MEGADETH's 22 Greatest Guitar Techniques!
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1:05 Chromatic Diminished Arpeggio Climb
2:25 Harmonized Pull off/Hammer on Descending Riff
3:33 Tremolo Riffs
4:57 Flat 5 Climb
6:38 Ascending/Descending In 3rds
8:07 Skipping Fingers Legato
9:07 THE Spider Technique
10:56 Rhythmic Pick Scraping
12:00 Chris Poland Legato
13:46 Adding Pinch Harmonics
14:41 Natural Harmonic Riffs
16:04 3rd Intervals
17:37 Attention To Rhythmic Detail
18:55 Distorted Chord Arpeggios
19:41 Sequence In 4’s
20:52 Harmonizing In 5ths
21:41 Dead String Muting
23:07 Friedman’s “Exoticisms”
26:05 Reverse Spider Climb
27:59 Octave Tapping
28:59 Insane Mustaine Stretches
31:14 Exotic Scales - เพลง
Mustaine is the extremely rare musician that can write riffs, solos, and lyrics at a very high level, as well as sing while playing complicated riffs
Bobby Utecht his lyrics are meh
@@djmelodix6868 his lyrics and songwriting is amazing, his voice isn't great but I like it personally.
@@djmelodix6868 You probably haven't heard much songs then. Skull beneath the Skin,Mary Jane, Family Tree, Youthanasia, Countdown to extinction (title track) Five Magics, Take no Prisoners, Blood of Heroes, Use the man, Prince of Darkness, Rust in Peace Polaris, The Conjuring, Devil's Island, Chosen Ones, The scorpion, Promises, Sleepwalker, United Abominations are the songs only on the top of my head all very well written songs and have great themes. Dave is a good lyricist if you don't agree it's alright.
@@djmelodix6868
Coming from someone who's heard 3 songs is my guess :D
@Lily Lily I don’t care much about lyrics. English is my second language and it took some time until I finally understood the lyrics of my favorite bands. In the meantime I was already fully enjoying the rhythms, melodies, harmonies and tonecolors of the music. If you aim for great lyrics with some important message or some provocative catchy words or something beautiful and poetic, you don’t necessarily have to listen to music, you could just read the lyricS, some poem or, if you want some more content,
and information input, read a full book with hundreds of pages. You might enjoy some exotic foreign songs, without understanding a single word and still enjoy the music. Music is not language, that is my basic message to you.
1:05 Skull Beneath The Skin (Intro)
2:25 Peace Sells (Bridge to second solo)
3:33 Rattlehead (Intro and verse)
4:57 Mechanix (solo)
6:38 Wake Up Dead (just after Dave's first solo)
8:07 Wake Up Dead (Dave's last solo)
9:07 Wake Up Dead (Bridge to the second Dave's solo)
10:56 Bad Omen (second riff)
12:00 Bad Omen (Chris Poland's solo during the intro)
13:46 In My Darkest Hour (second to last riff, before the ascending chromatic chords) (thank you SLAYER of Waifus and kurzackd!)
14:41 Tornado Of Souls (intro)/Holy Wars (riff just before Dave's solo)
16:04 Holy Wars (riff just before Dave's solo)
17:37 Holy Wars (whole intro riff)
18:55 Hangar 18 (second intro riff)
19:41 Hangar 18 (part between Friedman's first solo and verse riff)
20:52 Tornado Of Souls (pre-finale riff) (thank you kurzackd!)
21:41 Train Of Consequences (intro riff)
23:07 Skin o' My Teeth (solo)
26:05 Sweating Bullets (solo)
27:59 Into The Lungs Of Hell (Mustaine's solo)
28:59 Hangar 18 (Mustaine's second-to-last solo)
31:14 Holy Wars (Friedman's clean solo)
Wow!
13:46 is actually in my darkest hour
Vic Rattlehead, SLAYER of Waifus jesus, how did I not listen to him saying that? But what part exactly?
