British guitarist reacts to the FASTEST guitarist in the world!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ส.ค. 2018
- Tonight I'm taking a look at arguably the fastest guitar player in the world, Michael Angelo Batio!
Original video - • Speed Kills by Michael...
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I had the privilege to meet Michael in London.
Not only is he insanely good, but you'll never find anyone who is more of a true gentleman and really nice guy.
Went to one of his clinics years ago and can tell you this.He can play anything. This is just a demonstration of his skill and speed,its only a small part of his playing. He was so melodic and played with so much feeling that we all almost started crying. He hardly did any of this speed stuff and still blew us all away. All you jealous idiots go practice your guitar instead of criticising masters like Mike.
YES you are the man! I totally agree ..all the complainers here haven't seen or heard the entire Batio package.
Great comment 100% right. Go Practice
huh i went to one of his clinics too and it was pretty much like this video, only with two guitars. Then he bashed buckethead which i thought was unnecessary. Great technician for sure. But Ive never heard him play anything with great melody or emotion, his albums bored me silly. To each his own. Goin to go practice now.
If I played like this i would quit as I much prefer music over athletic agility. Writing a good timeless song that will inspire people for countless generations to come is sooooooo much more impressive. Hes a nice guy though, met him in the 90s.
I ran into him at a NAMM after hours Party in 2001. The guy was so down to earth- totally polite and coversational. Much respect to Michael Batio..
The most incredible fact is that as a old man over the age of 60 hes still able to shred like that
This girl is better and faster than most of the people's ge reacts too. Not to mention, they can't do this.
The only thing this 60 year-old is better at is improvisational playing
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Sixty years old in not old, now 70-75 your starting to slow down some. I know a lot of musicians playing today in there 70's and still are extremely fast and accurate!!
theGREAT 1 Not discrediting her, but I’ve seen many others pull the 3rd movement off. It’s pretty complicated sure, but using that as a way to put her next to someone with 2x the experience isn’t the way to go.
I think hes actually improved over the years
Yep. Still fast as ever.
He's demonstrating speed. All you haters are just jealous of his ability. Of course he has talent other then speed
Not only fast, but also his technic is out of this world... and he has real musical knowledge.
Having an opinion that's different from yours doesn't mean they're " haters ", are you a person who thinks what you like is what everyone should like? I remember grade school children with this attitude.
older than you Cali
That is not what I am saying, you are putting words in my mouth. This man is CLEARLY talented and if you disagree your opinion is not relevant. I'm not saying I like listening to it, because I don't, but I can tell he is extremely talented and that takes tireless hrs of practice. You, sir, are just looking for an argument.
Really? so why dosen't he show us his "talent"?
Michael Barton
Look at his other videos, dumbass. He demonstrates a substantial amount in this as well. Salty much?
People said Michael Angelo played without feel,
But we all know that Feel is subjective.
People get mad on me because I can't feel Jazz.
Agreed...
metal head from late 60s here. I feel jazz very much, but a good long nap gets rid of it.
Jazz,....you’ll never play the same again. I tend to stay away from the far out there Jazz. It tends to not connect with the majority of people. Lacking easily understood concept.
Jazz. That musical odyssey where if the guitar player screws up and gets called out on it, he just says he didn't make a mistake, he just decided to play it differently that time.
Batio plays like he's a top elite athlete, 100% skill, speed, complexity and control. But I find his playing boring after the initial skill-blast. I haven't heard a single song by him that I find artistically interesting or having any emotional impact. IMHO that is.
People who can’t appreciate this guitar style don’t realize the effort put in to it. I love him
I personally know Michael. He actually doesn't play with really low action as you would presume. He actually likes a fairly high action in comparison to most shredders. He likes to "dig in" as he puts it.
You get better tone that way
MAB's technique and skills are out of this world, it is not only his speed, but accuracy and precision as well that make him one of a kind. As Fil said not even a lifetime is enough to even play something close to him. As for the comments about feel and emotion, guys this is an equivalent of a Formula 1 car. It takes only one passenger, no baggage, burns a lot of fuel, but it is the fastest thing on the track. You can't judge it like an everyday vehicle, it is way different.
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Good way of putting it. Good analogy, and it's true.
@@westpoint64 Thank you.
So what .....
Of course you got to have special talents if you show up to people like that.
I think the most awesome thing about Michael is his love for the instrument which is undeniable.
