The most difficult Metallica riff from each album (with tabs)
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- Опубликовано: 18 янв 2020
- Hello people! I'm a guitar player from Romania and a huge Metallica nerd. In this video I'll be playing the hardest guitar riff from each album, trying to recreate the guitar tone as well as possible and explaining what is particularly difficult about each one of them. For people offended about the St.Anger and Lulu joke in the video please keep in mind that it was all just for comedic purpose. I actually enjoy St.Anger every once in a while and I know Lulu is not a Metallica album and it just features Metallica. Enjoy the video friends!
I do not own the rights to any of the songs.
All rights reserved to Metallica. 
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Fight Fire with Fire is by far the Hardest on Lightning.
dyers eve on Justice for All is the hardest song to play
@@marq5559 That's a tricky one too.
I find Creeping Death to be one of the faster songs I can play, definitely not hardest riff on the album, I would agree with Fight Fire with Fire only bc I cant speed alternate pick for my life
@@marq5559 I can play that easily don't afraid your self
I can play ffwf , dyers Eve, Disposible Heroes easily but I can't play Blackened and Master
Damage Inc is so hard that the guy himself couldn´t play it even 80% accurate
For damage inc with that riff I say screw it imma gallop not use broken gallop because that riff is harder than damage inc solo which is rare for music
It's my favorite riff to play lol
It is an awkward riff, but at least play it with E as bass note, this had A as bass note, completely off
The only time I can play it accurately is when I’m playing it slowed tf down😂
he also couldn’t play the second riff in metal militia
0:11 Kill Em’ All
1:19 Ride The Lightning
2:21 Master Of Puppets
3:49 And Justice For All
4:35 Black Album
5:33 Load/Reload
6:49 St. Anger
7:06 😂
7:09 Death Magnetic
8:54 Hardwired to Self Destruct
now imagine playing those riffs while you sing 💀
yuup I do that some of them are very hard in that way especially battery
What’s funny is as someone who’s played guitar on and off for 14 years untrained, I can play every riff to every Metallica song, but god damn, put a Beatles song in front of me and I might as well be trying to order breakfast in Finland...
Tfw when you only play metal songs, I can relate
Yeah same
I can play master of puppets but goddammit I can't play chords like the master of puppets intro is easier for me than wonderwall
Ya i can play a difficult song on drums like dyers eve but i always screw up on simpler stuff like boulevard of broken dreams or something lol
syötkö täällä tai otatko mukaana?
I wish I could play without a cable
Yeah, what's up with that? 😐 Not even a short cable for a wireless connection.
@@nckhed He probably recorded him playing and then recorded the video
there is wireless amplification systems i believe
@@PadawanIan But the transmitter still needs to be plugged into the guitar, his just isn't plugged in period
The video is mimed most likely
Even MetallicA self say that "the Frayed Ends of Sanity" is the most complicated song they have ever written. So... I'll stick with that one!
Yes, this.
Riff after 4:00 and under-solo riff is insane!
First and main riff into blackened are harder to play, but I completely agree that Frayed is the most sonically sound and Musically intricate song ever written by Metallica.
I guess the are talking about the rythm or messure changes, not about guitar tecnique.
Frayed is poorly structured, unpopular opinion but it’s on of my least favorite Metallica songs
I swear Creeping Death is the easiest riff on Lightning, idk if it’s because I never had trouble with downpicking or the fact that you don’t really need to move your left hand much. But I’d say the spider riff on Ride The Lightning is the hardest. It’s so awkward.
yeah I can agree to some extent, but because I started off playing lead guitar that riff doesn't bother me that much, thanks for the feedback!
But creeping death has the hardest solo in the album it’s like tornado of souls it’s has insanely easy riffs but very difficult solos
Whenever I try to play this song my wrist feels like it’s gonna fall off
@@prodmicah tbh I probably got so used to downpicking because I never uppicked on Guitar Hero before I got a guitar so I thought the same way so downpicking was second nature to me
@@prodmicah everyone learning metallica for the first time goes through that trust me mate! xD
Dyers Eve is easily the hardest song on AJFA if not metallica song in general
Definitely hard on drums but on guitar the speed fools you into thinking that it's hard. The tail of the blackened main riff is harder to get consistent at than the entire dyers eve song.
@@AllAboutMetallicaGuitar i agree with you, at least for me dyers Eve wasn't to difficult, but blackened it's another history
I would say Dyers eves solo isn’t the hardest on that album, IMO shortest straw is the most difficult thing Kirk ever wrote
@@AllAboutMetallicaGuitar well AJFA is my favourite metalica album and I know what is the hardest and easiest song
Easiest song is to live is to die
Hardest song is obviously Dyers eve for riffs
hardest solo is shortest straw
Easiest solos is One
I never found Dyers Eve difficult but blackened I still struggle with
The most dificulty song of metallica:
The four horsemen
Reason: dave mustaine.
