Lars Ulrich's DRUM LESSONS During RIDE THE LIGHTNING: Metallica Producer Discusses (Flemming R)

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In the full interview Metallica producer Flemming Rasmussen (Ride The Lightning, Master of Puppets, ...And Justice For All) discusses the making of those three albums, Cliff Burton's Death, Jason Newsted's relationship with Metallica, the missing bass on And Justice, his reaction to Jason leaving the band, his thoughts on the Black Album, Load, ReLoad, Anger and much more.
Metallica's lineup at the time of RTL & MOP consisted of James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich & Cliff Burton. Metallica's lineup at the time of AJFA consisted of James Hetfield, Kirk Hammett, Lars Ulrich & Jason Newsted, who joined the band following the death of Cliff Burton.
RTL's tracklist is as follows: Fight Fire With Fire, Ride The Lightning, For Whom The Bell Tolls, Fade To Black, Trapped Under Ice, Escape, Creeping Death, The Call Of Ktulu.
MOP's tracklist is as follows: Battery, Master of Puppets, The Thing That Should Not Be, Welcome Home (Sanitarium), Disposable Heroes, Leper Messiah, Orion, Damage Inc.
AJFA's tracklist is as follows: Blackened, …And Justice For All, Eye of the Beholder, One, The Shortest Straw, Harvester of Sorrow, The Frayed Ends of Sanity, To Live is to die, Dyers Eve.
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@DanielSarkissian 18 күн бұрын

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@google_was_my_idea_first 17 күн бұрын

Flemming Rasmussen produced Metallica was peak Metallica.

@iamtheai2759 16 күн бұрын

This is correct.

@kylehoulihan3875 15 күн бұрын

You realise lars and james had a bigger hand in the production than him?

@iamtheai2759 15 күн бұрын

@@kylehoulihan3875 this is also mostly correct. Rasmussen was more like an engineer in actuality.

@MrMegadethmike 8 күн бұрын

Yup

@DenKulesteSomFins 18 күн бұрын

Sounds like it must have been the most Danish recording of an American album ever

@Mike-zx1kx 14 күн бұрын

In 1984 Metallica were 6 months in Denmark recording "Ride the lightning" and "Master of puppets" at Sweet Silence Studios located on the Island of Amager that partly are part of Copenhagen. That were there they began their long connection with Flemming Rasmussen. A months ago Lars Ulrich were in a 45 minute long Danish TV (Go´morgen Danmark TV2) show that are very watch worthy. Flemming came in for a short visit there as well.

@liquifex 17 күн бұрын

He did. And Kirk got lessons from Satriani to up his game during RTL and MOP. And it was a great decision. You can always get better, no matter how good you think you are. When you think you have it all figured out, everything you do starts to sound the same and stale. You have to keep learning and growing and it will show through in what you create and how you approach life in general.

@FilthyXylophone 17 күн бұрын

Too bad he didn't keep up with the lessons.

@garyv2498 17 күн бұрын

Hetfield got a vocal coach at some point too. It definitely showed.

@scottblack9213 16 күн бұрын

Saw Lars up close on AJFA tour. He wan an absolute beast. Intense and in the pocket.

@NotSoDaftGamecraft 16 күн бұрын

Yeah, but whose pocket?

@Street-shitter 16 күн бұрын

@@NotSoDaftGamecraftyour mothers pocket. The slag💦🐷

@scootermojo 14 күн бұрын

@@NotSoDaftGamecraft I spit my coffee out reading that........well done, sir, well done.

@JackSon-cs5vk 14 күн бұрын

you don't know anything about good drumming at all if Lars was ever "in the pocket"

@papai-by3bo 12 күн бұрын

@@JackSon-cs5vk he sucks really bad since the black album, but you've clearly never seen him live back in the day before the 90's. he was an excellent performer between Ride and Justice, Master era being his peak in terms of speed and accuracy for sure.

