Don't Believe These Metallica Myths!!!

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Hey guys! Its your good buddy Uncle Ben Eller here to put some METALLICA MYTHS to rest!!! There's so much misinformation about the way James and Kirk lay down their's legendary riffs, and we are here today to talk about 5 of the biggest offenders!
Index:
1:1:10 The Dyers Eve riff: 2222 or 2323?
2: 3:25 The "odd time signature" riff in Fight Fire with Fire (you know the one i mean!)
3: 6:45 James Hetfield and his legendary "all downstroke" rhythmic playing picking
4: 10:30 The REAL way Metallica plays Enter Sandman! Thanks for the great tips, The Art of Guitar!
5 12:15 The mystery of the tuning on The Thing That Should Not Be
Using my Suhr Modern Satin into the Peper's Pedals Dirty Tree, my REVV G120 Mark III, and my Martin SC13-E acoustic!
What Metallica Myths should we cover next time!? Let me know in the comments!

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@BenEller 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for helping rid the world of Metallica Myths! Are there some more we should cover next time? Let’s hear them! Edit: and as several people have pointed out, swap the 1st and 2nd fingers I showed in the Sandman riff and you’ll REALLY be playing it like James!

@KMHoran 3 жыл бұрын

I don't know about a myth per se, but I'd love to see you do something with Adrian Belew-era King Crimson. "Frame by Frame", for example. Keep up the great work!

@fadge4105 3 жыл бұрын

The F note in the opening master of puppets riff...

@Badassstoffe 3 жыл бұрын

You can do the whole terrible Justice tab book. I had it as a teenager, and man did it fuck me up.

@ShredHeadJHJ 3 жыл бұрын

In every Metallica tab book it has them playing some of the power chords as 4 or even 5 note bar type chords. You can talk about how they always only play power chords with 2 notes - whereas Dave Mustaine often adds the upper octave making it basically a 3 note chord. I know you touch on this in a lot of your Metallica videos already.

@ShredHeadJHJ 3 жыл бұрын

@@fadge4105 He does have a video about that one.

@TheArtofGuitar 3 жыл бұрын

A little birdie told me I was mentioned in this video. Just kidding it was Ben. Birds can’t text.

@JunkfoodZombieGuns 3 жыл бұрын

That's funny. I just watched one of your videos, then came here to watch this, and here you are. Stop stalking me! 🤪

@HannahCope88 3 жыл бұрын

Nice little shoutout there! 🙂

@relegation6pointer 3 жыл бұрын

I saw your video a while back and couldn't believe JH plays the riff that way. It just seems like such a weird way to do it... Love your videos BTW, the Lars (Blackened and Orion) ones were great.

@BenEller 3 жыл бұрын

You the man!!!!

@patandmacmusic 3 жыл бұрын

And they said Endgame was the most ambitious crossover

@rpandola 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, let’s get that Hetfield lesson happening!

@jleips 3 жыл бұрын

Agree!

@Thiccalus 3 жыл бұрын

Double agree.

@AdityaMukundan 2 жыл бұрын

I have fixed an appointment with my doctor to upgrade my right hand

@Ibanezmusic1 2 жыл бұрын

Agree and let’s see Ben play hetfields licks from “disposable hero’s” on his new LP custom!

@markpicente3948 2 жыл бұрын

Seen them play in PA.. and was belting out songs right along with James and he heard me harmonize right along with him I got the nod and thumbs up.. it was good to be the King.. I couldn't talk the rest of the night.. but it was so worth it.. and then I woke up. Lol. No absolutely a true story..

@charthers8903 3 жыл бұрын

We can nerd out on Metallica but to play it live AND be as drunk as James? Now that’s impressive..

@bwgti 3 жыл бұрын

He had to sing and play Battery drunk as heck for years....

@burnsZY85 3 жыл бұрын

James was never drunk on stage, yea he did drink on stage but was never drunk, he said that himself in interviews.

@xNimrod97x 3 жыл бұрын

“More slowlier, more better” is a good rule for breakdowns.

@Xplora213 3 жыл бұрын

Dyer’s Eve is just brutal picking so hard the strings out of tune. The pitch varies because it’s so wide but it’s damn fast so you don’t notice it. Metal should be played aggressive. They were battling Slayer and Megadeth who had killer records in 86 as well. Gotta bring the heat!!

