Why Is Metallica's Fade To Black the GOAT?
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- Опубликовано: 30 сен 2024
- Why Is Metallica's Fade To Black the GOAT? To answer this question I examine the music theory behind this timeless track. The keys, chords, scales, orchestration techniques and more. There's plenty of Kirk Hammett Wah action...Lars Ulrich pounding the drums, James Hetfield crushing guitar riffs and Robert Trujillo thunderous bass lines. Has Metallica sold more records than bands like Megadeth because they've written better songs...like Fade To Black? Become more than just a guitar player with my music theory course below....I also just released a course on How To Play Guitar Solos | Beginner to PRO!
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There's just something about the Ride The Lightning album .
All the tracks kicked ass from start to finish and had some very interesting music theory and concepts behind them,
It’s always been my favorite album of theirs. Not a single bad or boring track on it.
@@jtrider3779 too bad Metallica thinks otherwise. Escape is Metallica's least favorite song. They refused to play that song live until they were forced to play it in the Ride the Lightning anniversary show.
@@marcthedashergd6321 Thats because the label forced them to make a song for the radio
@@MrTongen yeah and also it was very last minute because they didn't know at the time that they had to write another song for RTL until Lars said it when they thought that they were done with the album
The riffs on Ride the Lightning are all classic and the compositions are great, but what really does it for me is the super unique sound
The line "I was me but now he's gone" is one of the most simple and effective lyrics I've ever heard. Impactful, heartbreaking, and a perfect description of what this kind of heavy depression does to people.
It’s perfect. Absolutely perfect lyrics.
Nothing less than the best for the greatest lyricist in heavy metal.
For me it's the lines "emptiness is filling me to the point of agony." That's some hard-hitting, nail on the head stuff.
James’ economic storytelling is second to absolutely no one. He’s on par with Prine, Petty, and honestly, I think he’s beyond Bob Dylan. He only says what he absolutely has to say and still makes you feel like you’re inside the song. A master.
@@rickkelley4618 Speaking of John Prine, "Sam Stone" is probably one of the few songs with lyrics as soul-crushing as this one. I prefer Dylan to both ultimately, but yeah, in terms of economic lyrics specifically, that wasn't always Dylan's strong suit. All three are legends, of course.
Fade to Black was the song that made me pick up the guitar, so it'll always be one of my favorites.
Same
Hell yeah man fade to black and nothing else matters made me more comfortable to use the whole neck not just open chords
Me too 👍
Same. Actually the verse riff made me fell in love with Metallica, specifically this lick (5:56); besides, I conceived that as a Pink Floyd melody (like the intro solo on Wish You Were Here). I'm from Mexico and saw them on March 1st 2017, back then I'd never heard Fade to Black.
Hopefully they'll come back to my city next year. 😎
same here, it has always been one of my favourite songs. the intro solo is so beautiful, i decided it to be the first solo i ever learn to play, which I did after one month of playing. this song always gives me goosebumps, i love it.
Consider their ages. They're were between 20-22 years old writing a powerful ballad about a powerful subject in an era where they were supposed to be reaching higher speeds. You didn't really get that many songs about suicide from the first person perspective at the time which made it so chilling.
As far as songwriting goes:
I often tell my mates, Fade to Black, Sanitarium, and One are masterpieces because the music is absolutely beautifully composed, the harmonies are incredibly written, haunting leads, and then the lyrics are just about living in an absolute nightmare. Forget Satan, Gore, and guts. Depression/suicide, mental illness, and being brain dead have been horrible realities for a lot people. Rest in peace to all of them. Metallica had maturity in their writing, that's why they could ease up on the thrash.
Fade to black is about James’ favourite amp that got stolen if I remember rightly.
@@darrenbetts2987 SLKFGJÇDSLIGKJSDPO HIFJDNÇ LMAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
@@darrenbetts2987 Amp that was given from his now deceased mother.
Those 3 songs are my 3 favorite from Metallica, and in that order.
Agreed. Add The Unforgiven to the lyrical masterpieces you've mentioned. Lyrics of that song, and in fact all 3 parts, are simply great.
Fade to black was the first song I truly learned from beginning to end, when I was around maybe 13 and it's still my favorite song to play and perform acousticly.
Not the first song I learned beginning to end but the first Metallica song I learned.
I learned both guitars when I was qy, that's 27 years ago.
