I find it fascinating that these two gurus of power metal shred have managed to coexist in the same band for this many years. No hint of egos clashing, nor jealousy. In fact, they seem to genuinely like to be in each other’s company. And we’re all the better for it. Fascinating. 🎸🎸🔥
Well it’s more their personality’s mesh together really well; Sam is constantly drunk and just goes with the flow. While Herman likes to be in control of things.
@@RCKola281yeah it’s more like Herman handles the publicity and marketing while same would be fine with just being drunk all the time and playing guitar
Completely agreed. It's because he's content just to do his thing, if he's not on stage he is a completely private person. Herman is very much the guy to interface with the public, couple that with the more eccentric guitar techniques he uses and now he's the face of the band. Nothing wrong with that, I love Herman, but people gotta give Sam his flowers. Love the man.
Sam started his classical musical training at the age of 9. It does make a difference (not saying it makes a musician better over self-taught, just stating there is a difference). I have found self-taught are more versatile because they aren't regimented from training, they had to find stuff themselves and learn it themselves. Trained musicians have more technique and fluidity, and there are different schools of training. Jazz and classical are the two main schools of training that people generally choose from. Sam maintained one aspect of his classical training to this day, in one of his interviews (I think it was a print interview) he said that he still does all the exercises he learned. They serve as a warm-up pre-practice. This isn't to say all musicians who are self-taught don't do this and all musicians who are trained do this. I just wanted to clarify the training Sam had and to try to clarify a bit on the differences between self-taught and trained. For those of us who love Dragonforce and/or Sam, we don't really need or care about the clarification I just provided, but I just know a hater is going to pop up (so it's really for them before they say something stupid like "Sam can't really play guitar for shit").
@@KeltiKyrie About "I have found self-taught are more versatile" i don't agree at all, there probably isn't an absolute answer because there are a lot of exceptions, but i think all people that know their theory well can be more versatile and can jam over almost any song once they know it's chord progrssion, self taught will more likely get stuck in the same scale by choice (deciding to stop learning, be satisfied with what you already learned) or lack of interest, and people that actually made a course at least, or went to an actual music school will be taught much more and "forced" to learn it, again if the self taught is a hell of a person with dedication to learning the most he can, it's the same, as well if a person goes to school and doesn't make an effort to actually learn will also be likely to get stuck. I don't understand why is there a stigma that if you learn theory, specially by attending school you will compose and "compute" notes like a robot.
Li is fast and slightly surroundings with highly frequency like a wind Sam is balance not too hard and not too soft but perfect with passion make me deep in passions When both of them play together is absolutely and unique Two guys are perfectly matched up
They always had the skills that for sure, the thing is they used to play drunk "af" they admitted it, and that was people's first impressions there are some terrible live performances, you can hear the wrong notes, sloppy playing and so on, specially since they jump a lot on stage, being drunk didn´t help at all, and you know first impressions are hard to change.
skill? it's one thing to enjoy someone's music and another to say that Li is skilled when his playing is a sloppy mess with a narrow vocabulary, he is getting better nowadays though.
@@BassCommunion Herman plays better live than Sam usually. Sam is an excellent guitar player and I'm pretty he writes the majority of this stuff, but Herman is a better guitar player.
These two guys got sooo much better since we first heard of them. I admit I was one to bash them. But now I'll never do that, they did progress in 10 years
Nah dude. They were always this good. I saw them back in....2005 I think it was....and they were fantastic. Sam was drunk before the show even started and still played incredible. It's the haters who've grown, not these guys. They've always had the skills, the shit is just hard as fuck to play and even more so during an unpredictable live show. Especially with Herman's showmanship.
@@j800r_aswell They had good music back then for sure! But if you watch videos of Herman 10 years ago, like the one where he sweeps, he sounds like shit compared to what I hear from him today (I think he's way cleaner).
You look at live videos of this song when it first came out compared to now there's a world of difference. Their live playing has gotten so much better.
