Where did this idea come from anyways that music should be emotion/expression/feeling...? Music is art - there are no rules in art. Shouldnt music be whatever you like to hear the most? Whatever that is.
You can sit here and say: it's all speed, Blah, blah, blah...There'
s no feeling..Blah, blah, blah. I can't play that fast, but I play with pure emotion...Blah, bleh, bleeeeehhw!!! But if you want pure, absolute truth, if you want to be realistic about science and the way the world functions in the correct fashion, then you must simply stop denying reason, open your mouth and say that George Bellas is one of, if not the most talented, amazing, mind blowing guitarists/composers on this planet.
Meaningless musicaly, superfast though, scale runs and arpegios. Have you ever wondered why guys like Bellas, akthough technicaly proficient, never made a breakthrough in their career? I believe the answer is the lack of the ability to create melodies that can touch the soul!!
@vaistile Relax man! I am just saying my opinion judging from what i listen. I believe that soloists like Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson or Steve Vai have succeeded because they've managed to create (non-mainstream) music that can touch the soul even when they play superfast. Obviously George Bellas Hasn't.
@mkouros I know that it's only a matter of taste, but saying that Mr BELLAS has a lack of melody isn't true. If you say that popular musician find better melody , it's like saying that common pop artist find better melody that bellas or borislav mitic or even vai and satch. It's not an argument for me. I think (since i'm on youtube) that unknow guitar player are more talented than popular. If they didn't break trought like you say it's because their melody is a little bit harder to understand.
@mkouros no, it's just few people have the capability to understand this kind of music. Other genres, for instance, Melodic, Power, Neoclassical, Gothic or Symphonic Metal are so melodic themselves but you'll never listen to them on a radio or tv program and that's because most people are full of shit in their brains.
Btw, with your thinking you're saying that all those poppy groups like jonas brothers actually have that ability to create melodies since they made breakthrough in their careers.
@JuanPaBJxGothic If you read carefully my previous post you will see that i am reffering to non-mainstream music and not pop oriented. Only the words Jonas Brothers sincerely make me wanna puke. Now, i was never in to neoclassical so maybe i am not able to understand George Bellas artistic expression. I am planning to have a listen to some bands that incooporate this genre in order to have an objective opinion.
@ nGorkee..Thats all very well but some musicians are still technically better. Clapton could never play Speed Metal Symphony...You need only be reasonable to allow that ...athough as you'll find in these posts- reason is not automatic, those who deny it can never be conquered by it
What I believe in is that... a musician who plays by 'heart' and pours out their 'soul' on their preferred instrument is incomparable to the next musician who does the same...even on a different instrument.
One of the lessons we tend to overlook is the power to appreciate. Even if he were the lousiest guitarist/musician on Earth (just by saying it gives me the shivers) we can still learn a thing or two.
As they say, you CAN enjoy them at the same time w/o making a fuss on who's who & whatnots.
@Exutus they don't need anything...that's your own idea...be the change you want to see in the world...music, art, expression is INFINITE...think about that when before you go to sleep
@FRIDAY13TAURUS no, see, i have. thats why i find it easy. sweeping is easy. string skipped arpeggios are easy. string skipped tapped arpeggios are easy. run scales at fast speeds is easy. nothing more than buying a metrenome, sitting down, and taking the time. this guy is doing complex stuff though.
@ShredFever92 easy to do, very hard to do well...many can, few will...
as for George, by your definition it's not that hard, nothing "complex" relative to what's been done...he uses mostly speed picking(aka sweep, economy, or as Michael Angelo called it, alternaTIVE picking) and does a lot of linear scalar runs with simple diatonic intervals; his arpeggios are rudimentary and compositions and arrangements are well below world class(think Mahler)...
oh and you're 18...well, I've heard over a thousand 18yr olds shred in the last 30 years, but can count on one hand those I've heard shred exceptionally well...
@FRIDAY13TAURUS yeah but i practice more and my dad is a jazz teacher at a highschool and ive been playing since 6 years old and im in college for music.... so yeah i can shred...
it's just ironic to hear someone say shred is easy and then say Bellas is complex when Bellas is truly shredding...so all this time to me Bellas was shredding but to you he was beyond shredding...we have different standards for shredding...you must settle for very little...
si lugar a dudas uno de mi guitarrista favorito. Toca super limpio, una magnifica coordinacion, infinidad de conocimientos ufff¡¡¡ que mas se puede pedir.
@guitardemon00 que onda¡¡ pues es uno de esos quitarristas que no tienen limites y a tocado con bandas o como musico junto a solistas y todos son unos super discos (claro si te gusta su estilo)
rofl i know what you mean, i had serious trouble finding a tone i liked with fenders too. mess with the tone knobs and don't play with crummy amps. get a good tube amp or at least get a peavey vypyr. the peavey vypyr is a weird amp because that it's a solid state but all but one amp models sound like poopy unless they're cranked. just like a tube. your surroundings also affect the tone. if i were to play an amp at home and an amp at guitarcenter it would sound quite different.
yeah, this dude is awesome. i'm not sure what people that are bashing him are listening to. he's amazing. i don't like neoclassical guitar, but it doesn't suck by any means.
OMG!!! I'm buying table legs and attaching them to my guitar... That would make a great coffee table... This video makes my playing as musical as the eshaust noice from my WRX... Great chops, George is extremely talented and inspired by no other than GOD.
