Synced guitar tab (gp, gp5 and pdf) is in the description. Feel free to give feedback and submit corrections, I will note them down in the description :) Sorry for messing up the timing from bar 242 to 249... Recording a 16 minute long song is _very_ exhausting, so that's as perfect as it gets :D
I completely disagree with all the haters of Fear Inoculum. I have been a tool fan since the beginning of my music listening days and Fear Inoculum to me is their most technical, most mature and most progressive album to date. I don't agree that there is a lot of wasted space and meandering, it is meant to be exactly how it is. The music is so advanced that there are many people - mainly the ones who are addicted to the instant gratification headbanger heavy riffs all the time - who don't quite understand what Tool has communicated on this album. To me, every album is different and I truly believe that 7empest has become THE quintessential Tool song. It is THE culmination of their entire career and sound on one song. They definitely have more records left in the tank and I couldn't be more excited. BY THE WAY, MAX great job, this takes a lot of hard work and patience and I applaud you. Well played!
Thank you very much, Anton! I agree with you, though I can't become as emotionally attached to Fear Inoculum as with Lateralus or Ænima. It's an amazing record, though, and it's obvious lots of creativity has flown into the record :)
End to end this is their best album. Shows major musical maturity. This album only gets better with each listen. I struggled at first with it but after multiple listens this is their best sonic experience for sure.
it was such a different ball-game back then; not everyone had internet, dialup was slow, there was no youtube, and what tabs existed were often way, way off. I'm pretty jealous of people learning the guitar now, they just have so many more resources at their disposal than we did a couple decades ago.
This album is easily the peak of Adam Jones, and of Tool imo. Never seen another band peak nearly 30 years after their debut. Adam Jones really stepped up though, it's amazing. Wish he was always his good, the guitar tone on this album in particular is just so delicious and textured.
algo hahahahah you think this slow, repetitive album that only has two good songs is better than 10,000 days? I love tool but Jesus this album is boring. All the best moments on the album are just call backs to other better songs. The riff in invincible? It’s Jambi all over again. Descending? It’s just the synth from the Grudge. This song? It’s sounds just like something off 10,000 days with Maynard singing likes it’s the opiate EP.
algo to say 10,000 days was awful and then turn and say this lackluster grouping of 6 songs is a masterpiece and their magnum opus is an insult to Tool
It’s incredible how Adam is capable to perform an extremely long solo without sounding annoying and with barely any shredding. His compositional skills are top notch, as is his sense of climax. His final arpeggios with ring mod never fails to give me bumps. One of the best conclusions I’ve ever come across of a solo!
Almost every song is played in some kind of Dm mode, almost lol, but the amount of creativity to take that sound and dominate it, is a beauty to behold.
What Adam has been able to do with the Dm Pentatonic scale( with the occasional Em, Prison sex, Parabola)has been simply astonishing considering its been over 25 years, Page Hamilton(Helmet) called this Tuning and scale "Musical Economy"
I'd be happy if they retired actually. Fear Inoculum was their worst album and chances are they have peaked and I wouldn't want them to beat a dead horse. They had a hell of a run though.
@@mikeydfas9 because the new album was quantity over quality, there's so much needless meandering. Obviously Tool are renowned for making long songs but seriously making every song over 10 mins doesn't qualify them as good. I found myself skipping the interludes after the first listen also.
@@Erickhetfield it will be. Danny said they have over an albums worth of material left over from Fear Inoculum that they will consider making into another album once they're done touring off this one for the next 2-3 years. So basically they're content with using Fear Inoculum left overs to make another TOOL record and if so, then I reckon that spells the sharp decline of this band unfortunately.
@@MaxNiessl worth it though, very good cover, and tabs seem pretty close to dead-on. And now I know why those middle/later sections felt slightly wonky, I was thinking that surely the song was in 7 (since its called "7empest"), but its actually alternating 4/4 and 13/8! I don't know how DC keeps track of their time signature shenanigans, guy is a machine! (and Rosetta makes even this track look straightforward, as far as rhythm and meter go)
I was an 18 year old kid and walked into the record store (1969) and they were playing Black Sabbath. Damn, those guitar riffs!! It was the greatest thing ever. Not until Tool came along did I feel that again. This riff is gut churning, just amazing stuff. Thank you Tool!!!!!!!!!! You play it pretty dang well too. Thanks
Thanks bro! I think so, the sequence should be correct note-wise, but the ring modulator and harmonic execution need some work. That part is so weird, I love it :D
@@MaleitasFrancisco Ring modulators multiply two signals together and create new frequencies with them. Thankfully, I'm not a physician, so I don't know the specifics. Long story short, it creates sci-fi noises. I just used the stock ring modulator in my Kemper and messed around with it until I got the sound that I wanted :)
Just watched this for about the hundredth time. I can't get over how perfectly you nail every note... every riff. I can barely remember what I said or did yesterday. It is so much more fun watching Max play this than just hearing the record version. Max, your achievement passes both criteria: It is both EPIC and DOPE. I feel like the bad guy in the movie Amadeus. I own a Silverburst Les Paul, and I would trade it in a second for even half your talents! You are, indeed, the Man.
Great job! One of my favorite things about Adam Jones is how in a 15 min song he will play with no overdubs and then kick in a second guitar 80% of the way through. Pushit is a good example.
