Top 10 Fastest Guitarists

[pumita90]

john petrucci is the damn choosen one!!!!

[OfficialSilverViper]

Mick Thompson!!!! Jim Root!!!!

[snibblexx]

no steve vai are you insane no satch no hammet you smoke the little herb my friend get real

[ClassicRockMan31294]

Anybody know the song John Petrucci is playing?

[johnmyung1980]

@ClassicRockMan31294 glasgow kiss from his solo album "suspended animation"... ;)

[ClassicRockMan31294]

@johnmyung1980 Thank you.

[randombyter]

have you actually counted the notes played? number one might be right but then have you listened to every guitarist on the planet

[mrmonkey3731]

john fruscainte should at least be on the list

[tanjoro]

Akira from japanese band Loudness fuckin shreds

[Aeris4568]

Where the fuck is Herman Li!?

[reg5381]

speed doesnt make it great.half the time its sped up in the studio.

[MosquitoBull]

War of the Angels... fuckyeah.

[SlowhandSolos]

Malmsteen 3rd? Not to Doug Aldrich and Randy Rhoads? What is wrong here?

[mcgXaliasXbam]

okay

michael angelo is really the fastest

[TK55200]

i think its not a matter to playing fast.

[profanious]

fuck the great kat!!! Just cause she's a chick doesn't mean she is faster than steve vai.

[MaddoxXxify]

Did you forget Vai? Also, there's Mustaine, one of the fastest as well.

[skatefreak654]

dude you spelled gilbert wrong

[yamamonkey]

Where's Tommy Emmanuel/Django Reinhart/Jimmy Rosenberg?

[wolfie322]

cant we all just get along? these guys are all good we all need to keep this music alive, not let am idol, main stream media, and rap kill it.. PS Jeff Beck may not be as fast but still just as good!

[trackosys]

buckethead is first other second ... but not eighth

[styler3634]

OMG!! Didi you ever hear from Eddi van Halens solo: "Eruption"???? THIS is fast!!! -.-

[joejohnsonfans]

james hetfield, fastest downpicker

[Hahaha1146]

@2000hesherds WTF it says fastest guitarist

So only the fastest guitarist should be there

[Mikssk8]

It's "Paul Gilbert", not "Paul Gilbirt" learn to write!

[MyLifeIsRockful]

Hmm yeah ... Where is Steve Vai???

[TheMobiuskid]

@MyLifeIsRockful Hum...the guy who make this video is so uneducated, but don't worry, Chuck Norris will soon know that. :)

[MyLifeIsRockful]

@TheMobiuskid hmm ok then.. :D and Chuck Norris already know it ;)

[undertakervsedge]

IT'S PAUL GILBERT!! ASSHOLE

[seanrees97]

and Petrucci isn't #1 because......

[Hahaha1146]

Impelliterri is there damn atlest som1 knows how good he is...........check out Reb beach he also shreads

[Hahaha1146]

@haavi57 after u got to be kiding me, synester solo sucks his techniques is fucking way too simple

[2000Heshreds]

@Hahaha1146 i'm sure he has all that and better than lots of guys in this list, he is not only technical he is melodic too. go earn some musical culture

[metalfrver]

Michael Romeo? Jeff Loomis? Chris Broderick? --'

[Haavi57]

Yeah, where is Synyster gates?? Have you ever heard the "afterlife" solo??

[TheStringy92]

This list is not in correct order at all.

[dannpenn]

the number one is an E.T!!

[2000Heshreds]

SYNYSTER GATES YOU FREAKIN' RETARD

[Babyface6200]

@2000Heshreds synyster gates isnt a fastest guitarist you fucking idiot

[2000Heshreds]

@Babyface6200 see the fuckin "afterlife" and "beast and the harlot" solos and tell me if he isn't a fast guitarist im sure he is faster than you

[Babyface6200]

@2000Heshreds He isn't I know alot of solos that are fastest than Synyster Gates's solos. So don't give me that listen to "Afterlife" bullshit because honestly he really is a shitty guitarist and should really practice more before making a solo with mediocre arpegios.

[Ashten2008]

@Babyface6200 I'd like to see you do better.

