I love lucrecia, it's so out of the box. By itself you might not even label it thrash metal. I like how in RIP they were not obsessed with staying sharply within one genre
I remember hearing that main riff for the first time and falling in love with the song, soon after I listened to the full rust in peace album. Life changing!
Which one? That is one of the most perfectly written songs imo. Whenever I pick up a guitar to play it has to be the last song I do. Probably the best song ever to end an album with. It kinda ends an era of thrash metal in a way too having lived through it.
You could give me 50 years alone in a room with a guitar and I still wouldn't come close to coming up with something like the intro to Lucretia lol. It's so musical yet so unnecessarily difficult to play clean.
@@leerobbo92 That being said Marty's is an absolute masterclass in melodic metal soloing. Tons of ridiculously cool licks in there. And Dave's benefits from the great riff backing it up, like many Megadeth solos
This was the album that grasped my soul. The opening chord progression of Hangar 18 still messes with my mind and my fingers. Playing heavy shit on all of those skinny strings? Dave Mustaine is an 👽. Seeing him play live substantiates my opinion. Rust In Peace is the greatest album released by Megadeth by the greatest line up of musicians that ever was a part of this band. All killer, no filler.
I think there are two line ups from megadeth completely perfect, the one with Poland and Gar, and the one with Menza and Marty, and the actual one need more time as a group
@@cc_1983 I guess it's definitely more blues, but the quick clean part towards the end of high speed dirt is another good example of showing off Dave's blues/country kinda vibe
Probably rust in peace, peace sells... but who's buying?, and countdown to extinction are the best albums of the older Era megadeth. Dystopia is probably the most thrash and true to form of any of their modern albums. But system has failed and the newest album have some cool stuff too and really every album has something at least pretty damn good.
Oh and I guess I shouldn't leave out killing is my business. It's a little harsh and unpolished, but that's kinda the charm and you can actually hear all the cocaine they were doing at the time coming straight across.
That main riff of Holy Wars when "brother will kill brother" starts. Imagine that you were playing things like iron man, run to the hills, for whom the bell tolls, power chord riffs, since you started learning the instrument and you see that riff (!) That was an inflection point for me , my mind was blown away
It’s funny on guitar how different people find difficulty in different things. Polaris for me was one of the easiest, poison was the cure is definitely the hardest for me personally.
It's a pretty accurate top 8 in my opinion, I agree with almost all of the choices and their placement! It's still baffling to me how complex of a song Lucretia is, the rhythms are incredibly intricate and with many odd choices for a thrash metal song. Not to mention the guitar solo that to me is truly the best one on the album (yeah, I said it! even better than Tornado IMO)...the way Marty Friedman follows the chord changes with his arpeggios is masterful! Not to mention Poison Was The Cure, holy hell is that song insane! It starts pretty gloomy and dark before going on a roller coaster of freakish speed with that riff and Marty's final solo...another that is overlooked in my book! Great video, that was fun to watch and a reminder of what a compositional and guitar masterclass Rust In Peace is.
Cool story, I caught Black Sabbath back in 07 I think, in Tempe AZ & it was my first show with Dio, no clue who was opening & the curtains roll back & Megadeth rips out Holy Wars to start the show. I guess living here locally at the time Dave got in on the show but only played the one song. It was a great surprise for me having never seen either band before. Toni guitar tone was nasty & crushed like I had never heard before. Dio was awesome belting out angry Dehumanizer tracks. That was my first album discovering Dio with sabbath & still to this day my favorite show. So grateful I got to witness that lineup before it was to late.
Hey man, great job playing these (and drums!). Trickiest riff of any Megadeth song imo is the Mustaine riff in Hook in Mouth where he's doing the fast alternate/tricky picking stuff toward the middle (@1:40). I think it is technically a "Riff" because he plays it a couple times. Cheers.
Once the chorus repeats on poison was the cure, that’s when my hand really starts cramping up lol. It’s almost like they made it just barely long enough to be playable.
LOL... I was shocked to see that Holy Wars verse riff come in at #6. I had it pegged as #1 until you reminded me Poison Was the Cure existed. The chromatic riff near the start of Take No Prisoners is pretty nuts, too.
