Some corrections on the video: • I missused the term "string skipping" on most of the riffs, I meant something like "string changes" • Dyers Eve is just played on the low B of the A string, no 'fast middle finger movement' lol • Nothing Else Matthers' intro is way more difficult to play cleanly than Through the never Some extra stuff: • I personally find MoP harder than Damage Inc's weird gallop riff becaused I'm not used to downpicking so much •And yeah, Dyers Eve main riff is not that difficult, I'd change it to the riff that plays behind Kirk's solo on Frayed Ends
@@diccot all that remains, kreator, machine head? Something I'd like to see personally 😎💯 awesome vid I agreed with everything except for personally I found ktulu harder than fight fire with fire riff but mostly as I'm a bassist 😂🤫
The riff under the solo on Frayed Ends is my favorite riff of all time; I've been playing the guitar for around 2 years and I'm almost getting it completly done. I can play battery at full speed already but Frayed Ends still a bigger challenge.
@@brunosantana4680 isn't it funny how certain songs are harder than others all depending on style.... Like I found some songs far easier than folks made em out to be but then some supposedly easier songs to play I still struggle with 🤣🤣🤣🤣 a bit like how if your a master of downpicking you will probably agree puppets is on the easier side than disposable and battery damage ect
@@alexandermccourt6023 yeahh, I'm terrible with downpicking, but I can play disposable, damage and battery considerably better than mop. Probably because I've spent more time practicing the gallops than anything else
Un2 had a tele with the strap peg hooked up to the g string so everytime james did the bend he was jerking the guitar down. He's done a newer strumming variation since.
I would argue Damage Inc. edges out MoP by a bit, maybe even Battery if you're not comfortable with gallops. The hardest part of MoP is that damn section right after the solo. Though, Dyer's Eve is spot on. Unforgiven II is funny because they changed it up these days to not have to use B-Benders.
I wouldn't call it string-skipping unless you're actually skipping over a string, as in play a note on the E and then switching to the D suddenly, hence skipping the A string.
"blackened" is EASILY their hardest song to play the opening riff to. that is so goddamn hard. especially downpicking! and it's very fast. "creeping death" also has a really ridiculous verse riff. i still can't get it right. the Live Shit version is so fast too. i also feel like "battery" might be a harder song to learn. or even "disposable heroes", if we're talking MoP album
I find it moderately hard. it’s not that hard of a riff, but it’s harder to play the whole song without stopping for me. even more so than Creeping Death and MoP, which I can
Yeah! The thing is that apparently Kirk said in a magazine that it's played like 2-3-2-3 Still, I prefer playing it on the second fret a lot more Thanks for the comment ^^
@@f0njoe927have you tried keeping up the main riffs at least at 90% the album tempo? Fight Fire is just nutty, and to top it off, it's got weird timing in the riffs, AND that fucking harmony, it's quite possibly an ultimate rite of passage to nail that shit in a live setting Speed you can train (and even still, nit even comparable to speed they hit post Cliff's death), but it's really a difficult song structure wise
The ascending bridge riff in Puppets is WAYYYYY harder. Especially with those 16th note gallops. And what makes Fight Fire With Fire so hard is you have to play the power chord on the & of the upbeat. The way its accented makes it feel like it's right on the upbeat and it's not.
Ehh, the puppets bridge is pretty okay, the harmony is a little harder to play, but still not impossible, it's very easy to play with alt/economy picking Imo Damage inc's bridge is just *nutty,* it's like Blackened's or Fight Fire's galloping cousin, but their difficulty is downpicking and altpicking respectively RTL really is difficult just in this one song, and Creeping Death to a little extent, the rest of the album is trivial to a seasoned guitarist
I'd say for RtL it's Ride's Spider Chord riff. For MoP it's Disposable for the sustained picking pattern. St. Anger is probably the title track. Hardwired is also probably the title track.
