This early Metallica song has Mustaine and Burton written all over it. Awesome instrumental. Ride the Lightning is my favourite Metallica album overall. I love how Kirk doubled the leads on most of his songs back then. For this one I used several different live performance videos to help figure out who plays what. Kirk plays some parts differently and I tried to highlight that with the Charvel. For the solo, Kirk plays the arpeggios in an uncommon way but I duplicated that as best I could. For the descending scalar run, it’s a little unclear what happens position wise because the live performances are a bit spotty for this part, either the camera wasn’t on Kirk or he just goes off on the wah. So I tried to play this part as logically as I could. Kirk gets a lot of flak but he was on fire on this album. James slightly switches up how the clean outro is played. It’s almost exactly like the first time but there is a different note being played. Hope you enjoy digging into this one!
Merci beaucoup pour vos efforts, votre talent, votre passion qui est partagé avec la communauté de musiciens. Peut-on voir un jour une chaine RUclips Mr. Tabs pour guitare bass avec cette même qualité ? Merci infiniment.
Oh yeah. If you strum those ascending arpeggiated chords, they're the into to Hangar 18, which I'm sure you know... but it's very interesting how you have two absolute classics with the same shord structure and they sound so different.
Mr tabs! A couple years ago I saw your videos and thought it was so cool. I wanted to play just like your videos. So I dedicated a lot of time and I’ve come very far thanks to your inspiration and help! Never stop making these 🤘
You inspire me too to progress in guitar. I was only doing the accoustic one, until I saw your videos that make me more curious, and that's how I'm now able to play tornado of souls, and ride the lightning(with the solos)🤘
It's crazy watching this video at .5 speed and watching you literarily hit each note, slide, bend, hammer-on, tap and pull-off with prejudiced precision! Excellent work!
One of my favorite Metallica tunes, I never had the patience to sit down and try to learn this since the opening riff always gave me such a tough time for some reason. This has inspired me to pick up the guitar and practice this until I finally nail this song.
yeag theopening 3 chirds are a d ninir somehig and a c ir the third card it kinda reninds me a bit of tubuklar bells the bebinning of it plated in the exorcist mike oldfield recirder the lot himself took him a good while playing twenty hours a day in the end he was knackered like mozarts reqiem
@@slightlyaboveaveragebutaverage I agree but Orion, to me seems has much more range. Thus song is great don't get me wrong, but to my ears just seems to repeat too much. Took some really good riffs and put on repeat. Just when you think Orion is over it goes into another musical masterpiece
Not quite perfect, but by far the closest ive seen on the internet. As per what Pat says in the pinned messae, Kirk does indeed play the sliding arpeggios upwards on frets 15,14,15 of the D,G and B string respectively. On the scalar run he plays it on frets 9-12 on the B and hi E, and Im pretty sure he swicthes positions one time on the g string and does the bulk of it on the D until he gets to frets 7-4. I could be wrong on the specifics, but i do know for certain that he runs down on some combination of the G and D string. This is the only place online that gets the tapping at the end of the solo even close to correct. I do it differently than tabbed but the mix is muddy as hell and kirk doesn't play it live like he does on the record so it's literally impossible to say unless kirk himself would intervene. That said, the tab is very close to what I have heard and very different from anything else I've seen online. Other spots that are correct or very close to it that I haven't seen in other spots online are the main distorted non-arpeggio riff that kirk plays over james' palm muted distorted version of the intro arpegio. My ear catches an A on the D string on the first note followed by 3 palm muted open A's. Almost everywhere else online has these as some wierd power chord which they're unequivocally not. The transition riff played in bar 116 is really close as well. I personally don't hear the octave on the d string, but almost everywhere else online has this as a power chord which is incorrect. It's a 4th diad in the base for certain and Pat got that right. All in all, there are parts in this tab that I heard differently, but this is an EXCELLENT tab and is as close to perfect as I've seen online. Great job.
Funny, started learning this song (again) today for some random reason. Took a break and opened YT and this popped up in my feed hahah. Instant sub, great job!
I learned this song (wrong in a few parts apparently) back in 1989 when I was about a year into playing guitar. Couldn’t play the solo at the time but learned it later. Brings back a lot of memories. I’ll play it later tonight. This time I’ll learn it correctly. 😂
The EET TABS guitar is back for an absolute epic! Cool Charvel but Fender missed the boat on that one, they should have blacked the entire thing out (matching headstock and an ebony fretboard). Anyone ever see Metallica play this one live (I mean in person)? I've yet to see that myself, which has always surprised me, it's an amazing piece.
