My mother went to High School with him and I had a chance to meet him years ago when I just started guitar and I was very young. I only had heard his name as something of legend- never listened to his music. It was a brief encounter with my family who had purchased his father's art. Looking back- super weird to have six strangers surrounding his bed for a couple minutes, mostly asking inane questions. But damn... if I could do that again... I wouldn't stop asking questions.
i think he's the best guitar player ever lived, he had such passion and insane musical technical style. no doubt If he could function today, he would still be what he was
I disagree. Great player and writer, but let’s be honest, half of the reason he’s so hyped up now is because of the tragedy aspect. This ALWAYS happens with musicians. If you die (or in this case become as physically debilitated as possible without dying) young, you automatically leave a legacy about you being “one of the greatest of all time.” Hell, this is why Hendrix is considered the greatest of all time-he was ground zero for the “celebrity musician dying before his time.” Great and important player, sure, but if he had survived into old age he wouldn’t be as revered. Probably still a top five player in every list, but not Number 1 on every list ever made the way he is.
@@sigiligus this is a case very different to those u talk about. Jason was only 18 when he composed and played this song. I've been playing guitar for 20 years and can barely sweep pick let alone write something like this.
He was diagnosed with ALS while recording with David Lee Roth for A Lil' Ain't Enough after being hired by Roth to be the guitarist in his band after Steve Vai left to pursue a solo career. Jason finished recording his parts for the band while suffering a bit from the condition and was unable to tour in support of the album he helped write.
Absolutely remember that! I remember hearing the news he was going to be David's guitar player and felt as though David's band just might have a chance lol. Unfortunately, I also remember hearing the tragic news of an illness that was going to prevent him from touring. I just didn't know or understand the severity of it. I did realize later that another Hero of mine would have such a story that changed my outlook on life as well. His name is Bobby Jones #golfer. If you ever can take a deeper dive into his life, it is very inspiring. I am quite impressed you remember such an important detail about Jason Becker. Pretty Awesome! Thanks for the reminder.
This guy was so good that he could still play better than most whilst playing guitar with one hand and a yoyo in the other - true fact. Jason Becker will always be a guitar god.
Vinnie Moore, Tony MacAlpine, David T. Chastain, Joey Tafolla Marty Friedman & Jason Becker in Cacophony - those were The Shrapnel Years and I bought every record and they are all classics now - I was totally blown away and it hit my heart and soul forever ❤
A friend of mine, who was a guitarist at that time, used to get samplers from Shrapnel and we just couldn't believe the talent that was in that stable. Jason is incredible. Triumphant Hearts, his latest solo album is an absolute piece of art. I was proud to help crowdfund a masterpiece.
Great track by a great musician... I remember being very sad when I read about his condition then. Listened to this track many times, played some of it when I was a teenager. Still an inspiration.
Your reaction is so pure, it vividly summarizes what jason becker milks out of your emotions which other guitarists fail to do, mainly because jason is coming from such an innocent and pure place due to his inexperienced age which is beautifully unadulterated yet carries the complexity that throws you off your comfort zone. The mix is so potent that it hits our heart before it hits our head. Jason becker is immortal❤
What makes this even more great is the age when Jason created this epic song. That creativeness is on another level man. You can hear some classical influenses there for sure.
You can tell he appreciated the gravitas of the song. I think some people just listen to music, and might even listen to that song and think "cool, wow he can play good!" and move on with their lives. But when he said "I could listen to it 100 more times and still not begin to grasp the enormity of it" that's when you know he immediately understands just how great Jason was. Jason is not like other players or musicians. He's not like other people. He's great on a level very few can begin to comprehend. He's probably the greatest guitar player of all time and this song alone is such a pure expression of his greatness that all you can really do when you realize it, is just sit there in stunned silence.
