Guitarists Shred the Metallica Riffs That Made Them
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- čas přidán 7. 09. 2023
- There's no doubt Metallica have inspired countless musicians to pick up a guitar and start a band.
Through many, many episodes of Gear Factor, we've heard shredder after shredder say the same thing. The first song they learned? The band that made them want to play in the first place? Their favorite riffs? The mighty Metallica, of course.
That's why we decided to revisit a multitude of players, from Ghost's Tobias Forge to GWAR's Pustulus Maximus, gushing about the Metallica riffs that inspired them to learn to play and even want to start a band in the first place.
Formed in Los Angeles, in 1981, before relocating to San Francisco two years later, Metallica helped both spearhead and define the thrash metal genre. In the ‘90s, they embraced more accessible sounds and new compositional styles that took them to new heights.
One song that many guitarist say they first learned is "Seek and Destroy" from 1983's Kill 'Em All. And, of course, you'll hear a lot of "Master of Puppets" from their 1986 album of the same name and, perhaps their most well-known song, "Enter Sandman" from their eponymous 1991 album.If you're new, Subscribe! → bit.ly/subscribe-loudwire
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When you listen to The Beatles, they make you go and buy their all albums. When you listen to Metallica, you go and buy a guitar.
True words.
I'd never know. I don't listen to pop. Beatles suck.
@@berenicea.n.barkovitch7406 Oh come on here.. Even if you don't listen to pop and don't like it, The Beatles are and always will be one of the biggest names in music history and some of their songs are masterpieces without a doubt. To say The Beatles suck is either hatered or jealousy.
@@DanielMusicFeed No, it's called Having A Music Taste. There is good pop, but Beatles ain't that. They were over-hyped mediocre boyband; the One Direction of the 60s. Beatles plainly suck, but what sucks the most is people insisting that they were somehow a rock band.
I bought bass and drums.
Seek and Destroy as your first song is an almost universal experience 😂
Guilty
It wasn't my first but it's the one song where if Metallica ever said, "Hey join us on stage and pick any song you want to play with us," and I could be the most confident playing all the way through without making mistakes lol
what the hell???
right? when I got my first guitar I worked so hard to get that first part sounding mediocre at best! good old days
After the 4 player said Seek and Destroy I was like: Again? Metallica has other songs!!
“My favorite is Jason newsted” *plays one of cliffs biggest masterpieces*
Haha Ikr I was thinking the same thing. When he said newsted riff, I thought he was gonna say My Friend of Misery, which is a dope bass riff intro btw
@lukeciarallo5419 @@matrixfan23 you're absolutely correct, but I think he said that cause Jason incorporated the orion Riff in his solos and stuff.
@@TheHoodedDemon I see that too, Jason used the same chord shape for his intro; just played it slightly different.
I love Tye’s clip. It’s really cool to see Rob teaching his son some Metallica riffs.
I went to the M72 tour in Phoenix, and on night 2 (which was delayed a week) they had Rob's band Suicidal Tendencies come in, and then Rob and Tye played together. It was really nice to see
@@jackavery3740 Oh yeah, I heard. That’s really cool!
Can we now agree that Metallica is the favorite band of your favorite band?
Edit
Should have said: If your favourite rock/metal band was founded after 85, chances are extremely high Metallica would show up within their top 5 favourite bands.
Confirmed😂
Metallica is Metallica’s favorite band? Interesting.
I don't have favorite band
I dont think its Megadeth's favorite band
My favorite band is Black Sabbath I think their favorite bands are The Shadows, Cream, and The Beatles. also not necessarily a band but shoutout to Gene Krupa on behalf of Bill Ward. Also Ronnie James Dios favorite band was Deep Purple.
can you imagine how many people James Hetfield alone has inspired to learn guitar. it's pretty incredible must be millions
Has to be!
It's absolutely millions. There's no question.
Seems like mustaine is the prime candidate actually
Leper Massiah riff has got to be my favorite 🤘
15:22 I love how this dude mentions growing up as a fan of Jason Newsted, then plays the Cliff Burton bass solo in Orion 🤣🤣
That's how you cause a heart attack on a Megadeth fan
Well one of the RTL riffs was written by Dave, so maybe that'll ease the pain a little bit.🤭
i like megadeth and metallica
true story, I'm here dying rn
Please stop. Both are legends.
