Yes please. I have been wondering this also. does your thumb move to follow your middle finger with every subtle shift it makes between strings,? or does it sit generally behind it as you perform a pattern and only move as the position moves. I find a light touch back there is helpful as I move up the neck or my thumb begins to drag along behind my movement as I head toward the pickups.. leaving it with the tip pointing at the nut after a few frets. Do i create pressure with my thumb alone or is there an element of using the arm, shoulder, or center, so the pressure on the fretboard is a function of my whole torso? is your thumb always a perfect 90 degrees to the neck? this could def be a short video.. I know I should be on Patreon and vote. very soon I will. But couldn't resist a comment anyways. Perhaps some other folks can help as well. This community is priceless to me. THANK YOU EVERYONE
Hey I’m gonna sign up to your patreon , but I’m more focused on rhythm playing do you have a lot of lessons on that aspect ? It’s mainly technique I want to work on 🤘🏻
Bernth, do you have any suggestions for playing over more chromatic sounding riffs? I’m trying to figure out how to make my leads sound more demented like cannibal corpse. I normally try to find some way to make diminished or double harmonic minor work but is there a more practical approach to this? Should I just add some chromatic patterns as walk downs to transition in between a couple notes in the scales I’m already using?
I know slayer adds some kind of chromaticism to locrian to get that real evil sound. But I’ve never been able to crack the code on exactly what their method is. Maybe they change up their chromatic note placement a bit every time... that would make it harder to emulate.
Bernth, I’ve wanted to shred my whole life but I had undiagnosed and unmedicated SEVERE ADHD. I started taking ADHD meds and then your channel found me. I’m FINALLY seeing significant improvements in my playing just from your free videos. I’m going to become a patreon so I can continue to improve my skills with your even more helpful private videos. Thank you so much for being you, my metal brother!
@@shredgod6394 They are lying to you, and they want your money. 90% of education in America is democratic and that’s what democrats do. It’s all dependent of your thought patterns. “I think therefore I am”
Just want to say thank you brother for all that you do for us guitar players. You’re a great teacher and you play amazing! I hope your channel blows up you deserve it!
#2, #5, & #6 were by far the coolest sounding ones for me - although I am definitely guilty of abusing #2 since Paul Gilbert absolutely loves that mode, and he's a big influence for me. This definitely gets added to the practice sessions. Thanks Bernth!
Yeah, for sure Raghd. You can't go wrong with these. Good taste by the way. Paul Gilbert knows his way around the Fretboard a little. Keep abusing. Keep playing the ones that trouble you the most. That's how you improve. I abuse 'em all lol.Peace-
It’s around 7 am in my hometown and the first thing I do is open up your page and I get inspired by your amazing tutorials and videos!! These are pretty basic yet they hold a lot of potential of growth if practiced and!!practiced properly. I appreciate the channel and the videos, the practice rifts you’re giving us and the tabs of them for us to play along. Bernth, thank you for these videos, keep on rocking my guy!! Kindly, Jay.
Guys don't regret the past . YOU have today to start Shredding I"M 63 and just learning to Shred ! Enjoy the present ! I'm loving learning to shred ! Still a lot of work ahead however already seeing progress :)
Bernth, I just wanted to thank you for all the work you put in to your videos, they have helped me a lot, these exercises are awesome thank you, keep up the good work
I was in the 70 percentile group that's been watching your tutorials without subscribing. I suppose it was because I'm a rock/blues player and not a metal Shredder. However, I keep coming back because your lessons are engaging and useful to me. Plus, you seem like a really good dude. I'm taking this lesson for example and am transferring the picking patterns to the mixolydian, Dorian modes from the typical pentatonic runs to make my solos more interesting. I will "never" be this blazing fast but strive to be more accurate, clean and concise in my alternate picking to fretboard hand synchronization. Lessons such as this one helps! Finally subscribed! Thanks!
i just went to a local metal show and i saw my friend play, i've been playing for a few years but i've never known how to shred and i can already see improvement in my alternate picking. thanks! =)
So talented! not only a wonderful player but also a wonderful teacher! I´m surprised you can talk even MORE fast than your shredding! lolllllll!!! Keep that humble attitude Bernth! You deserve only the best!
hey bernth! Just want to say this exercise helped me immensly with not only picking, but shredding as well, I was able to come up with my own patterns and drew inspiration from yours, thanks dude🤘
Honestly, i dont know why anyone wouldnt subscribe.... ive been playing for 15 years and been lazy and stuck in a rut for 6 and the moment i saw a video of yours a light bulb went off. thank you for everything you do and i will be subscribing to your patreon soon!