*play along* all you have to do is literally transcend space and time to superposition yourself on a plane of probability where you can play two different tabs at the same time, as seen in 11:33. Great video, keep up the great work!
Freaking incredible! I've been playing for years and the first 10 times I saw you play this I didn't think I could ever do it. Thanks to you I'm almost there!
My son is a TOOL fan (as am I) I had him listen to the King Crimson album Discipline. His reaction was "holy shit! Obviously a huge influence on Adam and Danny!"
The coolest part is new king crimson is more influenced by Tool than Tool ever was by KC. Imagine the band that got you to start writing music decides to start playing more like you instead. Also the show they both played together in 01 on the Lateralus tour was legendary. It’s still on RUclips, I recommend giving it a listen if you haven’t! 🌀
I remember an old Danny Carey interview, like sometime in the 90s, and he was talking about his influences and he put on the song "Discipline" specifically, and talk about Bruford. I will go to my death bed, regretting not be able to catch any of the shows Tool and KC played together, what an experience that would have been!
(also, bonus Fear Inoculum/King Crimson comparison: the instrumental chorus of Pneuma reminds me quite a bit of the main lick in One More Red Nightmare, where the guitar/bass hold the final note of the riff, over increasingly complex drum fills by Danny/Bill... it may be coincidence, and its certainly less obvious than the Frame By Frame/7empest comparison, but to me it was pretty striking)
Every note in this song looks so damn hard just by looking. Imagine how hard it might be for this guy to nail this song so perfect. And Don't dare imagine how some guy that was born in this planet like everyone else created those !!!
Fantastic job with every aspect of this incredible song! Anyone notice that on an album with a song called Descending (the middle song) that the times for all songs are ascending (CVoices + CCTrip = 14). There is a metaphor there that as Tool members are ascending in age they are not descending in ability or creativity, although Invincible hints at the struggle to stay relevant and on your game as life pulls you to new battlefields. And then they end with this gem of an excursion, the 7th song, with Adam Jones conjuring up his most melodic mesmerizing masterpiece to date. He chugs, he wails, he moans, he grunts through his silver Les Paul. And, it is amazing how for 15 minutes one guitarist can stay pretty much in a single key with little to no chord changes -- nearly everything stays within in D.
My biggest dream is to own and learn how to play an electric guitar, and this video encouraged me even further into fighting for this dream to be fullfilled! I love TOOL and this song is fantastic, but watching it being played is better than just listening. I might come back to this video in a near future to try and learn all this. Awesome video, good job! That MASTODON shirt absolutely ROCKS too
"Break G" raises the hairs on the back of my neck like nothing else. And I love what Danny is doing with the kick drums in the background, here. I wish I understood enough music theory to understand what they're doing on this song.
Goddamn. I am so inspired right now. I am a guitarist and this is one of those moments where you know you could play this song, but you realize that it is going to take some serious work. I am committing to learning this song after seeing this. Awesome my dude.
Bud ive played guitar for 30 yrs & i am a die hard tool fan got em tattood on my arm. You my man are amazing!.... I cannot comprehend how you play as well as you do. You are definetly On another level my friend.
When you stare at one thing for 11 minutes and then suddenly it changes. Had to get my bearings lol. Fantastic work. I need to put the time in for this one; it's just too good not to know.
A year on, and I still can't play this for shit and homeboy here knocked this shit out from scratch in about a month from release. Its times like this when, even though your friends say you're good at guitar, you know you aint shit. Just happy people like MAx exist for the rest of us plebs.
Don’t be so hard on yourself, bud! Maybe try somewhere else. Sometimes it’s just important to try. I started learning so many songs only to realise that I will not be able to play the solo mid-through, or some section that’s especially hard. For me, it’s just about _trying_ to learn the stuff that I love and not necessarily mastering it to perfection. You’ll learn much more from that. Have a good one! :)
@@MaxNiessl I appreciate the kind words. I've been able to play several other songs you've put up, its just this one in particular. ITs just a matter of practice for sure. I enjoy playing the parts that I can and have accepted my abilities as a hobbyist. But I see folks like you and can see how little i really know is all. Nothing wrong with it, I know if I dedicated more time I could learn it all, but like you said, its more about enjoying the process and when I try to sit and force myself to learn it, it's no longer fun and thats a problem. Its supposed to be fun. When it stops being fun, I stop trying to force it. I appreciate you and LeoBassCovers for your guys' work on this album. Maybe one day I'll have both Guitar and Bass recorded for fun.
@@JensenDKMG85 Well that’s pretty cool! Glad you get something out of my other videos. Continue to have fun on your instruments, that’s what it’s all about :)
GOOD LORD, MAN! I just finished learning Pneuma (all thanks to you) and I thought that song was hard! This one is near impossible for me.. it took me a week to learn Pneuma, it’s gonna take me a month to learn this one. My wife is going to kill me. THANKS A LOT! 🤣
Haha thank you so much! Great to see you're making progress, brother! 7empest is rhythmically one of the hardest songs I've ever transcribed and learned. Have fun learning it :)
Yes, I did a search for 7empest tabs and this video was one of the links that popped up. I resisted clicking on it, because it wasn't exactly what I wanted. Man am I glad I finally caved in and clicked on this. Max, you are fuckin AMAZING!