@@maximelepage5928 “sounds like shit” yet is still better than every guitarist you’d come across for the majority. Even Fred is a better guitarist than most guitarists. These guys have been professionals for 3 decades dude.
has Sam ever talked about his picking technique? because it looks like how Paul Gilbert would describe his picking technique that he used back in the Racer X days.
@@benhard8832 ZP was really great but marc is better in my opinion. In the studio, ZP was a god in but in live was worse. Marc can sing the songs in live as good as in the studio.
@@sensacionsombria5125 lol im a guitarist myself, if u say sam is a better songwriter i could agree with that, if u talk about guitar nope herman way better he knows more theory and guitar stuff than sam. have ever watch herman twitch stream? i bet u havent.. go watch now
@@sensacionsombria5125 being a classical guitarist or attends guitar school and stuff doesnt make u guitar god lmao, look up friedman.. andd how about sam classical trained vibrato? and is there any solos without pick tapping? not hating on sam but saying sam is better than herman on guitar is not that wise 😂 sam is the main songwriter of course hes important in the band but herman managing the band single handed is not easy at all.
Son unas putas máquinas Para mi unos de los mejores guitarristas de esta época Sinceramente Herman Li tiene una ventaja porque tiene 3 extremidades para tocar la guitarra -2manos y la lengua 🤣🤣🤓🎸🎸🎸
The Gospel of salvation of our souls: 💜💕❤️❤️❤️💕 💕💕💕❤️💕❤️📖✝️🕎💡💡❤️❤️💞💜💕For what I received I passed on to you as of [first importance]: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time,
Derrière tout ça il y a beaucoup de musiciens qui ne comprennent pas l'astuce et sont juste fasciné ? Ces des morceaux facile à jouer quand ils les improvisent eux même don faux pas s'étonner ? Je trouve qu'ils friment beaucoup pour se faire passer parmi les grands solistes, mais c'est dh n'importe quoi ! Les vrais guitaristes c'est yngwie malmsteen, Paul Gilbert, van halen, Panos Avanitis, guthrie Goven, Styve moore !
I find it fascinating that these two gurus of power metal shred have managed to coexist in the same band for this many years. No hint of egos clashing, nor jealousy. In fact, they seem to genuinely like to be in each other’s company. And we’re all the better for it. Fascinating.
🎸🎸🔥
Well it’s more their personality’s mesh together really well; Sam is constantly drunk and just goes with the flow. While Herman likes to be in control of things.
@@tritex6350 Funny you say that because Sam writes like all of their music lol
@@RCKola281yeah it’s more like Herman handles the publicity and marketing while same would be fine with just being drunk all the time and playing guitar
They are the founders and the OG members that have been in Dragonforce since the beginning
Homeless trucker and weird otaku power combined! :D
MrMetalBalli don’t underestimate the power of an Asian British person
Hahahahahaha 😂😂😂🤣
LoL
EHUWHUAHSUAHSDUAHDSUSHDUHASUDHSUDHAA
They are supercool
Love them
Sam is a very underrated guitar player he doesn't get nearly the credit he deserves
Completely agreed. It's because he's content just to do his thing, if he's not on stage he is a completely private person. Herman is very much the guy to interface with the public, couple that with the more eccentric guitar techniques he uses and now he's the face of the band. Nothing wrong with that, I love Herman, but people gotta give Sam his flowers. Love the man.
5:18 to 5:30 was the cleanest I've ever heard Sam play. He's damn good.
That's because he's not drunk.😂😂😂
His picking is literally stationary when he sweep up
underrated AF
@@mistrual3254youve clearly never heard of hammer-ons and pull-offs
They both played like this at Highline Ballroom 2017, but they weren't drunk.
What shits me about Sam is how effortless he makes it look. He's so relaxed and fluid. I'm so jealous.
Yeah he's a fucking beast
Herman, has said in the past, that Sam did have a background of being musically trained.
Sam started his classical musical training at the age of 9. It does make a difference (not saying it makes a musician better over self-taught, just stating there is a difference). I have found self-taught are more versatile because they aren't regimented from training, they had to find stuff themselves and learn it themselves. Trained musicians have more technique and fluidity, and there are different schools of training. Jazz and classical are the two main schools of training that people generally choose from.
