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  • beyond belief

  • fuckin a. LOL. such a showboater! he's young and very aware of his virtuosity. it makes me jealous and very happy simultaneously. also makes me angry that the blocking of stem cell research is preventing people like him from from the respite they deserve. Jason, you're my hero.

  • In everything he did he was good. Take for example the great musician he was. Forever Lord Becker. =(

  • WOW, thank god he is not a tapper, do you imagine what would he do if he really were one?

  • Jason doesn't actually _play_ the guitar, he makes love with it, and makes it sing :D

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  • EDDIE DID NOT CREATE TAPPING PEOPLE!! Steve lynch from autograph was doing it before Eddie was, he just happen be the first one to get noticed doing it before anyone else had the chance.

  • @DivaXGore yeah, that makes sense. Especially when eddie played his tapping solo with the back to crowd to avoid it being noticed

  • @DivaXGore - EVH said in an interview way back that he picked up tapping after watching Allan Holdsworth in the early to mid-seventies.

  • "one thing i'm not, is a tapper" was the greatest humble brag in the human history

  • I am not sure if the guys claiming Eddie Van Halen is the best guitarist are trolling..or just really stupid...

  • becker is the king of shredding man he just raped van halen i mean evh could not play this good in his dreams becker is the greatest

    

  • Buckethead can suck a dick.

  • It might had look cool, but he was playing (trying to) "Hot for teacher" from Van Halen, and he didn't played it right. I bet Eddie Van Halen can play this easily, but this is NOT how the song goes!

    And of course EVH created the tapping technic, he is god :)

  • @IamAGuitarrist when he started tapping he played it fine, he only messed up because he was attempting to play the intro without tapping

  • Jason Becker is the Eddie Van Halen. At least in this video!!!

  • 7 people can't play tapping.

  • 彼ほど上手い人はいないでしょ。テクニカルな人はたくさんいるけ­ど彼は次元が違う。本当のギターを弾く天才っていうのは彼のこと­を言うと思う。

    ジェイソンがこんな病魔に蝕まれてるのを見ると本当、この世に神­様なんていないって思っちゃう。早く、早く医学が進歩してこの病­気の治療法が発見されることを遠く日本よりお祈りしています。

    He is definitely true super genius I think.

    basically and completely different from other technical guitarists.

    Im always think "there isnt GOD in this world" when I think about Jason's.

    I really really hope we find the cure for ALS.

    best wishes far from Japan.

  • Jason Becker do not lie and say you are not a tapper you are definetly a tapper, and an amazing guitar player.

  • special

  • I laugh whenever I hear him say- "One thing I'm not... is a tapper" - then he proceeds to do some amazing tapping.

  • That was infuckingsane! sux to know ill NEVER be this good >.< ha, Jason Becker definitely got more of the alien genes than the human genes xP

  • @GodsRodoG92 Just sell your soul. I can help you reach virtuoso in no time : )

  • @blackblurable Do tell

  • i wish i was that good

  • what a loss! he was definetly talented

  • damn it...this guy was such a nice guy as fast ..look at his face in the end of the video after that odd dive-bomb!!too cool..and his skills are unreachable...i can play 5 stringstriad-arpeggios and a couple of 8 fingered tapping and i'm getting more arrogant than malmsteen...

  • @TheGrade90 Practice humility bro. We guitar players need to be kind to one another and help each other. In terms of skill, knowledge and confidence. Please don't be like that faggot malmsteen. I think we can only talk shit to people who don't play music. If someone plays an instrument then be nice. If they're a singer or just some fuck head talking shit about music or ragging on someone's skills then talk all the shit to them and even beat the living shit out of them too. Even rappers, fuck em'

  • i was playing hot for teacher and then he started to play hot for teacher too

    i said : holy shit how did i do that?

  • you guys cant really bash EVH. hes a great guitarist. jasons obviously better but van halen had this real rock and roll vibe to his songs. theyre both great musicians

  • i can see his point though, compared to his technique on all other aspects, tapping isnt his strongest point, still incredible dont get me wrong but not as good as his sweeping technique

  • "one thing im not, is a tapper."

    /plays crazy tapping

    /everyone is confused.

  • @xPurpleDrinkx9001 HAHA This is exactly what I was thinking.

  • Lol, Becker playing Van Halen... That's like Mozart playing a Ke$ha song.

  • i'm afraid if this video has been speeded up or not :(  isn't it??

  • 6 people are complete dumbasses.

  • it seems that someone speed up the vid

  • @fafaffu2 haha jelous?

