I've been using this to learn the whole of master of puppets from a couple months ago and now I can play it start to finish all down picks pretty decently. sooo glad this vid existed.
How the hell can it be that I get a fcking ad EVERY time in the middle of the solo?! This backing track is nearly unusable because of this! I mean I understand ads, but positioning them in the middle of the solo is so increadibly stupid...
The key is to breath and focus on relaxing all your muscles. This kind of metal is heavy and fast, but you have to play like a feather. It takes surprisingly little effort to fret a note and pick a string, it's just a matter of training yourself to relax while doing it.
the problem is that if you wanna play it and get it to sound good you need to hit the strings quite hard anyway. I'm working on refining this technique and I've gotten pretty far. so you gotta relax every muscle in your entire body, but still hit the strings hard
@@adammelin2627 Hit the strings hard only on the moment of impact. Your hand doesn't need to be 100% tense for the entire time. It's a matter of relaxing and contracting at the right time. I've not played guitar for a while but can still nail the first half of the song pretty effortlessly doing exactly that. It's not about hitting soft, it's about economy of movement.
Hi Tomas, if it isn't the downpicking hell to you, why don't you post a video on youtube were we can see your technique and what is the D.P. "hell" for you? I'd like to see what you mean for D.P. Hell... Maybe Tornado of Souls? Show us your supreme technique for downpicking... We all have to learn from you.
honestly, playing guitar ruined some of these songs to me. master of puppets just sounds like pain to me now. hand pain ... same with creeping death & battery
Some people on TH-cam are so dumb. Why would you ever give the thumbs down to this kick ass backing track? This guy is doing us all a favor by providing a perfect practicing tool. Thank you
it's cuz they didn't get their ultimate dream track served up to them on a silver platter...it cuz the drums and bass doesn't sound exactly like the record....the song king nothing comes to mind.....
I can downpick this now. I remember being at 170BPM and 190BPM, but here I am, at full speed. All it takes it effort and consistency. I still consider myself a noob, and so if I can do it, anyone can lmao
Proper technique and not over stressing it, find the muscle that hurts when you downpick and then find an exercise to strengthen that muscle. Even if you have to lift weights at weird angles, as long as you don't overstress yourself you'll be chugging in no time.
to all the guitarists having problems and doubts to play this: yes, it‘s f*cking fast but just practice it, every day, when you have your guitar in your fingers just strum the chords! with the time it automaticly happens that you become comfortable with this, everything will seem easy, the technic and power in your wrist muscles, the speed! just keep playing it, im talking out of experience!!
I was practicing the first 1 minute for about an hour, then my girlfriend comes in the room with a jar of pasta sauce she wanted me to open for her, needless to say, we had our pasta with ketchup :)
sometimes when i can play this song i fell great, and play the guitar all day, but other times when i cant keep up with the speed and fuck up, i feel like i really suck at guitar
This was happening to me too...but first, before start to play this song...try to warm up..like 1 hour...just play songs faster and faster for 1 hour...then your enough warmed up to handle it...
I CAN PLAY FUCKING TORNADO OF SOULS, BLACK STAR AND OTHER SIMILAR SONGS PROPERLY, BUT I CAN'T DOWNPICK THIS OVER 200 BPM, FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!
When you're in the middle of a conference but you don't pay attention and forget that you're not home so you rip an epic fart and everybody stares at you
This is a good down picking workout. Great for building the technique, thanks my dude. A good tip is to practice to a metronome at a faster tempo and the original will be a breeze
ZAFARIA kirk can downpick too lol. He doubles most of James’ playing anyway. Dont hate on kirk man, he is part of what made Metallica what they are today. His riffs, his solos, absolutely iconic. 80% of my fav Metallica riffs i found out were kirks. Watch the Andriy Vasylenko ”Riffs not written by James” and youll have some respect for the man.
I just tried to play it all after 14 years.I had a band and this song was must on every concert.Guess what i fucked up in the most of the parts but thank god my downpicking is still great :)
Rapaz, que trabalho bom danado! Eu acho que poderia ser interessante ter uma guitarra base no fundo, mais baixo um pouco por que fazer os solos sem a segunda guita é difícil, mas quem está procurando um Bakcing track pra gravar está ai o melhor do TH-cam
James Hetfield is a guitar god and is criminally underrated. I tried doing all the down picking and I'm like how tf does he do this and I've been playing for 17 years.
PUSSIES!!!!!!! 😂😂😂 jk its a pain in the ass as well as the wrist, but once you find that groove and the control over your picking, this song becomes your bitch...until the fucking solo 😂
Guys... In case you're not doing it yet... Arc your picking thumb... Like an OK shape with your hand. 👌 Take a look at how Papa Hetfield grabs it. That takes a lot of the stress away. The index and thumb nailtips should practically be touching. (Also, James uses both his index and middle finger, but I don't think that's actually necessary...)
they forgot to play the guitar dude wtf
Not funny twat
I think that might be the point of a backing track
Kirk overslept for studio day
@@trevorbaker7168*James and Kirk
They also get older man
5:51
I've been using this to learn the whole of master of puppets from a couple months ago and now I can play it start to finish all down picks pretty decently. sooo glad this vid existed.