I don't normally comment on RUclips videos but when I do it's to say that what I just witnessed was extraordinary! Amazing talent that can't be overstated, It's one thing to cover a song with an interpretation, but to cover Adam Jones playing so flawlessly, to be so sublime, is nothing short of..."damn!" Well played Max! Well Played.
Love your videos and tabs. I'm super excited about how you interpret studio Descending, as the section starting around 7:47 speaks to me on an emotional level. Frisson every time I hear it.
The 30 seconds in this song from 8:30 - 9:00 has been my ring tone since this album came out. Everyone thinks im dead because i cant answer my phone when anyone calls because it hypnotises me,it changes me on a molecular level
Not only that the playing was so on point, but also he profile in the Kemper is nailed. Damn the pinch harmonics on 11:15 are amazing dude, so on point. Amazing job.
i think im like 50 % of the views that this video haz, ive watched it and practiced it so that i can play it with my band. (Im on a tool tribute). And after almost 3 months of practice i finally have it memorized. Thanks for making me improve my guitar skills. Luv
Just want you to know this is still super helpful, accurate, and intuitive. I've been practicing with it for weeks now and it has been a massive help. Seriously dude, thank you for this. What a resource!
Thanks for this awesome playthrough and TAB. I just recorded myself playing the first part of the solo around 5:40 and submitted it to my high school’s virtual talent show, so here’s to Tool’s writing! Hopefully I did it complete justice haha
Don’t see any flaw listening to how you played. Absolute insane song and thanks your deliverance. Definitely you deserve more support on RUclips (subscriptions). Keep it up man, looking for more songs from the album.
You're awesome. Thanks for all the assistance again. There's a lot of stuff Adam does that I can't figure out on my own. You've definitely been the best at helping me figure it out. With some occasional help from your followers. Again. Thank you. And you're awesome!
Hi @MaxNiessl All of your Tool guitar covers helped me out so much in learning Tool songs. The way you play the songs, especially showing the tabs at the bottom along with your flawless playing makes it easy for me to learn from. Without your videos, I would not be able to learn Tool songs so easily. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I know how hard it is to learn and play these songs and keep recording until you get that perfect take. You helped me out so much. Please keep doing more Tool covers! Just yesterday I was able to upload the 7empest guitar cover in my RUclips channel and it would not be possible if it wasn't for you. So Thank you!
That's just insane....Thanks for helping me learn this, I learned so many songs by ear that I know theres stuff wrong but this...this just helps beyond words thanks!!!
Adam is not a shredder, I'm sure he could messing around by himself (maybe). But he damn sure is a percussive player. One of the best, and best riff writers. He has a far above average knowledge of putting together parts you would never think would work, but they do and with fantastic outcomes. Young guys this go to show you that you don't have to play 50 notes per second to be a damn good guitar player. I spent years learnings scales, sweep picking, legato runs. But I would trade it all to be able to put together songs like Adam does. And Justin and Danny. 🤘🤘
MaxNiessl holy crap man. Thanks for this. Couldn't wrap my head around the musical complexity of this song. Thank you for breaking it down for us lazy people.
Wow Max. Wow. I am looking forward to seeing you play live soon, in whatever band you form, or are currently a member. In the present, or in the future. You are an accomplished guitarist, to be able to play this flawlessly. Amazing. Keep the sessions up, and I hope you are making a living doing this, because you are very professional. And, the Mastodon T is so appropriate as well. If you can play some Brent Hinds, you can pretty much play anything. Very impressive, from a 25 year guitarist/singer songwriter. Just awesome man. I listened to this on good headphones, and I will listen again just for the guitar track enhancement. Once again, outstanding! A 7empest must be just that.
Thank you so much, dude! Glad you enjoy my content, I try to get the best quality I can out there! I unfortunately don't make a living out of this nor am I in a band currently. Working full time and doing this on the side :)
I hope you can get a project going, it will happen. Life can get in the way, especially full time jobs. I’ve been the poster child of that, seeing that I’ve worked full time since the age of 17 haha. Seeing this is inspiring for all of us guitarist types, for sure. Adam Jones is proud, no doubt.
This is all ridiculously accurate, incredible work in such a short space of time! I’m actually starting a Tool Tribute as well and I’ve been looking for references for the new material, you’ve just helped me loads so thank you 🖤
Max you are awesome! You helped me with many of the difficult phrases on the many of the tracks that was just used to playing wrong till now. Really appreciate the huge effort of putting this together. This cover is the bees knees. Keep spiralling out and fibonnaccing brother!
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Synced guitar tab (gp, gp5 and pdf) is in the description. Feel free to give feedback and submit corrections, I will note them down in the description :) Sorry for messing up the timing from bar 242 to 249... Recording a 16 minute long song is _very_ exhausting, so that's as perfect as it gets :D
Nah bro, sorry, you gotta do it again. This is RUclips. 100% perfection or we'll complain and call you names.
Just got my tickets for their Boston show. Been trying since 97 to see these guys.
@@CameronWinters Shame on you Shame on you now
@@miniontm69 I envy you, I never saw them live :(
@@MaxNiessl sold out in 10 minutes. crazy
I completely disagree with all the haters of Fear Inoculum. I have been a tool fan since the beginning of my music listening days and Fear Inoculum to me is their most technical, most mature and most progressive album to date. I don't agree that there is a lot of wasted space and meandering, it is meant to be exactly how it is. The music is so advanced that there are many people - mainly the ones who are addicted to the instant gratification headbanger heavy riffs all the time - who don't quite understand what Tool has communicated on this album. To me, every album is different and I truly believe that 7empest has become THE quintessential Tool song. It is THE culmination of their entire career and sound on one song.
