I love the first solo in The Four Horsemen, he just played 1 time, and if im not wrong he created that solo (the first one). He should play that solo, its so cool.
I love it too (and yes he wrote this one instead of dave), they don't play it anymore because this solo plays out in the Sweet Home Alibama section, and for obvious reasons they don't play that riff anymore.
@@ResubidorSerial no, the sweet home Alabama part wasn't part of Dave's solos as it wasn't meant to be in the song, but they added that part after Dave departure, that's the only solo in KEA that is written fully by Kirk.
They only play the first part of the solo. And even then Kirk skips the tapping part of the solo nowadays which makes me so mad cause it's the best part of the solo imo. If you want a live performance where Kirk plays it like on the record, watch Blackened from the Seattle '89 show. They play it much faster than on the record too.
He most likely can’t play them anymore. I’ve no idea what happened to the guy but his playing has taken a severe nosedive since the 90s. And the solos he writes today are just awful. It’s hard to believe he wrote and play3 ones like this once in a lifetime…..he was never exactly Dimebag but he could certainly play well. I’ve haven’t heard him play the Fade to Black outro solo well for over 20 years…..
I wish Kirk still did this kinda stuff. Even his solos on the black album were really good. His solos are the reason I play guitar and in recent years they have been some of the Metallica solos of all time.
It's not Kirk's fault that such parts aren't played anymore. When the two bosses say we'll do a shorter version of a song, then it will happen. Blackened is not the only Song, also on Battery and some others it's the same, and it's a shame, because these parts are so damn good. I really can't understand it
I agree on that for battery. I love the are you alive part. That part in the song is amazing. I’ve heard people say they can’t play that part anymore but that makes no sense. That parts easy
The first 30 second of that solo is my favorite part of any song in that album and in general. The lick and ooooh that heavy ass riff james play under that is so brutal.
I don't know why they stopped playing the last part of the solo years ago, Is the best part of the song. I think James just started coming in too early and no one says anything..
In the studio version, when Lars does the build up to go back to the main riff, he hits an extra 8th note which in term offsets the beat, this is really difficult to pull of live because of how in sync you have to be with the rest of the band, which Lars isn't exactly known for.
My man make a video of you playing the "God that failed" solo...... .I've have always felt like that was one of the most under-appreciated solos of all time 💯💯
Great video, I don't know about the controversy of what he do or don't play but this is just a valuable up close look at the notes and mindset and then the bonus of activating the harmonizer, shutting it off and hitting the echo at the end is perfect for beginners to visualize solo's being broken down into little bites and make it fathomable to be able to play!
There's a whole list of stuff Kirk cuts when playing live, so don't bother... 🤣 But anyway... Did you ever get the feeling when seeing bands playing songs live that used to be played faithful to the original and you would love to hear them just like the record at least once? This take of yours completely quenches that kind of thirst! Right, so that's a harmonized part right before it goes crazier... Did you use a similar effect (harmonizer "pedal") in your Axe Fx?
@@gallettiguitartones Ikr? Aerosmith for example don't play Walk This Way the way they used to anymore. Surely they must have their reasons, but it's a pity, because the original is still a nice song. There are many more examples...
@Cthulhu Awaken I agree that it kinda sucks that Kirk doesn’t play some solos like on the record anymore. The Blackened solo and Fade to Black are my favs and he just doesn’t play it like on the record. He just improvises with tons of wah or cuts it short sometimes. Ride the Lightning is another solo that he doesn’t really play like on the record. However I can sort of understand why he feels the need to improvise at this point. When who’ve toured as much as these guys have for the past 40 years and played the same songs over and over again, it can kinda get repetitive, so I can see why Kirk would try different things to make them more interesting. After all they also are entertainers. When I wanna see the Blackened solo played exactly like on the record or any live performance of them better than the record, the Seattle ‘89 show is my go to. Or the Toronto ‘86 when they played every song almost 20% faster.
@@willharry6835 I agree with you at about 90%. The problems (for Kirk) come when the ideas you came up with to make the solo sound different become repetitive and obvious themselves. The Fade To Black example is really right on the money because Kirk has been boring us to death with that wah nonsense forever, totally ruining what is one of the most emotional solos ever (and I'm not even kidding, since many claim it's the best metal ballad ever made). And so on and so forth.
