Chordplay - The Chords of Metallica
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- Here's the next episode of Chordplay with the Chords of Metallica.
This lesson kicks off "Metal Month" here at Late Night Lessons and Metallica certainly doesn't need an introduction.
They're a world-famous and legendary metal group that virtually shaped the sound of thrash metal in their early days and created a more polished and mature sound with every album they've released since Kill 'em All.
This lesson takes a direct look at how they shape their chords and where some of their mutant chords originate from and features a number of famous and familiar Metallica riffs and songs. This added section to this lesson reveals where some of Hetfield's inverted (or "backward") power chords come from and how you can locate and utilize these sounds in your own music.
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This is one of the rare guitar instruction videos on TH-cam where what you watch in a few minutes gives you stuff to practice for years.
Only if the internet was around when I was learning this stuff. I can't tell you of how many cassettes that I wore out practicing Metallica's music. This was a cool video dude.
Exactly! I learned Ktulu by ear, and I've alwayes played it closer to the nut, so now I'm gonna have to go back an re-learn it this way, since it sounds SO much better and is, undoubtedly, the actual way that they played it on the album.
Same here. Learned ALOT by ear because of not having the internet mid/late 80’s. Tore up a lot of tapes too. Haha
We would have all sounded like clones.
The old school way we learned guitar gave us our own style, and got us excited when we stumbled upon that "key" chord we were trying to figure out.
Now it's pretty much handed to players. You can't develop your ear that way. 😉👍
i thought this would be a quick video. chords of metallica - E. thank you for watching.
Fukin pissin meself laffin briliiant lol
brilliant lol
It's always been Ride the Lightning for me. I still remember buying this the day it came out and just being blown away.
"The Thing That Should Not Be" is actually played on a guitar tuned to D Standard, a whole step down, just like "Sad But True". Metallica didn't use drop tunings until the "Load" era. ("The God That Failed" was in Eb). GREAT run-through though!
I used to love playing “Orion” as a warm up song in the first thrash band I was in.
I use a lot of those types of chords in my music.
I've never see you play anything but a strat. Cool Les Paul.
Such an underrated guitar channel. Thanks for the content!
Once again brother , LOVE your style ... Teaching , personality , intellect , etc. !!! 👍🎸🎼🤘❤️And I to , "if I had a gun to my head" , and had to choose a "favorite 1 song" by them ; I to would have to choose "Sanitarium" !!! 🤘Unreal composition . Truly a Masterpiece !!! 👍
Orion never gets old!
Great Highlights. On the Album “Thingy” all six strings are tuned a whole step down.
Fun fact about orion it was originally going to be played at the end of 'Welcome home sanitarium' as apart of it, thankfully it didn't imo.
David.. My dude.. I have to say, I was not expecting such revelation and insight from a lesson on Metallica. When you went up the Aeolian to execute the notes of the scale and various chords it not only sounded killer, it was *insert explosion sound 🤯! This one is full of ideas and combinations that I really needed to get a grasp on. Just ascending the notes per string will get the brain into the game. Thanks so much man!
How long is you’re waiting list for lessons?? 😎🤘🏻🙏🏻
And agreed that Master is THE album. Hell, between my friends and I, we probably wore out at least 20-30 cassettes when it came out. There was no party you went to or car you got into that it was not playing. ✌🏻
Love the way you are able to pull out a couple of unique things these players are doing and present it....it's so refreshing to see and hear something presented this way ....and really this is a lifetime of learning....some of these riffs or chords or patterns were really difficult to figure out back in the day...I can't tell you how many turntables and cassettes I destroyed figuring out some of this stuff...such a cool channel
Love these "Chords of..." I first learned these so called upside down power chords as a young player from Van Halen's "Feel Your Love Tonight" Clearly he did not invent this, but was my first time learning them. Keep up the great work!
I can't stop watching these videos. Thanks for sharing! I know a little theory, and lots of chords from playing different styles. But,I learn something new from all these.
Best teacher out there , like hanging out with an old friend
Your lessons are always explained clearly. Thank you.
How about that tone? Awesome crunch.
David always seems to capture the tone of each artist.
