5 Unique Rock & Metal Guitar Techniques 

What's the weirdest guitar technique you've ever seen? Working on a part 2 for clean sounds...

Bro you are 1 guitar away from opening a local guitar store.

Use this as a "I wish those guitars were mine" button

You should have a raffle, where only people who live at my exact address can enter! That would be great! 😀

Tom Morello is a big user of the "strum above the nut" technique. In combination with his Whammy pedal, the sound is ridiculously cool, and definitely an exclamation mark on his riffs.

You really went through the entire explanation for technique 2 without mentioning Gojira 😩

Me hearing that second technique: Wow! Gojira: **Angry whale noises**

i love how whatever the tone he picks, he ALWAYS puts delay and reverb

"do the chickens have large talons?" "Boy I don't understand a word you just said"

Who elsd tried to say "unique new york" really fast?

Omg. It's the double camera guy. Impressive

I came here to see the 304,751,169 comments I'm disappointed

0:54 This is definitely me, when I got to try my first distortion pedal.

THAT SHIRT OH MY GOD IM SO HAPPY

When are you going to make a guitar giveaway for your European fans?

4th fret harmonic was in Rob Scallon's Metal in Inappropriate places... IT SOUNDS AWESOME

best guitar technique? "hey guys, carl brown here!"

Do you lose a pick every video because of your outro where you throw it into the camera?

honest question...why are you not in a very popular band... with all this knowledge and talent i feel like you are one of the better guitarists in the world.

2:35 GOJIRA HAS ENTERED THE CHAT

2:40 wasn't this technique used in Holy Wars right before the "wage the war" part???

Thank you for finally teaching us how to do the Gojira pick scrape!

I worked at Music Villa last year, so that's pretty cool to see you're doing a clinic up there. Wish I could be there, but ill be doing shows with my band in Cali at that time. I'm not sure whether to complain that I'm gonna miss it, or be happy cause I'm playing with my band. Anyways, have a great time Tyler!

The behind the nut harmonic was used well with delay/repeat on Metallicas Outlaw Torn

6:45, *Stevie T wants to know your location*

“Do the chickens have large talons?” Nice Napoleon Dynamite reference 😂🤙

2:35 ah, the Gojira scrape

Clicked on the video cause it reminded me of this jam John frusciante did that my dad saw and always showed me the video (since it wasn’t very big at the time he was proud he got to see them)

On the last one it aslo helps to not have the trem springs in the back muted. Those springs greatly assist in the creation of that sound. I used to use a broken whammy bar on my acoustic guitar to emulate a sort of "Tom Morello DJ unplugged" effect. That and as a slide.

6:30 well now you can finally call your whammy bar a TOOL

That pink looks good on you bro... I want one o those! 🤘🏻

You know the video is going to be great when it starts with a quote from Napoleon Dynamite

Damn near spit my coffee out at the surprise Napoleon Dynamite reference. Kudos.

Jimmy Page using a violin bow and Hendrix using his teeth

Your videos get more and more Rudy Ayoub-ish

dragonforce loves doing technique 3 to make different video game noises in their songs.

7:46 throw away guitar

The intro raised my suspicions you're actually kazoo kid

„Is take off the Whammy Bar“ Me: Ah yes, a classic Morello

If u have a jazzmaster you can strum the strings behind the bridge to get a similar effect to strumming the ones on the headstock

Damn I love that pink strat in the background

5:45 you can make robot noise or ghost sounds with the same technique too! I'm sure I'm interested of that.

That Napoleon Dynamite quote though lol 🤣

2:58 Listens to Gojira once

Dime uses that 2nd technique in a song called " We''ll Grind That Axe For A Long Time " \m/ \m/

Raking above the nut, “running with the devil” Van Halen and “birth in reverse” St. Vincent. I always liked the sound of that technique

As a learning audio engineer, I've got gates down now.

Awesome guitar collection! My girlfriend said “buy one more guitar and I’m leaving” don’t even miss her! I wish you would go over each guitar with likes, dislikes and purposes. Thanks

For tip 1 I use a fret wrap. Works wonders man

Hey not sure if you going to see this cause it’s an older video but I’m 17 y/o and I can’t get enough of the sound of guitar, so much so that I’m very motivated and driven to learn and master the art. Only problem I have is that my funds situation won’t at least at this point allowed me to get a guitar. Any tips or even person help on what I should do, it would change my world.

Tiny Moving Parts uses both that behind that nut strum and up stroke 5 harmonic technique in Birdhouse

4:46 *Stevie T wants to know your location*

the last trick you can do almost the same sound by hiting the strings from the bridge if you have a guitar that have those showing.