George Bellas is my choice for best guitar player ,even though Jeff Loomis has the best recent guitar masterpiece.You have to compare them with other greats too. So since the high technical ability is even it comes down to composing.(which is more subjective)..and Bellas has the better composing for guitar type tunes.Another good way to compare all players is by overall number of good tunes.,if I count the overall number of tunes I like by each, its very close.But George Wins
Not a single person commenting on here could improvise something that good....so before you post a negative comment, post your own neoclassical improv and show everyone how good you play.
well now...that is just fantastic. I don't listen to neoclassical and i love this too. I can't watch it enough. I play blues and I still eat this up. it's just that good. very very nice playing and tone. this is more than mastery. it is art. thanks for posting this great video.
metalhead326 also maybe you remember the first Impellieterri album sounded alot like Yngwie too...eventually Chris got his own sound going though.....Mindaflame7 whatever dude...Tom Hess may be unlikable and a salesman but he is a very good player and deep down you know it.
Malmsteen started the fast neo classical along with Randy Rhoads...but all of the subsequent neo classical players are not clones...only a few were..For instance Yngwie doesnt sound anything like Tom Hess
@nneevveerrmmoorree Comparing Yngwie to Tom Hess would be like comparing a "toy pony" with a life size real stallion. Hess is not even a pimple on Yngwie's ass. He is way over rated by the students he ripps off for e-mail lessons, when he simply is an internet salesman with a very good sales pitch. George Bellas however, is the REAL deal.
Admirable playing. I love how dry the tone is, as well. Paul Gilbert used to tell us at GIT. Practice with a clean tone, no tricks. The more unflattering the tone, the better one focuses on the details. Nice post, this guy's great!
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isnt it about time people stop playing 6 strings? you sir are a good guitarist... however im not a fan of 6 strings or fender. maple fingerboards are awesome tho.
First I wasn't talking to you, I was answering to "davtones". He said this guy has the best technique he have ever seen, so he doesn't know Guthrie Govan. If you want new flesh, you can check Mika Tyyskä aka Mr Fastfinger.
@ExtremeBogom No. It means that if you like this George Bellas improvisation, you'll probably be amazed by any Govan's one. And I think few guitar fans discovered Govan by reading my comment. Maybe they prefer playing guitar that spending many hours on youtube.
Btw George Bellas' style isn't noticeable, although he has a good technique. (not really neoclassism but more like neobaroque, it's a minuscule part of Bach genious). Guthrie has an astonishing technique, and has his own style.
@IbanezicepOpO I love both players styles. It;s not a race, there is plenty of room to enjoy both players. Many players will already know who Guthrie Govan is. I'm sure also that both players put 110% of themselves into their music.
I think that you'll find that although Guthrie Govan has his own style this is an amalgamation or aggregation of the many players techniques that Guthrie has learned over the years layered liberally with Guthrie's own guitar personality.
@lauriemonk ooo well to you its just shredding? well im sorry then big shot. if its just shredding to YOU, then i apologize. to me, its better than most shredders.
@lauriemonk exactly. and i said i usually finding shredding easy. because most shredders suck. so when i said this is complex, it means i found it better than most shred. you said to you this is just shred, not complex shred, which would mean that theres much beter shred out there.
@IbanezicepOpO Better yet..............check out Scotty Anderson. Scotty Anderson makes Govan look like beginner! Quite frankly I enjoy Mr. Bellas's playing over Guthrie Govan. Personally I find Guthrie's playing rather uninspiring. I would much rather listen to fusion players like Shawn Lane or Allan Holdsworth!
great chops. Tone needs to be more open sounding in my opinion and not so compressed. Nice sweeping in that middle section. Thank godz Yngwie left Sweden and was able to blaze this trail and make it popular.
This is awesome but George if you read this please get back to neo classical..maybe reunite with Vitalij Jeff Loomis passed you as best overall on account of your recent jazz album..love you man
Just because someone plays neoclassical does not make them a Malmsteen copy. This isn't even close to what malmsteen does. Its the same STYLE that malmsteen does,.
I didn't say that he sounds too much like malmsteen, i just said "yaun" because this style is all around and i listened to it a lot a few years ago untill it became very very vorring TO ME.
It's a GREAT style but it's so overused and cliche that i can't hear it anymore =)
and i bet if malmsteen did not the play the way he does..this guy would still play this??..dude wake up..because without yngwie none of us would play this kind of music..and listen at 0:45 don´t come and say that he did not listen to malmsteen to make that arpeggio..so stop with your bullshit talk because you don´t know shit about guitar playing...this guy played Malmsteen´s chops all the way and added some cromatic runs so that people knows that he can play other scales to,fact is he is good
i slightly disagree. there are people who branch out from malmsteen in neoclassical guitar playing, but people like this guy and joe stump play similar enough to call them similar to malmsteen. i can tell the differences between the 2, but there are also similarities. i prefer neo-classical guitarists that really branch out from malmsteen like jeff loomis and rusty cooley.
@Fluffypopcicle George Bellas is an extremely diverse and incredible musician. Have you listened to any of his music other than his improvising? Compositionally, he blows malmsteen, loomis, cooley and just about every other guitarist out of the water. And as far as branching out, he plays guitar, bass, keyboards, sings and composes neoclassical, progressive rock, pure classical and jazz.
yeah, i was dead wrong. i broke one of my golden rules in music: never judge a musician by random shred or improv videos. however i just see many people imitating malmsteen these days that when i see a guy playing the harmonic minor scale using a fender stratocaster i assume it's safe to say he is a yngwie copy. george bellas is like a much more versatile and original yngwie malmsteen.
Superb technique bearing in mind the sound is unforgiving,I think it,s also very compressed hence lack of attack,it grows on you and you have to admire his braveness!