@@Cthulhu_Awaken I totally agree with you. Kirk is one of my favorite guitarists all time and I absolutely love his work on the first 5 Metallica albums but wtf happened to him in Metallica? I specify Metallica cause he released Portals just last year and it was pretty creative and showed that Kirk can still compose and write great leads. But most of his recent work in Metallica has just been so boring and uninspired. The example you took with Fade to Black is so on the money. I consider Fade to Black as one of the best metal solos ever and even put it up there with Tornado of Souls in terms of just the emotions that those solos make you feel. I just don't get why Kirk would think it's a good idea to drawn such a masterpiece of a solo in wah. My issue with Kirk is that he abuses the wah. Even in the Master of Puppets days he was still using the wah but he was doing so in creative ways. I've heard multiple rumors that Lars encourages Kirk to just improvise his solos nowadays. That might explain why the same Kirk that came up with Portals sounds so uninspired in Metallica.
Love your guitar man! Best feeling and sounding guitar I'd ever played. Came so close to getting the kh2 but my parents didn't follow through lol oh well
Kirk Hammet and Metallica played some of the most greatest riffs and solos ...it was Kirks solos that made me wanna play guitar ....i think instead of analysing too much we should appreciate ..what a amazing guitar player he is ....:)
Color our world BLACKENED!! Killer tone dude! What reverb are you using? Or is that a delay?? Also are you using a phaser of any kind?? I gotta know your signal chain! That tone is nothing short of sexy!
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i knew it was going to be blackened before i even clicked lmao
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Lol
I love the first solo in The Four Horsemen, he just played 1 time, and if im not wrong he created that solo (the first one). He should play that solo, its so cool.
I love it too (and yes he wrote this one instead of dave), they don't play it anymore because this solo plays out in the Sweet Home Alibama section, and for obvious reasons they don't play that riff anymore.
He copied it from dave's recording but he changed it a little bit so it's not the same, underrated solo I love it
@@ResubidorSerial no, the sweet home Alabama part wasn't part of Dave's solos as it wasn't meant to be in the song, but they added that part after Dave departure, that's the only solo in KEA that is written fully by Kirk.
@@adrianpinder9897 hmm I literally said what Kirk said in Gibson Icons interview so I don't know who is right, the solo is great tho
This belongs to Mustaine
So you're telling me that they straight up play Blackened without the solo?!?! I mean seriously man it's one of Metallica's best solos.
They only play the first part of the solo. And even then Kirk skips the tapping part of the solo nowadays which makes me so mad cause it's the best part of the solo imo. If you want a live performance where Kirk plays it like on the record, watch Blackened from the Seattle '89 show. They play it much faster than on the record too.
That's what I was thinking. Did they recently drop Blackened? I mean they have a whiskey with that name.
@@athathoththegreat3901 blackened is from the ...And Justice album yo
@@Mp0D duh.
Just a reminder, it’s not that kirk can’t do it anymore. He just chooses not to.
I swear I was listening to an isolated solo track. This is really well done.
Lol ...it's not that good 😒😒😒
Even better cuz there isn't a cut every three seconds
@@justme8204 Neither is your pedal board or your playing
@@justme8204 nobody cares bro, get your emo negative ass out of here
Bro these solos are so good Kirk should play them more
He can't anymore lol. Just the truth, he stopped practicing a long time ago and the proof is comparing these solos, to the new ones.
He's scared of playing notes that are outside of the pentatonic scale that's why he won't play it
He only plays pentatonic wankery with shitton of wah these days. This Kirk is long gone, has been for at least a decade.
He’s gotten lazy over the years. Such a shame.
He most likely can’t play them anymore. I’ve no idea what happened to the guy but his playing has taken a severe nosedive since the 90s. And the solos he writes today are just awful. It’s hard to believe he wrote and play3 ones like this once in a lifetime…..he was never exactly Dimebag but he could certainly play well. I’ve haven’t heard him play the Fade to Black outro solo well for over 20 years…..
This is incredibly accurate! Awesome job. Even the tone is spot on.
No it's not. 0:11 and 0:48 are either sloppily played or just flat-out WRONG.
I really missed it when he played it back in 1989
Even if Kirk doesn't, he still has a special place in our hearts as a guitar player
Yeah. As a hack. Haha just messin.
@@metroidxme6470 My emotions, I was like just leave the surfer guitar man alone! Haha
I wish Kirk still did this kinda stuff. Even his solos on the black album were really good. His solos are the reason I play guitar and in recent years they have been some of the Metallica solos of all time.
