Legendary Licks You Think Are Heavy (but they're not)
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What licks did I miss? I know there’s at least one I left off. Maybe two.
Music is Win Gucci gang
sevens by guthrie govan
\m/.
I love u dad
that's not a lick
i'm just telling you how i feel
Leper messiah into riff
Domination by pantera and cemetery gates which I believe is higher frequency than a440
Legendary licks you think are heavy (but are actually normal weight)
They are just big boned
*mass
Legendary licks you think are metal (but are actually transition elements)
There's that word again! Heavy! Is there something wrong in the future with the earth's gravitational pull??
@@isaacrumley Nice!
Legendary riffs that sound like they’re in odd time signatures, but they’re actually just 4/4
Well that video would only be Meshuggah songs.
Felipe Varela Bleed is #1
i would find more interesting the opposite, like, for example, The Number Of The Beast which is in 5/4
Absolomb by Periphery gets my vote for this one
@@Unluckyfawn killer fucking song
Some Fool: Thinks E standard can't be heavy
Domination by Pantera:
Am I a joke to you?
Nailed it!
domination is a cute pop song in comparison with 43% burnt
@@c95060 43% burnt has whiny screechy metal vocals while Pantera has manly metal vocals. If you wanted to hit me with something heavy you should have gone with a cannibal corpse song
It's right there in the song name.
@@c95060 oh cool a boring korn-like chord with a dead note, boring
If it's heavy, it's heavy. No matter the tuning.
My thoughts exactly! Heavy is a style of playing rather than a tuning.
@@martyjohnstone8226 Yeah some of the heaviest songs I know are in Standard or drop D.
If you can't write a heavy riff in E, you can't write a heavy riff.
yes standard tuning can be heavy but in drop tuning it can be heavier
Light Yagami no it’s just easier to write heavy riffs in drop tuning it’s so freakin hard to write it in down tunings or E standard for that matter.
Domination s breakdown is too heavy to be on a list
it is so heavy that it attracks us with his gravity
i fucking love pantera
C'mon bro, if were talking about heavy pantera riffs in standard tuning, Strength Beyond Strength is by far the heaviest
@@hanithehimbo3382 or the art of shredding?
@@scumbag1731 yeah I know😢
"Legendary licks you think are dirty but are actually clean".
Yessss
Like my diaper 😈
@@jbain4750 🤣
Metallica - Dirty Window
yess!!! Pleas, or at least "Legendary licks that you think are dirty but are actually at least crunchy" Prophet song being the fucking absolute master of all.
Fun fact: “For Whom the Bell Tolls” by Metallica isn’t technically in E standard tuning, the guitars + bass were tuned up slightly to match the pitch of the bell.
Actually it was sped up to sound tighter per Flemming
@@pennsy77
He played a couple tricks with parts of songs. Most notably the riff at the beginning of Puppets, was downtuned and played slower, then sped up. But its only that part of the song, when that riff is isolated. If you pay attention, you can hear the difference. It wasnt because he couldn't play it cleanly at speed, but because of limitations in recording technology, that it didn't have the definition they wanted.
Yeah, there's some parts in puppets that sound sped up. Notably the intro for me
@Shrimp 1.0 Metallica talked about it it’s true
Fun fact: The bell wasn’t a bell, but an anvil that Lars banged on with a steel mallet
*have hundreds of PRS
*decide to play some Opeth
*didnt use the PRS
It hurt me man.
Exactly what i was thinking
I mean, his PRS Custom 22 is very similar to the guitar Mikael Akerfeldt used to record Blackwater Park
1:03 | Dillinger Escape Plan - 43% Burnt
3:15 | Megadeth - Holy Wars
8:47 | Opeth - Bleak
11:41 | Rage Against the Machine - Bulls on Parade
14:30 | Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls (honourable mention)
14:58 | Black Sabbath - The Wizard
I found you
Thank you
A true hero
Thank you. Here for Opeth
Legendary licks you've never heard because they're in an obscure frank zappa song
Its just a lesson for Whats New In Baltimore lolololol
@@Qbot2113 theres enough legendary licks in that song to make 2 vidoes
Hey now, the video can't be feature length. Reasonable suggestions only in this comment section
Legendary licks you've never heard because you're moving to Montana soon to be a dental floss tycoon.