Tornado of Souls' main riff was actually one of the first riffs I sat down and learned how to play properly when I first started learning guitar. Definitely not something I'd recommend for everyone to do lol, but it really forced me to step my game up from an early point in my playing. It also helped me visualize the blues scale that is very prevalent in Dave's writing. Made learning future Megadeth songs waaay easier.
I did the same thing, but without knowing a shit about theory, I literally learn tornado's riffs in acoustic guitar cuz didn't have a money fora electric one
@@Kylora2112 Peace Sells was definitely way easier for me lol. There are a lot of little intricacies in Tornado that do a lot of work "behind the scenes" that once you start playing them right, its almost night and day.
Take No Prisoners is extremely tricky. I think that it is all alternate picking except the pull offs in the descending part (Take his life, but won't take his...) The rhythm is also tough with the offbeat downstrokes on the F# power chord and starting right after that on the offbeat upstroke (0) to land on downstroke (3-0-2-0-2-5) -> this results in inside picking which I suck at :p Ben Eller made a great video on the intro part of that song. The Five Magics riff you showed is nasty. I always played it without the hammer on, but going back to the guitar tracks I can hear something like that but picked. I also don't play G-G in the last two notes but D-G (inverted power chord 5th fret). I guess Dave and Marty are the only people that know how to play it correctly. Poison Was The Cure is very hard, so I don't blame them for only recording it once and copy-pasting instead of recording multiple measures. There's also a hidden riff under that one when Dave sings. The Lucretia riff under Marty's solo is one of the best riffs of the whole album. It's really difficult to catch what notes they're playing exactly but it sound amazing. Another great riff is the riff from Polaris. You know, the one near the end. Again it's hard to tell when they do pull offs and when they pick the notes. It's a very fitting ending to a fantastic album.
In the remastered version of Rust in Peace, I definitely agree that the rhythm riff under the main riff in Poison Was the Cure sounds like it's hidden, but in the original mix/master you can hear the riff clear as day.
That Poison was the cure one always blew my mind because I'd always figured Marty handled that part, but nope, it's Dave and he sings while playing it IIRC. Also have to mention the chromatic intro barrage in Take no Prisoners. That's a real finger twister
Dang, always forget how insane the guitar is on Poison Was the Cure until I hear it again. Not that it's my favorite song or anything but it just shows you how insane Dave is as a musician to be able to play that while singing. Rust in Peace really holds a special place in my heart. It's definitely one of my favorite albums of all time.
I would say pretty much any riff from Take no Prisoners should have been included on the list, especially those at the beginning like the chromatic one. That song is insane. Nice to include the verse riff from RIP, that's really tricky, and just thinking that Dave is also singing while playing that, crazy.
I posted it before on a Bradley Hall video and I will repeat here again: Let me tell you how Rust in Peace (the album) became my favorite metal album of all times. I discovered Megadeth in 2002 when I was 16. I am from Brazil and, as always, metal was not exactly popular down here. So, if we wanted to buy a CD from a metal band that was not Iron Maiden or Metallica (bands that were "popular enough" for the labels to decide to print their CDs in Brazil), for example, we had no choice but to acquire imported CDs, which would cost me all the money I had for a month. Thus, my friends and I used to first download the songs of a given band through softwares like Napster, Kazaa, Emule and only after we were 100% sure that a certain band was worthy, we would then spend our limited cash to buy that band's CD. Well, back in 2001/2002, when you searched for a given bands song in one of those softwares like Kazaa, you would get MP3 files named such as "Metallica - One", or "Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills", following the pattern "Band name - song name". Therefore, when I was "discovering" ("downloading" cough, cough) Megadeth I had a folder filled with individual songs in MP3 format like "Megadeth - Hangar 18", "Megadeth - Holy Wars", "Megadeth - She Wolf", with no information whatsover about from what album each song came from. The thing is that, from all the Megadeth songs I have downloaded, after one year I had my personal Top 5: "Megadeth - Holy Wars", "Megadeth - Hangar 18", "Megadeth - Take no Prisioners", "Megadeth - Lucretia", and "Megadeth - Tornado of Souls". I thought these songs were awesome, the guitar