Guitar Habits of Kirk Hammett 

what happened to your finger? (referring to the cut on your left middle finger)

I was asking for this for a long time bro and you delivered thank you !!

Music is Win HES ALIVE TYLER I JUST SAW HIM

Hey tyler do habits of dimebag darrell

Music is Win To you own a wah pedal? If the answer is yes , than your there

I don't get the last one.

it's probably in his hair lmak

You forget the most important habitantes use wah

Lol rip Hardwired solos 😂

Lmaooooo. They gave him a lot of shit for that.

hamza Raza and harmonic minor...

And b minor scale pull off

It's always e minor XD

4. Classic 22nd fret bends

@@codythedoggo7671 E is the lowest note, play the lowest note for more metal

Aiden Macleod Yes just look "Kirk hammet guitar center" on youtube. He says it himself in the interview

Look up "Die by His Hand." It's an old Exodus demo from when Kirk was with them. The chorus uses the same riff. Also "Impaler" which uses the same riff as "Trapped under Ice."

Fun fact-dave mustaine wrote jump in the fire when he was 15. The whole song.

@@marquesbrownlee6293 Dave Mustaine wrote all of the Metallica songs when he was 1

15

Emmy Rota and the creeping death break down riff! Let's not forget that gem!

Big Larry 8802 he wrote the creeping death breakdown at 16

Aiden Macleod yea, I kind of agree with you on that

I agree when looking back but given 1990 it was the best metal out at the time

Jack Rota Didn't they steal that from Excel?

Greig Williamson He used to be a beast.The shit he gets is due to Metallica's post black album stuff and the fact that he has given up practicing.

Kirk is still a beast. He just is burned out. Last good album was. And justice for all.

He has arthritis in his left hand, im not surprised that he isnt as good as he was 30 years ago. Mustaine isnt as good as he was either.

LedSabbathQueenie Dave literally had to relearn the guitar all over again after nerve damage in his left arm/hand back in the early 00's, so he should get a bit of slack too. He's still playing crazy complex rhythm parts perfectly, and I thought his solos on Dystopia were pretty great: the one that starts around 3:10 of the title track is him, not Kiko, for instance.

OfficialGoodGuyJack Same for me when I first started, along with David Gilmour, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson. One thing I will say though: the more you play guitar, the more that Kirk is likely to fall to the wayside in terms of your influences. His melody in his early solos was impeccable, but they do become a bit samey, especially when you start looking into playing them for yourself. There's obviously nothing wrong with that, and the dude's sold 150 million albums or something so he's doing something right, but it's just an observation I've made in my learning journey. Someone like Randy Rhoads sticks around as someone I'd love to play like, since the very beginning, but my obsession with Kirk's playing fell off pretty quickly. I actually think more highly of James' playing and riffs than I do Kirk these days. I've come to appreciate someone like Marty Friedman a hell of a lot more, whereas he wasn't even on my radar when I first started.

nice

Son of a butch

WAHt did you say?

Why

StarzGD *WAHy

I would say I'm actually very stWAHng.

WAHt the heck is it really Kirk WAHmet? Lmao (By the way I am not hating)

That's really funny man😆😆😆😆🤘

best comment god

I see waht you did there

Downstrokes lol

Habits of hetfield: Habit 1: 00000000000000 Habit 2: power chords Habit 3: The Em chord

@@jami1654 Habit 4: creating a mind-blowing riff in 5 seconds for a joke

That wouldn't be a bad "habits of" video. It's by no means easy to do everything James is capable of.

why would you complain about james not being in a video that is about kirk?

rip cliff

So you’re saying when Kirk was taking lessons from Joe Satriani while Kirk was still in Exodus all the way through till Metallica Justice era, he never learnt musical theory from Satriani? I find that very hard to believe indeed. Fun Fact: Kirk Hammett was Joe Satriani’s very last student, the day after their last lesson Joe stopped teaching guitar and became a solo artist, the rest is history.

Ehv > Kirk

​@BionicBrady two completely different genres and play styles. You cannot compare the two

@popeleox1202so ajfa solos were all kirk ? Damn kirk is insane

Talking about master of puppets main solo...

@@noopez_ written by Hetfield.

@@mihailostojanovic3201 the sweep picking?

Eh...

@@monicagaba2682 what sweep picking?

Aiden Macleod Of course someone mentions megadeth when someone says something about metallica

Aiden Macleod He's given credit. He wrote two songs on kill em all and co wrote the rest along with like 2 riffs on ride the lightning. And guess what? Metallica wrote master of puppets and and justice for all without Mustaine. Two of the greatest thrash albums of all time.

