Sad But True Guitar Lesson - Metallica (Famous Riffs)

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    In this Sad But True guitar lesson video I will demonstrate how to play the main riff to this killer slow grooving song by Metallica.
    When it comes to Metallica's sound and style, "Sad But True" was a big departure. First off, Metallica usually tunes to standard tuning most of the time and are a lot more well known for their lightning fast thrash riffs than for slow power grooves.
    However, with "Sad But True" they decided to break the mold and did so with outstanding results. Personally, this main riff to "Sad But True" is probably my all-time favorite Metallica riff. The groove is just simply infectious.
    The tuning that Metallica employs in "Sad But True" is called D standard. What that tuning calls for is for you to tune every string on your guitar down one whole step. So the tuning will now be D G C F A D. This low tuning is a huge aspect in creating the deep grooving sound of "Sad But True".
    The riff itself uses a combination of thick palm muted power chords and open string pull-offs. It is actually rather simple to play once you get it under your fingers. The most important aspect in mastering this riff is to make sure you lock into the groove. The feel of the riff is just as important as the notes, especially with a slow power groove feel like "Sad But True" has.
    If you guys want to learn the rest of the song please let me know by making sure this video gets 600 "likes" on RUclips. After it hits that goal I will be back here teaching the entire song, solos included!
    So I will see you guys back here very soon I hope teaching the full song. Until then I hope you enjoy playing this killer power groove riff from the one and only Metallica!
    Carl...

Комментарии • 194

  • @neapolis7570
    @neapolis7570 8 лет назад +1165

    Dude you tought me more then my math teacher XD

  • @delpiero3402
    @delpiero3402 3 года назад

    Does anybody know what kind of pedal effects he is using for this song?
    I would appreciate the help.

  • @andresalegria4543
    @andresalegria4543 5 лет назад

    What is the tune for this song? My guitar sounds different :/

  • @jaycoboliveri809
    @jaycoboliveri809 3 года назад +217

    My favorite Metallica riff to play my neighbor loves it too... well he has no choice thanks Carl!

  • @dylantalbot7189
    @dylantalbot7189 7 лет назад +185

    do of wolf and man plz i cant find good tutorials like this comment so he can see it

    • @edivnetenegr
      @edivnetenegr Месяц назад

      He did it dude, only took him 6 years

  • @marty332
    @marty332 9 лет назад +160

    600 likes carl ...600 likes,where is the rest of the song ;)

    • @GuitarLessons365SongLessons
      @GuitarLessons365SongLessons  9 лет назад +50

      marty332 Thanks for letting me know. I will get to work on it and you should see the rest of the lessons for Sad But True in a week or so. :)

    • @marty332
      @marty332 9 лет назад +5

      yessss!!! thank you carl :)

    • @meer0371
      @meer0371 8 лет назад

      +GuitarLessons365Song my d standard doesn't sound like that for some reason I have one of the Kirk hammett guitars with the nut locks on it

    • @UndeadArmy420
      @UndeadArmy420 7 лет назад +1

      Kevin The Cucumber must be tuned wrong then

    • @meer0371
      @meer0371 7 лет назад

      Cody Blaze I used rock smith

  • @xdave420x
    @xdave420x 9 лет назад +42

    what about leper messiah???

  • @AceKylar
    @AceKylar 10 лет назад +38

    600 Likes from me here, now WHOLE SONG!

  • @ikillz25
    @ikillz25 5 лет назад +42

    Over the last two years I've wanted to play guitar so badly, I've had no teachers, I've taught myself how to read music and with your video's I've gotten way further than I ever though would be possible. So thank you !

  • @Bluelightbandit
    @Bluelightbandit 5 лет назад +17

    And you were only asking for 600. Great job man, love your channel!

  • @mayanktulsyan9161
    @mayanktulsyan9161 7 лет назад +18

    "The day that never come"
    by Metallica
    Could you please help us out on this tutorial??
    Thanks

  • @matturner6890
    @matturner6890 6 лет назад +51

    If I may be so bold, I think you need to be grooving out a little more to really sell that riff properly. There's something about laying into the strings more and banging your head with it that makes it somehow sound more "metallica". I swear to god it's true, try it!
    Also, your execution and technique are fantastic, don't get me wrong. Good tone too. I also didn't know this was in D standard! I thought it was in D. Thanks for the rad video, keep it up!