playing was out of this world (I never heard those scales and that riff creativity), and somehow had a magic element that other Megadeth songs did not have. I did not know all these songs where from the same album. To be honest, I only found out that these 5 songs were from the same album 2 or 3 years after I had establisedh my top 5 best Megadeth songs. What was my surprise at the end of 2004 when I found out that, not only all my favorite Megadeth songs were from the same album, but also there was one extra major song, which beared the same name of the album: "Rust in Peace". After I found out all these 5 songs belonged to the same album, Rust in Peace was already one of my favorite albums ever. I recall I that my expectations were very, very high when I finally got to listen "Megadeth - Rust in Peace" for the first time. After five minutes listening to that song, I was completely baffled that Megadeth had surprised me again: not only Rust in Peace was a great song, it was a thrash metal master piece, I had no choice but to turn my top 5 Megadeth songs a top 6. So, not only all my favorite Megadeth songs back then were from the same album, but this album was so damn good that it made me discover another thrash metal jewel "Rust in Peace... polaris". After discovering this last song, "Rust in Peace" became my favorite metal album of all time, and still is. Like a good wine, Rust in Peace is aging very well. If you google now "best metal album of all times", Rust in Peace will appear among the very best, where it belongs PS: Yes, and I ended up buying not only the Rust in Peace CD but the entire Megadeth discography ;)
Killer! Rust in Peace...Polaris is probably my fav, but that whole album is super rad. Definitely my favorite of theirs! 😎 Wish you'd play through all of these.. I'd love to learn them! 🤘
The ending section to the title track Rust in Peace is another real tricky one. Especially since it drags on for a bit. It really tires out your fingers
For me: 1. Take No Prisoners (IMO, the hardest Megadeth song to play) 2. Poison Was The Cure 3. Polaris (Rust In Peace is pretty straightforward, but I can't play Polaris for the life of me) 4. Holy Wars 5. Lucretia 6. Hangar 18 (the Big Riff in the ending) I can see the 5/8 riff in Five Magics being tricky, but that's just a disco-prog bassline :P I don't find Tornado Of Souls to be all the tricky, even by non-Megadeth standards. The solo is tricky as balls (my hands are too damn small to do the 17p10, jfc Marty!), but the riffing is fairly tame bluesy and mid-tempo power chords. Like, if I had to play Dave's parts in a Megadeth song to win money or prevent a demilich from taking over the world, I'd pick Tornado Of Souls :)
That was so cool. Great job man. Excellent execution in lecretia. That one is tuff for me to get that vibrato just right & the feel just before. Should have kept going on that five magics riff. I really wanted to Dr you play it as I think I’m off on it. If you teach those accurate riffs or have tabs I would be happy to pay you for such services. I really want to get back to playing that record. Solos are to tuff for me but I can hang with rhythm guitar. Thanks for this post. I would say take no prisoners riff is my hurtle to get right. That’s because I haven’t attempted poison😆 I’ve made up to tornado on the record & never made time to get into the last third of this amazing album. I’m buying an Aprilia Tuareg 660 adventure motorcycle with an acid Gold paint job & plan on putting a RIP decal on it to compliment it. People in the motorcycle community are going to know my favorite thrash record of all time. Cheers man. 🍻
Rust is almost an entire solo with some solos on top..I mean in Take no prisoners, the rhythm is trickier than the solos. RIght?? Having said THAT....KIMB and Peace have some of the trickiest stuff ever recorded on rhythm guitar...Where do you start? The middle riff of Black Friday when Dave SINGS as well?? The 4-7-9 (something) stretch of a riff on the fast part of KIMB? The ridiculous in every sense of the way Loved to death (start to finish)? The super cool tap/ finger pick intro to Looking down the cross? The string skipping riff of Bad Omen? The 2-4-7 on the E string stretch of the rhythm of Conjuring (2nd verse)???
I read that Dave said the poison was the cure riff was so hard the main riff is a loop of the best take. Also never found that 5/8 riff of five magics hard at all but I can’t play most of these riffs. Brilliant guitar as usual Mike👍
here's my choice for hardest riff: the entire ending to "rust in peace...polaris". It's like megadeth took a medium-difficulty riff and cranked up the speed to eleven
I'd place Holy Wars intro riffs as way above Tornado. It's fast, and if you want to get it clean, for me at least it's much much harder. Getting the clean doubles and quads with skipping off the low E to the A and D is not a walk in the park.
