0:32 "Franz Liszt, from Germany." 3:34 "Franz Liszt was a German composer..." He was born in the Austrian empire, in Hungary. If I remember correctly from music history, his father was Hungarian and mother was either Austrian or Austro-Hungarian, but it might be the other way around. Either way, he was not German, he was Hungarian. Calling him German is like saying that you're Indian because America and India were both part of the British empire, so they're the same place really.
I don’t think he’s the most metal of them all, but Dmitri Shostakovich definitely has some heavy stuff. He lived under the oppression of the soviet regime and he had to find creative ways to express himself through his music, since art was highly censored during that time. Possibly the most intense of his work is his eighth string quartet, especially the second movement. I highly recommend that piece if you want good inspiration for writing heavy music in a unique way.
I wonder if some content creators purposefully put misinformation to generate activity in the comments thus helping their algorithms. There's no way this guy does not know where Liszt was from; his most famous piece was called Hungarian Rhapsody for goodness sake.
Zappa is my favorite composer. But when I heard Holtz The Planets for the first time when I was about 12 , on an old record player at my grand dad's. I was totally hooked. We were playing dominos and drinking coke on his porch in New Orleans. Good good times.
Duuude! So glad I ran across your channel. I’m 47 and have only been playing for 18 months - and am a long time metal head. I’m obsessed, and love your lessons on music theory and the emphasis on metal. I recently got a chance to join a band, and your videos always inspire me to play and create. Thanks so much!
It's worth checking out ELP's arrangement/improv based around Pictures at an Exhibition. With the exception of perhaps King Crimson, they're notably heavier than any other 70s rock band I can think of, and i would say they could be considered as being proto prog metal.
I really like your approach to guitar playing by giving all these cool examples of how classical music is the ultimate power source in metal. I have been telling people the same thing for years.
Apart from the excellent composers you mentioned, I would like to add. Claudio Monteverdi, who had one foot in renaissance music and the other in baroque. He wrote some of the most significant early operas, and his vengeful Gods were metal as fuck! The other would be Händel, his opera arias are just about the most Power Metal thing there is: Svegliatevi, from Julio Cesare, and Sorge Infausta (from Orlando) to name a couple.
i like where your going with this, i also use chords and riffs, but remember the frets and strings played and play them different ways so it fits with some genres of music , i use drop d tuning and its fun playing with riffs that have that low d almost being the bass of the guitar
@@ShredmasterScott well everything. I love metal, I super love Bach, and I find music theory very interesting. Your videos make me understand music better, recognize patterns, see what is going on in the mind of the composer, and so they give me a new level of enjoyment when I listen to music. Knowledge is power. Also the occasional Satanism. thanks for your videos
(Re: @2:33) I'd rather say the main takeaway should be the teeter-tottering modulation, between the Gmin and the Db chords. You have the Gmin's root moving up a semitone, while its 5th moves down a semitone. Also notice the fact that there's a *major* third in that Db chord it's going to, instead of a minor third like you have when it resolves back to the Gmin. I think that *that's* the takeaway, as far as anyone new to playing this progression should be concerned. The G being in the bass the entire time essentially results in an added #4 below the Db chord, making it temporarily a Db Lydian interchange.
DAMN!!!!!!! I've never thought about how metal all these guys were. I knew that Wagner was practically like Metallica in his time. But when you played "Mars" on Guitar, i was immediately headbanging.
@@ShredmasterScott If you get the german "ch" down, like in "Bach" for example, you're on a good way. Its like the "th" for us germans. Tricky stuff. 😅
I love all of these composers but i single out Richard Strauss. Awesome orchestration and melodic devolpement. He would be Psylosis or maybe Meshuggah of the metal world. Just my 2 cents.
Symphony X would of been a good shout to include as they intertwine loads of famous classical pieces in their compositions, including ‘Mars Harbinger of War’ in ‘The Divine Wings of Tragedy’!