I thought string skipping meant moving more than one string up or down. The master of puppets riff only plays Teo strings next to eachother. The Intro of Seek and Destroy has string skipping given you have to go from 6th to 4th string. Otherwise great video
Kill Em All - Hit The Lights Ride The Lightning - Fight Fire With Fire Master Of Puppets - Damage INC And Justice For All - Dyers Eve Metallica - Through The Never Load - Wasting My Hate Reload - The Unforgiven II St Anger - St Anger Death Magnetic - My Apocolypse Hardwired - Hardwired
This is my top riffs: KTA: Metal Militia, Riff pasage after solo (cuz is unnecesaily complex) RTL: Fight Fire with Fire, riffs before main verse, (drains your picking stamina easily) MOP: Master of Puppets, 2nd Riff after kirks solo (You need to have dexterity on both hands to make it sound good) AJFA: One, final “machine gun” riffs.. (takes a lot of time to get the precision it takes to sync it with the drums). Special mention to Frayed ends of sanity.. everything after the solo, weird tempos and hand dexterity is needed Source: I’ve been playing metallica since I was born Im too lazy to think of the other albums
Dyers eve isn't played like that!! This argument was made for decades and James answered it in an interview. Its just one note picked fast not alternate 2-3-2
For all y’all lil nastys tryna learn any Load and Relaod era stuff : James had a B bender feel and that’s why he could bend those notes so high If ya can’t do it exactly don’t worry
I chcecked if dyers eve is here bcoz: - the "2 3 2 3" is bullshit, you can clearly hear that when slowed down, even Kirk confirmed that. - it's just normal tremolo, many other metallica songs have patterns like that ( prechorus from disposable heroes) - there are many harder riffs from ajfa (main riff from blackened, frayed ends od sanity pre-solo etc.)
Damage Inc. Is far more difficult than the self-titled song on MoP Some Kind of Monster is pretty simple with the 0-3-5 cord, albeit the entire album is simple, but I think Sweet Amber & My World are more diverse imo Everything else seems to be fair enough
Is it okay if I can play the mop first riff at almost full speed and the second riff a tad slower, and spit out the bone easily? I've been playing for 6 months
Y'all know strong skipping means ya have to skip a string between the two right??? Playing on the E and A strings for a riff don't make it string skipping, that being said cool video, good shit y'all!!!
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Some corrections on the video:
• I missused the term "string skipping" on most of the riffs, I meant something like "string changes"
• Dyers Eve is just played on the low B of the A string, no 'fast middle finger movement' lol
• Nothing Else Matthers' intro is way more difficult to play cleanly than Through the never
Some extra stuff:
• I personally find MoP harder than Damage Inc's weird gallop riff becaused I'm not used to downpicking so much
•And yeah, Dyers Eve main riff is not that difficult, I'd change it to the riff that plays behind Kirk's solo on Frayed Ends
Would you like to see more videos like these?
And if so, of what bands?
@@diccot all that remains, kreator, machine head? Something I'd like to see personally 😎💯 awesome vid I agreed with everything except for personally I found ktulu harder than fight fire with fire riff but mostly as I'm a bassist 😂🤫
The riff under the solo on Frayed Ends is my favorite riff of all time; I've been playing the guitar for around 2 years and I'm almost getting it completly done. I can play battery at full speed already but Frayed Ends still a bigger challenge.
@@brunosantana4680 isn't it funny how certain songs are harder than others all depending on style.... Like I found some songs far easier than folks made em out to be but then some supposedly easier songs to play I still struggle with 🤣🤣🤣🤣 a bit like how if your a master of downpicking you will probably agree puppets is on the easier side than disposable and battery damage ect
@@alexandermccourt6023 yeahh, I'm terrible with downpicking, but I can play disposable, damage and battery considerably better than mop. Probably because I've spent more time practicing the gallops than anything else
Some Kind of Monster (St. Anger - 2003)
- Fast alternate picking
- Really odd picking pattern
- The notes in between
came here to read this
They fuck with you
XD
I WOULD WRITE THIS EXACLY COMMENT 😂😂😂 laughing too much here
It was a bit sad not to see "the notes in between" moment in the video, but I'm glad I found this in the comments
Tried learning the Unforgiven II the other day because my cousin jokingly told me to and gave up after not being able to get the bend quite right
Don’t give up bro
Don’t give up, that’s one of my favorite Metallica songs and I remember having the same problem when I was learning it
Un2 had a tele with the strap peg hooked up to the g string so everytime james did the bend he was jerking the guitar down. He's done a newer strumming variation since.
most people don't have a b bender on their guitar so you can never really nail it 100%
@@Weiers7466 that's correct. It's a B bender if I'm not mistaken. That's in the studio recording Re-load 😉
I would argue Damage Inc. edges out MoP by a bit, maybe even Battery if you're not comfortable with gallops. The hardest part of MoP is that damn section right after the solo. Though, Dyer's Eve is spot on. Unforgiven II is funny because they changed it up these days to not have to use B-Benders.