(only joke.)
The most easiest songs of Metallica
1 some kind of monster it’s legit just 0 3 5 for most of the song I’m not joking check the tabs on it
2 unnamed feeling because it’s slow
3 shoot me again because it’s only a few notes
4 enter sandman it’s ridiculous easy the only challenge is the solo
5 to live is to die it’s the slowest song from metalica history
To live is to die is so good though even though it’s slow AJFA is just a masterpiece
Truth hurts...
Metal Militia is Mustaine tho
@@Mrnoobestreturns the solo doesn’t seem that hard once you learn it imo
I love how you remembered the unmuted hit at 2:04 at the beginning of that riff when it's played for the third time. So many people miss that little detail.
haha thanks man! I had to look for it cause I've been playing it like that for so long I forgot that I do that
That’s what that is. Thanks
I'm glad I've done this only by memory
YES!!!! And also, when they're ending the song, the second to last chord is actually frets 2 and 5 for the power chord, not 2 and 4.
@@mg682I’m pretty certain that’s only for the live version
The St. Anger bit got me hahah, but as someone who enjoys St. Anger just as much as other albums, I can say that the hardest song on it would probably be All Within my Hands, especially if you're a maniac and try to downpick it like James does. Great video tho :D
To be fair St anger is hard to like it taken me years to like the songs on it
I say the hardest riff for that album is sweet amber
And the easiest riff being some kind of monster
Fun fact some kind of monster is metalica most easiest song ever created
@@Mrnoobestreturns Yeah it kind of depends on what other genres you like, as a fan of Nu metal, I instantly liked St Anger and the drums never bothered me for some reason. But I agree, Sweet amber is quite tricky, but I still stand by All Within my Hands being the hardest song in the Metallica catalogue to downpick. Harder than Master and harder than Blackened. And yes, this oppinion comes from a guitar player
I'd like St. Anger way more if it were produced properly and that fucking snare was fixed but the heaviness of the album and the lyrical content I do enjoy. Plus the guitar parts are great too but, personally I think frantic is the hardest song off the album. I didn't really have much trouble with all within my hands. Although, in Kirk's case, it's some kind of monster
@@dougwalker5807 a fan did that ruclips.net/video/h99nhdNnfm8/видео.html
And I think it lost the magic
First off creators put things there for a reason
So replacing the snare and reworking the tone just removed what makes St anger a unique album no one has ever heard of before
@@Mrnoobestreturns thank you but I've seen this multiple times. This is what I was referring to
What I believe has the most difficult riffs of each album
Metal Militia
Fight Fire With Fire
Damage Inc.
Dyers Eve (or Frayed Ends)
Through the Never
Thorn Within has a underrated (not difficult) riff
Fuel
St Anger
That Was Just Your Life (or B,B,& S)
Am I Savage (harmonics)
It's not that Lulu has a difficult riff, the difficult part is listening to the songs.
7:58 also remember that James also sings while playing that riff!!
that's a very good point!
And this is absolutely unbelievable
a fucking maniac, that's what he is
*cracks knuckles and inserts standard Megadeth joke here*
This riff is not THAT challenging, it's about 7.5/10 as far as Metallica riff difficulty goes. What's really hard to sing over while keeping time is Fight Fire With Fire, as the entire main riff is super fast AND syncopated (off-beat). Remember that when playing live and singing, James often skips notes, economy-picks and alternate-picks entire parts of the song. Actually, Kirk is not credited enough for almost always playing the full riffs while James is singing.
Another one that's kinda tricky to play and sing is Eye of The Beholder - same reason, the chorus riff is syncopated.
Mad respect, I play for half a year myself, I really wish I had your skill, man
thank you man, you'll get there for sure just keep at it, if you love what you play the right thing will happen! \m/
@@AllAboutMetallicaGuitar 👊👊👊
Just got to keep practicing I've been learning Master of puppets for 6 months now cause I want to do a full cover. Just keep at it
@@AllAboutMetallicaGuitar mate you don't even have a cable plugged in your clearly faking it
So we're gonna act like Through The Never or The Struggle Within werent ther hardest songs off The Black Album huh?
Through the never has fast downpicking tho
Through the never is like master of puppets lite (main riff)
The Struggle Within riff right after the solo, that's pretty hard.