You my friend are an amazing teacher! You blow my mind but I can’t help but keep watching your vids. Mesmerising 🎸 n love the guitars you play. I am learning the techniques thank you
Bernth, you are amazing. Thanks to your useful exercise patterns and priceless tips, after a long time finally I was be able to learn how to play fast and synchronized🙏
This guy is the best man. I have improved so much just from his youtube. I actually reached out to him to thank him, and he responded. I cannot wait to get the paid course man.
Yeah the last thing he did was comparable to anything else in the video.. damn this dude has got some talent, a great calm in explaining what’s going on, and such an easy going personality, it seems anyone can learn this, *proceeds to play 20 years past My level*
You are so fluent on that fret board, it's intimidating! I am doing my best to gain control of the speed of my fretting fingers and the attack of my picking hand. I don't even want to like be famous or anything. I just want to shred for the love of IT! I suppose I gotta take it one note at a time and work on this super high Speed! 🎸
Bernth is a great teacher and he's gives us these videos for free, Everyone should subscribe and hit that like button for this awesome and useful content.
Lovely tutorial- watched your alternate picking video and this today for my 30 day practice journey, and in 3 hours i could play the last shred section at 120 BPM. Great work sir! \m/
That’s awesome. Believe it or not,,, I’ve actually been using shapes very very similar to that working on alternate speed picking and picking/fretting synchronization for years
Using a small thick pick like the Jazz 3, turning the pick so that it's at about a 45-degree angle to the strings, and playing 3 note per string patterns helped me pick up a lot of speed quickly.
dude your guitar is so sick, and thanks for explaing the scales so well makes it alot easier to follow along and remember them! u deffs got a new subscriber! \m/
This. This is exactly what I needed. A very good demonstration by a nordic man with long hair and an Austrian accent. Im getting very good at power chord variations. This is what I needed to spice up my playing away from just chords. Ty ty so much!
wow. first time i followed a tutorial of yours. i can already see an improvement! finger - mental conditioning is very fast, effective and efficient. no bs tutorials + fun!! Tnx Bernth!! Subscribed!
Love you videos man! One suggestion would be to move the tabs up on the screen some so when we pause the video to look at it, it isn't being blocked by the pause menu
Very cool for you to take time to help us with these exercises. Thank you so much for your time and effort, and for me it's a pleasure to watch your channel. Greetings from Germany. 😊 🎶
I just came across your channel and I love it! I've been playing guitar for around 50 years and I have been teaching for 25. I'm a jazz fusion guy. My question is I've got this kid that's 14 years old and he's a major Shredder and that's just not my style and I don't know how to teach this kid or what to teach him. Do you have any suggestions? I mean this kid sits there and runs these insane scales most of the lesson and I'm thinking to myself what the hell am I going to show this kid? LOL thanks for any advice!
This genuinely helped When I was able to do all of them It was such a self-esteem booster lol Also, if you’re learning and feel comfortable with all of those patterns, I would suggest merging them all into one solo :) good luck everyone! EDIT (2 years later): Wow, so I came back to this video and found my comment from 2 years ago lol. I know it sounds corny but, genuinely, keep going, keep practicing. My progress has skyrocketed, it doesn’t even compare to how I played 2 years ago, not even remotely close. At the time I couldn’t even dream of sweep picking and improvising a good solo over a harmonic minor progression. Now I’m very comfortable with the technique (still some flaws but good enough where I can perform my solos live without big mistakes), and I’m planning on releasing a solo prog project soon. I can’t enfacise this enough… keep going, just keep practicing, there will be a time where you don’t suck and will be comfortable playing your original stuff around other people.
I'm on my sixth year of guitar, but I got an electric last year for the first time. I've been wanting to learn this for a long time now, and this helps a lot.
I just subscribed, honestly i'm not just saying this but I think you are one of the best guitarists of all time and you have the best ever tutorials and tabs. And all for free! I want to play like you one day!
so in other words...just come u with a 6-7 or 8 note melody from 2 adjacent strings and just play them up and down and change them for a different patterns keep it in time and your shredding...i think i figured it out...your great man..