Sam maintained one aspect of his classical training to this day, in one of his interviews (I think it was a print interview) he said that he still does all the exercises he learned. They serve as a warm-up pre-practice. This isn't to say all musicians who are self-taught don't do this and all musicians who are trained do this. I just wanted to clarify the training Sam had and to try to clarify a bit on the differences between self-taught and trained. For those of us who love Dragonforce and/or Sam, we don't really need or care about the clarification I just provided, but I just know a hater is going to pop up (so it's really for them before they say something stupid like "Sam can't really play guitar for shit").
@@Raijimura that explains how he can still play more decent than others while drunk. Lol.
@@KeltiKyrie About "I have found self-taught are more versatile" i don't agree at all, there probably isn't an absolute answer because there are a lot of exceptions, but i think all people that know their theory well can be more versatile and can jam over almost any song once they know it's chord progrssion, self taught will more likely get stuck in the same scale by choice (deciding to stop learning, be satisfied with what you already learned) or lack of interest, and people that actually made a course at least, or went to an actual music school will be taught much more and "forced" to learn it, again if the self taught is a hell of a person with dedication to learning the most he can, it's the same, as well if a person goes to school and doesn't make an effort to actually learn will also be likely to get stuck. I don't understand why is there a stigma that if you learn theory, specially by attending school you will compose and "compute" notes like a robot.
Sam: “how does it go?”
my guy you wrote it lmao
Herman completely forgot that he wrote Heartbreak Armageddon
Cuzjudd yeah he doesn’t even remember it
@@cainjake7940 Makes me sad coz it's my favourite DF song lol
Musicians don't remember everything they've ever written...
It's hard to remmber all the songs they wrote lol it happens to every one
There's something spectacular about Sam ripping it up while looking casually bored. Like "Can't we speed this up?"
😅
Me and my dad used to have a few drinks together and listen to Dragonforce back in 2006/7. Can't wait to show him this! :D So much nostalgia!
the solo was great. i see that they, specially sam, are not a joke
I was watching this live! It is a Twitch live.
There is a huge difference between sitting in your room and playing a solo and nailing it live.
There's Drunk Sam, and then there's Sober Sam. XD
Li is fast and slightly surroundings with highly frequency like a wind
Sam is balance not too hard and not too soft but perfect with passion make me deep in passions
When both of them play together is absolutely and unique
Two guys are perfectly matched up
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We are truly blessed that these two found each other and chose to write music together.
6:05 Gotta love the genuine broment here.
1:46 sam:fu*k😑 herman:😂
It’s so refreshing to see how far they’ve come since the mid 2000’s. They could barely play this stuff, and now they’re ripping it effortlessly
They are the best guitarist duo in the world.
Currently. But you know who was better?
Marty Friedman and Jason Becker. Unmatched to this day.
@@Thomohawk21 I was about to say Alexi and Roope from Sinergy but yeah Marty and Jason take the cake
@@Thomohawk21vastly overrated.
Sam and Herman shit all over any Cacophony material.
Yes, one of best. Sam and herman, Hizaki and Teru, Rafael and Kiko,
0:51 how a guitarist get a corona virus while he playing guitar.
Nietze didn’t see this coming.
God are not dead, just in a casual clothes playing guitar in a room.
Herman lee and Sam totman for ever friends 😅
2:06 So THAT's what they mean when they say "guitar licks"
"Something. Like. That."
They got skills to pay the bills
I really miss ZP's vocals on Dragonforce😢
It had such an uplifting, triumphant feel
nothing I miss more than old dragonforce.
Why are people just now admitting they have "real skill" ? This has been an obvious, well known fact for quite a while
So true
They always had the skills that for sure, the thing is they used to play drunk "af" they admitted it, and that was people's first impressions there are some terrible live performances, you can hear the wrong notes, sloppy playing and so on, specially since they jump a lot on stage, being drunk didn´t help at all, and you know first impressions are hard to change.
skill? it's one thing to enjoy someone's music and another to say that Li is skilled when his playing is a sloppy mess with a narrow vocabulary, he is getting better nowadays though.
