Starting a rock band is actually a great way to learn rock music. I played in metalcore bands during high school, but after graduating, my drummer friend asked me to start a rock band with our bassist friend, so we learned a bunch of covers and a year later we had 6 awesome original rock songs and recorded our first EP. Unfortunately, we broke up by the time it came out, but it's still a great EP. This was back in 2012-2014, and since then I've started combining all of my interests from rock, punk, metalcore, deathcore, J-Pop, etc. and have gotten a really cool progressive rock kind of thing going. I just released a deathcore concept album in the spring too, but my poppy progressive rock stuff is what I'm best at. Edit: because of interest in the comments, here are the albums I mentioned. Follow by August Silhouette (deathcore, available everywhere) Now Playing by Idle Cinema (rock, only available on youtube) The music I released between the albums is available on this channel, but all new music will be on the August Silhouette channel. Thank you for the interest!
I've played over that exact jam track so much and it pleases me to hear Nik play almost the exact same kind of stuff I've played over it. He just played it a LOT faster, cleaner, and with better timing, but the phrasing was unbelievably similar to mine!
As someone who fits the exact definition of listening to queens of the stone age growing up and learning to play rock Nik immediately learned all the tricks I had accumulated when he got the backing track up at the end
Your best bet is to put the guitar down while you watch older rock bands from the 70's and early 80's play and solo for a few songs a day and simply skip to the next song and band once you get the idea. Or,just listen to older classic rock when not playing metal music. Your brain will automatically adjust and memorize ideas. This is also a great exercise for your brain.
At first, I loved rock music because I listened to AC/DC all the time... then when I heard PSYCHOSOCIAL by SLIPKNOT for the first time, some kind of fire got lit inside me and I knew that I was meant to be a metal-head and that same song encouraged me to buy my first electric guitar🤘🎸
1:17 Thank you for making the Skyrim meme references a solid thing. Everytime I hear the drum sound of the skill increase, I cry and laugh at the same time. 3:27 It's hillarious Nik never increases the skill over 21 points.
Honestly, if you're a Metalhead, you should know your way around some classic rock, around The Blues, learn a bit from Classical, learn a bit from Jazz. Metal is so insanely diverse with all its subgenres, we can basically incorporate everything.
I think this video showed how confusing it actually is for someone just learning now days. There’s so much info but trying to decipher what to actually listen to is chaos
@7:50 I SAW THAT SWEEP. A couple more of those and they'll ban you from the ROCK. For real though, you should check out Black 'n' Roll. It's basically just a whole genre of dudes cosplaying as Lemmy, but like, some of the bands actually fucking rip? Speedwolf is good, and so is Midight.
That "in game" at the end.... Are you a Dantes fan ? 🤔 Btw it goes without saying but you're an amazing musician !!!! Oh and we're still waiting for a full song with Elizabeth on vocal (doesn't even matter what song, as long as her vocals are there) 😁
6:35-7:11 was pretty slick. Ps. Now all we need nik to do is J-Rock (stuff like Versailles, X Japan and Loudness), i mean, he kinda did that with Mathrock but thats more modern stuff.
I would love to see you learning Blues Rock, specially the song "Pride and Joy" by SRV, it is fucking hard as a Metal guitarrist trying to emulate that style
You had that concentrated fun look going on my guy! I bet you've heard of Big Wreck bruh. Check out how funky they've gotten since The Oaf (My Luck Is Wasted) days
With your new found expertise of the rocknroll . You should listen to Sevendust’s new album, “Truth Killer.” It would be cool to hear you review the album. Its a nice blend of Hard Rock/Metalcore riffs. One of their best well rounded albums.
The funny thing is that QOTSA is exacly the opposite of a pentatonic dad rock band like Greta Van fleet or something like that cause they really put some fresh air in rock and I still listen to them regularly haha
Show us you learning Folk music. Only because I have never seen you do a "metal version of (insert folk song)" or anything in that genre. I feel like you'd make it sound amazing.
There is A LOT of folk metal out there, different variations, different lyric themes, different genre influences. Check out Finntroll, Eluveitie, Korpiklaani, Arkona and Alestorm. Folk metal is HUGE in Europe.
Awesome & fun video as always. But Blues scale is not the same as Pentatonic scale. Think of Blues scale as mixing the major & minor scales and or/playing them at the same time. Or rather, playing the Major scale of the same note over the Minor scale of the same note, alongside it.