@@gamma7824 if you play along to a live version for example from Live Shit, then yeah it does.
through the never, the main riff's 1-2-3 changes are fucking brutal to get clean
That break riff on damage inc. is by far the wildest metallica riff to play in my opinion sheeesh i goes haaard, and when the other instruments come along it's magistral
couldn't agree more
you’re a legend for playing all of these
thanks a lot bro! \m/
@@AllAboutMetallicaGuitar love your vids but it seems like some clips have been speeded up if I’m not mistaken
@@laflammechristophe4548 they were not, but I was not very good at editing and I messed up the audio sync since all the riffs are pre recorded
@@AllAboutMetallicaGuitar good job and sorry for commente
And for playing them without cable🤯
I can already feel my wrist tense up by watching you play creeping death
Master Of Puppets isn’t 220bpm, it’s 212
For Kill 'Em All I would have put the Four Horsemen.
The palm muting at the beginning is hard to get right, the pinch harmonic is placed in a difficult spot, and the Sweet Home Alabama bridge is kinda hard.
That Sweet Home Alabama riff confused me for a long time.
Julien MENARD makes nice lessons on Metallica songs and Sweet Home Alabama riff is quite easy and fun, easier than how Skynyrd Lynyrd plays it
bruh where is ur jack cable
I’d add Disposable Heroes :-)
the rythm guitar parts aren't that difficult tbh
@@AllAboutMetallicaGuitar they are hard to play for longer periods in other words its again hard to get through the whole song
It’s actually pretty easy
BATTERY
@Irfan Spirtovic hard? its fucking impossible, have you picked up a guitar before?
I loved sitting here watching this. Awesome!
Man, you're really good at this, continue this way 'cause your video is funny and your skills are amazing.
thank you so much! will do brother! \m/
King nothing is such an underrated song. It’s not hard, it’s just badass
Salut maan! Mi-ai facut seara cu clipul asta! Keep up the good work! ROCK ON!
I think on the black ablum, through the never is the hardest for the downpicking
Yes, sire
Black album is hard to find the hardest because nearly every song is easy there
I do know the most easiest for that album it’s enter sandman
@Rock'n'LokoT alternate picking wouldn't be doing it the correct way. It won't sound right either.
I know it is but it’s a lot like a master of puppets riff
forgot to mention you killed it bro its good to see the young gen taking an interest in classic awesome thrash metal
haha thank you so much man! means a lot! 🤘
I'd say fight fire is more difficult from ride the lightning, mainly the prechorus riff. It's just a weird rhythm to play.
trapped under ice is tough too
On my opinion, you should add Disposable heroes to your list. The tempo of this song and the accuracy of the performance really make you tense up when playing it.
Youre picking like James Hetfield YOURE A GENIUS
yeaaah buddy!
@@AllAboutMetallicaGuitar I picked that way for decades before ultimately switching to a more traditional style of pick hold. The Hetfield hold was causing me to rip the flesh off the side of my middle finger after a set or so. Such a great hold for those machine gun gallops, though.... Plus, it looks badass.
@@SvenSvensvensonsson I developed calluses on the side of my finger so I don't really have that problem but I see how that can hurt
@@SvenSvensvensonsson I pick like him to and I can agree, I use to have to put tape on the sides of my fingers because it would rip my fingers apart
@@thanosquill5542 yeah. That’s why I stopped. I still would naturally catch myself doing it on some fast mutes or gallops for a while after I stopped regularly strumming like that, but at this point I’ve washed it out of my muscle memory, all together. I think his secret is he holds his pick perpendicular to the strings, so his fingers aren’t really coming in contact with the strings. I read an interview a long time ago where he explained why he picks so uniquely. He said it all stems from how he holds pens; with his thumb, index and middle finger.
Blackened is their best riff. That one is just SICK. We have Jason to thank for it too!
hell yeah we do!
The tail of the riff is the exact same as burn the witch by venom
Best chanel for metalheads
Luv it
Dude your a legend keep it up!
This man deserves more subs.
Bruh Creeping Death was the 2nd Metallica riff I learned after sandman
You should have played Some Kind of Monster from St. Anger. The notes in between fucked Kirk for real.
good vid bro keep going im subbing
thank you so much!
Very cool vid!🤘🤘
Black Album: "Through the never". That is pretty hard to play tight. At least I recall my forarm being pretty pumped up on that song, especially when playing backing riff for Kirk's solo. But maybe it was because I had already played 4½ albums before that 🤣
When I started to play guitar a thousand years ago, my first tablature book was MoP. That was also the first song I learnt to play completely, without Kirk's fast solo. I just practised and practised, usually 6-8 hours a day. I was 15 years old...almost 16 atm. Then about year later I played all five of their CD's in a row. I never learnt all songs completely, but most of them and many of the solos too...and at least some part from every song. Of course I wasn't that good at first, but maybe 6 months later I was actually pretty good already, and most people didn't believe that I had only played about 18 months. Well, it was only 18 months, but I still had more practise time, than most of the guys, who had played 3-4 even 5 years.
