That Damage Inc (Metallica) bridge riff you could never figure out! Weekend Wankshop 175
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Weekend Wankshop peeps! On episode 175, Uncle Ben Eller here is gonna give you all a complete lesson on one of your most requested riffs ever, the bridge (pre solo) riff of Damage Inc by Metallica from the immortal Master of Puppets album! I love this riff and a lot of people TAB, play, and teach it wrong. Gotta get those fake news TABs out of the world, y'all.
Standard tuning, and it features some cool string-crossing gallops in it. Very fun riff. I'm using my Suhr Modern Satin into my Kemper Profiler, with the Lasse Lammert Dirty Tree profile from his upcoming producer pack through www.stltones.com. It sounds so good!!!! i didn't ever EQ a thing on it. So sick.
What other classic Metallica riffs do you want to learn? Post in the comments and i'll cover them soon!
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Definitely one of the best riffs they've ever written, thanks for clearing it up!
Its a Kirk riff too, dude can write riffs if he really wants to
Tim Berg it’s almost like he’s the lead guitarist
I never knew that was a KH riff. That’s one of their best. I know he did the awesome bridge riff in battery too. Both of those riffs are awesome.
Its just a take on DP's Perfect Strangers.
@@timothyartz1573 That's probably the dumbest thing I've heard all year
One of the filthiest riffs ever for sure. Great work, Uncle Ben
"Gallops are no tripplets" priceless Uncle Ben!
The guitar tone is this videos is so great. Tight, aggressive, and dynamic. Just enough distortion.
We chew and spit you out! We laugh, you scream and shout! Another awesome riff perfectly broken down by Uncle Ben! You’re the man!!!
That's right! Metallica only allows upstrokes on 16th notes!
Look up live videos of Master of Puppets, the 2nd riff after the solo. The melodic line is alternate picked...
might be my favorite riff ever written, so glad you did this video dude!
Uncle Ben! Regarding 4:40, I think you accidentally listened to RUclips user "Larik"'s video called "Metallica - Damage Inc. - Guitar Track", which is NOT Metallica, it's a guitar only video he played and recorded himself. On the album, that little pinch harmonic note doesn't exist. As an aside, Kirk didn't play any rhythm guitars on the first 5 albums, plus Death Magnetic and Hardwired--it's all James.
Ps. Please do that tricky Angel of Death bridge riff if you can someday! It would be awesome.
Kirk did write this riff though even if he didn't record it.
Kevin Fitzpatrick Yes, as he said, Kirk didn't PLAY any rhythm.
This riff always came pretty natural for me, if your having trouble, really just pay attention to the gallops and how they relate to the measure in a whole...one of my all time favorite metal riffs is when they come out of the solo back into this riff on the Dbeat, and then they hit the D in the second bar...kicks my ass every time!!! Perfect Thrash!
One of my all time favorite Metallica songs. I've been playing this song for years and thankfully I've been playing it correctly all this time, probably because I grew up without a stepdad ;P
Thanks for clearin' up that sticky rice...Uncle Ben.
JUST WHAT I NEEDED! THANKS! keep up good METALLICA STUFF!
that gallop thing where you do two notes on the A string but the last note on the E is also what makes the main riff of Blackened (or rather, the very ending of that riff) so tricky
Dude you have THE BEST guitar lesson channel on RUclips! You just nailed it with every song you teach to play the right way... And speaking of the devil I think you should do a complete disection of One (MetallicA), in my opinion internet is full of incorrect tabs of the rythm guitars on the bridge and pre-chorus guitars. It would be amazing if you take the time to do it, I'd appreciate it very much. Keep rocking bro!
2 things:
1, Is that pick in the strings there to quiet ambient noise, similar to a string tree?
2, If you do any Pantera stuff, make sure you hammer the point that they tune a quarter step out of tune. A lot of people don't realize that.
Actually, I was able to figure this one out all on my own thank you very much!
That's some sick rhythm tone.
You released this video at the perfect time for me, I had my guitar at my hands and this riff stuck in my mind.
You make what seem impossible to play Metallica riffs, playable for me, and I thank you a lot for that!
Holy balls! I can already play it up to speed! Never thought I'd be able to do this today
José Cruz hell yeah my man! Thanks for watching!