@noozzoo5152 3 жыл бұрын

I noticed that also. When pushing on the strings with a palm mute, the notes go sharp slightly, as well as when picking harder accent notes.

@gregfalc 3 жыл бұрын

@@noozzoo5152 aaand there you go, that's exactly it.

@mrmustard4478 3 жыл бұрын

Maybe...if you listen to the Justice deluxe box set, it has James' riff tapes from 86, where you can hear that fast brutal intro riff created way back then. Obviously Justice was influenced by the whole metal scene at the time, but Master of Puppets came out in March 86, whereas Peace Sells and Reign in Blood came out in September and October. There's a pretty similar riff in Disposable Heroes. Not to mention, Damage Inc, Master of Puppets, and Battery. Seems to me like Metallica were always months ahead while the others played catch-up.

@Xplora213 3 жыл бұрын

@@mrmustard4478 it’s not the writing, it’s the PLAYING that mattered. Lars got a big wake up call after hearing Lombardo do a MUCH better job on Reign in Blood... and the production is much better on Reign in Blood (that album is better produced than everything Slayer made after 1990, somehow?!)... so Metallica lifted their game on AJFA as best they could. How do you top the best metal album in history, twice?? Well, you pick harder and faster, and you protools your drums to death as Lars was famous for. Not hating. Just acknowledge that Slayer was a local band that was also doing special things at the time. We wouldn’t have gotten these albums if they had no competition. (Load proves it)

@murk4552 2 жыл бұрын

@@Xplora213 they weren't protooling drums back then, lmao they had to splice tape sometimes. Lars was beasting and practiced all the time back then. He stopped caring around the Black Album.

@lmactapout 3 жыл бұрын

I knew the Enter Sandman fingering from watching James play it right in front of me in 1992.

@skovol007 3 жыл бұрын

I always played the intro in the open position. When I saw the tab I thought "That's wrong. It's the same notes, but why would they tab it in the 5th position?!" Then I saw James play it live...in the 5th position. I'm not going to argue with him about it, I still maintain it's a lot easier to play (and let notes ring) in the open position.

@BudilneG Жыл бұрын

@@skovol007 it just sounds a bit darker in the 5th, that's the reason I think

@HeadbangersLocal 3 жыл бұрын

Bob Rock : “ why do you guys always play everything in E?” James: “ because that’s the lowest note.” 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻

@Xplora213 3 жыл бұрын

Motley Crüe had the right idea, tune to D then play in G 😂

@BungleJoogie68 3 жыл бұрын

@@Xplora213 I always thought Symptom of the Universe was in standard tuning, but it's C# standard and played in the position of G minor, and that's why it feels like it has more bottom end.

@dragongamer4753 3 жыл бұрын

They played master of puppets in studio in d sped up to e so they definitely knew how to do it.

@mrmustard4478 3 жыл бұрын

@@BungleJoogie68 There is that video of them playing it live in G (and when Tony plays the intro on recent tours), but on the album version, they did play it in E standard. Listen to the first chord of the part that comes in at 0:21---it's 100% an open chord. That chord is D (open D string, 2nd fret of G string), but if you transpose the song to the G position, it's an F chord, which obviously can't be open. Listen to the 3rd chord at 0:24 and it's clearly an open A too. Not to mention, there's a great video of Black Sabbath with Tony Martin singing where they do it in E like the album, and you see Tony's hands the whole time. That low E chunk on the album is unmistakable.

@user-br9jm8ke9h 2 жыл бұрын

The made E standard heavy

@Andyanddiana467 3 жыл бұрын

Years ago, I worked as an ad assistant for a musician magazine that featured tab examples from Kirk Hammett. I asked the editor if he (Kirk) contributed in any way, for accuracy's sake. He said, nah, not really - at most, celebs glance over the copy, then sign off. The head transcriber does ALL of the work.

@ruledtrendy5066 3 жыл бұрын

I heard that from a GIT instructor

@Kylora2112 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, if it's not written by the composer directly, there's probably something wrong. And even then, you have stuff like Mark Briody transcribing everything he's written for Jag Panzer on their website, and he's like, "This is how I *wrote* it, but we might have played something slightly different on the record."

@obclouds 3 жыл бұрын

well, that's so true.. I can't even count the number of mistakes I've done by learning on these kind of magazines... and there full of crap

@lizardspawnofdeath 3 жыл бұрын

"Hey Kirk, what notes are you playing in the solo for Dyer's Eve?" "...all of them"

@theboozecannon 3 жыл бұрын

I played the Enter Sandman riff "wrong" for years. At some point I watched a live video, where James kneels down before starting the song, and the camera zooms on the pick and on his hands. My first thought was "what the hell is he doing". But once you played it like that, it just kinda makes sense.

