DragonForce Herman Li Reaction to Cole Rolland Through the Fire and Flames Cover
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Reaction video! DragonForce guitarist @HermanLi reacts to Cole Rolland Through the Fire and Flames Cover.
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It’s been nearly 3 years and I still have nightmares about this song. 🥵
Eeeeyy cole plz cover Heroes of our time next time....
Bro I can’t even play it and I have nightmares thinking about you practicing it
the ptsd
fury of the storm please cole
what a timing
Only Herman can watch something like this with a straight face
He is sick and bored of the song.
I kind of am too. Almost anytime I step into his chat that’s pretty much all people talk about. So I just leave
It's the tiger dad in him. It'll never be good enough haha.
@@GammaFZ I got bored of that song after the first year
@@CinestesiaAnime so why do a fucking reaction video then?
The reason people learn this song or try to learn it is because if you learn it you know you are the shred god. It’s like a final exam.
unfortunately new guitarists are constantly radically redefining shred. some tosin abasi thumping nonsense is so much harder its not even funny. Not to mention tim henson among others.
Oh boy. You forgot the 'Creeping Death Exam'.
I thought was mainly cuz of guitar hero
and they do it because they can.
Michael angelo Batio speed kills video is the one specially his hand around the neck playing the solo iykyk
Herman needs to understand that he created a historical musical heritage that will be remembered for centuries, this song is one of the most chosen to cover not only because it is good, it is a milestone in the history of power metal.
it's not power metal its dragon metal.
On point. Pple play this for the same reasons they play the solo in “Sweet child of mine- Guns N’ Roses. Nobody will ever played as great as slash did but to a lot of people just being able to do it is a validation of their skills to themselves.
So... It's so studio-edited that he doesn't even play it the same way as the album so... Long live Studio Force.
@@4R4EL Shots fired D:
Probably because of Guitar hero tbh
DragonForce should react to your cover! \m/ \m/
I preferred your cover to Cole's!
Yoo Herman please react to Nik cover too.
Maybe you're the next nik 🤣
do a video: if TTFAF was a metalcore song
If Herman and Sam ever want some time off, they can always ask Cole and The Doo to cover for them
Never forget, Stevie T almost joined Dragonforce.
@@j-meister8710 for the triangle
Why wouldn’t they ask the 17 yr old (at the time, 4-1/2 years ago) Tina F’ing S, which is better than all of them technically? She shreds TheDooo, Herman, and Cole! She plays stuff on the guitar that they struggle with. Ex: TheDooo [at 24y/o- - only plays 25 seconds of Moonlight ( actually only 15 seconds). Cole plays it, but not as well as a 17 year old.[and he played it as a 23yo.]. I’ve heard all three. They all do Dr. Viossey’d version. The only danger to her version is
@@frankiek2269 you’re basing it off of one song? One song she likely spent more time practicing? Coles videos are highly edited but thedooo is always playing pretty much live so it’s hard to really compare.
@@taylorgang2237 Not one song. TheDooo started playing guitar at 12. That’s “Ironman” and “Smoke on the Water” crap. Look at Tina S at 12. She has her own page also. There is a reason why very notable ppl shouted her out on Twitter, starting at when she was 13. And she played them at that age, as well as TheDooo nowadays. Herman Li, as far as I can tell, is the only one that knows TheDooo, at the young age of 27. Do you think I don’t believe TheDooo is an incredible guitarist? He’s phenomenal! And when you reach the level of mastery that Tina has, of course you can mimic songs with relative, or perfect pitch. Do you think the young lady that played Beethoven (5:56 song averaging 7+ notes/second) can’t play a simple Green Day song first listen? They are famous, like the Ramones, for being a three chord band. I know you’re defending TheDooo. I’m not attacking him. Just pointing out there is a lady out there better than he is, IMO. It is art, so no one is definitively right. Not even me.
