I still remember the first time I heard “Master Of Puppets”. I kept replaying the first 22 seconds on my dads record, because I was so blown away by the intro. That is the reason why I picked up a guitar.
Metal lawyer. I finally have the money to buy myself the custom shop jackson's, the soldano amps, all of the stuff I've never been able to have in my life. But, I have a cushy job and I'm sitting here wearing a suit and tie polishing up a report. I am the quintessential metal lawyer and there are many like me.
I was in a metal band for 15 years, though I loved it at the time, my destiny as a blues lawyer/dad rock dynamo beckoned me. And now here I am, watching my favorite dad rockers talk about metal. Full circle! 🙌
Hearing Tony Iommi and his harmonic distortion on the Paranoid album when I was 12, set my ear for the rest of my life. Didn't really care for bands like AC/DC and Aerosmith in high school because they didn't sound like War Pigs.
Toni Iommi is beyond a doubt The Godfather of Heavy Metal he is the riff Master hands down. Iommi and Sabbath is the reason why I started playing guitar.
John 5 is a perfect example...started learning guitar because he loved HeeHaw as a kid...became an amazing session player..then an amazing metal guitarist
When I got into Metallica as a teenager, I lusted after an ESP KH-2. I finally got one in 2007 and it was my only guitar all the way until 2018 - which was totally fine because I only really played metal anyway. Now I'm a Strat guy (main is a Silver Sky though) who likes SRV, Mayer, Clapton and am actively chasing Gilmour tones. I still have the KH-2 but it rarely gets played now because I rarely play metal anymore, but the ability to run around the fretboard never really left me and neither did the downpicking durability.
I was today years old when I learned that in addition to Blues Lawyers, there are Metal Lawyers and Jazz Lawyers. [Actually, I used to work for a Jazz Lawyer. Great boss after I learned when he went down the “dominant 7 augmented flat 9 chords” rabbit hole to just treat it as white noise and not pay attention.]
I grew up with SRV and Randy Rhodes as my favorites. Always rode that Blues / Metal line. Never sure who I wanted to emulate. I just love all guitar music !
I have played Metal all my life. My picking game is alright. I can chug with the big boys. I can't fingerprint to save my life. Het and Malcom Young are my personal guitar Gods.
Doesn't get anywhere near the attention it deserves. I play mostly groove metal with some jazzy stuff thrown in. And I had my face melted about a month ago by a vet with a ponytail and his navy hat on. Playing a Player series strat into a deluxe. I asked him what the hell that was, and he chuckled and said "Oh. Hell man. That's just Greensleeves played real quicklike."
Cut my teeth on metal and Metallica in particular. Played most of the lead parts alright but the rhythm section needed so much more work to master! Hetfield is beyond the realms of awesome! So quick and precise on those difficult riffs. But that's only the tip of the iceberg, he can jump around, swirling head bang AND sing at the same time!! That was WELL beyond my abilities...🤘🏼😈🤘🏼
My metal roots have helped my playing immensely. I never feel held back by anything other than my understanding of a concept and obviously my hearing is compromised. :P
My dad would always play Metallica and Ozzy when I was a few years old and that was the reason I picked up a guitar in middle school, fast forward to 29 , I still play metal ..until I die .
I think learning different styles is extremely helpful no matter what type of music you play. It can definitely open up new worlds of possibilities. Metal is completely different from Blues. Metal is all about speed and technical precision. Blues is all about emotion and fluidity. But if you learn both you can bring it all together and add those elements into whatever you're doing. Expanding you're musical knowledge can only help make you better, it's not going to make you worse.
One of the most “Metal” moments I ever saw, ironically enough, was at a Harry Connick, Jr. show in ‘95. He was supporting the “She” album, so it was already a departure from his traditional stuff. About two-thirds of the way in, he gets up from his piano and straps on a Peavey Wolfgang. He and his band started a ten-minute or so, meandering ‘chugga-chugga’ jam-with some pretty gnarly distortion. I just remember all of the ‘Sinatra crowd’ getting restless, and some ‘seasoned citizens’ couples leaving in a ‘Well, I NEVER!’ huff. Connick could not have given less of a fu…nk. I was also at the Ozzy no-show Ozzfest riot of ‘97 in Columbus, Ohio. Tough to get more “Metal” than that scene. (Look it up.)
personally I’ve always loved metal and still do but as far as my guitar playing it gave me an introduction to the Phrygian and Phrygian Dominant modes.
To gain a deep understanding of metal, set the time machine for 1994, get in the Slayer pit, (Divine Intervention tour) and mosh your way up to the barricade. Every time Slayer comes close to your town from then on, repeat until they retire. (Worked for me, anyway)
During the 1980s, heavy metal was the guitar music of the day. Heavy metal taught me about rhythm, and guitar riffs. Two things which are still 100% relevant.
I'm glad that I learned to play guitar in the 70s when playing guitar was about having fun and not about becoming an encyclopedia of every guitar style out there.
