Brendon Small's Dethly Rhythms
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The amazing Brendon Small is great at everything from punishing downstroke rhythms to effortless tremolo melodies. And more importantly he writes killer earwormy songs that deftly combine all these techniques in musically interesting ways. Our two interviews with the Metalocalypse and Galaktikon polymath are out now! troygrady.com/...
Great guitarist, comedian, and voice actor. Dude is ridiculously talented
Hell yeah, you should do some dethklok on your channel!
Ayyy it’s dean
Oh look who it is
I worship this man
Maybe we attempt to learn some dethklok and galaktikon then 👀
Super relaxed playing, hell of a guitarist and writer!
For sure underrated, glad Troy decided to give the dude some air-time!
It's so funny to see the mechanics behind metal explained, because we've all figured this stuff out naturally, but man is it fascinating to know what's going on.
We need some 60fps video on that picking hand.
It’s already 120fps that’s how we get the slow motion. All these examples can be viewed in 8x slow motion in the complete interview on our platform.
His style is very similar to Dethklok. Wonder if he listens to them
Hahaha. Very well done!
He said they were overrated once
Dethklok takes its inspiration from Thor von Clemson.
@@mmb6527 TIME FOR SOME.. CORN!
Probably a tribute act. No higher than third place in the competition though.
Brendon Small has to be one of the most underrated metal guitar players
I'm a HUGE metalhead and have said Dethklok is some of the best metal music ever. Small writes like a fucking BEAST.
I don't know if he's "underrated", maybe a little less widely known? He's buds with Satriani, Vai, Ian, Holt, etc. so anyone who knows anything about guitar knows who he is. He can destroy most guitarists imo as far as laying down the serious metal and his solos are hardly anything to scoff at. The guy is a fucking beast.
I agree he's great but he's pretty highly rated among people who play this style of music. I guess the masses not so much be he also hasn't released a ton of music is I guess I agree on that front.
yeah his stuff is underground still only metal players know of him
go into the water is as iconic as any other metal standard
This tutorial earns a banana sticker
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A banana sticker on a briefcase full of guts.
Twinkletits 🤘🏻
I could listen to him play all day.
He comes out of the dark randomly like once a year and its always amazing lol
The only thing that could make it better is if he had a big pair of tits and cute smile like all the TH-cam guitarists these days do.
Didnt expect to see CzsWorld here. My two worlds collide.
I remember watching Home Movies back in the day thinking, "whoever they have doing the guitar parts for Dwayne is actually really good". I then looked into it and found out just HOW good 😯
silentandcliche same, so very much same
He did ALL of the music for Home Movies.
FRANZ. FRANZKAFKA.
it aint easy being a bug
The sweeping exercise he practices in his bedroom what my favorite riff
He is the kinda of guy to say "Anyways, here's Laser Cannon Death Sentence" in a family meeting and proceed to put his grandma into an endless coma
I’d rather think his grandma would go into labor.
Granny: "Pull the plug! Pull the plug!"
@@harbl99 ROTFL
@@harbl99hahahaha
Brendon Small is a total badass. Totally unique style and sound, especially in a Death Metal context.
Totally. He's got a really pop / jazz hooky songwriter's ear.
His hands are so relaxed. Incredible. Facebones approves.
they probably smell nice too
So nonchalant. He has a blank, almost bored gaze while playing this. I'd look like I was trying to poop out a watermelon...neck and forehead veins all popped out. Dude has mad skills.
trustyaxe haha forreal
It is because he's so relaxed that hes able to sustain it for so long. Repetitive motion. Master it slow and then speed it up.
It's honestly a LOT easier to do this kind of stuff if you can basically just shut everything off. Especially when also doing vocals while playing. Kind of have to think about neither or you trip over your own brain.
sometimes my dog stares at me with the same face when he takes a dump
I mean they're his songs and he's been playing them for years now. He should have them down effortlessly.
Important to remember: this dude not only plays those hard riffs live, but he also has to sing all of the songs while doing it... talk about someone who is extremely good at what he does, props to Brendon Small, a guy who definitely inspires me.