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“Just going to cut it off right there before my face melts” thanks for making these videos Fil, really fun to watch while we’re all stuck inside here in 2020
It's how Bruce Lee would have played guitar.. Lol..
And you know how we feel about Bruce Lee
Somewhere Herman Li is jumping up and down, waving his arms at you...
Or, Chuck Norris with his feet! 😉
Rudy Toot jumping up and down on a trampoline while playing 🎸 guitar
He would have done it with his legs
Extraordinary talent! Crazy technique! Thank you for posting this. The people who wrote negative comments must not have listened all the way through.
I see a lot of haters. 90% of MAB's stuff is actually "slow" shred or of
moderate speed. Songs like Speed Lives were actually not meant to be a
song. They were for Michael to improve his technique. If you watch
carefully, there is virtually every type of playing within the song
itself. You're got vibrato, hammer-ons, pull-offs, ridiculous arpeggios,
general shred, playing over-under the neck with alternating notes and
about 15 other things in there. He created this song to improve his
technique and speed for shows. It clearly has worked. It was originally a
personal song for himself. A lot of people thought it was cool and he
started playing it at shows. Speed Lives became a song that he plays
just to show proficiency with speed. It is sort of his "main event" that
people love to see. All of his other music is good, as well. People are
claiming that there are other guitarists who are faster. People who
come to mind might be Yngwie Malmsteen or Rusty Cooley. MAB"s "No
Boundaries" song actually sounds better and makes more sense to me than
Cooley's literally mindless shred with no melody at all. He's a good
player, but all over the place and all that he actually makes is scale
runs, for the most part. Joe Satriani is similar with the endless shred
scales, sometimes not even with the timing. Yngwie makes some pretty
cool stuff, but he's a little too proud and pompous for me. Comes across
as a bit of a jerk most of the time. Michael is always down-to-Earth
and trying to help other people with their playing by giving as many
tips as possible.
In regards to being "the fastest in the world"...without a doubt, show
me any other person on Earth who can play alternating notes over and
then under and back over the neck again at the speed that Michael plays.
In that respect, yes, he IS the fastest in the world.
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@NESHMETAL Don't be ignorant, the song is just for practice, lol.
@NESHMETAL It's not meant to be liked, is the point. smh
@NESHMETAL nice response
Haters = Losers😂
Useless people who can't even move their fingers.
When his hand starts flopping back & forth, it's so fast that it looks like a camera trick. It blows my mind every time I see it.
The "Elephant in the room" that Fil did mention is what Michael is wearing. Who on earth wears a "Gold's Gym" t-shirt and yet has arms like pipe cleaners?
An elder Italian rock guitarist? LOL
I wear a weight watchers shirt and I weigh 350 pounds. Why? Because it fits.
@@michaelmabrey6969 I’m sure lots of people do. You still have to admit, it is a bit ironic :P
Every guy in the late 80s and early 90s had that shirt lol
Your comment reminded me of that old south park episode where cartman starts drinking wieght gain shakes that bodybuilders use, only cartman hust gets inhumanely obese, and he is wearing the shirt that says BEEF CAKE!
I can't say that I've been a fan of MB's style, but it goes w/o question he has talent. Moreover, he's always so nice in his interviews. Seems like a great person.
Yeah he's cool!
Super nice guy, I met him at a Guitar Center session in St. Louis he made time for everyone there to answer questions and chit chat. Signed my guitar and it seemed he cared about people there to see him and learn some tricks from him.
I can watch videos of him playing all day, but, yeah, I think just putting on a record of his I’d want to shoot the stereo pretty quickly.
His jazz songs are pretty nice too
Met him a few times and he's always nice and well mannered, a good guy. Not a fan of this kind of playing but I can certainly recognize the talent and time to develop it.
I vote Fil for best teeth in Britain.
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Hahahaha great 😂🤘
Hahaha
I'm sure he appreciates that but it's not saying much considering it's...well...Britain.
They’re lovely teeth.
They should get an OBE, for services to British teeth.
This is the first vhs of guitar playing I owned, takes me back.great video dude!
seeing guitar being played like this is inspiring! Extreme talent doesn't need to be demonised or ridiculed, everyone's tastes are different. I think being able to incorporate this level of virtuosity into songwriting is a testament to hard work, study, and musical genius.
Went to one of his "clinics", ( him shredding you face off for 2+ hrs) about 8 years ago. My jaw is still on the floor at that guitar store. He is that fast, he is able to play it perfectly live. Still the top live guitar performance ive seen in my life.
