153 METALLICA RIFFS Ranked and Performed!
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- čas přidán 14. 06. 2019
- Are you ready for a Metallica Marathon? Here's a compilation of the first 5 album riff videos I did a bit ago, this time all in ONE video. ;)
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you didn't even follow your own tutorial for the intro of master of puppets haha
I keep learning as I go but the past still haunts me. ;)
@@TheArtofGuitar I know you said you keep learning as you go and I know that you have since started playing it the right way, but watching you play Dyers main riff with 232323 and not 222222 just makes me hurt lmao. that riff is hard with just 22222 playing it 232323 for me is near impossible.
I would loose my mind if I had to rank 153 riffs nice video
and also be able to play them well
Memester Boi my hand starts killing me after the battery riff
This video proves how many great riffs Metallica has
/153: Hit The Lights (pre solo riff) 0:03
/152: Holier Than Thou (main riff) 0:15
/151: The Call Of Ktulu (end riff) 0:24
/150: Disposable Heroes (intro riff) 0:39
/149: The Frayed Ends Of Sanity ( intro riff 2) 0:53
/148: Motorbreathe (break riff) 1:02
/147: The God That Failed (pre verse riff) 1:14
/146: Escape (bridge riff) 1:30
/145: Leper Messiah (verse riff) 1:42
/144: The Stuggle Within ( main riff) 1:56
/143: Disposable Heroes (bridge riff) 2:08
/142: Metal Militia (verse riff) 2:18
/141: And Justice For All... (pre verse riff) 2:31
/140: Trapped Under Ice (intro riff) 2:36
/139: The Frayed Ends Of Sanity (end riff) 2:45
/138: Welcome Home ( Sanitarium) ( bridge riff) 2:56
/137: Metal Militia (post solo riff) 3:07
/136: My Friend Of Misery (verse riff) 3:18
/135: Ride The Lightning (pre solo riff) 3:32
/134: And Justice For All... (pre chorus riff) 3:45
/133: Seek & Destroy (end riff 2) 4:00
/132: Don't Tread On Me (main riff) 4:09
/131: Escape (pre verse riff) 4:20
/130: The Shortest Straw (pre chrous riff) 4:33
/129: Master Of Puppets (bridge riff) 4:40
/128: The Thing That Should Not Be (chorus riff) 4:50
/127: No remorse (end riff) 5:08
/126: The Stuggle Within (intro riff) 5:21
/125: Escape (intro riff) 5:38
/124: The Frayed Ends Of Sanity (verse riff) 5:51
/123: Phantom Lord (main riff) 6:05
/122: My Friend Of Misery (chorus riff) 6:17
/121: Creeping Death (break riff) 6:34
/120: Leper Messiah (intrp riff) 6:45
/119: Eye Of The Beholder (pre solo riff) 6:58
/118: Wherever I May Room (verse riff) 7:23
/117: To Live Is To Die (main riff) 7:38
/116: Fade To Black (post verse riff) 7:48
/115: Welcome Home ( Sanitarium) (verse riff) 8:05
/114: Seek & Destroy (pre verse riff 1) 8:20
/113: Seek & Destroy (pre verse riff 2) 8:30
/112: Blackened (verse riff) 8:41
/111: The Stuggle Within (break riff) 8:49
/110: Escape (verse riff) 9:00
/109: Master Of Puppets (pre chorus riff) 9:15
/108: The Unforgiven (pre chorus riff) 9:25
/107: No remorse (pre solo riff) 9:45
/106: Fade To Black (pre solo riff) 9:57
/105: Disposable Heroes (vhorus riff) 10:09
/104: And Justice For All... (intro riff) 10:17
/103: Hit The Lights (main riff) 10:28
/102: Sad But True (intro riff) 10:36
/101: Leper Messiah (intro riff 2) 10:55
/100: Trapped Under Ice (pre bridge riff 2) 11:06
/99: One (intro riff 3) 11:18
/98: Seek & Destroy (end riff 1) 11:33
/97: Ride The Lightning (pre bridge riff) 11:40
/96: The Thing That Should Not Be (verse riff) 11:54
/95: Of Wolf And Man (verse riff) 12:07
/94: Dyers Eye (intro riff) 12:17
/93: Orion (Cliff's riff) 12:35
/92: No remorse (verse riff) 12:52
/91: The Call Of Ktulu (pre solo riff) 13:02
/90: To Live Is To Die (break riff) 13:16
/89: Enter Sandman (intro riff) 13:29
/88: Holier Than Thou (intro riff) 13:43
/87: No Remorse (chorus riff) 13:50
/86: For Whom The Bell Tolls (chorus riff) 14:01
/85: Eye Of The Beholder (intro rriff) 14:19
/84: Disposable Heroes (verse riff) 14:26