great reaction, its always refreshing a reaction from a really capable point of view, like a classical trained musician, I hope jason can see this reaction
Every note Jason plays means something, Almost all other shredders have so much noodling and pointless notes there just for the sake of playing fast and playing lots of notes. Jason's stuff is real prodigy composition. Just listen to the vibrato and the detail around every note played. It's impossible to copy. Marty is a close 2nd. Oh, and after listening to this song just consider the fact that he laid it down beginning to end as a single recording, and did it with the rhythm, and did it with the multiple harmonies over those insane runs. No pro tools. None of that. Just pure insane ability and feeling front to back. No one has ever gotten close to Jason. It's so much more than fast notes. It's genius and prodigy. I often think about what happened to him with ALS.... it's like he was too good, and God struck him down. The universe couldn't handle it. It kills me and I hate to think about what could have been. But on the other hand, his story and what he's done, how he's persevered, and what he's written and created, and how he's inspired countless people in these last 30 years.... I feel like all that is just so powerful, just so much more powerful even more so than his unmatched playing. I know there are countless people who have gotten so much motivation and so much of all the intangibles from Jason. I know I have. He's why I started playing guitar, and there have been countless moments where I've been struggling and so beaten down and unable to imagine going on....but then I put his music on and look at him, and I realize my problems ain't shit. He's saved my life and given me meaning more times than I can count. Get your buddy to listen to Triumphant Hearts and Perspective albums!! Both written by Jason using only his eyes!!!
Not really. In historical context, Paganini was amazing not just for his sheer technical ability, but for pushing the boundaries and changing what people thought the instrument was capable of as well as how music could be written. Becker wrote great music and played amazingly well, but his writing is just 200+ year old music adapted to modernity and his technique while spectacular was not uniquely spectacular in the same decade that 90% of shred gods hailed from.
@@sigiligusI’m sorry but that’s just wrong. I can’t think of anyone who displayed these techniques used so seamlessly and perfectly before Jason. You’re describing more Yngwie, and even he was insanely revolutionary for the guitar
best guitarist to ever live by a longshot. no serious guitarist could ever argue otherwise. it's possible to cover every crazy shredder and amazing guitarist out there, but no one can nail Jason's stuff. No one has ever come close. and he did it all from 15-19
Just a damn kid, Air and all these are time proof.I am 55 and still hike and run bike and lift to this every once in a blue moon, alternating with lots of other guitar gurus lol
@@mason_dale dwarfed by recognition but not by ability and songwriting None of them can come close to the emotion and feeling and pure soul of Jason Did any of those guys did it as teenagers. You can't compare them
Thank you for reacting to my favorite guitarist of all time. Justin summed up Jason Becker in one word…EPIC. Please react to more from Jason, maybe “Air” or “Opus Pocus” for more classical brilliance.
should have him listen to air. jasons best composed piece imo and he wrote it in highschool while he was out sick with chicken pox for a week (and i say that as someone with 2 posters of jason in my room lol).. love all of jasons music but air is by far his best and is very beautiful
The greatest guitar player and composer of all time, he was actually only 17 when he wrote this masterpiece let that sink in. Nobody even to this day, at a much older age can play that cleanly with that vibrato and passion, nobody. It is why the likes of Steve Vai hold him in so much regard. Just imagine how good he would have been if ALS hadn't cruely robbed him of his playing. Please do Perpetual Burn next followed by AIR🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Someone should do an AI vid of Jason playing this young... then show him today, rising up, melding with his younger self, and show him today playing this. Itd still be him, technically.
This would be very hard to replicate on keyboards. The only man who ever took the realm of music beyond the common understanding. He was a GOD and for that he was struck down with ALS. The higher realms were not amused! The devil could not risk this guy cutting heads with his best!
I love his album ☝️😁 He was only 16 and 17 then he recorded 4 albums ☝️ incl. this perpetual burn ☝️. I was walking outside at night for 5 years hearing this album in my headphone 😁
Jason Becker was the greatest guitar player that ever lived on planet Earth. He was super human in his understanding of guitar. Very few have ever been able to even come close trying to play his stuff. Jeff Loomis is the only one who ever played his music perfectly note for note. Watch is hands and you will see just how hard Jason`s talent really was. Look up Jeff Loomis Perpetual burn. Watch that and see what super human guitar playing really looks like. He played it perfect note for note. The only human to play it perfect!