I absolutely LOVE watching you break down the chords of all these artists. It is hugely interesting and helpful. Your playing is amazing...wish I could get one on one lessons with you.
October is metal month! Yes I love that! Another great video David, so much great content, i learned more in 22 minutes than I ever learned by ear on Metallica. i have been playing stuff wrong and I knew it, just didn't know how to make it sound right. Now I do! Thanks again!
Awesome lessons. Awesome musician . Thank u for the video 🙏
🤘🏻 METAL MONTH 🤘🏻
Thank you. Great insights.
AWESOME! Great analysis. I have learned alot from your channel. Keep it going!
This was a great surprise. I was really stoked at work when I saw you covered Metallica. I couldnt wait to get home and check it out. MOP is my favorite also. Maybe the best metal album ever.
When testing distortion I almost always play Orion and Blackened (the middle/breakdown? Part)
My #1 favorite channel! Dave breaks down the origins of modes and how they relate to the songs in a very intelligent way. #professorbrewster
Welcome home sanitarium was the first Metallica song I learnt how to play
Still one of my favourite Metallica songs
I'm a new subscriber and man...dig this guys approach to teaching. I wish I could have had him as a guitar teacher when I was younger. Thumbs up for sure.
Metal Month!! Thank you, David! Keep up the awesome work!!!!
Very informative.. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much for these videos!
Great lesson👍🏻 Thank you
David I appreciate your chords naming conventions. I really like the A over C# etc.. it's very cool. Thx!
Wow this guys lessons are the best on the internet. Such a useful concept. I do this all the time with the diatonic scale/modes with thirds and triads I just dont use the open string above I use all the higher strings :/
Right on.
Almighty professor! You are an ultimate gentleman, I´m addicted to your lessons. Please do some Piggy from Voivod.
backwards power chords haha . I'd forgotten about people calling it that but now I remember in the early nineties hearing that it I get it but it just always made me laugh. love your channel . it's a lot of fun great teacher and badass player . man you get a killer tone from that beringer
Opens up with Orion... Surprisingly that was the first 'chordal' song by Metallica I was thinking. Get channel!
Great lesson 🤘🎸
Puppets is great but I love the sound of the first Garage Days, its a touch above the rest. Awesome video Dave !!
I remember seeing Metallica open up for Ozzy on his Ultimate Sin tour here in Chicago at the UIC pavilion. I remember the Power those guys had and just totally blew Ozzy away at that show. In ozzys defense Jake was drinking so much Royal Crown that he could not finish the show.He came out and said he was sorry and Jake had to be rushed to the hospital. I was a bit upset at Jake , but got over it. Thank you for your lessons they are really becoming addictive and are part of my daily rituals. I even think the wife if getting Jealous.I'm going to revisit my Metallica . Thanx !!
Great work!
Just found your channel today. Really good stuff man! Great information
Dude i like load and reload too. I play songs from em all the time. Love the half step down shit and how blues heavy those albums really are
Chords and licks of Megadeth maybe?!?
cool shirt man! and once again really cool lesson.
Master of Puppets is a master piece and I do love Justice. Those are my two, go to Metallica albums. Thank you.
You Sir are just brilliant , l just have to grab on to something and hold on
I always dug Load and ReLoad, some great riffs on those albums and I dig the last 2 they came out with as well as there whole catalog, but yea Master is the pinnacle album for me as well.
Master is 1 of my all time favorite albums. Definitely my favorite Metallica album.
hello i am new to your show i really like the way you break the chords down for the songs especially the thing that should not be i love that song and it is heavy i love these videos i don’t know if you have done a whole song lesson but you should if you haven’t thank you looking forward to more awesome videos
We share a favorite Metallica song. Good call!
METAL MONTH RULES!!!🤘🏼
My understanding is you are to never utter the name that shall not be said, aloud.
Now when I think of Master of Puppets, I think of the van scene in Old School.
Thanks for all the awesome videos!
Fantastic video. Honestly surprised that you haven’t done this episode yet. With it being October will one of your lessons be King Diamond? Can’t wait to see what’s next.
Some Pantera please!!!
.....and not the same old same old (Cemetery Gates, Cowboys from Hell, Walk, etc.) So played out.
