paul gilbert crazy solo

[@Stevenotfamous]

He played more notes than I have played in my entire life

[@mondoobies3000]

Lmaoo

[@akoklongkumerillusionist7463]

😅😅😅

[@zapster2412111]

😂

[@timmbosliice]

paul's playing is so clean, i named my vacuum after him.

[@rsingh1252]

I blew lassi through my nose and made a sticky mess

[@filipvelkov6829]

So what u trynna say he sucks!?!?

[@creatifetudes8553]

😂👍

[@sweatyguysteve2056]

I didn't know whether to name my vacuum after him cause he's so clean or me cause I suck so much.

[@theuntalentedasian8219]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏

[@slyphsoldier]

I like how all the comments are about how horrible this is how its just noise or lacking soul. This is him demonstrating his speed and technique. go listen to any of his songs theyre amazing and soulful hes one of the best living guitar players on earth and an amazing songwriter,teacher and performer the only bad thing I see in this video is that hair

[@EliteGuitarClub]

damn right

[@jesusguerra1093]

slyphsoldier the shirt doesnt help either .

[@Nedwin]

He actually had long and straight hair. The make up-person arranged that look.

[@burnnlearn]

You're so right - these 'soul' peeps think every demo must be a song. If these 'soul' peeps were into martial arts, they'd demand that every demo must actually hurt or even better, kill, the person holding the punching bag.

[@Homie3794]

The hairs badass

[@mr.magicmittens3366]

My wife said this sounded like a big mess to her... I looked at her with tears in my eyes, because I knew that this meant she would have to go...

[@paulsmith4686]

Freaken hilarious!

[@andreas_XX]

😂😂😂

[@danjuric622]

Nice!

[@e1iseo]

you did the right thing bro

[@johnjones6601]

GOLD MAN!! MADE MY DAY!! HA,HA.😂😂😂🎶🎸👌

[@riccc6125]

Paul Gilbert, 1990s: *intense shredding * Paul Gilbert, 2019: Sir, you need to calm down...

[@_azu7]

😂😂😂lol

[@banja9172]

@John Smith Paul Gilbert, sir you need to calm down: kzbin.info/www/bejne/aaTShqZ_hp2skMk

[@kungfuman82]

0:52 - 1:02 I don't know if non-guitarists can appreciate just how goddamn hard this whole sequence is, especially the 1st string to 6th string jumps. Maybe I can lessen that to "non-string instrument players", because I've seen violinists do similar jumps.

[@leftyzappa]

Non-guitarists have to have it pointed out. That skipping stuff is for us. 🤓

[@ShpookyMetal]

yeh man to me sounds like diminshed runs but placed in string skipping style only difficulty he can do a e.g. 10-12-15 imagine stretching your fingers like that , sorry i dont have 4 index fingers like jason becker and him haha \m/

[@jye_24]

Pretty much if u practice like Paul Gilbert u master guitar lol

[@GaunterODinn]

This is like Apex to them at their time. Or guitar hero. But taken seriously:Which both have;Or all things. Yield impressive results at times

[@icemilitia]

I don't understand why people be like "I'm a put down muh guitar now" Dude this shit motivates me to be even better!

[@dripgod1526]

I like you

[@stabblooder6148]

Cuz its easier to admit defeat than struggle for victory

[@joeykeenan9976]

Right.

[@apriyudapratama2543]

You cant pass him. Not even close to him . You see how wide his fingers on the fretboard ? Well thats your problem that never you cant solve.

[@LadyLeather80]

@@apriyudapratama2543 It's not the question, you can be inspired but you're not Paul so be yourself and play what you like

[@jrgilbert]

Just so every one knows, sharing a last name does nothing for your guitar playing. Damn. Lol.

[@DanG626]

John Gilbert Eyyyy 🤙

[@Ventsolo]

I hear y'all!

[@leventyildirim2002]

Damn i thought sharing a last name does something for your guitar playing :(

[@gilbo135]

Haha i hear yah!

[@gilbo135]

Still claim hes a long distant 5th cousin though haha

[@LonelyRider347]

Best definition for "betcha can't play this"

[@577buttfan]

Well I think Marty could play it with a little more feel..lol :)

[@ake5790]

Enjoying The Sun 577-Jersey Customs hahaha keep talking my friend MF says he can play really fast and he cant sweep are you dumbass? You have to know a guitarist before saying something

[@577buttfan]

Yeah your right Marty sucks.

