Reacting To Myself at Age 13 Playing the Fade to Black Solo!
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- As painful as this was it was good to experience the "early days" once again. ;)
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i'd love to have a friend to jam with..
We all do man....
Me too. Makes you feel less bad about yourself if they’re doing just as bad or worse lol.
can relate
Agreed. But the issue is then you finally find a group or someone to play with and then your styles are totally different! They want you to play parts that are mind-numbingly boring, or a song that you have studied 10 years ago which you've learnt to hate... Its actually way more fun to play alone...
Same
I mean at 13 and with less than a year of practice it sounds pretty good to me !
That tone would scare away every cat in the neighborhood.
Mines sitting next to me right now lmao
Or send them into heat
Metallica made me wanna learn guitar too! And the intro solo from Fade To Black was the one solo I wanted to learn so bad. The starting was frustrating for sure coz i had just started out and it actually took me a few months to learn the techniques. It'd all about practice and patience tho.
This video made me smile! :')
Can we talk about the fact that his tone is so good that even when he tries to play bad it actually still sounds kinda decent ?
(Not in the recording, in the present)
That steel rage reunion needs to happen along with the way you played fade to black in that tape, for the tour.
I can say that at 19 and 3 years of playing I’m around as good as you were when you were 13
This is great. I still have cassettes of me playing Ride The Lightning/Justice songs on drums when I was like 12 that I recorded with a hand held tape recorder. It's really bad.
Year 3 of playing the guitar and I still can't do the solo like your 13 years old self. Sucks man
I haven't tried that solo but i think i couldn't play it too
The solo in this song isn’t that hard. The trickiest part is probably the mini sweep lick he does right in the beginning. Just learn it slowly and you should have no problem with it
Yea it's not that hard but thise sweepy licks need some practice
Play the solo everyday you pick up the guitar. Trust me you'll play it in a month.
year 8 for me and i cant play that solo like that either lmao
I'm a rhythm player but this is actually one of the very few solos I wanted to learn (nothing else matters, square hammer and this). Now guess what, I don't have a problem with fast rhythm stuff or syncopation or rhythm in general, it's actually really good. But I can't. Play. Lead. For. Shit. It took me forever to learn the nothing else matters solo, square hammer was kinda okay but at some point I just gave up on fade to black. As of right now I'm in my 4th year of playing and I still sound similar to your tape, playing that solo. It drives me nuts because it's such a cool solo, my favorite actually.
Anyway, have a good one Mike! (and everyone else who made it this far ;))
@@jordanhumpal6005 i can play the intro solo just fine, actually (well, depends on the day, i guess xD) but the outro is beyond my understanding... anyway, good luck learning it!
Nothing better at the time than the rush of getting a lend of a CD, then listening to it whilst watching it getting recorded onto a tape. Knowing that your initial love of the first listen to the music is only going to get better and better as the tape catches the tunes for you. Over 90% of my music as a teenager was on copied cassettes. It was amazing having a different album on each side! Your Metallica tape at the beginning reminded me of that.
Loved this video. Fantastic idea to relisten to you jamming with friends and share the memories. I cant solo to save my life- so to me, your early attempts at Fade to Black sounds decent for your age and time on guitar. Id love to see more videos like this. Awesome!
I also learned the fade to black solo in my first year and this sounds exactly like mine. Its nice relating to my favorite guitar teacher.
Millions of kids @ 13 couldn't do this you should be proud mate & not putting down you playing
Wait... what year is this tape? I may need to change the title on my Oldest/Worst Fade to Black cover on YT vid
He said he was 16 in 1993, so probably 1990.
This is the solo that I'am trying to play and improve skills that included. Your reactions and feedbacks very helpfull for me thank you very much.
12/13 year old you sounds way better than 22 year old me by a long shot!! It sounded awesome!
The recording was really good, especially for only a year of playing. Did you learn by ear or did you have books that had the tabs in them? To me, it sounds pretty true to the record.
13 year old you has a nice black metal tone.
It's great to have those recordings to critique yourself, but don't forget the feeling you had when you were playing that: you were rock gods, and nothing else matters!
Great work for a 12 year old!
Incidentally tapes are coming back in a big way in the Black Metal scene
black metal lol
no surprise there as black metal is about as low fidelity / minimal production as it gets
This is the first song i ever learned on guitar. One day i said im going to learn the outro solo. And i played that for years non stop. Hence my yt name.
This is one of those Goal solo's I am still working on. Good hearing your tips around circular picking
This motivates me to keep playing.
1 year:"How will i ever learn to play this perfectly? Its impossible."
