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Originally Posted by wHATcOLOR
i don't understand what nuances could they possibly be obsessing over for it to require 12 hours
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if billy was going for perfection (which he was) i can imagine it could happen and take that long. do you play guitar at all? might be easier to understand after some experience playing, but with the pull offs getting it *exact* on every note in the exact right timing would take a bit of work. it's easy to slightly mute a string at any point which ruins the constant sound that was finally captured. playing it on a keyboard would be a lot easier, but with guitar strings the tone can change so much with the pressure of your finger on the string, the exact placement on the fret board, the strength of the pull-off notes to match the picked notes.
he could do a almost good enough job in one take without thinking, he would do that easily at every rehearsal and live show. but then he probably listened back to it and heard single notes that sounded louder or softer than others, or with more attack, or not with full sustained tone, and wanted to get it perfect.
he could have easily played it 4 or 5 times, then go into the control room to play it back on the good speakers, analyse how it sounds with a few listens, hear back to back comparisons a few times, then go back in and try again for a few more takes. then trial and error of that process to see what sounds the best on tape to get the ideal sound he had in his head.