/83: Seek & Destroy (pre solo riff) 14:31
/82: Enter Sandman (chorus riff) 14:42
/81: Trapped Under Ice (pre bridge riff 1) 14:56
/80: Damage Inc. (intro riff) 15:08
/79: Eye Of The Beholder (intro riff) 15:18
/78: The Four Horsemen (verse riff) 15:32
/77: The Call Of Ktulu (cascading riff) 15:42
/76: Don't Tread On Me (intro riff) 15:50
/75: Leper Messiah (pre bridge riff) 16:01
/74: To Live Is To Die (Post main Riff) 16:11
/73: Metal Militia (intro riff) 16:21
/72: The God That Failed (verse riff) 16:39
/71: Fade To Black (verse riff) 16:51
/70: Leper Messiah (bridge riff) 17:01
/69: One (intro riff 2) 17:11
/68: Through The Never (verse riff) 17:29
/67: Whiplash (main riff) 17:40p
/66: The Call Of Ktulu (hangar 18 riff) 17:48
/65: Orion (B section riff) 18:01
/64: The Shortest Straw (pre verse riff) 18:16
/63: The Four Horseman (bridge riff) 18:27
/62: Sad But True (chorus riff) 18:38
/61: Master Of Puppets (post solo riff) 18:50
/60: Fight Fire With Fire (pre verse riff) 19:00
/59: The Shortest Straw (pre solo riff) 19:10
/58: The Four Horsemen (pre solo riff) 19:24
/57: Through The Never (main riff) 19:34
/56: Creeping Death (verse riff) 19:44
/55: One (chorus riff) 19:51
/54: Welcome Home ( Sanitarium) (pre bridge riff) 19:59
/53: Jump In The Fire (main riff) 20:12
/52: Fight Fire With Fire (verse riff) 20:34
/51: The Unforgiven (verse riff) 20:44
/50: Battery (pre solo riff) 20:58
/49: Harwester Of Sorrow (verse riff) 21:13
/48: Wherever I May Roam (main riff) 21:29
/47: Motorbreath (intro riff) 21:51
/46: Ride The Lightning (verse riff) 22:03
/45: Damage inc. (intro riff 2) 22:20
/44: The Frayed Ends Of Sanity (bridge riff) 22:31
/43: The Four Horsemen (intro riff) 22:42
/42: Wherever I May Room (break riff) 23:00
/41: Fade To Blacl (intro riff) 23:14
/40: Damage inc. (verse riff) 23:27
/39: One (end riff) 23:39
/38: Don't Tread On Me (post solo riff) 23:48
/37: Seek & Destroy (intro riff) 23:58
/36: The Frayed Ends Of Sanity (pre solo riff) 24:14
/35: The Call Of Ktulu (intro riff) 24:24
/34: Master Of Puppets (verse riff) 24:38
/33: Through The Never (bridge riff) 24:47
/32: Trapped Under Ice (verse riff) 24:57
/31: Master Of Puppets (pre verse riff) 25:09
/30: To Live Is To Die (intro riff) 25:20
/29: My Friend Of Misery (main riff) 25:39
/28: For Whom The Bells Tolls (chromatic riff) 25:56
/27: Master Of Puppets (breakdown riff) 26:12
/26: Harvester Of Sorrow (pre chorus riff) 26:35
/25: The Unforgiven (intro riff) 26:46
/24: Creeping Death (intro riff) 27:13
/23: Battery (verse riff) 27:32
/22: Harvester Of Sorrow (pos solo riff) 27:47
/21: Nothing Else Matters (intro riff) 28:08
/20: Fade To Black (Break riff) 28:35
/19: Welcome Home ( Sanitarium) (chorus riff) 29:04
/18: To Liva Is To Die (breakdown riff) 29:21
/17: Creeping Death (bridge riff) 29:50
/16: Orion (main riff) 30:11
/15: Dyers Eye (chorus riff) 30:27
/14: Dyers Eye (bridge riff) 30:37
/13: For Whom The Bells Tolls (intro bass riff) 30:47
/12: The Shortest Strow (chorus riff) 31:01
/11: One (intro riff) 31:08
/10: Damage Inc (bridge riff) 31:29
/9: Blackened (main riff) 31:39
/8: Dyers Eye (pre verse riff) 31:48
/7: Ride The Lightning (intro riff) 32:27
/6: Harvester Of Sorrow (main riff) 32:45
/5: Enter Sandman (main riff) 32:56
/4: Sad But True (main riff) 32:11
/3: One (bridge riff) 33:35
/2: Blackened (bridge riff) 33:46
/1: Master Of Puppets (main riff) 34:04
i was boring
Damnn bro this musta took a bit😂
It's actually the intro riff from master of puppets
@@vantaie2350 bro, he listed all the riffs, give him e break lol
Finally the damage inc riff gets the recognition it deserves
Hell yeah one of my favorites!! Up there with Leper Messiah & Disposable Heroes I love how you can play right through Master Of Puppets album...ending with those 3 amazing kick-ass songs well and Orion lol
I feel that Escape is really underrated. Anyone else?
