There's a small Necrophagist easter egg in the video! And here are two more fun facts! 1.ALL and I mean ALL main guitars, so rhythm and leads, were recorded on Harley Benton guitars. I used my Amarok 8 string prototype for all songs. Only used the Ibanez in the video because I prefer playing 6 string guitars, especially when I only need 6 strings in a song. My solos were recorded on the same les paul with the same tone you see and hear in the video! 2.The only reason those fast sweeps in the solo were recorded on the bridge pickup was, because at the time of the recording I couldn't use the neck pickup at full volume. Had issues with my volume pot and I was too lazy to replace it lol. Otherwise I would've used the neck pickup like I do in the video :)
Just getting into Necrophagist by way of Allegaeon, Archspire, Cattle Decapitation and Revocation just to name a few. Stumbled across your channel last night with your MoP at 300 pm vid. New sub BTW. I was curious about the way you hold your pick. I'm recovering from hand surgery and am pretty much starting over. It almost looks like the way alot of jazz players do but at the same time it doesn't. It works though, right? You make this shit look easy!🤘🤘🤘🤘
@@metaldad1967 not sure how jazz players hold their pick haha. The one thing that people rarely notice is that my pick is really parallel to the string, like I hit the strings with the surface flat, no weird angles or anything. Like a lot of people have a very scratchy sounding pick attack because they slightly rotate the pick, so they only hit the string with the tip, instead of the surface. That's what might be different in my playing
@KevinHeiderich Flat? Yet you seem to get no resistance when tremolo picking those fast licks! Are you focused on picking depth? I hope these questions aren't too goofy. At the end of the day it's all about practice practice PRACTICE, right? I believe Roy Clark picked parallel also and he was a MONSTER! Here's a link to a video on backwards picking and the number of gospel and jazz guitarists who utilize it: ruclips.net/video/m1yTB8litRk/видео.htmlsi=msdYQl4V51oHJJIJ Here's the second part: ruclips.net/video/-iOrUKTShBA/видео.htmlsi=WPTscwItCVTpdjva I saw how you lock your thumb but still seem to have a "standard" picking angle. The backwards picking technique is used by George Benson and most people call it the George Benson technique. Like I said earlier, I'm kinda starting over due to carpal tunnel/osteoarthritis surgery. My range of motion is a bit limited now; they did a scaphoid excision with four corner fusion on my right hand. The pain is gone, now I just have to re-build the strength. I was in a cast for 12 weeks as well as having 3 pins in my hand.
The fact that you brought up one of my heroes Ron Jarzombek made me instantly subscribe! Amazing playing, coming from a HUGE Spastic Ink and Necrophagist fan 🥲
And here I thought those slidey sounding lead bends were done with a whammy bar or something, but nope it was a literal guitar slide, Well-freaking-done man!!
Man, congrats on getting to record all the guitars for this EP, and getting to colab with Hannes, dude's an absolute legend. Your work is killer and well deserving of being on this project. Any time we get to hear more stuff that reminds me of Blotted Science or Necrophagist i'm all for.
Well aaaactually, I've played with Hannes together almost 10 years ago, like we played in a band together. It was two live shows with Nader Sadek, where we both played. That's how we knew each other and that's how I got this job :)
I wrote a comment a few days ago but I must have forgot to press enter. This is incredible dude!! Maybe I've just listened to so many of your videos but first time I heard the audio for Retrospective Monolog I thought the playing(attack and muting) sounded like you. ""My job was not just recording the guitars, but also arranging them into something playable, including all articulations and fingerings" That sounds like an absolute nightmare ha. When you transcribe piano or classical music to guitar and it often ends up in impossible fingering but when you try to change it to conventional fingering the melody can get lost. I'm amazed you did a whole album of tech death. It sounds fantastic. I'm just going to think of this as Necrophagist album 3 where Hannes kept the band going and you're a member. That solo is killer too. Looking forward to checking out the whole album and maybe seeing more playthroughs in the future.
When the first single of the EP dropped I wondered if it was you on the guitars, because honestly you're one of the few people who can play Necrophagist's stuff with that much precision. And I was right! Hope you two do more collabs in the future!
Don't beat yourself over that solo take, it sounds unreasonably hard. Also it sounds so good, you've come a long way now that's awesome to see. Please keep it up, I can't wait to hear more !