I just got a blue voodoo 300 watt CRATE.. been awhile since i had tubes... im 100% self taught but i been watching your lessons... there is some of things i can do but i just haven't figured it out yet
my man, this will help me to master a lot of solos. thanks
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Great video, Bernth! Thank you for being so generous. I'm definitely assigning to your patreon. Maybe you could make a video about patterns for economy picking.
Why would you not subscribe!? This is the best guitar-channel i know of. Always good quality videos. Thank you for all the great lessons and inspiration. I will try these exercises for sure.
One suggestion for people who want to practice this. Practice using a clean tone. Because, then all those subtle mistakes that distortion hides will show. If you can get it sounding really clean with no distortion, then it'll sound finominal with distortion.
Practice these 6 amazing shred patterns together with me: www.patreon.com/bernth (backing tracks, video play-alongs, tabs, & more) 🎸
Hey Bernth can you make a video about switching thumb position of the fretting hand. Thanks 🤟🎸
Yes please. I have been wondering this also. does your thumb move to follow your middle finger with every subtle shift it makes between strings,? or does it sit generally behind it as you perform a pattern and only move as the position moves. I find a light touch back there is helpful as I move up the neck or my thumb begins to drag along behind my movement as I head toward the pickups.. leaving it with the tip pointing at the nut after a few frets. Do i create pressure with my thumb alone or is there an element of using the arm, shoulder, or center, so the pressure on the fretboard is a function of my whole torso? is your thumb always a perfect 90 degrees to the neck? this could def be a short video.. I know I should be on Patreon and vote. very soon I will. But couldn't resist a comment anyways. Perhaps some other folks can help as well. This community is priceless to me. THANK YOU EVERYONE
Hey I’m gonna sign up to your patreon , but I’m more focused on rhythm playing do you have a lot of lessons on that aspect ? It’s mainly technique I want to work on 🤘🏻
Bernth, do you have any suggestions for playing over more chromatic sounding riffs? I’m trying to figure out how to make my leads sound more demented like cannibal corpse. I normally try to find some way to make diminished or double harmonic minor work but is there a more practical approach to this? Should I just add some chromatic patterns as walk downs to transition in between a couple notes in the scales I’m already using?
I know slayer adds some kind of chromaticism to locrian to get that real evil sound. But I’ve never been able to crack the code on exactly what their method is. Maybe they change up their chromatic note placement a bit every time... that would make it harder to emulate.
Noticed that he only has 5 Redbulls left in the fridge, meaning he skulled 19 before the video, thus enabling him to play this fast.
Farkn funny😂😂😂
Lmao🤣
I think he deep his hands on red bull..... His fingers has wings crazy fast..
Thus enabling him to fly
Weird, I drink 19 red bulls, and all I get is cardiac arrest. Really drew the short straw on that one.
Bernth, I’ve wanted to shred my whole life but I had undiagnosed and unmedicated SEVERE ADHD. I started taking ADHD meds and then your channel found me. I’m FINALLY seeing significant improvements in my playing just from your free videos. I’m going to become a patreon so I can continue to improve my skills with your even more helpful private videos. Thank you so much for being you, my metal brother!
ADHD peeps can HYPER-Focus on things they enjoy...once you get to a level that sounds good you'll never quit, even without your Adderall
@@mattconway2420
Only some. That's not true of all ADHD.
@@shredgod6394 Adhd is a psychological illusion. You’re lying to yourself
@@phlegm5596
Just like all of academia is lying to us too. I get it man. The world is black and white and everyone's the same.
Boring
@@shredgod6394 They are lying to you, and they want your money. 90% of education in America is democratic and that’s what democrats do. It’s all dependent of your thought patterns. “I think therefore I am”
Just want to say thank you brother for all that you do for us guitar players. You’re a great teacher and you play amazing! I hope your channel blows up you deserve it!
YOU ROCK!!!! as a self-taught guitarist this helps me so much and what you do is great thank you
#2, #5, & #6 were by far the coolest sounding ones for me - although I am definitely guilty of abusing #2 since Paul Gilbert absolutely loves that mode, and he's a big influence for me. This definitely gets added to the practice sessions. Thanks Bernth!