Found your channel a couple of days ago and have been binging since, so: Greetings from the \m/Metal Kingdoms\m/ of Scandinavia. So much to cover in one comment so I´ll be as brief as I possibly can about all things metal guitar playing. Been a guitar player and a metalhead for more than forty years which means that I have a pretty good memory of how metal guitar playing has evolved over the decades,- so here goes. 1. Rhythm, rhythm, rhythm,rhythm,rhythm,rhythm, rhythm, rhythm, rhythm,rhythm,rhythm,rhythm Is this 12/8s, sextuplets on a 2 count, three quarter notes time spanning four bars, triplets on a four count or rolling eights on a 6/4 ? Practise right hand picking technique in ALL variations incl. string crossing patterns,- will come in handy when riffin´chugga-chugga with a secondary voice of moving broken chords underneath on the same guitar. Pair it with a second guitar doing the same thing only on different chords and chord melodies (relative keys/parallel or counterpointing chord movement). Turn it into rhythm guitar comping to a fine melody and you´ve got some interesting stuff going on. Learn rhythmic patterns from both western, latin and world music tradition ( African, Middle Eastern and Indian for starters: High Life from Senegal ( Youssou N´Dour)and Berber Blues (Tinariwen) from the Sahara desert, traditional acoustic/ modern pop ( Shams Bandar Al-Aslami) in odd time signatures from the Middle East and Konnakol from India ( Mathias Ia Eklundh-Freak Kitchen, Meshuggah)) Learn Rhythm! Soloing: Learn modes and corresponding scales, chromatics, pentatonics, blues scales and basic jazz-melodic vocabulary for playing outside when needed. Learn major keys and scales,- learn how to play melodies and songs in these keys and using major scales,- even if you are a metalhead!!!!! Learn and practise different tempi,- fast AND slow. Songwriting: Leran basic forms,- also forms outside the standar formulas for chart songs. Learn harmony- basic and relative as well as how to modulate between different keys Genres: US: Hardcore, Thrash, Metalcore, Progressive, Death Metal, Doom, Sludge, Stoner and Southern Metal EU: Operatic Symphonic Progressive Melodic Contemporary Euro-Folk Power Metal (Yes, it´s a thing: Nightwish, Epica, Amon Amarth, Tyr, Arch Enemy, Delain, Blackbriar, Jinjer, Frozen Crown, Blind Guardian, Snow White Blood, Kamelot, Unleash The Archers, Tarja Turunen, Within Temptation, Therion, Eluveitie, Furor Gallico for starters) Keep in mind that if you count it all in metal consists of more than forty-five different sub genres with further branching from that , so it´s a bit like in the Blues Brothers film: " O´, we got both kinds of music,- Country AND Western".... Enjoy. Have fun. \m/Metal\m/
I a metal addict guitar wise. Even though i love metal ,my roots are in punk but since i started to play guitar again metal is mostly what i play. I want to chugg and shred. But i listen to everything except country music. (Hank, jonny cash, david allen cole, and a few others not included) but i still love your guys show. It just proves that guitar players no matter what u play or listen to have a common bond. Guitar is my life . il prob never be in a successful band but il still be playing as long as i can.
@Zach H. and that’s OK! I’m 51 years old and still fully believe in that… Even though I don’t feel like I’m a metal fan, a good rift still gets me every single time.
One band that can blend all genres with Metal with out murdering it is a little group out of Denmark called Volbeat. They can Metalize any thing! Tastefully! They do metal covers from Pop to Rock to Bluegrass to Country. And their own stuff is really awesome. The last time I saw them was in Nashville in 2016 when they opened for Avenged 7 Fold. If you go to one of their concerts be sure you know the lyrics to Johnny Cash's " Sad Man's Tongue " because if you don't you'll be the only one not singing! It's a requirement no matter what Continent you live on! Try to catch their 2Hour show if you can. The 45 minutes that they got to play when they opened for Metallica or A7XF was really just a teaser.
Modern Metal/Metalcore/Prog Metal/Djent is where the guitar is being pushed into new unexplored territory… and from that you also have cleaner offshoots such as Math Rock and whatever genre Polyphia and Unprocessed play (trap/r&b/metal fusion?) and that’s where boundaries are pushed even further. I’ll add that experimenting with drop tunings and down tunings, extended range guitars (7 strings, 8 strings, baritones) as well as weird tunings for math rock really shows you that the sonic possibilities are endless and that you don’t have to be boxed in the patterns you use on autopilot due to your muscle memory… be open minded about any music and there will always be value in it… heck I started listening to country to get out of my box
I think of it as heavy music, because there is such a diverse range of styles. Hell, for me, the first metal tune is "Sing Sing Sing" by Benny Goodman. Listen to that, in context-it came out in 1937. Metal is just the latest heavy music.
In my opinion a guitar player is playing rhythm 90% of the time growing up I listening to anything from Hendrix to Metallica this mix dramatically improved my overall playing.
i’ve been a metalhead all my life and only recently got serious about getting proficient at blues and jazz improv as well. more than a decade of metal gave me a great foundation of technical chops that i can bust out when needed during a blues jam. also, play harmonic minor over the V chord in a 12 bar blues… it sounds glorious 😇
While attending law school, and maybe in the early days of my career, yes, I was definitely still a Metal Lawyer. While nowadays I’m mostly a Blues Lawyer, I still like to indulge in some metal from time to time.
That's too funny. Just the other day I said to myself that this show reminds me of B&B. But I couldn't determine which one was which. It was a good laugh. Rock on boy's!