    • @jonathansullivan2050
      @jonathansullivan2050 6 лет назад +1

      I really don't see the point in changing the tuning because I played it in standard just fine without the drop D and the half step all the way down. and besides your only using the top 3 for the main riff

  • @andreiambrazevich320
    @andreiambrazevich320 2 года назад +1

    Hey, could you please tell how do you get this specific Metallica distortion? )

  • @ogolster8346
    @ogolster8346 10 лет назад +19

    Please do So Far Away - Avenged Sevenfold

  • @ЕвгенийШелковников-э8ф

    Please do " Welcome to the family" Avenged Sevenfold!!!!

  • @dons8764
    @dons8764 6 лет назад +7

    Carl is one of the best guitar teachers on RUclips IMO. Keep up the awesome videos.

  • @xenomorphgaming4691
    @xenomorphgaming4691 9 лет назад +11

    777 likes. 7 dislikes.

  • @Vaedh
    @Vaedh 2 года назад +11

    Dude this is the single most badass metal riff of its time

  • @crookiemonster281
    @crookiemonster281 6 лет назад +5

    I have learned all ur Metallica lessons this was my last one I need to conquer

  • @darrenwellenreiter136
    @darrenwellenreiter136 5 месяцев назад +1

    Ok, I sent Ernie at Music Man an email. You should be getting your own artist series any day!

  • @jameshetfield2898
    @jameshetfield2898 2 года назад +1

    bro, I request the full version of the metallica instrumental tutorial suicidi and redemption

  • @biskenas
    @biskenas 4 года назад +1

    Where solo man

  • @darrenjhodgey4734
    @darrenjhodgey4734 3 года назад +2

    That intro part I can play , it's just the verse parts I want to learn. I can't read music and basically learnt some Metallica songs by ear , like enter Sandman and wherever I may roam.. however, the verse part in sad but true I would like a better in depth example of how the verse goes. I learned tabliture , but never had a tab for sad but true

  • @jackneill4068
    @jackneill4068 2 года назад +3

    Whenever I wanna learn a new riff your channel is where I go to look for it!!! Love these videos man you’re a hero!

  • @gilberttoro6017
    @gilberttoro6017 2 года назад +1

    what do you mean by the strings becoming different letters

  • @bryanjauregui8476
    @bryanjauregui8476 2 года назад +2

    im not even practicing guitar i just wanted to see what the riff actually looks like when it’s being played and i am absolutely mesmerized

  • @mindfreaks46
    @mindfreaks46 10 лет назад +4

    This really needs to get 600 likes i wanna learn the whole thing and i watch your videos to learn cause you know how to teach

    • @itsthe773guero5
      @itsthe773guero5 Год назад +1

      8 years later dude.....12 thousand likes.... I've just got my hands on my first dean and this shred tone is a dream come true....first song to nail down had to be this one

  • @gantzuka
    @gantzuka 4 года назад +1

    Why does everyone I see giving lesson always look like they're not play with their finger tips?

    • @gilnao9826
      @gilnao9826 4 года назад

      Cuz they're using a pick

  • @craighughes9939
    @craighughes9939 2 года назад +2

    600 likes yet ? 🤣

  • @andrewwebster2598
    @andrewwebster2598 Год назад +1

    It or Roam are prob the best song on the black album

  • @williamcline2104
    @williamcline2104 4 года назад +1

    Can you please do rattlesnake shake by Motley Crue?

  • @sytbux459
    @sytbux459 3 года назад +2

    Can you make a tutorial for Frayed ends of sanity?!

  • @diolaido
    @diolaido 5 лет назад +1

    Italiaaaaa

  • @ryanmyers8226
    @ryanmyers8226 2 года назад +9

    One of the first guitar videos I watched when I started playing a little over a year ago! I played this riff over and over so many times 😂 remembered the song a couple days ago and decided to learn the rest of it, thank you Carl for your amazing videos I've learned most of what I know from you and a year ago I wouldn't think there was any way in a hell I could play this whole song. Seriously appreciate all the effort you put in these videos, much love!

    • @cccrowley
      @cccrowley Год назад

      I've been about less than a week into guitar and i know some few but easy songs, do you think i can already try playing this riff? i need some advice for someone who knows more than me about this ahaha

  • @UmarKhan-iw8md
    @UmarKhan-iw8md 2 года назад +1

    600 likes
    No it's 11 thousand

  • @the72u7h4
    @the72u7h4 3 года назад +1

    Drop whole guitar down to D Standard. Also, adjust your intonation. Because everybody forgets that and things sound like dumpster fire as you move up the neck.