Yeah, for sure Raghd. You can't go wrong with these. Good taste by the way. Paul Gilbert knows his way around the Fretboard a little. Keep abusing. Keep playing the ones that trouble you the most. That's how you improve. I abuse 'em all lol.Peace-
who is down-voting this? Great video.. practical building blocks for shred - speed comes with time and practice! Thank you, BERNTH.
It’s around 7 am in my hometown and the first thing I do is open up your page and I get inspired by your amazing tutorials and videos!! These are pretty basic yet they hold a lot of potential of growth if practiced and!!practiced properly.
I appreciate the channel and the videos, the practice rifts you’re giving us and the tabs of them for us to play along.
Bernth, thank you for these videos, keep on rocking my guy!! Kindly, Jay.
Every lesson of urs was precious I started learning ur lesson's at the age of 34 last year, I wish I was 15 if I could turn back the time 😪👍👍
Same, 36 actually.. Wish I saw these before I settled to be just a strumming idiot throughout my whole young life :P
Same, 39 here, started at 37..metalhead from age of 9, unbelievable
@@CarpeDiem23 never give up all the best. 👍
Guys don't regret the past . YOU have today to start Shredding I"M 63 and just learning to Shred ! Enjoy the present ! I'm loving learning to shred ! Still a lot of work ahead however already seeing progress :)
@@danielbass1234 thnk u for encouraging I won't give up 🙏👍
Bernth, I just wanted to thank you for all the work you put in to your videos, they have helped me a lot, these exercises are awesome thank you, keep up the good work
Thanks brother For giving US your time to reach us
I was in the 70 percentile group that's been watching your tutorials without subscribing. I suppose it was because I'm a rock/blues player and not a metal Shredder. However, I keep coming back because your lessons are engaging and useful to me. Plus, you seem like a really good dude.
I'm taking this lesson for example and am transferring the picking patterns to the mixolydian, Dorian modes from the typical pentatonic runs to make my solos more interesting. I will "never" be this blazing fast but strive to be more accurate, clean and concise in my alternate picking to fretboard hand synchronization. Lessons such as this one helps! Finally subscribed! Thanks!
i just went to a local metal show and i saw my friend play, i've been playing for a few years but i've never known how to shred and i can already see improvement in my alternate picking. thanks! =)
I really loveee how you teach! Very simple and practical ! Thank you very much 🖤
I’ve been applying these phrases on the diminished scale... So awesome! These are so intuitive and feel great
So talented! not only a wonderful player but also a wonderful teacher! I´m surprised you can talk even MORE fast than your shredding! lolllllll!!! Keep that humble attitude Bernth! You deserve only the best!
Seems to be so easy when he plays 😭
Hours, days, weeks and years of experience 🔥🔥
You need to practice to the point it becomes easy . Thats how it looks easy because it is!
Muscle memory, keep practicing 4/5 hours a day!
Yeah seems easy but PRACTICE 😂 you’ll be able to do it
No shit! 😂😭
Vibratos on false harmonics would be fun next time! 🤘🏼keep it up!
Great video, Bernth! Perfect patterns to throw in the mix for my Saturday morning practice shortly. Awesome content, as always!
Hope you have a great practice session :)
Bernth I just want to say I love your channel! it's such an amazing resource for us guitar players.
This video is really helping me out thank you. After 12 years of playing finally starting to really be able to play this fast
Am I the only one who's holding an acoustic guitar and watching this video? :(
Yeah
its ok broo you can shred in acoustic
Oh I hope you can good luck
You're not alone I don't have one either 😢
no
this is one of the most helpful guitar lessons I've ever watched, fantastic!
Love your videos; I've learned more in the past 2 weeks from your videos than I did in the first 3 years of playing.
hey bernth! Just want to say this exercise helped me immensly with not only picking, but shredding as well, I was able to come up with my own patterns and drew inspiration from yours, thanks dude🤘
Honestly, i dont know why anyone wouldnt subscribe.... ive been playing for 15 years and been lazy and stuck in a rut for 6 and the moment i saw a video of yours a light bulb went off. thank you for everything you do and i will be subscribing to your patreon soon!
I was missing this old ibanez of yours. Really happy to see it again :)
I know its an Ibanez but what type of Ibanez?
You're the fucking master, first time I see someone teach in such detail 🤘
u have changed my whole musical world bernth i can now shred and i owe u.
