The Brilliance of Chuck Schuldiner (Death Riffs with NO DISTORTION)
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- Опубликовано: 28 сен 2024
- Hey there!
The reason I recorded this video is simply to show the brilliance of Chuck’s Guitar lines, how beautiful and melodic these riffs are and why I’m so influenced by them. I’ve always loved playing these riffs without any distortion because of how beautiful they sound, so all I did was put them together and record them as they are. No distortion, no nothing, just raw beautifulness.
Hope you guys will enjoy this just as much as I enjoyed making it. It was really fun.
Thanks again for watching and I’ll see you soon.
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*LOOK UP FOR THE STAMPS:
1. WITHOUT JUDGMENT (0:00)
2. SPIRIT CRUSHER (1:17)
3. FLESH AND THE POWER IT HOLDS (2:20)
4. OVERACTIVE IMAGINATION (3:22)
5. CRYSTAL MOUNTAIN (3:56)
Wooow! I was not expecting that many views. Thank you all so much for the lovely coments. Chuck lives and thrives through his legacy.
- More stuff coming pretty soon!
You did amazing job u deserve all the views in the world.
Do the distortion video next it would sound banger
Thanks for that man that is realy amazing the FOCUS of the beatiful Melodies
Would love to hear perennial quest ending and crystal mountain ending
@@CanadianHarmageddon Perennial Quest ending... oh man, that one always tugs on the heart strings
Merci beaucoup ....need part 2!!!!!!pleaseeeeeeee
Dude the official death page shared this! Amazing playing.
I'm over thrilled by it dude! Thanks for watching! 🤘🔥
Chuck was a metalhead software running on a classical musican hardware
Shouldn't it be the other way around??
@@JonnyHorseman well... Maybe. Not a native English speaker, I don't actually know which one is which one
A brilliant comment 👌
@@magdachlebicka3895 Hardware is physical, like a hard drive or motherboard. Software is a program. Video games are software, Microsoft Office, stuff like that. Software runs on hardware so I guess it would be classical musician software running on metal hardware or something like that.
@@deaj8450 changed it, thanks
Chucks riffs are just weirdly magical, hard to describe, but they are.
Goosebumps. Amazing job Leo
Hi, frrrieeeeend lmL
Andriy you should should do some covers together with you on bass
Everywhere I look you are always there.... hello friend.
Thank you so much, buddy. Love your videos
Hi frrrrrriiieeeend i literally see you on every metal video on RUclips
To me, those melodies have some strong greek/mediterranean/arabic flavour to it
I was thinking the same!
Maybe cause Chuck used a lot the fifth mode of the Harmonic Minor scale, the Phrygian Dominant. Well Phrygian Dominant is widely used in traditional middle eastern and southeastern european music.
But the intent is not that, to make some middle eastern stuff no. But without distortion the middle easterness of this scale sometimes gets unlocked.
Chuck loved it cause it has this particular evil metal flavour if you know how to compose with it, and not play accidentally sacred hebrew chants ahahhahahaa.
^-- what he said, plus the fact that he's using chorus, which is often reminiscent of how the paired strings of my bouzouki sound.
@@rickc2102 that's a great observation
Yeah, you can really hear it without the distortion.
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"Your welcome, The Brilliance of Chuck Schuldiner (Death Riffs with NO DISTORTION) "
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These riffs seem so eery without distortion.
yeah
You can attribute that to a combination of the heavy use of minor scales and how we've been exposed to similar sounds in horror movies. It makes me really reminiscent of Tubular Bells from The Exorcist.
Lol that's writing in minor for you
Man, the algorithm is doing work. Glad to see a small channel get a lot of views for a top tier production.
I do shit tier production, would you like to check out?
This is a great example to show to that one friend who doesn't like metal music, that it is more technical, melodic, complex and emotional than they would think.
> Complex
> Mostly going up and down the harmonic minor or minor scale
@@purungo peoples idea of metal is 000000000000000000000000000 so I'd say that's better
@@purungo well, there's still the songwriting aspect, it's not what you use, which makes it complex, but how you use it, and even then, you're overexaggerating. Chuck did not just use the harmonic minor/minor scale. Don't know if you're just trying to be an arrogant hater, or overly dramatic about semantics.