Holy sh.. Eric Steckel is amazing ! Thanks for the tip, Jonathan ! \m/ As for being a metal player, yes I am. The first album I learned to play parts from was Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick. I didn't have an amp at first, so I plugged into this combo stereo set. I cranked it to max so it would distort and put pillows over the speakers so my parents wouldn't get mad.
Jimi Hendrix,Dimebag Darrel,Max Cavalera,Stevie Ray Vaughn,Ken Andrews,Dino from fear factory,Jimmy Paige,Mick Thompson and many many more.🤘👍Edit:and of course Hetfield!!!
You can't kill The Metal The Metal will live on Punk Rock tried to kill The Metal But they failed, as they were smite to the ground New Wave tried to kill The Metal But they failed, as they were stricken down to the ground Grunge tried to kill The Metal Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha They failed, as they were thrown to the ground [Bridge] Ah, yeah Ah, yeah Met-ee-etal-etal, et-ee-etal-etal, et-ee-eh [Chorus] No one can destroy The Metal The Metal will strike you down with a vicious blow We are the vanquished foes of The Metal We tried to win, for why? We do not know [Verse 2] New Wave tried to destroy The Metal But The Metal had its way Grunge then tried to dethrone The Metal But Metal was in the way Punk Rock tried to destroy The Metal But Metal was much too strong Techno tried to defile The Metal But Techno was proven wrong Yeah
I feel like Prog Metal is taking it one step farther by introducing strange time signatures while continuing to chug away. The level of precision that some of these bands play with today is crazy. Check out Tesseract and Plini for good examples.
Intervals, Animals as leaders, Periphery, Meshuggah, David Maxim Micic, Angel Vivaldi, Veil of Maya, Scar Symmetry, Jason Richardson, Berried Alive. I know some of these players are older but man the stuff out these days is just mind blowing. It's a real testament to how insane Jason Becker and the likes were.
I grew up listening to Post Punk Darkwave and that’s what I like playing (Cure, Sisters of Mercy etc) but, it all started with Motorhead. Best jazz bands ever, Meshuggah and Dillinger Escape Plan. PS - Check out George Lynch’s new album Seamless (no I’m not affiliated or anything like that). Instrumental metal blues, jazz guitar all in one bite. Inspired me to even concentrate more on guitar.
I'm not huge into metal but one that has always stuck with me is master of puppets. I was like 14ish when I learned it and I felt like the coolest guy ever. I still feel badass when I play it all these years later. I think learning a few songs like that early on definitely helped my picking hand.
Hey, it's not Lawyers, ITS METAL DENTISTS! The dentists are the Metalheads. Drilling into living bone and flesh is way more Metal, and several dentists I have met were Metalheads. And look at my avatar, I know Metal!
So hard to get past Pantera's "Cowboys from Hell" album. Their sound finally graduated to something face-melting ... but, of course that would never have come about w/o Jimmy Page's down strokes on "Communication Breakdown" or Queen's "Sheer Heart Attack!" All great sounds, great techniques, and simply served to take being a six-string slinger to further audiences and planes of existence. Metal .... yes!
Yep! I love jazz but the jazz lawyers are strict. .10-gauge flat-wound strings MINIMUM. 1.5mm picks MINIMUM. Neck pickups only. No bending. That's just for starters.
10:40 Baxter jokes but I think it's a key point: there's metal _tonality_, and then metal _tone_. If you take the b6, b5, b2 of metal, and remove the high gain and scooped mids, the result echoes surf, jazz, classical (e.g. Bartok), and other genres. Even if you add one non-pentatonic note to blues licks, it can be inspiring (Randy Rhoads often added the b6 to blues to get the Aoelian sound).
Northern Europe Unite, yeaaaa! Hahaha, awesome. And I like to incorporate metal-style riffs, scales, keys, and certainly tones/gain structure into my jamming and playing. I don’t want to play heavy all the time but a lot of the time it’s very satisfying. I aim for kind of a pop/punk style with heavy but not too modern sounds. JCM 800 ish sounds.
you should watch :Metal: A Head Bangers Journey" and then watch "Metal Evolution" they both cover the history of Metal from the viewpoint of an Anthropologist.
Something about a Marshall cranked up terrifying the neighborhood. Musically modern metal has turned into how many notes a minute you can play. I prefer older metal because the riffs were powerful.
Love Metal! Have seen live, the original Black Sabbath lineup, Megadeth, Mudvayne, Slipknot, Mastadon, Metallica, Children of Bodem, Queensryche, Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Testament, High on Fire, Judas Priest, Black Label Society, etc, etc, and the undisputed heavyweight champions of metal, SLAYER! Sadly, it just doesn’t influence my playing… I am a metal head stuck in the body of an acoustic guitarist… anyone want to hear an acoustic cover of “Master of Puppets?…. Also, great shout out on James Hettfield’s rhythm playing… just stunning, every time! When I listen to Metallica, my ears hear his rhythm playing much more than Kirk’s leads.
Unfortunately I spent my teenage years trying to sound like Trey. I missed the boat on the chug. I do like bands like mastodon or sleep. Slow, droning, extra fuzzy. I like that.
