HEATH SARACENO: I remember watching Saves the Day’s guitarist Ted. I’d heard that Chris had forced down-picking of everything at all times for a heavier sound, like Metallica’s Master of Puppets. It’s such a tempo that your wrist is gonna give out because no one can do that, except for like, James Hetfield. I tried it at home, and I considered myself to have a pretty good right hand, but I couldn’t play Saves the Day’s shit. So I was paying a lot of attention to their guitarists’ right hands, because I was a fucking nerd. I would watch them at a chugging, down-picking part. They fucking did
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