How Gojira REALLY Plays "Amazonia" | Full Breakdown with Ben Eller

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  • Опубликовано: 2 дек 2024

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  • @BenEller
    @BenEller  3 года назад +122

    Thanks for learning how to play Amazonia by Gojira!!! What other song by those French bois do you want to learn next?

    • @Cash_Bright39
      @Cash_Bright39 3 года назад +2

      Mouth of Kala maybe? 🤷‍♂️

    • @azazyl
      @azazyl 3 года назад +4

      I was pretty sure that the instrument they’re using is a mouth harp.

    • @nobadyoursel4386
      @nobadyoursel4386 3 года назад +4

      No thank you Uncle Ben!. How about where dragons dwell?

    • @gerardomorales4278
      @gerardomorales4278 3 года назад +2

      Esoteric surgery or wisdom comes maybe?

    • @AssaltoEBateria
      @AssaltoEBateria 3 года назад +5

      My dude, there are two instruments there in the beggining: a berimbau and a berimbau-de-boca. Hope I helped you, from BRAZIL; BLOODY AMAZONIA
      Edit: links so you guys may check it out
      Berimbau: ruclips.net/video/U0BLURpMXus/видео.html
      Berimbau-de-boca: ruclips.net/video/GIddHpQgVu0/видео.html
      I belive there is some inspiration from Sepultura and Joe's time with Cavalera Conspiracy, but who knows...

  • @gerupyon
    @gerupyon 3 года назад +206

    "Apply pressure just the way your mother likes it"
    Always gets me. Every single time.

  • @DanKleeman
    @DanKleeman 3 года назад +238

    Now as soon as Gojira releases a song, I am counting down to the Ben Eller Official Breakdown ™️

    • @willhersey3884
      @willhersey3884 3 года назад +1

      Here after fortitude dropped going "where cover?"

  • @reganludwig2292
    @reganludwig2292 3 года назад +156

    the boing boing riff is the best

  • @goldotom
    @goldotom 3 года назад +107

    The "apply some preasure just the way your mother likes it" put my mouse directly on the thumb up button

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  3 года назад +31

      Your mom double clicks the mouse

    • @perpetualbystander4516
      @perpetualbystander4516 3 года назад +3

      @@BenEller You must have a very special relationship to your mother. 😵

    • @goldotom
      @goldotom 3 года назад +3

      @@BenEller I double click my mom myself Ben

    • @minisurfbanana
      @minisurfbanana 3 года назад +1

      Lol

  • @martiboucat
    @martiboucat 3 года назад +104

    The boing boing is a Berimbau, a brasilian instrument.
    Sepultura and Soulfly used it a lot in songs like Ratamahatta and Umbabaraums.
    That Gojira song sounded “so Cavalera” to me when i listened it for the first time it made me smile.
    Also with the berimbau there’s a mouth harp.
    Great lesson, as always.
    Best from Barcelona.

    • @thecameronator
      @thecameronator 3 года назад +4

      Gojira used those sounds all the way back on The Link.

    • @RequiemAeternum
      @RequiemAeternum 3 года назад +6

      Yeh, they definitely were aiming to mimic a berimbau there. Everyone got flashbacks to Sepultura's Roots as soon as Amazonia started playing :-)

    • @Robher85
      @Robher85 3 года назад +6

      @@thecameronator Yea, Sepultura is one of Joes favorite bands.

    • @Spiderblade666
      @Spiderblade666 3 года назад

      Wrong they used a jew harp (Guimbard) proof is in a little video where they thank’s Apple Music.

    • @martiboucat
      @martiboucat 3 года назад +1

      Francois Royer a “jew harp” or a “jaw harp”?
      🤔

  • @Discitus
    @Discitus 3 года назад +56

    I love Gojira's weird noises. I don't even play guitar but I like seeing how they make them.

  • @TheDogggrecords
    @TheDogggrecords 3 года назад +20

    "Them French boys make the boing boing noise..." I'm dying laughing over here, couldn't have been put better! 😂

  • @peeledapples4176
    @peeledapples4176 3 года назад +14

    B O I N G B O I N G

  • @MrHeshersNeighborhood
    @MrHeshersNeighborhood 3 года назад +15

    That Godzilla groove is so in the pocket, I listened to that song on repeat more times than I care to admit.

