My childhood was watching this guy and musicman1066 playing solid covers haha, that days I saw this a little hard to play, now I see it like an easy song but still good as fuck!
I give this man almost all of the credit as far as starting the guitar cover trends on youtube. Ive watched your videos from the very beginning man! Helping me discover my musical taste, and inspiring me to practice more and more, as well as just straight up entertaining us is what you have accomplished. Please come back to youtube!
KillrBuckeye is the best guitar player on RUclips. Not only the covers, his original songs are totally epic. Five Stars, my respect and I take off my hat in from of you man.
Thank you for keeping these videos up. I'm really missing a friend who passed away last year and this video brings me back to a time we would sit in the back of class and watch these videos he downloaded on his ipod. He would show me all your THA and Parkway Drive covers while we shared 1 headphone each. Rest in Peace Dayne, love ya and miss ya brother.
when he first posted this song, i had no hope of playing it... today, i find that it's actually a bit easy. but i'm lazy, and still haven't finished learning it XD
really wish I could play guitar, Ive just got an electric one last month and I can only do that bit in smoke on water haha! probably the easiest thing ever!
Just keep pushing forward. You'll never find yourself not learning something new; accidental or learning for the first time. And remember, while Smoke on the water was easy, it made lots of money if that is so your desired road.
dude i love this band one of my favs of the moment especially love the song 'Crossing the Rubicon' i think ur a legend dude :) what other bands are u fond of?
Guess this video is old like 18 years or something. I was still kid when I watched this and always wanted play like this and now I am finally able after those years but times fly hard.
This man inspired all of the pre-recorded covers in the zoomer era and I hate him for it. At least this guy actually played the songs live in the cover.
@KillrBuckeye for anyone who challenges if this song is real or not, it defonently is im good at catching bs'ers. but its not really a hard song...so who cares, but flawlessly played. you should learn some black dahlia or some bodom. i could see your playing take off from there learning more technical riffs. and no this isnt the only video of yours ive watched. so theres the good and the bad :D rock on
@jattymaniac try using this... alternate pick on the 5 7 and 8th frets on all strings... start from the 6th string all the way down to the 1st string and back... once you get a little faster, try using hammer ons and pulloffs and slides... ull build up speed... once uve mastered that... try playing the solo to afterlife- a7x... u should get enough speed from there... and remember,,,, PRACTICE!
its a pinch harmonic or also known as an artificial harmonic. you bend the note while sort of scrapping your thumb of the pick hand across the string to get a sound like a harmonic. i just hold my pick normally and sorta lift my hand up a bit to get my thumb in the pick of the string. when you try it make sure you got good distortion and some good pickups cuz your tone will affect the squeal of it. i can do them really easily but some amps/guitars make me sound really bad.
After reading the argument between you and Killrbuckeye, i looked at your page expecting to see like Necrophagist covers or something at least. I mean for you to say Killrbuckeye has simplicit (which isn''t a word ) riffs, then I was dying to see what you can play, but you have nothing. And his song The Rising, at least, is very musically complex. I'm certainly not very good, but I''ll get there in time. Don't knock what you don'have.
the intro to this song kinda has the same feel as the rising at 54 sec into it i know its completely different just bits are the same trust me i am not disrespecting u i get all your tabs and just recenty got a pod x3 cuz u got such a good tone wit it and recomended it oh just a side note did you happen to get the live version? i dont think u mentioned if you did or not just wandering how you do the volume swells without it or do u use an affect to do it?
on the intro lead, the part where you pick after 1:00, the man riff is where i tap, but your playing with one guitarist. see when i play, i play with another guy, and what we do, is we alternatively play lead at different parts of the song, and the other harmonizes with top chords, but it sounds good to us when we play it (& our bassist taps the entire bass line as well; don't ask, i have no clue how he does it), but i'm not putting yours down dude, stellar work!!
I think you'd like darkest hour, as a lot of your covers seem to be metalcore, darkest hour is plenty metalcore, they have one of the greatest guitarists in the genre IMO. I also see you cover AILD- sound of truth, if you like AILD may I suggest within destruction, I struggle to think of a harder/funner AILD song. And yeah I've listened to both of your originals, I really like the Rising, bought it off youtube Give within destruction a listen, you may like it
0.99$ is just a price to encourage people to go on creating but in my country the service of buying from internet is still not available, so I can't buy anythg online that's why I said the free download is the only option I have, music is not for sale it's an art and I'll be more glad if I know that the whole word enjoy my music than if I ear some dollars from it! you will say how much you will earn is going to tell you how many they listen to your music but, I'll earn money from something else
ooh, noo.. I know. The EMGs do a fine job for like .. clean stuff in metal songs or hard rock, but they're not the best for like, really .. clean .. stuff. Like you wouldn't want to get EMGs if you were just playing like ... rhcp, or .. something. ... nevermind. I can't make it seem to make sense. I donno', what I'm trying to say is that yes the EMGs do make a nice clean tone but not like .. single-coil clean. .. that's kinda obvious though i'll just shut up though.