1. Super glad you're getting work out of your playing! I remember reading a few months ago that you tried out for Aborted but didn't get it. 2. The whole thing sounds amazing, the solos are incredible and the playing is super clean as always(are we actually hearing that Harley Benton LP? Amazing what a cheap guitar can do) 3. I still read the entire description every time, please don't ever stop writing them, reading is half the fun 4. Thanks for introducing me to this whole project (and a few others), I'm a big fan of Necrophagist like most other people here but don't often explore the technical side of death 5. It's still criminal that you've barely got over 10k subscribers
I've known about you through your absolutely mental sped up covers and I was so excited to see you were working with Hannes. I've loved his solo work forever, but this new stuff seems to hit the same spot as old Necrophagist. Loving the EP and hoping to hear more in the near future!
Oh wow I didn’t even know this. Hannes is the best “solo” tech death guy I know of. All of his albums are literally amazing. I had no idea you played this. I’m happy I finally learned that. This song was insane, I’m not surprised at all it was you.
Long ass video description? check! Sick ass guitar playing? check! Btw kinda crazy to me that Epitaph is alreay 20 bloody years old. I will definitely get that EP! /edit: holy, that slide section is tasty!
When Hannes uploaded Retrospective Monologue and I first heard it I got literal goosebumps all over! I was instantly transported back to 2005-2006 (when I was 12), which was the first time I head Epitaph! I didn't even know that it was you who recorded the guitars for it until I read the description afterwards, and it made so much sense he asked you to do it. IMO no one else in tech death today deserves more recognition than you. Btw, that solo is an absolute work of art!
Hehe yeah I kept a low profile about my involvement and Hannes is not big on marketing stuff either. Thank you very much! Calling that solo an absolute work of art is the biggest compliment I could get :)
Great insights on the description, this EP was amazing all the way through! Amazing tributes/homages to the greats, especially the blotted science one, man it's been a minute since we got new material from Jarzombek and Humanoid Body Automation brought those feels 100%!
kevin, man, i've been keeping up with a lot of really great players for the last 10 years or so and i have to say with complete certainty and sincerity that you are one of the best players i have ever seen. crazy tight right hand, super precise left hand, impeccable rhythm -- it's all there dude. if you ever consider teaching, let me know, id love to take some lessons on right hand technique.
Amazing playing and arranging. Received the tab book yesterday and it's very cool to have a tab book for such a niche release. Looks very tidy as well - I quite like having the solos in the flow unlike e.g. the Obscura tab books. I did think "WTF" when I saw the 11-tuplet sweeps tho :D
Oh cool! I haven't seen the tab book or CD in real life yet lol. Only have the pdf version that I sent Hannes for printing. Good to hear that you think it looks very tidy. I spent weeks on just double-checking and deciding for the notation style. I'll get my copies when Hannes and I meet for dinner haha
The Obscura tab books have each solo at the end of the song in a separate section entirely. E.g. you have Incarnated and then Incarnated Solo. And during the song you just have a marker where the solo comes. It is handy, if you want to just learn a solo, but I dislike it for trying to analyze as you don't have the voices next to each other. @@2174863
@KevinHeiderich it's clear you struggled much for that beautiful phrasing mate.....I know its technical and super hard.....but what makes me listen to this solo all night long is the feeling you put into it....well done man❤️🍻🤘
😮 Brav frkn o, I just wish the guitar amp settings were like the OG albums, that deeper, darker sound. Lower tuning too maybe, idk much about instrumentation 😂
Yeah it's definitely a different tone. My original tracking demoes are a bit closer to the EQ of the OG albums. Tuning wise, the EP is actually lower. This song is in the same tuning as Necrophagist, but there are two songs that are way lower
awesome! I am never satisfied when i listen to my recordings... Its just impossiple. If you played it, there is always a thing i would change or re-record. Its like watching a movie you made-> youre always gonna find the flaws (even if they are basically not there)
Yep! It's actually interesting how the perception changes when you had some time away from the work. Like in 90% of the cases I don't hear the flaws anymore. It's only when I'm in the recording process where I'm super sensitive
God mode guitar playing! Incredible job man. Just one question: are you going to make playthroughs of the other songs of the Echoes of Eternity EP? That would be awesome!
Yeah right! Who the fuck can play this?!?!? Him, Christian and Fountainhead. I kid. These are super helpful of course. They are fun to watch regardless.
The thing I really like about your videos are the detailed descriptions. Thank you for that, I really like to listen to the thought process or any other process that went into a video. Great playing as always! One question: how do you produce such a "picky" pick attack? For example - you're playing sweeps but it sounds like every note is picked -> it sounds really REALLY great!