  • @metalhead4195

    yeah....of course!!!

  • Haha at the end he has that look like ah that was nothing...

  • one im not is a tapper....

    then next thing you know he

    fcking taps the shit out of the guitar

  • HOLY FUCKK!!!

    This is not man!!!

    This a demon!!!!

  • @AlyssCrim Do keep in mind people thought he was good enough to fill in for Eddie when he left

  • @osiris8605 jason was far better than eddie ever was

  • Great tapping are they crazy.

  • eddie van halen just got OWNED so hard that his children will have the jason becker burn on their asses. Jason Becker is the man.

  • wow i lost my fingers trying to play that xD its a joke jajaja

  • @AlyssCrim You don't have to be a prick and call people pricks. And you raise a valid point. They are very different.

  • sweep at 0:26.... how do?

  • @xPrisonOfTheMindx no one really knows haha

  • suck this van halen..

  • @stevemaster247 Jason's slow songs are faster (and more emotional) than anything Van Halen has done. Not that EVH isn't great and influential, it's just Jason is, well, better.

  • His talent knew no boundaries! it was like the licks just kept flowing from his fingers!

  • Listen to Becker's hot for teacher demo. He uses insane sweeps instead of tapping.

  • hot for teacher X 10

  • Hot for bitches!!!

  • Eddie van what?

  • @aalton i like cacophony & becker but evh is the best guitarrist in the world

  • @evhjpppf98 HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA EVH SUCKS. jesus you're retarded

  • @aalton van HALEN! :D Better than Jason!

  • i got 2 more years til i'm 17.....time to quit school and stick with guitar 24/7

  • @narfire214 -do not quick school trust me!

  • @CTROCK i won't quit svhool, got this awesome guitar teacher there, though he's only a year older than me, i'd say he's as good as angus young if not, better

  • @narfire214 Thats the 1!!!!

  • @narfire214 more like 63/7 oh wait thats not possible unless you are jason becker or john petrucci, both gods.

  • Ohhh!! god!

  • He is 17 here, i am 17 now... (quits playing guitar)

  • @galatonim

    Same here i've been playing for one year and i can't get over this dude's insanity. He is like a cool guy... then you give him a guitar and he goes batshit insane with it. For you and anyone else that is in love with Jason and his music join his message board. I'm sure he will smile when he sees all the support.

  • Taps faster than i can pick.

  • he makes everything look so easy

  • Lol, one thing I'm not into is taping. *Guitar begins to weep like a baby*

  • im surprised Eddie Van Halen didnt sue =3

  • fabuloso pero lo malo esq por lo mismo q jason becker lo hace muy rapido pierde ese gusto , no se distingue cada toque q ase ! pero aun asi es uno de los mejores guitarritas , te amo jason jajajjaja joder viva el metal !!

  • Van Halen god of tapping????? hahahahha

  • I LOVE U JASON BECKERRRRRRRRR!

  • Dude, Jason Becker can tap faster than i can pick. and i can pick pretty damn fast but Becker can pick faster.

  • The second part was Van Halen's Hot For Teacher

  • jesus christ, i never realized Jason was THIS good at tapping. he almost never does tapping this amazing at all on his records!

  • lol "One thing I'm not, is a tapper" -_- then he turns beast mode on

  • HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA, Like i'll ever to do that.

  • I caught myself drooling while I was watching this...wow

  • one thing im not good at is tapping, and then he proceeds to blow my nuts off

  • Damn he is sick!!!!

  • guys don't even dare to compare any shredder with jason

  • @MeurglysIV I would not compare but i would say shawn lane is a guitar player which is as inhuman as becker. ;)

    just my opinion.

    Becker is my hero.

    Lane is also my her.

  • 0:19 ...wich song is it?

  • @assdestroyer666 hot for teacher. haha without the tapping part. he turned it into like a picking thing.

  • OMG OMG OMG I am soooooo dying right now!!

  • noobs learn pentatonic scales when they first pick up a guitar, Jason learnt the intro of hot for teacher.

  • @signofthehammer

    also they don't know the theory behind that scale.

  • @shadowknight132 You don't need to know the theory behind any scale, just the positions, which is all visual and by ear.

  • @Ronthps2

    Excuse but that is the most ridiculous thing I ever heard. Without learning the knowledge of scales, you'll have no idea how to create them and most importantly how to use them when improvising. Especially with modes. Each mode goes specifically under a 7th chord. So what are you talking about? You must not want to be a real advanced guitarist because all professional guitarist recommend learning music theory.