His tone isn't the greatest on this one but there is some dirt and rawness in this tone which most people couldn't pull off as smoothly as Bellas unless they supersaturate their amp settings.
Amazing how many "musicians" these days confuse music with doing finger exercises as fast as they can. Want to see someone improvise? Watch, say, Guthrie Govan play anything. Want to see someone masturbate with a guitar? See above.
I can agree that he does a lot of chromatic and a tonal stuff...and some stuff that just seem like exercises, but this isnt really an accurate representation of the kinda music he plays...check out his song step into the future, definitely some intense original stuff......but yeah I have to agree, guthrie govan totally blows anyones asses out of the water when it comes to improv.
I wouldn't say he's sloppy but I don't like his tone. Just play this piece on a clean channel. and it would sound awesome. Also, I think bellas falls in the trap of playing too many practice patterns when he "improvises" and I don't think he has enough "soul" in his playing. He is technically very good but needs to work on his feel. Page was/is sloppy as hell but he came up with some tasty riffs. For me speed is great but hitting some bumps in the road and handling them makes a piece greater.
I have to laugh...a bunch of wannabe guitarists trashing George Bellas. Pathetic.
Look, take ANY guitarist, and have them play with the same tone as displayed here, and guess what? There WILL be inaccuracies. WHY. Because they are human.
Bellas is awesome...calling him "sloppy" is just ignorant.
Yer totally agree. In fact with an almost clean sound he left himself easily exposed to any mistakes. NONE of the sort , fuckin amazing. I can play what he played here but no way for this duration without flicking an open string or something...totally flawless!
If hes improvising why the fuck should he be accurate? Its not like hes written it all out and played it 50 times before, you fuck up while your mind is wandering, who gives a shit? Makes it sound more human
Sperzel, you must be "retarded" if you don't know how to record and play back at 1/2 speed. Do this, and you'll clearly hear he is not acurate. Listen to Rusty Cooley, Al Dimeola, Jorge Strunz, or Shawn Lane and you'll hear clean playing. A night & day difference.
I can already see that there's no point in arguing with you. But I can asure you that this guy is extremely accurate. The lack of gain and compression just makes the attack of certain notes seem a bit off, but they're not.
And although Cooley is a beast he always plays with loads of gain, so I don't see how you can compare him with this perfomance.
"attack of certain notes seem a bit off", that's because they are off. Strunz and Dimeola (also w/o gain) do not give this illusion of notes being off. This guy wavers in his accuracy, some notes are on, others are off. This does not constitute clean playing. Again, record it, play it back @ 1/2 speed. Your ears need tuning. And, i've seen Cooley warming up @ the NAMM show without any gain and he's still a "beast".
Does anyone else agree with "strunzgracie"? Ís Bellas inaccurate in this video? I just don't think so.
Also, if you need to slow down the recording to hear mistakes, is it not your ears that "need tuning"? I hear everything very clearly, and while it's not a flawless perfomance, I would not call his hands "out of sync".
I can hear he's not accurate w/o recording it. That's why i posted a comment to begin with. 1/2 speeding, will verify it. Which is what i suggested from the start. It's mind boggling how u can't hear the difference in clarity & accuracy (w/o 1/2 speed) between guys like Bellas and guys like DiMeola or Lane. Unbelievable.
Getting others to agree with you will not validate your arguement.
Bla bla bla Lane and Dimeola are better, I KNOW that. But this guy still plays great, and you're sitting there talking trash about him when you have absolutely nothing to show for yourself.
Basicly, you're a moron, and this is the last you'll hear from me in the subject
Personally, I don't like the tone, but the fact that you can shred with that tone and have it sound that amazing is truly awe inspiring, great technique and improv, a superb job!!
- this man, playing this smooth with this almost clean overdrive sound...
He got some skills, a very developed picking+fingering sincronisation tecnique.
I find it funny when people use twice the overdrive this guy uses to get this stuff easyer to play... while this guy uses a ver weak tone, making this stuff more difficult to play!
people who complain the tone, are the ones who only can play with loads of distortion= and without distortion they're shit
I want to ask you something and I'm going to sound like a real asshole but I'm not trying to break your balls or anything...
first of all let me tell you what a very talented guitar player you are, I've been playing for around 2 and a half years and I am trying to work on improving my finger dexterity and you my friend got it,
any way here goes, why do people as talented as you play this shitty music? I mean, this neo classical thing is bullshit, you should be playing in a rock and roll band bud
Where did this idea come from anyways that music should be emotion/expression/feeling...? Music is art - there are no rules in art. Shouldnt music be whatever you like to hear the most? Whatever that is.
AndyPollow1 2 weeks ago
amazing. fuck.
tapeboi321 1 month ago
You can sit here and say: it's all speed, Blah, blah, blah...There'
s no feeling..Blah, blah, blah. I can't play that fast, but I play with pure emotion...Blah, bleh, bleeeeehhw!!! But if you want pure, absolute truth, if you want to be realistic about science and the way the world functions in the correct fashion, then you must simply stop denying reason, open your mouth and say that George Bellas is one of, if not the most talented, amazing, mind blowing guitarists/composers on this planet.
DerekJennyMusic 2 months ago
messi!
spaceorion 2 months ago
He sounds quite a bit like Vinnie Moore but I can't stand his tone!
streakerdude 2 months ago
George bellas is the best guitarist best clean playing, clean when playing solos and best ryhtem
cptmawsome 2 months ago
Digging the sound
flaminpenguin 4 months ago
fck this guy's technique is freakishly tight.