[Babyface6200]

@Ashten2008 I can

[2000Heshreds]

@Babyface6200 you can go suck a cock thats for sure cocky bastard

[Babyface6200]

@2000Heshreds That's the greatest comeback ever coming from a guy who doesn't know how to play guitar. smh -_-smh

[2000Heshreds]

@Babyface6200 who doesn't know what?

[Babyface6200]

@2000Heshreds guitar

[2000Heshreds]

@Babyface6200 dude don't say shit that you don't know

[2000Heshreds]

@Babyface6200 if he's a shitty guitarist all this guys here are too his solos may not have that technical shit but they are fast and beatiful

[soggytoastzx]

just coz there fast doesnt meen they are good (ther better than me though!)

[2000Heshreds]

@soggytoastzx actually it kinda does

[matt2eadgbe]

you must not of heard of Jason Becker

[josealbrtogh]

Falto Luca Turilli y Herman Li! =/

[Brunothetigerheart]

@josealbrtogh puts cara dragon force acelera as músicas no estudio, sendo assim até eu estaria na lista.

[heherth]

mab is fast but can't make good music fa shit..

[foREVer2294]

michael angelo batio isn't the fastest, john petrucci has got a world record of velocity

[PaulRattlehead]

Most people go on porn sights for masturbation videos!!

[TheMobiuskid]

Michael Angelo Batio...WTF !?!?! Where is Steve Vai, AND THE BEST...Herman Li. Serious man...

[Haiskoahanta]

@TheMobiuskid 1.Sorry for my english. 2. Steve Vai??? Please don't tell me that he is faster... of course more musical but surely not faster. 3. HERMAN LI?? Maybe his tapping is fast, but thats all (AND BY FAR HE'S NOT THE BEST) 4. Only because they are at the game guitar hero they are by far not the fastest 5. MAB is one of the fastest, DEFINITELY. Exaggerated he pick 2 notes when steve pick one. Steve would not be in top 100 believe me. There are so many fast players...

[Brunothetigerheart]

@Haiskoahanta i hate guitar hero, it make the people think slash is a god guitar and dragon force is the ultra speedest guitar! I have just one thing to say about dragon force: They use studio to accelerate the song... Studioforce...

And by far slash is not the best, maybe Slash have the best stage presence.

Of course Slash still be a great guitarrist.

[blackdude57]

@Brunothetigerheart MAYBE SLASH OWNS GUITAR HERO HAHAHAHA

[Brunothetigerheart]

@Haiskoahanta i agree with all you talk.

[Haiskoahanta]

@TheMobiuskid so all in one your whole comment make no sense!

[ThePxLsE]

you're a joke man... they are fast but to be a good guitarrist is necesary a good technique, not a faster picking

[SuperChristian528]

@ThePxLsE Don't you see the tittle?

Top 10 FASTEST Guitarists, not BEST.

[b4mvfan13]

Michael angelo? Fastest? that's a joke. he's fast as hell but nothing compared to tiago della vega

[gordo64ful]

@b4mvfan13 who is tiago della vega??

[Brunothetigerheart]

@gordo64ful The fastest guitarist in the world acording with guiness book, just search in you tube.^^

[mistersusan1471]

They're fast and all but rustey cooley and paul gilbirt don't really know very much about music, whereas the likes of Petrucci and Malmsteen integrate musical knowledge and speed beautifully

[musicisthebestF]

@mistersusan1471

Whaat did you just say ? Yngwie Malmsteen knows Shit about music compared to Paul Gilbert have you ever heard songs from his 2006 / 2010 CD s

All that Yngwie does is playing Bach at High Speed since 1982

And Gilbert plays Hard Rock Heavy Metal, 1970 ies Rock, Neo Classical Metal

Yngwie didnt get develope his style read amazon Reviews on the DVD of G 3 containing Yngwie

[mistersusan1471]

@musicisthebestF I don't believe what they say in reviews, I prefer to form my own judgement based on my own my musical knowledge. My opinion is that bach was a genius and so you can't slate yngwie for reviving his style, and nothing I've heard of gilbert's sounds like... well... music. It's more just slipknottey chromatic and whole tone picking based on shapes rather than scales.

