We cut our teeth on bands like metallica and pantera, but bands like lamb of god, and this album specifically.... They are the reason we move from being hobbyists to musicians.
you could play the second part of the laid-to-rest riff on the 6th fret of the A string, making you only need to do the mega stretch at the end of the riff, instead of twice
Now You've Got Something to Die For was one of the first songs a friend and I practiced to play together before we founded our first band, such a fun song to play, takes me back
Will never understand why everyone plays the D# on the first fret of the A string and not the 6th of the A in laid to rest. On a side note, this riff is literally what got me into lamb of god. Absolutely amazing guitarists
It’s because Mark Morton did an old guitar world column and that’s exactly the way he showed how to play it. Besides, imagine how weird rolling your pinky down to grab that 5th fret on the A would feel during that riff
It's for the timbre. I write like that a lot, really makes a difference to me. Guitarists that I've played with will play something that I wrote in a different way, like how you described, and it doesn't sound the same. Not as full or punchy sounding.
I play the 5th fret on the A string with my middle finger, 5th on the low D with my index, and when he moves to the 6th on the A, I switch to my ring, and keep using index for the 5th fret on D. Not dogging on anyone for other ways, just seems more difficult than its worth and I can't tell a difference in tone or timbre either way
Been playing for nearly 20 years (not as often as I should, honestly). I can play a ton of LoG riffs, but that laid to rest riffs complexity combined with my smaller than average hands just makes it impossible. I keep trying though, maybe someday. LoG made me the guitarist I am today. I wouldn't have the picking ability, speed or accuracy that I do now if it wasn't for being motivated to play their music. Chris Adler is the entire reason I learned to play drums as a kid. They're legends, I'd consider all of them my musical heroes.
Jamie,Lamb of God are my favorite band since As the Palaces burn.The riffs of the 2 Riff Machines the best and very difficult.Also the lyrics and they Stray true motto is for me old Metal head important.Metal till the grave
before i pressed this reel i was listening to now you’ve got something to die for and ur riff started at the same exact spot i was at i was like ayOOOOO
You should probably title this video, "Making riffs look unnecessarily difficult by incorrect, deliberately inefficient fingering!" since that's what's happening.
So I looked up some live videos to be like "There's no way they play it like that", and, interestingly enough, Mark plays it that way, but Willie doesn't, which is just weird. Pick a damn fingering pattern for your riff! But I definitely can't call it incorrect anymore. @@JamieSlays
Ashes of the Wake is so good. It literally changed my life. I identify with that album at a soul level. Probably the most riff packed album of history. Every. Single. Song. From start to finish. Just bangers. And my boy here played the best(?) song on the album. LFG
Can we all agree that Willie needs to chill out and make a riff that doesn't require the whole fretboard when hes mainly using the top string, dudes crazy 😅 i love it though
Ah yes... the marathon at the end of laid to rest... I remember it was the first song I played with others and we always gave a huge sigh of relief at the end, haha.
That riff in laid to rest is hard. I need to look up the tabs and start relearning this shit. I used to be able to play most of the songs on Ashes of the Wake
Its funny, I'm a a guy that used to have the ability to be able to play pretty much any riff in my teens, but not much serious lead stuff, To playing in a reggae jazz rnbish type band(soulscaptives check our live performance out lol) and loosing my ability to play hard and heavy riffs But I can still play that end bit to laid to rest pretty well still, what I find difficult are riffs 11th hour at the end with the dissonant chords between the triplets, fucks me up
I cant agree with you, im covering laid to rest with my band and its easy to me, but parts that are easy and str8 with some fills are nightmare for me 😂
Dude that bridge riff for 'laid to rest' took me forever to learn back in the day. "guitar world' had willie and mark tab out this song it's awesome. PS; anyone that has watched Killadelphia has seen a video of John "bass player" playing that riff and after he says "that's the mothafucker"
blood of the scribe is still my favorite LOG song to play willie went beyond technical in that one. Him and Marks styles are so different but they work and compliment the other even there new album is fucking amazing