@@mixdreamsinc.4502 when you were QY? Dang that's young lol
Bro me too
That was the first solo I learned
To me, this song gets better with the realization that it’s about his favorite amp, which was stolen.
it hits harder when you find out that it was the last things his mother gave before she died
and so Metallica's SOUND was gone forever... some fackin poser ended up with that one of a kind amp and if they KNEW that amp was so crucial to Metallica's sound, they probably woulda gave it back. I loved Master of Puppets but immediately I was completely disappointed that they'd lost their CRUNCH.
The acoustic James is playing has a 12 string effect with it so you are correct on it sounding like a 12 string
I knew it!
Think he has some kind of line6 variax acoustic or something. Line6 has some magic ass shit
@@cbrindle91 It's not that deep. The guitar has a Midi-Pickup.
My husband was a metal head when I met him and I had never listened to it. He introduced me to Metallica through this song and I've been a total fan girl ever since. I love their early albums, but I also love the way James' voice matures and changes over time. He was just a kid when he started and you could hear it in his voice. I wouldn't expect a man in his 50s at this point to still sing like that. I think the sign of a good band is one that can evolve and mature.
Yes, it is their greatest song. Except from James and Lars' contributions in the composition of the song, Kirk and Cliff have their significant contributions in the song. A haunting song!
Cliff wrote the outro riff. On the album the end is open, now they finished the song with B major, so the guy in the song did not commit suicide)
@@tortunbator I think it is B minor, not B major. B major sounds completely different. If it is major, then it might be D major which is the equivalent of B minor.
I'm guessing you meen haunting and I agree, definetly has an atmosphere to it
@@nemesis8626 Thank you very much for the correction!
FTB was my gateway to metal. I had heard a number of Metallica songs prior to, but they were all post black album (load/reload, Garage Inc.). It wasn’t until hearing FTB that I started diving into their early stuff and developed a taste for metal. So this song always has a special place in my heart, and it’s one that I never get tired of hearing.
Agreed man, this is the song that really got me deeper into metal instead of just being a “casual” listener, a true classic
Agreed. Favorite metal song and favorite song of the ‘80s. Just a perfect song.
@Freddie Bloggs For sure. Talent recognizes talent. Two giants in their respective fields.
One thing to point out is how they modulate from B minor to A minor in the intro. The acoustic guitar plays F6, Fb5#7 and lastly E7 to land more smoothly to A minor. I just think it was very clever how they did it.
Hello, Cliff.
I hate to say it but James had no idea what any of that is. He was just playing chords that sounded great.
This song and "Nothing Else Matters" are one my favorite power ballads. True masterpieces that a lot of people, not just metalheads, can relate with.
The Ride The Lightning album is just perfect. 80s era Metallica was just unreal
Never underestimate Lars' ability to f up a song live.
And Kirk's ability to forget the solo so he just improvises it... along with the excessive amount of wahhh to cover up the improv 😂
He played fine here.
@@Ranganation yeah lmao, and hearing him miss one of those bends at the end really helps me feel a little better at struggling with the solo lol. Still really impressive just reminds you they’re human.
@@tylerfranx4286 100%. Still way better than I probably ever will be 😂
@@tylerfranx4286 I don't know why, I find when stuff like this happens, I like the song more. I like hearing small fuck ups, like cracks in the voice, a little bendo getting muted.
Honestly... and most people won't agree with me because their brains are a meme, Lars fucks up the least. He might get excited and speed the song up, or slow it down, but a drummer fucking up can screw the entire song, which literally never happens. Lars gets a lot of hate, and he keeps fucking going no matter what and he keeps it real with himself.
Metallica could have ANY drummer they want. They could literally just point at the best drummers in Metal and that person would quit their band and be on a plane, at there next rehearsal THAT DAY. But they don't, cuz they want Lars. He's that powerful beat, those muted cymbals+kicks that makes metallica METALLICA.
Of course it is, because Pink Floyd wrote most of it. Go listen to Good Bye Blue Sky. You're welcome.
It's a good song, but 4 8th notes in a Bm6- arpeggio isn't most of Fade to Black at all. If it were, someone else wrote most of Goodbye Blue Sky hundreds of years ago...
most of it? because that intro sound similar. Try and finish a full song
Obviously I love this song, early intro to Metallica in the late 80s. I had this Master of Puppets and Harvester of Sorrow (a criminally underated song) on a loop. While I likely can't put my top 8 or 9 Metallica songs in order, I am always curious how No Leaf Clover is left out of almost every discussion of great songs, and how minus human is left off most "heaviest Metallica riffs" list. Is it really only because they came out in 1999 after the Load albums?