I love the fact that Herman just acknowledges that it takes far too long to learn a song like this and there's not a lot gained from it. I love how he just confesses it's torture and there's not much point to learning it because of how much you need to practice it. There isn't much of a way to express yourself through a song like this either when you have to practice it day in day out just to remember how to play it. Such a humble dude....
Hermann must be sick to death of hearing this song! 😂
I think he is more proud than tired... because that represent that is a song people see as an accomplish to be able to play. And even not metal head like or even only heard... i'de bre proud
I’d love to see him do soldiers
even though I still would love to see your reaction to my cover with Jonathan Young, I wouldn't wish the hell you face of living in an endless stream of Through the Fire and Flames content on anyone - so no worries.
Yoooooo man youre here too
Wooaaahh 👊
your pogchamp on that video
Your one winged angel way too awesome!
Your cover makes this look like a training session.
Herman “I’m gonna have to do my own version one day” yes!!! Any DragonForce play throughs on this channel would be amazing.
YEEEEESSSSSS
That would be before or after he shoots himself ?? :)))
And You are!?
One day we see DragonForce covering DragonForce
It will be Epic
@@GammaFZ maybe the day will come when Dragonforce reacts to Dragonforce covering Dragonforce.
"The tapping opener felt like the notes were paced out slightly off..."
Gotta love the armchair guitar maestros in twitch chat.
Cancer twitch chat or not. He was off by a bit, there is no denying that.
@@arcuz7862 youtube chat maestro chiming in
Want some more? Herman is bang on: the cuts/edits, so much post-production editing to make it ''cleaner'', this isn't a ''cover'', this is more of a pre-recorded, post-production sample piece......so it's a 5/10 at best. Id rather hear it done one take, live, and f**k the post-production.....
Herman you are so humble and gracious, positive and objectively critical. As for me not being musical, I love seeing the times you get impressed when someone does a riff that catches you off guard. We do need videos like these so people like me can relive hearing the song again for the first time (The 1000th time) :-)
One of my favorite youtuber watching to one of an other of example
Oh and they'll shred together
kind of hard to call Herman Li a youtuber.. he's one of the lead guitarists to Dragonforce doing youtube while they can't tour.
One of my favorite youtubers watching another.
12:38-12:42 - one of the most beautiful riffs I’ve heard in my life. I keep repeating it
Wtf you had the same comment on the main video lol!!
14:13
Herman gave it the thumbs up
I still can’t get over what a masterpiece this song is … still blows my mind after all these years
"It's a shitty song anyway".
-Herman Li
What?
When did he said that?
He didnt but hes bored of that song as he palyed it like million times
I mean it’s not shitty but it’s certainly not there best
@@kirkswahpedal3467 Hah, I dont listen to dragonforce much but ttfaf blew my mind...
"Why cole why"
"How cole how"
Good Question
I’ve seen a couple of his reactions now to his music, man this guy is one hard judge. You can really tell how proud of his work he has put out and is not letting anyone off easy teying to replicate his work
I've been waiting for this reaction!
"I'm learning how people do playthrough, I must do my own someday" - lololololol
Think Herman is saying, as a creator of this song, he knows each individuals part and he finds it interesting seeing other peoples interpretation of the song because most musicians interpret alot by ear or tabs(someone else's interpretation). So if there's two guitarists, you end up learning a bit of both of their parts combined.
That was crazy beginning loved it!!
Love seeing Herman on RUclips and twitch. One of the coolest guys ever
Watching Herman watch this video is really fascinating. Cole is clearly seriously talented and I thought his version was awesome. It's such an insane song!
Cole's first guitar lesson: Today we're gonna learn Through the Fire and Flames by DragonForce. You ready?
His teacher: Yes I'm ready.
So close to 1M congratulations Herman😘
Herman, I really appreciate your helping Jason! You're not only a great musician but a fine human being.