@@orkunaydincilar4762 That's Kerry Kings favourite riff
@@purungo all music is literally just playing within the key of a scale. How do you know he didn’t mix modes of the scales?
I knew Chuck was a pretty good lead player, with his unique Phrygian-esque phrasing, but this video showed me that his mastery was also evident in his rhythm playing. Truly a terrible loss. Of all people, it happened to one of the best. Rest in peace, Chuck Schuldiner.
It really is a pity that Chuck didn't have enough time to develop some lighter pieces (which he actually wanted to do). I would love to hear more of Chuck's songs in the style of this video, even though I love the distortion too.
I think he would've released some stuff in the same vein as later Opeth. And that's awesome
I'd like to think that if Chuck was alive today, he would hear this and absolutely be motivated to put out a Death acoustic album. Would've been crazy to hear the man himself do this sort of take on his music.
considering the directions he was taking before dying, he would have probably done some less metal oriented projects by the 2010, like jazzy, prog rock stuff with less distorsion and screams and bigger emphasize on melodies, chord progressions and clean vocals.. just my opinion tho
I learned some of my first Death riffs on an acoustic guitar just because that’s all I had at the time and I remember how surprised I was that it sounded so good. Most other metal left me unsatisfied without being plugged into a Marshall stack but I enjoyed just sitting on the porch playing Death on acoustic.
I would hope you learned Voice of the Soul. The acoustic on that one is killer
@@nw8084 I was thinking the same thing
Wow. It almost sounds like classical medieval guitar playing. It’s such a fresh take without the distortion. Would love to see more of this.
This is exactly what caught me about this band. I don't really listen to death metal at all, except for Death
Check out bolt thrower
Death is the only group i can hear for the rest of my life without getting bored
Playing his riffs without distortion make it easier to see his brilliancy
Sounds like the Police on depression
YES. Those add9 chords!
death and black metal have undoubtedly beautiful riffs even in acoustic
Chuck was a genius and an incredibly talented musician, professional and a down right fantastic human being. He was taken away from us far too soon, it’s true what they say, the brightest starts burn out the quickest. These riffs sound just as great clean as they do with distortion, that’s a hallmark of great writing. There isn’t a single Death album that I don’t enjoy, they all have something different to offer and I like to think of each album as a journey that Chuck embarked on, progressing and growing as a musician and a human being. What made Death even better were the other fellow musicians that he surrounded himself with, especially the Human era. Hail to Chuck and rest in peace to a legend that got me into more extreme metal.
I'm a longtime Death fan. But when you play their songs on acoustic, you start to realize how ahead of his time Chuck actually was.
Something about this is super relaxing. I love how metal can be totally different just based on your guitar tone
This is not Death, it is Life
I would kill for all the albums played like this
Yes that is true. A gold mine made of melodies full of grace I am sniffing here.
Chuck and Quorthon are the gigachads of metal
Medieval tones to it... never even noticed >.
Ive tried writing riffs with a dry signal for years. The theory being, if it sounds great dry... those are incredible riffs with or without distortion...
It sounds like a good idea if you're really going for melodic. Celtic Frost wrote some monstrous riffs though, and no way would they sound good clean.
@@hmpz36911 I agree. Lol. But these "Death" riffs are simply beautiful riffs regardless...
I didnt to that everytime But often i play my guitar unplugged and mostly i play melodic stuff then cause it sound better. Sometimes i end up with using this for a chorus etc.
But these riffs aren't dry, there is a lot of reverb going on
@@nielsB_FPV True. I should have said, "clean" or "without distortion ", because I usually do have some delay and/or reverb on when I play with a clean sound.
Chuck's passing away was the biggest single loss to metal scene since Cliff Burton. I miss Chuck. He was a genius.
The single 2 biggest losses in the entire world of metal.
Sounds like they'd fit perfectly as the soundtrack for a dark fantasy setting
I genuinely write my fantasy to this man's renditions of death, they are perfect XD
and just put the video on loop for awhile lol
Chuck was truly a musical genius in his own right and an exceptionally intelligent thinker. You did an amazing job, thank you
So distortionless Death riffs basically sound like Control Denied intros.