That’s actually my purple Charvel! Patrick worked his magic and blacked it out haha. Such an awesome tune, hey? A little repetitive but with riffs this sweet, why not repeat them?
@@jasonsheppard7428 man, I'd love to get to play one, one day. Would like to get ahold of the reissue if Gibson would ever release more than one a month lol
Wow just noticed that. All the videos I’ve seen he uses the pick, but I just pulled up the S&M video and you’re right! As for the Album.. you might be right there as well but I THINK I’m hearing the attack of a pick but I could be wrong. Hard to tell with the chorus and reverb. Thanks for pointing that out!
@@jasonsheppard7428 I'm 100% sure he used fingers on the record as well, because you can hear it on the demo of the song (called "When the hell freezes over") and on couple of bootleged gigs (namely Palo Alto gig from 1983 with first live performance of the song, available on Kill Em All deluxe boxset ) ☺
Fun fact: the whole intro of "The Call of Ktulu" was written by Dave Mustaine when he still was in Metallica. So james took this riff and turned it into the intro. You can see that intro of "Hangar 18" and "The Call of Ktulu" look kind of similar. The same notes appears on 0:43, go check it on Hangar 18 tabs
Great job. Underrated solo in all of rock and metal. @swanthewhitepig did an amazing one-take cover of this song on an SG of all things. I think you & him have the best coverage of this song.
I always struggled with this song for no reason at all. Everything just seems so out of bounds for me as a guitarist, from the arpeggios, to the solo, it's just a work of art that not many people appreciate.
Guys; I’ve asked chat GPT to compare the melodic intro of this song vs Mr.Crowley’s both solos. Besides it was a perfect comparison, Randy Rhoad’s solos rated a lot more difficult in many ways(no surprise there!)Interesting thing is it’s been 15 days since I’ve started to practice the 1st solo and I must say that I have surprised myself how far I came. However, I’ve been trying to play The call of Ktulu for years now and I got nothing to show for! It must be a damn curse or something…
Can you please (not immediately) do the: That i never had Ozzy Osbourne live budokan 2002 song? Cause you are so correct with the tabs and everything 👌
hi, I've been learning to play from your videos for a very long time and I really like them, please make a video of Yngwie Malmsteen fire and ice, thank you in advance!
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This early Metallica song has Mustaine and Burton written all over it. Awesome instrumental. Ride the Lightning is my favourite Metallica album overall. I love how Kirk doubled the leads on most of his songs back then.
For this one I used several different live performance videos to help figure out who plays what. Kirk plays some parts differently and I tried to highlight that with the Charvel. For the solo, Kirk plays the arpeggios in an uncommon way but I duplicated that as best I could. For the descending scalar run, it’s a little unclear what happens position wise because the live performances are a bit spotty for this part, either the camera wasn’t on Kirk or he just goes off on the wah. So I tried to play this part as logically as I could. Kirk gets a lot of flak but he was on fire on this album. James slightly switches up how the clean outro is played. It’s almost exactly like the first time but there is a different note being played.
Hope you enjoy digging into this one!
Mr tabs
the very end of A (60) sounds like the intro to hangar 18
You've got amazing skills to be able to learn this and so many other's perfectly 👌
Merci beaucoup pour vos efforts, votre talent, votre passion qui est partagé avec la communauté de musiciens.
Peut-on voir un jour une chaine RUclips Mr. Tabs pour guitare bass avec cette même qualité ?
Merci infiniment.
Oh yeah. If you strum those ascending arpeggiated chords, they're the into to Hangar 18, which I'm sure you know... but it's very interesting how you have two absolute classics with the same shord structure and they sound so different.
Thanks for this Hangar 18 cover.
I didn't realize how similar they were until I saw the tabs!
Like all die hard Metallica/Megadeth fans, i get it, but Ktulu>hangar 18 still 😂
@@morningstar3188Disagree. Both are pretty good and not comparable in what they're trying to achieve imo.
After all Dave wrote the ktulu intro, I think, correct me if I'm wrong
@@mastermckado6196pretty much the intro, that’s it. Specifically the 2nd part of the intro that leads into the distorted section
who doesnt love a metallica cover
Dave mustaine
@@VEV-cu6no xD
Meee
Non metallica cover lovers
Mr tabs! A couple years ago I saw your videos and thought it was so cool. I wanted to play just like your videos. So I dedicated a lot of time and I’ve come very far thanks to your inspiration and help! Never stop making these 🤘
Rock on!