I've always pondered on the "hard riff" concept, and always come to the conclusion that the trickiest classics to play, e.g Hotel California, Freebird, Highway to Hell, all those classics, may seem easy at first but are in reality tricky because they're not just your songs. Here's where the rabbit hole begins, and I can only show you the door so to speak. What makes a riff written on the spot by a kid somewhere, tricky to play to so many, after the fact?
Believe it or not I planned to make this video today not knowing it was the 32nd anniversary of its release. Some serendipity there or something. :)
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Mike, did you get your rhythm section to mix this? 😆
Mike I swear u don’t even use any of your other guitars any more, just that white Jackson. Maybe time for a guitar giveaway???
"synchronicity"
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So happy and peaceful rust day, I guess.
cant believe dave sat down and actually wrote the Poison Was The Cure main riff. that riff is so insane so me.
I mean it is a standard bluegrass country type riff
Which is insane to use for metal
The riff itself is not complicated at all, just pentatonic. It’s just played at an insane speed
@@cdsmetalhead99 and whilst singing
@@cdsmetalhead99 One can be pentatonic and complex.
I love lucrecia, it's so out of the box. By itself you might not even label it thrash metal. I like how in RIP they were not obsessed with staying sharply within one genre
@Dave Scott Mustaine lmao
What I love about RIP is that all of the songs fit well in the album without sounding all the same.
Tornado of Souls still has to be my favorite song. Every riff is really fun to play and the solo is just incredible, too. Marty Friedman was a genius!
He still is. He's just a huge star acting in Japan. Its pretty crazy honestly
yeah agree, Kiko plays that solo very well so much feeling, best guitarist since Marty for sure.
@@Henelund definitely. Poland friedman and kiko are the holy trinity of megadave lead guitarists lol.
Rust In Peace (The song) has a few tricky riffs as well. That and Hangar 18 were always my favorites
I personally like the rust in peace polaris riff,very fun to play
I remember hearing that main riff for the first time and falling in love with the song, soon after I listened to the full rust in peace album. Life changing!
Which one? That is one of the most perfectly written songs imo. Whenever I pick up a guitar to play it has to be the last song I do. Probably the best song ever to end an album with. It kinda ends an era of thrash metal in a way too having lived through it.
Polaris is definitely a fun riff to play, I agree.
You could give me 50 years alone in a room with a guitar and I still wouldn't come close to coming up with something like the intro to Lucretia lol. It's so musical yet so unnecessarily difficult to play clean.
So true. Love this record
You could do it bro. Give yourself some love.
@@Ja-mbi What an ace comment. I like you.
Nice. Poison Was The Cure was pretty sick, and Lucretia had a lot more going on in it than I expected.
Lucretia's my favourite of theirs. Solos are incredibly interesting too, not just Marty's.
@@leerobbo92 That being said Marty's is an absolute masterclass in melodic metal soloing. Tons of ridiculously cool licks in there. And Dave's benefits from the great riff backing it up, like many Megadeth solos
@@leerobbo92 It sometimes gets overlooked because the whole album is solid wall-to-wall awesome, but you're right it's a top shelf song
there is also the riff under marty solo
This was the album that grasped my soul. The opening chord progression of Hangar 18 still messes with my mind and my fingers. Playing heavy shit on all of those skinny strings? Dave Mustaine is an 👽. Seeing him play live substantiates my opinion. Rust In Peace is the greatest album released by Megadeth by the greatest line up of musicians that ever was a part of this band. All killer, no filler.
I think there are two line ups from megadeth completely perfect, the one with Poland and Gar, and the one with Menza and Marty, and the actual one need more time as a group
My favorite metal album of all time.
I've never thought of Hybrid Picking the Poison Was The Cure riff, that could definitely make it easier, regarding the right hand at least
My 10 years in a country band has finally paid off. haha
I’d seen another lesson online referring to it as a kind of banjo riff. Makes sense there’s a country vibe to it
@@cc_1983 I guess it's definitely more blues, but the quick clean part towards the end of high speed dirt is another good example of showing off Dave's blues/country kinda vibe
Just started getting into megadeth. Perfect video to keep this trend for me going.
You might like headcrusher
Probably rust in peace, peace sells... but who's buying?, and countdown to extinction are the best albums of the older Era megadeth.
Dystopia is probably the most thrash and true to form of any of their modern albums. But system has failed and the newest album have some cool stuff too and really every album has something at least pretty damn good.