For some reason he reminds me of a better james Hetfield
@@guitarkid9623 I'd say they're on the same level. James is really fucking good.
Brendon small has always been one of my biggest influences because of how much he can do and how good it all is. However, he disappoints me with how little work he does nowadays. His art and humor shaped my life. I wish he did more, made more shows, did more stand up, played more concerts besides the baked potato, anything to continue his legacy and age with his fans. Sometimes I think he probably doesn't even realize how much of an impact he had over the millions who grew up with Metalocalypse and Home Movies.
Insanely difficult. Natural born talent takes the credit.
@@murzerx918 Waaaait I didn't realize he was the same one that did Home Movies!
Too bad Adult Swim can't get its head out of its ass and give us a few more seasons of BRUTAL METAL
new metalocalypse movie is coming soon
this is not click bait
@@victorrivas6871 yep. Still doesn't change the fact that adult swim sucks a big bag of D's
Damn... This right hand must be stronger than George Fisher's neck from Cannibal Corpse 😂
Arno V. To far.
His right hand technique is impressive yes, but it’s not really strength. If that’s your approach you’re going to hit walls in trem picking speed in consistency. The key economy of motion and reducing tension as much as possible rather than building it.
@@MK4vDubbin It was more about the joke 😉 but your advice is good for every starting guitarist. Cheers!
Ah yes George Fisher's Neck, the 6th member of Corpse
That was hilarious
that's why metalocalypse is a phenomenon and Brendon Small is a multitalanted genius and shall never be forgotten
I bet he has no problems downpicking Master of Puppets.
"Dethsupport" is 210bpm so it's comparable. And that part of the song just goes on and on.
@@troygrady he seems to have the most relaxed right hand ever... well, after YJM at least.
That Dethklok concert was one of the best times I've had at a metal show.
The one in November?
@@troygrady It was quite a while ago here in Vancouver.
Mr Gene Hoglan was on drums.
Saw them 10 years ago only cost me an eyeball. Murderface!!!!
amazing chops from a dude that looks he works in the hardware department of Lowe's.
ihate names you know that was funny dude.
@ihate names apparently you can't play metal without long hair and corpse paint. It's not about the music....
apparently people can't help but get asshurt about jokes
@ihate names it's called a joke, calm down dude
ihate names Dude its a joke
It takes this kind of person to make a cartoon band in a comedy show sound better than most Metal bands in its era.
I can't imagine how much hardwork he went through to achieve this level of greatness.
Brandon is truly one of the greatest.
Or any era
10:10 My hands screaming looking at that stretch
I like that he says, "lots of uglieness" then plays that wicked stretched chord. So it's dank
Amen bro
There's that one Devin Townsend song that requires that 3-9 stretch. Needless to say I learned that song minus the one chord.
Yeah I scrolled down for this comment immediately.. Now going to bed.. might watch the rest tomorrow idk
@Leg3nd Assass1n you'd have to learn the Marty Friedman technique if you're hands are too small for that stretch
More code cracking of Death, Thrash and Black Metal riffing.........
Hell yeah, Brendon is one of the best rhythm guitarist of all time. Dethalbum III and the first galaktikon album are amazing
He's a pretty damn good lead player too
'The Galaxy' is my favourite track but Deathalbum 3 is literal gold. G1 best track has to be 'On my way'
The alternate picking is crazy in itself, but his downstrokes are machine-like! Crazy stuff
Well it is a little known fact Brendon Small is a robot sent from the future to prevent the Metalocalypse
@Leg3nd Assass1n James wins by default that's all he knows😂
Is he sweeping those parts? Makes super fast//hard sounding parts way easier.
Love when he answers with more guitar. He considers talking to reply to some questions; but; quickly concludes that just playing to highlight whats being asked is the best answer.
I remember hearing Thunderhorse for the first time, blew me away. What an epic arrangement, then I found out it's one dude with a line 6 pod set to a metallica preset. Knock me down with a feather
Wsg lambchopper ur thunderhorse cover was fire 🔥👍
Toki only looks like a bad guitar player because he plays next to Skwisgaar... Those rhythm parts are insane.