Me too. 🤘🏽
Even Load and Reload have some solid ones. The first few bars of the solo on Memory Remains is just so good.
Nothing tops One for me. It’s just perfect timing for a solo like that.
You're a monster man. So effortless killer play. Wow ! Clean af. You can hear distinctly every note 👏👏🔥🔥
Amazing sound !
I always loved that guitar!! it's beautiful
That tone is so badass
This video made we want to learn the blackened solo. And after almost a day I almost have the whole solo down.
It's not Kirk's fault that such parts aren't played anymore. When the two bosses say we'll do a shorter version of a song, then it will happen. Blackened is not the only Song, also on Battery and some others it's the same, and it's a shame, because these parts are so damn good. I really can't understand it
Not necessarily on Battery. They take half a minute for James to do his 'are you alive' bollocks.
Lars' legs get too tired
Good point. James has been very clear about who runs the band in interviews.
I agree on that for battery. I love the are you alive part. That part in the song is amazing.
I’ve heard people say they can’t play that part anymore but that makes no sense. That parts easy
kirk cant play them, thats why the new solos are so terrible and messy, so it sounds the same when he does them live
that seamless transition from power chords to that lick to the whammy dive. perfection
One of my fav Metallica solo´s of all time!
Mine too. Check out my cover of Blackened on my channel, please 🙏 with vocals, rhythm, bass and solo 😊
still easily one his best
One of their best songs. Best intro and one of the best solos
This is awesome. Just chillin at home able to play guitar all day 🤘
That tone and guitar!
The first 30 second of that solo is my favorite part of any song in that album and in general. The lick and ooooh that heavy ass riff james play under that is so brutal.
that was dope! Thanks
I got chills while he was playing this
I don't know why they stopped playing the last part of the solo years ago, Is the best part of the song. I think James just started coming in too early and no one says anything..
In the studio version, when Lars does the build up to go back to the main riff, he hits an extra 8th note which in term offsets the beat, this is really difficult to pull of live because of how in sync you have to be with the rest of the band, which Lars isn't exactly known for.
I love that song
You really killed those solos!
Awesome job !!!!!!
I really hope we get at least one more iconic kirk solo in this next album. His stuff was legendary back in this era (RtL/MoP/JfA albums)
after listening to the album... nope.
That album is Kirk Hammett’s finest hour.
Love this part of blackened
My man make a video of you playing the "God that failed" solo...... .I've have always felt like that was one of the most under-appreciated solos of all time 💯💯
This is one of my favorite Hammett solos
Excellent
One of his best solos by far
They don't make em like they used to!!
Well done sir!
The whole song is so well put together. Love the post -solo fuckery
Great video, I don't know about the controversy of what he do or don't play but this is just a valuable up close look at the notes and mindset and then the bonus of activating the harmonizer, shutting it off and hitting the echo at the end is perfect for beginners to visualize solo's being broken down into little bites and make it fathomable to be able to play!
This sounded awesome and very accurate :)
Nailed it.
Damn, that guitar is beautiful
That tone is like nails on a chalk board, now I have tinnitus.
Sick! Nicely done
Awesome
There's a whole list of stuff Kirk cuts when playing live, so don't bother... 🤣
But anyway... Did you ever get the feeling when seeing bands playing songs live that used to be played faithful to the original and you would love to hear them just like the record at least once? This take of yours completely quenches that kind of thirst!
Right, so that's a harmonized part right before it goes crazier... Did you use a similar effect (harmonizer "pedal") in your Axe Fx?
Oh absolutely! Rammstein definitely sounds like the records live and even better just as an example. And yes I used a harmonizer effect for that 🤘
@@gallettiguitartones Ikr? Aerosmith for example don't play Walk This Way the way they used to anymore. Surely they must have their reasons, but it's a pity, because the original is still a nice song.
There are many more examples...
@Cthulhu Awaken I agree that it kinda sucks that Kirk doesn’t play some solos like on the record anymore. The Blackened solo and Fade to Black are my favs and he just doesn’t play it like on the record. He just improvises with tons of wah or cuts it short sometimes. Ride the Lightning is another solo that he doesn’t really play like on the record. However I can sort of understand why he feels the need to improvise at this point. When who’ve toured as much as these guys have for the past 40 years and played the same songs over and over again, it can kinda get repetitive, so I can see why Kirk would try different things to make them more interesting. After all they also are entertainers. When I wanna see the Blackened solo played exactly like on the record or any live performance of them better than the record, the Seattle ‘89 show is my go to. Or the Toronto ‘86 when they played every song almost 20% faster.