Thank you! To be honest I could write at least 10 descriptions about that process of that EP. I really had to keep it short and try to sqeeze everything into it that makes sense related to the video. I actually wanted to make an in-depth playing and recording guide that was supposed to come with the tab book where I go through all of it. But I ended up finishing the tab book almost a year after the recording, and I underestimated how much time goes into just editing and finishing an actual tab book. Haha, like I said in a different comment. I hold my pick parallel to the string so the surface of the pick hits the string. A lot of players actually slightly rotate the pick, so they only hit the string with the rotated tip. That will give you a scratchy thinner pick attack. If you hold and play it like I do, with some force, then you get a more percussive "picky" kind of pick attack, where every note pops out. I even have to play thin picks, because otherwise I get too much pick attack. That's why I settled for 0.88mm :)
@@KevinHeiderich ooooooooooooooooooooooooh! THAT MAKES SENSE. Because it's such a specific sound that is produced - thank you for your reply! One more question: what gauge strings are you using? Don't you get like a "spaghetti" feel when playing 0.88 picks in terms of picking?
@@gilmeaguitar The 0.88 are the thinnest picks that don't bend like spaghetti. I would prefer to play 0.73 in terms of sound, but they bend too much so 0.88mm was the best compromise. 1.00mm already have more attack. I play heavier gauges, I think. The les paul is tuned to E standard and has 10-52, the Ibanez is tuned to D standard and has 11-56. The A standard 7 string song on the EP was recorded on 11-56 with a 72 for the A, and the C standard song was recorded on a 68 set on a 26.5 scale lol
Hello friend, I have been following you for a while and I appreciate your work. There are a few things I want to ask you. I'm thinking of buying the headphones you use in the video and the focusrite scarlett 2i2 4rd gen. Would it be a good choice for a bedroom guitarist like me? I can say that I am an intermediate level guitar player now. My current equipment is marshall mg10cf, jackson rrmg pro, ibanez s521 mol. I want to make such a change because the amp I use is crap. What is your suggestion?
I have the 2i2 3rd gen in my living room for amp sims and will probably buy a 4th gen for my main computer, and I use those headphones in every video and whenever I play, so I think those are good choices :)
@@KevinHeiderich Thank you very much for your reply. Is there anything else I will need to buy other than these two things? I'm asking because I don't understand anything about these things. I guess I will spend money on software or something?
Hey Kevin! I had a question and I don't know if you answered it in the description of another video or the tab book but what guitars specifically do you use to record for albums? Is it whatever strikes your fancy on this day / the Harley Bentons you use in the videos or do you have specific guitars you pull out for studio work? Thanks in advance and I really hope to see you land more studio work, you deserve to be known as one of the top working players in the business :D
I added pinned comment with that information. So, all main guitars were recorded with my Harley Benton Amarok 8 string prototype (the one from the last Blotted Science video). Mainly because with that guitar I was able to record all songs in their different tunings (A, D and C standard). Made it a lot easier for Hannes to reamp because all songs have the same guitar. The most important things for me in a studio guitar are buzzing and intonation. Sound to some degree but to be honest, I've never really had any unusable pickups apart from the Ibanez RG8 (they sucked IMO). Buzzing is also not thaaaaat important because I generally raise the action a bit when I set up my guitars for a studio session (not video though, those are my regular set up guitars). So my studio set up actually has a pretty high action, but that way I have almost no buzzing at all in the DI signal. Allows me to hit harder as well. Intonation is the last one. Longer scale is a must on certain tunings. I hate C standard for example. Usually a tuning you'd use with a regular scale. But for the love of god, it sounds like shit when I play it intonation wise. What I did on the one song that was tuned to C standard (Echoes Of Eternity): I just tuned the bottom 6 strings of my 8 string to C standard, like C standard with two additional high strings. That way I could take full advantage of the longer scale on the bottom strings (fan fret). I also used ridiculously tight strings as well (68 for the C). Played like shit but sounded beautiful. Generally I just play with what I have. I currently don't own a guitar over 200€, don't really care. Also, I am a guitar tech, that's my current day job. That makes it a lot easier and that's how I got my Harley Benton (I work for them). One comment Hannes made when I visited him in his studio: "Oh you really do play a Harley Benton". He probably thought I was joking on the phone lol
@@KevinHeiderichThat is pretty surprising you play an inexpensive guitar, sounds great though so it doesn’t matter. Do you think you’ll ever upgrade? Say to a kiesel or something of that type.