@@CasinoGuitars One of these days I'm gonna get in the Suburban and drive over there for a visit but, I need an excuse. Are you guys gonna have a Black Friday sale by any chance? (he says ringing his hands greedily)
I always knew Baxter was a closet headbanger. Everyone mentions the obvious but everyone forgets the first real shredder, Michael Schenker, one of the greatest guitar players ever and still doing it
Disposable Heroes is the best song to learn to get your picking hand as fast as Hetfield's. Bands like Budgie, Deep Purple, Mountain, Proto Metal. Black Sabbath was the first true Metal band, Priest were the Second. Maiden Perfected it.
A little background as how I don't know any bands hardly but I'm also asking how do I find a lot of this music I ended up passing up on as a youth thanks to RUclips it's a little easier but I'm sure you guys n gals have a vast wealth of knowledge I was born and raised on my dad's gospel tour bus but by the time I was old enough to get into my own thing "in the very early 90s" I was listening to hip-hop and wanted to be a turntable DJ "the turntablism guy". So pretty much my entire youth was focused on everything from DJ Magic Mike / NWA. I did very well all the way up until about 2008 when I started realizing I didn't want to be doing that at all anymore and that music was changing for the worst. I had just met someone who was escaping the same music scene as a vocalist who is now my wife, and thanks to Rocksmith 2014 we attempted to learn guitar but quickly I started learning by ear on RUclips and only developed a love for Peter Green and Gary Moore. Now I'm going through music classes yet I don't know who to listen to to pick up from and feel I have lost many years of hearing what is needed to be a good guitar player. I'm not trying to be famous or anything like that but I'm also striving to be as good as possible at any instrument I pick up and put time into. I have found that I really love blues music but also recently found Judas Priest which is pretty badass! I of course know of Metallica and other bands that had been put in the mainstream radio where I heard them but I am extremely limited chances or I've probably heard the names and just never heard the music. Sorry this was long, Love the channel!!!
We started out with Guns n Roses, moved up to Metallica and then Megadeth Rust In Peace. Those were some hairy garage sessions as 17 yr old kids with no RUclips back in 1992. Lol
I agree. I think of it as getting used to faster and faster 4-6 picks per note on scales and modes. I could possibly be totally off reference.
I still remember the first time I heard “Master Of Puppets”. I kept replaying the first 22 seconds on my dads record, because I was so blown away by the intro. That is the reason why I picked up a guitar.
My first album right there, and I blew kids away playing Master of Puppets in Middle School.
“Ain’t Talkin Bout Love”…now that may not be metal per say, but it certainly influenced it at the least. Practicing it now…keep shining boys.
Metal lawyer. I finally have the money to buy myself the custom shop jackson's, the soldano amps, all of the stuff I've never been able to have in my life. But, I have a cushy job and I'm sitting here wearing a suit and tie polishing up a report. I am the quintessential metal lawyer and there are many like me.
Metal makes my heart happy. I incorporate so many things from Metal into my rockabilly playing it is crazy.
I was in a metal band for 15 years, though I loved it at the time, my destiny as a blues lawyer/dad rock dynamo beckoned me. And now here I am, watching my favorite dad rockers talk about metal. Full circle! 🙌
Hearing Tony Iommi and his harmonic distortion on the Paranoid album when I was 12, set my ear for the rest of my life.
Didn't really care for bands like AC/DC and Aerosmith in high school because they didn't sound like War Pigs.
Agreed , very similar experience
Iommi is VASTLY underrated
@@csnide6702 If you want to learn Wes Montgomery, learn Iommi - faeries wear boots is Four On Six in parts
@@autistichead8137 Thanks .. I'll check it out.... Tony iommi also said he was inspired by Django as well
Toni Iommi is beyond a doubt The Godfather of Heavy Metal he is the riff Master hands down. Iommi and Sabbath is the reason why I started playing guitar.
John 5 is a perfect example...started learning guitar because he loved HeeHaw as a kid...became an amazing session player..then an amazing metal guitarist
When I got into Metallica as a teenager, I lusted after an ESP KH-2. I finally got one in 2007 and it was my only guitar all the way until 2018 - which was totally fine because I only really played metal anyway. Now I'm a Strat guy (main is a Silver Sky though) who likes SRV, Mayer, Clapton and am actively chasing Gilmour tones. I still have the KH-2 but it rarely gets played now because I rarely play metal anymore, but the ability to run around the fretboard never really left me and neither did the downpicking durability.
I was today years old when I learned that in addition to Blues Lawyers, there are Metal Lawyers and Jazz Lawyers.
[Actually, I used to work for a Jazz Lawyer. Great boss after I learned when he went down the “dominant 7 augmented flat 9 chords” rabbit hole to just treat it as white noise and not pay attention.]
I love everything from Suffocation to Buddy Guy!!
“Too High to Get it Right”, “Midnight Mover”, “Screaming for a Love Bite” - Accept
The skills and techniques you can learn from metal is super valuable for playing in general, plus it's the most fun genre to play in my opinion.
I grew up with SRV and Randy Rhodes as my favorites. Always rode that Blues / Metal line. Never sure who I wanted to emulate. I just love all guitar music !
I have played Metal all my life. My picking game is alright. I can chug with the big boys.
I can't fingerprint to save my life.
Het and Malcom Young are my personal guitar Gods.
If you want to improve your picking, try out Frank Gambale's Chop Builder. I thought my picking was pretty good, that destroyed my self confidence.
