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Hey , Are you curious ??? You want the most fast and technic demo solo guitare ever played? a slap in your face??? it's for you…lol…by Emmanuel Sansone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL_LUhAQY6k

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here is something even more technical, and harder to play
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZKUcGTmvos

Non-emotive.

Can't view videos here at work, but that's what I've found with most of these shredding wankers. When I saw Eric Johnson a few years ago, I was up close (about row 5 I think) and could watch him closely, but at the end of his set, I could only think 'but what did he play?'

Speed kills (and usually bores me shitless)......technique is important but i don't find it all that impressive when little is said w it.

when i want to hear a lot of super fast arpegios and scale runs i go for the stuff in the links below. Because, in addition to the super fast macho stuff they play....there's also plenty of melody, hooks, chord melodies, and interesting phrasing.

these guys DO take a breath sometimes. and that's what i find missing from the shred rock gtrsts.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QMVQQ9h9U4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkOfKmGWdnU

These comparisons are always so lame.... Best Guitar Player, Best Solo ...no offense meant but the pickers style is what is really the choice of the listener. We've probably never heard the most technical guitar solo ever played because it was probably played by some guy that didn't have a promotion machine working for him. Or perhaps some unknown picker at a jam session in Bumfunk Idaho played the best solo. Besides that it's all subjective to the listeners taste. Watch every picker on Youtube and maybe you would change your present choice.

Grady Martin stopped into a club where I was playing one night. Grady was brought there by a bass player friend of local renown. The George, the bass player, asked me if Grady could sit in for a few songs. Grady was Kitty Wells guitar player who wasn't allowed to upstage her with his skills, so he had to play boring crap night after night. And that is only what most musicians ever heard him play. Personally, I never knew who he was even though I had heard some lackluster Kitty Wells tunes before.

I handed Grady my guitar and he went wild, like an animal escaping from a cage. He played so much technical, yet melodic riffs, I couldn't believe it. He sounded like had ten fingers on each hand and everything he played was complimentary to the song. He was all over that thing. The guy was a real humbler.

When Grady was ready to leave the bandstand all I felt like doing was finding somewhere to hide. I didn't have any desire to hold that guitar again for the rest of the set. Most likely the thought of giving it up crossed my mind. I'm insecure anyway and Grady didn't help that one bit. What was I supposed to do after that? I felt like a Mel Bay Book One beginner compared to what Grady just played.

Years later I found his picture on the Chet Atkins web site along with all the other hot Nashville studio musicians. Grady may not have had the record for greatest riffs, but he is right up there with the best Nashville has to offer. And those guys play every genre of music, not just country. They just get paid top dollar for Nashville country studio work. They know where the money is.

You never know what the other guy has in his bag until he starts breaking it all out.

OOPS. Brain fart... I meant to say Odell Martin. Grady stuck in my head because he did so many recordings. I can't edit on this machine so I couldn't fix the error.

Here is one of Odell's videos. I can't see it so I have no idea how good this one is. But he is a monster picker live.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihfUy0EjC08

and I was just beginning to get into Grady Martin..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6gMlJYunoo

now, you have ruined it for me..

Hey , Are you curious ??? You want the most fast and technic demo solo guitare ever played? a slap in your face??? it's for you…lol…by Emmanuel Sansone

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mL_LUhAQY6k

Interesting that he's not playing WITH the bass player and drummer shown in the video (obviously they recorded their parts earlier. Makes it easier to edit the solo, of course!

The cat is certainly no slouch. Very nice tone as well.

Best of? Nah...whose to say really?

I've played regularly with guys as good as him because guitarists are so plentiful they have to be pretty good to get a gig. I can't tell how he would be playing on actual songs which to me is more important . I have heard enough guitar players showing off (including myself on occasion) to last me a life time.

Talbot

I can't watch the video so I don't know what he is doing or why. But sitting in with a band. he never heard before he really smoked He sure didn't have to edit anything when playing live. He was spot on with everything he played. It was an experience I will always remember somewhat uncomfortably.

" I've played regularly with guys as good as him because guitarists are so plentiful they have to be pretty good to get a gig. I can't tell how he would be playing on actual songs which to me is more important . I have heard enough guitar players showing off (including myself on occasion) to last me a life time."

I never implied he was the best. I was just sharing a very humbling moment as far as Odell was concerned. Actually there are some really talented musicians in this city alone. My statement in the post depicted some of the same sentiments that you expressed. On the other hand Odell's best performance may not even be on the Internet.

"We've probably never heard the most technical guitar solo ever played because it was probably played by some guy that didn't have a promotion machine working for him. Or perhaps some unknown picker at a jam session in Bumfunk Idaho played the best solo. Besides that it's all subjective to the listeners taste. Watch every picker on Youtube and maybe you would change your present choice."