[@ake5790]

Enjoying The Sun 577-Jersey Customs no dude...he dont suck,he just cant play fast thats it

[@577buttfan]

IDK man,couple riff in tornado of souls solo is pretty fast if you ask me. I think Chris Impelliteri is faster than Gilbert if not its really close.

[@IndexFossil1]

That's it, turning my guitar into a coffee table.

[@schwarzerkuerbis]

lol I mean "Why bother? Why bother? Use the thing as a coffee-table!"

[@Wg-zx5ve]

Hilarious!😀

[@youreadopted3960]

Useless u mean

[@GudmundurKristjansson]

Well I turned my kick drum in to one! ;)

[@Tiogadon]

He was 21 when they shot this video. A truly gifted musician and overall cool guy. I saw him at a clinic at a local music store many years ago. It was a religious experience. I lived electric guitar for years and meeting him and watching him from 10 feet away was awe inspiring. To be that amazing and humble is something you just don't see too often. He plays like he's an android built to play guitar. Hate the style all you want, but he nails it every time mistake free. Gotta give him props for that.

[@deekay2]

Never introduce your girlfriend or wife to Paul's pinky.

[@naturadventur7425]

Fastest finger bang she'll ever get.

[@jsam4462]

Rapid fire finger bang!

[@akoklongkumerillusionist7463]

😅😅

[@soiledfool8131]

Just to be clear, that pick speed and accuracy, plus that pinky maneuverability is truly something to behold. Paul's a beast.

[@joeylodes]

20+ years later … and this vid still kills!!!!

[@grigoriyborisovich9526]

👍

[@vitriol81]

30+ and still killing it

[@vickyhanggara2936]

30 and still rocks the world

[@komarin2]

Maybe 40+ 50+60+

[@sugarsmusic1187]

I was listening to this on 2x speed, and I was expecting it to sound slow when I played the video again on normal speed. How foolish of me. I honestly think this is one of the best guitar solos ever recorded. Very few people in the world can play as fast and as accurately as he can.

[@DanielGutierrez3007]

"Needs more Wah" -Hammet.

[@LondonMoscowwashington]

hahahahha

[@gerrett108]

Cowbell

[@vicibanzio]

and Hammet need more practice

[@ZER0--]

I would not leave this guy alone with my guitar. It would never be the same again. It would disown me.

[@alexwright1464]

Thanks Paul, I now feel completely inadequate as a guitarist.

[@greysantacruzsanchez7766]

Jajaja =D

[@javierc4967]

If you really want to hone the accuracy of you’re alternate picking, study this man as much as you can. Best alternate picking technique of any guitarist ever.

[@troyyoung214]

And if you can pick it, you can legato it. I'm convinced that this man is the THE best guitarist alive on Earth. Everybody talks about Prince and Hendrix but yet never even heard of Gilbert lol

[@jantzenallen3077]

@@troyyoung214 I think Jason Becker deserves a spot up there too dude was so young then ALS robbed him of his playing who knows what he would be playing like nowadays

[@idk9637]

@@jantzenallen3077 I love ur comment

[@idk9637]

@@jantzenallen3077 I 100% think jason would be a household name if he never got als. He had just joined David Lee Roth band. Who knows where he would go from there. But instead he has to compose all of his music on a computer. Unable to ever join a band. And instrumentals don't make it in today's age sadly.

[@juanm.garcia8971]

Do upstrokes for years, that's how he started

[@yllierutube]

There's no way you can listen to songs like technical difficulties and say Paul doesn't have "soul" like Vai. Just listen to how Paul bends those strings in the solo; so much feeling in it.

[@tamcgowan4407]

after all these yrs, paul gilbert is STILL my favorite, along with shawn lane. some of you that talk smack about him, his licks, his tone, ... you don't realize how good he is, and why his tone sounds like this. From yrs of following him, in my opinion, he has always attacked the guitar/fretboard like a concert pianist attacks a piano: with pure and fierce accuracy, clarity, and energy.. and with only a little bit of reverb.( sustain on piano) Ive never met the guy, but since I first started following his career from the time I was in high school back in the 80's, this is what I gathered from him, and was what I also used as a goal/standard while practicing/playing. Paul is very straight forward player., with very few effects. Very clear and in your face.. like a concert pianist. (again, just my observation) :)

[@mariek.5310]

+TA MCGOWAN Amen!