I replied to your comment but I don't see it, so RUclips may have just glitched or something. Anyway, thanks for the speedy reply, I was just wondering which was the most difficult because I just started learning guitar a few months ago, and all the stuff you're covering seems so far beyond what I'm potentially capable of. But I guess it gives me something to strive for. I figure if I keep at it, maybe someday I'll get it. :P
hi there you are playing so good i knowe il never be that good but thats okay i like to play on my own nowe im wanna buy a esp i wana ask you can you also play clean sounds with it im more alround you see but for the clean thing i own a fender but always changing is not everything and the big frets is that fine for cords to ore only solo here in holland i cant try the esp they ara hard to find here sorry for my bad english thanks so far and cant say enough you are blessed with guitar skills
Hey man, great cover, you've even inspired me to learn it myself. But i'm having a huge problem: what tuning is it in? I can't really tell whether it's in Drop D, Standard E, I have a hunch it might be in drop C#, and Drop C is my last guess. Long story short, What tuning is it in? I'm sure a LOT of fellow guitar players would thank you for an answer.
hey man, i love your originals and covers. Im not sure how often you take requests but i was wondering if you could cover Stream of Consciousness by Dream Theater. its an instrumental by them. im sure you could play the whole song but i wanna see if could do the solo. that will be awesome if you could cover this
First off...i learned this song cause of you, its badass. Second i was wondering about your guitar? is that the 202 or the 600 series kh? cause i picked up a 202 and played and it just felt like plasticy, perhaps thats a bad word to describe it. I was wondering if you could just comment cause it looks sweet and for the price the 202 is nice.
wow i've watched this video a few times now but i noticed that your clean sound is perfect for The Human Abstract. I was comparing your clean guitar to the song and it sounds exactly like it, nice work and u do the best covers on youtube by far you and musicmann1066 should make a band or somethin so yeh and hope you finally find some time to work on you original songs =)
@gamer111 dude i never said that the pickups dont make any diffrent but for example the wood , what type of neck and all these things and not just the pickups , of course make the pickups a strong difference but thats just not the only thing what changes the sound and if u compare a strat and a les paul with the same pickups then they would sound diffrent
The ESP he has right now has active pickups. Thats what makes them more.. sensitive to pick up sound. Epiphones, as far as I know, usually have regular pickups wich sound different than active pickups. And, its true that its not just pickups that make the tone. Amps, effects, and the material the guitar is made of add to it.
ye ur owns songs are awsome! I think that when you (in general). play an instrument you should focus to play a certain style and learn it then move on to other styles, not just play a song here and there. Its much easier to write songs when you learn diffrent style and to develop your "own" sound by mixing it all together.
I just have never met a real guitarist who doesnt want to further themselves. Im just wanting you to admit how much more there is for you to gain. Haha i guess your ego will stop that from happening. Have fun playing your simplicit stuff. And on the complete opposite side of the arguement, you still have amazing sound on the vid. Later
As a guitarist and teacher when it comes to metal it is about talent. I don't play metal with simple riffs, and catchy choruses. I play metal to expand my guitar technique. I play it to think outside the box of 4/4 time and cliche key sigs. Your covers are good, but are of songs that are only the surface of anything with skill.
Excuse me but I listen to metal guitarists all the time, and most the songs that I like by other bands this guy has covered. I think its safe to say he's just as good as those players since Killr has even written a couple songs himself that are very good. Seeing what he can do in these videos, I can't think of anyone better?
Honestly, I saw them live and didn't really enjoy it. I don't know if they just had an off night or they are just "one of those bands" that doesn't sound good live. This song is amazing, I love it, but I couldn't get into them when I saw them live. I saw them with All That Remains, 36 Crazy Fists, and Trivium...all together it was a great show.
Choke up on the pick, and then hit the string first with the pick and then with the side of your thumb in the same strumming motion. You have to just lightly tap with your thumb or else it will just mute the string. The harmonic will sound different based on where you hit the string (usually right behind the neck pickup is the best place, but it differs).
learned it cause of you killr *g* , been watching your vids for long, and still keep doing it. Because of you it became my favourite song and yesterday i even finally nailed it perfeclty *proud* ^^ (just been playing 1 year) so far, keep doing nice vids greetings from austria equ btw: nice that a cover has 170 000 more views than the original XD
I just viewed This Song While Viewing the Tabs for it ;;; And you Know What I believe I can Learn this Woo Hoo .. It,ll take awhile But It,ll be somthing to Add to My list of Accomplishments - Way Up on the List near the top with lossing my virginity Haha. Yea!
