How to determine if a guitarist can play metal? It's pretty simple. This is told by guitar teacher Yuri Shilnikov.
He argues that in order to see skill level, five parameters are enough. But first the reservation follows: these parameters are valid only under conditions of correctly put experiment. Also, some shortcomings you can be heard by high-skilled guitarists - no one is perfect. Nevertheless, we will begin:
First. Presence of a clean pause. That is, a person plays something and in pauses everything is clean - nothing needs to be cleaned in sequencer.
Second. Scrape while changing chords. If you can hear - it's a full bottom, it's worse than any punk, it's an absolute zero. Best indicator is to play muted fifth.
Third. Attack, speed of sound formation. Attack must be as sharp as a boxer's punch.
Last parameter is one whole, but for better understanding, narrator divides it into two subgroups. This is a desync: macro-desync and micro-desync. Macro-desync includes early clamps. For example, when a guitarist tries to play a fifth, but it has a gurgling sound. We need it to sound very sharp, like a gunshot. In fact, it's quite difficult and few people can immediately do it. Also, the early change of position refers to macro-desync. Consider a sequence of two fifth: in this play hand often leaves earlier than necessary. This is a fairly common mistake.
As for micro-desync: here author cites an example of a passage with a scale - first plays incorrectly, then plays correctly. On first example, you hear that passage is buried in some junk, on second - the notes are clearly audible.
This is basis and if a person has a lot of mistakes in these parameters - it's not metal, it's children's games. Of course, the parameters are much larger. But this will be enough to assess your skill level and understand what you can.