Finally! Thank you so much for this, it's haunted me for decades!
Damn man that Kemper profile sounds absolutely killer!
Hey Uncle Ben!!! First!!! Thanks for teaching me this. I was trying to work out that Riff last night.
This riff so good. I have always loved it. James sure is the master of riffs.
Me too. But Kirk wrote this one though. :)
Yep was kirk and possibly one of the best riffs of all time in my opinion.
@@TapioNurminen Since I wrote that comment 4 years ago apparently. I have seen and heard in other videos that Kirk wrote it. And I stand still by what I said, "This riff is so good" But now I am super impressed by Kirk instead. He really has written some iconic riffs through the years, but mostly in the early days. This riff, "the middle 8 riff in Damage Inc" and the pre chorus in Master of Puppets.
@@adammoffatt3832 Yes I so agree with you. I think I might think this is the best riff of All time. At least in metal.
@@Atlas65 kirk also wrote main riff in king nothing which is the only song with some groove and still one that can make the grade off load.The rest of them are quite boring now.
Ok Uncle Ben, here is your next assignment if you choose to accept it:. Intro to To Live Is to Die. For the longest time, I've been thinking there are two guitars doing different things instead of one doing it all. Maybe I'm wrong, so I'm leaving you up to the task. Thanks and keep doing the Lord of dankness' work! \m/
chewybang +
Pretty sure there are two, though you can do the main parts with just one and still sound good enough.
Now that you mention it, I remember the intro of Testament's The Ritual which sounds alike To Live Is To Die somehow, and in that intro I suspect the same: two guitars are playing different things
Clearly two guitars
Its 2 guitars, one plays the main parts and then theres a secondary one just kinda complimenting it, just like in one during the first acoustic part when Kirk just plays a few notes here and there but James is playing the chunk of it
look uncle ben you know I been watching ur vids for a while now I feel like ur really gonna blow up soon. don't forget about me now ya hear?
Another great tutorial from Uncle Ben! Very helpful to understand that tricky riff!
Out of all the tracks on master of puppets, this one has become my favourite.
Wow tyvm Ben I always wanted try this weird riff couldn't figure out what string thx bro
Such a helpful video🤘🤘🤘
Awesome work Ben. Thank you.
This video couldn't of came at a better time, I was just trying to learn this riff yesterday.
one amazing lesson after another. thanks ben!!!
How about the bridge riff in Dyers Eve if you haven't already?
Also, could you do a video on ‘Shedding Skin’ please man?
YES PLEASEEEE
Ngl, this stumped for for the longest time.
Great lesson Ben!
My favourite riff by far, great vid
My fav tallica riff along with the frayed ends of sanity riff
How about the harmony part in Fight fire with fire
We neeeeed thaaaat !!! Please
Hey uncle Ben! I DMd you on IG tonight about this! Thanks! And it struck me like an hour later that i referred to this as a pre-chorus rather than a bridge 😂 I’m a father of six. I’ve lost a few marbles along the way lol
Hey Uncle Ben! Big fan over here, could you please take a look at the Throes of Rejection main riff? Keep up the good work!
I wish Kirk had the opportunity to write more great riffs like this ,James riff from frayed ends of sanity mid section is up there too though but this is an insane metal riff.
nice, informative and a sense of humor 😆 In music I love it
Thanks a ton man I finally understand this rifffff 🤘😁🤘
Awesome work Uncle Ben, you defiantly made me a better player with your lessons, hey you said maybe ask you about some riffs or songs to figure out, Do you think you could do "Under Attack" by Destruction? Hope to hear from you and great work!
Lovely.simply lovely
Very nice technique you have
finally !! thanks uncle Ben !
youre great at this teaching thing. congrats..
@Ben Eller can you do the solo to this brutal song too?
Dude your videos help soooooo much
Is that a Line6 AX2 I'm seeing in the back ? What a piece of history.
Wow, this part was actually right in my Cherry Lane Music tabbook (Metallica complete Volume 1) which I have for ages and learned a lot of Metallica songs from. But despite that I was never able to play it! And it’s one of my favorite riffs! Thanks a lot for this, I finally can learn it! But I have quite some trouble doing those displaced gallops, never played them before (how’s that possible?). I hope some more practice will help.