@KillrBuckeye i use a boss me-25; that has its own memory bank, up to 60 presets - factory or your own, i suppose that's something similar as it allows you to rearrange the order, eg for required order in a perfomance. btw, i love your recording - what software do you use? and very good job, fab
The song is like a cross between children of bodom and a post hardcore singer, in my opinion. oh and the fact that i have never heard this song before and am passing judgement on it is a testament to this guys skills. I know when i listen to the song itself it will sound exactly like this xD
@LordXViper Do it man, guitar is sick. I've been playing for like two years, I'm nowhere NEAR as good is this guy lmao. But really its an awesome instrument and its a lot of fun to play, especially electric. acoustics cool too, but electric's where you get all the METAL \m/
I think that this band helped you derive your style a bit, you would know better than me, but from watching the rising the two seem to link. You cover songs to a godly proportion and your creative material is impeccable! I always look forward to listening to one of your vids. :)
can some1 tell me what diff is there in the guitar he is holding in his hand and the fender on his wall...i mean i know the ESP is made for metal but i mean what is it that makes it a guitar to play metal...i mean a connect a pod and i think the fender should sound the same...maybe...
looks a lot like he has some gauge 11's on i think he has. You can get them off Ebay for quite cheap .. bit of a bitch to put on the low E but ah well.. id advise getting them there are awesome for tone, hammer ons and pull offs and they rock when it comes to harmonics
Epic cover! My job is to cook for about 600 military personnel everyday and try to make it work in a building that is only capable of handling a maximum of around 250, sometimes people get on my nerves and that's when i usually plug in some THA, you pulled off a great cover!
Dude you're honestly my hero. I've recently found an interest in this band and watching you play this is so inspiring. I've been playing guitar for a little while now. My goal is to learn this whole song. But first I'm going to need heavier strings to tune down...
Thanks to you killrB :D I´ve gotten to the human abstract and I must say I love it:D the singing is cliche, but this guitar classical playing is just insane, motivated me to study classical musical theory more and more:D Thanks pal... and of course you played really well:D
@JanBoucke Who knows? One day they might decide "What the hell I guess we can get together and see what we can do." bands do that all the time. Black Sabbath for example, or System Of A Down. Took them forever but they said it's time.
I think one of the best parts about your playing is that technically, you're great. When I listen to you play, I dont hear any sort of break in the flow of the song, you just let it run through perfectly, You have my respect good sir.
Thank you KillrBuckeye for all your hard work. This band friend requested me on facebook. I only heard a couple of songs for the first time today. This is my first time listening to this song and all I have to say is I'm buying this CD tomorrow.
i dont want to buy an esp, i want an epiphone....right now i want to play classical rock but who knows what will my preference be a few months later...its just that i hv never seen some1 play metal on an epiphone....why is that so..??
honestly man, hearts burst into fire is by bullet for my valentine is pretty easy, not really metal, and the intro tapping can be a little intimidating, but it was my first "metal" song, and a great way for me to get used to this style of chords and melodies.
They're EMG pickups, they come with the ESP Kirk Hammet sig. They're pretty kick ass if I do say so for myself. I have 'em on this sig and the zakk wylde les paul. Amazing for really heavy distortion, but not so great for cleaner stuff..
Its totally fine, no ones disputing that you can play the tune tho. I play the guitar myself (albeit not as proficiently as you) and i can clearly see you hitting the right notes. Just a fantastic recording i guess, hence the ambiguity.
this cover is fuckin amazing dude, ive seen like all your vids so many times ur sooo good. and to whoever has thumbs downed ur vids theyre going to hell because theyre so jealous of you lol :P keep merkin shit dude.
for real? you know you're good when i would rather watch this video of you playing this song instead of just listen to the song but you should put up some more tha songs like crossing the rubicon or mea culpa :D
at the risk of feeding a troll, all I am going to say is that I liked the song and thought he did a great job. I find it sad that someone can't voice their opinion without one idiot trying to make them look bad
metalcore is a mixture of hardcore and heavy metal, often apparent in the presence of "mosh riffs" and breakdowns, and such, but also containing solos and melodic lines that were present in meetal, but not hardcore.
hey i have a request for you when you have time. can you do a cover from the human abstract. can you do posseccion of fates? its from their new cd and its a good song. btw hows your wife and your son doing?
