyleppard6 Dude, dont freak out. I just said my opinion... Of course Jason is unbelievable, but I prefer Marty's improvisation over Jason's.

  • @mingebag851 what the fuck you talking JASon is the best the best not firedman becker is the best friedman can t play improvisation as good jason it can

  • Jason Becker is man of peace. Marty and Jason are both brilliant in tgere one ways, amd combined that makes a atom bomb. They're friends, everybody who likes Jason or Marty are friends.

  • stop comparing guitarists with each man, every famous guitarist have there own style and also stop with bullshit this guitarist vs, this guitarist fukin stupid man.

  • Amen brotha

  • @Shiraz157  I agree, but you still can't deny that Jason was and is and always will be the absolute best.

  • @Laws631

    wrong video, this is not a slash solo

  • what I liked about the whole thing is he is teaching as he explains away the myth of the fast guitar and makes it easy to understand. NOW, PLAYING IT HAS BEEN A REAL CHALLENGE, AND I CAN'T GET THRU HALF OF IT. Kudos to Jason...THE TRUE GUITAR HERO.

  • I honestly think Jason is the greatest guitarist to ever live. He just does EVERYTHING so well... he does weird whammy stuff, he taps like Eddie, and he can sweep better than alexi laiho AND yngwie malmsteen. come on. He's not given enough credit..

  • wow FUCK alexi laiho dont even compare

    wtf

  • Definitely man. AND, he can improve very well too.

  • You mean IMPROV. I don't think there was too much room for improvement at this point haha!

  • Ya, haha, my bad.

    My fingers have "dyslexia" on a keyboard.

    I'm constantly having to go back and retype.

    Luckily I don't have "dyslexic" fingers on guitar.

    =]

  • @jbeckforever

    If the man hadn't developed that awful disease I swear Becker could be playing over the quickest jazz changes and make it sound so amazing effortlessly. The guy was an incredible player and I think that if he had been in perfect health up until this point he'd be revered as one of the greatest musicians and THE GREATEST guitarist of all time... unfortunately it seems all the talented people either die or get sick... God bless Jason Becker.

  • Well put man. Well put :)

  • There's a lot to say about one of the most inspirational musician in my life lol.

  • @Scarified2012 Yep i agree. Jason Becker is a Genius and i mean Genius in every sense of the word. He is obviously one of the greatest musicians ever, his understanding of music is incredibly advanced, his own albums and work in cacophony shows this. Also ofcourse his command of the instrument is absolutely incredible. Btw even though Marty Friedman is known as a virtuoso in the guitar world too, i still think he is actually underated. :)

  • @RDBeast

    Yep! He really is a musically intelligent person which is absent way too often in popular music and budding guitarists. His command over the instrument, as you say, is also just another level of musical mastery that Becker displays. It's not the fact that he can play fast it's that he knows how to play slow too. The "clean" part of Altitudes is a great example of him doing smooth and emotional playing. Ah, now I never really liked Friedman although he does have some amazing work.

  • @RDBeast i heard he improved the solo for tornado of souls...i really hope this is true...but even still, anyone who can compose such an incredible piece of music surely is an amazing musician...same with lucretia...that solo is a fucking BEAST

  • The Best

  • Most definitely!

  • Wow!...

  • Why are people comparing Becker and Hendrix?

  • because there both guitarists

  • Would you compare George Washingtong with Ronald Reegan?

  • no , nor would i compare becker to hendrix =)

  • @bronenalladin because hendrix's sweeps were amazing.......

  • dude i lol'd so hard at that comment

  • Obviously Hendrix never could've played the music Jason has composed but would Jason have even picked up the guitar if Hendrix never existed? Probly not Hendrix was very good for his time but he was famous for innovation. He created and started the image that you can never master the guitar but always learn more. Jason obviously knew a little something about innovation and creating new music feels and styles, so everyone just love both musicians, listen to the music and SHUT THE FUCK UP!

  • @DillonBerkley Very true, I love both, and I bet Jason would agree. :D

  • @DillonBerkley I agree with you on the sentence: listen to the music and shut the fuck up. But, I don't take the shit that if hendrix never played guitar, none of these guitarists would ever picked up the guitar. that's fucking bullshit dude. Jason was extremely talented. he first picked up the guitar when he was 4 years old. now tell me, how the fuck could he know who hendrix was when he was 4,5,6 or even 7 and 8 years old. I started playing guitar when I heard joe satriani and not hendrix..

  • @jimmyleppard6 reread my comment thats not what i said.