@BOBANDVEG 3 жыл бұрын

In the early years, it's fun (and educational) to play your favorite songs note for note. But eventually we need to make the songs our own. A lot of times there is no true cannon way of playing it anyway. I used to spend weeks or months learning slayer solos only to find out it was more of a "direction" than a script. Songs like RS beast of burden and EC layla, have never been played the same way twice.

@thenameless3271 3 жыл бұрын

Definitely, plus a lot times they play it differently themselves, especially older artists. The Rolling Stones and Clapton (like you said) are good examples. Eric has done most of his songs with different phrasing, and in the early days the Stones switched stuff up live constantly, mostly to account for the tuning.

@BOBANDVEG 3 жыл бұрын

@@thenameless3271 I'm actually working on putting together a medium paced layla right now. I'm using half from marty Schwartz and half from derek and the dominoes lol. ....who am I kidding,....still sounds like layla

@BOBANDVEG 3 жыл бұрын

@@thenameless3271 while I got your attention......I play a lot of rock , metal, blues.......but I'm thinking of getting an acoustic. You got any thoughts about roundbacks vs thinlines?.....

@theboozecannon 3 жыл бұрын

@@BOBANDVEG kinda funny you brought up the Rolling Stones. Maybe a couple years ago, I was learning how to play Gimme Shelter, trying to follow the tab as closely as possible. Then I watched a bunch of live videos, it never sounded the same twice. Putting your own spin on stuff is the way to go once you are a little comfortable with your instrument. I really appreciate Uncle Ben's obession with detail, though.

@benthompson9349 3 жыл бұрын

I'm SO HAPPY I'm not the only one who hears Fight Fire With Fire on the wrong beat. I know where it should be, but my brain always resets to the wrong emphasis. I feel validated.

@jeff_mossy 3 жыл бұрын

Dude I'm right beside you!!! I don't know if I'll ever rewire my brain to hear it any other way...

@TheBfutgreg 3 жыл бұрын

Follow the snare, it's still the offbeat even though it sounds off Edit: that was before watching, basically went over this haha

@thecoderofyoutube 3 жыл бұрын

I have been listening to it for 30 years and still can’t get it.

@benthompson9349 3 жыл бұрын

@@TheBfutgreg funnily enough, the fiddly riff in the vid is the bit my brain uses to latch on the the correct rhythm again!

@Xplora213 3 жыл бұрын

Is it the same problem as Blackened? It’s definitely a feature of Metallica’s songwriting that they use that snare as a weapon to flavour the music rather than keep the time.

@travisspaulding2222 3 жыл бұрын

I'm not going to lie. When you said you were going to play the bass track for Dyer's Eve, I was expecting silence, lol.

@BenEller 3 жыл бұрын

hahahaha that would have been good!

@mgs1170 3 жыл бұрын

Me to!

@ianw.9185 2 жыл бұрын

I thought the exact same thing. Missed opportunity! >.

@AlphaStormMusic 3 жыл бұрын

I’m glad someone talked about James and down picking “everything.” I’ve seen far too many people who think that James is down picking songs like Hardwired, Battery, and other songs with tremolo sections. He’s good, but to ask him to down pick riffs like THAT? You’re asking superhuman abilities from him to even suggest that he down picks absolutely everything.

@kylebrady969 3 жыл бұрын

"bUt iS He nOT thE KiNg of dOWnPicKInG????????" He's a man, not a machine. Hell on the Hardwired tour he started alt-picking certain bits of puppets.

@brandonthomas6722 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah I’m simpler than Ben on this one. If James can’t down pick it up to speed, he will tremolo pick it. I do the same thing. Really any thrash guitarist should have the mindset that they only tremolo pick when down picking up to speed is impossible.

@davexhayter 3 жыл бұрын

As with 90% of Sabbath riffs, people love to play the first chords / walkdown of Master of Puppets on the A string. It is all on the E!

@jamespell1138 3 жыл бұрын

Does it make a difference if it's the same notes tho

@RobbieFitzgerald 3 жыл бұрын

@@jamespell1138 It is the same but there is a tonal difference.

