Mexicola: You are repeating what I said. I said beforehand that being a musician and playing the guitar is completely different. Playing a guitar is about your motor functions in your brain, while the other has nothing with motor functions at all.
Holy shit, you are stupid.
YES, Pete and Mike own your ass any day.
You posted those incredibly shitty videos as if they were as good as Mikael's solos. How good you are now and how good you were then doesn't matter, you think you can play as well as mikael when you clearly can't.
If you are sloppy, you are sloppy. Multiple takes doesn't matter, that's just not how it works. Maybe Mike made a mistake or wasn't completely satisfied so he did it again.
And uh, the versions you hear on the album were probably written maybe a few days prior, maybe the same day. I don't know how Opeth works, but your comparison between you and Mike doesn't really work. Album version of the solo is recorded in one day, yours is too.
And you want me to define things more clearly? Well, for one thing, vibrato is not shaking a note back and forth. It's evenly fluctuating a note. You didn't do that.
By "you don't have the attitude" i mean that you played it as if you were afraid of scratching up your guitar or something. When you should have just wailed on the note and put loads of vibrato on it, and all that stuff, you just simply plucked it.
Weak pick attacks means just that, you played every note the same. Which makes it sound as if you don't really know how the song goes, or haven't really heard it before.
When you are feeling the music, you do all this stuff subconsciously. You clearly weren't.
You aren't listening to how Mike is playing, you are just reading it off the tab! That is what I'm trying to say. The guitar is such an expressive instrument, and there are so many nuances to playing it. You can lay behind the beat, and you can play in front of it. You can play a note hard, and you can play it soft. You can add subtle vibrato to it, you can slide into it, need i go on? When you ignore all the nuances you just end up sounding like a midi file. That is why I'm critizing your playing. You don't sound like you know what you're doing. What you take into account is what string, and what fret.
You are so unbelievably stupid that I need to spoon feed you the answers, looks like you can't get them off the table yourself. Here we go!
"YES, Pete and Mike own your ass any day."
REALLY! Here I was beginning to think that playing the guitar for 2 years had made me better than a person who has spent his entire life playing the guitar and not just that but is renowned worldwide for having written the best albums in the world for decades! Goodbye cruel world.
"You posted those incredibly shitty videos as if they were as good as Mikael's solos. How good you are now and how good you were then doesn't matter, you think you can play as well as mikael when you clearly can't."
I can't believe you said that. I never said they were as good as Mike's, and I said that again and again. And, it would take only an incredible moron to say that those videos are incredibly shitty. No, how good I am now and how good I was then DO matter, when you take into account that when I said I could play Opeth solos very well AT THE MOMENT.
"Well, for one thing, vibrato is not shaking a note back and forth. It's evenly fluctuating a note. You didn't do that. "
You're talking as if there is only one vibrato in the whole three solos I played. You need to tell me which moments so that I know what you're talking about. And no, vibrato is not "evenly" fluctuating a note every time. There are times when an uneven vibrato fits much better.
"By "you don't have the attitude" i mean that you played it as if you were afraid of scratching up your guitar or something. When you should have just wailed on the note and put loads of vibrato on it, and all that stuff, you just simply plucked it."
Wow, that vibrato thing is something, then! Gives someone an attitude.
"Weak pick attacks means just that, you played every note the same"
or maybe the recording isn't clear enough to hear the subtler db differences between the notes.
"When you are feeling the music, you do all this stuff subconsciously. You clearly weren't."
yeah, I am expected to do everything subconsciously by just feeling the music. Feeling the music is the shit... if you can feel, you are expected to do everything perfect regardless of how long you have been playing.