[@FatPeaceman]

+TA MCGOWAN yeah, not my favourite but he's really great and an amazing player. shawn lane is probably one of the most amazing guys i ever saw both not just guitarists, but musicicans

[@aaronbergAPB]

Paul taught at GIT when I went in 1989-90. He's WAY better face to face, in person right there. He's amazing, incredibly talented.

[@dufaur90]

Bang on description

[@fistoftulkas7335]

Correct, Gilbert is the cleanest and most intense shredder/player in the business...

[@13mrbolivar]

I bought this VHS when it first came out. I practiced my ass off for a couple of decades, and am proud to say that I am now half as fast as Paul!

[@behico2240]

One does not simply watch a Paul Gilbert video and continue playing guitar.

[@LuterofromTx]

I break the rules.

[@sleeve51]

I'm gonna sell my Strat and buy a tambourine. Geez this guy is murder.

[@raiden3079]

Makes me play more.

[@kawakami]

Behic O I have to respectfully disagree. This video took my amateur guitar playing to the next level. Watching this nerve wracking solo did the opposite of discouraging me; I got more motivated than ever. Paul is a true guitar hero.

[@davidgarcia6796]

One does not watch a Paul Gilbert video and quit guitar, that would be idiotic...

[@aimfuldrifter]

This is that kind of a video that will either encourage you to practice more or discourage you totally. IMO one of the best solos from Paul. Love that guy.

[@carsandguitars7064]

you know, if this young man keeps practicing,he just may have a career as a guitarist.

[@ShpookyMetal]

[@hanehtetaung]

😂

[@Tact012]

I could do this on a triangle with my eyes shut

[@itzfurnix6177]

Keep doing what your doing

[@berk4012]

+Tactical Bathtub Your comment gave me diabetus

[@clintjones9848]

Triangle only has 1 pitch. So no, you can't.

[@jadeone]

@@clintjones9848 lmao

[@dodonkedonks4764]

Clint Jones r/woooosh

[@kanis999]

Why I like Paul Gilbert - I never hear him overreach. Almost every other guitarist does this, even the most amazing ones out there. They play a difficult passage that is beyond their ability to play cleanly and end up sounding like they're tripping on their own feet, even if its just for a brief moment. Paul, however, seems to exercise great restraint in only playing fast passages that he knows 100% he can control. Everything that comes out of his guitar is absolute precision in execution. Now, he probably messes up all the time behind the scenes when he's practicing by himself (that's how you learn), but he ensures that everything the public gets exposed to is top execution.

[@fistoftulkas7335]

Yep exactly, and he's still playing at hyper speed, totally clean and with unparalleled intensity. Cleanest and best shredder we've ever had, in my opinion, that percussive alternate-picking is perfection.

[@iikatinggangsengii2471]

yeah thats the actual talent, body limit that higher than others

[@ventuno.thailand]

After decades of practice, persistence, blood, sweat and tears… I have finally achieved his amazing hairstyle 🤪

[@AstriBlair]

Cant bear the sound of blistering licks like this? For all those saying his tone is shit and his licks are "repetetive", so fucking what? This is an intro to a DVD where he teaches licks for improvement. This stuff is far from his compositions which are musically majestic. The sole purpose of him playing this is to show his chops and what you can become if you fucking play and enjoy the guitar. Now pick up your damn axes instead of whining about PG playing 89634134 notes per second in your faces.

[@Thevitamindealer]

Yea I don't think this example was intended to demonstrate musicality necessarily, (even though what he is playing is very musical in logistical terms) I think it's about buttery and accurate technique for the purpose of showing the audience what they can potentially gain from the lesson as far as improving their technique is concerned, which seemed to me to be the main goal of most of these shred god instructional videos.

[@wolfgang2007aaaaaaaa]

+AstriBlair lol i laugh everytime i watch this cos its so insanely accurate and fast. I also laugh everytime I see a negative comment about this style of playing guitar. Its all music, music is art, and art is a form of expression, what ever style it is you can hear that dedication and time spent practicing to get to a level on your instrument of choice and just play what ever is on your mind...that deserves respect.