@jamespell1138 3 жыл бұрын

@@RobbieFitzgerald ohh yeah true

@TatersUnited Жыл бұрын

@@jamespell1138 Yes. Especially on Sabbath. Play War Pigs on the A and D string and then play it like Tony on the E and A and tell me you don't hear the difference.

@jamespell1138 Жыл бұрын

@@TatersUnited I think you're right

@emailchrismoll 3 жыл бұрын

another thing that everybody plays wrong in enter sandman is the famous 30202320 riff...for one thing there is a variation in the verse where the muting lets up and it turns into a slide...and the other thing is when he says "your off to never never land" it changes to 30202330. Also if you didn't notice there is an egg shaker on certain parts of song song and also a big fat single keyboard note on "sleep with one eye open, gripping your pillow tight". There is also a single keyboard note that is just an e held out for the acoustic outro.

@BenEller 3 жыл бұрын

All very true!

@xSeRosiSx 3 жыл бұрын

I'm all in for the Hetfield Master Class. Also I knew the way I played Sandman was the correct way, now I have proof.

@marcblum5348 3 жыл бұрын

Jason is such an underrated rock bass player.

@Trainwheel_Time 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah... Myth number one: Jason was a good bass player.

@ianismajoris 3 жыл бұрын

@@Trainwheel_Time he definitely had an energy on stage that no other bassist ever had in Metallica, and his backing vocals were insane

@bigswaggy298 3 жыл бұрын

@@ianismajoris pretty easy to have stage presence when you simplify the bass parts

@mdnblues 2 жыл бұрын

Jason wasn't that good of a bassist - what made him special was his live performances and vocals. Robert is their best technical bassist. He has the most skill and versatility out of all of Metallica's bassists.

@wedontgiveasht 2 жыл бұрын

@@bigswaggy298 who tf told you he simplifies his bass parts lol, he was actually accused by the band of overplaying the bass parts in AJFA. Also go listen to his audition

@rustminer48 3 жыл бұрын

James is a rhythm guitar god, so any insight into his mastery is a great idea.

@mourningireland4560 3 жыл бұрын

You can thank certain highly-rated ultimate-guitar tabs for propagating some of these myths

@BenEller 3 жыл бұрын

Dude, they’re SO BAD

@aek4018 3 жыл бұрын

@@BenEller Ben, would you be so kind and check out my rhythm cover of Dyers Eve? :) I would be grateful, Man! - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gM5hf9GDvbGwm40.html

@Tcrumpen 3 жыл бұрын

In fairness to a load of people (myself included) where else are you gonna get guitar tabs when you're either young or broke. Now i have Guitar Pro i found that a lot of Guitar Pro tabs tend to be more 'on the money' than standard tabs

@obclouds 3 жыл бұрын

aaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! ultimate-guitar!!! I guess that was a joke... thanks dude for making me laugh...

@whosaidthat84 3 жыл бұрын

Back in high school, these tabs were our holy bible 😂

@naderzein2435 3 жыл бұрын

Uncle Ben dropping TRUTH BOMBS. Thank you for clearing up the 2-3 Dyers Eve myth. I always thought people are crazy to think they are actually playing 2-3.

@metallimatt10 2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was and I never play it because of that 🤣

@dsvet 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry but Dyers Eve 2-3-2-3 is very real Dyer's Eve Guitar Coverm.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qtaJo7d4scqyYpc.html

@Cole-uz4xi 3 жыл бұрын

That fight fire with fire riff is still nutty as hell 35ish years later, especially since in reality it’s so syncopated

@marks8437 3 жыл бұрын

You're humor never fails to entertain, and your instructions are sooo clear. I wish I had you as an instructor when I first started out.

@BenEller 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thank you!

@JunkfoodZombieGuns 3 жыл бұрын

I've been listening to Dyer's Eve forever and never once did it sound to me like they were alternating 2nd and 3rd frets. Always sounded like one rapid note to me. Weird.

@dsvet 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry but Dyers Eve 2-3-2-3 is very real Dyer's Eve Guitar Coverm.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qtaJo7d4scqyYpc.html

@HabAnagarek 2 жыл бұрын

That's the social media world we live in. Stupid and wrong ideas spread like wildfire.