We should appreciate tho how he played Blackened all downpicking and holding the pick the way James does
haha thanks man! I do that to get the attack I need since James is so heavy-handed
@@AllAboutMetallicaGuitar but every other bar you should be going down a tritone instead of up all the time, not sure if that's intentional?
Amazing once again Mate
thanks a lot mate! 🤘
Great job
How long do you play guitar?
about 4 years, self taught
@@AllAboutMetallicaGuitar nice job!
Each day 23 hours
The kick ass riff that Kirk wrote in my apocalypse is hard af imo, palm muting, downpicking, harmonics
well done!🤘🏾
This is sick dude I’ve been covering a lot of Metallica songs on drums recently. Goddamn they are so iconic.!!
Oooo, very good. I would love to see a Megadeth version of this!
he is so good even though his guitar isnt even plugged in
Love the tone with the guitar
ay thanks man!
Cool vid!
“Creeping Death is difficult”
Also Creeping Death: eeEeeEeEeeEe…
bruh
I'd argue Fight Fire With Fire bridge of whatever between the main riff sections are harder than Creeping Death. But also that's played only a few time in the song while Creeping Death's riff requires a lot of stamina :D
Great job!
Awesome efforts man...!!
thank you so much!
My man butchered St. Anger
Also hardest song on that album is either All Within My Hands or Invisible Kid
Creeping death can be difficult at first but it’s more “finicky” if anything. Once you learn the verse riff properly, it’s much easier. Definitely a contender though
Excellent
King Nothing is so good, especially with your tone, jeeez
Gotta agree on dyers eve being a pain in the ass
Wow, saying fuck you to St. Anger. Such a true metalhead... Really? Still?
Who gives a fuck about st anger lmao
@@joshhernandez2574 how about anyone who understands anything about music
How about u read the video discription before commenting
@@pannekoekcom4147 Well, you're right. My bad.
@@maruseron what’s your top 10 Metallica songs right now, I’ll decide weather your opinion is valid or not
good tone bro
Great vid, ur also a killer player
thank you so much!
Who plays guitar when cable isn't plugged in
Creeping death you have to downpick the entire song, but I personally think Ride the Lightning is a bit harder, just because of the bridge riff. Good stuff! Keep thrashing!
Because mustaine...
Fight fire with fire is even harder
Wow Răducu! You rock!!!🤘
I don’t care how long it takes me to mater that damage inc sequence. The riff is badass and I will make it mine some day
>St. Anger and Lulu skipped
>Not saying every song is hard to play as it is hard to listen too
😔
I would skip load and reload too
Im having a harder time playing the alternate picking descending chromatic chords in ride the lighting and the solo section rhythm than creeping death
Not that hard, learn spider chords and it’s just a slight challenge to keep clean
M Thang Jameson yea but learning that riff it sticks to you. Take a break from downpicking you have to sort of re learn it get all your stamina back. And creeping death is annoying just repeatedly taking your palm on and off while down picking.
I think St Anger gets a lot of flak for what it is (never listened to Lulu so can’t say) but that being said, the laughing edit you put over both albums was funny af and made me laugh out loud pretty hard. And the video overall was pretty damn good. Fucking bravo
You definitely need more subscribers
On ride The lightning The most difficoult song is trapped Under Ice
Dyers in my opinion is the most difficult Metallica song in general. It's just fast and oddly structured.
-Hit the Lights
-Fight Fire with Fire
-Master of Puppets
-Blackened
-Nothing else matters (full arpegio intro)
your tone is very good
thank you! I have 2 new tutorials about how I got them btw if you're interested
When the st. anger appeared and that laughing noise came on I was dying also I was wondering what song you were gonna pick for the black album cuz they ain’t that hard but god that failed was a god choice
Aside from some riffs played wrong, it was a fun compilation. Always fun geeking with fellow Metallica brothers/sisters! 😍
That's exactly why I make videos! I don't really have people I can go full nerd mode with about Metallica so this is my outlet. 🤘
@@AllAboutMetallicaGuitar Feel you, friend! Been jamming to Metallica since I was a teen (now 40), and it's hard to find people to jam with on all the best stuff
@@nybakg so sick to hear man! I'm 21 and most of my metal friends went on to the new djenty stuff while I'm going backwards towards danzig and Sabbath 😂
@@AllAboutMetallicaGuitar Go both ways 😂it'll make you a better player
as a Guitarist who has learned Blackened, Im still struggling with my galloping, Downpicking and TIming at the same time everytime I play it
Creeping death is literally the first riff i ever learned, idk why people say its hard, I think fight fire with fire is way more fitting for the hardest riff of RTL.
mocking st. anger but then also saying spit out the bone is the best metallica song since blackened 💀 that’s a hot take if i ever saw one.