Shred just did some reading. Apparently, the origins of is great grandfather are obscure, some sources believe migrated from Austria to Hungary as a child. But there is no evidence; only speculation. Others believe he was from Hungary.
Liszt and Wagner are gods. Stravinsky's most prevalent in the metal compositions (particularly death metal symphony Black Vortex Cathedral) of my teacher Morean I'd argue tho. You familiar with his bands Alkaloid and Noneuclid at all? I try to incorporate polytonality and free tonality (particularly tertian but nondiatonic stuff like you find in Liszt and Wagner) into my own composing myself which is why I wanted to learn under Morean in the first place haha
Gustav is my dude! Jupiter is my favorite. That song pretty much won us a national competition for the symphony i was in [1st chair tuba. Keep hatin (: ]
Didn't see that mugshot coming! Scary stuff. Stravinsky's music has some very metal moments. Not just Rite either, how about The Firebird: ruclips.net/video/RZkIAVGlfWk/видео.html He also wrote a lot of jazzy pieces, which I find less accessible tbh.
All composers bow to Wagner! As far as heavy sound goes and his “metal and evil” unheard of compositions. He arranged his orchestra to put the emphasis on the rafter shaking low end.
What a brilliant video. many metalheads fail to realize that classical is metal. I used to laugh when Ozzy would use Carmina Burana as his entrance music and then sound weedy compared to it. A terrible choice.
I appreciate you being a wing man for the rest of us musicians whats your website you have the pieces for theory examples? i'll follow you on my current insta too. I do admit just being a good guitarist got boring and new inspiration must be found
Just to remind everyone you can go death, metal, trash all you want without having a reversed cross. Evil does not define the technicality on how this musicians play their music.
IMHO, Paganini and Bach are the two most Metal Composers out there. With absolute respect to Mozart,Chopin, Beethoven, and Franz Liszt, they had a massive influence on a number of well-known shredders, especially Yngwie Malmsteen!
Who do you think is the most metal composer?
🔴Most Metal Composers TAB:
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Bach
No Beethoven?
0:32 "Franz Liszt, from Germany."
3:34 "Franz Liszt was a German composer..."
He was born in the Austrian empire, in Hungary. If I remember correctly from music history, his father was Hungarian and mother was either Austrian or Austro-Hungarian, but it might be the other way around. Either way, he was not German, he was Hungarian. Calling him German is like saying that you're Indian because America and India were both part of the British empire, so they're the same place really.
I don’t think he’s the most metal of them all, but Dmitri Shostakovich definitely has some heavy stuff. He lived under the oppression of the soviet regime and he had to find creative ways to express himself through his music, since art was highly censored during that time. Possibly the most intense of his work is his eighth string quartet, especially the second movement. I highly recommend that piece if you want good inspiration for writing heavy music in a unique way.
Franz Liszt aka Liszt Ferenc from Hungary!
Most metal musicians: You got tabs bro?
of course bro
Franz Liszt was Hungarian, not German.
Also, Mahler, Richard Strauss, Bruckner, Shostakovich and Bartok deserve a mention IMO.
YES
Bruckner's 9th is a masterpiece.
I wonder if some content creators purposefully put misinformation to generate activity in the comments thus helping their algorithms. There's no way this guy does not know where Liszt was from; his most famous piece was called Hungarian Rhapsody for goodness sake.
@@theodorek.4563 to be fair, you could say the same about Brahms
Liszt was Hungarian, but this video was great nonetheless. Shred on.
He was Austro-Hungarian and his style was in the German style. Calling him a German composer is describing his musical style and not his nationality.
Two things I always get from your videos: a serious laugh and a serious lesson. Thanks once again for delivering.
Hehehe
What about tbe most metal jazz musicians?
that could get interesting...
Adam Neely?
@@ShredmasterScott I agree
John Zorn without a doubt.
Paul Masdival??
“Do you know the devil?”