  • @hw_yozoraVODS
    @hw_yozoraVODS 3 года назад +50

    I think is either a jaw harp, mixed with berimbau (Brazilian instrument).

    • @Duncan_Idaho_Potato
      @Duncan_Idaho_Potato 3 года назад

      I think it's actually a berimbau de boca, which is just the Brazilian name for the jaw harp. The original berimbau is very different in size, appearance and sound from the berimbau de boca.

    • @bkpickell
      @bkpickell 2 года назад

      I always called it the tooth breaker. I had one as a kid and it caused several trips to the dentist.

  • @nathenate7974
    @nathenate7974 3 года назад +18

    Came for the lesson, stayed for the BOING BOING.

  • @CosmicWarpRider
    @CosmicWarpRider 3 года назад +10

    Ben these breakdowns absolutely rule! Keep it up, recently subscribed and keep coming back anytime you post a new video. I also feel how this showcases how you don't have to be the most technical player to play some sick metal riffs \m/

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  3 года назад +3

      They’re the masters of writing riffs that most of us would call “too simple” and trash! They rule!

    • @martinpaddle
      @martinpaddle 3 года назад +1

      @@BenEller yup. Before my French neighbor introduced me to them back in 2006 I was about to give up on metal. They sounded heavy afk without all the antics of other metal band...

  • @jbasti227
    @jbasti227 3 года назад +8

    Thank you, the bestiest uncle in the universe

  • @0ptriX
    @0ptriX Год назад +1

    0:30 7:03 - As you speculate later in the video, this first chord is indeed a major dyad instead of a straight power chord, though these only happen on the second 'chorus variation' (i.e. after "greatest miracle").
    0:27 5:32 5:52 - There's a slide between the G5 & A5 power chord ---3-3/5--- rather than ---3-5--
    0:33 5:39 7:05 - Same as previous but A5 slide to B5 -5-5/7

  • @panterarocks9326
    @panterarocks9326 3 года назад +4

    Been waiting for this since the song came out haha. Gonna need this for the whole album

  • @minseo1220
    @minseo1220 3 года назад +5

    Just discovered your channel today and I gotta say I love it. You've got some great content going on!

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  3 года назад +3

      Thanks a lot!!! Enjoy!

  • @hw_yozoraVODS
    @hw_yozoraVODS 3 года назад +7

    I literally searched this earlier. So i'm happy to find it.

  • @distantstorm3808
    @distantstorm3808 3 года назад +2

    Simple yet intense song. I can't wait for the new album.

  • @thebatman1482
    @thebatman1482 3 года назад +7

    Your tone is better than ever in this video... Really nice

  • @alexandrehopeson3048
    @alexandrehopeson3048 3 года назад +1

    I waited for this!! Thank you Uncle Ben!

  • @devanreiss8627
    @devanreiss8627 3 года назад +1

    the tone you are getting out of that revv is monstrous

  • @TheAlexCruz
    @TheAlexCruz 3 года назад +1

    Had to return to this post as those Gojira boys played last night in my hometown of Madison, WI. Aside from being blown away at how amazingly tight they are live, the light show was seizure inducing but OH so perfect for everything that they played. If you've never seen them live, I highly recommend it. Now to tune down my guitar and work on those gallups 🐎

  • @dunkelheit8594
    @dunkelheit8594 3 года назад +1

    Best guitar teacher here in yt. Stepdad never disappoints

  • @morasoftwood8224
    @morasoftwood8224 3 года назад

    I’m so stoked to see you talk about gojira again.

  • @ConjuredUndead
    @ConjuredUndead 3 года назад +1

    Been waiting for this!

  • @EvlixManiac
    @EvlixManiac 3 года назад

    you don't know how much i was waiting for this ♥ much love from Egypt

  • @daviddarko2665
    @daviddarko2665 3 года назад +5

    April baby!!!! New Album!!! Those Gojira boys, making noise, with wonderful toys!
    🤘God I love this band!!!🤘

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  3 года назад +1

      They’re so dang good

    • @silvera979
      @silvera979 3 года назад

      @@BenEller hey, uncle don't you think that Joe Duplantier's vocals are buried in the mix on new singles?