[musicisthebestF]

@mistersusan1471

1. Your comment tells me that you know Nothing about Paul Gilbert

2. How dare you set the Guitarist of Slipknot and Paul Gilbert on 1 Level

Paul Gilbert is a HUGE Bach Fanatic since 1996 and earlier please surch Paul Gilbert Solo 1996 at Budokan he plays some Bach there

he plays a Whole Bach Song on his CD Fuzz Universe called Bach Partitia in DM

can also be Found on youtube

[mistersusan1471]

A bach song? I didn't know he could sing! That might make up for his bad guitar playing!

[AngelOfNight9]

Buckethead at 8? Have you not listened to his old bootleg stuff live? Paul Gilbert talking about Buckethead, has stated himself "He is quicker than I am" in an interview. If anyone disagrees well, let's just say Paul knows Buckethead very well in person. He would know better than any of us and I agree. Watch Buckethead's early live gigs or listen to Disembodied Part 1 and anything on From the Coop

[bobboboy9]

No way is Batio faster than Malmsteen...but the fact that he can play with both hands this fast? pretty cool....

[AngelOfNight9]

@bobboboy9 Its a fact proven by bps. What world are you living in.. Batio is alot faster, I'm sorry this sits uneasy with you because you're a Malmsteen fan, also another guy faster than most people give credit for is Buckethead.

[bobboboy9]

@AngelOfNight9 i'm really not a malmsteen fan. in fact i like batio's music better. the only guitarist on this list i even listen to regularly is paul g. if you can show me any proof of your claim then i'd believe it. malmsteen is considered by most people to be the fastest player. but please send me a link or an article that backs up your claim before you start criticizing the 'world i'm living in'. and even if i'm wrong, the fact you're saying batio is a lot faster is ignorant.

[ughh77]

@bobboboy9 I grew up hanging out with most of these guys Chris, Paul, Joe Holmes. I, was Angelos tech when I was 15. If you ask any of them they will tell you the one that gets the most credit is Shawn Lane. They all flipped when they heard that one tape that someone got from Varney or whomever with Shawn destroying. There were things on that tape that are unexplainable R.I.P. Shawn we miss u.

[TheFarros]

Synyster Gates?

[bobboboy9]

@TheFarros Is this a joke?



[mkcool18]

What solo was John Petrucci playing.

[MrFuzzUniverse]

@mkcool18 glasgow kiss :3

[bleachflu]

lol im better then them all in gutar hero .

just kiddin

[RmNaNtCbScRrn]

lil wayne should be in this list....... oh wait it says fastest, i thought it said dumbest... nevermind

[agiosvasilhs]

you rock for saying that !!!!

[fuckedfing]

dude, where's thiago della vega this selection?

He is currently the fastest. I agree with the whole list, but with Michael Angelo Batio in the first place I am totally against.

[CrazyTrain690]

CHris Impellitteri`s part sounds very good

[ASApivot1]

PAra ver el verdadero guitarrista mas rapido del mundo, deven colocar en youtube, Record el guitarrista mas rapido del mundo, es en un concurso donde se toma por cronometro, ese es el verdadero mas rapido, ademas Michael suena mas rapido porque usa hasta 4 guitarras juntas,

[Yoshh1987]

Yngwie malsteen is just the Fastest.

MAB do bullshit with guitar :/ He dont play music

[scotty688]

Petrucci is fucking shitloads faster than the others, he should atleast be 2nd.

[JacobFokinAllen]

dude... rusty..... is not 7th.... nor would jon.... god, they have no fukin idea... huuu, oh well

ps....this means rusty is faster than mab... u dont think so? listen to guardian of time.. LOL from the album book of reflections... fukin slam dunk solo...

[Darkfirelover]

John Petrucci and Buckethead needs to be higher on the list

[MrAfutrell]

all of these people are amazing, but none of them will ever have the most sold albums in the world...............ACDC bitches!!!@!!! WTF no zakk or dime??? guitar one is gay its all about guitar world mags their list is more correct

[MegaHellcat666]

where the hell is skwisgaar skwigelf?

[windyarse41]

watched all 10, loved what buckethead did but found the other 9 to be a pile of shitfeast

[joesatrianiisthebest]

MALMSTEEN EQUAL FIRST WITH JOE SATRIANI!!

