I really appreciate that they took the time to make this series. Love Kirk and the whole band. They are such a great example of how to have healthy coping skills
He definitely shifted styles from being a melody guy to being a blue guy. I like most people prefer the melodic kirk. Back then his solos really took you on a journey.
Thanks Kirk for this little solo lesson 👍 Comes at the right time....after 12 years rhythm guitar playing I'm learning since 1 year how solo playing works 😎
@@UncleUncleRj Did you even watch the video. Of course he composed them. 99% of good metal solos are painstakingly composed. Why people neglect composing when it's the solo. You don't just "improvise" great songs either. You can spend months before you find the right verse, chorus and bridge for a song. Why would solos be any different
@@shredd5705 i did watch it, did you? All of his old solos were improvised. His modern ones are composed by editors and Lars playing around with clips of his solos until they are happy with it and he doesn't even know what the solo sounds like until the record comes out
Honestly I like Kirk's old solos more. Up until Black Album, all his solos are more or less legendary. After Black Album not as much.. sounds like he stopped composing and went with the improvisation thing. I don't think there's anything wrong with composing carefully everything. Building it lick by lick in the studio, and then learning the whole thing and starting to polish it, to make it seamless and flowing, natural sounding. Solo is a small song within a song. And people don't improvise songs either (good ones at least)
I just wish kirk had explained the way he had come up with solos just like what he did for disposable heroes which is way more interesting than the one to Enter Sandman but he very rarely gets into details when it comes to his solos and that’s too bad cause these specific kinda solos made him legendary (and he does know it)
This is when Greeny is showcased... made for the blues. In terms of quality and solos that fit the song... there is no other solo catalogue that comes to mind more filled than Kirk's. There are many great players who have numerous great solos but not the amount that Kirk has. Maybe just me as a nutty fan, I try to think neutral on this, but who knows. The guy has a shitload of killer solos. Metallica high quality.
All his solos were great, but it stopped with Load. After that it feels like he didn't put effort into them anymore. Sounds like improvisation, most metal guitarists are horrible at improvisation. Jazz guys are the only ones who can do it
Yeah… I said it in one of the videos of this series… But I think Kirk and Dave Navarro have a similar approach and influence… and both come up with great phrasing and wah employment! 🪄✨
he’s terrible at improvising. I love him so much. But I hate the solos on Hardwired and 72 seasons. He needs to get back to his classic albums and death magnetic style solos.
Most metal guitarists don't improvise well. I don't understand why should they. Great solo is a composition just like the song itself. Similar care and thought should be put into it. Songs aren't written by just hitting record and playing something. They are results of careful thinking and testing ideas
Kirk, IMO, is a blues guitarist who plays in metal band. I always like his slower solo, but the fast and aggressive one sounds too similar to one and another. That's just how Kirk is. What rarely mentioned is Kirk is also a great riff maker.
That's the thing with improvised solos. You play what you feel at the very moment. The solos on the first 4 albums had been worked out for quite some time before they were recorded. It's not like he just sat down an recorded them in one single take. And he's also improvising blues solos here. There are no blues solos on the first 4 albums.
@@herbertwest9626 disagree…kill em all solos have tons of fast bluesy pentatonic parts and are quite repetitive if you break them down. lot of mustaine parts but still
@@herbertwest9626 first album is all pentatonic blues just sped up the rhythm makes it sound great but with slower tunes it sounds very amateurish he should take time to to work out something memorable, it’s harder to write a slow solo than fast IMO
@@billhinsperger8120 Of course you're right, they're pentatonic scales, but the speed of the solos turns them into something I wouldn't call blues. Blues by nature is a slow style (you can't be happy and excited when you're sad). I wouldn't call them blues solos because they differ so much from classical American blues that most real blues aficionados wouldn't even want to listen to them 😉. What stands out more are those Oriental or Hellenic melodies. And there's a lot of them on RTL, MOP and AJFA. I think his first "real" blues solos can be heard on Load and partly on TBA. Forgive me my simplistic explanations, but I'm not a trained or technical musician. I used to play guitar in a punk rock band for about 20 years. We didn't play many solos. Cheers! 😀
I'm sorry but if there ever was an overrated guitar player, it's Kirk..I know 15;year olds that can improve rip all day with proper vibrato that Kirk seems to struggle with here after 45 years of playing concerts even .I think he got lucky to find himself in such a successful band, maybe it's the combination of em all to why the success, but it dam sure ain't his outstanding playing lol .
