Five minutes of white noise.

Protip - i HATE virtuoso guitarists. They are paraded on a musical pedestal for making an obscenely unlistenable racket, devoid of any soul or emotion. I love guitar solos when they add to the dimension or texture of a song and have some form of passion in them, but NOT when they are implimented purely for the sake of flamboyancy or technical wizardry, wielding only a 'notes per second' quality. This is pointless.

I hereby suggest that this video replace every Yngwie Malmsteen video, every John Petrucci video and every Micheal Angelo Batio video on youtube - Because it is more entertaining and equally as musical.

I just KNOW i'm going to get lots of comments from disgruntled shredheads claiming that i made this video out of jealousy for their 'abilities' so READ THIS if you want to comment - and let me say this now - I AM NOT JEALOUS! I made this video to show my contempt for the utter blandness, uninspiring techniques of so called virtuosos whose styles have no variation, no definition and no distingquishing qualities.

For the record, my gripe is less with technicality and more with speed/egotism through music. I can think of many technical guitarists who are interesting to listen to (Ben Weinmann from The Dillinger Escape Plan being one of many) because they fuse the technical elements with more sparse/sporadic/melodic patches without doing the same old boring sweep picked arpeggios at 300bpm...

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[melen987]

Umm, I'm not sure what this si exacly i was reading the comments and discription box and then i gave up, But what I gatherd is this is a type of music.? am I write.

If i am. It suck's Dick. and is extreamly iritating after abnout 3 seonds.

[heavyonit]

@melen987 No, you're not "write". It's white noise.

[Delathblue]

I understand that you "HATE virtuoso guitarists." And you have the right to have that opinion. I just think you should also know that other people have the right to enjoy that style. And many do. Just as many people have different favorite colours, various genres appeal to various people.

[heavyonit]

@Delathblue - Yes, I've never claimed this to be anything other than my opinion, and i understand what you are saying. I've actually grown up a bit since originally posting this video and nowdays my choice of words would be considerably less volatile. However, I still don't find overt technicality to be impressive in any way.

[kathyyanli]

i can still hear room mate talking. this sucks.

[jewelfewel]

i used to be a shredhead. but then i realized that all i was doing was playing fragments of scales at fast speeds. nobody cared. i became bored with my plaing and i found out i was brainwashed into thinking i was good, when really, i just mastered playing stuff fast. but people wanna hear MUSIC. and so do i. i now love the blues, which i sincerely believe is harder than any shred stuff. its harder to be tasteful and pick your notes carefully to enhance a song than play a buttload of notes

[elementalman1992]

this makes me tired :o

[Th3xMM]

I can't hear any guitars only analog buzzing. Wheres the audio?

[MsLULU347]

Long enough for tinnitus suffers to fall asleep to ..:) my perfect pitch..:P

[imnotstpid]

@utki17 dont lie. no one likes liars -.-

[utki17]

I heard a girl say in the background...YOU'RE NEXT

[Ordoxous]

my sisters 18th bday party in the backround, it makes white noise very very soothing...

[nugg69]

@melen987 AHAHHAHAHAH

[12inchBELLY]

@melen987 I dont think your comment will ever get 1 like, even if you spelt a single word "write"

[webcamfan2569]

@melen987 YER NOTHIN BUT A FAT SLOB DICK SUCKIN WHORE!