Dude as a drummer who has tried to learn guitar on multiple occasions and failed to pick it up, this video makes me wanna go buy a new cheap epi and start fucking around with it
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Yeah, he's pretty great. But also consider that the concepts he's showing are concepts people can pretty easily ramp up into in the order he demonstrated. The first three exercises he showed are a good way to start thinking about how, in a triplet feel context, just the accents in the rhythm create a unique feel/groove that can set you apart from the crowd.
Yea, technique is still a huge part here. He can play tightly with confidence and attack and speed and great muting. All very key to sounding good, especially for metal. This all takes a fair bit of time to develop and not something as often covered especially by these loose 'lessons' all over RUclips.
Exactly what I was about to say, few people make their lessons so simple and easy to grasp. Obviously, we will now need to put in the practice, he's no miracle worker lol
This is extremely well presented. As a beginner my mind has been blown. Music always sounds so complicated when listening but you made that concept look easy and more importantly attainable.
@@BOBANDVEG Absolutely. I only play clarinet, and I mostly write music for wind ensembles, but that is what helped me compose something I was happy with more than anything else. I just start humming/singing random stuff until something I like comes out. It doesn’t have to be melodic, it could also be rhythmic. If it is rhythmic, maybe start by drumming on a table, your lap, or anything where you can clearly hear what you are drumming. When you get a rhythm that sounds good, then just try stuff out. Go with your gut. Most people that listen to music already have the ability to write music, it’s just a matter of giving it a shot, and going with what you feel is good. Is that abstract as hell? Absolutely. Is there more to writing music than just doing what feels right? Absolutely. But is it still true? Absolutely.
If you ever get the chance to take a beginner music theory or piano class, I would highly recommend it. Obviously higher education isn't for everyone but learning even the fundamentals of music theory really opens up a lot of doors creatively.
I feel like this also shows itself a lot in lyrics. So many verses the notes they sing/rap dont actually change a ton but the flow and rhythym makes it sounds great!
There's this rapper kung fu vampire. I would listen to his old stuff and something just sounded off. He could rhyme great and rap fast everything, but something wasn't right. After going back to him after spending a lot of time playing guitar to a metronome, i realized. He raps totally off beat. His new stuff is right, but his old stuff...
I have no idea how you all feel this way. I think I must be the only person who absolutely hates music without a melody. If the rapping or sing-talking isn't following the actual melody closely I find it super unpleasant and it's crazy to me how nobody else feels this way.
Not much of a guitarist (drummer here), but I always wondered how Metal guitarists got that insane gallop rhythm thing. Great vid. Your tone reminds me of Mastadon.
I’m a guitar teacher and I’m constantly hammering down on rhythm. While this video takes a more metal approach, this can be applied to all genres and is especially valuable for improvisation (esp. in jazz)
I had a teacher for a time many many years ago who had someone make him a cross-stitch piece saying "you play with your right hand" lol (and ironically he was a lefty but still...). And his mantra was something like "picking is playing, fretting simply follows." I wish I'd taken him more seriously at the time!
Reminded me of left 4 dead at the beginning with the two note riff. It reminds me of waiting for the level to begin in the safe room and grabbing all your items. Fun times.
@@criminalchicken499 if to be short, love the DS series and Sekiro(didn't play DeS and Bloodborne). Elden ring is full of copy paste, has no soul, my fav weapon is nerfed to shit, game designed to play with magic/summons/katanas which i don't like
Love it how you´ve played that maple fretboard so much that the laquer has worn off down from 7th fret. I like your demonstrations of techniques, easy to comprehend, and straight to the point without any bs. Keep it up.
@@c4arschfisch51 Grease doesnt stick to laquer well, and lighter coloured fretboards are laquered, commonly with polyuretan laquer so that the shit from your fingers doesnt stick to the fretboard. If your fretboard is ebony, or rosewood for example, the color ot the board itself is so dark that the shit doesnt stick out so much, thus its often sufficent just to oil them. Then again could be that he just doesnt keep his fretboard clean.
I think this actually may be my favorite video on RUclips. I’ve been having trouble finding the motivation to play guitar and have been feeling pretty lost on how to improve, but ever since I found your channel I felt really inspired to get back into it. It’s taking a while to improve my picking speed, but this really helps in giving me ideas on how to change up my usual strumming. Keep making the amazing content, we really appreciate it!
Dude, a good technique is not about being able to pick fast. It's about being able to play with a suitable degree of strength (more energetic for metal, more dynamic for lighter genres), being able to play in tune even when picking hard, being able to keep stable rhythm and groove, being able to play clean. Speed itself doesn't mean crap, if your playing produces a lot of unwanted string noise and is out of tune.
i literally imagine my fingers as people dancing on the fretboard and when i do that it sounds amazing even though im playing the same notes it's really all about the rhythm
yea, even knocking on a table can sound good. actually an hour ago I passed a bar here in Brazil where 8-ish people gathered around a pool table and sang songs while making the percussion on the table.
I play my drums like I imagine an eagle would play a bassoon and that's what really made me a good rythm reggae/grindcore/folk guitar player. You gotta think outside the box, stick it to the man and never doubt your faith in jesus man! Peace, love and hail satan!
