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Originally Posted by Lory  some questions... |
OK, Lory...
1) He is playing to a backing track which has drums, bass and some other guitars (I can't be sure, but I think 2 other gtrs.)
2) He is incorporating various techniques...
a: As Woodface says, there are hammer-on and pull offs.
b: there is also some right hand tapping going on...
c: a technique called "sweep picking". Here, the right hand sweeps up (which is physically down) and back down again, hitting the top 3 or 4 strings...
(at this point, I should say the high notes are lower and closer to the guitar as you look at it, the low notes are further from the body and on the "top" strings!!
Confused, yet??
If you watch it, after some high sustained notes, he goes into a sequence of low (bass) chuggy notes, with higher squealy notes in between: watch his hands travel down the neck to hit these higher notes.)
c: (contd) as the right hand sweeps the string, he hammers on left hand fingers so each pluck makes 3 (or more) sounds. It creates lovely scale passages and is very diificult to do.
more examples can be found by
this band
I hope this helps...