They definitely have more records left in the tank and I couldn't be more excited.
BY THE WAY, MAX great job, this takes a lot of hard work and patience and I applaud you. Well played!
Thank you very much, Anton! I agree with you, though I can't become as emotionally attached to Fear Inoculum as with Lateralus or Ænima. It's an amazing record, though, and it's obvious lots of creativity has flown into the record :)
Tool fan since the beginning...I feel every album they made was better than the one before. Fear Inoculum is by far thier best....
Adam Jones said: “it’s not good when it’s done, it’s done when it’s good.” This album is thirteen years good.😛
End to end this is their best album. Shows major musical maturity. This album only gets better with each listen. I struggled at first with it but after multiple listens this is their best sonic experience for sure.
Very well said Anton! I agree 💯💯🤘🏻🤘🏻
This is the first song I learned on guitar. Once I get a little better at it I'm gonna move on to Smells Like Teen Spirit. Wish me luck!
Dang, pretty impressive. This songs a bit advanced for your first song
Shouldn’t it be the other way around?
good luck on teen spirit. i tried the first chord and broke my hand in 3 places.
@@ConnorCu i think he's joking
I would start from pneuma )
The final boss of Tool discography
Nah, I think Wings 1 & 2 or The Holy Trinity is the final boss
I remember when aenima came out. There wouldn’t be accurate tabs for years. Even over a decade really. Really impressive there buddy.
Thanks! Haha I still don't know if I'm playing Ænema right :D
@@MaxNiessl You captured the feel, and all those nuanced open string phrasings at the end of the song. Not many people can do that
@@nonipaulette4520 Thank you so much! Glad to hear you enjoyed it! :)
it was such a different ball-game back then; not everyone had internet, dialup was slow, there was no youtube, and what tabs existed were often way, way off. I'm pretty jealous of people learning the guitar now, they just have so many more resources at their disposal than we did a couple decades ago.
@@enaidealukal9203 Also I remember posting lyrics was a copyright infringement, so even lyrics was very hard to find (with no Google)
Anybody who says Adam Jones is not one of the best is insane
Couldn't agree more 🤘
Listening to this song with the eye of the musician makes you appreciate 1000 times more their work. Incredible song
It's an amazing song!
WHO ARE YOU TO WAVE YOU FINGERS LIKE THIS?
YOU MUSTA BEEN OUTTA YOUR HEAD!
Dont you dare point that at me
The Dead ain’t touring.
I must have been high... Wait, wut...
Well at least *these* pieces fit
This album is easily the peak of Adam Jones, and of Tool imo. Never seen another band peak nearly 30 years after their debut.
Adam Jones really stepped up though, it's amazing. Wish he was always his good, the guitar tone on this album in particular is just so delicious and textured.
It's like he prepared for this song for his whole life. Adam Jones magnum opus.
I really don’t think this is the peak of Tool. Tool peaked with 10,000 days I feel.
@@MrSnuffian 10000 days was awful. I thought the band was done after that album, then they made this masterpiece.
algo hahahahah you think this slow, repetitive album that only has two good songs is better than 10,000 days? I love tool but Jesus this album is boring. All the best moments on the album are just call backs to other better songs. The riff in invincible? It’s Jambi all over again. Descending? It’s just the synth from the Grudge. This song? It’s sounds just like something off 10,000 days with Maynard singing likes it’s the opiate EP.
algo to say 10,000 days was awful and then turn and say this lackluster grouping of 6 songs is a masterpiece and their magnum opus is an insult to Tool
5:30-5:40 I feel like I could play this section
BassmentProductions hey me too
7:46
I feel like I can really play 3:12-3:24
I pretty much specialise in those parts of songs
It’s pretty hard but you probably can
It’s incredible how Adam is capable to perform an extremely long solo without sounding annoying and with barely any shredding. His compositional skills are top notch, as is his sense of climax. His final arpeggios with ring mod never fails to give me bumps. One of the best conclusions I’ve ever come across of a solo!
This.
The man just has good taste.
He’s the GOAT of tone manipulation
I'm a drummer and that part at 7:46 gives me chills every single time I hear it, without fail.
I'm a drummer too, and I have recurrent daydreaming episodes where I headbang to this part. What a masterpiece
not a drummer here, but the beginning of Jambi gives me chills! such a percussive sound for a guitar
Those triplets trip me up every time 🔥🤌🏻
Almost every song is played in some kind of Dm mode, almost lol, but the amount of creativity to take that sound and dominate it, is a beauty to behold.
What Adam has been able to do with the Dm Pentatonic scale( with the occasional Em, Prison sex, Parabola)has been simply astonishing considering its been over 25 years, Page Hamilton(Helmet) called this Tuning and scale "Musical Economy"
Yes, it's truly fascinating. Love your username :D
@@MaxNiessl funny you're the first Tool fan that has even been able to figure out the referrence
@UCHTngimevTkNxgVkpDrxy0A what was your username lmao
Watching someone play the whole song, especially the solo makes it even more beautiful.