You my friend are an amazing teacher! You blow my mind but I can’t help but keep watching your vids. Mesmerising 🎸 n love the guitars you play. I am learning the techniques thank you
Bernth, you are amazing. Thanks to your useful exercise patterns and priceless tips, after a long time finally I was be able to learn how to play fast and synchronized🙏
This guy is the best man. I have improved so much just from his youtube. I actually reached out to him to thank him, and he responded. I cannot wait to get the paid course man.
No One: ......
Me on top of the mountain after training: BEEEEERRRRNTH!!!!!!!
Yeah the last thing he did was comparable to anything else in the video.. damn this dude has got some talent, a great calm in explaining what’s going on, and such an easy going personality, it seems anyone can learn this,
*proceeds to play 20 years past
My level*
Out of all the instructors on the TH-cams, this is the only one I’d actually buy a course from!
Thank you , Bernth !! Your video lessons always make me want to practice & inspire me to improve !! Great lesson !!
I love your videos! Im getting closer to shredding then i ever have! Thank you for taking the time and breaking everything down.
This is very well thought through and very well presented.
Thank you very much, Bernth, sir.
You are amazing. I am glad I am subscribed
You are so fluent on that fret board, it's intimidating! I am doing my best to gain control of the speed of my fretting fingers and the attack of my picking hand. I don't even want to like be famous or anything. I just want to shred for the love of IT! I suppose I gotta take it one note at a time and work on this super high Speed! 🎸
Bernth is a great teacher and he's gives us these videos for free, Everyone should subscribe and hit that like button for this awesome and useful content.
Love the HR Geiger edition Ibanez!!
I love how you get it early on patreon with an email with the tabs and backing tracks and stuff
You're not making it easier, but then, holy Moses, somehow you actually are! I'm staying! 🤩
Lovely tutorial- watched your alternate picking video and this today for my 30 day practice journey, and in 3 hours i could play the last shred section at 120 BPM. Great work sir! \m/
Need a half speed version of this. I just laugh because WOW. Your speed is ridiculous.
Just change he playback speed ..the
3 dots far right ...yep hes fast as fuck lml lml
0.75 x's playback speed is my friend for Bernth videos lol
My speed sucked before practicing these patterns. Just a few days doing over and over up&down noticeably improved.
That’s awesome. Believe it or not,,, I’ve actually been using shapes very very similar to that working on alternate speed picking and picking/fretting synchronization for years
One of the best teacher here in TH-cam! More power! I love your vids. From PH
Using a small thick pick like the Jazz 3, turning the pick so that it's at about a 45-degree angle to the strings, and playing 3 note per string patterns helped me pick up a lot of speed quickly.
Dude, i'm subbing after just this video. I've wanted to shred since teh 80s.
sempre um prazer ver ,aprender e curtir seus videos parabens irmão pelo seu trabalho
dude your guitar is so sick, and thanks for explaing the scales so well makes it alot easier to follow along and remember them! u deffs got a new subscriber! \m/
This. This is exactly what I needed. A very good demonstration by a nordic man with long hair and an Austrian accent.
Im getting very good at power chord variations. This is what I needed to spice up my playing away from just chords. Ty ty so much!
Btw.. liked and subbed. Im all in. I wanna "shred" so bad. Ty again for what you do.
I havent even watched the video and i liked it because i got faith in this guy XD. Il save this and watch it when im with my guitar :3
I like that you have speed bursts included in this series of exercises! Thanks...
wow. first time i followed a tutorial of yours. i can already see an improvement! finger - mental conditioning is very fast, effective and efficient. no bs tutorials + fun!! Tnx Bernth!! Subscribed!
1st time watching one of your videos and now I’m subscribed
Thanks alot , thats exactly i was looking for , these exercises are great for warmups and hands coordination at once !
Excelentes ejercicios amigo, saludos desde Argentina, bien al sur!
I know this is an older video, but I love the breakdown! Thanks Bernth! I'm gonna hit this hard and see what happens
My favorite part about this video is the practical use example with the solo! I’d love to see more videos like this with other techniques!
Just discovered your channel. Haven't played in 2 yrs, but your teaching, approach and enthusiasm is encouraging. Thank you.
Did you continue?
