The techniques used in this song is quite flashy, but in fact, it's not really an impossible guitar performance. I would say, anyone with fairly good experience with the guitar could play this song if they practice. What should be praised is the way Steve Vai makes this song so groovy and beautiful. The song writing of Steve Vai is on a completely different league and so is his way of expressing the song by using WAH pedals. He composes music with a variety of unconventional scales and cords that makes it quite unique and at the same time entertaining with some mysterious feel.
Steve Vai plays guitar like an art, not a sport. A lot of people out there do all these funky flashy stuff, but that makes it more of a sport than anything else. Steve Vai is a true artist. The artistic style of Steve Vai is not something you could imitate, much less even come up with such ideas.
I love it, I really do. This guy is a once in a century type of guitarist, rather an artist. I really respect him. I really do.
Effortless.
if i ever come even close to this level of playability/shredability i'll consider myself a demigod in the eyes of my idols.
Vai, Petrucci, Satriani, Malmsteen; you've changed my world in ways lesser musicians can't begin to understand
My God. This guy is an inspiration. I've been playing for like 12 years, and I can do a lot, but I'm still nowhere near that. The sheer level of musicianship this guy has, not to mention his songwriting and composing ability, is unmatched. I've watched this, For the Love of God, and I'm the Hell Outta Here over and over since I started playing, and watching these videos still blows my freaking mind.