Machine Head - Robb Flynn "Locust" Lesson
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In this series of videos, Machine Head mainman Robb Flynn shows you how to play "Locust," which comes from the bands forthcoming new album, Unto the Locust, due out September 27 on Roadrunner Records. - บันเทิง
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2:10 that riff is brilliant, so good!
Eargasm city right.
My favorite part of the song tbh
I know.
I’m glad to hear one of my favorite musicians say that the “6th” string should really be the 1st...I’ve fought that my whole life.
Right?! I love Robb for that alone.
Even thinking about it hurts my brain :D
Yeah but with extended range guitars like 7 or 8 string guitars it would be the 2nd or 3rd string so it changes.
Amen brother.
Your not alone. It definitely makes more sense🤟
His Voice is drop B,too
@@SixStringOverdose sharp 40 cent
@@JohnyBUCuQ5R and that´s why some songs have rap in them... 40 cent/50 cent... Makes sense now!
@@filipevieira3343 😂😂
True.
🤣🤣
He's a criminally underrated guitar player ...
Very
what?? He is just a good player in machine head. He knows his stuff but he isnt a super good or underrated player.
@@thallrudedjentstorm1756 nah he’s pretty good. Better a majority of these wannabe fucks nowadays.
U know nothing about guitar playing, boy, if u think that this guy playing good 😆
Nope.
For such a hardcore band, they have some really beautiful melodies..
Rob is a complete beast...I've always loved machine heads use of harmonics. And godly guitar playing
Rob is freaking amazing underrated guitar and singer!!🤘🤘🤘
I love the clarity of his clean.
Man, that verse riff is sick! I had forgotten about this song!
He took classical lessons from a expert classical guitarist and was already an amazing guitarist, I REALLY don't care what what you say. "then why are you talking to me?" You may ask- because I take pride in spreading a good word about an amazing man like Mr. Flynn, his music is life changing and emotional/heartfelt. I have been playing guitar for years and I simply know what I am saying. You may hate him or like or love him- whatever, he is an incredible guitarist. One of the best seen, ever.
Im glad he got his stolen dimebag back.I think id go on a killing spree if someone stole a guitar that dime personally gave me!
How to not get your song covered on youtube:
Make sure it's drop B and 40 cents sharp, yep there you go!
Cool song though!
40 cents sharp would mean get a tuner and then once you are perfectly at drop B just slightly tune it up to about 40% of the way to the next semitone which would be C...not a difficult concept
Ghost.Flowers
You'd think that right lmao. But some people have no fucking clue lolol:P
True lol I guess I might be giving people a bit too much credit
A lot of people would not even bother to try it (or be capable)
If you have the ability to cover this song in the first place, I would have thought you’d have the ability to figure out the tuning?
drop tuning is different from down tuning people
+Mr. Smith we know, and bands have been using drop tuning since forever.
Mr. Smith no way?!!!!
Like. What if I told you, CHA.....
he plays that shit while doing vocals?
yep
I mean I know for Revocation and Children of Bodom its the same deal, but still..
bodom is a bit faster from my opinion? but then again, i know NOTHING of playing a quitar:D they're all amazing tho
PSMTCHEF matt heafy from Trivium does too
I honestly dont think any trivum parts are as rhythmically challenging as the chorus of locust. Its just insane how hard it is to sing the chorus and play the riff at the same time
He is really fucking underrated i dont care what people say even as a guitar player myself i find his riffs fucking tight as hell
The Flynn 40 cents sharp in the b area tuning ok got it!
Why all the hate? I took it that he meant one of the first to pioneer the B/C drop tuning (I don't remember many bands before Machine Head tuning THAT low, only really to D)
AdamBa17 fear factory?
Vámos Györk Fear Factory uses Standard Tunning, and seven string guitars.
Fear factory started using 7 strings on demanufacture. Before that they played on B standards. Actually, I'm not even sure they recorded demanufacture with a 7 string cause on the video for replica it looks like dino is playing a 6 string.
But if it was in Standard, it's not Drop, still.
