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  • flemenco shred?

  • @matjoshas err...troll. this guy isnt fake. He is simply someone who works their butt off to be good at what they love doing. Dont hate - appreciate.

  • teach me some riffs

  • guitar pro tab plz =]

  • Truly a very impressive way of playing the guitar!

  • dont u think that considering the fact that in a couple of years years from now all of us will be long time gone and vanish in time and none of this will be any longer of any interest that we should reduce the content of our behaviour concerning music,art and such alike to amounts of respect and acceptance?like,dislike...what else is there to say?!i have no real intentions here actually i even didnt wanna point it out as i dont think it will bring any changes but i just felt like it,thx4listning

  • nice composed

  • one of my top 5 favorite guitarists and they're in no specific order

    Bob Zabek

    Eric Johnson

    Yngwie Malmsteen

    Steve Vai

    Buckethead

  • @codyahernek yeah u and a million other guitar wannabees! that list is so typical of any guitar nerd it makes me laugh! you need to do some more homework and realize that there are far more better players out there than these mainstream 6 string slingers! And electric guitar IS awesome, but there are acoustic guys out there that would have your jaw on the ground! again, do some more homework man!

  • @JackDawsonRMS hahaha oh my god youre a retard. post a video of you playing guitar and then ill post one of me. we'll let everyone else who watches this video decide who needs to do their homework. and who the hell has bob zabek on their top list of guitarists you idiot? judging by the number of views on this video i'd say hardly any. and there are VERY few guitarists better than eric johnson if any. only possibility that comes to mind is paco de lucia. post a video of you. i dare you. FAGGOT.

  • @codyahernek I WILL post one! ....Who wants to get they HEAD CUT?!?

  • @JackDawsonRMS seriously? awesome. you're a dick but at least you have the balls to post a video and get schooled. hurry up now!

  • @codyahernek lol, I agree with the Paco de lucia post, either that or Don Ross. if you're sticking to electric I'd probably go with Allan Holdsworth

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  • @JackDawsonRMS way to post a vid man...

  • @codyahernek You shouldn't compliment someone you're attempting to disarm with your biting scathing holier-than-thou wisdom. 'Faggot' is not actually an insult, it's a positive and legitimate identity. Fool.

  • @abundancebomb 'faggot' is an insult because faggots are sickening cock loving men like you. mind your own business, unless you consider this your business cause you're a faggot. in that case... don't.

  • @codyahernek: I consider it my business because prejudice is fucked and wrong. Why you want to cause people pain? You must be a seriously sad individual. This page is for the praise and appreciation of Bob, not your ignorant redneck anti-human hatred of your own suppressed homosexual tendencies. Good luck with that; not many people like boning bigots. xoxo LOVE YOU IN A GAY WAY EVEN THOUGH I AM NOT GAY.

  • @abundancebomb Come out of the closet already. There's nothing wrong with saying faggot just as there's nothing wrong with calling someone an idiot. it's a pretty light hearted insult. fuck you man. Being gay is a disorder and if I want to insult someone by saying they have a disorder I have every right to. This guys not a sally like you and he can take it. As for the faggots it's none of their business if i use their orientation as an insult. It's disgusting.

  • this is so beautiful!

  • I think he should try to get signed by Candyrat, they put a lot of similar stuff on youTube...

  • Man go get signed with Vai's Favored Nations, he'll love you!! That's where you belong

  • Some of the comments on these Bob pages are truly funny . Reminds me of Eric Johnson but might me even more amazing . I'm not saying that Bob is not a very good player...but you guys that think this is as good as it gets need to broaden your horizons a little . I leave you with one final suggestion ...check out Mahavishnu Orchestra Visions of the Emerald Beyond Eternity's Breath

  • Perfect blend of technical ability and musical taste.

  • bob this is so fucking awesome HELL YES!

  • Amazing! thank you Bob, u r the man! keep it real buddy!!!

  • absolutely love this song.

    took me 3 hours to learn the first 28 seconds lol, but I'm determined to perfect it eventually :)

  • he reminds me of eric johnson but i think he might even be a little better! amazing

  • wow i haven't seen this video in a shit long time! good ass post my good sir!