Weird how he just put all of st anger at the top of the list.
my number one is the seek and destroy ending riff... idk why it just sounds right
Yeah that riff is super underrated
also is super fun to play imo
32:56 I LiKe To PlAy ThIs RiFf At GuItAr CeNtEr
25:20 - That's impressively hard !!
31:48 - That's even harder !! Wow !!
Now time to do riffs from the rest of their discography, load/reload, st anger, DM, HTSD
Haha give the dude a break
I'll do my top 10 from those right here
10. Mama Said main riff
9. Dirty Window intro riff
8. Purify outro riff
7. 2 x 4 main riff
6. I Disappear intro riff
5. Am I Savage? breakdown riff (the super heavy one)
4. All Within My Hands chorus riff
3. My Apocalypse main riff
2. Bad Seed main riff
1. The Outlaw Torn main bass riff
Judas Kiss riffs are sick.
@@dizzydaisy909 no Fuel?
@@benparsons4979 Nah
I feel like the riff after the into to Master of Puppets is just slightly better than the intro.
Still can't play either for shit though
The riff after the intro is really hard
See, I can play through the song just fine, but it would be nice if I could play it at its original speed because as it stands, the downpicking is just too fucking fast for my poor noodle arms to play lol.
I can do short bursts. I finally got up to the main riff. For the longest time I could only do the intro and interlude
Dang, this is possibly your most ambitious Metallica Video! Seeing and hearing that tone and to anticipate what riff would be at what ranking definitely makes the 34 min watch worth it! Awesome man!
Rank the solos next!
You put alot of work into this man! Good work.
Impressive. But can you do Pantera? {Including Power Metal!}
The title track to that album has such a sick riff. 80s pantera is mad underrated
These these riffs flooded out from my bedroom door all through the 90s from a strat, crate g20 & a plethora a pedals. It is a testament to how awesome they are, that we are still digging on them today, because they’re still relevant as badass licks! thanks for posting this, Dude.
Sanitarium verse riff is one of the best riffs of all time
hey art of guitar can you make a video on how to setup your guitar and to get rid of fret buzz. love your vids
AndySpitz Fret buzz happens usually when the bridge is a bit low. Causing a high gauge string such as the low E to hit the fret. Sometimes the nut can also be a bit low. If the strings are vibrating when played open, the low nut can be the cause.
@@breakker6579 couldnt you also try adjusting the truss rod to fix fret buzz?
Freaking awesome, man, it seriously continues to amaze me with how many badass riffs James has written over the years..
I knew st anger would be number one 🤘🏼
It's actually a pretty good riff
Hes got the tone done perfect as well as the riffage with each album spot on! Great work
This is a lot of work. Very nicely done.
Bad ass man! Superb job on those Metallica riffs, wow!
I better see St. Anger at that #1 spot.
Edit: Great video, it looks like you were having a lot of fun during these. Jump In The Fire is one of my personal favorites.
I could guess it was Master Of Puppets intro riff at number one just 'cuz I didn't remember seeing it in the video and I knew there was no way you forgot it.
So many awesome riffs - excellent replication of them!!!!!
amazing video once again
Many years later i'm back and you still rock
About to watch all the way through!
as a huge fan of Metallica was a pleasure revisit those little beautiful bastards. ty
Great video mike
Awesome video!
Brilliant, thanks for this.
I fuckin love this channel man
Nice work! This must be almost every song they’ve done!
Gene Buerkle yea except load, reload st anger, S and M, death magnetic, beyond magnetic, and hardwired
Amazing job dude!!! \m/
dude hit the lights is my favorite, dead last? love your videos, keep it up!!
I thought there had to be some kind of trick to the rankings, really shows how damn good these riffs are if so many classic god tier riffs are literally ranked at the absolute bottom.
Sad But True will always be my #1
I dunno, for me all the riffs on this album are generic trash (except for The God That Failed).
I love the tone man!