I freaking LOVE your approach to rhythm. I also want to thank you: with all of the unconventionally amazing guitars that have flooded metal and music in general over the past 8 years or so, I lost a lot of the drive that I used to have for playing. I stopped writing for years. Since I've been watching you though, I'm excited about my guitar, again. Because of you, I've woken up in the middle of the night just to riff out new concepts lest they drive me to insanity. I'm actually working on something new for the first time in 10 years. It's coming together EXTREMELY slow but, that's ok. The important part is that it IS coming together. I can't thank you enough for being that source of inspiration after so long.
My guitar teacher said Rhythm is the second most important thing to practice after hearing/listening drills since music is a hearing art. He had me practice drills like this all the time. Single note, strumming, dyads, triads, etc. You become so much more musical with work like this and then add dynamics....oh boy 👍🏽👍🏽
Yes, this is what I try to teach everyone. On of the biggest things that struck me when I started learning my favorite songs is that they were not what I thought they were. Turns out there was a lot of these 2-3 chord/note song's but they had masterful rhythm. What I thought was many notes was just one or two.
saying "fine" to playing rhythm guitar taught me waaay more than i could've ever imagined. always thought it was just background filler but this reason is exactly what made it so fun
I am known as an ‘Excel Wizard’ in my company even though I am mastering only about 5% of its capability. It’s basically the same here with the guitar.
I always feel like if I don't use lots of notes its not good enough. Need to accept less is more because I come up with sick riffs and then go "not technical enough" 1 and 0s and sometimes an 11 PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PUT IT IN A MIX Cheers x
"Of course, now and then, just now and then, it seemed a touch..." "What do you mean, sire?" "Occasionally it seems to have... how shall one say? ... Too many notes." "I don't understand. There are just as many notes, majesty, as I require, neither more nor less." "My dear fellow, there are only so many notes the ear can hear in the course of an evening! I think I'm right in saying that, aren't I, court composer?" "Yes, yes, on the whole, yes, majesty." "This is absurd!" "My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious! It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few, and it'll be perfect." "Which few did you have in mind, majesty?"
Straight to the point, no bs, no clickbait and you didn‘t turn this into a 15 minute video filled with stock footage and someone reading a script! 🎉 instant sub, this is some OG youtube energy I‘m supporting
I think you're one of the best modern guitarists, your tone and playstyle are really mesmerizing to watch. I always remember of a video you made playing djent with hybrid picking, and it awes me
People shit on rhythm playing since it’s not noodling about… but a great riff writer can create riffs that complement not just the lead, but the bass/drums section of the band. I think it’s fun to lock in with the bassist and drummer
You make an excellent point. I'll often make sure I'm doing training geared specifically for staying on-rhythm with the beat I'm playing to. A good rhythm section is key to making anything sound richer and fuller.
I don't think anyone realizes how big this lesson is. It's basically demonstrating how you can instantly change a song by varrying your rhythm. Not just for guitarist, but for all intruments. And not just for metal, but for all genres of music. It shakes my mind to think that this guy compressed a crucial key that bands learn over years into one minute.
Ive always wanted to learn the guitar, but i just could never get my fingers to bend comfortably. I thought this would also be a challenge when I picked up the Cello, but somehow the Cello felt perfectly natural in my hands. I was playing with my advanced strings orchestra within 7 months of practice, during my high school days.
Then tune it down, get some 3M double sided tape and put pickups on the cello, and the wiring harvested from a guitar and shred away after plugging it into an amp. Ez. /s
Fair… though admittedly that’s a very definitive two notes, it is Phrygian in this context though it could be recontextualized to many things. I tend to think in tonality more than in rhythm but it’s true, rhythm has a driving force that predefines the music before the tonality.
Tonality is more inherent to sound than rhythm. I can tune my car horn to play a major triad and it would make a prettier noise, but it wouldn't be music. Conversely, I can blow my horn as is in its current dissonant tuning but with an intentional and controlled rhythm and it becomes music.
@@samuelspear445 I see what you’re saying, but I think music is any form of artfully organized or constructed sound. [What does “artful” mean? Intentional, meant to convey something, even if aleatoric (random).] I think the major triad of your horn would be background music, but still music. You’re right though that it wouldn’t grab others to move like the rhythmic pulse would.
@@samuelspear445 There’s also a psychoacoustical argument to make that pitch is just rhythm sped up, making rhythm more primary and fundamental than pitch.
I'd argue not all artful sounds are music and not all music is art. The sounds created for lightsabers is artful, but a jingle for laundry detergent is probably not art. The chime you hear on an airliner is designed to evoke a specific emotional response but I think it would be disingenuous to say it conveys whatever we commonly understand to be music. It's like moaning doesn't constitute speech even if it conveys an emotion.
This is also a lesson in the fact that a lot of songs aren’t ridiculously hard. Sometimes you just play the groove. Having a full grasp of the tempo/feel is ABSOLUTELY the most important part, in my opinion.