@@vampeiyre if yall havemt you should try a crack at the hard section in that song. It's definitely difficult but not AS difficult as like an Inca roads or st alphonzo. It was a great way for me to get used to those phrasings and rhythms
One of the heaviest songs I heard in my teens was "The Call of Ktulu". That clean guitar was so sinister, and the chromatic ascending rhythm notes were so great at building tension followed by the heavy releases. Just a great work altogether. Feels like a symphony piece like that of Beethoven or Bach.
yeah, I loved that song before I heard my classmates in 8th grade music class played it so badly I stopped being able to listen to it
I love that song, but does anyone know if they misspelled cthulu intentionally or if it was some kind of copyright thing?
@@metalvoiceguy1232 yeah, cthulu is copyrighted, but they copyrighted it in 86, so idk
"It's not heavy, because it's in standard tuning"
Tony Iommi: Hold my beer!
so everyone’s just gonna ignore the fact that tyler just played black sabbath on a 335
Has a giant collection of guitars,
Tyler: "335 sounds good for for some sabbath today."
Maybe has a dirty fingers un the bridge, like some of the 335 from the 70's
And that is wonderful, because Soundgarden always played heavy using semi hollow and vintage guitars;)
+ the fact that he had an SG earlier in the video
@@likemikehd3560 yea, because metal existed back then
Your camera is so focused it looks like ur in front of a green screen
Once you see it you can un-see it
I think it's the lights behind him and the lack of shadows
That's because he's actually in Japan with DragonForce📐
He is. He doesn't actually own that many guitars, they're all green screened in.
Jordan K no he does haven’t you even watched his channel he’s Mayes every single one of those guitars
"there's something on Tony Iommi fingers"
Yeah, they're called implants
They're not implants, they are prosthetics.
@@stephensparks4075 they're not even really prosthetics - that insinuates they're provided by a medical professional. They're just some shit he made so he can play.
I thought they were called "Your Old Lady's Pubes."
They are thimbles
Pretty sure they're pubes.
Can we all agree Sylosis are the modern metal “holy shit, that’s in standard” gods?
Ohhhh I forgot about Sylosis! Silly me.... heading back for my penance now
Drop C is a good in between for playing heavier genres but still not loosing those notes to the low end, C# is a pretty sick tuning for more progressive hardcore and C standard is fun for really fast and heavy music (like death metal)
bren Wilson tbh death metal nowadays uses C standard and lower
@@koffieverslaafde627 a lot more Beatdown hardcore bands only use e standard, d standard than I initially thought
You forgot about Vektor. They literally tune up to F standard
Anyone who thinks E standard songs can't be heavy is deemed false.
The Authentic Steve Sylosis is all I need to say.
Damn right. Ask Slayer
deliverance by opeth. enough said
@@giovanni21mas breakdown riff in metallica's "Am I savage" also
@@jongbong1912 that riff is heavy for sure. Nice experiment on their part.
dude's using a prs for literally every kind of music ever created on this planet - choses a rivolta for opeth
And a BLUE 335 for Black Sabbath.
I mean were those two really necessary?
Maybe further proving the point that heavy is heavy no matter the guitar it's played on?
He just wants to show off his collection and how much he polished them
Gunnar Thiessen I would do the same if I had that many guitars
I'm sure he is just trolling
Rammstein - Du Hast
Pantera - Cowboys from Hell
Metallica - One (part before "Darkness imprisoning me...")
Du Hast is more kind of groovy than heavy but yeah
PAROXYSM Music you could do fueur FREI by rammstein instead tbh
Or harvester of sorrow
Machine gun riff
Iommi’s answer to this problem was two-fold. First, he started down-tuning his guitar, to D# and C# standard. This lowered the tension against his fingers, making it easier for him to play for longer periods of time.