@@matenorth it's a really simple way to think about & use the scale often used by old blues players like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hendrix, Clapton, BB King and all the OG blues legends.
Secret sauce fee best place to learn to play any kind of guitar for over a decade has been RUclips you can augment with tab look up individual songs with or without tab or even just techniques
*Smash like for fun rock things*
SMASHED!!
We want more fun rock things here!
Still metal solo without distortion Nik 😅 Do the solo again but full disto. 😅❤ Still love it.
Are we going to get a “How to dad rock in 30 seconds” or should I just use WikiHow? 😅
Great video man 👍
I absolutely love nofx and rancid
jizz sorry i ment jazz…. kill me
That solo sounded like it could drink 20 beers and stay standing,
Hell yeah brother!
So it's the Marion from Raiders of The Lost Ark, if she were a guitar solo.
it sounds like the average guitar center but sure
It had some serious cut the sleeves off a t shirt to make a tank top vibes
ROCK AND ROLLL WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Congrats Nik. Played all powerchords that Scorpions used in their entire career.😂
TRUE
And some Simple arpeggio when ballad (anyway still my fav band ever)
Oof
😠
Sails Of Charon would like a word with you lol
This is like the Metalocalypse episode where they tried to learn the blues.
On grandpas guitars
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Mashed Potatoe Johnson.
Classic
The funny part is seeing Nik actually get into it while playing. Like towards the end he was really (for lack of better term) rocking out.
The solo was so spot on that for a moment I thought you were going to get kicked out from a guitar center
“It’s just metal-like” Nik discovering where metal comes from
Definitely.
This is where half of it comes from.
Damn we learning Asking Alexandria in this video? Awesome
He say's Rock not a Pop, tho calling they pathetic efforts to make "popular" is overstatement.
@@John_Soulsthey are simply music
Starting a rock band is actually a great way to learn rock music. I played in metalcore bands during high school, but after graduating, my drummer friend asked me to start a rock band with our bassist friend, so we learned a bunch of covers and a year later we had 6 awesome original rock songs and recorded our first EP. Unfortunately, we broke up by the time it came out, but it's still a great EP. This was back in 2012-2014, and since then I've started combining all of my interests from rock, punk, metalcore, deathcore, J-Pop, etc. and have gotten a really cool progressive rock kind of thing going. I just released a deathcore concept album in the spring too, but my poppy progressive rock stuff is what I'm best at.
Edit: because of interest in the comments, here are the albums I mentioned.
Follow by August Silhouette (deathcore, available everywhere)
Now Playing by Idle Cinema (rock, only available on youtube)
The music I released between the albums is available on this channel, but all new music will be on the August Silhouette channel.
Thank you for the interest!
Please give us the link to your music !!
drop da linky bro
What is the deathcore album's name? Sounds interesting
Dude.
Drop the album.
I need to hear it
Drop da link ma boii
Love that you were just starting your best Carlos Santana impression when you realized "Wait I need more pentatonic"
Nik, you have mastered the art of rock. Now you must set forth on a quest to the town of Kickapoo and challenge Ralph Macchio to a rock off!
Yess😂😂
"He's finally playing something other than screamo music." - Boomer
That leather jacket tho...👌 So much Chad energy
Yeaa death of me cover
Respect
Sic profile pic
dude, there are so many musicians named chad. theres chad smith, chad channing, chad kroeger, chad white, and more. which chad are you talking about
I've played over that exact jam track so much and it pleases me to hear Nik play almost the exact same kind of stuff I've played over it.
He just played it a LOT faster, cleaner, and with better timing, but the phrasing was unbelievably similar to mine!
"Rock is just metal lite."
Um......I'm glad you just NOW had this revelation...😂😂😂😂
Loved the solo! Very AC/DC and BWoHM
The ultimate troll would be for Nik to play _How You Remind Me_
As someone who fits the exact definition of listening to queens of the stone age growing up and learning to play rock Nik immediately learned all the tricks I had accumulated when he got the backing track up at the end
Love queens of the Stone Age 👌
Your best bet is to put the guitar down while you watch older rock bands from the 70's and early 80's play and solo for a few songs a day and simply skip to the next song and band once you get the idea. Or,just listen to older classic rock when not playing metal music. Your brain will automatically adjust and memorize ideas. This is also a great exercise for your brain.