Nirvana tuned to drop c for their song blew in 1989.
machine head + new stuff = epic album
I can't wait for the new cd;)
Absolutely loved this lesson!! best song!! Cheers Robb Flynn and Guitar World!
literally knows what hes doing. such an awesome guy and a guitarist
In terms of popularizing the drop B tuning sound, Machine Head was pretty early to the scene, but in terms of general down-tuning, particularly to the C# tuning that drop B is otherwise tuned to, it goes back to Sabbath's "Vol. 4" at least. Furthermore, while I can't recall if Overkill's "Skullcrusher" was in Drop B or slightly higher, that song predates Machine Head by about 4 years.
I'm sure some Led Zeppelin songs were in Open C too. As for pure metal, I don't know the timeline exactly, but Morbid Angel for example used seven string guitars pretty early on. Some early Sepultura songs were in standard C I think. Hell, even Korn released their album the same year as MH.
@@kittavares4334Bolt Thrower tuned to A standard in 1989 for Realm of Chaos, first band to go that low from what I know.
Just wanted to point out that he said "one of the first", not "the first". And half of you don't know the difference between drop tuning and down tuning.
Ofcourse morbid angel was tuning to B standard down tuning by 1990, machine head used drop B tuning by late 90s
Type-O, Crowbar, Morbid Angel, Circle Of Dust, Prong.
I'm a big MH fan but it is childish/cheese dickey of him to say.
There was tons of stuff in b before they did it.
I love how you immediately have people replying to you saying “other people did it first” like they didn’t even read what you said.
Guys, saying you are “ONE OF the first” is super different from saying “the first.” He’s not saying MH was the first band to do it, he’s just saying that they were in the first handful of bands that started doing it
That Verse riff is just tearin' shit up! Awesome
been listening to MH from the beginning and its kickass to see em back in the spotlight \\m//
What a cool dude.
"We pioneered the practice of using what are called strings on electric guitars. On this song, you'll be playing what we call 'chords' and 'notes' on the six strings."
i love his tone man
love the tone
Chugga chugga chug chugga chug chugga chug
Hell yeah!
He is way better than kerry king
WARNING: You might end up starting a huge fight with ALOT of people, even though I agree xD.
SerjShower but he isn't wrong..... and i dislike Robb FLynn
When it comes to who's better than who, it's all matter of opinion. I think Kerry is a great guitarist. Same with Robb Flynn and Phil Demmel. And others like Dave Mustaine, Tommy Iommi, Randy Rhoads, Jim ROot etc etc. But when people say somebody is better than somebody else, it's usually because they just like them better than the other.
Dimebag is ONE of my favorite guitarist, but I'd have to say that the best guitarist in my opinion is Alexi Laiho from Children of Bodom or Dave Mustaine from Megadeth
It's an absolute mindfuck what he can do
He's got a awesome solid sound
My God, Robb looks so young here...
How time flies
Dunlop HeavyCore 12 to 54 ;) ideal for this tuning :D
it really is
It's always cool when you have your own band tattooed on ya... especially when you invented drop tuning!
I know that your comment is very old but Robb didn't invent shit!!
@@andrepereira744 haha I know, I was making fun of him as he's the sort of delusional weirdo that would say that
@@higler. Oh My bad, buddy!
You did the right thing then! :)
Love That Riff
Met Rob Logan Adam and will from armored saint was drumming in place of Kontos.... Such awesome humble guys. BME tour.
Who honestly gives that much of a shit over whether they pioneered it or not (they definitely contributed to it's use, E standard doesn't spring to mind when listening to most Machine Head stuff). They fucking rock and no I don't give a shit what genre people class them as. Folks like to call Megadeth a thrash band for example but aside from Endgame, they haven't made a thrash album this generation. Bands change over time and experiment. Why classify so many bands into genre niches, niches that overlap so closely most of the time and for some dumb cultural reason, certain people have a problem with it? For me it's just whether a band sounds good or not, not whether their music fits into a certain genre or not. I wouldn't care if Feared released a jazz album or something tomorrow. If it sounded good, I'd listen to it. I wouldn't just call it shit because they're a heavy band that are supposed to produce heavy music.
+Röss Lämönt I couldn agree more. Case in point, many myopic metallica fans tend to write-off Load and Reload albums just because it was not thrash. Who cares right? They were solid rock albums and had great songs. I detest people who expect their favorite bands to confine themselves to whatever their origins are in.