Hell, Chuck’s gone way too early, he could have told us so much more :(
A lot of these riffs without out distortion sound middle eastern or Arabic. Very elegant and beautiful.
That’s the natural harmonic scale they use often. If you’ve heard stereotypical Egyptian music on tv, it’s that scale
@@kolomvotos you meant harmonic minor right? And the egyptian sound is more a phrygian dominant thing, granted it is a mode of harmonic minor.
Malo Lupo I just meant the raised 7th gives it that Egyptian sound mostly and not as a whole. And natural harmonic and harmonic are the same thing, but I see the confusion of me putting natural harmonic because of natural minor.
Being a pedantic it’s not really a raised 7th. Since everything is based on the major scale the harmonic minor scale is a minor scale with a major 7th.
Solid playing ! Kids, if your riff sucks unplugged no level of distortion can fix it
Definitely wouldn’t say all riffs have to sound good unplugged because gojiras riffs kick ass and I know for a fact they would sound weird without distortion
@@jrk10 they sound really good without distortion wdym
@@VicSellsPeace they really don’t because gojira isn’t a melody heavy band
@@jrk10 Clearly you've never played Gojira unplugged lmfao. One of my favorite things to do is play Gojira on acoustic. The grit of the steel adds texture and sounds amazing. Or Gojira on a classical guitar is great too. If you're not technically trained, yeah, everything "unplugged" sounds bad if you don't know your dynamic tone well
As much as I love early Death, I find myself going back to the later Death songs like these BECAUSE they are so melodic. His early stuff was great and pioneering for sure, but you can clearly see Chuck’s evolution as he progressed. I know there are TrV Kvlt assholes that say later Death is lame but I disagree completely.
Nah man I'm with you. A lot of prog bands and newer death metal tried to copy TSoP tone and feel. You can just tell that chuck really set the standard for basically the genre
Posers
OK I figured out how metal gets back onto the charts. We need to do to metal what "cool jazz" did to "hot jazz". Quiet storm metal would take off like a rocket. "Cold metal, nu-classical riffs to study and relax to." Mark my words.
it's basically surf metal
Look up First Fragment 🤘🏼
old black metal like burzum was kind of like this
Background metal to study and relax to
I never thought I'd hear death metal riffs so beautiful i could cry. Chuck not only had an incredible vocal style but also an unmistakable voice on guitar. There will never ne another like him 😢
Those riffs from 'Flesh and the Power it Holds' sound like the end of the world. Too awesome.
These riffs can be appreciated more without distortion. Magnificent.
This is great stuff! Honestly so many of these kinds of videos are for the sake of comedy, to see how goofy the music sounds without distortion. But you really did the intricacy and beauty justice. Way to go!
On sort of the flipside, I've always wanted to do serious metal covers of non-metal songs. It's amazing how some things sound in a different context.
flesh sounds so depressing and empty without the disortion. chuck clearly was a amazing man and guitarist. miles ahead of his time. chuck will forever live on in the memory of his music and its fans!
Buddy, you got me into Death with this video and really, I can't thank you enough.
You wont ever find another comparable band. Ive been looking for years and nothing stacks up
0:48 chills intensify..
It's so fucking good
Chuck was a genius composer, that's all-
Me pressing the headstock of my guitar against the wall because I didn't have enough money for an amp as a teenager.
I did that too! except the output jack on mine had come undone and I didn’t know how to fix it
@@GPaulTheThrashKing send back? Or tutorials? Nothing helped?
Oh the memories
@@Even_N.D. Lol, it was a fender "starcaster" from Sam's club. Not even a squier. Sending it back wasn't an option. Eventually I took it to a music store and the guy showed me how to fix it.
Sounds like what Robert Fripp and Adrian Belew would make on King Crimson's album. Chuck was something else
This is a video that needs a ❤️ button.
Those Flesh and the Power it Holds riffs are some of the best metal riffs ever made and are super underrated
I wouldn't doubt if he wrote most of them this way, sitting in a quiet apartment or hotel, late at night, etc... Sometime having the acoustic handy is best for learn riffs and hearing them a different way, finding notes or chords that will work on distortion and junk.