Awesome!
Same here actually! (I actually won the lucky door prize which was one of his signature guitars that he warned up on)
And exact reaction from me too. He's a top bloke and absolutely flawless playing. Most interesting thing was him explaining the difficulty of the double guitar was more the transitions between playing styles rather than actually playing with both hands
@@TheSeantrooper awesome, since you were there do you remember who the other guitarist he brought was? It's been bugging me and my father in law for a year.
@@timblack1983 he only came solo for the one I went to :/
Elvira mistress of the dark called, she would like her wig back.
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I choked on my dinner you ass!
I wondered if it was just me...
guardduck - It's been 3 days, and I'm till giggling. ; )
Isn't that her kid?
I think one last thing need to be added here as well. MAB is a very down to earth nice person. He takes time to not only visit but also will play guitar with and teach fans new things at workshops and I believe if you just showed up at his house he'd say, come on in, lets play! Not all musicians on his level will give back to their craft the way MAB, Satriani, Vai, Tommy Emmanuel and several others are so willing to do.
I met Michael Angelo twice super nice guy and the freak of nature. He's really something to see up close and personal with the guitar clinics he does.
I was pleasantly surprised with this guy's feel, and vibrato, he not only has lightening speed he has great expression also-the fast players are often lacking in this area!
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Michael Gorman Check out Marco Sfogli. He can play just as fast but much more melodic and expressive. So much easier to listen to
Mike Batio's actual album called No Boundaries is amazing.
*lightning
Absolutely mind blowing Fil! Extraordinary!!!
Thanks for sharing it!
Rock!
5:30 excellent point. With really low action, the time between pushing and getting a fretted string is virtually nil. With higher action most people use, there is a tiny delay so it makes it harder to do this MAB stuff or Shawn Lane et al. BUT.... you gotta be careful and get the string gauge right so you don't get em too slinky or they'll buzz and be harder to pick since they are easier to move with the pick.
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starting at 10:00 my godz..... that was the coolest arpeggio he did the whole time. Maj 7 going up and down 2 octaves. PICKING EVERY GAWD DAMN NOTE! sheeat. good luck!
They dont understand that thing. Thats why majority of the comments is negative.
@@diamonddar707 I personally don't really like much of what Batio did in his career BUT I do acknowledge a great technician when I see one. He was a great technician. A bit too much echo on that VHS lessons vid for my tastes but still, he is so fast and clean. Crazy.
@@TruthSurge well said ^
The thing with MAB is that he WAS the fastest thing at the time as not many guitarists really did what he was doing back in the 80's like he did it...
But I honestly don't like a lot of the showboating stuff that he does; because as cool as it looks to any random non-player, it's honestly kinda toxic to other guitarists because we know it's not even impressive compared to the technical ability the guy could display instead when he's actually playing properly.
It's virtually impossible to find a recording of MAB playing the original No Boundaries with no showboating (especially the ending) from the original album track.
And to be honest, that is quite sad to know every video is just him showing off and never actually playing what he wrote back when he was fast enough to play it...
TruthSurge I follow you and your awesome, how about covering MAB ? Wow I just wonder how many BPM he's churning out. My brain cant think that fast.
I've been digging Michael since the 80's. Very under-appreciated. I still have a couple of his Star Licks videos and STILL play what he was teaching in the vid. He's awesome and a cool guy. Any player would definitely progress with his teaching. And he's still tearin it up!! Thanks Fil, for keeping these guys out there!!
No problem!
I noticed immediately the economy of motion with his right hand.
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He makes a point of that in his demos. Right hand doesn’t move much
@peccatumDei - Yes. I've seen a few studio players around LA with that same, or better, economy of motion.
Thanks Wings! Another nice one thrown at us , that right hand.. at first seemed as if the footage was speeded up ! remarkable,keep up the good work ⚡️all the best ciao.
Well done!!! Such a positive flow in your words, Fil!!!
Thanks!
So what are we looking at? 2 maybe 3 weeks of practice. Man I remember him from years ago with Viper. "He's fast but has no soul." Give me a break, the man's a freak and he's still out there killing it. Great stuff brother 😅
I think the reason why he is anchoring is because he does a lot of arpeggios (or "chord-splitting"). He is apparently a great master of this technique and he uses it a lot. (Malmsteen is another player who loves arpeggios.) It requires you to have a picking movement at a constant speed in one direction, and anchoring may help maintaining this. This does not speed up picking, it just makes it possible to pick across multiple strings at a constant speed.
