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!
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.
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
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
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) 😁
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.
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
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
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.
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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.
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.
I couldn't resist adding that in during the editing, I think I just had that in mind because I watched the DND movie last week and they made that reference too
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
*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
“It’s just metal-like” Nik discovering where metal comes from
Definitely.
This is where half of it comes from.
The solo was so spot on that for a moment I thought you were going to get kicked out from a guitar center
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
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.
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
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
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
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!
Love that you were just starting your best Carlos Santana impression when you realized "Wait I need more pentatonic"
"Rock is just metal lite."
Um......I'm glad you just NOW had this revelation...😂😂😂😂
Loved the solo! Very AC/DC and BWoHM
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.
The ultimate troll would be for Nik to play _How You Remind Me_
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!
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 👌
Even when you play rock and roll, you're a metal boy at heart. Well done.
I'm so happy to see Nik play Rock (or would say anything that's not drop tuned)
This is a bit like "worldwide greatest writer learns reading"
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
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.”
There is actually a lot of newer rock that’s tuned way down. Normandie immediately comes to mind.
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.
Nik I love your videos you never fail to make me smile, keep up the Good content ❤
Now we need a learning to play shoegaze
Bro proceed to sweeping in a Rock solo 💀💀
Plenty of rock song's have sweep picking solo's.
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.
metal is literally just rock on steroids
Bro your guitar tone is awesome 😶🌫️
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"
I have never seen a video that looks more like me screwing around with my guitar in the bedroom 😂 loved it
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 guess you guys aren't ready for that yet, but your kids are gonna love it"
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
This has been the best video from you in a while!
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!"
Using grid paper to draw chord diagrams is both the smartest and most excessive thing I've ever seen.
First few chords, already got those Volbeat-esque vibe
I was dying in the solo 💀😆 rock on 🤘🏼
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.
Hey Nik! Love the content. Who knew you could be such a great rock star! BTW, "How to Invent Animate in 30 seconds" when?
What a crack up, you looked board and then had to rifffifyyy it up then pretty much wanted to go back to metal 😂
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
The article: tries to explain things and actually teach you something
Nik: Gimme tabs
That solo was awesome I loved it I think you got the 🪨 down
“It’s like metal light. Which makes sense.” 😂😂😂
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
Dude, Metal is like.... the sequel to Rock or something, Rock 2.
Well done on the subliminal image of FCG during the 4 chords portion.
3:14
»What is this?!«
(accidently plays start of »What’s the frequency, Kenneth?«)
(DCMA InstaStrike)
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.
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.
"don't wanna throw myself out the balcony"...... "IN GAME"
How to Rock solo in two words:
Double Stops.
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 :)))
As a rock player learning to play metal - this spoke to me, a ton 😁😁
This should be called "How To Skynyrd" 😄
One band i would recommand for Rock is Billy Talent, they are such an underrated band and habe a great guitarist
I think all that matters is he had fun playing
Once again great video nik
This is literally what listening to my dad playing guitar sounds like, so good job; very accurate.
I saw that pic of FCG you snuck in. I SEE YOU NIK. I can’t wait for Thursday either 😁
Waiting for “Chelsea Grin in 30 seconds” video day 13
Waiting for How to Tallah day...
Idk like 50 or something
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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
4:11 dude just called out my whole childhood.. :-) tho, its not wrong what you said there
Punk was also my gateway to metal. Epitaph, Fat Wreck and some bands on Victory Records.
5:26 ... *slow nod of approval
omg I laughed so hard, man. Imagine you covering different guitar-based music as a metal guitarist, I would have a stroke laughing
Well played Marty McFly !
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
Nice leather jacket homie, fits you well, and suits you well. Thanks for the badass videos
Next thing we know is Nik has moved to Nashville and writes songs for all the country boys and gals
now youre going to have to do "how to [insert rock band] in 30 seconds"
and then a full song XD
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
You are an amazing musician
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.
I'm so happy to see a Critical Role reference in Nik's video 😂
I couldn't resist adding that in during the editing, I think I just had that in mind because I watched the DND movie last week and they made that reference too
Captured my entire childhood in 8 minutes.
I like when he starts playing with the second guitar. He was progressively starting to play self-esteem lol
Didn’t expect to find FCG in this video. Nice
Delightful, we have Santana at home now
4:39 this part made me laugh so hard
This was THE funniest video you've ever done 🤣 lost my shit when he a clean strat sound and you were on ridic' distortion
The speech increase finally made subscribe. Well done 😂
You rocked so hard brother hell yeah
5:26 YOOOOOO THE ONE FRAME OF FCG
3:46 Serj Tankian moment
That 'Fresh Cut Grass' cameo. Who'dthunk you're a critter :D
You should play rock more often. ❤
The gain is hilarious on these riffs hahaha
Your name from this point on shall be Angus Richard's Nocturnal!! 😂🤘🤘🤘
I’ll never not call out the Skyrim reference
The leather jacket drip 👌
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