guitar-appreciation.com » fastest guitarist http://guitar-appreciation.com For the love of the guitar. Sat, 23 Jul 2011 08:16:10 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 The fastest shredder on the planet http://guitar-appreciation.com/the-fastest-shredder-on-the-planet/ http://guitar-appreciation.com/the-fastest-shredder-on-the-planet/#comments Wed, 17 Dec 2008 13:23:48 +0000 SubashSL http://guitar-appreciation.com/?p=116 Guitar One magazine rated him the No.1, fastest shredder of all time. Ambidextrous Michael can play both right handed and left handed guitars. But that’s not all he can also cross hands while playing, i.e switch the stumming/picking hand and the hand that holds down the string(s) that form a chord or when playing a note. And he can do that playing both left and right handed guitars. Check the following video from Metalmethod.com to see what I mean. In this video he plays a right handed guitar but note the way he forms the chords using his left hand.

Michael also plays one of a kind guitar called the double guitar. Made by Dean Markley exclusively for him it consists of two guitars joined together at a detachable joint at the bottom in the shape of a giant “V”. Michael can play these two guitars simultaneously. He can also switch hands while playing simultaneously, i.e play the left guitar with his right hand and the right guitar with his left. Watch him literally turn the “V” up and plays the guitars from behind. Actually this is a nice instrumental incorporating the riff from Smoke on the Water and a Randy Rhoads riff towards the end.

To step up a little further, Michael also used to have four guitars joined together in the shape of an “X”. He no longer plays this instrument but you can watch a video of him playing the instrument when he was in the band Nitro.

Michael’s guitar videos are one of the most popular on the net. You can buy his very successfully selling Speed Kills instructional series.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

They are produced and sold by metalmethod.com.

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