Performing this song must be insanely stressful for him. I respect Jason for writing such difficult music that pushes him to improve. He didn't get where he is today by writing music that's comfortable for him to play. Not every performance will be perfect. I think that adds drama and excitement to watching the performance.
In all honesty, there are plenty of videos on UA-cam of him playing this song WAY cleaner. I think the reason why he was kind of sloppy here is because he just recently joined All That Remains and he toured with them so he had to spend a great deal of time practicing their material especially on short notice because their former lead guitarist who passed away (R.I.P. Oli) wrote some pretty technical shit that takes time to practice and perfect. So because he had to learn like 10 - 12 ATR songs on such a short notice, he didn’t have enough time to rehearse and prepare for his NAMM performance.
@@Pric3less1 Yeah that makes sense. You're right, he's played it cleaner many times and there's proof on UA-cam. I watched him perform this in person once and it sounded great. I think most musicians who perform at NAMM hate performing at NAMM haha. So much pressure. Every note that you play is completely exposed to the most discerning audience possible...AND most of them are filming. Shit takes guts
Yea, that song is insane. Tone changes multiple times, and tempo is through the roof. It’s ridiculously technical too. Anyone who can perform that is a legend.
the fact that he did mess up at one point actually makes me smile a bit. just showing that professionals like jason can make mistakes and its not always perfect. that is very motivating to me as a guitarist
Having the ability to recover in the *middle* of a song only adds to my respect for him as a musician, especially one as technically challenging as this one. Dude's a monster.
If you went to the JST booth and listened to him explaining his songwriting process then you'll understand why he plays so much sloppier than on the record. Dude's not afraid of writing humanly impossible stuff and challenging himself to learn them at all.
Everybody plays sometimes more or less sloppy - we are no machines which can perform allways on the same level; but in this case the question for me is if that makes sense. If I understand you right, you say that JR can only perform his stuff "unsloppy" in the studio (perhaps after many takes). I can absolute imagine that way. In the studio you can make a dog singing well, if you are determined to do that; you know what I mean? Imo if a musician is not able to perform his stuff more or less clean live, he´s absolute on the wrong way. Even may it result from challenging him self by nearly unhuman stuff; that´s nonrelevant for the audience. And by the way - I love shredding in a musical context, but his stuff seems more like an athletic performance than music... But this is a matter of taste....
Last namm he was a machine of precision. But he had only his own project, no with him learning the all that remains catalog he did not have the same time to rehearse his mounstruous songs. He is human, tho is hard to believe it lol
@@AlejandroRasmussen7 agreed. last namm he hardly made any mistake. dude can play it live. maybe writing solo album and being in all that remains is stressful.
I've been playing along time now bout 33 years and the music in Jason head is freakin nuts. I love all different kind of players from him to via to gamble to petrucci to whoever even Chet Adkins but this guy is a talented lunatic. Talked to him and his drummer Luke at a show in chapel hill and to see their enthusiasm for what they were doing was awesome. Keep being a freakin lunatic with the instrument Jason whatever direction you take it.
Sorry for the necro but one thing I'm dissatisfied with when it comes to music is people seem to only define you on your mistakes rather than your wins, I hate it.
It's going so quick you can't really notice a mistake without Jason pointing it out with a shake of the head. Most shred-type stuff I don't really like, but this guy is different. The record of this is very cool and it's time to start practicing my scales and sweeping properly. This guy's playing is very inspiring.
@@columbusconley Hey, thanks Columbus. I'm assuming being MIDI controlled means that Jason must play perfectly in time, as the MIDI program is time-based?
@@DanielVerberne Late response, but its likely in a program such as reaper that auto-mutes/unmutes his guitar track at certain points of the song. Once he's at a certain point his current distorted track mutes and goes clean, and the other way around.
Everyone noticed that he failed a couple times. It's understandable because he is on tour with All That Remains and doesn't requires a lot of technique that his own songs.
People just don't realize how fucking hard that song is to play. I dare anyone to try it. If anyone gets even close to this live and in one take, i'll be damned. I bet even yngwie or paul gilbert couldn't play this flawlessly every time they would play it. People are just incredibly dumb and are fast to judge from their comfort being at home in front of a computer.