    • @papaisduniyakapapa
      @papaisduniyakapapa 3 года назад

      @@silvera979 I'm no uncle Ben, but I agree, production on these new tracks sucks specially the vocals.

  • @turbkey1380
    @turbkey1380 3 года назад +2

    Thanks Uncle Ben

  • @UncleRJ
    @UncleRJ 3 года назад +17

    I had been waiting for this since the song came out. Gimme dat boing boing noise.
    Btw, that instrument at the intro or outro _could be_ a jaw harp. I am not 100% but it does sound a lot like it.

    • @TheCulturedCapy
      @TheCulturedCapy 3 года назад +2

      that's what i thought at first too, but apparently it's a berimbau.

  • @miledium
    @miledium 3 года назад +3

    Pretty sure that the instrument we hear doing the boing boing riff is a local instrument called berimbau. It's a pretty common instrument in Brazil, most commonly featured in capoeira.

  • @facupelletier2178
    @facupelletier2178 3 года назад

    really love how calm and chill you explain the whole song...thats what i call effort my man...

  • @JonyKamoni
    @JonyKamoni 3 года назад +1

    You answer my pray Uncle Ben! I had few parts to polish and you mah day!

  • @CalvinYiChen
    @CalvinYiChen 3 года назад +1

    needed this! Thanks uncle Ben!!!

  • @Jopeymessmusic
    @Jopeymessmusic 3 года назад

    There's just something absolutely hilarious about captions being on your goji berry videos. This particular track has big mastadon energy imo.

  • @thalamusDecimation
    @thalamusDecimation 3 года назад +3

    Just when you thought they had moved past their pitch shifter addiction...
    Nice video Uncle Ben, as always.

  • @dankboye1909
    @dankboye1909 3 года назад +1

    finally, i was wondering when you were gonna do a video on amazonia

  • @MetallicAAlabamA
    @MetallicAAlabamA 3 года назад

    That bend on the boing boing boing thingy is what Iommi did on Iron Man to make that whuaaaawwww sound. And those power chords in the chorus is freaking amaz- zazing!

  • @nikitapodobed2789
    @nikitapodobed2789 3 года назад +2

    Nailed it!
    I love the neck-bending part especially.
    Forgot the native instruments boing boing though)

  • @fromulus
    @fromulus 3 года назад +4

    I don't know what instrument that is, but I'm pretty sure one was used on Sepultura's Roots album. This song has so many sepultura vibes to it, I love it.

  • @danieldavidson5447
    @danieldavidson5447 3 года назад

    You make it look so easy this is awesome! I recently started playing guitar and this is the one song I am most excited to learn

  • @farris8503
    @farris8503 3 года назад +1

    Uncle Ben my favorite uncle.

  • @ZakkVee
    @ZakkVee 3 года назад

    u nailed Uncle Ben ... bravo 🤘🏼

  • @williamrees93
    @williamrees93 3 года назад

    Thanks Ben Definitely need more Gojira in my head

  • @MyComradeConnor
    @MyComradeConnor 3 года назад +1

    I definitely heard the 3rd interval. Boing on.

  • @danieldavidson5447
    @danieldavidson5447 3 года назад

    that boing boing noise is why Amazonia is one of my favourite gojira songs

  • @asherplatts6253
    @asherplatts6253 3 года назад +1

    The instrument is called a Berimbau. It's a single string, like fishing line, or a long guitar string, stretched on a bow with a resonator gourd at one end, and the string is struck with a stick. It's used in Capoeria training,
    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berimbau

  • @mathiasjulkunen9149
    @mathiasjulkunen9149 3 года назад +3

    I also heard that third interval in the chorus!

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  3 года назад +1

      Yes!!!

    • @Ejeej
      @Ejeej 3 года назад +1

      @@BenEller I hear it as well! So maybe you are not that crazy..

  • @brendanscott8989
    @brendanscott8989 3 года назад +2

    coolest application of a mouth harp since give it away by the chilli peppers

    • @hw_yozoraVODS
      @hw_yozoraVODS 3 года назад +1

      Check The Hu. Something like Sad but True.

  • @mitchmalik8963
    @mitchmalik8963 3 года назад

    This is just amazing in every way 🙌

  • @nobadyoursel4386
    @nobadyoursel4386 3 года назад +1

    Yassss fuckin love Uncle Ben. In a total normal way of course.

