Francesco is an instrumental shred guitar player from Rome, Italy. He collaborates with guitar lessons on a lot of specialized sites, as Guitar9, Chops From Hell, Insane Guitar, Guitar Mania and others, proposing new ideas and techniques.

From October 2000 to January 2001 he ended to record his first CD called Suspension which is made up of 6 instrumental songs influenced by neoclassical and progressive metal, they show Francesco’s qualities not only on his guitar but even on the bass, keyboards and on the drumming programming. All the instruments create a powerful atmosphere where Francesco expresses his best. His favourite musicians are Jason Becker, Greg Howe Vitalij Kuprij and Jon Doman, which contributed to improve his technical background. He has recorded also an instructional CD-rom based on Arpeggios

and produced by Chops From Hell

 

 

 

"Francesco Fareri is an Italian musician, composer of exceptional skill on guitar. He plays incredibly fast and clean with seemingly non stop arpeggios in this all instrumental guitar onslaught. The title track "Suspension" starts very subdued with piano and strings for about 30 seconds - then all hell breaks loose. The super fast playing, sometimes with 2 guitars, arpeggios everywhere, in a very fast tempo. The music on the whole is very progressive with shades of "Dream Theater" and reminiscent at times of guitarist George Bellas but with a style that is all his own. Francesco is an incredible guitarist and this CD is non stop pure in your face shred guitar from beginning to end. The production is very clean and his guitar is very present on the disc. A fantastic, very Neo Classically influenced CD. You will hear a lot more from this guitarist in the near future."
M.A.C.E. - Michael Angelo Batio February 06, 2002

"Wow! I just listened to your disc and it is really great! You have some amazing sweeping chops. You shred!!! Great job! It is very different stylistically from what I do, but I can still appreciate what you are doing and I respect you a great deal for your great talent and vision to your music. You really know how to play that guitar! On another note, I am totally impressed with your sense of melody when it comes to the piano themes and intros in your songs. They are very fabulous and I would explore some of the melodies in them. They are very deep and moody. I like that. Great job!"
Neil Zaza November 28, 2001

"...Your songs have very complex structures that make you have to pay attention, which is a good thing in progressive guitar music such as yours. You are one of the fastest players I have heard and your sweeping technique is flawless! My favorite song is Introspective, I love the sweep pattern which begins at 05:19 of that song. My second favorite is Secrets because it is very musical and shows a different side of your playing. It also provides a good contrast to the rest of the material on the CD. The keyboard parts also provide a good contrast to the heaviness and speed in the rest of the songs. Very creative use of keyboards!..."
James Murphy December 01, 2001

"...Fareri is a player that strides to break sonic barriers with his guitar playing. He's the type of guy that writes music to inspire other musicians to be on top of their game. This album will go down in shred guitar history without a doubt..."
The Shredzone.com June, 2002

"You can play guitar amazingly, I want to congratulate you on that for sure keep working you are great...you are very extremely talented and that's why I would like to tell you a few things... "
Vitalij Kuprij December 19, 2000

"...just wanted to let you know that your playing sounds Great!...
...stay in touch and keep up the great work"
Greg Howe April 05, 2001

"Cool tab Wow!!! Very nice job...and thanx a million for being a cool fan too. I'm sure you must be a superb player. Maybe we'll hook up one day. Take care."
Greg Howe June 20, 2000

"…Hey bro I thought the music was very cool! I enjoyed the keyboards lines very much and of course the guitar is fuckin smokin! Nice job, anyone can shred with practice but to compose something from nothing is unexplainably so awesome!…"
George Bellas April 08, 2000

"...I like it better when you scale all over the neck with not so much sweeping.
It's just my opinion. I like to hear the pick on the strings.
You're fantastic and you'll only get better... "
Jon Doman December 8, 2000

"…Fareri can play at mind boggling, head numbing speed, especially swept licks which seem to dominate the music (at times, it seems almost every passage and run features sweep picking). We’re talking Michael Angelo speed here, and some of the passages are so fast it doesn’t even sound like a guitar is producing the sound…"
Dan McAvinchey
Guitar Nine on line magazine
The Undiscovered Artists of December 1999 and January 2000

"…Fareri dispara notas limpas e perfeitas, para todos os lados, por minutos e mais minutos em uma velocidade inacreditavel. E mais uma vez, digo, todas as notas sao perfeitamente audiveis. Nao ha nenhuma ‘sujeira’ nenhuma mascada, enfim…nada. Voce vai ouvir o guitarrista mais técnico do mundo."
Thiago Correa
Whiplash magazine on line
Reviews de Demos February 2000

"…your CD shreds, I like your sweeping, picking & song arrangements"
Rob Johnson July 11,2001

"Hi Mr. Ferrari!
Thanx, I received your CD today - wow!!! You really have an impressive technique.
I have already listened to all the tunes. No. 5 is my favourite! Cool!"
Milan Polak December 20,2001