Basically your last sentence sums it up lol. Yes it's because of when it came out and everyone's everything sucks after justice/black era mindset. I think they're awesome too. Not enough open minds with heavy metal fans that is for sure. Too many closed minds.
No leaf clover is really a nice one
No Leaf Clover gives me chills every time I hear it. Especially the chorus. It has the same effect on me as the middle section in To Live Is To Die and the acoustic part in Master Of Puppets. Hetfield has this talent to write powerful and emotionally strong melodic parts.
Why? Cliff. Talk more about Cliff.
He had so much to do with composing this song. The bass part is what really holds this. There are even live versions where the band is out of time, but Cliff just owns and keeps it together.
After thirty years I still hear new things from Cliff in the first three albums all. the. time. And I learn about new stuff he contributed to the rest of the arrangements. He was really, really something special.
Cliff went to college to study music. Dude knew his shit. Studied a lot of classical music, as well.
Most underrated musician in all of metal. People always say “stop the Cliff worshipping”, when they don’t even look into how he impacted the band, or his knowledge of music theory.
The instrumental back half of this song is absolute melodic metal perfection.
Speaking of Maiden, Metallica does a fairly decent cover of REMEMBER TOMORROW by them.
I'll have to check that out. Thanks
I was at this show with my best friend! We were in the front row against the rail and James pointed at me because I had an original kill em all tour shirt. We were on the screen during “One” and I Got James pic he flicked. That was my peak moment. If you watch the live show you can see my on the rail during memory remains and some other songs
Just Realize Shred , you can mock Lars' Drumming all you want to . But he Constructed this song in Composing just as much as James did . Lars' contributions in thought and Feeling created this masterpiece . This Song is the GOAT of Thrash Metal because you'll never see 21 year olds in the music industry writing a Metaphoric Introspective Musical Diary of misery like this again .
Thank you so much for reawakening my guitar ability. My family is so proud of me again. We just laid my grandma to rest today and you are such a huge part in my revamped guitar life. I can’t ever thank you personally but just know you touched me.
I still love the older Metallica stuff. For one I always like the dynamics of slow and melodic, mixed with heavy groove. Plus, their mellow stuff in the early days had more of a classical sense to it.
One of the crazy things about this song is that I never realized that the harmonized riff under the final solo is actually a semi-reprise of the intro riff. Never realized until it was pointed out to me
Shred, your "B stands for" etc gag is my favorite pls don't stop doing it
Every time I hear it I think of my stepdad passing from cancer in 1993. I listened to it a lot and would see his shadow in the hallway on the wall as he moved around in his hospital bed in our house.
yeah fade to black is best song from metallica from all aspects and kirk screwed up the solo of course
I truly looooove Fade to Black, except the live version. I believe Kirk just ruins the solo by using the wah. It just makes me think "DUDE!!! It's a great solo all by itself! Just leave it alone!!!" Although this concert wasn't so bad
Why won't u react to skullfist hour to live
The whole song it's metal in its essence
Specially the solo
Dude,,,,you didn't even mention the genius cheeky modulation DOWN from the B-( intro) to the A- (verse ),this is an epic move, cud u even explain how they did it? I guess not, Who can walk us through it? 🤔
kirk always manages to fuck up his best ever solo while playing it live
Is it just me or did Shred also improve a ton? I remember watching some videos where it took him sometimes 2-3 sec to figure out what notes they were playing but now he does it instantly as if he had perfect pitch. Do you have perfect pitch, Shred, do you just remember pitches?
I think he plans ahead before recording
I think he made a deal with Lord Satan
Fade to Black is the GOAT!!!
Key of B minor (technically Bb minor)
Intro chord progression is Bm-A-D
Repetition & development (same concept in different ways)
Solo over the verse chord progression
Guitar orchestration
Complimentary parts that outline the chord structures
Modulation
Pedal tones
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Pichardy third (a piece in minor key ending with a major chord)
What an over glorified trainwreck performance by LU and KH… 🤷♂️🤦♂️
Another request for good mourning black friday by Megadeth please
Listen to this man🙏🙏🙏
Why does my comment keep getting took down????? All I said was that I'd love to see others play this! And would sub if they did for support....
One > Welcome Home (Sanitarium) > The Unforgiven > Fade To Black
I literally just got into Metallica this week at the tender age of 31. N as a black guy this shit has been a whirlwind to dive into. Shred has been A-1 introducing me to the Genre…& he funny as hell.