@@thesmellycatjazz thank you very much for the suggestion! Frank is an absolute master!
I really thought that Surf Guitar was a genre that really helped guitar players grow.
Doesn't get anywhere near the attention it deserves.
I play mostly groove metal with some jazzy stuff thrown in.
And I had my face melted about a month ago by a vet with a ponytail and his navy hat on. Playing a Player series strat into a deluxe.
I asked him what the hell that was, and he chuckled and said "Oh. Hell man. That's just Greensleeves played real quicklike."
Cut my teeth on metal and Metallica in particular. Played most of the lead parts alright but the rhythm section needed so much more work to master! Hetfield is beyond the realms of awesome! So quick and precise on those difficult riffs. But that's only the tip of the iceberg, he can jump around, swirling head bang AND sing at the same time!! That was WELL beyond my abilities...🤘🏼😈🤘🏼
My metal roots have helped my playing immensely. I never feel held back by anything other than my understanding of a concept and obviously my hearing is compromised. :P
seems like metal technique has influenced everything in every genre
I feel you, I'm only 30 and have some hearing loss In the high frequencies from listing/playing metal guitar since I was a kid
My dad would always play Metallica and Ozzy when I was a few years old and that was the reason I picked up a guitar in middle school, fast forward to 29 , I still play metal ..until I die .
"And justice for all" the song still makes me get a tingle down my spine.
i grew up on a good dose of Beatles , Nirvana and Sepultura.......with sprinkles of Muddy Waters and Zeppelin n Sabbath ( I LOVE U DAD )
I think learning different styles is extremely helpful no matter what type of music you play. It can definitely open up new worlds of possibilities. Metal is completely different from Blues. Metal is all about speed and technical precision. Blues is all about emotion and fluidity. But if you learn both you can bring it all together and add those elements into whatever you're doing. Expanding you're musical knowledge can only help make you better, it's not going to make you worse.
I think Iommi wants a word with you.
One of the most “Metal” moments I ever saw, ironically enough, was at a Harry Connick, Jr. show in ‘95. He was supporting the “She” album, so it was already a departure from his traditional stuff.
About two-thirds of the way in, he gets up from his piano and straps on a Peavey Wolfgang. He and his band started a ten-minute or so, meandering ‘chugga-chugga’ jam-with some pretty gnarly distortion. I just remember all of the ‘Sinatra crowd’ getting restless, and some ‘seasoned citizens’ couples leaving in a ‘Well, I NEVER!’ huff. Connick could not have given less of a fu…nk.
I was also at the Ozzy no-show Ozzfest riot of ‘97 in Columbus, Ohio. Tough to get more “Metal” than that scene. (Look it up.)
personally I’ve always loved metal and still do but as far as my guitar playing it gave me an introduction to the Phrygian and Phrygian Dominant modes.
To gain a deep understanding of metal, set the time machine for 1994, get in the Slayer pit, (Divine Intervention tour) and mosh your way up to the barricade. Every time Slayer comes close to your town from then on, repeat until they retire.
(Worked for me, anyway)
During the 1980s, heavy metal was the guitar music of the day. Heavy metal taught me about rhythm, and guitar riffs. Two things which are still 100% relevant.
I love you guys! Thanks for brightening a rainy day in Florida
I'm glad that I learned to play guitar in the 70s when playing guitar was about having fun and not about becoming an encyclopedia of every guitar style out there.
Found your channel a couple of days ago and have been binging since, so:
Greetings from the \m/Metal Kingdoms\m/ of Scandinavia.
So much to cover in one comment so I´ll be as brief as I possibly can about all things metal guitar playing.
Been a guitar player and a metalhead for more than forty years which means that I have a pretty good memory of how metal guitar playing has evolved over the decades,- so here goes.
1. Rhythm, rhythm, rhythm,rhythm,rhythm,rhythm, rhythm, rhythm, rhythm,rhythm,rhythm,rhythm
Is this 12/8s, sextuplets on a 2 count, three quarter notes time spanning four bars, triplets on a four count or rolling eights on a 6/4 ?
Practise right hand picking technique in ALL variations incl. string crossing patterns,- will come in handy when riffin´chugga-chugga with a secondary voice of moving broken chords underneath on the same guitar.
Pair it with a second guitar doing the same thing only on different chords and chord melodies (relative keys/parallel or counterpointing chord movement).
Turn it into rhythm guitar comping to a fine melody and you´ve got some interesting stuff going on.
Learn rhythmic patterns from both western, latin and world music tradition ( African, Middle Eastern and Indian for starters: High Life from Senegal ( Youssou N´Dour)and Berber Blues (Tinariwen) from the Sahara desert, traditional acoustic/ modern pop ( Shams Bandar Al-Aslami) in odd time signatures from the Middle East and Konnakol from India ( Mathias Ia Eklundh-Freak Kitchen, Meshuggah))
Learn Rhythm!
Soloing:
Learn modes and corresponding scales, chromatics, pentatonics, blues scales and basic jazz-melodic vocabulary for playing outside when needed.
Learn major keys and scales,- learn how to play melodies and songs in these keys and using major scales,- even if you are a metalhead!!!!!
Learn and practise different tempi,- fast AND slow.
