Incredible job playing this one my dudes as you thoroughly nailed every riff, drum fill, & blast beat! Your direct tone is on point as I really love that Legator you’re playing! TBDM are such a massive influence, it’d really be an honor if you saw our most recent guitar playthrough or had any critique for us to improve. Either way continue to crush it my friends as you certainly have the talent! Keep the covers coming as we’re certainly excited to watch your upcoming videos now! 🤘🏻
"We were drinking at the Carlson house one night, and Lars turned on the tape deck: "Listen to this, man. Fostex Multitrack Mesa/Boogies with James playing the heaviest riff ever!" It was the main riff to 'Master of Puppets', which had been quadrupled on all four tracks and sounded super heavy. And I knew it immediately as this joke riff that James would always play on the D string. He just dropped it down to the low E string and it was suddenly this whole other thing." - Kirk Hammett "HAMMETT: I’ll tell you how the main [descending] riff to “Master of Puppets” came about. On the Ride the Lightning tour, James would always play the riff in the dressing room, but on the D string, and I’d play it simultaneously on the G string as a parallel-fourths harmony line. It sounded really dorky and funny. Then one day at rehearsal, James said, “Let me show you this really heavy song intro,” and proceeded to play that exact riff on the low E string. I said, “Ah, so you finally found a use for that dorky little thing!” It’s anything but dorky now." Kirk Hammett: "I remember getting home and working religiously to improve my technique. I was still living at my mom's in El Sobrante, but spending quite a bit of time up in Sonoma. I knew a guy with a recording studio there, so I'd hang out with him, play guitar, and just gather ideas together, one of which was the pre-chorus to "Master of Puppets", the "come crawling faster" part." James Hetfield: "I remember writing the chorus to "Master of Puppets" in our living room and thinking it was too commercial, too obvious. "If it's too easy, something's wrong." That was kind of the Metallica mantra. Lars said, "No, no, it's really good. It's catchy." I thought, 'Well, maybe I'm the melody, catchy guy, and that's okay.' Cliff was certainly a bit part of the [writing] process. Musically, he was so well respected, that we'd often look to him for modulations, or where the next part should come from, or go. He just KNEW."