So, unlike Battery, you played this the same way that Kirk did on his RUclips lesson - Congrats! :) - and lest we forget, it's Kirk that's always played this live, not James - but there's no doubt that James recorded it in the studio.
I find it much easier if you play the E with your third (ring) finger, leaving the little finger for the 8th fret and the first finger for the 5th. When you move down a position, use the 3rd finger on the 5th fret (a string). This way you can remember that the displaced gallop only happens when you're playing the third finger. I didn't learn it specifically that way but it just seemed to be a coincidence and an easy way to move the progression down the fretboard. It's also a little easier to play the chords when the chord pattern changes after the solo.
One thing I would recommend heartily is the unholy trifecta: turning off any noise gate you have, hitting the strings harder than you normally would for something this precise (it is called Damage Inc not Knitting Club Inc) and do what James does - palm mute around the knuckle of the little finger rather than the meat of the palm, so you can get more power into the picking. It WILL sound like ass when you start doing it but like with anything else, you'll get there with enough practice. Watch James play Battery at the 1995 Milton Keynes show and on the Binge and Purge gig at Seattle to see how he plays the 'palm muting without really using the palm of his hand' technique.
It may be just a thing with Mesa amps when you crank them but if you hit the strings hard and precise enough, it's almost like there's a built in noise gate in the amp. A lot of the extraneous noise just goes away. Don't expect this to happen if you bought a Triple Recto for bedroom use though, as even with a Mesa Mark V 25 you'll be pissing off the family in the rest of the house.
Just learned this was a Kirk Hammett riff. Say what you want but the man is big part of the Metallica sound. Especially this monster, one of their best... easy.
I think james wrote it and played it on the album though.
Dyers Eve next please
I learned how to play this at 17. I'm sure anybody can learn this if they play enough. I was playing about 3-4 hours a day at that time.
The reason so many Metallica riffs sound slightly off even though u swear u have it worked out perfect is because they so often layer guitar tracks ontop of each other with a slight variation just like Ben explains. “Maybe it’s a mistake the first time” but he plays the b power chord live. No, they deliberately layer the guitars all playing a slight variation of the riff, that’s why there’s a video like this for every second Metallica riff.
Also: There's a D5 when this part returns after the solo. D5 instead of the Bb second time around after solo. (And JH did ALL the rhythm 1983-1991 so anything in the right speaker rhythm wise is him)
Uncle Ben that Metallica riff is sick you’re guitar playing is sick I think I’m getting sick ,,but in a good way!
Thanks! I will internalize and then get it up to speed, I guess..
Hearing that riff at full speed I was like fuck. With that weird ass gallop it sounded very difficult. But at step dad speed it was easy to see what you were doing and it wasn't hard to play. Thanks!
Thank you so much for this!
How about the art of shredding? I have it down but that would be a good exercise for beginers and those not familiar with the techniques.
There's a cheat I used to use for this riff on the gallop. When I was first learning it, I found it really difficult to do the gallop while switching strings from the A string back down to the E string. Y'all are gonna yell at me for adding another up stroke.. but it actually worked really well. What I would do was any time it does the gallop, I would basically sweep up through the A string down to the E string. So it was like a double up stroke... but it's played so fast you can pretty much just sweep through it in one motion. I got that technique down so cleanly that once I was actually able to play it the correct way, I could play it for my band and if they weren't looking at my hands they couldn't tell which way I was playing it just from the sound of it. So if any of you are having difficulty with that part of the riff and you want to try a cheat, try doing a double upstroke/sweep through those gallops. It's not the true way to play it, but as long as all the notes you're playing are correct it will sound exactly the same to people's ears once you get it nice and clean.
All rhythms by James on Puppets :) So if there are differences in right/left channel, it is him doing so.
This riff must violate several international conventions. Edit: and also it finally fell into place, i've seen some weird ass tabs on this
I think it would be rad if you'd do some full songs. The closest I've seen you get to that is with Bark At The Moon. That was awesome!
I am self-learning and current use RUclips, Rocksmith +, and Fender play to learn. What would you say I should learn and be familiar with the most to learn speed/thrash metal? Thank you.
What are you using for that tone? sounds just about perfect!
Colin McDonald - Kemper
See description :)
Talk about low standards in tone.