Oh and I guess I shouldn't leave out killing is my business. It's a little harsh and unpolished, but that's kinda the charm and you can actually hear all the cocaine they were doing at the time coming straight across.
That main riff of Holy Wars when "brother will kill brother" starts. Imagine that you were playing things like iron man, run to the hills, for whom the bell tolls, power chord riffs, since you started learning the instrument and you see that riff (!) That was an inflection point for me , my mind was blown away
I really love your drums tone, man
Thank you! Worked hard for that.
I would definitely say the main riff in ...Polaris, it's just so crazy
That's the only section on the album I can't play. Tricky af.
It’s funny on guitar how different people find difficulty in different things. Polaris for me was one of the easiest, poison was the cure is definitely the hardest for me personally.
The whole last bit of Polaris is tricky as hell
Poison was the cure has a very early megadeth vibe, like first album vibe.
It's the kind of riff that you find in songs like Last Rites/love to deth
I think the riff in the beginning of Take No Prisoners is also a good one for this. It's not a super complex thing, but it's fast and relentless.
I find the RIP Polaris riffs most fun and some of them quite challenging 😅
The #8 hangar 18 riff is much harder and nuanced than one would hear. Glad to see it on the list.
It's a pretty accurate top 8 in my opinion, I agree with almost all of the choices and their placement! It's still baffling to me how complex of a song Lucretia is, the rhythms are incredibly intricate and with many odd choices for a thrash metal song. Not to mention the guitar solo that to me is truly the best one on the album (yeah, I said it! even better than Tornado IMO)...the way Marty Friedman follows the chord changes with his arpeggios is masterful! Not to mention Poison Was The Cure, holy hell is that song insane! It starts pretty gloomy and dark before going on a roller coaster of freakish speed with that riff and Marty's final solo...another that is overlooked in my book! Great video, that was fun to watch and a reminder of what a compositional and guitar masterclass Rust In Peace is.
Great guitar playing and video
totally agree with #1 spot, have always been fascinated by the main riff in Poison was the cure
Cool story, I caught Black Sabbath back in 07 I think, in Tempe AZ & it was my first show with Dio, no clue who was opening & the curtains roll back & Megadeth rips out Holy Wars to start the show. I guess living here locally at the time Dave got in on the show but only played the one song. It was a great surprise for me having never seen either band before. Toni guitar tone was nasty & crushed like I had never heard before. Dio was awesome belting out angry Dehumanizer tracks. That was my first album discovering Dio with sabbath & still to this day my favorite show. So grateful I got to witness that lineup before it was to late.
fun fact: if you listen to the isolated guitar track for poison was the cure you can hear the edit point where the riff was looped on the record
I was expecting for the opening riff to Five Magics to be on the list
Really enjoying these Megadeth videos
the verse for holy wars is so hard idk how Dave plays it and sings to this day.
I was expecting the first riff of Polaris to be there, the picking gave me some trouble when I was younger
poison was the cure would sound great as a country lick without distortion.
Man! Loving all these Megadeth-related videos lately 👍🏼
I would’ve guessed the last 2 minute of “Rust in Peace…Polaris” because of how intense it gets towards the end.
Hey man, great job playing these (and drums!). Trickiest riff of any Megadeth song imo is the Mustaine riff in Hook in Mouth where he's doing the fast alternate/tricky picking stuff toward the middle (@1:40). I think it is technically a "Riff" because he plays it a couple times. Cheers.
Dude you must make a turorial about all rhe riffs in "Take no prisoners"...
That is a must. I live playing that song but I know the tabs from the book has me playing it wrong.
Once the chorus repeats on poison was the cure, that’s when my hand really starts cramping up lol. It’s almost like they made it just barely long enough to be playable.
LOL... I was shocked to see that Holy Wars verse riff come in at #6. I had it pegged as #1 until you reminded me Poison Was the Cure existed. The chromatic riff near the start of Take No Prisoners is pretty nuts, too.
That holy wars riff is nuts, it blows my mind that Dave sings over that
excellent riffs perfect cover
I recently fell in love with Megadeth these riffs are absolutely insane.
