Mike one thing that I like the most about your channel aside from the content itself is that not only do you not ram your classes down our throats, but you do plug your product without making the entire video an ad for it, and don't just tease us with some lazy guitar work to get us us to sign up. Like those garbage workout "secret to this and that" videos everywhere. I appreciate that.
I know you get this a lot probably and I'm not enrolled in your course, but I cannot thank you enough for always uploading content for free thats easy to digest. I appreciate it a whole lot.
triplet is basically a foundation for any hardcore breakdown, henceforth breakdowns sound "brutal" gallops are what you hear from Barracuda by Heart, the rest is adding kick gallop to drums (especially thrash beat), and then it's history
It was a very cool, lesson. I'm a player of 20years arsbut I'm guilty of not pickin my guitar uo for the past two years, but I plugged in my Ibanez ergodyne and got into the galloping vid last week, an it felt good. An now this today epic, very old school an I love it, thank u! More like this please to keep our spirits alive 🎸
Hey Mike i just wanted to ask you if you can make a video on figuring out chords behind the solo. What i mean by that is that every time i listen to a solo it's just straight up impossible for me to figure out the chords for some reason and I'm sure i'm not the only one who's having trouble with this. If you have any tips for this please make a video on this subject. Thank you in advance and keep making awesome content.
3 fun tips for Groovy Riffage: 1. Play to drum tracks that feature a "Train" beat. th-cam.com/video/8QMG7WlmMvo/w-d-xo.html You can hear the kick drum keeping a nice pulse while the snare is being extra rhythmic Pantera's music was very much rooted in the "Southern Groove" and not Strict 4/4 time. If you feel that your playing lacks "groove" then ditch strict 4/4 time and start jamming to Train Beats...time your riffs and triplets to the snare instead of the kick for extra "groove" 2. Start your groovy riffs with an upstroke. The intro to Cowboys From Hell is waaaaay easier to play if you alternate pick beginning with an upstroke. That may sound counter-intuitive to people that associate Metal with down picking but trust me...there are some very interesting benefits to grooving with upstrokes too. 3. Play your Triplets between beats. Gojira is another band that has a great sense of groove. One of their grooviest songs is Stranded. th-cam.com/video/FNdC_3LR2AI/w-d-xo.html The triplets fall between the kick and snare giving the song a completely different feel versus linking everything directly to the drums. Placing triplets in spots that lack drums keeps the music both interesting and energetic.
I think a good way to clarify triplets is this: 3 triplets will occupy the space of one beat. For example, in 4/4 time, a group of triplets will occupy the same amount of time as one quarter note (1 beat, for a max total of 12 triplets, if all of them played in line with all quarter notes in a measure of 4 beats). Just remember, the definition of triplets is just that - a group of 3. They will always be in 3, as they always have to be together in order to be called "TRIPLEts"! :) A great example of this is Kirk's solo early on in For Whom The Bell Tolls. Tap your foot and whistle that solo he does - and you'll see that each group of triplets occupies one beat, and each measure contains 12 triplets.
I feel like I only know how to play the rhythm correctly because I already know how the songs I'm learning are supposed to go, I have no idea how to actually count it correctly (I should have learned when I was taking piano lessons, but I was a kid then and didn't pay attention, oops...)
Same. I usually just pick up my Guitar and just start playing. Soon enough, a riff comes to my head. I don't know how to count. I'm learning drums, so hopefully that helps me improve my timing. I don't know anything about music. I just pick up my Guitar and write. I don't know shit about time signatures, quarter notes, half notes, whatever. I know what they are but since I have ADHD I can never focus long enough. I can only do it by ear. I tend to visualize the music in my head as a physical object, so that helps me know what I'm doing without being able to explain what I'm doing haha.