  • @shadowknight132 HAHA, I love when people use the term 'professional guitarist', there's no such thing in my mind, unless of course you're referring to classically trained players. I can understand modes fine by ear there's no need to learn all that fancy talk, music theory is a fun subject to talk about over a cup of coffee IMO. Take Jeff Loomis for example, I've heard him state many many times in his videos that he knows virtually no music theory and look at the way he plays.

  • @Ronthps2

    Actually Jeff does know theory. He stated that when he was younger, he picked up a book on scales, which will contain the theory behind the scales, and he learned it.

    Plus listen to his music, without knowledge of theory he wouldn't have that music because everything would be random without knowledge of theory. All the professional guitarist know some of theory, that is what I'm basing my statement off of. Jason Becker and Marty Friedman knew some theory also.

  • @shadowknight132 Well I commend you, Jeff, Jason, and Marty for knowing theory but as for myself I'll stick to my ear since it's yet to fail me. You don't need theory for scales or modes either way, as long as you can feel the positions with your fingers and hear the subtle differences from mode to mode. Self-teaching FTW, but I guess now I know who to go to if I need music theory lessons.

  • @Ronthps2 oh man... professional musician is guy who can play his music very good and can play shows almost without mistakes. Professional guitarist doesn't have to be virtuoso and know a lot of theory. Virtuosos are often sitting in their homes and can't do even some carrier. Loomis is professional and for me this is so much even if he is not a virtuoso (but probably he is):P

  • @HuberttXXX17 - I believe a professional guitarist is someone who plays guitar as a profession. As a means to an end. As a job. For making money.

  • i tell you what, i have wathched this video so many times and thought that this is just amazing, but it only just clicked inside my head that he plays the hot for teacher riff but in a much cooler picked way before he does the tapping intro, he was just phenominal, GOD BLESS YOU SIR

  • WTF imagine if he "was a tapper" LMAO!!!

  • hahah

  • That was Van Halens "Hot For Teacher".

  • Jason becker is a good tapper and best sweeping

  • THAT IS INSANE. Nobody can play that fast.

  • I like the statement in the beginning, and then he blazes a bunch of hammer-ons and taps flawlessly, pauses for a sec and in an Ace Ventura way has that "Let's see that...in an instant replay" kinda feel to it. SO care free....SO.... Jason. THEN he regales the crowd with what I believe is an ode to Eddie Van Halen's Hot For Teacher licks... too cool...

  • does anyone know what type of neck he has on his guitar?

  • its carvin i know that much, i couldnt tell you anything about it though

  • maple?gives a brighter tone

  • That was pretty awesome, but I think the reason he said he's not a tapper is because it's certainly not his strong point. I mean, when you look at how good he is at legato & sweeping, his tapping technique isn't that advanced. It's still very good, but not to the standard of his other skills. & cos he never really uses tapping in his songs.

  • lol, hot for teacher...

  • he wasnt trying to be a dick what he means buy hes not a tapper is that he dosent use tapping alot in his music.

  • he's not only reached virtuoso level skill at young age but he also composed brilliant music before he was even 20.

    Godlike skill + song writting talent = perfect

  • I think the word you're looking for is prodigy.

  • @Megadeth72 he is the reincarnation of Mozart

  • @Megadeth72 whats a virtuoso? Yeh Jason is a god :D

  • "One thing im not...is a tapper" hahahaha i love you so much jason

  • His guitar is probably a Kramer cause of its headstock.

    By the way Jason Becker is the man, cause he makes found the will to turn on the metronome.

  • It's a Carvin. He claimed that he didn't use alot of the metronome. He siad he did alot without one.

  • no its a carvin DC 200.......

  • It's Carvin not Kramer!

  • cheum...

  • That sweep at (0:26) sounded just like the one jeff loomis always does. I think he was one of jeff 's influences.

  • yeah, jeff has said that Becker and Friedman is the kind of style he was going for with his solo record

  • @7stringdragon Jeff Loomis tried out for Megadeth and after he got declined met up with Marty after a Cacophony show and told marty about it and yea..

  • 7-string dragon Jeff Loomis... LOL!!!:D

    The river dragon Jeff Loomis also sounds epic ;).

  • Yeah Loomis was really heavily influenced by both Friedman and Becker.

  • Agreed..you can see influences like that in his solo album!

  • @guitarj92 loomis and broderick are this decade's marty and jeff

  • @davemurrayrocks Steve Smyth was heavily influenced by Becker as well. But who cares about Steve Smyth, right? poor guy gets no attention. But he uses B.C. Rich guitars so I guess that could be a reason XD

  • @CyValkarion And because Smyth is just nowhere near the same skill level of guys like Loomis.