Hey, I just stumbled onto this cover... was looking for some live videos from THA. Great job man... I love this song too... especially from the bridge to the end... that transcendent guitar lead... ack.
because it sounds perfectly in sync, the tone, volume etc, unlike any other youtube vid ive seen, but ok, i believe you lol. But what does it matter anyway lol, i said i can clearly see your able to play it.
The reason why he said "D standard" is because sometimes people confuse "D" with "Drop D" on metal covers, seeing as Drop D is used frequently in metal songs. Go back to middle school and learn how to spell.
@MetalSword106 if you dont use a whammy bar you could always cut a block of wood and turn it into a hard tail thats what i did... it works fine but it has to perfectly into the hole to work
Been playing guitar for one year now and really want to play some of these fast metal songs, anyone got any tips or exercises to better my speed and general coordination around the guitar? Thanks
You should alternate pick the majority of it.. Most of the runs are almost physically impossible to nail with downpicking. Especially the really high up bridge riff. It just wouldnt work at all.
Its good, although, i found a tab on the net, and it calls for almost exactly the same fingering as you are playing it. weird, since you said you learned it by ear. none the less.. good playing.
This song is in D standard...I was looking for a challenging song to learn and decided to tackle this one. It is one of the more difficult songs I have learned, very fun song to play as well.
man I see your videos long time ago and you are spectacular with the guitar you are a teacher I like and some of my guitar solos me the bag I was watching your videos here greetings from chile
The band is broken up now. They had no vocalist and now AJ is a college professor. He'll probably make more music and release it at some point, but THA isn't a band at the moment.
1. Stop this video 2. Start this video over 3. Hold the left arrow 4. Press the up arrow while holding the left arrow 5. Enjoy playing snake w/ the video Thumbs up if it worked :)
well there are a few factors wood, bridge type,pickups and strings but generaly play whats comfortable to you and what u like dont buy a esp just because its a popular metal guitar
Go into Info and go to his website, where it shows all of his gear, I'm sure its listed there :) If you already did and it doesn't say my apologies :) just trying to help out!
I have a question, I'm a guitarist ane I'm having trouble with my little finger (pinky) which is half shiorter than my half finger, it's very small, does it ruin my guitarist career ?
I noticed this exact thing when I first heard this song...it took me like 3 days to find out which song it sounded like and then I finally came across the In Flames song. Insanely similar.
they say english is THE hardest language to learn. theres so many different english words for 1 thing. and slang. and so many variables on grammar it makes it really hard to learn.
First I see your cover of The sound of truth, then I see this, along with Parkway Drive and ATR. Your music choices are awesome. Amazing cover, I've never seen one this accurate.
As always, love your covers, one thing though, i think you should use less treble on your clean tone, i personally think it sounds way to trebley. other than that, perfect bud =]]
try hitting your harmonics in different postitions along the string it alters the tone and youll get better ones in different places on the string on different guitars dude
It's skipps cause he doesn't do the song in one run, it might be because he fucked up but i kinda doubt it, in one of his videos it explains this, not sure which one tho.
very clean! as always. your probably tired of me saying that haha. but in a world of sloppy guitar playing your one of the cleanest! great band and song selection too!
you're either badass..or you got badass sound quality on the record. but tbh it sounds like you're just playing the record and you don't have your guitar plugged in :P
cool song, great playing! sounds metalcore-ish, but I don't hate it, which is rare when it comes to 'core. I like the chord progressions, in particular. thanks for sharing
It’s nostalgic coming back to these guitar covers. It’s been 10 years on this specific one.
12 for me - how time slips away
My favorite song
My childhood was watching this guy and musicman1066 playing solid covers haha, that days I saw this a little hard to play, now I see it like an easy song but still good as fuck!
Same ! They're both great to this day!!
Damn me too. Lol
I give this man almost all of the credit as far as starting the guitar cover trends on youtube. Ive watched your videos from the very beginning man! Helping me discover my musical taste, and inspiring me to practice more and more, as well as just straight up entertaining us is what you have accomplished. Please come back to youtube!
The intro riff reminds me of "Insipid 2000" by In Flames
seriously .. I've been watching your covers for over 4 years.... come back.... or else...
+Luis Alvarez Haha ! Same here ! Still hoping to see new covers or Original song from KillrBuckeye ^^
Looks like you got your wish; he’s back!
I can’t believe how long it’s been, a little nostalgia every now and then when I come back to this cover.
I first watched this video 8years ago and it is still as awesome as ever.
