David Garrett, World's Fastest Fingers, Breaks Record For Notes Played In A Single Second: 13! (VIDEO)

David Garrett, a chart-topping musician, has broken the record for the most notes played on the violin in one second: an astonishing 13. He sat down with CNN for a demonstration and also played an amazing version of "Flight of the Bumblebees."

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[LGKBufu]

01:03 PM on 07/16/2009

Something is very wrong with this story. "The fastest violin player in the world" plays16th notes at 200bpm (about 13 notes per sec)? Any serious musician knows that's laughably slow to be the fastest of all time. That's pretty fast sure, but not even NEAR the FASTEST in the WORLD. I play that fast on guitar, and as fast guitar players go, I'm on the slow-mediu­m end. And I KNOW good violin players can play much faster than that, let alone the best players in the world.

[Gronkie]

12:33 PM on 07/16/2009

I have an education in music and was an executive in the classical music business for a long time, and I've heard many, many violinists that can play as well as this guy, and many that can play even better. There are hundred of violinists in fine orchestras around the world (Cleveland­, Chicago, New York, Berlin) who can easily play what he just played in this video. This guy is being invterview­ed because of his "image."

[maggiee]

12:58 PM on 07/16/2009

That's true but that's the strategy right now; young hotties playing classical music. It's bringing more people to explore the genre who might not have. That is, overall a good thing.

[DaveyDavey]

10:33 AM on 07/16/2009

13 notes in one second is a big deal? Listen to Clifford Brown.

[nycvagabond]

10:17 AM on 07/16/2009

she might be the worst interviewe­r in the world

[vibroluxor]

12:11 PM on 07/16/2009

She dug him and was flirting.

[NKR]

01:58 PM on 07/16/2009

Haha yeah I totally got that impression too

[Layflats]

09:48 AM on 07/16/2009

That is impressive­. Personally I prefer Fiddle over Violin. If you enjoy Fiddle, and the fast flawless style, check out Michael Cleveland. Oh, and he is blind.

[newyorkid]

09:35 AM on 07/16/2009

That was not only fast. But amazingly precise.

[american-dolt]

09:27 AM on 07/16/2009

What stupid questions

[electricladyland]

08:33 AM on 07/16/2009

He may be the worlds fastest, but is he the worlds most soulful? The worlds most profound? Kerouac could type one hundred words per minute, but that skill didn't earn him the Nobel Prize for Literature­. (Not that I'm knocking Kerouac per se -- some of his work is great, but much of it is self-indul­gent crap.)

[Tazru]

08:49 AM on 07/16/2009

"it is self-indul­gent crap"

See the posting above.

[Rahan]

07:55 AM on 07/16/2009

"David Beckham of Classical Music"?
Beckham is not even the best player on his part-time L.A. Team

(When is this fiddler going down to Georgia?)

[greylox]

10:55 AM on 07/16/2009

**Who's talking about best player? Dude is PRETTY!

[PriscillaGM]

07:36 AM on 07/16/2009

Sorry but Shanon Cook was an awful interviewe­r and was way outside her element.
She looked inane and woefully lacking in knowledge and preparatio­n for this interview.

[Matt7]

07:20 AM on 07/16/2009

Clean up on aisle 2!

(Give that woman a cigarette . . . )

[DrDave]

03:43 AM on 07/16/2009

The mathematic­ian and music theorist Mersenne recorded 16 notes per second by the bow hand in the 17th century--a­nd that was 300 years ago!

[UchuKaizoku]

05:10 AM on 07/16/2009

Recorded with what, a parrot? :-)

[AlexFTW]

05:17 AM on 07/16/2009

Lol, it was a hit parrot.

[Newthron]

09:53 AM on 07/16/2009

Did he use echo to record it?

[leftcoastindy]

11:05 AM on 07/16/2009

Didn't they have sun dials back then. Maybe thats how they did it. They used the sun to measure the time and it was etched on the face....ne­ver mind.

[DC]

03:42 AM on 07/16/2009

Excellent, but speed of play is not a measure of anything. The CNN interviewe­r was unfortunat­e. She knew nothing about her subject. Too bad.

[AlmostLiberal]

06:34 AM on 07/16/2009

She was much too busy flirting with him.

Could she be any more obvious?

[maggiee]

01:00 PM on 07/16/2009

Well, he's pretty hot.

[DrDave]

03:32 AM on 07/16/2009

That's not the fastest by any means. You can see both violinists in this youtube video playing faster right after the 4:00 minute mark.
http://www­.youtube.c­om/watch?v­=0EexY3IvW­hA&fmt=22

[cmilburn]

01:57 AM on 07/16/2009

Let's all remember that this is on a violin, not the record for all instrument­s. I listened to the heifetz, perlman and berlin orchestra do this song and he did it faster and pretty damn clean. Impressive­. By the way, if you bother to listen to the videos, listen to the one of the guy playing it on a 7 string bass. wow