@@KevinHeiderich Thank you so much for all the info!! I'm always curious about the "behind the scenes" when it comes to things like that and also you're really inspiring me to play the instruments I already own instead of trying to get into the realm of 1000€+ instruments. If you can do crazy sweeps and solos on a Harley Benton then then I think it's definitely good inspiration for people (at least me) to shed wood on the tool we have and practice instead of always looking at new guitars to buy
It could be sooner than I thought. I'm currently collaborating with another drummer and he seems to be very eager to work on original stuff haha. We already got a singer too lol
werde mir auf jeden die tabs holen wenn ich irgendwann mal so gut bin... xd btw kennst du Irreversible Mechanism? wenn nicht dann glaube ich wird dir die band gefallen/spass machen zu spielen weil die einfach.... ich sage nur Betrayer of Time von denen😅 freue mich schon auf weitere cover, deine captions zu lesen fuehlt sich immer so... ich weiss nicht, ehrlich und vertraulich an?? mach auf jeden fall weiter du bist ein beast @@KevinHeiderich
Stuff like 0:17 is what is called counterpoint, right? edit - so after further observation, I see that that is a single melody that actually sounded to me like two
it's just a super weird harmony, and the rhythm guitars in the background are also a bit busy in that part. Hannes writes the weirdest harmonies. When I first listened to that part in guitar pro I seriously didn't think it would work in real life haha
Nope, only a physical book. I do have tabs because that's what the book is based on but Hannes decided to only release the book. That's why I don't send out guitar pro files of these songs, sorry :/
There's a small Necrophagist easter egg in the video! And here are two more fun facts!
1.ALL and I mean ALL main guitars, so rhythm and leads, were recorded on Harley Benton guitars. I used my Amarok 8 string prototype for all songs. Only used the Ibanez in the video because I prefer playing 6 string guitars, especially when I only need 6 strings in a song. My solos were recorded on the same les paul with the same tone you see and hear in the video!
2.The only reason those fast sweeps in the solo were recorded on the bridge pickup was, because at the time of the recording I couldn't use the neck pickup at full volume. Had issues with my volume pot and I was too lazy to replace it lol. Otherwise I would've used the neck pickup like I do in the video :)
Is the Easter egg the reason I thought you were about to start playing Stabwound? 😜
Just getting into Necrophagist by way of Allegaeon, Archspire, Cattle Decapitation and Revocation just to name a few. Stumbled across your channel last night with your MoP at 300 pm vid. New sub BTW. I was curious about the way you hold your pick. I'm recovering from hand surgery and am pretty much starting over. It almost looks like the way alot of jazz players do but at the same time it doesn't. It works though, right? You make this shit look easy!🤘🤘🤘🤘
@@metaldad1967 not sure how jazz players hold their pick haha. The one thing that people rarely notice is that my pick is really parallel to the string, like I hit the strings with the surface flat, no weird angles or anything. Like a lot of people have a very scratchy sounding pick attack because they slightly rotate the pick, so they only hit the string with the tip, instead of the surface. That's what might be different in my playing
@KevinHeiderich Flat? Yet you seem to get no resistance when tremolo picking those fast licks! Are you focused on picking depth? I hope these questions aren't too goofy. At the end of the day it's all about practice practice PRACTICE, right? I believe Roy Clark picked parallel also and he was a MONSTER! Here's a link to a video on backwards picking and the number of gospel and jazz guitarists who utilize it:
ruclips.net/video/m1yTB8litRk/видео.htmlsi=msdYQl4V51oHJJIJ
Here's the second part:
ruclips.net/video/-iOrUKTShBA/видео.htmlsi=WPTscwItCVTpdjva
I saw how you lock your thumb but still seem to have a "standard" picking angle. The backwards picking technique is used by George Benson and most people call it the George Benson technique. Like I said earlier, I'm kinda starting over due to carpal tunnel/osteoarthritis surgery. My range of motion is a bit limited now; they did a scaphoid excision with four corner fusion on my right hand. The pain is gone, now I just have to re-build the strength. I was in a cast for 12 weeks as well as having 3 pins in my hand.
The fact that you brought up one of my heroes Ron Jarzombek made me instantly subscribe! Amazing playing, coming from a HUGE Spastic Ink and Necrophagist fan 🥲
And here I thought those slidey sounding lead bends were done with a whammy bar or something, but nope it was a literal guitar slide, Well-freaking-done man!!
As someone who has been dreaming of a new Necrophagist release for so long... I don't know what else to say besides thank you :D
Go and thank Hannes! He wrote it :)
Man, congrats on getting to record all the guitars for this EP, and getting to colab with Hannes, dude's an absolute legend. Your work is killer and well deserving of being on this project. Any time we get to hear more stuff that reminds me of Blotted Science or Necrophagist i'm all for.
good read in the description. i wasnt going to pick up the hannes album, because i havnt liked his solo work at all, but now i will get it 👁
Nice!!!