  • @williamwhitaker1101
    @williamwhitaker1101 3 года назад +2

    Bro chill it’s only been out for a couple days holy fuck! 😂 I’m definitely gonna learn this man thanks

  • @loganmommsen8834
    @loganmommsen8834 3 года назад +2

    The instrument the intro kinda sounds like a jaw harp, I also think it was what was used in the intro to forest cemetery by tempel.

  • @andrewcole3762
    @andrewcole3762 3 года назад +1

    The intro instrument is called the berimbau: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berimbau
    One string percussive instrument of African origin, now in a lot of Brazilian stuff. Also traditionally used to set the rhythm in capoeira practice if you're into martial arts.

  • @MrGoGGomir
    @MrGoGGomir 3 года назад +1

    The instrument in the intro really sounds like slovak "drumbla"/jaw harp. Thank you for great explanation!

  • @manuelgarciamiranda5178
    @manuelgarciamiranda5178 3 года назад +1

    7:52 i also hear the same and i like it more than the power chord

  • @educostanzo
    @educostanzo 3 года назад +5

    Everyone gangsta making fun of the boing boing riff, but when it drops, no one resists to headbang!

  • @lewispotter7186
    @lewispotter7186 3 года назад +1

    Yes ben, yes

  • @ShaneChandler87
    @ShaneChandler87 3 года назад

    Dude sick Frasier Crane reference. Scrambled eggs all over my face!

  • @midomidomid
    @midomidomid 3 года назад +1

    Hey! I have that folk instrument that makes the BOING BOING noise in the beginning LOL
    Gojira also used it on the outro of remembrance, I was so shocked when I first heard it. I've never met a single person that knows what the instrument is.

  • @SultanMukut
    @SultanMukut 3 года назад

    thanks Uncle Ben !

  • @link333xc
    @link333xc 3 года назад +1

    Uncle Boing Eller

  • @matidelpueblo
    @matidelpueblo 3 года назад

    The ancle ben and the french boyysssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @rharder
    @rharder 3 года назад +1

    Killer tone 👏🏻

  • @Pilot7826
    @Pilot7826 3 года назад +18

    My favorite guitar teacher, and total nice guy. Although, I prefer he stays away from my mom. 😏

  • @loganmommsen8834
    @loganmommsen8834 3 года назад +10

    Amazonia is so much better than the song in the ad before this.

  • @yessir6427
    @yessir6427 3 года назад +2

    You aren't insane, that megadeth power chord is definitely there!

  • @Jorgetime
    @Jorgetime Год назад

    Man the step dad speed joke never gets old, I don't know why

  • @metalmikerich7937
    @metalmikerich7937 3 года назад +1

    Boing boing riff dude lmao! It’s a jaw harp at the beginning btw. I honestly didn’t like this song at first but it’s kinda growing on me now

  • @TiANr0ckst4r
    @TiANr0ckst4r 3 года назад +12

    When he said: "just like ur mother likes it" I knew I had to sub 🤣

  • @twanja08
    @twanja08 3 года назад +3

    Vid loaded with the puns!! 😂😂😂😂 BOING BOING. Hetfield approved down strokes. 🤘🤘🤘🤘

  • @Furious_Pudding
    @Furious_Pudding 3 года назад +1

    The boing boing instrument in the intro is a jaw harp :)

  • @nunocrames4787
    @nunocrames4787 3 года назад +3

    In Brazil it’s called “berimbau de boca”... aka jaw/mouth harp.

  • @sheharyarkhan2384
    @sheharyarkhan2384 3 года назад +2

    What took you so long uncle Ben 😪
    I've been waiting since, like forever

  • @MostlyElectrolytes
    @MostlyElectrolytes 3 года назад +1

    Came for the boing boing sound, stayed for a list of subjects to ask my mother.

  • @k5elevencinc0
    @k5elevencinc0 3 года назад

    This is fucking great. 🔥

  • @jmendy731
    @jmendy731 Год назад

    A breakdown of "Our Time Is Now" would be awesome

  • @nolanbeasinger8555
    @nolanbeasinger8555 3 года назад

    Oh my lordy almighty that tone.......