Iommi and the rest of Black Sabbath found out that these lower tunings also made the music sound heavier, and an entire genre of music was born.
But even with the drop tunings, the tension using standard strings was too much. So, Iommi created a custom set of strings to address the problem.
Tony Iommi’s Custom Guitar String Gauges
Iommi has two main guitars for D# and C# tunings, and he has a custom set on each:
D# Standard: .008 - .008 - .011 - .018w - .024 - .032
C# Standard: .009 - .010 - .012 - .020w - .032 - .042
These string sets are light by any standards, but especially so when you consider that’s he’s tunings the guitars down below standard. Still, no one can argue that the riffs that come out of Iommi’s amps are as heavy as anything out there.
"Something in Tony Iommi's fingers..." I was for some reason half expecting a "or lack thereof" to follow
The Dillinger escape plan chord is EmM7/D (E minor with a major 7 with D in the bass)
i personally though G6b13/D made more sense
DasOmen02 That's what I analyzed it as, as well, but both kind of work.
Tbh it’s depending on which key your playing it in...
@Kristian yeah. Tbh both work since it's assumed we're in the key of Em (due to the E chugs) so it's either a i or a III chord :P
Couldn’t it be a E7 add 7b as well?
Legendary licks you think are epic, but is actually Ozzie Osbourne banging a stick against his broken washing machine
“It’s not heavy because it’s in standard tuning”
Stupidest thing I’ve ever heard.
Edit: perhaps I was too harsh. I think heaviness mostly comes from expression and less from pitch. Just another musician's opinion.
I think he's leaning on the conception that came along with Djent that tuning down makes things heavier.
Alternate take: "meme response."
It is incredibly stupid. For those who don't know why, one of the main reasons is that you can play these licks in _any_ tuning. Standard vs Drop D or whatever tuning just allows a different (sometimes easier, sometimes harder) way to play one thing.
Temples of Syrinx is one of the heaviest riffs I've heard and is all in E Standard.
Imagine not understanding what the fuck a dude just explained to you
@Matthew Heck THICC song
i would have picked the main deliverance riff for opeth.
I just had to double check the tab for that song to make sure that Deliverance was actually in standard, because I never in a million years would have thought that a song that heavy was in standard tuning. That definitely would have been the perfect choice for Opeth.
Heir Apparant
kovid dogra thought he’d pick it
or leper affinity
heir apparent
The bridge in Blackened anyone? That's got massive weight and is as heavy as it gets in standard. 😎
James mayo yeah but that would require him to downpick at 2 million miles per hour lol
angel torres the bridge to blackened is relatively easy to play compared to the rest of the song. it’s actually one of the first riffs I learned and took pride in when I first started playing guitar lol.
It’s so good
The bass in that song really adds heaviness too
@@johnnybrown9581
To be that heavy without bass is the reason it's so heavy. Down picking that riff feels like I want to meld the strings to the pickups with my right hand with super wizard powers...... 🧙♂️🧙♂️
Deliverance - Opeth
Main riff heaviest thing ever.
Oh yeah try sepultura convicted in life
Heir Apparent. It's the only song I've ever heard that i thought was 100% tuned lower than E standard but actually isn't.
Edwynn dude that lick is sick. Few people talk about it on the internet
My man you think that’s heavy. Check out the first drop in Blind- Korn
Master’s Apprentices
why would you change from a PRS to a Rivolta if you’re playing Opeth wtf
First
Hacks
Music is ONE =)
Oof
No u
You are so first, that RUclips says your comment was 14 minutes ago, but also says that the video was only released 12 minutes ago.
"There's something in Tony Iommi's fingers..."
Yeah, they're called prosthetics, and the reason they downtuned starting with Master of Reality.
The breakdown in Metallica - Am I Savage?
The part with the harmonics and those "decelerating" inverted dyads. All in E standard but sounds like a bulldozer.
honestly, none of these are even remotely heavy. the second intro riff in FWTBT would've been better than all of these.
@@siggiarabi the breakdown in Am I Savage is filthy, who you kidding?
@@KastawayLemon i meant the ones in the video. did he play am i savage in the video?