Love your vids.
I don't want to reveal too much as far as what's coming this month (for "Metal Month") but I can assure you 'The Chords of Pantera' is TOTALLY coming.
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Getcha pull!
\m/ DIMEBAG \m/
sweeeet
Great lesson, as usual. Good choice of songs. Orion is one of my favorites, as well.
Also, thank you for not doing “Fade to Black.” Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great song. However, if I had a dollar for every time someone requested I play it. I would be Bill Gates.
Cool video
Inspiring
Nice
My fav lesson of yours and my fav album of theirs. Do you have a website with these lessons etc
First of all: Great lesson. Thanks, Teach! Never really thought about how interesting the "Orion" riff actually is. Second: Has it occurred to you that em9 is especially popular with you? And that you only always detect it because you like it? ;-) And third: Yes, thinking that "Load" and "Reload" are good albums is an unpopular opinion. I'm only exaggerating a tiny bit when I say that they peaked at "Kill 'em all" and went downhill from there. :-)
Load and reload are great albums
ORION!!!!!!
Great stuff! Not trying to be a snob and pick you apart but Thing That Should Not Be is a full step down to D and not just dropped D. Loving your vids though 🤘
Awesome lesson.👍👍👍
Now, the chord progression right after you stopped teaching "Call of Ktulu" is the same as 'Hangar 18", just that Dave Mustaine chugs the chords instead of picking the notes.
I call those Backward chords, inverted. Us 80's players on here use them a lot I'm sure 😀👍.
Thank God you are not charging for these lessons, I probably couldn't afford them, hahaha 😝.
As always, great job,. I find it fitting that October is metal month, also my birthday month, (10/05/1966) but we won't go into the age thing here!
I have a feeling he stopped right at that point, so as to not rob from the content that will be shown in an upcoming Chords of Megadeth episode. Just a hunch. ;)
@@toodark6 Ah, very true. Good call. I was waiting for Dave to bring it up at the end.
Excellent as always, but I’m 100% sure Thing That Should Not is in D standard. An ancient issue of guitar world, I think from 2006, had a lesson from Kirk, and it’s most definitely in that tuning
Would love it if you could do some White lion or Firehouse.
Hey David really interesting lesson. I might be off in my theory knowledge here, but I was trying to follow along with your example on the open 4th, 3rd, and 2nd strings starting with a D5. The diatonic pattern as I know for Aeolian it is min, dim, maj, min, min, maj, maj. It seems in the progression you make the 7th degree min instead of maj. Can you explain what I'm missing here. Thanks as always.
Hey! Thanks for watching and for this question too!
The main thing to remember here is we're not dealing with full triads - we're really just stacking diads with a droning open string (in this case D).
So while I used the natural minor (Aeolian) scale to map out the fretboard, we're not really following full chord construction concepts with this idea.
Look at the first chord - D5 (there's a D-A-D on the neck).
The next partial chord is Bb/D (with D-Bd-D performed on the neck).
Then it's C/D - with D-C-E on the neck (and so on).
So, while the notes we're stacking to create these chords came directly from Aeolian, we're not really creating full chords here - it's just partial and implied chords.
Your head is in the right place, but there aren't enough notes (for most of these chords) to build proper triads. We're really just mining the whole two-note diad concept, but with a droning open string below the diads.
Partial and implied chords are a big part of metal's sound.
I hope this makes sense!
Thanks so much for bringing back those memories David. Master of Puppets is my favorite as well and was a big lesson on the natural minor scale for me. It's still big part of my playing that i have to force myself away from it and try different modes. Just one question. What amp are you using for these videos? I love the tone you're getting at that low volume. My custom built 50 and 100 what tube amps are just not good for low volume practicing.
Found it in another video.
I don't mind Load/Reload either. I actually prefer those albums over everything they've released after that(besides Garage Inc.) I know they returned to making thrashier music since then but there seems something forced about those records where the Load albums are solid hard rock and you can tell James heart was into making those. I may even prefer them over TBA at this point. Nothing compares to their 80's material though. All the hours I've listened to Metallica, the first 4 records probably take up 95 percent of the total listening time. When I decide to listen to them today not much has changed in the last 30 years. I'll always love their 80's material and go back to those. They set an impossible bar to continue to live up to.
