Francesco Fareri participates an amateur solo-contest!!

[Ad_Astra]

Yepp..

Here in Finland we have a musician's forum where we have soloing-contests so that the winner of the contest does the backing track for the next contest, got it? :P

Anyway, I mailed this AWESOME shredder, Francesco Fareri, and asked him to take part of the contest.

So, here it is for you also. Take a listen of those AMAZING sweeps etc. Just insane!

The link is found here:

http://personal.inet.fi/koti/miracless/ Right on the NEWS page.

PS: Sign my guestbook =)

[Anton]

Seen it on the petrucci forum. Why anyone would want to dedicate nearly 10 years of playing to speed and totally ignore bending / phrasing is beyond me. His bending and vibrato is a joke, you could train a monkey to play like that, he is literally all technical skill, NOTHING else.

[straymond]

LOL

you're my kinda guy anton!

[zEr0]

Originally Posted by Anton

Seen it on the petrucci forum. Why anyone would want to dedicate nearly 10 years of playing to speed and totally ignore bending / phrasing is beyond me. His bending and vibrato is a joke, you could train a monkey to play like that, he is literally all technical skill, NOTHING else.

It is a very sad thing to say but I agree completely. The guy is a complete freak when it comes to speed but I think I've NEVER heard such a boring player. What a waste...

[Jeff]

Unless your as fast or faster than Rusty Cooley, the novelty of hearing someone play fast just isn't there. Rusty makes his stuff great because he plays a lot of it so fast. Hearing someone play that fast is fun. However, if you're not going to play that fast, learn some other way to set yourself apart.

[Octavio]

Rusty Cooley is miles high in expression and technique than Fareri.
I think Rusty can make speed-down songs (a little bit), but he don´t want too. But Fareri can't do speed-down songs.

[Tom B]

watching a SRV video makes me feel way more incompetent then hearing stuff like this.

[fettouhi]

Originally Posted by Anton

Seen it on the petrucci forum. Why anyone would want to dedicate nearly 10 years of playing to speed and totally ignore bending / phrasing is beyond me. His bending and vibrato is a joke, you could train a monkey to play like that, he is literally all technical skill, NOTHING else.

Totally agree with you there, but he still got some amazing sweeps!

Regards

André

[Azrael]

Originally Posted by Anton

Seen it on the petrucci forum. Why anyone would want to dedicate nearly 10 years of playing to speed and totally ignore bending / phrasing is beyond me. His bending and vibrato is a joke, you could train a monkey to play like that, he is literally all technical skill, NOTHING else.

Same here......I love shredding but this just sounds like fast rubbish.
His vibrato sounds bad......mine is alot better ( thank god for that ) but I love to bend and vibrate. They are in my opinion 2 of the best skills on guitar that one can master. You can put so much emotion in a good vibrato and in the case of shredding it really makes the last notes stand out from the rest.
Speed can help you but is not a sure way to make great music.....

I'm practicing speed but only to be able to play what I want and not be limited by my skill and NOT to always play fast. I'd rather have less speed and be a better player tonewise then to have lot's of speed and play like a stupid robot who has nothing else to do then to speed up.

[Allen Garrow]

Does anyone remember Vinnie Vincent? He played like a speed freak once he got away from KISS. He was just fast with no expression,,,he tried to slow down but it sounded like crap. You gotta have balance man, speed is great but you gotta stir soul at the same time.

~A

[Jeff]

I also hate speed demons that have that ultra wide vibrato. It works for Yngwie, but it won't work for you. Even more, I hate when they play slow and put that big cheesy vibrato in there...

Less is more.

[jem7vwh]

ick.

I think he caught whatever Yngwie has.

[Drew]

some of the stop/go stuff towards the beginning was pretty cool, imo, but after that it just sounded like a quick improv, off the cuff with little thought to melody. Towards the beginning, it sounded like he was putting the speed to work, towards the end it just sounded like speed for speed.

Doesn't mean I wouldn't kill to be able to say "Yeah, I cut that solo."

-D

[Ving]

Originally Posted by jem7vwh

ick.

I think he caught whatever Yngwie has.

It was nothing like Yngwie. Whatever you think of the whole speed thing, it's hard to touch Yngwie's bending and vibrato. He has an incredible amount of control and, when he does slow down, emotion.

[the.godfather]

I agree with Ving - its hard to beat Yngwie on bending and vibrato, hes got some of the best in my opinion. You cannot compare Fareri to Yngwie or Rusty. Yngwie is still the best for me in terms of all-round stuff. He is, and always will be a legend - no matter what stupid things he says in the media!
Jeff is right too, it works for Yngwie but not for Fareri. But as I said above - you cant even compare them, Yngwie is a god.