Esteban Aguayo - its definitely a matter of preference for sure
Nice nice nice!
What about Dyers Eve and The Shortest Straw riffs?
Great job!
Does the pick between the strings behind the nut serve a purpose or is it just for decoration?
BMB 15 it's there to mildly infuriate guitarist with OCD 😅
I was gonna ask the same question, have seen a bunch of guitarists on stage that also keep a pick there. I cut a bit of foam that I tuck under the strings to get rid of the noise between the nut and tuners.
Can i do the same with the pick? It feels like the pick will fuck it up when tuning?
Jocke Lindgren Guitarists do it on stage either for looks or for when they drop a pick. Or both.
Jake McB yes but almost all of them also have a pick holder on the micstand! So I want to think Its for another cause, but whatever :D
Pulls your eye straight to the Suhr sticker. Helping sell a few Suhrs. Smarter than your average stepdad
This riff is fire
Uncle Ben-tover, Dive on into some Dyers Eve, Blackened, Disposable Heroes. Or some more Kirk Wahmster solo covers. 😂
O Tio Ben manja dos riff!
Well done uncle Ben! Love your vids! Would be great if you could do a lesson for Judas priest’s you’ve got another thing comin’. The short part right after the E, B, F# chords I see people play it in so many ways but I don’t think they played it the same. Maybe it’s just me but huge thanks!! \m/
Slaying the Dreamer by Nightwish? It's such a heavy song.
Sweet tone!
The bridge riff on Disposable Heroes with the pull off power chords (I think)... and also both guitars for the final part of the clean One intro where they’re both doing different things. Finally the massive fatt riff on Outlaw Torn. Live it looks like James does a bend but tabs have hammer-ons. Either way, I can’t get it to sound right! Please and thank you
Jake Chilton you’re correct on both of those! Disposable bridge is indeed power chords with pulloffs to the open E. And Outlaw has bends, not pulloffs. The bass does some legato stuff but the guitars are definitely bends. Those are both great future WW suggestions, I’ll do them both!
Will a lesson on the new Ghost song be forthcoming next week perhaps?
ben whats your fav profiles for metallica style playing? :)
Josh Goldie check the description for detailed info :)
Gg Allen would bee proud
More Metallica, please! Greetings from Russia by the way)
Reminds me link park and nu metal. Way ahead of their time
another awesome video , maybe i should practice shedding skin by pantera first, thanks a lot uncle ben , you are the best, maestro.
"Primal Concrete Sledge" solo-ish thing that's about a minute n 5 seconds into the song. A good video on that part would be awesome
How about that dang pre solo riff in “lucretia” by Megadeth?
evilash570 I second this!!!
I find the ending of the intro riff, right before going into the verse much harder. I can never find a way to play it right.
Good shout
damn ben u really know ur shit, im getting fucking subscribed!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Can you do an open D string for the D note in the riff instead of 5th fret of A? I thought Ive seem James do that live before
2:23 Finally, someone says it.
Decode that sick riff in Killing Cone by Buckethead, you'll know which riff I'am talking about once you hear it.
This "displaced gallop" is the hardest part in my case. I mean how do you play the 2 fast notes on A string and then go with downstroke on E? In my case I always "crash" the gallop between second and third stroke by accidentally hitting E when going up...
Always a great video! If you can, could you show us how to play Rush's Spirit of Radio intro?
Dude I can't fathom how he wrote that riff. Like it could've been a whole other song.
Cool
Where was you in 1995 when I tried to play this riff in right way? :)
Finally!
Not a classic riff, but the kind of bridge section in eternal rest by avenged sevenfold at the 1:42 mark is pretty messy, so a weekend wankshop would be appreciated for this one !
It's not Kirk that hits a single B note during the riff, because James recorded all the rhythm guitars on their classic albums. I like your version but it differs quite a bit from the one transcribed in the official MoP tablature book that I learned to play (maybe I messed up the end part of the riff, cause it feels like something is not quite right). I'll have to check.
Thanks for watching! I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but those official Metallica tab books are notoriously inaccurate. Don’t trust em.
How about the intro to *murder fantasies* by *kreator* ?
Most tabs (all?) seem to have a scale descend type thing in the transition to the first verse, but it doesn't sound like that to me. Ta