Just wanted to say: I've started playing less than 2 months ago (and in my mid-30s I'm no spring chicken), and you and your videos are one of the best motivational (and learning) tool there is. Thanks a lot, you seem really like a nice chap.
I tried the drinking whiskey technique, and I was able to produce an entire album in one weekend and now have a record deal; you've earned yourself a sub my good sir
@@tonyjones1560 tincup straight rye mountain whiskey my dad and I used to have glasses of that near a fire every weekend, I personally think its a great balance of smoke and sweetness
Awesome tutorial, I had problems with tapping, especially when I tried to play spiritual healing. That right hand pushing with finger technic really helpful and a good trick to know, thank you as always. Cheers from Turkey!
@@connorcampbell144 you are a sad little bitch that doesn't realize English is probably not the guys first language and now you have to point out some tiny grammar mistakes to make yourself feel better. SAD.
Thank you, Simon! This is a brilliant tutorial. I play since 1979, but metal stuff wasn't interesting to me. I gained my interest with contemporary bands. After watching your tutorial I was able to play all these techniques in no time. Very cool stuff, I love it. 🤘
In a decade and a half of playing this frustrating shit, what I’ve found worked best every single time I set out to get fully comfortable with a new technique is: sitting down and only practicing that one technique over and over, usually I would write a quick riff using that technique, at a tempo where you can utilize that technique cleanly. Over those years, i tried many many times to go about this with the tried and true method of selecting a passage from a song that demonstrates the desired technique, learning it, then practicing through progressively faster tempos. This didn’t work for me after I became what I’d describe as a proficient player. Around 3-4 years into playing guitar, I decided to switch my pickhand technique, specifically how I held the pick between my thumb and index finger. I went from holding the pick between the pads of my thumb and forefinger with my finger fairly straight. This also angled the pick back toward bridge if the guitar. I had noticed fairly early on that most players held the pick between the side of the forefinger, which is curled rather than straight, and the pad of the thumb. Holding the pick this way also angled the pick forward toward the nut. I’ll admit that at first I wanted to switch how I held the pick for aesthetic reasons, but in the end I felt how much more control I had over the pick, how much more attack my playing had, and also that angling the pick this way just worked better with the anatomy of the elbow and wrist and the natural arch we all have when moving a lick across the strings. So, when I set out to make a fairly drastic change to my technique, from how this change felt at first I had thought this change would take a year to get comfortable with. But what I did in my frustration at this was play the picking pattern in new millennium cyanide Christ over and over and over again for roughly 8 hours that first day. To my surprise by the end of the day I felt 90% comfortable with this change. The remaining 10% I would say took a few weeks and came along naturally just playing riffs/improving for fun. I utilized this method again when I again altered my picking hand technique - I used to anchor my pinkie and ring finger on the body/lower bout of the guitar, but realized this was holding me back with alternate picking across the strings, string skipping and sweep picking. Really it held everything back I came to find later, but those were the big 3 that made me want to change. Again here I was able to get nearly proficient with my hand floating and I anchored to the guitar at all in a very short period of time. I Will admit though this did take longer than when I adjusted how I held the pick. Still though I would say 1-3 days to reach 90% comfort with the new technique. I have no idea why I wrote this all out….all I can say is learning metal guitar back when I was young was incredibly difficult in s lot of ways, namely that a lot of us had to just figure a lot of this crap out through trial and error. RU-vid first appeared mg freshman year of college for context and it took a decade or so for free lessons to become a thing. Simple things like getting a high gain guitar sound weren’t exactly common knowledge. Anyways, what I mean is that I thought maybe this story could help someone work on their technique in way that works better for them
If you ever want to start, you fefinitely should go for it! If you have an Ipod or an Iphone, learning to play gets even more accessible because you'll be able to download ampsims on your phone that will help you learn a lot easier! All you really need is an IRig and a guitar cable and you're good to go!
joshrm it takes a little bit. After learning basic power chords you can play stuff like Obituary or Dismember after a little while. Of course if you want to play a lot of arpeggiated stuff like Suffocation or Death after they released Spiritual Healing, it’ll be a bit before you can play that kind of stuff.
joshrm I haven’t listened to much Malevolent Creation, and for Morbid Angel, you’ll probably be able to pull it off once you learn power chords. The best thing that I did was to use RU-vid to watch people play the songs you want to learn and then copy from the notes that they’re fretting.
I've been digging all around the Internet to find the proper tutoring for teaching palm mute and pintch harmonics, and I just got it now. It's very simple and comprehensible to understand. Thanks for your video 🤟🎸🖤
I play rhythm guitar usually more than lead guitar, so Death Metal guitar is usually easier for me, since I'm adjusted to the top strings. I got a lot of the harmonics and the palm muting stuff through watching this video and I can now safely say I can start a Death Metal band if I want to, a one man project. Thank you for making this video.
Everything you play is right up my alley. Thank you for making great videos that are easy to follow and put into practice. Diversity at its best. Thank you so much ❤ Greetings from Texas
Wonderful video, Mr. Smith. Excellent production. Thanks for the clear and concise camera work on your playing. Subscribed and will be viewing your previous and following videos with a smile. For what it's worth, Bolt Thrower is a tragically unappreciated band and it happily surprised me when you chose "Unleashed" as an example of harmony. They have been a favorite of mine since 1989 when I first heard them. Cheers!
I was looking for something to learn this is awesome! I have learned so much since I watched your videos 2 years ago, I started with that deathcrush lesson and I think I am becoming a decent guitarist now. you're amazing.
Ah ... finally. Someone that actually calls a Root 5 chord a "Root 5 chord" not "a power chord on the 5th string" and a 4th below barred, an "inversion"! 👍
Your videos are as usual amazing and very helpful. If possible, please make a guitar lesson on "Sattva Bali" by DHWESHA, an Indian Death Metal Band. You would definitely love that song, thanks :)
Simon- good lesson. This is the stuff I wanted my teachers to show me before and they were lame not to. Why do teachers push mindless scale sequences on students to learn guitar?
It's also interesting to use other harmonies apart from just 5th. For example playing the same tune on the second guitar just a one semitone higher or 6 semitones higher. This gives a really creepy, dissonant sound. 3 semitones higher gives a beautiful minor harmony.
Great video, mate. Your PRS is a beauty! I wanna try out some of these tricks, seeing I'm not used to playing much death metal these days. I'm a big Cannibal fan, so I have B.C. Rich/Jackson Vs. Cheers, have a sub. 🍺
@12:15 thank you for turning at an angle the camera can see down the bridge instead of straight at it. Sellf teaching player here who couldn't catch it till this angel. I'm not worthy *bowing repeatedly *