Without a doubt the greatest song ever written. I listen to it no less than 5 times a day for many years and I love it more every time and each time I cry. I cant imagine it will ever be topped.
This song was at least partly written by Cliff Burton.
as always.. kirk hammet plays out of tune garbage solos destroying yet another song he never actually wrote..i guess he never heard of wap juice
Dude, Kirk blew a few of those notes, just in the opening solo. Like bad. Not like, "well it's questionable if he missed that note". No he straight up blew like 7 notes
Metallica and GOAT should never ever be associated. Thats a F’n joke.
My favorite song is dyers eve but this this song is best ...way better than all ...even dyers eve and everything this song put me through tough times...
I'd love for you to do four horsemen and/or blackened!
Fade to black was indeed the song that introduced me to Metal! I was a big fan of 70s rock and had a huge guard against shredding and super heavy/fast songs. But man, this song changed everything. I owe it to them for all the join that I get by listening to Opeth, TOOL, Dream theater, Soen, Porcupine tree, Sabbath, Riverside, etc. And god knows simplicity is the key, that what makes Metallica the Mozart of Metal.
This song, and the album saved my life.
R.I.P. Cliff
I still miss you every god-damned day!!
💔🤘🍻
12:45 take it out of context
ORION is the best metallica song and possibly the best song ever
The intro gets your attention right away …the solo just adds to the feel ..then the chords after the solo just makes u say wow…u can relate and feel those lyrics and the harmony after James says goodbye is fucken incredible ..then again u get hit with that perfect solo at the end and it just screams out masterpiece
Should have done the studio version... they butcher this song live.
5:12 is shred trying to tell us something by specifically subtitling those few lines?
I still remember the first time I heard Fade to Black, and I’ve never been the same since. It’s one of my favourite songs all time by any band.
play guitar and drink wap juice
words to live by
From what I watched I think Kirk nailed the solo perfectly in a video of fade to black live 1985
This is the one song I wanted to learn on guitar more than any other. The song is such a variety of different and interesting parts. It's like it has so much in one song
What always amazes me is the fact they were in their early twenties.
Definitely my favorite Metallica Album!🤘🏻🔥✨
@shred can you make a video on Grand Belial's Key?
What about Ace of spades??😉😉😉
I'm 49 and The Whiplash EP import(Cause it was $5 at Licorice Pizza)was my intro to Metallica(I can hear "Boomer" right now which is wrong, born in 72' is Generation X). I bought Ride The Lightning next week. Epic stuff. Buzz was at the time a new LP was in the works without Mustane's writing. Next year Master Of Puppets came out. The rest is history. Ride The Lightning & Whiplash import will always has a special place for me. Thanks for this Fade To Black breakdown. I appreciate it. EDIT: For Whom The Bells Toll was the first song I learned from Metallica. On an 80s Gibson Firebird routed with full sized Humbuckers Seymour Duncan SH-4 JB & SH-2 Jazz neck. Then EMG 81-85's and finally a Brushed Gold EMG Het-set. I also play a PRS ONE SE(basicalliy PRS's version of the LP) w with a Fishman Fluence Greg Koch bridge pickup. Back then I was lucky enough to have a Mesa Boogie 2C++ head. Hard as hell to dial in that Metallica tone, "California Smile" but I did do it. I'm happy with my Recto 50 watt solo head 2 but would be nice to land a Boogie 2++ but they're so hard too find. Thanks again for the tutorial. I dig your humor along with theory knowledge.
Awesome, dude. I was born in 1970 and bought Kill 'Em All in 1983 shortly after it was released, and later learned how to play drums and later guitar from that album.
A lot of their early stuff was driven by Cliff and his knowledge of classical music, hence the awkward chords and strange progressions ,like playing in one key during solo, but solo isn’t in same key, like playing a G while soloing in an A , and he explains how this is a major classical influence, Cliff…he was top shelf all the way,and why they had to change after Cliff, and why they changed after Jason, everyone is different
Cliff only wrote one part in this song though it's a very cool part
I used to teach in high school. I only know how much even today's generation school kids loves to play Metallica. As an Asian kid, I too grew up with lots of Metallica stuff and My heart pounders with joy everytime I see my kids play Metallica. even after all these 30_40 years, Metallica are being played so alive as if their song were just released just a week ago.
And that's the reason I hope Metallica stands biggest metal band of our planet.