I think that some blackened parts are harder than dyers eve. Dyers eve it's ezsy if you usually play stupidly fast thrash
@@adrianbs7a keeping up with the tempo can be a problem with blackened riff
@@KillroyLP True
Definitely would say Battery and Damage inc are Harder than MoP
@@MisterJ355 The difficulty of master of puppets is fast downpicking. Just that
I wouldn't call it string-skipping unless you're actually skipping over a string, as in play a note on the E and then switching to the D suddenly, hence skipping the A string.
I never thought about it like that!
Should've called it string changes
I came here to comment this
Actually that's the only definition for string skipping, you're damn right
Glad to see I wasn't the only one who was a bit thrown off seeing strong skipping there
"blackened" is EASILY their hardest song to play the opening riff to. that is so goddamn hard. especially downpicking! and it's very fast. "creeping death" also has a really ridiculous verse riff. i still can't get it right. the Live Shit version is so fast too. i also feel like "battery" might be a harder song to learn. or even "disposable heroes", if we're talking MoP album
No lies detected here, move along
Creeping death is really not possible to get perfect over and over
I find it moderately hard. it’s not that hard of a riff, but it’s harder to play the whole song without stopping for me. even more so than Creeping Death and MoP, which I can
Dyer's Eve is not actually 2-3-2-3-2-3, but just the second fret.
Other than that great video!
Yeah! The thing is that apparently Kirk said in a magazine that it's played like 2-3-2-3
Still, I prefer playing it on the second fret a lot more
Thanks for the comment ^^
@@diccot He actually said it is 2-2-2-2
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@@diccot Kirk said it's played 2-2-2-2-2
I mean he kinda wrote the riff lmao
@@KillroyLP I'd rather listen to the guy who wrote the riff, thanks
@@KillroyLP if uncle Ben Eller said it’s 2-2-2-2, it’s 2-2-2-2
Disposable Heroes is probably more difficult than Master of Puppets
By a long shot
imo damage inc is alot harder bc of the werid broken gallop riff
It 100% is this whole video is wrong, fight fire with fire is harder than creeping death? Nope
@@f0njoe927have you tried keeping up the main riffs at least at 90% the album tempo? Fight Fire is just nutty, and to top it off, it's got weird timing in the riffs, AND that fucking harmony, it's quite possibly an ultimate rite of passage to nail that shit in a live setting
Speed you can train (and even still, nit even comparable to speed they hit post Cliff's death), but it's really a difficult song structure wise
@@yobrethren I can play all those at Toronto 86 speed 🤷 not that hard honestly
I would say the Damage Inc. bridge riff before the solo, is the hardest one on the master of puppets album.
Absolutely.
If you can nail that bridge riff, you can pretty much play all the rest of the riffs on the album.
either that or lead riff in the battery bridge. the string skipping there is mind fucking
1:07 Can't believe you didn't add "the notes in between"
What?
@@t7mf its just the notes in between that are fucking with kirk
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I would say Blackened is the hardest on AJFA and That Was Just Your Life is the hardest on Death Magnetic
The ascending bridge riff in Puppets is WAYYYYY harder. Especially with those 16th note gallops. And what makes Fight Fire With Fire so hard is you have to play the power chord on the & of the upbeat. The way its accented makes it feel like it's right on the upbeat and it's not.
Ehh, the puppets bridge is pretty okay, the harmony is a little harder to play, but still not impossible, it's very easy to play with alt/economy picking
Imo Damage inc's bridge is just *nutty,* it's like Blackened's or Fight Fire's galloping cousin, but their difficulty is downpicking and altpicking respectively
RTL really is difficult just in this one song, and Creeping Death to a little extent, the rest of the album is trivial to a seasoned guitarist
For St. Anger I’d probably go for the title track or Sweet Amber. I’ve always found SKoM really easy
its the notes in between
Sweet Amber is such a fun song to play, and it's actually kind of hard to do the fast picking during the fast part
It sounds stock to my ears
The jump from the unforgiven 2 to some kind of monster was like a kick in the teeth
The reason 'fight fire with fire' is so hard is that you can hardly hear the notes to learn the rythm.
