I can't really play the guitar like guitarists do, but as a drummer this is exactly how I've been getting away with it.

Man re-inventing Bleed like it was nothing

I love that "Meshuggah" is just a naturally accepted adjective at this point

I feel like this also shows itself a lot in lyrics. So many verses the notes they sing/rap dont actually change a ton but the flow and rhythym makes it sounds great!

Your method of teaching is great. Simple, understandable, and to the point. Thanks!

This is extremely well presented. As a beginner my mind has been blown. Music always sounds so complicated when listening but you made that concept look easy and more importantly attainable.

Great playing and great demonstration! 😃

Alternative title- *Proof anything will sound great if you are a good guitar player*

Omg your right hand's movements are crazy fast and precise

Adam Jones is a perfect example of someone who creates sick rhythms with 1 note

I’m a guitar teacher and I’m constantly hammering down on rhythm. While this video takes a more metal approach, this can be applied to all genres and is especially valuable for improvisation (esp. in jazz)

I am known as an ‘Excel Wizard’ in my company even though I am mastering only about 5% of its capability. It’s basically the same here with the guitar.

Rhythm is the entirety of the power behind the music of Tool

Not much of a guitarist (drummer here), but I always wondered how Metal guitarists got that insane gallop rhythm thing. Great vid. Your tone reminds me of Mastadon.

My guitar teacher said Rhythm is the second most important thing to practice after hearing/listening drills since music is a hearing art. He had me practice drills like this all the time. Single note, strumming, dyads, triads, etc. You become so much more musical with work like this and then add dynamics....oh boy 👍🏽👍🏽

So true. Rhythm is THE most important aspect of playing music.

Sounds like something straight off the doom soundtrack, well done!

Long Hair ✔ Metal ✔ Cool guitar ✔ Music theory ✔ Elden Ring in the background ✔ That's a 8.5/10 video right there

Yes, this is what I try to teach everyone. On of the biggest things that struck me when I started learning my favorite songs is that they were not what I thought they were. Turns out there was a lot of these 2-3 chord/note song's but they had masterful rhythm. What I thought was many notes was just one or two.

I freaking LOVE your approach to rhythm. I also want to thank you: with all of the unconventionally amazing guitars that have flooded metal and music in general over the past 8 years or so, I lost a lot of the drive that I used to have for playing. I stopped writing for years. Since I've been watching you though, I'm excited about my guitar, again. Because of you, I've woken up in the middle of the night just to riff out new concepts lest they drive me to insanity. I'm actually working on something new for the first time in 10 years. It's coming together EXTREMELY slow but, that's ok. The important part is that it IS coming together. I can't thank you enough for being that source of inspiration after so long.

Love it how you´ve played that maple fretboard so much that the laquer has worn off down from 7th fret. I like your demonstrations of techniques, easy to comprehend, and straight to the point without any bs. Keep it up.

True! You can do similar things with basic chords e-minor / G major, and it will also sound great. Rhytm is the key (sic!)

I never realized how hard it was to actually do riffs like this until it was all laid out like this. Mad respect to rock guitarists 🤯

"If you're good at rhythm, you can convince all your friends you know how to play Bleed"

I think this actually may be my favorite video on KZfaq. I’ve been having trouble finding the motivation to play guitar and have been feeling pretty lost on how to improve, but ever since I found your channel I felt really inspired to get back into it. It’s taking a while to improve my picking speed, but this really helps in giving me ideas on how to change up my usual strumming. Keep making the amazing content, we really appreciate it!

You can make any instrument sound super cool if you try to imitate a difference instrument with it. This reminds me of playing a guitar like a drumkit

The silences are what really surprise me. This was SUPER helpful! You're awesome. We need more 90 second microtutorials.

saying "fine" to playing rhythm guitar taught me waaay more than i could've ever imagined. always thought it was just background filler but this reason is exactly what made it so fun

I played this and my kids were like “whoa!!! You’re amazing dad!!” I’ve only been playing guitar for about 6 months 😂

This was actually pretty fucking awesome, your timing is insane

One of the most important and succinct demonstrations any new guitarist could be lucky to find.

Adding that second note really took things to the next level.