Wow, he's really feeling it! I wonder how he would react while listening to Michael Romeo. I'd suggest Divide & Conquer from his last solo album. And Walls Of Babylon by Symphony X, since it's his band, of course. Wish you both good luck and a happy new journey for him! Subscribed. :)
I remember that song from a compilation back in the day. I'm not much of a fan of so called "guitar heroes" or "guitar gods", but that song somehow stuck in mind. He seems to be influenced by Yngwie Malmsteen (one of the few "guitar gods" I know or remember, the other two probably being Jimi Hendrix and Rory Gallagher). Malmsteen was classically trained I believe, so you can hear some of that in Becker's music too. The part with the clear guitar is just beautiful. I didn't know about his sad story.
I think Jason Becker is rrally the peak of what neoclassical metal can be. Yngwie malmsteem is good, but honestly I think Jason is much better. This album has stuck in my head ever sonce i first heard it becuse ive never heard another album that compares.
You guys should do Once Upon a Melody frm Triumphant Hearts to get an example of how his compositions sound when he is combining his early guitar work with how he composes music now. Additionally, after Stephen Hawking passed, Jason is now the longest living survivor of ALS. 52+ years, I cannot comprehend that. Dude's a legend!
Hey guys LOVED seeing y'all reacting to Jason Becker. Now y'all need to check out Vinnie Moore, Tony MacAlpine, Yngwie, Steve Vai and Marty Friedman's early instrumental albums. Then progress to guys like Joe Stump, David Valdes and my personal favorite modern guitar god Andy James. Thank me later. But also be aware that rock god guitarists like Neal Schon and Steve Morse have numerous all-instrumental guitar albums. And what about Andy Timmons, Neil Zaza, Joe Satriani, Blues Saraceno, Greg Howe, Gary Hoey et al... There are hundreds of outstanding instrumental guitar releases of countless styles and genres out there. Open your ears. I've been an instrumental guitar afficionado since the early 80s.🎸
Try 'Speed Metal Symphony' and/or 'Concerto' from the first Cacophony album, which features Jason duetting with the excellent Marty Friedman; I thnk you'll love it.
Hey Jason is still composing music and a few years ago put out an album that was played by amazing guitarists. The album is pretty good to I think the featured musicians do a great job of interpreting his music although it would have been real cool to hear how Jason would have played it.
Nice vid reaction, dudes! You should have Judson check out DAVID T. CHASTAIN'S Excursions Into Reality track from his album, Within the Heat. Or better yet anything from Instrumental Variations, Within the Heat, or Elegant Seduction. 🎸🔥🔥🔥🔥
heartwrenching a guitarist that jawdropping was robbed of his ability to play,he was in a band with another facemelter called marty friedman.would love a reaction to marty's forbidden city or yngwie j malmsteen's trilogy suite op 5.have a good day
Check out Jason Becker and Marty Friedman in Cacophony - Concerto. They are really shredding. Like like live version of Racer X - Scarified (Paul Gilbert and Bruce Bouillet).
New to your channel. You guys are crushing it. You had me laughing and thinking introspectively at the same time. I didn’t realize those brain functions overlapped in the Venn diagram, but they must. Some weird corner of my brain was massively surprised - in a good way. I love your laid back and casual approach. I have listened to this whole album probably hundreds of times. Jason is a legend. Thanks for sharing your reaction. Subscribed! Stay awesome.
I wish for once someone would talk about the whole composition, Atma anur's drums add so much to the whole album. If you listen to the 4/4 programed bullshit drums some Malsteem etc songs are played over.
I love your reaction, wish you good luck with the channel. Here are my suggestions: Dream Theater - would be a nice band to listen to from classical musician - * Octavarium * Ministry of the lost souls * The Glass Prison * Ytse Jam * In The Name of God * etc Pain of Salvation - nice prog metal with emotional dynamics and jazzy harmonics - * King of Loss * Beyond The Pale * Unfuture * Wait * The Perfect Element System of a Down - Good for metal fans community - good for views and interesting to react to. Tool - Interesting niche of prog - For something really different and beautiful I suggest a local artist from my country Dhafer Youssef. Anything from his work basically, but I suggest: * Odd Poetry * Odd Eledgy * Les Ondes Orientales Thanks for reading, wish you good day []~(￣▽￣)~*
I second "The Glass Prison" reaction by Dream Theater... Jordan Rudess, The Keyboardist for DT, Is not only a Julliard School of music graduate, But he also earned a scholarship at the age of nine to said school in question... Yeah.