AT LAST!!! Now we can see how those PLAYTHROUGH GUITARIST play LIVE! THANK YOU HERMAN LI... 🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻 ...
can't wait for TINA S. also... 😁
imagine at alternate universe jason playing guitar with herman . its gonna be huge
Thats got to be a great feeling having these kids wanting to be like you and looking up to you! Amazing kids today
I could watch Herman watch videos all day. The most chilled out guy...
The mix of the guitar w the song and the tone of the guitar is so close to the original that I'd imagine a lot of people, especially any dislikes on that vid, are people who think its just 'fake playing'. He's nailing it so well on every aspect. Props to this guy
Yes but he cuts off the video 2 o 4 times, that means he has been maybe recording 3 hours and he took the best solos. And he is in a studio seated, it's not the same
So there's probably some stuff that you didn't catch on Cole's vid but he's basically doing playback on a heavily edited audio track. That's why people dislike him. Like 6:12 is an obvious catch. That part isn't played that way, whammy is obviously added post prod, and he even HAD to cut the dive lol...
It’s heavily edited, anyone can see that.
@@breakitdown4346 I mean it’s definitely sped up. His hand looks robotic when he plays lol I’m sure he can actually play it, but obviously people want it to be perfect for RUclips, but when guitar videos look so obviously sped up it’s a little annoying
it's probably just that the audio and video are completely separately recorded.
Surprised to even see him mention Tina S. Girl disappeared to another dimension.
I saw a brazilian video last year, and the guy said that a community on reddit just found her friend's profile, and he said that she's have been at university for a long time or something like that
@@lemos_spotter amantes das cordas
@Joseph Santana Damián Salazar también es muy bueno, recomendable verlo
Cole Roland is AMAZING at guitar! I follow him, his skills are insane. His covers, his own songs etc
I’ve been waiting for this video
The worst thing about writing hard songs is forgetting how to play them.
He was about to say so, I didn't even remember how to play that xdddd
Well you dont have to play note for note. The structure will stay in your mind probably mostly
I'm writing some new songs and I try to make them pretty simple so it's like second nature when I wanna play it 3 years later lol
No worst part is writing song you will never be able to even play
It’s that feeling that if you can play this song you can literally play anything you want.
tosin abasis boss bar appears, animals as leaders thumping riffs ensue.
This reaction is wholesome. My cousin worked with Cole prior to him starting a youtube channel and blowing up, said he was always a super nice and hard working dude! Much love to you Li!
I honestly love this mix, I used to create mashups which combine many songs into one. I personally like his mix because he makes a seamless mashup between the two guitars parts.
No matter what Herman says he's trying so hard not to start playing himself .... 😅 Plus it's a testimony to the greatness of this song that over a decade later ppl STILL learn it and its STILL mind boggling!!!! God I miss GH !!!!
I love Herman Li's commentary! No BS approach in any way. Also, Cole is an extremely good guitarist and his add-on guitar to the original is quite interesting, like Herman Li states, Play-Through
I love how you diss "Through the Fire and Flames" every time you talk about it. Great video!
Humble humility and recognition of others a steward of learning. 🤘
To the comments saying “too much hand movement” or “he’s not thrifty” enough... he is obviously playing over a pre-recorded track that has been mixed... you know, like every music video ever lol
"He's not thrifty"
*goes back to playing Smoke on the Water and fucking it up still*
Yeah but its a guitar playthrough not a promotional piece for an album.
I remember when GH3 came out and everyone was going crazy about Through the Fire and Flames a close friend of mine told me his friend Cole could play this on an actual guitar. He gave me his MSN, and I talked to Cole and he played this song to me over MSN video because I didn’t believe him. This was over 10 years ago. 1 million subs later, I guess I really ended up eating my words. LOL
@roororoo Why would I lie about that? Lol
@roororoo Dog... he has a cover from over 10 years ago on RUclips, it’s his first ever song he posted. Go back and look.
Both amazing guitar players. Dragonforce is unreal!
I love the honesty of the reaction. Most people would sugar coat their feelings. I hope you raise a TON of money for Jason Becker, he's a good dude!