I wasn't expecting the final riff to sound like that... amazing

I always feel like if I don't use lots of notes its not good enough. Need to accept less is more because I come up with sick riffs and then go "not technical enough" 1 and 0s and sometimes an 11 PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PUT IT IN A MIX Cheers x

Rhythm is definitely something I wish I would have focused on early on in my musical journey. It’s ridiculous how important it is

I don't think anyone realizes how big this lesson is. It's basically demonstrating how you can instantly change a song by varrying your rhythm. Not just for guitarist, but for all intruments. And not just for metal, but for all genres of music. It shakes my mind to think that this guy compressed a crucial key that bands learn over years into one minute.

You're helping me become a better guitar player, thank you!

Your just on another level

This is what I've learned after starting to produce instrumentals for myself as a hobby. Get a good timbre into a good rhythm and you're halfway through already, the rest will follow sooner or later.

Truly a simplification of years and years of practice. Great lesson!

I can't play guitar for shit, but the way you explain it makes me feel like I can so you get my vote for that!!! 🤣

Thanks i tried this rhythm progression on my job side while nailing the roofing, and the client was shocked. When i did all the combined riffs, there was no space left for hammering in a nail.

Good rhythm takes time to develop & its basically the most important thing about music so ofc anything can sound good if the rhythm is good

I was just about to give up on writing music altogether until I saw this thank!!! I’ll go practise rhythm now

1:12 My mind can actually imagine a weird ass progression over that, and it sounds amazing.

These mysterious headless videos are epic

Straight to the point, no bs, no clickbait and you didn‘t turn this into a 15 minute video filled with stock footage and someone reading a script! 🎉 instant sub, this is some OG youtube energy I‘m supporting

Ive always wanted to learn the guitar, but i just could never get my fingers to bend comfortably. I thought this would also be a challenge when I picked up the Cello, but somehow the Cello felt perfectly natural in my hands. I was playing with my advanced strings orchestra within 7 months of practice, during my high school days.

As a drummer, this is pretty much how I play guitar

Wowza, this is inspiring. I can't wait to go home and play.

I'm not really a guitarist but as a drummer this inspires me. I want to try a similar concept on drums now

0:53 The implement, the device of my extinction The terminating clockwork of my gleeful bane The definitive scourge of its mockery The end, art instruments lethality attained

you're the riff master. period.

Fair… though admittedly that’s a very definitive two notes, it is Phrygian in this context though it could be recontextualized to many things. I tend to think in tonality more than in rhythm but it’s true, rhythm has a driving force that predefines the music before the tonality.

Dude I’ve been trying to learn this since the day it came out, practising to a metronome for a few hours a day and I’m still nowhere close. Your rhythm is amazing! Gonna keep up the grind!

I've found the same to be true with singing. I'm average at best at singing but I have really good rhythm sense so I sound better than singers who have excellent singing ability but mess up the rhythm time to time. Rhythm is non negotiable, and should NEVER be messed up.

everything will sound good if you add enough distortion

Thank you for this video I've been struggling to make my playing sound good being that I am not good with rhythm yet and theory

As a drummer and a guitar player, I approve. Once you learn these 2 instruments, everything connects

I think you're one of the best modern guitarists, your tone and playstyle are really mesmerizing to watch. I always remember of a video you made playing djent with hybrid picking, and it awes me

Does anybody know the scale he might be using here? Sounds badass! Mostly due to his playing ofc

I've actually got away with people thinking that i'm good on guitar with this I didnt know this was unknown, i thought every person who got a guitar kinda slowly discovered this cheat, like the loop in the 2nd stage of super mario world where you can just keep entering the pipe and getting the 1up and the leave on the other pipe and keep repeating... I'm just theoryzing right now but maybe its because i first learned drums and then guitar? It just felt easier to make a rythm with my right dominant hand than to go out soloing like freaking johnny greenwood with my tiny weak 13yo left hand, so, i logically focused more on trying to make sounds the easier way, by not using too many frets, but having cool groovy patterns, specially after i learned about brushy one string. Again i'm not showing myself off, i'm just reacting to the comment section acting like if this guy found life on mars or smth, i'm kidding by the way thats just the way i talk but i can already hear the angry fingers hitting the poor keyboard, chill im just kidding but theres a bit of truth, thats just normal, 13yo me, 10 years ago, only knowing how to play like 3 chords, and alrady wanting to be a rockstar and impressing my family members, btw thats what you should be doing, that will get you very good at strumming, very good muscle memory, you'll get polyrythms as easy as grabbing a level 2 pidgey with an ultra ball, and if you are a drummer trying to learn the guitar like i was, omg i have seen lots of drummers in this section, its very very easy if your hand is already used to it, you probably know this, or at least FEEL it.