Anyhow, by watching his right hand it is apparent that he - as most players in this guitar sport - is not playing freely though as you would e.g. on a piano, but he is very much bound by the limitations of his own techniques. As his signature technique is very fast picking he prefers to spread out notes over at least 3 strings so that his picking hand had to switch direction less frequently, and his scales are kinda designed to satisfy this. I can't see this from this video but I'm sure he hardly plays two consecutive notes on two neighbouring strings with opposite picking direction. If picking finishes down, he moves a string downwards, if picking finishes up he moves a string upwards. (And maybe this is why his music sounds a bit soulless, because it is mostly scales, up and down, up and down...)
Of course he is not alone with this, most fast sports-guitarists are fast exactly because they "optimise" their picking one way or another.
Yeah the scales are often put together for efficiency rather than musicality! 😅
Just noticed that your next video is about Malmsteen, indeed you can see him anchoring too when playing arpeggios, but he uses his little finger sparingly, he lifts it up when picking fast on single strings.
OMG...that is CRAZY smokin’ hot! ...another great video...thanks Fil!
Thanks Fil. I've had to be away from your channel for awhile so I thought I'd just drop in for another tutorial. Holy cow man, thanks for posting this and letting me see such a phenomenon. In cutting heads, line 'em up and he'd put 'em all in their place. The best stuff, as always, only from Fil.
Thanks Daniel!
A quote from Batio about the action on his guitar: "I use medium to high action all of the time. I have an unusual way of setting up my guitars. I use what one would call medium action on the low end (6th string) and raise it slightly higher on the top (1st string). In a word- TONE. Higher action equals better tone. The reason for the higher action on the 1st string side is specifically for my vibrato and bending techniques. I have a full sound and very expressive vibrato. Higher action helps achieve the tone and feel that I want. Having low action does not make you faster. Having fast, strong fingers, a sharp mind and the willingness to practice are the keys to quickness."
That's a really great and inspirational quote, and I wholeheartedly agree. 💯
He's not just that fast, but the phrasing that he does is heavenly. Other guitarists would emulate classical phrases, but Michael clearly has had to had some formal training in classical music to do that I think. Just speculation, because this is the first time I ever heard of this guy and hear and see him play. Amazing and pleasing to the ears.
He's not that fast???
I'm sorry ... Your comment was great ... I misread it...
I guess "not just that fast" is the result of only half what he plays being heard... (right or wrong? I care as much as I have my bracelet of perception aside me right now). I may just not have made it to the fast part. Few of his harmonies are heavenly performed, some shreds I heard were like the rest that are not : off (enough to notice without paying attention). I did not analyse his phrasing at all, but from experience i can tell you : it takes minimum 888 of MQ to run through barely 9-10 patterns of 3 instances of even 2 different notes (can you even tell the pattern in 4543 764 4345 134 (which I possibly cycled 3 times a second without noticing, with 2 being a sure shot everytime). But some fucking idiot with 3 times DSM-IV diagnosed and probably 11 more times undiagnosed decided to invite me to his place and to carry my keyboard in the cold to get at his place and play. I did it; keyboard broke so I only play computer keyboard. He thought I sucked and wanted to destroy me : now I'm even more bad ass thanks to him) Get off welfare? Shrug all your guitars in your ass, with the strings still on and over-tightened. Oh and, I never even reached 2 hours of lazy half-ass practice since the 5 years I've been doing that, as a mere visualization technique to start with : it keeps my brain busy, contrarily to all jobs, school, parties, friends and hobbies I had. My MQ is probably 1777 judging by how even fast musical compositions from your greatest composers/performers throughout history don't come close to being half as intricate as what i.... taddada (finish him)... IMPROVISE. I tend to notice when someone severly outdoes me, but again : I did not pay attention to his phrasing.
@@Ymp_11 Do you have any of your guitar playing posted online anywhere. Sounds like you've got something here.
Wow. The technique and accuracy is awesome. Great review. Thanks.
Your description of how his right hand is working, pinkie and ring finger used as reference so his palm can't slow down his hand.. you blurted out a bloody perfect technically correct description as fast as Michael's picking. Good job mate! (was that right, my use of bloody and mate?) Love the deep dives. You make seemingly mundane things seem so cool, and I always learn something. Keep up the great work!