The Four Horsemen - The skip beats and the gallop riff. They took me forever to get the "swing" right.
1:01 missed a perfect opportunity to put "notes in between"
Frayed Ends of Sanity's 0 000 757 000 757 (sth like that) middle riff is so hard too. The triplet there is sooo fast!
I'd also add that My Apocalypse's lick is difficult because you have to gradually add the pinch harmonics, this is just a massive part of the riff
Blackened is waaay harder than dyers eve
I'd say for RtL it's Ride's Spider Chord riff. For MoP it's Disposable for the sustained picking pattern. St. Anger is probably the title track. Hardwired is also probably the title track.
I can proudly say that I’m able to play the my apocalypse riff!
That riff from My Apocalypse is so satisfying to play
I think battery should be here as well, that gallop in the main riff always trips me up
blackened is the hardest metallica riff for me
I thought string skipping meant moving more than one string up or down. The master of puppets riff only plays Teo strings next to eachother.
The Intro of Seek and Destroy has string skipping given you have to go from 6th to 4th string. Otherwise great video
Ive learnt every Metallica album up until the load and reload and I think the hardest Metallica song for me had to be disposable heroes.
Yeah, alongside MoP and Damage Inc, it's basically an endurance test
Kill Em All - Hit The Lights
Ride The Lightning - Fight Fire With Fire
Master Of Puppets - Damage INC
And Justice For All - Dyers Eve
Metallica - Through The Never
Load - Wasting My Hate
Reload - The Unforgiven II
St Anger - St Anger
Death Magnetic - My Apocolypse
Hardwired - Hardwired
master of puppets not that difficult actually. just need stamina on your right hand wrist
With enough practice it becomes easy, i think Battery is harder
That riff is not even the hardest riff of the song
1:02 Dunno u guys, but OMG, this riff's got some notes in between that keep messin' with me
the hardest riff on Master of Puppets is the bridge riff in Damage Inc. iMO
This is my top riffs:
KTA: Metal Militia, Riff pasage after solo (cuz is unnecesaily complex)
RTL: Fight Fire with Fire, riffs before main verse, (drains your picking stamina easily)
MOP: Master of Puppets, 2nd Riff after kirks solo (You need to have dexterity on both hands to make it sound good)
AJFA: One, final “machine gun” riffs.. (takes a lot of time to get the precision it takes to sync it with the drums). Special mention to Frayed ends of sanity.. everything after the solo, weird tempos and hand dexterity is needed
Source: I’ve been playing metallica since I was born
Im too lazy to think of the other albums
What is actually hardest is actually trying to learn the creeping death solo
With SKOM its the notes in between that really fuck you up.
Dyers eve isn't played like that!! This argument was made for decades and James answered it in an interview. Its just one note picked fast not alternate 2-3-2
1:00 - the notes in between
I personally think Master of Puppets is pretty easy for most riffs. But that galloping triplet riff on Damage Inc. is rough.
The notes in between are fucking with me
I'm happy to see a lot of different opinion, how rich the metallica's music!!!🤘
notes in between the opens on spit out the bone are all played on the A string.
I Thought hardest riff in And Justice was Blackened 😞
You thought correctly
Through the never doesnt get enough love
Not the notes inbetween 😭
hearing st anger production suddenly is like getting whiplash lol
1:01 - Notes in between are fucking with you
I'd say the prechorus riff in Moth into flame is harder than spot out the bone. 😄
I just took a crack at it and for sure
1:07 woulda been hilarious if you put “the notes in between”
The notes in between
"We chew and spit you out"
Where are these songs? Blackened, damage inc, Battery, creeping death, disposables heroes
Creeping death is only hard cuz of downstrokes once you got that down it’s pretty okay the rest I’ll agree with you on
Someone needs to explain to this guy What string skipping is. Otherwise great video
Hardest riff in the mop album is the last riff of the bridge. Hardest riff in ajfa is the Frayed Ends solo riff.