@@rocket.launcher156 we know, It's just... FUNNY
Been playing guitar for two months and all I play is Metallica... Wasn't even a fan before, or even a fan of metal or any genre around it, but just learning their music and barely playing it actually made me love these people as I realized what I had been missing. It's quite insane really, to start learning music that someone made and slowly realize that they are simply genius hahah. Never thought I'd end up there, but here I am and happy to be.
Been playing for 20 years and they're still the goats
Metallica won’t be the only band that you have that experience with if you’ve only been playing for a couple months. Enjoy.
Discover Tool next ;)
I relate to this SO MUCH. Metallica were the main reason I stuck with the guitar. When I learned to play "Disposable Heroes" and "Orion" the whole way through I HAD ARRIVED.
You know that it's different when you say "i wanted to learn Anesthesia and asked my dad, becase he knew it" .
8:59 I never saw this guy before, but he describes learning a riff and then a revelation so well! I remember a similar thing where I was hitting the right notes, but it sounded off. When I figured it out, it was a MAJOR epiphany. It felt almost spiritual to be able to say, "My hands are doing exactly what _____________ hands are doing when they play this song." It's just a sincerely beautiful moment.
Hetfield is a riff machine
Sure, but many of the riffs mentioned in this video were by Kirk and Cliff. So they deserve credit as well.
@@randomuser5237And Dave.
@@randomuser5237Not true. Kirk is the guy in charge of figuring out solos. Hetfield wrote majority of the songs and chords. They actually wrote a lot of the riffs together more than separately but Hetfield had a knack for just messing around and finding certain rhythms and chords that worked well together.
WAS 😔
The Riff machine
15:19 that pinch harmonic was heinous
It would seem you time stamped the wrong part.
@@rubemortenson1724 sorry brotha I'm too lazy to change it
Papa het is the blueprint of a badass Metal frontman 💀⚡🤘🏽
metallica has SOO many seriously cool riffs and the tempo changes that blew you away as you were not expecting it and had to rewind to hear that part again lol also drum parts in early albums specially AJFA were so cool too.
So many of these METALLICA journeys begin where mine ends: The Black Album. What a career.
seek and destroy well it was and is legendary!!
The best way to learn to play Metallica's style is to warm up by playing along with any of their albums front-to-back in one go.
Now that's the kind of content I want! More Metallica!!
bruh
@@Upotrex Yes? How can I help you?
Great stuff. You guys are killing it lately on this channel. Cheers
Metallica was my inspiration too. I had a guitar for a number of years before I ever tried to seriously learn how to play. After getting the Justice CD and hearing One for the first time, that was it. My mind was set on being able to play that song. There was a website back then called Encyclopedia Metallica and they had a bunch of songs tabbed by a guy named Phil Boyle. Shout out to Phil, you really helped me get started on guitar.
How James can sing and play battery at the same time is beyond me
Yeah, it's unreal. I've tried unsuccessfully for years to play "Master of Puppets" and full speed with only downstrokes but I just can't sustain it.
0:58 25 years old me: what you are saying is a yoke. I used to play the whole song like he does, but what is unbelieveable is they play it on a 2hour concert, this is the part that is 🤯
My dad had bought their cunning stunts DVD way back in the day. Whenever motorbreath came on id just watch James hands go crazy! Seek and destroy was the first song I learned, but my favorite to play to this day has to be The frayed ends of sanity!
I fell in love with Metallica from my older brother tapes I would "borrow". He saw them in '83, in a gymnasium. I think he eventually just gave me And Justice for All because I "borrowed" it so much 😂. METALLICA!
Seeing Frankie Kazarian is a surprise for me man ❤
Seek and destroy‘s riffs after the last chorus are metal god mode
Since I was 12 Metallica has been my all time favorite band. I got a guitar that same year and started learning whatever I could. I’m pretty sure the first song I learned was off of Load/Reload but I don’t remember which.
For me it was 89/90 and finding a way to get out of class and meeting a mate who'd show me how to play the opening riffs of "Fade to black", "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)" and "One"...i then got my own guitar and started learning....
Hell yeah!! Sanatarium is my first Metallica riff too, love that intro
It really threw me for a loop when I saw the Whitechapel guitarist with a John Mayer PRS Silver Sky lmao. I loved Whitechapel back in the day, always loved John Mayer, and I LOVE PRS(my favorite manufacturer), but I never would have expected him to be playing that.🤣
Never seen the monster dude before but he can really play. I mean fast and slow, very clear and powerful.