This is a bit like "worldwide greatest writer learns reading"
Even when you play rock and roll, you're a metal boy at heart. Well done.
This was fun Nik. As my roots come from blues and classic rock before i wrote metal, this was awesome to see. And you were kinda nice with it too!
At first, I loved rock music because I listened to AC/DC all the time... then when I heard PSYCHOSOCIAL by SLIPKNOT for the first time, some kind of fire got lit inside me and I knew that I was meant to be a metal-head and that same song encouraged me to buy my first electric guitar🤘🎸
Nik: ”yeah I’m going to learn some rock now.”
Also Nik: ”yeah check me rip this awesome epic solo on this rock backing track.”
1:17 Thank you for making the Skyrim meme references a solid thing. Everytime I hear the drum sound of the skill increase, I cry and laugh at the same time. 3:27 It's hillarious Nik never increases the skill over 21 points.
There is actually a lot of newer rock that’s tuned way down. Normandie immediately comes to mind.
I'm so happy to see Nik play Rock (or would say anything that's not drop tuned)
Bro proceed to sweeping in a Rock solo 💀💀
Plenty of rock song's have sweep picking solo's.
I love the band “Moon Tooth”. They blend metal and rock in such a tasty way.
seen them live w dance gavin dance and volumes. all rly good bands
Yes. Nick from Moon Tooth is god tier
"I guess you guys aren't ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it"
metal is literally just rock on steroids
Nik travels back in time and improvs a solo to johnny b goode..."i guess you guys aren't ready for that....but your great grandkids are gonna love it"
Honestly, if you're a Metalhead, you should know your way around some classic rock, around The Blues, learn a bit from Classical, learn a bit from Jazz.
Metal is so insanely diverse with all its subgenres, we can basically incorporate everything.
Now we need a learning to play shoegaze
I think this video showed how confusing it actually is for someone just learning now days. There’s so much info but trying to decipher what to actually listen to is chaos
I have never seen a video that looks more like me screwing around with my guitar in the bedroom 😂 loved it
@7:50 I SAW THAT SWEEP. A couple more of those and they'll ban you from the ROCK.
For real though, you should check out Black 'n' Roll. It's basically just a whole genre of dudes cosplaying as Lemmy, but like, some of the bands actually fucking rip? Speedwolf is good, and so is Midight.
Nik I love your videos you never fail to make me smile, keep up the Good content ❤
What a crack up, you looked board and then had to rifffifyyy it up then pretty much wanted to go back to metal 😂
Bro your guitar tone is awesome 😶🌫️
That "in game" at the end.... Are you a Dantes fan ? 🤔
Btw it goes without saying but you're an amazing musician !!!! Oh and we're still waiting for a full song with Elizabeth on vocal (doesn't even matter what song, as long as her vocals are there) 😁
He can't say he's gonna k**l himself in real life on Twitch, prob not YT, either, so he is in the habit of saying it with "in game" after lol
Using grid paper to draw chord diagrams is both the smartest and most excessive thing I've ever seen.
The article: tries to explain things and actually teach you something
Nik: Gimme tabs
Hey Nik! Love the content. Who knew you could be such a great rock star! BTW, "How to Invent Animate in 30 seconds" when?
6:35-7:11 was pretty slick.
Ps. Now all we need nik to do is J-Rock (stuff like Versailles, X Japan and Loudness), i mean, he kinda did that with Mathrock but thats more modern stuff.
Loved It. Reminds me of that scene from Back to the future.. "Guess you guys aren't ready for that, yet. But your kids are gonna love it!"
3:14
»What is this?!«
(accidently plays start of »What’s the frequency, Kenneth?«)
(DCMA InstaStrike)
I was dying in the solo 💀😆 rock on 🤘🏼
6:05 Did someone forgot to insert a skyrim speech?
I would love to see you learning Blues Rock, specially the song "Pride and Joy" by SRV, it is fucking hard as a Metal guitarrist trying to emulate that style
How to Rock solo in two words:
Double Stops.
This has been the best video from you in a while!
You had that concentrated fun look going on my guy!
I bet you've heard of Big Wreck bruh. Check out how funky they've gotten since The Oaf (My Luck Is Wasted) days
“It’s like metal light. Which makes sense.” 😂😂😂
Dude, Metal is like.... the sequel to Rock or something, Rock 2.
