the drummer here- wow, never thought i’d see myself on this 😅. As of 2024, we no longer play together as a band but we all still continue the instruments that we play. We have all significantly improved on our instruments, and at this point we had all been on our instruments for 1-2 years. We did end up making one original song that you can check out on our channel. I’ve seen a lot of really supportive comments under this so thank you for the kind words 🤘🏻

Lmao that’s me with the Les Paul, didn’t expect art of guitar to watch it 2 years later.

12:00 Exhibit A, your Honor (Bass player (on right) steps on plug and de-plugs him self)

Mike, I really appreciate most of your content dropping at like 3AM CST, because it makes me feel like less of a vampire. Keep doing the lord's work, brother.

Honestly one of the most supportive crowds ever. Props to everyone involved in this gig

Fix This Band! has become one of my fav things to watch on youtube♥

Once in my highschool talent show, a girls bass unplugged because she mustve stepped on it or something, but she just laughed and picked back up the cable to put it back in. i didnt even realize that it unplugged but she did such a good job at not making it awkward, though!!

Just a suggestion for new bands, try not to stand angled toward each other. It makes you appear uncertain. ALWAYS face your audience unless you’re interacting with another musician. And do not stare at your fretboard!!! (Unless soloing).

I was really impressed at how well they could get together. Clearly they weren't very locked in or maybe weren't used to playing on stage (it's very different in both nerves and sound) and would lose time, but they had the musicianship to recognize really quickly when they were falling apart and then find a spot to come back in. That's a very important foundation and the rest will come a lot easier because of it.

We had a Battle of the Bands every year at my high school and it was the most fun you could have with music. I never actually played on stage, but I was on the "roady crew" which helped set up/tear down so I felt a part of it. This was from 1984 thru 87 so it was covers of Priest, Maiden, Scorpions, Ozzy and all those popular at that time. Love this series.

Did Lars turn the bass down?

The cable/strap trick is one I learned a long time ago. And did it for many years. But I quit doing it. Because a couple of times I actually pulled the strap off my guitar. And sent the guitar to the ground with a healthy "thud". One time breaking the end of the pin off the cable and leaving it stuck in the guitar. So now I have gotten so good at dropping to my knees and plugging it back in now, people just think it is me showing off and doing rock star moves.🤣

This series you do now is awesome. I love all of your content but this is just makes me super happy and all of this young banda are awesome. Thank you Mike

This is awesome. I am loving this series 🙂 Congrats on 873k Subscribers! Your double cutaway Les Paul looks super cool! Nice strap you chose for it too, they go together real nice. I'm in the habit of tucking my cable through the strap as soon as I plug in, definitely don't want to unplug because i've stepped on it haha. That clean sound did sound so good, it even gave me a little wave of goosebumps.

What a fantastic showing for this young band! I agree with your critiques and I’ll add one, face your audience!! They were really getting into the performance, feed off of that and acknowledge it. So good to see the torch being passed to worthy souls. Well done and keep rocking.

I love this series and am very much looking forward to watching this new episode now! 🤩👍

I like that u use ur influence and prestige in this environment to help others brother!! Your a good guy. Thank you

Love your commentary. I playing with some guys that have a few open mics under their belts. This is so helpful.

These guys are going man, doing good especially sharing the parts back in forth in the beginning. You can tell they are excited to be up there lol

Excellent format Sir

Colour me impressed by these fine musicians. The drummer was especially awesome.

Props for the Defender and Robotron marquees in the background. And they keytar. All very 80's :)

Awesome review and tips, dude! Hopefully this band will see this and take your advice. They definitely have the potential to be really tight and good. I had a dumb ego at that age and wish I would have listened to someone like you back then haha 😅

Loads of potential with these kids. Love to see it. 🎸🤘🏻

Another great video! Thanks Mike!!!!

i just saw this video the other day and i was so thrown off with everything going on in the song💀

Fun fact, the bass player didn't step on their cable it was just Lars Ulrich using the force

dude this is awesome! reminds me of trying out for the high school talent show back in 92. loved your assessment. Thank you!!!!

Great series, I really enjoy the bands you're choosing.

This video put a complete smile on my face

Love this series!

I really like this series! I hope a member or 2 of Apocalypse comments. I’d like to hear updates on what they’ve learned and what they’re going to do, then see another live video from them! Maybe a rich uncle will buy them a back line?

Love this series 🤘

It's great to see that kids are getting into great music. It's awesome that they're even listening to it, let alone, jamming the crap out of it!!!