I always write my riffs on my acoustic first.
Death is my absolute favorite band of all time. Thank you so fucking much for this
Same! Whats ur fav album
Great taste guys
Lane_D_ Assassin leprosy
OrdinaryTuber 🤘🤘🤘
crystal mountain's lyricism is absolutely stunning beauty
Man I so miss Chuck. One of my biggest influences. You did a solid job representing Death. Thank you!
rotations in my ass
I started listening to death after seeing this vid. Great video
That group is basicly top of metal man, some albums has fretless basses, Chuck's vocals changing in every album, drastic changes in songs, sometimes 5 riffs in one verse, really (and really) good lyrics...crazy.
Gz guys!
wulfive what songs would you recommend first
@@eternityx5413 anything from Symbolic, Human or The sound of perseverance
Death was such an immaculate gift for us all. I don't think Schuldiner's influence will ever decay.
I've never understand why Death is still not playing by an orchestra
I hope someone will see this and manage it to happen.
just found this, sounds cool. ruclips.net/video/BMmuQ9Mdul4/видео.html&ab_channel=TheandricOfficial
Not proper orchestra, but nice effort to get the feeling.
@@Manolonation2 Yeah I know this video, cause this song is maybe my favorite one, specially for the solo part. But it's still way under how it could be powerful
This will happen sooner or later
and he had no classic music theory training, just an incredible ear and a burning passion for music. RIP
I've been a metal head my entire life and known OF death, but for whatever reason never got in to them. This video changed that and I thank you so much for that. Brilliance is the right word for it. Unreal! Rock in Peace Chuck!!!
I don't know why people don't like "Sound Of Perseverance" record, it's My second or maybe the First favorite record with Symbolic (well Symbolic it's perfect)
What r u talking about everyone loves it
Who tf said they don't like that record. They're on some dumb shit.
I think everyone loves it,i mean the atmosphere and emotion in that album are unmatched,definitely my favourite along with Human
nah symbolic is an 8/10
Bro I just can’t stop listening to this, I’ve been listening to this video like since it’s release.
I feel like a majority of metal, Death, Sepultura, Slayer - to name a few - sound so powerful on acoustic or without effects
I thought Slayer clean sounded silly.
@@mypronounismaster4450 a lot of slayer can sound silly clean but there's some songs too that sound awesome clean
Would love to hear these riffs on classical, nylon string guitar
That tone with a little crunch on the faster chugs along with an acoustic guitar and bass as well as clean vocals would beautiful. The Riffs already sound baroque and dark, but there's some sweet sections that make it sort of symphonic even just as a single guitar.
It's all like middle eastern tunes. Great feeling
Chuck Schuldiner , was not only a genius that he was , he was a humble man of the few of this beautiful music but full of hypocrisy , he was a man with an incredible gift for music that I do not know if he will really be given all the credit he deserves . deserves, great Chuck and great Death. Metal forever.
the most beautiful thing I ever watched in my life ... so beautiful .. thank you
Through Death I learned to appreciate death metal and Chuck made me loved growls and aggressive vocals. Truly one of the best bands to have ever existed.
Btw, is that a Marty Friedman Jackson guitar? Looks badass
How cool would it be if there was a duet of electric cello and electric violin playing death songs
Just had to say I listened to this three times in a row and wow! Very well played and it just shows how good Chuck really was, naturally gifted musician that laid down some complex melodic riffs. Legend status.🕸⚡️⚔️
Children Of Bodom (RIP Alexi Laiho) riffs without distortion. I miss Alexi riffs
So much goddamn harmony. No wonder they hold up without distortion.
I noticed also chuck loves spreading them fingers far.
it is very clear that much of chuck's music is based off of classical music and traditional arabic and asian music.
Flesh and the Power it Holds intro always gave me samurai vibes
i mean it's not though lol
AcceleratingUniverse yes it is somehow. You can clearly hear the Arabic inspiration when you listen to his solos
@@mouadgranderson9618 it literally just isn't. it's inspired by other metal music he was listening to. he had no idea about music theory or what 'Arabic inspiration' would even entail. if you do a lot of tremolo picking on a stringed instrument, especially without distortion, it's going to sound eastern.