Saw this live in bmore and it definitly doesn’t do his solo music justice like this, it’s still crazy and can’t deny his skill but seeing if with live drums with Luke maning the drums behind Jason it is so damn powerful and these breakdowns sound amazing live and his guitar tone sounded so damn good and earth shattering. But this is definitly the kind of music you need to know the songs and parts to really enjoy it. If you hear it like this for the first time or even see him live and not know the songs, it can sound like white noise to some people since it’s so technical fast and all over the place. But if you know the songs and album then it is an amazing experience live. Same goes for animals as leaders who are my favorite band, sounds like random shreddy nothing when you don’t know the songs but once you do it is the best thing ever to see live.
People are complaining of him messing up. Lmao if he have a foot stand in which he can place his feet there and place the guitar on his right knee it would be a different moment. He will definitely not mess up
Ill never be this good at guitar no matter how long I play lmao but music is not about the technical aspect imho it’s about the composing part. If you can’t play for your life but can still compose something that sounds great, I will have just as much respect for you as I do for our friend Jason Richardson over here hahah.
You can do it. Just practice. Practice and when you feel like you’ve practiced enough practice even more. It’s all practice. I’ve listened to a podcast he was featured in and literally everything he’s played is just all years and thousands of hours of practice. Same in his twitch streams people ask him what did it take to get that good. He said over a decade of dedicated practice in this kind of music
1:10 -- sad day for all guitarists who slept well at night thinking that he was just a robot, and that they had a chance of having a career as a professional musician. Sorry boys and girls. He's human. It is, in fact, possible to be that good.
Michael Volz I totally agree. Hos Down was a little sloppy as well. When i saw him live with Luke it was completely flawless. everyone has their days tho.
@@tylerdrums_eth Of course you wont be able to hear his mistakes over drums, bass and a screaming crowd. But the truth is, Jason always has been incredibly sloppy.
it's the muscle memory.. when you shred with 3 notes per string for 10 years straight, it becomes your habit.. that's why some guitarist would nail the solo, but sucks when play riffs
Jason is def up there with the greats next to Tosin, Tim Henson, Paul Gilbert, Allan Holdsworth. In my opinion, you should create music you can mostly play. Unless you never plan on playing it live but still, why make music you cant play without editing it?
A lot of mess ups but what can you expect from something so technical? Tosin abasi was the same way and now he is executing that shit. It’s what happens when you write sick shit and start playing shows! The stamina and training to play multiple songs back to back is fucking harder than learning any instrument. Any touring musician can agree
This is why simple music is easier to deliver to the mass. It sounds cleaner and is easier to understand. That’s why only musicians understand the harder technical shit I guess. We understand it and how ridiculously talented someone has to be to play it is.
you have a dominant left hemisphere brain. nothing wrong with that but you're not the intended audience seemingly for the avant garde in general based upon your comment.
I don’t know why Jason sounds like shit at the NAMM. 😃 I really like FRACTAL audio for every time but at NAMM It’s terrible sound ever. It’s mabye about preset gain and PA system who know :/
It's all about the speakers. A hi-gain patch through terrible speakers will never sound good. Also, keep in mind you're hearing audio from a phone mic.
John vincent man he’s actually super nice. But he hasn’t even been touring on his own music. He’s been focused on All That Remains so I doubt he’s even had that much time to get his own music tight again considering all that remains is paying him to know their music and perform their songs.
@@columbusconley Lol whatever dude. He still sucks. Anyone who butchers their own song that bad in front of a live audience is an incompetent musician. Maybe if he was on liqour and xanax it would be excusable but I doubt he was at Namm. So unless someone can prove to me he was EXTREMELY intoxicated here, hes a terrible guitarist with awful technique.