WTFFFF I WAS PLAYING THE SOLO AND AN AD POPS UP, IM SO MADDDD
Why tf is there an ad in the middle of this
Ik bro like wtf💀
5:49 Solo
How the hell can it be that I get a fcking ad EVERY time in the middle of the solo?! This backing track is nearly unusable because of this! I mean I understand ads, but positioning them in the middle of the solo is so increadibly stupid...
Ikr, its annoying as all hell!!!
exactly
You know that you could just download the track or use adblocker ;)
Thanks for this and all other backing track videos. You are the best!!!!
The trick is to rotate your pick towards you that way you can last longer
art-of-guitar? ;)
I could play this all day.
been playing this song for near 30 years, just realized, TH-cam!
End of passion play, cramping hand away...
damn blisters on fingers ;)
Hi, i have a question, how do you do all this stuff? i mean to separate the audio from the first guitar and the 2 one.
Only comments allowed is if you been playing this for at least 20 years ago before stranger things lol
Kirk Hammet.exe doesn't exist
Why would you put an ad in the middle of a song... that i’m trying to play along too
Eu que não sou besta só uso alternada nessa porra!
As I'm not fool, I only use alternated pick...
+luan cassio novela,
O segredo é não ficar tenso
Как опустить свою самооценку до нуля:
My arm hurts
wow i got an ad in the middle of playing
well that hurt
is it good ive only been practicing this for like a month and i can kind of do it
👍🏾
Amazin vos the james hetfield
I got a ad mid way dawg
numb numb juice
Not to brag, but I've got the first E chord hit down perfect.
rullian2112
Not to brag, but i have that AND the 3 power chords that come after
doesnt it start with an a# tho? XD edit:didnt realise this isnt blackened XD
down picking is the way \m/
@@tasberkes Well, that and there is no such thing as an A#
@@Iconoclysm yes there is its the same thing as Bb
5:46
The key is to breath and focus on relaxing all your muscles. This kind of metal is heavy and fast, but you have to play like a feather. It takes surprisingly little effort to fret a note and pick a string, it's just a matter of training yourself to relax while doing it.
the problem is that if you wanna play it and get it to sound good you need to hit the strings quite hard anyway. I'm working on refining this technique and I've gotten pretty far. so you gotta relax every muscle in your entire body, but still hit the strings hard
+Adam Melin yeah for real. It's about using the momentum of the pick to do the work, not muscling it.
@@jakedenison4602 the faster you TRY to be the slower you Wil be
another key is to grab a metronome and play some of the riffs at a faster tempo. Just playing like that and original will feel like nothing
@@adammelin2627 Hit the strings hard only on the moment of impact. Your hand doesn't need to be 100% tense for the entire time. It's a matter of relaxing and contracting at the right time. I've not played guitar for a while but can still nail the first half of the song pretty effortlessly doing exactly that. It's not about hitting soft, it's about economy of movement.
welcome to down picking hell!!!!!!
+Andrew moore I agree
+Andrew moore gay
+Andrew moore i love down picking too, but it isn't ''hell''
Hi Tomas, if it isn't the downpicking hell to you, why don't you post a video on youtube were we can see your technique and what is the D.P. "hell" for you? I'd like to see what you mean for D.P. Hell... Maybe Tornado of Souls? Show us your supreme technique for downpicking... We all have to learn from you.
P.s. I'm not
kidding
. I'm talking for real.
There are days where i could do this and some days it just fucking hurts XD
This. As. Fuck.
your profile picture i'm pissing
Ana The Metalhead \m/ It's fucking beautiful
On too much Nyquil today... Another day.
honestly, playing guitar ruined some of these songs to me.
master of puppets just sounds like pain to me now. hand pain ... same with creeping death & battery
5:47 right before the solo
Thx dude
I'll be back when im ready
Wtf? Ads in middle of the song?
Yup I feel ya… TH-cam is annoying without a subscription
@@goldenbdogg4880 first time I've had an ad in a middle of a song. usually it's before or after. guess youtube is really pushing it. lol
Some people on TH-cam are so dumb. Why would you ever give the thumbs down to this kick ass backing track? This guy is doing us all a favor by providing a perfect practicing tool. Thank you
ikr, there is nothing to dislike about this, and if you don't like Metallica, how and why would someone find this
it's because they're people who have no taste in music at all and don't appreciate the songs that the gods have metal have created for us haha
gods of metal*
it's cuz they didn't get their ultimate dream track served up to them on a silver platter...it cuz the drums and bass doesn't sound exactly like the record....the song king nothing comes to mind.....