[@rodrigorivera4679]

i think all the "negative" coments about the style of gilbert are valid too......the point here in a more deep thought is that music its about an art expression, and i think (considering the year of this guitar lesson also) that this video has 0 musicality because, this has no sense.....this its only a guy taking the musica like an instrument to show his abilities, like a deportist or something else.....misunderstooding the sense of musical direction

[@aaaponte0613]

AstriBlair I completely get what you're saying 100% but he sounds like he's playing from a toaster

[@Sunedosa]

Bullshit

[@anthonyjames5474]

"Hold on little girl" I can't believe that was the s*** given to us by MTV back in the day. I had no idea Paul could play like this.

[@Cultural_Supremacist]

I saw Mr. Big open for Rush in SoCal back in the day. Even being a guitar player at the time, I didn’t know who Paul Gilbert was. 😳

[@yannsa1994]

you have no idea how much time and work it requires to reach this level

[@badheart30]

yannsa Personally, I think you need to be born with this potential. I have been playing for a long time and I have never come anywhere close.

[@metalman661001]

Exactly. So don't even say that it sounds like shit unless you can play it better.

[@GuitarBunker]

yannsa i know a few guitarists, who can play this in 5-6 years. i play 4 years and can sweep and shred to. but people like mab, malmsteen ... have trained 4-13 hours per day. when you have no live, its a good way.

[@jimmyponciano8186]

yannsa You have No idea

[@jinlee885]

Sondre Paulsen that long?!? 😱😱

[@Elsaaandriyani03]

July 2023 this video still undefedeated. Paul Gilbert is an alien. Totally speechless to see it

[@bakesalot143]

Watch this video at 2x speed. my brain just melted

[@uncleben6571]

Joseph Zeleny i

[@smartweapon99]

Sounds like PAC man having a stroke at 2x speed

[@6stringstorulethemall967]

It already is at 2x lol

[@parthmehra8630]

Then you would reach the original Paul Gilbert speed

[@TheTF2Pianist]

*arcade game noises*

[@richmonksgtr]

This hole in the space-time continuum, brought to you by Paul Gilbert. 😳

[@patrickbateman8848]

At 1:03 he goes a bit blues for a couple of seconds and then again back to turbo mode. awesome as fuck

[@ShredderJim]

Paul Gilbert is an incredible player. I still have this video on VHS tape ! Once Michael Angelo put out his first instructional video with Star Licks, Vinnie Moore, Tony MacAlpine and all the great players started putting them out. It was great to unlock some of the secrets, but now even more so ! Speaking of which....I have all those instructional VHS tapes. Watching this makes fond memories and frustration trying to play these riffs !

[@BigDLiquor]

Drinking game: Take a shot after every note.

[@locrianphyrigian3779]

ok gonna give you live updates while i do th-sa;h32 8y62390aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@cedricproper5256]

how to sober up: take a drink after every whole note.

[@yonikup2865]

So basically you just asked us all to commit suicide?

[@-ff958-4]

So i need a planet made of beer.it would be enough

[@Excalibur2112]

You'll surely die from it then, lol.

[@GingerFoutley]

He like baptized that instrument

[@jwspitz35]

the string skipping from 0:46-1:02 is fucking crazy...

[@seltersss]

It sounds pretty crazy, but in fact it's probably the easiest lick in the entire video. Check out Troy Grady's video series picking mechanics. Paul's hand/pick is locked in what Grady would call upward pick slanting. It's a lot harder to mess up when you don't have to switch between upward and downward pick slanting, which is precisely what Paul does in most of the other licks in this video.

[@jwspitz35]

Easy for him, yes, haha I sure as hell can't play it. Paul's an absolute MASTER of picking technique, and I'll definitely check out Troy Grady's video

[@fedplaysguitar]

@@seltersss lol easy my ass, try to do string skipping between the 1st and the 5th strings, he even goes from the high E and the low E, and it's super clean

[@plectrumthepickypick]

This video is the biggest reason I went back to the woodshed and started looking at guitar differently. I still have all the great slow chops I had before but now I have these great callousel speed chops to go with em. Thank you Mr. Gilbert for being such an inpiration.

[@joshbrz8902]

My guitar was staring at me in shame after the video ended

[@claypage1089]

My god-- the string skipping around :55. And this was 30 years ago; he has had 30 years of practice to get better!