That solo was awesome I loved it I think you got the 🪨 down
First few chords, already got those Volbeat-esque vibe
As a rock player learning to play metal - this spoke to me, a ton 😁😁
"don't wanna throw myself out the balcony"...... "IN GAME"
I actually started with WBTBWB and then electric callboy. Now I am a huuuuuge fan of MIW and well EC, WBTBWB, lorna, IA and more
With your new found expertise of the rocknroll . You should listen to Sevendust’s new album, “Truth Killer.” It would be cool to hear you review the album. Its a nice blend of Hard Rock/Metalcore riffs. One of their best well rounded albums.
YES I LOVE THIS SERIES
Dude use the single coil setting on the JP guitar middle switch and push the tone control sounds sick for light rock tones.
I saw that pic of FCG you snuck in. I SEE YOU NIK. I can’t wait for Thursday either 😁
Well done on the subliminal image of FCG during the 4 chords portion.
I did not realize cool metal things include 1 frame Critical Roll memes 😂
I'm a critter and when he said FCG I had to include that in the edit :)))
4:11 dude just called out my whole childhood.. :-) tho, its not wrong what you said there
This is literally what listening to my dad playing guitar sounds like, so good job; very accurate.
Punk was also my gateway to metal. Epitaph, Fat Wreck and some bands on Victory Records.
5:26 ... *slow nod of approval
My sense of humour has been apoosed. Thanks, editor!
omg I laughed so hard, man. Imagine you covering different guitar-based music as a metal guitarist, I would have a stroke laughing
This should be called "How To Skynyrd" 😄
I like when he starts playing with the second guitar. He was progressively starting to play self-esteem lol
One band i would recommand for Rock is Billy Talent, they are such an underrated band and habe a great guitarist
Once again great video nik
Well played Marty McFly !
now youre going to have to do "how to [insert rock band] in 30 seconds"
and then a full song XD
I think all that matters is he had fun playing
The funny thing is that QOTSA is exacly the opposite of a pentatonic dad rock band like Greta Van fleet or something like that cause they really put some fresh air in rock and I still listen to them regularly haha
Show us you learning Folk music. Only because I have never seen you do a "metal version of (insert folk song)" or anything in that genre. I feel like you'd make it sound amazing.
There is A LOT of folk metal out there, different variations, different lyric themes, different genre influences. Check out Finntroll, Eluveitie, Korpiklaani, Arkona and Alestorm. Folk metal is HUGE in Europe.
5:26 YOOOOOO THE ONE FRAME OF FCG
Next thing we know is Nik has moved to Nashville and writes songs for all the country boys and gals
Could you do any post hardcore covers and/or originals, but like Circa Survive, Thrice, Eidola, Coheed? I'd love to see a prog-post hardcore Nik
4:39 this part made me laugh so hard
Awesome & fun video as always. But Blues scale is not the same as Pentatonic scale. Think of Blues scale as mixing the major & minor scales and or/playing them at the same time. Or rather, playing the Major scale of the same note over the Minor scale of the same note, alongside it.
What?
@@matenorth it's a really simple way to think about & use the scale often used by old blues players like Stevie Ray Vaughan, Hendrix, Clapton, BB King and all the OG blues legends.
@ In the same key? Like Am Amaj?
@@matenorth Yes! But in your case only if the song is from Am, you can play both to get the blues
Nice leather jacket homie, fits you well, and suits you well. Thanks for the badass videos
That 'Fresh Cut Grass' cameo. Who'dthunk you're a critter :D
Bro really added sweeping to rock music
You are an amazing musician
Secret sauce fee best place to learn to play any kind of guitar for over a decade has been RUclips you can augment with tab look up individual songs with or without tab or even just techniques
This was THE funniest video you've ever done 🤣 lost my shit when he a clean strat sound and you were on ridic' distortion
Captured my entire childhood in 8 minutes.
The speech increase finally made subscribe. Well done 😂
Didn’t expect to find FCG in this video. Nice
I’ll never not call out the Skyrim reference
I feel like with your level of Metal music the best way for you to learn rock might just be by listening to rock.
Delightful, we have Santana at home now
My dream song, metal and rock mixed together, anyway, that sounds good for a first time, man.
The leather jacket drip 👌
I guess you guys aren't ready for that, yet. But your kids are gonna love it.