You inspire me too to progress in guitar. I was only doing the accoustic one, until I saw your videos that make me more curious, and that's how I'm now able to play tornado of souls, and ride the lightning(with the solos)🤘
FINALLY A COVER WITH THE VOCALS INCLUDED!!!!!
I have been watching you since 2021, To see how much you have grown is pure bliss. Thank you for these covers
Thank you for the kind words!
@@Mr.Tabs.Guitar.Lessons new songs needed
Excellent work. One of Kirk’s best solos… if not the best.
I agree!
It's crazy watching this video at .5 speed and watching you literarily hit each note, slide, bend, hammer-on, tap and pull-off with prejudiced precision! Excellent work!
It’s gotten to the stage that I won’t learn a song until you cover it 🤣🤷♂️. Love your videos. The format is the best 🙌🎸
Glad to help!
Beautiful!!! The sweet sound of HP Lovecraft to my ears.
My favorite Megadeth song!
Chill out. Dave only wrote the chord progression.
😂😂😂
@@_LuxStein fr
sigh theres always that one Dave fan
@@Grooby__ yeah
One of my favorite Metallica tunes, I never had the patience to sit down and try to learn this since the opening riff always gave me such a tough time for some reason. This has inspired me to pick up the guitar and practice this until I finally nail this song.
yeag theopening 3 chirds are a d ninir somehig and a c ir the third card it kinda reninds me a bit of tubuklar bells the bebinning of it plated in the exorcist mike oldfield recirder the lot himself took him a good while playing twenty hours a day in the end he was knackered like mozarts reqiem
My friend!!! The tone. The tempo the everything just perfect!!!
Abrazo Mexicano!!!
🤘🏻🇲🇽🤘🏻🇲🇽🤘🏻🇲🇽🤘🏻🇲🇽🤘🏻
What only nine minutes long and published 11 days after the last video? Mr Tabs is slacking again.
"Only 9 minutes long"
@@laffelson4549nice pfp
Yeah this is as easy as click record, nailing the tone and the song on one run and randomly smashing a keyboars to get an accurate tab.
lol. smh mr tabs its really not cool to upload a high quality video 11 days after the last one came out.
I hope this was a sarcastic comment.
FINALLY, I CAN PLAY THIS BANGER
Very well done. Love the guitar choices on this one... makes it super easy to keep track of which parts are James and which ones are Kirk.
Mr tabs a year ago i tasked myself to learn to play guitar its been an amazing journey thank you
Awesome! I've been wanting this song. One of the all-time great metal instrumentals!
Yesterday I started reading Call of Cthulhu for the first time (novel), now this... It's a sign
Great Song, we love to see Metallica!!
Best Metallica's instrumental song imo.
Orion is better
I need an Orion cover by Mr tabs now
@@philhooper4196 can we agree they're both mastapieces?
@@slightlyaboveaveragebutaverage I agree but Orion, to me seems has much more range. Thus song is great don't get me wrong, but to my ears just seems to repeat too much. Took some really good riffs and put on repeat. Just when you think Orion is over it goes into another musical masterpiece
You have to sit through Orion one more time from beginning to end, close your eyes and listen to the whole song in the dark.
Grave Cthulhu devour me... I've been playing the main riff (bar 68) wrong for YEARS! Love your stuff as always man.
The fingering on them ascending rhythm parts is the hardest part of this song. Sick sounding and very underrated technique wise.
That's what I needed to hear today, thanks Mr Tabs
Nice! I’ve been waiting for this from you for a while. Now I gotta learn it.
Can you transcribe Lack of Comprehension by Death?
This man the goat for doing this bro
He's at 754K subs... Lets raise that to 1 million he is the best eacher ever!🤘
ABSOLUTELY GREAT PLAYING (MR.TABS) I LEARNED SO MUCH FROM YOUR EXCELLENT TEACHING 🎸🎼🎶👍😎THANKS YOUR A TRUE MUSICIAN 🎸🎼🎶.BOB!!!
Been waiting for this one for so long! Finally!
You can tell Dave wrote most of the chord progressions on the song. Dave has always been a fan of walking up the chords one note at a time.