Totally agree with that, I like this song even more now after getting a further look into the details.
Who else believes in these dudes to knock out one more record?
I'd be happy if they retired actually. Fear Inoculum was their worst album and chances are they have peaked and I wouldn't want them to beat a dead horse. They had a hell of a run though.
Billy The Flid why worst I think it was pretty good
@@mikeydfas9 because the new album was quantity over quality, there's so much needless meandering. Obviously Tool are renowned for making long songs but seriously making every song over 10 mins doesn't qualify them as good. I found myself skipping the interludes after the first listen also.
If it's going to be like this one, I pass.
@@Erickhetfield it will be. Danny said they have over an albums worth of material left over from Fear Inoculum that they will consider making into another album once they're done touring off this one for the next 2-3 years.
So basically they're content with using Fear Inoculum left overs to make another TOOL record and if so, then I reckon that spells the sharp decline of this band unfortunately.
For those of you that want to skip right to the good part of the song: 0:00 to 15:48
Clearly you put a lot of hard work into this - the tab alone must have taken days to notate/sync.
Outstanding vid. Thank you!
Yes, it was actually pretty time consuming. Thank you so much! :)
@@MaxNiessl worth it though, very good cover, and tabs seem pretty close to dead-on. And now I know why those middle/later sections felt slightly wonky, I was thinking that surely the song was in 7 (since its called "7empest"), but its actually alternating 4/4 and 13/8! I don't know how DC keeps track of their time signature shenanigans, guy is a machine! (and Rosetta makes even this track look straightforward, as far as rhythm and meter go)
Man this guy is amazing 🔥🔥
Holy crap how did you figure all that out, let alone the talent it takes to actually play it flawlessly. Amazing!
Yuibot he’s been on vacation since August 30th
I was an 18 year old kid and walked into the record store (1969) and they were playing Black Sabbath. Damn, those guitar riffs!! It was the greatest thing ever. Not until Tool came along did I feel that again. This riff is gut churning, just amazing stuff. Thank you Tool!!!!!!!!!! You play it pretty dang well too. Thanks
Thank you so much! :) I believe Tool have changed many of our lives \m/
That dirty solo is the best the Jonesman has ever done
Agreed
This guys incredible!!! Almost as good as my air guitar version.
Thanks man! Can't compete with your air guitar version, though :(
7:47
*Rudy Ayoub breathes heavily
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Holy shit kmac was right!
I clearly live under a rock. Can someone explain this reference?
@@Sabu150 035 is smoke on the water riff
Flawless dude, as usual! I think you're onto something with the harmonics at 11:26.
Thanks bro! I think so, the sequence should be correct note-wise, but the ring modulator and harmonic execution need some work. That part is so weird, I love it :D
@@MaxNiessl Can you explain briefly what is ring modulation and what you did there?
@@MaleitasFrancisco Ring modulators multiply two signals together and create new frequencies with them. Thankfully, I'm not a physician, so I don't know the specifics. Long story short, it creates sci-fi noises. I just used the stock ring modulator in my Kemper and messed around with it until I got the sound that I wanted :)
@@MaxNiessl Pretty cool stuff!Thanks
@@MaxNiessl I think it might be a pick scrape with some ring modulator stuff. I swear i can hear the friction between the pick and the strings...
Opening riff definitely inspired by King Crimsons song Frame by Frame
Of course, it is. Robert Fripp from King Crimson is Adam Jones's biggest influence. And Tool inspired King Crimson too :)
@@temporarymomentary seriously, that has to be the greatest compliment a guitarist can receive- that ROBERT FRIPP approves!
Enai De A Lukal Robert Fripp is like a god in progressive guitar world
@@temporarymomentary right, hence my comment
And the riff from forty six is also inspired by frame by frame
This song will be loved more in the future.
The nuance and discipline Adam plays with is remarkable.
Just watched this for about the hundredth time. I can't get over how perfectly you nail every note... every riff. I can barely remember what I said or did yesterday. It is so much more fun watching Max play this than just hearing the record version. Max, your achievement passes both criteria: It is both EPIC and DOPE.
I feel like the bad guy in the movie Amadeus. I own a Silverburst Les Paul, and I would trade it in a second for even half your talents! You are, indeed, the Man.
Thank you so much, dude! Very glad you enjoy my content so much. Hopefully I'll get around to tab out Culling Voices this evening :)
Dominae Superium for interest’s sake his name’s Salieri
And if I'm the man, then you're the man and he's the man as well.
Max's precision is on point!
7:47 Holy shit! Easily Adam heaviest Riff to date ...so good. Dude seriously guitar work! Badass \m/
The grudge still takes the cake imo but damn he sure knows how to pull off a low heavy note, like in 9:13
Great job! One of my favorite things about Adam Jones is how in a 15 min song he will play with no overdubs and then kick in a second guitar 80% of the way through. Pushit is a good example.
4:25 the most beautiful/sexiest riff ever created
Ethereal
*play along* all you have to do is literally transcend space and time to superposition yourself on a plane of probability where you can play two different tabs at the same time, as seen in 11:33.
Great video, keep up the great work!
Exactly! :D
Thank you :)
Thank you Adam Jones and Danny/Justin. Jesus Christ 8:37 - 9:07 is one of the best composed music parts i have ever heard
ya this is wher \e Im struggling to learn that part
Freaking incredible! I've been playing for years and the first 10 times I saw you play this I didn't think I could ever do it. Thanks to you I'm almost there!