Endgame wasn’t the only trash album they’ve released, United Abominations, Dystopia and partially Th1rt3en
Its called "to have an identity" and there's no problem with that!! In fact the big majority of bands and artists never get one but they thing otherwise. Sure I undersand your pov, still its better for a band to have a sound and identity of their own than to sound like everyone else, imho. And that dosen't mean they have to do the same song over and over!!
(some) Bands and artists "nowadays" complain and make big "artistic" statements about that. That they don't want to be stuck in some sound/style, they don't want to do the same thing again and again. The "problem" to me is that most of them, don't have an original sound to begin with, they never really developed their own identity/sound but they think they have. So they start that cliche speech about wanting to "evolve" and changing. Changing from what? "You" were never anything. And its even worse because they say that like they have an higher vision of things. Evolving my ass!! Most of the "evolving" process they do, consists on adding new sounds or instruments, because the music structure is exactly the same as milions before. Its an easier process, but they sell this as a very hard thing to do. I mean, its very easy for some death metal band to make an album full of bongo drums, pan flautes, viloins and triangles and then say to the public "we evolve". BS.
I'm not against bands changing their sound and experiment, but if every artist/band do the same all the time, what's the point of having diferent artists? I mean, that's basically the concept of a covers band. The thing is, "you" can't be everything!
I know that at the end of the day bands/artist do whatever they want but I don't need a Madonna heavy metal album or a Metallica pop-dance album.
Without forgeting to mention, that most bands/artist that became world famous, was because they have their own sound.
I like my oranges tasting like oranges and my apples tasting like apples.
at 3:00, that signature squeal that's in all Machine Head songs, is that just him hitting the 5th fret harmonic on the 3rd "what he calls his 4th" string?
Yes it is just a natural harmonic
New Anomaly Productions dimebag basically made harmonics his bitch too lol
Very nice crunch there! \m/ That verse riff is sweet too!
I LOVE THIS GUY!
Tony Iommi dropped his shit in 68'
+AXE SLINGER Which Sabbath songs are in drop tunings?
all of them........ Bb-Ab-Db-Gb-Bb-Eb,
You know what drop tuning is, right?
Also, most of Sabbath is Db-Gb-B-E-Ab-Db
one string or all strings....Zepp (moby dick) the doors, beatles all played or drop D tunings...my point is this dude learned it from musicians that played it many years ago.....
+AXE SLINGER Yeah that's a fair point. I just remember Tony for sounding so heavy without drop tuning.
Dont see the problem with him saying they "pioneered" drop tunings. i mean its music who gives a shit who started what? if you want to get REALLY technical then fine but if you get technical youre one of the idiots that agree that stairway to heaven was a rip off of another song. "good musicians take Great musicians steal" said by kirk hammett himself. now stop sitting on the internet and bashing the band when you can support them for making REAL music not that crappy electronic, auto tuned, fake crap.
Rated Designs BLACK SABBATH
+Rated Designs can't spell crap without rap
+Rated Well, it's patently wrong. Just in hard rock and heavy metal spheres, Soundgarden, Helmet, and King's X were doing drop tunings before Machine Head was formed. The Beatles had a song in Drop-D, for crying out loud. So did Led Zeppelin and Van Halen. It predates Machine Head. They may have been the first band to popularize Drop-B specifically, but they assuredly did not pioneer the concept of tuning the low string an additional full tone down.
Every good point that you've said lost credibility when you said ''crappy electronic, auto tuned, fake crap'' making you the same idiot that agree with Stairway to Heaven being a rip off. What a shame.
That crunch in the intro is sick
never been a machine head fan, but what a nice guy!
I always get like a feeling that Robb's Guitar playing is much more cleaner than Phil's. Phil is kind of a bit sloppier in my opinion. mayne it's just because he is the rythm AND the lead vocalist.
Their last great album was Burn My Eyes.
Whoa, you do know "The Blackening" exist!!??!!??