I don’t usually listen to Dragon Force,but when I do,so do my neighbours
I agree with Herman, TTFAF is so overdone, I wanna see someone cover Fury of the Storm!
heros or wings!!
TTFAF is one of the first songs that got me into the genre so I can never get bored of it but I know what you mean, they have so many fantastic songs that don't get as much attention as they deserve.
Soldiers of the Wastelands is criminally underrated, and probably my favorite song they've done. Highway To Oblivion should've gotten more attention, but covid stopped their US tour and I believe they have more fans here in the states than any other country
Holding On, Heart of A Dragon, Operation Ground and Pound, and Cosmic Power of the Infinite Shred Machine are all great songs to cover as well
Three hammers!
Happy to see you supporting Jason Becker! That indeed is one serious guitar.
Herman you got it spot on here man he cut it through to add his stuff most people who watch you don’t even realize how much hard work you two players do in your hand he is good but he doesn’t have it down pat for the individual parts like you guys have
Jesus, he's actually holding the axe from perpetual burn. WOW! This was the disc that got me into shred.
It must have been a ton of work, but Through the Fire and Flames is a masterpiece on guitar, I couldn't imagine the sense of accomplishment in learning all of that song.
AMAZING!!
This is what ive been waiting for
Everyone: **sitting at their desk with their faces melted like raiders of the lost ark**
Herman: "That was good..."
When Herman says you're a killer guitarist you know you did well
A lot of guitars, amazing, a lot of talent, doble amazing, some day i have to play like this amazing people !!!
you have set the bar with this song and the worlds best guitarists had to practice to play this song well done sir you are a legend
The next one has to be the Nik Nocturnal cover, it's the best cover of TTFAF I've ever heard imo.
He did both guitars and also he put tabs on screen
Respect to Cole, and to you too sir. This has to be one of the hardest songs to play on guitar. You nailed it in the original version of course, and this guy nailed it in his own way as well. You should absolutely be excited listening to this tribute to your rock masterpiece. Cole is great, and he can obviously play on your level...but I know you could answer back at any time. He's not the superior guitarist here, but I think he is definitely worthy of your respect.
fully agree with you
Herman is that godly when he plays his hair starts bellowing in the wind, wow
this is the first time ive really watched herman,and i must admit,hes vry entertaining,funny as h@ll,good deal u helping jason out,that rocks herman
I would love some more "the doo"
Chat picking everything out “he’s not stood up” “it’s sped up” “his right hands way to aggressive for my liking” and I can guarantee majority of people in that stream and chat can’t play a single chord on guitar 😂
yes kskskakakakaka
When i was young, this is first song i heard, and my daddy's name is same with your name "Herman". Respect🔥🔥🔥
legends
Got to help Jason, one of the most talented guitar players I have ever heard, mind blowing
Really can’t believe that chat is dumb enough to think he is speeding up the video.
You must be new to the internet. People are always giving dumb takes online lol
Very rare to see someone in a Twitch chat has more than 2 braincells clapping together and doesn't eat crayons for breakfast! Just a joke but reading a Twitch chat can lower your IQ significantly.
I mean, Cole is a beast! No wonder people can't believe their eyes
That's why I skip the chat half the time. People are quick to think that to make themselves feel better about not being that skilled.
dont know about speedin up,I wonder how he changed the effects without pedals?how did he manage to play so cleanly that there is no rustle on the strings?there are noises from virtuosos at concerts, this is a confirmation of their live playing, and not this plywood from Roland.I just don't understand why everyone is so orgasmic,he didn't write a new song,or did an arrangement for the one he was playing.
For the first time I see Herman speechless 😅 👌 this young guy is super talented 😎💚🎸
Watched it twice. His facial expressions and body language say all that is needed.