Great vid, well explained. James Hetfield seemed to like his quarter note triplets. Half of Fight Fire with Fire is just quarter note triplets. You should do a video on dotted eighth notes. We need more dotted eights in metal.
correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe the machine gun riff in One by Metallica is made of sixteenth note triplets (1 trip-let + trip-let DA, 3 trip-let + trip-let DA), thats how i'd count it at least, but i might be wrong
A way to count 16th note triplets is “biddilly diddilly”. It sounds funny but it rolls off the tongue even at much higher tempos and it helps you keep time very well. Learned this from Jake Lizzio
Gallop = 2 sixteenth notes and an eighth note in the space of a quarter note beat. Triplet = 3 notes in the normal space of a 2-note beat. How I learned to count triplets is 1-2-3 2-2-3 3-2-3 4-2-3. The fast part of One by Metallica sounds like 16th note triplets
Could you go over delay triplets and. how to use it its always confused me...can you have one repeat as slapback or does it need to be 3 repeats feel never understood it
I like your lessons very much! Lately on I have returned to think of playing the guitar - I have 9 electric guitars (solid body). Anyway I haven't played the guitar for at least 12-15 years..unfortunately. I can say it is very tough to return to the guitar for so long period of time of not playing. I started play the guitar in 1993, by having been a great fan of Nirvana and some classic rock metal bands like Metallica, ACDC, or Guns and Roses. Currently I am trying to figure out what kind od guitar should I use now. Maybe the question sounds strange when you have so many guitars. However, for years of not playing, and only occasionally touching the instrument up to an hour a month, my hands weaned away from playing the instrument - they are flaccid like cotton wool or heavy to move like a stone. So I noticed that now the instrument is as foreign to me as a rifle for a person who does not like the army ... How does it look from the scale of the guitar neck, its radius, and also the length of the neck scale. I don't have long fingers, they are rather equal with my inner part of hands. Are guitars like Gibson Les Paul or Gibson SG better for people who don't have fingers as long as Steve Vai? There are also Jackson Dinky instruments that have a slightly shorter scale. I noticed that you often use these guitars interchangeably, if you could do an episode of your guitars and why and what you like to play them. I have been wondering about this lately. I don't force myself to buy super fast racing guitars in the style of Ibanez S. Although they are very good, they do not really appeal to me in terms of playing - they are difficult to master, and often have a very flat fingerboard angle, and wide intervals between frets. Maybe some tips about this problem versus the skills of guitarists ...
I find the "1-trip-let + trip-let" counting very hard because it won't be countable when getting even remotely fast. Instead, I'm using the tip from the guy of SpectreSoundStudios (I think that's the name) and count "bib-a-lee did-a-lee" per beat. You don't get the "1 2 3 4" count in but that's what foot tapping/moving your head along is for.
Pantera's Revolution is my name is in triplets right ? Also Cemetery Gates juuuust before the solo ther's a short triplet I think, correct me if I'm wrong
The-Art-of-Guitar Yeah that solos brilliant, but I also love the galloping , crunching racing rhythm to this UFO classic. It really doesn’t get any better than Michael Schenker and UFO!
1/4 Note Trips are Soooo Cool, Every Time...and they make your Drummer Happy! I play 4-String Bass exclusively now, so when guitarist lock in with me & drummer, the performance makes the audience Get Off Their Bottoms. Undergarments Come Off & Fly at Us. Make Sure Your Mom isn’t in the Crowd, First.
Quarter note triplets in 4/4 are actually based on 16ths. This video demonstrates them as quarter notes in 12/8. Neither is more correct than the other. Shoulda shown the difference.
Man I’m glad I never learnt music theory. And just think, all the guitarist ur aspiring to mimic had no idea they were playing 8th notes or 16th notes.
im simple man i saw dimebag , i clicked it
MySweetEngage I see we have the same need for dimebag
Right? :D
same !
Ya beat me to it. 🤘
factual statement
Mike one thing that I like the most about your channel aside from the content itself is that not only do you not ram your classes down our throats, but you do plug your product without making the entire video an ad for it, and don't just tease us with some lazy guitar work to get us us to sign up. Like those garbage workout "secret to this and that" videos everywhere. I appreciate that.
I know you get this a lot probably and I'm not enrolled in your course, but I cannot thank you enough for always uploading content for free thats easy to digest. I appreciate it a whole lot.
triplet is basically a foundation for any hardcore breakdown, henceforth breakdowns sound "brutal"
gallops are what you hear from Barracuda by Heart, the rest is adding kick gallop to drums (especially thrash beat), and then it's history
Barracuda is how i learned to gallop lol
@@NATE1717BALLIN Same. It's one of my favorite riffs.