That's awesome, Mike! Glad to help, you can do it 🤘
This is even more proof that this is probably one of the greatest guitar solos of the 21st century so far!
My son is a TOOL fan (as am I)
I had him listen to the King Crimson album Discipline. His reaction was "holy shit! Obviously a huge influence on Adam and Danny!"
Most definitely, great album! :)
The coolest part is new king crimson is more influenced by Tool than Tool ever was by KC. Imagine the band that got you to start writing music decides to start playing more like you instead. Also the show they both played together in 01 on the Lateralus tour was legendary. It’s still on RUclips, I recommend giving it a listen if you haven’t! 🌀
I will check this ablum out now thank you!
I remember an old Danny Carey interview, like sometime in the 90s, and he was talking about his influences and he put on the song "Discipline" specifically, and talk about Bruford. I will go to my death bed, regretting not be able to catch any of the shows Tool and KC played together, what an experience that would have been!
(also, bonus Fear Inoculum/King Crimson comparison: the instrumental chorus of Pneuma reminds me quite a bit of the main lick in One More Red Nightmare, where the guitar/bass hold the final note of the riff, over increasingly complex drum fills by Danny/Bill... it may be coincidence, and its certainly less obvious than the Frame By Frame/7empest comparison, but to me it was pretty striking)
Every note in this song looks so damn hard just by looking. Imagine how hard it might be for this guy to nail this song so perfect. And Don't dare imagine how some guy that was born in this planet like everyone else created those !!!
Repetition, my friend. But you are correct. We're lucky to have this fleshed out in such detail. What a treat from Max.
Fantastic job with every aspect of this incredible song!
Anyone notice that on an album with a song called Descending (the middle song) that the times for all songs are ascending (CVoices + CCTrip = 14). There is a metaphor there that as Tool members are ascending in age they are not descending in ability or creativity, although Invincible hints at the struggle to stay relevant and on your game as life pulls you to new battlefields.
And then they end with this gem of an excursion, the 7th song, with Adam Jones conjuring up his most melodic mesmerizing masterpiece to date. He chugs, he wails, he moans, he grunts through his silver Les Paul. And, it is amazing how for 15 minutes one guitarist can stay pretty much in a single key with little to no chord changes -- nearly everything stays within in D.
I know I commented before but I've watched this video like 10 times and I'm blown away each time.
Awww thanks, man! 🤘
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That was AMAZING! Great song. I'm still losing my shit over this album. Great video. You are talented man.
Thank you! :)
My biggest dream is to own and learn how to play an electric guitar, and this video encouraged me even further into fighting for this dream to be fullfilled! I love TOOL and this song is fantastic, but watching it being played is better than just listening. I might come back to this video in a near future to try and learn all this. Awesome video, good job! That MASTODON shirt absolutely ROCKS too
Thank you so much, dude! Really glad you're enjoying my content! I wish you a lot of fun on your guitar journey :)
TOOL is the reason I love all music sooo much and also the reason I picked up a guitar 20 years ago. True art inspires.
"Break G" raises the hairs on the back of my neck like nothing else. And I love what Danny is doing with the kick drums in the background, here. I wish I understood enough music theory to understand what they're doing on this song.
Goddamn. I am so inspired right now. I am a guitarist and this is one of those moments where you know you could play this song, but you realize that it is going to take some serious work. I am committing to learning this song after seeing this. Awesome my dude.
Thank you so much! Have fun learning the song, dude! 🤘
These are some of the best tabs I've ever seen. There's so much information yet it's still looks straight forward. Excellent work!
Thank you! Glad those tabs help you learn the song 🤘
MIND = BLOWN. Dude you are a SICK guitarist !
Now play this song twice a day, and you've covered the daily recommended cardio.
best cover of this song on the internet by a long shot.... im sure someone will correct me but this is 100% spot on!
Thank you, much appreciated! :)
Bud ive played guitar for 30 yrs & i am a die hard tool fan got em tattood on my arm. You my man are amazing!.... I cannot comprehend how you play as well as you do. You are definetly On another level my friend.
Dude that bit in the solo with the delay....nice
Beautiful. I was expecting it to be technically correct, but you captured so much of the 'soul' which makes Adam's playing what it is.
Thank you! I'm really trying to make my covers authentic :)
When I learned this song I basicly split it up into 3 sections. It makes it easier to learn and remember.
I play it as if it was 3 songs
When you stare at one thing for 11 minutes and then suddenly it changes. Had to get my bearings lol.
Fantastic work. I need to put the time in for this one; it's just too good not to know.
7:47 is some of the sickest riffage I’ve ever heard in my goddamn life
Yo!
Yeah, but at 10:50 7:47 takes steroids.
@@adammeyer8204 thats the best thing about adam jones haha. take his riffage and adds more riffage hahaha
Have you heard of the song four housemen by Metallica there's a riff in the song that's kinda like that part it's fucken awesome
A year on, and I still can't play this for shit and homeboy here knocked this shit out from scratch in about a month from release. Its times like this when, even though your friends say you're good at guitar, you know you aint shit. Just happy people like MAx exist for the rest of us plebs.