You make an excellent point. I'll often make sure I'm doing training geared specifically for staying on-rhythm with the beat I'm playing to. A good rhythm section is key to making anything sound richer and fuller.

A lot of people are talking about beginners learning a lot from this but I’m currently at a bottle neck in my progression as I’m self taught and don’t know were to go from what I’ve learn in the last 3 years and I’m currently improvising and messing around with chords, rhythm and riffs to get more of a feel for the guitar and sounds that I can make with it but this video has helped a lot with helping me understand what I’m actually doing instead of blindly “mucking around” on the guitar for a few hr a day

as a compsoer i really need to start experimenting with rhythm more. thanks for the tips, these will surely help

0:26 too complicated, go back please

I absolutely love metal for all the talented musicians even though the finished product is not always my cup-of-tea as music to listen to or see live. I more listen to it to appreciate the techniques and amazing sounds they can create.

I've thought about "Sick, Sick, Sick" riff by QOTSA, it's literally 2 notes, but the way the riff builds up, gradually adding the tension (and following the vocals also), is what makes it work so well!!

Man, how does your playing sound so clean? When i record through my boss katana 50 through audacity I hear so much unwanted noise even though I try my best to mute the other strings. At this point I'm really frustrated. Should I move to something like an archetype plug in?

It’s when there’s a whole band playing various other notes and chords that there is an importance of playing in key becomes evident. By yourself, everything can sound good-ish but as accompaniment, not true.✌️

this has really helped my warm up routine & you're right people really think it's full on riffs lol

As a guitarist who doesn't know jack abt leads and shit, I must say that knowing how to control tempo, strumming patterns, etc adds so much depth to the piece with minimal effort

Having played music for more than 20 years, none of this sounded good to me, but I think what you did was good because it is probably good for beginners to see this content, as you can presume from reading some of the other comments here.

Godly done! Hands down

This highlights a huge hole in my judgement of what to practice. I have aimed for fluid fluency up and down the neck and changing scales, because i wanted a strong shredding sound. I thought i was pretty good with rhythm, and that it wasn't the skill that i needed to work on. Now I see what's up a little bit 😮 Thanks a bunch

Thumbnail: even playing a single note sounds good with the right rhythm!!! Video: multiple notes.

But I ain't got rhythm

it'll sound even cooler really loud, gotta get that amp up into feedback volume to make the guitar lively for muting.

i started reading tabs. with this, as a beginner, helped me a lot. now i can read (or understand idk) those swing-like golf clubs.

Videos like this make me wanna be a guitarist, just looks so fun to shred. Alright time to practice lol wish me luck

This is something I learned when I first found out palm muting was a thing lol It's very easy to pretend like you're good at guitar if you just do some random chug power chord pattern, like chug chug power chord chug power chord chug chug chug chug power chord chug chug power chord chug chug. To any non guitarist this will make you sound like a professional

Do it with a banjo lol

For some reason the way you were teaching this reminded me of slap bass. Neat.

Proof that those specific things you did sound good when you play them really well.

well....it didn't really sound great until you actually, y'know, incorporated interesting melodic elements when combining everything. But I get your point.

rhythm and feel is all a musician should need to be great

"ha, getting a 8 string guitar to only use one string" "What about getting a whole 8 string and playing a single note?"

even though ive been playing guitar for most of my life, i still cant do things like this or think this way easily because of the way i was taught. videos like this one ware what gives me that idea and baseline i need in my head so i can copy it and then adapt it, so thank you so much for this

This is precisely why breakdowns work so well in Metalcore, Deathcore, and Djent

This is just so true. Music is ALL about rythm. Notes and melodies are just there to give some flavor.

1:19 This is a real "draw the rest of the fucking owl" moment.

I'm astonished at how simple you made it sound good work

That well-worn fretboard tells the story of practice and dedication. And the hair, well, it is simply glorious.

Damn, a great example of how the rhythm is the foundation for everything. If your not solid, it can be kind of shaky. But if you are solid, the results are incredible.

The notes reminded me of triplet grids. Marching band drummers would now. Good for practicing rhythm and find cool beats too

It was a dope video to begin with. The Elden Ring in the background was the icing on the cake

I've watched this at least 10 times its so beautiful

This is the exact types of riffs I love. Messhugga , Periphery , and a little bit of doom ost. Perfection

I subbed just from this small tutorial. You’re a masterful guitar slayer, sir.

That was incredibly impressive. Good shit mate.