  • amazing

  • hearing this makes me WIsh i could walk on water. mm-mm-mm-mm-mm

  • I havent seen too much better than this and Ive seen a good bit

  • it's certainly one of the best i EVER heard in my life , excellent

  • GOD is mega proud of you BOB...

  • actually metal finger picking sounds like crap, especially with something like this. tried. sounds like smudgy high gain turd plop.

    bob zabek, goddamn, this is so badass, i can only hope that i could do something half as awesome as this.

  • If you look up the "Guitars Suck" compilations, one of them has a metal player who uses finger picking. It's weird :-P.

  • I did not have a clue what GC was back then. I am in central Illinois though. I would assume close to a thousand bucks or more.  You could always check Ebay.

  • 0:47 gave me the fucking chills bob!!!!

    i made my gal watch this vid and she wants to know if u have a brother 4 her sister.....wtf is that shit ??

  • why have i never heard of this guy?

  • Bob you need WAY more views man this is too good 4 youtube !

  • what brand of pick up is he using?

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  • THE BEST GUITAR I'VE EVER HEARD IN MY FUCKING LIFE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!! It wasnt just the tec but the fenese he complimented the blusey riffs with was just done in a way that is almost overwhelming!!...that's art!!

  • This guy is crazyyyyyyy???????? =)  GODDDDDDDDD

  • makes me want to either quit guitar or quit my job

    amazing

  • The name of the song fits the music perfectly. 5/5.

  • anyone wants my 1 1/2 measures tabbed? dX

    rapidshareDOTcom / files / 256961750 / bob_zabek_walk_on_waterDOTgp5

    please tab more measures and reupload dX

  • how......

  • the guitar has enlays like a gem but i dont think it is does anyone know what it is

  • JEM 77BFP

  • jem 77bfp they stopped making them in '94

  • Ya, it is a jem. It had a maple fretboard with the vine inlay, and it has a floral pattern on the body. It is my favorite Jem by far. JEM77BFP. BFP is for Blue Floral Pattern. You see them on Ebay sometime, but they are usually really cashy.

  • yep. there's one on ebay right now for 4200.00 !!!!

  • Ya, I saw it. That fucker looks extra clean. It would be nice to have.

  • oh fuck yeah!! did u see the swirl jem going for almost ten grand!?!?!

  • Ya, I think some of this stuff gets really overpriced sometimes though. I have been looking hard for a Kramer Nightswan. I would love to have the "Aztec" one, but the one with the lightning bolts would be cool too. I play an RG 550 in roadflare red these days, and I love it. They are such kick ass guitars. I have a PGM301, and I don't care for it. Some of my buddies really like it though.

  • hell yea man! I had an RG 570 i believe it was and it was so beautiful I MISS HER!!! She was a cherry-like "burst" finish that was a very vibrant red on the edges with tiger maple striped wood grain that was transparent under the yellowed center of the body on the front and back!! Miss that bitch.!!!

  • Yep, u can't beat those original Wizard necks from Ibanez. The 570 was cool too. Some good advice!  Don't get rid of any of your guitars again! :) I had an original Kramer Baretta. I traded it for a bullshit B.C. Rich Warlock back in the day, and I ended up selling it later for next to nothing. I sure wish I had that Kramer still.

  • yeah man ive done that with so many guitars it's SAD:( And ur exactl right about the advice u gave me about not to sell any of my guitars ever again haha. I even told myself i'll never fuck up like that again. I wonder what that Ibanez RG570 i had would go for today? It was originally purchased from GC way back in '90-'91 i believe.

  • He's the man

  • Perfect.

  • Simply incredible.

  • Ufff...

  • i really 100% like it !

  • speechless...

  • really nice man

  • awesome

  • bob zabek you are the fucking shit. This is the good shit

  • best. ever.

  • The piece makes me want to go watch The Lion King....I don't know why :|

  • Zabek is absurdly good.

  • I have exactly the same guitar as that :D

  • you are SO lucky

  • wich model is it ?

  • its weird how he grabs a pick

    and plays pent

    then puts down the pick

    plays legato/touch style in minor diatonic keys

  • one of the most beautiful guitarists I've ever heard. and that Ibanez Jem... one of my favorite guitars in the world, wish i could afford one.

    just had to hear his voodoo chile' cover... so good...

  • i've been followin this dude for years, i wish hed make a move and become famous already.

  • Hopefully the "right" kind of famous.