Those notes between that are messing with me!
0:26 it's 2 2 2 2, not 2 3 2 3
1:01 indeed the hardest riff on st anger, kirks confirms you that
The notes in between were effing with him
For all y’all lil nastys tryna learn any Load and Relaod era stuff : James had a B bender feel and that’s why he could bend those notes so high
If ya can’t do it exactly don’t worry
Aha! The notes in between!!
I'm a tremolo picking/gallop merchant, so riffs like Fight Fire With Fire i just laugh at.
Extreme genres all the way baby 🤘
Some kind of monster just sounds like System Of A Down
The hardest thing on St. Anger is listening to that snare
Funny!!!🤣🤣
Tab is wrong for Dyers Eve btw. It’s straight 2’s, not 232323
Battery is harder than MOP but i can agree with the rest
Awesome
0:54 Someone else though that was Dont cry of GNR?
Also don't forget the notes in between on Some Kind of Monster
Why is Dyer's Eve tabbed as 2-3? It's all a single note.
I unironically can play Blackened, Master of Puppets, and Fight Fire with Fire back to back, but can’t play Nothing Else Matters.
for master of puppets i would put damage inc
Frayed ends of sanity middle riff is harder than dyers eve. Blackned is harder than dyers eve imo
The riff in Dyers Eve isnt 2-3-2-3. Its only 2-2-2-2
Me: being able to play like 90% of these songs, but struggle really bad on other songs
I wish you woulda added “the notes in between” when you had some kind of monster on the list
I chcecked if dyers eve is here bcoz:
- the "2 3 2 3" is bullshit, you can clearly hear that when slowed down, even Kirk confirmed that.
- it's just normal tremolo, many other metallica songs have patterns like that ( prechorus from disposable heroes)
- there are many harder riffs from ajfa (main riff from blackened, frayed ends od sanity pre-solo etc.)
Wait! The tab for Dyers Eve is wrong. Its not 2-3-2-3, its the regular 2-2-2-2. :D
hardest section in Dyers Eve is the E 320 into 9th power chord on the A string imo,
Dave Mustaine laughs for these being hard.
And i feel bad for not even being able to play some of it
@@megamuerte6934 exactly
Maybe you should cry next to him
Dave mustaine crys because he wishes he was still in Metallica
Dyers Eve is the fastest metallica song that's why the entire song is hard
man, Andriy literally called that riff from Some Kind Of Monster "the simpliest": ruclips.net/video/v0to8LynhFg/видео.html
Ah yes, Some kind of monster with the notes in between.
battery ? ? ? ? ?
Damage Inc. Is far more difficult than the self-titled song on MoP
Some Kind of Monster is pretty simple with the 0-3-5 cord, albeit the entire album is simple, but I think Sweet Amber & My World are more diverse imo
Everything else seems to be fair enough
I'd put battery on the master of puppets album but dw i know it's your personal top 5
Are these tabs from the official Metallica books? Cuz uhhh....
dyers eve tab is wrong. no 23232323. just 22222. Confirmed by metallica.
Dyers Eve is tabed out wrong, making it harder than it should be
I can play all except my apocalypse, fight fire with fire and the unforgiven 2
the bridge on damage inc is the hardest on MoP
Where is Trapped under ice and Damage inc. ??
Is it okay if I can play the mop first riff at almost full speed and the second riff a tad slower, and spit out the bone easily? I've been playing for 6 months
what makes master so hard is because its so fucking long
Y'all know strong skipping means ya have to skip a string between the two right??? Playing on the E and A strings for a riff don't make it string skipping, that being said cool video, good shit y'all!!!
Battery is harder than master of puppets
0:32 master of puppets 2
So many wrong tabs. Dyers Eve is not being played alternated between "2-3" fret ( Bb and C) if u listen it's only one note.
Battery Is much harder than Master of puppets. Whole song and riff. IMO tho
can’t seam to get creeping death main riff right i can’t play it when i hear it i get it but then i try and fail
Dyers eve is 222222
Damage inc bridge is the hardest
Dyers Eve tab is wrong!!!!! It's supposed to be 2222 not 2323.