  • @mortenhansen3455
    @mortenhansen3455 6 месяцев назад +1

    I payed for lessons where my teacher only told me it was drop D. 20 years later... I got it! Thanks to you buddy so THANKS!

  • @nathanali6929
    @nathanali6929 4 года назад +2

    Oh hell yeah!! We’re about to melt someone’s face off with this one! 😱🔥

  • @JoshuaJacque117
    @JoshuaJacque117 4 года назад +6

    Pain to tune and retune but worth it, totally worth it

    • @jacksams1011
      @jacksams1011 3 года назад +1

      That's why you save your pennies and have 3 or 4 guitars

  • @music84able
    @music84able 10 лет назад +3

    Thanks, this is a fun song to play.

  • @nickm4414
    @nickm4414 5 месяцев назад

    600 likes...
    How about 600 THOUSAND likes??
    Party on Wayne!! Party on Garth!!

  • @esketityeet9078
    @esketityeet9078 5 лет назад +1

    How come when I pull off it never sounds correct? it sounds off, not like the song

  • @Grauwvdm
    @Grauwvdm Год назад +1

    You are truly the best guitar teacher on RUclips, everytime I search for a song I wanna play you have it! 🤘

  • @forceofchaos1
    @forceofchaos1 10 лет назад +4

    Love the new addition of the tabs

  • @anakinskywalker1509
    @anakinskywalker1509 9 месяцев назад +1

    Jesus loves you

  • @CamoKnights
    @CamoKnights 2 года назад

    OMG thank you thank you thank you did not know to drop to standard D

  • @SebastiánCannepa
    @SebastiánCannepa 3 месяца назад

    🤘🏻HERMÉTICA🇦🇷Y METALLICA🇺🇲SON LO MISMO🤘🏻

  • @darrenwellenreiter136
    @darrenwellenreiter136 5 месяцев назад

    And by the way, Marty got an artist guitar from Epiphone. You DEFINITELY deserve one too!!! I'm gonna start bugging Ernie!!

  • @rokiball
    @rokiball 8 месяцев назад

    Carl. Your finger should not to close each other,please...
    Hard to us to see.
    Thanks from me. Indonesia.

  • @woods2353
    @woods2353 6 лет назад +2

    What about the intro

  • @mclovin8712
    @mclovin8712 Год назад +1

    600 likes 😂

  • @darrenwellenreiter136
    @darrenwellenreiter136 5 месяцев назад

    600 likes? 😆 Carl, my son recently fell in love with Metallica and I was going to tell him about your videos. When I went in to show him he told me he had ben watching videos from a guy that was REALLY GOOD! It was you! LOL
    You seriously do a great job! THANK YOU for all the great tutorials!

  • @greggriffiths9053
    @greggriffiths9053 3 года назад +1

    Thank you for all your videos your teaching is really easy to understand and l can pick up a lot of songs i really like thanks again keep up the good work I'll keep learning as well.

  • @aheshle
    @aheshle 3 года назад

    Okay so if you're lazy like me, only tune down the top 2 strings

  • @thanoskaraliopoulos1140
    @thanoskaraliopoulos1140 3 года назад

    Hey (hey)
    I'm your life
    I'm the one who takes you there

  • @tristanbou1
    @tristanbou1 3 года назад

    Guy looks like one of the first american pies movie caracters

  • @mariocacciola6432
    @mariocacciola6432 2 года назад

    Great Job!!!!!! Thanx...
    Mario From Catania!

  • @stewie511
    @stewie511 5 лет назад

    Fuck yeah I made it to 5.1K likes

  • @EducatedPsycho95
    @EducatedPsycho95 3 года назад

    I thought this was played in drop D?

  • @ZEBADIAHPRIEST
    @ZEBADIAHPRIEST 4 года назад

    I though Sad But True was in drop B?

  • @kimfrancisco3581
    @kimfrancisco3581 3 года назад

    Can you make a tutorial lesson of harem scarem title is there was a time 🔥

  • @jankroha5235
    @jankroha5235 8 лет назад +2

    1000's Like was mine :-D

  • @kcmet79
    @kcmet79 10 месяцев назад

    I love the staccato-ish (second- and third-played) D5s each time thru THE RIFF... ending the ringing strings with the remaining L.H. fingers. You kinda do a hybrid at least, employing P.M. and some muting of the strings w/ the left hand. Most folks seem to just classically palm mute.