With me it was Iron Maiden, The Prisoner. In hindsight maybe Barracuda would have been easier to start with. Lol
Nicko is the drummer people forget about. Better than most thrash drummers
1:29 Got some Criminally Insane by Slayer over it
For anyone who wants to see this concept taken to its extreme, check out Frank Zappa's "The Black Page".
*N E S T E D T U P L E T*
Some deep shit
Up @ 3am with a broken sleep schedule and the best person uploads good night so far
It’s so cool that you put so much time in videoes theese days🤘thanks Mike!
This is the most helpful guitar channel on TH-cam
It was a very cool, lesson. I'm a player of 20years arsbut I'm guilty of not pickin my guitar uo for the past two years, but I plugged in my Ibanez ergodyne and got into the galloping vid last week, an it felt good. An now this today epic, very old school an I love it, thank u! More like this please to keep our spirits alive 🎸
@4:15 'Revolution Is My Name'
I was wondering why i knew that riff
@@treehavn 🤘
Dimebag on thumbnail = instant like
Mike I really appreciate all the videos during these crazy times
Its like the chugs on Revolution is my name by pantera in the main riff
4:16 yes, and that pantera riff is live in a hole (as well as some others)
I’ve always struggled with what a triplet is compared to a gallop and 8ths and 16ths etc. Thanks, this was really helpful!
Hey Mike i just wanted to ask you if you can make a video on figuring out chords behind the solo. What i mean by that is that every time i listen
to a solo it's just straight up impossible for me to figure out the chords for some reason and I'm sure i'm not the only one who's having trouble with this.
If you have any tips for this please make a video on this subject. Thank you in advance and keep making awesome content.
Start with pentatonics.
My brain fights me with this
ur vids help me so much. Thank you for existing
3 fun tips for Groovy Riffage:
1. Play to drum tracks that feature a "Train" beat. th-cam.com/video/8QMG7WlmMvo/w-d-xo.html
You can hear the kick drum keeping a nice pulse while the snare is being extra rhythmic Pantera's music was very much rooted in the "Southern Groove" and not Strict 4/4 time. If you feel that your playing lacks "groove" then ditch strict 4/4 time and start jamming to Train Beats...time your riffs and triplets to the snare instead of the kick for extra "groove"
2. Start your groovy riffs with an upstroke.
The intro to Cowboys From Hell is waaaaay easier to play if you alternate pick beginning with an upstroke. That may sound counter-intuitive to people that associate Metal with down picking but trust me...there are some very interesting benefits to grooving with upstrokes too.
3. Play your Triplets between beats.
Gojira is another band that has a great sense of groove. One of their grooviest songs is Stranded. th-cam.com/video/FNdC_3LR2AI/w-d-xo.html The triplets fall between the kick and snare giving the song a completely different feel versus linking everything directly to the drums. Placing triplets in spots that lack drums keeps the music both interesting and energetic.
Thanks for that Cowboys From Hell tip, that riff is so difficult but so fun. I'll be sure to try it
didnt ask
I think a good way to clarify triplets is this: 3 triplets will occupy the space of one beat. For example, in 4/4 time, a group of triplets will occupy the same amount of time as one quarter note (1 beat, for a max total of 12 triplets, if all of them played in line with all quarter notes in a measure of 4 beats). Just remember, the definition of triplets is just that - a group of 3. They will always be in 3, as they always have to be together in order to be called "TRIPLEts"! :)
A great example of this is Kirk's solo early on in For Whom The Bell Tolls. Tap your foot and whistle that solo he does - and you'll see that each group of triplets occupies one beat, and each measure contains 12 triplets.
Down strokes killed it! Glad you stuck with it! Challenge accepted! Hahaha
Amazing lesson you r excellent make some more videos in this kind of topic ..
I think it's easier to just count the down strokes when you get to the higher tempos
Love your videos Mike! Keep it going
I feel like I only know how to play the rhythm correctly because I already know how the songs I'm learning are supposed to go, I have no idea how to actually count it correctly (I should have learned when I was taking piano lessons, but I was a kid then and didn't pay attention, oops...)