  • @jerry123456789101112
    @jerry123456789101112 3 года назад +1

    Uncle Ben!!!

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  3 года назад +1

      Hi!

    • @jerry123456789101112
      @jerry123456789101112 3 года назад

      @@BenEller uncle ben. I’m trying insanely hard to cover gojira songs now that I have a jackson js series and a crappy non tubed amp lol 😂

    • @jerry123456789101112
      @jerry123456789101112 3 года назад

      @@BenEller “music is win” has great pinch harmonic tutorials I’ve been learning

    • @jerry123456789101112
      @jerry123456789101112 3 года назад

      @@BenEller and of course I’m in a DCGFAD tuning

  • @PJ-pl123
    @PJ-pl123 3 года назад +1

    I thought i was watching this coz of Gojira but no... it was because of your mother joke. Epic!

  • @surrealbar8379
    @surrealbar8379 3 года назад +2

    Tis a jaw harp in the intro, also sounds like a clean single coil type sound playing the open D maybe?

  • @jaysonfoy4486
    @jaysonfoy4486 3 года назад +4

    Boing boing boing, love it

  • @moyogichris1731
    @moyogichris1731 3 года назад

    Good travail...

  • @Arazmithin
    @Arazmithin 3 года назад

    I waited a day so I could pretend this was my birthday present. Thanks Uncle Ben!

    • @Arazmithin
      @Arazmithin 3 года назад

      @Andy Don Hey thanks! Happened to be watching again to perfect the boing boing. Lol

  • @martinpaddle
    @martinpaddle 3 года назад +1

    Sepultura use one of these boing boing instruments, a Berimbau, in their song Attitude... check out their 2 Meter Sessions video. But here there might be something else going on, like a jaw harp

  • @Classic_DionysuS
    @Classic_DionysuS 3 года назад +2

    There's so much boing boing in this song. Reminds me of Disturbed when they would throw in so much boing boing behind the guitar

  • @DJDethstar
    @DJDethstar 3 года назад

    Probably a bit behind the times now, but I think that intro instrument is a vargan. Cheers bud, great vid 👍

  • @mickyrivera13
    @mickyrivera13 3 года назад +1

    B O I N G

  • @r3ngokuking
    @r3ngokuking 3 года назад

    Instrument in the very begging sounds to me like a jaw harp. Nice breakdown Ben

  • @Starcoma
    @Starcoma 3 года назад +2

    Looks like I didn’t do too badly with my tab video. Considering it was the first one on RUclips🤘

  • @megawati.megatron
    @megawati.megatron 3 года назад +1

    Yeah

  • @bestofmusicchannel
    @bestofmusicchannel 3 года назад +1

    When you think guitars breakdown is the most difficult part and then you think of drums and you go "wtf" !

  • @PooNinja
    @PooNinja 3 года назад +1

    1:52 did you say REVV generator 120 🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

    • @BenEller
      @BenEller  3 года назад +1

      Yup, that’s what I’m playing through!

    • @PooNinja
      @PooNinja 3 года назад

      🤘🏽REVV Rules 🤘🏽

  • @the_og_shockwv3182
    @the_og_shockwv3182 3 года назад

    Late to the party hear... Can I play that neck bend with whammy?
    Loved the lesson - subscribed

  • @יגלגילמור
    @יגלגילמור 3 года назад +1

    It make sense that they use a neck bend and not a whammy bar because I remember that joe talked about his sig guitar model having a strong neck that allows him to use neck bends

    • @fpcawolff
      @fpcawolff 3 года назад

      Corey Taylor has a strong neck

  • @luispaiva4094
    @luispaiva4094 3 года назад +1

    Hi Ben. The intro has a "Berimbau de boca".
    Its played whit the mouth.

  • @tavicotavio
    @tavicotavio 3 года назад

    gosh darn dammit those french boys did it again

  • @fede6126
    @fede6126 3 года назад +2

    Lately I'm listening this analysis first and then the actual yojira songs 😂

  • @delraybrewer
    @delraybrewer 3 года назад

    THAT BOING BOING RIFF. Give it to me.

  • @DreamartistTV
    @DreamartistTV 3 года назад

    Ho Ben . What do you think about tutorial of Met s frayed ends of sanity rhytm part during the solo? It s dope