Don’t be so hard on yourself, bud! Maybe try somewhere else. Sometimes it’s just important to try. I started learning so many songs only to realise that I will not be able to play the solo mid-through, or some section that’s especially hard. For me, it’s just about _trying_ to learn the stuff that I love and not necessarily mastering it to perfection. You’ll learn much more from that. Have a good one! :)
@@MaxNiessl I appreciate the kind words. I've been able to play several other songs you've put up, its just this one in particular. ITs just a matter of practice for sure. I enjoy playing the parts that I can and have accepted my abilities as a hobbyist. But I see folks like you and can see how little i really know is all. Nothing wrong with it, I know if I dedicated more time I could learn it all, but like you said, its more about enjoying the process and when I try to sit and force myself to learn it, it's no longer fun and thats a problem. Its supposed to be fun. When it stops being fun, I stop trying to force it. I appreciate you and LeoBassCovers for your guys' work on this album. Maybe one day I'll have both Guitar and Bass recorded for fun.
@@JensenDKMG85 Well that’s pretty cool! Glad you get something out of my other videos. Continue to have fun on your instruments, that’s what it’s all about :)
GOOD LORD, MAN! I just finished learning Pneuma (all thanks to you) and I thought that song was hard! This one is near impossible for me.. it took me a week to learn Pneuma, it’s gonna take me a month to learn this one.
My wife is going to kill me. THANKS A LOT! 🤣
Haha thank you so much! Great to see you're making progress, brother! 7empest is rhythmically one of the hardest songs I've ever transcribed and learned. Have fun learning it :)
Yes, I did a search for 7empest tabs and this video was one of the links that popped up. I resisted clicking on it, because it wasn't exactly what I wanted. Man am I glad I finally caved in and clicked on this. Max, you are fuckin AMAZING!
@@68dsuding Thank you so much! Most of my tabs are also on Ultimate Guitar :)
Holy sh!t dude. That was awesome! The playing, the transcription, a/v timing, the playing.... Very well done. I'll be watching it for years to come.
Haha thank you! :)
I don't normally comment on RUclips videos but when I do it's to say that what I just witnessed was extraordinary! Amazing talent that can't be overstated, It's one thing to cover a song with an interpretation, but to cover Adam Jones playing so flawlessly, to be so sublime, is nothing short of..."damn!" Well played Max! Well Played.
Thank you very much, Angus! Glad you enjoyed :)
Man that intro was so well played! I struggle so hard wrapping my brain around that part i'm kinda jealous at this point
Thank you! You can do it :)
Outstanding! Can't wait for Culling Voices. And when you get to them, studio versions of Invincible and Descending would be sweet.
Thanks! That's the plan since so many have already asked for the studio versions :)
Love your videos and tabs. I'm super excited about how you interpret studio Descending, as the section starting around 7:47 speaks to me on an emotional level. Frisson every time I hear it.
@@F3Ibane Thank you! Yes, goosebumps when he rolls those spider fingers :D
yeah cant wait for culling voices
I love that 12-8 dissonance near the beginning of the solo
"Play Along Tabs" hahaha this mans got jokes :D
You can do it 🤘
The 30 seconds in this song from 8:30 - 9:00 has been my ring tone since this album came out.
Everyone thinks im dead because i cant answer my phone when anyone calls because it hypnotises me,it changes me on a molecular level
This guitar cover is sick as hell. You nailed it. The playing, the tones and feeling. Great job.
A Tool cover with a Mastodon shirt has to be epic. Nice job, man!
Not only that the playing was so on point, but also he profile in the Kemper is nailed. Damn the pinch harmonics on 11:15 are amazing dude, so on point. Amazing job.
Thanks man, I appreciate it :)
adam jones has 12 fingers, this guy has the same number
i think im like 50 % of the views that this video haz, ive watched it and practiced it so that i can play it with my band. (Im on a tool tribute). And after almost 3 months of practice i finally have it memorized. Thanks for making me improve my guitar skills. Luv
My God, it's perfect. I will watch this many times in the days to come
Thank you so much! :)
I think every Tool song ever written has open D chugging in a weird time signature and its still not fucking boring
Dude, that was flawless, and all in 1 take!!!! If Adam ever gets sick or breaks an arm while on tour, YOU KNOW WHO THEY'RE GONNA CALL RIGHT?
Haha thanks! :)
Ghostbusters, obviously!
Hello, Max? Hey, what are you doing for the next year or so? We could really use you, now that Adam is incapacitated...
@@68dsuding Haha, I have to be in self quarantine as well here :(
Just want you to know this is still super helpful, accurate, and intuitive. I've been practicing with it for weeks now and it has been a massive help. Seriously dude, thank you for this. What a resource!
That’s awesome! 😎🤘🏼
Wow. That is an amazingly crafted song played on an amazingly crafted instrument that is being amazingly played. Full kudos to you mate.
Thank you so much, dude! :)
I like the fact that you nailed it on an Epiphone.We often spend so much time thinking on the right axe wood, etc... congrats
you literally put on the cheat codes dude so beautiful
Haha thanks :)
That dirty solo is so fucking intense!!!! Adam threw everything in this song, his compilation of monster riffs, amazing guitar player.