You are becoming legendary Kevin
Beer is on me if that ever happens :D
thx for this :D as a necrophagist fan this is the closest we can get
This EP is a perfect homage for Epitaph
Glad to see you getting into more projects! Never thought I'd see the day where you and Grossman play together!
Well aaaactually, I've played with Hannes together almost 10 years ago, like we played in a band together. It was two live shows with Nader Sadek, where we both played. That's how we knew each other and that's how I got this job :)
I wrote a comment a few days ago but I must have forgot to press enter. This is incredible dude!! Maybe I've just listened to so many of your videos but first time I heard the audio for Retrospective Monolog I thought the playing(attack and muting) sounded like you.
""My job was not just recording the guitars, but also arranging them into something playable, including all articulations and fingerings"
That sounds like an absolute nightmare ha. When you transcribe piano or classical music to guitar and it often ends up in impossible fingering but when you try to change it to conventional fingering the melody can get lost. I'm amazed you did a whole album of tech death. It sounds fantastic. I'm just going to think of this as Necrophagist album 3 where Hannes kept the band going and you're a member.
That solo is killer too. Looking forward to checking out the whole album and maybe seeing more playthroughs in the future.
When the first single of the EP dropped I wondered if it was you on the guitars, because honestly you're one of the few people who can play Necrophagist's stuff with that much precision. And I was right!
Hope you two do more collabs in the future!
Well, he stills owes me a song, so technically he has to collaborate with me :D
Amazing track and stunning guitar work💯🤘🏼
This is so good, well played man!!
El solo es brutal!! buenisimo
Insane! I aspire to become as good as you someday! Sick cover Kevin👍
Just keep on playing ;-)
Don't beat yourself over that solo take, it sounds unreasonably hard. Also it sounds so good, you've come a long way now that's awesome to see. Please keep it up, I can't wait to hear more !
I wish I still had my very fist youtube videos. I already had a channel before this one, when I was 17. Had a Swarm of the Formless cover on that
Woah, it's so nice to see you doing collabs with Hannes :3
Sick cover Kevin!
It's not a cover when you recorded the original guitars and even wrote the solo!!! :D
Thanks though :)
1. Super glad you're getting work out of your playing! I remember reading a few months ago that you tried out for Aborted but didn't get it.
2. The whole thing sounds amazing, the solos are incredible and the playing is super clean as always(are we actually hearing that Harley Benton LP? Amazing what a cheap guitar can do)
3. I still read the entire description every time, please don't ever stop writing them, reading is half the fun
4. Thanks for introducing me to this whole project (and a few others), I'm a big fan of Necrophagist like most other people here but don't often explore the technical side of death
5. It's still criminal that you've barely got over 10k subscribers
Absolutely insane playing, your speed and precision is still mind-blowing to this day!
STABWOUUUURRRRRDDDD
This is sick man, it’s like Necro + SoP
Yep, thought the same about the verse part in this song
@@KevinHeiderichYess, tryna get to your level someday man 🙏
beautiful! can't wait for more. this rocks...
I've known about you through your absolutely mental sped up covers and I was so excited to see you were working with Hannes. I've loved his solo work forever, but this new stuff seems to hit the same spot as old Necrophagist. Loving the EP and hoping to hear more in the near future!
Goddamn that was good. I loved the slide bits. Seriously, that was great.
Then go listen to the solo of the song "Echoes Of Eternity". That was completely played with a slide, basically impossible without one :)
Oh wow I didn’t even know this. Hannes is the best “solo” tech death guy I know of. All of his albums are literally amazing. I had no idea you played this. I’m happy I finally learned that.
This song was insane, I’m not surprised at all it was you.
That's great music! You can be proud of yourself what you achieved.
Thanks! I'm super happy with the positive reception. Wasn't sure what people will think about the solos I wrote
absolute insanity, Kevin! crushing it as always!
Long ass video description? check!
Sick ass guitar playing? check!
Btw kinda crazy to me that Epitaph is alreay 20 bloody years old. I will definitely get that EP!
/edit: holy, that slide section is tasty!
If you want tasty then listen to the Echoes Of Eternity solo, that's played with the slide all the way through :)
@@KevinHeiderich Yep that's a sick one as well, listened to the whole EP yesterday ^^
Amazing. Appreciate your skillset. WOW!
Yess been waiting for this one
When Hannes uploaded Retrospective Monologue and I first heard it I got literal goosebumps all over! I was instantly transported back to 2005-2006 (when I was 12), which was the first time I head Epitaph! I didn't even know that it was you who recorded the guitars for it until I read the description afterwards, and it made so much sense he asked you to do it. IMO no one else in tech death today deserves more recognition than you. Btw, that solo is an absolute work of art!