20:52 this isn't the bridge to ToS's solo, it's the 2nd-to-last riff in the song, or the 2nd AFTER the solo.
Call it the pre-finale riff, if you want.
As for the IMDH riff, it's also the 2nd-last riff.
kurzackd is correct
And when you remember that MegaDave is completely self taught, it makes all of his skills and tricks even more mind blowing .. Pure genius at work.
May I add another one?) Vibrato chords. He used it in Mechanix and High Speed Dirt intros.
Andriy Vasylenko I realy like vibrato chords
Athul Djentleman Yeah, they sound very tense) I don't remember any other band using them. Btw, this video is gold!
vibrato with double stops... Really cool observation
Hi frrrriend
Andriy Vasylenko Hi frriends
Dave Mustaine doesn’t get enough credit for his genius guitar work.
Yes he does he created a Genre of Music where Mudtalic plays the same set since 1991
@@cholestroll8937 Thrash, and arguably Technical thrash but that's a niche subgenre. Most technical metal heads play tech death
or his singing. rip countdown and youthinasia have some sick vocals
Yes he has. If i remember right he got 70% of the money in the first years of megadeth
@@aceman775 thats cuz of credibility to who made what. Dave wrote most if not all lyrics and riffs along with the organization of all songs for the whole discography of megadeth
This video made me realize why I love Megadeth so much
this man is the Bob Ross of guitar
SpazzyTaco1014 underated comment
TRUE
Nah Guthrie is. But this guys great too
Let's put a happy little palm mute over here.
So true! 😂 Yo you are an amazing guitar teacher tho dude. Rock on brother 🤘
Marty's pre bends in tornado of souls is legendary!
Shanon Sipes literally no one can bend it like marty!!
Thanks, Dave is the riffmaister! :)
Mustaine is a freakin genious making those twisting on those old patterns...
NO ONe can do more with less... ---> Train of Consequences riff...
Fukin Metal God...
Megadeth!!! Awesome, finally!!! We need this for Maiden and Priest too.
Not only is Dave a genius, the lead guitarists he has had over the years are amazing!
A Megadeth technique video is not complete without a Chris Polands saxophone style phrasing !!! Please do a lesson for that if you get time . I appreciate all the hard work you are doing for us .
Are there any songs in particular you can recommend where he showcases this?
portalsofmadnes bad omen, peace sells
@@portalsofmadnes Devil's island
Good Mourning... Black Friday
Man, you are a great teacher since you really can explain how things work out.
in MY OPINION Dave has always had the drive to be the best he could possibly be, whereas "other guitarists" may have lose that motivation while they sat at the top of the charts
Dave is AMAZING! To get fired from Metallica, being broke, and coming back to form Megadeath, and being almost as ;popular as Metallica! Who else can do that?
Dude, don't be a pussy, just say that Kirk Hammett sucks at guitar. The whole world knows it.
@ognilouD driB naw, it's fact
Wow your explanation on the sweating bullets solo also applies to a section in in my darkest hour, which I previously had trouble playing in time because of the 4 notes per string. This made me almost instantly make me play the solo perfectly, at least for that section.
Awesome!
Love this videos man! you broke down 2 of my favorite parts in Megadeth songs, that solo on sweating bullets and the octave tapping in "into the lungs of hell", that last one made me really nostalgic since I haven't listened to that song in many years. Keep up the great work!
Sweet. Yeah I love those songs.
Buckethead also uses the flat 5 climb. An example is in the song Jordan!
Nitro buckethead uses everything he is not human
Mike
You're a true inspiration in the genuine meaning of the phrase - please keep the videos coming.
Steve
Hey Mike. What I appreciate the most about your videos is that you have a really good sense of humor and you let out little things you are thinking making you very real as a person instead of being stuffy or proper. More like hanging with my buddy instead of a teacher. Thanks for making instruction easily enjoyable
"Some people wear Metallica shirts, some people wear Megadeth shirts"
Me: Looks in closet and see's both Metallica and Megadeth shirts. I had no idea you had to pick one.
