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silentmusic
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silentmusic
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09/23/2006 8:23 am
Originally Posted by: 83261_sidin Vai's song "for the love of god", about 3:35 into the song, he does that wierd picking thing, when he goes FRICKIN fast. is there some technique or is he just picking realy fast? Thanks :cool:

what he is doing there is Fluttering the wammy bar, basicaly he flicks the bar by just hitting the very tip of the bar with his picking hand.. this gives that effect of fast picking :cool:
Akira says;
"i was expecting some 3476 string string skipping with some 23489172343 octave sweeps and some alt picking runs at 345734237623572bpm in 234872364781246164516th notes across your 2384723648724627348623478264 fret guitar"