I just met Michael earlier this year and he was a super guy. He has added acoustic stuff to his setlist and it's amazing. He played slow, he played fast, and at a medium tempo and he was extremely clean all throughout. He certainly can do anything and seeing him live, you can see and feel the passion he emits while playing fast. You can clearly see and feel that he loves what he does and to me, that is feeling. I can clearly feel the feeling in his playing. He also plays some mad jazz. I have a lesson DVD of him shooting out awesome jazz progressions. And there are videos of him playing jazz on here and fingerpicking some nice classical pieces and jazz as well. MAB is awesome.
Amen!
I saw him in Johnson city
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There are many out there that put the many years in with the right direction and can’t do a quarter of what Michael Angelo does! The man is one of a kind! The man just is!
Great explanation of Batio's right-hand technique.
Thank you much " Wings of Pegasus"! The first time I made a comment, not the first time I`m watching your show. Interesting idea of yours! My regards, Thomas, Anytime!...
People think that Michael can only play fast with no feel. If you listen to some of his records he is equally great at playing with feel and melody as he is with his ridiculously fast shredding.
He's an amazing guitar player however I'd like to see his sound and licks on a 6 or 12-string acoustic to see how accurate he really is without all the effects. That's why all those old school guitar players really impress me.
You must be joking. He can play anything.
Check out his piece "A New Day", and his acoustic version of this one.
Another awesome video!🤘
Again.... making me really appreciate so much!!
The guy is amazing. Not sure how long I could actually listen without the face melt you mentioned but so fast doing the bottom over the top on the neck his hands were litterally a blur. Almost like he's moving in fast forward.
Thanks for the interesting info as usual. 👍
He was a local boy from the far South side of Chicago. Very unique with the weirdness of his right and left-handed technique. The best part of his playing for me was giving me the idea of playing upside-down on the neck (or on both sides) for a cool effect live. Not a fan of his actual music style, but he really pushes the extreme on just how fast you can play.
New to this channel, loving it, new sub here. Looking forward to exploring all the other videos.
Thanks!
I'm sure I am not the first person to post this .....
BUT .... it is fun watching Your face when someone nails a particular guitar lick .....
Like a little kid waking up on Christmas morn' and seeing the tree and presents .....
My favorite part of these videos as well, you can tell how much he loves guitar
@@jacobprice8048 So true ....
Amazing. Thanks for this one. Fast but still has melody, insane!
No problem!
I clicked on this because I thought it said "British guitarist reacts to the FATTEST guitarist in the world!"
Ok.. so whats happen after ypu clicked?
@@diamonddar707 Sadly, the guitarist was standard sized. He sure crams a lot of notes into each bar. Not very musical to my ear, but as a technical endeavor it's very impressive.
Great analysis spot on
This one popped up today so I took a look - glad I did, because I loved it! I also like how you expressed your opinion by telling us things you actually liked in addition to telling us the things that are really good. I like hearing your opinion! (Hope that makes sense.)
Good, and incredibly fast, but speed-playing does nothing for me.
True but he does some good songs too ...
Agreed ... interesting but I couldn't listen to this for too long!
To you..yeah but for i like. N slow melodic also i like....
Michael says himself "its better to have it and not use it than want to use it and not have it"
songs with 2bpm would be good for you
Love Jason Becker who played fast and also melodic.
Holy moly!!! I just thought my face would melt off when you said it..... Ofreakingmazing!!
just unbelievable, thanks Fil.
He played at music store here in Fla. to backing tracks, he played that guitar and his new Dean guitar and the double V guitar he played harmony with both hands, he played Beatles, Led Zep, Allman Brothers, Deep Purple eagles.... etc and he took some questions when he was done playing... very cool...
Cool!
Dedicated, deliberately brilliant, artistically magnificent and awe inspiring. Can we say phenom. No question! You go guy!👍🏻
Guess there are some haters out here. Par for the course when real skill is involved. Guess they feel threatened in some way. Whiners will cry, but real artists let their instrument talk to their audience!
Amazing player.On point and clean as you can get!!
Wow that's awesome 👍 thanks for showing that Fil.
If Buckethead isn’t the fastest, he entertains the hell out of you without just ramming notes down your eardrums.
People who are talking bad about MAB are not really listening to Phil. He talked about so many aspects of what makes MAB great and how he is misunderstood....this is from a instructional dvd where he is teaching people how to play fast try listening to his other music or stuffs live. His knowledge about guitar playing and music is mind blowing and i say it after seeing him live up close. Also not to forget he comes from a generation that demanded this kind of sound like how nowadays it is a chugging on Guitars and shitty pop. And about not being influential...even a God like Steve vai and others like Herman Li were inspired by him.