[@dannyhicks8653]

You do get better! but you also get a bit slower every decade,hes I believe 49 ish,still one of the fastest ight now as is in the world especially when he wants to be,but not quite that fast as he was back then,he is however alot more cleaner and more varied in his playing now and masterfull,with more chops and skill absolutely.

[@hannahwootton6491]

I love the 80s fluffy hair this was just before he was like everyone going for straight hair

[@aaron2709]

He sure plays lots of notes.

[@thescatman7519]

At least 10

[@Galactic613]

11s pushing it

[@yalikejazz4380]

This is my warm up before I stretch my fingers

[@debuhokontra2006]

WTF every note is clear , real fckn living legend

[@axe2rock]

Love this, i still have my vhs copy of this that I got back in the 90s but havent watch it for ages up until now in my youtube recommendations. Awesome and nostalgic, brings back memories

[@nikolaibelenski9716]

Possibly the best guitar player for metal genre with a bluesy tone.

[@DrCowinabox]

This most decidedly isn't a bluesy tone haha

[@nikolaibelenski9716]

DrCowinabox i was'nt talking about his tone in this video.

[@DrCowinabox]

NIKOLAI BELENSKI oh I see

[@brandonstollar6827]

Tosin abasi, jason richardson, plini, jakub zyteki

[@davidgarcia6796]

DrCowinabox and if you weren't such a noob, you would be able to actually hear the blues scale notes being played here...

[@Conan2433]

I think he didnt go to school and spent the time for practising

[@mamatmat1888]

Φιλιππος haha

[@noryanorya1962]

@@danosdrake Nah when he was at high school, he was getting A for more of the subjects. I read this in a guitar magazine before.

[@carlosrodriguez-rj1tj]

Welp, guess I'm an accountant now

[@ssdtrain1]

The truly amazing thing is that 30 years later, he can still do this...

[@scottwaszak698]

I'm reminded of Nigel Tufnel...

[@joebandung9060]

And Now... My guitar FOR SALE...!!!

[@buckeyeburl0162]

Sad and not original

[@mafiashpagety]

What price? :)

[@claypage1089]

What's TERRIFYING is he now has 30 years of more practice under his belt!

[@dreamwever87]

It's amazing how many people don't know about Paul. This is one of the videos that made me nerd out in my 'woodshed' until I had looked up and at least tried to learn everything he had ever done haha. Something I am still doing to this day. It's funny to come back to this video after all of this time. Still amazes me.

[@martinopinto6323]

And Petrucci is destroied

[@Telelikeitis]

I just burned my guitar today. There is nobody faster than this guy.

[@yorulaney8563]

Telelikeitis search for Michael angelo batio speed kills

[@Bublerkin]

+Stefan Ilic, Michal Angelo Batio's alt. picking sounds dirty - too much noise. Gilbert's technique is much more accurate.

[@nicatquluzad8969]

Telelikeitis check out buckethead please 🤘🏼

[@mdiabetes]

Chris Impelliteri, Michael Angelo Batio, Guthrie Govan, Shawn Lane, Rusty Cooley

[@ectomy1235]

Wes Montgomery

[@edwardv4546]

Low key Paul uses a lot of legato in between his alternate picking. I say you guys try and it see how fast you can get. Also, some of his picking that goes across strings uses a lot of repeated 3 note patterns. Try to break it down and then speed it up! Good luck. Send me a message if you want me to further explain this. I don't mind.

[@rsingh1252]

Edward Vaughn please, can you? I know this is like 2 years too late but I'm still very interested!

[@kakhak]

This is my favorite guitarist. Ever.

[@Mcrapansel]

well this makes me want to pick up my guitar everytime i watch...!

[@robg2181]

One single coil pickup ... One knob for volume and that old whammy bar.... Freaking amazing

[@mcadder]

I love to see true skill and talent. This is as true as it gets. Envious shit talkers - stay in envy :o)

[@mcadder]

Very true! :o)

[@Wg-zx5ve]

Incredible even all these years later. I've been along for the ride since '86.

[@brenvelasco8444]

His pinky finger is stronger than my whole hand.😅

[@madmartigan1634]

You just have to be born with fingers like that.

[@BrileyL]

Tabs?

[@Halolaloo]

tabs for 1 Million Notes?