The solo in this is spectacular. Nice job
Yes, I love it! Thank you :)
Thanks for this awesome playthrough and TAB. I just recorded myself playing the first part of the solo around 5:40 and submitted it to my high school’s virtual talent show, so here’s to Tool’s writing! Hopefully I did it complete justice haha
Awesome! And thank you 🤘
Don’t see any flaw listening to how you played. Absolute insane song and thanks your deliverance. Definitely you deserve more support on RUclips (subscriptions). Keep it up man, looking for more songs from the album.
Thank you so much! Glad you enjoy my stuff :)
You're awesome. Thanks for all the assistance again. There's a lot of stuff Adam does that I can't figure out on my own. You've definitely been the best at helping me figure it out. With some occasional help from your followers. Again. Thank you. And you're awesome!
Wow thanks again. The detailed transcriptions of the tabs really help!
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed :)
Hi @MaxNiessl All of your Tool guitar covers helped me out so much in learning Tool songs. The way you play the songs, especially showing the tabs at the bottom along with your flawless playing makes it easy for me to learn from. Without your videos, I would not be able to learn Tool songs so easily. THANK YOU SO MUCH! I know how hard it is to learn and play these songs and keep recording until you get that perfect take. You helped me out so much. Please keep doing more Tool covers! Just yesterday I was able to upload the 7empest guitar cover in my RUclips channel and it would not be possible if it wasn't for you. So Thank you!
Awesome, Maya! 😊🤘🏼
Nicely done. Best cover so far on RUclips.
That's just insane....Thanks for helping me learn this, I learned so many songs by ear that I know theres stuff wrong but this...this just helps beyond words thanks!!!
Thank you! Glad this helps you, Matthew 🤘
Adam is not a shredder, I'm sure he could messing around by himself (maybe). But he damn sure is a percussive player. One of the best, and best riff writers. He has a far above average knowledge of putting together parts you would never think would work, but they do and with fantastic outcomes. Young guys this go to show you that you don't have to play 50 notes per second to be a damn good guitar player. I spent years learnings scales, sweep picking, legato runs. But I would trade it all to be able to put together songs like Adam does. And Justin and Danny. 🤘🤘
He also has written some awesome solos too, he's definitely one of my favorites
yep, he is perfect for tool. Petrucci is perfect for dt, hetfield perfect for metallica and so on :)
It's as if AJ knows how to play drums, him and DC are like one and honestly, it's all four of them that make the band so awesome and one of a kind.
with visualisation of this tabs we can realise how INSANE is this song...
Super clean and accurate performance, well done!
Thank you :)
MaxNiessl holy crap man. Thanks for this. Couldn't wrap my head around the musical complexity of this song. Thank you for breaking it down for us lazy people.
Thank you! You're welcome \m/
Excellent video, performance and tablature!
Great performance again. You are a an awesome talent! PS: I found the Hagen profile and indeed: it's spot on!
Thank you! Yes, it needs some tweaking, but it's very good for a community profile :)
I will probably never know how you are so close to the original version. Amazing!
Thank you! :)
Nicely done and beautiful guitar btw.
Wow Max. Wow.
I am looking forward to seeing you play live soon, in whatever band you form, or are currently a member. In the present, or in the future. You are an accomplished guitarist, to be able to play this flawlessly. Amazing. Keep the sessions up, and I hope you are making a living doing this, because you are very professional.
And, the Mastodon T is so appropriate as well. If you can play some Brent Hinds, you can pretty much play anything. Very impressive, from a 25 year guitarist/singer songwriter.
Just awesome man.
I listened to this on good headphones, and I will listen again just for the guitar track enhancement. Once again, outstanding!
A 7empest must be just that.
Thank you so much, dude! Glad you enjoy my content, I try to get the best quality I can out there! I unfortunately don't make a living out of this nor am I in a band currently. Working full time and doing this on the side :)
I hope you can get a project going, it will happen. Life can get in the way, especially full time jobs. I’ve been the poster child of that, seeing that I’ve worked full time since the age of 17 haha.
Seeing this is inspiring for all of us guitarist types, for sure. Adam Jones is proud, no doubt.
Bar 420 on in the crescendo of the last solo is fucking insane. Those whole step plus bends though. Nice one man.
This is incredible! I can't thank you enough. Please know that you made a difference to somebody.
That's so great, Andrew! Thank you and I'm glad I could help you :)
I just stood up and gave this a round of applause. Literally perfect man.
Aww thanks Andrew 🙏🏼
This is all ridiculously accurate, incredible work in such a short space of time! I’m actually starting a Tool Tribute as well and I’ve been looking for references for the new material, you’ve just helped me loads so thank you 🖤
Thank you! That's great man, glad I'm of help :)
Adam would be proud young man .....very well done im impressed .
Bravo. I don't envy you transcribing this, seriously impressive man, you deserve all the subs.
Thank you! Haha yes, at least syncing the tempo has been a lot of work :)
Max you are awesome! You helped me with many of the difficult phrases on the many of the tracks that was just used to playing wrong till now. Really appreciate the huge effort of putting this together. This cover is the bees knees. Keep spiralling out and fibonnaccing brother!
Thank you very much, bud! Glad to be of help. Keep on spiraling brother 🤘
THIS is insane..brilliant. brilliant.
Thank you! :)
That was awesome! From the video/sound quality, the tabs and the amazing playing. I enjoyed very much!!! Thank you for sharing
Thanks man, glad you enjoyed :)