Is kirk gay? He seems to be in that spectrum. Every word seems to be followed by an unnecessary expression. Halfway through this, it feels like as if hes having a hard time telling you about the time hia favorite barbie caught on fire and his parents were too poor to buy him another one. Dont care if he is gay. He comes across really feminine for someone whos the lead guitarist of a heavy metal band is all.
He has a wife (since 1998) and 2 kids. Lof ot metal's "machismo" is fake anyway. They are not "tough guys" but musicians, they act certain way on stage because it's a metal cliche. These are not football players, soldiers, cops, firefighters or MMA fighters, so acting tough is kinda silly actually. It's just a stage role. Lot of creative people have a sensitive side to them, most creative people have that. Some hide it under and armor, some don't. Rock musicians have often had feminine traits (like all hair metal bands in the 80s), yet completely straight
I really appreciate that they took the time to make this series. Love Kirk and the whole band. They are such a great example of how to have healthy coping skills
My God! After 30 years of trying to learn from Kirk by watching him and reading his interviews, I am actually taking a lesson from him
He definitely shifted styles from being a melody guy to being a blue guy. I like most people prefer the melodic kirk. Back then his solos really took you on a journey.
Thanks Kirk for this little solo lesson 👍 Comes at the right time....after 12 years rhythm guitar playing I'm learning since 1 year how solo playing works 😎
Lol
Kirk’s solos were better when he took the time to compose them instead of improvising everything. He made the most memorable solos of all time
I don't think he ever composed them bro
@@UncleUncleRj Did you even watch the video. Of course he composed them. 99% of good metal solos are painstakingly composed. Why people neglect composing when it's the solo. You don't just "improvise" great songs either. You can spend months before you find the right verse, chorus and bridge for a song. Why would solos be any different
@@shredd5705 i did watch it, did you? All of his old solos were improvised. His modern ones are composed by editors and Lars playing around with clips of his solos until they are happy with it and he doesn't even know what the solo sounds like until the record comes out
Honestly I like Kirk's old solos more. Up until Black Album, all his solos are more or less legendary. After Black Album not as much.. sounds like he stopped composing and went with the improvisation thing. I don't think there's anything wrong with composing carefully everything. Building it lick by lick in the studio, and then learning the whole thing and starting to polish it, to make it seamless and flowing, natural sounding. Solo is a small song within a song. And people don't improvise songs either (good ones at least)
I hope RUclips doesn’t take this down..
download it u prat
In the moment magic happens 🎸
I just wish kirk had explained the way he had come up with solos just like what he did for disposable heroes which is way more interesting than the one to Enter Sandman but he very rarely gets into details when it comes to his solos and that’s too bad cause these specific kinda solos made him legendary (and he does know it)
This is when Greeny is showcased... made for the blues.
In terms of quality and solos that fit the song... there is no other solo catalogue that comes to mind more filled than Kirk's. There are many great players who have numerous great solos but not the amount that Kirk has. Maybe just me as a nutty fan, I try to think neutral on this, but who knows. The guy has a shitload of killer solos. Metallica high quality.
All his solos were great, but it stopped with Load. After that it feels like he didn't put effort into them anymore. Sounds like improvisation, most metal guitarists are horrible at improvisation. Jazz guys are the only ones who can do it
Yeah…
I said it in one of the videos of this series…
But I think Kirk and Dave Navarro have a similar approach and influence… and both come up with great phrasing and wah employment!
🪄✨
Love Kirk.
Discusses improving all your solos and being spontaneous.
“Inputs clips of some of his best thought-out planed solos” 😂
he’s terrible at improvising. I love him so much. But I hate the solos on Hardwired and 72 seasons. He needs to get back to his classic albums and death magnetic style solos.
agreed. solos are dreadful on recent works. just as many notes as possible kind of vibe
@@gbirdo4718 yip horrible amateurish now listen to Marty Friedman lol
he needs to do his homework
Does he even play guitar anymore? Sounds like this is the first time he's touched a guitar in like 10 years. Sounds awful. His vibrato is so bad.
Who actually listens to those terrible albums anyway?
🤘💥🎸
Needs to do whatever he was doing on and justice for all album.
Drugs?
@ if that helps the solo…
I'm always like, "It's Minor. Is it Aeolian, Dorian or Phrygian? Where the hell do the 2nd and 6th go??? Minor Pentatonic it is 😅"
4:16 that sounds WAY more like Ace than it does Page
5:09 what song was this?
Your mum
Sounds like one of the newer songs
Hardwired , from the” Hardwired to self destruct” album
Unfortunately in the early days he composed great melodic solos, his improvisation is not his strong suit
Most metal guitarists don't improvise well. I don't understand why should they. Great solo is a composition just like the song itself. Similar care and thought should be put into it. Songs aren't written by just hitting record and playing something. They are results of careful thinking and testing ideas
Kirk, IMO, is a blues guitarist who plays in metal band. I always like his slower solo, but the fast and aggressive one sounds too similar to one and another. That's just how Kirk is. What rarely mentioned is Kirk is also a great riff maker.
