what i loved about alexi was that he was what i would call a "natural" player. its not clean or perfect, his left hand fingering isnt the most efficient... its pure feel and energy. as opposed to a perfectionist creature like jari maenpaa, probably my favourite metal guitar player
@@rkseh If I'm not mistaken he broke his wrist in 2004 and never went to hospital to recover god knows how much time passed since that and he had to relearn everything once again and most likely where he started to become sloppy plus his alcoholism issues.
my favourite thing about alexi is how he just makes the guitar scream! and the sounds he makes with it....hes just got the greatest feel of any metal guitarist ive come across before
Alexi is one of the coolest guitar players, every video and concert i see him in, he's having fun. all it takes is a great attitude about what u do for a living and everyone will love and support u. i love and support Alexi :)
This shows the importance of having an engineer with you, or rather someone to hit the record/ rewind button over and over again. I love me some bodom.
0:47 Alexi says: Let's do it again, something similar, let's just mess around. The other guy says (gathering his jaw from the carpet): Was it bad or something?!? Alexi replies: the tappings could be better. Holy sht.
I know that, I love Alexi too. Children of Bodom have probably been the band that's biggest influenced my music tastes, my point was that Loomis and mainly Abasi have also got remarkable riff/solo writing skills. I'm not trying to cause an argument I was just pointing it out. :)
Alexi plays with intensity and charisma...runs all over the stage and actually looks like he has fun doing it...alot of other guys just stand in one spot and play...how exciting is that. He's also very skilled and can hang with the best!
In music you have all kind of players and its not about who is the most technical and insane , technical and insane isnt always that special. Music just has to be good, when its good its good , I love Alexi !!
There are two guitarists in Children Of Bodom. Roope latvala who plays rythm and Alexi Laiho who does Lead Guitar and Lead Vocals. The guy you see in the video is Alexi.
They prolly just had that at the studio. These days hes been using Marshall KK sig JCM 800s or his Lee Jackson Preamps into VHT 2/90 poweramps into Marshall cabs.
Its called "Chirping". Its done by picking a note or harmonic and pulling up on the whammy bar and letting it go. He explains it better on the Rock House Method DVD vol. 1
you know whats funny, steve vai had a pink guitar, and if Alexi didnt bring out the Pink and black ESP sig, some people would think pink guitars were gay. i thank Alexi for following his influence and adding the pink to his new guitar. its fucking sick too. and he also added that scalloping on the 21-24 frets just like the Jems. You rock Alexi!!!
during the jam solo right after the guy walks past alexi that part in the solo when he uses the whammy bar is so sick and i can't figure out how to do it :P
