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You’re so involved with technical and theory that you fail to enjoy the feel Kirk plays with

Ha! I remember Kirk talking about James hating the end of the shortest straw solo. Kirk called it musical tension and James called it playing out of tune! lol I'm gonna tell you that that best hidden gold per metallica solos is James Hetfields riffs under the leads. Isolate them and .....yep....thats what you want right there. In closing ive met Kirk. He's gold. One of the coolest "rock stars" in this world. And I like his musical tension ! I hope this finds you all doing well Willard

Audio is shit.

7:50 Kirk once mentioned he choose this lick in the solo to mimic attacking flys as one of the seven plaques

You cannot ignore how melodic he is And as a trash metal band I don't think many trash metal guitarist does justice the way Kirk does.

He's good enough to be in the biggest heavy metal bands ever,sold over 100 million records..how many have you sold? Da.. Not a fucking one

I think there's something wrong because the video is 1 hour long

where is guitar transcription?. Idk if i am stupid but i can't find it. Great guitar playing btw.

He had only a short persion where he was considered "good", thats in the first 2-3 albums.. He then stuck with his playing and never improved, and his most solos are too generic and boring without any "feel" or "sense"...

I have no idea how to even hold a guitar! Ur evaluation and presentation of this was excellent

Love Kirk I've been listening to Kirk since I was a beginner guitarist at the age of 14 and the 9th grade and even after graduating classical guitar performance and going on to perfect my own playing, I still look at him as one of my top icons

No tab, "slow" version too fast, and left-handed. Pretty much useless.

Rob Trujillo sucks regardless

Victor wooten likes the second solo in shortest straw.

Yes, Kirk is not just good he's excellent.

Can you do is zach wild good

I know this video is three years old, but any chance you can break down Synyster Gates guitar playing?

i cannot figure out 4 lol

anybody who plays an instrument for 40+ years, will be a good musician. objectively.

Liked the last piece best because it was the most melodic . But you were a great guitarist from the get go .

Very objective analysis . Plus you are an awesome player yourself .

This is incredible… play it in a guitar store!

You have to understand. This is why you’re not a Kirk Hammett and it’s why he ended up where he is. The clashing isn’t “passing” its a feeling...

Dave Mustaine is garbage. Do some some analysis on him and find out.

Here's the funny thing, people crap on Kirk for not being a great guitar player, people crap on wires for not being a good drummer, people crap on James for not being a top-tier singer, but at the end of the day it shows that you don't have to be the best musicians to make the best music. And the numbers don't lie.

Y'all can say what you will about Kirk, he smiles all the way to the bank...$$$ and YES! He's that fucking good...!!!

Kirk was good writing solos till the black album, after the black album most of his solos were booring, repetitive, and forgetable.

385th like mine!

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In terms of the G minor pentatonic solo in "The Shortest Straw", would it be possible to assume it'd be in E locrian? Since the G minor pentatonic scale shares a similar set of notes as with the E locrian scale, and the riff being played has the notes E, F, G and A#/Bb which are also in the E locrian scale. (if we don't refer to the 5ths in the power chords) Correct me if I'm wrong, it's just me being curious. :p

Youre a decent player dude....but the best metal lead guitarist of all time needs no assessment. You know every lick by heart and thats what makes him the best ever. Case closed.

Kirk is a legend. Idc what anyone says . I could give a long explanation but I have done it a million times and I’m not tryna waste my time, .

Hay, excellent analysis and great vid

Kirk was a lot of players 1st attraction. But. He's like elementary school. We all go, learn our 1,2,3s and ABCs but. At some point we grow up and move on to more adult things, ie Marty, Jason, Satch, Syn or A7x, Zappa, Randy, Jake E many more players.

the problem with kirk is that it seems that he has never gone back to finish his homework, like the many times he's played b minor licks over e minor rythms... like why wouldnt u just go back and play the scale correctly f# is just beside G lol... but hey give beyong magnetic a try, there's surprisingly cool solos there (even james did one)

Musician are not define as musician due their skills, is how they deliver the music to people, its definitely his mentor joe is miles away from kirk but why kirk sell more album its how he deliver his stuff to people

Skillful guitarist doesn't mean gonna make your band sound good or interesting.. many skillful guitarist had join megadeth and most people only remember marty friedman solos.. Too many skillful guitarist nowday just sound like any other skillful guitarist.. No originality..

Kirk did some amazing work on the first 3 albums and in my opinion could have progressed if he wanted to. I feel the same about Lars and his playing.

kirk kicks ass !

He is an excellent guitarist. But nine time out of ten, what he actually plays is not very interesting.

Do you have one of those muting wraps around the nut/headstock? I’m amazed there are no open strings ringing at all

what guitar settings are you using? this sounds so close to the original!

Unforgivin Solo 🔥🔥

I think he was great in his hey day but he's definitely changed his approach to his lead playing and relies to much on his Wah with playing it safe scale runs and repeating string bends when soloing. It seems like he composed a lot of his solos back in the day and had more of a idea going in knowing what he would do, these days he sounds lost

Hey man do you know what song is being played in the 2011 clip? Its such a good jazz solo! Amazing work!

Kirk plays in Metallica, you play in your room.

Yes ... the abuse Kirk takes is deserved

He does good, but indeed with low resources. The problem he has is that given his very limited techniques his creativity is capped to the same pentatonic excersize phrases when he speeds up. The more resources you have, the more creative and more options you got. Once you start playing his solos you realize they are pretty similar

First of all nice content. I particularly like the fact that you played Guitar yourself On this Video. For me there is far too many Keyboard Warriors online trashing Guitarists and Kirk really does seem to get caned big time. The one word which for me is vastly overused is SLOPPY. I think people just use that word trying to make it sound like they know what they are talking about. I even seen on a forum someone saying Malmsteen plays Sloppy really???. The one thing all these people seem to have in common is no link with them playing guitar. I wonder why ???????. If Kirk was really that bad he would have booted out of Metallica a long time ago. They could easily cherry pick a great guitarist to play for them. Myself I think Kirk is decent and what's more he was/is perfect for Metallica, a virtuoso Guitar Player may not always be the best fit for a band.