Songwriting:
Leran basic forms,- also forms outside the standar formulas for chart songs.
Learn harmony- basic and relative as well as how to modulate between different keys
Genres:
US: Hardcore, Thrash, Metalcore, Progressive, Death Metal, Doom, Sludge, Stoner and Southern Metal
EU: Operatic Symphonic Progressive Melodic Contemporary Euro-Folk Power Metal
(Yes, it´s a thing: Nightwish, Epica, Amon Amarth, Tyr, Arch Enemy, Delain, Blackbriar, Jinjer, Frozen Crown, Blind Guardian, Snow White Blood, Kamelot, Unleash The Archers, Tarja Turunen, Within Temptation, Therion, Eluveitie, Furor Gallico for starters)
Keep in mind that if you count it all in metal consists of more than forty-five different sub genres with further branching from that , so it´s a bit like in the Blues Brothers film: " O´, we got both kinds of music,- Country AND Western"....
Enjoy.
Have fun.
\m/Metal\m/
Need metal....ive learned so much from exploring other types of music, I started in metal, still rooted in metal, but love blues, surf, all kinds
I love combining bluesrock and black metal personally. It works suprisingly well. Like an darker sounding SRV
I a metal addict guitar wise. Even though i love metal ,my roots are in punk but since i started to play guitar again metal is mostly what i play. I want to chugg and shred. But i listen to everything except country music. (Hank, jonny cash, david allen cole, and a few others not included) but i still love your guys show. It just proves that guitar players no matter what u play or listen to have a common bond. Guitar is my life . il prob never be in a successful band but il still be playing as long as i can.
I'm a metal kid turned blues doctor. There are definitely skills I acquired through my love of metal that have served me well in a variety of genres.
Great video! I one hundred percent agree. I'm about to pull the trigger on an ESP e-ii FRX. Can't wait...
You guys are great. And thanks for the Eric Steckel tip. Good stuff
The power of the riff compels me!
@Zach H. and that’s OK! I’m 51 years old and still fully believe in that… Even though I don’t feel like I’m a metal fan, a good rift still gets me every single time.
One band that can blend all genres with Metal with out murdering it is a little group out of Denmark called Volbeat. They can Metalize any thing! Tastefully! They do metal covers from Pop to Rock to Bluegrass to Country. And their own stuff is really awesome. The last time I saw them was in Nashville in 2016 when they opened for Avenged 7 Fold. If you go to one of their concerts be sure you know the lyrics to Johnny Cash's " Sad Man's Tongue " because if you don't you'll be the only one not singing! It's a requirement no matter what Continent you live on! Try to catch their 2Hour show if you can. The 45 minutes that they got to play when they opened for Metallica or A7XF was really just a teaser.
Yngwie is always in rockstar/metal mode
Modern Metal/Metalcore/Prog Metal/Djent is where the guitar is being pushed into new unexplored territory… and from that you also have cleaner offshoots such as Math Rock and whatever genre Polyphia and Unprocessed play (trap/r&b/metal fusion?) and that’s where boundaries are pushed even further. I’ll add that experimenting with drop tunings and down tunings, extended range guitars (7 strings, 8 strings, baritones) as well as weird tunings for math rock really shows you that the sonic possibilities are endless and that you don’t have to be boxed in the patterns you use on autopilot due to your muscle memory… be open minded about any music and there will always be value in it… heck I started listening to country to get out of my box
I think of it as heavy music, because there is such a diverse range of styles.
Hell, for me, the first metal tune is "Sing Sing Sing" by Benny Goodman. Listen to that, in context-it came out in 1937. Metal is just the latest heavy music.
In my opinion a guitar player is playing rhythm 90% of the time growing up I listening to anything from Hendrix to Metallica this mix dramatically improved my overall playing.
Will it chug bro?
i’ve been a metalhead all my life and only recently got serious about getting proficient at blues and jazz improv as well. more than a decade of metal gave me a great foundation of technical chops that i can bust out when needed during a blues jam. also, play harmonic minor over the V chord in a 12 bar blues… it sounds glorious 😇
Your never off the clock!
*Tom Araya in his Spongebob T-shirt*
This may be the best episode y'all have done 🤣🤣🤣
While attending law school, and maybe in the early days of my career, yes, I was definitely still a Metal Lawyer. While nowadays I’m mostly a Blues Lawyer, I still like to indulge in some metal from time to time.
"Which one's Beavis?" About once a week, you make me wonder that. This is one of those days. Stay cool and safe, guys.
That's too funny. Just the other day I said to myself that this show reminds me of B&B.
But I couldn't determine which one was which. It was a good laugh. Rock on boy's!
Beavis is the one with the fro.
I’ve learned that metal is not only cool to listen to, it’s also a useful skill set if you put in the time and effort.
Holy sh.. Eric Steckel is amazing !
Thanks for the tip, Jonathan ! \m/
As for being a metal player, yes I am. The first album I learned to play parts from was Morbid Angel - Blessed are the Sick.
I didn't have an amp at first, so I plugged into this combo stereo set.
I cranked it to max so it would distort and put pillows over the speakers so my parents wouldn't get mad.
I just added "you've got another thing coming" by judas priest to my set list. I hope it counts, because that's as metal as I get.
Anything Judas Priest ALWAYS counts!