  • @DillonBerkley who the fuck cares, hendrix is dead man, stop the crap

  • @ramiropohle you stop dude. i posted that a year ago cause people wouldnt stop arguing if hendrix was better becker than becker. I posted this because i wanted people to stop the crap.

  • @DillonBerkley get hendrix over your ass, this is a jason becker video, not hendrix, if you like hendrix so much, coment on voodo child, red house or other of HIS SONGS

    this is a space to jason's fans

    get the fuck off!

  • @ramiropohle Hey im a Jason Becker fan as well as a Jimi Hendrix fan. I didnt say either one was better than the other because I DONT CARE! Quit being a 12 year old internet bitch. I dont know who the fuck pissed in your cheerios but it wasnt me. Did you not even read my previous comment? I posted the original comment because people were saying Hendrix was better than Becker and i disagreed but instead of aruguing with them like a bitch i found a happy median.

  • @DillonBerkley Well, yes that is true. But when was the question of "image" apparent for Hendrix or Jason? And actually Jason learned at a young age, so it's less likely that Hendrix was THE REASON he picked up guitar. But yes, he obviously pursued it with the help of Hendrix. See, Jason is more of a composer guitarist, who writes all kinds of chord progressions, then translates it into crazy arrpeggios or tapping patterns. EVERY guitarist, improving are most likely influenced highly by Hendrix.

  • @DillonBerkley Jason picked up the guitar because of Bob Dylan believe it or not.

  • @KornSOAD This argument was from over a year ago and your comment is irrelant to why i posted mine. Read back through the comments and you'll understand why i posted it or just don't comment back. I'm about to take it down from all the hate mail im getting from it and it was meant to shut everyone up cause people would not quit arguing about if Jason Becker was better than Jimi Hendrix. Don't give me a Jason history lesson cause you're preaching to the choir.

  • @DillonBerkley Dude... take the fucking dildo out of your god damn ass, and relax. I wasn't taking a side of your damn argument. I just thought you would think that was interesting and ironic cause Bob Dylan wasn't much of a guitar player.

  • @KornSOAD Well excuse me. When you write believe it or not that sounds like you want to argue over the internet. My bad but word you sentences more carefully as its easy to take anything the wrong way especially since i've been getting so much crap about the comment. Yeah i do think thats kinda strange cause jason is like the polar opposite of bob dylan in terms of guitar speak.

  • @DillonBerkley chris broderick has mastered the guitar. sorry.

  • @tmvledzep

    Not even close. He is a good tapper, his sweeps are good (but sometimes sloppy), his runs are incredibly mediocre and just plain weak, and what great musical piece has Broderick ever composed? I haven't heard anything but little snipets of what sounds like it might be a song. Broderick is a very technical guitar player. It ends there.

  • @Fluffypopcicle technical ability is the only way to master the guitar. He can literally do everything on the guitar and with extremely smooth execution even at ridiculous speeds. including eight finger tapping AND classical guitar. if you're talking about musicianship/artistry then yes perhaps you are right but anyone who says Chris Broderick hasn't mastered the guitar is an idiot unto himself.

  • @tmvledzep

    You're not experienced in the least if you believe anything you just said. He can't do everything on the guitar, not even close. watch?v=6cGTsX3O-2E that's 40 nps and he is picking 40 nps. Can Chris Broderick do that? Hell no. Can he play Shawn Lane's augmented stretches at the speeds Shawn Lane did them at? Hell no. By your standards he isn't even remotely close to being a master.

  • @Fluffypopcicle for a record speed like that video you linked me I'm sure if he put himself to the task he'd be able to play it that fast or faster. As for your shawn lane comment uh have you SEEN what chris broderick can do? seems like you're just upset with the fact that chris broderick has mastered the guitar.

  • @tmvledzep

    That's 40 nps. Nps stands for notes per second since you probably didn't know that. He played that while also picking 40 nps and playing a fairly challenging classical piece. Chris is said to practice as much as he can, yet he hasn't made it past a picking speed of 15 nps from what I have seen and he doesn't use any sort of complicated stretches. You are completely delusional. Any experienced guitarist would agree with me on this.

  • @Fluffypopcicle lol i didnt know what nps was? another elitist idiot who thinks no one studies music theory except himself. you're a moron.

  • @Fluffypopcicle oh and by the way I actually thought your arguments had some sort of credibility until you assumed I didn't know what nps is. obvious moron who knows nothing about guitar and music theory trying to defend his ego and favourite guitarists. done talking to you now, you're an idiot

  • @tmvledzep

    I assumed you didn't after telling you how fast he was playing and you assumed Chris Broderick could play that fast if he tried. That's repulsively illogical. If you knew what nps is and still believed Chris could do it then that just means that you are stupid. I'm not defending my ego, I'm defending facts. When I see a stupid comment I let people know that it's stupid. Yours is as stupid as they come.