Greatest band in the world. I owe them everything, the guitar saved my life.
I remember seeing Metallica open for Wicked Lester at the Filmore. Good times.
I can play master, but i tried it down stroking and my hand felt like it was ready to fall off. i don't know how he does it for that long and not just one song he plays sets like that. I don't know if he still can but he use to. The speed he does it and to be able to keep going the hole time is insane.
The downpicking the whole thing requires both stamina training to survive AND proper technique to do it efficiently. Also I don't get why people downplaying (pun intended) others for not doing it, Kirk alt picks from 1986 and no one is mad.
It's amazing how many riffs are played wrong in this video. That's not a criticism, but rather a product of how learning songs used to be in the 80's and 90's. We either had to learn by ear, or hope that they would publish a tab book (which was usually completely wrong). Not that there isn't misinformation out there, but it is infinitely easier to learn songs now, though I think the struggle to figure things made us all better.
This is all awesome....it is......but........James does all of that,.....and sings......and does audience interaction......between travelling from gig to gig.......while dreaming future plans and writing the next album......while.......We salute you James (and Kirk!)
🤔It’s only trendy newbies that hates who wasn’t around to witness what Metallica did for music that paved the way for all their favorite artists..
if you dont at least like their first three records then you must not like metal or appreciate its history. same goes for slayer
I think they got their credit now time to move onto better music.
@@zacksguitarhacks6390 And watch the next gen of posers who have no respect for the history trash the
“better music” you love🤣👍
That’s your future😁
@@neotheone6796 what do you mean? Metallica is super popular with gen Z
Shortest Straw is my fav
great show don't change a thing,especially the piano!
So, much, inspiration !!
Damn, you never asked me! 😢
@2:55 Roberts Boy!! Hell yeah. Kid rocks
Fade To Black was it for me. First full song I learned. RTL could've just been Fade To Black 8 times & it would still be the greatest album ever😂🤘🏼
Papa Emeritus really dresses down on his off days
Tye saying "I asked my dad, cuz he knew it" is hilarious.
Honestly, I always thought "For Whom the Bell Tolls" was always so fun to play on guitar.
yeah, the first metallica song i learned on guitar was For Whom The Bell Tolls...
I thought the lead Kirk plays for part of the song was the coolest ever
@@gamesandguitars354 those days were awesome when Kirk 'Wahmett' didn't use the wah-wah pedal...
Wasnt the riff made by kirk? 1:14 I do remember an interview where he talked about it
Yes
4:25
WHOA!
The Boy Meets World kid is all metaled out now....
😂
That's what's so frickin awesome about bands like Metallica and AC/DC, the riffs and solos are so captivating but easy enough for anyone to learn that it's borderline genius in it's simplicity yet so captivating that you just can't stop headbanging. Riff masters!
Master of Puppets unlocked music for me. It had the perfect blend of aggression, melody, and harmony. The first time I heard it, I had to have it. I went to sleep to that album every night for six months.
This video in a nutshell:
SEEK. AND. DESTROYYYYY
The first part. The Master and the last part Enter Sandman
I heard my brother playing i believe it was One and i was hooked, i started learning guitar to the black album
That was craziest seek and destroy plug I've ever seen.
For Whom The Bell Tolls for me. At 10 years old! Those were happy times
James really is the riff king
Seem and destroy. Dave you rock.
Ihsahn showed some humble honesty. Dude said, "I know Hetfield downpicks it, but I won't attempt that today" and Ihsahn is a great guitar player himself.
PUSTULUS MAXIMUS CAN SHREDDD
Sooo many Metallica riffs during my first years of playing guitar!
I really like "the one" as well 19:08. LOL
As a black die hard Metallica fan this very inspirational
Dude who played Dyers Eve...... That was awesome !!! Well done, fuckin A 🤘🤘
My favorite riff to play on guitar is
The thing that should not be 🔥
"Until It Sleeps" and "Thorn Within" are quite fun to play as well. 😃
finally got the motivation to actually continue playing
I used to play the Leper Messiah intro over and over
My first 2 songs which put it me into this beautiful world was the acoustic from nothing else matters
And the song behind blue eyes. But I first learned Iron Man by Black Sabbath \m/ I love the high school time
I picked my bass up today from the shop getting tuned. I realize i played seek and destroy to test the new string sound. Hey it has octives and range. Its a good test. Man that guitar tech deffinitly thot that lols. Its a great test! Dangit
Did it bug anyone else when the bass player said that his first real influence was Jason Newsted and then proceeded to play Cliff's bassline from Orion? Lol
Kinda funny how everyone has like the same first song of metallica they learned, mostly seek and destroy and master of puppets.