8:54 Anyway here's wonderwall

Weirdest technique I can think of are the "bells" of Hells Bells.

I love your wall of guitars so much. I'm jealous of your collection lol

For so long I've wanted to understand the overhand technique, and that's all that's going on is just dampening?

All these years and I still don't quite have a grasp on how I feel about the way you speak/delivery of your lines. But, I keep coming back so IDK.

6:17 Of course you played Freebird 😂😂😂

Angel Vivaldi uses the picking hand mute a lot. Definitely check him out he's wonderful

2:34 go listen to The mirror by Dream Theater..you wont regret it.

Good example of that harmonic racking is Devil Driver's Clouds Over California which also has a pretty cool recruiting harmonic lick

Alter Bridge has a song where Mark and Myles pick the strings behind the nut. The song is Ties That Band and it's at the end of main riff right before the verse starts.

first one reminded me of those fuzzy "string deadener" things you see on MAB's multineck guitars when he does his thing.

moves to the music central called Nashville* has a meet and greet in another state.....* for real please have nashville meet and greet soon!!!!!

Dude, that is so uncanny that I woke up to this video today. Just last night, I learnt an old Skid Row solo (I remember you) with this technique in it...(the first one in your video - the right hand mute behind the fretting hand) But it was the one thing I couldn't really work out. I thought, "was he planting a tap??" ...and then, "it just doesn't seem neccesary..." And now, first thing this morning, my stream throws up your explanation. Perfect. Just this though... I don't think I have enough gain dialled in to really need it. Should I still do it?

That sg tone was nasty!

2:34 : *exists* Mids : aight imma head out

For the behind the nut pick scrape, you don't need a noise gate. You just need to keep your hands off the fretboard. If they're mute like that, they won't ring with the dirt tone of your amp.

He can go all cliffs of dover and dragonforce but sorry to say, you can't djent 😂🤘🏻 Ps: love your playing, you're a great player!!

Pertruci took his off(whammy bar) live-liquid tension 2 .. it was cool that he did that.. Thanks for the videos!

0:26 And they are very interesting to heaTHE TECHNIQUE

Point you TV remote just above your pickup, different buttons change the tone. Also sweep pick between the tail peace and bridge

The 1st hint is very useful for recording. Thanks

Alexi lahio loved using harmonic rakes in his riffs

My fav technique (i called it the "george lynch/warren demartini vibrato..) you basically move you finger at fast speed over..what 3 or 4 fret to make a sort of violin type vibrato Usually breaks people minds :)

Why does your bass have 6 strings ? Weird.

Because of you i just bought a 10s pink stratocaster :D

Points for that awesome pink guitar

Love the anchorman reference

Haha that one at 6:20 reminds me of rehearsal with a band I used to play in. Every once in a while the drummer enjoyed to annoy our bass player who was standing close (that rehearsal space was tiny) by slapping his strings with a stick as part of a fill. :D We even thought about making that into a live gag but we didn't acutally do it.

That last one I’ve seen Matt Bellamy use a lot in live performances! Wasn’t sure what he was doing though so good to know!

I like the pink strat in the background. That one seems metallic while mine is more of a pastel.

John 5 have some really weird techniques that he managed to use it musically, which is quite impressive in my opinion

Syn gates quite often uses the 1st tehnique when he plays the fast legato part before the melody part from the Afterlife solo

Can you do a video showing us how to restring and tune a floyed rose bridge?

No Adam Jones pull-thru technique like on Jambi or Hooker? I'm quite sad as I think the only other guitarist I've seen do it is Devin Townsend and it sounds awesome.

Next Monday is my birthday!😊

That whammy trick is notorious with Herman Li (Dragonforce)

Listen to birdhouse by tiny moving parts for a great use of the above the nut thing.

You blew my mind when I saw you make that noise with the whammy bar 😭 I knew you could use it I just never attempted myself to try it but now... 😂

That's my guitar right behind your head!! The red PRS with the zebra pickups.

The 5th technique is frequently used by Matthew Bellamy from Muse.

2:55 Also known as the Gojira Slide

Holy crap you are the first person I've seen that uses the whammy bar as a slide I've used that before as a slide and sound effect

Middle of third fret harmonics sound way tighter. I´m gona try that muting thing

Wow! Keep the tone, it's awesome!

0:03 Napoleon dynamite reference?

5:43 amazing soun, like an alien or dinosaur

That red prs he's using... ...GIVE ME IT NOW🔥🎸