  • @tmvledzep

    Oh and by the way assuming that I know no music theory because I used music theory and thought that you didn't know that music theory is really REALLY stupid. Everything you have said this entire time is unbelievably stupid. Assuming that I'm an elitist idiot- where the fuck are you getting any of this? I'm telling you that Chris Broderick can not do everything on the guitar because it's true. You even admitted it "if he put himself to the task" because he can't do it yet. Never will.

  • @Fluffypopcicle you're a moron

  • @tmvledzep

    If I'm a moron then you are this guy watch?v=Xj8TtRsQpqs

  • @Fluffypopcicle you're still a moron.

  • @tmvledzep

    You're still that guy.

  • @Fluffypopcicle sure thing moron

  • @tmvledzep

    You want my anus.

  • @Fluffypopcicle no I just think you're a moron bye

  • @tmvledzep

    You can say that I'm a moron and say that you aren't going to respond, but you probably once I reply. Because you're that guy.

  • @Fluffypopcicle What the fuck? What does that have anything to do with this video? Shut the fuck up!

  • @NailsForDinner

    Go back to the beginning of the argument and you will understand. Don't be an dick about something you don't know.

  • @Fluffypopcicle What does "You want my anus" have to do with this video? What does it have to do with Chris Broderick? Or Becker? Hendrix?

  • @NailsForDinner

    It ended with insults back and forth. I wanted to see how he would respond to something so stupid, but he fortunately did not respond.

  • he is never going to beet those guys....yet he composes music while paralyzed? He was quoted saying something like theres so much music in my head its drives me nuts. He composes with his eyes and cant even move his jaw. Dear god you are right! HE will never beet them cuz HE literally cant beet them in a guitar battle cuz he cant even move at all.

  • malmsteen=a poser who ripps off classical music

  • That's actually pretty true, he has a lot of licks ripped off from Mozart and Bach.

  • alot of these shred greats where very classically aware of artiststs who had great "riffs" (dunno how mozart or bach would react to that word being used)

    due to them usually all being classically trained.

  • I don't understand what you mean mate :/ Sorry.

  • NO FEELING! Are you serious. Go listen to "Altitudes" and "Rain " and come back. Jason Becker has put the most feel and emotion into any music I've ever heard. Let me remind you that he was still a Teenager when this video was taken. He also was Diagnosed with ALS at the age of 21 hasn't even been able to play the guitar for more than 20 years. Seriously bud, STFO, get your facts strait and don't post ridiculous shit like that.

  • Hear IMAGES from Cacophony

  • i'd say you're about 99.3% wrong. jimi hendrix is no doubt a talented s.o.b. born for guitar. but all those blues guitarists dont know any other music. they know blues, which as i guitarist i can tell you a toddler could easily learn. becker could play anything from classical to blues to pop to flamenco. basically what im saying is the musicians you put as an example do not even c o m p a r e to jasons musical intelligence

  • really dude have you ever of heard of puttin guitarist in their own syle f music but btw becker is the only guitaris who know ever music syle in the playing

  • I love AT, but... you honestly think he best Guthrie?

  • U mean is andy better than guthrie?

    yea i think so, cuz he is (in my opinion) more rounded and versatile player, in every way , except tapping. and i think thats what guthrie is all about... tapping :S

    so yea i think andy is better than guthrie, if thats what u ment :D

  • you made my day thanks :P

  • How do you spell guthrie or timmons when you clearly meant shawn lane, thats a weird typo

  • hahaha... noob!!!!!

  • faggot go die and rot alone in the dark.

  • imagine jason joined metallica instead of kirk...and cliff didnt die...that would be awsome!!

  • man this guys is just music... fucking ALS... he could easily been the best musician in all history... and just imagine to see him live in a concert :O AAA FUCKING ALS

  • Not in all history man, Mozart and Bach are pretty up there too, but easily Becker's the best of the last 200 years.

  • You'd put Becker above romantic era composers like Beethovan, Liszt, Paganini, Shubert, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Chopin, and Strauss among many others?

    thats a big statement. although to each is own. lol.

  • Yes, but Becker was the best at his 19 years of age! Imagine how great would he have been without ALS now, and in 10 more years.

  • why ?