@@johnvincent1823 what's wrong with you? You're everywhere talking shit about jason,tosin... If you think you're better then go "cover" a piece like "an infinite regression" or the first section of jason's solo on aviator I said "cover" Consider that they have written such awesome pieces... And about practicing Where were you back then when he used to play 15 hours a day for years? You do it for one month and i'll accept everything you say... Plus i think he played this song after hos down That song is 7 minutes of pure shred!!! Would love to see how someone like you would handle it
Lazy piece of shits always say something like this that when you can't achieve that level of ability to that you are just talking shit about the music, well guess what no one gives a fuck and go listen to your autotune music.
I don't think you understand the style. He's using chromatic scales and voicing the same four chords in different octaves. He simply doesn't resolve the melody fast enough for you to enjoy it. This is like russian literature compared to Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham.
@@louie9373 Ok...let's take one of the best shredders: Paul Gilbert. He can be VERY, very fast but still I can appreciate the melody, the feeling and the song, even the instrumental ones. This, to me, is just pure guitar wankery, with no feeling at all. I MUCH prefer listen to 4 or 5 notes riff than this "look how fast can I do scales" stuff. Hell, even Abasi is more musical
Performing this song must be insanely stressful for him. I respect Jason for writing such difficult music that pushes him to improve. He didn't get where he is today by writing music that's comfortable for him to play. Not every performance will be perfect. I think that adds drama and excitement to watching the performance.
In all honesty, there are plenty of videos on UA-cam of him playing this song WAY cleaner. I think the reason why he was kind of sloppy here is because he just recently joined All That Remains and he toured with them so he had to spend a great deal of time practicing their material especially on short notice because their former lead guitarist who passed away (R.I.P. Oli) wrote some pretty technical shit that takes time to practice and perfect. So because he had to learn like 10 - 12 ATR songs on such a short notice, he didn’t have enough time to rehearse and prepare for his NAMM performance.
@@Pric3less1 Yeah that makes sense. You're right, he's played it cleaner many times and there's proof on UA-cam. I watched him perform this in person once and it sounded great. I think most musicians who perform at NAMM hate performing at NAMM haha. So much pressure. Every note that you play is completely exposed to the most discerning audience possible...AND most of them are filming. Shit takes guts
Yea, that song is insane. Tone changes multiple times, and tempo is through the roof. It’s ridiculously technical too. Anyone who can perform that is a legend.
Yeah, admitting your mistakes/imperfections actually adds you more credibility
This comment has too much emotion
the fact that he did mess up at one point actually makes me smile a bit. just showing that professionals like jason can make mistakes and its not always perfect. that is very motivating to me as a guitarist
Jason is a human.. Unbelievable.
I heard he’s part Saiyan.💯
wtf
Having the ability to recover in the *middle* of a song only adds to my respect for him as a musician, especially one as technically challenging as this one. Dude's a monster.
How many more decades do you think we’ll have to live before everyone realizes filming vertically sucks?
Blain Plyler a lot
Blain Plyler sadly a lot of times when I film horizontal for some reason everything gets messed up so I was just like fuuuuuuck it.
I like watching youtube on my phone so it works for me lol
How many more decades do you think we'll have to live before every one realizes all metal musicians are sloppy hacks
John vincent Every single one of them? There’s not ONE single metal musician you can think of that isn’t sloppy??
If you went to the JST booth and listened to him explaining his songwriting process then you'll understand why he plays so much sloppier than on the record. Dude's not afraid of writing humanly impossible stuff and challenging himself to learn them at all.
Everybody plays sometimes more or less sloppy - we are no machines which can perform allways on the same level; but in this case the question for me is if that makes sense. If I understand you right, you say that JR can only perform his stuff "unsloppy" in the studio (perhaps after many takes). I can absolute imagine that way. In the studio you can make a dog singing well, if you are determined to do that; you know what I mean? Imo if a musician is not able to perform his stuff more or less clean live, he´s absolute on the wrong way. Even may it result from challenging him self by nearly unhuman stuff; that´s nonrelevant for the audience. And by the way - I love shredding in a musical context, but his stuff seems more like an athletic performance than music... But this is a matter of taste....
Last namm he was a machine of precision. But he had only his own project, no with him learning the all that remains catalog he did not have the same time to rehearse his mounstruous songs. He is human, tho is hard to believe it lol
@@Hulk-cs6wj I don't see how JR's music isn't "shredding in a musical context"
@@AlejandroRasmussen7 agreed. last namm he hardly made any mistake. dude can play it live. maybe writing solo album and being in all that remains is stressful.