[@andrez2862]

@@Halolaloo aprox

[@StevieRayHendrick]

Paul Gilbert is just simply amazing..and one day i WILL be able to play like this

[@taino91702]

I am still waiting for the part where he plays fast.

[@alpachone9]

Bruin Rican that was the complete album

[@johndrake2729]

Bruin Rican You missed it.

[@markhenson1427]

can play fast fuckhead!!!!!!!!!

[@rubungadoi]

The people who say they put their guitar down or whatever because of this, that's why you will get nowhere. Shit like this makes me want to improve and keep playing more. All it takes is tons of practice and dedication.

[@sjefs5513]

San analysis goofed actually watching the full video made things easyer. He explains so much and shows everything slowly

[@jtomasik]

More cowbell! Ok, that was actually damn good. Gilbert rocks.

[@OrbvsTomarvm]

A musicians (and half musicians) ego have a huge influence on subjective and objective opinions with the likes of these virtuoso demonstrations. And the frailty of the human ego means that jealousy usually comes out on top. Luckily I’ve had the experience of playing to a comparable standard and can say this sounds like the absolute nuts to me. The perfectly picked runs, arpeggio/scale combos. Perfect string jumps. Perfect picking over the E A & D and the transfer between those and the unwound strings. Full shred to hammer on and pull off. All with clever little licks or even just lil technical riffs. It’s just sublime and virtuoso. Paganini when raising the bar for violin virtuosity, wrote little technical exercises like these and nobody criticised him. They all thought he was such a genius that he must have been in league with the devil. And that’s all I see here - a devilish talent!

[@christineayres5339]

This is why Buckethead is so good

[@Jb-of8tl]

OZZY ZIG wait did this guy teach buckethead?

[@johnp.smithasimpleman7281]

J b yes

[@jarrod4115]

*JUST HOW LONG IS HIS PINKY FINGER*

[@Acularis]

He was doing shit like this in his early 20s mang. And people say that Petrucci and the like can compete. HA!

[@funkster007]

Paul was actually doing this in his teens. But that's his thing. Petrucci's more of a songwriter with great technique. Two different beasts.

[@aliaesmail3020]

Actually Petrucci does a lot of shit on metropolis lol.

[@shellrox2878]

You surely have not seen what Petrucci can do

[@realguitarshredder]

Exactly thank you.. I have been saying this for years and you are like the first one to say that along with me

[@OrbvsTomarvm]

After all these years I still love hearing this. Post grad grade 8+ with zero mistakes. I want to say “how many takes did this take?”. I think we can all guess... Life’s a blast when you’re flying around a fretboard like that.

[@ElSacacacas300]

0:48 martin mayo lol

[@willk7184]

Some of his best work.

[@davidluiz389]

these modern day metal shred guys are good no doubt...but paul and yngwie have already done it ages ago..

[@lentil5176]

Is it just me or does he kinda look like Yngwie Malmsteen in this video?

[@BingeV]

Every guitar player looked like Yngwie at this time period lol.

[@bobbybabsonjr787]

yeah we did , now half of us have no hair! lol.

[@kawakami]

He looks like Yngwie during Alcatraz.

[@colddarknight666]

The "good old 80s" look...

[@bmann792]

Way less chest hair

[@chrisbarkerguitar]

Still trying to pick my jaw up off the floor after all these years! Incredible solo!

[@lentil5176]

Idk what's with the people saying they want to put their guitars down after seeing Paul spit some fire shred lol. It's actually not hard to build speed like him, it's just making it sound like music is where the separation between shredders and wankers is.

[@hollowmenrule]

yeah, to incorporate this in music is tough. when done, most shredding music all has that same judas priest/maiden british chug a lug thing, I prefer fusion or something else to this, or else it just sounds like nonsense

[@thomasstarupjrgensen2494]

Not hard to build speed like Paul Gilbert? I hope ur joking. Possible, yeah, but fucking hard. It takes many years of practicing and dedication.

[@jimknight7666]

TheGoldenChodeTV dude, its not easy, it takes hundreds of hours to build speed like that and to be that clean. Its not just the practice, its the self belief and discipline to keep pushing.

[@SabuRexx]

Please post a video of your 'speed'

[@longdark4ever]

I need to return my guitar, it must be broken, it doesn't sound like that...

[@russelrenznerosa8969]

I'm not really used to seeing Paul using the whammy bar. He's more of a hard tail tremolo guy.