  • mean street...

  • yo anyone know where i can get the tabs?

  • it wont be easy because it is an original song by zabek so it not being well known there isnt a lot of ppl that know how to play it i dont think zabek has even realsed the tabs

  • Ummm, watch the video? If you think you can play this, then I'm sure you can learn it by watching a video.

  • haha fair point

  • do u know if he plays in any strange tunings??

  • this is seriously the best guitar i have ever heard, is this guy famous? how come i've never heard of him?

    beautiful, and simply amazing

  • You don't have to be famous to be amazing. This guy truly can play and compose better than 99.999% of the guitarists. The reason he's not famous is that he's out of this world.

  • @JesterIF

    true that,the best musicians in the world are broke as fuck and no one has ever heard of them,a musician is someone who creates music to express themselves and to spread a message,not to make a load of money off a worthless peice of shit that makes money for some stupid reason.

  • floral*

  • ibanez jem foral pattern steve vai s guitar

    they stopped making it a long time ago

  • anyone know what type of guitar that is

  • Finally, some original guitar playing to watch! So, is that "Cannon Rock" kid with 53 million views going to rip this off, too?

  • I recon he wouldnt be able to, this is pure art!:)

  • =]

    the bend and tap at 1:51 sounds awesome

    Love this guy

  • And at 2:35

    =]

  • I'm determined to learn this, after watching it for the hundredth time...

  • God, it's good to see guitarists who understand the physics of tapping. Not just jamming the finger perpendicular into the fretboard! Phrasing! Hooray!

  • that is a beautiful song, i respect this man...

  • See, with no backing track and other instrumentation, and still being able to seemlessly impose such a full, vibrant atmosphere considering the two handed style, is why this man is (almost) unprecedented. (That previous parenthesized almost is might possibly not exist.)

  • Well, it's not unprecedented. I've actually heard even more of a full atmosphere in the realm of fingerstyle guitar, but this is probably the best solo electric guitar song I've seen that does it so freaking well, love it.

    If you want to see some other musicians who get a "full, vibrant atmosphere" out of a single guitar, you should check out Michael Hedges, Antoine Dufour, Andy Mckee, Don Ross, T-Caphony, and many, many others. The idea isn't unprecedented, but it's still awesome as hell!

  • greatest guitarist on earth

  • Very creative! 5 * from me!

  • woooooooooooooooooow:p

    nice dude! 6*

  • His official channel is BobWizard

  • That's right. The URL is in the description.

  • To be fair, there is no need to be overly defensive when people suggest that his music reminds them of Vai. Given the amount of notes on the guitar, certain passages will always sound slightly like other songs. For example, several of the phrases do sound quite similar to the 'I Know You Are Here' solo Vai played at the G3 using his triple necked guitar, however Bob certainly does have his own amazing style.

  • This guy sounds nothing like vai.

    He actuallly sounds just like bob zabek.

  • Yeah and SRV sounds nothing like Hendrix too.

  • he can play guitar (:

  • I know boy........you're well good at lead!

  • I can play that exact same tune with my toes...

  • peacesquid

    If this ain't feeling, then you're no musician.

    Go fuck yourself!:)

  • this dude is awesome. hes like the gifted love child of andy mckee and guthrie govan.

  • i LOVE this guy's playing!

  • dude this dude is awesome.

    all of the people who say he sucks...you suck at life and anything you do...go suck on a sweaty black cock

  • Only ignorant noobs who cant play like this wanna criticise it.

  • Your a fucking idiot peacesquid go die please

    FAIL MINUS

  • this dude owns on slash, kerry king and jeff hanneman from slayer, that nile dude, and a lot of others. none of them hold a lead riff while playing a rhythem at the same time on the same guitar. slash is a very tastful guitarist and the slayer and nile guys just have speed going for them, which bob zabek has as well. its that simple. andy mckee might have the leg up on bob zabek but still they are both miles and miles beyond where all the others i mentioned will ever be.

  • just because his playing style is innovative and compelling but that doesn't mean its better, Nile have perfected heavy metal guitar work, if you don't like them you don't understand their music. your opinion weather its better or worse is your own but i can write my opinion.

  • watch the other videos of him playing... shredding :O bricks will be shat, i can guarantee you that

  • although there amazing, you cant really compare them, they play a completely different genre of music to this. Slash is over rated and I personally think he's a twat.