That’s how it was back in the day not now lol
MetalliDeth gang.
I have picked slayer
I like how there’s a BC Rich in the background because that was the first guitar Dave used for Megadeth
I love this! Awesome video! Megadeth has so many cool techniques in their solos and riffs. Dave Mustaine is a musical genius, and he's always hired outstanding guitar players who contrast well with his raw, dirty-sounding style. I would like to add a few more techniques: legato slides (Hangar 18, Public Enemy No. 1, and Burnt Ice) and two-note-per-string descending runs (Reckoning Day, Family Tree, Dread and the Fugitive Mind, Return to Hangar, and The Emperor). There's also some pretty advanced tapping, as well (right-hand and string-skipped). Again, great job!
I just found this series of guitar lesson youtubes. Instant subscribe because I dig your style of teaching.
FWIW, I have been a huge megadeth fan and even bought all the books I could find before the internet became a source of guitar info.
You're a great teacher, this was really interesting. Thanks!
Thanks man.
A 'greatest techniques' series for bands like Megadeth and Dream Theater is incomplete without having a separate video for each musician in the line-up, lol.
Dave's techniques.
Friedman / Poland's techniques
Menza / Gar's techniques
Junior's techniques
Fantastic video though.
Great lesson, and great advice on how to get these techniques up to speed. Thanks for posting!
YESS!!!! Thank you soooo much for making this one!!!! Your content is incredibly amazing! 🤘🤘🤘
Awesome video. Been waiting for this for a long time.
Know what else I've been waiting for?
Glenn Tipton's guitar techniques.
Like 4+ years, I've been waiting.
Please, make it happen?
I'll also add that Megadeth tends to use a lot of Major 6'ths even while in minor keys. Has a really cool sound. Used in Hangar 18, Darkest Hour, and more.
All the small details of your plying are fantastic! Your tone, bending, vibrato. Everything
Could you do a video on how to improve the more subtle aspects of your technique?
If you have something like this already then please let me know. Great work!
Video of the year! I wanna see more videos like this one!!! Thanks
Excellent video .... being a drummer and trying to learn guitar I am selective with the videos I use and this vid is a keeper for me. Thanks for posting it.
Great video, thank you for taking the time to put together this list (:
The more I listen to metal and music in general, the more I like and appreciate Megadeth over Metallica. Even though I thought that megadeth was trash compared to metallica when I first started listening to metal.
Matti Aalto dave's riffs are impossible not to fall in love with
and Iron Maiden came before them and pioneered a lot of these things and were far more melodic
Megadeth is trash
+Renaissance Man
Completely different style of metal, what is Iron Maiden even doing in this comment thread ?
Renaissance Man If you’re gonna get into the real pioneers, it was Judas Priest.
Never thought I'd see this one! domo-arigato The Art of Guitar!
What an amazing video. Thanks for creating this.
Thanks and you're welcome. :)
Next Chuck Schuldiner!
Niilo Nevalainen I agree Chuck was the best
He has used so many techniques and he was so advanced that I think Mikey could make quite a long list
Chuck was 👑 of metal riffs
@~7.40 that "skipping a note" was also used in the My Last Words intro. Although I'm certain a lot of these riffs and things mentioned are used in plenty of Megadeth songs!
Great Video.Playing myself for decades in several metal bands and still could not figure out some Megadeth Riffs perfect.Yeah, it's Megadeth.Haha.This video will help all the beginners if they are willing to learn outside their 'comfort zone'. You name it.What I personaly always loved are those exotic or arabian scales.I am in a Iron Maiden Tribute Band and they often used those things back in the days.Keep on rocking with your great videos.
I love your videos very well done, well researched, and concisely demonstrated explained a great job. Would love to see some of the Techniques of Alexi Laiho R.I.P. and Amon Amarth. Keep them coming.