Jason add libbed most of this in the studio. He had no written music. He just jammed and made most of it up off the top of his head. He says as much in interviews. He was a master of understanding of music theory. He wanted to do unheard ideas so he just went for it and played what he felt at any given second. Can you do that? Most can`t get close to playing like this with no written plan.
Key boards are easy to learn. Guitar is far harder because you can bend notes and do things that can`t be done on keyboards. To say that you are great on keys means nothing. I play both. Guitar is the ultimate instrument. Take it up and try to learn it. You will have a whole new perspective once you do.
dude always did a trick of playing lightning quick with a single hand legato across all 6 strings while his picking hand would do tricks with a yoyo lol
If he could function today, he would be greatest guitar player ever lived here. And still he writes music, respect 👌
My mother went to High School with him and I had a chance to meet him years ago when I just started guitar and I was very young. I only had heard his name as something of legend- never listened to his music. It was a brief encounter with my family who had purchased his father's art. Looking back- super weird to have six strangers surrounding his bed for a couple minutes, mostly asking inane questions.
But damn... if I could do that again... I wouldn't stop asking questions.
i think he's the best guitar player ever lived, he had such passion and insane musical technical style. no doubt If he could function today, he would still be what he was
Abim Finger cover ❤❤❤
I disagree. Great player and writer, but let’s be honest, half of the reason he’s so hyped up now is because of the tragedy aspect. This ALWAYS happens with musicians. If you die (or in this case become as physically debilitated as possible without dying) young, you automatically leave a legacy about you being “one of the greatest of all time.” Hell, this is why Hendrix is considered the greatest of all time-he was ground zero for the “celebrity musician dying before his time.” Great and important player, sure, but if he had survived into old age he wouldn’t be as revered. Probably still a top five player in every list, but not Number 1 on every list ever made the way he is.
@@sigiligus this is a case very different to those u talk about. Jason was only 18 when he composed and played this song. I've been playing guitar for 20 years and can barely sweep pick let alone write something like this.
He was diagnosed with ALS while recording with David Lee Roth for A Lil' Ain't Enough after being hired by Roth to be the guitarist in his band after Steve Vai left to pursue a solo career. Jason finished recording his parts for the band while suffering a bit from the condition and was unable to tour in support of the album he helped write.
Absolutely remember that! I remember hearing the news he was going to be David's guitar player and felt as though David's band just might have a chance lol. Unfortunately, I also remember hearing the tragic news of an illness that was going to prevent him from touring. I just didn't know or understand the severity of it. I did realize later that another Hero of mine would have such a story that changed my outlook on life as well. His name is Bobby Jones #golfer. If you ever can take a deeper dive into his life, it is very inspiring. I am quite impressed you remember such an important detail about Jason Becker. Pretty Awesome! Thanks for the reminder.
18 years old when he recorded this masterpiece, its insane.
the whole album was written when he was 16-17
The writing is way more impressive than the playing, tbh. He wrote this song years before he had the ability to play it.
16
Mozart was writing when he was 5-6 :)
Jason is still unbelievable. Unparalleled musicality
This guy was so good that he could still play better than most whilst playing guitar with one hand and a yoyo in the other - true fact.
Jason Becker will always be a guitar god.
I love this!!!!! He is feeling.every emotion, he can't even describe them with words.
I don't know how anyone could listen to this and NOT feel the emotions. You'd have to be dead inside to not feel anything.
Vinnie Moore, Tony MacAlpine, David T. Chastain, Joey Tafolla Marty Friedman & Jason Becker in Cacophony - those were The Shrapnel Years and I bought every record and they are all classics now - I was totally blown away and it hit my heart and soul forever ❤
A friend of mine, who was a guitarist at that time, used to get samplers from Shrapnel and we just couldn't believe the talent that was in that stable. Jason is incredible. Triumphant Hearts, his latest solo album is an absolute piece of art. I was proud to help crowdfund a masterpiece.
Greg Howe, Richie Kotzen, Racer X...
Great track by a great musician... I remember being very sad when I read about his condition then. Listened to this track many times, played some of it when I was a teenager. Still an inspiration.
A true revolutionary. What he was able to produce with the guitar was beyond words.