As a subscriber Fil, I always love your intelligent and insightful analysis videos. I've only noticed how that you focus on the hours on practice needed to achieve the level of expertise displayed in your videos, omitting the natural talent aspect. Some ppl just seem to excel at a much quicker rate. My former guitar instructor pointed out to me how that some of his students just seemed to "get it" and would progress exponentially faster than other students. I was flattered when he told me how I progressed faster than average, now if I'd only put in the hours necessary to excel!
Yes certainly you need the desire to learn, those that want to progress fastest!
One of Gatton’s nicknames was World’s Fastest Hands, and for good reason. Batio was so impressive, and then there was a country boy that died in Charles County MD.
Amen!
I saw him at Seminole Music in Seminole, Florida many years ago and he really is this skilled. I shook his hand and he made a comment on my Marilyn Manson shirt "Cool Shirt" he said. He explained that being a left handed person he decided he wanted to learn to play as a right handed guitarist and had some good reasons for wanting to do so. If you have access to his original Speed Kills video it is worth the watching.
Cool!
Since I'm big on 'feels' it's not a style I would listen to for a very lengthy amount of time, for me persnally, but you do have to give props where they're due. The guy can definitely play fast! Great Analysis as always, Fil!
Thanks Gwendolyn! 🙂
Really good video!
Hes an amazing guitarist/musician.Still to this day hes locked in history.Fil you always have it right.xoxo
His double guitar performances are amazing as well.
Roy Clark! No one comes even close, speed is not everything. Roy was insanly fast, but played with feeling and warmth.
not any credit given because of country music guitar is always focused on rock
Is MAB faster than Roy? I’m curious
I was running blind, but now I see! Thanks Fil! (and Michael "First of the Fallen" Angelo)
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It blows my mind that people think this guy can't play music! WOW! It amazes me that folks say, " Well I like slow real music, I like BB KING, I like Pink Floyd, blah blah blah! This guy played slow long before he ever played fast! Its that way for every guitarist! No one starts fast then gets slow, good lord! This guy, petrucci, satriani, Vai, malmsteen are some of the best to ever pick up a guitar, anyone who says different don't know jack about music period!
In true 80's fashion, this vid is schlocky, over the top, and full of queso, but still loads of fun to watch. MAB is a loveable metal nerd IRL. I've sat in a clinic he did and he flat out says that stuff like No Boundries and Prog were written as Paganini/Liztesque technical expos. He can actually write more tasteful and melodic/less wankilicious stuff like his tributes to Randy Rhodes and Dimebag or his track Rain Forest. His theory level is off the charts and is also basically a musical Xerox machine, he asked for some suggestions from students and would do 1-2 listens to solos and passages, then do a detailed breakdown. I also gleaned that while he is ambidextrous with picking, his right is clearly dominante and more precise than his left. Playing left handed he couldn't as cleanly string skip or alternate pick as fast (granted, he would still smoke me with his weak side), so he was doing more compact sweeps and muting. Fun teacher, easily one of the top technicians on the instrument, and a very unassuming and laid back dude.
The difference is that guys like Satriani and Vai can pull this shit off but they are melodic in their approach. Flying through scales like this is more of "hey look what I can do" then it is musical.
Steve Vai said that Batio is ambidextrous and could not play the way he did because of it and tried it once with a two neck guitar and could not pull it off.
It's always funny that the more popular any performer gets the bigger the resentment.......there is a reason why guys make it and other guys don't......they just can't figure out enjoyable or even recognizable hooks that will sell to the masses. They maybe technical wizards but I guarantee he would change his bank account with either of the other two mentioned.
No they can't and yes Michelangelo is very melodic.
Wingman He is very impressive, not only fast, accurate and sounds great. Thank you for covering him
Great point about the positioning of his right hand and how he frees up his pick by not resting the heel of his hand on the guitar - like I do, lol.
What I admire about Michael Angelo that his hair still isn't grey at all. Not one hair. It is a true miracle!
Ronnie Yeah bub wigs don’t turn grey. Isn’t that amazing.
He's super fast. That's the only praise I can give him. The music gets lost in the rush to show off. Of course, people will just say I'm jealous. I certainly wish I had the dexterity and technique, but even if I could, I wouldn't play that fast. It's just not entertaining. Or maybe it's just the hair.