@user-xi9kp1hs4t 16 күн бұрын

Early Metallica was the best Metallica. Their songs progressed into classical masterpieces that melted your face off. Black album made them accessible and palatable to more people than ever but something was lost. After that was not very good until St. Anger when they seemed to get their balls back and so with death magnetic and the newest one. Still though Metallica never did get back that explosive tear it to the ground groove again. Still i love them throughout everything and they are part of the big 4 for the heaviest thrashers ever!!!!

@DaPoopIsInDaPudding 12 күн бұрын

St anger wasn’t them getting their balls back

@CarlKarnak 10 күн бұрын

The got older and rich and lost the edge required to make kick ass rock n roll. Lemmy seemed to be the only one who bucked this reality. Maybe because he never became rich and all the bands that he influenced did. Lol

@tommyron 17 күн бұрын

The drummer with Meshuggah does a version of this. He builds his parts in ProTools and THEN learns them. It's a perfectly legit way to work.

@williamrusso3130 17 күн бұрын

That's pretty much how I write on guitar. I have a horrible sense of rhythm, and I find that recording in a DAW and physically seeing on a grid where I rush notes makes me "learn" them properly.

@shallex5744 16 күн бұрын

unfortunately Lars never cared for the actual "learning" part of the equation

@mikesomersdrummer8042 9 күн бұрын

@@shallex5744Master of Puppets, Justice, Black, Load, and Reload are some of the best drum albums ever, especially Justice, Master, and Black album for obvious reasons. If nothing else, Lars may have the best natural feel of any metal drummer ever, including Kill Em All to 72 Seasons. You can really hear where he was influenced by Phil Rudd to have that incredible bop your head to every song pocket.

@shallex5744 9 күн бұрын

@@mikesomersdrummer8042 i don't know about natural feel, as those albums are certainly spliced up and revised many times to get the final result. i think he plays great in them, and i think his composing ability in those albums as well as how they were played/executed is just about perfect, but i think if lars had natural feel, he would be able to keep up those dynamics live, which unfortunately he doesn't often do. i don't know, it's kind of a complicated topic when trying to gauge exactly the nature of lars' abilities. i do agree though on loving the drums of Load and Reload, which is maybe an unpopular opinion, i don't know, but i think those albums have some of his most colorful/expressive drumming that just feels so smooth and lively and at home

@brendankelly9789 2 күн бұрын

@@mikesomersdrummer8042I disagree, there are so many records made with way better drumming. There's no creativity drum-wise in half of the records you named. Songs from Metallica (album) and onwards sound like they all have the same beat.

@joetroutt7425 17 күн бұрын

I think its common with self taught drummers. They muight play a groove at one speed but when it comes to fills it might be too fast or too slow and it doesn't sound seemless. I was guilty of that myself until i listened back to what it sounded like and was surprised at how gast my fills were compared to my grooves.

@FlightdeckJohnny 2 күн бұрын

The beautiful thing about this is that LArs and Kirk prove that you can be very succesful even if you are not very good at your instrument of choice

@michaelmorningstar8645 2 күн бұрын

They are both objectively great at their instruments.

@jekelly0908 17 күн бұрын

Wait…so everybody got better with each album??!!!?!? Not a surprise.

@corrupted_realm 16 күн бұрын

Clearly that's not true, as the further forward from And Justice For All their albums get, the worse they are

@vosoryan 16 күн бұрын

@@corrupted_realmMostly Kirk and Lars

@SxSxG666 2 күн бұрын

What are you talking about. Metallica can't even play their old songs anymore. They sound like a bad cover band.

@Moochband 5 күн бұрын

1:54 That explains a lot!

@Doomzdayxx 2 күн бұрын

Kind of funny how musicians and their talent level work out. Metallica have grown in playing and writing skills throughout their entire lives, as Flemming said. Yet, their best and most memorable art is from when they were still young and growing. Not to say their newer stuff is bad, it's not bad. But their prime era was just so next level.

