There are plenty of extremely good professional guitar players that do not rake. You do not need to rake to be a professional. It is a preference, not a requirement.
I get what you’re saying, but he’s right. I can’t really explain it and 9 out of 10 times you can get away with just your fingers, for half steps I’d say to use just your fingers and save the wrist for the vibrato at once the bend is at pitch. But for a whole step or more you will get u der the string above you more often than you’d like if you don’t. It might be the angle? A wrist seems to me to have a more circular push than just a finger going straight up? IDK what it is but he is right. Ok I just figured out why it the part of your finger that’s on the string you’re bending. When you just use your finger you have more of a tendency to use the pad of your finger and the tip is what hits the string above it. When you bend from the wrist you tend to use your fingertip on the string as it should be because your wrist is generating the power that your finger doesn’t have to.
Rule number 2 has a big exception I can think of: HELTER SKELTER. However, it should also be noted that this effect was intentional in order to increase the feeling of manic insanity that McCartney was pushing so hard for the song to convey.
I hate that. Its why my wife made me put the half stack in the garage. I turn it up loud enough to not hear my strings ring acoustically when I practice.
There is some theory behing this. There's beauty in imperfection and human error. As a student of music for a lifetime, sure you can strive to be the best you can be, as perfect as you can play, but don't let your shortcomings stop you writing or performing music. Just go for it!
@@carl_anderson9315 nobody said that, he just said it's boring implying that high level perfectionist musicianship isn't his thing all the time. Take polyphia for example. It's cool but like most ultra technical music I just get a bit bored. It's impressive to see as a short clip but I've never really been a fan of hearing 300 notes blurring out in 2 second bursts for 5 minutes.
@@MonsterJuiced Is it because they're "pro", or because they make boring music? In other words, would the music they wrote sounds better if the people playing it weren't "pros"?
I didn't like your rake technique don't know how you figured that sounds better than just the clean note. Maybe in the heavy metal sound you seam to be into you think it sounds good but I have never heard the greatest rock guitarist ever do that.