Still loving this song and cover in 2020.. Everything is so perfect!!
KillrBuckeye is the best guitar player on RUclips. Not only the covers, his original songs are totally epic. Five Stars, my respect and I take off my hat in from of you man.
Thank you for keeping these videos up. I'm really missing a friend who passed away last year and this video brings me back to a time we would sit in the back of class and watch these videos he downloaded on his ipod. He would show me all your THA and Parkway Drive covers while we shared 1 headphone each. Rest in Peace Dayne, love ya and miss ya brother.
Just praying that one of your videos pop up in my sub page...
finally got the intro down thanks for the tabs man
and amazing cover
5*s and subed
alternate
69 dislikes...seems legit
Jon Wolsng they can fuck them self's :3 ....he's great man
when he first posted this song, i had no hope of playing it... today, i find that it's actually a bit easy. but i'm lazy, and still haven't finished learning it XD
When I practice this song, I come here to listen to what it should sound like.
Woohoo! First listening of 2020 . This is one of your first covers I've listened to when I found you like 10 years ago. Awesome!!
LOL I've just noticed, if you keep moving the little circle along you can see the shot slowly zoom in!
old yt is the shtt
really wish I could play guitar, Ive just got an electric one last month and I can only do that bit in smoke on water haha! probably the easiest thing ever!
Just keep pushing forward. You'll never find yourself not learning something new; accidental or learning for the first time. And remember, while Smoke on the water was easy, it made lots of money if that is so your desired road.
Mthrfkn on point. Let my envy flow. Miss playing. Maybe Ill be able to one day again. Thank you for the inspiration❤
35 now, showing my 9 yr old where i learned the riffs, from 17 years ago. Holy shit.
YOU TRANSCRIBED THIS BY EAR???@@@__@@@
Are you some sort of god??
... that's crazy lol
Finally~ we got to see this vid again... Thank you RUclips.. and more importantly thank you @killrbuckeye
dude i love this band one of my favs of the moment especially love the song 'Crossing the Rubicon' i think ur a legend dude :) what other bands are u fond of?
I often swap between the original and this one. I simply love the tone of this video.
Guess this video is old like 18 years or something. I was still kid when I watched this and always wanted play like this and now I am finally able after those years but times fly hard.
I'm glad I'm not the only one that watched this guy when I was younger. Nostalgia in-fuckin-coming.
This man inspired all of the pre-recorded covers in the zoomer era and I hate him for it. At least this guy actually played the songs live in the cover.
@KillrBuckeye for anyone who challenges if this song is real or not, it defonently is im good at catching bs'ers. but its not really a hard song...so who cares, but flawlessly played. you should learn some black dahlia or some bodom. i could see your playing take off from there learning more technical riffs. and no this isnt the only video of yours ive watched. so theres the good and the bad :D rock on
@jattymaniac try using this... alternate pick on the 5 7 and 8th frets on all strings... start from the 6th string all the way down to the 1st string and back... once you get a little faster, try using hammer ons and pulloffs and slides... ull build up speed... once uve mastered that... try playing the solo to afterlife- a7x... u should get enough speed from there... and remember,,,, PRACTICE!
its a pinch harmonic or also known as an artificial harmonic. you bend the note while sort of scrapping your thumb of the pick hand across the string to get a sound like a harmonic. i just hold my pick normally and sorta lift my hand up a bit to get my thumb in the pick of the string. when you try it make sure you got good distortion and some good pickups cuz your tone will affect the squeal of it. i can do them really easily but some amps/guitars make me sound really bad.
After reading the argument between you and Killrbuckeye, i looked at your page expecting to see like Necrophagist covers or something at least. I mean for you to say Killrbuckeye has simplicit (which isn''t a word ) riffs, then I was dying to see what you can play, but you have nothing.
And his song The Rising, at least, is very musically complex. I'm certainly not very good, but I''ll get there in time. Don't knock what you don'have.
the intro to this song kinda has the same feel as the rising at 54 sec into it i know its completely different just bits are the same trust me i am not disrespecting u i get all your tabs and just recenty got a pod x3 cuz u got such a good tone wit it and recomended it oh just a side note did you happen to get the live version? i dont think u mentioned if you did or not just wandering how you do the volume swells without it or do u use an affect to do it?
on the intro lead, the part where you pick after 1:00, the man riff is where i tap, but your playing with one guitarist. see when i play, i play with another guy, and what we do, is we alternatively play lead at different parts of the song, and the other harmonizes with top chords, but it sounds good to us when we play it (& our bassist taps the entire bass line as well; don't ask, i have no clue how he does it), but i'm not putting yours down dude, stellar work!!