@@siggiarabi ahh my bad, misunderstood. No you're right
@@KastawayLemon no problem, my dude
is heavy defined by down tunning? i think that's just dumb.
Well no. Ive heard a lot heavy E standard songs, just look at what Winds of Plague does. But to assume down tuning doesn't make music heavier would be equally as dumb.
@@mitchsbtrippin4939 I don't think that I said that down tunning does not make songs sound heavier. I just said that assuming that songs are heavier if you downtune is dumb.
@@nunolima7709 ikr Then Black sabbath firsts albums are not heavy? they are. It's not about tunning. It's about setting a mood in the song.
@@fatimapalacios2292 i'm stopping replying to comments since I think that nobody can read english.
@@nunolima7709 no they can't. look at the guy up. wanted to start a fight without even reading the first comment. RUclips comments section is cursed anyways. I agreed with you too in your first comment. Don't be angry. I love black sabbath and that's why I commented on the first place. But chill my friend.
Dude, these videos are getting me to listen to stuff that I never would have thought of. Fun stuff to learn!
Sick vid. Love how you gave so much info, i’ll be thinking about and experimenting with all this stuff for quite a while now im sure. Thanks for the upload :)
This vid is the first I've seen from this channel but won't be the last.
Very fun and informative analyses!
it's kinda weird to hear marty's solo played really clean.
Marty’s solos are always clean. He’s extremely precise in his playing. Unless you’re referring to distortion rather than his playing style.
@@coolguitarchannel Clean in this context could also mean isolated and easier to hear the nuances.
@@omgvague I've always thought it was fairly easy to hear the nuances in Marty's playing because of his extreme precision and accuracy. Though it may be difficult to process them all, while listening, due to the fast nature of his riffing.
@@coolguitarchannel Pretty sure OP was referring to the fact that Mustaine is very sloppy at solos.
@@coolguitarchannel He means most guitarists fail to play marty's solos perfectly.
Legendary Licks You Think Are Heavy (because they're on bass)
Ace of Spades
Brandon Callahan for whom the bell tolls
@@iqceo4276 that's not heavy tho
@@VarsityAthlete04 The bass riff after the intro is super heavy.
@@jaliebs3988 nah
11:31"I was trying to do research to find out what Tom Morello was using"....
It's called bass, and it's played sometimes with guitar
Also a Whammy V
I know what you mean, but now I have a visual of Morello using a guitar to strum a bass
@@saint-cetacean he doesn't use a whammy v it's the whammy 3 he uses and he never plays bulls in half step live ....and if he did use octave down on the song someone explain how he's harmonizing a 4th during the bulls on parade instrumental? He doesn't use rack effects or switchers or anything? Pretty hard to change it that quick with your foot ?
@@strauss885 I mean yes he uses a 3 but if you're buying now, just get the V, it's better.
Could be he has a suboctave pedal like a micro pog that key kicks on?
@@saint-cetacean I own both and nothing compares to the 3 that's why they're so expensive and rare the thing that's nice about the 5 is the chord switch the true bypass and the fact it doesn't need a special dc adapter I'm on the fence whether or not even better than the 4 honestly not a big difference and I been playing ratm since I started guitar 14 years ago
I like the intro to AC/DC 'Hell's Bells' for this one. The ringing A string with the droning bell, similar to 'For Whom the Bell Tolls', but a good bit slower.
Legendary licks that aren’t legendary yet (but they will be in the future)
Why didn't you play Opeth on the PRS?
To get comments like yours. Comments are audience participation points, boosting the video's stats.
The riff starting at 6:30 in Hessian Peel by Opeth has to be the heaviest riff in standard tuning I've ever heard
Heir Apparent would like to know your location
When did the tuning start to define heaviness?
Domination breakdown by pantera
It never did. It’s this tired old trope RUclips guitarists like to dust off and bring out of the crawl space when they have to make some half-assed relevant content.
When tyler started running out of ideas for videos
Legendary guitar licks you didn’t know were legendary guitar licks because they’re played on different instruments
For whom the bell tolls is actually 1/4 step up in the album.