Check out The Ocean! One of the few metal bands I still regularly listen to. Their latest album is killer, and then go back to Pelagial.
I started on classical and AC DC in 1980 and I've been able to play from Latin to Iron maiden
Jimi Hendrix,Dimebag Darrel,Max Cavalera,Stevie Ray Vaughn,Ken Andrews,Dino from fear factory,Jimmy Paige,Mick Thompson and many many more.🤘👍Edit:and of course Hetfield!!!
I just searched that Dirt Emo album and MAN ALIVE is this guy Ruston GOOD?! Super talented. Teenage Dirtbag and Screaming Infidelities?! Great
You can't kill The Metal
The Metal will live on
Punk Rock tried to kill The Metal
But they failed, as they were smite to the ground
New Wave tried to kill The Metal
But they failed, as they were stricken down to the ground
Grunge tried to kill The Metal
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
They failed, as they were thrown to the ground
[Bridge]
Ah, yeah
Ah, yeah
Met-ee-etal-etal, et-ee-etal-etal, et-ee-eh
[Chorus]
No one can destroy The Metal
The Metal will strike you down with a vicious blow
We are the vanquished foes of The Metal
We tried to win, for why? We do not know
[Verse 2]
New Wave tried to destroy The Metal
But The Metal had its way
Grunge then tried to dethrone The Metal
But Metal was in the way
Punk Rock tried to destroy The Metal
But Metal was much too strong
Techno tried to defile The Metal
But Techno was proven wrong
Yeah
George Jones tried to defeat The Metal, But fell off the stage and threw himself to the ground.
Technical Death Metal in particular is pretty much just crazy classical music with distortion and cookie monster vocals. It's great.
Next Big Thing! Heavy Metal Yodeling!!!!! Baxter and Jonathan will soon be appearing in Lederhosen and Clogs! Stay Tuned! 🤓🎹
I feel like Prog Metal is taking it one step farther by introducing strange time signatures while continuing to chug away. The level of precision that some of these bands play with today is crazy. Check out Tesseract and Plini for good examples.
Intervals, Animals as leaders, Periphery, Meshuggah, David Maxim Micic, Angel Vivaldi, Veil of Maya, Scar Symmetry, Jason Richardson, Berried Alive. I know some of these players are older but man the stuff out these days is just mind blowing. It's a real testament to how insane Jason Becker and the likes were.
*Adam Jones has entered the chat*
Learning to play guitar in the 80s for me it was hair metal bands. Learned a lot of Dokken tunes back in the day.
I grew up listening to Post Punk Darkwave and that’s what I like playing (Cure, Sisters of Mercy etc) but, it all started with Motorhead. Best jazz bands ever, Meshuggah and Dillinger Escape Plan. PS - Check out George Lynch’s new album Seamless (no I’m not affiliated or anything like that). Instrumental metal blues, jazz guitar all in one bite. Inspired me to even concentrate more on guitar.
I'm not huge into metal but one that has always stuck with me is master of puppets. I was like 14ish when I learned it and I felt like the coolest guy ever. I still feel badass when I play it all these years later. I think learning a few songs like that early on definitely helped my picking hand.
It is badass! While it's not the hardest song to learn, it does take a lot of stamina to keep up with the riffs. It sounds and looks so cool!
To all my Metal brothers and sisters, its now time to try some country and blues. Just a bit. Don't be scared.
Hey, it's not Lawyers, ITS METAL DENTISTS! The dentists are the Metalheads. Drilling into living bone and flesh is way more Metal, and several dentists I have met were Metalheads. And look at my avatar, I know Metal!
So hard to get past Pantera's "Cowboys from Hell" album. Their sound finally graduated to something face-melting ... but, of course that would never have come about w/o Jimmy Page's down strokes on "Communication Breakdown" or Queen's "Sheer Heart Attack!" All great sounds, great techniques, and simply served to take being a six-string slinger to further audiences and planes of existence. Metal .... yes!
My metal
Roots are of my youth Zep /Purple/ Sabbath/ Amon Duul II . Some of the heavier Krautrock deserves orgin credit
Yep! I love jazz but the jazz lawyers are strict. .10-gauge flat-wound strings MINIMUM. 1.5mm picks MINIMUM. Neck pickups only. No bending. That's just for starters.
10:40 Baxter jokes but I think it's a key point: there's metal _tonality_, and then metal _tone_. If you take the b6, b5, b2 of metal, and remove the high gain and scooped mids, the result echoes surf, jazz, classical (e.g. Bartok), and other genres. Even if you add one non-pentatonic note to blues licks, it can be inspiring (Randy Rhoads often added the b6 to blues to get the Aoelian sound).
Northern Europe Unite, yeaaaa! Hahaha, awesome.
And I like to incorporate metal-style riffs, scales, keys, and certainly tones/gain structure into my jamming and playing. I don’t want to play heavy all the time but a lot of the time it’s very satisfying. I aim for kind of a pop/punk style with heavy but not too modern sounds. JCM 800 ish sounds.
I bet Adam "Nergal" would love to see this. Going to send it to him. Baxtrer is in to Behemoth! NICE!!!!
I have for the longest time described myself as a punk rocking metal head who plays the blues
you should watch :Metal: A Head Bangers Journey" and then watch "Metal Evolution" they both cover the history of Metal from the viewpoint of an Anthropologist.