Same. I usually just pick up my Guitar and just start playing. Soon enough, a riff comes to my head. I don't know how to count. I'm learning drums, so hopefully that helps me improve my timing. I don't know anything about music. I just pick up my Guitar and write. I don't know shit about time signatures, quarter notes, half notes, whatever. I know what they are but since I have ADHD I can never focus long enough. I can only do it by ear. I tend to visualize the music in my head as a physical object, so that helps me know what I'm doing without being able to explain what I'm doing haha.
You're a fantastic teacher! Nice playing!
Great vid, well explained. James Hetfield seemed to like his quarter note triplets. Half of Fight Fire with Fire is just quarter note triplets.
You should do a video on dotted eighth notes. We need more dotted eights in metal.
There's nothing groovier than a bar consisting of 2 dotted quarter notes followed by a regular quarter note.
Fight fire with fire? I think most of it is just normal 16th notes
@@rangamsarmah2061 I think he's mentioning the chorus
@@invictusonline Yes it is funny since there is just a single measure of quarter triplets in the entire song hehehe.
Brilliant lesson! You explained it in 6 minutes!!!
I can’t believe how much you look like John Cusack!!! It’s unbelievable!! Haha.
That's funny cause my life is like High Fidelity. :)
The-Art-of-Guitar Haha
correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe the machine gun riff in One by Metallica is made of sixteenth note triplets (1 trip-let + trip-let DA, 3 trip-let + trip-let DA), thats how i'd count it at least, but i might be wrong
The teaching style was very good👏🏻💪💪
2:50 Am I the only one who heard Don’t Tread On Me.
So be it
So basically it is Revolution Is My Name by Pantera. Should've said that from the start, Mike!
Triplet is My Name
When he was demonstrating quarter eight and sixteenth notes in line with the drums, that could be a sick metal intro to a song
A way to count 16th note triplets is “biddilly diddilly”. It sounds funny but it rolls off the tongue even at much higher tempos and it helps you keep time very well. Learned this from Jake Lizzio
Notiflications Gang
Gallop = 2 sixteenth notes and an eighth note in the space of a quarter note beat.
Triplet = 3 notes in the normal space of a 2-note beat.
How I learned to count triplets is 1-2-3 2-2-3 3-2-3 4-2-3.
The fast part of One by Metallica sounds like 16th note triplets
Min 4:00 the best riff
Could you go over delay triplets and. how to use it its always confused me...can you have one repeat as slapback or does it need to be 3 repeats feel never understood it
Join the club.
good lessons as always
your quarter note triplet example just made me realize that Alannah Myles' - Black Velvet is actually quite heavy haha
Its cool,easy to understand
1:10 This is rock 'n' roll!
Runnin with the deviiiilll
Clicked because I saw Mr. Bag there. Getcha pull!!!!!!!!!
Check out Iced Earth's Traveling in Stygian for some serious 16th note triplet gallops (?)... who know's what its called, but it sounds sick!
Quarter note triplets, aka super triplets, are amazing for big chugging riffs in drop Q tuning for me, personally.
Great lesson 👍
This is so intense!
Bloody Brilliant!
I like your lessons very much! Lately on I have returned to think of playing the guitar - I have 9 electric guitars (solid body). Anyway I haven't played the guitar for at least 12-15 years..unfortunately. I can say it is very tough to return to the guitar for so long period of time of not playing. I started play the guitar in 1993, by having been a great fan of Nirvana and some classic rock metal bands like Metallica, ACDC, or Guns and Roses. Currently I am trying to figure out what kind od guitar should I use now. Maybe the question sounds strange when you have so many guitars. However, for years of not playing, and only occasionally touching the instrument up to an hour a month, my hands weaned away from playing the instrument - they are flaccid like cotton wool or heavy to move like a stone. So I noticed that now the instrument is as foreign to me as a rifle for a person who does not like the army ...
How does it look from the scale of the guitar neck, its radius, and also the length of the neck scale.
I don't have long fingers, they are rather equal with my inner part of hands. Are guitars like Gibson Les Paul or Gibson SG better for people who don't have fingers as long as Steve Vai? There are also Jackson Dinky instruments that have a slightly shorter scale.
I noticed that you often use these guitars interchangeably, if you could do an episode of your guitars and why and what you like to play them.
I have been wondering about this lately. I don't force myself to buy super fast racing guitars in the style of Ibanez S. Although they are very good, they do not really appeal to me in terms of playing - they are difficult to master, and often have a very flat fingerboard angle, and wide intervals between frets. Maybe some tips about this problem versus the skills of guitarists ...
love your videos!
