Mastodon Megalodon (Leviathan) guitar cover Dimarzio Titan metal
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- čas přidán 10. 05. 2015
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Next chapter in my quest of Mastodon Leviathan full album guitar covers, a personal favorite, Megalodon!!! This song is just awesome riff after awesome riff, it never lets up. This song pretty well sums up the Mastodon riff style; lots of hybrid picking, lots of strange chord shapes moving around the fretboard, some cool non-diatonic harmonies... so awesome. This one took me a while to figure out a couple years ago, for sure! I made a cover video of it a while back using the Seymour Duncan Nazgul 7, but i thought i would make another using the Dimarzio Titan and this particular Kemper profile, which is an Amp Factory Marshall JCM800 Drive profile that i've gotten to sound a LOT like the album tone. The Titan is just so freaking great i can't believe it.
Guitar is my RG470 that i've modded the shit out of and swirled.
Thanks so much for watching! Still have a handful of tunes left on the album, so stay tuned. Some of my favorites are coming up!!! - Hudba
Goddamn I love that random country lick they threw in
stfu
@@mikegulley7326 wtf? XD
Yeah Brent Hinds plays banjo too so its like a modified banjo roll fits perfect before that riff.
That would the work of Brent lol
This song feels like a metal surfer song
It really does lol
What is whalecore if not metal surf rock?
It literally is called Megalodon brother. U do the math.
Metal is just surf rock but heavy
metal surfer song??? fucking genius, now i love more this song, i love metal summer and beach
Hey man, you know, I've been thinking..
Why stop at after Leviathan? Just cover all of Mastodon's discography. Too many awesome riffs to leave uncovered.
I took a guitar lesson from Bill on Saturday. I've been binge watching every Mastodon related youtube vid ever since.
I can't think of a band in the last decade that's had more iconic riffs than Mastodon! The one at the end of Hunters of the Sky has to be my all time favorite though. Freaking awesome cover!
That riff at 2:30 is killin me & it’s the only part of the song they decided to do twice 💀
I feel your pain. Trying to get it under my fingers as we speak, but that switch from 7/8 to 3/4 is breaking my brain.
I've worked at the 2:30 riff for like.. a year. It's been a good year.
that riff is so hard for me that I learned the rest of the song before even attempting to learn that section
@@Urmom-gm1oy Yep! Finally got the tune reaaaasonably clean recently, it's on my channel. Wouldn't have been possible without Uncle Ben, and I'd like to thank the world. Word.
Country riff into one of the greatest head banging riffs of all time. Only Mastadon. What's even crazier is if you see these dudes live they do not miss a note. They pkay at light speed and just fucking melt your face.
One of the best guitar videos on CZcams
Amazing work dude, a freaking rush just watching you rip those riffs out perfect
I saw Mastodon live back in the summer of 2006, they had Children of Bodom open for them.
Mastodon would go on to open for Lamb of God, and Lamb of God opening for the main act, SLAYER.
The summer of 6/6/06 was historical
Long live the underground
The look at the camera right before the wicked hybrid picking part is my favorite thing on CZcams
Spot on Mastodon!!! Great job as always Uncle Ben!
Uncle Ben what can is say. Impeccable accuracy clean as a whistle!!!! Leviathan is my favourite album by far. The mix of styles is great. Mastodon for me at their best. Have you done a cover of Hearts Alive. thats a sick ass song! Keep up the good work my man. Your a real hidden gem on youtube!!!!
you're awesome to watch to. The Face you make, and then, your Playing is just amazing. I'd wish i could do that. A lot of Probs!
That southern twang at 1:25 to 1:30
crazy seeing this after watching uncle ben for YEARS LOL idk how id miss this. TY UNCLE BEN
Goddamn that was awesome. You nailed the fuck out of that song. Damn I wish I could play like that.
Lots of expensive sounding arpeggios.
Welcome to the sweet world of Brent Hinds
Oh yeah, the price tag on these is JACKED
Well done Fuzzbeed, well done!
Excellent. Best Megalodon cover on YT. \m/
filthily clean!!
Can't wait for Hearts Alive!
In the words of the great philosopher Bachman, you need to "get in with the right bunch of fellows!" Enjoy the videos, love the sense of humor.
Incredible !
Currently trying to learn this, it's one of my faves! I have been playing guitar two years... I think I bit off more than I can chew :)
You have such a smooth hand movement
Been waiting for this one
Jon Jimenez and how was it?!
It’s been a minute since I’ve seen a man leave another man hanging this much for this long...
That is easily my most favorite bridge pickup at the moment. I didn’t like it in standard tuning or drop D at all but once I setup in drop b that pickup took on a whole new life. Bkp on a budget lol
Wicked Mastrodonical!
Excellent cover man
You know what comes next...(crystal skull)
Lol the faces you make, great cover.
Subscribed because of the faces
Video game Uncle Ben raises eyebrows twice *dink dink*
NAILED IT
Im learning this song
Uncle Ben loving some Mastodon, and who doesn't?
Nice playing. I hope I get that good to play guitar someday.
Well it's been over two years. How's practice going?
The only thing better than that Country chicken-pickin' lick is the sick groove that immediately follows it... great band, great song!
fuck YEAH dude
well played and great song
Best guitar song of all times? Maybe
It really might be! Riffer madness!
Epic faces for epic cover of epic band!
p.s. epic
Wow.
unreal
1:29 is the part I am still trying to figure out how to play.
Yo, do you use an effect for the lick at 1:22? Because if I play it like this it won’t sound as treble stressed as yours.