I started playing whiplash as my first song on bass and on guitar i learned jump in the fire as my first metallica song
An underrated Metallica riff is a favorite of mine, the beginning of Disposable Heroes. I imagine a UFC fighter coming out to the ring to that riff.
Creeping Death is the reason and how I learned to palm mute.
I went to a party and there was this kid playing Metallica I sat down and listened for an hour, next day got a guitar and learned nothing but Metallica stuff for a Year (maybe some Deep Purple Sabbath too) because i was hooked on metallica and the idea i could do that too.
Had a whiplash seeing Whang in here lmao
25:55 lol i love this guy
Thx to Jim Root, glad he found a potato to record his part... Metallica 4 ever
Seek and Destroy was the first Metallica riff I learned🤘
I listened to metallica before, liked a lot of songs, but when I heard Dyers Eve after solo part I just fell on floor cause of the headbanging. Defenitly will buy a guitar to play this when i get some money, even if this is pretty hard
Crazy how so many people can play the same chords in the same tun and still manage to sound different
Ol Drake is such a pro. Love that dude.
insane that my inspirations are the exact same as Prika's
Gus g so good man and clean
Guitar center exists because of Papa Het😂He made multiple generations get into metal.
Battery as the first Metallica riff is wild.
Got bored and didn’t finish the entire video but Wherever I may Roam and Sad but True are amazing riffs and tunes. Beginner level stuff as far as Metallica goes but sooooo fun to play.
"First song on my guitar was definitely For Whom The Bell Tolls by Metallica... cause it's so simple..."
*plays something vaguely similar to FWTBT*
I mean... at least some of the chords were right.
While all of RTL is where I cut my teeth and what made me serious about the guitar, the first time I ever ran to my parents to show them something was when I got Dyers Eve down. I remember getting it once, with the album, and screaming with joy.
First riff, though? Nothing Else Matters. On a beaten down old Stella acoustic.
I was playing badminton rackets like guitars and the couch cushions to the Black Album way before that, though.
I remember when I got the Black album for Christmas Enter Sandman was on every rock radio station known to man but to get to the point I had a walkman with the black album inside it and it was during me having open heart surgery I took the cassette to the operating room with me and I told them play the first song on side 1 it was Enter Sandman and I remember hearing EXIT LIGHT ENTER NIGHT TAKE MY HAND WE'RE OFF TO NEVER NEVER LAND they put the mask on my face and I faded out
he did not just alternate pick master of puppets on an acustic
he only had an acoustic for that interview
I can play Master of Puppets from start to finish with downstrokes. Does that make me impossible?
Yes.
Funny how everyone said it was Metallica songs that got them wanting to play guitar. My Dad was why I got into guitar, bc he played and I wanted to play with him when I was 7. He would try to show me something easy but cool, I would get it down a bit, then we'd go into the kitchen and play for whoever was over drinking coffee and eating cake. Things like, "Walk don't Run, Earth Angel, that generic blues run, wipe out, house of the rising sun, Day Tripper. Good times.
Every Seek And Destroy is played in different tunings here lol
Yeah, at least that one girl used a capo, lol
Anyone got time stamps for all the guitarists in this vid?
Very nice to see a Brazilian guitar player, especially a woman!!
She couldn't even play the riff correctly
@@matthewfreeman33 For me, that's not the point. Lots of guitar players don't even play Enter Sandman's riff exactly like James does. The fact that a brazilian girl was invited to be a part of it, for me, is amazing. Check out the quality of her authoral work. It might surprise you! 😉
@@matthewfreeman33This was unnecessary
Cliff wrote the intro to "Master of Puppets", drawing inspiration from Pink Floyd's "Let There Be More Light". ;)
Always great to see the Brummie accent come out.
early Metallica and the first few Black Sabbath albums are awesome for learning to play the guitar since most of it is in E standard.
Gwar bloke doin Ride the Lightning siiiiiiiiiick