Tornado of Souls' main riff was actually one of the first riffs I sat down and learned how to play properly when I first started learning guitar. Definitely not something I'd recommend for everyone to do lol, but it really forced me to step my game up from an early point in my playing. It also helped me visualize the blues scale that is very prevalent in Dave's writing. Made learning future Megadeth songs waaay easier.
I did the same thing, but without knowing a shit about theory, I literally learn tornado's riffs in acoustic guitar cuz didn't have a money fora electric one
IMO, it's the easiest classic Megadeth song to play, as far as rhythm guitar goes.
@@Kylora2112 symphony of destruction is way easier
@@Kylora2112 Peace Sells was definitely way easier for me lol. There are a lot of little intricacies in Tornado that do a lot of work "behind the scenes" that once you start playing them right, its almost night and day.
@@yeeyee1690 Most of the songs on Countdown to Extinction were easier to play, from memory - great album too
Take No Prisoners is extremely tricky. I think that it is all alternate picking except the pull offs in the descending part (Take his life, but won't take his...) The rhythm is also tough with the offbeat downstrokes on the F# power chord and starting right after that on the offbeat upstroke (0) to land on downstroke (3-0-2-0-2-5) -> this results in inside picking which I suck at :p
Ben Eller made a great video on the intro part of that song.
The Five Magics riff you showed is nasty. I always played it without the hammer on, but going back to the guitar tracks I can hear something like that but picked. I also don't play G-G in the last two notes but D-G (inverted power chord 5th fret). I guess Dave and Marty are the only people that know how to play it correctly.
Poison Was The Cure is very hard, so I don't blame them for only recording it once and copy-pasting instead of recording multiple measures. There's also a hidden riff under that one when Dave sings.
The Lucretia riff under Marty's solo is one of the best riffs of the whole album. It's really difficult to catch what notes they're playing exactly but it sound amazing.
Another great riff is the riff from Polaris. You know, the one near the end. Again it's hard to tell when they do pull offs and when they pick the notes. It's a very fitting ending to a fantastic album.
In the remastered version of Rust in Peace, I definitely agree that the rhythm riff under the main riff in Poison Was the Cure sounds like it's hidden, but in the original mix/master you can hear the riff clear as day.
That Poison was the cure one always blew my mind because I'd always figured Marty handled that part, but nope, it's Dave and he sings while playing it IIRC. Also have to mention the chromatic intro barrage in Take no Prisoners. That's a real finger twister
@Dave Scott Mustaine i cant tell if ur joking with a dave profile or unironically pretending to be dave
Would love to hear some commentary as to why you think they are tricky/ranked them the way you did. Great playing as always Mike.
poison was the cure was cursed when I first heard it. but after some trial it quickly became my go to riff because of how fun it is to play
Poison Was The Cure is basically Hit The Lights on meth
Rust in Peace Polaris has some hard ass riffs
That riff from Tornado of souls was actually the first riff so ever learned to play. I appreciate Megadeth for kickstarting my guitar journey.
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Thank you for doing that! I'm impressed with how accurate that is. I also love the shirt! That brings back memories!!
Ahh was waiting for the classical solo intro on "Holy Wars And The Punishment Due" that's my favorite song off this album besides Tornado Of Souls!
Dang, always forget how insane the guitar is on Poison Was the Cure until I hear it again.
Not that it's my favorite song or anything but it just shows you how insane Dave is as a musician to be able to play that while singing.
Rust in Peace really holds a special place in my heart. It's definitely one of my favorite albums of all time.
Love that Lucretia got two riffs on the list.
1:54 I'm dead. Suffering from arthritis.
Where's "Holy Wars... The Pumicement Due" at? 😅 (Did anyone else notice how "Five Magics" was at the #5 spot?)
Hahahaha good memory. Also Five Magics being #5 was a total coincidence.
The Hangar riff and some others remind me of Mercyful Fate.
If #1 was anything *other* than Poison I would have been shocked. That riff is cocaine personified.
Legendary Riffs On Legendary Album.
The middle section of Take no Prisoners is just nuts.
That Hangar 18 riff drives me insane. My hand needs an ice bath after playing it.
That Tornado of Souls riff is pretty hard, but man once you get a feel for it, its actually really fun to play.
I would say pretty much any riff from Take no Prisoners should have been included on the list, especially those at the beginning like the chromatic one. That song is insane.