@@AcceleratingUniverse I disagree. You can tremolo pick all you want but unless you incorporate a scale (in this case the harmonic minor) it won't sound Arabian/Eastern. If Chuck was inspired by earlier metal bands or not you can't deny that it was his favorite scale to play in both his solos and riffs.
what a fantastic idea... man, he wrote some absolutely beautiful stuff.
So relaxing and beautiful...
Thank you, I put your video when I need some Chuck but wife is at home 😅
Chuck Schuldiner remains criminally underrated. His artistic vision and inventiveness is beyond everything in metal, and most artists in general. And in my book, he's the second greatest metal vocalist of all time. DIO is the only one I place above him.
You’re alternate picking is fire!
Without judgement slaps so hard it makes me want to steal the whole riff and turn it into a song intro
I could listen to the part at 1:31 on loop for hours
Same here.
One Of The Greatest Guitarist of All Time... Chuck is the reason I want to be a better guitarist
I need a one hour version of this. Truly amazing!
Rest in peace Chuck! We'll never forget you. Thank you brother.
Pure genius. Burned BRILLIANT then cruelly extinguished. One of my all-time favorite guitarists/songwriters. R.I.P.
tfw you have been learning Death riffs unplugged for years
Okay, this is like the fourth video of yours I've just sat back and listened and sank into the music. You need to make, like, an hour-long youtube video of you just playing music, so I can throw money at you and bask in it.
Wow. These flow so well together. Extracting them from the albums really gives it a whole new melancholic vibe. Thanks a lot. The transition from 2 to 3 around 2:22 is just killer... wow. Please do one from the early Death albums!
I thought the transition from 1-2 was flawless
Its because most of his songs are written in the same structure, bpm, key, and so on
@@justinquamme916 agreed, just watched again... sounds exactly like it's the same song haha. Hats off to this guy.
@@franklinriley7074 That makes sense. I don't have the ear for that kind of thing so thanks for the info. I am just getting into giving later Death a fair shake after only really digging the first three albums for a number of years.
@@blitzkrieghopAZ ive been doing music since childhood, family of musicians natural ear for music blah blah lol but yeah my first song i heard by them was symbolic.
Beautiful and haunting!
(Insert fry squinting meme) not sure if death sounds better with, or without distortion. Nice work bro.
Sounds like the mellow part of an Agalloch song
I was thinking the same thing. This sounds really awesome with no distortion. I'm lovin' it
He’s the James Hetfield of alternate picking 🤘🏼 so precise
I’ve watched this so many times. Phenomenal playing. Rest In Peace Chuck Schuldiner ❤️
We want a part 2 please
The beauty of Death...
We all adore
flesh and the power it holds... one of the greaterst songs ever written
some of the riffs blend in so good together, sounds like a big badass Boss Battle in a sandy enviroment or sumthin, love it, gonna learn some of those riffs right now
This video immediately makes me think of Diablo 2.
Good luck bro!
@@AsAugustSleepsmaybe Sekiro too
Again,another killer example and I do realize chuck’s brilliance,amazing sound and example
Making fade-out outro on crystal mountain is a kind of genious move :)
I always knew there was a lot of flamenco in his writing when I listened to The Sound Of Perserverance.
Speeeeeriiiit!! CRUUUUUSSHHHAAHHHH!!! So freaking great. Great playing!
Sounds beautiful.
I think I already commented here while I was drunk in my bed crying to this (lol), it was so beautiful. Keep up the good work! I have an idea for you, even though it will sound like a shameless request lol, do you know the Swedish band Dissection? Melodic black/death... The albums "The Somberlain" and "Storm of The Light's Bane"... there are enough gorgeous melodic riffs in those two albums to make a video like this with the same concept, it would be... simply amazing!
Hello there. Thank you for your compliment. I actually have made a video like this to which I included dissection. It's called "Can Black Metal Sound Good Without Distortion?"
Look it up in my channel. Cheers'
@@LeonardoLux96 I'll check it right now! Thank you very much :)
He was a Guitar God. Rest in Peace Chuck.
Thanks for this, Chuck was something else, the complete package of aggressive metal