@johnbraucher1499 2 жыл бұрын

It's because most people were born before the internet that play that stuff. We learned from books and didn't know who made them. It was like the media, everyone used to believe them because it's all we had. I believe cherry lane made the ones I had and I had a few other brands but damn when I look back I'm glad I understudied with my metallica tab books and chose to play by ear only! When it's the first and only thing you have many victims actually learned it that way, BEFORE anyone ever mentioned the other way. Do of course they're going to then HEAR that change in notes because they're expecting it now.

@johnbraucher1499 2 жыл бұрын

@@HabAnagarek it was actually PRE internet that did this particular deed. It was the official metallica tab books everyone used to buy. Known as the best ones even out there, but they all had that 2-3-2-3-2-3 thing. It was the ONLY real resource us old fucks had at that time. So naturally after seeing it written like that, in an "official" metallica book they signed off on, when people hear the song, they're now going to subconsciously hear that note change that doesn't exist. I decided to be lazy and not use those books but then pulled my head from my butthole and started learning by ear ONLY. No regrets. My only regrets would have been actually learning those books like I planned on doing when I bought them. I was going to learn them ALL all the way through. I had kill em all, ride the lightning, justice, master of puppets, black album, load and reload. Lol

@HabAnagarek 2 жыл бұрын

@@johnbraucher1499 Ah. I didn't know it went back that far. Weird. Holy shit, Riff by Riff has it, B to C 16ths (I refuse to think in terms of tab). As a kid I always heard 8th note B5, insane B 16ths, C5 to B5 slide. How odd.

@mykneeshurt8393 3 жыл бұрын

The best guitar teacher I had didn't own a guitar. He said many times, "those official music / tab books are most often incorrect, I think maybe the authors might be drunk". hahaha.

@aniquinstark4347 3 жыл бұрын

What kind of guitar teacher doesn't own a guitar?

@mykneeshurt8393 3 жыл бұрын

@@aniquinstark4347 He sold his guitars due to physical health issues. He would use mine from time to time to demo a technique, etc. Thee WORST teacher I had was a Berkeley Jazz cat.

@thomass6988 3 жыл бұрын

That Fight Fire with Fire riff counting blew my my mind - I've had it wrong for 28 years. Thanks Uncle Ben!

@Franknbeanie 10 ай бұрын

Finally!!! After 30 plus years .I get it!!!

@HabAnagarek 2 жыл бұрын

That Fight Fire riff is wild, its phrasing within the measure. Christ. Kudos to Hetfield.

@yallgottaunderstand 3 жыл бұрын

Man I wish there was youtube content like this for other, slightly lesser known metal bands.

@genericusername5834 3 жыл бұрын

yes! more James deep dives!! kirk and jason too for that matter!! such good metallica stuff to nerd out on!

@TylerUSA 3 жыл бұрын

Great video, I've long believed these myths myself, but not anymore! By the way, the producer for the Master of Puppets album did confirm that each track was recorded in lower tunings at a slower tempo, and then sped up to the right pitch/speed. They did that to make the album sound tighter \m/

@petealba707 3 жыл бұрын

Homer Simpson once said about "Fight Fire With Fire": "It's more sincomapated than you thought!" You can also play Enter Sandman in the open position to get the open g string.

@irlikingpie 3 жыл бұрын

As a drummer, I've gotten so mad at guitarists who won't listen to the drums while playing Fight Fire With Fire. ALL THE BEATS ARE RIGHT THERE! DON'T JUST LISTEN TO YOURSELF ararrargh

@dezza72 3 жыл бұрын

Cheers Uncle Ben. I've been struggling with those damn tab books for about 20 years.

@DBSG1976 3 жыл бұрын

Why doesn't Kirk play his Strat more on "Unforgiven", when I saw them live in 1992 it perfectly fit that song! One of his best live performances IMHO! Thanks Uncle Ben for an entertaining idea for a video.

@ianspeckmaier9565 3 жыл бұрын

That coffee sip while he plays the Dyers eve stem for us to hear, lol. Also, Jason's bass track is incredibly consistent when slowed down, almost machine like. He was so under-appreciated!

@dsvet 2 жыл бұрын

Sorry but Dyers Eve 2-3-2-3 is very real Dyer's Eve Guitar Coverm.kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qtaJo7d4scqyYpc.html

@MikeysMorgue 3 жыл бұрын

All I know is that James is a riff master! What a talent! What a songwriter!