BTW, Kasey Musgraves just released a song yesterday about her divorce from Ruston Kelly. It is sad and beautiful, "Star Crossed". She is so good.
Something about a Marshall cranked up terrifying the neighborhood. Musically modern metal has turned into how many notes a minute you can play. I prefer older metal because the riffs were powerful.
Love Metal! Have seen live, the original Black Sabbath lineup, Megadeth, Mudvayne, Slipknot, Mastadon, Metallica, Children of Bodem, Queensryche, Iron Maiden, Motörhead, Testament, High on Fire, Judas Priest, Black Label Society, etc, etc, and the undisputed heavyweight champions of metal, SLAYER!
Sadly, it just doesn’t influence my playing… I am a metal head stuck in the body of an acoustic guitarist… anyone want to hear an acoustic cover of “Master of Puppets?….
Also, great shout out on James Hettfield’s rhythm playing… just stunning, every time! When I listen to Metallica, my ears hear his rhythm playing much more than Kirk’s leads.
Does my 1931 National Duolian steel resophonic guitar count as metal?
Unfortunately I spent my teenage years trying to sound like Trey. I missed the boat on the chug. I do like bands like mastodon or sleep. Slow, droning, extra fuzzy. I like that.
I think the word you were searching for was "AGRESSIVE!!!" at around 4:24
Thank you 🙏:)
@@CasinoGuitars Oh, you're welcome. Anytime I can help out without actually doing anything, you know. hahaha! lolz
@@Bob-Whiting oh shush…love it man and thanks a ton for that:)!
@@CasinoGuitars One of these days I'm gonna get in the Suburban and drive over there for a visit but, I need an excuse. Are you guys gonna have a Black Friday sale by any chance? (he says ringing his hands greedily)
the sillyness of your vids makes me feel like you're friends, thx for that and keep it up! :)
100% agree...nuff said
I started with metal, All I know is metal for 30 years, so now I'm a beginner on all other styles.
Fun fact: Morbid Angel's Guitar Roadie that punched the promoter on the Legendary Grindcrusher Tour... Is now a Lawyer.
Death Metal Lawyer FTW.
I so wanted hear Jonathon say DJENT....... hahaha
It’s true. Jonathan is cut from a bit of a bigger cloth.
I always knew Baxter was a closet headbanger. Everyone mentions the obvious but everyone forgets the first real shredder, Michael Schenker, one of the greatest guitar players ever and still doing it
Well being I’ve been doing that since I was 14. I can harmonic minor all over the neck lol. Trying my hand at jazz now.
Good to see you guys laughing and smiling again!
You had me at Iron Maiden, Joe Satriani, and The Expanse.
Learn and listen to all genres
...and Justice for All was the first cassette tape I ever bought. I think I was 10. I literally wore out that tape.
Metal is the most guitar-y genre of music. It's tough to even find a metal song without guitar. Can't really say the same for other genres.
Disposable Heroes is the best song to learn to get your picking hand as fast as Hetfield's. Bands like Budgie, Deep Purple, Mountain, Proto Metal. Black Sabbath was the first true Metal band, Priest were the Second. Maiden Perfected it.
Eric Steckel is an amazing guitar player!
Check out the Metallica Blacklist. A lot of non-metal artists covering songs off the black album. Shows how metal influences other genres 🤘
A little background as how I don't know any bands hardly but I'm also asking how do I find a lot of this music I ended up passing up on as a youth thanks to RUclips it's a little easier but I'm sure you guys n gals have a vast wealth of knowledge
I was born and raised on my dad's gospel tour bus but by the time I was old enough to get into my own thing "in the very early 90s" I was listening to hip-hop and wanted to be a turntable DJ "the turntablism guy". So pretty much my entire youth was focused on everything from DJ Magic Mike / NWA.
I did very well all the way up until about 2008 when I started realizing I didn't want to be doing that at all anymore and that music was changing for the worst. I had just met someone who was escaping the same music scene as a vocalist who is now my wife, and thanks to Rocksmith 2014 we attempted to learn guitar but quickly I started learning by ear on RUclips and only developed a love for Peter Green and Gary Moore. Now I'm going through music classes yet I don't know who to listen to to pick up from and feel I have lost many years of hearing what is needed to be a good guitar player. I'm not trying to be famous or anything like that but I'm also striving to be as good as possible at any instrument I pick up and put time into.
I have found that I really love blues music but also recently found Judas Priest which is pretty badass! I of course know of Metallica and other bands that had been put in the mainstream radio where I heard them but I am extremely limited chances or I've probably heard the names and just never heard the music.
Sorry this was long,
Love the channel!!!
We started out with Guns n Roses, moved up to Metallica and then Megadeth Rust In Peace. Those were some hairy garage sessions as 17 yr old kids with no RUclips back in 1992. Lol
Justice has always been my favorite. I’ve seen Metallica at least 20 times live.
Guess I gotta find a metal zone
Speaking of pinkies, watch Gary Richrath. Possibly the best pinky in rock and roll.
Some of my best memories are playing track ball in the backyard and listen to Judas Priest with my cousin … ah suck simpler times
🤘can't make the sigh of the beast without the pinky - that's how important it is