@@BassCommunion chill out, dude. dragonforce owns you. just breathe
@@BassCommunion Herman plays better live than Sam usually. Sam is an excellent guitar player and I'm pretty he writes the majority of this stuff, but Herman is a better guitar player.
The double harmonize omfg
4:30 herman thinking: yeah this is ok
this album was my childhood
These two guys got sooo much better since we first heard of them. I admit I was one to bash them. But now I'll never do that, they did progress in 10 years
Nah dude. They were always this good. I saw them back in....2005 I think it was....and they were fantastic. Sam was drunk before the show even started and still played incredible.
It's the haters who've grown, not these guys. They've always had the skills, the shit is just hard as fuck to play and even more so during an unpredictable live show. Especially with Herman's showmanship.
@@j800r_aswell They had good music back then for sure! But if you watch videos of Herman 10 years ago, like the one where he sweeps, he sounds like shit compared to what I hear from him today (I think he's way cleaner).
You look at live videos of this song when it first came out compared to now there's a world of difference. Their live playing has gotten so much better.
@@maximelepage5928 “sounds like shit” yet is still better than every guitarist you’d come across for the majority. Even Fred is a better guitarist than most guitarists. These guys have been professionals for 3 decades dude.
@@Star.Chaser I said 'compared from what I hear today', they were always good.
Thanks for this. I'll learn the solos by looking at their hands. 👍👍👍
Dude I see you everywhere
@@givenspade are you stalking him?
@@theriffrepeaterjr.3950 nope just coincidence
@@givenspade OK then
I see some of your videos. You are good guitarist, i like it bro @david
It blows my mind how casually they're able to do this.
these guys are really good, they should be in a band together
Agreed
Maybe they should call it DragonHeart
Their bandmate and their band is Dragon Force
@@xxthe_old_flamexx7413Unforunalely I thinks that already taken :( Maybe something like DragonPower would work?
I'm glad Herman's is playing an egen8 again I missed that guitar
It's actually an EGEN18 just in that color.
@@GuillermoSmyser unfortunately never was in production
Well, talking in the middle of playing difficult stuff is insane. They did it like just nothing happened
Love that blue Ibanez , it would match my blue lagoon Ibanez rgdt621 great.
Wow! Effortless, these guys guitar talents are definitely on God level.
Expert mode does wonders for people
Damn nice cover. Hope the band sees this!
they're great but sam is the man!
Love you Dragonforce with Zp
6:36 wow!!!!
has Sam ever talked about his picking technique? because it looks like how Paul Gilbert would describe his picking technique that he used back in the Racer X days.
Love the part where they start chatting mid song lol
this guys just covered dragonforce song like the real guitarist of it
They are the real guitarists of it.
man i love these guys
Holy shit SS HDHR Full Combo dude.
Adoro essa música ! Que vídeo massa !
Fucking awesome song! I love it !!
Beside skill they also arrange/create the melody and lyric. That really different word
People call them fake show them this
They used to suck live, now they are amazing. This is why some people think they are fake, but they aren't.
Great cover
That was alright. LMAO. Just kidding. I wish I was that good at literally anything.
Nice co-op FC!
150% speed when?
Fuggin nerd haha
Well.. u know what i mean so... ^^
Your secret is safe with me
Yeahhhhh
What a great cover!
But. . this is a song by their band, though. . . .
5:18 - 5:26 is so good
You can tell Sam Totman likes Eric Clapton
5:00 i don't play electric guitar, how do they make their guitar sounds like this?
It's called palm muting, you rest your hand on the bridge to make the notes short and staccato
@@HalfDuckWhy am i not surprised i found you here lol
I feel like they are brothers
👏🎉 bravo well done.
miss Zp :(
I actually prefer Marc Hudson. I think his style fits better with the band.
Bag Theart me too :'( Marc I never liked it
@@benhard8832 ZP was really great but marc is better in my opinion. In the studio, ZP was a god in but in live was worse. Marc can sing the songs in live as good as in the studio.