Awesome video rock on 🤘
great vid man
You should make this a series!
Sanket A he kind of did
Yet another skill set that has alluded me. Awesome for you. Thanks for sharing. Now pass me my triangle please.
Brilliant video ! Still waiting for those riff videos on Megadeth :D
Sainandan Ramakrishnan megadeath is trash
Thats really insensitive, especially when dave mustaine is going through cancer
Megadeth is not on the level of Metallica, but they aren’t shit.
@@payblo2734
Agreed.
@@extremophile7123 did you mean "thrash" lol
What a great work
Great play! :-) Love it! :-)
Great selections and super tight playing as always man. Iced Earth would be really good too :)
Or Blind Guardian.
Mike, you're a legend
I swear, everytime I see someone playing Dyer's Eve like 2-3-2-3-2-3 a dozen of my braincells dying. I honestly don't really care if somebody playing the riff not like in the original song as long as it sounds RIGHT! But 2-3-2-3 is just making my ears bleed...
Btw, no hate intended - video is great, playing is cool, I enjoyed it, thank you for your work!
I feel the same way when practically EVERYBODY I see on CZcams plays Leper Messiah intro and main riff totally wrong from the way its really played drives me crazy when I see that
Cool video! Also for some reason I see a striking resemblance between you and Richard Gere LOL.
Nice, just remembered many of forgotten epic songs ;)
my extremely extensive list of riffs i would PERSONALLY rank higher as an amateur metallica fan:
#135 Ride The Lightning (pre solo riff) 3:33
adds so much to the section just before the solo, and leads into the solo very well
#129 Master Of Puppets (bridge riff) 4:41
one of the most simple yet badass riffs ever created, and the transition into it is just perfection
#128 The Thing That Should Not Be (chorus riff) 4:50
has a very ominous feeling which fits the rest of the song very nicely
#115 Sanitarium (verse riff) 8:05
it's such a cool and haunting melody, and fits the song very well, i'm very surprised it's ranked so low
#114 Seek & Destroy (pre verse riff 1) 8:20
yes it's simple but very effective nonetheless, and i just like the riff
#112 Blackened (verse riff) 8:41
it may not be the best riff in blackened but i think it deserves to be higher
#109 Master Of Puppets (pre chorus riff) 9:15
iconic + immediately recognizable + fun to play, i'm surprised it's this low
#108 The Unforgiven (pre chorus riff) 9:25
i've never really paid attention to this riff before until now, but now that i'm hearing it properly it's such a good build up
#106 Fade To Black (pre solo riff) 9:56
i'm genuinely surprised this isn't ranked higher, this is probably one of my favorite parts of one of my favorite metallica songs, the guitars convey so much emotion here, not to mention it leads up to one of the best kirk solos ever
#102 Sad But True (intro riff) 10:36
i understand why it's low, as the the riff right after it completely devours, but not THIS low. especially when you consider how iconic it is when they play it live
#101 Leper Messiah (intro riff 2) 10:56
tbh i'm not too familiar with this song, but the riff itself is so catchy, so i'd personally rank it a bit higher
#99 One (intro riff 3) 11:18
again, i understand why it's low because it's probably the least recognizable riff in the song, but i personally think it's underrated. the contrast it creates with the overall theme of the song is amazing
#97 Ride The Lightning (pre bridge riff) 11:41
in my opinion the second best riff of the song, just below the intro riff, and i'd personally rank it higher than the verse riff
#91 The Call Of Ktulu (pre solo riff) 13:03
i think it's ranked fairly, but i'd personally put it in like the top 70 at least
#77 The Call of Ktulu (cascading riff) 15:42
same thing as the last one, but i'd personally rank it at least top 50
#71 Fade To Black (verse riff) 16:51
something about the emotion this riff conveys and the bit at the end where everything gets quiet and the guitars play the slide bit (the du du duu) always gets me
#43 The Four Horsemen (intro riff) 22:42
very catchy riff, one of my favs off of kill em all
#41 Fade To Black (intro riff) 23:14
a perfect intro to a perfect song
#30 To Live Is To Die (intro riff) 25:20
one of my favorite songs off of AJFA, and i personally really like this intro
#17 Creeping Death (bridge riff) 29:50
already ranked high but deserves higher, just a very powerful riff
The god that failed riff is so badass
oh dang im early! learned a lot outa your channel! while im early Ill say Thanks!!
Very well done sir 👍💪😁
Calls master of puppets clean interlude a breakdown but doesn’t say the same for the breakdown in creeping death
*seems legit*
lol'd at "The Stuggle Within".