Great format idea. Thought I'd only watch a little bit, but I couldn't stop watching.
Dude you are a great teacher!!! Great video. Very informative!! Thanks a great deal!!!
spider chords are fun and tricky and a good workout
Hi. Thank you very much for taking the time to show the great guitarist techniques. Could you make a video explaining the techniques of great solos of glen tipton?.Regards
Outstanding video!! I really enjoyed it.
I knew Mustaine loves to do some really elaborate tricks'n such, but to this extend? Holy cow.
Great video, by the way!
May I ask what do you think about breaking down Chuck Schuldiner's techniques?
Chuck is awesome but I have quite a few to do before him. :)
Well, if you will ever get to him, it would be awesome
Thanks for your content and your time, keep up the amazing work!
@@TheArtofGuitar quite a few before chuck??? Sacrilege!!! Lol j/k man do you 😀
Megadeth got me into playing guitar. Great vid.
Wow this is an amazing video, I have only recently found this channel.I will get so much out of this from patterns and the tips/tricks shown thanks. This will keep me busy and when I play I forget all life's problems and negativity. (side note I live about 15min from where Dave made "in error" one of the most controversial comments ever... Later inspiring the song Holy Wars)
Literally just yesterday I was wondering why there was no Megadeth guitar technique video. Excellent job!
Great stuff! Can you do Synyster Gates and/or Alex Skolnick? Love your channel. You're a great player and teacher!!!
Nice work and great video, thank you very much!
Sweet video dude, lot's of nice tip's for anyone starting to learn the mighty Megadeth.
Hey Mike, love your videos. Very informative and detailed interpretations.
If I may, and if you haven't already realized this, I noticed that when you play the Marty Friedman Acoustic Break piece you played in the last segment, you ended on an E minor of sorts, but I'm pretty sure he ends it on E major.
Great stuff man, keep it up!
With the diminished riff at the beginning, . If you want a sweeping sound, you need to remove each finger after the notes are played. However the forefinger can be left down.
MAN! I've wanted to learn how to play Bad Omen's intro solo for ages but all the tabs were wrong (they either had way too many notes or too few so I had to mix and match them myself) but this seems pretty accurate. Thanks!
Thank you for this video . I enjoyed watching it .
4:09 i agree a 100%. I've been trying to learn the Take No Prisoners intro and i just couldn't manage to understand how to hit the right notes at the right time. It was just messy. But then I tried to just do tremolo picking and just hitting the notes with the left hand as accurately as possible and it became much easier. I still don't get it done right (mostly cause I am still a beginner trying a song a bit too hard for me) but i went from never nailing it to actually managing to do it (i miss maybe most of the other times but st least i got closer to manage it)
Great video. Couldn't have been done better. Thank you so much.
Thanks Joe!
Great videos and thank you! Have to say that I chuckled when you said "got the use the word "paradox".
Nice job. Been learning the techniques. Thanks. Can you prepare a segment on Michael Schenker? It would be awesome
This is my favorite Guitar channel on TH-cam. You my friend are doing some great work. The 'in the style of' is absolute gold. Would love to see you do John Petrucci, Jerry Cantrell or Devin Townsend. Fellow bjj practicioner Oss!
OSS!
he did Jerry cantrell
I know this has nothing to do with the content of the video, but I loooove the rosy color of that guitar and how it changes depending on the light! Sometimes it looks rosy, sometimes it looks silver and then even white.. Very beautiful! :)
It was a nice guitar that someone gave me. I ended up giving it away to a student who wants to customize it. Hope it goes well. ;)
The-Art-of-Guitar Ohh I wish I was this student ;) And by the way, I always like seeing footage of you on stage with your old bands (and I'm sure many other viewers do, too) - so it would be great if you could show us even more of those! :)
So you've been studying alot?
Well, I think it was worth every minute!