Your reaction is so pure, it vividly summarizes what jason becker milks out of your emotions which other guitarists fail to do, mainly because jason is coming from such an innocent and pure place due to his inexperienced age which is beautifully unadulterated yet carries the complexity that throws you off your comfort zone. The mix is so potent that it hits our heart before it hits our head. Jason becker is immortal❤
The perfect guitar piece ever made. So much feel and expression of a true soul.
I love his reaction, because he's a musician, and you see, he's literally feeling Jason Becker's music. Awesome!
Jason Becker changed my life
Is a inspection and the personification of courage and resilience
Perpetual Burn is the holly book for shredders.
What makes this even more great is the age when Jason created this epic song. That creativeness is on another level man. You can hear some classical influenses there for sure.
This is virtuosity in the highest order.
Yup, virtuosity. That´s rare sight to see and witness. Internet is full of good players nowadays but how many of them can compose stuff like this?
You can tell he appreciated the gravitas of the song. I think some people just listen to music, and might even listen to that song and think "cool, wow he can play good!" and move on with their lives.
But when he said "I could listen to it 100 more times and still not begin to grasp the enormity of it" that's when you know he immediately understands just how great Jason was.
Jason is not like other players or musicians. He's not like other people. He's great on a level very few can begin to comprehend. He's probably the greatest guitar player of all time and this song alone is such a pure expression of his greatness that all you can really do when you realize it, is just sit there in stunned silence.
great reaction, its always refreshing a reaction from a really capable point of view, like a classical trained musician, I hope jason can see this reaction
Thank you! 🤘
Favorite guitarist, favorite album any genre and favorite song on the album...thank you for doing this reaction to this GOAT masterpiece!!!
Every note Jason plays means something, Almost all other shredders have so much noodling and pointless notes there just for the sake of playing fast and playing lots of notes.
Jason's stuff is real prodigy composition. Just listen to the vibrato and the detail around every note played. It's impossible to copy. Marty is a close 2nd.
Oh, and after listening to this song just consider the fact that he laid it down beginning to end as a single recording, and did it with the rhythm, and did it with the multiple harmonies over those insane runs. No pro tools. None of that. Just pure insane ability and feeling front to back.
No one has ever gotten close to Jason. It's so much more than fast notes. It's genius and prodigy.
I often think about what happened to him with ALS.... it's like he was too good, and God struck him down. The universe couldn't handle it. It kills me and I hate to think about what could have been. But on the other hand, his story and what he's done, how he's persevered, and what he's written and created, and how he's inspired countless people in these last 30 years.... I feel like all that is just so powerful, just so much more powerful even more so than his unmatched playing. I know there are countless people who have gotten so much motivation and so much of all the intangibles from Jason. I know I have.
He's why I started playing guitar, and there have been countless moments where I've been struggling and so beaten down and unable to imagine going on....but then I put his music on and look at him, and I realize my problems ain't shit.
He's saved my life and given me meaning more times than I can count.
Get your buddy to listen to Triumphant Hearts and Perspective albums!! Both written by Jason using only his eyes!!!
i respect to legend Jackson Becker 😊😊😊 beautiful music altitude Jackson Becker ❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Jason has ❤so much to say.this is what a soul sounds like.
Jason Becker is the Paganini of the electric guitar. A true genius with unmatched skills.
Not really. In historical context, Paganini was amazing not just for his sheer technical ability, but for pushing the boundaries and changing what people thought the instrument was capable of as well as how music could be written. Becker wrote great music and played amazingly well, but his writing is just 200+ year old music adapted to modernity and his technique while spectacular was not uniquely spectacular in the same decade that 90% of shred gods hailed from.
