Guitar World Records

Doug McManaman balanced an acoustic guitar on his forehead for four minutes, 52.69 seconds.

Fastestshredder played an improvisational blues song on his electric guitar at 1,376 BPM. The demonstration song is a blues progression played at 86 BPM and doubled four times to 64 notes per beat equaling a playing speed of 1,376 BPM.

Fastestshredder played a blues rock song on his electric guitar at 616 BPM.

Tai Star held six guitars while standing on one foot.

Doug McManaman balanced a fiddle on his forehead, a fiddle bow on his nose and a miniature guitar on his lips for 44.22 seconds.

Ederson Prado played pizzicato using two fingers of his right hand for two bars per note.

Owen Biddle of The Rootsplayed a bass guitar that was wired through two wah-wah pedals. He attempted to plug in six, but a faulty cable led to an unsuccessful attempt. Biddle set the recordat a World Record Appreciation Society event held at Joe’s Pub in New York City. He was accompanied by Blast Off!!!. Dan Rollman and Corey Henderson were present as witnesses. [#WRAS14][]

Mick Cullen bounced a table tennis ball 96 times using his electric guitar as a paddle. He used an Ibanez electric guitar to achieve the feat.

This record was set as part of Prius Records, a two-day event streamed live on the Internet. In a 48-hour period, URDB officials adjudicated 200 Prius-related world records. This was the most records ever documented in a 48-hour window, a world record in and of itself. The event took place in Los Angeles, California on March 30th and 31st, 2011. See all the records set at the event here.

Taylor Cross laid in a prone position on a park bench for four minutes, 30.56 seconds while balancing basketballs between his feet and on his head and playing an acoustic guitar.

Taylor Cross played an acoustic guitar for one minute, 12.31 seconds while holding basketballs under each arm and sitting on a bike rack.

Pim Zond has a mandolin guitar with a body diameter of 22 inches.

Eric Buffett played all 125 notes on a five string, 24-fret bass guitar in 22.62 seconds.

Mike Gamble drank a full bottle of beer through a cocktail straw while shredding on the B string of his electric guitar in 58.25 seconds. His bandmate helped refill the glass while the record was being set. Gamble performed the feat on July 14, 2009 at a World Record Appreciation Society[] event in New York City. Dan Rollman and Corey Henderson were present to witness and time the record. [#WRAS07][]

Joh Lang of Langcaster Guitars constructs guitars using wood that’s 35,000 years old. He’s used carbon dating methods to confirm the wood’s age.

Spanish guitarist Jose Javier "Jotas" Segura Delgado set up in a booth at the Leyendas del Rock festival in Villena, Spain, and played electric guitar alone from 8:23 a.m. on Monday, August 3, 2026 until 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, August 5, working through 661 logged songs with no backing tracks, metronome or bandmates. Two fixed cameras and a running clock on a monitor recorded the whole attempt, and pairs of witnesses signed off every shift and every rest break, including a power cut that he kept playing through. The result of 55 hours and 52 minutes (3,352 minutes) runs from his first song to his last, and the music only stopped on his logged breaks.