Marc is better.
@@MarcHendry He's pretty awful with Skid Row live too though.
Unpopular opinion. Sam is better than Herman.
sam is melodic and has had formal training. everyone just knows herman because he is fast and he advertises himself
that's not an opinion, it's a fact
nah its just this song got more sam's part than herman, try heroes then..
@@sensacionsombria5125 lol im a guitarist myself, if u say sam is a better songwriter i could agree with that, if u talk about guitar nope herman way better he knows more theory and guitar stuff than sam. have ever watch herman twitch stream? i bet u havent.. go watch now
@@sensacionsombria5125 being a classical guitarist or attends guitar school and stuff doesnt make u guitar god lmao, look up friedman.. andd how about sam classical trained vibrato? and is there any solos without pick tapping? not hating on sam but saying sam is better than herman on guitar is not that wise 😂 sam is the main songwriter of course hes important in the band but herman managing the band single handed is not easy at all.
Vocês são feras👍 Brasil
Comentário brasileiro, quem tava procurando achou🖒
From Brazil✋
Finalmente kakaka
Where was sir Vadim Pruzhanov at that moment???
Idc what people say about dragon force lol... herman is alright in my book.
Unos dioses son de la guitarra
0:56
Jesus annoyingly a guitar god, he is gorgeous in person just wish I'd met him sober
Son unas putas máquinas
Para mi unos de los mejores guitarristas de esta época
Sinceramente Herman Li tiene una ventaja porque tiene 3 extremidades para tocar la guitarra -2manos y la lengua 🤣🤣🤓🎸🎸🎸
Why is Sam so gorgeous 😍
TEMASO
No one can compare this boath n look z there Attitude...
These guys are to much.Ahahaaha!! What guitar is sam playing?
Sam gang
What kind of purple ibanez is herman playing
That’s not purple that regular wood color
Yeah wtf m8
HAHAHAHA what a funny of you.. Its a wood colour dude. How can you told that was a purple, did your eyes sick or something😂
EGEN 18
Am i the only one that thinks the licking has to stop?
What ibanez is Sam using?
Ibanez RG3770DX LB Prestige
Porfavo venha ao Brasil
Escrevi errado mesmo mais não dá nada
Dragons Of Berk ? :D
Hahaha that was funny.
How was this dude fortunate to have Herman playing OGAP with him?
He’s literally the other guitar player in DragonForce
Sam wrote the song lol, Hermans lucky to have him
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Extreme power metal ของ dragonforce ผมก็รู้สึกว่า ไลน์เมโลดี้มันเป็นแบบ pentatonic scale เหมือน หมอลำ
Super glitchy, but thanks
Twitchforce
That guy needs a nerf
Who is kungfu masterr : bruce lee
Who is the guitar master : herman li
Herman ri is reary coor
fairytail?
Is a band name you dumb@ss, just kidding i'm sorry
The Gospel of salvation of our souls: 💜💕❤️❤️❤️💕 💕💕💕❤️💕❤️📖✝️🕎💡💡❤️❤️💞💜💕For what I received I passed on to you as of [first importance]: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures, and that he appeared to Peter, and then to the Twelve. After that, he appeared to more than five hundred of the brothers and sisters at the same time,
Derrière tout ça il y a beaucoup de musiciens qui ne comprennent pas l'astuce et sont juste fasciné ? Ces des morceaux facile à jouer quand ils les improvisent eux même don faux pas s'étonner ? Je trouve qu'ils friment beaucoup pour se faire passer parmi les grands solistes, mais c'est dh n'importe quoi ! Les vrais guitaristes c'est yngwie malmsteen, Paul Gilbert, van halen, Panos Avanitis, guthrie Goven, Styve moore !
Potatoforce 😱
Jk. I love your music 10x but the quality of this video is potato aha.
Dragon Weebzz
2 weird guys covering DragonForce.
At this point I'm not sure if you are joking or if you are serious, after all the coments I've read so far
Cool but useless
Wot?