It's because they thought that this is the song they don't know what a backing track is
The moment when the solo is easier than the intro
i feel that bro...
the moment when you start thinking you got all the notes right of the intro and then you miss one and then some more...
Yep harder to play with band
Intro is hard? I can play it lol
@@gilnao9826 ive been playing guitar for 15 years, and i still fuck up on the beginning of the solo sometimes lol. kirk is a beast
Me: *Finally finds a groove for the interlude and thinks he’s gonna kill Jame’s solo*
The Devil: Think again, *slaps down ad right in front of solo*
ive used this backing track so many times and that ad gets me every single time LOL
james solo..? thats kirks!
@@DannyGz99 Lol the INTERLUDE solo is definitely played by James
@@jacesnodgrass7700 Oh, i thought you were talking about the actual solo
Adblock plus, it's your friend. I havent been bothered by an ad in years
I can downpick this now. I remember being at 170BPM and 190BPM, but here I am, at full speed. All it takes it effort and consistency. I still consider myself a noob, and so if I can do it, anyone can lmao
Nice! How long did it take to reach this speed?
@@flaviumaxin8056 It was quite a long time ago now, but I'd say it took a few months to get it down properly haha
Same, I just kept trying and now it comes fairly easily
how does james hetfield not have tendonitis???
drugs ahaha
I guess so...haha
Oscar Clerici no you are wrong
Proper technique and not over stressing it, find the muscle that hurts when you downpick and then find an exercise to strengthen that muscle. Even if you have to lift weights at weird angles, as long as you don't overstress yourself you'll be chugging in no time.
do you have some example? im pretty good at alternate picking but this song kills me...
For all the people In the comments that say it’s easy to play; until you upload a video. The only thing you are playing is a skin flute.
Ads right in the middle of the song…
Fuck this shit. I'll just go ahead and economy pick this one.
Lmao
how does james hetfield not have tendonitis???
öyle daha zor la. sağ kol ağrıyo ağrımasına ama üst üst daha kolay bence
Alışkanlık meselesi. Alternate daha kolay geliyor bana.
Ömer Atasoy oda var ben direk up up öğrenmiştm
Ad mid song
to all the guitarists having problems and doubts to play this: yes, it‘s f*cking fast but just practice it, every day, when you have your guitar in your fingers just strum the chords! with the time it automaticly happens that you become comfortable with this, everything will seem easy, the technic and power in your wrist muscles, the speed! just keep playing it, im talking out of experience!!
It played 4 ads throughout the song. I almost threw my guitar
1:08 I'm dead till then
+Georgi Ivanov haha, i know your feeling. i had same :D
I got midroll ad at the solo😒
😂 premium
I was practicing the first 1 minute for about an hour, then my girlfriend comes in the room with a jar of pasta sauce she wanted me to open for her, needless to say, we had our pasta with ketchup :)
Ketchup with pasta is a crime
Don’t get it
Was it really necessary to put an ad in the middle of the first solo?
lol 83 people don't like down-picking
Big Monster Gaming. 159 people
Just Kill 'Em All!!!!
Im actually better with only down than up down
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Remember that moment when you could play this through without failure? Me neither.
Thanks you tube for putting a advertisement in the middle of the track good going guys 👍🏻
Just wanna thank you for posting these. And if your the one who made them, much appreciation. They are outstanding.
How the fuck is it humanly possible to play the intro with only downpicking??
Edit: Finally got it right, after 618462 days of practice
glad im not the only one struggling with that lol
anyone else trying to play the first minute for years?
+Breno Cordeiro Sadly, yes ...
Just down picking...
+Arjun Srivastava of course ! ;)
+Breno Cordeiro It took me a year to master the whole song :P
+TodayTiger same here xD especialy the solo !
how can hetfield sing trough this madness
Mighty Het Speaks
sometimes when i can play this song i fell great, and play the guitar all day, but other times when i cant keep up with the speed and fuck up, i feel like i really suck at guitar
This was happening to me too...but first, before start to play this song...try to warm up..like 1 hour...just play songs faster and faster for 1 hour...then your enough warmed up to handle it...
It happened to me, i played it the verse riff easily and 3 seconds later i couldn't play it. I mean wtf
@@alansolorio3463 same here. So frustrating
I CAN PLAY FUCKING TORNADO OF SOULS, BLACK STAR AND OTHER SIMILAR SONGS PROPERLY, BUT I CAN'T DOWNPICK THIS OVER 200 BPM, FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK!!!!!!!!
Right? It's like holy wars is piss but this sucks to play.