A lot of people are talking about beginners learning a lot from this but I’m currently at a bottle neck in my progression as I’m self taught and don’t know were to go from what I’ve learn in the last 3 years and I’m currently improvising and messing around with chords, rhythm and riffs to get more of a feel for the guitar and sounds that I can make with it but this video has helped a lot with helping me understand what I’m actually doing instead of blindly “mucking around” on the guitar for a few hr a day
I've actually got away with people thinking that i'm good on guitar with this I didnt know this was unknown, i thought every person who got a guitar kinda slowly discovered this cheat, like the loop in the 2nd stage of super mario world where you can just keep entering the pipe and getting the 1up and the leave on the other pipe and keep repeating... I'm just theoryzing right now but maybe its because i first learned drums and then guitar? It just felt easier to make a rythm with my right dominant hand than to go out soloing like freaking johnny greenwood with my tiny weak 13yo left hand, so, i logically focused more on trying to make sounds the easier way, by not using too many frets, but having cool groovy patterns, specially after i learned about brushy one string. Again i'm not showing myself off, i'm just reacting to the comment section acting like if this guy found life on mars or smth, i'm kidding by the way thats just the way i talk but i can already hear the angry fingers hitting the poor keyboard, chill im just kidding but theres a bit of truth, thats just normal, 13yo me, 10 years ago, only knowing how to play like 3 chords, and alrady wanting to be a rockstar and impressing my family members, btw thats what you should be doing, that will get you very good at strumming, very good muscle memory, you'll get polyrythms as easy as grabbing a level 2 pidgey with an ultra ball, and if you are a drummer trying to learn the guitar like i was, omg i have seen lots of drummers in this section, its very very easy if your hand is already used to it, you probably know this, or at least FEEL it.
Man, how does your playing sound so clean? When i record through my boss katana 50 through audacity I hear so much unwanted noise even though I try my best to mute the other strings. At this point I'm really frustrated. Should I move to something like an archetype plug in?
Could be the amount of gain/distortion you're using, some amps handle high gain whereas some don't, also a noise gate helps with any trail sound left over from playing
Hm. I had the same issue with my katana 50. I have the mk2, should work the same if you have the mk1. Install the pc software for your katana amp (Boss tone studio) and there's a noise suppressor built in, the "NS" tab. Turning it on there seems to leave it permanently on for all my patches. Happy playing!
Having played music for more than 20 years, none of this sounded good to me, but I think what you did was good because it is probably good for beginners to see this content, as you can presume from reading some of the other comments here.
LOOOOOL way to be condescending “probably good for beginners to see this content” you’ve been playing music for 20 years and I bet you can’t do what OP did on guitar but good one tho
@@johnhennessey5 no need to be obnoxious he was just stating his opinion on it, and honestly nothing here is expert level, it just demonstrates how much more important rhythm can be for a riff than the notes. Like another commenter said, this is something impressive you can play at beginner level that sounds nice.
Because it's meant to then be played with other musicians that are doing the other parts of the song. Like you can add a keyboard playing the chords or arpeggios while the guitar does this rhythm below along with the bass (guitar doesn't have to be the main focus in bands).
I've thought about "Sick, Sick, Sick" riff by QOTSA, it's literally 2 notes, but the way the riff builds up, gradually adding the tension (and following the vocals also), is what makes it work so well!!
This is something I learned when I first found out palm muting was a thing lol It's very easy to pretend like you're good at guitar if you just do some random chug power chord pattern, like chug chug power chord chug power chord chug chug chug chug power chord chug chug power chord chug chug. To any non guitarist this will make you sound like a professional
This highlights a huge hole in my judgement of what to practice. I have aimed for fluid fluency up and down the neck and changing scales, because i wanted a strong shredding sound. I thought i was pretty good with rhythm, and that it wasn't the skill that i needed to work on. Now I see what's up a little bit 😮 Thanks a bunch
well....it didn't really sound great until you actually, y'know, incorporated interesting melodic elements when combining everything. But I get your point.
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I absolutely love metal for all the talented musicians even though the finished product is not always my cup-of-tea as music to listen to or see live. I more listen to it to appreciate the techniques and amazing sounds they can create.
As a guitarist who doesn't know jack abt leads and shit, I must say that knowing how to control tempo, strumming patterns, etc adds so much depth to the piece with minimal effort
[Note: I’m not a musician, and perhaps don’t know what I’m talking about] I suppose to test this hypothesis, we would have some people try to compose something nice purely as a sequence of notes of fixed length and spacing? Or, would the same note being repeated count as rhythm? Like, would ABCABABABC count as having a rhythm on account of the As having a pattern of 1001010100 the Bs having a pattern of 0100101010 And the Cs having a pattern of 0010000001 ? If so, then perhaps the task would be to take subsets of 12 notes, and pick an order on them without repeating any one note, and that sounds nice? Or, I guess to allow a slightly longer piece one could use microtones? Alternatively, I suppose if we took some music and *randomized* the rhythm, or for each piece, tried to make the rhythm as bad as possible-within-some-reasonable-constraints, and tried to see if any non-negligible portion of the (differences in?) quality could survive that?
Thanks for the affirmation, I play bass on my accoustic pretty regular it's unorthodox but I love it and make it work. I favor groove, psychedelic but polish of pop. Will add a pitch shifter in time to looper
This is what I've learned after starting to produce instrumentals for myself as a hobby. Get a good timbre into a good rhythm and you're halfway through already, the rest will follow sooner or later.
Yes! I’ve been saying for years that if you have good rhythm and timing, you’re more than halfway there. I’d much much rather see someone screw up a few notes in time than have someone play something perfects but go out of timing.
@@levistepanian5341 But I’ve heard lots of riffs that sound incredibly similar. It’s not that unique or interesting to me, but I guess metal isn’t rly my taste anyways.
i always think about neil youngs solo on „down by the river“ when talking about little variations in pitch & interesting rhythms. feel like this concept is executed perfectly there.