Without a doubt the best song ever written.
The recorded studio solo is one of the best ever written
Fade to black was the song that inspired me to try guitar for the first time. It also was the first time I really saw the beauty that was possible in metal.
There is just something about this song that makes it the best, but not sure what it is. It's just beautiful
Kirk was really going crazy here damn
His soloing was straight from the soul.
Give it to me Lars.😂😂😂
You forgot the A minor triad in the slide up in the verse tabs.
Metallica may not have been my gateway to metal, but they rank at the top of list. Ride the lightning came out the year I was born, 84. Fade to Black, belongs on the mantle above the heavy metal fireplace!!! Absolute classic!!
Shred deserves more subs
The riff that plays at about the 3:57 mark of the song is my favorite riff of all time
I love this song but cemetery gates is better
The acoustic that James is playing actually has some sort of electronic shizzz idk what it is because i ain’t no smart guitar tech lmao but yeah it basically has a switch to make it sound like a 12 string , if you watch the James and Kirk guitar rig vid James’s guitar tech explains it🌩
Can someone teach Lars how to play drums? Seriously
Can someone teach morons who know nothing about music to not leave ignorant comments about legendary metal musicians?
Please do ONE! Pretty please. ONE is the true GOAT in my opinion.
Metallica is the GOAT
Good to see you are staying hydrated Shred! Gotta love that magnificent WAP juice.
Fade to Black was inspired by Beyond the Realms of Death.
I’m really blown away that you did not mention the fact that Kirk was playing Peter Green’s legendary Gibson Les Paul.
“I can’t stand this hell I feel” geez this jam always hits in the feels
Metallica is like the Beatles to me, they’re undeniably great but I’ve had too much of them for this lifetime.
Yea, I listened to them so much that I probably had three lifetimes worth of listening to them. Now I’m mostly into indie or what ever music pops up for guitar , still love me some metal, just became a tad more open with genres. The standard I held other band up to because of Metallica was crazy 😭
I would say it is, and has one of the few good solos that Kirk has made.
This solo is basic compared to his other ones on the album which have wild modal interchange ("Fight Fire With Fire" for examples), creative string skipping and scale runs ("Creeping Death"), and crazy back and forth arpeggios ("Call of Ktulu" and "Ride The Lightning"), like what...? Did you stop after 1984 and never listened to his solos on MOP or AJFA, cause they are leagues better than this overemotional shit you called "good", lmao...
One of my favorites,but i also love the re harmonization from the Alex Scolnick trio,the bassist play big acustic bass!!!!!
I think Cliff had more to with writing than James.
No he really didn't, he only wrote a few parts in a few songs but they were great parts nonetheless.
Kirk Wahmett
Megadeth does EVERYTHING better than Metallica!
Survey says no
Clearly not
I agree with your thoughts on bringing new fans into metal... I think: crazy train, fear of the dark, the number of the beast, 22 acacia avenue, fade to black, mr crowley, are all metal songs that are also palatable for the general public. There’s lots of others, but those are the ones you often hear playing on the jukebox at a pub full of normies... oh and WAP or course
They sold more records than Elvis and the
Beatles
Goated solo
stick to the original, Kirk!
Hello There
That fast descending run in the riff inside the modulation to Em, in the bridge, it's just mean. Badass. James is such a complex and yet straightforward composer. Not pretentious, just genius. And the leads in this song, are seminal to modern guitar leads IMHO
i enjoy the versitility and room for your own spin on the bass. The song takes you on a jouney, and im partial to cliff being a filthy fourstringer myself, shed is spot on with the same riff in diffderent voicings, its different everytime, yet still familiar and friendly.
Good song but wears thin quickly on my play list.... I find myself skipping it quite regularly.... not my goat.
Fade to black is an incredible composition. Thank the rock gods for Metallica. I think you can also hear a lot of these techniques in bleeding me which for me is the GOAT Metallica song. 🤘😈
Bleeding Me is epic.
This album came out when I was a junior in high school. It was an epiphany. It made me play guitar, which opened up a whole other world. This song was great but not the one that grabbed me by the boo boo and didn’t let go. That was the instrumental Call of Ktulu. That is the heaviest track ever recorded in my humble opinion. Not a spoken word in it but it spoke louder than any song I have ever heard prior or since. Great breakdown of this from a musical point. Liked and subbed
It's a good song. To say it's the greatest song ever is just stupid though. It's not even Metallica's best song.