A3onstorm 4 months ago
George super clean playing..
FreedomMountain 6 months ago 4
@FreedomMountain es por eso que lo admiro mas que a ningun otro guitarrista, el es alguien que no se esconde detrás de su distorsion
shredorshred 3 months ago
@shredorshred I here you, thanks for replying bro.
FreedomMountain 3 months ago
Meaningless musicaly, superfast though, scale runs and arpegios. Have you ever wondered why guys like Bellas, akthough technicaly proficient, never made a breakthrough in their career? I believe the answer is the lack of the ability to create melodies that can touch the soul!!
mkouros 7 months ago
@mkouros or only few people can understand their work. Not like you.
vaistile 5 months ago
@vaistile Relax man! I am just saying my opinion judging from what i listen. I believe that soloists like Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson or Steve Vai have succeeded because they've managed to create (non-mainstream) music that can touch the soul even when they play superfast. Obviously George Bellas Hasn't.
mkouros 5 months ago
@mkouros I know that it's only a matter of taste, but saying that Mr BELLAS has a lack of melody isn't true. If you say that popular musician find better melody , it's like saying that common pop artist find better melody that bellas or borislav mitic or even vai and satch. It's not an argument for me. I think (since i'm on youtube) that unknow guitar player are more talented than popular. If they didn't break trought like you say it's because their melody is a little bit harder to understand.
vaistile 4 months ago
@mkouros I also apologize for my "not like you". Maybe you can understand their work but if it's not your taste...
vaistile 4 months ago
@mkouros no, it's just few people have the capability to understand this kind of music. Other genres, for instance, Melodic, Power, Neoclassical, Gothic or Symphonic Metal are so melodic themselves but you'll never listen to them on a radio or tv program and that's because most people are full of shit in their brains.
Btw, with your thinking you're saying that all those poppy groups like jonas brothers actually have that ability to create melodies since they made breakthrough in their careers.
JuanPaBJxGothic 3 months ago
@JuanPaBJxGothic If you read carefully my previous post you will see that i am reffering to non-mainstream music and not pop oriented. Only the words Jonas Brothers sincerely make me wanna puke. Now, i was never in to neoclassical so maybe i am not able to understand George Bellas artistic expression. I am planning to have a listen to some bands that incooporate this genre in order to have an objective opinion.
mkouros 3 months ago
this guys technique and phrasing is outstanding....
jjuan54 7 months ago
I like the way he threw in the bluesy lick at the very end.
markstacechris 7 months ago
The people who disliked are jealous.
FerchoH4x 9 months ago
he is the only one who can make that poor thin tone sound fat and great... 8 stars..
chechoguitar112 10 months ago
Holy shit! His were closed
PriesTxExciteR 10 months ago
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mojopin70 11 months ago
@mojopin70 Guthrie Govan
lauriemonk 11 months ago
wow. when chromatic is played at a blinding speed it really sounds great....
tabotabojayar 11 months ago
throw high-gain and learn to shred on clean tone like him!!
himalchulicup 11 months ago
i wish i could see him jam with jason becker....
tabotabojayar 1 year ago
@ nGorkee..Thats all very well but some musicians are still technically better. Clapton could never play Speed Metal Symphony...You need only be reasonable to allow that ...athough as you'll find in these posts- reason is not automatic, those who deny it can never be conquered by it
nneevveerrmmoorree 1 year ago
give this guy a backing track
6rosebudX 1 year ago 3
What I believe in is that... a musician who plays by 'heart' and pours out their 'soul' on their preferred instrument is incomparable to the next musician who does the same...even on a different instrument.
One of the lessons we tend to overlook is the power to appreciate. Even if he were the lousiest guitarist/musician on Earth (just by saying it gives me the shivers) we can still learn a thing or two.
As they say, you CAN enjoy them at the same time w/o making a fuss on who's who & whatnots.
nGorkee 1 year ago 12
@nGorkee very well put.
lauriemonk 1 year ago
@nGorkee fucking christ stfu and just say its cool or something
sydebewbzgigity 11 months ago
@sydebewbzgigity
It's cool.
nGorkee 11 months ago
Is George Greek?
prutsikas 1 year ago
@Exutus they don't need anything...that's your own idea...be the change you want to see in the world...music, art, expression is INFINITE...think about that when before you go to sleep
FRIDAY13TAURUS 1 year ago
I added some Concert Hall reverb effects to this video...sounds better :P
FRIDAY13TAURUS 1 year ago
Beautiful! Love your tone. :)
Hard for me to follow some of the syncopation but I think that's more of a problem with respect to my own abilities...
talgren 1 year ago
damn. i usually find shredding to be easy as shit, but this guy is tasteful and so damn clean.
ShredFever92 1 year ago
@ShredFever92 shredding easy as shit??? hahaha, you haven't practiced much :P
FRIDAY13TAURUS 1 year ago
@FRIDAY13TAURUS no, see, i have. thats why i find it easy. sweeping is easy. string skipped arpeggios are easy. string skipped tapped arpeggios are easy. run scales at fast speeds is easy. nothing more than buying a metrenome, sitting down, and taking the time. this guy is doing complex stuff though.
ShredFever92 1 year ago
@ShredFever92 easy to do, very hard to do well...many can, few will...
as for George, by your definition it's not that hard, nothing "complex" relative to what's been done...he uses mostly speed picking(aka sweep, economy, or as Michael Angelo called it, alternaTIVE picking) and does a lot of linear scalar runs with simple diatonic intervals; his arpeggios are rudimentary and compositions and arrangements are well below world class(think Mahler)...