He is now. But he used to be much more versatile and musically interesting
Every guitar player these days likes to live in a black and white world.
Don’t forget the god forsaken wah pedal!
blues scale doesnt go well with metal
Step one, learn the Pentatonic scale. Step two, get a wah wah pedal. Step three, coast and count your money.
Don't forget the modes
Can't wait for you to replicate it 🙂
Now go to your shitty 9-5 job and be the nobody that your are.
His improve solos are horrible nothing touched the first 4 albums that were well planned out
That's the thing with improvised solos. You play what you feel at the very moment. The solos on the first 4 albums had been worked out for quite some time before they were recorded. It's not like he just sat down an recorded them in one single take. And he's also improvising blues solos here. There are no blues solos on the first 4 albums.
@herbertwest9626 there aren't whole blues solos but there ARE parts of blues of the solos on the first two albums he still made them sound good
@@herbertwest9626 disagree…kill em all solos have tons of fast bluesy pentatonic parts and are quite repetitive if you break them down. lot of mustaine parts but still
@@herbertwest9626 first album is all pentatonic blues just sped up the rhythm makes it sound great but with slower tunes it sounds very amateurish he should take time to to work out something memorable, it’s harder to write a slow solo than fast IMO
@@billhinsperger8120 Of course you're right, they're pentatonic scales, but the speed of the solos turns them into something I wouldn't call blues. Blues by nature is a slow style (you can't be happy and excited when you're sad). I wouldn't call them blues solos because they differ so much from classical American blues that most real blues aficionados wouldn't even want to listen to them 😉. What stands out more are those Oriental or Hellenic melodies. And there's a lot of them on RTL, MOP and AJFA. I think his first "real" blues solos can be heard on Load and partly on TBA. Forgive me my simplistic explanations, but I'm not a trained or technical musician. I used to play guitar in a punk rock band for about 20 years. We didn't play many solos. Cheers! 😀
He's road worn , give him a break
Ouch!!! 💩
I'm sorry but if there ever was an overrated guitar player, it's Kirk..I know 15;year olds that can improve rip all day with proper vibrato that Kirk seems to struggle with here after 45 years of playing concerts even .I think he got lucky to find himself in such a successful band, maybe it's the combination of em all to why the success, but it dam sure ain't his outstanding playing lol .
Is kirk gay? He seems to be in that spectrum. Every word seems to be followed by an unnecessary expression. Halfway through this, it feels like as if hes having a hard time telling you about the time hia favorite barbie caught on
fire and his parents were too poor to buy him another one.
Dont care if he is gay. He comes across really feminine for someone whos the lead guitarist of a heavy metal band is all.
He has a wife (since 1998) and 2 kids. Lof ot metal's "machismo" is fake anyway. They are not "tough guys" but musicians, they act certain way on stage because it's a metal cliche. These are not football players, soldiers, cops, firefighters or MMA fighters, so acting tough is kinda silly actually. It's just a stage role. Lot of creative people have a sensitive side to them, most creative people have that. Some hide it under and armor, some don't. Rock musicians have often had feminine traits (like all hair metal bands in the 80s), yet completely straight
I just hate kirk
He sounds like a beginner - sour notes, horrible vibrato, sloppy...
At least it sounds human.
He is who he is, not who you want him to be
You sound sour
Say what you want, you are not in Metallica. Personally I love Kirk's playing.
@@ajhpower1972 i usually love kirks playing, but he sounds like shit here
Is he having a hangover or just high or something? Lol
i don't like he's spontaneous phase
I cant believe that this guy play all this fantastic solos on black album. Maybe this guy is a Kirk Hammett imposter🤔. Where is real Kirk Hammett?
Please get back to composing again, I love you but honestly you suck at improvising.
Is he drunk
I love him but damn ! Sound Like shit !! Sloppy beginner playing !
Wtf with the nail polish i mean come on
Can we just say,,l like to hide behind the wah wah peddle been playing the same stuff for decades alright alright alright alright
go to your shitty 9-5 job and be the nobody that you are.
his playing is pretty rough..his vibrato it sounds like a begineer. hes a cool guy no offence
oh really ? can you enlighten me what a non-beginner vibrato sounds like ?
@@yumeflo probably like the guitarist youtube vibrato, that tell he "how the vibrato must sound". Is another ignorant in internet, dont worry