  • sorry i was wrong i change my mind i'm not a fag and nile and slayer have the right to shit in this fags head.

  • karl sanders (from Nile)and Jeff Hanneman (Slayer) are better. don't agree? then check them out before commenting me back - and i mean both of them. where as slash is a total over ground over rated prehistoric emo who should go 'slash' himself. he isn't fit to go to the shop and purchase string for bob.

  • slash can suck the sweat off my balls

  • That is f&%king amazing!! If SRV did tapping bass lines....

  • cara muito show d bola!

  • yeah is good but slash is 1000x better than im

  • Why do you thinks so? I'm not saying "NO!" but I'm just wandering why...

  • Slash????

    your kidding??

  • no im not

  • I hope you aren't serious...if you can explian why Slash is a better guitarist I would like to hear it. If your reply has anything to do with 'ripping it up' or 'shreds faster' I will immediately ignore you. This guy has great technical skill. Not saying Slash doesn't, however compare apples to apples and let's see who is more skilled.

  • i didnt say that is not a good guitarist but slash is better and he is more popular than bob zabek the solo of slash in paradise city is fuckin tasty or in welcome to the jungle

  • hhmmm...interesting.....

    I now know why most great guitarist never want to go public.

    FRAKH

  • lmao slash sucks a lot of people could kill him. i think bob zabek is alot better.

  • You should think about doing stand up with comments like that... Dont get me wrong slash is one of the great players to come from the late 80's through to now, he also has amazing feel in what he plays. However this guy is also great.. weather you like this tune or not as you said he is a good player but why compair him to someone like slash when their music is so clearly diffrent?

  • beautiful

  • what a great finger picking!!!! real good

  • this is good

  • tht not walk on water

  • jesus rocks and so does bob zabek i wish i could get a tab of this i have most of it figured out but some parts i just cant get

  • Reminds me of Victor Wooten on bass, awesome !

  • if i could play half as good as this i would have an erection 24 hours a day this is bad ass keep it up bob

  • Most beautiful jem ever !

  • deud that shit is awsom.

  • Classical/shred-like/I don't know what else/finger picking,man he's good at it,especially the taps.

  • awasome..

  • dugg for going bluesy at the end.

  • I wonder how long he has been playing and how much he practices

  • You can't judge a musician on how long he/she has been playing his/her instrument or how much time out of the day he/she practices. No matter how good you are, theres always a nine year old who can play better than you.

  • so true. and there's always gonna be someone to tell you that.

  • I don't think that's what he meant... I think he was saying that with a meaning more along the lines of: Holy shit, I wonder how long you have to work at it to play like that...

  • That's what I wanna know! I'd love to play this style. Learn the "Bob Zabek ways",if you will.

  • This is just pure genius! How he can work all that much notes, especially slided ones :O into something that sounds actually great!

  • great song i love it. but 2:15 to 2:18 was unclear.

  • thank you

  • 1000000000/1000000000

    amazing

  • so goooooooood at what he does, i wish i could play like that....someday maybe ^_^

  • This song is lydian... only the very first measures. The main lick is in C#minor (aeolian)

  • I meant to write "not so lydian" :)

  • an i meant had this talent lmao

  • holy crap..wish i was this talented..nice work!!!

  • gr8

  • oh my fucking god you are fucking gooooooddd. i started to cry

  • This is amazing...!!!

  • My god that's a beautiful Jem. Amazing playing, too. I swear to god it almost made me blow a fucking load xD

  • Tuck and Patty have been putting out music like this since the late 80's. Even so, very nice technique; I wish we could see your face while playing so we could see the emotions that obviously go into your playing. Love the wobbly video in sync with tremelo at end!!!

  • catscratchfever is retarded for even bringing up the pickups

  • he is sooo amazing. that makes me want to play other things then shred

  • absolutelly amazing music, great guitarrist

  • You faggots talk more about the goddam pick-ups than the music. Get a life and listen to the fuckin awesome music.

  • just because the guitar was made before the evos were invented doesnt mean he didnt replace the pickups later..

  • fat fingers

  • play it man!!!

  • thats so cool

  • awesome stuff

  • more than awesome...he had the hands of god!

  • This is amazing really....

  • Very good!