The fact that The Dillinger Escape Plan is in the video makes me so damn happy.
DGxEBEb the way I try and figure this stuff out is to look for perfect 5ths. We have one with the G and D, and another with the E and B, so I’ll say it’s either a E minor or G major chord, of course with decorations.
If we say it’s a G major, then it would be a G augmented 6 chord. The D# is the augmented fifth, and the E is the major 6.
If we look at it as an E minor chord, it would just be an E minor 7, with a major 7 in there for fun/noise.
That D D# E thing is a cluster chord. They are basically just intentional noise, and they’re lots of fun lol.
Btw, another way to think of this, is to just go ahead and call it a polychord. You’re playing a G major and a E major 7 at the same time. Tada! Problem solved!
To my ears, either the G augmented add6 or the Emaj7/G polychord is the right one, and the more I think about it, the more inclined I am to say the G aug add6. It just sounds like an augmented chord to me.
I was thinking the same thing. And when you have poly chords like this it usually comes down to function. I don't really know the song, but the bass part even has a role. But my initial thought was G augmented add6 as well.
Has 50 PRS guitars , plays Opeth without one -.-
_"Pretty close, good enough for government work."_
E minor-major 7th with a D in the bass:
Em+7/D
Ebmaj7 (#5, b9)?
G6add#13
D4(6)
or Eb7(13-)(9-)/D
G+add6
I appreciate the fact that you use a different guitar for each lick - This makes it easier to identify when a new lick starts ^^
as far as Opeth goes, Deliverance is in standard and its one of the heaviest songs i know
Hell yeah!
The whole album is just brutally heavy
Master's Apprentices and Wreath are prime examples.
Rick Beato - "What makes this song HEAVY?"
Tyler you are a great teacher . your ability to break down things is mind blowing
"Legendary licks you think are heavy but are actually played with extra light strings."
physically hurt me to see you using anything other than a PRS for Opeth
I actually preferred the sound of the guitar used for the Opeth riff over all the others in the video, including that beautiful blue PRS. Probably the tone though, the tones in this video match the original track really well (apart from Black Sabbath that sounded a bit different overall but then their first album does have a very unique, free form kind of sound to it...not easy to try and sound the same).
Licks that are legendary because they were written by Exodus.
Slicing jaws, a way of life...
I’m a simple man, I see Opeth, I click.
it’s impossible to not say “go with it now” during that morello riff
legendary licks you think are hard (becouse you dont have the right pedals)
Oh I'd like that!
Yngwie Malmsteen "Echo Etude"
He did that. legendary licks you think are hard because they're expensive, or something like that.
rob scallon rain
F.C.P.R.E.M.I.X. - Fall Of Troy
1:40 = Baug#9(add4) or EmM7 with the minor seventh (D) added in. I personally think it is the EmM7 because Eb (or D#, which is the major seventh) is at the top of the chord, and whoever wrote the song decided to add in the minor seventh to give it more random dissonance. (Especially because D, D#, and E are three chromatic notes in a row.)
If you go D standard, literally anything by Gojira sounds so much heavier and tuner lower than it is.
Collective soul: Shine. Sounds heavy but isn't
Its in C# that's why
"Tony Iommi's fingers" yikes someone better tell him
Id make a safe bet that Tyler knows..
Woosh
Fake fingers are still technically fingers.
I stop all I am doing in Class right now to watch a new video from ye Haha. I love me some heavy licks, but I also enjoy the new takes on this series! Great work!
"E Standard can't be heavy"
*laughs in Sylosis*
"Something in Tony Iommi's fingers" or lack thereof, maybe?
that and he used to run through a bass amp to compensate for a very light gauge of strings
My father says, "Good enough for government work" as well
Idea for next video :
*Legendary licks you think are obsolete (but they're not)*
Opeth is Phrygian Dominant, aka 5th mode of harmonic minor. Starts with the flat 9. Implies a harmonic minor sound along with fully diminished. Great scale to use over just about everything
Opeth has always been my favorite band. I’m glad you mentioned them. Never really hear people talk about them anymore.