Damn, a great example of how the rhythm is the foundation for everything. If your not solid, it can be kind of shaky. But if you are solid, the results are incredible.
I've found the same to be true with singing. I'm average at best at singing but I have really good rhythm sense so I sound better than singers who have excellent singing ability but mess up the rhythm time to time. Rhythm is non negotiable, and should NEVER be messed up.
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I can't really play the guitar like guitarists do, but as a drummer this is exactly how I've been getting away with it.
Dude as a drummer who has tried to learn guitar on multiple occasions and failed to pick it up, this video makes me wanna go buy a new cheap epi and start fucking around with it
@@Jakob_Kuhn i felt like you once and now i’ve been playing guitar for 4 years. best decision ever.
@@Jakob_Kuhn Go for it! I went with drop tuning from the start to make it easier. I only learned chords on acoustic guitar years later 😅
Coming from a guitarist, don’t play guitar like a guitarist, guitarists suck at guitar, play it like a musician.
@@johndoe8891 honestly great advice
1:19 This is a real "draw the rest of the fucking owl" moment.
ahh i was 7 months too late
@@SwearDie96 lol same, i got recommended this video just now
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Man re-inventing Bleed like it was nothing
@Seth Grow no need to insult man
@Seth Grow why so negative
@Seth Grow icompetent? Incompitent.
Incompetant.
Gimme a sec.
Incempetent?
Errr...inkumburturnt! (Hang on I can't spell either.)
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Icuminabagnexttothetent!
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Sorry bro, just cleaning off your screen because that thing you just commented was literally a pile of shit.
@Seth Grow your comments on this channel lmaoooo why so envious
Alternative title- *Proof anything will sound great if you are a good guitar player*
Yeah, he's pretty great. But also consider that the concepts he's showing are concepts people can pretty easily ramp up into in the order he demonstrated.
The first three exercises he showed are a good way to start thinking about how, in a triplet feel context, just the accents in the rhythm create a unique feel/groove that can set you apart from the crowd.
Yea, technique is still a huge part here. He can play tightly with confidence and attack and speed and great muting. All very key to sounding good, especially for metal. This all takes a fair bit of time to develop and not something as often covered especially by these loose 'lessons' all over RUclips.
If this is the bar for good guitar player I may be better than I initially believed
@@gavinterrell9522 nah you're definitely trash
Developing good rhythm and technique with your picking hand is HOW you get good at guitar though, so he's not off base
I love that "Meshuggah" is just a naturally accepted adjective at this point
Meshuggah apparently means insane in Yiddish so technically, it's always been an adjective.
Also used in German.
It's very meshuggy.
It's not
@@totalcomputerdependency also in hebrew
Your method of teaching is great. Simple, understandable, and to the point. Thanks!
Exactly what I was about to say, few people make their lessons so simple and easy to grasp. Obviously, we will now need to put in the practice, he's no miracle worker lol
Agreed. Those 3 things you listed are the answer to a lot of problems.
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This is extremely well presented.
As a beginner my mind has been blown.
Music always sounds so complicated when listening but you made that concept look easy and more importantly attainable.
You put it concretely
Pro tip:
Sing the beat/rhythm in your head
@@BOBANDVEG Absolutely. I only play clarinet, and I mostly write music for wind ensembles, but that is what helped me compose something I was happy with more than anything else. I just start humming/singing random stuff until something I like comes out. It doesn’t have to be melodic, it could also be rhythmic. If it is rhythmic, maybe start by drumming on a table, your lap, or anything where you can clearly hear what you are drumming. When you get a rhythm that sounds good, then just try stuff out. Go with your gut. Most people that listen to music already have the ability to write music, it’s just a matter of giving it a shot, and going with what you feel is good. Is that abstract as hell? Absolutely. Is there more to writing music than just doing what feels right? Absolutely. But is it still true? Absolutely.
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If you ever get the chance to take a beginner music theory or piano class, I would highly recommend it. Obviously higher education isn't for everyone but learning even the fundamentals of music theory really opens up a lot of doors creatively.
Adam Jones is a perfect example of someone who creates sick rhythms with 1 note
What a tool
Proof that tool is just meshuggah slowed down
@@daslynnter9841 meshuggah slowed down with stupid time signatures.
@@daslynnter9841 Meshuggah but boring
Lmao man has been carrying prog metal for 30 years with drop D
I feel like this also shows itself a lot in lyrics. So many verses the notes they sing/rap dont actually change a ton but the flow and rhythym makes it sounds great!
There's this rapper kung fu vampire. I would listen to his old stuff and something just sounded off. He could rhyme great and rap fast everything, but something wasn't right. After going back to him after spending a lot of time playing guitar to a metronome, i realized. He raps totally off beat. His new stuff is right, but his old stuff...
yep, i find accounting rythm to be the hardest thing when writing lyrics and melodies
I have no idea how you all feel this way. I think I must be the only person who absolutely hates music without a melody. If the rapping or sing-talking isn't following the actual melody closely I find it super unpleasant and it's crazy to me how nobody else feels this way.
@@pleasegoawaydude I don’t like lyrics that are one note repeated over and over, it’s extremely boring to play
@@pleasegoawaydude So basically, you hate classic rap? (Before melodic rap or "sing-rap" became popular with the current gen)
So true. Rhythm is THE most important aspect of playing music.