I CAN NOT BELIEVE THAT WHOEVER MADE THIS IS STUPID ENOUGH NOT TO PUT SATCH ON THE LIST!

[FrankiethePirate813]

Alexi or Herman didnt make the fast list top 5? wtf are u kidding me?

[musiclovergrl]

1.To all the people sayin Synyster Gates.No. Don't get the wrong idea, I LOVE Avenged Sevenfold and Syn is one of my favorite guitarists ever,but he isn't a very fast player. 2. Where is Herman Li? He should be around #2 or #1.

[jdurand11143]

Gilbert not Gilbirt

[SickneZZ2]

Also, Malmsteen is number 1 BY FAR when it comes to speed, followed by Paul Gilbert.

[ChineseTOP]

@SickneZZ2 i think chris broderick or rusty cooley are a faster than malmsteen

[mac999attack]

NO SYN? man fucking clear the shit you've been listening to and get some a7x syn could kick half of these guys' ass

[SickneZZ2]

@mac999attack gtfo off mainstream garbage you fag.

[mac999attack]

@SickneZZ2 yeah and buckethead isnt garbage, he's too much of a fag to show his face. syn could kick bucketfag's ass all day bitch!

[SickneZZ2]

@mac999attack lol, you are a joker.

[mac999attack]

@SickneZZ2 get the fuck off my case faggot, this is why i wear a condom when i have sex. so inbred losers like you arent in this world! FUCK OFF

[ChineseTOP]

@mac999attack synyster gates? lool

[FunnyHaloVids]

@mac999attack So you have sex with your family? You said you wear a condom when you have sex, so inbred losers aren't born, so does that mean you have sex with your family? Yes, yes it does.

[musiclovergrl]

@mac999attack Hey hey hey. I completely love Syn and his guitar,but buckethead is awesome too,don't hate

[MarcusTimmus]

@mac999attack ...................no

[astritdili]

AL DI MEOLA is most cleany and speedy guitarists of all time

Thats my opinion

And all these guys were fantastic too

[dirtydonki]

Michael Angelo Batio sets Guitars on fire. :)

[cgcAWESOME84]

And wheres Eddie Van Halen, Herman Li, Jason Becker, John 5, and George Lynch? Buckethead is do low? Why?

[Doug44393]

@cgcAWESOME84 He can't include everybody.

[cgcAWESOME84]

What band is Chris Impellitteri in?

[dirtydonki]

@cgcAWESOME84 He's in Impellitteri. :)

[DTzinhocanino]

Where is Synyster Gates ?

[Deathm3t4l95]

@DTzinhocanino HAHA!, good one there.... there's a million guitarists that are faster than sloppy gates

[Ulysses447]

Paul on top of my list.

[JRTrilling]

These guys are all noise. Take a listen to the top guitarists in Fusion Jazz and you will hear clean speed like Al Di Meola, Alan Holdsworth, and Scott Henderson, just to name a scant few.

[ApocryphaGuitarist99]

The Great Kat is a fucking joke!!!!!! SHE SUCKS!!!! And dude where the fuck is Jason Becker or do you not know who that is! Your list was shit!

[Fender1976uk]

I HATE this type of playing, it just sucks! as they say, speed kills! and it gets worse! the top 3 is so ANAL

[PlayerThe90]

Paul Gilbirt ? hahahah

[crash12512]

mike batio, ye he is so cool he makes chuk norris look like a toyota yaris and mike is a ferrari,lamborghini, porsche

[ArturoHakuna]

jason becker??? Takayoshi Ohmura?¿? steve vai?? van halen?¿ Syu???¿ Walter giardino?? =(

[hudsonrocks1]

Where is eddie van halen? Where is slash? Where is herman li? Why is buckethead sooooooo low? Look at  Buckethead Solo (Awesome)!

[angelbabi13579]

an bucket head is nuts! on top of shredding his ass off he can make some of the coolest sounds on a guitar second only to tom morello, he plays the music from halloween, very cool lol

[angelbabi13579]

batio is cool but thats it! i think malmsteen an the other neoclassical guys play the fastest that you can an still sound good! malmsteen didnt just play fast! he had amazing tone! he played through single channle marshall amps, played a 70s strat with low output single coil pick up's, and played a scalloped fret board to boot! an basically was a pioneer in that genre of music, id say romeo or malmsteen but malmsteen got better tone so malmsteen!