@KillPixelGames 3 жыл бұрын

13:40 interesting. flemming rasmussen stated in an interview they recorded MoP at a lower tempo and tuning then sped it up to get a tighter sound. i always wondered if he meant the song or the album. kirk saying they recorded Thing in C# may indicate it was indeed the entire album. the use of this recording trick also gives more credit to the claim that the rhythm was octa-tracked.

@aimanj8060 3 жыл бұрын

Rick Beato mentioned this as well , do you have a link to that interview? I've been looking for it ever since I watched Rick's video

@dknollRX7 3 жыл бұрын

Love this channel and Mike from The Art of Guitar! Lots of great info from both of you! Thanks for the clarification of the up/down picking. That makes so much sense about keeping the rhythm in time.

@csells458 3 жыл бұрын

Sweet learning there.. I was on the front row one time and that Enter sandman thing blew my mind. He actual corded with the middle and pinky and played the last 2 notes ring and index.

@royalmarine1011 3 жыл бұрын

Thank God now we can sleep at night

@HeadbangersLocal 3 жыл бұрын

Just sleep with one eye open, gripping your pillow tight. 🤘🏻

@michaelsmusic3532 3 жыл бұрын

@@HeadbangersLocal lol

@michaelsmusic3532 3 жыл бұрын

I can't .... now I'm worried about the lies about SLAYER

@adamyo9003 3 жыл бұрын

I thought you said “get me some ass-prep first” and now I’m adding that to my lexicon.

@feebypeels2883 Жыл бұрын

I feel like a Metallidork because these were all things I figured out as a teenager in my first few years of playing. James was what got me into playing guitar, so I studied him a lot. I still watched the whole thing because you crack my shit up, Uncle Ben.

@dml-_2120 3 жыл бұрын

When you wanna play the Enter Sandman intro 100% correct, finger the E and G with your pinky and middle finger and the A# and A with your ring and index finger

@beast99dp26 3 жыл бұрын

Yep, I saw this on the year and a half in the life of metallica

@davidthompson5846 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for doing what you do! You brought great joy to my life today.

@hindsightjustin 3 жыл бұрын

Uncle Ben, anything Metallica related is always welcome to me! I’ve always struggled with the between the verses section of For Whom the Bell Tolls. A weekend wankshop on that would be amazing!

@BotsWeekendCovers 3 жыл бұрын

I ALWAYS love it when I see you posted a new vid in my subscriptions. Great job as usual. Love ya Unk.

@BenEller 3 жыл бұрын

Yay! Thank you!

@bluffhavenstudios 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for all the content Ben

@davidflint12 3 жыл бұрын

Art of Guitar is fing great. Just like you Uncle Ben.

@shane2613 3 жыл бұрын

I don't always Patreon, but when I do, it's for Uncle Ben.

@Sixfootdig 2 жыл бұрын

Dude, I just love your humor and personality. This is an incredibly helpful and fun channel

@ChristianBjork 3 жыл бұрын

Fantastic explanations, as always. I loved your Fight Fire with Fire breakdown. Thanks!

@fndrn8 3 жыл бұрын

metallica’s fade to black was the first song i tried learning on guitar 22yrs ago. i thought it was pure magic. then i heard jake e lee’s bark at the moon. i just couldn’t believe i could learn to play them the correct way until i saw your vids. thanks a million times!

@SHARt_murmur 3 жыл бұрын

“That’s just, ‘B’.” I lost it. Haha Good stuff!

@nlong4028 3 жыл бұрын

I'd watch a Hetfield right hand technique vid. How about a right hand technique series? Albert Lee is the right hand technique that amazes me.

@BenEller 3 жыл бұрын

great call. Have you watched the incredible Albert Lee videos on Troy Grady's channel? Mind-blowing stuff: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Zr6alLiUzp3dgIE.html

@RemyTrahant 3 жыл бұрын

Great lesson, I struggle with counting rhythms and you have some great exercises to address this!

@DaneWilcher 2 жыл бұрын

Uncle Ben is such a f**cking lord, I love his wit but also his ridiculously meticulous attention to detail. This guy inspires me almost as much as James or Kirk, he really is an amazing player and teacher. Drink a 6 pack for me sir.

@satchrules101 3 жыл бұрын

Ben u have the best lessons on learning counting time signatures ! Thanks.

@vaurain 3 жыл бұрын

yes, deep dive into James's right hand technique.

@MikeysMorgue 3 жыл бұрын

James' right hand is bionic! I don't know how he plays for almost 3 hours every night.