Not quite perfect, but by far the closest ive seen on the internet. As per what Pat says in the pinned messae, Kirk does indeed play the sliding arpeggios upwards on frets 15,14,15 of the D,G and B string respectively. On the scalar run he plays it on frets 9-12 on the B and hi E, and Im pretty sure he swicthes positions one time on the g string and does the bulk of it on the D until he gets to frets 7-4. I could be wrong on the specifics, but i do know for certain that he runs down on some combination of the G and D string. This is the only place online that gets the tapping at the end of the solo even close to correct. I do it differently than tabbed but the mix is muddy as hell and kirk doesn't play it live like he does on the record so it's literally impossible to say unless kirk himself would intervene. That said, the tab is very close to what I have heard and very different from anything else I've seen online. Other spots that are correct or very close to it that I haven't seen in other spots online are the main distorted non-arpeggio riff that kirk plays over james' palm muted distorted version of the intro arpegio. My ear catches an A on the D string on the first note followed by 3 palm muted open A's. Almost everywhere else online has these as some wierd power chord which they're unequivocally not. The transition riff played in bar 116 is really close as well. I personally don't hear the octave on the d string, but almost everywhere else online has this as a power chord which is incorrect. It's a 4th diad in the base for certain and Pat got that right. All in all, there are parts in this tab that I heard differently, but this is an EXCELLENT tab and is as close to perfect as I've seen online. Great job.
This is awesome, love it thank you!
Glad you like it!
finally this awesome instrumental of all time❤🔥❤🔥
Fantastic cover! I did not see this one coming. Excellent choice!
Funny, started learning this song (again) today for some random reason. Took a break and opened YT and this popped up in my feed hahah. Instant sub, great job!
Epic, thanks for bringing this to YT. You really are a superb guitarist.
I learned this song (wrong in a few parts apparently) back in 1989 when I was about a year into playing guitar. Couldn’t play the solo at the time but learned it later. Brings back a lot of memories. I’ll play it later tonight. This time I’ll learn it correctly. 😂
That opening is trickier than I thought it would be.
Awesome cover, I've been waiting for this one.
Always worth the wait.brilliant stuff
Thank you for this tutorial. For me your videos are ideal to learn songs and i wanted to learn this for a long time :)
video i've been looking for
I always watch your videos and practice. I've just started playing the guitar, but I'll do my best!
これからも色々な曲を聴きたいです！
Absolute perfection. One of their best. 🍻
Really cool with the violin effect! Awesome cover!
Sick playing dude
It sounds just like the instrumental! Amazing! 😃
as usual awesome work! and it makes me happy, because it’s the confirmation that i play this one right 😎
Perfect!
i got 14 days to learn this so i can put on a show for my family on Christmas... will update y'all
Update??
You really provide a service for the community 👍
amazing ! tanks; more metallica and iron maiden
Bar 28 and 29 . Mustaine chord pattern that resurfaces and expands in the Megadeth classic Hanger18 .
Classic? Lol
0:44 is literally the intro to hanger 18.
Coincidence? I think not
mustaine show them the chords when he was in metallica
Same chords
And In My Darkest Hour.
The EET TABS guitar is back for an absolute epic! Cool Charvel but Fender missed the boat on that one, they should have blacked the entire thing out (matching headstock and an ebony fretboard).
Anyone ever see Metallica play this one live (I mean in person)? I've yet to see that myself, which has always surprised me, it's an amazing piece.
That’s actually my purple Charvel! Patrick worked his magic and blacked it out haha. Such an awesome tune, hey? A little repetitive but with riffs this sweet, why not repeat them?
I never done such a thing. That's an extremely rare finish of Charvel.
@@jasonsheppard7428 Completely fooled me on the finish, looked absolutely legit to me.
@@cancelbubble6535check out the Charvel webpage. Looks identical to the actual black model (USA Select SoCal).
BEST METALLICA SONG
Best instrumental song for me
Thank you to listen my idea ! Even if i know that other person people have surely propose this song too.🤘
You are the best man
Can you do wherever I may roam by Metallica? Great cover btw!
yey finally (make more metallica covers, they rock)
Dude. Sounds perfect
Riding the Lightning 🌩
Beautiful! ❤
You're the best !
This solo is so underrated
It sure is. Kirk was at the top of his game on this Album in my opinion!
@@jasonsheppard7428I dont want to ruin the party but this is Daves solo
@@champ7846 its not. the opening arpeggios are his, the solo isnt
@@cyplex206 oh it is? I always thought it was his my bad
best Metallica song
Please do when the sun meets the sky by Eric Johnson the live version
METALLICA RULES 🎸🎸🎼🎶👍😎.BOB.
Wonderful, thank you !
YES!!! That's just freakin' awesome!! A HUGHE THANKS!