Cheeki Breeki megadeth and Metallica made me pick up the guitar

Abhushan Rajbhandari same

Abhushan Rajbhandari So did I, it's funny.

Me to

Metal Morphine Wah the fuck are you talking about?

Waaah?

Evelina999 He doesn't compose solos any more, so for this lesson's intents and purposes he is.

Elvina999 Yeah totally agree with you. Using the past tense was a bit off.

He's dead to me.

Evelina999 the real Kirk died in a car accident in the 90's, while he was on drugs, the actual Kirk is a bot addicted to wah.

Glad someone else noticed

WE NEED THIS NOW

Whammy

#1 getting shot

Bit by Bit gaming - Minecraft and more! That didn't even have any real edge.

Charles Grey your wish has been granted

Chris Arias 😂😂😂😂

Leo B I don't think you got the joke

Chris Arias nah, i think you mean Zakk Wylde😂😂😂

Dimebag Darrell haha no, I would have made sure to add pinch harmonics first ha 😂

He uses phrygian and harmonic minors as well as natural minor, the pentatonic scale is what he first used in albums like kill em all, thats the typical stereotype and yes sadly he overuses blues licks but from time to time he does play other scale with other fancy licks, listen to AJFA and MOP solos, you'll see what Im talking about

completely 😆😆 wrong chord too

tvd_211 idk maybe its so he couldnt get copyrighted? Just a thought bc i really hope thats not what he thinks the riff is😂

if he didn't want to get copyrighted he could of just sped it up or slowed it down @@RichieHelf

either way I cringed at that

Well at first he was just playing it an octave down, afterwards tho yes it kind of declined lol

Grip *Kirk Whammet

Lol

YESS

Eemil Hilden YESS

Getting fingers cut off

Yessss

Kantotero changing batteries because when they’re wrong the tone doesn’t bring you to the holy land

Felipe Bautista Gorjón Yuuuusss

Felipe Bautista Gorjón ive tried to get his tone whammy pedal his signature wah a randal amp depends what album his pickup literally nails his tone and alot of flicking strings hammer ons and on finger slides

Felipe Bautista Gorjón OMG YES!

Being dead

fucking savage dude

The man is too much of a genius, he has few habits, always surprises and experiments

@Jonathan Nielsen you forgot "is leagues ahead of everyone else"

harvestingsorrow Alexi is amazing but I doubt very many people here listen to COB so I wouldn't count on it

Yes!!

Sweeping like a monster, alternate picking like a beast, drinking too much before live sessions... X)

Noah Beutler yes I think Brian may is very underrated.

Leo B Not really, he did a video about his tone, not his playing

That's right! He should make one

Aiden Macleod I probably wouldn't have commented if I didn't know what a pre-bend is... I mean more about how and when he uses them. Often he'll do a pre-bend-release-full bend where it's difficult to get the right tone or attack on the string (his picking style doesn't help, at all), or he'll throw a pre-bend into the middle of a lightning fast run without losing speed. I want to know why I can tell when it's Marty doing a bend/pre-bend, and why he sounds different from guys like Vai, for instance: whether it's his choice of notes that he chooses to bend on, or his technique.

anonymous drugs. All kinds of it

anonymous drinking

he likes to do that fast triplet lick on the b and high e a lot.

I prefer Chris Poland.

Yes, Marty is a God.

Jean Borges brah

HaoHaoDeCarabao :D eh, its subjective

Dave! Dave! Dave! Dave! Dave!

Latner32 Yup

Eat alot and become obese.

Alessio Caccia He’s alright

shadow islas i don't know why your thinking that I haven't met him yet but after watching some live songs and interviews he seems to be a very nice person

shadow islas he's not

spiralout72 Nah mate, your on about pre-stage them 😂

Stefan Jankovic Bleeding Me's solo and the outlaw torn's solo are among his best. Load Is underrated. Reload Is not as consistent although It has some jems, but load went totally over people's heads

The Batman Tbh Unforgiven 3 solo is also powerful.

Stefan Jankovic I really love spit out the bone and dream no more on the last record, although some of his solos there are not as memorable since he improvised a lot

I've been a diehard fan of Metallica since 1986-1987 so when the black album and of course the load albums came out I was one of the ones saying they sold out..but as I got older I respect them for branching out and experimenting and disregarding the critics..and if you go back and re-listen to it all they're great songs just not "thrash" and it kept them relevant..even St.Anger has some really great songs if you can get past the horrible production..if you're going to grow as a musician it helps to have an open mind

There newest album kick serious ass!! So Kirk still killing it!!