FRIDAY13TAURUS 1 year ago
@ShredFever92
oh and you're 18...well, I've heard over a thousand 18yr olds shred in the last 30 years, but can count on one hand those I've heard shred exceptionally well...
FRIDAY13TAURUS 1 year ago
@FRIDAY13TAURUS yeah but i practice more and my dad is a jazz teacher at a highschool and ive been playing since 6 years old and im in college for music.... so yeah i can shred...
ShredFever92 1 year ago
@ShredFever92
i can shred too...and very well...better than bellas...
FRIDAY13TAURUS 1 year ago
@ShredFever92
also, check out Marshall Harrison for some more advanced shred chops...
FRIDAY13TAURUS 1 year ago
@ShredFever92
it's just ironic to hear someone say shred is easy and then say Bellas is complex when Bellas is truly shredding...so all this time to me Bellas was shredding but to you he was beyond shredding...we have different standards for shredding...you must settle for very little...
FRIDAY13TAURUS 1 year ago
..oh, and I'd love to see this guy go duelling with that cocky guy David Shankle... mmmhmm
williamindragunawan 1 year ago
daaaang, I've been looking for the technique explanation in 1:31, what's it called, 2-string sweep maybe?
williamindragunawan 1 year ago
si lugar a dudas uno de mi guitarrista favorito. Toca super limpio, una magnifica coordinacion, infinidad de conocimientos ufff¡¡¡ que mas se puede pedir.
shredorshred 1 year ago
@shredorshred en q grupo toca el?
guitardemon00 1 year ago
@guitardemon00 que onda¡¡ pues es uno de esos quitarristas que no tienen limites y a tocado con bandas o como musico junto a solistas y todos son unos super discos (claro si te gusta su estilo)
primero que nada como solista
palace terrace
vitalij kuprij recomendadisimo
john west
ring of fire
que son de los que me acuerdo
shredorshred 1 year ago
How is that possible?
RigorMortisDeath 1 year ago
prob the cleanest chromatics ive ever heard
Stevo4411 1 year ago
This is a sick piece. Would love to check the tabs on this one...if they exist.
Smegmazor 1 year ago
how the hell do people get this kinda tone out of fender guitars?
xjackinthebox 1 year ago
@xjackinthebox
rofl i know what you mean, i had serious trouble finding a tone i liked with fenders too. mess with the tone knobs and don't play with crummy amps. get a good tube amp or at least get a peavey vypyr. the peavey vypyr is a weird amp because that it's a solid state but all but one amp models sound like poopy unless they're cranked. just like a tube. your surroundings also affect the tone. if i were to play an amp at home and an amp at guitarcenter it would sound quite different.
Fluffypopcicle 1 year ago
yeah, this dude is awesome. i'm not sure what people that are bashing him are listening to. he's amazing. i don't like neoclassical guitar, but it doesn't suck by any means.
legendofakira 1 year ago
OMG!!! I'm buying table legs and attaching them to my guitar... That would make a great coffee table... This video makes my playing as musical as the eshaust noice from my WRX... Great chops, George is extremely talented and inspired by no other than GOD.
Alexsc69 1 year ago
George Bellas is my choice for best guitar player ,even though Jeff Loomis has the best recent guitar masterpiece.You have to compare them with other greats too. So since the high technical ability is even it comes down to composing.(which is more subjective)..and Bellas has the better composing for guitar type tunes.Another good way to compare all players is by overall number of good tunes.,if I count the overall number of tunes I like by each, its very close.But George Wins
nneevveerrmmoorree 1 year ago
insane chromatics :O
Stevo4411 1 year ago
me parece a mi o toca bien la guitarra ??
librasagitario 1 year ago
George really rocks.he is just a great guitarist
athamanas 1 year ago
That was KILLER you were in a zone
wigmanite 1 year ago
This is awful.
paulpenelly 1 year ago
Not a single person commenting on here could improvise something that good....so before you post a negative comment, post your own neoclassical improv and show everyone how good you play.
clovis2012 1 year ago 2
@clovis2012 Yeah this person paulpenelly dogged my video out too.No respect anymore.
wigmanite 1 year ago
well now...that is just fantastic. I don't listen to neoclassical and i love this too. I can't watch it enough. I play blues and I still eat this up. it's just that good. very very nice playing and tone. this is more than mastery. it is art. thanks for posting this great video.
abarbee81 1 year ago 8
@abarbee81 thanks for your appreciation... it makes it all the more worth while.
lauriemonk 1 year ago 2
argg fat neck pick up . sounds like a fucking bumble bee trapped under a pillow
MUDSHARK111 1 year ago
metalhead326 also maybe you remember the first Impellieterri album sounded alot like Yngwie too...eventually Chris got his own sound going though.....Mindaflame7 whatever dude...Tom Hess may be unlikable and a salesman but he is a very good player and deep down you know it.
nneevveerrmmoorree 1 year ago
there are a few yngwie copies. Joe stump being one of them. then all those japanese dudes. Other neoclassical players usually sound original.
metalhead326 1 year ago
Malmsteen started the fast neo classical along with Randy Rhoads...but all of the subsequent neo classical players are not clones...only a few were..For instance Yngwie doesnt sound anything like Tom Hess
nneevveerrmmoorree 1 year ago
@nneevveerrmmoorree Comparing Yngwie to Tom Hess would be like comparing a "toy pony" with a life size real stallion. Hess is not even a pimple on Yngwie's ass. He is way over rated by the students he ripps off for e-mail lessons, when he simply is an internet salesman with a very good sales pitch. George Bellas however, is the REAL deal.
mindaflame7 1 year ago
He has a fabulous sound!