@@willharry6835 I agree with you at about 90%. The problems (for Kirk) come when the ideas you came up with to make the solo sound different become repetitive and obvious themselves. The Fade To Black example is really right on the money because Kirk has been boring us to death with that wah nonsense forever, totally ruining what is one of the most emotional solos ever (and I'm not even kidding, since many claim it's the best metal ballad ever made). And so on and so forth.
@@Cthulhu_Awaken I totally agree with you. Kirk is one of my favorite guitarists all time and I absolutely love his work on the first 5 Metallica albums but wtf happened to him in Metallica? I specify Metallica cause he released Portals just last year and it was pretty creative and showed that Kirk can still compose and write great leads. But most of his recent work in Metallica has just been so boring and uninspired. The example you took with Fade to Black is so on the money. I consider Fade to Black as one of the best metal solos ever and even put it up there with Tornado of Souls in terms of just the emotions that those solos make you feel. I just don't get why Kirk would think it's a good idea to drawn such a masterpiece of a solo in wah. My issue with Kirk is that he abuses the wah. Even in the Master of Puppets days he was still using the wah but he was doing so in creative ways. I've heard multiple rumors that Lars encourages Kirk to just improvise his solos nowadays. That might explain why the same Kirk that came up with Portals sounds so uninspired in Metallica.
Love your guitar man! Best feeling and sounding guitar I'd ever played. Came so close to getting the kh2 but my parents didn't follow through lol oh well
Color our world blackened. Blackened!!!! Cool lick. I wish Kirk still played that lil slide intro to Fuel.
Well done!
Nice playing!!
It has been said that Kirk Hammet gave Gary holt(exodus) his first guitar lesson. Upon hearing the isolated blackened solo, that makes PERFECT sense
Sick!
yes I miss this lick ! they should play it is epic. and the Four Horseman "bridge" too ..
you have the COOLEST GUITAR ive ever seen
They played it at the last show I saw. It was great
Tear it up dude!
Really wish he would!
This is one is crucial. It’s a shame they skip it live nowadays. But oh well lol.
Sick tone!
How did you get that tone?
Well done dude!!!!
When hammett used to write solos with a coherent beginning, middle and end
his playing is so clean holy shit
Love the guitar and playing.new sub here.🤟🤟🤟👍👍👍🎸🎸🔥🔥🎸
Great Blackened solo
that guitar is nuts
I see that ESP explorer headstock back there, cheekyyy 👀
i think this solo is way better than the second, he should play it again
I believe it.. Kirk is getting old and that one is tough and you did a great job
That was sick
Kirk Hammet and Metallica played some of the most greatest riffs and solos ...it was Kirks solos that made me wanna play guitar ....i think instead of analysing too much we should appreciate ..what a amazing guitar player he is ....:)
AJFA had the best lead work and some of the best riffs they ever wrote. ugghhh if i was only 15 yrs younger to enjoy them back then
I need that guitar
That tone
YOOO THIS IS LITTT
Good playing my friend!! Covered this myself recently over on TikTok. One of Kirk’s better solos. AJFA is a pretty cool album
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Well done man
Bad ass dude!
HA! Nice work!
makes the dead dance
this makes me say "holy shit" out loud
Nice
B A D A S S !
You make it look so easy
Kirk Hammet was on fire with this album, same with self-titled
thanks god
Color our world BLACKENED!! Killer tone dude! What reverb are you using? Or is that a delay?? Also are you using a phaser of any kind?? I gotta know your signal chain! That tone is nothing short of sexy!
I can't play it with sound because I'll wake up my roommate, but I know it's the Blackened solo, lmao
Yea he does
sick guitar
Played it the other night
Nice dude
Dude killer sound man! What are you pluged into? 🤘🏽
At first I thought you were about to museroll us with that Plug in baby meme. : D
I don't understand why he doesn't play it anymore. It's one of my favorites Kirk's solos
Its the two stringed arpeggio pull off thing that he used to play all the time
nice tone dude!
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That's sad because, it is probably the best one.
Agreed
Me fav
0:018 sounds like mujer amante by rata blanca, so cool
What strings do you use? what a good performance!
True😂