[@pb12661]

every "shredder" back in the 80's used a whammy bar..it was MANDATORY. lol

[@russelrenznerosa8969]

JONATHON SEAGULL Heavy Metal yeah.. xD

[@debuhokontra2006]

the cleanest shredd ive heard

[@unknown-cx2xz]

I'm selling my guitars right now and move to Africa

[@porcaro4ever]

Lukather will bless the rains for ya!

[@daved6569]

A little too slow for me. Lol

[@GoGoGGG000]

Is there anyone out there that's able to play this?!? Lol

[@1716frank]

he man exactly he is something else. he is touring and i will be seeing him this Thursday!!

[@sleeve51]

S*IT F*CK ON A TRUCK. This guy smokes everyone else. I like Blackmore and Beck...but he puts them to shame.

[@juanperez-jk9vu]

Are you fucking kidding me? he plays guitar thanks to them.

[@fernandomoreno7753]

+juan perez you're right but in terms of technique, yeah he surpassed them

[@juanperez-jk9vu]

Fernando Moreno Yes, but you can't compare that to someone like Blackmore or Beck, they and other players of the 60's and 70's changed the way to play guitar.

[@fernandomoreno7753]

your right they did but so did the early shredders like paul, yngwie, al di meola etc.

[@Acularis]

juan perez that's like saying Jimi Hendrix is a better guitar player than Blackmore and Beck. Being Influential =/= Your Skill

[@doohanxb1]

I bet he can't play smoke on the water

[@ojoj5752]

people are always saying "this makes me put my guitar down everytime i watch" but this just makes me want to practice more, am i the only one?

[@anaran4811]

Paul's right hand is peak biology achievement.

[@artemflash9033]

Thumbs up for pink guitar! =D

[@slyphsoldier]

That's purple bro

[@loigenil]

it's a human ? lol

[@Toughguysdontdance12]

Paul Gilbert > Ingwie Malmsteen.

[@Swordshreader]

Not to be rude but its Yngwie not Ingwie

[@wonkywallanby6912]

Nah

[@tearnfourstar]

@@Swordshreader oh my god that is sooo rude

[@Swordshreader]

How is it rude?

[@Riricoco6999]

Agree

[@Devolutionator]

Paul Gilbert is so good he makes watching credits entertaining.

[@randyreed1284]

PAUL IS ON A WHOLE DIFFERENT LEVEL THAN MOST PEOPLE COULD NEVER COME CLOSE TO ACHIEVING THIS IS A MAN THAT IS TOTALLY DEDICATED AND DEFINITELY LEARNED HIS CRAFT TOTAL DISCIPLINE

[@billcavin3554]

lol... at 1:42 he hits the wrong note, how embarrassing....... practice your lick before you post it jeeez........

[@FLS713HTX]

Bill Cavin jealous bastard

[@billcavin3554]

@@FLS713HTX Really??? it was a joke,,, how the hell could you tell if he hit a wrong note at that speed......

[@AgaveBlueTequila]

I really doubt this is indicative of his ability or best material. I think Ritchie Blackmore called this kind of playing something like, 'technically proficient uninspired wanking'. Nothing melodic or musical in it at all. No emotional inspiration. Which is why I doubt it showcases his best material. His body of work would probably support that .... that is, in his recorded and band-based work, there are probably dozens of solos that are just as technically difficult but also much more melodic and musical.

[@livingbeing1113]

Blackmore couldn't play like this even in his dreams. This is just a shred demonstration for an instructional, all about technique, he isn't trying to make people cry with "soul".

[@AgaveBlueTequila]

@@livingbeing1113 Totally agree. I'm sure he could do better if he put his mind to it. Paul Gilbert, I mean.

[@livingbeing1113]

@@FlounderVFW I'm sure he would love to have it in his arsenal, this is not wanking, it's a superb display of razor-sharp technique and mastery of it. Not to mention Blackmore can be considered one of the pioneers of neo-classical shred. And like i said, this is just an instructional, where showing technique is obviously the main point. Paul Gilbert's career and countless recordings speak for themselves.

[@sagatuppercut2960]

I loved going to Racer X concerts at Chuck Landis' Country Club! The late 1980s was a great time for hard rock music! 🎸

[@Navjeet92]

His hands are cleaner than surgoen's hand before surgery.