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Quoting MG: “As far as Tony’s technique changing in the different speed videos, that just wasn’t the case. Occasionally, he would use different fingers to pick the strings as his speed increased. But that was about the extent of any differences.”
Occasionally there were other differences. Sometimes I would notice differences in his thumb placement on the fretting hand or some other subtle technique variations. In the extreme, for some exercises, I noticed that he would, for example, play a lick as written in the tabs for only one of the three speeds. I admit that was rare, but is happened a few times. And of course there were times when none of play-alongs matched the tabs. I thought that was very good for illustrating the “musician as a human being” aspect of guitar playing. He’s not a robot. For the most part, though, things lined up very well at the different speeds.