  • @MetalguitarlessonsUK Very true. But give credit where credit is due.

  • @guitarj92 Which is why he stands out among other metal guitarists. He also plays with amazing emotion, just like Becker. You can really hear that in everything he does.

  • @guitarj92 But then,  who could not be, after listening to those masters???

  • hot teacher

  • what guitar is that?

  • WTF o.o wait...remember...its jason becker, OH now everything makes sence ^.^

  • Lol Jason Becker play Van Halen that is halarious.

  • fuck yeah!I agree the sweep picked hot for teacher is disgustingly amazing....michael angelo batio talks about ideas like that too....

  • This is awesome...Stanley Jordan is king of the tap IMO.

  • Eddie Van who?

  • It's incredible that with there being so many fast players nowadays, still nobody has surpassed this guy.

  • he tapped hot for teacher at the end noice! :D

  • He may not be the best tapper but his sweeped version of Hot for Teacher is better than the original!!!!

  • "If there's one thing i'm not, It's a tapper."

    Bullshit!! I consider myself to be a great tapper and he's at least 5 times better than me! Modest guy. Props to ya Jason.

  • He may not be a tapper, but he's twice as good a tapper as the guy who made it popular.

  • what the hell,hes not a tapper hahaha..hes saying that becuz hes not the best in the world cuz for him,to say i know to do something is i can do it better than any human being hahaha..

  • Beb has a very unique way of tapping and it sounds very smooth and clean, but for my money Stanley Jordan is the top dog.

  • yeah stanley jordan is a freak haha

  • 0:26

  • whys this guy such a fuckin beast for???? his technique seems impossible,,

    we love you jason!!

  • I always found most Satriani stuff to be pretty boring and predictable. Most of his stuff sounds the same to me that i've heard.

  • well you know how i feel about becker and yngwie LOL but seriously, its interesting how some people find certain styles predictable when they aren't and vice versa, i know people who dont even like guitar and think everything is predictable so..yeah, interesting way the brain works eh!

  • Yea... no point anyone arguing over music in my opinion, since it's all subjective.

    On a forum i go to here were some people arguing over how the Phrygian Mode sounds. One person said it sounded Middle Eastern to them but then this other guy got all pissy about how it is from Spain originally. Once again it's subjective. Makes for some good lolz though when reading it.

  • wow....

  • He's really not a tapper. When you think of Jason Becker, you don't think of tapping. If anything, you think of sweeping. I think his comment wasn't cocky it's just in his mind he knows there's better tappers out there in the world. He's a sweeper and a shredder way before a tapper.

  • hot for teacher??

  • thats just amazing!! his technique is just amazing! its sad he cant play anymore.

  • jovany69 you have some nerve talking about studying for 20 years blah blah (dont most of us who come on here and talk shit have the deceny to atleast get masters degrees) what makes you different? i've heard your band and it sucks so all that studying didnt pay off did it

    , stop telling other people who the best guitarist is, i love becker but he had the SAME tone almost all the time, hes a legend, but not as original/unique as vai or satch, but he pwns yngwie any day of the week, well, he did

  • Owned Baby! =)

    How right you are.

  • He probably isn't a big tapper, but he rocks at legato which is why he annihilated at that first bit.

  • hes awesome, arrogant at the beginning with the "im not a tapper" bullshit before launching into that, no 1 clapped which seemed fair but he was amazing!!! becker is a legend

  • Im not a tapper ha ha ha... :P

  • He probably actually isn't a tapper in his eyes, he probably considers himself a sweeper.

  • well maybe not, but his ears and brain are good enough to know that he can clearly do it as well if not better than miost others, you could clearly see the arrogance in the way he said it, but who cares hes jason becker. and lmao at the pussyhole that thumbed me down for being honest, sorry to say something that isnt divine about your hero, but only fuckwits like you make people like becker out to be more than human, its sad and only diminshes them when shit like this happens "ALS"

  • 1 thing im not is a tapper and he pulls out a tapping lick that would take stevie vai ages to master... shit imagine if he "was a tapper lol" thats horrible about the als though :/

  • Hot for teacher !

  • To those of you who say he can't phrase, this video and the others like it are pure wanking, to show you the concepts and show off. Listen to his actual songs before talk shit on Jason.

  • i wasnt expecting him to be that good llf, never seen him tap before. lol hot for teacher was sweet