@Allison_Chaynes 15 күн бұрын

People hate on Lars, but the first 4½albums done by Metallica has some of the best drumming ever. And yes, he did it live. Something happened around the Black Album that went south. I think it was those black sticks he uses. 😂

@beatmet2355 10 күн бұрын

He has such tasteful drumming on Justice and the Black Album. Not technical or anything like that, but catchy and they served the songs well.

@imalizard2113 9 күн бұрын

"Some of the best drumming ever" I'm sorry what? I love Lars but...come on.

@SxSxG666 2 күн бұрын

What are you talking about. Metallica are notorious for their minimal drumming except on Justice but Lars can't even play those songs anymore. They are very very far from any iconic drum patterns. Most Metallica drums are absolute beginner stuff.

@michaelmorningstar8645 2 күн бұрын

The Black Album has much better drumming than KEA.

@michaelmorningstar8645 2 күн бұрын

@@SxSxG666Total BS.

@Sd12sx23 12 күн бұрын

People make too big a deal about Lars taking "drum lessons". I'd be willing to bet it happens all the time behind the scenes in the music industry. Its just not advertised. And do you think James hasnt been taking vocal lessons over the years? Nobody seems to have a problem with that.

@gkniffen 17 күн бұрын

Lars is still learning how to play ... even after all these years

@shallex5744 16 күн бұрын

unfortunately i think he's rather been unlearning over the years

@whitebread940 9 сағат бұрын

Their old songs were too hard for them to play live, that’s why the Black album happened. More focus on hitting the snare harder, maybe less on the feet.

@kkrsnn5632 18 күн бұрын

So it's true😂😂😂😂😂😂

@ejordant2112 16 күн бұрын

Dunno what I was expecting, but yeesh this comment section...

@modev4163 15 күн бұрын

I thought the caption said Liar😂

@boxonothing4087 14 күн бұрын

in his prime Lars was adequate, but he's always been too lazy to put down the work it would've taken to become good I wonder if he took up practice again, he's sounding better lately, well, compared to how he sounded in the past 20+ years.

@js5584 17 күн бұрын

Lars' jazz background is why he can't play drums? Did I actually hear that correctly? I am done with the internet for today. I just can't.

@jord9261 17 күн бұрын

he didn't say that's why he can't play drums you made that up, he said his thought process was similar....

@_Game0ver_ 16 күн бұрын

LOL Lars has a jazz background?! And I have a PHD in everything! LMFAO!

@js5584 16 күн бұрын

@@_Game0ver_ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I know bro. It's so insane that I thought it might be satire at first.

@sadsadasdsadasdsadas 16 күн бұрын

@@js5584 You have issues with your understanding.

@js5584 16 күн бұрын

@@sadsadasdsadasdsadas I sure don't, but OK. Maybe you have issues with your knowledge of music theory and native English? My comment is based on assuming the idea that jazz training would make someone a worse metal drummer (which it wouldn't). Additionally, anyone that plays drums would be acutely aware of the fact that Lars does not have any degree of jazz pedigree or training. In short, he just isn't a particularly skilled drummer: his rudiments are almost non existent, he has no chops, and he has gotten worse at drumming due to extremely poor technical hygiene in his playing. The producer wouldn't have had to teach him in the first place if he had jazz training... These points obviously flew very far above your head.

@Good-Enuff-Garage 17 күн бұрын

I am pretty sure Lars did not write all of the majority of the drum parts on Kill Em All, it's completely a different style of drumming

@krisski2823 18 күн бұрын

Wait…🤔What! They recorded the music but couldn’t play it?

@anonymouse527 18 күн бұрын

As a musician who uses modern tools, I can attest to that :p

@michaelr.4878 18 күн бұрын

@anonymouse527 totally. It is just like comped solos. People have been doing it for years..decades before digital recording. Take the best parts from multiple takes...and then learn it before you have to play it live. Same thing applies to songs in general. You could have a series of what could be described as tricks..but when arranged properly, you can have a song. I figure that is largely what Justice was. 'Is riff #122 in E? Okay, good...we will use it as the verse in this song'.