Nice to include the verse riff from RIP, that's really tricky, and just thinking that Dave is also singing while playing that, crazy.
I posted it before on a Bradley Hall video and I will repeat here again:
Let me tell you how Rust in Peace (the album) became my favorite metal album of all times. I discovered Megadeth in 2002 when I was 16. I am from Brazil and, as always, metal was not exactly popular down here. So, if we wanted to buy a CD from a metal band that was not Iron Maiden or Metallica (bands that were "popular enough" for the labels to decide to print their CDs in Brazil), for example, we had no choice but to acquire imported CDs, which would cost me all the money I had for a month. Thus, my friends and I used to first download the songs of a given band through softwares like Napster, Kazaa, Emule and only after we were 100% sure that a certain band was worthy, we would then spend our limited cash to buy that band's CD. Well, back in 2001/2002, when you searched for a given bands song in one of those softwares like Kazaa, you would get MP3 files named such as "Metallica - One", or "Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills", following the pattern "Band name - song name". Therefore, when I was "discovering" ("downloading" cough, cough) Megadeth I had a folder filled with individual songs in MP3 format like "Megadeth - Hangar 18", "Megadeth - Holy Wars", "Megadeth - She Wolf", with no information whatsover about from what album each song came from. The thing is that, from all the Megadeth songs I have downloaded, after one year I had my personal Top 5: "Megadeth - Holy Wars", "Megadeth - Hangar 18", "Megadeth - Take no Prisioners", "Megadeth - Lucretia", and "Megadeth - Tornado of Souls". I thought these songs were awesome, the guitar playing was out of this world (I never heard those scales and that riff creativity), and somehow had a magic element that other Megadeth songs did not have. I did not know all these songs where from the same album. To be honest, I only found out that these 5 songs were from the same album 2 or 3 years after I had establisedh my top 5 best Megadeth songs. What was my surprise at the end of 2004 when I found out that, not only all my favorite Megadeth songs were from the same album, but also there was one extra major song, which beared the same name of the album: "Rust in Peace". After I found out all these 5 songs belonged to the same album, Rust in Peace was already one of my favorite albums ever. I recall I that my expectations were very, very high when I finally got to listen "Megadeth - Rust in Peace" for the first time. After five minutes listening to that song, I was completely baffled that Megadeth had surprised me again: not only Rust in Peace was a great song, it was a thrash metal master piece, I had no choice but to turn my top 5 Megadeth songs a top 6. So, not only all my favorite Megadeth songs back then were from the same album, but this album was so damn good that it made me discover another thrash metal jewel "Rust in Peace... polaris". After discovering this last song, "Rust in Peace" became my favorite metal album of all time, and still is. Like a good wine, Rust in Peace is aging very well. If you google now "best metal album of all times", Rust in Peace will appear among the very best, where it belongs
PS: Yes, and I ended up buying not only the Rust in Peace CD but the entire Megadeth discography ;)
Tornado of souls and hanger 18 are the hardest riffs for me that I'm trying to learn all the way through 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘👨🏽🎤👨🏽🎤👨🏽🎤👨🏽🎤
Killer! Rust in Peace...Polaris is probably my fav, but that whole album is super rad. Definitely my favorite of theirs! 😎 Wish you'd play through all of these.. I'd love to learn them! 🤘
The riff in rust in peace is probably the coolest riff ever written.
i remember having trouble with holy wars main riff when i was beginning, was really tricky for me at the time
Basically every riff in Five Magics. Song absolutely slaps my shit on guitar
Now imagine playing all that live while singing. That's megadave
Rust in Peace, my fav Megadeth album
Lucretia is a helluva humdinger to (attempt to) play, as it's so unconventional - good luck figuring that one out by ear! 🤯😎
Poison is the cure
Took me the most time until i was able to play it (atleast by completly downpicking)
You make these look easy. Rust in peace ... polaris is a deceptively hard song that I rarely see people play
Definitely one of my Favorite Albums of all time.
The ending section to the title track Rust in Peace is another real tricky one. Especially since it drags on for a bit. It really tires out your fingers
I've never tried to learn any of these riffs. They all look and sound like differential equations.