Me: “Of course I know him. He’s me”
now you're talking
YOU are the devil himself my friend.
J. Wick -----John Wick is that you!?
@@thedevilofmetal5335 i am the night..
J. Wick ---Funny enough I actually look kind of like John Wick if he were a bit younger. Best movies and I think they’re coming out with a fourth one
Shred Master Scott! Listen to Nile's tune Ramses, Bringer of War: in the intro of the song they mentioned the Mars, Bringer of War main section ;)
nice
Another most metal composer: Dmitry Shostakovich.
That's of classical music. Now for modern: Tigran Hamasyan.
His Cello Concerto No.1 is insane for its time
Dude, your depth of knowledge is Wicked! \m/
Zappa is my favorite composer. But when I heard Holtz The Planets for the first time when I was about 12 , on an old record player at my grand dad's. I was totally hooked. We were playing dominos and drinking coke on his porch in New Orleans. Good good times.
One of the great take-aways from following Shred's channel, is how happy I now can re-discover classical music. Thanks a ton.
cheers brother
Duuude! So glad I ran across your channel. I’m 47 and have only been playing for 18 months - and am a long time metal head. I’m obsessed, and love your lessons on music theory and the emphasis on metal. I recently got a chance to join a band, and your videos always inspire me to play and create. Thanks so much!
Awesome brother 🤘
Modest Musorgski. His composition sounds great as metal transition. Great composer and higly underrated.
He's great
@@ShredmasterScott hut of baba yaga is the first thresh metal piece
He's also sampled on the best Marduk album
ruclips.net/video/OLs-L8PIZZM/видео.html
@@dimi3940 Hut of Baba Yaga is sampled on this song isn't it?
ruclips.net/video/o09mull0wZI/видео.html
It's worth checking out ELP's arrangement/improv based around Pictures at an Exhibition. With the exception of perhaps King Crimson, they're notably heavier than any other 70s rock band I can think of, and i would say they could be considered as being proto prog metal.
Just found your channel man, those chords are magnificent. Those Stravinsky chords are aching for a metal song.
Symphony X also used the Mars theme on The Divine Wings of Tragedy. Right after adapting Bach's Mass in B minor in the intro.
I really like your approach to guitar playing by giving all these cool examples of how classical music is the ultimate power source in metal. I have been telling people the same thing for years.
I just love how much you love Bach. You get it how huge his genius is. Cheers mate
“Creative theft of his own” 😉 😆
Needs more Picardy thirds to trigger the people that take metal too seriously.
Excellent nerd comment!
Excellent video! I like learning about past composers.
I appreciate your videos a lot. Always looking forward to new content! As soon as I can afford it, I'll be supporting you on patreon :)
Awesome 🤘
One of your best videos ever. Thanks Scott for another insight into the devil’s harmonies
Apart from the excellent composers you mentioned, I would like to add. Claudio Monteverdi, who had one foot in renaissance music and the other in baroque. He wrote some of the most significant early operas, and his vengeful Gods were metal as fuck! The other would be Händel, his opera arias are just about the most Power Metal thing there is: Svegliatevi, from Julio Cesare, and Sorge Infausta (from Orlando) to name a couple.
Good one! One Of the few shredders I actually learn from.
Awesome video and thanks for sharing your tips 👍
Your favorite composers GO! I love this and please give me some insight. Greats vids bro!
You Are one of the best teachers on the internet Scott.
thanks brother
Awesome vid shredmaster!!!
i like where your going with this, i also use chords and riffs, but remember the frets and strings played and play them different ways so it fits with some genres of music , i use drop d tuning and its fun playing with riffs that have that low d almost being the bass of the guitar
excellent brother
Arent you the dude from the other videos?? You're lessons are awesome. Ive learned alot from em.
Basil Poledouris, Wagner, Paganini, Bach...
I don't even know how to play an instrument, but could not live without your videos
what do you like about them?