I think you'd like darkest hour, as a lot of your covers seem to be metalcore, darkest hour is plenty metalcore, they have one of the greatest guitarists in the genre IMO. I also see you cover AILD- sound of truth, if you like AILD may I suggest within destruction, I struggle to think of a harder/funner AILD song.
And yeah I've listened to both of your originals, I really like the Rising, bought it off youtube
Give within destruction a listen, you may like it
0.99$ is just a price to encourage people to go on creating but in my country the service of buying from internet is still not available, so I can't buy anythg online that's why I said the free download is the only option I have,
music is not for sale it's an art and I'll be more glad if I know that the whole word enjoy my music than if I ear some dollars from it! you will say how much you will earn is going to tell you how many they listen to your music but, I'll earn money from something else
ooh, noo.. I know. The EMGs do a fine job for like .. clean stuff in metal songs or hard rock, but they're not the best for like, really .. clean .. stuff. Like you wouldn't want to get EMGs if you were just playing like ... rhcp, or .. something.
... nevermind.
I can't make it seem to make sense. I donno', what I'm trying to say is that yes the EMGs do make a nice clean tone but not like .. single-coil clean.
.. that's kinda obvious though
i'll just shut up though.
I replied to your comment but I don't see it, so RUclips may have just glitched or something.
Anyway, thanks for the speedy reply, I was just wondering which was the most difficult because I just started learning guitar a few months ago, and all the stuff you're covering seems so far beyond what I'm potentially capable of. But I guess it gives me something to strive for.
I figure if I keep at it, maybe someday I'll get it.
:P
hi there you are playing so good i knowe il never be that good but thats okay i like to play on my own nowe im wanna buy a esp i wana ask you can you also play clean sounds with it im more alround you see but for the clean thing i own a fender but always changing is not everything and the big frets is that fine for cords to ore only solo here in holland i cant try the esp they ara hard to find here sorry for my bad english thanks so far and cant say enough you are blessed with guitar skills
Outstanding cover dude. Everything was so smooth and clean.
Hey man, great cover, you've even inspired me to learn it myself. But i'm having a huge problem: what tuning is it in? I can't really tell whether it's in Drop D, Standard E, I have a hunch it might be in drop C#, and Drop C is my last guess.
Long story short, What tuning is it in? I'm sure a LOT of fellow guitar players would thank you for an answer.
hey man, i love your originals and covers. Im not sure how often you take requests but i was wondering if you could cover Stream of Consciousness by Dream Theater. its an instrumental by them. im sure you could play the whole song but i wanna see if could do the solo. that will be awesome if you could cover this
First off...i learned this song cause of you, its badass. Second i was wondering about your guitar? is that the 202 or the 600 series kh? cause i picked up a 202 and played and it just felt like plasticy, perhaps thats a bad word to describe it. I was wondering if you could just comment cause it looks sweet and for the price the 202 is nice.
wow i've watched this video a few times now
but i noticed that your clean sound is perfect for The Human Abstract.
I was comparing your clean guitar to the song
and it sounds exactly like it, nice work
and u do the best covers on youtube by far
you and musicmann1066 should make a band or somethin
so yeh and hope you finally find some time to work on you original songs =)
@gamer111 dude i never said that the pickups dont make any diffrent but for example the wood , what type of neck and all these things and not just the pickups , of course make the pickups a strong difference but thats just not the only thing what changes the sound and if u compare a strat and a les paul with the same pickups then they would sound diffrent
The ESP he has right now has active pickups. Thats what makes them more.. sensitive to pick up sound. Epiphones, as far as I know, usually have regular pickups wich sound different than active pickups. And, its true that its not just pickups that make the tone. Amps, effects, and the material the guitar is made of add to it.
ye ur owns songs are awsome! I think that when you (in general). play an instrument you should focus to play a certain style and learn it then move on to other styles, not just play a song here and there. Its much easier to write songs when you learn diffrent style and to develop your "own" sound by mixing it all together.
I just have never met a real guitarist who doesnt want to further themselves. Im just wanting you to admit how much more there is for you to gain. Haha i guess your ego will stop that from happening. Have fun playing your simplicit stuff. And on the complete opposite side of the arguement, you still have amazing sound on the vid. Later
As a guitarist and teacher when it comes to metal it is about talent. I don't play metal with simple riffs, and catchy choruses. I play metal to expand my guitar technique. I play it to think outside the box of 4/4 time and cliche key sigs. Your covers are good, but are of songs that are only the surface of anything with skill.