Always appreciate your tone effort
And LOVE the shirt:))
30 seconds into the video and I am reaching for my guitar. no other metal record has this effect in this magnitude for me
I just knew it had to be Poison was the cure 🤘
For me:
1. Take No Prisoners (IMO, the hardest Megadeth song to play)
2. Poison Was The Cure
3. Polaris (Rust In Peace is pretty straightforward, but I can't play Polaris for the life of me)
4. Holy Wars
5. Lucretia
6. Hangar 18 (the Big Riff in the ending)
I can see the 5/8 riff in Five Magics being tricky, but that's just a disco-prog bassline :P
I don't find Tornado Of Souls to be all the tricky, even by non-Megadeth standards. The solo is tricky as balls (my hands are too damn small to do the 17p10, jfc Marty!), but the riffing is fairly tame bluesy and mid-tempo power chords. Like, if I had to play Dave's parts in a Megadeth song to win money or prevent a demilich from taking over the world, I'd pick Tornado Of Souls :)
Lucretia's intro is pretty tricky too, according to my boyfriend that is. I can't bother learning those type of picking intros.
Tornado of souls took me so long to get up to speed, man that really says something that it's only #8 in terms of difficulty lol
Rust in Peace is such a good album. That was the best lineup Dave ever had,
That was so cool. Great job man. Excellent execution in lecretia. That one is tuff for me to get that vibrato just right & the feel just before. Should have kept going on that five magics riff. I really wanted to Dr you play it as I think I’m off on it. If you teach those accurate riffs or have tabs I would be happy to pay you for such services. I really want to get back to playing that record. Solos are to tuff for me but I can hang with rhythm guitar. Thanks for this post. I would say take no prisoners riff is my hurtle to get right. That’s because I haven’t attempted poison😆 I’ve made up to tornado on the record & never made time to get into the last third of this amazing album. I’m buying an Aprilia Tuareg 660 adventure motorcycle with an acid Gold paint job & plan on putting a RIP decal on it to compliment it. People in the motorcycle community are going to know my favorite thrash record of all time. Cheers man. 🍻
Well said brother
My man is starting the shorts
Rust is almost an entire solo with some solos on top..I mean in Take no prisoners, the rhythm is trickier than the solos. RIght?? Having said THAT....KIMB and Peace have some of the trickiest stuff ever recorded on rhythm guitar...Where do you start? The middle riff of Black Friday when Dave SINGS as well?? The 4-7-9 (something) stretch of a riff on the fast part of KIMB? The ridiculous in every sense of the way Loved to death (start to finish)? The super cool tap/ finger pick intro to Looking down the cross? The string skipping riff of Bad Omen? The 2-4-7 on the E string stretch of the rhythm of Conjuring (2nd verse)???
I read that Dave said the poison was the cure riff was so hard the main riff is a loop of the best take. Also never found that 5/8 riff of five magics hard at all but I can’t play most of these riffs. Brilliant guitar as usual Mike👍
funny how poison was tbe cure solo is also the hardest one in the album
I call them mind expanding riffs
here's my choice for hardest riff: the entire ending to "rust in peace...polaris". It's like megadeth took a medium-difficulty riff and cranked up the speed to eleven
Song for song this is one of the trickiest popular mainstream metal albums.
Poison was the cure..A song where the riff is harder and more complex than the solo which is pretty hard itself
love your channel!!!! Never stop!
The answer is " yes ", no matter the song. The album is the guitar Olympics and Dave is also singing during it all.
I'd place Holy Wars intro riffs as way above Tornado. It's fast, and if you want to get it clean, for me at least it's much much harder. Getting the clean doubles and quads with skipping off the low E to the A and D is not a walk in the park.
Love Lucretia but my Fav is Tornado of Souls. Iconic riff with most beautiful 😍 solo
So basically, all the best songs?
God, that album is perfect.
dave is really genius
Before I played this video I said "I bet poison was the cure is number one" lol
I always struggled with the chorus riff on Polaris
I've always pondered on the "hard riff" concept, and always come to the conclusion that the trickiest classics to play, e.g Hotel California, Freebird, Highway to Hell, all those classics, may seem easy at first but are in reality tricky because they're not just your songs. Here's where the rabbit hole begins, and I can only show you the door so to speak. What makes a riff written on the spot by a kid somewhere, tricky to play to so many, after the fact?
Great Choices 🤘🤘🤘
Poison was the cure , the best riff and most funny song to play 😍