@@ShredmasterScott well everything. I love metal, I super love Bach, and I find music theory very interesting. Your videos make me understand music better, recognize patterns, see what is going on in the mind of the composer, and so they give me a new level of enjoyment when I listen to music. Knowledge is power.
Also the occasional Satanism.
thanks for your videos
(Re: @2:33) I'd rather say the main takeaway should be the teeter-tottering modulation, between the Gmin and the Db chords. You have the Gmin's root moving up a semitone, while its 5th moves down a semitone. Also notice the fact that there's a *major* third in that Db chord it's going to, instead of a minor third like you have when it resolves back to the Gmin. I think that *that's* the takeaway, as far as anyone new to playing this progression should be concerned. The G being in the bass the entire time essentially results in an added #4 below the Db chord, making it temporarily a Db Lydian interchange.
This is fuckin awesome! Great work.
I am biased, but hands down. Akira Ifukube. I did a 45 video on why he is the first metal musician (did not create it though)
Richard wagner is pure metal.
I am a simple man.
I see Metal Composers, I think Shostakovich
That first one (Holst) is heavily in the Rainbow song "The Eyes of the World".
Although Liszt was actually Hungarian, this video was brilliant. Cheers.
DAMN!!!!!!! I've never thought about how metal all these guys were. I knew that Wagner was practically like Metallica in his time. But when you played "Mars" on Guitar, i was immediately headbanging.
Gustav definitely takes the cake
I feel like I've heard Mr Bungle use that Stravinski chord... but, you know, not surprising.
Awesome!!!
This year I have chosen to focus on my song writing and composition. Getting tired of riff salad. Help me Shred!
you're in the right place
Toss the riff salad and start composting!
Love this!
I trust we're all familiar with virgin sacrifice...
I think that's safe to assume
The Wagner piece reminds me of the keyboard vamp that precedes the dwarves scene in Stonehenge on This is Spinal Tap.
German guy here. +1 for the correct pronounciation of "Leipzig". And awesome video as always! :D
Cheers brother...my German needs work for sure
@@ShredmasterScott If you get the german "ch" down, like in "Bach" for example, you're on a good way.
Its like the "th" for us germans. Tricky stuff. 😅
I think Sergei Rachmaninoff is brutal and METAL
Compose til you decompose.
I love all of these composers but i single out Richard Strauss. Awesome orchestration and melodic devolpement. He would be Psylosis or maybe Meshuggah of the metal world. Just my 2 cents.
Symphony X would of been a good shout to include as they intertwine loads of famous classical pieces in their compositions, including ‘Mars Harbinger of War’ in ‘The Divine Wings of Tragedy’!
huge SX fan but they just aren't well known enough
Shred It’s a crying shame how underrated SX are, Romeo is a terrifying shredder/riffer and composer! Love your content man!
What's the name of Stravinsky's piece at 0:44?
I said it before but it's really interesting, thank you
Franz Liszt was Hungarian. He did spend some time in Germany and influenced their sound but was 100% Hungarian!
as it turns out, his father was 100 percent german and his mother had mostly german as well
Shred just did some reading. Apparently, the origins of is great grandfather are obscure, some sources believe migrated from Austria to Hungary as a child. But there is no evidence; only speculation. Others believe he was from Hungary.
Stravinsky for sure...he died right before i was born....is this why I dig weird sounds so much?
4 seasons (the fast one) by Vivaldi is the first thrash metal song
Does any one know the theory behind Lamb of God’s riffs? I feel like they got their own sound and I can’t make sense of it theoretically lol
do an analysis
Have you ever heard of Sophia Gubaidulina ??? Hell und Dunkel ! Listen that crazy stuff !
Check out the beginning of "Eyes Of The World" by Rainbow. Pure Holst.
Franz Liszt was a German composer? He was a Hungarian composer dude...