Uncle Ben, I am sure you hate being asked about tablature, but I am having a heck of a time with this song, so I'm just wondering if you have a tab for this song, and if so, if you could post it somewhere somehow? If not, no biggie.
do you have tabs for this by chance through your patreon? :D the "prog riff" section, i've been playing the wrong note for ages.
Uncle Ben knows what's up!! \m/=^.^=\m/ thanks a million dude! Wicked cover
nice cover dude! also love your faces LOL
3:04 metallica??
Just locked down a sub man, going to send you to my buds too. How you played this with such patience is astounding
Haha thanks Cameron! I really love this tune, it's one of those rare birds that is as fun to listen to as it is to play.
Absolutely amazing talent and contribution \m/, any luck on posting a vid for hearts alive?
Coming soon!!!
Is that intro hybrid picked?
1:22
Uncle Ben, how much do you love the kemper profiler? Any luck you could do a short vid on it?
I absolutely love it. If I made a video about how much I love it, it would be more of a RedTube kinda upload, if you catch my drift.
Please be my real uncle.
I've sent in the step uncle adoption papers. Waiting to hear back from them.
Did you ever hear back from them🥺
which pickup would be better for a basswood maple neck guitar for standard E thrash metal, seymour duncan nazgul or the dimarzio titan? I'm asking you because you've got both pickups and you like megadeth hahaha, awesome tone as always!
Hmm..... Man, honest to god, I LOVE the Dimarzio EVO for thrash specifically!
+Ben Eller I was thinking the same, but I'm afraid it will be too harsh because of the standard E, I think the only way to find out is to try it. I'm gonna get some used ones
thx for the advice and for your time!
greetings from Argentina
Speack of the neck??? In bridge the titan and in the neck???
terbaik brader
How long does it take for you to figure something like this out? Cheers :D Also, ANy tips on getting started with training your ear? Cheers..again!
This one took a minute for sure! Really complex tune. Man, work on simple stuff like learning to hear root notes of chords and their distances (or intervals if you want to sound fancy). Pick up any OLD Green Day record, which will be nothing but power chords, and start trying to learn what those root note distances sound like.
Probably a bit late now but I'm using an app called Functional Ear Trainer which I downloaded free on the app store. I've been looking for ways to improve my playing when I'm not at home bc I don't always get the chance to practice so I've been doing some ear/theory stuff and this app is fun. Basically it plays you a set of chords from a scale and then a note and you have to identify which note in the scale it was. Good for practicing intervals if that's something you'd be into!
Nice one, I'll check it out. Are you still using it? how are you getting on with it?
I haven't been doing much music-wise at the moment cause I'm a bit flat out with work/study but while I was using it I was making good progress! Learnt the major intervals, and then started on the chromatic intervals in a major context and nearly had those nailed. After that it offers minor intervals and chromatic intervals in a minor context. Would definitely recommend it!
Fuckin awesome cover
Why does it look like there is a frame cut at 2:48? I only noticed it when watching the picking hand.
Travis Bowden ha! Nice catch. When filming on an iPhone (as I did in this video), there is a little frame drift that happens that makes recorded audio lose sync. So once ever 2 minutes or so, you’ve gotta snip a couple frames out otherwise sync drifts away real bad.
Fucking sweet
\m/
Hey Ben! Since you like Mastodon, have you ever heard Freak Kitchen? It would be awesome to hear you cover some of their old songs. I think you would like it!
Henrique Grande Neto He mentions them in one of his videos. The "This is why you at guitar: Your sweeping sucks" video, I believe.
Yeah man, huge fan of IA's playing! Criminally underrated dude.
Ben Eller Nice! It would be great to see you playing some IA's stuff!
Uncle Ben, please hit us with a guitar lesson for this song!
Please make a cover of night by marty friedman ( or his any other song)
Dat wall of Ibanii tho.
I like to keep a few on hand!!!
What is the tuning?
fucking aye! \m/
How is there not a Hearts Alive?
I missed this until I realized your name was familiar. Ever give anyone bass lessons?
Yeah dude!
Ben Eller In East TN, perhaps?
am actually here for 0:54 riff
Who are the 11 assholes that didn't like this wonderful guitar cover?
that's about 99% correct. Well done and thanks! Just to be perfectionist on this (Hehe) the second chord you play, 3 seconds in, is slightly different to the studio version. I believe there's an open A(or in this case G) string in that chord, just like in the first chord you play. So to tab that chord out quickly from fat string to thin, it's 8-0-10-0. There's one or two more things that I could mention, but it ain't really necessary cuz you pretty much nailed it
1:28 Sanitarium anyone?
yeah, that breakdown at 2.31 kinda has Acid Bath written all over it too...throw in a country lick maybe it's a dedication song to their influences Haha
Can you send me the link to the tabs? Plz !!!!!!!!
No tabs man! Figured out this one on my own. There's some great mastodon lesson videos from a dude playing a red guild SG, though, try to find those.
I found the guy with the red guitar but, it's so hard to tell what he is showing XD but I did find your lesson on the country solo!!!!! Thank you for that.
tyrannosaurus rex I bought my song book from amazon and it is pretty accurate.......
+Ben Eller
dude with the red sg is on it! I've learned most of my masto-Tunes by watching his hand positioning. capillarian crest gives me fits and I need it slowed down more. could you do like a 1/4-1/2 speed lesson on it?
goddamn, the tab i found sucks
there are 666 likes.. what do i do?