WDYM, Spit out the bone is a banger.
St. Anger and Lulu😂😂
Good video and excellent playing!! Although I would say Dyers Eve is the hardest song on Justice.
bro has dedicated so much to metallica he has taught himself to pick like james
Did anybody else notice that he’s not even plugged in!?!?!
that was my first video, I prerecord everything since the guitars have to be double or quad tracked
@@AllAboutMetallicaGuitar and if not, there are also a lot of Bluetooth devices that allows you to connect the guitar to the amp without wires plugged in
@@MNorris0783 I wish I had one, just fucked up lol
How do u get such good tone?
hey mate! there's a tutorial up on my channel on how I get the tones! hope it helps!
How do u get such a good tone BIAS effects that’s how
Hey man you‘re on a good way. After playing guitar and especially Metallica songs for 16 years, 15 minutes of warm up and those riffs come out naturally. Practise rhythmic precision, power, authority and especially consistency in your picking.
What I found when I was re-recording St. Anger, was that the hardest riff to get right on the album was the intro build-up of St. Anger. I'm sure you know from recording this video, saying you can play the riff is easy, recording it is hard. Having to make sure you're palm-muting in the right spot, lifting off to accent the notes at the right time, hitting every single downpick because if you miss one, it's over. None of the riffs on the album were hard, but playing some of them perfectly was. :P
In my opinion AJFA is the best album. So many good songs.
Totally agree, it's my favorite album of all time in general, not from Metallica only! Fucking great 🤘
St Anger is by far the most difficult riff, because you have to hear St Anger while you play it.
I think the verse riff off of Master Of Puppets is like 4/4, then 7/8 (4/8 + 3/8 at the end). It's tricky at first, but not as much when you get used to
“How can I show off but not seem too cocky?” Lmaooo
great video man
haha thanks man! nah it was just "how can K talk about Metallica when my friends don't care about it?" and this channel was born
For me blackened and fight fire with fire are the hardest
Noice man, yet St Anger is one of my favourite albums ever 😂
me too man! it was just a dumb joke I made, I didn't mean it.
@@AllAboutMetallicaGuitar ye 😂 and i read ur description after the video lmao, the jokes can be pretty funny lol
Nothing else matters intro is a nightmare
Appreciate the hetfield picking style, also, how did you reduce the neck dive without moving the strap button? Maybe the esp’s are different but my epi explorer is terrible
oh man it sucked, back then I had the back plate made out of aluminum which would add more weight to the body. Kinda worked but I still had to literally push my forearm into the body to keep it from diving
@@AllAboutMetallicaGuitar damn, I wonder how James does it. I don’t believe the strap button is in a different position so unless he just dealt with it i don’t know lol
@@McMrs it's not, I think he just dealt with it by having the stance that he did, he was kinda supporting it with his right knee in a weird way, must've sucked
Don't know if anyone else noticed but I saw that james hetfueld picking🤫😂
the three finger grip on the pick really gives you more attack, you should try it!
Bruh through the never has just as downpicking as master
I think it’s harder than master
Thanos Quill yea same
I remember back a couple of years when i would practice non stop i could load up master of puppets on youtube and play it at 1.25 speed with all down picks, now sadly im old and have wrist pains from hard jobs back then, god i miss my fast downstrokes
really sorry to hear that man, hope you still play with as much passion though!
My opinion
Kill em all: metal militia (fast string skipping)
Ride the lighting: fight fire with fire (really fast tremolo)
Master of puppets: damage inc.(broken gallop, can't even play it)
And justice for all: the frayed ends of sanity (just hard, can't even play it)
Black album: holier than thou (machine gun picking)
Load: king nothing (bends only b benders can play)
Reload: unforgiven II (bluesy riffs, hard to play)
St. Anger: sweet amber (strong bends and gallop picking)
Death magnetic: that was just your life (string skipping alt picking)
Lulu: IDK lol💀
Hardwired to self destruct: spit out the bone (string skipping).
Honourable mentions: from whom the bell tolls(cliff em all edition), battery, master of puppets, disposable heroes, blackened, dyer's eve, nothing else matters (and yes it does have some hard parts actually), st. anger.