KABAZURNA 1 year ago
thats what you call picking technique!
sdylte 1 year ago
Great player and great post!!!
oilkills 1 year ago
great technique but why is is tone so bad?
jakeguitar132 1 year ago
It's kind of meditative...
SanctumZero 1 year ago
great guitarist, horrible tone
kidrockyearrrh23 1 year ago
look at how fast his brain is sending those muscle impulses to his fingers.
metalmissionary94 1 year ago
faaaaaaaaaaggsss
AsYouLayDying6661 1 year ago
Just sick. Bellas as amazing!!!!!
chriskult 1 year ago 2
faggots
AsYouLayDying6661 1 year ago
Great technique; love the low output single coil tone through an overdriven (tube) amp. Super picking
chiapetmusic 1 year ago
Admirable playing. I love how dry the tone is, as well. Paul Gilbert used to tell us at GIT. Practice with a clean tone, no tricks. The more unflattering the tone, the better one focuses on the details. Nice post, this guy's great!
aaronbergAPB 1 year ago
i totally agree with hyperfastmalmsteen. without ingwie georges bellas would still make covers of hendrix, zztop or what elese BB king?
Although, bellas rocks his YJM first series Fender strat...
pmphilipps 1 year ago
one word..
beast!!!!
ClydePolintan 1 year ago 2
Unique Tone!!!Flawless technique...every note is clean..!!!!!!
kossolas 1 year ago 2
hmmm...left side of head must be heavier than his right which he tries to shake away around 1:10
shredfromthedead 1 year ago
Not many people can play like that on a clean channel. Nice!
tcarson509 2 years ago 2
And we still don't know if HE can, as this is not played on the clean channel. ;)
psychotrn 2 years ago
Is that what you call clean channel?
Mikkonen2 2 years ago
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isnt it about time people stop playing 6 strings? you sir are a good guitarist... however im not a fan of 6 strings or fender. maple fingerboards are awesome tho.
JayArpeggios 2 years ago
Damn this guy can play. Never heard of him before.
GregGirardin 2 years ago
almost completely flawless with very little distortion...he reeks talent.
ihaschips 2 years ago 2
"Ripped to Shreds" is my fav tune from George. Sick!
DoctorGutberlet 2 years ago
It's freakin' unreal
Luar23 2 years ago
Give this guy some distortion and he'll murder us all!
TMshredguitarzone 2 years ago 3
the reason why his tone doesnt have any sustain to it is for him to show off how clean and articulate he is. i hope u guys realize this lol
asharp12 2 years ago 11
I agree; his articulation is some of the most polished and precise that I've heard.
paulprocopolis 2 years ago
@asharp12 i think you ask a whole lot from some youtube noobs....but its ok...hope dies last i guess....lol
Dreamdancer11 1 year ago
I don't really like his tone....
Livetokill123456 2 years ago 4
If you listen to his picking hand it sounds like a water bong hahaha
B2Rockin 2 years ago 3
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yngwie malmsten is the best!
3dmx3 2 years ago
best technique i have ever seen!
davtones 2 years ago 3
Check Guthrie Govan.
IbanezicepOpO 2 years ago 10
Why would we check Guthrie Govan when even the dead already knows about that guy? We are looking for new flesh <:
swob0 2 years ago
@swob0
First I wasn't talking to you, I was answering to "davtones". He said this guy has the best technique he have ever seen, so he doesn't know Guthrie Govan. If you want new flesh, you can check Mika Tyyskä aka Mr Fastfinger.
IbanezicepOpO 2 years ago
i do know of guthrie. i guess it just seems faster because he uses speed more.
davtones 2 years ago
No he has really incredible technique, much experience (he has 40 years old and started guitar at 3) and a lot of feeling.
IbanezicepOpO 2 years ago
@IbanezicepOpO
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Either you think Guthrie is better, and want to display that here?
Or you think guitar fans have been living under a rock for their whole life, and don't know who Guthrie is?
What gives?
ExtremeBogom 1 year ago
@ExtremeBogom No. It means that if you like this George Bellas improvisation, you'll probably be amazed by any Govan's one. And I think few guitar fans discovered Govan by reading my comment. Maybe they prefer playing guitar that spending many hours on youtube.
Btw George Bellas' style isn't noticeable, although he has a good technique. (not really neoclassism but more like neobaroque, it's a minuscule part of Bach genious). Guthrie has an astonishing technique, and has his own style.
IbanezicepOpO 1 year ago
@IbanezicepOpO I love both players styles. It;s not a race, there is plenty of room to enjoy both players. Many players will already know who Guthrie Govan is. I'm sure also that both players put 110% of themselves into their music.
I think that you'll find that although Guthrie Govan has his own style this is an amalgamation or aggregation of the many players techniques that Guthrie has learned over the years layered liberally with Guthrie's own guitar personality.
lauriemonk 1 year ago
@lauriemonk ooo well to you its just shredding? well im sorry then big shot. if its just shredding to YOU, then i apologize. to me, its better than most shredders.
ShredFever92 1 year ago
@ShredFever92 Not sure I follow this response. I think this is an excellent piece of playing.
lauriemonk 1 year ago
@lauriemonk exactly. and i said i usually finding shredding easy. because most shredders suck. so when i said this is complex, it means i found it better than most shred. you said to you this is just shred, not complex shred, which would mean that theres much beter shred out there.
ShredFever92 1 year ago
@lauriemonk
Couldn't have said it better myself.