Legendary licks that you think are awesome (and they are but only when using a WAH Pedal)
In the original recording of for whom the bell tolls it’s actually tuned a bit sharp
So... riffs that are heavy, but they are not heavy because they are standard tuning, but they are heavy for standard tuning.
What?
I’m partial to Drop D. I’ve been playing in it for a few months now exclusively and it’s so fun walking that heavy/bright line of rock n roll
Master's Apprentices from Opeth would be a perfect example for this video
“Am I savage?” Breakdown is super heavy and it’s in E standard
That PRS 594 semi-Hollowbody is not only gorgeous but what a great tone
Mikael from opeth composes all of the music for the members of the band on sheets. He absolutely means to do what he does lol.
@Andrei Cucu He has stated it before. As well as Fred Akkesson. There are occasional contributions from the other band members, and I'm not sure how much of the drums he writes, but the guitars, bass, lyrics, and vocals are for sure all him.
@Andrei Cucu I think he uses the computer, but yeah it's very meticulous.
the "chord" in 43% burnt is just a minor 2nd on the b and e strings. one guitar plays it up an octave and one plays it below. usually live i see them just play both up high...
Other than the blissfully heavy riffs, the procession of pretty guitars is a delight to me. You're a bit daft but you got some chops kid! Kudos on the Marty Friedman especially.
I have to say, between learning about reverse power chords and you opening my eyes to triads again I have started to look at my playing differently and opened my third eyes to what you can do. Playing double octave chords legit sounds like you are playing two guitars at once.
Id love to see a “Legendary Intros” video
You could call the chord something like "E minor major 7 add augmented 6" or just opt for the simpler name of "a jazz chord"
This is hilarious
Legendary licks from obscure songs from legendary bands
The super high chords during the breakdown of “hang them high” is one of the most dissonant and heavy things I’ve ever heard.
7:15 I'm dumbfounded that guitar fandom can obligate experts to be apologetic when describing an unquestionably cool move like the delayed Marty bend on frikkin Holy Wars.
For metallica you should have used The riff from am i savage on hardwired to self destruct, just before the solo and that plays through it, it reaaaally does not sound like a E standard riff and is in my opinion James' best riff on the album
I think a better inclusion from RATM would have been Down Rodeo. It's in standard E and is so damn heavy. Also, one thing I learned from a rig rundown with Tom Morello is that nearly all of the time he plays through a neck single coil, which is the exact opposite of what's usually considered "heavy," but he makes it work so well.
That something in Tonny Iommi's playing I believe is a cross between three things:
1. The absolute soul and feeling he puts into his playing
2. The wood tips on his fingers because they were chopped off gives a different sound and wicked vibrato
3. Heavier Gauge strings give a huge tone for him too. If he played light or regular gauge strings, he would break them easily
3. is literally the exact opposite of what he actually plays...
legendary licks that you think are unique, but are actually ripped off
"Yes Black Sabbath is in standard tuning"
*chuckles in anything from the 70s after Paranoid*
Cyrekt Wrong! Technical Ecstasy and Never Say Die are in standard tuning.
@@mokhan8832 True, forgot about them
The chord is an Eb augmented (M7) #9 over D. Eb+^7b9/D. In root position I have it spelled Eb G B D Fb/E Gotta love composition degrees, they're good for something kids.
Amazing in depth friedman session! Great
analysis!
Seeing the green prs just hanging out kind of hurts. Like an old friend in a nursing home
That's gorgeous.
So E Standard can't be heavy? What an idiotic concept.
I agree
Any song on ajfa says otherwise
Tony Iommi agrees
beowulf1417 This video whooshed over your head didn’t it?
M16 's Imagine not getting the point.
Wow that prs is beautiful 😍
Opeth - Ghost of Perdition’s opening is one of the most satisfying heavy riffs. Starts off with 8 of the cleanest chords, then you get hit by a train. And oh god when the organ kicks in, it’s the juiciest, heaviest, headbangingest riff. It’s just so fucking good.