Pro Tools
3:50 I know the feeling of messing up Jason, don’t shake your head🥺
It's 2022 now and i still can't stop watching this. I love this dude
3:47 CPU Overload
sorprendente sería que no pasara eso jajs
He overclocked his cpu years ago lol
Lol I didn't realize at first that was you lol, this is your next goal lol.
Hahhahahaha😂🤣
i loved that xD yet even tho it sounds nice
I've been playing along time now bout 33 years and the music in Jason head is freakin nuts. I love all different kind of players from him to via to gamble to petrucci to whoever even Chet Adkins but this guy is a talented lunatic. Talked to him and his drummer Luke at a show in chapel hill and to see their enthusiasm for what they were doing was awesome. Keep being a freakin lunatic with the instrument Jason whatever direction you take it.
This might be the best definition of technical guitar playing.
Excellent! Well crafted tune, has something for all players. Ty Jason for sharing your gift, keep them coming please
Jason's mind: Okay, let's play Tendinitis.
Jason's tendons: Are you f**king kidding me?
Thanks for the upload 👍
this is phenomenal!
You know you will never regret your tattoos when they match your hat😅......and your guitar
Omg, never noticed it.😂
😂
Can everyone just stfu about him not playing it 100% perfect? I saw him live too and it was 10/10 sick. Everyone has bad days
Sorry for the necro but one thing I'm dissatisfied with when it comes to music is people seem to only define you on your mistakes rather than your wins, I hate it.
If you don't know the song you would actually think it's on fast forward at some parts. BTW Jason is insane man.
Crazy crazy ass music..... love it.
It's one thing to be able to play this. But to be able to compose something liek this is otherworldly
Skill and musicality and perfection.
I feel like he couldn't hear himself or the track. It's happened to me once or twice. Still love ya, Jason, we're all human!
Was just enjoying the silence. Than the damn fast arpeggios gave me heartburn.
my favourite part is when he plays fast
It's going so quick you can't really notice a mistake without Jason pointing it out with a shake of the head. Most shred-type stuff I don't really like, but this guy is different. The record of this is very cool and it's time to start practicing my scales and sweeping properly. This guy's playing is very inspiring.
Rockin them ultra boosts
This guy is a God at Guitar
What he using ? Is that a wireless input jack ?
Sick
🙌🏼
song very hard, he is foda
Rings of Saturn hire this guys
So now I believe you understand that you have to film in landscape mode right ?
devilish fingers 🤘
I watched it at 0.25x yet it felt like 2x speed
Dam Namm crowd you should laying gold coins at his feet. This is amazing.
What is changing Jason’s patch? Mystery to me since first seeing him play Ho’s Down live.
Daniel Verberne it’s midi triggered so the computer auto changes his patches
@@columbusconley Hey, thanks Columbus. I'm assuming being MIDI controlled means that Jason must play perfectly in time, as the MIDI program is time-based?
@@DanielVerberne Late response, but its likely in a program such as reaper that auto-mutes/unmutes his guitar track at certain points of the song. Once he's at a certain point his current distorted track mutes and goes clean, and the other way around.
Daniel Verberne he is playing along to a click, the same click that the changes and the backing track are programmed to
man, I am in discomfort just by watching him, can't imagine what it's like in his position
How does he change guitar sound without pedals or smth. similar?
Laptop and Axefx. the laptop sends a signal to the axefx to change the patch
How does he change the tone?
Pickup switcher on guitar & most likely a pedal
What a monster
Everyone noticed that he failed a couple times. It's understandable because he is on tour with All That Remains and doesn't requires a lot of technique that his own songs.
People just don't realize how fucking hard that song is to play. I dare anyone to try it. If anyone gets even close to this live and in one take, i'll be damned. I bet even yngwie or paul gilbert couldn't play this flawlessly every time they would play it. People are just incredibly dumb and are fast to judge from their comfort being at home in front of a computer.