@Ottophil 17 күн бұрын

I know kids who speed stuff up. They can play it, just not full tempo

@djshad1885 17 күн бұрын

Thats the Metallica secret. Cliff had to teach James how to play harmonics and even how to strum. Total industry creation. They even had ghost writers writing lyrics and providing conceptuals. Its all smoke and mirrors.

@Duarki 17 күн бұрын

@@djshad1885 that is a total load of crap, cliff taught James how to strum? wtf r u talking about, that is the worst lie u could have possibly come up with, because cliff don’t even strum an instrument, and all he taught James was some classical music concepts.

@asanseil5553 17 күн бұрын

Ahh, the time before when Metallica used to challenge themselves. Being rich makes you not give a shit.

@thegrandpencil4374 2 күн бұрын

Also makes you play with Hannah Montana and Lady Gaga, too... apparently lol.

@asanseil5553 2 күн бұрын

@@thegrandpencil4374 🤣The younger James would have hated his older self if he ever saw into the future. I know it. I wish he'd go back to the real James! lmao

@jackwalsh7956 17 күн бұрын

I know he had lessons way back in the day from a guy who ran a drum shop in Santa Ana. Same guy also taught David Silveria.

@krkhns 17 күн бұрын

I went to school with Lars at Back Bay HS in Costa Mesa. The drum teacher was Joe Zawierucha (I think that's how its spelled) at West Coast Drum Center. I saw Metallica's first gig at a place called Radio City in Anaheim on March 14th, 1982. It was my 18th birthday. They had a hard time convincing the owner that Lars was over 18. He looked all of 12. Owner thought his ID was fake. Dave Mustaine broke a string about 30 seconds into the first song and was so nervous it took him almost 15 minutes to change it.

@jackwalsh7956 17 күн бұрын

@@krkhns yeah I met Joe back in 2005. I have a photo somewhere of us. I met Lars after a show in 1998 too. I guess the gfc claimed Joe’s store as when I went back in 2009 it was gone

@aaizner847 16 күн бұрын

Sorry, but they most definitely did NOT get better and better as song writers throughout their whole lives. Definitely peaked at Justice and nosedived from there.

@shallex5744 16 күн бұрын

i thought he meant they got better on the albums that he produced but man do i love those later albums

@aaizner847 16 күн бұрын

@@shallex5744 yikes

@ejordant2112 16 күн бұрын

@@aaizner847"yikes?" That's all you have to say? Man I thought you boomer elitists who cry about the "good old days" of Metallica finally took the hint but I guess not. They most definitely did not nosedive.

@aaizner847 16 күн бұрын

@ejordant2112 I'm not a boomer. They objectively nosedived. Cliff wrote their best shit, and when they ran out of his riffs with Justice, it all went to shit. Bob Rock was brought in to "fix it". The tonedeaf shouldn't have such strong opinions. Go tell your parents you're sorry. You know why.

@shallex5744 16 күн бұрын

@@aaizner847 it's ok if you can't understand those songs

@matrixstar2767 16 күн бұрын

Pretty sure the producer learned way more from Metallica than the other way around. Those who have amazing skills rarely make the good songs. This guy needs to crawl back to his money bags.

@yehohanan66 17 күн бұрын

It's crazy to think that back in the days, they couldn't even play their own songs, and still they managed it to record them. Lars is a really low key drummer, it was back then, it is now.

@Brokenface 17 күн бұрын

Justice isn't really low key

@yehohanan66 17 күн бұрын

@@Brokenface Not the album, but considering Lars' drumming abilities, I doubt he recorded a single note on that masterpiece.

@vosoryan 16 күн бұрын

Lars could never play Dyers Eve. It's all edited together

@yehohanan66 16 күн бұрын

@@vosoryan true