I think you just have a small sample size. This video demonstrates speed, that’s the whole point of it. It’s part of an instructional video. He has some great music where he plays beautiful melodies with tons of feeling, just seeing this though you don’t really get that because that’s not what it’s about.
Agree he can shred but it's easy when you only play a little over one-third of the neck I still enjoy blues players the most at one point it just becomes noise want me some Eric Johnson and Gary hoey Steve Satriani but it's hard to hear anything new pushing 60 and I appreciate his age and ability I can't do what he does it's just too much show
Some people are just a natural at what they do. Micheal Angelo was born to play the guitar. It's as simple as that.
Oh...l a Dizzy prestation of Mickaël.and your beautiful expression it's for me,a Real moment of happiness..! I love.!
I recall when Ritchie Blackmore once said he could get 'up and won the neck in record time'. Someone said to him: 'Okay, but what are you seeing along the way'? Fair point.
For me, treating the guitar as though it's a keyboard is where it all started to go wrong for me. It sacrifices the very thing that makes the guitar special which is the ability to create and release tension with the strings.
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Really really cool, amazing guitar playing at it's highest standard. Just blown my mind.
Great to watch your show during the virus issue.... thanks again
There are faster guys on YT with some ridiculous Guinness records or some such nonsense. Whatever they're doing, it isn't music. I actually like Michael's slower stuff. Music is an emotional medium of communication. Speed for speed's sake just gets in the way of that. Hey Fil, let's see how many haters I attract with this comment! :D
Actually, I absolutely agree with you.
Juliet P. Agreed
Technically brilliant and for an appreciation watch on TH-cam yes . But to go out and pay money for an album not sure he or players of a similar style can hold my attention for long enough. Granted this may say more about me. But if I'm being honest i feel it lacks soul and melody ...
Agreed.
Yeah, while I certainly am in awe of their technical prowess, I can only stand to actually listen to it for just a minute or two.
He's more than speed. Much more.
9:48 the fact that he picked every single note in this 🤯🤯🤯
Love the commentary good job freind
"yEa vErY iMpResSiVe, bUt iT's eMoTioNlEsS"
-Moron melancholic
Mesmersing to watch, and awesome technical ability, so, respect where it's due. But from a musical perspective, it's souless. I guess that's part of the trade-off, when you start to play at these insane kind of speeds.....sacrificing emotion, and feel, for speed. As a guitar player though, i love watching all different styles of playing, everyone has something different to bring to table.
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I hear ya Derick, as I'm a guitarist also. But I started thinking about that playing having no soul or feeling in it. But if you think about it it feelings and soul can sometimes sound like this. We have feelings of hyperness
And his soul, being his heart and mind could just be racing like a quarter mile race in top fuel... Lol.... I may have worded it all kind of funny but I think you know what I mean
Saw him a few years ago, a very nice guy great show with great musicians.
Wow this is amazing!!!
his technical ability is face melting.
Sun melting .. ;-D
I've been playing for 50 years, I play kinda the same way. You are right on NOT resting your right hand, Lightly touch the guitar body with the tip of your little finger.I VERY lightly palm mute the strings and Sometimes even put my little finger under the strings to mute them and not palm mute. Don't over pick, if you are picking a .9 gauge string, you have to pick in 11 gauge CIRCLES not straight up and down. Angle your pick , you can't flat pick it. It will slow you down and pick lightly. Only bite into the strings for harmonics. Kind of rock your hand from the wrist. Left hand, don't grab the neck, you should only very lightly touch the back of the neck about 3/4 from the top with the tip of your thumb. Left fingers, economize your movement. String action needs to be low so you don't need to lift your fingers very high off the neck. It takes some time to learn. I think it took me about 5 years after the first Yngwie I heard LOL. The over the top thing, I have No idea how to do that LOL. Good Luck !
Just ran across your channel. I find it quite entertaining. Being an old keyboard player I noticed how he played his guitar almost as if it were a keyboard. It really does stand out. I always wanted to play guitar but just don't have the patience to learn anymore. But to play like this takes true devotion. His style is not everyone's cups of tea as you would say. But I can truly admire his skill. And I can find a melody in there even though some people say they can't. All I can say about his play is "WOW". ;o)
You can get a low action on most guitars if you get the frets levelled as well as your nut slots cut to the correct depths. Action is the distance from the string to the top of the fret.