Thousands of vids where some jerks telling us how-to-play, but only one who does it right.
Congrats!
How about an Iron Maiden technique video next? That'd be a really fun one to do and an interesting one to watch!
thanks for your amazing work! would absolutely love one of these amazing tutorials on the genius player that is Ian Crichton of Saga
Please do a Marty Friedman's greatest techniques video!
I play Peace Sells and found it exactly how you played. Dave and Nick Menza were the backbones of Megadeth. From Chris Poland to Marty Friedman, it had given many guitarists their due chance but Dave still rules. Just play 3 guitars from 'Into the Lungs of Hell' (which I do once a week at least), and you will find some very different orchestration of cacophony even with so many guitars present. Good work, keep on...I am waiting for more.
Nice job. If anyone needs an easier Megadeth technique to add to the mix, Dave often adds a bass note below the root to his power chords -- for example, a D power chord would have the A on the 6th string included.
Great channel man!!
love the kramer!!! as a kramer player myself its nice to see others rock these guitars, they are work horses! espcially the one u have . a SM-1? i believe , i own the vanguard mustaine model and a baretta special which i modded to all hell! hahaha
i know that we keep requesting you to do this and that for us mortals / ingrates / students and I thank you on behalf of all of us.
SLAYER may not be your favorite band but I do know that Tom Araya took jazz lessons and theres a method to their riffness which is yet to be deciphered.
Can you please do one featuring their riffs and theory behind it.
Thanks in advance.
Billy.
Love these types of content!
very very nice one mike. \m/. the into the lungs of hell thing is done by dave with his thumb ;), he was bragging abot that in the 80ts. same thing as in the washington is next solo.
This video is outstanding
Really Good! TY
Really awesome video, lots of knowledge in one go! This band along with Led Zeppelin are what inspired me to learn guitar
I think it is a major chord at the end of the final clean riff at the end of the video ^^
Great video! subscribed
Hey bud, I know this is an old video, but I noticed you also play with an open picking hand when not alternate picking. I got stuck with the open hand too, and have had trouble tightening things up at faster speeds. Just wondering if/when you encountered that and how you overcame it. Thanks so much. Keep up the good work!
I can't say I like more than the other. Both awesome bands and amazing talent
Cool man, good stories and teaching thx.
Saw the title and had to click. I am looking forward to my guitar session this evening - thanks!
You definitely deserve way more subs
Thank you So much, it really helped...
Also those major third chords are seemingly Jon Schaffer of Iced Earth's favourite chords. Noticeably prevalent on the first few albums.
Awesome video
Hey great video ! It would be even cooler if you made other videos like that for other bands, and actually I have one in mind : Gojira. It always seemed to me that they're always trying to incorporate new ideas and new techniques in their riffs, like the almost excessive use of tapping, and pinch harmonics but done really weird (i never figured out what they're really doing) and whole lot of sliding weird stuff that sounds awesome, so I would be really happy if you could show us what is it that they're doing !
awesome vid
I'm not a guitarist but I watched this whole thing and it was AWESOME
Mike you are awesome on guitar i love your vids im a big megadeth fan
Where is Dave's between-the-leg strechy technique from Washington?
been watching a LOT of your vids lately, now I've finally subbed. Cheers! btw, would you consider doing a video on some Slipknot writing techniques, like this Megadeth vid? Cheers in advance! :)
Thanks for putting this video together!
Thought I already new how to play megadeth but,"not even close#"
At 7:00 it’s the same thing that Matt Heafy does on his practice streams on twitch, after the pigeon noises.
What's your opinion on the Cryptic Writing album stylistically? How do you view it given the music scence it came out(1997, the era when Load and Reload came out)?
A técnica de guitarra é impressionante em todos os estilos!
I've been doing the spider tecnique and just now I realised that Dave does it too, damn
Classic video already
which scale is used on the harmonized pull off/hammer on descending riff?