14:06 he was tempted to play 😂😂😂
Herman, I am really glad you addressed this. I noticed this when his cover first came out, and I never really saw him address this or say outright that this is what he was doing... I still think he should have, but I am glad someone cleared it up. I won't call it dishonest, but I think it might have been to his advantage to have said so himself.
Chills 🥶
it's how he feels and loves this song
Thank you for clearifying how this youtuber is editing! So many thinks its only him playing
I don't really understand what's even the point of doing it this way
@@derrickcorreia It's production value, he is a guitarist yes but RUclips is his main platform for getting his work out there and in his bio it says he has a strong passion for video production. So really what I see he is doing is making simple music videos for his covers to bring more energy to the content and get viewers engaged. He has 1.1m subs so I guess it works.
@@derrickcorreia It means he's fake like lots of youtube musicians. Many singers playing pre-recoreded song and pretend it's live. It's a scam.
@@20cmusic like Herman said in this vid, cole is making a music video. There’s no delusion that it’s live, no one is claiming it to be. You might still have an issue with the way he did the cover either way, but if you are mad coz you think it’s meant to be live that’s not his fault
Herman: ok let's carry on. Me: THROUGH THE FIRE AND THE FLAMES WE CARRY ON 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
What a beautiful song
Mindblowing!
This is one of the best cover seen up to now. This what I call passion. Even Herman Li is speechless.
Hes like... wow actually... he does it better.... yup hes better
La cara de un hombre que no tiene que preocuparse por el copyright
De hecho Herman ha tenido problemas con Universal y el puto copyright claim de sus propias canciones. Le pasó en Twitch.
Lol hahahahaha
Jajajaajajaj al chile jajajajaaj
Awebo jajaja
Ive search this every time
Finally its out 🥰🥰
This guy is playing guitar like a real master! Congratulations!👏👏👏
Watching Herman's face expression is entertaining
I think the most entertaining part is watching the chat accusing him of speeding up the video
No idea how I got here but watched his reaction to Tina S aswell; never listened to Dragonforce ever before but I’m still watching and loving it.
Im so glad i came across this video. Seen Cole playing this a while ago and thought straight away!!! There is no way hes playing this note for note live. Same as lauren babic and all those other mime artists. Crazy..
People missed Herman's point - the cover was not entirely Cole Rolland's own playing. He spliced together parts of Herman and Sam's playing along with some of his own playing. That's why he wasn't super impressed, because the audio is not of Cole Rolland playing the whole song
Yeah and it’s not a live recording. All his songs are prerecorded and mixed which is awesome as far as clarity and outcome, but it’s hard to judge.
@@Major4D I don't really like how he does that. Sure it sounds better but I'd rather actually hear his guitar audio clearly so I actually know it's his audio
@@braxtonfps3580 exactly. I used to watch his videos all the time until I saw it was not live played whatsoever. That’s why I live watching The Dooo or Rabea Masaad
Yeah absolutely true
At least cole rolland know where he put his fingers on every single note to fret board 😄
I don't think Herman needs to watch any more covers. It's time for him to do a cover of his own! Some Jason Becker or Dream Theater perhaps?
Pale Blue Dot from Distance Over Time maybe
Altitudes would be great..
Herman this guy is legit, so damn good!
Herman.... shi* man... you got the charisma that cannot disappear no matter how many years passed....
그라샤~
si me pasó ayer
@ujung oppa disini juga gak tuh
Seperti anda nyasar, sini saya bantu pulang 🙈🤭🤭
Wih ada ujung hyung
Nyasar lu
He's playing the sounds that most people recognise or sounds that stand out when they hear this song.
Im really just speechless... that guy is a monster my god!
WOW that precious Guitars of Jason Becker
Damn I was waiting for him to snap the strings at the end
I'll talk in portuguese. Esse garoto tocou muito! Eu fiquei impressionado com a dedicação e talento dele para aprender seu solo Herman.
Nem parece q é ele tocando, ta editado demais, a sensacao é q ele ta "dublando"
goosebumps
a masterpiece mastefully mastered