Got to be honest. Bernth is so talented and humble teacher
Love you videos man! One suggestion would be to move the tabs up on the screen some so when we pause the video to look at it, it isn't being blocked by the pause menu
Very cool for you to take time to help us with these exercises. Thank you so much for your time and effort, and for me it's a pleasure to watch your channel. Greetings from Germany. 😊 🎶
I just came across your channel and I love it! I've been playing guitar for around 50 years and I have been teaching for 25. I'm a jazz fusion guy. My question is I've got this kid that's 14 years old and he's a major Shredder and that's just not my style and I don't know how to teach this kid or what to teach him. Do you have any suggestions? I mean this kid sits there and runs these insane scales most of the lesson and I'm thinking to myself what the hell am I going to show this kid? LOL thanks for any advice!
It’s impressive how clean your sound is!! 👍🏻
great great lesson man, that final solo really sums it up everything previously practiced, thanks
This genuinely helped
When I was able to do all of them It was such a self-esteem booster lol
Also, if you’re learning and feel comfortable with all of those patterns, I would suggest merging them all into one solo :) good luck everyone!
EDIT (2 years later): Wow, so I came back to this video and found my comment from 2 years ago lol. I know it sounds corny but, genuinely, keep going, keep practicing. My progress has skyrocketed, it doesn’t even compare to how I played 2 years ago, not even remotely close. At the time I couldn’t even dream of sweep picking and improvising a good solo over a harmonic minor progression. Now I’m very comfortable with the technique (still some flaws but good enough where I can perform my solos live without big mistakes), and I’m planning on releasing a solo prog project soon. I can’t enfacise this enough… keep going, just keep practicing, there will be a time where you don’t suck and will be comfortable playing your original stuff around other people.
I'm on my sixth year of guitar, but I got an electric last year for the first time. I've been wanting to learn this for a long time now, and this helps a lot.
Bernth yuo are amazing Player, Ian shred ca 6Month, and the most input cam from your work, and I would say THANK YOU VERY WELL!
Mate your the best bloke I've ever met
Another excellent lesson--and great to see the Giger guitar back in action! 🤘
Thank you Mr. Bernth
I just subscribed, honestly i'm not just saying this but I think you are one of the best guitarists of all time and you have the best ever tutorials and tabs. And all for free! I want to play like you one day!
so in other words...just come u with a 6-7 or 8 note melody from 2 adjacent strings and just play them up and down and change them for a different patterns keep it in time and your shredding...i think i figured it out...your great man..
Thank you Bernth!
dam man...im only playing the first 3 patterns and i can already hear it coming together...thanks bro
High-class videos. So inspirational.
I just got a blue voodoo 300 watt CRATE.. been awhile since i had tubes... im 100% self taught but i been watching your lessons... there is some of things i can do but i just haven't figured it out yet
Wauw as a beginner in shred guitar this is immensely helpful
my man, this will help me to master a lot of solos. thanks
Great video, Bernth! Thank you for being so generous. I'm definitely assigning to your patreon. Maybe you could make a video about patterns for economy picking.
Best metal guitar channel on TH-cam! Can't wait to dive into your exercises!
Amazing and easy to learn i recommend this vid for everyone who wants to learn shredding
5:44 XD fucking beautiful, such a gent
Love the Ibanez. I’m a fan of the brand. Thanks for sharing the knowledge 🤘
that solo is a very good test for all shredding basics. had to sweat with those triplets ngl
Amazing playing... I always watch his videos... love it... if I have money I'll buy the platinum membership...😪
Hell yeah dude this one really clicked for me. Best session I've had in a long time // you da man
Thank you very much for sharing your exercises! I didn't play guitar for quite long, I definitely will start with your practice! Rock on :)
Thank you for the lessons and the tips! I will certainly give these a try. 👍😎👍
Love your Videos!! 🙌
thank you Bernth
Amazing Video! I recently started exercising different techiques but still don't really know how I can pracise properly. Thank you!
Why would you not subscribe!?
This is the best guitar-channel i know of. Always good quality videos. Thank you for all the great lessons and inspiration. I will try these exercises for sure.
Thanks! Jesus loves you! ❤️
Amen❤️🙏
…I really love the looks of this guitar……👍
One of the best, no question
One suggestion for people who want to practice this. Practice using a clean tone. Because, then all those subtle mistakes that distortion hides will show. If you can get it sounding really clean with no distortion, then it'll sound finominal with distortion.