@vneckandjorts 3 жыл бұрын

Ben! Your first hypothesis of the thing that should not be tuning is correct! This is confirmed in the Back to the Front book where they talk about a guitar tech being a little out of his comfort zone in that tuning.

@luxie89 3 жыл бұрын

Love your channel, keep it up Ben!

@equaleyez 3 жыл бұрын

This is golden! You nailed it again Ben

@damonsdeliberatedetour492 3 жыл бұрын

Man enlightened for sure! Keep it up Uncle Ben!!

@JimDewdGuitars 3 жыл бұрын

I'd definitely like a deep dive video into down picking!

@keyable 3 жыл бұрын

Great! Always happy to see more Metallica stuff from you

@phillbagg 3 жыл бұрын

Class video as always man. That Metallica deep-dive sounds amazing so you can count my vote.

@Smackrackle 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome video. It drives me crazy how many of these myths could be put to rest if people would just watch them play these songs live

@MKDumas1981 Жыл бұрын

The tuning to "The Thing That Should Not Be" is a rather pernicious one. People don't want to tune their guitars any further away from standard than they have to, so they make these mental and finger gymnastics to make it work.

@jerkerjansson386 3 жыл бұрын

The Thing That Should Not Be is in drop D in the official tab book, so I suppose that’s where that myth comes from.

@BenEller 3 жыл бұрын

Ugh! Those garbage books striking again!

@Murf_Workshop 3 жыл бұрын

@@BenEller Actually, I used to think it was a myth, but I watched the Gibson Icons documentary where Kirk Hammett goes into detail about their recording of Master of Puppets, he actually does state they used Dropped D flat tuning when they recorded the thing that should not be, just as a note for dicussion. My first thought was "hmmmmm......well how about that?!"

@Wheresthepepsibismol 3 жыл бұрын

I hate them tab books they always threw me off I just watch Yngwie Malmsteen play instead of buying the tab books at guitar center.

@CD-gk9ix 3 жыл бұрын

@@Murf_Workshop it’s drop C#… who says Drop Db?

@Murf_Workshop 3 жыл бұрын

@@CD-gk9ix you know it still means the same thing haha. calm down buttercup.

@danmorrison8746 3 жыл бұрын

This fills me with joy. Thanks, Ben.

@Beatypatrockks 3 жыл бұрын

jason's distorted/reverb tone is super cool.

@madhalodog21 3 жыл бұрын

You never miss Ben !

@GnRmike 3 жыл бұрын

Hetfield deep dive? Oh hell yeah!! Let’s go Uncle Ben. Even your stepdad would love it

@goldotom 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Ben ! Orion and its harmonized section would be so awesome and also the transition riff just before this part when the bass plays alone.

@darrelpennington3489 3 жыл бұрын

Uncle Ben ! Great to see you save the many souls who don’t know. Set them straight once again my friend....

@ShredHeadJHJ 3 жыл бұрын

Gotta be my favorite guitar related KZfaqr. Thanks!

@jasonblair8956 3 жыл бұрын

A myth I've noticed recently is Kirk sweep picking. Not saying he has NEVER done it, but a common practice i see all the time for sweep picking is the beginning of the Leper Messiah solo. Every live video I've seen he seems to be alternate picking those arpeggios, though, not sweeping. Same with the intro solo to Fade to Black. It looks like alternate picking instead of sweeping towards the end.

@Maggai 3 жыл бұрын

The fight fire with fire main riff was really interesting to me. Lars turns the beat around so you hear it in a different way. When James start singing I hear it with the open E part being on the 1 until Lars accents the G power chord with a cymbal hit after a couple runs, and then my brain just starts hearing that as the 1, even though I've always felt open is on 1. I always wondered if that was intentional, or it just kinda happened. Also that song is amazing, that intro?? The harmony guitar middle part? So damn good.

@bbenton2343 3 жыл бұрын

Oh my god I've been fully Downstroking shortest straw this whole time

@TheIdiotNamedJoe 3 жыл бұрын

Interestingly enough, James at one point, did perform the intro to Eye Of The Beholder utilizing only downstrokes. However, that was usually relegated to the “Justice medley” that they included on their black album set lists. Now, usually the camera doesn’t focus on James during it, but I have been able to track down some live footage where you can clearly see him downstrokes. I’ll include the link here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/b8CRpLuq1qnInKM.html

@BenEller 3 жыл бұрын

I really wonder if he just did it that way live.... on the record, it absolutely sounds like downs and ups, not the super consistency of James’ all downstroke stuff.