I dream about Troy to invite Josh Middleton from sylosis,the guy is monster metal player
Josh is one of the best metal guitarist right now
@@donnythei No doubt about it,he is my favourite
@@13guitard00d For sure! I hope this happens some day!
This exactly what we need! MORE JOSH!!! Made such a huge impact on my playing!
@@jackharrisguitar same for me,josh ois my biggest influence!
Very informative! I hope some day you will be able to get Micheal Romeo on here :)
Agreed. One of my favorite rhythm AND lead players ever.
This! One of the best players ever. My personal idol when it comes to guitar playing. That man is an absolute god.
I'd love to see Dave Davidson (Revocation)! I saw him live a few times, the guy can play crazy string skipping stuff at a high tempo, and it looks very effortless!
Dave is hands down the most underrated metal guitarist. He is so clean and technical live.
pourliver opening track on this video immediately made me think of Davidson. Would also love to see him here
Watch the show Home Movies if you haven't. it's like an adult swim precursor to bob's burgers made by Brendon Small, and he also does the music.
sometimes it's hard to believe that Brendon is both Toki and Skwissgaar. he's definitely one of the best out there \m/
He's also Nathan and Pickles
He’s not Toki. :)
@@chrixsecret he plays for toki
Great that you've started to look at metal rhythm aspect of playing. You should interview the guitarist from Decapitated.
Big ups to Brandon Small for this considering the legal limbo Metalocalypse and dethklok sits in. Would love to see you link up with Brian Eschbach from The Black Dahlia Murder for video like this because his rhythmic assault is amazing and "What a Horrible night to have a curse" is nothing short of a marathon for death metal guitarists everywhere
"It's all very metal, I assure you."
Charles Foster Oftenson
Troy knew about carona all along; his real mission was to give the world something to do in quarantine. He's a samaritan from the future, and the future is now.
Yes. What a Brave New World
I wanna see an interview with Joe Haley from Psycroptic more than ever now!
Alright Troy, book a trip to Tasmania.
Yes!! Joe is a must
Oh that’s such a great idea
that would be awesome, would love to see how he manages to downpick as fast as he does
Brendon Small is great. i've always enjoyed his playing
His playing really is cool. Icarus 66 is easily one of my favorite rythm parts in all of metal. Brandon, if you ever see this, I LOVE all of your stuff but the Galaktikon stuff is REALLY creative and interesting. I love playing guitar, and am very technically proficient (I can play most anything given enough time) but I REALLY struggle with writing cool creative riffs on my own and you are a big inspiration for me to keep trying.
Brendon's songwriting is indeed awesome. There's a lot of pop sensibility in there.
That stretch at the beginning on ‘DethSupport’ just hurts my hand looking at it. Hooooow? 😂
Side note: Has anyone ever noticed that Brendon and Trey Parker kind of look similar? 🤷🏻♂️
@@APEIRON_MUSIC always thought that haha
I like this episode you should do one with Fredrik Thordendal from Meshuggah.
I doubt fredrik will do one
@@donnythei He does follow Troy on instagram it could be possible.
Definitely
Jon Schaffer from Iced Earth would be another awesome person to interview
That tone is quite unique and pretty hot
MXR EVH 5150 overdrive into Marshall JVM clean channel
Troy Grady I was wondering.
Sounds Marshall. He used to run jcm 800s
I’m not really a metal guy but this was great! Thanks for the continued solid content.
True you don't really need to love or even know metal to like Brendon's stuff, particularly his songwriting - he's a got a strong pop sensibility in the hook writing.
Mick gordon and Brendon need to team up for the next doom game
Where’s Skwisgaar Skwigelf
synysterisawesome032405 you’re lookin at him.
Where is Toki? (c)
I had no idea Mike Judge could shred so hard
Ofc he can he wrote the opening song for king of the hill
So happy to see you have him on here. I love brandon's playing, his creativeness, and how he articulates what he does. He makes it really to understand what hes doing
Jon Schaffer from Iced Earth is sick too!
I am so mad that I had a panic attack at the concert in November . bro I had no idea what was going on !!!, it was my first ever metal show (third concert ever) and I got blood all over my from people getting socked and flyin across the pit. Then this nice rave girl gave me a blunt. I forgot what happened after that. SHIT!