Great work and I love your channel and subscribed a long time ago - but I honestly think so called "pre chorus" riff of "Master of Puppets" (written by Kirk, as far as I know) at 109 is criminally underrated. To me it has always been the best part of this song (as much as I absolutely love the other parts, all heavy/fast and melodic/solos) - with vocal, too, but also the riff by itself. This song is arguably their best and most of the riffs/solos are the best/among the best of all their stuff - but still this particular riff to me is the greatest thing in this song. To me it's always been the true chorus of this song, and the very next part I've always called "post chorus". Naturally pre chorus part to me is "Taste me you will see(...)"
it's a crime that most leper messiah parts aren't in top 50 because leper messiah will always and forever be my personal favorite MOP song. imo it's even better than the title track and that's a hill i will die on
That's some nice tone!
Love to hear most of the riff from Kill Em All album especially No Remorse and Metal militia 👍
Wahoooo!!!! That was AWESOME 😎
killer downstrokes dude. hell yeah \m/
That ending riff you did for "Seek and Destroy" around 11:38 was played right but the way your timing was when playing it was off...and the next part right after that for "Ride The Lightning" you played everything perfect except the very last note you were playing each time was the wrong fret your hitting I noticed...but not knocking you bro love the videos!! Metallica is my favorite band because of their first 5 albums alone, made me a huge fan growing up with it..and I also play guitar I play a right handed guitar upside down with the strings reversed and I practically everything from those albums but mainly the rhythm guitar parts not too much the solos I know some but not Alot but I think you make it easy to understand what you try to teach people on guitar on your videos which I think is very important for people to learn guitar, to break it down and explain it in a more simplified way for beginners to understand it and intermediate guitar players
I agree with most, I think the Frayed Ends of Sanity one I think it was 149 should be a lot lower, but then again it is played weird. Awesome Vid!
absolute mad man
Those kill em all riffs are interresting and kind of tricky to play, but ”We fuckin love it” -James
Sweet Amber, Outlaw Torn, Frantic, and Hardwired album has some great riffs.
Noice m8 your a great teacher by the way!
That takes talent alot of respect
Wondering where St. Anger would rank in this list lol Nice video!
Thing that should not be chorus riff better be here.
Edit: what the hell, man. Oh, well. At least damage inc. Bridge riff was in top 10. Thanks.
How is the disposable heroes intro so low it’s incredible
Hey when you play escape its an octaver effect right ? ( I like this kind of sound ) ^
All Metallica solos Ranked and Performed please!
When do you think you'll upload "25 Rudolf Schenker Guitar techniques ."?
Never, Rudy can’t even play 25 different things on the guitar.
I wish you would make a leper messiah lesson
Tabs out there online?
But can you play smoke on the water? Better yet, what about Cat scratch Fever?
When youre done with riffs you should rank all their solos
The number one choice is the only logical conclusion. Good job
Wow, Dave Mustaine is spelled weird in the title.
Your #153-#1 was my #1.
The Dyers Eve riff is 2-2-2-2 not 2-3-2-3
Bro decided to start of the beginning of the video by listing off some of the best Metallica riffs lol; the fact that the pre-solo riff for RTL is so low Is wild, it always feels super powerful to play and listen to.
Edit: this list is actually unforgivable
4:48 best transition ever
The four horsemen intro sounded just like the original!
Like a medium, I knew before the start which riff will be n°1 !
Still missing my faveourite riff. Battery outro 😥
Finally Damage Inc. gets the respect it deserves at number 10. I love that riff.
What kind of tail piece is that on your sg, man?
P.S. I liked that you downpicked all of the creeping death break. I used your video to get better That 👌🏼
You should have put the main riff of Whiplash in. That riff is killer
Number 67
Fully agree on nr. 1!
Love the vids but after all the time I've been following you I have just noticed the "non-standard" tailpiece on your SG. How about a "Gear of the Art of Guitar" episode? Would love to know how you get your tone.
Yes please!!!
Can you rank all guitar solos from the first five albums?
I’m so jealous of JH as a guitarist I mean how many good riffs a man can write
FBerk10 be jealous of dave mustaine, KIMB and peace sells are full of beast riffs
JosephTenorio JH has written far more truly iconic riffs than Dave IMO, but god damn if dave isnt a beast at writing the most thrash shit imaginable
Love that SG. What pickups are in it?
I would love to know. I know part of the tone comes probably from the Kemper. Still, killer tone
Hoping you do the same for Pantera... Good luck
all metallica riffs please my ears
Please do Death Magnetic next, or maybe Load/Reload.
That black album tone is to die for