Omg your right hand's movements are crazy fast and precise
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Rhythm is the entirety of the power behind the music of Tool
That's what I was going to say, Adam uses his guitar more like a drum kit!
@@krabuh Yes.. Even Justin is more melodic than Adam lol.. Not that that's a bad thing
they use a lot of interesting note scales like Phrygian mode
Rhythm and absolutely awesome riffs ofc
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Not much of a guitarist (drummer here), but I always wondered how Metal guitarists got that insane gallop rhythm thing. Great vid. Your tone reminds me of Mastadon.
Practice, just a loooot of practice.
I just want to know how many rests Chris Hakius had to count in Dopesmoker
Same as us and our triplets on double bass brother.
yeah messing around with tons of muting
We overlap sometimes. :)
James Hetfield was basically the drummer of Metallica.
I’m a guitar teacher and I’m constantly hammering down on rhythm. While this video takes a more metal approach, this can be applied to all genres and is especially valuable for improvisation (esp. in jazz)
It's been my crutch for years of electronic music, haha.
Yep. As a drummer I just play random shit in the rhythmic pocket and it just works
I had a teacher for a time many many years ago who had someone make him a cross-stitch piece saying "you play with your right hand" lol (and ironically he was a lefty but still...). And his mantra was something like "picking is playing, fretting simply follows."
I wish I'd taken him more seriously at the time!
How do I get better rhythm? It’s my weakest point
@@gee3591 practice with a metronome/record yourself and listen back/play along to songs
Great playing and great demonstration! 😃
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Sounds like something straight off the doom soundtrack, well done!
exactly what I thought as soon as the final riff began hahaha
Reminded me of left 4 dead at the beginning with the two note riff. It reminds me of waiting for the level to begin in the safe room and grabbing all your items. Fun times.
People online hearing a low guitar note and immediately rushing to say it sounds like Doom
@@uncroppedsoop so you have to list the 900 different bands and soundtracks it sounds like instead of just mentioning one popular likeness?
*exactly* what I was thinking
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That's a 8.5/10 video right there
Why not 10/10 man
@@asmoth360 cuz elden ring
@@MuftaDjenter whats your main criticism of it?
@@criminalchicken499 if to be short, love the DS series and Sekiro(didn't play DeS and Bloodborne). Elden ring is full of copy paste, has no soul, my fav weapon is nerfed to shit, game designed to play with magic/summons/katanas which i don't like
@@MuftaDjenter true about copy paste, but git gud otherwise
Love it how you´ve played that maple fretboard so much that the laquer has worn off down from 7th fret. I like your demonstrations of techniques, easy to comprehend, and straight to the point without any bs. Keep it up.
This is only grease on the fretboard fore shure..
but anyway, great ideas he shared
@@c4arschfisch51 Grease doesnt stick to laquer well, and lighter coloured fretboards are laquered, commonly with polyuretan laquer so that the shit from your fingers doesnt stick to the fretboard. If your fretboard is ebony, or rosewood for example, the color ot the board itself is so dark that the shit doesnt stick out so much, thus its often sufficent just to oil them. Then again could be that he just doesnt keep his fretboard clean.
this fretboard is not laquered... cheers
me watching this knowing i have absolutely zero sense of rhythm and anything after 0:20 is already too much☠️
0:43 ah yes the eye of the beholder
I think this actually may be my favorite video on RUclips. I’ve been having trouble finding the motivation to play guitar and have been feeling pretty lost on how to improve, but ever since I found your channel I felt really inspired to get back into it. It’s taking a while to improve my picking speed, but this really helps in giving me ideas on how to change up my usual strumming. Keep making the amazing content, we really appreciate it!
Never quit. Take it from me, you could be someone you want to be.
Peace.
Dude, a good technique is not about being able to pick fast. It's about being able to play with a suitable degree of strength (more energetic for metal, more dynamic for lighter genres), being able to play in tune even when picking hard, being able to keep stable rhythm and groove, being able to play clean.
Speed itself doesn't mean crap, if your playing produces a lot of unwanted string noise and is out of tune.
@@tarasbulba4512 cool.
True! You can do similar things with basic chords e-minor / G major, and it will also sound great. Rhytm is the key (sic!)
I see what you did there.
You can make any instrument sound super cool if you try to imitate a difference instrument with it. This reminds me of playing a guitar like a drumkit
I don't have a guitar so whenever i make demos i do it on my bass with an octave pedal, always makes some interesting results
i literally imagine my fingers as people dancing on the fretboard and when i do that it sounds amazing even though im playing the same notes it's really all about the rhythm
yea, even knocking on a table can sound good. actually an hour ago I passed a bar here in Brazil where 8-ish people gathered around a pool table and sang songs while making the percussion on the table.
I play my drums like I imagine an eagle would play a bassoon and that's what really made me a good rythm reggae/grindcore/folk guitar player. You gotta think outside the box, stick it to the man and never doubt your faith in jesus man! Peace, love and hail satan!
I freaking LOVE your approach to rhythm. I also want to thank you: with all of the unconventionally amazing guitars that have flooded metal and music in general over the past 8 years or so, I lost a lot of the drive that I used to have for playing. I stopped writing for years. Since I've been watching you though, I'm excited about my guitar, again. Because of you, I've woken up in the middle of the night just to riff out new concepts lest they drive me to insanity. I'm actually working on something new for the first time in 10 years. It's coming together EXTREMELY slow but, that's ok. The important part is that it IS coming together. I can't thank you enough for being that source of inspiration after so long.