Hehe yeah I kept a low profile about my involvement and Hannes is not big on marketing stuff either. Thank you very much! Calling that solo an absolute work of art is the biggest compliment I could get :)
Amazing!
This is absolutely f-ing awesome dude, one of the best tech death songs I've ever heard
This is awesome!! Definitely going to order the tab book!
You are a massive talent.
Thanks :)
amazing as always! I didn't know anything had "unplayable fingerings" for you :) well done!
Oh boy, I should send you some of those original tabs. There are definitely unplayable fingerings for me too :D
Jesus christ
You can say that again.
That was amazing! Super fluid and tasty. Extra love for those solos.
Glad you liked them. They only took a few months of my life hahaha
Very good playthrough Kevin.
Holy shit, sounds amazinggg, cant believe u wrote that, that solo is sooooooo stupidly hard and fun, cant wait for the full album :)
Soooooooo many people think I can't write music...."yOu'rE juSt a cOvEr pLaYer". Had to show them ;-)
@@KevinHeiderich yeah, i can see that, but seriously, ive never seen such a creative solo, maybe beside's fountainhead's akroasis
This playing is so epic. Will have to check out this new Grossman record.
Congratulations!
Great insights on the description, this EP was amazing all the way through! Amazing tributes/homages to the greats, especially the blotted science one, man it's been a minute since we got new material from Jarzombek and Humanoid Body Automation brought those feels 100%!
kevin, man, i've been keeping up with a lot of really great players for the last 10 years or so and i have to say with complete certainty and sincerity that you are one of the best players i have ever seen. crazy tight right hand, super precise left hand, impeccable rhythm -- it's all there dude.
if you ever consider teaching, let me know, id love to take some lessons on right hand technique.
epic!!!
Thanks and congrats !
Absolutely insane solo, very melodic and memorable while still being intensely technical. Truly a difficult feat.
Du bist einfach Deutschlands most insane shred machine Kevin, hands down! Einfach nur Wahnsinn 🤯
Ach du wieder! Danke! Ich geb dir ein Bier aus, wenn ich mal wieder in deiner Gegend bin. Sollte eigentlich nicht so schwer sein :)
Amazing playing and arranging. Received the tab book yesterday and it's very cool to have a tab book for such a niche release. Looks very tidy as well - I quite like having the solos in the flow unlike e.g. the Obscura tab books. I did think "WTF" when I saw the 11-tuplet sweeps tho :D
Oh cool! I haven't seen the tab book or CD in real life yet lol. Only have the pdf version that I sent Hannes for printing. Good to hear that you think it looks very tidy. I spent weeks on just double-checking and deciding for the notation style. I'll get my copies when Hannes and I meet for dinner haha
What do you mean in the flow? How are the obscura tab books
The Obscura tab books have each solo at the end of the song in a separate section entirely. E.g. you have Incarnated and then Incarnated Solo. And during the song you just have a marker where the solo comes.
It is handy, if you want to just learn a solo, but I dislike it for trying to analyze as you don't have the voices next to each other. @@2174863
the solo in the titular track is amazing, on first listen i thought that was the fountainhead quest solo
Hehe I was wondering how many people will think that, especially since he also has a guest solo on that EP
As always, this is fucking incredible.
That solo is reeeeeally cool man
Musicality in the solo was number 1 man......awesome stuff❤❤❤
Oh man, you can't imagine what this means to me!
@KevinHeiderich it's clear you struggled much for that beautiful phrasing mate.....I know its technical and super hard.....but what makes me listen to this solo all night long is the feeling you put into it....well done man❤️🍻🤘
😮 Brav frkn o, I just wish the guitar amp settings were like the OG albums, that deeper, darker sound. Lower tuning too maybe, idk much about instrumentation 😂
Yeah it's definitely a different tone. My original tracking demoes are a bit closer to the EQ of the OG albums. Tuning wise, the EP is actually lower. This song is in the same tuning as Necrophagist, but there are two songs that are way lower
@@KevinHeiderich See, I dunno haha, appreciate the explanation. I'll have to check out your other stuff!
you are the one of the best guitar players
Thank you :)
Holy FUCK this is clean
I had to deliver in this video after I recorded the guitars for the EP haha. Though I'm not a 100% satisfied with the video
nice
I fucking needed this in my life. Thank you.
Legend
Himmel wie geil 🔥🔥 absoluter Fan!
Awesomeness
A masterclass in modern tech death
Aaaand subscribed
Respect!!!!!
Love the blacked out Ibanez. Sick playing!!
