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First learned this song over 20 years ago, and it’s been like a crazy journey from first learning it with horrible tabs to now where we can dissect hundreds of live versions and slow down the original isolated tracks to really figure it out. Great video!
Seriously...im 34, but the shit we have today would have blown my mind back in the day...like the quality of solid state amps and SS frets and budget guitar quality...and really good hash.
I got back to playing guitar 3 years ago, after a 20 years break, and I was blown away by how easy it is to find good enough information and tools to learn.
good luck man, I've been playing for about 2 years and the only advise I can give you is that you must not leave musical theory appart, it makes everything a lot easier
Keep at it man it'll be frustrating to learn especially when teaching yourself. However some of the greatest guitarists taught themselves. I've been playing for 30 years and sometimes I'll have to go back and relearn things, or I'll come on here and see different ways to do stuff Just like life you'll never stop learning when playing a instrument. I hope you're still sticking with it after 4 months!
0:28 Tip 1: Palm Muting Bounces 1:20 Tip 2: Descend w/Middle Finger ..I.. 2:15 Tip 3: Downpicking Mastery 3:20 Tip 4: Don't Skip the In-Betweens 3:48 Chorus example 4:20 Tip 5: Use Chord Shapes 5:22 Tip 6: No Fancy Stuff 6:06 Tip 7: Assume the Correct Position 6:54 Tip 8: The "Squeal Technique" 7:28 Tip 9: Falling Off the Fretboard (NOT THE SAME AS TIP 8!) 8:20 Tip 10: The "Scream" Note Good: Really choke up on your tiny prick. Make it small and tight. Bad: Don't let that extra floppy pick hang out, you will lose control.
Make sure you're using a decent thickness pick as well. Probably .70 something minimum. Using smaller picks they won't get the hell out of the way fast enough. Too floppy. James black fang ultex set has .73 ,.94, 1.14 thickness. I usually play it with a 1.0 mm. I don't know which one je James uses for MOP. But use the one that works for you.
One thing that helped me with the first two riffs is really getting your timing locked in with a metronome. This is difficult to do because the accents are all over the place. However, once you get it locked in you'll find that there's a lot less tension that builds up in the right hand and you'll go faster.
I remember multiple people told me that the decimal harmonic was Kirk pulling the string off the fret and I just knew it didn't sound right. Since it was a tab book people took it as gospel but I knew they were wrong haha. I've played this song a million times but there are so many little things that get looked over. Thanks for the tutorial!
This is one of those songs that you never stop learning something new about. Every time you think you've got it 100% replicated, you learn something new. To me, that's part of what makes this song timeless! Great call out on using chords shapes for the arpeggios! That's something many self taught guitarists overlook early on. From experience, my focus was on playing the right notes without considering how to play them more efficiently. It wasn't until I tried learning Fade to Black that it clicked to position my fingers as I would for chords. It makes a huge difference!
Glad I learned James' solo by watching him. Every lesson on RU-vid showed it the *wrong way* and jt just felt awkward for me. Another great video, Mike. Keep it up. We love you
Jeez. I bought the Master of puppets song book in 92 and have been playing this song for 30 years (I can hold my own). I watched this video because I was looking up how to achieve the albums tone and stumbled across this video and decided to watch it. So you were doing some stuff that was not transcribed in this book (And i pulled the book out and double checked). There were a couple things you did that sounded, i don't know, closer or better. I mean I've played along with the record for years and thought I sounded pretty bang on up until now. So now I'm trying it out your way. But I am an old dog learning a new trick here. Anyways, great video, I wish subscribe and check out more of your videos.
I had no idea about any of this! Just picked it up since I feel more comfortable now to start learning harder songs and was having a lot of trouble figuring it all out. Thanks a bunch, I'll be following what you have covered from now on!
I started playing guitar 3 years ago, and some months later learned some of the main riffs, now I'm practicing and trying to perfect the 2nd half of the solo, hope I get it soon, these helped me a lot!
