This guy is amazing, check this out! How applicable do you think this playing style would be to electric guitar?
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Probably not very, but it would be awesome to see what he might do if he tried!
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How similar is this to Matteo Mancuso?
In the future guitarists will likely have to be strong with a plectrum and their fingers, choosing whatever is appropriate for their music. This will be particularly important for studio musicians, I assume?
This looks and sounds like rest stroke technique, like flamenco. Matteo gets the smooth sound of free stroke. They don’t sound much alike, and neither sounds like plectrum playing – which is just one of the many arguments against trying to pit one technique against another.
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The use of plectrums has, apparently, been going on for thousands of years, so musicians have already been doing this (choosing what is appropriate). I just can’t see palm-muted high speed death metal sort of stuff happening with fingers, or a million other situations.
That said, Karai here is great… but PICKS RULE!
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The pure aggression in his scale runs is really something. Love it.
Could a flamenco artist grab an electric guitar if their fingernails where short enough and use their fingertips and play it almost as usual? (I am sure that the steel strings are very destructive on fingernails.)
Yeah, a pick is a very important tool for a lot of work. But I think the future is clear, pick + fingers. (Indeed, one can argue that it’s the present, with all of these artists doing “hybrid picking.”)
One of the most important CtC rules (at least in my mind) is to avoid being dogmatic and use the easiest tool to get a great tone. What is it that the great artists say, “if it sounds good, it is good?” 
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Oh wow, he sounds great! Total monster with those fingers which is completely cool. If I could do it, I would use it for evil, I know it…
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Surely he could play an electric…probably lighten up his touch and use acrylic nails if he had to…Mancuso essentially does the same.
Matteo has both a free stroke and rest stroke form. He uses the free stroke form more often for arpeggio or string skipping phrases and legato, and the rest stroke form for chromatic/scalar/pentatonic lines usually although there’s overlap and he’s very versatile with both.
This guy’s rest stroke technique is practically identical to Matteo’s, except Matteo obviously has much shorter nails to accommodate the electric guitar strings. He’s even using index, middle and ring fingers instead of just the traditional index + middle combination when there are three notes per string ascending for extra efficiency, and also index finger economy picking when descending(it’s hard to tell with the resolution but I’m pretty sure he’s doing it), both of which are prominent in Matteo’s rest stroke form.
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Yes, Guedes has essentially the same technique as Mancuso (or any Flamenco/Classical player).
Guedes seems to differ from Mancuso in that he uses AMI for literally all his scalar lines, regardless of whether there are 3nps or not.
That’s flamenco picado
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This guy was amazing…