@@sigiligusI’m sorry but that’s just wrong. I can’t think of anyone who displayed these techniques used so seamlessly and perfectly before Jason. You’re describing more Yngwie, and even he was insanely revolutionary for the guitar
best guitarist to ever live by a longshot. no serious guitarist could ever argue otherwise.
it's possible to cover every crazy shredder and amazing guitarist out there, but no one can nail Jason's stuff. No one has ever come close.
and he did it all from 15-19
Just a damn kid, Air and all these are time proof.I am 55 and still hike and run bike and lift to this every once in a blue moon, alternating with lots of other guitar gurus lol
I agree, absolutely blows me away what Jason could do as a teenager, he is the greatest
@@mason_dale dwarfed by recognition but not by ability and songwriting
None of them can come close to the emotion and feeling and pure soul of Jason
Did any of those guys did it as teenagers. You can't compare them
@@mason_dale just say you've never listened to him and get it out of the way
@@mason_dale no just truth
New to the show like it.i'll be back.And thank you for loving Jason.JASON IS THE ASCENDED MASTER TO BE SURE.
I’ve heard this song a million times and it never ceases to amaze me. Truly one of the greatest talents of our time.
Altitudes is a master piece composition
Thank you for reacting to my favorite guitarist of all time. Justin summed up Jason Becker in one word…EPIC. Please react to more from Jason, maybe “Air” or “Opus Pocus” for more classical brilliance.
Opus pocus is by far my favorite Becker song
Yeah JRR Tolkien traveled to the future, listened to this song, went back and wrote the battle between the Balrog and Gandalf. o.0 :)
Changed my life in 2000 when i heard this at 13 years old
The PRAYING Mantis in the background! MASCOT!
should have him listen to air. jasons best composed piece imo and he wrote it in highschool while he was out sick with chicken pox for a week (and i say that as someone with 2 posters of jason in my room lol).. love all of jasons music but air is by far his best and is very beautiful
Masterpiece!
Excellent analysis, great video and thanks for the insight!
Thanks for watching! 🤘
The greatest guitar player and composer of all time, he was actually only 17 when he wrote this masterpiece let that sink in. Nobody even to this day, at a much older age can play that cleanly with that vibrato and passion, nobody. It is why the likes of Steve Vai hold him in so much regard. Just imagine how good he would have been if ALS hadn't cruely robbed him of his playing.
Please do Perpetual Burn next followed by AIR🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Well said! We’ll be doing more of his stuff soon. 🤘
im 17 right now and i cant even begin to comprehend what it must've be like to have his talent at this age, its incredible.
Oh you have to do AIR by Jason Becker.
Another masterpiece.
We’re going to do that one soon. 🤘
@@Greatmeasurescan’t wait for this one he’s gonna love it even more!
@@Greatmeasures You'll love the Counterpoint technique displayed in Air
It looks like he is on top of the mountain playing with thunder," yesssss
Dream theater Dance of Eternity is a must for the world
i love jason‘s music. i‘m not a really “religious” person… but sooo much talent has to be a gift from ?!?
Plot twist Judson should make Richard react to Radiohead songs.
Also Jason Becker is a beautiful human being.
Someone should do an AI vid of Jason playing this young... then show him today, rising up, melding with his younger self, and show him today playing this. Itd still be him, technically.
radiohead, life in a glass house, im with you man, pianists love jazz and radiohead.
This would be very hard to replicate on keyboards. The only man who ever took the realm of music beyond the common understanding. He was a GOD and for that he was struck down with ALS. The higher realms were not amused! The devil could not risk this guy cutting heads with his best!
I love his album ☝️😁
He was only 16 and 17 then he recorded 4 albums ☝️ incl. this perpetual burn ☝️. I was walking outside at night for 5 years hearing this album in my headphone 😁
The greatest who ever played guitar!
Goosebumps.
Every f*cking time.
17 years old at this time.
Loved this
Jason Becker was the greatest guitar player that ever lived on planet Earth. He was super human in his understanding of guitar. Very few have ever been able to even come close trying to play his stuff. Jeff Loomis is the only one who ever played his music perfectly note for note. Watch is hands and you will see just how hard Jason`s talent really was. Look up Jeff Loomis Perpetual burn. Watch that and see what super human guitar playing really looks like. He played it perfect note for note. The only human to play it perfect!
Wow, he's really feeling it! I wonder how he would react while listening to Michael Romeo. I'd suggest Divide & Conquer from his last solo album. And Walls Of Babylon by Symphony X, since it's his band, of course.
Wish you both good luck and a happy new journey for him! Subscribed. :)
Thank you! 🤘
Damn I was thinking Pyramid Song. Love Radiohead AND Jason Becker.
