The Importance of Physical Efficiency in Guitar Performance

James Hetfield is known for his down picking which a classically trained guitar teacher might have purged out of James if he had ever taken lessons. The most physically efficient way to play a fast chuggy metal riff on the guitar is to alter nature and pick your hand that is plucking the notes goes back and forth picking the strings on the down stroke and then again on the upstroke very physically efficient. Cliff Burton was a savant at the heavy metal bass guitar he was known in the southern california scene as a great bass soloist. To me the best cliff berten performance ever captured is the 1985 live version of for whom the bell tolls from day on