Chad Adam Browne wrote:
Both these videos are always so painful to watch...Why on earth can none of them do it with a purely clean tone? It's like the stupidest record attempt ever cause after 280bpm or so you actually wouldn't be able to hear anything but that horrible scratchy crap they call a guitar tone.
As for that John Taylor dude, all of his playing seems to come from stressing the muscles in his arm. He'll probably develop some sort of issue with regards to his tendons in future. The other dude will at least still be playing long after John Taylor's wrists have given in as he actually has extremely good technique, though still ass like guitar tone.
I still stick to my original statement though, none of these count until they can do it clean ?
I'm not sure you'd be able to play the piece completely clean at those sorts of speeds. In fact, on Taylor's blog he answers the questions about distortion and compression, admitting that he needs the compression to keep the notes audible when playing at speed.
I agree, the Brazilian dude is a lot more relaxed in his playing, and seems more precise in general. And hey, even 300 bpm is a bit daft, tone-wise, so I suppose tone is a secondary thing for these sorts of records: as long as you can hear the note separation when the thing is slowed down.
I think FotBB is crazy and impressive enough at the "regular" silly speed tbh (vivace / 140+bpm), and at that speed you can definitely play it clean. 8)