My guitar teacher said Rhythm is the second most important thing to practice after hearing/listening drills since music is a hearing art. He had me practice drills like this all the time. Single note, strumming, dyads, triads, etc. You become so much more musical with work like this and then add dynamics....oh boy 👍🏽👍🏽
I played this and my kids were like “whoa!!! You’re amazing dad!!”
I’ve only been playing guitar for about 6 months 😂
Respect
@@bodabodaguy3193 naw...thats the thing. I'm horrible lol
@@absolutetuber you got your kids approval you're definitely not horrible
@@absolutetuber You know how hard it is to impress kids? You're doing great, man! 🤣
@@umcaraqualquer3640 you forgot the "..these days" at the end of yer sentence there xD
I wasn't expecting the final riff to sound like that... amazing
This was actually pretty fucking awesome, your timing is insane
Yes, this is what I try to teach everyone. On of the biggest things that struck me when I started learning my favorite songs is that they were not what I thought they were. Turns out there was a lot of these 2-3 chord/note song's but they had masterful rhythm. What I thought was many notes was just one or two.
saying "fine" to playing rhythm guitar taught me waaay more than i could've ever imagined. always thought it was just background filler but this reason is exactly what made it so fun
You're helping me become a better guitar player, thank you!
I am known as an ‘Excel Wizard’ in my company even though I am mastering only about 5% of its capability. It’s basically the same here with the guitar.
All hail the King of VLOOKUP :]
@@Jazzcrime1 lol, that’s basically 100% me!
It is xlookup now hahahahh. I am the Excel master now
@@Jazzcrime1 lol that's what I was thinking
Spreadsheet grandmaster
I always feel like if I don't use lots of notes its not good enough. Need to accept less is more because I come up with sick riffs and then go "not technical enough" 1 and 0s and sometimes an 11
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD
PUT
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Cheers x
Remember: Dead notes are still notes
Only time when a note is not a note. Is when it's a rest. Even then it's still a note.
"Of course, now and then, just now and then, it seemed a touch..."
"What do you mean, sire?"
"Occasionally it seems to have... how shall one say? ... Too many notes."
"I don't understand. There are just as many notes, majesty, as I require, neither more nor less."
"My dear fellow, there are only so many notes the ear can hear in the course of an evening! I think I'm right in saying that, aren't I, court composer?"
"Yes, yes, on the whole, yes, majesty."
"This is absurd!"
"My dear young man, don't take it too hard. Your work is ingenious! It's quality work. And there are simply too many notes, that's all. Just cut a few, and it'll be perfect."
"Which few did you have in mind, majesty?"
@@UnfamiliarPlacefollowed by audible gasps and little later Salierie saying how he knows “that creature” had bedded his girl lol.
Straight to the point, no bs, no clickbait and you didn‘t turn this into a 15 minute video filled with stock footage and someone reading a script! 🎉 instant sub, this is some OG youtube energy I‘m supporting
I think you're one of the best modern guitarists, your tone and playstyle are really mesmerizing to watch. I always remember of a video you made playing djent with hybrid picking, and it awes me
People shit on rhythm playing since it’s not noodling about… but a great riff writer can create riffs that complement not just the lead, but the bass/drums section of the band. I think it’s fun to lock in with the bassist and drummer
I hate myself for this, but 0:47 ding fries are done
Your just on another level
*youre
@@hesh1491 *you’re
@@zacharywilliams2 damn
@@hesh1491 u can’t say much u didn’t spell you’re right 🤣🤣
You make an excellent point. I'll often make sure I'm doing training geared specifically for staying on-rhythm with the beat I'm playing to. A good rhythm section is key to making anything sound richer and fuller.
breath of fresh air this video. to the point, visual guide, just some helpful tips
I never realized how hard it was to actually do riffs like this until it was all laid out like this. Mad respect to rock guitarists 🤯
"If you're good at rhythm, you can convince all your friends you know how to play Bleed"
1:12 My mind can actually imagine a weird ass progression over that, and it sounds amazing.
Tbh you've taught me more about playing guitar in less than 2 minutes than entire lesson videos have
Im gonna go practice with a metronome now..
Truly a simplification of years and years of practice. Great lesson!
I can't play guitar for shit, but the way you explain it makes me feel like I can so you get my vote for that!!! 🤣
I totally agree that what great teachers do.
These mysterious headless videos are epic
Guitar and player both headless
@@murkish yes and both mystrious
Wowza, this is inspiring. I can't wait to go home and play.
I don't think anyone realizes how big this lesson is. It's basically demonstrating how you can instantly change a song by varrying your rhythm. Not just for guitarist, but for all intruments. And not just for metal, but for all genres of music. It shakes my mind to think that this guy compressed a crucial key that bands learn over years into one minute.
The silences are what really surprise me. This was SUPER helpful! You're awesome.
We need more 90 second microtutorials.
As a drummer, this is pretty much how I play guitar
Ive always wanted to learn the guitar, but i just could never get my fingers to bend comfortably. I thought this would also be a challenge when I picked up the Cello, but somehow the Cello felt perfectly natural in my hands. I was playing with my advanced strings orchestra within 7 months of practice, during my high school days.