Liszt and Wagner are gods. Stravinsky's most prevalent in the metal compositions (particularly death metal symphony Black Vortex Cathedral) of my teacher Morean I'd argue tho. You familiar with his bands Alkaloid and Noneuclid at all? I try to incorporate polytonality and free tonality (particularly tertian but nondiatonic stuff like you find in Liszt and Wagner) into my own composing myself which is why I wanted to learn under Morean in the first place haha
Someone needs to make a laugh comp ASAP
"Soul Contract" t-shirts?
good idea
@@ShredmasterScott see if your following would dig it too! Ill buy one for sure
Amazing
Gustav is my dude! Jupiter is my favorite. That song pretty much won us a national competition for the symphony i was in [1st chair tuba. Keep hatin (: ]
haha, nice brother 🤘
Metal composers? Tchaikovsky! The guy used literal canons for one of his compositions. "Tchaikovsky yes! Tchaikovsky always yes!"
Interesting and inspiring
Hey when you making a video about using Quintal and Quartal Harmony in metal?
"maybe it's time you sell your soul too..."
how do i do that?
"[...] patreon"
goodbye soul!
those forearms
Wilhelm Richard Wagner hands down. He is like Black Sabbath. And Bach is like Metallica. More mainstream. Rachmaninoff is like prog metal.
Bach is our God or should I say our devil 🙏
Shred master Scott is the most evil composer of the year in my book...the Necronomicon.
0:44 what’s the name of this piece?
when and where you lerned music?
After watching this one, I suggest it’s definitely time for an episode on Robert Fripp.
Scott! Liszt was born in Doborján ,Hungary altough he did not spoke hungarian! ;-) Though he even considered himself hungarian.
I've read a few articles on this topic and the conclusions may not be what you think...
@@ShredmasterScott The conclusion he is hungarian ,according to his statements. Never considered himself german or austrian or french.
Didn't see that mugshot coming! Scary stuff.
Stravinsky's music has some very metal moments. Not just Rite either, how about The Firebird:
ruclips.net/video/RZkIAVGlfWk/видео.html
He also wrote a lot of jazzy pieces, which I find less accessible tbh.
what is that bit of music you play when you first introduce igor!? i"m happy to sign away my soul if you tell me...muh hahaha!
All composers bow to Wagner! As far as heavy sound goes and his “metal and evil” unheard of compositions. He arranged his orchestra to put the emphasis on the rafter shaking low end.
Berry inneressing
What a brilliant video. many metalheads fail to realize that classical is metal. I used to laugh when Ozzy would use Carmina Burana as his entrance music and then sound weedy compared to it. A terrible choice.
My favourite composer is chopin
Are these are played in Standard?
Rach, beethoven and vivaldi are all pretty damn metal.
My favourite composer is Toby Driver.
I think list is on the top of my.... well
I appreciate you being a wing man for the rest of us musicians whats your website you have the pieces for theory examples? i'll follow you on my current insta too. I do admit just being a good guitarist got boring and new inspiration must be found
Agreed brother, here's where I upload my tabs
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In your opinion, who inspired Metallica for the intro of fight fire with fire?
what is the sample of igor you played?
The piece is called 'Rite of Spring' and the movement is called 'Spring rounds' or something like that I believe
It's the second movement of the Rite Of Spring called "Dances Of The Young Girls"
Sorry I thought you meant the sample earlier in the vid haha
Whats the composition when the shred master intoduced iGor
Who are the composers you gave tribute too
List is actually Hungarian pianist
Bravo 👏!!!
subbed.
Just to remind everyone you can go death, metal, trash all you want without having a reversed cross. Evil does not define the technicality on how this musicians play their music.
Does anyone know what plugins he uses for all the instruments outside of guitar and drums?
Penderecki is metal!
IMHO, Paganini and Bach are the two most Metal Composers out there. With absolute respect to Mozart,Chopin, Beethoven, and Franz Liszt, they had a massive influence on a number of well-known shredders, especially Yngwie Malmsteen!
The second one should be play with mighty Candlemass...ops, he's DEAD