Awesome man.... I live in south bend Indiana.... Are u close?
I noticed in an earlier video a Behringer V-AMP rack on your desk. Can you you confirm what you have been using to your mix of guitar tones please?
Sure!
It's a 2004 Behringer Vampire combo and it's featured in the 'Guitar Tone & Amps' video from the Brewster's Million's of Rants series on this channel. That vid explains the amp and what I'm playing through in these videos.
Thanks for watching!
Battery would be another great song to cover in terms of chords. Or the so called "backwards power chords'. Lol. Lots of power specific right hand technique.
Dave Have you done Testament yet? That would be Awesome if you could get Testament!!!
Unpopular opinion but I prefer the alternate sound for chugging on the E. That or I convinced myself I do after trying to learn Blackened the right way
I still am a HUGE FAN of “Justice,” possibly because “One” was 1 of the first 2 songs I ever learned, along with GN’R’s “Sweet Child!” Anyway, Master of Puppets & In Justice For (Jason) LoL are the 2 albums that Metallica are to me! Though I have fond memories of being 15, 16 & loving “Most of” the Black Album, though not a big fan of “Enter Sandman!”
Sorry So Long,
Great vid!
Cheers
What kinda of amp do you use david?
Thanks for this comment!
Be sure to watch the "Guitar Tone & Amps" episode form the Brewster's Millions of Rants series on this channel to learn more about the amp I use in these videos.
Thanks again for watching!
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I would say that the 4th chord in Orion is not a B major but an Eb minor. Great video!
Eb minor wouldn't contain a B natural note, rather it would have a Bb, so in this instance B major is the correct chord
@@TomHolloway123 True I would say both B chords are actually D major over B and Eb minor over B. It's my personal perception anyway, David is x1000 better musician than I am.
I see what you're saying here, but those two chords are B minor to B Major.
In theory, a B minor chord has the notes B-D-F# and B Major has B-D#-F#.
If you notice the spelling of those two shapes they're exactly B-D-F# (B minor) and B-D#-F# (B major).
It's also toying with harmonic minor during that section.
The B minor chord is the "regular" v chord (in E minor), so when it shifts to B major (making it a major V chord), it's technically signaling a harmonic minor scale/tonality - which gives it that really dark sound when it shifts.
Super cool slight-of-hand from the mighty Metallica.
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@@LateNightLessons Thanks David! I was actually thinking that the Eb minor that I've mentioned is a quick change into E harmonic minor! Thanks for the excellent videos!
waiting in comments for the "alternate picking works just as well as down strokes for me on my Metallica covers" guy
What year is that Les Paul?
A
I like every Metallica album except ST. Anger. Sanitarium is my favorite song
No way Metallica knew the theory names of chords etc they just played what felt good. Great lesson though. Really interesting
I totally agree and thought the same thing. They probably had no idea what these chords were called, just stumbled upon and went for it!
I thought that Cliff was a learned musician, as well, and always suspected that once he started writing in Metallica, his knowledge influenced and rubbed off on everyone else (James especially).
Yeah, moving basic power chords while keeping some open strings, that totally smells "let's try this shit out and see how it sounds". It's funny to see that 30 years later now that we've had proper music training. Every guitar players start writing the same way... and they don't all become Metallica 😂
@Ron Gillespie Good point.
you're playing Ktulu wrong
So it’s ‘ The call of khuhulyhuhu ‘ ? who knew?
Hetfields inversion chords....thanks Mr Mustaine🤣🤣
Diads not chords sorry I I am a stickler for theory lol great lesson as always though...
Orion
Yes master of puppets is the best.
Reverse power chords ? I'm surprised someone of your skill level doesn't realize these are just triad and triad inversion chords
Um...I explained this in the video.
That's also why I was using finger quotes when I mentioned "reverse power chords" - as that is a common nickname people have given these chords.
They're just diads and triads (as I mentioned).
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What load an Reload are there best music of old only the new album trumps these 2 albums!!!! Sorry don’t like long hair never did smart move on there part!!!