Then tune it down, get some 3M double sided tape and put pickups on the cello, and the wiring harvested from a guitar and shred away after plugging it into an amp. Ez. /s
@@joseherrera5264 ALRIGHT YOU GOT IT BOSS
@@Kitty_kisses97 if you cannot put guitar electronics on the blursed cello, there's always the cecillo.
Godspeed, you madlad!
Fair… though admittedly that’s a very definitive two notes, it is Phrygian in this context though it could be recontextualized to many things. I tend to think in tonality more than in rhythm but it’s true, rhythm has a driving force that predefines the music before the tonality.
Tonality is more inherent to sound than rhythm. I can tune my car horn to play a major triad and it would make a prettier noise, but it wouldn't be music. Conversely, I can blow my horn as is in its current dissonant tuning but with an intentional and controlled rhythm and it becomes music.
@@samuelspear445 I see what you’re saying, but I think music is any form of artfully organized or constructed sound. [What does “artful” mean? Intentional, meant to convey something, even if aleatoric (random).] I think the major triad of your horn would be background music, but still music. You’re right though that it wouldn’t grab others to move like the rhythmic pulse would.
@@samuelspear445 There’s also a psychoacoustical argument to make that pitch is just rhythm sped up, making rhythm more primary and fundamental than pitch.
I'd argue not all artful sounds are music and not all music is art. The sounds created for lightsabers is artful, but a jingle for laundry detergent is probably not art. The chime you hear on an airliner is designed to evoke a specific emotional response but I think it would be disingenuous to say it conveys whatever we commonly understand to be music. It's like moaning doesn't constitute speech even if it conveys an emotion.
This is also a lesson in the fact that a lot of songs aren’t ridiculously hard. Sometimes you just play the groove.
Having a full grasp of the tempo/feel is ABSOLUTELY the most important part, in my opinion.
A lot of people are talking about beginners learning a lot from this but I’m currently at a bottle neck in my progression as I’m self taught and don’t know were to go from what I’ve learn in the last 3 years and I’m currently improvising and messing around with chords, rhythm and riffs to get more of a feel for the guitar and sounds that I can make with it but this video has helped a lot with helping me understand what I’m actually doing instead of blindly “mucking around” on the guitar for a few hr a day
0:26 too complicated, go back please
Does anybody know the scale he might be using here? Sounds badass! Mostly due to his playing ofc
Ok, a(second) guess D Harmonic Minor or A Phrygian Dominant?
Known in the concert music world as the arabesque scale
@@ganko2240 Thank you🙏
everything will sound good if you add enough distortion
Based
Hahaha truth 😂
i started reading tabs. with this, as a beginner, helped me a lot. now i can read (or understand idk) those swing-like golf clubs.
Adding that second note really took things to the next level.
I've actually got away with people thinking that i'm good on guitar with this
I didnt know this was unknown, i thought every person who got a guitar kinda slowly discovered this cheat, like the loop in the 2nd stage of super mario world where you can just keep entering the pipe and getting the 1up and the leave on the other pipe and keep repeating...
I'm just theoryzing right now but maybe its because i first learned drums and then guitar? It just felt easier to make a rythm with my right dominant hand than to go out soloing like freaking johnny greenwood with my tiny weak 13yo left hand, so, i logically focused more on trying to make sounds the easier way, by not using too many frets, but having cool groovy patterns, specially after i learned about brushy one string.
Again i'm not showing myself off, i'm just reacting to the comment section acting like if this guy found life on mars or smth, i'm kidding by the way thats just the way i talk but i can already hear the angry fingers hitting the poor keyboard, chill im just kidding but theres a bit of truth, thats just normal, 13yo me, 10 years ago, only knowing how to play like 3 chords, and alrady wanting to be a rockstar and impressing my family members, btw thats what you should be doing, that will get you very good at strumming, very good muscle memory, you'll get polyrythms as easy as grabbing a level 2 pidgey with an ultra ball, and if you are a drummer trying to learn the guitar like i was, omg i have seen lots of drummers in this section, its very very easy if your hand is already used to it, you probably know this, or at least FEEL it.
Man, how does your playing sound so clean? When i record through my boss katana 50 through audacity I hear so much unwanted noise even though I try my best to mute the other strings. At this point I'm really frustrated. Should I move to something like an archetype plug in?
Could be the amount of gain/distortion you're using, some amps handle high gain whereas some don't, also a noise gate helps with any trail sound left over from playing
Noise gate. Took me years to figure out how they do it.
Fast forward
Hm. I had the same issue with my katana 50. I have the mk2, should work the same if you have the mk1.
Install the pc software for your katana amp (Boss tone studio) and there's a noise suppressor built in, the "NS" tab. Turning it on there seems to leave it permanently on for all my patches. Happy playing!
Get a noise gate or check your pickup wiring
Having played music for more than 20 years, none of this sounded good to me, but I think what you did was good because it is probably good for beginners to see this content, as you can presume from reading some of the other comments here.
LOOOOOL way to be condescending “probably good for beginners to see this content” you’ve been playing music for 20 years and I bet you can’t do what OP did on guitar but good one tho
@@johnhennessey5 no need to be obnoxious he was just stating his opinion on it, and honestly nothing here is expert level, it just demonstrates how much more important rhythm can be for a riff than the notes. Like another commenter said, this is something impressive you can play at beginner level that sounds nice.