10+ "Knows how to do the whole solo no mistakes with style added"
That part you said is a mystery at 7:24 is basically like a 5 stroke roll rudiment on drums- it's an 8th followed by 4 16ths repeated 4 times, accenting the 8ths and muting the 16ths. I always played the top half of a Bm chord at 7th fret for that, it came out with the closest sound to me.
Also hilarious listening to what sounds like a perfect mirror image to me of trying to play this solo as a teenager, I would play this with the bassist in my band- thought I was nailing every note, and am really glad there's no recordings anywhere to demonstrate how horribly wrong I was.
I have that same exact standing floor lamp in my livingroom and a Himalayan pink salt rock lamp, too. Great minds think alike
As someone who has being playing guitar on and off for 30 years this is very impressive for a 13 year old kid. Don’t really know what this guy expected from himself back then.
Love the vids
Hey man... Any advice for a young band? 🥺
Yes, learn how to compromise with each each other...or you’ll soon be a “former” band.
@@mnmade9062 hahahahaha thanks man
The fact you played the outro solo at 12..... man. I cant even do that stupid legato bending part, it’s ridiculous
Love that Jem! Is it a junior?
Not with scalloped frets at the high end and gold hardware
you said the "2nd solo" but this is the third/outro solo. great video
you have to do more videos like these, ESPECIALLY with metallica !!! :)
love the steve vai guitar
That’s actually awesome after a year or two of playing…
After 1 year holy fuck thats inpresive
So much feel in those failed frases :o
Well,I'm 13 and still i understand what you went through.when I try to play that solo it sounds identical to your playing.PS not the bends I'm preety good with the bends
The fact you could play any of Fade to Black at 13 with less than 12 months playing may explain partially why you went on to gain 637K subscribers! It took me several years to even get the intro! lol
LOL this is awesome. I wish I still had recordings of myself when I started playing at 12. Probably better I don't.
The part you play at 7:28 isn't how I play that part I just play..the 2 middle G &D strings 7th fret 3 times (palm muted) down to finish that lick with 9th fret D string
Could you do a video on 80s and very early 90s death metal, would love to hear you talk about the guitars on that stuff
I learned psychosocial today, 40oz 2 days ago, goat last month, ttfaf 2 months ago and first part of Moonlight Sonata last week... I guess I’m proud of my progress
LoL i had one too but I don't know where it is...I also have one with Take it on the run from REO i was 17
7:24 - this part is super easy.... not a mystery at all.
0:25 😂😂 Hahahahahha. Nope, us talking about not being able to get girls. Mike I also had recorded my voice a lot when I was about 4-8 years old :D. I wish we didn't got rid of those casettes they were full of me talking... :D in 94-98... So fun video :D. You were very good! I started learning at 30, and I can say, it's very good for one year, especially at that age.
Cool! Guitar has that hole for mustache if you play like Jimi.
You should cover the song!
If that was your first year, you were pretty damn good, don't you think? I don't think you're giving yourself enough credit. Also, how do you still have that tape, and in good working condition?
i've been playing guitar for 7 months and i use mammoth slinky strings and my bends are still pretty good lol
even like 4 months ago i used "not even slinky" strings and it was pretty easy
Were wearing the same shirt
At 13 I was still 3 or 4 years away from my first band, and another 13 years away from learning to play guitar. Well, I can't really say I've "learned" to play guitar... I can play some things, sure. heh.
Cobra Kia!!!!! Ok not distracted anymore
Not bad, for a fledgling at 13
You guys give names to your guitars?
Yes, I do!! I named mine "chaos". In my native language, it's "kaos". What's yours?
Less than one year.... I wish i played like this in my first year
at age of 13 i played barely smoke on the water and californication dude
sounds like me playing :D
I was 13 in 1983. This video is time travel.
It's funny, 'cause I am 26 and have been playing electric guitar for a year and have been trying to nail this solo since May :D. Bends are completely mess too. But in my case I always bend a little bit higher
Did you learn all that just by ear?
I learned this in about 97/98. I tried to play it just now but I'm gonna move on.
I want this guitar 😩
That JEM is beautiful
Thank you for sharing this, it has taught me a lot about this solo. Are you able to talk about how you would perform the part at 3:06 in a future video?
Dude, u were 13. I didn't even start playing until I was 18. 🤘🏻
What year did u record that
Damn good for less than a year playing.
I'm 13 this is my first year of playing guitar and I can play all of rust in peace and all of justice is that good?
It was The Call Of Cthulu for me
I wish I started at 13 and to attempt that solo. My 1st real song was Iron Man, the solo came way later.
NEEDS MORE WAH
I've been playing 3 years and I have no idea where to start with this solo😔
bro.... still 100% times better than me.....
Lol, in my first year I was learning to play teen spirit, Kirk solos would be 4 years away
42 year old me wants to sound like 13 year old you! Cool video.