@TheIdiotNamedJoe 3 жыл бұрын

@@BenEller The record is most definitely alternate picking, yeah. There’s other performances from 1989 or so that are pretty much dead on studio tempo, but you can definitely see James is alternate picking. For the later performances, they slowed it down a good 10 or 15 bpm to make it more manageable. Guess even James’ mighty wrist of steel has its limits.

@kylebrady969 Жыл бұрын

@@TheIdiotNamedJoe Yeah the Beholder part of the Justice Medley is quite a bit slower than the Album version, so it was probably more in the speed range where he could use all downstrokes. Kill/Ride medley did the same thing with the Four Horsemen section, and honestly I kinda like how that part grooves

@richardmcshee3831 3 жыл бұрын

Great video! Deffo up for the Hetfield lesson! Also, I always played the G note in Enter Sandman on the open G string. Feels less awkward to use index and middle fingers for the last two notes rather than the correct way using ring and middle.

@markop89 3 жыл бұрын

deep breakdown of James riffing / technique? HELL YES!!! also, great mythbusting video!

@SatyamKumar-jq6iz 3 жыл бұрын

Nailed it for sure. Thanks a lot!!

@overthoughtmusik772 3 жыл бұрын

I'm really glad to know that I'm not the only one who's misheard where the one is in that Fight Fire With Fire bit. Seriously...for like 25 years I've never been able to hear it right.

@markquelch3663 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks Uncle Ben, another great video 🤘

@rayski1384 2 жыл бұрын

Mike from Art of Guitar is one of thee best, hard to choose between you and him so ill just continue watching both

@GuitARPlayr100 3 жыл бұрын

I always heard Fight Fire With Fire the right way, but the Enter Sandman thing and The Thing That Should Not Be being in D standard blew my mind.

@foxfire204 3 жыл бұрын

I love any video with "Metallica" in the title and uploaded by "Ben Eller"

@ranskal 3 жыл бұрын

Awesome as usual! Thanks!

@bauchbart 3 жыл бұрын

I always played the Sandman-Intro using the open G-string to get the G note to ring out. Introduced a string-skip but sounded about right. Thanks for clearing that up, Ben!

@slidosam 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks a lot Ben. I've always enjoyed watching people try to play 1/128th notes all downstroke. Now you go and ruin my fun! :P

@badllama8090 3 жыл бұрын

Hi from U.K. Drummer. Loved it. Keep it up. Sandman was defo eyeopener! 👍

@pureblood8198 3 жыл бұрын

Great vid Ben.

@Thruuuth 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Ben, could you ever do a Queensryche lesson? Their tabs are even worse than Metallica’s

@leopoldovasquez935 2 жыл бұрын

Dude yes please

@ArtbyPaulPetro 3 жыл бұрын

that issue with "Fight Fire with Fire" also happens to me all the time with Rush's "Countdown".. the synth intro riffs feel like they're on the downbeats but then the band comes in and WTF wait what happened!? Great video! Thanks, Uncle Ben!

@vinsanity982 2 жыл бұрын

It's amazing how talented and skilled u are at guitar. I played guitar when i was in my 20's for a few years and i make techno music now lol

@notronsivart 3 жыл бұрын

Ok my mind is friggin blown right now. I learned everything I know about guitar from Metallica songs when I was a kid. To get those same aggressive biting pick attacks that James gets, I emulated his "Downpick whenever you can keep up" mentality...or so I thought. It's not just down picking when you can play fast enough...it has to do where the note falls in the count. I SUBCONSCIOUSLY learned this. I thought I was just being cool and playing downstrokes cuz I'm awesome, turns out there's unknown method to my madness. I just figured out my entire life. Thanks Uncle Ben. You've changed my life.

@BenEller 3 жыл бұрын

Booyah!!! Glad to help!

@Badassstoffe 3 жыл бұрын

Love the Metallica stuff. Keep´em coming!

@MadMako 3 жыл бұрын

You make it look effortless to switch between variations of the wrong way to play riffs and strumming patterns versus the right way. Yet one more example of how I could use more practice, cuz den mah brane cud du dat much mo betta.

@DanchNaz 3 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! Need more videos about Metallica myths / or about some other bands myths (such as Megadeth, Pantera, Slayer, Gojira etc.). Thank you for doing that