Finally, a Troy Grady video with stuff I can already play with these exact mechanics! Get to feel good about myself for once :P
I feel ya, brotha.
People are starting to be influenced by him. I've definitely heard Skwizgar-style pinch harmonics in newer songs. The man has definitely hit two of the big milestones as a guitarist, 1) an identifiable style/sound, 2) newer guitarists are copying that style.
Do you remember the names of any newer bands that are copying his sound?
You don't know how I expected this interview, I love Dethklok and Galaktikon!
Did you happen to ask about his new Prophecy model coming out soon? Can’t wait
We did discuss this a little bit. It's got a deeper cutaway and a larger body to compensate. Too big for me!
Is that a different one than what was seen at NAMM? I think they called that one a Ghosthorse, and looked like a dark Thunderhorse with a Floyd Rose.
Troy Grady I’m excited to see all the new prophecy models. Looks like they threw in Fishman’s and changed that weird Explorer shape they did when first launched.
Rasputin's Beard well, that’s awesome.
Favorite one yet. Would love to see a picking hand analysis of John Browne one day.
Just noticed he uses a wound 3rd string, like an acoustic guitar is usually strung up. Interesting. I always preferred unwound for easier shredding and bending on the 3rd string, but he seems to have no problem, lol.
Notes taken from this. Brendon Small has sausage fingers.
That's comforting because I do too.
As does Gambale. I actually don't think there's anything of note there at all. Frank barely breaks a sweat playing some of his crazy signature shapes.
Check out Michael Romeo from Symphony X,not only does he has sausage fingers,but they´re also very short.
And the guy is still an absolute monster on guitar.
Troy, this is Daniel Bizon from Brazil. Please do Kiko Loureiro's picking technique analisys. Everyone would love I guess. The big question: does he use two way pickslanting or not?
Kiko's technique looks like Martin Miller's. I think the term "two way pickslanting" is a little outdated unless you're talking about something like Gambale, where is actually changing the pick's orientation. For alternate picking motions, we now try to look at which way the pick is moving, and then which joints are doing the motion. So in Kiko's case he looks like "double escape" player, with a semicircular picking motion, and it looks like he's doing it at least partly with finger motion.
Troy Grady based on what you wrote there- I’m clueless lol!
@@troygrady thank you so much Man. I'll keep seeking you. Congrats 👍🤝
Wake up guys. Check james hetfield the grand
master of downstrokes and riifing
lol wtf, "hey guys! Have you fellas heard of Metallica? The lead singer can play a mean riff! You should check em out!"
@@mukmewx you are out of context. Downstrokes is the context
Such an underrated player, nice to see small getting some love
Brendon Small (and Skwisgaar lol) is the reason I spent all that money and bought a Gibson Explorer; I bought all the Dethklok Tab Songbooks at the same time I got that guitar too. The only thing that would make it better is if I got my Explorer signed. I'd like the sand the finish of the back and have Brandon sign it and refinish it so the signature is underneath the finish on the back of the guitar.
Thanks for the shoutout brother!
Yes!!!! Brendon is a stellar player and a great dude. Could you get Paul Ryan from Origin and Karl Sanders from NILE on this!!?? MORE DEATH METAL!!!!!
I second the guy from Nile. It would be nice to be able to hear what he's playing once in a while.
28:56 THE ONE TIME I WANTED TO SEE THE FRETBOARD YOU CUT AWAY
The struggle
This is just an extended version of Nathan and Pickles talking about trigonometry and super complicated rythyms formats while Nathan studies for his SAT.
Great lighting choice to see his picking hand...................NOT!
Dethklok is the best death metal band to me because its satire. I cringe super hard at death metal bands that take themselves seriously.
Good to see the ol Thunderhorse is still in good hands. Action movies need Brendon Small and his genius music!
So cool to see the intricate hand movements we guitarists do without thinking about them
Totally - never gets old, and we already learn something when we do these.
YES! I've been waiting quite some time for this one! Brendon's playing in Home Movies was one of my biggest influences for learning the guitar! Thank you guys so much!
0:23
SCARY !! VERY SCARY !!!