Awesome!!! Great choice!
This song is easier then I thought🎉
Is Mr. Tabs really flexing an 84' Gibson explorer on us while playing Ktulu? Love it!!
I wish it was mine. Belongs to my friend Cody. It’s a hell of a guitar!
@@jasonsheppard7428 man, I'd love to get to play one, one day. Would like to get ahold of the reissue if Gibson would ever release more than one a month lol
@@DeweyJHall1 I no was surprised with how nice it is to play. Very comfortable neck
@@jasonsheppard7428 that's awesome. I can't wait to eventually try one
Great performance.
1:12 wait this is the bass part right
Just one clear info: James plays the very first part of the intro with fingers on the record, and I think he does that on S&M as well.
Wow just noticed that. All the videos I’ve seen he uses the pick, but I just pulled up the S&M video and you’re right! As for the Album.. you might be right there as well but I THINK I’m hearing the attack of a pick but I could be wrong. Hard to tell with the chorus and reverb. Thanks for pointing that out!
@@jasonsheppard7428 I'm 100% sure he used fingers on the record as well, because you can hear it on the demo of the song (called "When the hell freezes over") and on couple of bootleged gigs (namely Palo Alto gig from 1983 with first live performance of the song, available on Kill Em All deluxe boxset ) ☺
@@coldvoidthat’s so cool. I’d love to see those demos. Early live Metallica… such a force.
Fun fact: the whole intro of "The Call of Ktulu" was written by Dave Mustaine when he still was in Metallica. So james took this riff and turned it into the intro. You can see that intro of "Hangar 18" and "The Call of Ktulu" look kind of similar. The same notes appears on 0:43, go check it on Hangar 18 tabs
Ahh, back when Metallica used to make great interesting, great music. Those were the days.
Killer playing 👌
Bro couldn't choose better axe for rhythm James' parts! This Gibson hits hard
The Dave chord progression. Can also be found on In My Darkest Hour, and Hanger 18.
Can't mention those clappers in the same breath as this masterpiece
so much appreciation
dave rules tihs song
AMAZING 🤘
rewatched this at least 20 times atp
Wait a minute, Mr tabs already made a hangar 18 video
Can you please do Orion next?
Thanks for your suggestion! Please enter it here: www.mrtabs.com/poll/requests/ (or if it is already there, vote it up).
Thanks for the vid
Lol, just when I was starting to learn the solo from this song on a different video, I saw this video. Crazy
Great job. Underrated solo in all of rock and metal. @swanthewhitepig did an amazing one-take cover of this song on an SG of all things. I think you & him have the best coverage of this song.
PLEASE DO WHEREVER I MAY ROAM, I'M BEGGING!
1:39 Hanger 18 uses the same progression but Dave strums.
hello!!! Make a cover version of Chris Impellitteri's composition - chicken pickin😊
I always struggled with this song for no reason at all. Everything just seems so out of bounds for me as a guitarist, from the arpeggios, to the solo, it's just a work of art that not many people appreciate.
I’ve been trying to learn this song since I started playing 6 years ago but I always give up and learn an easier song.
True, its a very hard song to be honest, not easy at all, requires a lot of practice maybe months
Guys; I’ve asked chat GPT to compare the melodic intro of this song vs Mr.Crowley’s both solos. Besides it was a perfect comparison, Randy Rhoad’s solos rated a lot more difficult in many ways(no surprise there!)Interesting thing is it’s been 15 days since I’ve started to practice the 1st solo and I must say that I have surprised myself how far I came. However, I’ve been trying to play The call of Ktulu for years now and I got nothing to show for! It must be a damn curse or something…
Heaven and Hell by Black Sabbath would be a good next one I think.
I just rediscovered that song after I forgotten how good Sabbath were in that era.
Awaited this one!
Another awesome song. Learning guitar with you is the best❤❤❤.
Please, please do judas priest - rock hard ride free.
Can you please (not immediately) do the:
That i never had Ozzy Osbourne live budokan 2002 song?
Cause you are so correct with the tabs and everything 👌
hi, I've been learning to play from your videos for a very long time and I really like them, please make a video of Yngwie Malmsteen fire and ice, thank you in advance!
I love your work, my respects man, but More Iron Maiden pls
Some request for new videos:
Orion (Metallica)
Hallowed be thy name (Iron Maiden)
Into the void (Black Sabbath)
Aneurysm (Nirvana)
If you looking for Orion go to see Julien Menard channel. No one better than this guy for Metallica on the internet.