Well...that escalated quickly.
I OWN THE SAME CARPET!!!!!!!!!
Looks like he's not in his best condition, neither the mood. I think it's clear that Jason is a human too
he didnt have a monitor to put his foot on
Saw this live in bmore and it definitly doesn’t do his solo music justice like this, it’s still crazy and can’t deny his skill but seeing if with live drums with Luke maning the drums behind Jason it is so damn powerful and these breakdowns sound amazing live and his guitar tone sounded so damn good and earth shattering. But this is definitly the kind of music you need to know the songs and parts to really enjoy it. If you hear it like this for the first time or even see him live and not know the songs, it can sound like white noise to some people since it’s so technical fast and all over the place. But if you know the songs and album then it is an amazing experience live. Same goes for animals as leaders who are my favorite band, sounds like random shreddy nothing when you don’t know the songs but once you do it is the best thing ever to see live.
I'd rather go to a one direction show
People are complaining of him messing up. Lmao if he have a foot stand in which he can place his feet there and place the guitar on his right knee it would be a different moment. He will definitely not mess up
perfect
Thats not true.
Glasus Wasserus yepp..he is not human..
Do you even have ears? I love this guys music but this performance was far from perfect.
Glasus Wasserus maybe we have different taste of music..
This is not about taste.
Ill never be this good at guitar no matter how long I play lmao but music is not about the technical aspect imho it’s about the composing part. If you can’t play for your life but can still compose something that sounds great, I will have just as much respect for you as I do for our friend Jason Richardson over here hahah.
You can do it. Just practice. Practice and when you feel like you’ve practiced enough practice even more. It’s all practice. I’ve listened to a podcast he was featured in and literally everything he’s played is just all years and thousands of hours of practice. Same in his twitch streams people ask him what did it take to get that good. He said over a decade of dedicated practice in this kind of music
He looks tired, the big god
I think dat song name "Tendinitis" is based on his real experience.
1:10 -- sad day for all guitarists who slept well at night thinking that he was just a robot, and that they had a chance of having a career as a professional musician. Sorry boys and girls. He's human. It is, in fact, possible to be that good.
😱
if this young man doesn't get paid for playing guitar then i wont understand ] wow this is extremely super extreme respected brother
Tsssshuhhuhuhhhuhhh
Why his movers finger like that.
I would have absolutely flipped my shit.
Well idc if he missed here and there, I’d kill for his picking accuracy
Stephen taranto style
Me: it's a monster
Jason Richardson: i'm not monster.... I am the God of war.
I used to write songs I couldn't play to force me to get better...but I didn't become Jason Richardson so BACK TO OPEN CHUGS
Never actually thought this song would be and can be played lived.. actually fucked.
珍しくミスってる
普段すごい精密なのにね。
I've never seen him play this messy.
I guess he didn't have enough time to warm up.
@@howzaaay In no way am I biting his talent. He's great.. Just got caught slipping this time lol
Michael Volz I totally agree. Hos Down was a little sloppy as well. When i saw him live with Luke it was completely flawless. everyone has their days tho.
@@tylerdrums_eth Of course you wont be able to hear his mistakes over drums, bass and a screaming crowd. But the truth is, Jason always has been incredibly sloppy.
@@johnvincent1823 Can you explain more on how he has always been sloppy?
Audio pessimo! Questo indubbiamente non toglie nulla alle doti del ragazzo,che cmq musicalmente parlando a me personalmente non dice nulla
Funny how he looks like he’s struggling with the slow riffs in the intro then looks natural when shredding his brains out.
playing fast is wayyy easier than playing slow...that's been proven. I just cannot dig the fast stuff he plays. Not for me.