I caught that Shostakovich in Engraved In Their Shrouds
you will upload the tabs? it is one of the best technical death metal songs I have ever heard
awesome! I am never satisfied when i listen to my recordings... Its just impossiple. If you played it, there is always a thing i would change or re-record. Its like watching a movie you made-> youre always gonna find the flaws (even if they are basically not there)
Yep! It's actually interesting how the perception changes when you had some time away from the work. Like in 90% of the cases I don't hear the flaws anymore. It's only when I'm in the recording process where I'm super sensitive
God mode guitar playing! Incredible job man.
Just one question: are you going to make playthroughs of the other songs of the Echoes of Eternity EP? That would be awesome!
Yeah right! Who the fuck can play this?!?!? Him, Christian and Fountainhead.
I kid. These are super helpful of course. They are fun to watch regardless.
Ahhhh long descriptions again, I feel at home.
Oh this one deserves at least 10 full descriptions!
The thing I really like about your videos are the detailed descriptions. Thank you for that, I really like to listen to the thought process or any other process that went into a video. Great playing as always!
One question: how do you produce such a "picky" pick attack? For example - you're playing sweeps but it sounds like every note is picked -> it sounds really REALLY great!
Thank you! To be honest I could write at least 10 descriptions about that process of that EP. I really had to keep it short and try to sqeeze everything into it that makes sense related to the video. I actually wanted to make an in-depth playing and recording guide that was supposed to come with the tab book where I go through all of it. But I ended up finishing the tab book almost a year after the recording, and I underestimated how much time goes into just editing and finishing an actual tab book.
Haha, like I said in a different comment. I hold my pick parallel to the string so the surface of the pick hits the string. A lot of players actually slightly rotate the pick, so they only hit the string with the rotated tip. That will give you a scratchy thinner pick attack. If you hold and play it like I do, with some force, then you get a more percussive "picky" kind of pick attack, where every note pops out. I even have to play thin picks, because otherwise I get too much pick attack. That's why I settled for 0.88mm :)
@@KevinHeiderich ooooooooooooooooooooooooh! THAT MAKES SENSE. Because it's such a specific sound that is produced - thank you for your reply!
One more question: what gauge strings are you using? Don't you get like a "spaghetti" feel when playing 0.88 picks in terms of picking?
@@gilmeaguitar The 0.88 are the thinnest picks that don't bend like spaghetti. I would prefer to play 0.73 in terms of sound, but they bend too much so 0.88mm was the best compromise. 1.00mm already have more attack.
I play heavier gauges, I think. The les paul is tuned to E standard and has 10-52, the Ibanez is tuned to D standard and has 11-56. The A standard 7 string song on the EP was recorded on 11-56 with a 72 for the A, and the C standard song was recorded on a 68 set on a 26.5 scale lol
@@KevinHeiderich thank you for your insight! Much appreciated!
Fucking awesome
The song turned out to be incredibly cool. What model of black electric guitar is this?
You're a god!
Ripping shit dude!!!😮
can i get some your fractal presets? so amazing sound and playing i cant play like you..but i want sound like you with my fx2😂
Not "small easter egg", this is Stabwound with some changes of course, but still cool
🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Approaching the physical limitations of the human body.
yes
Hello friend, I have been following you for a while and I appreciate your work. There are a few things I want to ask you. I'm thinking of buying the headphones you use in the video and the focusrite scarlett 2i2 4rd gen. Would it be a good choice for a bedroom guitarist like me? I can say that I am an intermediate level guitar player now. My current equipment is marshall mg10cf, jackson rrmg pro, ibanez s521 mol. I want to make such a change because the amp I use is crap. What is your suggestion?
I have the 2i2 3rd gen in my living room for amp sims and will probably buy a 4th gen for my main computer, and I use those headphones in every video and whenever I play, so I think those are good choices :)
@@KevinHeiderich Thank you very much for your reply. Is there anything else I will need to buy other than these two things? I'm asking because I don't understand anything about these things. I guess I will spend money on software or something?
@@KevinHeiderich And does it make more sense to buy the 80 ohm model of the headphones? Maybe I'll connect it to the computer and listen to music.
🙂🤘
1:37 that's cool as fuck
Did they put out new music or is this a rendition of something? Sounds very similar to “Stabwound” in spots and layout.