Holy wars is funny to play, this is fucking mental
10years old and still the best backing track on TH-cam
God TH-cam thanks for slapping ads in a backing track video
0:35 Akward moment
+SardinTheo48 if you sound like shit, yea..
When you're in the middle of a conference but you don't pay attention and forget that you're not home so you rip an epic fart and everybody stares at you
@@Carbon2861996 lol
4 years late but for anyone else; open E, 7th fret A string, 8th fret D string. repeat 4x then it should time
@@orlandomckillop1494 And at the last repeat 8th fret D string it's an AH (artificial harmonic)
That feeling when you nail a song like this 😍
Put an ad in the middle. That would be great said no one.
In know super ennoying.
Used this one so many times, I owe you big time.
Maintenance
4:16 - 5:50
This is a good down picking workout. Great for building the technique, thanks my dude. A good tip is to practice to a metronome at a faster tempo and the original will be a breeze
can also speed up the video
Nice to play with Cliff Burton :)
3:51
much appreciated! there's no other way ive been getting the first solo timed right without this thanks
i wonder if james h. wrists hurt
+kostas korras id say no. He plays this song live very effortless. plus him singing thats just pure talent
James is one of the best rhythm guitarists ever. If you see his picking live you can tell he can play this effortlessly. Kirk on the other hand....eh!
Z-bjorn nah. Pretty easy to sing things you wrote yourself. Still, a very talented person.
ZAFARIA kirk can downpick too lol. He doubles most of James’ playing anyway. Dont hate on kirk man, he is part of what made Metallica what they are today. His riffs, his solos, absolutely iconic. 80% of my fav Metallica riffs i found out were kirks. Watch the Andriy Vasylenko ”Riffs not written by James” and youll have some respect for the man.
Who else puts this on 125 speed.
I just tried to play it all after 14 years.I had a band and this song was must on every concert.Guess what i fucked up in the most of the parts but thank god my downpicking is still great :)
God it’s too fast
8:08 Finally I can hear the delay part at the end!!!
It's insane how little people talk about this!
@@HybridHeads I know right!!! It's so underrated what those delay parts can do to the song!
holy fuck dude an ad right before the solo?? whyy
Perfect BT with original vocals... If only I could play more than the first 15 seconds...
damn my arm is falling off -.-
Rapaz, que trabalho bom danado! Eu acho que poderia ser interessante ter uma guitarra base no fundo, mais baixo um pouco por que fazer os solos sem a segunda guita é difícil, mas quem está procurando um Bakcing track pra gravar está ai o melhor do TH-cam
I got midroll ad😒
An add right before the harmony solo. Took the progressive element of this track to all new highs.
James Hetfield is a guitar god and is criminally underrated. I tried doing all the down picking and I'm like how tf does he do this and I've been playing for 17 years.
15 years for me. I have to alternate pick this song. No other way for me.
@@vehemence2006 yeah wtf
practice for 10 minutes?
i’ve been playing for 2 years and i downpick the whole song, a tip is to not put a lot of effort into one note and relax your muscles
412 bpm on youtube
5 minutes 1-x times a day
-> mop down picking within a few days to weeks
Real studio backing track-awesome!!
my hand just fell off
welcome to hell fellow guitarists
I came here bcoz somebody told me this is a great guitar exercise. now i can't hold a glass of water lol
midROLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLS
I hate that theres an ad right in the middle of the solo but other than that, best backing track on yt
Oh fuck, James is the fucking downstroke god...
I'M NOT DOWNPICKIN' THAT! *returns to alternate picking*
Rage Floyd me too i dont get like the down picking theory i rather do some really good palm muting and alternate picking
PUSSIES!!!!!!! 😂😂😂 jk its a pain in the ass as well as the wrist, but once you find that groove and the control over your picking, this song becomes your bitch...until the fucking solo 😂
downpicking gives extra heaviness to the song, you can totally hear the difference
U r playing it wrong
Here's your participation trophy 🏆
Guys... In case you're not doing it yet... Arc your picking thumb... Like an OK shape with your hand. 👌
Take a look at how Papa Hetfield grabs it. That takes a lot of the stress away. The index and thumb nailtips should practically be touching.
(Also, James uses both his index and middle finger, but I don't think that's actually necessary...)
my writs hurt like hell after playing this once, felt like my hand had lead in it
Same backing track on my fuckin channel! Link for download included (I'ts not ad, just wanna share it with you, guys =3)
Wow, haven't played this song for years. Maybe with practice in 1 month I can play it again lol....specially at 6:29
5:49 2nd solo
Incredible work! And thanks for bringing us the real vocal track!!! This is perfect!!!
Was quickly humbled by this
Damn how you finna have an ad in the middle of the song?
James solo 3:58
Kirk Solo 5:50
Bridge 6:25
this is terrible, i hear almost no giutar in this at all
Put it in 1.75x speed, sounds like battery 0:39