@the missing link well, this kid just did. All 'flash' does NOT make a stellar player.
it's the muscle memory.. when you shred with 3 notes per string for 10 years straight, it becomes your habit.. that's why some guitarist would nail the solo, but sucks when play riffs
Jason is def up there with the greats next to Tosin, Tim Henson, Paul Gilbert, Allan Holdsworth. In my opinion, you should create music you can mostly play. Unless you never plan on playing it live but still, why make music you cant play without editing it?
if this is what they call sloppy, then i'd be better off long dead
Kemringet alias sumuk
A lot of mess ups but what can you expect from something so technical? Tosin abasi was the same way and now he is executing that shit. It’s what happens when you write sick shit and start playing shows! The stamina and training to play multiple songs back to back is fucking harder than learning any instrument. Any touring musician can agree
This is why simple music is easier to deliver to the mass. It sounds cleaner and is easier to understand. That’s why only musicians understand the harder technical shit I guess. We understand it and how ridiculously talented someone has to be to play it is.
There is no denying his unmatched ability. But, this is the equivalent of someone who knows a lot of really sophisticated words and won’t shut up.
you have a dominant left hemisphere brain. nothing wrong with that but you're not the intended audience seemingly for the avant garde in general based upon your comment.
a couple of fails... a little bit messy...
All this players sound the same fast and now soul
3:50 "Oh shit, where am I at??"
On a totally different level from other players. Jesus Christ.
Sorry for everyone but there is nothing emotional something inside of it. It feels like this is just a show.
i know im not better than him, but me in a good shape and good day is still better then him in this performance Lol 😂
Amazing player and musician but terrible sound and sloppy performance.
Amazing player? Lol dude are you serious....... you haven't seen amazing if you think this guy is amazing
John vincent He’s better than a majority of modern guitarists. You’re comment is hilariously snobby.
milesssymusic better than you tho
I don’t know why Jason sounds like shit at the NAMM. 😃 I really like FRACTAL audio for every time but at NAMM It’s terrible sound ever. It’s mabye about preset gain and PA system who know :/
It's all about the speakers. A hi-gain patch through terrible speakers will never sound good. Also, keep in mind you're hearing audio from a phone mic.
Boring music.
Its fast. Does it sound good and musical? No it actually doesn’t. It’s sports, not music.
His ego is too big. He thinks he doesnt need to practice
John vincent man he’s actually super nice. But he hasn’t even been touring on his own music. He’s been focused on All That Remains so I doubt he’s even had that much time to get his own music tight again considering all that remains is paying him to know their music and perform their songs.
@@columbusconley Lol whatever dude. He still sucks. Anyone who butchers their own song that bad in front of a live audience is an incompetent musician. Maybe if he was on liqour and xanax it would be excusable but I doubt he was at Namm. So unless someone can prove to me he was EXTREMELY intoxicated here, hes a terrible guitarist with awful technique.
@@johnvincent1823 what's wrong with you?
You're everywhere talking shit about jason,tosin...
If you think you're better then go "cover" a piece like "an infinite regression" or the first section of jason's solo on aviator
I said "cover"
Consider that they have written such awesome pieces...
And about practicing
Where were you back then when he used to play 15 hours a day for years?
You do it for one month and i'll accept everything you say...
Plus i think he played this song after hos down
That song is 7 minutes of pure shred!!!
Would love to see how someone like you would handle it
@@sdiabr6792 I would never play this poser BS. It's not even a song. Just random notes that he cant play
Always this guy in the comments. Please let all of us into guitar heaven someday lord Vincent.
yeah, really great technique but no musicality at all...I'll stick with bands that can communicate something with 4 right notes
I don't think musicality is what you meant, maybe feeling? Cause he certainly has musicality, its just not your style.
yea you can dude
Lazy piece of shits always say something like this that when you can't achieve that level of ability to that you are just talking shit about the music, well guess what no one gives a fuck and go listen to your autotune music.
I don't think you understand the style. He's using chromatic scales and voicing the same four chords in different octaves. He simply doesn't resolve the melody fast enough for you to enjoy it. This is like russian literature compared to Dr. Seuss's Green Eggs and Ham.
@@louie9373 Ok...let's take one of the best shredders: Paul Gilbert. He can be VERY, very fast but still I can appreciate the melody, the feeling and the song, even the instrumental ones. This, to me, is just pure guitar wankery, with no feeling at all. I MUCH prefer listen to 4 or 5 notes riff than this "look how fast can I do scales" stuff. Hell, even Abasi is more musical