After this air from jason becker sir..thats a truely classical vibe
If you enjoy Jason, you should listen to a much more classical style song from his album Perspective such as End Of The Beginning or Serrana.
Jason Becker, Buckethead & Shawn Lane not from planet earth !!!
I remember that song from a compilation back in the day. I'm not much of a fan of so called "guitar heroes" or "guitar gods", but that song somehow stuck in mind. He seems to be influenced by Yngwie Malmsteen (one of the few "guitar gods" I know or remember, the other two probably being Jimi Hendrix and Rory Gallagher). Malmsteen was classically trained I believe, so you can hear some of that in Becker's music too. The part with the clear guitar is just beautiful. I didn't know about his sad story.
I think Jason Becker is rrally the peak of what neoclassical metal can be. Yngwie malmsteem is good, but honestly I think Jason is much better. This album has stuck in my head ever sonce i first heard it becuse ive never heard another album that compares.
Amazing so dam good I love the clean part kind of sounds like Hawaii music!❤
Aboslute monster of a song,
Air by Jason Becker would be another amazing song to check!
You guys should do Once Upon a Melody frm Triumphant Hearts to get an example of how his compositions sound when he is combining his early guitar work with how he composes music now.
Additionally, after Stephen Hawking passed, Jason is now the longest living survivor of ALS. 52+ years, I cannot comprehend that. Dude's a legend!
Hey guys LOVED seeing y'all reacting to Jason Becker. Now y'all need to check out Vinnie Moore, Tony MacAlpine, Yngwie, Steve Vai and Marty Friedman's early instrumental albums. Then progress to guys like Joe Stump, David Valdes and my personal favorite modern guitar god Andy James. Thank me later. But also be aware that rock god guitarists like Neal Schon and Steve Morse have numerous all-instrumental guitar albums. And what about Andy Timmons, Neil Zaza, Joe Satriani, Blues Saraceno, Greg Howe, Gary Hoey et al... There are hundreds of outstanding instrumental guitar releases of countless styles and genres out there. Open your ears. I've been an instrumental guitar afficionado since the early 80s.🎸
Try 'Speed Metal Symphony' and/or 'Concerto' from the first Cacophony album, which features Jason duetting with the excellent Marty Friedman; I thnk you'll love it.
This is a Paganini of the Guitar, the REAL G.O.A.T
This is the description I was looking for. 😊
Crazy album 🙌🏻
Hey Jason is still composing music and a few years ago put out an album that was played by amazing guitarists. The album is pretty good to I think the featured musicians do a great job of interpreting his music although it would have been real cool to hear how Jason would have played it.
Nice vid reaction, dudes! You should have Judson check out DAVID T. CHASTAIN'S Excursions Into Reality track from his album, Within the Heat. Or better yet anything from Instrumental Variations, Within the Heat, or Elegant Seduction.
🎸🔥🔥🔥🔥
Please react to End of the Beginning by Jason Becker…he wrote this while diagnosed with ALS. It’s unbelievable!
Will do! Thanks! 🤘
I'd LOVE to see what he makes of Ego Death by Polyphia (Featuring Steve Vai)
The only possible reaction possible when hearing Altitudes for the first time is to shred some tears.. period.
3:24, 3:37 PRICELESS, at 5:02 there's no audio unfortunately.
heartwrenching a guitarist that jawdropping was robbed of his ability to play,he was in a band with another facemelter called marty friedman.would love a reaction to marty's forbidden city or yngwie j malmsteen's trilogy suite op 5.have a good day
Check out Jason Becker and Marty Friedman in Cacophony - Concerto. They are really shredding. Like like live version of Racer X - Scarified (Paul Gilbert and Bruce Bouillet).
New to your channel. You guys are crushing it. You had me laughing and thinking introspectively at the same time. I didn’t realize those brain functions overlapped in the Venn diagram, but they must. Some weird corner of my brain was massively surprised - in a good way. I love your laid back and casual approach. I have listened to this whole album probably hundreds of times. Jason is a legend. Thanks for sharing your reaction. Subscribed! Stay awesome.