It's actually an EP from Hannes Grossmann, who was the drummer for the last Necrophagist album, and also a big songwriter in Obscura
Hey Kevin! I had a question and I don't know if you answered it in the description of another video or the tab book but what guitars specifically do you use to record for albums? Is it whatever strikes your fancy on this day / the Harley Bentons you use in the videos or do you have specific guitars you pull out for studio work? Thanks in advance and I really hope to see you land more studio work, you deserve to be known as one of the top working players in the business :D
I added pinned comment with that information. So, all main guitars were recorded with my Harley Benton Amarok 8 string prototype (the one from the last Blotted Science video). Mainly because with that guitar I was able to record all songs in their different tunings (A, D and C standard). Made it a lot easier for Hannes to reamp because all songs have the same guitar.
The most important things for me in a studio guitar are buzzing and intonation. Sound to some degree but to be honest, I've never really had any unusable pickups apart from the Ibanez RG8 (they sucked IMO).
Buzzing is also not thaaaaat important because I generally raise the action a bit when I set up my guitars for a studio session (not video though, those are my regular set up guitars). So my studio set up actually has a pretty high action, but that way I have almost no buzzing at all in the DI signal. Allows me to hit harder as well. Intonation is the last one. Longer scale is a must on certain tunings. I hate C standard for example. Usually a tuning you'd use with a regular scale. But for the love of god, it sounds like shit when I play it intonation wise. What I did on the one song that was tuned to C standard (Echoes Of Eternity): I just tuned the bottom 6 strings of my 8 string to C standard, like C standard with two additional high strings. That way I could take full advantage of the longer scale on the bottom strings (fan fret). I also used ridiculously tight strings as well (68 for the C). Played like shit but sounded beautiful.
Generally I just play with what I have. I currently don't own a guitar over 200€, don't really care. Also, I am a guitar tech, that's my current day job. That makes it a lot easier and that's how I got my Harley Benton (I work for them).
One comment Hannes made when I visited him in his studio: "Oh you really do play a Harley Benton". He probably thought I was joking on the phone lol
@@KevinHeiderichThat is pretty surprising you play an inexpensive guitar, sounds great though so it doesn’t matter. Do you think you’ll ever upgrade? Say to a kiesel or something of that type.
@@2174863 nope
@@KevinHeiderich Thank you so much for all the info!! I'm always curious about the "behind the scenes" when it comes to things like that and also you're really inspiring me to play the instruments I already own instead of trying to get into the realm of 1000€+ instruments. If you can do crazy sweeps and solos on a Harley Benton then then I think it's definitely good inspiration for people (at least me) to shed wood on the tool we have and practice instead of always looking at new guitars to buy
Fuckin Amazing
Adrenaline overdose! When will we see your personal project?
It could be sooner than I thought. I'm currently collaborating with another drummer and he seems to be very eager to work on original stuff haha. We already got a singer too lol
@@KevinHeiderich I'm sure it will be awesome!
💣Красавчик. Машина. Так держать 🤘🏻🎸🤘🏻 Дуэт соло с слайдом очень понравилось. Ещё буду смотреть на 10% скорости 😃
THAT LES PAUL
digga...mein idol fr
Diggi, danke :)
werde mir auf jeden die tabs holen wenn ich irgendwann mal so gut bin... xd
btw kennst du Irreversible Mechanism? wenn nicht dann glaube ich wird dir die band gefallen/spass machen zu spielen weil die einfach.... ich sage nur Betrayer of Time von denen😅
freue mich schon auf weitere cover, deine captions zu lesen fuehlt sich immer so... ich weiss nicht, ehrlich und vertraulich an?? mach auf jeden fall weiter du bist ein beast
@@KevinHeiderich
OMG :O
Stuff like 0:17 is what is called counterpoint, right?
edit - so after further observation, I see that that is a single melody that actually sounded to me like two
idk what you mean but counter point is just two different melodies playing simultaneously you can look up baroque counterpoint to get an idea
it's just a super weird harmony, and the rhythm guitars in the background are also a bit busy in that part. Hannes writes the weirdest harmonies. When I first listened to that part in guitar pro I seriously didn't think it would work in real life haha
I was wondering, what Muhammed opinion for this track. Never will know.
Does the tab book include guitar pro files by any chance?
Nope, only a physical book. I do have tabs because that's what the book is based on but Hannes decided to only release the book. That's why I don't send out guitar pro files of these songs, sorry :/
METAL GEAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Not sure what that has to do with Kevin....but YES!! THEY BOTH RULE!!
Fuken hell dude that's so tasty it's ribeye 😮
Do I need an 8 string guitar to learn these or can I do it with a seven string? @kevinheiderich
You won't need an 8 string. Two songs are in A standard for 7 string. Two are in D standard for 6 string and one is in C standard for 6 string
We got stabwound part 2 before gta 6
More likely Obscura. Killer track tho! 🔥
Yeah there's still a lot of Obscura in all of these tracks