  • youll know why later when ull grow up

  • teamtampico1 is an idiot

  • Jason is definitely amazing. He could have been the best guitarist to ever live if ALS didn't hold him back, but he is still a great musician, if not one of the best composers to ever live. Jeff Loomis is great and can shred, but he has the upper han because he had soo much time to practice and play guitar. Jason was forced to stop in his early 20's

  • jason is 1000X the musician imo

  • Jeff Loomis & Jason Becker don't even belong in the same sentence. Becker's oldest recordings make him look like a beginner.

  • True. Actually, Jason Becker is the number 3 in my best composer of all times list (Just below Mozart and Bach). Oh btw, great user name; Marty Friedman played a character in a cartoon which name is Mr. Gojira hehe.

  • i dont think a lot of people tell you this, but you just blew my fuckin mind.

  • @ItsGojira3 well IMO i think no other guitarist will every reach his glory just type in "Jason becker noolding" u will change ur mind

  • @UrbanAssault5150

    Yeah that's true. I have actually watched that video already. I've seen every jason video on youtube so far. But to be fair, jason was still starting on guitar if you think about it. He was just getting into the music industry and starting to make a name for himself and he got pulled down by ALS. Imagine how godly jason would have been if he continued playing guitar.

  • @UrbanAssault5150 nooo not the greatest

  • @Kingding6 im not going to argue on youtube but i got my guitar hero and you got yours ..

  • @ItsGojira3 and that's why he's the best

  • @ItsGojira3 y ?? y was he forced????

  • GOD

  • its really too bad he didnt have alot of time to record some more solo material with tone like that...god bless!

  • Jason is truly one of the best guitarists of my generation. He has been an inspiration to myself and countless others. If you like his works, you would also probably enjoy, Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Marty Friedman, Vivian Campbell and Gary Hoey. Check them out. They are some of the best I can think of right off the top of head.

  • Best guitarist... of any generation!

  • What a fucking bend on 0:22, plain awesome !

  • It doesn't matter how much you compare Jason Becker, The Creator of Everything, to an ordinary human being such as this.. Loomis guy, or whatever. Jason Becker is THE Guitar, he revolutionized it for sure. He did this shit in the age of 20, that's unique, not only did he invent his own style etc. He was fast and mastered many techniques. He was humble, funny and just played because he loved it. That equals = Unique guitarist. Suck on it.

  • that had real attitude to it, very van halenesque in that sense

  • Loomis bows down to Jason , he is one of his all time guitar heros and influences

    bit like me really...

  • Actually jasons skills and music will rape the sh*t out of loomis till eternity...

  • Loomis can't touch Him ...This was 20 odd years ago ,,,Thats how advanced he was

  • i love how you capitilized Him

  • fuck how much i admire him its incredible

  • loomis is almost as good as jason playing electic guitar but jason beccker kills him in classical guitar.

  • jason kills everybody even on banjo even with als. He is really one of a kind

  • @pikk1992 you are right man

  • haha!

  • @pianomanmty wrong JASON IS IN ALL BETTER THEN LOOMIS where is loomis as good as jason ????

  • man hes really one of the best,if you just think loomis came close,no way this guy is insanly good.

  • Loomis is the closest there is for sure! Loomis is almost his equal when it comes to sweeps, but i'm not too sure about all other styles. i'm in love w/ Jason and anything he plays... God gave and then he took it away

  • yeah idd loomis also play towards heaven with his insanly black shreds and incredible leads hes some pleasure to the ear and in one of the better bands of today among megadeth and some others that still remain.

  • becker's phrasing is prestine in this video

  • OMG!!! I have been playing guitar since i was 12 influenced by becker and yngwie etc...and i still cant even come close to something like this. Becker was just on a whole different level.

  • thats...pretty fucking sick.

    ive always loved jason. both inspiring and as a person. he never ceases to amaze me. after all the videos in the world its still amazing he was doing this at 18 years old.

    cant wait for his new cd hes composing.. will e fucking awsome as hell \m/

  • what amps did he use?? wasnt it ADA amps?

  • He mostly used a Carvin x100b which he is using in this vid, but he did use an ADA MP-1 preamp for alot of the home recording stuff

  • he used various ones, but he sounds like that on any guitar using any amp. it's the fingers.

  • I THINK I JUST HAD AN ORGASM

  • holy shit :S

  • ...wooow.... and i thoght Buckethead or Batio are talented guitarist.... well, jason is a god, period.

  • whats cool with becker is that he was young and all that crazy stuff that he can do seems so simple for him.. Ive never saw him shred. Sure saw him improvise rock solo and stuff but that must be one of a fucking show to see beckers play guitar at the limit of what he can do..

    He would prolly be able to fill 5 note in the same sound wave loll

  • HES KOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

  • Daaaaaamn! Jason is the fucking man on guitar.

  • OH SHIT!

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