Can you do more videos like this? :-)
He said it sounded old and bad but I thought it sounded old and cool
Wow I'm 13 now lol and I play this same music 👍
Strike first strike hard.
Did you use tabs back then?
Sadly im 12 year old, I play really fast and clean but I uses tabs
How I think I play Guitar: 7:11
How it actually is: 1:58
i'm 26 now, and i'm playing for 3 years and i still can't play that solo, or almost any other Metallica/Kirk Hammett/Shreddy solo
3 years isn't that long, you'll get there
@@benparsons4979 yup been playing for over a year and I'm nowhere near playing solos like this
I've been playing for more than 10 years and the easiest and fastest way to learn guitar is to sit and say "Okay, i am learning this solo TODAY" and you sit and spend 10 hours on that shit until you get it down, do that with 10-20 more songs and you can play almost any solo you want by reading it.
I am not going to hate because 1. you were kids and 2. I am worse than that.
But it made me think of a story that someone told. He was employee at Guitar center and a father came in and wanted to buy an amp and a guitar for his kid. The GC told him he'd need headphones too and the man said "No, my kid doesn't want headphones". And the GC dudes said "It doesn't matter if your kids wants them, you do."
kirks bends are weak also so it fits
I'd like to know how he fit two albums on one tape...one of them being and justice for all lol
When I was 13 I thought that ridiculously fast solos were played by machines
I thought that children of bodom keyboard solos were played by Alexi on the guitar, dude seemed like a god for a time xp
that feeling when 13 yo Mike after playing for 1 year is still better than 46 year old you after playing 20+ years...
Yeah... I'm 42 and those where my exactly my thoughts. I had my first electric guitar at 17 and had a classic guitar maybe 2-3 years before that...
Only thing you got even slightly wrong is that it's been 28 years for me! Ha
lol
Haha. Same here but 51. I still play that song often but never properly learned the solo so I'm sure his 13yo jam is better than what I still try to pull off.
If a 13-year-old with one year of guitar experience is better than anyone who has decades under their belt, you might be doing something wrong.
At 13, I didn't even have idea of how to play that solo...
Feels lol.
Me at 13* Anyways here's SMELLS LIKE TEEN SPIRIT
I'm 19 and still don't lol
At 13 I was stuck trying to play nothing else matters
I was 13 in 2017 lol when i started get into Metallica and other stuff
I started playing at ten so luckily I can lol otherwise no
The flat bends capture Kirk's live feel perfectly, good job!
Haha
True dat!
You laugh at his live bends, he laughs at your bank account😂
@@peytonmercer2250Chill it’s just a joke no need to flex someone else’s bank account lol.
@@peytonmercer2250 Lil wayne cant play guitar, but he laughs at Kirks bank account though. Haha
Best feeling is when you see the improvement you made over a certain time period and you look back and laugh
I remember when I couldn't even downpick to 60 bpm now I'm up to 110 bpm xD
It’s kind of hard to hear the solo over the rhythm part.
Oh my gosh what a bad mixing engineerrrrrrrr -.-'''''''
They probably just set up the input gain so it doesn't clip and went with it and it's just like that on the tape, inseparable
Its an early 90s recording what did you expect lmao
@@RandomPerson-ui3xv, 80s actually
@@xrung1706 I think he means mikes recording
@@LMStemmedBackingTracks It would have been late 80s then
Actually', it was fairly good', for such a short time playing.
Nah my first year I play rust in peace
@@metalmaniac6896 Same, but don’t brag about it bro
@@metalmaniac6896 ahh yes. that classic megadeth song, "rust in peace."
@@metalmaniac6896 same lol holy wars took a while for me to perfect
Still a better guitar player than most beginners I have heard 😁
Edit: I take it back. Now I'm almost at the end of the video 😅
lmaoo
😄
Let me get this straight. As a 13 year old you were able to attempt a solo that a lot of guitarist strive for. And you’re embarrassed by it? Wtf man! I wish I could play that solo like you did! I may as well give up 😔
Don’t give up!
Stop taking credit for Kirk's licks. That's Kirk live back in the early 90's.
Dude, I sure hope not. haha
@@TheArtofGuitarlmao... thanks for sharing. And keep up the great work.
"This was my first year of playing" I've been playing for over ten years and that's so much better than anything I could do lmao
There’s a tape knocking around called “shitty riffs” that I made. I gave to someone when I was 14. I want that tape back 😂.
That outro solo is why I play guitar
I bet every beginner have tried this solo once 😂
Can you do more videos like that ?
Died laughing at the final part at 7:50, thanks for sharing Mike ;D
getting thru the solo without
stopping was an achievement
back in the days before xbox