Great work boys 👏🏼

The cable thing u are talking about was the first thing my Guitar teacher back then teached me when i switched to electric guitar. I just seen it as normal, like tuning your guitar before playing anything, but when u see people who dont do it, you just realise how important it is.

I would love to see more Randy rhoads on the channel the videos you have are amazing and I learn something in all of them and i don’t really have a guitar teacher but id like to think of you as one of my teachers

I like this series!! 💕💕

I know I’m on the wrong topic but I wanted to say thank you for your channel and your videos you have helped me learned a lot with my playing thank you so much

They did a great job. Fair critiques, but we’ve all been there. Congrats to those dudes!!

Played this 4 the talent show and no matter the performance they'll love it. I got nervous but still became famous amongst the school for the day before the end of the year

As a young musician one of the biggest things I had to learn was about listening to the entire band. The key to playing as a unit is about listening.

3:20 The very first thing I learned about cables is: Use your guitar strap to get them out of the way. I do this even to this day, when I'm mostly playing just for myself.

The single tom rod with the single hole on the bass drum would be the way to go.. or no hole on the floor drum and use a stand for the toms.. or the clip on to the bar so it can fit as many toms you want. Anyway, these guys are a 100 rimes better than the guys who did Enter sandman. Just wish the guitarist would practice singing and playing at the same time.. im guessing it already in the works.

Oof the whole band was desynced. That hurt. I remember when i had that happen to me. Also it feels like theyre speeding through the song. Some of the notes have some breathing room that they dont take into account.

Could Master Of Puppets be the most fun song to cover?

These guys are going to be great if they keep playing and practicing. Despite the mistakes, the energy is fantastic and you can hear the potential. I find myself getting pumped up by it.

Man that crowd was going crazy!! those kids will never forget that day

All of them have different length hair but somehow experiencing the awkward phase of growing it out at the same time.

Let’s go homie 🤘👋

That was great. It really took me back to the days of just me singing on my 12 piece kit and a guy on guitar. These guys have some work to do but all in all they did great and if they stick it out they’ll be an awesome band. One of them needs to suck it up and sing. Or as I used to do, yell in key.

Wow, that crowd was hyped!

I love these videos!!! Great job by the band! My only criticism is that it looks like the stage designer from Spinal tap picked the amps. 😉

The “wrap your lead around your strap before putting the jack in the socket” tip is a golden lesson, one you’ll otherwise learn as soon as you wander away from your amp when gigging and you guitar suddenly goes quiet! (been there, done that, I learned this lesson early in my gigging life 😂) 🤘😆🤘

they were epic! Well done :)

Apocalypse is very good. A lot fewer kinks than what I was expecting. The bass slaps after the dual guitar was well timed. Looking forward to seeing them in the future 👏👏👏👏

The crowd is damned amazing!!! The kids will be doing much better next time for sure!!!

nice vid mike

They don't need fixing, but you should check out a Canadian band called Leave Those Kids Alone. The lead guitarist took over as lead vocalist, and at 17, he's damn good at playing guitar and singing at the same time. His sister is the drummer and you wouldn't believe how good she is. Now, as for straps coming off the posts, once you attach your new strap, don't take it off. Repeatedly removing and attaching a strap is what loosens the area for the post to come through and that makes it easy for the post to slip out of the strap.

Great crowd reaction. Imagine if they had a singer! Good points.

Really surprised at how those little amps sound. It's actually not that bad for what they are. These guys will be good if they keep at it.

The hardest part of a high school talent show is getting the song started in sync lol. I remember we played War For Territory and slid into Chaos AD at the end. We brought half stacks lol . We might not have been the most talented but we were the most loud ! The audience getting into it is actually super cool in this video !

Great stuff

Give them a frontman vocalist and a few years they might actually go semi-pro/pro. All of them sure have the performance factor and stage precence. They got the flair and flamboyance to be in a rock n roll/metal band 🤘🏼

My 6th grade buddies did knocking on heavens door in the talent show, blew everyone away, but back in 92' video was for a select few.

Anyway you slice it, these young guys have some talent! Keep it going, Apocalypse!

These kids kick ass!

Absolutely use the "cord-saver method" with guitars and basses!

I think the biggest mistakes they made was that they rushed through a lot of parts but they managed to recover pretty well

These guys are really good!

Mike, you are onto something here, I am typing this before 2 minutes of this video have passed, so bring it on.

That TV White Junior is amazing!

For my first gig ever, I only had a line 6 amp with 15w and no pedals... So I had my singer jumping in to switch canals from clean or "metal" to "insane" for solos. I only played guitar for 5 months and there were 400 people in the crowd, it was insanely intimidating... So I feel for these guys ahah

Cant get better without messing up. And doing live helps. They deserve a high five!