Excuse me but I listen to metal guitarists all the time, and most the songs that I like by other bands this guy has covered. I think its safe to say he's just as good as those players since Killr has even written a couple songs himself that are very good. Seeing what he can do in these videos, I can't think of anyone better?
Honestly, I saw them live and didn't really enjoy it. I don't know if they just had an off night or they are just "one of those bands" that doesn't sound good live. This song is amazing, I love it, but I couldn't get into them when I saw them live. I saw them with All That Remains, 36 Crazy Fists, and Trivium...all together it was a great show.
Choke up on the pick, and then hit the string first with the pick and then with the side of your thumb in the same strumming motion. You have to just lightly tap with your thumb or else it will just mute the string. The harmonic will sound different based on where you hit the string (usually right behind the neck pickup is the best place, but it differs).
learned it cause of you killr *g* , been watching your vids for long, and still keep doing it. Because of you it became my favourite song and yesterday i even finally nailed it perfeclty *proud* ^^ (just been playing 1 year)
so far, keep doing nice vids
greetings from austria equ
btw: nice that a cover has 170 000 more views than the original XD
I just viewed This Song While Viewing the Tabs for it ;;; And you Know What I believe I can Learn this Woo Hoo .. It,ll take awhile But It,ll be somthing to Add to My list of Accomplishments - Way Up on the List near the top with lossing my virginity Haha. Yea!
@KillrBuckeye i use a boss me-25; that has its own memory bank, up to 60 presets - factory or your own, i suppose that's something similar as it allows you to rearrange the order, eg for required order in a perfomance.
btw, i love your recording - what software do you use? and very good job, fab
The song is like a cross between children of bodom and a post hardcore singer, in my opinion. oh and the fact that i have never heard this song before and am passing judgement on it is a testament to this guys skills. I know when i listen to the song itself it will sound exactly like this xD
@LordXViper Do it man, guitar is sick. I've been playing for like two years, I'm nowhere NEAR as good is this guy lmao. But really its an awesome instrument and its a lot of fun to play, especially electric. acoustics cool too, but electric's where you get all the METAL \m/
I think that this band helped you derive your style a bit, you would know better than me, but from watching the rising the two seem to link. You cover songs to a godly proportion and your creative material is impeccable! I always look forward to listening to one of your vids. :)
can some1 tell me what diff is there in the guitar he is holding in his hand and the fender on his wall...i mean i know the ESP is made for metal but i mean what is it that makes it a guitar to play metal...i mean a connect a pod and i think the fender should sound the same...maybe...
looks a lot like he has some gauge 11's on i think he has. You can get them off Ebay for quite cheap .. bit of a bitch to put on the low E but ah well.. id advise getting them there are awesome for tone, hammer ons and pull offs and they rock when it comes to harmonics
Epic cover! My job is to cook for about 600 military personnel everyday and try to make it work in a building that is only capable of handling a maximum of around 250, sometimes people get on my nerves and that's when i usually plug in some THA, you pulled off a great cover!
Dude you're honestly my hero. I've recently found an interest in this band and watching you play this is so inspiring. I've been playing guitar for a little while now. My goal is to learn this whole song. But first I'm going to need heavier strings to tune down...
Thanks to you killrB :D I´ve gotten to the human abstract and I must say I love it:D the singing is cliche, but this guitar classical playing is just insane, motivated me to study classical musical theory more and more:D Thanks pal... and of course you played really well:D
This is even more🔥🤘🏼 than 13 years ago.. #epicreturnofbuckeye
@JanBoucke Who knows? One day they might decide "What the hell I guess we can get together and see what we can do." bands do that all the time. Black Sabbath for example, or System Of A Down. Took them forever but they said it's time.
I think one of the best parts about your playing is that technically, you're great. When I listen to you play, I dont hear any sort of break in the flow of the song, you just let it run through perfectly,
You have my respect good sir.
Thank you KillrBuckeye for all your hard work. This band friend requested me on facebook. I only heard a couple of songs for the first time today. This is my first time listening to this song and all I have to say is I'm buying this CD tomorrow.
i dont want to buy an esp, i want an epiphone....right now i want to play classical rock but who knows what will my preference be a few months later...its just that i hv never seen some1 play metal on an epiphone....why is that so..??
honestly man, hearts burst into fire is by bullet for my valentine is pretty easy, not really metal, and the intro tapping can be a little intimidating, but it was my first "metal" song, and a great way for me to get used to this style of chords and melodies.
They're EMG pickups, they come with the ESP Kirk Hammet sig.
They're pretty kick ass if I do say so for myself.
I have 'em on this sig and the zakk wylde les paul.