Very useful, good job.
I find the "1-trip-let + trip-let" counting very hard because it won't be countable when getting even remotely fast. Instead, I'm using the tip from the guy of SpectreSoundStudios (I think that's the name) and count "bib-a-lee did-a-lee" per beat. You don't get the "1 2 3 4" count in but that's what foot tapping/moving your head along is for.
I agree but this is just to get your started. You can say anything really. As a drummer I say, "Did-a-la Did-a-la" a lot. :)
Great lesson, man!
What is that contraption on your bridge? Is that a tremolo?
I think it's a Les Trem
This was great!
1:27 so awesome!!!!
Here's something fun: do an eight note and follow it up with three sixteenth note triplets. You basically get triplet gallops.
The-Art-Of-Thrash
Gracias!!!!!!!🎸🎸🎸
Could you do a drum technique video of Gar Samuelson?
Nice video,thanks. I do all these but never knew what they are 🤣
Another great lesson
Please a tremolo picking tutorial
Hell yeah
Pantera's Revolution is my name is in triplets right ? Also Cemetery Gates juuuust before the solo ther's a short triplet I think, correct me if I'm wrong
So what is the actual time assignments to the notes in a gallop rhythm? Say for instance, the Heart song Barracuda?
Heart, Slayer, Iron Maiden, Priest, all the greats. :)
A dotted eight note followed by two regular eight notes
Yay. I learned the intro to shimmy by system of a down
The sixteenth note triplets you demonstrated come off as sextuplets. Is the only difference the accent in this case?
You need to play John Cusack in the remake of Say Anything
Is timing and rhythm as difficult for others as it is me? Maybe my brain just refuses to cooperate. I really have to think about it when I play.
Have a listen to UFOs Lights out off the Strangers in the Night live album for a gallop rhythm
Watch my 100 Greatest Guitar Solos video, I play part of it.
The-Art-of-Guitar Yeah that solos brilliant, but I also love the galloping , crunching racing rhythm to this UFO classic. It really doesn’t get any better than Michael Schenker and UFO!
What kind of bridge if that?
Damn I need some theory lessons
What gibson sg is that it sounds very good
Awesome lesson! Thx \m/
Gold 👍
cool!
Gallops are basically what a drummer woould call hertas?
5:38 Sounds like Jambi by Tool.
1/4 Note Trips are Soooo Cool, Every Time...and they make your Drummer Happy! I play 4-String Bass exclusively now, so when guitarist lock in with me & drummer, the performance makes the audience Get Off Their Bottoms. Undergarments Come Off & Fly at Us. Make Sure Your Mom isn’t in the Crowd, First.
Quarter note triplets in 4/4 are actually based on 16ths. This video demonstrates them as quarter notes in 12/8. Neither is more correct than the other. Shoulda shown the difference.
Nice video
You should learn gojira-backbone that is almost all gallops and it will destroy your wrists lol
what kind of bridge is at that SG?
Deusenberg Les Trem II
@@TheArtofGuitar thanx
I was taught to count 1-la-li-2-la-li-
Nice
I think the Metallica fan in you insisted on down picking those 16th notes.
32nds and 64ths??
The 16th note triplets remind me so much of a riff from Pull the Plug by Death! th-cam.com/video/_duhhVa-dk8/w-d-xo.html
and i still stuck at Gallop
Mike I may be wrong but it seems to me that you're playing sextuplets rather than 16th note triplets. What am I missing?
Look up the difference between the two. It’s an interesting thing.
@@TheArtofGuitar I have. The only difference seems to be the placement of the accent.
1:29 THRASH🤘
Drop D triplets: Just a Bullet Away - Metallica
I love you
Cool you just forgot to explain the dotted eigth note triplets. I mean gallops. I'm good. It's other people I'm thinking about.
5:43 take a few notes out and you end up with psycho holliday or fucking hostile
Triplet Trouble?
Man I’m glad I never learnt music theory. And just think, all the guitarist ur aspiring to mimic had no idea they were playing 8th notes or 16th notes.
right now axel foley is getting thrown through a plate glass window...just thought someone might care.
tri-pl-ty is much easier to say and count