ExtremeBogom 1 year ago
@IbanezicepOpO
I disagree. I feel George Bellas' style IS unique and distinguishable.
I have only one Bellas album, but I could recognize If he popped up somewhere else.
I don't want to take anything away from Guthrie, I just get tired of people bringing him up in every guitar video.
Sorry for getting you wrong.
ExtremeBogom 1 year ago
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@ExtremeBogom Oh, and just to calm your fervor, initially it was a response to davtones who said "best technique i have ever seen!"
I had to stop replying...
IbanezicepOpO 1 year ago
@IbanezicepOpO Better yet..............check out Scotty Anderson. Scotty Anderson makes Govan look like beginner! Quite frankly I enjoy Mr. Bellas's playing over Guthrie Govan. Personally I find Guthrie's playing rather uninspiring. I would much rather listen to fusion players like Shawn Lane or Allan Holdsworth!
pikeasaurusrex 1 year ago
@pikeasaurusrex SHAWN LANE FTW!!!
MegaYoshitsune 1 year ago
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BORING!!!!!!!!!!
dr4ncer 2 years ago
your mums vag is boring
derhsXcisX 2 years ago
pretty clean.
Dimeslime369 2 years ago 4
great chops. Tone needs to be more open sounding in my opinion and not so compressed. Nice sweeping in that middle section. Thank godz Yngwie left Sweden and was able to blaze this trail and make it popular.
TruthSurge 2 years ago
Jeez that Chromatic run 00:25 was so fluid
Deylan06 2 years ago 2
This is awesome but George if you read this please get back to neo classical..maybe reunite with Vitalij Jeff Loomis passed you as best overall on account of your recent jazz album..love you man
nneevveerrmmoorree 2 years ago
tone's pretty bad, probably cos of video tho not actual guitarist. incredibly clean,need a bit more attack for me.
jdude81 2 years ago 2
yaun
Dread098 2 years ago
nice spelling, there...
krelbar 2 years ago
Just because someone plays neoclassical does not make them a Malmsteen copy. This isn't even close to what malmsteen does. Its the same STYLE that malmsteen does,.
krelbar 2 years ago 17
I didn't say that he sounds too much like malmsteen, i just said "yaun" because this style is all around and i listened to it a lot a few years ago untill it became very very vorring TO ME.
It's a GREAT style but it's so overused and cliche that i can't hear it anymore =)
Dread098 2 years ago
The second statement was directed at jsga10, not for you...sorry...
He said Bellas was a Malmsteen clone.
krelbar 2 years ago
and i bet if malmsteen did not the play the way he does..this guy would still play this??..dude wake up..because without yngwie none of us would play this kind of music..and listen at 0:45 don´t come and say that he did not listen to malmsteen to make that arpeggio..so stop with your bullshit talk because you don´t know shit about guitar playing...this guy played Malmsteen´s chops all the way and added some cromatic runs so that people knows that he can play other scales to,fact is he is good
HyperfastMalmsteen 1 year ago
@krelbar
i slightly disagree. there are people who branch out from malmsteen in neoclassical guitar playing, but people like this guy and joe stump play similar enough to call them similar to malmsteen. i can tell the differences between the 2, but there are also similarities. i prefer neo-classical guitarists that really branch out from malmsteen like jeff loomis and rusty cooley.
Fluffypopcicle 1 year ago
@Fluffypopcicle George Bellas is an extremely diverse and incredible musician. Have you listened to any of his music other than his improvising? Compositionally, he blows malmsteen, loomis, cooley and just about every other guitarist out of the water. And as far as branching out, he plays guitar, bass, keyboards, sings and composes neoclassical, progressive rock, pure classical and jazz.
barnickd 1 year ago
@barnickd
yeah, i was dead wrong. i broke one of my golden rules in music: never judge a musician by random shred or improv videos. however i just see many people imitating malmsteen these days that when i see a guy playing the harmonic minor scale using a fender stratocaster i assume it's safe to say he is a yngwie copy. george bellas is like a much more versatile and original yngwie malmsteen.
Fluffypopcicle 1 year ago
tabs for this would be amazing
p4ulg1lb3rt 2 years ago
AWESOME!!
esphorizon 2 years ago
Awesome technique but for some reason, I can't dig it.
JerryOutlaw 2 years ago 2
George Bellas is a Yngwie Malmsteen copy.
jsga10 2 years ago 3
Clean
GibsonGuitarist666 2 years ago
Good guitarist, though I`m not a fan.. Don`t like his tone or style..
Saedpaadeg 2 years ago
Superb technique bearing in mind the sound is unforgiving,I think it,s also very compressed hence lack of attack,it grows on you and you have to admire his braveness!
zofo666 2 years ago
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jpc1971 2 years ago
His tone isn't the greatest on this one but there is some dirt and rawness in this tone which most people couldn't pull off as smoothly as Bellas unless they supersaturate their amp settings.
seventeve 2 years ago
good thoughts!
z9solution 2 years ago
All haters post replys. This dood f'n rips. Period. Musical, period
cincyrocked 2 years ago
this dude is a fucking machine haha
looks so relaxed
BobFromFukataney 2 years ago
Amazing how many "musicians" these days confuse music with doing finger exercises as fast as they can. Want to see someone improvise? Watch, say, Guthrie Govan play anything. Want to see someone masturbate with a guitar? See above.
ReductioAdAbsurdum 2 years ago 5
I can agree that he does a lot of chromatic and a tonal stuff...and some stuff that just seem like exercises, but this isnt really an accurate representation of the kinda music he plays...check out his song step into the future, definitely some intense original stuff......but yeah I have to agree, guthrie govan totally blows anyones asses out of the water when it comes to improv.