  • @leodeacon252
    @leodeacon252 4 года назад

    Let’s get 600 likes
    Gets 6.8k instead

  • @AdoreYouInAshXI
    @AdoreYouInAshXI Год назад

    I'm new to guitar, but doesn't Metallica play this in standard E? Why change the tuning?

  • @paradox7743
    @paradox7743 3 года назад

    Carl your a bad man! This Riff is like a Jugernaut Unleashed-I'll be playing this one in a mixmash w Into the Void...

  • @hotbaconburger1090
    @hotbaconburger1090 4 года назад

    just barely over 600 likes

  • @victorthemusicman7243
    @victorthemusicman7243 3 года назад

    Snapped my high E string down tuning. I’m off to a great start😂

  • @Klientt
    @Klientt 3 месяца назад

    I have this same! 😂

  • @suzannecoholic1467
    @suzannecoholic1467 2 года назад

    the feedback was a nice touch ;)

  • @m0dmengamer
    @m0dmengamer 3 года назад

    Who else see Jughead in his face?😂

  • @nikaziz4923
    @nikaziz4923 2 года назад

    0.30-0.36 that strumming pattern technique,

  • @dorksouls978
    @dorksouls978 3 года назад

    Dude that fret buzzzzzzz izzzzzzz inzzzzzzzane

  • @egobeertje672
    @egobeertje672 2 года назад

    How do you get that heavy sound?

  • @headbangerscorner1114
    @headbangerscorner1114 3 года назад

    Carl !!! thx man ! after all these years practicing with the tab book i always thought, why James and Kirk used "pull offs" - doesn't make sense ! i does now ! thanks man

  • @mainakzart133
    @mainakzart133 2 года назад

    Sad but fucking true

  • @juwowk5782
    @juwowk5782 7 месяцев назад

    Drop the tunning?

  • @arunpudipeddi4984
    @arunpudipeddi4984 4 года назад

    From the starting

  • @27eabell
    @27eabell 5 лет назад

    I cant get the guitar to be in tune with standard d. Any help? Ive look up videos and it just doesn’t sound like this at all

  • @auzzielosborne1336
    @auzzielosborne1336 3 года назад

    Carl The Slayer!!!!

  • @richardmelville1920
    @richardmelville1920 2 года назад

    Thanks Carl!

  • @A7Xgreatestfan
    @A7Xgreatestfan 3 года назад

    Hi carl can you do a lesson on the god that failed pleasee

  • @jmandawg3435
    @jmandawg3435 Год назад

    This is so easy😂

  • @RadOGuitar
    @RadOGuitar 3 года назад

    3 Times xD 1:47

  • @Motordeth
    @Motordeth 3 года назад

    Thanks so much this video is amazing most guitar lessons I watch I don’t get anywhere but this is amazing thanks

  • @dommymommy2424
    @dommymommy2424 4 года назад

    six hundred likes lol
    Look at all those likes

  • @guycohen4403
    @guycohen4403 7 лет назад

    Great song. Thanks you so much.
    Can you please make a lessons for the songs
    The day that never comes
    Until it sleeps
    And the unforgiven III

  • @johnstewart4720
    @johnstewart4720 10 месяцев назад

    Good job

  • @andrewwingate9059
    @andrewwingate9059 4 года назад

    What kind of equipment do you use?

  • @Darkness780
    @Darkness780 3 года назад

    Thanks

  • @YouNeedJesusx
    @YouNeedJesusx Год назад

    So simple but catchy

  • @1020Predator
    @1020Predator 5 лет назад

    i love how fucken easy he makes it thx so much

  • @TheRealKirkHammett
    @TheRealKirkHammett 2 года назад

    Naw

  • @RaasMah-in1xx
    @RaasMah-in1xx 10 лет назад

    Great lesson once again! Can you do Mike Oldfield's Moonlight Shadow solo please? Classic solo without a real guitar lesson on youtube

  • @lloydbansk3913
    @lloydbansk3913 6 лет назад

    Yo man what do u use to get that sound ? Only pedals or something else ?

  • @havert5965
    @havert5965 4 года назад

    This was so heavy my gutair lost tune

  • @telugumm5792
    @telugumm5792 Год назад

    140

  • @MOHDRIZWAN-rh8sb
    @MOHDRIZWAN-rh8sb 4 года назад

    how tune?

  • @altermann1ify
    @altermann1ify 3 года назад

    I got a floyd rose :( no D tuning

  • @Jaguar-bw1dd
    @Jaguar-bw1dd 4 года назад

    Can I still play this in standard tuning?