Tony Stark Unto the Locust is very underrated
@SCOTTYISSRM The simple answer is yes, but depends on a lot of things, mainly on your personal taste. When I played in drop B on my 24.75" guitar, I used 65 gauge for the low B. On my 7 string, which was 25.5" scale, I used 60, yet it sounded a lot clearer, sharper, and the string tension felt more "natural" to me. On my baritone I only need to use 56 gauge, and due to the longer scale the sound clears up a lot! Actually when I put on 60's on the 27" scale, I could go down to G#, noproblem. :)
WE NEED MORE
"Hey Im jesus and I will show you how to play locust"
"we were one of the first bands to pioneer drop tuning"
lol...
Robb comes across as being very full himself. Very annoying
Nick Nelson what? He said one thing about the band which is a group of people. Not himself. Robb is actually a very nice guy. The catharsis incident also happened after this video was made so you guys should just shut the fuck up.
Metallica Rulz Catharsis incident?
@@alecschor4506 is this why his whole band quit on him. Or why he opted to pay adam duce less then the whole band, or worse declined to do the Roadrunner United album in till they paid him much much more then the other artists on the album. Long time Machine Head fan but Rob has always seemed like an ass to me.
I may try that. Thank you.
Love the guitar 🎸
Even tho this was epic i pretty much learned nothing with this being a lesson
One of the first Bands with drop tuning.. Bullshit
+zippy1911 Not ONE of the first?
He's not saying he 'invented' drop tuning. Bands like Sabbath certainly made use of it in and amongst what they were doing at the time but Machine Head were one of the bands that took the idea and pioneered using it exclusively
+JEENOX D Sabbath never drop tuned. Drop tuning is to do with the 6th string being an octave below the 4th. Iommi never did that (or at least very rarely)
John Moore exactly!
I love how he says they 'pioneered' drop tunings whilst wearing a black sabbath t-shirt.
+Dark Nebula don't confuse drop tuning with down-tuning Drop tuning is when you tune the lowest string a whole tone lower from regular tuning and that was evident in the 90s and later on. Bands like Pantera, Korn, Deftones and Machine Head were all brought up in the first half of the 90s, and they would all use that drop tuning sonic vibe.
I don't recall Pantera using Drop B or below C# standard tuning, unless Dimebag started with Drop B and below in Damageplan, but Deftones never got into C# tuning or below until their fourth album in 2003. I also don't recall that Deftones have used Drop B because John Carpenter uses seven or eight strings and Chino probably didn't start playing guitar specifically with C# standard or Drop B.
@bobokk My mistake, but "Davidian" is in Drop B tuning and was on "Burn My Eyes" (though not the demo as I had original recalled), so my initial assertion about Machine Head using it first is still correct.
@jacksback1021 parkway drive plays in between drop A and drop B. the tuning machine head plays in is between drop B and drop C.
Really?...they were the first band to use dropped tunings? I highly doubt that
How else do you think drop tuning was introduced?
I'm just saying they weren't the first one
SpinalAlloy No one even knows if there is a band that introduced drop tuning. I'm just saying what I think.
All I want was to know who you think introduced drop tuning.
Who do I think? As far as metal goes, I say Led Zeppelin...but that's just me
But you do have a point there
First one to pioneer Drop tuning hahahaha And He is wearing Sabbath Tshirt LOL
Danny Sykes Sabbath never used drop tunings. Sabbath used DOWN tunings. Drop tunings have the 6th and 4th strings an octave apart, making the 6th and 5th strings a perfect fifth. Down tunings have you tune every string down by the same interval. Sabbath play in C# Standard (C#F#BD#G#C#) 99% of the time live nowadays, whereas a band like Lamb of God plays in Drop C# (C#G#C#F#A#D#) live. In C# Standard , the whole guitar is one and a half tones lower than E Standard, whereas in Drop C#, the 6th string is one and a half tones lower than E Standard while the rest of the guitar is half a tone lower than E Standard.
"One of the first" he said
Some people use drop D, C, B and A tuning to play with one finger but when I use it I can come up with some cool riffs & solos that you can't really do in a standard tuning!
@tango616 Burn my Eyes was written around 1992.... not many bands used drop tunings back then
Hard times. Jesus is now teaching guitar tutorials and shit.
Get a life
Huge fan of Robb and Phil, but their leanings toward nu metal are not good. Burning red was frat boy nu metal tripe...but I tell you what...he ended it all with the Blackening, one of the finest metal albums done since 2000, a total masterpiece.