The Art of Guitar has became my favorite guitar channel! Everything is relatable, informative, and fun... Without being super goofy lol. I also appreciate that he Mike always has a guitar and isn't afraid to show (and break down)what he is talking about. 🎸
after a few months of practicing these techniques, i'm playing this song perfectly at (almost) the same tempo as them. Truly, you are one of my guitar sensei's. thank you.
The comment on knowing the chord shapes is SO HELPFUL. When I was beginning I did the same exact thing, I just blindly followed the tab without thinking about it.
I wish you would do a complete lesson for this song so I'd know it would be right the 1st time & I wouldn't have re-learn/re-train my muscle memory later, and also I just like your teaching style. I never have any questions I have to go to another video or live performance for. Plaese do it!!
Spent a month working my way through the intro. First building accuracy, then building speed. Finally happy with it, moved on to the main riff. Then I realized that I had learned the intro (descending notes) without the mute, mute, ring, mute, mute ring. Now it sounds right! Thank you!
One of the things that helped me Leanred this song was to learn it with alternate picking first, this allowed me to learn what the fretting hand was doing and and actually learn the parts at full speed. This also helped me stay motivated to build it the speed to downpick it after learning it
bro you were the og tips master for this song, you taught me so many nuances that i never woulda have picked up on when i first learned this, saved me so many headaches, just checking in to say thanks!
Very good tips man. Thanks. Several years ago I had to teach myself “James parts” because my wife’s little brother wanted me to teach him the song and man… did I have a time finding the right stuff. Anyways I wish I would have had this kinda thing to help me along back then. He’s probably still playing it wrong 😂
Awesome lesson! Thanks for sharing your knowledge and tips with us. You're a GREAT teacher! Wished I lived close enough to you to take in person lessons but I am in Texas. God Bless! \m/
Can you do a video of Kirk Hammett’s live solo he did at the end of For Whom the Bell Tolls back in the mid 80’s. I know you know the one. It’s on Cliff em All a couple of times right before they would go into Four Horsemen (end of the Day on the Green and the German concert before Four Horseman when he loses his pick). I love that little solo.
I learned this song probably my 2nd year learning guitar as a teen. this video would've helped me out alot back then. now since I haven't been practicing as much it is a good refresher to get back into shape. Thanks for the video!
I’m at an airport in Austin, TX right now & haven’t been able to pickup any of my guitars since Friday the 8th so I am DYING to play ASAP & of course I want to play Master of Puppets. Been playing guitar since 1987 as a mere hobby but didn’t start playing almost every single day,(at least I play every single day that I have the time/chance to play which is between 4-7 days a week for hours on end each time) until about 5yrs ago.
Great tips for sure! One thing that would be great. Can you show how you set your tone? Your tone is perfect and at such low volume! Is there a trick to this?
Using the second finger running down the guitar in the intro is brilliant. I always used the 1st finger. Can you do a lesson on the Blackened intro. I can never get the second part of the main intro riff.
Hey Mike I'm a huge fan of your videos I was wondering if there was any videos of you showing an in depth look of your collection if not i think that would be very good content for the channel! Anyways you da man and keep up the great videos !
I might be the only one who says this but this reminds me of the guitar from Curt Mitchell how to play Van Halen videos it’s super hard to find the original video anywhere but he had a charvel body that was cracked just like that I’ve been looking for that every where for nostalgia purposes lol very rad guitar!!
this guy is so good with it ! he goes in so much depth, other channels skip through and you miss a whole bunch of important stuff ! also you look like eddie from ST you need longer hair bro 😎
I love the kids coming are getting way into thrash. It's like 30yrs or something since the last great thrash metal album. I think rust in peace was the last great thrash metal album.
Can you look at the tab book for ride the lightning, I'm pretty sure they completely skip over the chorus for creeping death, but that could just be my copy, idk.
Great video with very useful tips! I'm surprised you didn't say anything about the second riff (one with ascending chromatic notes), I've seen multiple ways of playing it but still can't find the right one for me.
