Jason Becker - Perpetual Burn (Full Guitar Cover) 

Thank you! It's funny you should say that, because this cover only took 3-4 hours to record, I know it by heart. The long break is because I've re-wired and re-powered my studio room which took ages to complete :-)

It's honestly a record he can get those out in 4 months.

@@ClassicSoloSpotlightHow did you learn the song? Awesome playing btw, truly inspiring

@@noflyzone1608when I learned it years ago I simply listened to the song obsessively until I eventually memorized it. Then found tabs and went to town. Was easier that way. I mean the song was hard but you know what I mean

@@KingGrio even the best cannot learn this in 4 months, for what i see here the guy plays this since a long time and had perfected this masterpiece over the years, this version is better than the loomis one, and it quite a statement to achieve what the guy had done here, RESPECT

I wish I was learning about JB Today. There is so many awesome songs to discover. Lucky you.

Thank you sir

Dom, it's all about warmups and a steady stream of caffeine!

Give it time!

Thank you!

Thank you. Don't worry the face is coming, haha :-) This channel is just for covers but my personal RU-vid guitar channel will "reveal" it all

@@ClassicSoloSpotlight Ohhhh good to know

Those air guitars can be tricky though

Thank you

You are very welcome.

Thank you!

No defenestration, please. Think about the innocent passers by outside. Please consider the Tufnel option and go for a coffee table instead. Japan '84 ... that early pre-hs3 tone is outstanding. Food of the gods.

hss is great

Thank you sir!

Thanks!

Thank you, Gavin.

The same to you Dom! "God fortsättning" as we say in Sweden!

Thank you Andres

@@ClassicSoloSpotlight don't know if you remember but i wrote you like 20 years ago, to thank you for your amazing transcriptions.

@@andresludmer Yes, I saw your name and it triggered my memory!

​@@ClassicSoloSpotlighti learned so much from your amazing work back then. forever grateful! love from Rosario, Argentina

Thank you!

Far from perfect, but still very good.

Thank you Antoine. I will!

@@ClassicSoloSpotlight maybe YRO the next time !! remember your excellent transcription for this Racer X song

@@antoineprostguitar Great choice.

Tackar och bockar för denna trevliga kommentar!

Yes. You should check out the sweeps in "Liar". Bridge+neck doubled together.

Yes, the old transcription was 20 years ago, some details have indeed been altered. Thanks!

That part is a b*tch

Practice.

Those are real "nicks" in the wood. "Accident" 10 years ago, both my strats have neck marks from it.

I work as a transcriber myself and have transcribed this piece several times over the years. However, I don't use transcriptions when playing a cover. I prefer to play by ear and memory. This one I've played since '89 so it's basically in my DNA by now.

Thank you. For some reason Becker was always "easy" for me, I think because his lines usually are very linear and rhythmically straight, it's easier for the brain to handle. Vintage Yngwie phrasing is a lot more free flowing, and as a result more challenging to get right. Yngwie is slightly more complex specialized techniques such as his non-linear picking patterns and b) certain rhythmical nuances such as playing across the bar. Vintage Yngwie is a bit harder to play because he had a warmer old-school tone, used less distortion, which requires a different touch than a full blast, mid-scoop metal tone like Becker. He on the other hand, requires more control of "modern" tremolo bar techniques such as pull ups (Vai was an admitted influence), faster metal riffing, and atonal chromatic Schoenberg-like 12-tone rows . And of course a few Japanese scales from Friedman. So it all evens out in the end.

I did my first written manuscript of this at 14 or 15 I think. Its how I taught myself to write notation.

For you maybe. I figured this out from vinyl when I was 14

@@ClassicSoloSpotlight Yeah whatever. 🤣