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I just relax and enjoy it. Sped up, not sped up -- immaterial. It's just cool to see kids pushing the envelope.Once I was addicted to tech playing, now I'm not; maybe because I can not play like these "tech monsters" do (as Ian wrote jealously is an awful beast) or maybe because now I prefer to listen to something else. But I absolutely prefer that a young guys tries to be "the fast guitar in the west" than a mediocre Trapper. Just my 2cent
Partly because he speeds up almost all his clips and heavily edits them.Why does it sound so fake? It sounds like it's pitch shifted.
This is utter conjecture, no?Partly because he speeds up almost all his clips and heavily edits them.
No, you can hear and see it. Or maybe I'm some kind of savant who can spot sped up audio and video? Nah, it's really obvious that it's sped up, edited (cut and pasted together to perfection), and mimed (which it has to be since the audio is heavily edited). Further proof to this is that the hands don't always match the audio (as @Bakerman said).This is utter conjecture, no?
This is conjecture.No, you can hear and see it. Or maybe I'm some kind of savant who can spot sped up audio and video? Nah, it's really obvious that it's sped up, edited (cut and pasted together to perfection), and mimed (which it has to be since the audio is heavily edited). Further proof to this is that the hands don't always match the audio (as @Bakerman said).
Look at his hands, the movements are very unnatural and choppy. Slow down the video 20-25 %, and it starts to look like movements a human can actually perform. Take a normal video of another guitar player, put the speed at x 1.25, and it will look weird in the same way.
This type of thing happens in the studio all the time, but since there is no video we don't feel there is hoodwinkery involved as some might in this case.I don't know about sped up, but a lot of this player's videos seem to be mimed. For example, the first chord voicing on this one: LINK
It rings right up to the second voicing, but he clearly lifts from the notes about a half beat earlier to fret the second one. (It's easier to notice at .5x or .25x speed.) This exact thing happens on many other videos (and several times later in the one linked) so I think he's basically recording audio one chord/lick at a time.
This is conjecture.
The kid posts his practice sessions so you can see how hard it works to do this.
Unreal what a bunch of adults will do to tear a kid down on the internet.