Those amps are so small! When i was 15 i got a job at Dairy Queen and made enough money for a Peavey amp with a 12" speaker, a boss ds distortion, and 6 months of ins for my ford Pinto. Go 1987!!

Seeing those girls in the front go crazy stirs up some old memories

1. I hope you do personal lessons. Your detailing on performance is not just way above the norm, but you communicate it so well. I've worked with so many guitarists, and I feel like there's always 1 or 2 of these fundaments that is absent. Beginners to advanced, I think you'd add something to their playing. 2. Totally need to get the drummer on a metronome. He reminds me of....me, when I was around his age. I would take apart a song, learn it piece by piece, then reassemble it. Problem is, I'd learn each piece at a tempo that was comfortable for learning, so when it all came back together, I'd float the tempo dramatically. When I finally got around to working with a metronome, it really exposed how compartmental my playing was. So yeah, get that drummer on a click, and get him to then lead the band after having that tempo under control.

Good stuff. I wish I had readily available old video footage of me and my brother jammin' Metallica in the late 80s early 90s. Tho, I have a hard time playing accurate James Hetfield downstrokes today. I know it was a train wreck back 30 ish years ago. Tho my bro, kills it at the drums today and back then!

Energy is there, and that’s a big thing for doing metal.

The unplug happens to the pros too - I was watching the Iron Maidens at NAMM several years ago. On the first song, first big solo, the one guitar player walked up to front of stage ready to rip but unplugged herself right when the solo started!!!! Such a bummer - she was going to kill it! Wrap that cord thru your strap!!!!!!!!!!

This is super cool to me. My first experience hearing heavy music live was when I was in early high school, we did a talent show and this group of kids started a band but their lead singer went to a different school. We were a small school with a bunch of country people this band was a metalcore band but, since they had no singer they just did instrumentals of the song. It was heavy and I could tell they practiced a lot but it was kind of weird when you could tell their should be vocals on places. But I think I don't think it would have been received well if they had their singer screaming in front of all these hicks.

I wish I practiced with a metronome when I started. It helps so much

Hey Art of Guitar, I remember in episode 4 of "Fix this Band" you talked about how you missed that Charvel Avenger guitar. Well I went on reverb and there is one in the exact white like the one you had when you were a kid. If you want I can send you the link

Hey Mike, back when I first started playing guitar I was already shooting for Master of Puppets so ever since then I never got use to alternate picking. I can only do downstrokes and idk if that’s bad, but I want to know methods to fix this problem. Could you possibly make a video showing alternate picking practices, especially for people that started playing only knowing how to downstroke 😅

When I first started playing on stage I had guitar picks as strap locks so the strap wouldn't slip off and of course I always remembered to tuck my cord behind the strap so I never did what this bassist did lol Thank God 😁 I've had it happen to a band member though and we actually covered it up well nobody stopped except the dummy that didn't tuck his cord but he got it plugged in super fast and came right back in on his part, most people were so fricn drunk and high they didn't even notice 😂 I can say he never let it happen again cause he caught mortal hell after the gig, we were hard on each other maybe a bit to hard sometimes but it kept us on our game and sometimes you gotta push people to get the best out of them just don't get violent like Dave lol

Nice

Props on the guy with the Jackson King V.

I like these guys.

I remember this phase. It's where you are pretty good at playing but there are no monitors. If you must resort to this kind of venue, you can always put your amp behind you and wear those ear protection plug things. It seems a bit counter-intuitive but being able to hear your band mates is better than not being able to hear them. Still they played pretty well considering the technical issues. Kudos on them.

Back in the day when we would play this song and "Creeping Death" our drummer would always do the opposite and rush through those fills. Lars even does that sometimes.

how can i submit my own band for this i would love it and we’re actually intermediate rather than total noob like others. could be a good vid

Still pretty good!

How do you submit? I’d love to hear some feedback for my band

Heck Yeah Says The Old Dude🤘

There is hope for the next generation still! 🎸🤘

Dayum, they did a really good job. Just the timing is a thing and the amp setup, apart from that they kicked ass! Really great crowd too!

oh boy 12AM

When you do your first show like that and you got a couple girls right up front jumping up and down screaming and yelling after you play, that gives you a memory In your body and in your brain that you never ever ever ever forget and you just keep playing. Lol.

MoP is a tall order even for seasoned musicians. That was a brave effort!

what marshall is that ? , it sounds great