Burning Red and Supercharger were a combination of Roadrunner pushing Machine head to be something they weren't and Rob and co trying out new sounds to see if they could fit in with the up-coming nu-metal wave in the late 90's/early 00's. The former had its' good moments (The blood, the sweat, the tears and Devil with the Kings' card), but both albums are ranked quite low in a Machine Head fans' list because of the difference in sound to the first 2 albums. In fact 'Charger nearly killed them off after the Crashing Around You video was released about a week before 9/11, and they suffered a huge media backlash because of it.
That said, I still think my all-time favourite album they've done is Ashes Of Empires. A brutal return to their older sound. And I don't care that some new-generation 'metaaaaaaal' douches really seem to hate MH, they're pretty much my all-time favourite band and Bloodstones & Diamonds is a superb record.
love this song wanna learn it now :P would be awesome to play
@urdumbfoo well, thats just up to you man, i think because of the stuff they play, i reckon it actually does sound cooler, makes it more bright and vibrant too what they play
I love rob and machine head but that guitar could be from avril lavigne...
yeah that drop running comment is just ego-centric. love you guys but na bro...ya didn't.
After that long intro talk about why they tune some cent higher and how much research they put into it I didn't expect him to play most of the lesson with an out of tune instrument. Didn't know the band still exists, but remember I liked their first album a lot when it came out.
@tango616 Agreed....sabbath was some of the earliest drop tuning on the record Master of Reality C# tuning
Awesome song
Truly epic
I use the same strings that I normally put in my 7 string, and it works great. the strings are not too fat for the nut and stuff (D'addario exl120-7, just get rid of the 9)
Love it
That was some serious bad ass riffs :D
Going to see machine head next week, can't fucking wait!
good lesson
Damn, the verse riff slowed down could be a perfect throwdown moment during a show!
Finally!!! Rob has told you how to tune your guitars to cover Machine Head.... Thankyou... now we don't have to explain in our covers 1001 times how to tune to MH ;)
love it
El propio Rob reconoció que le encantó el álbum negro de Hamlet banda española y dijo cuando lo escucho , quiero estas guitarras!!
how amazing tone that is! anyone know what gear he used here besides the emgs?
@ExplorerFreak they were one of the first to use drop B my friend.
Thanks man Rob, FKN awesome song 😎😎😎😎😎
Songs a BANGER
you can also buy a tuner that allows you to adjust the reference point by a certain amount of cents that way it´ll feel like regular tuning without having to look at "flat" dots which would be very unsafe in a live situation.
@Masahreeindigo he explains that they tune a bit sharp from drop b, just like pantera tuned a bit off of normal tunings
@thatJCguy - Yeah!! And Don't forget SoulBent and Mojo Filter!!! Those 2 bands were around looooong before the Beatles..Rockin that shit out in drop tuning!
@TheMegamania Death plays in d standerd, he means that the "first string" is tuned a step lower than the the rest.
@axllovesslash Tony Iommi is a very special player, you can't compare anyone to him. Dude was truly one of a kind. There's plenty of great players that make good usage out of the extra strings. "Need," isn't the right question...use is.
@zadraluca Thats cause of who he tunes inbetween drop b and c as he says he drop b's it then he tunes it slightly sharper cause he gives just a little sweeter sound and better harmonics
Same in the Advanced mix, Robb is right ear and does the harmony, also on all guitar tabs for it, it says Phil does the harmony.
nice guitar !
@wedor0907 Why not? It´s a great and affordable guitar.
Awesome
@MetalasanArtForm Hmm, I've encountered various tabs that put it in Drop B. Oh well, it could just be a few cents down from Drop C but closer too. In which case, Overkill did it long before either Sepultura or Machine Head, which is fine by me considering I like them more. lol
@donovanwilder true also parkway play in drop c in their earlier stuff
I headbanged to the intro of this vid.
@tango616 Yeah i know some classical pieces that use drop tuning and they were written way before this chap was born!
Even slow the verse riff is badass!
@Guitarman461 it is his signature baritone guitar
Rob Flynn is the most underrated frontman in metal today, he owns on guitar and his vocals are way better than matt heafy and howard jones