Started playing guitar 16 years ago (29M); thanks to stranger things, I’m revisiting this song and learning throughout its run, RIP to my right forearm.
my fretting hand was shaking more than anything. as far as picks go I swapped to the Dunlop Jazz III (kirk uses these as well) its smaller than a normal pick so its easier to manage pick depth(for me at least) Now i need a new guitar too >-> i dont have the whammy bar on my electric
Eddie was a little poser-ish...but also totally reminded me of some old Friends back in the day too. Dude i still have that bc rich mockingbird legacy ST you gave away to that not so cool dude who traded it to me! Lol i absolutely love it. I have a warmoth s-style ⅞ build coming in and i used that neck for a reference...so again. Indirectly I Thank you!
I just play "Eye Of The Beholder" to tighten up my downpicking when I notice it gets a little off because it's not a super fast tempo, but the downpicking is at a constant pace and tempo that I personally love. Plus it's a killer groove. Cool video man! 🤘🏻🤘🏻
when learning a lot of the early Metallica songs when I was starting out I would learn the basic riffs but avoid those "in between" notes, like the palm mutes and whatnot, and yeah it would sound "off" but my playing skills were not even remotely close to reaching Hetfieldian levels of chug (seriously who is?) but over time as I played more and got up to speed, so to speak, and was able to throw in those missing notes, especially for like the Creeping Death riff, Blackened, Battery, and so on. And wont'cha know? I even throw in some extra notes on the "newer" stuff from like the Black Album and the Loads (when there's room for them) and they come out sounding extra chuggy and a bit more "classic" Metallica
I can see behind you that you have the top panel for my all time favorite video game, "Robotron" do you have that arcade or just that panel piece to it.
@@TheArtofGuitar awe booo! lol by the way I watch your channel a lot. ive learned quite a bit from you. your a really good instructor and have been incredibly useful and reliable with so many issues for me. and your old band videos were awesome y'all were really F(ing) good.
I realized that for the first time, I tried playing Iron Maiden’s Number of the Beast opening riff along with the actual track for the first time and realized that the down picking is just as difficult as the down picking of master of puppets. Just when I think I’m getting somewhere I realize I have miles to go
Mike, I noticed that your Charvel has a bolt-on neck similar to mine. How do you feel about it? I have a really hard time playing above the 20th fret because the body of the guitar (where the neck connects to the body) blocks my thumb and thus I can't get a good grip of the neck. Do you do something to work around that?
Hey man I got a question, I started playing guitar about 10 months ago and i learned the first half of this song about 7 months ago. that was probably a mistake!! but Its just a song ive kept improving over time adding new techinques that i learn and stuff. So my question is how do people get that crunchy guitar tone from the album, you can go on youtube and you have people who play it EXACTLY like the album same tone and others have CLOSE tones but not as crunchy yknow. my question is how do you achieve that tone. For example look at guitarlessons556 MOP lesson but then look at mr tabs lesson. Carl plays it nice but mr tabs got the tone ONPOINT.
Nowadays you can emulate many tones easily. People have great plug-ins and even amps like Kempers that can do it. Far cry from when I started when I had a shitty Peavey PA system and had to cut the speakers with a knife to get any type of edge. You spoiled kids. haha
i think they used a mesa boogie and there’s actually a picture out there that shows the amp settings (for Battery but same tone more of less). look up rick beato master of puppets and he shows it in that video
Just takes a lot of research and experimenting. Look up what gear they used and find a plugin / pedal to emulate that. Internet says they used Mesa Boogie Mark IIC+. That doesn't really come as a pedal. You could get pretty close with a Friedman BE OD pedal into a clean amp. Not sure what you are using for gear but in a Helix or amp modeler a Friedman BEOD, Mesa Mark IIC+, Mesa Dual Rectifier, or Marshall JCM800 with a boost pedal in front would all get you close.
I usually choke on alternate picking when I try a fast solo, before failing :D. Would love to increase my alternate picking speed/sync some day as well... :P