MetallicaBLS 2 years ago
ahahaha i cant agree more.
RGBLackson 2 years ago
I wouldn't say he's sloppy but I don't like his tone. Just play this piece on a clean channel. and it would sound awesome. Also, I think bellas falls in the trap of playing too many practice patterns when he "improvises" and I don't think he has enough "soul" in his playing. He is technically very good but needs to work on his feel. Page was/is sloppy as hell but he came up with some tasty riffs. For me speed is great but hitting some bumps in the road and handling them makes a piece greater.
chillichomper 2 years ago
I have to laugh...a bunch of wannabe guitarists trashing George Bellas. Pathetic.
Look, take ANY guitarist, and have them play with the same tone as displayed here, and guess what? There WILL be inaccuracies. WHY. Because they are human.
Bellas is awesome...calling him "sloppy" is just ignorant.
krelbar 2 years ago 17
Yer totally agree. In fact with an almost clean sound he left himself easily exposed to any mistakes. NONE of the sort , fuckin amazing. I can play what he played here but no way for this duration without flicking an open string or something...totally flawless!
1madaboutguitar 2 years ago 2
If hes improvising why the fuck should he be accurate? Its not like hes written it all out and played it 50 times before, you fuck up while your mind is wandering, who gives a shit? Makes it sound more human
nblax41 2 years ago
A good example of a picking hand being out of sync with the fretting hand. Sloppy!!
strunzgracie 2 years ago
Are you retarded?
Sperzel 2 years ago
Sperzel, you must be "retarded" if you don't know how to record and play back at 1/2 speed. Do this, and you'll clearly hear he is not acurate. Listen to Rusty Cooley, Al Dimeola, Jorge Strunz, or Shawn Lane and you'll hear clean playing. A night & day difference.
strunzgracie 2 years ago
I can already see that there's no point in arguing with you. But I can asure you that this guy is extremely accurate. The lack of gain and compression just makes the attack of certain notes seem a bit off, but they're not.
And although Cooley is a beast he always plays with loads of gain, so I don't see how you can compare him with this perfomance.
Sperzel 2 years ago 3
"attack of certain notes seem a bit off", that's because they are off. Strunz and Dimeola (also w/o gain) do not give this illusion of notes being off. This guy wavers in his accuracy, some notes are on, others are off. This does not constitute clean playing. Again, record it, play it back @ 1/2 speed. Your ears need tuning. And, i've seen Cooley warming up @ the NAMM show without any gain and he's still a "beast".
strunzgracie 2 years ago
Does anyone else agree with "strunzgracie"? Ís Bellas inaccurate in this video? I just don't think so.
Also, if you need to slow down the recording to hear mistakes, is it not your ears that "need tuning"? I hear everything very clearly, and while it's not a flawless perfomance, I would not call his hands "out of sync".
Sperzel 2 years ago 2
I can hear he's not accurate w/o recording it. That's why i posted a comment to begin with. 1/2 speeding, will verify it. Which is what i suggested from the start. It's mind boggling how u can't hear the difference in clarity & accuracy (w/o 1/2 speed) between guys like Bellas and guys like DiMeola or Lane. Unbelievable.
Getting others to agree with you will not validate your arguement.
strunzgracie 2 years ago
Bla bla bla Lane and Dimeola are better, I KNOW that. But this guy still plays great, and you're sitting there talking trash about him when you have absolutely nothing to show for yourself.
Basicly, you're a moron, and this is the last you'll hear from me in the subject
Sperzel 2 years ago
I knew that a tone deaf idiot like u would end up saying something like that.
strunzgracie 2 years ago
No, his brain is out of sync with his typing hand.
krelbar 2 years ago
god damn dude .. i don't really like neo classical .. but this piece here .. BLEW ME DA FUCK AWAY !
blekdood 2 years ago
awsome phrasing and flawless execution
jimbang 2 years ago
Plays a lot like malmsteen.
GibsonGuitarist666 2 years ago
Dude Join Dragonforce :L
danny68danny 2 years ago
This guy is incredible.....unbelievably clean. Awesome.
*sulks off to practice*
Krisbarras 2 years ago
George really is an expert in his field. as mentioned before, it really shows with the lack of overdrive, his skills shine through. great upload :)
souperman12345 2 years ago
Personally, I don't like the tone, but the fact that you can shred with that tone and have it sound that amazing is truly awe inspiring, great technique and improv, a superb job!!
Botdra 2 years ago
IM not a fan of Neoclassical shred BUT
- this man, playing this smooth with this almost clean overdrive sound...
He got some skills, a very developed picking+fingering sincronisation tecnique.
I find it funny when people use twice the overdrive this guy uses to get this stuff easyer to play... while this guy uses a ver weak tone, making this stuff more difficult to play!
people who complain the tone, are the ones who only can play with loads of distortion= and without distortion they're shit
CarlosCepinha 2 years ago 10
well observed my friend... much appreciated, thanks for the constructive analysis of the piece.
lauriemonk 2 years ago
I want to ask you something and I'm going to sound like a real asshole but I'm not trying to break your balls or anything...
first of all let me tell you what a very talented guitar player you are, I've been playing for around 2 and a half years and I am trying to work on improving my finger dexterity and you my friend got it,
any way here goes, why do people as talented as you play this shitty music? I mean, this neo classical thing is bullshit, you should be playing in a rock and roll band bud
PeterVadim 2 years ago