Everything about this Video... from the fact that he claims it's "Hip Hop" & then cites the non Hip Hop source it was sampled from. The Riff is dope... but simple. This ain't no Chet Atkins Lick. The super secret zero point alien technology Delay. Growing up with the Internet has seriously made Humans kind shortsighted & weird. I'm glad I'm old & will die soon :P
@Caalamus I was born in 86 so I've witnessed the whole evolution pretty closely. Having my own kids has made things even more strange because their childhoods are nothing like mine haha I usually tell pre-internet stories and having to research encyclopedias for information and they can't believe it.
@@jeremyrafuse5330 I've got five years on you & grew up poor as shit... so we're in that "cusp" generation. "The Oregon Trail Generation" between X & Millennials. But being more Atari than Nintendo, Rotary rather than Cordless... & Latch Key as opposed to Helicopter Parents, I'm leaning solidly GenX. I didn't even have a computer at home til '97 or a phone in my pocket til 2002. I remember smoking in restaurants & was flying between the East & West Coasts alone when you were 3. They used to assign you to a stewardess. She would usually leave you in their break room with a candy bar or something... instead of doing her job. Could you imagine leaving your kids in the care of an airline? Our world was so much closer to that of our grandparents... or even great grand parents, than it is to that of your children! Imagine once AI is fully developed?!
@Caalamus yeah you're more so leaning to an older generation in your mentality. Like yourself, I remember having a computer in my house at the turn of the century. Either 99 or 2000. There was a rotary phone in my parents bedroom, and a corded phone on the wall was the staple pretty much. As far a cell phone, I never had a cell phone until about 2007/2008. Sounds like you were way more privileged than me.
What are you from Appalachia!? You're right... you wound up with a computer & a cell phone later than me... & here in NY ( CNY at the time ), I was *WAY* behind everyone else. I remember kids having Startacs in like '98! But nah, I wasn't "privileged". I was working full time for my little kyocera cricket phone :P I was legal to smoke, drink, vote & die by '02.
Camera angle makes me feel like I have been kidnapped and forced to listen to the rantings of a logical yet completely deranged lunatic. Picture the camera panning to reveal a gagged man tied to a chair quietly sobbing.
He said Hip Hop. That’s more of a rap feature on a rock song. Idk if I’d describe anything Polyphia does as Hip Hop. Although I’m not so sure about Rap Snitches being that hard to play either 🤷🏻
@@MonkeYogert im not gatekeeping, my point was i thought ut was funny this guy thought this was a super advanced lick or something. I think guitar is awesome and you should play however style you want. Just try to learn a bit more if youre gonna do a video "hardest guitar lick in hip hop"
@@MonkeYogert I'll disagree with the other gent and say yeah, gatekeeping, you are entitled to play what and however you want, but with the oversaturation of guitarists from the 1970's onwards, the need for kids to get instant gratification, in exchange for minimal effort and the decline of talent in the music world, over the past 30 years. Gate 'monitoring', at least, is necessary sometimes. Additionally, all my music friends would laugh this guy out the building for suggesting this is anything but beginner level. Prime example of just because you think somethings a good idea, doesn't mean it's good idea.
@@CaalamusTubeF DOOMs song is. DOOM invented abstract hip hop and this song is an icon of the time period. My English professor studies DOOM lyrics recreationally lol, he’s a genius
@@elchomper.1063 how is sampling stealing? Are covers stealing now? Are the Beatles stealing cause they used samples? Is Madonna stealing? Is Michael Jackson stealing? Is Elvis Presley stealing? Sampling is as old as recorded music itself, and to use it creatively is an art
You definitely know very little outside of the genres you listen to but instead of making fun of you I’ll commend you for expanding your musical library lol
i mean tell me another rap song that uses technical guitar playing lmfao? as someone who listened exclusively to rap for several years and a guitar player, the majority of guitar used in rap is just basic chords lmao, not really technical riffs. yall are trying to make something out of a comment that meant nothing.
also its not even like the riff is originally from a rap song. he literally is complimenting hiphops use of sampling but yall mfs gotta make it something its not
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Solid album btw, based of the epic Novel. The song is a cover of David Bowie's Space Oddity which is dope and also listen to Sandworms. Super sweet bass line
the original that it was sampled from hails from david matthews but he's not talking about the original, he's talking about the sample WITH the added effects and change in pitch etc, so THAT DOES hail from a rap song
No he doesn't. He stole. Sorry sampled a riff then butchered it in post. Legitimately name 1 reason he couldn't have gotten someone to record that on guitar why'd he need to sample it?
He *really* overhyped the difficulty of it. There's nothing challenging or unusual about the riff at all, and the sound is just some ordinary distortion and delay. The only reason it stands out is that it's used in a genre that doesn't typically use that kind of guitar melody
@@Ethanlolyayy nobody said it wasn't a good riff. Loads of great riffs are easy to play. I'm just answering your question about why people are giving him stick about the video
i dont hate MFdoom but im just mad that youtubers always link this riff to him, this riff most defiantly took sum time to make and mostly matthews almost gets overshadowed, by recent MFdoom fans.
@@jeremyrafuse5330but how is it worse? Its better in every way, it doesnt even have the same rythm and pitch, and the bass drums and vocals are aml original
My mom is the original singer on this Dune album, Googie Coppola. She passed away 3 days after my birthday. It's so strange seeing the internet "fame" of this guitar riff. I listen to this version of space oddity more than david bowie's.
For sure it just had to be this song…a tiny detail that’s also cool to me with this guitar sample is the way Doom cuts it up. He adds that single measure of 2/4 at the very beginning. It’s the same riff but only a little piece of it, and it gives it a little glitch or false start feel. I think he does something later in the song where he mutes the track for a second too. I just like those small little details, the way Doom played with his samples on his tracks
@@elchomper.1063 no one ever said the riffs themselves were originally for any rap song. It goes to show the versatility it has and the creativity it could allow to expand on it, further providing a foundation for another great track. Music or melodies being "stolen" from each other isn't anything new or exclusive to hip-hop/rap music.