GIANT PARROT MAKES TERRORIST ATTACK
This guy is siiiiiick. I’ve seen Dethklok live, in NYC; I think it was the Nokia Theater.
5:20 that's the look of brendon's soul dying while playing a boring strumming riff🤣
yeah yeah that's nice and all but when's Galaktikon 3???
I'd love to see how he does his leads. Because they sound so incredible fluent. Like - I get it, there's economy and hybrid picking and shit. But with him, it's flowing so great, almost like he's playing a fretless instrument.
The thirty minutes that comes after this in the interview is all about his alternate picking scale technique. We just excerpted the rhythms part on here. But basically it's all wrist motion, similar to Gilbert.
@@troygrady Bingo! I have always said that his playing/picking technique reminded me of Paul Gilbert.
@@MeTuLHeD except Paul Gilbert doesn't sweep. Like ever...
@@BaldyMacbeard Except when he does...
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However, to be honest I did hear Paul say in an instructional video he did somewhere that he HATES sweep picking as a technique and never felt that he was very good at it. For a guy who's not good at it, I'd have to say he's pretty damned impressive. LOL! Check out the solo on this song for example...
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@@MeTuLHeD I'm pretty sure - with the exception of his teaching material - that he never really sweep picked much. He explained a couple of times how he works around that he sometimes will use economy picking and uses a lot of legato, but doesn't really sweep. Check out this song where he alternate picks Yngwie style arpeggios because he doesn't want to sweep them... th-cam.com/video/Dw7EYxQLOCE/w-d-xo.html
I can’t believe it’s been 3 years. This video led me to discover troy Grady’s universe and finally transformed me into a lead guitar player. Love you forever troy.
Great you’re now looking into rhythm playing! Now it’s time to study James Hetfield ;-)
#BringBackTheMetalocalypse
I ams goings home to takes a shower and wash the shames off
this is fake, i can tell by the fact he is a machine
Hahaha!
BRENDON WHERE'S MY THIRD GALAKTIKON ALBUM?
Brendon is a very amazing guitarist. Unfortunately never got to see him on the east coast. I wish Brendon and Matt Heafy would do a colab.
Kloked me right in the feels.
Damn I love his playing.
I'm so happy it started with Dethsupport. One of the absolute best songs of his
Worlds most underrated guitarrist along with Roy Gallagher
I would pay a lot of money to see a feature length, completed version of the rock opera "Franz Kafka". Live action or animated, either way.
Outstanding deathmetal composer period. Hail Dethklok!
Bought a thunder horse a few months ago, shipped it to Australia where it was broken in transit. Neck absolutley destroyed. Had it fixed which took 4 months, mainly due to humidity slowing down paint time. Finally have it back and its probably going to be a show piece due to the threat of more damage if played with too much vigour. Absolutley love the guitar and all of Brendons music. Still waiting for the Galaktikon live show though.
Back in my day (Get off my lawn!) Yngwie Malmsteen was supposed to be the most technical/classical guitar player that ever lived if you believed the hype. Brendon's better and his music is a lot more enjoyable to listen to.
We can have both! Completely different players, completely different techniques.
hes that dude thats so good and creative, i hate him and love him at the same time, i seriously get envious and inspired every time.
This man inspires me in so many aspects of my life. He is why I play guitar and why I'm a Gibson fanboy.
I just want to point out how perfect the lighting is here. He looks like he's a blue collar scientist jamming in a lab. Also is he being interviewed by Tod Howard?
That was so awesome,,, watching Brendon play guitar is amazing. 🎸🎶👍
WTF. His picking hand looks possessed. Somebody call an exorcist.
Whenever I heard thunder horse on guitar hero when I was little got me into them, thunder horse will always be one of my favorites. Thank you, Brendan small.
Awesome! Be great if you somehow got Rob Jarzombek on one time. That guy is from another dimension.
Dick Dale on steroids
Dick was a pioneer! Brendon does a mean tremolo.
Brendon small is just awesome, this is inspiring! his hands movement are so controlled and really takes alot of practice, especially those slayerish-sixteenth notes on E and A string are so frickin hard.. what kind of pick he use?