Because it's meant to then be played with other musicians that are doing the other parts of the song. Like you can add a keyboard playing the chords or arpeggios while the guitar does this rhythm below along with the bass (guitar doesn't have to be the main focus in bands).
Rhythm is definitely something I wish I would have focused on early on in my musical journey. It’s ridiculous how important it is
I've thought about "Sick, Sick, Sick" riff by QOTSA, it's literally 2 notes, but the way the riff builds up, gradually adding the tension (and following the vocals also), is what makes it work so well!!
This is something I learned when I first found out palm muting was a thing lol It's very easy to pretend like you're good at guitar if you just do some random chug power chord pattern, like chug chug power chord chug power chord chug chug chug chug power chord chug chug power chord chug chug. To any non guitarist this will make you sound like a professional
Godly done! Hands down
This highlights a huge hole in my judgement of what to practice. I have aimed for fluid fluency up and down the neck and changing scales, because i wanted a strong shredding sound. I thought i was pretty good with rhythm, and that it wasn't the skill that i needed to work on. Now I see what's up a little bit 😮
Thanks a bunch
I was just about to give up on writing music altogether until I saw this thank!!! I’ll go practise rhythm now
But I ain't got rhythm
well....it didn't really sound great until you actually, y'know, incorporated interesting melodic elements when combining everything. But I get your point.
0:53
The implement, the device of my extinction
The terminating clockwork of my gleeful bane
The definitive scourge of its mockery
The end, art instruments lethality attained
I absolutely love metal for all the talented musicians even though the finished product is not always my cup-of-tea as music to listen to or see live. I more listen to it to appreciate the techniques and amazing sounds they can create.
That was incredibly impressive. Good shit mate.
As a guitarist who doesn't know jack abt leads and shit, I must say that knowing how to control tempo, strumming patterns, etc adds so much depth to the piece with minimal effort
I'm not really a guitarist but as a drummer this inspires me. I want to try a similar concept on drums now
I've watched this at least 10 times its so beautiful
This is just so true. Music is ALL about rythm. Notes and melodies are just there to give some flavor.
[Note: I’m not a musician, and perhaps don’t know what I’m talking about] I suppose to test this hypothesis, we would have some people try to compose something nice purely as a sequence of notes of fixed length and spacing?
Or, would the same note being repeated count as rhythm?
Like, would ABCABABABC count as having a rhythm on account of the As having a pattern of 1001010100
the Bs having a pattern of
0100101010
And the Cs having a pattern of
0010000001
?
If so, then perhaps the task would be to take subsets of 12 notes, and pick an order on them without repeating any one note, and that sounds nice?
Or, I guess to allow a slightly longer piece one could use microtones?
Alternatively, I suppose if we took some music and *randomized* the rhythm,
or for each piece, tried to make the rhythm as bad as possible-within-some-reasonable-constraints, and tried to see if any non-negligible portion of the (differences in?) quality could survive that?
For some reason the way you were teaching this reminded me of slap bass. Neat.
You make everything sound so simple!
i screamed over this...you made it so inviting
Thanks for the affirmation, I play bass on my accoustic pretty regular it's unorthodox but I love it and make it work. I favor groove, psychedelic but polish of pop. Will add a pitch shifter in time to looper
This is what I've learned after starting to produce instrumentals for myself as a hobby. Get a good timbre into a good rhythm and you're halfway through already, the rest will follow sooner or later.
"ha, getting a 8 string guitar to only use one string"
"What about getting a whole 8 string and playing a single note?"
This is precisely why breakdowns work so well in Metalcore, Deathcore, and Djent
I subbed just from this small tutorial. You’re a masterful guitar slayer, sir.
Yes! I’ve been saying for years that if you have good rhythm and timing, you’re more than halfway there. I’d much much rather see someone screw up a few notes in time than have someone play something perfects but go out of timing.
this video scratched every itch in my brain, thank you. bang on
this has really helped my warm up routine & you're right people really think it's full on riffs lol
As a drummer and a guitar player, I approve. Once you learn these 2 instruments, everything connects
Thumbnail: even playing a single note sounds good with the right rhythm!!!
Video: multiple notes.
Incredible, sounds like a good classic too!
Not rly
@@JADBeats I think it does, it sounds amazing bro
@@levistepanian5341 But I’ve heard lots of riffs that sound incredibly similar. It’s not that unique or interesting to me, but I guess metal isn’t rly my taste anyways.
@@JADBeats when I said sounds like a classic I meant it sounds so good that I would listen to it happily if it were in a song.
@@levistepanian5341 Oh yeah, that’s fair. It’s pretty cool how much he does with just rhythm.
That well-worn fretboard tells the story of practice and dedication. And the hair, well, it is simply glorious.
Dude has an absolutely killer guitar and rhythm.
rhythm and feel is all a musician should need to be great
i always think about neil youngs solo on „down by the river“ when talking about little variations in pitch & interesting rhythms. feel like this concept is executed perfectly there.
Damn, a great example of how the rhythm is the foundation for everything. If your not solid, it can be kind of shaky. But if you are solid, the results are incredible.
I've found the same to be true with singing. I'm average at best at singing but I have really good rhythm sense so I sound better than singers who have excellent singing ability but mess up the rhythm time to time. Rhythm is non negotiable, and should NEVER be messed up.
Excellent demonstration ! ✌️😊
The notes reminded me of triplet grids. Marching band drummers would now. Good for practicing rhythm and find cool beats too