[2VledderMan]

what about joe satriani?? he is fast too

[cycloneaxe]

Informative but the top 2 sound shit!!!!!!!!!!, id rather listen to decent music lol.fast fingers, Crap music.Whats the point!!!!!!

[MegaFaddoul]

the great kat the fastes girl guitar player

[MuiscCovers123]

ermmmm JAKE PITTS AND JINXX FOR A START GUYS ;)

[bunny2hops]

whatever...no billy joe armstrong? how could this list be real if green day doesn't win something? kidding aside, honorable mention for anyone who played for (and including) frank zappa.

[xxxdiabloxxx1]

psyopus is WAY faster :3

Dragon force...

[EternityInValhalla]

What's the Impellitteri song called?

[AIZEN1401]

Batio the best

[MrPlainsteel]

And the point is??

[redybully]

gilbirt haha

[luciferrules]

pantera8001 Michael Angelo Batio is the fastest not Yngwie.

[carlyluvszeepugs]

WHERES DA SQWISGAAR ANDS TOKI???????????

[vovchik2000]

Meet me again

where Dave and Kirk ???

[wseeback]

Michael Angelo National = ugliest guitar player ever. Lol.

[wseeback]

Shawn Lane #5? Give me a break. He was the fastest. Ever.

[UnknownSect333]

@wseeback And then Buckethead is right there behind him!

[DerekScottBland]

Too many people mistake fast for good.

[Ravenhead007]

Too bad they all sound the same.

[ibuypeace]

gilbirt?

[Slipknot23ftw]

i recon john 5 should have been in there sum where

[Sirhaakon20]

øystein sunde of norway??? HELLO???

[heavymetalthunda2]

michael angelo batio is so overrated ... *sigh*

[MrAndreSChr]

ahahahah!!! I mesread.. i thought the title said "fattest" i was expecting something else entirely

[clovis2012]

Michael Angelo and Joe Stump need to lose the wigs. They look ridiculous! Frank Gambale gave his up and now has a shaved head and looks beast.

[Junkra55]

where is Sam Totman and the whole band Dragonforce

[uchoish]

buckethead is best XD.....KFC......XD



[ehoc42]

this list is pretty good but Yngwie is too hight and Jeff Loomis should be on there

[pantera8001]

Du har lite fel där, Yngwie är den som är snabbats, det finns fackta om.

Annars har du rätt när det geller dom andra

[younghermainli20]

HOw the fuck do you list the top 10 fastest guitarists with out putting herman fucking li at the top!?!?!?!?!

[mykebulvai]

shawn lane is actually the fastest. he rarely if ever sweeps. that sweeping arpeggio pattern is so overdone it's puke worthy.

[plamenparis]

Gilbirt ??? LOL

[atl127]

BUCKET HEAD AT THE TOP OF MY LIST.../

[DominatorAxel]

@atl127 Diddo 2 that

[mcgXaliasXbam]

Michael Angelo Batio

is the motherfucking fastest guitar player on earth

[HotRodSixString]

MAB sounds like a machine

[philipthedude]

speed isnt even one millionth as important as emotion and soul, the fastest guitarplayer is like the loudest amp, its cool but not realy usefull for proper solos or licks

[guitarpaolo]

malmsteen for ever.

[robotsforever]

Take away Battio's boss pedals, what's left of his rack gear, and his leather chaffs and just see how great he sounds.

[Woozyization]

@robotsforever He would Probably Be just as fast!

[robotsforever]

The only two I care for are John P, and Sean Lane. Even when they play slow they are tasteful, and you can tell they care about melody.

[Redtotheg]

Buckethead is Number One you stupid fuck he has way faster solos then that, and way more complicated shit then any of these artists, what are you Nucking Futs or somethings?

[andredidiergijon]

THE VIDEOS SAYS FASTEST GUITARISTS, NOT BEST GUITARISTS, SO SHUT THE FUCK UP

[55mrfuckhead]

fag

[gofuckloser]

i can masturbate faster