Amazing for really heavy distortion, but not so great for cleaner stuff..
Its totally fine, no ones disputing that you can play the tune tho. I play the guitar myself (albeit not as proficiently as you) and i can clearly see you hitting the right notes. Just a fantastic recording i guess, hence the ambiguity.
this cover is fuckin amazing dude, ive seen like all your vids so many times ur sooo good. and to whoever has thumbs downed ur vids theyre going to hell because theyre so jealous of you lol :P keep merkin shit dude.
for real? you know you're good when i would rather watch this video of you playing this song instead of just listen to the song but you should put up some more tha songs like crossing the rubicon or mea culpa :D
at the risk of feeding a troll, all I am going to say is that I liked the song and thought he did a great job. I find it sad that someone can't voice their opinion without one idiot trying to make them look bad
metalcore is a mixture of hardcore and heavy metal, often apparent in the presence of "mosh riffs" and breakdowns, and such, but also containing solos and melodic lines that were present in meetal, but not hardcore.
hey i have a request for you when you have time. can you do a cover from the human abstract. can you do posseccion of fates? its from their new cd and its a good song. btw hows your wife and your son doing?
Hey, I just stumbled onto this cover... was looking for some live videos from THA. Great job man... I love this song too... especially from the bridge to the end... that transcendent guitar lead... ack.
because it sounds perfectly in sync, the tone, volume etc, unlike any other youtube vid ive seen, but ok, i believe you lol. But what does it matter anyway lol, i said i can clearly see your able to play it.
The reason why he said "D standard" is because sometimes people confuse "D" with "Drop D" on metal covers, seeing as Drop D is used frequently in metal songs. Go back to middle school and learn how to spell.
@MetalSword106 if you dont use a whammy bar you could always cut a block of wood and turn it into a hard tail thats what i did... it works fine but it has to perfectly into the hole to work
Been playing guitar for one year now and really want to play some of these fast metal songs, anyone got any tips or exercises to better my speed and general coordination around the guitar?
Thanks
You should alternate pick the majority of it.. Most of the runs are almost physically impossible to nail with downpicking. Especially the really high up bridge riff. It just wouldnt work at all.
Its good, although, i found a tab on the net, and it calls for almost exactly the same fingering as you are playing it. weird, since you said you learned it by ear. none the less.. good playing.
This song is in D standard...I was looking for a challenging song to learn and decided to tackle this one. It is one of the more difficult songs I have learned, very fun song to play as well.
man I see your videos long time ago and you are spectacular with the guitar you are a teacher I like and some of my guitar solos me the bag I was watching your videos here greetings from chile
The band is broken up now. They had no vocalist and now AJ is a college professor. He'll probably make more music and release it at some point, but THA isn't a band at the moment.
1. Stop this video
2. Start this video over
3. Hold the left arrow
4. Press the up arrow while holding the left arrow
5. Enjoy playing snake w/ the video
Thumbs up if it worked :)
well there are a few factors wood, bridge type,pickups and strings but generaly play whats comfortable to you and what u like dont buy a esp just because its a popular metal guitar
Go into Info and go to his website, where it shows all of his gear, I'm sure its listed there :) If you already did and it doesn't say my apologies :) just trying to help out!
I have a question, I'm a guitarist ane I'm having trouble with my little finger (pinky) which is half shiorter than my half finger, it's very small, does it ruin my guitarist career ?
I noticed this exact thing when I first heard this song...it took me like 3 days to find out which song it sounded like and then I finally came across the In Flames song. Insanely similar.
they say english is THE hardest language to learn. theres so many different english words for 1 thing. and slang. and so many variables on grammar it makes it really hard to learn.
First I see your cover of The sound of truth, then I see this, along with Parkway Drive and ATR. Your music choices are awesome. Amazing cover, I've never seen one this accurate.
As always, love your covers,
one thing though,
i think you should use less treble on your clean tone,
i personally think it sounds way to trebley.
other than that,
perfect bud =]]
try hitting your harmonics in different postitions along the string it alters the tone and youll get better ones in different places on the string on different guitars dude
It's skipps cause he doesn't do the song in one run, it might be because he fucked up but i kinda doubt it, in one of his videos it explains this, not sure which one tho.
very clean!
as always. your probably tired of me saying that haha.
but in a world of sloppy guitar playing your one of the cleanest!
great band and song selection too!
you're either badass..or you got badass sound quality on the record.
but tbh it sounds like you're just playing the record and you don't have your guitar plugged in :P
cool song, great playing! sounds metalcore-ish, but I don't hate it, which is rare when it comes to 'core. I like the chord progressions, in particular. thanks for sharing