Thank you for the kind words! Glad to have you along for the journey. 🤘
Link in 10 years. IYKYK
I know! And I take it as a high compliment! ~j
Please do more Jason becker
Got one coming this weekend. Probably Sunday. We did Air 🤘
I'd love to see your reaction to my favorite Jason Becker song Mabel's Fatal Fable.
He still composed.
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It is straight up shocking to think this amazing music was played and composed by someone so young.
I wish for once someone would talk about the whole composition, Atma anur's drums add so much to the whole album. If you listen to the 4/4 programed bullshit drums some Malsteem etc songs are played over.
Bijou by Queen. So elegant.
G.O.A.T GUITAR PLAYER
Jason is a true guitar hero. todo un virtuoso!
How about reaction to "Speed metal symphony" from Cacophony some beautiful day? Or was that the one other song you mentioned later in the video ;)
I was glad he liked this one as much as he did. We’ll get to more of Jason Becker’s stuff soon. 🤘
Wish i knew what he was saying after the clean guitar part in the intro
Bought this album when it came out as i already was into cacophony.....it blew up my mind and i listen to it for days on end!!
#JasonBeckerOfficial
I love your reaction, wish you good luck with the channel. Here are my suggestions:
Dream Theater - would be a nice band to listen to from classical musician -
* Octavarium
* Ministry of the lost souls
* The Glass Prison
* Ytse Jam
* In The Name of God
* etc
Pain of Salvation - nice prog metal with emotional dynamics and jazzy harmonics -
* King of Loss
* Beyond The Pale
* Unfuture
* Wait
* The Perfect Element
System of a Down - Good for metal fans community - good for views and interesting to react to.
Tool - Interesting niche of prog -
For something really different and beautiful I suggest a local artist from my country Dhafer Youssef. Anything from his work basically, but I suggest:
* Odd Poetry
* Odd Eledgy
* Les Ondes Orientales
Thanks for reading, wish you good day []~(￣▽￣)~*
Wow! Thanks for the feedback! We really appreciate it. Wishing you a good day as well. 🤘
I second "The Glass Prison" reaction by Dream Theater... Jordan Rudess, The Keyboardist for DT, Is not only a Julliard School of music graduate, But he also earned a scholarship at the age of nine to said school in question... Yeah.
Jason add libbed most of this in the studio. He had no written music. He just jammed and made most of it up off the top of his head. He says as much in interviews. He was a master of understanding of music theory. He wanted to do unheard ideas so he just went for it and played what he felt at any given second. Can you do that? Most can`t get close to playing like this with no written plan.
4:44 😭😭😭
Listen to "Air". Just Jason
We did that one too!
would love it if you did some Devin Townsend - thanks for everything
Do you have any suggestions for where to start?
@@Greatmeasures to avoid the usual reactions I'd go with Failure live at Plovdiv - ua-cam.com/video/gimBc_3Oz6U/v-deo.html
@@pendleeldnep Perfect. Thank you! 🤘
@@Greatmeasures React to his song "Why". I know i'm late to the conversation, but that is a great song with a classical feel. Love the channel so far!
By the way, there's some sound missing at around 2:20 - 2:35 min. I don't think it's my internet connection. I tried it 3 times.
It’s definitely a mistake we made during the editing process. We’re figuring this out as we go. Thanks for bringing it to our attention. 🤘
Metal musicians are just oĺd schooĺ composersrs. But on another level
Try Miles of Machine by Jeff Loomis. It is a song to say woow and follows the same path as Jason Becker.
Key boards are easy to learn. Guitar is far harder because you can bend notes and do things that can`t be done on keyboards. To say that you are great on keys means nothing. I play both. Guitar is the ultimate instrument. Take it up and try to learn it. You will have a whole new perspective once you do.
Sugestion , choose something from Children of Bodom's first tree albums😮 : mainly Hatebreeder(the second)
Try litening to Steve Vai - For the love of god.. Epic too
Planning on doing that one soon. Great suggestion! 🤘
Jetson yes? anyway forgive me if i got it wrong, however , you have to listen to his song called "Air" it's a master piece!
Phasmatodea 06:20 uahuahuaha
dude always did a trick of playing lightning quick with a single hand legato across all 6 strings while his picking hand would do tricks with a yoyo lol
salut . bon ben maintenant . yngwie ....
Dude you know you gotta get into some Yngwie now!